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What Sustains Fiscal Consolidations in Emerging Market Countries? »
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Volume/Issue: 2003/224
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s): Benedict Clements , Sanjeev Gupta , Erwin Tiongson , and Emanuele Baldacci
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 01 November 2003
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5089/9781451875348.001
Keywords: survival analysis, probability, fiscal adjustments, fiscal deficit, Econometric and Statistical Methods: - Special Topics, Macroeconomic - Aspects of Public Finance, Macroeconomic Policy, and General Outlook,
This paper examines the factors affecting the persistence of fiscal consolidation in 25 emerging market countries during 1980-2001. It proposes a new approach for defining spells of fiscal consolidation. The result...

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Blog on legalisation of illicit drugs in Spain
Among other comments, this blog presents statements from former Spanish Prime Minister Felipe Gonzalez, who declared himself in favour of depenalisation. This declaration is of particular importance since Mr. Gonzalez has served four terms as Prime Minister, from 1982 to 1996, and remains a key figure in Spanish politics.
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Redmond seeking more patience at plate
MIAMI -- The Marlins are aggressive swingers, and that tendency proved costly in Tuesday night's 6-4 loss to the Braves.
Miami got to Atlanta starter Julio Teheran early, tagging the 22-year-old for four runs, with one earned, on 51 pitches through only three innings. The Marlins led 4-3 with the Braves' starter in danger of not pitching deep into the game.
However, the short at-bats started coming in the second and began piling up in the third. Beginning with Adeiny Hechavarria's two-out single in the third, 19 of Miami's next 25 batters had at-bats of three pitches or fewer.
"We need to do a better job of getting ourselves deeper into counts," Miami manager Mike Redmond said. "It seems like we'll burn that pitcher out a little bit in the first three innings. Then, as we get towards the middle, we'll have back-to-back first-pitch swings and soft outs. We can't do that."
After throwing 51 pitches in his first three innings, Teheran needed only 44 to get through the final 4 1/3 frames of his outing.
Only two Marlins swung at the first pitch during the team's first run through the batting order. But beginning in the third, 12 more batters hacked at Teheran's first pitch.
The Marlins' first-pitch swing percentage of 48 from the third inning on dwarfed the league average of 29 percent. Although Miami has four qualified players swinging at more first pitches than the league average, it falls below the MLB average as a team.
Additionally, the Marlins' 3.73 pitches per plate appearance is only slightly lower than the MLB average of 3.79, but only four qualified Miami players eclipse that mark individually.
A first-pitch swing percentage of 27 is likely the result of a 30-game stretch from May 31 to July 4 that saw the Marlins post the best record in the Majors at 19-11. Redmond feels the team has lost some patience at the plate during its current five-game skid.
A dip in patience at the plate cost Miami on Tuesday night, and Redmond believes working counts is one of the key ways in which the Marlins will return to the level of play they enjoyed during June.
"When we're going good, we're really grinding out at-bats and getting deep into counts," Redmond said. "When you start losing some ballgames, guys start feeling like, 'Hey, I've got to pick up the slack. I've got to get the big hit. I've got to get on base.' And you start getting out of your game plan a little bit."


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Supply-Side Tax Policy : Its Relevance to Developing Countries
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- 2 A Simple Model of the Effects of Income Tax Rate Reductions on Economic Growth and Aggregate Supply
- 3 Are Labor Supply, Savings, and Investment Price-Sensitive in Developing Countries? A Survey of the Empirical Literature
- 4 Optimal Taxation of Financial Savings in Developing Countries Relevance of Supply-Side Tax Policies
- 5 Income Taxes and Investment Some Empirical Relationships for Developing Countries
- 6 Determinants of Income Tax Evasion Role of Tax Rates, Shape of Tax Schedules, and Other Factors
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I apologize to old friends and the idly curious for not posting in quite awhile.
Much has happened since I last wrote, and I'm not sure if I should recap some of it in my future posts, or begin anew after this post. We shall see where my inclination takes me. At the moment, it seems to be taking me on an auto-biographical ramble. Perhaps I should begin with why I stopped blogging; I stopped in '09 for various reasons, the crux of which was the job; client confidentiality, ongoing litigation, severe limitations on my time, and so forth. That's changed to a certain extent.
I left the Public Defender's office in Miami in August of 2011. I'd like to write a bit about my time there and the impression it left on me.
I'm glad of the time I spent in the PDs office. I was there for 4 years and had remarkable experiences; the clients were horrible and wonderful. In fact, just about every aspect of indigent criminal defense practice seemed populated with the entire intellectual and moral range of humanity. When I left I had two pieces of correspondence on my wall. The first, from a client who ended up sentenced to life in prison, was a card he had bought with his commissary money, thanking me for all the work I had done on his case and urging *me* not to be upset at the outcome. The second, sent anonymously (though I figured it out) from a client who had gotten a fantastic deal (involving no jail time), was a screed on how I had wronged him and ended with "Nice Mousedash (sic), Dickhead!". That kind of says it all.
I left with a tremendous amount of practical litigation experience; literally thousands of depositions, thousands of clients, hundreds of motions, and about 50 actual trials of one form or another. Those trial cases ran the spectrum - misdemeanors to murder. And, as luck or fate or the grace of my trial partners would have it, the vast majority of those trials resulted in very good outcomes. (In many ways my trial experiences were a product of Miami's particular legal culture during the time I was there – had I gone elsewhere, been assigned different court rooms, or had been opposing different state attorneys, I very much doubt I'd have tried as many cases, or enjoyed the same results.)
I think the most valuable part of the experience came from working with my co-workers and training attorneys; I learned so much from them (not just on matters legal) that it's difficult to quantify; even though I'm no longer there, I am still learning as I muse on the experiences I've had. I formed some very deep friendships, and, as a whole, my colleagues continue to impress me with their skill and dedication.
Most importantly, at the close of my time there, I left with the feeling that it had been worthwhile, that I had really helped people – not everyone, surely, but there were truly affirming moments. Going to Miami was one of the most significant and rewarding decisions I've made.
These good experiences came with a cost however. I'll try to explain, as this cost is the main reason why I left the office; it also explains why I stopped blogging, and is, on its own, a very real societal concern.
Most people think (if the issue crosses their minds) that the difficultly with public defense lies in the long hours, the poor pay, the usual problems associated with desk work and not enough exercise, difficult or dangerous clients, and personal moral compromises arising from defending "those people." *Some* of these proved to be problems for me, but there is one factor (which I'll touch on in a bit) that dwarfs them all.
It's true; the hours are long (50-60 hrs a week.) The pay is poor (low to mid 40s). I managed to stay healthy enough despite the desk job, although it took conscious effort. The clients are occasionally difficult and/or dangerous, but this is a tiny percentage of the total number of clients. While it's a common assumption is that representing the actual clients is the worst part of the job, it's really not. It's been explained elsewhere, but, in a nutshell I'm sure I've represented some very bad people who did monstrous things; I'm also sure I represented some completely innocent people who were unjustly accused. Either way, the only person (possessing relative power) in the legal system that can help the client is the defense attorney. Guilty or Innocent, no one else in the system is there, by definition, to help them – that's solely the job of the defense attorney. Anyone who is accused of a crime certainly deserves someone in their corner, giving them advice and rigorously testing the accusations to see if they're sound or not. So, whatever moral qualms you have about individual clients quickly becomes water under the bridge. Even if you don't like them personally, you can provide a crucial constitutional service with skill and respectful professionalism.
Despite the hours and the pay, it could have been a sustainable job – for it's a job rich with satisfaction. I wasn't able to keep at it, however, almost solely because of the sheer number of clients and the stress comes from representing so many of them, so quickly. Let me try to explain that.
When an individual client is assigned to you, there are a number of things you must do to competently represent them. You have to meet with the client, get their story, find out what they think about the case against them, do investigation, get discovery, go back to the client, go over the investigation and discovery with them to see if it makes sense or if there's something missing, do legal research, set and take depositions, interview and prepare your own witnesses, review all this with the client, write and file applicable motions, negotiate with the state attorneys assigned to the case, discuss with (often educate) your client on the different ways he can resolve his case by in part highlighting the pros and cons of each. To fairly assess the relative worth of any plea bargain, your client must understand what a trial *would* be like in the case. Then, should your client decide to go to trial, there's the actual trial prep, followed by the trial itself. In short, it's a lot of work depending on how you approach it. (I used to have my clients call me after every deposition so I could tell them (briefly) what the witness said, and thus make sure we caught any discrepancies in the testimony.) Regardless of the severity of the charges, the same basic form of client representation remains; however, if your client is facing a situation where the plea offer is 10 years, verses life imprisonment if he loses at trial, sometimes you turn over stones twice, instead of once. Then you turn them over again. Just to be sure.
So the question becomes, once we know what's entailed in fairly and adequately representing one human being accused of a crime, how many clients should a defense attorney have?
There must be an upper "number" of cases, even acknowledging for the differing degrees of complexity and severity in cases. In my experience, given the resources of the office I worked in, if I had a 40 hour work week and only 5 randomly selected criminal cases open at any given time, I wouldn't have had enough to do. If I had 20-30 cases, I'd probably have been usefully busy, and could still do a good job.
However, what I actually had was somewhere between 60-90 2nd degree felony clients at any given time. (As a "C" attorney I used to have anywhere from 70-145 3rd degree felony clients). Those are insane numbers, and I can't stress that enough.
Why are they insane numbers?
One basic reason; a significant number of clients are incarcerated. While the client sits in jail (and believe me, I had "Innocent" clients kept in jail pending the resolution of their cases) they can't work – apartments and jobs are lost, their relationships crumble, their cars are repossessed, opportunities are missed, and with every day there's a stronger chance that their general reputation and standing in their community becomes more and more damaged, regardless of the outcome of their case. Beyond this, the jails are a dirty and dangerous place to find yourself in. Not only is there the threat of physical violence from your fellow inmates, the medical and psychological care is, in my opinion, substandard. (For example, the jails have limited kinds of medicine available to treat mental health problems – if you need specific care and medication, you might only be able to get something approximate, and thus, not as effective.) This puts a lot of pressure on the attorney to get those cases developed and ready for resolution/trial as quickly as possible. I'd routinely have about 30 people in jail at any one given time.
There's no easy fix.
In a nutshell (there's a much more detailed and nuanced analysis that can be done, involving speedy trial rules and so forth, but the following should suffice for conversational purposes), because courts can only try one case at a time, there's always a backlog of cases awaiting trial. And, should the state attorneys and the PDs (who handles the bulk of criminal cases in most courtrooms) actually be in trial all the time (trial after trial after trial for a month), new cases would not be developed (depositions taken, etc) and that alone would create a backlog. This creates incentives to plea cases out, which might benefit defendants who were inclined to plea all along, but it hurts clients who need to try their cases. One could say that this kind of incentive most benefits factually guilty individuals with poor trial cases, whereas a criminal justice system should (I think everyone would agree) most benefit individuals who are on the "innocent" side of the spectrum. Well, the big picture is for another blog post, another day. Suffice to say though, that the large numbers of defendants bogs down the system in a dangerous way.
There was a lot of litigation about this in FL and elsewhere. The upshot of it all, when I left, was that the PDs in FL still could not limit their caseloads, and were being forced by the courts to accept clients. Numbers fluctuated somewhat as different alternatives were tried to reduce caseloads and release clients prior to the resolution of their cases. Even when the numbers were at their lowest, they were still far too high for effective representation.
So what did this mean, practically, in terms of how it played out day by day on the job?
Well, sometime around the beginning of my blogging silence, I was promoted from a "C" attorney to a "B" attorney - meaning that as a "B," I largely handled second degree felonies. The majority of my new cases were drug trafficking, certain kinds of sex crimes, and violent acts that didn't actually leave someone dead. I also handled certain "sticky" "C" cases involving peculiar circumstances or complex evidentiary issues. I pretty much kept 7am-7pm M-F hours, usually eating at my desk, with occasional weekend work. I wasn't robotically effective during those hours (no human is) but I certainly didn't spend afternoons goofing off. On days when I knew I couldn't work any more, I'd leave at 5pm. That didn't happen all that often.
Of course, these hours changed when I was actually in trial. The basic rule was, if I wasn't asleep, I was working on something case-related. Felony trials usually last from 2 to 5 days. Trials become chunks of time I'd exclusively focus on one client (excepting a medical emergency or something). They also, by definition, become chunks of time I wasn't working on other cases, some of would come up the next week, and some the week after that, and so on. In my experience something always happened while I was in trial; I'd get a new client (who is frantically calling you from jail), people call on cases, new discovery would come in, the state would file motions on existing cases, so on, so forth. The only option is to forge on as quickly as you can.
In the short run, as crazy as it sounds, it's actually kind of sustainable. Being intensely focused is nice. Putting out fires constantly lets you run on adrenaline and switch hats quite a bit. The high turn-over let you see the actual results of your hard work. The more absurdly your clients were treated (or threatened to be treated), the more energy you got. The craziness was exciting, and gave rise to a certain elan, a kind of cynical but vigorous esprit de corps. But the longer I spent there, the more it frustrated me.
Different people deal with the high turnover and caseload in different ways. Some of it is pretty disturbing – you can actually see certain attorneys putting on the weight, getting more and more upset, getting less and less sleep, drinking more heavily. Other attorneys just "check out." Many leave. Out of the 22 attorneys who were hired at the same time as I was, only 7 remained when I left. (And this is in an awful job market). Some actually seem to find a balance and keep at it.
Of course, it must be said that not all burdens are equal. There are courtrooms where fewer clients are incarcerated, waiting for trial. There are courtrooms where the state attorney is reasonable. There are courtrooms where the judge takes an active role. And then there are courtrooms where these things are not often or routinely the case. In my various postings, I have been lucky enough to have always had good judges I could work with. Sometimes I had good state attorneys (including a few truly excellent, compassionate state attorneys.) I'm not writing any of this to point fingers. I do want to suggest that, from a defense perspective, there are "harder" and "easier" courtrooms, depending on the individuals who create the courtroom culture. And, of course, defense attorneys, depending on their skills and personalities, do better in some courtrooms than in others. I believe I had a typical experience – while I had my "favorite" configuration of personalities to work with, I can honestly say that none of my postings were truly bad. I was always placed in courtrooms where I had a fighting chance. Even the courtroom where I ended up stupidly antagonizing the judge (my fault entirely) turned out with time to be an excellent one to practice in.
So what happened to me?
I'm still thinking this over. I think the constant client turn over just finally got to me. When I left, I still had gas in the tank, but I wasn't as quite sharp as I used to be. I had "plateaued" to a certain extent; and I didn't see the caseload changing enough that I'd have the mental and emotional space to creatively engage with the law. I had moments where I pushed back at this, but the general trend was ongoing.
During my time at the PDs I ended up making a lot of trade-offs. Not necessarily bad ones, per se, but I ended up isolating myself socially in order to accomplish certain things, not all of which I can really blog about. The client/witness/courtroom/trial interactions taxed me socially and mentally, and what was left over didn't carry me as far; at the end of the day, the last thing you want to do is have an argument or debate with someone.
I can say that I successfully studied for and took the NY bar. (I passed and have been sworn into NY.) I moved to a new apartment and renovated it. And, most importantly, I got married (HA! - More on all that in a bit.) On the negative side of the ledger, I did almost nothing at all with poetry (teaching, reading, writing, publishing) for a couple years. I shrunk my circle of close friends (and family) to a mere handful, and sometimes weeks would pass without my calling them – this spelled the end of one romantic relationship. I teetered on the edge of physical sloth (not helped by a bum knee, which, after a year and a half, has finally stopped clicking.) I certainly crossed the line of mental sloth/exhaustion. I wasn't going out as much or exploring as much.
I don't think the average person looking at me might have really noticed anything amis. Who knows? I just felt like I was in a tunnel that I could get through, at the cost of being squeezed and not being able to look around. That's not exactly the right way to express it though. After a while, you realize that the tunnel goes on pretty much indefinitely.
That kind of constant pressure, high turn-over, trial-trial-trial environment does odd things to perspective and memory. Usually, we have enough "space" in our mental and emotional lives to consider, turn things over, muse. I went through a stage where the job ate up most of those resources. Then, when I met my future wife, I went through a stage where I wasn't reflecting on the job all that much, even though it demanded much of my daily thought. It's not really an issue of being "too busy to think," but it is an issue of being "too busy to emotionally process" things. I'll try to illustrate it with something I found disturbing. Toward the end of my time in the office, I was physically attacked by a client. It was the only time it had happened to me (well, where I had been touched); it wasn't the worst thing in the world, and I wasn't injured. So I did my usual thing of putting it aside and focusing on the next trial. Someone bluntly asked me about it, three weeks later, and I literally had no idea what they were talking about. Of course, I remembered soon enough, but it was disturbing. I wasn't psychologically suppressing the event, but I was so damn busy it just got folded into "stuff that happened last month" in my brain and didn't really incorporate it into my emotional and mental architecture. Maybe it was because the incident wasn't that big of a deal – but at the same time, even if I didn't really feel that it was emotionally that important, it was a significant event, or should have been one, had I not glossed it over.
I took it as a bad sign, one of many.
So I got out.
Some part of me regrets leaving – I miss the hectic challenge of it all, and, despite the pressure (now mentally minimized that I'm clear of it) I miss the kind of comfort I found in the predictability of the routine. It's nice to have the answers to all the little things that must be done.
On the other hand, I'm glad to be away from it all. I certainly wouldn't have had the time or inclination to write this had I still been there.
So, we'll close, I think, with more pleasant and important things.
In August of 2011, I had the immense good fortune to be married to a lovely woman. We compliment each other frighteningly well (as is often commented upon by friends and acquaintances) and I am sweetly, sickly, sometimes revoltingly happy about it all. She is, in fact, the woman who I stopped in DC to see in my last blog entry. How odd is that? (While I have further thoughts on this, I am running out of steam, and should end this post soon.)
As mentioned above, since the last blog post I moved apartments several times, took the NY bar, and have relocated to NYC. We visit Miami often; my wife's extended family lives there, and we both have friends and ongoing business concerns there.
I sold two motorcycles and bought another which became my daily commuter. I'd have tried to commute on bike, as I had when I was living closer, but my eventual commute was 22 miles round trip. I left the motorcycle in Miami, and get around NYC by bicycle.
NYC, as many of you know, is not my first choice for city living. But I've lived here before, and I appreciate what it *is* good for – overall it's a wonderful change from Miami.
I'll leave you with a picture of myself and Scopwife in our new digs:
(painting by Susan Siegal)


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Elaine Lan Chao (traditional Chinese: 趙小蘭; pinyin: Zhào Xiǎolán; Wade-Giles: Chao Hsiao-lan; born March 26, 1953) served as the 24th United States Secretary of Labor in the Cabinet of President George W. Bush from 2001 to 2009. She was the first Chinese American and the first Asian American woman to be appointed to a President's cabinet in American history. Chao was the only cabinet member to serve under George W. Bush for his entire administration. She is married to U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Kentucky), the current U.S. Senate Minority Leader.
The eldest of six daughters, Chao was born in Taipei, Taiwan, to James S.C. Chao (趙錫成 Zhào Xīchéng), a Shanghainese entrepreneur, and Ruth Mu-lan Chu (朱木蘭 Zhū Mùlán), a historian. Her parents had fled to Taiwan from mainland China after the Chinese Communists took over as a result of the Chinese Civil War in 1949. At the age of eight, Elaine Chao and her family emigrated to the United States, where her father had already settled a few years earlier. She attended Syosset High School on Long Island, New York.
Chao received her B.A. in Economics from Mount Holyoke College in 1975 and her MBA from the Harvard Business School in 1979. Chao also studied at MIT, Dartmouth College, and Columbia University.


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Beyond Istanbul: Turkey's lesser known hideaways
Grand palaces, ancient ruins, magnificent mosques -- there are many things that can pique a traveler's interest in Turkey.
But get past the popular spots and you'll find several destinations that even the greatest Turkophiles may not have visited.
Urla: Slow food, slow life
Urla is a slow-paced town a 45-minute bus ride away from Izmir, dominated by the blue waters of the Aegean and grayish-green olive trees.
Unlike Çeşme and Alaçatı, two nearby spots that attract crowds in the summer, Urla has a coastal serenity.
Urla's history dates back more than 5,000 years. It's home to the oldest known olive oil press.
It was formerly the ancient Greek city Klazomenai and one of the oldest known ports of the Aegean. Today Urla is a quiet escape and a leader in the slow-food movement and organic farming in Turkey.
Urla offers a variety of activities including scenic drives and swimming in the clear waters of the Aegean from May to September.
A full day here might include a wine-tasting and vineyard tour at Urla Şarapçılık after trying some local specialties at Beğendik Abi, located at the town center.
A walk by the harbor (Iskele) in the afternoon can be followed by a seafood dinner at Yengeç. We recommend Kemal Bey Range for an overnight stay.
Urla Şarapçılık: Kuşçular Köyü, 8028 Sokak No:12, Ukuf Mevkii, Urla/Izmir; +90 232 759 01 11; www.urlasarapcilik.com.tr
Beğendik Abi: Cami Atik Mahallesi, Tatar Cami Sokak No:12, Urla Merkez/Izmir; +90 232 754 2071; www.begendikabi.com.tr
Yengeç Restaurant:İskele Mahallesi, 2121 Sokak No: 6 D:1, İskele-Urla, Izmir; +90 232 752 11 52; www.yengec-restaurant.com
Kemal Bey Range: Kaz Deresi Mevkii, 35440 Urla/İzmir; +90 232 759 05 14; www.kemalbeyrange.com
Polonezköy: A Polish village in Istanbul
If you stick to Istanbul's city center, you'll miss out on what the outskirts of the city have to offer.
An hour's drive from the historical peninsula is Polonezköy, formerly called Adampol, a Polish village that features breathtaking greenery, impressive architecture and an intriguing history.
After fleeing their homeland in the 1840s, Polish refugees settled in the area, creating a distinctively Polish village within easy reach of the city.
Although the Polish population is now less than 100 people, the village still carries its Polish features and serves as a charming getaway, especially for weekenders with a more active nature.
The important sights include the Polish cemetery, Our Lady of Częstochowa Church and the historic home of Zofia Rizi.
Visitors can trek or cycle through the woods and picnic. Fall brings fantastic photo-worthy colors. If you go during summer, try to coincide with the Cherry Festival in June when Polish culture is celebrated with traditional folk dancing.
Hotels in the village include the Polka Country Hotel, a historic building with distinctively Polish features.
Alternatively, Saklıköy Country Hotel & Club, set in Ishaklı Köyü Plain, is a 15-minute drive away and has an authentic country setting with outdoor activities like horseback riding, ATV drives and paintball.
Note: Public transport is not available to the area so visitors need to arrange transportation.
Polka Country Hotel: Polonezköy/Istanbul; +90 216 432 32 20
Saklıköy Country Hotel & Club: Bayramköprü Mevkii No: 6/A, Ishaklı Köyü, Beykoz/Istanbul; +90 216 434 55 22; www.saklikoy.com.tr
Tepeköy: An old Greek village in Gökçeada
Gökçeada, Turkey's largest island and formerly known as Imvros in Greek, is a short ferry ride from Çanakkale.
A popular summer getaway for locals, the island's quiet village Tepeköy is undisturbed by concrete developments and is peaceful and uncrowded even in the peak of summer.
The island's history dates back nearly 2,500 years, having been ruled by the Romans, Byzantines and Ottomans. Until recently, the village's population was in the thousands, now it barely has 30 residents.
Most of the residents migrated in the 1960s, but it has seen a reawakening in the past 20 years thanks to Barba Yorgo.
This Tepeköy-native began reviving his hometown by restoring his old house, turning it into a guest house that includes the island's only Greek tavern.
He has inspired other residents to also run guest houses in the village.
One of the main attractions of the village is the 19th century church, now restored. The old Greek cemetery also attracts visitors but the real attraction here is the view.
The best way to enjoy Gökçeada is by taking a drive to admire the stunning views of the sea, photograph the now-restored old Greek houses, have a picnic at Çınaraltı where a 600-year-old oak tree stands and an antique fountain still functions.
During summer there's the Festival of the Virgin Mary, held each year on August 15. Crowds of Greeks come to Tepeköy on that day for the Orthodox service, which is followed by a communal lunch and a big party with traditional Greek music in the evening.
You can sample local life at Barba Yorgo's guest house where he'll happily chat with you while sipping his home-made wine.
Barba Yorgo: Tepeköy/Gökçeada; +90 286 887 42 47; www.barbayorgo.com
Gito Yaylası: The Black Sea's cloud land
If the bustle of Istanbul tires you out, you can find peace and quiet in Gito Yaylası, a plateau nestled between the Kaçkar Mountains.
It's difficult to get to, but this untamed piece of rural Turkey is worth the effort. Visitors need to fly to Trabzon then drive for an hour to Çamlıhemşin dictrict of Rize, then drive for another two hours.
There is not much to do except wake up to beds of clouds, take scenic walks, go on photo safaris and enjoy the local delicacies.
Koçira is the area's only guest house and it is a testament to the hospitality of the local people. It's worth bringing your camping gear along too as there are some great treks to be done.
Koçira: www.kocira.com (Note: The guest house provides pick-up services for travelers without a vehicle)


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A pedestrian died Monday morning when he was struck by a vehicle north of Morenci.
Matt Phelps, 36, was walking northbound in the dark along M-156 when he was struck by a northbound vehicle in the area between Morenci's old and new cemeteries. The driver of the vehicle, David Gerkin, 17, of Morenci, was on his way to school in Hudson when the accident occurred.
Morenci emergency personnel were called to the accident at 6:53 a.m. Personnel from Morenci Area EMS determined that Phelps had died from the impact.
Morenci Chief of Police Larry Weeks stated that Gerkin was released at the scene.
Weeks was assisted by the Lenawee County Sheriff's Department in documenting the accident. All information collected will be turned over to the Lenawee County Prosecutor's Office for review and consideration of potential charges. Chief Weeks expects to receive a final report from the prosecutor within a month.
Phelps is the son of Thomas Phelps of Morenci. He attended Morenci Area Schools for a portion of his education.


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DotNetNuke version 6.1 has arrived with the addition of a site group capability designed to simplify the management of permissions and profiles across multiple desktop and mobile websites. This latest version uses adaptive rendering techniques such as CSS and HTML 5 to ensure that mobile websites are automatically tailored to the devices on which they are viewed. Pages, content, administration screens, and user profiles are managed centrally in DotNetNuke and deployed across Internet connected mobile devices. A mobile site template is provided that acts as a starting point for users, simplifying the process of customizing their own desktop site for mobile delivery.
Using adaptive rendering techniques available with CSS and HTML 5, DotNetNuke 6.1 detects the specific characteristics of thousands of mobile devices and tailors the design and content of the page as desired by the site authors. Multiple site types can be supported for individual pages that allow for the delivery of specific experiences for tablets, Android phones, or other devices.
The company's news comes in the shadow of research from IDC, which suggests that by 2015 there will be more than 1.2 billion Internet-enabled mobile devices in use worldwide. Although perhaps an understated prediction, the growth in this sector is indeed drawing firms that want a mobile website capable of rendering on many different devices at once. Increased demand for high-bandwidth content like video has, arguably, also put a premium on delivering a world-class mobile customer experience.
"As our research shows, companies need an easy and cost effective way to 'mobilize' their websites so their web content can be experienced on the long and growing list of mobile devices in the market today, from smartphones to tablets," said Melissa Webster, program vice president, content and digital media technologies at IDC. "Mobile publishing capabilities really need to be built directly into the web content management system in order for the mobile experience to leverage all of the capabilities of today's modern web content management solutions, including personalization, content targeting, and analytics."
DotNetNuke 6.1 employs an administrative user interface that uses the page manager in DotNetNuke 6. Google analytics support is built-in so that business people can monitor and analyze their mobile-based traffic. According to a press statement, "Whether the end user is on a tablet or mobile phone, web developers can use DotNetNuke 6.1 to redirect mobile users to landing pages optimized for their device. DotNetNuke 6.1 provides a mobile content previewer that makes it easy for developers, designers, and content owners to optimize the mobile experience of their websites early in the process without requiring physical access to thousands of different mobile devices."
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This video has it all: timelapses, dramatic photography and tons of aircraft porn. It's a typical day on the USS Carl Vinson, the third of the United States Navy Nimitz-class nuclear supercarriers. Yeah, it's the carrier from that NCAA basketball game.
The USS Carl Vinson, a behemoth that displaces 101,300 long tons of water and is 1,092 feet long, was also the place where they took Osama Bin Laden's dead body before dumping him at sea. The USS Carl Vinson carries around 90 fixed wing and helicopters at any given time, including F/A-18E/F Super Hornets, EA-6B Prowler electronic warfare aircraft and Sikorsky SH-60 Seahawk submarine hunting helicopters, among others.
It's an spectacular video. Like Top Gun on steroids without Tom Cruise and Val Kilmer playing touch-pee-pee in their white briefs.To view this video at full size, visit our HD view beta.


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Just for the heck of it I did a search on "Da Region." For those of you not in the know, "Da Region" is where I grew up. It is noted for steel mills, brown skies, people who literally spend their whole lives without leaving a few block area, and one of the most beautiful parks in the country; the Dunes State Park.
"Da Region" meaning The Region, is what it would be, and was, called on late night talk shows. It depicts our supposed accent; which I obviously do not hear in myself but surprisingly can hear on my husband. He grew up in Hessville/Hammond, and thus worked in the mills and breathed in much more brown air, than I did, who grew up in Calumet Township where I thought I lived in the country; because it was termed "semi-rural."
Apparently we speak the Inland North Dialect, whereas the rest of Indiana speaks the Midland dialect. All I know is that south of Indy, people speak a southern dialect that has been known to drive northern people to pull their hair out.
The Region is actually a huge area and you can find it on Wikipedia. Northwest Indiana – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Thus proving that almost everything is on Wikipedia. Gary is the largest city in The Region.
We lived in Calumet Township. I attended and graduated from Calumet High School. My father build our house on Ross Road and our address was Gary but, when we traveled on vacation, my father would not allow me to tell people I came from Gary. My father, sweet man that he was, was also an insecure bigot. It was odd though having a city address, when we lived semi-rural. There was farm land in back of us (much to my mother's chagrin as farm land means plowing and plowing means dust). The half acre lots on each side of us were vacant, so that was even less like being in a town type setting.
Anyway, The Region is also called The Calumet Region and is Lake, Porter, LaPorte, Newton and Jasper Counties in Indiana. It neighbors Lake Michigan and is actually part of the Chicago Metropolitan Area. I am not sure how they consider Crown Point to be a Chicago suburb, but they do. I believe, at this point, it is all city from Chicago out to Valparaiso.
The heavy industry of the area provided jobs, which brought relatives who could not get a job where they were, and populated the area. Steel mills and oil refinerys fill the landscape with depressing steel buildings and nose holding smells all along Burns Harbor and East Chicago to Gary and Portage. I rarely saw them. My father worked in East Chicago, at Combustion Engineering but his philosophy about travel to Chicago was, "I never lost anything there, so whey should I go get it."
Okay, he was not real big on logic either. Other than an occasional school trip, I did not spend any time in Chicago, only thirty miles from my home, until I was grown. Then, I fell in love with the city and worked for approximately twelve years there, and went to five years of college there. I'm a woodland girl, at heart, but really do love Chicago.
And, I really love the Dunes State Park. But, that's for another blog, as is the reason I started to write this one and got rather sidetracked. That is: going back or finding one's youth again through high school friends, or not. I have not written it so I have no idea where I am going. What's new?


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Interesting facts about Cebu
The second-largest city in the Philippines, Cebu is a one of the Philippines' most popular destinations. White sandy beaches, religious sites, and interesting architecture provide a great blend of things to do and see. Enjoy top-class on-board entertainment, spacious comfortable seating, and excellent service from our crew when you fly to Cebu with Cathay Pacific.
The Best of Cebu
Cebu is the heartland of Christianity in the Philippines – experience a sense of the local spirituality at the revered Basilica of Santo Niño. Founded in the 1560s, it contains the country's oldest religious relic. Fort San Pedro is the smallest Spanish fortress in the Philippines, today containing treasures recovered from a shipwreck. Other key sights include Magellan's Cross, the Taoist Temple, and the Lapu-Lapu Monument. Children are sure to love meeting the residents of Crocolandia.
Getting around Cebu
Buses connect many neighbourhoods along the north-south route, and taxis are widely available. For a local transportation experience, board a colourful 'jeepney', converted Jeeps that were left behind by US troops. Book your flight to the Philippines through Cathay Pacific's easy-to-use website or mobile app.
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Eddie Vedder, Elton & more to play Springsteen MusiCares show
Talk about an all-star lineup!Bruce Springsteen will be saluted in song Feb. 8 at the annual MusiCares Person of the Yeargala concert by a lineup that includes former San Diegan Eddie Vedder, Elton John, Alabama Shakes, Juanes, Faith Hill, Mumford & Sons and Neil Young.
The musical cast also includes Patti Smith, John Legend, Mavis Staples, Natalie Maines, Tim McGraw, Tom Morello and My Morning Jacket's Jim James. Satirical TV host Jon Stewart, a major Springsteen fan, will host. As in previous years, The event will be held at the Staples Center in Los Angeles.
Ticketsfor the black-tie gala dinner concert start at $1,500 each, but you're out of luck if you want to buy one. Although the lineup for MusiCares was only announced Wednesday, the non-televised event is already sold-out.
Paul McCartney was honored as the 2012 MusiCares Person of the Yearby a lineup that included Springsteen, Coldplay, James Taylor, Diana Krall, Katy Perry and former Eagles' guitarist and singer Joe Walsh, a former Encinitas resident.
The McCartney MusiCares event raised a record $6.5 million. MusiCares organizers hope to top that amount this year. All proceeds go to benefit the nonprofitMusiCares, which was founded 23 years ago by the Recording Academy, under whose auspices the Grammy Awards is presented.
The MusiCares Person of the Year dinner was created to "provide essential support for MusiCares, which ensures that music people have a place to turn in times of financial, medical, and personal need." San Diego musicians have been among the beneficiaries of MusiCares over the years.
Its mission statement elaborates: "The MusiCares Foundation offers programs and services to members of the music community including emergency financial assistance for basic living expenses such as rent, utilities and car payments; medical expenses including doctor, dentist and hospital bills; psychotherapy; and treatment for HIV/AIDS, Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease, hepatitis C, and other critical illnesses.
"MusiCares offers nationwide educational workshops covering a variety of subjects, including financial, legal, medical, and substance abuse issues, and programs in collaboration with healthcare professionals that provide services such as flu shots, hearing tests, and medical/dental screenings. The MusiCares MAP Fund allows access to addiction recovery treatment and sober living resources for members of the music community."


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Preparation time: 30 minutes plus refrigeration time
Servings: 4.
5 A Day servings: 2.
½ cup dry orzo
1 cup diced raw pears (1 medium or 2 small)
2 tablespoons orange juice
2 teaspoons lemon juice
¼ cup raisins
½ cup diced fresh tomatoes
3 tablespoons Hidden Valley® Ranch Old Fashioned Buttermilk Dressing
4 cups torn fresh spinach
2 tablespoons sliced almonds
1 tablespoon chopped fresh dill, divided
Prepare orzo according to packaging directions. Place diced pear in a small bowl and add orange and lemon juices. Allow to sit for 5 minutes. Mix in 2 teaspoons fresh dill and remaining ingredients except spinach and almonds. Refrigerate for two hours. Place equal amounts of torn spinach on four plates. Spoon equal amounts of pear salad on bed of spinach. Top with equally divided amounts of sliced almonds and remaining fresh dill.
Nutritional Information per Serving
Calories: 244
Carbohydrates: 40g
Total Fat: 8.2g
Cholesterol: 2mg
Saturated Fat: 1.g
Dietary Fiber: 5g
% of Calories from Fat: 30%
Sodium: 173mg
Protein: 5g
Chef Mark Goodwin, CEC CNC
From http://www.5aday.org
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...this is everything I have dreamed of.
Allan has been designing sports cars since he was four – starting with crayons and paper. Now – teenager dealing with leukemia - he hopes to become a professional car designer in Motor City.
Thanks to UAW-GM and Make-A-Wish® Philadelphia and Susquehanna Valley, Allan's wish comes true.
The Design Team at GM Tech Center invites Allan to present some of his best designs at their headquarters near Detroit.
"I was very impressed with Allan as well as his designs," says Ed Welburn, Global Design vice president. "I was most impressed with his determination, creativity and visionary thinking. We hope his visit to GM Design Center inspires him further to fulfill his destiny."
Allan is a huge fan of GM's Chevrolet Corvette and Pontiac Trans Am sports cars with big ideas for "next generation" designs. These iconic cars influenced Allan's sleek, low-slung lines of his favorite design - a racy flame-red speedster that seems to hover just above ground. Allan revs up his design with a 600-horsepower motor. Its huge rear tires speak of roots in the muscle cars of the Motor City.
When the creative team unveils the sketches of Allan's design kicked into high gear, this wish kid could barely respond.
"Wow! Oh boy! Man! Man, this is…that is-whoa man!" he says.
The Design Team, impressed by Allan and his designs, offer him advice on college, the industry and their internship program.
"You've got everything it takes," says Brian Baker, DRIVE Team manager.
An impressed Baker gives Allan an insider's tour of the Tech Center campus. Here, Allan sits in many specialized cars from the executive garage. He sits behind the wheel of NASCAR champion Jeff Gordon's #24 DuPont Chevy Monte Carlo race car. He takes a ride in a Pontiac Trans Am – specifically modified for the 2004 Woodward Dream Cruise – with Concept Vehicle Coordinator Mike Erdodi. Then Vice President Welburn becomes Allan's personal chauffeur and the pair speeds around the GM grounds in the newest, hottest cars the company has to offer – even cruising back in time to take in the classic cars at the GM Heritage Center.
Allan now has a host of new friends at GM to open doors for him in the future.
"All I have to say is thank God that I'm here to tell you where I came from – a lot of agony and pain. But this is everything I have dreamed of, that got me through," Allan says. "I thank the Lord for giving me another day to live my dreams. And I thank each of you for your generosity."
Allan takes a ride in iconic sports cars
Allan rides in GM's iconic cars
Allan wished to become a car designer
Allan unveils the design for the car of the future
Allan created his own design and the GM team brought it to life
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As a nurse who took care of Allan, I can tell you that Allan most definitely had a wonderful time at GM in Detroit. What a special kid.
March 11, 2007 - 12:56 PM
Allan was inspiring! Never met anyone like him before..very optimistic on his thoughts and opinions..he was great! Very artistic..if I can afford to have car stuff someday, I'll choose his designs where I can!
September 18, 2007 - 12:53 PM
June 25, 2012 - 11:25 AM
It sounds as though Allan had a wonderful time at GM in Detroit. I must say, as a fellow lover of the Chevy Corvette, I was thoroughly impressed with his car design. I would certainly buy one.
November 07, 2012 - 2:52 PM
Brittney S.
God Bless you Allen. Dont forget God has a plan for you In life. Live life to the fullest. Jesus Love you Allen
January 08, 2015 - 3:51 PM
Donna D.
What an incredible story Alan and so happy for your wish come true. I have been a huge race fan for over 20 years now myself and an artist as well. I will pray for you and I hope you have a long and prosperous life. Best Wishes,Donna D.San Diego, CA
March 28, 2015 - 4:09 PM
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I wish to meet Jeff Gordon
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I wish to be the Junior Tastemaster for the World's Largest Ice Cream Social
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Two NEH-supported Books Honored by National Prize
Association of American Publishers cites slave-trade atlas and Mark Twain autobiography
Two books supported by National Endowment for the Humanities grants won prestigious publishing awards last week from the Association of American Publishers.
Awarded by the Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division of the Association of American Publishers (AAP), the PROSE Awards recognize excellence in professional and scholarly publications.
The 2010 PROSE Awards top prize, the R.R. Hawkins Award, was presented to the Atlas of the Transatlantic Slave Trade by David Eltis and David Richardson. The R.R. Hawkins Award is given to the year's most outstanding professional, reference, or scholarly work across the sciences and humanities.
Published by Yale University Press, the Atlas of the Transatlantic Slave Trade is based upon Voyages, the NEH-supported online database of records from 35,000 slaving voyages—roughly 80 percent of all such voyages ever made. Drawing upon data from this collaborative project, authors Eltis and Richardson present a detailed picture of the slave trade: its principal routes and trade partners; the economic, political, and geographic factors that shaped its development; and its human stories of individual suffering and heroism, told through a collection of maps, diary passages, and ship log entries.
"The transatlantic slave trade persisted for 366 years and resulted in the forced deportation of 12.5 million Africans to the New World. It is a phenomenon that we have struggled with for centuries –as historians, as students, as writers, as American citizens; it is not only one of history's greatest crimes against humanity but also an event of such magnitude and importance that it is impossible to represent adequately," said John Donatich, the director of Yale University Press, who accepted the award at a ceremony on February 3 in Washington, D.C. "With the Atlas of the Transatlantic Slave Trade, leading scholars David Eltis...and David Richardson have given us an invaluable key to understanding the Atlantic Slave System." Photos and video of the awards ceremony and acceptance speech will be available online.
The Atlas of the Transatlantic Slave Trade also won PROSE awards for Excellence in Reference Works and in the Single Volume Reference/Humanities & Social Sciences category.
Also honored by the AAP was the NEH-supported Autobiography of Mark Twain which won PROSE awards in two categories: the award for Excellence in the Humanities, and the award in the category of Biography and Autobiography. Published by the University of California Press, the Autobiography of Mark Twain is the fruit of decades of painstaking scholarship at the NEH-supported Mark Twain Papers & Project housed at the University of California at Berkeley, led by Robert Hirst, the project's General Editor. Arranged in a non-chronological fashion, as dictated by Mark Twain, the autobiography was published, in accordance with Twain's wishes, 100 years after his death. Since its publication in November 2010, volume one of the Autobiography has become a national best-seller.
The Association of American Publishers is the national trade association of the U.S. book publishing industry. See the full list of the 2010 PROSE Award winners here.


text: Nearly 1,000 years after the White Witch was defeated by Aslan, Narnia faced a new threat. Humans from Telmar invaded the lands of Narnia and battled against the Narnians. Many Narnians were killed at the hands of the self-proclaimed king of the Telmarines, King Caspian I, and his armies. Many other Narnians were forced into hiding to escape the slaughter. Players can be a human Telmarine, a Narnian loyal to Aslan or a Narnain loyal to the White Witch.


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To maximize the sales potential of your home, Williams Trew has developed a comprehensive plan that integrates both innovative technologies and traditional methodologies to provide you the best results possible.
Step One: Consultation
- Property and marketplace analysis to determine best pricing
- Recommendations regarding improvements to maximize salability of house
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- Agent Preview
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Current record: 19-22, 3rd place in NL Central, 3.0 games back
Up Next: New York Mets, 22-19, 4th place in NL East, 5.5 games back
Season Series: 0-0, First time playing.
Notes: The Mets come to the 'Burgh for the only time this season. New York features a decent offense and below average pitching staff. If the Pirates can get to the Mets' bullpen early they stand a good chance to win some games.
Familiar Faces: Ronny Cedeno, Jason Bay (DL), Miguel Batista (DL).
Probable Pitchers
Monday: LH Johan Santana (1-2, 43.2 IP, 46 K, 2.89 ERA, 1.17 WHIP)
vs. LH Erik Bedard (2-5, 41.0 IP, 44 K, 3.07 ERA, 1.34 WHIP)
Santana has been very effective this year, but has not been able to go deep into games. Bedard's numbers have been slowly creeping up after his stellar start.
Tuesday: RH R.A. Dickey (5-1, 50.1 IP, 40 K, 3.75 ERA, 1.23 WHIP)
vs. RH James McDonald (3-2, 50.1 IP, 50 K, 2.68 ERA, 1.01 WHIP)
Hopefully the knuckler won't be knuckling, or the Pirates' free-swing ways could doom them here. J-Mac took a no-no into the sixth inning in his last start.
Wednesday: LH Jon Niese (2-2, 42.2 IP, 39 K, 4.85 ERA, 1.38 WHIP)
vs. RH Charlie Morton (2-4, 39.1 IP, 24 K, 4.35 ERA, 1.47 WHIP)
I have nothing to say about Jon Niese. Totally non-descript pitcher. I guess he's lefthanded though. That's something.
No lineups yet.
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Go-to guy: The Reverend Alvin Edwards
Alvin Edwards thought he cussed too much to be a preacher. But that bad habit didn't stop him from going into the ministry, running for City Council, and serving as Charlottesville mayor.
Now, after more than two decades as a preacher, he admits, "It's still something I have to work on."
Meanwhile he's become versed in other tongues, and he writes his sermons using his own translations from the original Greek and Hebrew. "I'm better at Greek," he says.
Although Edwards has shepherded a flock at Mt. Zion Baptist Church since 1981, coming to Virginia wasn't exactly on the radar for the Joliet, Illinois, native.
In fact, ending up a pastor wasn't on his radar, either. "My goal in life was to make money and to be an industrial engineer," he says. Instead, thanks to two influential pastors at the church he attended as a youth, he went to seminary in Richmond and then commuted up to George Mason University to earn a PhD.
Although he's no longer an elected official, his leadership role is undiminished, particularly vis-à-vis race relations. When white UVA students were assaulted by black Charlottesville High teens, or when Daisy Lundy was attacked, aghast citizens turned to Alvin Edwards.
Why is that?
Edwards demurs at first, then says, "I'm involved. I have credibility. I call a spade a spade."
He served as mayor from 1990 to 1992 and doesn't particularly miss being in politics. His claim, "I have a lot to do," is an understatement. He dashes into a meeting late after dealing with some final details at the new $2.5-million Mt. Zion site on Lankford Avenue. Its inaugural service has been pushed back to July 27, and he's dismayed to notice that there are already fingerprints on the freshly painted walls.
Meanwhile, developer Gabe Silverman has purchased the old Ridge Street church, which dates from 1867. Does Edwards worry about his former sanctuary becoming a venue for secular activities?
He laughs. "For me, the people are the church. That's just the building we worship in. What he does with the building is his prerogative."
Age: 51
What brought you here? Mt. Zion invited me to be pastor in July 1981.
What's worst about living here? It's not 50 miles closer to D.C. I don't like to drive.
Favorite hangout? My bedroom and my office
Most overrated virtue? Trying to solve everything
What would people be surprised to know about you? People think I have a public persona, but I'm very shy. I'm an introvert and quiet.
If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be? I'd be a better steward of my time, balancing more time with my wife and children.
What accomplishment are you proudest of? The completion of the new church
What do people find most annoying about you? Straightforwardness
Whom do you admire? Perry Bennett in Rockford, Illinois, the youth pastor at my church. And Bill Cosby. He would not accept an honorary degree until he finished his doctoral. He did it while working, and I've always admired him.
Favorite book? Makes Me Wanna Holler by Nathan McCall
What subject causes you to rant? Unfairness. To know discrimination still exists among people who swear there is none
What thrills you about life in the 21st century? The potential to make a difference in the lives of others
What creeps you out about life in the 21st century? How people allow politicians to snow them. Politicians say all they're going to do. Don't they realize they have just one vote?
What do you drive? 1993 Lincoln Town Car
What's in your car tape player right now? Isaac Hayes' Hot Buttered Soul
What's your next journey? Detroit, Michigan, to lecture 1,200 13- and 14-year-old kids for a week
What's the most trouble you've ever gotten in? In junior high, a teacher was bending over. I had a pencil like I was going to stick her in the behind, and the principal walked in.
What do you regret? That my mom died of cancer at 62, and she was not around when I received my Ph.D.
Favorite comfort food? Seedless green grapes
What's always in your refrigerator? Orange juice, bacon, sausage, eggs
Must-see TV? Wheel of Fortune
Favorite cartoon? When I was younger, Superman or Spiderman
Describe a perfect day. Get up with devotions. Go for a swim. Eat breakfast: sausage, bacon, eggs, and grits. Go to the office. Fix everybody's problems. Spend time getting ready for my sermon. Spend time with my wife and children. Watch a little TV and call it a night.
Walter Mitty fantasy? A drummer. I've always wanted to play drums.
Who'd play you in the movie? Sgt. LaTroy Durrette. He's played me before.
Most embarrassing moment? I'm always embarrassed when people say I've done a good job or been a blessing to them.
Best advice you ever got? Proverbs 3:5-6. "Trust in the Lord with all your heart; and lean not to thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct your path."
Favorite bumper sticker? "My child is an honor roll student at _____."


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CAIRO, Egypt — Iraqi officials said Sunday that Syria captured and handed over Saddam Hussein's half brother, a most-wanted leader in the Sunni-based insurgency, ending months of Syrian denials that it was harboring fugitives from the ousted Saddam regime. Iraq authorities said Damascus acted in a gesture of goodwill.
Sabawi Ibrahim al-Hassan, who shared a mother with Saddam, was nabbed along with 29 other fugitive members of the former dictator's Baath Party in Hasakah in northeastern Syria, 30 miles from the Iraqi border, the officials said on condition of anonymity. The U.S. military in Iraq had no immediate comment.
Al-Hassan's capture was the latest in a series of arrests of important insurgent figures that the government hopes will deal a crushing blow to the violent opposition forces. A week ago authorities grabbed a key associated and the driver of Jordanian-born terror leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, leader of al-Qaida in Iraq and believed to be the inspiration of the ongoing bombings, beheadings and attacks on Iraqi and American forces. Iraqi officials said they expect to take al-Zarqawi soon.
'Deserve death'
Iraqis welcomed news of al-Hassan's capture.
"I hope all the terrorists will be arrested soon and we can live in peace," said Safiya Nasser Sood, a 54-year-old Baghdad housewife. "Those criminals deserve death for the crimes they committed against the Iraqi people."
"I consider this day as a victory for Iraqis," said Adnan al-Mousawi, a resident in Mahmoudiya, south of Baghdad. "By God's will Saddam will stand in court with his officials and this will be the end of the unjust dictatorship."
Al-Hassan was believed to be operating from the northern Syrian city of Aleppo to help organize and finance the insurgency that has killed untold thousands of Iraqis and more than 1,000 U.S. troops since the overthrow of Saddam in April 2003.
The Iraqi officials did not specify when al-Hassan was captured, only saying he was detained after the Feb. 14 assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri in Beirut, Lebanon, in a blast that killed 16 others. Syria fell under suspicion in the killing because of its military and political domination of the country, where it maintains 15,000 troops. Hariri had quit the premiership over Syria's continued presence in Lebanon.
The United States, France and the United Nations have applied extreme pressure on Damascus to withdraw from Lebanon, and the Syrians recently said they were pulling their forces back to the border, but not leaving the country.
David Satterfield, a U.S. deputy assistant secretary of state, was to meet Syrian Foreign Minister Mahmoud Hammoud on Monday to reiterate U.S. demands for the withdrawal and a thorough inquiry into the Hariri assassination.
Syria must have felt additional pressure after Israel on Saturday accused Damascus of harboring Palestinian militants responsible for a Friday night suicide bombing in Tel Aviv in which four Israelis were killed, shattering a hard-won truce.
Death toll mounts
Despite al-Hassan's arrest, the death toll mounted in Iraq on Sunday with two U.S. soldiers killed in a roadside ambush southwest of the capital — the second and third American deaths over the weekend that pushed the overall U.S. toll to nearly 1,500 since the war began in March 2003.
Bomb attacks and ambushes killed nine people near the northern city of Mosul, while five headless bodies — including that of an Iraqi woman — were discovered in and just south of Baghdad. Gunmen, meanwhile, killed two policemen in an ambush as the officers were driving to work in western Baghdad.
In the capture of the Iraqi fugitive, Capt. Ahmed Ismael, an Iraqi intelligence officer, said al-Hassan was handed to the Iraqis Sunday. Another Iraqi official said Syrian security forces expelled al-Hassan after he and his supporters had been turned back in an earlier attempt to cross the Syrian border into Lebanon and Jordan. Officials in interim Prime Minister Ayad Allawi's office confirmed al-Hassan's capture but gave no other details.
Al-Hassan was No. 36 on the list of 55 most-wanted Iraqis complied by U.S. authorities after American troops toppled Saddam in April 2003. Eleven from the deck remain at large. The half brother also was named as one of the 29 most-wanted supporters of the Iraqi insurgency. The United States had offered $1 million for his capture.
Allawi's office said the arrest "shows the determination of the Iraqi government to chase and detain all criminals who carried out massacres and whose hands are stained with the blood of the Iraqi people, then bring them to justice to face the right punishment."
'On the run'
Iraq's postelection Shiite Muslim power broker, United Iraqi Alliance leader Abdel Aziz al-Hakim, told AP al-Hassan's arrest signaled troubled times for the insurgency.
"Those criminals are on the run and we will chase the rest of them. We will work on arresting all the criminals, either those inside Iraq, or those in other neighboring countries, so that they can stand fair trial and be punished for the crimes they have committed against the Iraqi people," he said.
Under Saddam, al-Hassan led the dreaded General Security Directorate, which was responsible for internal security, especially cracking down on political factions that opposed the Iraqi leader. Al-Hassan was accused of the widespread torture of political opponents. He later became a presidential adviser, the last post he held in the former regime.
The government statement on his capture said al-Hassan had "killed and tortured Iraqi people" and "participated effectively in planning, supervising, and carrying out many terrorist acts in Iraq."
Al-Hassan was also thought to have been responsible for setting up shadowy companies in neighboring Jordan to overcome U.N. sanctions imposed after Iraq invaded neighboring Kuwait, prompting the first Gulf War in 1991. Internationally, al-Hassan's name was linked to attempts to sell looted Kuwaiti treasure.
'Great achievement'
His son, Yasser al-Sabawi, was mentioned by Iraqi security officials last year in the beheading of Nicholas Berg, the 26-year-old American from West Chester, Pa. Suspicion later fell on al-Zarqawi. It was unclear if the two men had any connection.
"This is a great achievement for the Iraqi security forces," National Security Adviser Mouwafak al-Rubaie told Dubai's al-Arabiya TV. "It is also a lesson for others to give themselves up to the Iraqi authorities."
Saddam's two other half brothers, Barzan and Watban, were captured in April 2003 and are expected to stand trial along with Saddam at the Iraqi Special Tribunal. Both appeared before the special court in Baghdad along with Saddam and other captured regime during preliminary hearings to hear the charges against them.
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Arts in Public Places
Public Art Walking Tour
Take a walking or scenic driving tour through the city of Greenville and discover a diverse collection of public artwork.
The City's Arts in Public Places walking tour application is a great resource for discovering the unique artwork that complements the city's continued growth. The tour provides a map of the city, photographs of the city's artwork and detailed descriptions.
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Mice on Main
On the hunt for a fun, kid-friendly activity? See if you can find all nine of the small bronze mice hidden along the five blocks of Main Street, between the Hyatt Regency and the Westin Poinsett hotels. Use the Mice on Main Hints (PDF) for additional help on your scavenger hunt. Let the chase begin!
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If you are interested in placing a public art piece, please fill out the Application for the Placement of Public Art.
The Arts in Public Places Artists Registry is an online registration tool for artists and design professionals interested in working on public art projects in the city of Greenville. Please complete the online registration form to become a member. The registry is open to all artists nationally.
Arts in Public Places Commission
The Arts in Public Places Commission evaluates and recommends specific pieces of art for placement throughout the City; develops, adopts, and periodically revises a plan for the identification of strategic sites for the placement of objects of public art; establishes partnerships and funding opportunities for public art; and promotes awareness of art, and public art in particular, in the community. For more information or to apply to serve on the Commission, please visit the City's Boards and Commissions.


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Martha Speaks is an animated series airing on PBS KIDS. Designed to enrich the vocabulary of 4- to 7-year-olds, the series is based on the classic Houghton Mifflin books by Susan Meddaugh that have charmed and captivated millions of children. Martha, Helen, and friends will be introduced to an even wider audience through the television series. Every episode of Martha Speaks will use Martha's unique linguistic abilities and the hilarious consequences to engage kids and help build their vocabulary skills. » Learn more
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Against Monopoly
defending the right to innovate
User Innovation
Monopoly corrupts. Absolute monopoly corrupts absolutely.
Center for the Study of Innovative Freedom
Recording Industry vs. The People
Copyright Notice: We don't think much of copyright, so you can do what you want with the content on this blog. Of course we are hungry for publicity, so we would be pleased if you avoided plagiarism and gave us credit for what we have written. We encourage you not to impose copyright restrictions on your "derivative" works, but we won't try to stop you. For the legally or statist minded, you can consider yourself subject to a Creative Commons Attribution License.
The wave of the future
As you know no way she could do this without copyright...
[Posted at 03/02/2011 12:50 AM by David K. Levine on User Innovation comments(1)]
Lord of the Rings...
(Strictly speaking this should have been Stephan's post, but he seems to have handed it off to me.) Disagree with my view below that copyright is absurd? Wondering what would happen to the movie industry without copyright? Luckily the marvelous Mike Masnick manage to answer both questions in a single post. If you still don't believe, go take a look at Star Wreck.
[Posted at 05/06/2009 11:53 AM by David K. Levine on User Innovation comments(1)]
Does copyright lead to innovation?
Mario Stargard submits the following observations about whether copyright leads to innovation:
Sure it does. Seems that every time a P2P protocol is shutdown, new ones emerge to circumvent the previous problems.
[Posted at 04/26/2009 02:14 PM by David K. Levine on User Innovation comments(0)]
" A Culture of Improvement" Reviewed
Robert Friedel's new book "The Culture of Improvement" is reviewed in the Wall Street Journal today by Adam Keiper.
The contributions of famous entrepreneurs, including James Watt and Robert Fulton, are surveyed. Are Watt's legal strategems part of the story? What about patents as innovation blocking mechanisms?
The reviewer quotes a passage stating that patents can divert attention away from the cumulative history of creativity.
Technology "proceeds by fits and starts;" R&D, best practices, and, yes, patents are part of the story. A visit to Amazon could be in order.
[Posted at 06/07/2007 07:35 PM by William Stepp on User Innovation comments(2)]
Authors' Second Platform
Publishers are creating speakers' bureaus to publicize authors and their books. It gives them a lucrative second platform.
The rise of the superstore, which created a marketplace where none existed, helped spur the demand for authors' lectures, as did the network effect of the internet.
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Serenity Now
(hattip slashdot). Some of you may be familiar with a science fiction television show "firefly," cancelled despite a small cult following, later made into a movie, entitled "serenity." Universal studios in an effort to promote the movie encouraged fans to market the movie by
[creating] a community [the browncoats] around the release of Serenity that harnessed the power of a large member base that exceeded the most optimistic of expectations. Members were encouraged to form regional groups to promote the film and perform activities that would help generate word of mouth, like creating bumper stickers and gift cards to accompany the DVD release. (beaffinitive)
Can you predict what happened next?
With the shutting down of Blue Sun Shirts at the behest of FOX, cease and desist letters going out to owners of Browncoat shops on CafePress, at least one fan-favorite promoter receiving a demand from Universal Studios Licensing LLC for nearly $9,000 in retroactive licensing fees, and the resulting chilling effect leading to other fans shutting down preemptively many Browncoats got to thinking about just how many hours they spent on helping to market and promote Serenity, in essence with the tacit agreement of Universal Pictures, if not their outright official encouragement. (browncoatinvoice.com)
File under "imitating the RIAA - how to win the heart and minds of your fans - sue them"
[Posted at 10/28/2006 09:10 AM by David K. Levine on User Innovation comments(2)]
A Hint of the Potential of Open Sourcing
This example is not open source, but it suggests the potential of opening processes up.
Musgrove, Mike. 2006. "Lego's Robot Redux: Hackers, Longtime Fans Help Revamp Kits To Build Better Gizmos." Washington Post (29 July): p. D 1.
My own blog has begun at
[Posted at 07/30/2006 10:21 AM by Michael Perelman on User Innovation comments(0)]
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