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A firm's-eye view of policy and fiscal reforms in Cameroon
AbstractAfter decades of heavy trade restrictions, fiscal distortions, and currency overvaluation, Cameroon implemented important commercial and fiscal policy reforms. Almost simultaneously, a major CFA devaluation cut the international price of Cameroon's currency in half. The authors examine the effects of these reforms on the incentive structure that manufacturing firms face. Did they create a coherent set of new signals? Was the net effect to stimulate the production of tradable goods? Was the dispersion of tax burdens lessened? They address each of these questions using a cost function decomposition applied to detailed firm-level panel data. They observe that Cameroon's reforms appear to have sent clear new signals to manufacturers, as the effective rate of protection fell by between 80 and 120 percentage points. Unlike trade liberalization, neither tax reforms nor the CFA devaluation had a major systemic effect on profit margins. But the CFA devaluation did twist relative prices dramatically in favor of exportable goods, so export-oriented firms exhibited rapid output growth.
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Amid mounting protests in Europe against the Gaza conflict, political and religious leaders in the region have sharply denounced anti-Semitism within their borders.
"Anti-Semitic rhetoric and hostility against Jews, attacks on people of Jewish belief and synagogues have no place in our societies," the foreign ministers of France, Germany, and Italy said in a statement Tuesday from Brussels.
Fears of escalating unrest are perhaps sharpest in France, home to Europe's largest populations of Jews and Muslims. Many have roots in North Africa, and violence in the Middle East resonates strongly here. Thousands defied a government ban against Paris-area protests over the weekend, staging pro-Palestinian rallies that degenerated into violence.
"The final perversion is the reversal of who is the real victim here: the commander of a military base whose drones kill innocent people halfway around the world, or those innocent people themselves who are the real ones in need of protection from the terror of U.S. drone attacks?"
Today leaders from the Southern Baptist Convention's Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission (ERLC) and the Southern Baptists of Texas Convention will join the Catholic Bishop of Brownsville in Texas to visit two facilities for migrant children. This is not the first time evangelical and Catholic leaders have worked together on this particular issue—the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops held a joint press call with the Evangelical Immigration Table earlier this year and then together met with members of Congress in March.
The Internal Revenue Service said it will monitor churches and other houses of worship for electioneering in a settlement reached with an atheist group.
The settlement was reached Friday in federal court in Madison, Wis., where the initial lawsuit was filed in 2012 by the Freedom from Religion Foundation, a Wisconsin-based atheist advocacy group that claims 20,000 members nationwide.
The suit alleged the IRS routinely ignored complaints by the FFRF and others about churches promoting political candidates, issues or proposed legislation. As part of their tax-exempt status, churches and other religious groups are prohibited from engaging in partisan political activity.
Colloquially known as the "Monkey Trial," the Tennessee v. John Scopes trial ended on July 21, 1925, but 89 years later, the American public is still debating on where it stands with religion and science education.
John Scopes, a public school teacher, was charged by the state for teaching evolution because one of its laws prohibited any public school curricula that contradicted creationism. The trial began on July 10, 1925, and Scopes pled not guilty. Along with other members of the community, Scopes had planned the curriculum as a publicity stunt.
Eighty-nine years ago today, Scopes was found guilty and sentenced to pay a $100 fine — an estimated $1,300, when adjusted for inflation.
One of the toughest political calculations in Washington is balancing competing claims of gay rights with the traditional prerogatives of religious freedom. After a number of setbacks on that front, President Obama may have finally found a small patch of middle ground with Monday's move to bar federal contractors from discriminating on the basis of sexual orientation.
Yet Monday's action also leaves in place a 2002 order signed by President George W. Bush that gives religious groups with federal contracts some leeway by allowing them to use religious beliefs as a criterion in making hiring and firing decisions; as a candidate in 2008 Obama pledged to overturn that exemption.
At the same time, Obama did not expand the exemption to explicitly allow religious groups that receive federal funds to use sexual orientation as grounds for hiring and firing, as some demanded.
Faith: dealing with the meaning of life, the matter of eternal salvation — the bedrock upon which we build our families and society. This is serious stuff. Irreverence, by definition, is a lack of respect for that which is serious. It would seem that finding faith in the irreverent is impossible, like searching for the sun in the dark of the night.
Irreverence permeates pop culture. From HBO shows filled with crude nudity and violence, to musicals such as The Book of Mormon (where explicit ratings are applied to almost every song), to late night comedies featuring popular hosts like Jon Stewart and Colbert, who play-act a persona speaking exclusively in snark.
The Church, by and large, keeps irreverence at arm's length. Sure, some pastors like to open sermons with a couple of clean jokes, but that's about the extent to which humor interacts with the Faithful. While I agree there's a social maturity required in expressing irreverence through appropriate channels, the Church is missing out on a deep authenticity of the human experience if we continue to fear irreverence instead of finding beauty in it.
Water was created by none of us—just like air and earth and fire. It was not made to be enslaved in a market price or bottled into a "good," yielding ownership and power. Water is a commons, a precious gift given by the creator. But today, water is becoming the subject of war.
Historians have a term we call the scapegoating concept of history. This is the idea that people tend to look for others to blame — scapegoats — for their condition. They then attack that group even if it had little or nothing to do with their situation.
Islam is currently on the list of things we are supposed to be afraid of. The threat is such that even the president himself is apparently some kind of secret Muslim in league with unsavory characters. We seem to have forgotten that the deadliest example of domestic terrorism in America before Sept. 11, 2001, came at the hands of Timothy McVeigh, who blew up the federal building in Oklahoma City. Despite McVeigh's claims to loving Jesus, no calls to ban Christianity or close churches sounded following his detestable act.
It began with the murder of an innocent 3-year-old boy who burned to death in his grandfather's car in a Mafia ambush in January. Pope Francis was so shaken by the death of Nicola "Coco" Campolongo that he spoke out against the ferocity of the crime and those behind it.
"They are not with God," Francis said during his visit to the nearby town of Sibari in the region of Calabria where the global crime syndicate 'Ndrangheta is based. "They are excommunicated!"
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Cummins claims eighth Poc Fada crown
Former Tipperary goalkeeper Brendan Cummins won his eighth Poc Fada title and Waterford's Patricia Jackman claimed her sixth at Annaverna Mountain in Louth today.
Former Tipperary goalkeeper Brendan Cummins won his eighth Poc Fada title and Waterford's Patricia Jackman claimed her sixth at Annaverna Mountain in Louth today.
Wexford and Laois played out a thrilling All-Ireland SFC round 2A qualifier at Wexford Park with the midlanders emerging as 0-18 to 0-17 winners.
Emerging Ireland claimed the Nations Cup in Romania after beating the host nation 31-10.
Results from today's matches as Galway, Cork, Laois and Wicklow emerged with wins.
Paul Marshall and Ian Keatley will start as half-backs for Emerging Ireland in their winner-takes-all encounter with Romania on Sunday.
Luke McGrath and Michael Kearney have been ruled out of Emerging Ireland's final game of the Nations Cup after suffering concussions.
Paddy Butler bagged two tries as the Emerging Ireland side secured a simple 51-3 win over Uruguay in the IRB Nations Cup.
Head coach Dan McFarland has made a number of changes to the Emerging Ireland side for their match against Uruguay in the IRB Nations Cup in Romania on Wednesday.
Emerging Ireland hammered Russia 66-0 in the Nations Cup in Bucharest, with the game lasting just 45 minutes before it was called off due to thunder and lightning.
The Emerging Ireland team and replacements has been named to play Russia in their opening game of the IRB Nations Cup.
Mike McCarthy had been ruled out of the Emerging Ireland squad for the IRB Nations Cup due to a calf injury.
A 26-man Emerging Ireland squad, including twenty uncapped players, has been named for the three-match IRB Nations Cup in Romania next month.
Connacht assistant coach Dan McFarland has been appointed as head coach of the Emerging Ireland squad that will travel to Romania for the IRB Nations Cup 2014 in June.
UEFA's new 'League of Nations' tournament will see some countries win qualifying places for the World Cup and European Championships.
Peter O'Mahony is the only serious injury concern to emerge from Ireland's disappointing 13-10 RBS 6 Nations defeat to England on Saturday.
C&S UCC Demons emerged the big winners of the weekend action as they bested rival title contenders Killester 77 to 72 in Dublin.
Shay Given has joined Middlesbrough on a one-month loan deal from Aston Villa.
A new generation of props is emerging and they will have a role to play when Leinster face Munster, writes Bernard Jackman.
Simon Cox is confident the Republic of Ireland can emerge from their World Cup double-header against Sweden and Austria with their hopes of qualification enhanced.
Champions Kilkenny are through to the quarter-finals of the All-Ireland senior hurling championship after an enthralling 1-22 to 2-16 win over Waterford at Semple Stadium.


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Tuesday, July 29, 2014
Saturday, July 26, 2014
Cassidy's Girl by David Goodis (Blackmask 1951)
Cassidy turned. He looked at Shealy. He said quietly, "What's wrong with you?"
Shealy did not reply. He was sending his eyes through Cassidy's eyes and trying to see the core of Cassidy's mind.
"All right," Cassidy said. "Let's hear the sad music."
The white-haired man folded his arms and gazed past Cassidy's shoulder and said, "Leave her alone, Jim."
"For what good reason?"
"She's helpless. She's a sick girl."
"I know that," Cassidy said. "That's why I won't leave her alone. That's why I'm staying with her." He hadn't meant to state his complete plans, but now, as though Shealy was challenging him, he met the challenge and said bluntly, "I won't be going back to Mildred. I'll never be with Mildred again. From now on you'll find me living with Doris."
Shealy moved toward the ladder and gazed up at the top shelf where the sweaters and working pants were stacked. His eyes were appraising and finally he seemed to be satisfied with the arrangement. But he went on looking up there at the merchandise as he said, "Why not take it further than that? If you're out to help all the poor creatures of the world, why don't you found a mission?"
"You go to hell," Cassidy said. He started toward the door.
"Wait, Jim."
"Wait nothing. I come in to say good morning and you give me the needles."
"You didn't come in to say good morning." Shealy was with him at the door and not allowing him to open it. "You come in because you want assurance. You want me to tell you that you're doing right."
"You? I need you to tell me?" Cassidy tried a sarcastic smile. All that showed was a scowl as he said, "What makes you so important?"
"The fact that I'm out of it," Shealy replied. "Entirely out of the show. Just a one-man audience, sitting in the balcony. That gives me a full view. I can see it from every angle."
Cassidy grimaced impatiently. "Quit the syrup, will you? Talk plain."
"All right, Jim. I'll make it as plain as I can. I'm just a worn-out rumhead, slowly rotting away. But there's one thing left alive in me, one thing working and holding me in line. That's my brains. It's my brains and only my brains telling you to keep away from Doris."
Here we go, Cassidy said to the wall. "Now it starts with the preaching."
"Me preach?" And Shealy laughed. "Not me, Jim. Anyone but me. I lost my sense of moral values a long time ago. The credo I hold today is based on simple arithmetic, nothing more. We can all survive and get along if we can just add one and one and get two."
"What's that got to do with me and Doris?"
"If you don't leave her alone," Shealy said, "she won't survive."
Wednesday, July 23, 2014
The Leader by Gillian Freeman (J. B. Lippincott Company 1965)
"Who's that? Jessop?"
"Yes. I'm at the house. It's happened."
"You mean Pearman?"
"You were quite right. He's played himself out. He's just taken an overdose. The ambulance is on its way."
"Why didn't you let him die?"
"What's the point? He's nothing. Nothing. Just pathetic. comic. Let them pump him out. Are you listening?"
"Well, we've got quite a salvaging job to do. I want you to handle the press. As soon as the ambulance men remove him, I'm going up to Birmingham. You can report to me there. All they need is the right leader."
The bell on the ambulance, growing louder, stopped outside the house. It was replaced by the urgent ringing of the doorbell. Jessop went to answer it.
Monday, July 14, 2014
Soul Circus by George P. Pelecanos (Little Brown 2003)
"Like Granville Oliver?" said Quinn. "That just a job to you, too?"
Only Janine knew the truth: that Strange had been responsible for the death of Granville Oliver's father, back in 1968. That Oliver had spared the lives of two killers at Strange's request, in exchange for Strange's help, less than a year ago.
Strange looked into his drink. "It's more complicated than that."
"You were making a living before you took Oliver's case. You didn't have to take it."
"I know you think it's wrong."
"Damn right I do. Piece of shit killed or had killed, what, a dozen people. He infected his community and he ruined the lives of all the young men he took on, and their families."
"Most likely he did."
"Then why shouldn't he die?"
"It's not him I'm working for. For me, it comes down to one thing: I don't believe any government should be putting its own citizens to death. Here in D.C. we voted against it, and the government's just gonna say, We don't give a good goddamn what you want, we're gonna execute this man anyway. And that's not right."
"Maybe it will make some kid who's thinking about getting into the life think twice."
"That's the argument. But in most civilized countries where they don't have the death penalty, they've got virtually no murders. 'Cause they've got the guns off the street, they've got little real poverty, and they got citizens who get involved in raising their own kids. The same people who are pro–death penalty are the ones want to protect the rights of gun manufacturers to export death into the inner cities. Hell, we got an attorney general sold on capital punishment and at the same time he's in the pocket of the NRA."
"Well, yeah, but he doesn't think people should dance, either."
"I'm serious, Terry, shit doesn't even make any sense. Look, an active death row doesn't deter crime; ain't nobody ever proved that. It's all about some politicians lookin' to be tough so they can get reelected the next time around. And that makes it bullshit to me. I'd do this for anyone who was facing that sentence."
"What about McVeigh?"
"You know what they do in prison to people who kill kids? McVeigh got off easy, man; that boy just went to sleep. They should've put him in with the general population for as long as he could live. Trust me, wouldn't have been long. But they did him to get the ball rolling on this wave of executions we got coming. Wasn't nobody gonna object, for real, to McVeigh's death. A week later, they put that cat Garza down, and nobody even blinked an eye. Now that the ice got broke, next thing, a line of black and brown men gonna go into that chamber in Terre Haute, and bet it, it'll barely make the news."
"Here we go."
"Look here, Terry. Out of the twenty men they got on federal death row right now, sixteen are black or Hispanic."
"Could be they did the crimes."
"And it could be they got substandard representation. Could be they found a death-qualified jury that's more likely to find guilt than the other kind. Could be the prosecutors used those Willie Horton images to convince the jury that what they had was another nigger needed to be permanently took off the street. And I'm not even gonna talk about where these men came from, the opportunities and guidance they didn't have when they were coming up. You gonna sit there and tell me that this isn't about class or race?"
Sunday, July 06, 2014
Saturday, July 05, 2014
Futility: A Novel by William Gerhardie (Melville House 1922)
When the train arrived at Omsk, the new regime of Kolchak had been established. The Admiral was distinctly pleased with the change; for he no longer believed in granting the Russian people a Constituent Assembly because he had grounds for thinking that the Russian people, if given this opportunity, would take advantage of it and elect a government other than that of Kolchak. And the Admiral was rather fond of little Kolchak, whose interpretation of democracy was that of denying the people the choice of government until such time as by some vague, mysterious, but anyhow protracted system of education he hoped their choice would fall upon his own administration. We lived in our train, a verst or thereabouts from the station — a thoroughly unwholesome place; and the Admiral diverted most of his time by throwing empty tobacco tins at the pigs that dwelt in the ditches around the train. 'You have no conception what a pig a pig really is,' he said, 'till you see an Omsk pig.'
'Splendid!' said Sir Hugo. 'Splendid!'
'There she goes again!' yelled the Admiral, and hit an old big sow with a Navy Cut tobacco tin.
'Splendid effort!' said Sir Hugo. 'Splendid effort!'
'I give dem h-h-hell!' roared General Bologoevski. 'Dam-rotten pigs!' But, as usual, his threat remained an empty one.
Saturday, June 28, 2014
Harpole and Foxberrow, General Publishers by J. L. Carr (The Quince Tree Press 1992)
My first job was teaching games and Eng. lit in a Hampshire school. The class knew by heart 'The Lady of Shalott' and could explain [to my satisfaction] what Robert Browning had in mind when he wrote 'Karshich, the picker-up of Lemming's crumbs onEpistle.' I awaited a first inspection of my labours with a quiet confidence.
The Headmaster picked up the book. 'Ah! he said, 'A book! Turn to page (i).' They turned to Page One.
'Ah, no' he said patiently, 'Not Page One. Page (i) And tell me who are Faber & Faber. Is he, they, one man or two men or perhaps Mrs & Mr Faber? Is he or they this book's author? And is a person who makes a book a bookmaker? What does I S B N mean and how should I say it? Is © a friend of the author? Is the book dedicated to him? Who are Butler & Tanner of Frome? What is a preface, an epigraph? This Foreword . . . need I read it? Can only William Shakespeare own a folio. Does a quire have a conductor? Can one catch a colophon by too heavy reading late at night? And spell it.'
He went on and on: my class's ignorance was utter. Finally, he pronounced sentence. 'You don't seem to know much about this book. And I haven't got as far as Page One . . .' My pupils looked reproachfully at me. Until that unnerving day I had supposed a book was a cosy arrangement between writer and reader.
And, of course, the brute was infuriatingly right. Books concerns printers, publishers, sales reps, booksellers, proof-readers, professors, illustraters, indexers, critics, text editors, literary editors, librarians, book-reviewers and bookbinders and book-keepers, translators, typographers, Oxfam fundraisers, whole university departments of soothsayers, manufacturers of thread and glue, auctioneers lumberjacks, starving mice, wolves howling at the doors of authors of first-novels, the Post Offices book-bashing machine minder, religious bonfire fuel suppliers and libel-lawyers.
And that this army is
camped upon billeted upon one man or one woman gnawing a pen is neither here nor there.
So, by and large, this is what this book is about. It tries to answer Mrs Widmerpool's sister's alarming enquiry at George Harpole's trial, 'What are books? Where do they come from?'
Her 'where do they go to?' is unnanswerable . . . except, quite often - to the head.
James Carr.
Sunday, June 22, 2014
Going to Sea in a Sieve by Danny Baker (Phoenix 2012)
Good though I was with our Olympian clientele, I confess the first time Marc Bolan came in I thought I was going to go off like a rocket and sit sizzling in the rafters. As already described, the shop was a small space and people just bounced straight in off the street to be presented in front of you like the next hopeful to be auditioned on our well-lit stage. When that someone is Marc Bolan and it's 1973, you have only a few seconds to think, 'Okay, okay. Got it. That's Marc Bolan. And this is me. He is looking right at me and in precisely two more footsteps' time he is going to talk to me. I, me, will be engaging with Marc Bolan. Don't be loopy. Don't do what you did with Michael Caine and shout, "Whoa, Michael Caine – top customer ahoy!" '
I didn't. I said, 'Ha! Marc Bolan! There's something!' I may have even loudly warned him to have a care as we employed several store detectives – always a favoured joke of mine to shout in a shop barely the size of most people's front rooms.
'Hi, darling, is John about?' he said in a bouncy Bolan-esque style, not unlike Marc Bolan.
John appeared immediately with a playfully caustic, 'Well. Hello, stranger. Where the fuck have you been? This is Danny. He's in love with you, so careful he doesn't leap on you or something.'
There was some truth in this. When first taken on and informed, 'They all come in here, so get over it,' I had asked, possibly breathlessly, whether Marc Bolan or David Bowie could be included in that number. Ian had answered, 'Bowie might do – did a bit before he tarted himself up – but Marc's in and out all the time. Call him Mary: he loves it.'
I was not going to call him Mary. As far as I know, nobody ever called Marc Bolan Mary, but I did come to know many of Elton's crowd by their feminine handles.
Marc and John disappeared into the small back area and gossiped over tea. I had to stay out and man the counter. I didn't mind that – in showbiz, pretending to be professional and cool is one of the most cool and professional bluffs you can master. However, by now, I was brooding over something.
How did John know everyone? Pushing the philosophy further, I wondered how, in fact, everyone seemed to know everyone. I had often watched This Is Your Life and asked myself the same question. In theatrical circles, everyone seemed to have known everyone else for ever. They were all mates. How did that happen? I can understand that you might cross paths with a couple of subsequent celebrities on the struggle upwards, but how was it possible that entire legions of the famous charged into the spotlight en masse and linking arms?
I didn't know anyone. Nobody in my family or army of friends knew anyone either. You'd have thought that we'd know at least someone, but no. I had never once been round a mate's house and when the phone rang somebody answered it and said, 'Joyce! Harry Secombe on the phone for ya.' It just didn't happen. And that's Harry Secombe! You can imagine the remoteness of a John Lennon or even Kiki Dee. Yes, I had pretended to be David Essex's brother, but it was precisely because nobody had a clue how an anomaly like that could exist and behave that I got away with such flapdoodle. And remember: not David Essex. His brother.
Now here I was. I knew Elton John. I'd made Long John Baldry a cup of tea. Run after Rod Stewart when he'd left his Access card in the machine (calling him a dozy git into the bargain), and now Marc Bolan – who Bernard Sibley and I had once imagined kidnapping and making him tell us all about the real meaning of Tyrannosaurus Rex lyrics – had just called me darling. He was sitting three feet behind me – behind me. When I'd paid to see him at the Lyceum Theatre I had battled and sweated for every inch that I could get closer to him onstage. Now he was less than a guitar case away and here I was, turning my back and doing a terrific impression of a man reading the NME. What on earth was going on?
After a short while Marc emerged past me again – I confess I took a whiff of what he smelled like as he inched by (Sweet Musk) – and began sorting out a few albums from the racks that he wanted to take with him. His browsing style indicated that in terms of having a finger on the pulse, he was no Elton John; he would hold up LP sleeves and shout, 'John – what's this? Any good?' To which John would reply either, 'Yeah, you'll like that,' or 'Oh, please! Fucking dreadful.' I was on the verge of also giving my opinion to Marc, but was sadly too busy not reading the paper.
Sneaking direct looks at him, I now noticed he was wearing The Greatest Shirt Ever Made. Between the open buttons of his full-length bottle-green coat, I could see it was of the palest peach silk and had Warhol-like prints in various bold colours of Chuck Berry doing the duck walk. This was a shirt that, if taken at the flood, might lead to greatness. As he came to the counter with an armload of covers I let him know. 'Mary,' I said (though instead of Mary I said 'Mr Bolan'), 'that is the greatest shirt I have ever seen on a person. Where's it from?'
'Oh, this? Um . . . I got it in New York. Funky, innit? You can't get it though, this is the only one.'
I gave a regretful response while inwardly quite giddy with the notion that Marc Bolan actually thought, had the piece not been unique, I might shoot over to the States and buy a couple. I began sorting out his purchases and bagging them up. Marc went off to talk with John.
When he returned, he had done the single most magnificent and starry thing I have ever known. He had taken the shirt off and was now handing it to me.
'There you go, babes. I don't wear things more than once, so knock yourself out . . . Listen, John, I'll call you, okay. Give Ian and Jake my love, talk soon.'
And with that he tripped out of the shop on his built-up Annello & Davide heels, his green coat now worn over a bare chest. I don't think I even said thank you. As far as I recall, I was too busy standing there open-mouthed and thunderstruck. John looked at me and laughed. 'She is something isn't she? That is a STAR. It's a great shirt, by the way.'
I just stood there, holding this saintly relic still warm from the Bolan body. I tried to respond to John but could only manage a noise like the death throes of a seagull.
It's fair to say that, whereas Marc professed to wear a thing only once, I could make no such claim. I didn't leave the shirt off for a fortnight. Everyone in the pubs of Bermondsey asked where did I get that shirt, and I would say, 'This shirt? Marc fucking Bolan gave it to me.' In return, I would ask where they got their shirt, and they would say a shop like Take 6 or Lord John, and then I would ask them to ask me once more where I got my shirt and when they did I would say, 'Marc fucking Bolan gave it to me' again.
So where is that shirt now? Why isn't it in the Rock'n'Roll Hall of Fame or currently on eBay for ONE MILLION pounds?
Because my mother washed it. In our banging, boiling Bendix washing machine. Probably along with some of my brother's rotten pants and last week's football socks. In short, she had taken a recklessly cavalier approach to the 'DRY-CLEAN ONLY' warning on the shirt label. I can hear her defence even now:
'Well, how was I to know? A shirt! Who the pissing hell dry-cleans a shirt? If it can't take a wash, what's the point in having it? Blimey, we'd go skint overnight if we had to dry-clean all the shirts in this house! Now buck your ideas up, because I'm busy.'
I was crushed, sickened by this act of wanton philistinism. But, as she further pointed out, 'If it was so bleedin' precious, what was it doing laying all over y'bedroom floor?' She rather had me there.
For the record, when I found it, it was in our airing cupboard, sans any silken lustre, with the remnants of Chuck's duck walk now barely discernible and suddenly of a size that might just about fit a ventriloquist's doll.
Whenever Marc came into the shop after this he would always say, 'How's the shirt, D? Still loving it?' And I would say, 'Had it on last night!' I lived in mortal fear he would one day ask for it back.
But, of course, real stars don't do that.
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Grange Hill Rules O.K? by Robert Leeson (Fontana Lions 1980)
Michael Doyle was at ease with the world, modestly proud of the success of his plans A, B and C. If only he could tell his dad. The old man would be proud of him. He sat in the dining-hall lingering over his rice pudding. His sidekicks had left already. He stayed on to think about his next move. Just how to close the trap he had placed around Jenkins. The thought gave him great pleasure.
Suddenly he realized he was not alone. Seated in a row across the table were the strangest assortment of people - Penny Lewis, Trisha Yates, Cathy Hargreaves - what next? - Tucker Jenkins, Benny Green, Alan Humphries. They watched him carefully as he raised his spoon.
'Enjoying your pudding, Michael?' asked Trisha.
He stared at her.
'Is it sweet enough?'
'Yes, thank you.'
'Are you sure?' She reached over to the table behind her and suddenly put a big bowl in front of him. Taking a spoon she quickly spread two big spoonfuls of brown crystals over his pudding.
'Hey, get off!' said Doyle.
'Eat it up, Michael. It's only brown sugar. I thought you had a sweet tooth.'
'How do I know it's brown sugar?'
'What else could it be?' asked Penny. 'Laxative powder mixed with brown sugar, perhaps?'
'No,' said Tucker. Couldn't be. I mean, who'd play a rotten trick like that?'
'That's right, Michael, dear,' said Trisha. 'Eat up your pud like a good little boy.'
'Tell you what,' said Cathy. 'Let's fetch Matron. She may be worried. This sudden loss of appetite.'
Doyle stood up, but Tucker leaned over and pushed him down.
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"The truth is, there aren't any grown-ups. Not one, in the whole wide world." -NG
To set the stage in order to, we hope, achieve some insight into the similarity between the inner lives of adults and children, we must first observe a brief glimpse of my outer life from the perspective of my children. Before we go to the pool, I take the laundry from the dryer and throw it on the living room floor. I shove the clothes from the washer into the dryer and fill the washer with another load. Then I fold the clothes on the living room floor and put them away. I sit down at my desk, quickly proof some introductory copy, and email it to Marie. I write a check, stick it in an envelope, and mutter thieves. I scan the room. I grab a book from the floor and put it on the shelf. I see the sunscreen on the table, grab it, and snag 3 towels from the closet.
You get the picture. I'm doing things, in order, the way you do things. And my children are watching me do things, waiting to go to the pool, not knowing what to do with themselves. The difference here is that I'm this big person and I'm doing various things, these bare minimum things that people do to stay alive and the children are watching, suffering from the illusion that I know what I'm doing. I say "suffering" because they're little people and, because they watch me doing things and think I know what I'm doing, it amplifies to them how they have no idea what they're doing and casts a spotlight on the fact that they're just standing there looking stupid. Seriously. Their eyes are glazed over and they're not standing right. They're not standing in a way that's poised to do something that looks informed by knowing what they're doing. They're not in the world in a proper way. They're just there, tossed into those bodies with the weird elbows, wondering unutterably about what might happen next and other fabulous things.
Though I can indeed fold laundry and write a check, the jig is up. I have no idea what I'm doing.
So much for outward appearances, which are never what they appear to be. The pool, for instance—you know how being at the pool appears. There are people in bathing suits and reclining plastic chairs, brightly colored towels lying about, music, it smells like sunscreen and chlorine, and then there's the pool itself—blue and cool—it's the thing around which, and inside of, all the activity called "being at the pool" occurs. But it isn't that at all. On either side of each moment at the pool—the immediate past and the immediate future—there are endless nights teeming with innumerable monsters and irrational equations that have no solutions. It's as if any given moment at the pool depends on the uncertain support of 3 or 4 rickety stilts that hold us all together just above the unknown muck of death and nothingness. It's scary shit. And it's the reason why all of us, adults and children alike, feel the way we do. No one's grown-up on the inside.
The kids and I, knowledgeable about the ways people tend to outwardly behave in and around pools, behave in accordance with these tendencies while, inwardly, we wander around aimlessly in complete and utter lostness. We don't know what to do. We're afraid that what we do will be wrong. The people at the pool won't like us. My daughter will be outcasted from her group of friends. My son will never kiss a girl. I will look away for 8 seconds and the kids will either drown or be abducted by a pedophile. I will be fired from my job, quickly run out of money, and starve in the desert, flesh picked slowly from my ribs by ornery vultures. All of these horrors, and more, will occur as a result of our original quandary of not knowing what to do. We don't understand the rules. The world is big and scary. It probably wants to kill us. This parade of worries is in their essential substance a parade of metaphors for those original monsters and irrational equations that surround us in the myths that are the past and future.
The refuge from this plunge into the muck of death and nothingness does not consist in the futile attempt to become grown-up or by definitively figuring out what to do. Rather, it can only be found in staying little and remaining a perpetual beginner, so much of a novice that you begin each moment anew with fresh eyes at the pool balanced on the uncertain support of 3 or 4 rickety stilts. This stealthy maneuver points the way to a radical shift from fear to dumbstruck awe.
At the pool, truly at the pool, there is no question whatsoever regarding what to do. You jump in! The water is perfect. My daughter plays and laughs with a host of happy friends. My son is making out with a nice girl named Amy Wabindato in the shade of a courteous palm. It's impossible, all this, but how immensely fabulous. What a strange and wonderful thing to be a man swimming underwater. And then to stretch out in the sun and traverse that inexplicable path from being wet to being dry, only to jump in again. I smile and talk to strangers. We discuss what a beautiful day it is, the age of our kids, and what we do (as if we knew). But behind our conversation, all conversations, there's a weird and constant thing that craves expression but stubbornly resists being said. How could we? How could we even begin to say? My daughter runs full throttle to the edge of the pool: CANNONBALL!
It's time to go when it's time to go and the kids follow my lead. I don't know what to make for dinner. I don't know what we'll do tonight. No one's grown-up on the inside. The kids falsely assume that the day will arrive when they feel the way they mistakenly take me for feeling: like the world is knowable and safe and there is no such thing as monsters. But the dark is deep and its supply of monsters is inexhaustible in just the same way that the present constantly erupts into world after world of fabulous and unutterable things.
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The politics of this issue in Washington is explained by the proportion of coal used to make electricity in each state. New York uses no more than 15%, while PA, Ohio, Nebraska and others are above 50%, even 75%. The more coal, the higher the cost of cap and trad to the consumers. And conversely. Therefore, New York reps like Scott Murphy can justify his support and so Nebraska Senator Nelson his opposition. Environmental politics, regrettably, is as local as anything Tip O'Neill ever talked about.
Cap and trade is the wrong way to go.
In a cap and trade system, you set a limit on the CO2, and let people bid for the dwindling resource (the emission permits).
This leads to an unpredictable price, which makes it difficult to plan for.
A carbon tax is a better way to reduce CO2. It's a lot easier to implement, if done at the source of the carbon, and if the increasing rates are posted a decade in advance allows for better planning to accomodate the change..
Voters are concerned because this bill will drive up energy costs and cause thousands (even millions by some estimates) to lose their jobs. Americans should continue to voice their opinion at http://tiny.cc/pxIgi.
I wonder if Romm is right, that if something like Waxman-Markey doesn't pass now, that it could take as long as health care before the subject comes up again on the Congressional agenda. I don't know the US Congress as well as he does.
But if a bill doesn't pass, the EPA will retain its recently confirmed by the Supreme Court power to do whatever it deems necessary about CO2. There are those who believe Waxman-Markey was allowed to get as far as it has only watered down as much as it was only because industry fears what the EPA would do more. This EPA power is removed if the present Waxman-Markey bill passes.
It is astonishing to see the US system floundering over the three big issues that face it these days - financial reregulation, health care, and climate, and what seems obvious is that reforms are needed, at minimum, in campaign finance law to reduce the power of special interests, and in the structure of power in Washington. The entire system, the famous "checks and balances" is failing to come to grips with crises that threaten the long term existence of the Great Republic.
Another 1,000 page bill filled with pork that turns over control of electricity to bureaucrats and Wall Street traders. Plus the ever popular Henry Waxman and Barbara Boxer are going to be on TV more. Only a few problems there.
This is a bit of a tangent but when you write "health care takes up all of his political capital"
Have political journalists ever been so utilitarian in their assessment of a President's potential to pass legislation?
When Thomas Jefferson dismissed federal judges did the press go "Old Tom won't be able to buy Louisiana now."
I think it gives a sense of foolish certainty common among the econometrics professors who think they can give precise figures to fields that are entirely nebulous.
The non-parisan World Resources Institute has some great materials about the myths and facts about the bill: http://www.wri.org/stories/2009/08/climate-change-legislation-myths-and-...
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A century and a half after the opening shots of the U.S. Civil War, nearly four in 10 Southerners say they still sympathize with the Confederacy.
That's according to a new CNN poll released on the 150th anniversary of the start of the Civil War, when Union soldiers raised a U.S. flag over Fort Sumter in South Carolina and the opening shots of the war rang out. The poll's results reveal that the war that divided the nation for four years still divides American public opinion today.
In the South, 38 percent of respondents said they sympathize with the Confederacy, which lost the bloody war. More than 600,000 American soldiers on both sides were killed. Overall, the number from all geographic areas who said they still side with the South is less than a quarter.
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Richard Freer heading to trial on Ponzi scheme charges
Updated On: Nov 25 2013 05:33:08 PM CST
A former bank manager accused of running a massive Ponzi scheme faces the music and his alleged victims in court.
And Monday, the people who said they were ripped off by Richard Freer found out their money is probably gone for good.
Freer waived his preliminary hearing, but his victims still had plenty of questions for the assistant district attorney, mainly, where did the money go, and what's next?
Close to 40 victims packed a courtroom at the Northampton County Courthouse in Easton. Inside, Freer, 67, waived his preliminary hearing on charges that he duped over 80 people out of $10 million.
"This gave them all an opportunity to come in," said William Blake, Northampton County assistant district attorney. "Perhaps their first opportunity to see Mr. Freer in court, since the last time that they would have been in touch and he was taking money from them."
Blake stayed for an hour after the hearing to answer questions.
"The biggest question: Where's the money?" added Blake. "That's what everybody wants to know."
"When I saw him today, I just didn't know what to think," said one victim. "He did this. He did this to all these people."
Investigators said the money is gone, mainly used for personal expenses and to keep the Ponzi scheme going.
Court records show Freer ran the scheme over a four-year period. Victims, including family members of Freer, lost thousands that they thought the former bank president was investing.
"I know a lot of them were still hoping that, at some point and time, they were going to hear about buried treasure or an off-shore account," said Blake. "And to finally be confronted with the fact that there's nothing there, you kind of feel that sense of people being deflated."
"I don't have a dime. I really don't," added a victim leaving the courthouse. "I'm going to probably lose my home, and I have to sell my automobile to pay for the repairs. So what does that tell you?"
Many of the victims declined to speak about the case. Many said they have contacted their attorney.
Blake said the investigation continues, and Freer is due back in court in January.
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well it's just that so many claim to be a god or goddess of some sort, with no way of proving it.
There is alot here on GLP, but also out in the real world, so many claiming to be something else than themselves.
it's just funny that if we have the fortune of having so many divine beings down here, and nothing really happens, everything is the same, there is no change, I wonder why.
this whole deity business seems more to be a sort of idol/celebrity phenomenon, getting a crowd and fame and not really doing anything different than any other person down here.
seems more humane than divine, no offence
this was not directed at you OP, more a general observation.
I'm not claiming to be a goddess or WOS or any of that. I said I am connected to her spirit...um if you read my first post i put it down in that one.
I have no proof so you are right in that sense Michael...I can only go by my heart. I have kept this inside for years. Not allowed for some reason to bring up till now. I knew then was not the right time. Now is the time to shine. To not be scared and speak from your heart. IsIs is special to me...what can I say to your post other than I am not in this for any type of fame. I think it would be horrible to have to live like they do... I am human living a divine experience through the ancient spirits. I am connected to them...they call...I listen.
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in such matters proof for outward mind it is impossible even for one's own, so much more impossible for another's.
but in terms of heart proof is different. it is woven through syncronicities and can be communicated to alike kindled hearts.
if you are connected to the spirit of the mother of the world in a counscious way and you are born in a female body this is great news indeed.
i am born in a male body this time but i have the blood of the rose inside.
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I am a female. Blood of the rose inside? Something about the rose triggers me. Always has...hmmm I have to look some things up in a few about that.
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The official wine production figures for the UK reveal that hectarage in production is now the highest ever recorded, showing a rise of over 60% in just 5 years.
Production data is collected after harvest by the Wine Standards Branch (Food Standards Agency) and submitted in spring the following year. Their figures show that 2011 production exceeded 3 million bottles (3.02m).
This production figure is down from 2010, which saw a record-breaking harvest. 2011 will be remembered as a challenging year for volume; however right across the country vineyards reported that the quality of the fruit was superb.
There is a continued rise in the number of vineyards and hectarage planted, with 419 vineyards from 404 recorded in 2010 and hectarage now 1,384 – a growth of 4.5% over the previous year.
Chardonnay, Pinot Noir, Pinot Meunier and Bacchus are showing an ongoing rise in planting, with Chardonnay showing the highest increase. This reflects the continued growth of the sparkling wine sector, particularly in Southern England.
As if proof of English wine's continued rise English Wine Producers (EWP) has relaunched its branding and logo, showing a newer, cleaner look. The design reflects the freshness of the English landscape, with crisp, elegant lines to represent a modern industry, with a nod to England through the splash of red of a rose.
The logo resembles a seal of quality, indicative of the fact that EWP members are the trail blazers of the industry – membership includes the largest and leading producers with the collective message of quality and consistency in their wines.
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The federal public service is mobilising against the latest emerging threat to its bureaucrats – cyber-bullying by the public.
The Public Service Commission warns the internet can be used not only to harass and intimidate public servants, but to open up "other avenues" of danger for Commonwealth officials or even their families.
The commission has sent an alert to managers in the 170,000-strong bureaucracy about the growing online menace and provided a self-help guide to managers whose staff are being threatened stalked or harassed online.
The commission's ethics manager Sarah Dinning has told departments in the circular that cyber-bullying of public servants needed to be taken seriously.
The alert advises victims to consider calling the police, taking out apprehended violence orders, or for public servants themselves to consider suing their tormentors.
Offenders could be prosecuted under federal laws covering the use of a "carriage service" to make death threats, intimidate or harass, or specific legislation about obstructing, threatening or causing harm to Commonwealth officials.
Previous reported cases of cyber-bullying in the public service have involved bureaucrats harassing one another or public figures, but the commission believes that the nation's public servants now face a clear-and present danger from external cyber-bullies.
The latest State of the Service report notes that about 1 per cent of the bureaucracy – or about 1700 officials – say they have been cyber-bullied with one third of the alleged victims nominating members of the public as the perpetrator.
"Cyber-bullying is an emerging issue for APS employees, associated with increasing use of social media and other online networking tools," the circular says.
"Mechanisms may… be available to agencies and employees under state criminal laws, including laws relating to stalking, or under other laws relating to protection or apprehended violence orders, privacy, and discrimination."
The commission had put together a "Working Group on Cyber-bullying of APS employees by clients" with nine agencies and departments and sought advice from Australian Federal Police and the Attorney General's Department.
The commission's acting Merit Protection Commissioner Karin Fisher told The Canberra Times she had not seen any cases of "extreme" threats and that the most common form of harassment was blogs set up to harass public servants.
"Dealing with members of the public and what might be viewed as hostile or unacceptable behaviour from members of the public is not a new issue," she said.
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"What this circular is about is a preventative measure to give agencies some assistance to help protect their employees if their interactions with members of the public online could be distressing for them or harmful."
The Canberra Times reported on Tuesday that the Commonwealth's biggest department, Human Services, was stepping up its efforts to protect its frontline workers in Centrelink, Medicare and the Child Support Agency from physical threats and attacks.
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