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In 2010 the men's magazine Esquire enlisted Lawrence O'Donnell, along with a panel of Republicans and economically centrist Democrats, to duplicate the anti-Social Security efforts of the Simpson/Bowles Deficit Commission. Now the magazine is at it again, with an economically illiterate and deceptive piece about "generational conflict" called "The War on Youth." Meanwhile the real war on youth is an assault on their employment prospects, education costs, and, yes, their future Social Security benefits. On two of those three fronts, Esquire is distracting its presumably youthful male readers from the real threats to their economic security. And on the third front, it's fighting for the wrong army.
Women, Clothes, Music, Drinks… Austerity
The Esquire website advertises itself as follows: "Beautiful Women, Men's Fashion, Best Music, Drink Recipes." Once you read about the mag's most recent move, you may want to skip the other options and just make yourself that drink.
I can see why the deep-pocket resources hellbent on cutting Social Security (think right-wing billionaire Pete Peterson, former cabinet secretary under Nixon) might want to trade on Esquire and its fading hipster cred. Sure, its "Women We Love" and "Sexiest Woman of the Year" features may speak more to a bygone Mad Men era (or invite a Mad Magazine sendup), but Esquire has focused on top-quality writing for generations by publishing writers like Ernest Hemingway, Terry Southern, Andrew Vachss, Gay Talese, and Gary Wills.
But the magazine that once challenged authority (for example, by publishing the first accounts of American atrocities in Vietnam) now seems more like a conduit for its economic interests, at least where government spending is concerned.
Three Days of the Stupor
The magazine bragged that its "O'Donnell Commission" balanced the federal budget in only three days — and it is impressive that they managed to gather and repeat so many stuporific centrist clichés and "bipartisan" non-solutions in so short a period of time.
Why bring it up again now? Because there's a pattern here. It began with Esquire's initial assignment for O'Donnell and company: why would any magazine dedicated to quality journalism — and Esquire has earned that description — promote the right-wing framing that says that our most urgent economic issue is reducing the government's deficit spending? That's never been more misguided than over the last several years, when borrowing rates have been historically low and unemployment at staggering highs (especially for minorities, the long-term unemployed, and, yes, young people).
In return, Esquire's commission ignored the key facts about the nation's deficits: that today's deficits are caused by military spending and tax cuts, especially for the wealthy, and that tomorrow's deficits will be caused by runaway health care spending.
The magazine gave its "Commission" the wrong errand — and picked a group that was sure to follow it through. The unpredictable Lawrence O'Donnell does some terrific work. But in many ways he's still an '80s and '90s-style "centrist" Democrat, with all the attendant forms of blindness that conveys. The two Republican Senators on his "Commission" were, like fellow centrist Democrat Bill Bradley, known to sympathize with the cuts-over-crisis school of government economics. (Gary Hart, the remaining member, was the sole disappointment of the group.)
Why Are These Men Laughing?
This all-male contingent quickly issued its, er, briefs. Their first recommendation was to raise the retirement age to 70 — because, it said, "Americans today are living and working longer than in previous generations."
Wrong. The difference in longevity between current and past generations is negligible for people who survive infancy. A further increase in the retirement age (it's already scheduled to rise) accomplishes two things, both of them disastrous: it slashes Social Security benefits for seniors, and it exposes millions of additional aging Americans to the vagaries, inadequacies, and devastating economic and medical consequences of our inadequate private-sector health insurance system.
The Commission compounded its Social Security cuts by adopting a new, benefit-slashing formula that lowers the already-inadequate way that increases in the cost of living are calculated. Who would suffer most under this lame-brain right-wing idea? The groups that would be unfairly penalized include African Americans and lower-income people of all races, whose life expectancy is appreciably less than that of whiter and richer people.
Who would benefit? The aforementioned whiter and richer people.
Another catastrophic "Commission" idea was to repeal employer health-care tax exclusion and offer a refundable health care tax credit instead. This is a longstanding Newt Gingrich proposal that would effectively bring our employer-sponsored health insurance system to an end.
What would replace it? Nothing. The "refundable" credit would force people to buy health insurance in the private-sector health insurance market, which has never succeeded in providing adequate coverage. Medical inflation would quickly render health coverage completely unaffordable.
The losers? Everybody but the rich, who would be thrilled by the additional tax cuts this could encourage. They'll benefit plenty by everyone else's loss of benefits.
The "commission" also wanted to raise the gasoline tax by a dollar — another measure that would particularly hurt the middle class and the poor.
Missing Pieces
What didn't the Commission propose? Raising taxes on the wealthy. Why, the "Commission" even bragged that it met the unintended goal of "keep[ing] individual tax rates at or near their current levels for all Americans."
In other words, this "bipartisan" group does what "bipartisan" groups always do inside the Beltway: it protected the interests of the rich and powerful at everyone else's expense.
Nor did they propose a Medicare for All plan, which would bring down both government's expenses and that of families. Their idea of medical cost-cutting is "malpractice reform," an idea that's been debunked over and over.
Who would be hurt most of all by this "Commission" if its ideas ever became reality? Young people. Recommendations that lower the increase in cost of living adjustments result in benefits which are lower and lower with every passing year. The younger you are, the more you'll lose.
Esquire added this footnote to its report: "With thanks to the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget and its president, Maya MacGuineas, for their invaluable assistance in providing the commission with accurate data and budget options."
The "Committee for a Responsible Budget" and its president receive heavy subsidies from — you guessed it — Pete Peterson. Although the Esquire write-up of this exercise described O'Donnell as "a realpolitik liberal who has a finely honed intolerance for bullshit from either side," a little more honing would have been in order.
War Babies
Anybody who thought Esquire couldn't top that misguided effort was wrong. Their latest attack on young people is a piece called "The War on Youth," and it begins as follows: "Twenty-five years ago young Americans had a chance."
The piece then quickly moves on to repeat one falsehood after another, beginning with the often-quoted and entirely misleading comment that "in 1984, American breadwinners who were sixty-five and over made ten times as much as those under thirty-five. The year Obama took office, older Americans made almost forty-seven times as much …"
Actually, author Stephen Marche even misstates the misleading figure: The assets of Americans in these age groups, not their income, differed by that much in 1984. Dean Baker points out that virtually all of the difference can be accounted for by home values.
What's more, these figures were compiled in 2009. Home values have continued to decline sharply since then — and older couples who sell their homes for cash would then have to pay rent, provided they can find a buyer. What's more, the figures aren't broken out by over-65 age bracket, but I strongly suspect that these homeowners are strongly skewed toward pre-Baby Boomer age groups. If so, that would seriously undercut the piece's "it's the Baby Boom's fault" premise.
As Dean Baker says, "What matters for inter-generational equity is the overall state of the economy and the physical and natural infrastructure that we hand down to future generations." You wouldn't know it by reading this piece.
Life During Wartime
"Democrats may not be actively hostile to the interests of young voters," Marche proclaims, "but they are too scared and weak to speak up for them." He goes on to say that "[t]he biggest boondoggle of all is Social Security. The management of entitlement programs, already weighted heavily in favor of the older population, has a very specific terminal point that coincides neatly with the Boomers' deaths. The 2011 report by the Social Security trustees estimates that, under its current administration, the fund will run out in 2036, so there's just enough to get the oldest Boomers to age ninety."
This is exactly backwards. Democrats should be defending Social Security — which will not "run out of funds in 2036." It's estimated to be able to pay 75 percent of its current benefits after that. How is the difference best made up? According to Ronald Reagan's former chief actuary for Social Security, by raising the payroll tax for high earners.
But the one option that's fairest and most effective — the one that discommodes the wealthy — is once again missing from the pages of Esquire.
Talk about "dubious achievements."
The Real War on the Young
What's most astonishing about Esquire's latest folly isn't what's in the piece but what isn't. An entire generation is entering the workforce without jobs, and this period of early-career unemployment is likely to hold back unemployed young people's earnings for the rest of their working lives.
And yet the "War on Youth" piece can only discuss unemployment as if it were a generational issue — which it isn't. Older workers are also suffering disproportionately, something the piece chooses to overlook in pursuit of its bogus premise. (The fact that members of Congress are "old" hardly has any bearing on the real conflict, which is income-based and not age-based.)
What's more, young people are graduating college with record levels of student debt — another front of the real war that Esquire chose to avoid. In what may be the cruelest bait-and-switch in history, they were convinced to take out exorbitant loans by leaders in the government and banking. Now they're being asked to pay those loans back. More than 25 percent of student loans are already delinquent.
And now, thanks to Republicans in the House, student loan rates are about to double.
And this is one of the areas where, refreshingly, Democrats haven't been "too scared and weak to speak." Although they've failed to push strongly enough for more jobs, Democrats in the administration and on the Hill have made constructive changes in student lending and have proposed more.
In fact, their work in this area provoked an Esquire-like salvo from Politico, which complained that "[t]he Democratic strategy consists of shame and politics." But "shame" is the appropriate response to Republican policies like these — and if "politics" means pursuing the policies people want, we need more of it.
The real war against the young is being fought over exactly these issues — and over the fact that we're leaving them a decaying infrastructure, an imploding economy, and a future of joblessness or underearning.
There's a war on, alright, but Esquire has gone AWOL — that is, when it isn't fighting for the wrong side.


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Black is beautiful. Bigger is better. Those phrases might as well describe the thinking behind the two special-edition motorcycles Triumph unwrapped at the EICMA show.
The Thunderbird Nightstorm and the Limited Edition Rocket X are both distinguished mainly by appearance touches. Both get a blacked-out treatment for the engine and exhausts, and both get special paint jobs.
Like other Thunderbird cruisers, the Nightstorm is propelled by Triumph's 1699 cc parallel twin that breaks the V-twin cruiser convention. The blacked-out treatment is applied to the engine, exhaust, handlebars, mirrors, control levers and just about everything else. The tank is painted black and then flames and the logo are added in "silver frost."
Triumph also notes that the tank-mounted instruments include "a fashionably small tachometer." See how I'm always behind on what's in fashion?
Triumph says the Nightstorm's MSRP in the United States will be $15,499. And that brings us to the big dog.
Has it really just been 10 years? I still remember when the other manufacturers were incrementally upstaging each other with bigger V-twin cruisers: 1600 cc, then 1800, then — gasp — a 2000 cc V-twin. Then Triumph came along like a college football player doing a cannonball dive into the kiddie pool, swamping the whole tit-for-tat process with a 2.3-liter triple. In terms of torque, at least, it was game over.
Now, a decade later, the Rocket III remains the largest-displacement mass-production motorcycle, and Triumph is celebrating by releasing the Limited Edition Rocket X.
Triumph is building 500 numbered editions of this bike, and while the engine will always be the star on any Rocket III, it's the paint that sets the Rocket X apart. Paint specialists 8-Ball created a unique look. First, the tank and fenders are subjected to a grinding effect that leaves patterns in the bare metal. Then six layers of lacquer are applied, combined with a two-stage polishing and curing process.
No word yet from Triumph on price, but the Rocket X should be available in dealerships in March.

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Everyone on Wall Street is still talking about Knight Capital Group today.
In case you missed it, shortly after the opening bell rang yesterday there were some wild swings in a bunch of NYSE-listed stocks caused by a trading glitch at Knight Capital's market-making desk.
The company's stock nose-dived yesterday to close down 32.82%, or $3.39, to end at $6.34 a share.
This morning shares are getting walloped after Knight released a statement that the company faces a $440 million pre-tax loss following the glitch. The stock was last down more than 45%.
Obviously, this is a really big deal for Knight.
So who is Knight Capital Group? We've included some facts about the company below:
- Knight is a financial services firm engaging in market making, electronic execution, and institutional sales and trading. It's one of the largest market makers in the U.S.
- Knight makes markets and trades in more than 19,000 U.S. equities.
- In 2011, Knight was the No. 1 market maker in retail U.S. equity shares traded of NYSE and NASDAQ stocks. As of Q2 2012, Knight maintained market share of retail U.S. equity volume and the number one position among all market makers.
- For the Q2 2012, Knight posted consolidated revenues of $289 million. Market making revenues for the second quarter decreased 4% to $139 million.
- Knight also received a lot of attention last quarter when it complained that it lost $35.4 million during the Facebook IPO due to a trading problem at the Nasdaq. The company said it would weigh its legal options, too.
- The company was founded in 1995 under the name Knight/Trimark Group and was renamed Knight Trading Group in 2000 and later renamed Knight Capital Group in 2005.
- Knight is headquartered in Jersey City, NJ and has offices across the country and internationally including the UK, Germany, Switzerland, China, and Singapore.
- The CEO is Thomas M. Joyce. He made comments about the software bug today on Bloomberg TV.
- The company employs 1,423 people.


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The Friday Line: Handicapping the White House Hopefuls
It's been a month since The Fix last ranked the five Democrats and five Republicans most likely to wind up as the presidential nominees in 2008. The original post generated a slew of comments and suggestions that have been factored into this version of the presidential line.
As with the last presidential post, the candidates are ranked alphabetically, not by their chances of becoming their party's standard bearer. And again, please post in the comments section or e-mail me with your own lists.
The Republicans
* George Allen: Allen continues to cement his status as one of the nominal frontrunners for the nomination by simply not making any major mistakes. Seeking to bolster his foreign policy credentials, Virginia's junior senator spent a week last month in Asia where he met with Pakistan's president as well as the Indian prime minister. Sources allied with Allen rivals sought to spin Virginia Attorney General Jerry Kilgore's (R) gubernatorial loss last month as a blow for the senator, but that seems like pretty thin gruel. Barring an unforeseen pitfall, Allen will enter 2006 as the conventional wisdom pick for the nomination, especially among the party's conservative base.
* Bill Frist: Frist's scheduled trip to New Hampshire next week shows that despite struggling through a politically disastrous 2005, he continues to move full steam ahead toward a presidential bid. As leader of Senate Republicans, Frist is almost certain to play a prominent role in the Supreme Court nomination fight of Samuel A. Alito early next year, which could help endear him to the party's conservative wing. Frist continues to raise money for his Volunteer PAC and can be expected to lard state parties in key early primary states with dollars. The Tennessee senator, who is leaving Congress at the end of next year, has seen his star tarnished over the past 12 months; he must use the next year to reclaim his image as a political up and comer.
* Rudy Giuliani: There is little question that Giuliani will remain at the top of polls testing Republican presidential primary candidates for the foreseeable future. What is less clear is how voters who idolize the former New York mayor for his leadership in the aftermath of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks will react when Hizzoner's detractors start talking about his support for gay and abortions rights. Is Giuliani such an untouchable figure that these attacks won't destroy his chances of winning the nomination? That seems extremely unlikely, but we are willing to be persuaded. And while Bayh might be able to pick off some Red States for the Democrats, Giuliani's star status and moderate politics would almost certainly put plenty of Blue States in play.
* John McCain: If you needed any more convincing that McCain is planning a second run for the White House, take a look at his schedule over the past few weeks. McCain traveled to Alabama to campaign and fundraise for George Wallace Jr. (R), who is running for lieutenant governor; he appeared with President Bush and Arizona Sen. Jon Kyl (R) at a fundraiser on Monday to benefit Kyl's reelection race; and today McCain will be in Pennsylvania to raise cash for Sen. Rick Santorum (R). All three events seem to be the leading edge of an effort to make McCain more palatable to conservative Republican primary voters who have grown increasingly disenchanted with the Arizona senator's willingness to buck the party leadership. The success of that courtship is key to McCain's chances.
* Mitt Romney: Romney will make a final decision on whether to seek a second term as Massachusetts's governor later this month. Until then, his presidential candidacy will be in a holding pattern. Judging by Romney's travel outside of the state, it seems a long shot that he will sign up for a second term, choosing instead to leave office in 2006 and devote is full attention to a presidential run. Insert here the obligatory question about whether his Mormonism would hinder a national campaign.
* Wildcard -- Newt Gingrich: The rehabilitation of Gingrich's image is worth a column in and of itself. Seven years ago when he resigned from the House, he was a figure of significant scorn among the very Republicans who had ridden his "Contract with America" to the House majority just four years earlier. In the intervening years, Gingrich has emerged as one of the leading ideas men among Republicans. Plus, national polling shows him with a small-but-solid following among likely GOP primary voters. Gingrich is a long shot to win the nomination, but he has proven his doubters wrong before.
The Democrats
* Evan Bayh: The Indiana senator has (quietly) done more fundraising in 2005 than any other Democrat with the exception of Hillary Rodham Clinton. He is hosting a birthday party fundraiser for himself tonight in Indiana that will bring in $600,000, and he is spending much of the latest congressional recess traveling the country to meet with donors. He will surprise people with the depth and breadth of his fundraising operation when the campaign fully engages after the 2006 midterms. Bayh has proven Red State appeal, which could mean a lot in a close election.
* Hillary Rodham Clinton: The last month has not been the best for Sen. Clinton's presidential -- oops! -- I mean Senate campaign. Liberal activists are expressing their discontent with her unwillingness to renounce her vote in support of the Iraq war or to advocate a specific timetable for withdrawing troops from the country. On the other hand, her New York reelection race is growing less and less competitive by the day, allowing her to stockpile tens of millions of dollars that could be transferred directly to a presidential account. Clinton is still the clear frontrunner for the nomination, although she looks (slightly) more beatable than in recent months.
* John Edwards: Edwards won kudos among the party's liberal wing for his piece last month in The Washington Post in which he said he regretted voting for the 2002 use of force resolution against Iraq. He continues to travel the country delivering speeches on poverty and in the process generating glowing press clips from local newspapers. (Take a look at this story from the Nov. 30 San Antonio Express-News as an example.) Much of Edwards's appeal in 2004 was that he was a fresh face in a party searching for a new savior. Will that appeal still hold four years later?
* John Kerry: The 2004 Democratic nominee has effectively positioned himself as one of the leading Democratic critics of Bush administration's handling of the war in Iraq, a role unwittingly reinforced by the president when he mentioned Kerry by name during a speech on the conflict last month. While Kerry seems to have found his footing on Iraq, it may be too little too late in the eyes of primary voters. But with an e-mail list numbering 3 million and the experience garnered from running a national campaign, Kerry merits a spot in the top 5.
* Mark Warner: The next 11 months are crucial for Warner's national hopes. Once he formally leaves the Virginia governor's mansion next month, Warner will be free to focus all his time on courting activists in key states and raising dollars -- luxuries that most of his Democratic competitors will not enjoy until November 2006. Warner formally kicks off that national effort next Tuesday with a fundraiser to benefit his Forward Together PAC in northern Virginia. His decision this week to grant clemency to a death row inmate (and the subsequent chatter about its 2008 implications) is just the start of a heightened level of media attention and scrutiny on Warner that we'll see over the next year. How he holds up to that maelstrom could make or break his candidacy.
* Wildcard -- Wesley Clark: Clark replaces Wisconsin Sen. Russ Feingold as the wildcard in the field, thanks to the fervor and energy for him among some in the party's liberal base, particularly Internet activists. While unscientific, the online presidential poll conducted by DailyKos (a must-read blog for the party's ideological left) regularly shows the retired Army general far out in front of every other possible Democratic nominee, including Clinton. While Clark stumbled out of the gate in 2004 (especially when it came to his opposition to the Iraq war), the ardor for him among some in the party has not lessened. On paper, Clark's resume is unmatched if defense and foreign policy issues are still dominating the national landscape in three years time.
Chris Cillizza
December 2, 2005; 8:33 AM ET
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In reference to General Clark, glad to see him listed, finally!
I am so tired of politicians and their corruption, their mealy mouths and the fingers to the win until I can only hope that we put someone in the lead that is an actual leader and who cares for this country before their party and the political career.
In reference to Wes Clark's stance on the Iraq War, I find that the media pack did their duty during the primary and very much made sure that Clark "stumbled" out of the gate. He still did remarkably well considering his late start!
Some have wanted to say that Clark was "for" the war....or at least that he said he would have voted for the resolution.
But this is the story here on that....
Wes Clark supported the Levin amendment, not the Lieberman "blank Check" amendment that John Edwards Co-Sponsored. The Levin and the Biden/Lugar and the Lieberman amendments were all still being debated on October 9, 2002....when Clark said he would have voted for "a" Resolution...
What Clark was saying 2 days before the IWR VOTE:
USA Today editorial from September 9, 2002, in which Clark wrote:
Despite all of the talk of "loose nukes," Saddam doesn't have any, or, apparently, the highly enriched uranium or plutonium to enable him to construct them.
Unless there is new evidence, we appear to have months, if not years, to work out this problem.
What Clark was saying 1 day before the IWR VOTE:
Clark's op ed on September 10, 2002....One day before the IWR Vote:
In his Op-Ed dated October 10, 2002, "Let's Wait to Attack." Clark states:
In the near term, time is on our side. Saddam has no nuclear weapons today, as far as we know, and probably won't gain them in the next few months.
....there is still time for dialogue before we act.
What Clark actually said in reference to "a" Resolution on 10/09/02:
"Retired U.S. Army Gen. Wesley Clark said Wednesday he supports A congressional resolution that would give President Bush authority to use military force against Iraq, although he has reservations about the country's move toward war. Clark, who led the allied NATO forces in the Kosovo conflict, endorsed Democrat Katrina Swett in the 2nd District race.?
He said if she were in Congress this week, he would advise her to vote for a resolution, but only after vigorous debate... The general said he had doubt Iraq posed a threat, and questioned whether it was immediate and said the debate about a response has been conducted backward.
Note that it is the Associated Press who claims Clark supports a resolution that would give Bush authority to use military force, whereas Clark's own words indicate he would only support "A" (key word!) resolution "after vigorous debate." Surely that can be interpreted to mean vigorous debate that would result in changes (otherwise, why debate?) --meaning he did not support the resolution "as was." Considering he had previously testified to the Armed Services Committee that the resolution need not authorize force, we can guess what he might have felt one of those changes should be.
Posted by: catherine | December 2, 2005 11:26 AM | Report abuse
My reaction to Edwards is the same I had to Kerry:
If he were to come out with a really strong policy agenda and someone like Obama to help him sell it, then ... maybe.
Kerry does have greater visibility in the Senate especially with his position as a leading spokesman on Iraq. What do you think Edwards could do to regain the limelight that would make him a viable presidential candidate? Would be interested to know, I'm sure Edwards would be also.
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The Devolution of the American media
The last straw has just descended. The continued debasing of "journalism" has hit a nadir; a profession which is an integral part of our constitution, our way of life, the very fabric of the American ideal has finally disintegrated. We are left with a press toothless, courage less, and faithless in the pursuit of truth. Bob Woodward, the iconic reporter, has devolved into a willing accomplice of the ruling elite. This truly is a sad day for journalism; a sadder day yet for America.
What was revealed should send shockwaves throughout the world. We have witnessed the unmasking of the conglomerate behind the so-called free press, whose only desire is chasing profits instead of leads. Bob Woodward, evidently selling his soul to gain "access" to the White House, is an active participant in the continuing lie perpetrated on the American people. A man whose very job is to expose lies, has instead been lying to the very public he is supposed to serve. While most reporters and journalists refuse to name sources to better serve the public, Woodward instead tells us that he did not want to tell the truth about who the original source of this leak is in order to protect himself from having to testify in front of a grand jury--courage indeed. Has it come to this, a reporter lying about a source, not to protect the public's right to know, but, rather, to deny it. What a disgrace! My hero exposed for what he is: a lying sycophant more interested in self preservation and the preservation of his access to power. After two years of lying, he finally owns up to his deception and reveals that someone in the White House did in fact speak to him two years ago about the Valerie Plame. He acknowledges this after going on talk shows dismissing the gravity of the case; erstwhile being a willing co-conspirator. How convenient that this "confession" aids an accused criminal, one Louis Libby--does the word aiding and abetting sink in yet?
The truth is that Woodward's actions are symptomatic of the general state of the press. Reporters have morphed into a tool of power instead of speaking truth to it. In the obsession to "make news", reporters jumped in the bed of the very people they are supposed to be keeping honest. Moreover, companies such as the new york times and the washington post have embedded in their employees the notion that breadth of reporting is more important than depth of reporting. In the mad dash to capture market share, the modern day news media has settled on a vision of capturing the most amount of readers while making sure to coddle the ruling elite. Sure they will report of some senator who cheated on his wife, but will ignore the actions of the very institution that senator works in that cheats their constituents. News has turned into a snapshot of events which can capture the most attention, instead of a continuous effort to educate and cultivate an informed public. Obsessed with gaining access to news makers, the news media has transformed into whores of the powerful, turning tricks to get two minutes of pleasure with the very people they are supposed to keep in check. Sound bites that tell us nothing, rhetoric reported as news, truth forsaken for an intangible balance. On a scale of news, truth has no balance and counterbalance; truth stands on its own. Yet the state of today's news media is that of a meek poodle, yelping at its master for a crumb from the table. And they wonder why subscriptions have fallen off, it's because those you serve are seeing more and more that you are Judas to the public. Unable to bear the cross of truth, you instead sell out for the nearest shekel. Reporters who no longer see the profession as a crusade against tyranny, instead you seek it as a way to get your spot on the stage. Journalists who are more eager to stand in front of the microphone instead of behind it, the silent tool of truth transformed into publicity hounds while you try to land on the new york journal best seller list. Think about that next time you are talking to your agent on a new book deal. For those who might have true passion for journalism, ask yourself if you are really doing today what you came into the business to accomplish when you were in college. For those that have always seen journalism as a means of acclaim, I truly hope that the day will come where you are torn down by your own lack of scruples.
All this leads back to Bob Woodward. From this day on, I urge all readers and subscribers of the washington post to cancel their subscription TODAY. It pains me that a great paper like the washington post has been reduced to enabling an admitted liar and in the end justifying his stance. Until Woodward has been summarily dismissed from the washington post payroll, a full accounting given of what he testified about to the grand jury, and a full page apology given to the readers, I will NEVER pick up another washington post newspaper again. I have already cancelled my subscription and urge all other readers to do the same until the washington post have resolved this situation as described above. I urge all readers to cease and desist visiting the washingtopost.com, and I urge all businesses that stand for honor and intergrity to stop selling the paper forthwith until a full accounting is given. There is one weapon that the consumer, vote with your wallet and starve the washington post of its revenue; it seems that is the only way to get a whore's attention.
Posted by: firstname.lastname@example.com | December 2, 2005 11:23 AM | Report abuse
I can't believe nobody has mentioned Chuck Hagel. I see it breaking down like this...
Insurgent Dems will run against the War in Iraq. Insurgent Republicans will run against, well...the war in Iraq. They may have once supported the invasion, but they sure as hell don't support a prolonged nation-building project. I know alot of midwestern conservatives (free-trade hating, foreign-aid loathing, isolation-loving, former Perot-supporters) who would be more than appreciative to see one of their own launch a populist revolt against the neocons. Hagel seems up to the task and if you ever listen to him talk, I think he knows it.
The high-and-mighty rhetoric of freedom and democratization doesn't sell so well to folks in places like Iowa and Nebraska. The neoconservative-backlash is coming. Mark my words. The audience is there. All that's missing is a voice.
Posted by: indygmac | December 2, 2005 11:20 AM | Report abuse
I am among those who think it is too early to make any predictions about 2008's possible presidential candidates but, being from the northeast, New York specifically, I was surprised by two of the names on your list. Mitt Romney is one. Does this man have a constituency anywhere? He is not particularly popular in Massachuseetes and would probably not win another run as governor. Many of my Massachusettes friends outright hate him. His sanctimonious pushing of his Conservative values in this most Liberal of states is distateful. Guiliani is another interesting case. I agree with one of the posters - where has the leadership come after 9/11? It may come as a surprise to the rest of the country but Mr. Guiliani is not very popular here in his home state. Few will ever forgive him the speech in the 2004 Republican convention in which he thanked God for the presidency of George Bush, a man who is almost universally dispised in New York. If it were not 9/11 I doubt that anyone would even remember his name anymore. So let the Republicans run with Romney or Guiliani. It probably would be a gift to the Democrats.
Posted by: Mark Esposito | December 2, 2005 11:08 AM | Report abuse
It's refreshing to see Kerry finally taking the kinds of stands that would have helped him in 2004. Personally I don't see how he could possibly get the nomination again. He did not run a strong campaign, plain and simple. Maybe he learned from it and could do a better job in 08, but I doubt primary voters will be willing to put their trust in him, fearing a campaign similar to 04.
I'm saying right now, Edwards or Warner. And whoever gets the nomination will be clamoring to get Obama on the ticket.
Posted by: Kate | December 2, 2005 11:06 AM | Report abuse
I must say that I am a little troubled by the continued talk of Hillary as THE front runner. I know she has raised a ton of cash but she is tainted. She will completely energize the Republican base allowing a moderate such as McCain or Romney (by the way don't count him out if he can win as a mormon conservative in Mass he can win anywhere) to wipe the floor with the Democrats.
I think if Senator Clinton were smart (which she is) she would angle for the VP nod. She could stay out of the primary fray then rush in with millions on hand to crush the Republican nominee alongside a Warner or Clark.
Posted by: Andy | December 2, 2005 11:01 AM | Report abuse
Specifically about why Warner being a Gov helps, he doesn't have the same baggage as senators who voted for the war. Plus he didn't run last time so he's a fresh face.
Has Warner taken any position on the war? I suppose he doesn't have to. Or it's safest to downplay the subject and focus on domestic things and what he did in VA. Of course he'll have to have a position eventually.
Posted by: Tim | December 2, 2005 10:48 AM | Report abuse
Add me to the list of commenters who think Kerry is dead as a candidate, but doesn't know it yet. I'm one of the 3 million people on his mailing list, but I delete the messages. He was, indeed, an ABB candidate. Given the closeness of that election, it doesn't seem too harsh to say that he could have won if he'd been a better candidate. I don't think there is much support for him among party activists. To wit, lots of folks at dailykos were disappointed that was one of the people to respond to GWB's speech earlier this week, and they were disappointed by his performance in that role. There was discussion of him having forced his way into the role of responder to Bush after Harry Reid had chosen the other Sen. Reed (from RI) by planning his own press conference. If neither party activists nor party leaders want to see him out front, it's doubtful that most voters will.
As another poster points out, Biden does, indeed, have an appealing twinkle in his eye, but, unfortunately, to be a candidate, he will have to talk. When he does, his blowhard ways will put him out of the running. It's hard to imagine him attracting anyone who is not already a supporter, and that won't be enough.
Feingold, it seems to me, is too liberal, and many voters will find his personal story unappealing. One divorce and a subsequent successful marriage would be fine, but two divorces will be problematic I think.
Re the Republicans, I, too, feel that Romney should be dropped in favor of Huckabee, but I'm not wild about either of them. My favorite is Hagel because, as Robert Kaiser of the Post has said, he is smart, an independent thinker, and has been willing to speak his mind. He's not, though, someone who seems to care much about the "family values" issues that drive so many Republican voters, so may not be able to attract supporters, but I hope he can pull into a leading position.
Posted by: JRG | December 2, 2005 10:41 AM | Report abuse
You were doing good until you claimed that DailyKos is "a must-read blog for the party's ideological left". The ideological left is in big trouble if it depends on sites like that, where the site owner demonstrates extreme bias to individual DEMOCRATS based on who paid him during the primaries, and who de-linked his site when he posted a screed saying "screw them" about Americans killed in Iraq.
Yeah, all the ideological left needs is to be associated with sites like that.
Posted by: disenchanted | December 2, 2005 10:29 AM | Report abuse
Chris, your perspective is "fair and balanced." Not a single thought on how the war or cloud of corruption might hurt any of the potential R candidates? And you don't have an unseemly large fundraising amount ($600,000 birtday party?) to report for any of the Rs? And no "Right wing nut-job discontent" (the R equivalent of "liberal activists")? And no discussion of any of the R canidates being sleazy- "oops"- politically motivated? No back story on the R party so in shambles that it grasps for a fresh (read "inexperienced") face? God, I envy your objectivity. Ever worked for Lincoln?
Posted by: jf | December 2, 2005 10:22 AM | Report abuse
I was surprised to see Feingold and Biden left off your list. Feingold, in particular, is a strong character with a record that he can hold up proudly. Teaming up with Warner could mitigate his twice-divorced negatives. Fundraising is, or course, a big issue that Hilary and Bayh have the lead on, but the party is going to be moving away from them as they realize over the next two years that the country is ready to make some significant changes. Hopefully, the Alito hearings will start to clarify the conservative push toward some sort of corporate-theocratic monarchy, and ask the American people if that is what they really want.
Posted by: jim preston | December 2, 2005 10:20 AM | Report abuse
Warner vs. McCain is how I see it.
Warner is the only Gov in that field, he's handsome and
he's from a red state so that's pure gold.
I certainly think he would do better nationally, although it is possible that partisans would prefer another.
But the title here is misleading. Isn't handicapping giving actual numerical odds?
I kind of wish that Condi would run though, at least for veep. Condi or Powell could be a credible national candidate, but neither seems to want to go through the campaign process. I can't say I blame them, of course. I wouldn't want to.
Posted by: Tim | December 2, 2005 10:12 AM | Report abuse
It always amuses me to see Giuliani's name mentioned as a possible nominee. Commentators, including Chris, mention his "leadership" post 9/11.
Would someone please cite, specifically, what actions he took that warrant his reputation has a post-9/11 hero? From what I could see, all he did was give a few nice speeches.
The collapse of the twin towers was a horrific tragedy in every respect, but the entire city did not find itself under water a la New Orleans.
I could see Rudy as a cabinet secretary: AG, Homeland Security or Interior even. But nominee for President or VP? It will never happen.
Posted by: Influential Thinker | December 2, 2005 10:11 AM | Report abuse
Kerry may be running, but he won't win the nomination. In fact, his performance will match Lieberman's in 04. I would add Feingold to the Democratic column. He and has the support of the liberal blogosphere with his timetabel for withdrawal and his fight against the PATRIOT Act. On the Republican side, I would add Sam Brownback and forget Romney. The moderate wing of the Republican Party has Giuliani. Romney seems to be a media darling, but the right wing is less sure about him. However, the right wing likes Brownback (who reminds me of a televangelist), and he could emerge as the dark horse in the race in additon to Gingrich.
Posted by: Matt | December 2, 2005 10:07 AM | Report abuse
I agree with you about Gore being a wildcard. What I like about him is he talks ideas with heft and he's become a better communicator.
Posted by: Jeff | December 2, 2005 9:56 AM | Report abuse
I disagree about Kerry. I think that Chris has pegged him right on the button:
While Kerry seems to have found his footing on Iraq, it may be too little too late in the eyes of primary voters. But with an e-mail list numbering 3 million and the experience garnered from running a national campaign, Kerry merits a spot in the top 5.
I think he's doing just fine on the Iraq issue (finally), I'm just afraid he is a tough sale outside blue states. If he were to come out with a really strong policy agenda and someone like Obama to help him sell it, then ... maybe. I actually think he is a smart guy, so you've spoken to, or blogged with someone who considers Kerry a long shot.
Posted by: Jeff | December 2, 2005 9:53 AM | Report abuse
My take:
Allen and McCain are the only two serious possibilities with a chance right now. Frist's stock is on a steep decline, Romney is about to be forced out and will be another Pataki, and Giuliani still strikes me as a pipe dream. I think Rudy would back McCain if it comes down to it, and he would be in the running for VP no matter who wins (as would Rice, who definitely won't run). I forsee an Allen-McCain duel with Tancredo and possibly Gingrich as wildcards, along with a hard-religious right candidate who will win only a Bauer-esque number of delegates.
As for the Dems, Hillary is the elephant and will continue to be until Iowa and NH... if she decides to run. Edwards, Warner, Richardson, and Feingold are all bascially in campaign mode right now. Clark will likely duplicate his run in 04, if he's more seasoned as a campaigner, he'll do better. Kerry is cooked. Gore is the true wildcard here... don't count him out. The CW is that the race will boil down to Hillary vs. an anti-Hillary. I don't think this is necessarily true. Rumblings that Bill has been meeting with Warner have given some the idea HRC may actually sit 08 out, in which case the race will be as wide open as 04, if not moreso. It will be interesting to see how this all shakes out.
Posted by: thirdparty | December 2, 2005 9:51 AM | Report abuse
I'd have to agree with removing Kerry. I haven't talked to one person who takes him seriously. He was the ultimate ABB candidate.
I think there's strong argument to be made for Biden as a wildcard. Despite all his flaws, he can appeal to a wide swath of the party and he's got that twinkle in his eye.
Posted by: JamesfromJuno,Alaska | December 2, 2005 9:44 AM | Report abuse
Chris writes: "Allen continues to cement his status as one of the nominal frontrunners."
Huh? No offense, Chris, but that sentence has so many caveats, I'm not even sure what it means.
Posted by: Mike 234 | December 2, 2005 9:38 AM | Report abuse
I think it makes sense to add Gov. Huckabee of Arkansas to your Republican list, probably replacing Romney.
On the Democratic side, I really can't see any way Kerry would be nominated again. It is time for a fresh face, maybe Richardson replaces him on the list?
Posted by: Glenn Gervasio | December 2, 2005 9:22 AM | Report abuse
Warner-Obama seems to me the strongest ticket. A nice combination of competence and vision, the New South and the heralding of a New America where the politics of racial division has been made totally disreputable. A crushing defeat of the Republicans would be indispensible in getting through this message to those like Rove who still traffic in the Lee Atwater style of politics.
Also, I would like it if whoever gets the nomination, to have a little more backbone about establishing a framework for progressive politics at the beginning of a new political era. The New Deal ended in the late 1960's. The Republican period of domination ended with Katrina (although there were indications prior to 9/11, that artificially extended it). The period ahead is ripe for the taking for the party that establishes a framework for politics where ordinary citizens at the local level can flesh out the details.
Broder had it right the other day about the feeling in the country about, "A Pox on Both Parties." Its time for Americans to stop grumbling and take charge of their own politics from the bottom-up (citizen participation at the community level) and inside-out (building on the strengths of ordinary citizens-- asset-based development).
Posted by: Jeff | December 2, 2005 9:09 AM | Report abuse
Ya keep leaving off Gov Richardson. I think Richardson has a better shot than Kerry, Edwards, and Bayh.
Posted by: Political Junkie | December 2, 2005 8:58 AM | Report abuse
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Mass Effect: Foundation 13 is the thirteenth and final issue of the 13-issue Mass Effect: Foundation comic series published by Dark Horse Comics.
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- Publication Date: July 23, 2014[1]
- Tagline: This Aimless Dance[2]
- Writer: Mac Walters and Jeremy Barlow
- Artist: Tony Parker
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The explosive finale! Can Rasa outwit all of Cerberus and escape to live a life of freedom? Or will the Illusive Man tighten the noose around her neck?[1]
Story EditCommander Shepard's clone at the Lazarus Research Station in 2184, Rasa thinks back to her childhood in 2160. Raised to be a ruthless pickpocket by an abusive master then factoring in her experiences at Cerberus, she defiantly disavows any ownership over her by forces other than herself. Accompanied by a LOKI Mech, possession of the clone turns bloody when one of the staff recognizes her, forcing Rasa's hand and the deaths of all other agents present.
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From reports out of Utah, it sounds like two women swapped marital skills for martial arts. And many media swapped solid substance for juicy soundbites.
Here's an early report from The Guardian. Yep, the story even got attention in London.
Two armed "polygamist women" dressed like "ninjas" were subdued by a sword-wielding man during a home invasion, according to police in suburban Utah.
Police said the two women, aged 18 and 22, were attacking the home of a witness and victim in a criminal child sex assault case against a man the women called their "husband".
The women "violently attacked one of the adult males in the house who came to see who was coming," Ian Adams of the West Jordan police department told the Guardian.
"Another adult male joined the fray in defense of the first male victim. He was armed with a sword, and using a sword … and with the other male [was] able to subdue the two women until police arrived and took them into custody."
The account on the same day by the Salt Lake Tribune was more lucid:
The suspects and the home's occupants are all part of an extended family, he said. The women claim to both be married to an uncle of a child living at the home.
The uncle has been accused of sexually abusing that child and is in jail awaiting trial on the alleged offense, according to police.
Five days later, the two women were charged, and outlets like The Deseret News and Fox 13 divulged their names. One of those was as colorful as the rest of the case: Raven Blackwing, aka Madeline Baker, aka Raven Baker. (The other suspect's name, Tylynn Southwick, wasn't as memorable.)
As ABC 4 and other media reported, the women were accused of going after a woman in the house who was to testify against their man, Kain Blackwing, the defendant in the child abuse case.
Problems? Oh, you know, if you're even reading GetReligion: lack of religious input. Here we have an accusation of violent crime involving alleged polygamy, in a state dominated by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints -- which, of course, still gets occasional accusations of favoring plural marriage. And no one in the church gets to distance it from the sordid story.
The Guardian story does say that the LDS church banned polygamy in the 1890s. But with all the tiny but newsmaking breakaway groups in Utah that do smile on the practice -- and with that cable "reality" show Sister Wives, mentioned in the article -- a live quote from a church official would have been an asset. And from my experience, the Mormons are especially eager to set that record straight.
For most outlets, the whole case was just too juicy to dig for insight. Some, like Raw Story and the New York Daily News, even ran stock photos of a woman in ninja garb, although the latter took care to say she wasn't one of the defendants.
Before we exit, though, here's a minor point forThe Guardian, which did some of its own reporting. Someone there, for instance, interviewed Ian Adams of the West Jordan police force, rather than merely pasting together other accounts, as did The Daily Mail and The Independent.
Ian Adams, the police spokesman, had it right: "I have a feeling that as this investigation progresses we'll have more details. It's still kind of fresh." And you can bet that The Guardian -- and a host of tabloid newspapers -- will be back for more.
But indepth reporting on how this is different from mainstream Mormon beliefs? On that, I wouldn't bet.


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Hello everyone, seems like ages since i made a kit lol. Started this one yesterday, its to go with Ismael Racs Rock Revolution 3 tube. Im happy with how this turned out lol. Not all is shown & drop shadows are for previews only.
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Time for another Blog Train!
This ones entitled Emerald Sky.
This kit is Tagger Size and is in PNG format so it can be used in Paint Shop Pro and Phototshop.
All Stops are posted below!
Now remember some may have theres up already and some may not because of the different time zones.:)
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Check out all the current art competitions you can enter right now and learn how to submit your work for a chance for cash prizes, publicity, and more!Back to Main Page
First Place
Aaron Morgan Brown
Incident in a Waiting Room (oil, 48×72)
As if capturing a moment frozen in time, Aaron Morgan Brown teases us with an improbable scenario in Incident in a Waiting Room. Going for a seamless blend of fantasy and reality, Brown created this painting as an indulgence. "I asked myself what I would paint if I allowed myself to delve thoroughly into a flight of fancy, without any regard to logic, degree of complexity or attempt to please anyone but myself," he recalls. "This was the result."
Although Brown conveys a sense of reality with a traditional setting, believable rendering of light, and fine brushwork, the colorful assemblage of characters and their mix of tragicomic poses soon make us decide otherwise. What's presented, in fact, is an altered reality where elements of verisimilitude and absurdity coexist. "A lot of it is just playing different elements off each other. In purely compositional terms, that designed equilibrium translates into a pictorial psychology in which figures or objects acquire a certain power because they're isolated," Brown explains. "Essentially, the image resembles a high-wire act, delivering unresolved drama with passages of humor. Yet the real subject is a dreamlike state fraught with a bit of tension."
Using Photoshop to position the figures, Brown created a rough draft of his design. Taking an "open-ended" approach to painting, he made changes on the canvas as he progressed, such as significantly adjusting colors and contrast to evoke a more emotional response to this unforgettable picture. Brown's "cast of actors," assembled from various photographic references, includes a woman in a shawl holding a baby—an homage to the timeless Madonna and Child, as well as a nod to Renaissance masters. These two, along with the other figures in the scene, are viewed and introduced by the viewers' stand-in, the girl in the foreground.
Second Place
Elaine Daily-Birnbaum
Telegraph Hill (mixed watermedia, 22×22)
Balancing taut lines and teal blue shapes, Elaine Daily-Birnbaum quietly energizes linear space in this spare composition. In accord with her usual practice, she developed Telegraph Hill intuitively, beginning without a plan on blank paper. "Sometimes I'll set up a specific challenge to explore," she says, "but I usually start by just pushing paint around until I'm sparked with an idea. Often, the concept pertains to a place I'm familiar with." For this image, early gestural marks recalled a street in the San Francisco Bay Area where the artist once lived. Using simple shapes and lines, she suggested, rather than defined, her subject: A house, cables and a street light are possible allusions. "No single element reveals my concept, but it comes through in the overall sense of the piece. I feel I have to keep working until I discover that concept," she says.
To generate a variety of effects, Daily-Birnbaum employs mixed watermedia, freely combining watercolors, liquid acrylics, ink and watercolor crayons on hot-pressed watercolor paper. "To me, all the media are just pigment," she says. "I like to create texture and to use especially linework to energize the surface by connecting shapes." Her process initially unfolds with a series of thin washes, frequently done in warm tones to achieve a background glow. By partially lifting freshly painted layers with a paper towel, she adds surface depth. As she progresses further into the piece, she focuses on breaking up space, including formulating large areas of negative space, until something triggers an idea. Her final step is to enhance her vision by delineating additional marks and colors.
A self-taught artist, Daily-Birnbaum is inspired by the work of Nathan Oliveira and Richard Diebenkorn. Because abstract painting lacks a strong narrative, she feels it offers a more intimate experience. "The abstract artist only tells part of the story; the rest is what you, the viewer, bring to it. It's like looking into the artist's soul."
Third Place
H.C. Dodd
Aim High (watercolor, 30×22)
Abstract watercolorist H.C. Dodd arrived late to fine art: The artist was 67 when she began painting in earnest 16 years ago. A signature member of the American Watercolor Society, whose paintings have won more than 200 awards, she says of her career, "I wanted to see how far I could go as an artist, and I've been racing the clock ever since." Her latest success, appropriately titled Aim High, perfectly sums up her can-do philosophy and outstanding path.
Dodd's compositions always originate from the construction of a collage, which serves as a model for the painting to come. "The colors I choose are mostly my favorites. The forms aren't anything in particular; they're simply shapes. The design is entirely intuitive; I rearrange bits of paper until I like the arrangement and then transfer the design to my watercolor sheet," she says. When she's ready to paint, the artist starts by laying in her largest mass, frequently a black area. "To get a velvety dark, I paint several washes with a dark mixture—either black and brown, black and dark blue, or black and purple. When the area is almost covered, I then smooth it out by stippling the entire section with the same mixture," she says. Her dramatic and often complex designs usually incorporate a full range of values. Dodd most enjoys the final stage of a painting in which she determines what details to add in order to unify and complete the picture. A juror in last year's competition, she avers, "Competitions help you keep score and measure your growth. If you don't try, you've already voted yourself a rejection."
Honorable Mention
Donna Watson
Nesting (acrylic, collage and metal, 16×16)
Texture plays a significant role in Donna Watson's mixed media pieces, which start with collaged papers and layers of paint. "I incorporate a lot of scratching, lifting and rubbing into my surface to create ample visual interest," she says. Nesting began with the artist's own digitally photographed image of a bird's nest. Selecting her remaining collage elements, including the Asian characters, she determined their placement, paying close attention to balance and unity within her square format. "At some point, the papers become just shapes, textures and colors. Then I paint." Working on primed wood toned with black acrylic paint, she began to layer neutral colors, allowing portions of the underlayers to show through. The brass metal hinges, at the far edges of her piece, were glued on last. Nesting is from Watson's nature-based Passage of Time series, which "speaks to the effects of time on things we see around us and the cycle of life," she says. "Although objects get weathered and worn, life continually renews itself."
Honorable Mention
Daniel Mather
Moments (acrylic, 30×80)
The theory that any painting is, in some aspect, a self-portrait applies to Daniel Mather's work. He admits, "I tend to paint wherever I am mentally and emotionally. Moments emerged at a time when my entire life was changing and reassembling into a new and different picture." In this piece the artist has created a metaphor for our lives, which we may experience as unraveling while, in fact, a higher order prevails. In the first phase of the painting, he employed a house painter's brush to lay down broad areas, followed by a luminous glazing technique with a smaller brush, to portray the shadowy world of the Everyman. "There are drips and splatters throughout; the overall effect is rough because Everyman is having a rough day," says Mather. In the second phase, he used gesso to white-out the upper-left corner before painting in the crisp puzzle pieces in a more traditional manner. "The flat, broad color in the puzzle section signifies the underlying order in life," he explains. "Ultimately, everything fits together and has meaning."
Honorable Mention
Barbara Rachko
Sometimes He Still Tried to Restrain Her (pastel, 58×38)
Portraying her Mexican dolls and figurines in carnival-like fashion, Barbara Rachko explores aberrant psychological states in her Domestic Threats series, which includes the winning Sometimes He Still Tried to Restrain Her. Each painting begins with a photograph of her setup, and then progresses into a seemingly primitive, but actually hyperreal, interpretation. "I animate the figures and surrounding elements to push the theme to its most dramatic effect," she says. Rachko always works in soft pastels, applied in multiple layers (up to 30) onto sanded paper. Apart from carefully blending the pastel with her fingers, her method is completely unrestricted. She goes from dark to light or light to dark, continuously adjusting shapes and color combinations. Her labor-intensive approach yields one finished, large-scale painting in 3–5 months. While Rachko's bizarre mélange of characters is unsettling, she sees them as credible surrogates for conflicting and suppressed human emotions. "They perform for me like a repertory company, assuming different roles in different paintings."
Christine Proskow is an artist and freelance writer living in Thousand Oaks, California.
Jennifer Annesley
Edmonton AB
Sally Bookman
Aptos CA
Jackie Braden
Villa Hills KY
Aaron Morgan Brown
Emporia KS
Bruno Capolongo
Grimsby ON
Sally Cooper
Parkland FL
Rita Crooks
Causau WI
Deborah Crossman
Bethel CT
Leonard Daniels
Caledonia MI
Thomasin Dewhurst
Livermore CA
Toni Elkins
Columbia SC
Bernard Gerzevske
Rochester MN
Helen Gotlib
Ann Arbor MI
Sol Halabi
Cordoba, Argentina
Barbara Haselton
Carmichael CA
Jutta Kaiser
Vancouver BC
Phil Kauffman
Bedford MA
Cliff Kearns
London ON
Anna Solcaniova King
Woodland WA
Ara Leites
Santa Cruz CA
Daniel Mather
New York NY
Stacey McAdams
Anderson SC
Mary Pichette
Carson CA
Maile Pickett
Dixon NM
Ann Piper
Emporia KS
David Rankin
Royersford PA
Bonnie E. Rodgers
Papillion NE
Joan Rosenblum
Ann Arbor MI
Koo Schadler
Alstead NH
An Shin-Young
West New York NJ
Stephen Scott Smith
Portland OR
Beverly Soasey
Eugene OR
Dee Solin
Vero Beach FL
Barbara Spence
Gerringong, Australia
Carol Staub
Somerset NJ
Sheary Clough Suiter
Anchorage AK
Ryoko Tajiri
San Francisco CA
Ted Wen
San Francisco CA
H. Dean Willis
W. Dundee IL


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As of this morning we have launched the follow on Windows 8 Camps for developers around London and Birmingham. The camps primarily targets those that have attended the Windows 8 for Application Developers events and wish to further explore and learn about Windows 8 development in an hands-on environment.
Again, our Windows 8 Champs will be delivering hands-on lab materials to get developers up to speed with app development.
Registration details for Manchester and Edinburgh will be made available later this month. You can see all of these events on the UK Tech.Days home page.
London, Wednesday 9th May 2012 – Register here
London, Thursday 10th May 2012 – Register here
London, Thursday 17th May 2012 – Register here
Birmingham, Monday 21st May 2012 – Register here
Manchester, Wednesday 23 May 2012 – Coming Soon
Edinburgh, Friday 25th May 2012 – Coming Soon
Don't forget about Edinburgh!
If you wish to attend the Windows 8 for App Developers in Scotland, we still have spaces available. This 1 day event which are delivered by our Windows 8 Champs with the goal of providing accelerated learning to Windows 8 application development. You can see all of these events on the UK Tech.Days home page.
Edinburgh, Tuesday, 1st May 2012 – Register (Spaces still available)


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Featured Member of the Month – Farm Bureau Financial Services
Our Featured Member for August is Farm Bureau Financial Services, who has been serving our community for over 50 years.
The parent company, Mountain West Farm Bureau, is a multi-line insurance company, serving the needs of individuals, families, and businesses throughout Wyoming and Montana. Its mission is to provide financial peace of mind for their customers, with competitive, quality products and services.
The Sheridan business comes from the long-standing heritage of their parent company. Mountain West Farm Bureau began in 1946, when the Wyoming Farm Bureau organized an insurance committee to consider establishing an automobile casualty insurance service for Farm Bureau members.
In 1948, the Wyoming Insurance Department issued charters to the "Agricultural Insurance Company of Wyoming" and "Agricultural Indemnity Company of Wyoming," and the two companies officially opened for business. The business made its first home in Laramie, with a small group of employees in a three-bedroom upstairs apartment processing 1,500 charter insurance policies.
Mountain West Farm Bureau has come a long way since that opening day. For over 60 years, they've provided communities in Montana and Wyoming with quality service. Through a partnership with Farm Bureau Financial Services (in Des Moines), the agents also help clients with their financial needs in life insurance, retirement planning, long-term care, disability insurance, estate planning, and business success planning.
Mountain West Farm Bureau is the largest domestic property and casualty insurance company in Wyoming, and the primary writer of agricultural properties in both Wyoming and Montana. It's a mutual insurance company – an insurance company that has no shareholders but instead is owned entirely by its policyholders. See www.mwfbi.com for more information about Mountain West Farm Bureau.
Farm Bureau Financial Services is located at 52 E. Brundage St. here in Sheridan, 674-7600. Putting faces and names to the business: (pictured here, left to right) Erin DeFries, agent; JoAnn Tardif, office manager; Bob DeFries, agent; and Mark Demple, agent. They're here to serve you – home insurance, auto insurance, farm & ranch coverage, life insurance, annuities and investments, and retirement planning. Stop in and see these friendly folks today!
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text: "Just like two people rowing a boat, if the United States first throws the strokes into chaos, then so must we." Luo said Beijing could "attack by oblique means and stealthy feints" to make its point in Washington. "For example, we could sanction them using economic means, such as dumping some U.S. government bonds," Luo said. http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6183KG20100209 But of course Americans to stupid to realize that sending our entire industries to china is not a good idea. China is much Smarter than the Soviet Union, China is playing the Boil The frog in water game. The Soviets were to dumb and just tried to toe to toe cold war game instead.


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As you guys know, I love M/M Romance. And today I'm interviewing one of the best M/M authors out there: JL Merrow. We have reviewed some of her books on the blog and she never fails to impress us. Help us give her a warm welcome and stick around because at the end of the interview there's a giveaway.
Finding love can be a bumpy ride.
His job: downsized out of existence. His marriage: dead in the water. It doesn't take a lot of arm twisting for Tim Knight to agree to get out of London and take over his injured brother's mountain bike shop for a while. A few weeks in Southampton is a welcome break from the wreck his life has become, even though he feels like a fish out of water in this brave new world of outdoor sports and unfamiliar technical jargon.
The young man who falls—literally—through the door of the shop brings everything into sharp, unexpected focus. Tim barely accepts he's even in the closet until his attraction to Matt Berridge pulls him close enough to touch the doorknob.
There's only one problem with the loveable klutz: his bullying boyfriend. Tim is convinced Steve is the cause of the bruises that Matt blows off as part of his risky sport. But rising to the defense of the man he's beginning to love means coming to terms with who he is—in public—in a battle not even his black belt prepared him to fight. Until now.
Product Warnings: Contains an out-and-proud klutz, a closeted, karate-loving accountant—and a cat who thinks it's all about him. Watch for a cameo appearance from the Pricks and Pragmatism lovers. May inspire yearnings for fresh air, exercise, and a fit, tanned bike mechanic of your very own.


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All God's Children is a ballet based on a poem by Sojourner Truth.
If God created all people, then He created every shade of skin color, which leaves little room for prejudice. The ballet approaches the issue of racial tension and diversity from a fresh perspective. We are observers of another time, another world and watch the development from primal Man to full-fledged culture. By reframing the issue in another world and starting from scratch, we can see ourselves more clearly. Whimsical, satirical and compellingly fresh, the ballet shows the development of culture and the beauty of what makes us distinct, without forgetting what binds us together.
Premiere: October, 2017
Choreography: Julianna Slager
Costumes: Lorianne Barclay


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Natasha Barrett joins city of Baytown
abc 13 KTRK weekend anchor Natasha Barrett has apparently left abc13 KTRK
Multiple sources have told mikemcguff.com that abc 13 KTRK weekend anchor Natasha Barrett, has left the Disney ABC Television Group owned station.
Barrett's bio has been removed from the channel 13 website, her social media profiles that had a mention of 13 in the name, have been renamed.
At the time of this post's writing, she has not posted a goodbye message on social media.
Barrett returned to her hometown of Houston to work at KTRK in 2014 after eight years at WJLA in Washington, DC. At the Sinclair Broadcast Group station, she hosted a daily show called Let's Talk Live. In addition to her own show, she contributed live reports to ABC 7 News at 5 and 6pm.
Before DC, Barrett worked at WVEC Norfolk, KCEN Waco and KZTV Corpus Christi.
She started in the TV news business with CNBC Europe and CBS News Washington in a behind the scenes capacity.
The award winning journalist is a graduate of American University in Washington, where she double-majored, earning a degree in Broadcast Journalism and Computer Information Systems.
You can post a goodbye message to Barrett here.
Kevin Quinn resigns from KTRK abc13
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Freedom of Creation: Downloading Clothes
Freedom of Creation (FOC) of Helsinki uses laser sintering to "create digitally generated consumer products. These products are more than stunning beauties. They are also models for localized manufacturing and distribution logistics where no stock, no assembly, minimal transportation and just-in-time production are future goals" -what we have been discussing at Absolut Downloads. They have designed a range of products from lighting to textiles; watch a video of the process here. Jiri Evenhuis came up with the idea of Rapid Manufactured textiles- "instead of producing textiles by the meter, then cutting and sewing them into final products, this concept has the ability to make needle and thread obsolete." ::FOC via ::PSFK and more at ::In An Absolut World Everything is Downloadable
Design: Jiri Evenhuis and Janne Kyttanen


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|Jean DRABBE
emeritus professor
University of Brussels
|Chantal GABRIEL-RANDOUR
mathematics teacher
Athénée Gatti de Gamond
maître de stage ULB
(Av , Ah) represents A
|The following figures represent a cone and a cylinder
Imagine a right circular cone mirror standing on the ground plane and an
eye point O directly above the tip of the the cone.
Let P be a point in the
ground plane. It is required to construct au point P' in the ground
plane so that reflected in the mirror - seen from O - it appears
to be P.
In other words, P' satisfies the following condition :
Let OP intersect the cone at U. A ray from P' striking the cone at U is being reflected along UO.
Let p be the plane through the cone's axis parallel to the vertical
In case P is in p, the problem is trivial. We are
going to make use of this special case to solve the general problem.
Rotate the ground plane around the (vertical) axis of the cone till P coincides with some point Q in p and solve the problem for Q. This gives R. Apply the inverse rotation to R to find P'.
| In 1973 Michel Parré constructs a device drawing mechanically conical anamorphoses
to be seen from infinity. The tool is based on the pantograph of Scheiner (1605) made to
construct dilatations.
We show a reproduction of the device by Jean-Jacques Gabriel.
|The secret of Parré's device lies in some simple mathematics.
Let C be the center of the cone's base circle. R marks the point where the line from C to P cuts the circle. When the eye point is at infinity, the ration PR / RP' does not depend on P. Its value only depends on the cone in use.
| Conical anamorphose of a dog
(to be seen for infinity)
An eye point O and a cylindrical mirror standing on the horizontal
(ground) plane are given.
Let p be the polar plane of O with respect to the cylinder (i.e. the plane determined by the lines of contact of the tangent planes through O) .
Because of the eye does not distinguish between points on the same visual ray, we assume that the light seen from O is coming from points in p.
So we need to solve the problem : Let P be a point in p and let C be the point where the segment OP cuts the cylinder. Determine the point P' in the ground plane so that the ray P'C reflects along CO.
We let Q be the point of intersection of OP and the ground plane. The laws of reflexion and some elementary geometry show that P'hCh and ChOh make the same angle with the tangent line at Ch to the circular base and that ChP'h = ChQh.
This solves the problem.
An anamorphose constructed by means of descriptive geometry