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It is impossible to do a survey of modern Mexican artists, says curator Andrea Karnes. It's too broad; it would be like trying to do a survey of American art in 60 pieces. It can't be done.
Still, she wanted to do something. Some kind of exhibit that would offer a glimpse of the tremendous talent that has been percolating in Mexico City since a catastrophic earthquake in 1985.
When the ground shook, it rattled Mexican artists into a frenzy of art making. They began to record not only the physical collapse, but also the destructive forces above ground that were causing the collapse of civility. Violence, corruption, the widening division of wealth and poverty, and insidious rule-changing were rocking the foundations of society.
Artists who embraced the moment of dynamic and brutal change for their narratives and those who soon followed found themselves on an international stage. They bypassed the intermediate venues of regional museums and landed on some of the world's largest art stages such as the Tate Modern in London and the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.
While many of these artists are worthy of a museum show of their own, they were gracious about submitting work to what participating artist Artemio calls "a guacamole show" — one that is assembled under the flag of Mexico when really all these artists are addressing more global and universal issues.
Karnes and assistant curator Alison Hearst chose artists whose work fell into three themes: building contemporary monuments, magnifying the everyday, and power structures and the violence of negotiating them.
The artists had never been shown in North Texas until Karnes persuaded almost two dozen of them to send their work to Fort Worth for the exhibit, "México Inside Out: Themes in Art Since 1990," which opens Sunday.
The show is seriously fierce — both challenging and captivating.
The exhibit is subtly presented from the first moment one enters the Modern and sees the portable broken obelisk — a pink nylon and plastic version of Barnett Newman's iconic steel sculpture, Portable, that is easily moved and suitable for parties. The pirated art, made on the cheap, reflects many of Mexico's chief industries.
Through the glass walls of the lobby one can see across the pond six large lounge chairs. They look quite spalike, placed so that the sitter would have a nice view of the Modern's tranquil pond. They are the work of Teresa Margolles, and she has cast them from concrete made with body fluids washed from murder victims. Obviously people have tried them out, as the ghostly outlines of body shapes have been formed from the oils of heads and hands. One suspects the card bearing the information about their creation was not read first.
Margolles, who was a forensic scientist before turning to art making, is also responsible for the cement block wall on the second floor. Muro Baleado/Shot Wall (Culiacán) was the backdrop for a shootout between police and a drug gang. Two officers died, and although the blood and bodies are no longer present, the bullet holes are. Little explanation is needed for this monument that magnifies the commonplace and the reality of the drug wars.
There are more lighthearted encounters, such as Gustavo Artigas' 11-minute video The Rules of the Game/Las reglas del juego. Two basketball teams and two soccer teams play a match on an indoor basketball court at the same time. One soccer ball, one basketball, two tennis balls, 10 diagrams and one trophy all make appearances, and no one was injured in the making of the film.
With a nod to "audience participation," Artigas is volunteering to demolish one of what he has deemed Fort Worth's most undesirable buildings, based on the outcome of a vote by the public. He has chosen Bass Towers, the AT&T Building, the Fort Worth Convention Center, the Texas and Pacific Warehouse, the Tandy Center, and Westchester Plaza as a six-pack of our most egregious eyesores. Until Oct. 15, votes can be cast at one of several voting booths around town — Hulen Mall, TCU's art building, the AIA office and Fred's Texas Cafe. There will also be a voting booth in the museum, and votes can be cast online. After the votes are tabulated, he will make a digital demolition of the offending edifice in Vote for Demolition. Karnes says there is hope that the vote will begin a dialogue with the city. And even if it doesn't, the entire exercise is cathartic.
A long line of 10 framed receipts hangs on one gallery wall. It looks like the annual haul of tax junk one drags to the accountants. They are the result of artist Miguel Monroy taking 1,000 pesos and changing it into dollars, back into pesos, again to dollars, back to pesos, each time at a different money changer so that the receipts are different but the result is familiar; at the end, there is nothing left. Government fees and taxes are the only profit-makers in this kind of transaction.
Rarely do we consider ourselves part of the larger Americas, but seeing Scrooge McDuck wallowing in a pile of gold coins while behind him stands an Aztec effigy, in a mural titled America, by Minerva Cuevas, brings that one home in a hurry. America is all of South, Central and North.
The most head-turning moment comes in the final gallery, when the visitor steps in Yoshua Okón's four-projection video gallery. Here Pulpo/Octopus is running on four walls. It is a re-enactment of the Guatemalan civil war, demonstrated by former Guatemalan soldiers who are now undocumented workers trying to find work as day laborers in Los Angeles. All the action takes place in a Home Depot parking lot on a glorious sunny day.
The men ride on flatbed dollies with their arms outstretched, as if holding guns. They wheel each other around in ubiquitous orange shopping carts, pretending to be looking for the enemy with their hands to their eyes, as if holding binoculars. They crawl on their bellies under vehicles, pull themselves across the parking lot on their elbows and die slow deaths in front of the portable shed displays as shoppers casually wheel by, their carts loaded with spring flowers.
The shoppers never give the fallen bodies a second glance. Gleaming SUVs bounce over the speed humps and never pause as the simulated action unfolds in front of their bumpers. On one is the bumper sticker "Vote for a new foreign policy" — a fortuitous accident that Okón says he never noticed until he was editing the film. War is such a distant reality that even when it is simulated right in front of us, we tend not to recognize it.
Artists are sometimes considered the canaries in the mine of time, chirping alerts and dying abruptly if the oxygen levels dissipate. The artists from Mexico are trilling at such a decibel level that it is impossible not to notice, reflect and sincerely appreciate their efforts.
Hopefully they will always find the oxygen needed to sustain their work and it won't come at the expense of their countrymen.


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OCT 3, 2008- US Democratic Representative of Illinois Rahm Emanuel (R) whispers in the ear of Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi during a press conference at the Capitol in Washington on October 3, 2008 after the House of Representatives approved the revised 700-billion-dollar Wall Street bailout bill, bowing to intense pressure to help avert a global economic meltdown. (NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP/Getty Images)
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SEPT 18, 2008 – New York, UNITED STATES: US First Lady Laura Bush whispers in the ear of her husband President George W. Bush as he arrives on stage for remarks to the first-ever White House Conference on Global Literacy held at the New York Public Library 18 September 2006. The first lady, who hosted the conference, made remarks earlier in the day. (TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP/Getty Images)

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Also, "black people" is not a physical trait or a certain characteristics. It's an incredibly diverse group of individuals who do not share all the same features.
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Ever since the casting of Rachel Weisz, Michelle Williams, and Mila Kunis as the witches of Oz, eager fans of the upcoming Oz The Great and Powerful have been wondering which witch is which. Or, more specifically, which witch is the infamous evil one. The answer remains somewhat elusive as the March 8 release date approaches.
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Guy Ritchie's THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E. Set for January 16, 2015 Release; FOCUS Starring Will Smith Opens February 27, 2015
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Warner Bros. has announced early 2015 release dates for a pair of its upcoming films.
- Director Guy Ritchie's 1960s spy thriller The Man from U.N.C.L.E. has been given the surprisingly unceremonious release date of January 16, 2015. The film stars Henry Cavill and Armie Hammer.
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5 gift ideas to teach kids about money
While children get more holiday presents than most of us, sometimes they lose interest before the batteries die. Why not give a gift that earns interest, or lasts a lifetime?
This post comes from Brandon Ballenger at partner site Money Talks News.
How much money will you spend on presents for the kids this holiday season? And how much of that will be spent on cheap plastic or fabric that will be forgotten in a few short weeks? (If you're sticking to the "hottest toys" shopping lists, probably most of it.)
In the video below, Stacy Johnson takes a look at some alternatives -- gifts that keep on giving because they teach kids important lessons about money. Check it out, then read on for more ideas.
While there's no guarantee any particular present will have a lasting impact, you might as well try for something fun and educational, right? Here are several ideas, including those mentioned in the video…
Credit counseling group Take Charge America has a list of money books for elementary school kids, all of which could work as gifts.
Digital coin counters that display a balance may be less fun but offer more encouragement since the growth in savings is always visible. There are also a variety of "three-jar" coin savers like the Moonjar, which encourage kids to split their money into different categories: save, spend and share.
Sites like the one Stacy mentioned, Kiva.org, teach about charity and entrepreneurship, since they involve making micro loans (as little as $25) to small businesses in developing countries. Since you get paid back, this is one of the cheapest gift options, and it will help someone besides your kids.
Investing is an option even for younger kids. Buy them a share of stock in something they like -- their favorite video game company, restaurant, or retailer -- through a site like OneShare or ShareBuilder, and teach them how to monitor their investment.
Another idea? Start saving for college with a 529 plan, a gift that can eventually offer a broader education. Check out Savingforcollege.com, which has tons of information and options.
These probably aren't gifts that will have your kids jumping for joy on Christmas, but hopefully they will lead to greater happiness later in life -- and you can always mix in the educational gifts with the moer fun ones.
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March 19, 2010
MS. IFILL: We've said it before and we'll say it again. This weekend, this very weekend, we'll be the turning point on health care. We'll tell you why we might actually be right this time, tonight on "Washington Week." The president –
PRES. BARACK OBAMA: We keep on going. We are going to get this done.
MS. IFILL: – is revved up.
PRES. OBAMA: The time for reform is right now, not a year from now, not five years from, not 10 years from now, not 20 years from. It's now. And in just a few days, a century-long struggle will culminate in a historic vote.
MS. IFILL: But Republicans say the fight will continue to November.
REP. JOHN BOEHNER (R-OH): The American people do not want any part of this. And if anyone thinks the American people are going to forget this vote, just watch.
MS. IFILL: Yet, one way or another, Congress is poised to act with some noes slowly turning to yes.
REP. DENNIS KUCINICH (D-OH): I've decided to cast a vote in favor of the legislation.
REP. JOHN BOCCIERI (D-OH): Yes, I will be voting yes for the bill.
MS. IFILL: Between now and Sunday, every arm will have been twisted, every possible dollar spent, and every rule invoked in a debate that spilled into the streets.
Richard Ledford, small business owner: It's not perfect, but it's a good step forward in reform efforts.
Perette Godwin, opposes health care reform bill: Healthcare now, let's pass a bill. I think the wrong decisions are being made. I think we're going the wrong direction.
MS. IFILL: We look at the week with the reporters covering it: Peter Baker of the "New York Times," Jeanne Cummings of Politico, and Karen Tumulty of "Time" Magazine.
ANNOUNCER: Award-winning reporting and analysis, covering history as it happens, live from our nation's capital, this is "Washington Week" with Gwen Ifill, produced in association with "National Journal."
(Station announcements.)
ANNOUNCER: Once again, live from Washington, moderator Gwen Ifill.
MS. IFILL: Good evening. And so we approach the end or the beginning. Maybe, perhaps, probably. If there is anything we've learned after decades reporting around this table and writing about efforts to overhaul the nation's health care system, it's that nothing ever seems to be a done deal. Yet and still the signs are there. The president canceled a high profile foreign trip to be around for a final vote. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has put her leadership and her arm-twisting reputation on the line. And the measure's opponents are really, really unhappy. Just listen to it all.
PRES. OBAMA: I don't know how passing health care will play politically, but I know it's right. Teddy Roosevelt knew it was right. Harry Truman knew when it was right. Ted Kennedy knew it was right. And if you believe that it's right, then you've got to help us finish this fight.
REP. BOEHNER: Now, listen, I know the president's doing a hard sell on this bill, telling Democrat members that his presidency is on the line. But this vote isn't about saving the presidency or saving a politician. This is about doing the right thing for the American people. And so Americans are jamming the phone lines here on Capitol Hill. They're screaming at the top of their lungs to say, "stop, just stop."
SPEAKER NANCY PELOSI: The American people have played on the turf of the insurance companies for far too long; it is now time for them to play on the turf of the American people.
REP. PAUL BROUN (R-GA): I have three simple questions for Ms. Pelosi. Are you so incompetent that you're going to ignore the Constitution of the United States, use tricks, deceptions, bald-faced lies to try to ram down the throat of the American people something that they do not want?
MS. IFILL: It's been like that here for a week. And as the House draws closer to Sunday's critical vote, we thought it would be worth it tonight to talk about what's in the plan, what's not, who's for it or against it, and why, and what the outcome will do for or to the Obama presidency. We have a great roundtable here to begin to get the answers to those questions, starting with Karen. So Karen, as the bill stands now, what will change?
MS. TUMULTY: Well, first of all, what we are likely to see in the next few days is the passage of the Senate version of the bill, which would then send it to the president's desk. It would become law. But that's only the first step. Then some revisions would be made, but this is the most crucial vote. What would change? Not a lot in the first couple of years.
The first two to three years, we would see some changes in insurance rules. If you have a child who's 26 years old and doesn't have insurance on their own, they could stay under your policy. We'd see some tightening of getting rid of some of these preexisting conditions. But starting in about three years, we would see a vast expansion of coverage. Thirty million people would find themselves with insurance, about half of them by an expansion of the Medicaid program and the others through setting up these new insurance marketplaces, where people could go and essentially shop for insurance. They call them exchanges, but they're sort of like shopping malls if they work right.
Beyond that, over the next five or six or seven or 10 or even 20 years, if this bill works as advertised, what we would see is a transformation of the health care system. And what the president and the Democrats are promising is that instead of working on just a lot of medicine, it would be more geared toward making sure that the money we spend on medicine is effective and provides better results.
MS. IFILL: Now, you've just said some important words, "if the bill works as advertised." The advertising and the efforts and people saying exactly, Jeanne, diametrically opposite things about what this bill would or would not do, that seems to have been dominating this debate for the last week.
MS. CUMMINGS: Absolutely. You look at poll numbers. They don't make sense. You look at the advertising and they're confusing because there're conflicting messages that people send. And that's not unusual in the lead up to a major vote like this. We saw it with – when Medicare passed. There're all these dire and ominous predictions about what would happen if it passed. Other major initiatives faced the same kind of heated rhetoric around them.
To be honest, I think what the Democrats are counting on is that these terrible things that the Republicans are predicting will happen won't happen. And in the short term certainly they won't happen because, as Karen said, some of the most sweeping reforms don't come until later. And so some of the opposition to the bill will ease because all these really scary things don't happen.
MS. IFILL: Or they will at least be able to focus on the little things that do happen and tell compelling stories about them.
MS. CUMMINGS: Well, and the alternative is that any little bad thing that happens to them that would happen to them in the health care system anyway, they're going to blame on health care reform, whether the legislation had anything to do with it or not. So we have a lot of shaking out to come from this, in part because the advertising has confused the debate for voters.
MS. IFILL: Peter, we saw the president just now doing one of his trademark revved-up, fired-up, ready-to-go campaign speeches and we saw him push back and then cancel this big, long planned trip to Indonesia and Australia by way of Guam on the way. How important is it to this White House and to this presidency that he win this battle?
MR. BAKER: Well, it's hard to overestimate just how important it is. And they've made it important by, of course, cancelling the trip and by focusing so much attention on it. Had they made this one of many different big priorities and they lost, that would be one thing. They have put everything into this. The president has been on the phone with dozens and dozens of members. He has basically said "my presidency" – whether he actually said these words and he's made clear that his presidency is on the line. I went back and looked at all the public remarks he's made in the last five weeks since the battle of Marjah began in Afghanistan, about 100,000 words. And in 38 speeches and public remarks over that five weeks, health care has come up – he's used the words "health" or "insurance" about 750 times. He used the word "Taliban" zero times. He has put all of his public energy and attention on this vote.
MS. IFILL: And everything else is waiting in line on deck circle waiting for health care to get –
MR. BAKER: Well, that's right. Look, if you're a congressman and you're taking this risk to vote on a bill that you might have to pay a price for, success matters. Are you going to then take another vote on the next one down the road, on climate change, on financial regulations, on other things that might be of controversy if you don't feel like it's going to lead to something that you can brag about before your voters?
MS. TUMULTY: What's extraordinary, though, is it's on the line because Barack Obama chose to put it on the line. At the outset of his presidency, there were advisors saying, "look, you've got the economy is a mess. You've got a lot. Don't take this on." And every opportunity over the past year when he's had the choice to scale back, he instead has pushed forward.
MS. CUMMINGS: Well, another thing that's been interesting this week is, as Peter said, his engagement level was very different this week, cancelling the trip. He has told you he set deadlines before, but he's moved them. This time, it's serious business.
MS. IFILL: Or they've been moved for him. I'm not sure it's always his idea.
MS. CUMMINGS: Exactly, but he has never canceled a trip or really gone out of his way to try to hold one of those deadlines either. This time he's there, sort of locked arms with Pelosi and Reid, as they march up to the end here. And what has been amazing this week is how the Left has been reawakened. For months the Left has been in a fight with itself over the public option, over the Cadillac plan, all these bits and pieces of the provisions that are inside the bill, while the opposition had a very simple, united front. Scrap it, start over. It's a government takeover. Very simple messaging. What was really striking to me this week is that the Left has been reignited in this. And that could affect polling very easily because some of the fall off from President Obama is among Democrats, who've been frustrated by the lack of action.
MS. IFILL: And that made liberals like Dennis Kucinich get aboard all of a sudden. He'd been also holding out for a more expansive bill. He's Mr. Single Payer where he's up to him. And instead, here he is, ushered to the White House for four separate meetings and in Air Force One.
MS. TUMULTY: Yes, Dennis Kucinich had gone so far on the left that he'd ended up on the right. (Laughter.) Basically because he said the bill wasn't liberal enough for him, I think he ultimately decided that he would take what he could get instead of what he wished for.
MR. BAKER: Well, this is a different vote than November, when the House passed their first version. In November, if you didn't like certain aspects of the bill, you could vote no on the theory that it could get better, that you were leveraging the next stage in the Senate or the Conference Committee. This is it now. If you want health care to pass, this is your moment to vote for it. If you don't want to pass, this is your moment to vote against it. It isn't coming again.
MS. IFILL: There's a lot of leveraging going on and it's a perfect storm in so many ways. There is the political perfect storm about the midterm elections, which the president claims we only care about politics, but come on, they're politicians. So there is that. There is a perfect storm with issues, things like abortion, which will never go away and which have played a pretty significant role, Karen, in Nancy Pelosi's ability to get to 216, the number of votes she needs to get this passed, right?
MS. TUMULTY: Well, ultimately, though, because of the way they structure this vote –– and it's not worth getting into the weeds here – she was not able to do anything to satisfy the people who were objecting to some of the abortion provision. So essentially, she had to write off some of those votes and go forward without them.
MS. CUMMINGS: And one development this week that I think is going to prove highly significant is a break in the Catholic advocacy class because the bishops were driving that, although they had the Right to Life Committee behind them as well, which is non denominational. But the nuns that service at the hospitals came out in favor of reform.
MS. IFILL: And at least one congressman tonight cited that.
MS. CUMMINGS: That's very important. We've seen editorials in Catholic outlets that have endorsed reform with long explanations about how it's acceptable for the bishops to sit at a lofty moral level and evaluate these things, but it's also okay for those people who're in the churches, who are in the clinics, who are on the ground to see how this could benefit people. That, I think, can help break up the Stupak coalition that has been such a problem for –
MS. IFILL: The Democratic congressman who's been leading this. Okay, so another big thing that helped to peel off a couple of votes – and every couple of votes count – and that's the Congressional Budget Office numbers. They – everyone was looking for a price tag and how much this was going to cost. And that was going to be a big talking point for Republicans. "We still haven't seen the official number," the Republicans say. But the number that's come – that's been circulated is $940 billion, short of the trillion they were afraid of number, even though close enough, and the emphasis from the White House – White House was it would bring the deficit down. How do you spend all this extra money and bring the deficit down?
MR. BAKER: Well, you spend all those money and bring deficit down by taxing people, particularly wealthier people, who make more than $200,000 a year through increasing their Medicare payroll taxes for instance. You're going to have this Cadillac or high cost insurance plan tax – people who get – their employers pay for a particularly wealthy insurance plan. They'll be taxed higher. And you make cuts in Medicare spending over the next 10 years. And that's where all this rubber begins to hit the road. You talked about if this, if this. The law of unintended consequences in Washington, of course, is such that you could expect that even if this were to pass, we're going to be back here, talking about how to adjust the things they didn't anticipate year to year –
MS. IFILL: Well, let's talk about unintended consequences. You say that employers pay more. Doesn't that get passed on then to consumers? Don't they just pass on their extra costs?
MS. TUMULTY: Every economist that I have talked to about this will say that the fact is you cannot bring 30 million new people into the system without spending more on health care. The idea, though, is that once they are in there, once everybody is in, you can begin to start doing things that make healthcare itself more efficient. And the first thing that you have to do is stop paying doctors and health care providers and hospitals according to how much care they give. And instead, make the payments a little bit more based on outcomes and quality. And again, economists will tell you that this is a difficult thing to do if everyone is not already on the system.
MS. CUMMINGS: Well and there are other – there're two other points on this cost issue that I'll throw out there. First of all, where do you spend it to save it? Setting up these exchanges isn't free. You've got to set them up. You've got to get them operational. It will cost money to get those things up and running. And then the second thing that I do think has been very much lost on the public is, as I understand it, the goal here is to curb the rise of health care costs.
MS. IFILL: Bend the curve.
MS. CUMMINGS: Bend the curve, but that doesn't mean they don't stop going up. And that's something I think a lot of the voters have not fully been educated on, which is something that the Democrats could see to come back and haunt them.
MS. IFILL: One other thing that seems – apparently they say it's going to be missing from this final version are all of the deals, all of the special deals – they're all alliterative – you noticed that? It's the Cornhusker compromise? It's the –
MS. CUMMINGS: Oh, there will be deals.
MS. IFILL: – kick back, yes, but there will be deals. So how do you – how could they conscience that when it was such bad backlash?
MS. TUMULTY: Well, because the deals that were included in the bill were – they made the whole process so ugly that people began to focus on the process as opposed to the outcome. The kinds of deals that I think you're likely to see are not going to be embedded in this bill. They are going to be – do you want the president to come help you raise some money? Do you want him to come and campaign for you? Is there some other piece of legislation that you would like to see? That sort of thing. And there will be plenty of that and has been going.
MS. CUMMINGS: But there will still be things that people can characterize as deals within, but I think one of the distinctions they are trying to make – for instance, Louisiana still will get – will qualify – for additional assistance –
MS. IFILL: But everybody else could qualify as well.
MS. CUMMINGS: – because every single county in the state has been declared a disaster area. So any other state that suffers to the degree that Louisiana did from Hurricane Katrina could qualify for the same thing. So it's deals like that that they look unique, but they actually could apply across the board, where they are singularly unique, which applies to a bank in South Dakota that is receiving its own waiver because it is the only bank in the United States that is state owned. And so it is –
MS. IFILL: North Dakota.
MS. CUMMINGS: – North Dakota, thank you. So it is a truly unique, unique situation. So we'll see –
MS. TUMULTY: Although that deal, I understand, is going to get jettisoned because it has gotten so much attention.
MS. CUMMINGS: Yes, it's gotten, right.
MS. IFILL: What are they calling it? The Bismarck Bailout? They haven't –
MS. CUMMINGS: Itty-bitty one.
MR. BAKER: This is what happens when you are dealing with razor edge vote counts here. If you need 216 – you're the 216th guy or woman, you can ask for almost anything. And you even saw it today. People, in the last minute, bringing up complaints about Medicare reimbursement rates in Oregon, as an example. And there's all this discussion: could this blow things up at the last minute? It's really very, very complicated to put together this kind of coalitions, even within just one party.
MS. IFILL: If you're a Democrat tonight, you talk about this in terms of the poor child who will not get coverage or you talk about it in terms of long-term impact. If you are a Republican tonight, you're talking about the process. You're talking about the way in which they've gotten this done. Ramming it down throats, we heard John Boehner say. Are we going to see that right through – not only through the vote, but also even after this vote, even after the Senate bill is fixed. Or is this going to be an issue about how it got done that's going to carry through.
MS. TUMULTY: We are already seeing it. We've seen a vote in Virginia to exempt themselves from one of the key elements of the bill, which is the requirement that everybody have insurance they way they have auto insurance. I think there are something like similar measures in something like 37 states. There is already a well-funded movement to repeal this bill, even though it hasn't even passed yet. Yes, we're going to –
MR. BAKER: Some of the tactics lend themselves to 30-second ads that's saying, "Look how they tried to pass this. They tried to pass it without voting on it," and so forth and so on. They're all parliamentary. They're mostly not really meaningful in terms of the actual outcome, but both sides are trying to play these games, where they're trying to be able to argue that we did it this way or that way. That makes the whole process look bad.
MS. CUMMINGS: The Republicans are promising to make this an issue in the fall. And as Boehner said, if you think anybody is going to forget this vote, here's warning: they won't.
MS. IFILL: We're not going to let them.
MS. CUMMINGS: Right, but I am skeptical that at least the messaging that we hear today can be sustained six, seven months from now. I don't think reconciliation is going to mean a whole lot to people come October.
MS. IFILL: But if you are Betsy Markey, the congresswoman from Colorado, who changed her vote from no to yes –
MS. CUMMINGS: That counts.
MS. IFILL: – that counts because you become the next Marjorie Margolies-Mezvinsky, who famously in 1993 voted to support Bill Clinton's stimulus package and was booted out of this.
MS. TUMULTY: Although she changed her vote on the floor. And that was a little –
(Cross talk.)
MR. BAKER: The thing is like all these members who are coming out now -- "I wouldn't want to be the last member to say I'm going to vote this," because then you're the one who is the decisive vote.
MS. CUMMINGS: But a big difference is –
MR. BAKER: Even though there are 216 decisive votes.
MS. CUMMINGS: But a big difference is and an unknown here is whether the Obama White House can turn around public opinion on what this bill is. And this has been done before. And one White House, the Bush White House, was successful, previous White House was not. So it's up for grasp. If they can turn –
MS. IFILL: If the headline the next day is, "President enacts historic health care bill" instead of "messy, terrible race to the finish, immediate 2010 midterm election consequences," then the fight continues, even after that.
Thank you everyone. Shockingly, I know, there's so much more to say and you'll be there to say it. We're leaving you a few minutes early again this week, so you can support your local station, which in turn supports us.
I'm also making these health care reporters go back to work. Keep up with us pbs.org/washingtonweek, where you can drop us a line. Watch our online-only Webcast and read more of our panelists reporting. And even take a look at my blog. Keep up with daily developments every night on the PBS "NewsHour." And then we'll see you around the table again next week on "Washington Week." Good night.
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Stocks rebound from 'fiscal cliff' worries
The Dow ends down 18 points after falling as many as 151. The catalyst: News that the House will meet Sunday to discuss the fiscal cliff dispute. Apple leads the rebound. Jobless claims fall, but consumer confidence sags.
Stocks stormed back from sharp losses Thursday on news that the House of Representatives will convene Sunday evening in an attempt to end the nation's bitter budget dispute.
While the major averages suffered their fourth losses in a row, the big rebound was welcome news after Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., had said earlier that a resolution to the "fiscal cliff" fight before Jan. 1 appeared unlikely because Republicans wouldn't cooperate.
After Reid made his comments, the Dow Jones Industrial Average ($INDU) fell to a loss of as many as 151 points and dropped under 13,000 for the first time since Dec. 4.
With the news on the House Sunday session, the blue chips rebounded to 13,096, down 18 points on the day. The Standard & Poor's 500 Index ($INX) was off 2 points to 1,418, and the Nasdaq Composite Index ($COMPX) dropped 4 points to 2,986.
If a deal can't be struck between Democrats and Republicans, an $800 billion combination of tax increases and federal spending cuts will kick in, which could set off a new recession. When the "fiscal cliff" provisions would kick in not clear. It looks like March.
The idea that no one would even try to address the budget dispute was unsettling to those on Wall Street actually working. Typically, volumes are down between Christmas and New Year's.
At the same time, an even nastier battle is looming on raising the nation's debt ceiling. The ceiling technically will be reached by Monday, Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner wrote to Congressional leaders late Wednesday, but the Treasury has the flexibility to keep the government operating until probably March 1.
"I have to be very honest," Sen. Reid said as the Senate convened Thursday in an unusual session between Christmas and New Year's Day. "I don't know time-wise how it can happen now."
Reid offered his pessimistic assessment shortly before President Obama, cutting his vacation short, arrived back in Washington on Air Force One. White House officials said that before leaving Hawaii, the President had spoken separately by phone with each of the four Congressional leaders about the status of negotiations, but they gave no details of the discussion.
'Fiscal cliff' sets off a sell-off and a rebound
Since the November elections, the stock market has moved up or down depending on if investors believed a budget deal might be coming together. Thursday was another one of those days.
The S&P 500 had been down as many 18 points and nearly fell below 1,400 on an intraday basis for the first time since Nov. 28; it hasn't closed under 1,400 since Nov. 27. The Nasdaq had been down as many as 39 points.
The Nasdaq-100 Index ($NDX), which tracks the largest Nasdaq stocks, had dropped as many as 38 points in the early afternoon but recovered to 2,633, a loss of 4 points.
Apple (AAPL), which has the largest weight in the index, had recovered entirely from a tumble down to $505.60. It closed up $2.06 to $515.06. For Apple's shares, $505 has emerged as a key support level.
Economy appears held back by budget fight
The pessimism about the "fiscal cliff" came as the Conference Board said the budget debate caused consumer confidence to fall more than forecast in December.
The Conference Board's index of sentiment fell to 65.1 from a revised 71.5 reading for November. The gauge was projected to fall to 70, according to the Bloomberg survey median.
And there were indications that the holiday shopping season fizzled at the end as consumers worried about what might happen starting in January.
There was some good news Thursday: New-home sales were up 4.4% in November from October to a seasonally adjusted 377,000 units. The sales rate was the best since April 2010 and was up 15.3% from November 2011. Homebuilding shares, however, were lower.
At the same time, initial jobless claims fell to 350,000 in the week ended Dec. 22. The week before, claims were at a seasonally adjusted 362,000. Claims have recovered from an uptick after Superstorm Sandy.
December and the year struggles to a close
Not only did the market fall for a fourth straight day, it was down for the fifth day in the last six. If the market ends the month at current levels, the Dow will be up 0.5%. The S&P 500 will be up 0.1%, with the Nasdaq down 0.8%. Apple is weighing on the Nasdaq.
For the year, the Dow is up 7.2% with the S&P 500 up 12.8% and the Nasdaq up 14.6%.
Only three of the 30 Dow stocks were higher: MSN Money publisher Microsoft (MSFT), UnitedHealth Group (UNH) and Wal-Mart Stores (WMT). The Dow's weak links were Cisco Systems (CSCO), Alcoa (AA) and JPMorgan Chase (JPM).
Meanwhile, 188 S&P 500 stocks were higher, along with 32 Nasdaq-100 stocks.
Crude oil (-CL) settled down 11 cents to $90.87 a barrel in New York but is still up 2.5% this week. The retail price of gasoline was up 1.4 cents to $3.261 a gallon, according to AAA's Daily Fuel Gauge Report.`
Gold (-GC) was up $3 to $1,663.70 an ounce. Interest rates fell as investors sought safety. The 10-year Treasury yield fell to 1.715% from Wednesday's 1.758%.
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Many are calling for compromise. Unfortunately when you are negotiating how far to pull the trigger on the gun to your head, compromise isn't really what you want. Each side thinks the other has a gun to the head of their interests. There won't be much compromise. We will go over the cliff and then the Dems will get what they want, to an extent, by passing legislation after the fact. Republicans will get nothing out of the deal except blame.
Better have some guns when we march on washington dc. They have alot of parades there and dont care what we think. When the shooting starts then the politicians take some notice but when you shoot a few of them then you bet they will act. Most politicians make more money from the special interests than their salary. Who do you think they REALLY listen too?
I was going to invest in a small cap company without any debt, but then I found out the CEO makes TWICE what the president does! Its a small company! Of course it is well run, no debt and the CEO is well paid. We need to double the politicians salary and FORBID SUPERPAC AND RICH PEOPLE BUYING THEM!
Beats shooting them!
Fox News has been continually reporting California's projected budget deficit will be 28 billion.
In fact, the projected deficit here is 1.9 billion. It's improving a lot since Democrats have had control. They haven't bothered to correct this, of course, and most people watching Fox News will hear only what they spew, and believe it. Meanwhile, Boehner and his cohorts in the House have been spewing a lot of crap too, similar to the way Fox News does. I wonder how many people they hope will buy their baloney & not see through it.
What gets about as bad as all this talk of a "rebound" in a highly manipulated market, is how yesterday the down was attributed to this so-called fiscal cliff, even when the sales reports came in and showed that this Christmas season people spent less then they had in prior years. And rather then acknowledge the obvious, that people are too flat out broke to be able to spend more, instead they have to argue that it was Sandy....
Do they honestly believe that all these Christmas shoppers do all their xmas shopping before Thanksgiving? Or that if people in the East Coast had the money to spend, they would not have done so latter? Try this on for size, the rate of inflation has over-stepped any sort of pay raise that the working class has seen. This combined with not just unemployment, but involuntary part time employment, and the part time jobs that have filled in the gaps for those who lost their former careers tend to pay worse salary then what people were making before. The result is, that people's net disposable income has taken a hit; and without running up the plastic more, and getting into fiscal troubles as they face their own debt worries, people have had to cut back their own spending, hence the sales reports.
But they don't want to admit that. It's simple folks, if you want consumers to spend more, then there has to be the sort of salary and real wages, as opposed to nominal wages alone (aka adjusted to inflation) which leaves people with more disposable income, so they have more to spend and don't have to cut back. If the working class doesn't see more income, don't go crying about sales reports, as people do the financially wise thing, which is to not go ahead and spend what they don't have. Sheesh, sometimes these stories can be about as bad as Washington's wrangling over party lines, as they cater to the lobbyists, and ignore the stark realities that is facing the nation's working class as a whole....
Option 1
I have a plan! Everyone in Washington step down and let some people that really want to fix America's problems have a chance at it. I say no one with net worth over a million should be running this country. That way what every they do will affect them also.
Option 2
Tell our leaders in Washington that if they don't get this passed by Dec. 31, 2012 then they all don't get to ride on the government's planes, no health care for them, and no pay check for the year 2013.
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The seven new additions also include two West Michigan prep products in forward Justin Keenan (Grand Rapids/Ottawa Hills) and guard Bryan Pasciak (Rockford). The final member of the class, center Jim Boylan (Grayling), inked with the Bulldogs during the early signing period last fall. In all, the current group of incoming recruits is made up of three guards along with four frontcourt additions. Additional signees may still be announced.
"Overall, this class adds needed depth and size to our program," Sall said. "We've added some quality guards and good players up front. I'm also impressed with the overall academic performance of this group.
"These kids all have great character in addition to being outstanding basketball players."
The 6-6 Hincka attained 2006-07 National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA) Division II All-Region XII accolades in leading the Lumberjacks to a 14-14 overall mark along with a 10-8 record in the Michigan Community College Athletic Association (MCCAA). The All-MCCAA selection averaged a team-best 20 points and 12 rebounds per game this season under head coach Frank McCourt. During his high school career, Hincka guided Posen High School to the Michigan High School Athletic Association (MHSAA) Class D Final Four and a 25-1 overall record while earning Basketball Coaches Association of Michigan (BCAM) Class D All-State Fourth Team honors as a senior in 2004-05. He tallied 1,032 points in his prep career for head coach Ron Misiak as the squad won two district titles.
"Aaron has really developed even since his senior year of high school," said Sall. "He's a strong back to the basket player and averaged a double-double this year in the junior college ranks. We're looking forward to working with him."
Stanley, at 6-7, brings good leaping ability and long arms to the Bulldog lineup, according to Sall. He scored more than 10 points and grabbed over 10 rebounds per game this year in the PSL before the Detroit Central Trailblazers fell to Detroit Cody in the district tournament. Stanley, who was a Detroit Basketball Report All-PSL Southeast Honorable Mention choice this year, is one of three Bulldog recruits selected to play in the 2007 Prep Spotlight All-Star game for the top Michigan high school seniors along with Keenan and Wright. The event will take place Saturday (April 14) evening at Highland Park (Mich.) High School.
"Chris is a tremendous athlete who can get up and down the floor and is a great rebounder," Sall said. "We're looking for him to be a big contributor in our program with added development."
Wright and Gay led Detroit Henry Ford High School to a 14-7 overall mark in 2006-07 as the squad advanced to the regional final before falling to Detroit Osborn. The 6-4 Wright, who was rated by InsidePrepSports.com as Michigan's number seven shooting guard in the senior class, had 21 points in the regional championship game. He played his final season for the Trojans after transferring from Detroit Renaissance High School. The 5-10 Gay directed Henry Ford's attack from his point guard position where he earned Detroit Free Press All-Detroit Honorable Mention honors this season.
"DeJuan is a highly-regarded player who had offers from some bigger schools, but felt Ferris was the right place," said Sall. "He's one of the best leapers I've had an opportunity to coach and is able to get to the basket. He'll be an exciting player to watch due to his intelligence and hard-working ability.
"Darien might be the sleeper of the class and I really like what he'll give us. He knows how to run a team, understands the game, passes well and has quickness so it will be nice to have him in our program."
Keenan was a two-sport standout at Grand Rapids' Ottawa Hills High School as evidenced by his earning All-City kudos in both basketball and football. The Detroit News Class A Honorable Mention All-State basketball selection also received Associated Press Class A All-State Honorable Mention football honors as a lineman during his senior athletics season (2006-07). The 6-6 Keenan was also an all-area and all-league pick while at Ottawa Hills.
Meanwhile, the 6-1 Pasciak guided Rockford High School to both an Ottawa-Kent (OK) Conference Red Division title and district crown this year as the squad's leading scorer under head coach Steve Majerle. The 2007 Class A All-State Honorable Mention recipient played Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) basketball for the Grand Rapids Storm and was rated as Michigan's number 11 point guard in the senior class by InsidePrepSports.com.
"Bryan's a solid player who understands the game well in addition to having the strength and tenacity to be a major contributor from the get-go," Sall said. "Justin is strong around the basket and has a good touch out to 15 or 20 feet. Both will be tremendous additions for us."
Finally, Boylan averaged over 10 points and nearly 11 rebounds per contest for Grayling High School this year after committing to the Bulldogs as an early signee in November. InsidePrepSports.com ranked him as the state's fifth-best senior prospect at the center position following his senior campaign for the Vikings, who competed in the Lake Michigan Conference.
"Jim has a big upside and is a strong kid who's been to our camps for several years," Sall said. "His best basketball is still ahead of him and he'll bring a physical presense and size to our team, which is something we've been lacking and will be good to have."
The Ferris men's basketball team registered its fourth-straight Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (GLIAC) Tournament appearance in 2006-07 under Sall and concluded the year with a 10-18 overall record. The Bulldogs placed tied for third in the GLIAC North Division regular-season standings with a 8-10 league slate this campaign after advancing to the NCAA Division II Great Lakes Regional Tournament the previous two seasons. FSU captured back-to-back GLIAC North Division titles in 2003-04 and 2004-05 along with advancing to the NCAA-II Sweet Sixteen two years ago.
Darien Gay
Guard, 5-10
Detroit, Mich.
High School: Detroit Henry Ford
Aaron Hincka
Forward, 6-6
Posen, Mich.
High School: Posen
Junior College: Alpena CC
Justin Keenan
Forward, 6-6
Grand Rapids, Mich.
High School: Ottawa Hills
Bryan Pasciak
Guard, 6-1
Rockford, Mich.
High School: Rockford
Chris Stanley
Forward, 6-7
Detroit, Mich.
High School: Detroit Central
DeJuan Wright
Guard/Forward, 6-4
Detroit, Mich.
High School: Detroit Henry Ford


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North America is a dynamic migration region, with the United States home to more immigrants than any other country in the world, the Mexico-U.S. corridor the globe's top migration corridor, and Canada a leading destination for migrants. Research collected here focuses on everything from visa policy and border management to immigrant integration, national identity, the demographics of immigrants in the region and their educational and workforce outcomes, and ways to more effectively use migration policy as a lever for national and regional competitiveness.
Central American migrants have long hopped freight trains known as "La Bestia," or the beast, to get through Mexico en route to the United States. While Mexico has been accused of turning a blind eye to this traffic, U.S. outcry over the surge of unaccompanied child migrants has drawn new attention to the use of the trains. This article highlights the journey aboard the trains, the dangers faced by migrants, and responses by the Mexican government and others.
Find relevant MPI resources on the child migration crisis—from research, articles, and public briefings that analyze the trends and policy developments surrounding the recent uptick in migration of unaccompanied minors to data on Central American immigrant populations and country profiles of El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras—all in one place. Click here.
The U.S. immigrant population—estimated at 40.8 million in 2012 — is the nation's historical numerical high, and it is also the largest foreign-born population in the world. About 20 percent of all international migrants reside in the United States, even as the country accounts for less than 5 percent of global population. This article presents the latest, most sought-after data on immigrants in the United States—by origin, residence, legal status, deportations, languages spoken, and more—in one easy-to-use resource.
In 2006, about 1.6 million Chinese immigrants resided in the United States. MPI's Aaron Matteo Terrazas and Bhavna Devani examine their socioeconomic characteristics, where they live, and the size of the legal and unauthorized population from China.
Approximately 400,000 migrants transit through Mexico each year in order to reach the United States, many of them women from Latin America. Gabriela Diaz and Gretchen Kuhner explain how the detention system's structure and new detention procedures affect women.
MPI's Muzaffar Chishti and Claire Bergeron report on new immigration reform bills, the veto of Arizona's enforcement bill, remittances to Latin America, and more.
About 65,000 immigrants serve across the U.S. military's four branches, and more than two-thirds are naturalized citizens. MPI's Jeanne Batalova examines where these immigrants are from and the policies that grant them citizenship.
Traditional gateways like New York and Los Angeles still attract immigrants. But metro areas including Atlanta, Sacramento, Las Vegas, Minneapolis-St. Paul, and Austin, Texas, have become new destinations for immigrants as Audrey Singer, Susan W. Hardwick, and Caroline B. Brettell explain.
This report provides a summary of issues discussed during a meeting convened by the Migration Policy Institute in which 50 senior experts explored the current policy agenda on immigrant integration.
This policy brief examines the flaws in the United States' existing employer sanctions regime and proposes six types of reform that could strengthen the system: improvements to document security, document consolidation, mandatory use of employment databases, increased enforcement staffing, a revised penalty structure, and better worksite access for investigators.
This fact sheet is an overview of U.S. immigration based on Fiscal Year 2004 data released by the Department of Homeland Security's Office of Immigration Statistics in 2005.
This report closely examines the rapid growth of government appropriations directly targeted to immigration enforcement activities since the passage of the Immigration Control and Reform Act of 1986 (IRCA). Focusing primarily on data between 1985 and 2002, authors highlight trends in the overall immigration enforcement spending as well as in specific activities.
This report provides an overview of United States border enforcement throughout the 20th century, highlights how it has changed since the passage of the Immigration Reform and Control Act nearly two decades ago, and further examines its unprecedented expansion in the aftermath of 9/11. The author concludes with a set of policy questions.
This report explores the successes and failures of various attempts to create an employment verification system that reliably establishes an employee's eligibility to work since the passage of the Immigration Reform and Control Act in 1986. Through this analysis, the author evaluates the effectiveness and potential contributions of the current system and seeks to inform proposals for future initiatives.
This brief provides a historical overview of various attempts at implementing workplace enforcement in the United States before arguing in favor of a process not unlike credit-card verification that allows employers to swipe a card at the point of hire and receive a response in real time from the Social Security Administration informing them whether an employee is authorized to work in the United States.
This report examines the sweeping changes in the way identity documents are issued and used under the REAL ID Act, an effort to enhance the security of identity documents in post-9/11 America. It takes a detailed look at how this legislation will affect document issuing agencies, state budgets, and the employment verification system, in addition to immigrants and citizens.


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This report was prepared by the Division of Population Surveys in the Office of Applied Studies (OAS), Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), and by RTI, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina. At SAMHSA, Douglas Wright was responsible for the content, analysis, and writing of the report, and Joseph C. Gfroerer reviewed and provided numerous suggestions and improvements on its content and format. At RTI, Ralph Folsom was responsible for the overall methodology and estimation for the model-based Bayes estimates and prediction intervals. The following staff were responsible for generating the estimates and providing other support and analysis: Akhil Vaish, Neeraja Sathe, Feng Yu, and Jie Liu. Bing Liu, Mike Vorburger, and Brenda Porter generated the tables, and Ms. Sathe provided oversight for production of the report. David Chrest and Shari B. Lambert prepared the State maps. Mary Ellen Marsden reviewed the report; Richard S. Straw and K. Scott Chestnut edited it; Joyce Clay-Brooks and Danny Occoquan word processed it; and Pamela Couch Prevatt, Teresa F. Gurley, David Belton, and Kim Cone prepared its Web versions.
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The Villager Is A Giant Troll In Super Smash Bros.
There's something about the villager. Something sinister. Something hilarious. Something, frankly, troll-ish—which means he's a blast to watch in action now that the game is out. »
There's something about the villager. Something sinister. Something hilarious. Something, frankly, troll-ish—which means he's a blast to watch in action now that the game is out. »
Final Fantasy IV, which has been released on every digital device known to man, is now on Steam, too. It'll run you $16 for the PC version, which is a port of the three-dimensional DS remake of the fourth Final Fantasy that includes some stuff that wasn't on the Super Nintendo, like voice acting and a new "augment"… »
If you've been looking to outfit your Xbox One with some extra controllers, Newegg has the controller with the Play and Charge Kit for $60 today. [Xbox One Controller] »
The Last of Us is a moody and atmospheric game that tries to cultivate a serious tone. Resident Evil 4? Not so much. But when you combine the two, it creates something very special. »
Yesterday, a group of six Destiny players beat the game's first Raid. It took them ten hours. Ten hours! »
Well, I did it. I played Mass Effect again. And if there's one thing I took away, it's that it's awfully hard to have fun replaying things differently the second time around. »
Today's selection of articles from Kotaku's reader-run community: Destiny: The Nitro Review "Ghost Edition" • Paradise Kiss: Ani-TAY Retro Review • Steamlog 04: Agarest: Generations of War [Following Steamlog 03: 99 Spirits] • Destiny's Dilemma »
Goat Simulator, the best game we've played about being a goat, is now available on iOS and Android for $4.99. Developer Armin Ibrisagic promises that it has "all the bugs from the PC version." »
Hyrule Warriors is the opposite of a Zelda game. »
Halo 5 won't be out until next year, but creator 343 Industries says Halo: The Master Chief Collection will offer plenty of information on the still mystery-shrouded shooter. If you can find it. »
Otacon would probably take Professor Oak's place, and the Pokémon themselves would look a lot different if the Metal Gear universe met Pokémon. »
It was the guns that did it for the Borderlands games, wasn't it? Thousands, millions, umpty-trillions of weapons to find, collect and love more than some actual flesh-and-blood human beings. Well, in Battleborn, the people who made those games want to do for characters what they did for guns in Borderlands. »
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There is a new DOOM coming. Surely everybody knows that by now, at least anybody who's actually still playing Doom on their computers. Or mobile phones. Or ATMs. Or printers. »
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Reminder: Quake Live, with some changes, arrives on Steam today—in the afternoon, to be specific. Of course, it'll be free-to-play, so those jonesing for some old-school arena-shooting action will be able to dive right in. Above's the launch trailer, featuring copious amounts of bunnyhopping and spectacular shooting. »
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Time for a Quickie
New research is designed to help calm couples' unrealistic beliefs that "good" sex should last a long time.
No time for sex? Good news: U.S. researchers have found that sex lasting seven to 13 minutes is the most desirable. The study, published in the International Journal of Sexual Medicine, polled a random sample of Americans and Canadians, and also found that intercourse lasting between three and seven minutes was "adequate"—and that sex over 13 minutes is "too long." Surprised?
I have a play list on YouTube with fun kid videos and songs. So when my husband and I want private time I load the list and park the little one in front of the computer, and he doesn't move a muscle. The short 2 minute clips are perfect to keep his attention and I have over 40 in the list so he stays put for a while. This gives us time to be romantic and not rush, so it really not a quickie, LOL.
At exactly what point do "they" start the timer?
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Pennsylvania College of Art & Design began as the dream of a handful of dedicated artists and their many supporters in the spring of 1982 after York Academy of Arts in York, Pa., closed its doors. In eight short weeks, the non-profit Pennsylvania School of the Arts (PSA) was formed.
At that time, PSA offered a three-year diploma program that consisted of classes in fine art, interior design, and communication arts. In 1984, PSA was accredited by the National Association of Schools of Art & Design, and continued as a non-profit, professional art school.
PSA quickly outgrew its building and looked to the city of Lancaster for its new home. In 1987, the school moved to 204 North Prince Street in downtown Lancaster. With its commitment to and investment in the city, it became one of the key cultural anchors in Lancaster and was part of the leading edge in the city's economic development.
With the move, school officials announced that PSA's name would change to Pennsylvania School of Art & Design.
The move from Marietta to the city of Lancaster provided students and staff with more space (from 14,000 to 37,000 square feet), better facilities, ample northern light, room to expand, plentiful housing nearby and a vibrant campus: downtown Lancaster itself.
In the fall of 1999, the school was approved as a college and awarded degree-granting privileges by the Pennsylvania Department of Education. In August of 2000, the first freshmen pursuing Bachelor of Fine Arts degrees began their studies.
In the summer of 2001, the College marked another milestone when it purchased the property it was leasing at 204 North Prince Street, making its home a permanent one. This purchase provided the College with an opportunity for expansion and has further established Pennsylvania College of Art & Design as an anchor in downtown Lancaster.
In July of 2003, the College changed its name to Pennsylvania College of Art & Design. The college also purchased the property next door (at 202 North Prince Street), thus increasing its size to more than 60,000 square feet.
In 2007, PCA&D became an accredited institutional member of the Commission on Higher Education of the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools.
PCA&D opened the new Design Center in 2010. Read about its opening here.
Today, PCA&D is an economic driver in the city of Lancaster and a leader in the art, education and business communities. During the 2011-2012 year, it marked its 30th anniversary.
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Pennsylvania College of Art & Design is truly "Your place to prepare for a life in art."
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IT departments excel at boosting efficiency but fall short of driving business growth, according to a new study.
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The study, "Can the IT Department Keep Up With Exponential Growth?" asked 474 IT and business executives from the U.S., Germany, Japan, and the U.K. about how the role of IT is changing to help capitalize on business growth opportunities.
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Big Pine: Wild encounters in the Keys( PHOTO COURTESY DEFENDERS OF WILDLIFE / August 7, 2014 )
We took many trips to the Keys, driving slowly through Big Pine Key watching for deer, without encountering these mini-Bambis. That changed the time we stayed at Deer Run, a lovely guest house on Big Pine Key, where a dozen deer hang out every morning and evening. On the same road are two other bed and breakfast spots, and we've read the deer are equally visible there: The Barnacle and Casa Grande.
The dog-sized deer have lost all fear of man. Feeding members of this endangered species is a crime, but it is apparently a common one. The easiest way to get a close-up look at these deer was to rustle a potato-chip bag. The deer trotted over and stared up entreatingly with their big moist eyes and their long eyelashes.
If you don't stay at a spot in Big Pine close to the deer, we are told it is easy to spot them at dusk in a few places: Along Long Beach Drive and on No Name Key (access this adjoining island off Key Deer Boulevard.)
Drive very carefully. As evidenced in this photo, these deer wander carelessly onto roads and dozens die each year.
-- Bonnie Gross, Sun-Sentinel
GETTING THERE: Overseas Highway, between mile markers 29.5 and 33 (Big Pine Key).
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A 56-year-old British woman was sentenced to death by an Indonesian court on Tuesday for smuggling cocaine in the island of Bali, the AP reports.
The amount of drugs smuggled into the resort island is estimated to be worth $2.5 million.
Lindsay June Sandiford was arrested in May when customs officers at Bali's airport discovered 3.8 kilograms (8.4 pounds) of cocaine in the lining of her luggage. She had previously claimed in court that she was forced into taking the drugs into the country by a gang that was threatening to hurt one of her children.
A verdict is expected in the trial of Sandiford's alleged accomplice, British man Julian Anthony Pounder, on Wednesday. He is accused of being the recipient of the drugs Sandiford was smuggling.
There are about 40 foreigners on death row in Indonesia, most of them on drug crimes. Indonesia, which like many Asian countries is very strict on drug crimes, has an estimated 114 prisoners on death row.
There have been no executions in the country since 2008, when 10 people were put to death.
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