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Kicked Out of Home
The person that Fen Dai had seen was none other than her father, Feng Jin Yuan.
At this time, Feng Jin Yuan was wearing clothes that belonged to the retainer of the Lian residence. He was even holding a platter in his hand. There was a hemp cloth on this platter. Slightly bent at the waist, he nodded and saluted everyone that he saw. From any angle, this looked like a proper retainer. However, there was nobody that knew that this was the master of the neighboring Feng residence and the former left prime minister.
Feng Fen Dai felt her vision darken, as she nearly passed out on the spot. Why was Feng Jin Yuan here. When she saw him at first, she was shocked, but after just a bit of thought, how could she not understand the situation? This person's love for Feng Zhao Lian had already reached such a perverted state. The Lian residence was putting on a banquet today and would be receiving many guests. Out of fear that they would not be able to serve all of the guests, they brought in some more servants. How could he pass on this great opportunity to get into the Lian residence. Even if he was a retainer, he would use this chance to take a few more looks at Feng Zhao Lian.
She pointed at Feng Jin Yuan and opened her mouth to begin cursing; however, she saw that Feng Jin Yuan got closer and desperately gave her some looks. He then lowered his voice and said: "If you don't want to lose face, just don't say anything. Quickly go back home. If you cause a stir here, I will have no face, but you won't be any better off!"
Dong Ying heard this and also began to give advice: "That's right. Young miss, if we need to speak, speak after returning to the residence. Now is not the time to talk about this. Let's go back first!"
Fen Dai was pulled out of the Lian residence by Dong Ying. Only when they entered the Feng residence's entrance could she no longer hold back. Letting out a loud scream that frightened the servants in the residence into gathering into a tight clump. Nobody dared to step forward. Even He Zhong was very shocked but did not know what had given the fourth young miss such a huge shock.
Fen Dai unconsciously shouted and screamed, venting for a long time. After that, she informed He Zhong: "Tell the gatekeeper that from this day forward, Feng Jin Yuan will not be permitted to set half a step inside the Feng residence!"
"Huh?" He Zhong was stunned and had to ask: "Fourth Young Miss, are those words serious?"
"Naturally, they're serious!" Fen Dai became furious, "Are you unable to understand what I'm saying? Are you deaf? Go! Close the gates tightly for me. Whoever dares to let Feng Jin Yuan in, I will have them skinned!"
"But he is the master!" He Zhong never thought the fourth young miss would end up at odds with the master once more. This time, she acted so resolutely, not even allowing him into the residence. What was the reason?
Fen Dai was so angry that her soul was about to leave her body. He Zhong's words caused her to feel even more disgusted. She could not help but loudly say: "Master? Does he still know that he's the master? If he knows that he's the master and still knows that he is the father of the Feng family's children, he would not be so shameless as to go to the Lian residence and act as a retainer! Isn't that Miss Lian just a bit pretty? Yet it was able to confuse him so much that he is willing to have no shame? If you don't believe me, you can go next door to take a look. Take a look and see if the one that you are calling master is currently carrying around a platter and wiping down tables. See if he is currying favor with people! I told him to go out and look for work. He found that to be shameful and would rather not be able to earn a single cent for the family then be shouted at and insulted by me. But what about now? For the sake of a woman, he does not even care about shame! Everyone listen up, starting from today, if anyone still acknowledges him, you can scram! Remember this well, it's currently me, Feng Fen Dai, that's paying you. It's not Feng Jin Yuan! What are you still looking at! Close the gate!"
Following Fen Dai's last shout, the gate was closed by the two servants, who did not say another word. After closing the gate, they asked her: "Third Young Miss also went out but has not yet returned. Will she be allowed in?"
Fen Dai's heart was filled with anger, but she knew that if she did not allow Xiang Rong to enter, that would be a wrong committed by her. Moreover, even if she did not allow that girl, Xiang Rong, to enter the residence, she would have somewhere else to sleep, the imperial daughter's manor, the Ping Palace and even the Chun Palace. Which of those was a place that she could not go? Thus she waved her hand and said: "I only said that Feng Jin Yuan is not allowed entrance. If someone else comes knocking, just pay attention and listen carefully. If Feng Jin Yuan forces his way in, just chase him out for me."
"Yes!" The gatekeepers were very obedient for the sake of keeping their jobs. Even He Zhong was left with nothing to say. After thinking about what Feng Jin Yuan had done, he was also quite indignant.
Thus He Zhong said to Fen Dai: "Would Fourth Young Miss please be at ease. Unless you change your mind, from this day forward, this Feng residence will respect your wishes. That Feng Jin Yuan is no longer our master!"
The Feng family had completely been overturned by Feng Fen Dai's anger. In the imperial daughter's manor, Feng Yu Heng enjoyed a moment of leisure. She was currently holding the little white tiger while sitting under a tree in her yard. Ban Zou returning early had made her very happy, as she now knew that Zi Rui had a safe trip and was living in the academy. Hearing news that Wang Chuan would be returning to the capital in another two days, she felt even more at ease.
But that evening until the sky darkened, she did not sit idly. A letter was sent from the Lian residence. On it was a list of names, and it was all of the girls that had gone to the Lian residence and their families. This came with Feng Zhao Lian's analysis of their true positions. Feng Zhao Lian revealed all of their powerful connections, causing Feng Yu Heng to feel incredibly emotional. In the end, he was born into an imperial family. In the end, he was someone that had grown up in that sort of environment. His views and analysis of people would be more thorough than her own.
She hugged the little white tiger. This guy was a bit heavier than a few days prior. In the end, it was a large animal. This growth rate was not common. Huang Quan advised her: "Young miss should get a cage made. After raising this tiger a bit more, I fear that it will start biting people."
Who knew if the little white tiger understood, but it raised its head and looked at Huang Quan before rolling its eyes and ignoring her.
Feng Yu Heng laughed and said: "Look at its lazy appearance. Could it bite anyone?" While speaking, she patted its head, "Xiao Bai, even if you do bite someone, you need to bite those bad guys for me. Do you understand? In the future, we will be family. You just need to attack where I point, understand?"
The little white tiger raised its head and glanced at her. It then raised its paw and patted her on the belly a couple times. It seemed like it understood, which caused Feng Yu Heng to hug and kiss it. But as she kissed it, she felt that the day was a bit monotonous. She asked Huang Quan: "What day and month is it?"
Huang Quan said: "It's the 16th of the eighth month. Didn't we just attend the banquet?"
"Oh." Feng Yu Heng nodded, "The 16th of the eighth month, the round moon of the 15th came on the 16th. Go to the Yu Palace and find Xuan Tian Ming. Just say that for him to hear."
"Hm?" Huang Quan was startled, "Which one? The round moon of the 15th came on the 16th? What does that mean? What will happen after telling His Highness?"
Feng Yu Heng spread her hands: "Just say it like that. As for what will happen, have him think for himself."
Very well, Huang Quan helplessly left the manor. When she returned, sure enough, she had brought along Xuan Tian Ming.
Feng Yu Heng had already changed her clothes and stood at the entrance of the manor with a smile while holding Xiao Bai in her embrace. Xuan Tian Ming saw her sloven appearance and felt that it was funny. He was able to recall their time in the mountains of the Northwest. The look of this girl hitting people with pebbles was precisely like this.
"Come." He extended his hand toward Feng Yu Heng, "Go on. This prince will take you to admire the moon."
The little girl was pulled onto the back of the horse and placed in front of him. The little white tiger was also brought up and went along with Xuan Tian Ming's horse.
Huang Quan watched the two parting people and could not help but begin to feel envious. Turning around, she found Ban Zou standing behind herself. She could not help but turn red in the face; however, she still asked out of curiosity: "What are you standing here for? The master has left, so why are you not following?"
Ban Zou had a cold expression and said without any emotions: "Master has gone for a date. What would I follow her for? Didn't you also stay here? The round moon of the 15th came on the 16th, come. I'll bring you to the roof to watch the moon." After saying this, his figure moved and brought Huang Quan onto the roof in the blink of an eye. In that instant, Huang Quan felt as if she was dreaming. If this dream lasted a thousand years, it would be best if she never woke up.
At this time, Feng Yu Heng and Xuan Tian Ming had already left the city and were heading straight toward the Ping Xu Mountain Range.
The Ping Xu Mountain Range was the only path to Ping Zhang Mountain. For the two that frequently moved between the capital and the military camp, it was a very familiar path. Naturally, they also knew where the tallest peak in this mountain range was. Xuan Tian Ming's horse headed straight toward this peak. The horse actually wound up at an unbelievable angle. Even if it was Feng Yu Heng, she trembled a bit and tightly closed her eyes. She tightly held the little white tiger in her embrace, fearing that a single slip would cause it to fall. She was not as good as Xuan Tian Ming in qinggong. If she fell, she would definitely have her body smashed to bits.
But the person holding her from behind was intent on playing a trick. From time to time, he would poke her a bit. From time to time, he would pinch the little white tiger or have the horse sway or even deliberately loosen his grip. Feng Yu Heng cried loudly in fear, while the little white tiger whimpered and whined. Human and tiger were completely suppressed by Xuan Tian Ming. Both were completely tense and did not dare move in the slightest.
Xuan Tian Ming felt that this was extremely fun, thus chose even more ridiculous times to spur his horse, deliberately teasing the person in front of him. When they finally stood at the mountain's peak, Feng Yu Heng's face was completely pale. Finally managing to climb off the horse, her feet trembled. Even the arms that held the little white tiger trembled. The little white tiger had also been extremely frightened. It was such that when Feng Yu Heng let it down, the little guy forgot about self-preservation and fell to the ground with a "thunk." It happened to land on a rock, which caused its butt to hurt.
Xuan Tian Ming helplessly picked it up and shook his head, sighing: "When I took you in, first, it was to provide my wife with a partner. Second, I felt that you were a beast of prey and would be able to tear apart anyone that bullies this prince's wife. But who knew, really who knew that you would actually be so lacking? Just ascending a mountain left you like this? Are you a cat or a tiger?"
Xiao Bai also felt saddened and lowered its head. It wanted to let out a howl to display its identity, but when it opened its mouth, the sound was even quieter than a cat. Unable to do anything else, it lowered its head. If it was a cat then it was a cat. Who made this peak so terrifying.
After Xuan Tian Ming finished mocking Xiao Bai, he went to tease his wife. With a wicked smile on his face, he prepared to say a few mocking words; however, who knew that just as he stepped forward, a foot came to meet him. It was kicked straight toward his chest!
He could not dodge in time and was given a solid kick; however, his hands moved very quickly. The foot that had not yet been pulled back was caught, and its owner was pulled into his embrace. While they fell, their lips touched, and a sweet taste entered his mouth. Neither person wished to part…


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Jodi Arias: I feel betrayed by the jury
- %22Whatever they come back with I will have to deal with it%2C%22 Arias said
- The 32-year-old was convicted of first-degree murder of ex-lover Travis Alexander
- Jury must weigh rather Arias should get life in prison or death penalty
On the evening after Jodi Arias' fate went to the jury, she seemed to hold out hope her life would be spared.
In a joint jailhouse interview Tuesday with The Arizona Republic, 12 News and NBC's Today show, Arias said she doesn't know whether the jury will come back with life or death.
"Whatever they come back with I will have to deal with it," she said. "I have no other choice.
"I don't know about the ultimate decision, but my attorneys think it will be quick."
So quick that she has already had her belongings moved out of her cell at the Estrella Jail late Tuesday. And a Maricopa County Sheriff's Office spokeswoman said that Arias will likely be transported to the Arizona State Prison Complex-Perryville immediately after the verdict, whether it is for life or for death.
After nearly five months, the circus at Maricopa County Superior Court came to an end.
Arias, 32, was convicted May 8 of first-degree murder for the brutal slaying of Travis Alexander in 2008.
Jurors told the judge on Wednesday that they were deadlocked and were sent back to continue deliberations. They deliberated until late afternoon, when they adjourned for the day without a decision. Deliberations are set to resume at 10 a.m. local time on Thursday.
"It felt like a huge sense of unreality," Arias said about hearing the guilty verdict. "I felt betrayed, actually, by the jury. I was hoping they would see things for what they are. I felt really awful for my family and what they were thinking."
Last week, the jury quickly found that the murder was committed in an especially cruel manner, opening Arias to a possible death sentence.
And then, when a mitigation witness failed to testify, claiming intimidation, and the judge denied a mistrial, Arias' attorneys pulled the plug on the phase of the trial during which mitigating evidence is presented to try to persuade the jury to spare the defendant's life.
The lawyers apparently want to take their chances in appeals court.
Arias addressed the jurors Tuesday morning.
She told them that after the conviction she wanted to die but had since changed her mind.
"I can't, in good conscience, ask you to sentence me to death because of them," she said, pointing to her family.
She told them that she wanted to teach Spanish and literacy skills from behind bars, market T-shirts to benefit abuse survivors and to donate her hair to charities for cancer survivors.
She showed her artwork to the jury.
Then her attorney asked jurors to sentence her to life in prison. The prosecutor asked them to sentence her to death.
Arias, who has always seemed to like the media attention, agreed to meet with several media outlets after court, in what may turn out to be the last night she can do so before being whisked away to prison.
Ironically, she has not seen the media storm her case has created. Some of the new women on the jail pod tell her about it, but she has no access to the Internet, no TV other than the Weather Channel, and her only news comes from The Republic.
She would have no way of knowing that just a simple tweet that The Republic was going to conduct an interview with her would unleash literally hundreds of angry responses of why anyone would talk to the woman who some characterize as the most hated person in America.
The public claims she never apologized for the murder; for shooting Alexander, her lover, in the head; for stabbing him nearly 30 times, for slitting his throat and then leaving him dead in the shower of his home.
"I certainly did," Arias said, on the witness stand and in her Tuesday allocution. "I don't know if I could ever adequately apologize. It's just a word. I caused a really huge loss and it caused a lot of pain and I have to live with that. I wish I could take all of that pain."
When she turned 30, she said, she thought about how Alexander was 30 when she killed him. During court Tuesday, prosecutor Juan Martinez reminded the jury of that.
"He's still, today, 30 years old, because of her," Martinez said.
When asked Tuesday night if she ever dreamed of Alexander, she said that shortly after her arrest, while she was still in jail in California, she dreamed that he was there with her, lounging in "the tank." When she asked him what he was doing there, he said, "We all have to do time for what we've done."
She doesn't understand why she didn't remove herself from her relationship with Alexander.
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A Look at the 2009 Vendy Awards
Over 1,000 people showed up yesterday to the fifth annual Vendy Awards outside the Queens Museum of Art. Each of the eleven vendors nominated served a plate piled with specialties like schnitzel, huaraches, falafel, choinkwiches (a non-vegetarian ice cream sandwich), jerk chicken, waffles, and more. It was an afternoon of waiting in line for something delicious, chatting in line about how bad you want that delicious thing, finally inhaling it, and repeating the same process over. Talk about a beautiful way to spend a day.
What's New On Serious Eats
At the end of the afternoon, the winner of the Vendy Cup was awarded to the Red Hook ballfields' Country Boys taco truck run by husband-and-wife team Fernando and Yolanda Martinez. They served huaraches, tacos, and quesadillas filled with your choice of beef, chicken, pork, or veggies. More photos, after the jump.
Country Boys/Martinez Taco Truck
Country Boys also won for the Longest Wait in Line (a good 45 minutes at least) but to be fair, they were sizzling up fresh food to order unlike many of the other prepped stations. And those still-steamy tortillas that wrapped up all the goodness? Just wow.
The King of Falafel
What did we love most about Freddy Zeidaies and the King of Falafel crew? Was it their matching ensemble of pepper pants and hats?
Or the shimmy-ready belly dancers?
Or the egg-shaped falafel fritters?
Jamaican Dutchy
Jamaican Dutchy served all kinds of chicken (mustard, curry, escovitch, and jerk) as well as minced beef with cabbage and rice and beans. For dessert, cubes of carrot and squash bread. Like the King of Falafel, there was more than just food going on here. In this case, the truck's flashy sign with that moving words stunt and a big-screen TV.
Rickshaw Dumplings
Rickshaw Dumplings served, oh whaddya know, dumplings! Both chicken and the edamame pictured.
Biryani Cart
Second-time Vendys nominee Meru Sikder of the Biryani Cart had trays of his signature kati rolls (India's answer to a soft taco).
NYC Cravings
Moving onto the "Best Rookie Vendor" category, or those with less than a year of experience, the NYC Cravings Truck had Taiwanese-style fried chicken, pork chops, fried tianbula (fish cake), tea-smoked egg halves, steamed dumplings, and their "secret pork sauce" (aka life-changing meat goo) with greens over white rice. While the dumplings weren't worth a second bite, the chicken and meat goo were so good, you forgot how uncomfortably full you were and ate through the pain.
Schnitzel & Things
Jared Greenhouse and Oleg Voss (whose mom was even in the truck on schnitz duty!) served chicken, pork, and eggplant schnitzel, along with a salad of beets and feta cubes, braised sauerkraut, and Austrian potato salad. Sadly, no schnitz burgers.
Picnick Smoked
Will Goldfarb's barbecue truck Picnick Smoked, a spin-off of the Picnick kiosk at the Battery, served wedges of pulled pork sandwiches along with chocolate-chip cookies (bleugh, stick with the meat) and refreshing Arnold Palmers (iced tea and lemonade) on the rocks. More liquids were served inside the Queens Museum, including beer from Brooklyn Brewery, GUS soda, and wine.
Wafels & Dinges
For the "Best Dessert Vendor" category, Wafels & Dinges ironed out their signature two types of waffles: Brussels (fluffier and crispier-edged) and Liege (denser, chewier). For toppings: strawberry and banana slices, Nutella, speculoos spread (made of crushed-up speculoos, aka those wrapped cookies usually on airplanes), whipped cream, maple syrup, or butter. Though butter seems pretty skippable with all the other pizazzy toppings, one woman ordered four of the Brussels waffles with just butter, asserting this was the only thing she wanted to eat.
Cupcake Stop
What flavors did Cupcake Stop serve? What flavors did they not serve is the question. Peanut butter, red velvet, chocolate and vanilla of course, PB&J, key lime, banana pudding, something with bacon, and new for fall, pumpkin.
Big Gay Ice Cream Truck
Tying with Country Boys, the Big Gay Ice Cream Truck also had a slow-moving snake of a line, but who doesn't want to wait for that face? I'm looking at you, Doug Quint (and co-BGICTruckeur Bryan Petroff).
Even when the chocolate soft-serve nozzle busted for about fifteen minutes, people looked so darn jolly waiting for Choinkwiches, the fun-to-say ("yeah, I'll take one of those choinkwiches please") concoction of chocolate Mister Softee and caramelized bacon smashed between two chocolate cookies.
And in the stuff-in-cups category: the Affogayto Mexicano (Mexican hot chocolate brewed by Petroff with cinnamon sticks, honey, and other spices, poured over vanilla soft-serve with whipped cream and Scharffen-Berger cocoa nibs on top) and The Gobbler (vanilla soft serve with pumpkin butter, graham cracker dust, dried cranberries, and whipped cream).
Or you could go the normal soft-serve route with their usual smattering of awesome toppings (like ground wasabi peas, olive oil with Maldon sea salt, Trix cereal, fresh berries with saba syrup).
And the Winner Is...
Everyone at the Vendys was a judge. Normal folks stuffing their faces all afternoon got to submit votes for the People's Taste Award, Best Rookie Vendor, and Best Dessert Vendor. But these guys were the specially selected judges who chose the Best Vendor of the Year, aka the person who gets to go home with the cup.
The judges: pastry chef Pichet Ong, Zach Brooks of Midtown Lunch, Denisse Oller, chocolatier Jacques Torres, chef Jehangir Mehta, "citizen judge" Mina Fasolo.
Sean Basinksy, founder of the Street Vendor Project, introducing the awards and explaining its history.
Best Rookie Vendor: Schnitzel & Things; Oleg Voss (pictured) and Jared Greenhouse.
Best Dessert Vendor: Wafels & Dinges; Thomas DeGeest. Cue Chariots of Fire music.
Grey Poupon People's Taste Award: For a second year in a row, the Biryani Cart won the vote of the people. As part of the Grey Poupon sponsorship, Meru Sikder gets a year's supply of mustard. He has no idea what to do with it. "Mustard isn't really big in Indian cooking, but she likes mustard," he told us after, hugging his daughter.
Best Vendor of the Year: Country Boys/Martinez Taco Truck. Fernando and Jolanda Martinez accepted the honor with a speech in Spanish thanking everyone. Brian Vendley, of last year's winning Calexico Cart, handed over the street food goblet of glory. This marks the second year in a row for Mexican food. Conclusion: people like guacamole.
The Vendys is by far one of the most fun and delicious food events in New York. Especially this year when it took place outside the Unisphere (the giant steel globe) with those freaky-looking observatory towers (of alien spacecraft fame in Men in Black) as a backdrop.
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Don't we love New York!
This is another case for you all to learn from…Now again, shouldn't their be a conflict of any documents where MERS is the nominee for any of these banks?
I think we are going to see lenders, servicers et al slowly begin to turn on MERS!
2010 NY Slip Op 51127(U)
IndyMAC BANK F.S.B., Plaintiff(s),
LUDDY BRITO GARCIA, MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., ACTING SOLELY AS A NOMINEE FOR STERLING NATIONAL MORTGAGE COMPANY, INC., SUBSIDIARY OF FEDERALLY CHARTERED BANK, ITS SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS, AND "JOHN DOE # 1" THROUGH "JOHN DOE # 10", THE LAST TEN NAMES BEING FICTITIOUS AND UNKNOWN TO plaintiff, THE PERSONS OR PARTIES INTENDED BEING THE PERSONS OR PARTIES, IF ANY, HAVING OR CLAIMING AN INTEREST IN OR LIEN UPON THE MORTGAGED PREMISES DESCRIBED IN THE COMPLAINT, Defendant(s).
Supreme Court, Suffolk County.
Decided June 22, 2010.
Eschen, Frenkel & Weisman, LLP, 20 West Main Street, Bay Shore, New York 11706, Attorneys for Plaintiff.
Luddy Brito Garcia, 124 East 13th Street, Huntington Station, New York 11746, Defendant Pro Se.
Upon the reading and filing of the following papers in this matter: (1) Notice of Motion by the plaintiff, dated June 2, 2009, and supporting papers; and now
UPON DUE DELIBERATION AND CONSIDERATION BY THE COURT of the foregoing papers, the motion is decided as follows: it is
ORDERED that plaintiff's application (seq. # 002) for an order of reference in this foreclosure action is considered under 2009 NY Laws, Ch. 507, enacted December 15, 2009, and 2008 NY Laws, Ch. 472, enacted August 5, 2008, as well as the related statutes and case law, and is hereby denied without prejudice and with leave to resubmit upon proper papers, for failure to submit proper evidentiary proof, including an affidavit from one with personal knowledge, of a valid indorsement of the note or assignment of the mortgage, sufficient to establish the plaintiff's ownership of the note and mortgage at the time the action was commenced; and it is further
ORDERED that the plaintiff shall promptly serve a copy of this Order upon the defendant-homeowner(s) at all known addresses and upon all other answering defendants, via first class mail, and shall promptly file the affidavit(s) of such service with the County Clerk and annex a copy of this Order and the affidavit(s) of service as exhibits to any motion resubmitted pursuant to this Order; and it is further
ORDERED that with regard to any scheduled court conferences or future applications by the plaintiff, if the Court determines that such conferences have been attended, or such applications have been submitted, without proper regard for the applicable statutory and case law, or without regard for the required proofs delineated herein, the Court may, in its discretion, dismiss this case or deny such applications with prejudice and/or impose sanctions pursuant to 22 NYCRR §130-1, and may deny those costs and attorneys fees attendant with the filing of such future applications.
By Order dated November 24, 2009, this Court scheduled a foreclosure settlement conference for December 23, 2009, which was adjourned to February 24, 2010. The defendant-homeowner, Luddy Brito Garcia, failed to appear at both. The plaintiff now seeks a default order of reference and requests amendment of the caption to substitute a tenant in the place and stead of the "Doe" defendants. For the reasons set forth herein, the plaintiff's application is denied.
In this foreclosure action, the plaintiff filed a summons and complaint on January 3, 2008, which essentially alleges that Ms. Garcia defaulted in her payments of a mortgage, dated August 15, 2006, in the principal amount of $411,500.00, for the premises located at 124 East 13th Street, Huntington, New York. The original lender, Sterling National Mortgage Company, Inc., purportedly indorsed the promissory note to the plaintiff prior to the commencement of this action. According to the plaintiff, this indorsement made the plaintiff the lawful holder of the note and mortgage with standing to commence the action. Although the plaintiff's affidavit in support indicates that the "original note with a proper indorsement is [now] in the plaintiff's possession," the plaintiff does not prove — or even assert — that the plaintiff actually possessed the note and mortgage at the time the action was filed.
Instead, citing Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. v Coakley, 41 AD3d 674, 838 NYS2d 622 (2d Dept 2007), the plaintiff summarily argues that because the promissory note was indorsed to the plaintiff, the mortgage passed as an incident to the note. Under the circumstances presented herein, however, the plaintiff's reliance on Coakley is misguided. In Coakley, the record showed that the promissory note had been indorsed by the original lender to another bank, who then indorsed it in blank and ultimately transferred and tendered it to the foreclosing plaintiff. On that particular record, the court found that at the time the action was commenced, the plaintiff was the lawful holder of the promissory note and of the mortgage, which had passed as an incident to the promissory note. In this case, however, the alleged "indorsement" appears to be on a separate page from the promissory note and, in any event, is clearly undated.
New York UCC §3-202 (1) states, in pertinent part, that "[i]f the instrument is payable to order it is negotiated by delivery with any necessary indorsement" (emphasis added). In addition, UCC §3-202(2) requires that "[a]n indorsement must be written by or on behalf of the holder and on the instrument or on a paper so firmly affixed thereto as to become a part thereof (emphasis added). Here, the purported indorsement is payable to order, but there is no evidence of delivery of the note prior to the action's commencement. Furthermore, the alleged indorsement appears to be on a separate page, makes no specific reference to the subject note, and is, in any event, undated. As such, the so-called "indorsement" is, at best, unreliable and fails to support plaintiff's claim that the "note and mortgage were assigned by a properly indorsed note prior to the commencement of this action" (see, Slutsky v Blooming Grove Inn, Inc., 147 AD2d 208, 542 NYS2d 721 [2d Dept 1989]). This is particularly true where, as here, the plaintiff's affidavit in support of the motion fails to affirmatively state that the plaintiff did, in fact, possess the note and mortgage at the time the action was commenced. Without either proof of a proper written assignment of the underlying note or proper proof of the physical delivery of the note prior to the commencement of the foreclosure action, the plaintiff has failed to sufficiently show either the proper transfer of the obligation, or that the mortgage passed as an inseparable incident to the debt (see, U.S. Bank, N.A. v Collymore, 68 AD3d 752, 890 NYS2d 578 [2d Dept 2009]).
A plaintiff has no foundation in law or fact to foreclose upon a mortgage, unless the plaintiff has shown it has legal or equitable interest in such mortgage (Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. v Marchione, 69 AD3d 204, 887 NYS2d 615 [2d Dept 2009]; Katz v East-Ville Realty Co., 249 AD2d 243, 672 NYS2d 308 [1st Dept 1998]). A written assignment of the underlying note or the physical delivery of the note prior to the commencement of the foreclosure action would be sufficient to transfer the obligation, and have the mortgage pass as an inseparable incident to the debt (U.S. Bank, N.A. v Collymore, 68 AD3d 752, 890 NYS2d 578 [2d Dept 2009]). With regard to a written assignment, the execution date is generally controlling and a written assignment claiming an earlier effective date is deficient, unless it is accompanied by proof that the physical delivery of the note and mortgage was, in fact, previously effectuated (see, Bankers Trust Co. v Hoovis, 263 AD2d 937, 938, 694 NYS2d 245 [1999]). A retroactive assignment cannot be used to confer standing upon the assignee in a foreclosure action commenced prior to the execution of the assignment (Countrywide Home Loans, Inc. v Gress, 68 AD3d 709, 888 NYS2d 914 [2d Dept 2009]; Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. v Marchione, 69 AD3d 204, 887 NYS2d 615 [2d Dept 2009]).
Applying this analysis to the case before this Court, a statement by the plaintiff merely indicating that the original note is in plaintiff's possession as of the making of a motion for an order of reference is insufficient to show that the plaintiff had standing to bring the action in the first instance (Countrywide Home Loans, Inc. v Gress, 68 AD3d 709, 888 NYS2d 914 [2d Dept 2009]; Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. v Marchione, 69 AD3d 204, 887 NYS2d 615 [2d Dept 2009]). Plaintiff's failure to submit proper proof of a valid indorsement or assignment, and failure to otherwise prove that the plaintiff was the holder of the note and mortgage at the time the action was commenced, requires denial of the plaintiff's motion for an order of reference.
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A divided three-judge panel of the Fourth Circuit held today that three of President Obama's appointments to the NLRB were invalid because they did not take place during an intersession recess of the Senate. Senior Judge Hamilton wrote the opinion for the majority in NLRB v. Enterprise Leasing Co. SE, LLC (the lead case on the caption). Judge Duncan joined in full and wrote a separate concurrence. Judge Diaz dissented from the constitutional holding (but concurred in other matters).
Although Judge Hamilton and Judge Duncan were appointed by Presidents Bush 41 and Bush 43, respectively, while Judge Diaz was appointed by President Obama, the best explanation for the differing outcomes tracks methodological rather than partisan political differences. The majority and dissenting opinions exhibit vastly different approaches to constitutional interpretation. The majority emphasizes text and history while the dissent is avowedly pragmatic and functional (indeed the most explicitly functionalist opinion by Judge Diaz that I can recall).
The Fourth Circuit's decision bodes poorly for the Administration when the Supreme Court addresses these issues next Term in NLRB v. Noel Canning. This assessment is based not simply on the bottom-line conclusion reached by the Fourth Circuit, but on how the opinions were reasoned. On issues like these, the majority of the Supreme Court is methodologically closer to Judge Hamilton than Judge Diaz. It is difficult to see a majority of the Court hewing to the reasoning and conclusions reached by Judge Diaz in this case.


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Preseason Schedule
• Seventh-year Navy head football coach Ken Niumatalolo will open the 2014 season when the Midshipmen report for fall camp on Wednesday, July 30, and will hold the first day of practice on Thursday, July 31.
• The Mids will hold four days of two-a-day practices (8/6, 8/8, 8/11 and 8/13).
• Media Day / Fan Fest is set for Saturday, August 2 at 10 am at Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium.
• The annual Blue & Gold BBQ will take place on Saturday Aug. 9. Practice starts at 10 AM and the BBQ at 12 noon.
• The Brigade of Midshipmen will return to the Academy on Saturday, August 16.
• Navy will resume its normal Monday-Friday practice schedule on Monday, Aug. 18, practicing daily from 4-6 pm. That is the first day that plebes will be available for interviews.
• The Midshipmen kick off their season on Saturday, August 30 vs. Ohio State in Baltimore.
Navy's 2014 Schedule
• The Navy football team, coming off a 2013 campaign that saw the Mids finish with a 9-4 record, win the Commander-In-Chief's Trophy for the ninth time in the last 11 years, qualify for a bowl game for the 10th time in the last 11 years, win a bowl game for just the eighth time in school history and defeat Army for a series-record 12th-consecutive year, will face a challenging 2014 schedule that features five games at Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium and three neutral site games in the Baltimore-Washington corridor.
• The Mids will play seven teams that were bowl eligible in 2013, including two of college football's most storied programs, Ohio State and Notre Dame.
• This year also marks Navy's final year as an independent as the Mids will join the American Athletic Conference in 2015.
• Navy will open up the 2014 campaign with a bang as it plays host to Ohio State at Baltimore's M&T Bank Stadium on Aug. 30 at 12 noon. The Buckeyes are coming off a 12-2 season and have amassed a 24-2 record over the last two years under Urban Meyer. This will be the second time in six years that Navy has opened up against Ohio State. In 2009, the Mids went into Columbus and nearly pulled off the upset before losing 31-27 on an intercepted two-point conversion that was returned for two points in the final minute.
• The following week (Sept. 6), Navy will travel to future American Athletic Conference foe Temple (2-10 in 2013), as the two teams will tangle at Lincoln Financial Field. The Mids are 10-0 all-time at Lincoln Financial (9-0 vs. Army, 1-0 vs. Temple).
• The Mids will be back on the road the following week (Sept. 13) as they travel to San Marcos, Texas to take on the Bobcats of Texas State (6-6 in 2013). It will be Navy's first trip to San Marcos.
• The Mids will play their first game at Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium on Sept. 20 when Navy plays host to one of the Big Ten's newest members, Rutgers. The Scarlet Knights were 6-7 a year ago and played in the Pinstripe Bowl against Notre Dame.
• Navy will be looking for payback the following week as it plays host to Western Kentucky on Sept. 27. The Hilltoppers are coming off an 8-4 campaign, including a 19-7 victory over Navy in a game that starting quarterback Keenan Reynolds was knocked out of in the second quarter.
• Navy travels to Colorado Springs on Oct. 4 to take on Air Force in the first game of the round-robin competition between Navy, Air Force and Army for the Commander-In-Chief's Trophy. Navy defeated Air Force last year, 28-10, in Annapolis and will look to beat Air Force for the 10th time in the last 12 meetings. Air Force finished 2-10 a year ago.
• Navy returns home to face VMI on Oct. 11 and then, after a week off, will welcome San Jose State on Oct. 25 in a rematch of one of the best games in all of college football a year ago. The Spartans, who finished 6-6 on the year including an upset of undefeated Fresno State in the season finale, lost to Navy, 58-52, in triple overtime as Navy quarterback Keenan Reynolds ran for an NCAA-record (for a quarterback) seven rushing touchdowns, including the game-winning 25-yard touchdown run.
• The following week the Mids will take the short trip down Route 50 to battle the Fighting Irish of Notre Dame (9-4) at FedExField in Washington, DC in a prime time game on CBS. Last year, Notre Dame outlasted Navy, 38-34, in a game that featured an incredible nine lead changes. This will be just the second Navy-Notre Dame game played at night and Navy's first prime time game on an over the air network.
• After another off-week, the Mids return to Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium to face a Georgia Southern team (Nov. 15) that will be in its first full year as a Football Bowl Subdivision team. Last year, as a transitional FBS squad, the Eagles went 7-4 including a 26-20 upset victory over Florida in The Swamp.
• After a third off-week in six weeks, the Mids return to the gridiron on Friday, Nov. 28, to take on South Alabama (6-6) in Mobile, Ala. It will be Navy's first trip to Mobile to play the Jaguars.
• Navy will have a fourth off-week after the South Alabama game before playing Service Academy rival Army at Baltimore's M&T Bank Stadium. Navy will be going for a record 13th win in a row against its biggest rival. It will be the first Army-Navy game in Baltimore since 2007 when the Mids beat the Black Knights, 38-3. Army head coach Jeff Monken was an assistant at Navy for that game.
• CBS Sports has the rights to all of Navy's home football games and either CBS or CBS Sports Network will televise all five games played at Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium, as well as the neutral site games against Ohio State and Notre Dame. CBS is home for the Army-Navy Game presented by USAA.
• With six wins in 2014, the Mids will qualify to play in the San Diego County Credit Union Poinsettia Bowl on Dec. 23
2014 Preseason Honors
• Senior offensive tackle Bradyn Heap, senior outside linebacker Chris Johnson, senior safety Parrish Gaines and senior punter Pablo Beltran have been named to the Phil Steele 2014 Preseason All-Independent First Team.
• Steele ranks four Navy units among the best in the country. He ranks Navy's quarterbacks as the nation's 20th best (Ohio State was #5), Navy's running backs (SB's and FB's) were ranked 39th (Army's backs are ranked 9th, Ohio State 22nd and Notre Dame 24th), the offensive line is ranked 33rd (Notre Dame is 16th) and Navy's special teams are ranked 24th in the country (Ohio State is 15th).
• Junior quarterback Keenan Reynolds is on the Watch List for the Maxwell Award, the Davey O'Brien Award and the Walter Camp Player of the Year Award.
• Johnson is on the Watch List for the Lombardi Award.
Copeland, Gaines Named 2014 Team Captains
• Navy head football coach Ken Niumatalolo announced at the annual football banquet last February that fullback Noah Copeland and safety Parrish Gaines had been elected team captains for the 2014 football season by their teammates.
• Copeland played in nine of Navy's 13 games last fall, missing four games due to injury. He rushed for 339 yards and two touchdowns on 69 carries (4.9 yards per carry) and caught three passes for 43 yards and a touchdown. He rushed for a career-high 153 yards on 28 carries and caught a 20-yard touchdown pass against Toledo and had a 39-yard touchdown run in the Army-Navy game.
• Gaines had started 24-consecutive games at cornerback before switching to safety for the Pitt game due to injuries in the Navy secondary. He started the final seven games at safety. Gaines finished fourth on the team in tackles with 65, while turning in a team-high tying three interceptions. His biggest interception of the year came against San Jose State when he intercepted David Fales in the end zone in the third overtime, setting up Keenan Reynolds' 25-yard touchdown run to give Navy a thrilling 58-52 victory.


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Ok so here is the plugin in question I'm trying to integrate it on the homepage of my wordpress theme (incredible bought from themeforest)
After reading up on wordpress enqueue script and all that stuff i want to do it the right way from the start.
functions.php snippet: i just added 2 lines here, one to register my script "contenthover" the other to enqueue. Also i tried adding
array('jquery')); to make sure its dependent on jquery but that only produced a parse/syntax php error
if (!function_exists('pp_scripts')) {
function pp_scripts() {
wp_register_script('flexslider', get_template_directory_uri() . '/js/flexslider.js');
wp_register_script('isotope', get_template_directory_uri() . '/js/jquery.isotope.min.js');
wp_register_script('ender', get_template_directory_uri() . '/js/ender.min.js');
wp_register_script('carousel', get_template_directory_uri() . '/js/carousel.js');
wp_register_script('tooltip', get_template_directory_uri() . '/js/tooltip.js');
wp_register_script('popover', get_template_directory_uri() . '/js/popover.js');
wp_register_script('effects', get_template_directory_uri() . '/js/effects.js');
wp_register_script('twitter', get_template_directory_uri() . '/js/twitter.js');
wp_register_script('imagebox', get_template_directory_uri() . '/js/imagebox.min.js');
wp_register_script('contenthover', get_template_directory_uri() . '/js/jquery.contenthover.js');
wp_register_script('custom', get_template_directory_uri() . '/js/custom.js');
add_action('wp_enqueue_scripts', 'pp_scripts');
Next is the initialization code where i experimented with to make work, it didn't work when inserted in the header.php or footer.php or template-homepage-xxx.php .
Although as far as i know, it should work if its included in any of those files, its just not the "best practice" way of doing things to keep things clean. The theme already has a custom.js file loaded so i thought the best way would be to initialize it from there
so here is the custom.js snippet: it already contains many small snippets of code for carousels/effects..etc.etc. I've tried using the standard $(), as well as jQuery()
var $j = jQuery.noConflict();
$j(document).ready(function () {
Errors and outputs:
- With $() i get is undefined error in firebug console.
- With jQuery() and $j()i get Error: Permission denied to access property 'toString' on firebug console. not sure if thats related.
- Ive experimented with the sequence of scripts hoping that maybe its an issue related to the scripts being loaded in the wrong sequence, but no luck there.
- My last consideration would have to be lookin into the jquery.contenthover.js file it self to see if there are any conflicts that could arise with wordpress? would that be a wise thing to try and wrestle with?
- I'm sure this effect can be done vanilla and maybe with some clever CSS3 but i'm new to wordpress and want to figure the ins and outs so i can install custom scripts later on.
So thanks in advance, if there is anything thats unclear, or scripts you'd like to see. or perhaps a live example, just let me know. I would appreciate anything just a push in the right direction. Thanks all for your time.


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The Trap of Materialism
Posted by Kim Graae Munch in Computers, Esoterics, Politics, Science on April 20, 2009
The Materialistic society we are living in have some build in dangers, which will draw our society in a direction of less faith or trust in man, giving more inhuman conditions for all, and the problem is that we may see it as inevitable.
Centralization is the problem, both politically, of public institutions, of companies and of capital. The mantra 'Big is Beautiful' is wrong, the productivity per employee drops with the increasing size of the organisation, and that's because the single employee have less space to influence his own work, too bound by rules, and because the large organizations are difficult to manage.
In the following paragraphs I will look at its implications, which will be seen through greater aggressiveness, less social skills, and decreasing possibilities to control our future, less possibility to make decisions both in grand scale and in our own lives, both at home and job.
The Trap works through various mechanisms, as
- Materialism, a purely physical view of the universe,
- Pervasive Politics, proliferation of the political system in daily life,
- Groupings, emphasis on group, race, and ethnicity, us and them,
- Orthodoxy, literal and "simple" interpretation of the Gospels,
- Superstition, esoteric beliefs without foundation in thinking skills,
- Abstract Thinking, cultivating abstract theorization,
- Quantitative Thinking, purely quantitative (statistical) observation.
These combined with a Dualistic world view, where everything is Black and White, will increase the strife between people all over the world.
Dualism sees everything in opposites,
and this is one of the greatest dangers today: If you are not with me, you are against me. That is a widespread sickness, especially on the Internet where you can hide under anonymity, but orthodoxy of any kind: religious, atheistic, or political, moves our future in a dangerous direction. What makes it so dangerous are that both sides believe that they fight on the side of good, but the reality is that they both fight for extremism, truth is always somewhere in between.
The deception is not to see the full picture, to understand both sides in any relation!
The challenge is to find the Golden Mean between the extremes.
The following paragraphs will look into different areas where Dualism endangers our society.
Science is seen as the absolute truth against black superstition represented by religion. It's not seen as different and complementing views on the same reality. It has started the Atheistic religion, attacking spirituality and moral values. Darwin is their prime god, and their Messiah are the Sentient Robots they hope will come and save the world. The problem are that most of the Atheists don't really understand what they are preaching, and they don't accept scientific results if it's against their own beliefs. See Is it possible to make Intelligent Machines?
Science can't make decisions or take responsibility, as Science in itself have no moral. Science is always used by others, more dynamic groups of society, by players on the market or in politics, whose moral aren't better than the Courts or the Voters.
"Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men." Martin Luther King Jr.
"I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy." Richard Feynman
"As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss." Noam Chomsky
Pervasive Politics
You see Dualism in politics, especially in two-party systems, where there is no space for other views. Politics dominates today everybody's life, in contrast to forty years ago, where politics was talked about at the elections every fourth year. The laws gave then rules for the relation between the citizens, today the laws regulate the relation between state and citizens.
The politics invasion of the private sphere destroys the natural equilibrium of the society. The economic system today is an example of this, the equilibrium of that system ends regularly in chaos as the system is made for the speculators, not for the companies, nor for the country and its citizens. Today the decisions are taken by regulations or laws on behalf of groups, where prior the decisions were taken by those who knew about the concrete cases on behalf of persons. Wrong decisions had only small consequences then, where wrong decisions today have far heavier consequences as more people are dependent on these decisions.
This is a problem all over the world, and it gets worse the more laws and rules people have to follow.
One of the biggest lies of today: We need more regulations as a result of the society's complexity. Wrong, it's more complex as a result of all those regulations. Computers takes the complexity out of complex tasks, and prefabricated goods takes the complexity out of manual work, so what is complex today, except the laws?
There is a tendency to split up in groups, instead of seeing mankind as one; people split up after race, religion, language, land, locality, sex, or whatever. There are lots of hate in this, not least on the Internet.
There is a tendency to read religious text's to narrowly, as Jehovah Witnesses, and other religious groups who take their holy books too literally. Durban Two, where the Islāmic countries tries to prohibit any critic of religion, is a typical example showing that discussions of religious content is unwanted. New religious movements like Scientology, Atheism, the Moonies, and so on, are also too rigid.
Another trap is to accept the words of religious, esoteric, and scientific origin without thoughts. Spiritual inclined are in danger of reading spiritual literature without conscious understanding, but that includes also Atheists reading scientific texts without understanding.
Abstract Thinking
in contrast to real understanding. It's seen everywhere, and is also part of the previous areas. Man is seen as a thing not as a being. The reality is not abstract, and every decision based on abstract thinking is wrong, especially if living beings are involved.
Quantitative Thinking
and Statistics without understanding. Let's say a politician want to make a law, and it will make 0.123% of all families go bankrupt, but as the percent is low nobody sees it as a problem. Nobody understands that there are real people behind those figures. Quantitative thinking always works through abstractions.
Big Mother
The development moves in a direction where we can expect that our personal 'I' is assimilated by the masses, the collective. In the western world we are talking about freedom, that nobody shall tell us what to do, and we are fighting (Duality problem) against conspiracies, against CO2 pollution, against many other things, but we don't define and work consistently for a world worth living in. At the same time our capabilities to decide our own destiny are diminishing, regulated by law, organizations, computers, and infrastructure. The result may be that everybody just follow the route with least resistance, which are built through directives, regulations, computer capabilities, ending in a situation where nobody thinks or makes decisions any more. And it's all made for the good of the citizens by the Big Mother.
Political Correctness
Political Correctness is sneaking in everywhere, without any conscious effort by any conspiratorial agency, but because of the path of least resistance.
No Childhood
Many of the restrictions and laws are made because of lacking parenting, children no longer learn to live in a community, they are each and all small kings and princesses, who don't understand that others don't see them as such. Their understanding of scientific, historic or creative endeavors is as small as it has ever been. The children learned more at the camp fire than the children of today. As they don't know how to behave, more and more laws are created to remedy the lacking parenting.
The central problem are that Children aren't allowed to be children any longer, or as Michael Jackson says:
"Childhood has become the great casualty of modern-day living. All around us we are producing scores of kids who have not had the joy, who have not been accorded the right, who have not been allowed the freedom, or knowing what it's like to be a kid.
Today children are constantly encouraged to grow up faster, as if this period known as childhood is a burdensome stage, to be endured and ushered through, as swiftly as possible."
"Love, ladies and gentlemen, is the human family's most precious legacy, its richest bequest, its golden inheritance. And it is a treasure that is handed down from one generation to another. Previous ages may not have had the wealth we enjoy. Their houses may have lacked electricity, and they squeezed their many kids into small homes without central heating. But those homes had no darkness, nor were they cold. They were lit bright with the glow of love and they were warmed snugly by the very heat of the human heart. Parents, undistracted by the lust for luxury and status, accorded their children primacy in their lives." Michael Jackson, Speech at Oxford University(2001)
Complicated Structures
You can't make tax-systems as complicated as they are today without computers, and you can't control the many citizens or employees, as we can today, without computers; the amount of data are enormous. They make it possible to create structures which are difficult to manage without using computers, and computers don't know HR.
GM and the American Automobile Industry are good examples of these gigantic Companies, who would be impossible to manage without stiff administrative structures and computers, and it's extremely difficult to change these structures if needed. But modern software organizations have the same problems, with their software base, as Microsoft with their operating system, and their Office System, Yahoo with it's big software base and reductions in labor have their problems, and new organizations as Google with it's extreme growth will quickly get into the same problems, the only way out are to regularly rebuild old systems from the ground without any application reuse, and keeping different applications separated on application level, and using methods who makes the programming as simple and cost effective as possible.
These big organizations are extremely susceptible to the Peters Principle:
I believe computers can be a boon to mankind, but we have to control how and what they are used for, not letting their possibilities decide our future, as their strength can be used both for the good and the bad.
Management and Computers
You can use computers to many things, they can plan routes for transport to decrease energy consumption, and many other useful things. This sounds good, but if we don't take care, it could mean that it makes the knowledge and experience of man superfluous or even dangerous; man's role degraded to a machine.
The need for knowledge is diminishing everywhere in the society, except within the computer world. Many jobs who needed educated Craftsmen can now be done by unskilled labor, as building materials don't need special skills any more, and the computer has taken over a lot of paper work and decision-making. This makes everybody to secretaries except the secretaries, even executives writes their own letters and calculating sheets on their computers, instead of using secretaries, so they could do what they were hired and paid for: Manage.
The term "Human Resources" is in itself a degradation, people are not individuals any longer, they are a kind of commodity. See "Human Resources" by Scott Noble.
Large Structures
The physicist Geoffrey B. West studies large structures like cities and corporate organisations, and has found that cities increases it's productivity and also it's problems, while corporate organisations decreases their productivity as they grow.
Public organisations have of course the same problems as the corporate companies, they don't trust their employees.
Cities are good examples on how the unstructured principles works, how the size of the city increases the production per citizen.
No Competent Leaders
What makes it so frustratingly absurd is that we are giving our independence to a system, a network of directives and conventions, without any persons being in charge. There is nowhere you can go saying that it's wrong and it should be otherwise, everybody will tell you, that's how it is and it has always been that way, and it can't be in any other way, as it's too costly to change the computers programming just because of you! Of cause, we have leaders in the top of the state or the corporate companies, but as the decision-making are moved up through the hierarchy (following automatic rules,) it becomes more and more difficult to manage the big organizations, as everything becomes dependent on one decision maker alone, and few know how to or can change the course. It's more difficult to change the direction of a State, Organization, or a Company than a Super Tanker. The organizations becomes automatons, and the companies go down in case of unanticipated events which craves structural changes.
GM and the American Automobile Industry are good examples of this inability to change, they had known for decades that they should change their models to compete with Japanese and European manufacturers, but they couldn't.
The incompetence of these organizations will give rise to Conspiracy Theories as Hanlon's Law warns about:
The following video shows many of the tendencies mentioned. Most banks don't have types as Potter any longer, the bank works and thinks like a machine without any feelings or empathy at all, costumer service is a word not a fact.
From Move Your Money who tries to resist the Corporate Ideology.
Automated Decisions
Buying and selling on the stock market are for a great part based on automated decisions on computers, but as we have seen, it can go terrible wrong when some unanticipated events shows up. What's worse, the stock market was made to foster strong and sound companies, not for computer controlled gaming, but for intelligent investment.
As fewer and fewer managers can make decisions, these decisions will be automated as rules in computers, and it will be impossible to make decisions based on individual concerns.
Decreasing Social Intercourse
Computers are exceptional for entertainment, you can live your life on the Internet, without any direct social contact. You can play games, make your work through the net if necessary, discuss, hunt sex/ books/ programs/ random data on the net (can be like drugs,) book your food from a local pizzeria, book escort girls, men, and boys, eventually finding mates on the net if you really want to live together with another being:). The film Matrix is a plausible destiny, not by force, but semi freely. It's not Big Brother, it's Big Mama.
Less Social Skills
In the old days, children, teenagers, and adults learned by living in a community, and there was room for everybody, also the village idiot. These and other unusual persons were educated by their surrounding who were mostly normal. We are today living more and more on the Internet, learning our social skills through social applications and computer games, the old community's influence are replaced by the influence of the Internet comrades, and as like seeks likes, they can only increase their phobias or other disorders. Examples are numerous: pedophilia, school killings, terrorists, all kind of surrealistic interests, and so forth. The Law of Sayre's are relevant in many of these cases:
No Privacy
Children and teenagers can be reached by mobile and GPS always and everywhere, followed on the Internet through Twitter or Facebook by their parents. No privacy. The same goes for the adults, no privacy, open for state officials, economic institutions, and employers. Password protection, pseudonyms, and like precautions is no hindrance, Cyber-Investigators will find everything, relevant or not. You can not even go to the North Pole or to Himalaya in peace, they can always reach you, and you them.
Where's the remotest place on Earth?
In our hyper-connected world, getting away from it all is easier said than done. New Scientist.
Conspiracy Theories
The frustration has to go somewhere, and while there are no one responsible for our situation, and no one with enough insight, determination, and power to change the situation, we invent some god-like powerful conspirators who in all secrecy, with hundreds of employees, stands behind all the bad in this world. The truth is, that most leaders are so incompetent that it hurts. Just look at Iraq. The military invasion was well thought out, but the rest was incompetence par excellence. And that is not an exception, it's the rule. Of cause there are conspiracies and secret operations, but if more than one participant knowing about the conspiracy are alive a year later, it's just a question of time before the world know. Another reason to use few people are that really competent people are difficult to find, and the more people involved the bigger the risks for failure, and the bigger the consequences of a failure, the less interesting the project becomes. The best way to check if a conspiracy theory is viable or not, isn't the technical evidence but the psychology and the necessary resources behind, how big is the risk, who gains, what's their gain, how many participate, and what expertise are necessary.
A sober view on Conspiracy Theories from the left:
Noam Chomsky on Conspiracy Theories
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The the Bafta-winning film-maker Adam Curtis:
"I don't believe in conspiracies. Politicians don't have the capacity to conspire, except in the most short-term way. [The distorted image of bin Laden] just suited a lot of people's purposes at that time."
What's the mechanism behind the development?
Thomas Piketty
The Independent: The French economist forcing America to wake up to the end of The Dream.
Out of America: Thomas Piketty's tome which skewers the idea that anyone who works hard can make it in the US seems to have hit a nerve
"Capital In The Twenty-First Century", all 685 pages of it, is the No 1 best-seller on Amazon – apparently the first time that anything published by the venerable Harvard University Press has attained such dizzying celebrity. No self-regarding dinner party in Washington or New York is worth its salt without a discussion of it. Last Friday, came the ultimate accolade of a multiple coronation on the op-ed page of The New York Times.
The Huffington Post: Economist Thomas Piketty Explains Why Income Inequality Is Just Getting Started
Michael Lewis
Wired: Michael Lewis on Exposing Wall Street's Biggest High-Tech Swindle in the book: Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt
Flash Boys explores the world of high-frequency trading, a scheme in which traders use ultra-fast network connections to sniff out the intentions of other, slower traders, thereby acting before others can respond. Critics of the practice–Lewis chief among them–argue that high-frequency trading creates something akin to insider trading: a predatory environment for less advantaged investors. WIRED spoke with Lewis at an event organized by Live Talks in downtown Los Angeles.
Elizabeth Warren
A Fighting Chance (Apple, Amazon)
An unlikely political star tells the inspiring story of the two-decade journey that taught her how Washington really works—and really doesn't.
In this passionate, funny, rabble-rousing book, Warren shows why she has chosen to fight tooth and nail for the middle class—and why she has become a hero to all those who believe that America's government can and must do better for working families.
New York Times: Book review of A Fighting Chance
A good review, also giving a good idea about who she is.
Allan Bloom
The Closing of the American Mind, Simon & Schuster Inc.
Christopher Lasch
Haven in a Heartless World, 1977, Basic Books, Inc.
In the American political vocabulary, "family" and "family values" no longer simply evoke pictures of harmonious scenes; they also push our buttons (left and right) about what is wrong with society. One of the earliest and sharpest cultural commentators to investigate the twentieth-century American family, Christopher Lasch argues in this book that as social science "experts" intrude more and more into our lives, the family's vital role as the moral and social cornerstone of society disintegrates – and, left unchecked, so does our political and personal freedom. Haven in a Heartless World is a trenchant analysis of the plight of the family. Lasch takes a clear-eyed look at the institution in which America's future generations are being raised and finds it faltering.
Geoffrey B. West
A Physicist Turns the City Into an Equation:
A New York Times article on his work.
Growth, innovation, scaling, and the pace of life in cities:
Describes the mathematical background for his work.
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Why Teacher Drink, the sequel: Natalie Munroe speaks out
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
have written a little book called "Night Flight" which describes man's fight against the Materialistic docility to keep man competent and responsible.
By Rudolf Steiner
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The the Bafta-winning film-maker Adam Curtis:
Political Correctness
Political Correctness is sneaking in everywhere, without any conscious effort by any conspiratorial agency, but because of the path of least resistance.
The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum – even encourage the more critical and dissident views. That gives people the sense that there's free thinking going on, while all the time the presuppositions of the system are being reinforced by the limits put on the range of the debate.
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A rose perfumer by any other name would smell as sweet, but Patricia de Nicolai, 54, is also a member of the Guerlain perfume dynasty -- a great-granddaughter of the esteemed French fragrance house's founder, Pierre Guerlain.
On a recent speaking tour with L'Alliance Francaise that took her through Chicago, Washington, New York and Toronto, the perfume chemist and historian de Nicolai recounted how doors were closed to her 30 years ago. When she graduated from ISIPCA, the perfumery school in Versailles, de Nicolai initially sought a job as a junior perfumer but doors were closed. "Because I was a woman. Even if the manager said yes, the chief perfumer didn't ever want to have a woman on his team."
She was never allowed to work at the family business. (To be fair, the family sold it to luxury goods behemoth LVMH in 1994, but still.)
"A lot of people ask me that," de Nicolai shrugged, diplomatically, before adding: "You should ask that to the Guerlain family!" A couple years ago in Paris, when Jean-Paul Guerlain handed in the reigns of house master perfumer and LVMH brought in the first non-family member Thierry Wasseur, I had done just that. Did he not believe that women could be good perfumers? I asked. Monsieur Guerlain, then 71, waved his hand dismissively and muttered something about de Nicolai being a woman who made scented salts and candles.
She does. Unapologetically. And they sell like crazy. In 1988, when de Nicolai launched her own niche perfume company and boutique (of which there are now five in Paris), a friend suggested she formulate candles as well, to lure in a more frequent customer. In those years before Glade's home fragrance invasion, there were no such scented candles on the market, let alone luxury versions, and de Nicolai freely credits those candles with cementing her business. New York, a men's cologne, enjoys a cult following. So does the powdery, oriental white floral Sacre Bleu (in Canada, Parfums Nicolai is exclusive to The Perfume Shoppe in Vancouver).
I told her this, by way of prodding. "It's a complicated story," de Nicolai elaborated, with a weary sigh. "When I started, the big manager of the company was the brother of my grandmother. He wasn't the perfumer but he was the big manager. He wasn't an artistic man. First, he said 'you're a woman --' " and secondly, referring to the
many years of training and apprenticeship required to become a master perfumer, she explained, "he told me, 'You'll get married, you'll have children, you will stop your job after a while.' "
It's a typical tale across many occupations, even ones where, like fashion, the mythology and creative muse is female. "In Guerlain they are very machiste," de Nicolai continued, lifting a clenched fist to illustrate the emphasis. "The family who worked in the brand was only men, no women. And they like to embroider on those love stories!" Love stories behind their famous perfumes, like Aime Guerlain creating Jicky in 1889 for a woman who broke his heart; Shalimar, the 1925 scent named for the tryst garden in the Arabian nights; or Mitsouko, the 1919 perfume created in homage to the heroine of Claude Farrere's novel La Bataille.
Smelling good is the best revenge. In 1988, de Nicolai became the first woman to be awarded the best perfume creator by the French Society of Perfumers (that's like a best director Oscar, but for smell). Today, she's also the president of L'Osmotheque, the innovative Versailles museum library and archive of extinct historic French perfumes by such important houses as Coty, Houbigant and Lubin.
In 20 years, L'Osmotheque has been such a success that a second location in New York will open soon, and the museum board is even lobbying the notoriously protectionist Academie Francaise to have the word osmotheque officially admitted into the French language. All this, because de Nicolai believes that perfume is part of the French cultural heritage, as important a cultural and economic export as fashion (which, in the aftermath of the Second World War, saved the country's economy thanks almost entirely to Christian Dior's New Look). "It's a notion of art, and when in the middle of the 19th century synthetic molecules appeared and perfumers were not only chemists or apothecaries, they became really creators," de Nicolai said.
"Perfume is probably the most sophisticated creation to make," she added; "it's very intellectual. It's the most valuable product of our spirit." More important than gender, she said, is that each creator has what in fine art is called la patte d'un peintre -- the hand of the artist. "You recognize Beethoven, Mozart immediately," de Nicolai said, and so too the signature of a perfumer.
Her own olfactory signature admits to certain genetic tendencies. "I am influenced by my family!" she admitted with rueful laugh. "Growing up Guerlain was always only nice perfumes, something you could recognize from afar, the sillage, and you would know it was Guerlain. I wanted to have the same approach."
And very identifiable, distinct. "Which is the most important thing when you create a perfume, whether you are a man or a woman: it has to be distinct otherwise it's only a sent-bon."
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Many heart attack patients in the UK are sent to a specialist centre for primary angioplasty – a surgical procedure to reopen the blocked artery. Randomised trials have found that angioplasty is much more successful than drug treatment alone, but research based on "real-world" data suggests that patients given an angioplasty don't tend to do better.
Now researchers at Imperial College London have shown that the apparent lack of benefit in the clinical records is due to high-risk patients being more likely to be sent to a heart attack centre, which skews the data. After taking this bias is into account, they find that primary angioplasty reduces the death rate from heart attacks by 22 per cent.
They say the findings confirm that heart attack centres play a vital role, and should be made available more widely. The latest figures show that 82 per cent of heart attack patients in England and 30 per cent in Wales receive a primary angioplasty, with wide discrepancies in access between regions.
"There has been some debate in the cardiology community about whether it is worthwhile to run specialist heart attack centres, despite evidence from clinical trials that they save lives," said Dr Iqbal Malik, one of the study's authors, from the National Heart and Lung Institute at Imperial . "This study resolves an important question. We must strive to make sure everyone in the UK has access to the best emergency treatment in the event of a heart attack."
The findings are published today in Circulation Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes. The authors warn that in real life, doctors faced with a very sick patient tend to give them the most effective possible treatment. This phenomenon – termed allocation bias – is good medical practice but can make "comparative effectiveness" research unreliable. Adjusting for this bias is difficult because doctors may base their decisions on many features that are difficult to document. The Imperial team developed a method to help other researchers detect when a disease is vulnerable to this form of bias in evaluation of its treatments.
Co-author Dr Sayan Sen said: "Comparing treatments based on clinical records will always be hindered by the good wisdom of the first-line doctors, who choose the most effective therapy for the most sick patients. We demonstrate that decisions regarding the therapy of heart attack patients should be tested in the most reliable way, namely a randomised trial, and should not rely on registries."
Ellen Mason, Senior Cardiac Nurse at the British Heart Foundation, which co-funded the research, said:
"It is essential to reopen a blocked coronary artery during a heart attack, to prevent part of the heart muscle from dying. A blocked artery can be re-opened during a heart attack by using clot-dissolving drugs or primary angioplasty, where the artery is reopened using a tube. Both these emergency treatments have saved many lives and reduced the amount of long lasting damage to the heart.
"At the moment, throughout the world there is a trend towards using primary angioplasty in more patients – the UK continues to follow this trend because of continued research showing better outcomes for patients and quicker discharge times. Heart attack centres are essential for providing 24 hour angioplasty, and it's vital that the UK continues to keep up with the latest in heart attack research and treatments."
The researchers also received funding from the Medical Research Council.
S Sen et al. 'Why Does Primary Angioplasty Not Work in Registries? Quantifying the Susceptibility of Real-World Comparative Effectiveness Data to Allocation Bias' Circulation Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes, 13 November 2012. DOI: 10.1161/CIRCOUTCOMES.112.966853
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You know job security is scarce when Keith Fitzhugh turns down an offer to join football's New York Jets for the steady paycheck of a train conductor's gig.
Fitzhugh, who starred as a safety at Mississippi State, tried out for the Jets each of the last two years, but each time was cut before the season began, reported the Newark Star-Ledger. But when the Jets lost starting safety Jim Leonhard for the season and his backup was injured Monday night, the team's director of pro personnel, Brendan Prophett, called up Fitzhugh.
Fitzhugh, now working as a conductor with Norfolk Southern railroad outside Atlanta, turned the offer down, even though he knows the Jets may have a shot at the Super Bowl.
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"I know I haven't won a Super Bowl; it would be a once-in-a-lifetime chance," Fitzhugh told the newspaper by phone from Georgia. "But you only get one mom and one dad. That's a once-in-a-lifetime chance. I'd rather be there for my mom and dad than go for a Super Bowl chance."
Fitzhugh has a stable job with health benefits, and a steady paycheck trumps chasing his gridiron dream. His father, Keith Sr., has had hip replacements and bad knees, and has been unable to work since his son left to play football at Mississippi State. He also lost a sister to the West Nile Virus, and now lives at home with his close-knit family.
"That's why I'm so strong about being around family now," Fitzhugh said. "Life is short, and you never know what will happen. When I went through the period of time being unemployed, my family was there for me. I didn't want to take a risk and lose everything again, especially when I have a great job like I do now."
Fitzhugh knew he could be cut yet again within weeks, and would be risking a longterm job.
"He's always been that kind of a kid," Fitzhugh's mom, Meltonia, told the newspaper. "If you would ever know him and were to meet him, he is that kind of kid. He tries to help everybody. It wouldn't be just for me, he would do it for anybody. I take it as a blessing."
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