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Oct. 21 (Bloomberg) -- Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas President Richard Fisher said the central bank's plan to buy $400 billion of long-term bonds while selling the same amount of short-term debt is benefiting financiers and not aiding job creation.
The bond swap program, known as Operation Twist for its goal of bending the yield curve, has "so far been of greater benefit to traders and large monied interests than to job- creating businesses," Fisher said today in a speech in Dallas.
"I would submit that adding more liquidity, or making money still cheaper, is not the answer to our problems," Fisher said, renewing his criticism of Congress and the White House who "have conspired over time, however unwittingly, to drive fiscal policy into the ditch."
Fisher was one of three Fed policy makers to dissent from decisions in August and September to ease policy with unconventional tools. Central bankers last month discussed additional measures aimed at lowering borrowing costs, such as large-scale asset purchases and tying the Fed's near-zero interest rates to economic indicators such as inflation.
Directing his remarks to "Republicans and Democrats alike," Fisher, himself a former candidate for the U.S. Senate in Texas as a Democrat, said politicians "purchased their elections and re-elections with popular programs so poorly funded that they now threaten the economic well-being of our children and our children's children."
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"This is the opposite of honorable, and it must stop," Fisher said in the text of remarks to the Dallas Friday Group, an organization of people in business.
Yesterday, Fed Governor Daniel Tarullo, who's backed all of Chairman Ben S. Bernanke's policy decisions for almost three years, said the central bank should consider resuming large- scale purchases of mortgage bonds to boost economic growth and help combat a "crisis" in employment.
Speaking to reporters after the event, Fisher said that "at present I am not similarly inclined" to support further purchases of housing debt. "I would not expect in my view the Federal Open Market Committee has to do something at every meeting," he said. "Otherwise it gets out of control."
Chicago Fed President Charles Evans and Eric Rosengren of Boston have also urged the policy-setting Federal Open Market Committee to increase its record stimulus in an effort to spur the recovery and bring down an unemployment rate stuck near 9 percent or higher for 30 consecutive months.
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The Fed has "filled the tanks with the liquidity, or fuel, needed to create jobs," Fisher said. "But only the fiscal authorities -- the Congress and the executive branch -- can provide the tax, spending and regulatory incentives to induce the private sector to step on the accelerator and engage the transmission of job creation."
Fisher said that job creation, not inflation, is the most pressing concern for the United States. Measures of inflation, he said, are likely to "gravitate toward the 2 percent level."
If, instead, inflation continued to spread, Fisher said he "will be first out of the box to advocate the removal of the substantial monetary accommodation now in place."
The consumer-price index climbed 0.3 percent in September from the prior month, the Labor Department said Oct. 19 in Washington. Excluding volatile food and fuel costs, the so- called core rose 0.1 percent. That puts core inflation 2 percent higher than a year ago and total inflation 3.9 percent higher, the most since September 2008.
Fisher said the economy was "headed in the right direction slowly" and that if fiscal policy makers "get their act together" then "there is plenty of potential for confidence to be bolstered and propel the economy forward at an accelerating clip."
Fisher, 62, became president of the Dallas Fed in April 2005. During his tenure he has dissented from decisions of the FOMC seven times.
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A word used to describe someone, or something that is hilarious or silly without it having to be an insult.
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smart way of spelling stupid, used to highlight extreme stupidity, cluelessness, or ineptitude
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Common sense doesn't apply to Japan. Only mindless, spineless and uncoditional obedience towards: – someone elder – someone above Usually both at the same time. Thus we have some random retarded or a tiny set of retards – usually very old and completely lost in modern world – doing those nonsenses. At least in the rest of the world they are sometimes challenged for the sheer idioticy of their ideas. But in Japan ? …
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Lion has been available to the masses for over 2 months now, and the reception has been generally pretty favorable. Distribution of a commercial OS via a downloadable only option has never been tried before, and I think by all accounts, it has been very successful. Still, with any new release, there are those that don't find the grass greener in the new pasture. Lion brings a lot to the table to be pleased with, but it also brings a fair amount of change to the table as well.
Depending upon your level of interaction, that change might be as minor as Apple's decision to switch the default scrolling direction. Or, if you are a developer, it might be as complex as requiring you to have your application sandboxed by November 1st if you wish to continue selling it through the Mac App Store.
Apple has always been a company that isn't afraid to cut ties to the past in order to forge a path to where they believe the future is. In sports parlance, this is 'skating to where the puck is going to be'. In many cases, Apple is the entity driving the puck itself. From time to time, this has caused some consternation in the Mac community. Yet Apple forges ahead.
Most of the Mac OS X releases to date have been evolutionary. With Lion, Apple has taken the biggest leap yet. With the Mac App Store, LaunchPad, and Sandboxing, I think it is pretty clear where Apple is headed. I don't subscribe to the theory that Apple will 'merge' iOS and Mac OS X. That seems silly to me, as if Apple had felt on OS was sufficient for all devices, it wouldn't have created iOS from the underlying OS X technology in the first place.
I do, however, believe that Apple is moving to remake the Mac in the likeness of iOS. With Sandboxing, Launchpad, and the memory management changes that have appeared in Lion, they have already taken some great steps in that direction. I wouldn't be surprised to see future releases of Mac OS X (nee, now just OS X, which in of itself is perhaps quite telling) become more locked down like iOS.
Category: Apple
Apple has posted a FAQ on the MobileMe to iCloud transition. While this details much of what we already know, there are a few bits of surprising information.
The section that perked my ears up:
What happens to the other sync services I use for my Mac?
Syncing of Mac Dashboard widgets, keychains, Dock items, and System Preferences will not be part of iCloud, but will continue to be available for you to use until you move to iCloud. After you move to iCloud or after June 30, 2012, whichever comes first, those sync services will no longer be available. Other MobileMe services that are not transitioning to iCloud (iWeb publishing, Gallery, and iDisk) will continue to be available through June 30, 2012, even after you move to iCloud.
.Mac/MobileMe sync was the main reason I paid for MobileMe, and .Mac before it. In my opinion, it was about the only part of MobileMe that Apple got right, and now it is killing it? Apple shouldn't be killing this – it should be extending this Sync strategy to it's other devices.
If you've used Sync, you already know it's a life saver. If you own multiple Macs and buy new ones on a regular basis, MobileMe Sync allowed you to get that Mac setup to your liking in just a few minutes. MobileMe Sync allowed me to keep the settings for Coda & Transmit on all my Macs in sync. It allowed me to keep all of my Docks setup just the way I like. It made sure all my Macs had the same Widgets. It was one of Apple's best services. It is definitely the service that kept me ponying up for .Mac/MobileMe all those years.
And now Apple is killing it.
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Apple has revealed that Lion Server will cost $50, and like it's client sibling, be offered via the Mac App Store exclusively. The $50 price for Lion Server is in addition to the $30 price of Lion clent.
This is an amazing price reduction. Snow Leopard Server was priced at $499. Now, for $80, you can get Lion Server.
Bravo Apple, Bravo.
Category: Apple,Mac App Store
Apple has announced that OS X 10.7, aka "Lion" will be an exclusive to the Mac App Store, available in July for a price of $29.99.
The question then becomes, if you are on Mac OS X 10.5 (and an Intel machine, because Lion won't support PPC), how do you get Lion?
Well, unless Apple makes DVDs available for these users, your options are:
1. Buy a new Mac with Lion preloaded.
2. Upgrade to Snow Leopard, upgrade to 10.6.6, and install Lion via the Mac App Store.
#2 presents a lot of problems for people managing large OS X installations. However, given that Apple is now letting you tie a seemingly unlimited number of OS X installs to your Mac App Store account, all for $29, the trade off may be worth it financially.
Category: WWDC
This year, Apple has telegraphed the main topics for discussion at the WWDC keynote. iOS 5, Lion, and iCloud get top billing in today's keynote. Of course, the devil is in the details, and here's my list of questions for each of these technologies.
iOS 5: Notifications are most surely getting a revamp. I expect that a good bit of the main Springboard UI will be revamped as well, hopefully giving us something better than the icon view we've had now since 2007. Many are expecting iOS 5 to get over the air updates, which I think is a pretty good bet since iCloud is getting released at the same time.
The $64,000 question: Will 2011 be the year that iOS finally untethers from iTunes?
Lion: There's not much left that is secret about Lion, except for the release date and price. We know that distribution via the App Store is a given. I expect Apple will have to make DVDs available for users of Mac OS X 10.5 or earlier who wish to upgrade.
The $64,000 question: When will it be released and what will it cost? My guess – June 14th and $49 from the Mac App Store, $99 on DVD.
iCloud: What we know is that Apple has signed all the major labels to allow their content to be distributed via iCloud. So iCloud will definitely be one part music locker, another part streaming service for tracks that you own. What we don't know is whether iCloud will replace MobileMe. I expect that since MobileMe has been a complete and utter failure, that Apple will want to sweep away any mention of it and begin anew. So I expect all MobileMe services to become iCloud services, with the me.com domain serving as the main page of entry, along with iCloud.com.
The $64,000 question: Will iCloud be free? Will it come with all the perks that MobileMe features (email, syncing between Macs, storage space, document collaboration for iWork)?
About the only thing I miss about hosting my sites on a Linux webhost running Cpanel is the ability to auto update WordPress sites with one click. Granted, my experience with WordPress auto update is a mixed bag. When it works, it is all kinds of awesome. When it doesn't, it leaves your site inaccessible while you figure out exactly what went wrong and how to fix it.
Since I've moved my webhosting to my own colocated Mac mini, I've missed the ease of auto updating my WordPress sistes. Downloading the latest WordPress update is such a pain, especially when you have to update several sites each time an update is released. Thankfully, with a little command line code, you can perform this action quite quickly and easily.
First start by SSHing in to your Mac OS X Server. Once in, you will use the 'curl' command to download the latest version of WordPress. Thankfully, WordPress keeps it's latest version at the same URL regardless of version number, so once you make note of this URL, it shouldn't change.
curl -O http://wordpress.org.latest.zip
Once the download is complete, unzip the archive.
unzip latest.zip
Then change your directory to the wordpress folder.
cd wordpress
Now, the final piece is to copy the files in the WordPress folder to the location of your WordPress install. When you do this, make sure you use the '-pr' modifier for the copy command so the copy maintains permissions (-p) and is recursive (-r).
cp -pr * /Library/Webserver/Sites/your-website-name/.
That's it. You're done. One of the nice things about the *NIX copy command is that it won't obliterate directories on the destination if they aren't present in the source directory. So when you copy the wp-content to the new location, your themes and plugins are all left intact.
In our next tip, we'll show you how to combine all of these steps in to one script and further automate it.
Apple has posted a detailed list of questions and answers on the location data controversy that has been in the news of late.
For those who fully understood what was being collected and the details of it, there isn't much new to see. Of note:
7. When I turn off Location Services, why does my iPhone sometimes continue updating its Wi-Fi and cell tower data from Apple's crowd-sourced database?
It shouldn't. This is a bug, which we plan to fix shortly (see Software Update section below).
8. What other location data is Apple collecting from the iPhone besides crowd-sourced Wi-Fi hotspot and cell tower data?
Apple is now collecting anonymous traffic data to build a crowd-sourced traffic database with the goal of providing iPhone users an improved traffic service in the next couple of years.
So, Apple is gathering traffic data to build a database, which will ultimately power a service of some sort to provide traffic data. Couple this with Apple's purchases in the map and geolocation services, and you have data that suggests Apple going to replace Google as the maps provider for iOS with their own maps data. Additionally, the traffic data suggests that Apple could be building it's own turn by turn navigation system.
There's a healthy amount of turn by turn navigaiton apps on the App Store, so I'm not certain that Apple offering this is a good idea. Still, many Android buyers cite the free turn by turn, high quality navigation system that Android builds in for free as a reason for their purchase. Apple might see this as a defensive addition to block Android's appeal.
Category: Opinion
The WSJ has a story on Apple's cash reserves, which are now nearly $66 billion dollars, and puts forth the question:
what are your ideas for what Apple should do with its cash?
Apple has stated publicly that it is hoarding it's cash so that when the opportunity arises, it can afford to make a big purchase. There aren't many companies Apple couldn't buy right now with that cash pile, so let's look at a few possibilities.
An Adobe purchase would be a coup for Apple. Many of Adobe's products align with Apple's priorities. Adobe has some very smart people working for them, but lately it seems these smart people have been out muscled by the suits. An Apple purchase and injection of Apple culture could do a lot to restore Adobe to it's hey day of being a company that people actually champion, instead of actively lambast.
Steve Jobs sits on their board. They bought his other company, PIxar, a few years ago. They are a content juggernaut. They encompass ABC, ESPN, DisneyTV, and a couple of movie studios. They epitomize many of the same ideals that Apple does in customer experience. Could Apple be hoarding its money to purchase the house that Mickey built?
A Disney purchase would give Apple preferred access to a large amount of content from radio, TV, and movies. It would give Apple access to advertise in all 11 of Disney's theme parks and in front of the 120 million people who visit them each year.
That said, Disney is an entertainment company, and Apple is a technology company. The last time an entertainment company (Time Warner) merged with a technology company (AOL), the results weren't pretty.
Perenial 3rd place US cellphone carrier Sprint hasn't been having that great of a time lately. Purchasing Spring would enable Apple to really own the whole cellphone widget in the US. Of course, it would also create problems with the other US carriers, so I doubt this would ever happen.
Purchasing Samsung would give Apple ownership of the company that produces many of it's parts – LCDs, SSDs, CPUs and more. Samsung is also a competitor in the mobile phone market. So this acquisition would give Apple better access to it's component supplier, and kill a competitor in the mobile space.
So this acquisition doesn't net Apple much in the way of technology it can use. But it does vanquish a competitor in the desktop, mobile and online space. Plus, it gives Steve Jobs the ability to finally declare victory over his longtime rival. Of course, there's no chance that Apple would buy Microsoft, but that doesn't mean we can't fantasize about what would happen if they did.
Apple is a big company, but many of it's divisions are run like startups. I'm sure part of the hesitation in making a mammoth purchase is that it would fundamentally transform the way Apple would operate, and I'm betting Steve Jobs and the upper management team are reluctant to mess with their formula for success right now.
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3 rooms 75 m², 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1 toilet, wifi
Nice Port, 3 Rooms, East / West exposure of approximately 75 sqm balcony with stunning sea views, located on the 1st floor with elevator raised a luxury residence. Open sea view balcony room, equipped with sofa, flat screen TV, dining area. Kitchen equipped with dishwasher, fridge / freezer, oven, hob open balcony equipped with washing machine. Bathroom with shower, separate toilet. One bedroom with double bed 140 cm and one bedroom with two single beds. Satellite TV, Wifi. Parking possible on request and charges.
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Tara Trobaugh dries her daughter, Rowan, after bathing her at their home.
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Tara Trobaugh of Ringgold, Ga., was named 2013 American Young Mother of the Year Saturday night by American Mothers Inc. The awards dinner was held at the Waldorf Astoria hotel in New York City.


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|22 Dec 2011
System reserved partition deleted, Restore help
For some reason i have to change my partition table from MBR to GPT. So i made a backup of my c drive using Acronis. But when i tried to restore my Windows, I got a message BOOTMGR missing press cntrl+alt+del to restart. Then i came to know that ultimate edition has a hidden partition called system reserved. Is there any way to restore my windows with same programs and drivers. Something like reinstalling windows 7 x64 ultimate and replacing everything by backup except boot files? Help Please. Thanks in advance.
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|22 Dec 2011
Can you fill out your system specs so we know what type of hardware you have.
If you have a recovery partition or recovery disks, you should be able to restore to a factory state.
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|22 Dec 2011
My Laptop model is G570, processor is i5-2430, Graphics card is Intel HD3000, Ram is 4Gb DDR3.
As i mentioned i have repartitioned my hard drive, so cannot restore to factory settings. Made backup of c drive only on dvds
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|22 Dec 2011
I still don't know who made your computer.
You should be able to order a set of recovery disks from the manufacturer.
Or you may be able to download an ISO of Windows Ultimate, burn it to a disk, and reinstall using the Product Key on your PC.
Can you locate the Product Key?
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|22 Dec 2011
Laptop Model: IBM Lenovo G570
Why i have to do this: For installing MAC OSX86 (hobby project for non mac hardware), which needs partition table to be GPT.
Product key: Yes it is located at the bottom of laptop
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|22 Dec 2011
I am reasonably sure you can download an ISO from here:
Official Windows 7 SP1 ISO from Digital River « My Digital Life
And burn it to a disk and then reinstall, using your existing product key.
Be sure to get the exact same version you now have.
Get others to confirm this method will work before you start.
|My System Specs
|22 Dec 2011
I have just registered for this forum. I am impressed by the forum. Quick replies. I will try that method. Few things i want to clear, my laptop came with windows 7 home basic x64 installed and i used windows anytime upgrade to make it windows 7 ultimate x64. Which version now i need to download to make product key at bottom of laptop work. And by installing windows by this method how can i get all my drivers back
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|22 Dec 2011
Wait for others to respond in this thread to confirm my suggestions.
I'm not sure exactly how Anytime Upgrade works, so it may be possible you could download Basic and upgrade to Ultimate without any issues or paying again. Did you get a separate Product Key when you bought the Anytime Upgrade?
If you did, it may be best to download, burn, and install Basic and then use Anytime Upgrade again.
Wait for more comment.
The Windows disk that you download and burn should contain all necessary drivers.
You might want to go to the Lenovo website and download drivers for your model anyway. Put them on a CD or on a USB thumb drive. I'd especially want to get the Ethernet driver so you know you can establish an Internet connection.
When at Lenovo, be sure to choose the right OS--at this point that might be Basic or Ultimate, depending on which you install.
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|22 Dec 2011
Thanks ignatzatsonic. Now i just need for other comments. I am pretty sure this will work. Actually i was in the search of some shortcut so i used windows 7 recovery disk. But now i have to use proper method. :-)
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Porsche will unveil an exciting new variant of the Boxster at the Los Angeles Motor Show on December 02.
The new range-topping Boxster Spyder will also be the lightest sports car in the Porsche range – tipping the scales at 1,275kg; shaving more than 50kg off the weight of the entry Boxster model.
And no surprise, the Boxster Spyder is also the quickest roadster in the Porsche range with a 0-100 km/h time of 4.8 seconds when mated to the optional PDK transmission and Sports Chrono Package featuring Launch Control.
The Boxster Spyder is more than just a quicker roadster – it's also more powerful than the Boxster S, with power for the direct-injection 3.4-litre flat six-cylinder engine creeping up to 235 kW – seven kilowatts more than the Boxster S.
With optional PDK, fuel consumption is a mere 9.3L/100kms in the NEDC New European Driving Cycle. Top speed, in turn, is 267 km/h – with the roof open.
With significantly less weight, a low slung body, lower centre of gravity and an allnew sports suspension, the Boxster Spyder has the performance to match its stunning looks.
Porsche's designers and engineers have flourished in the creation of the Boxster Spyder, adopting the formula used with great success in Porsche's most successful road-going sports and racing cars, ranging from the legendary 550 Spyder all the way to the RS Spyder so successful in motorsport today.
The Boxster Spyder is designed primarily as an open-top car. The extra-low side windows and two striking bulges on the single-piece engine cover combine to create a silhouette reminiscent of the Carrera GT.
In terms of its fundamental concept, the entire Boxster family is the successor to the legendary 550 Spyder built back in 1953, both models sharing the same mid-engine roadster concept, low weight, back-to-the-roots lifestyle, and supreme agility combined with equally outstanding driving enjoyment.
The 550 Spyder was the first sports car from Stuttgart-Zuffenhausen developed specifically for racing but also homologated for the road. In the years following its production, this unique Spyder weighing only 550 kg, scored numerous victories on race circuits and in the road races so popular at the time.
The 550 Spyder was followed by other extremely successful Porsche Spyders such as the 718 RS 60 in 1960.
In 2004 and 2008 Porsche dedicated a limited edition of special Boxsters bearing the additional name Spyder to these legendary racing cars. By contrast, the new Boxster Spyder is a regular, specially developed and upgraded production model with farreaching modifications versus the Boxster and Boxster S.
The new Boxster Spyder will join the Porsche range in Australia in the second quarter of 2010. Pricing will be announced closer to the car's on-sale date.
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Dr. Santa Nandi specializes in gastroenterology, hepatology, internal medicine in Plainview, New York.
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23.10.2014 20:20 | One of the CSA ATR72s to fly in Indian OceanCSA Czech Airlines are going to wet lease one of their ATR72s to Air Mauritius. The contract is set for 11 weeks. Also the CSA Airbus 320 reg. OK-NES has been removed from the fleet and returns to AirAsia after a lease period. This plane has served in Prague from 14.06.2014, almost always on Travel Service routes.
22.10.2014 08:00 | SmartWings starting flights from Warsaw to Canary IslandsAnother possibility for flying to Canary Islands opens for Warsaw passengers in November. We have already informed about new Ryanair flights, and another newcomer to this market is Travel Service, flying winter charters for the Itaka travel agency. Some of the seats have now been booked for their low-cost SmartWings and the tickets can be bought by anyone. Fuerteventura flights are offered on Mondays and (since 18.12.2014) Thursdays, Las Palmas on Tuesdays, Lanzarote on Saturdays and Tenerife on Thursdays and (since 22.12.) Mondays. Another low-cost, Norwegian Air Shuttle opens Tuesday Warsaw-Las Palmas flights since 28.10. and Wednesday Warsaw-Tenerife since 29.10.
21.10.2014 20:22 | Etihad Regional to fly from Zurich to PragueThe Swiss Etihad Regional started to offer tickets for their flights F7 610/1 between Zurich and Prague. A Saab 2000 is scheduled to fly daily (Zurich13:55 - Prague 15:10/15:50 - Zurich 17:05) since 29.03.2015. Etihad Regional is a new trademark of Darwin Airline since January, when Etihad bought in. Darwin Airline used to serve Prague from Geneva (03.09.2012 - 26.10.2013), Zurich and Florence (both 01.04.2013 - 26.10.2013).
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YAZOO CITY, Miss. -The death toll from this weekend's severe weather is growing, as FEMA gears up to inspect the damage from the weekend's severe weather in Mississippi and three other southern states. At least 12 people are now dead from storms across the southern part of the United States.
Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour says the tornado that tore through 16 counties in his state on Saturday was "enormous."
FEMA will take a look at the damage from the weekend tornado and storms that lashed four southern states. Teams from the Federal Emergency Management Agency will concentrate on Mississippi, where 10 of the 12 fatalities happened. The inspection is the first step toward a possible presidential disaster declaration.
The National Weather Service says it had winds of 160 miles an hour, and left a path of destruction at least 50 miles long. Hundreds of homes were damaged in the four states: Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, and Alabama. Two storm-related deaths were also reported in Alabama. Survivors are spending another day cleaning up.


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Paul Hewson and David Evans are going to help the Fender brand find its way in the digital age, reports Michael J. de la Merced in The New York Times (5/29/14). If that doesn't quite have the ring of Jimmy Iovine and Dr. Dre joining Apple, it's probably because relatively few people know that Paul is U2's Bono and David is The Edge. Both men are slated to join Fender's board to help build the Fender brand, design new products, and tighten connections with its customers.
"I believe that guitars are here to stay and, far from digital technology being their death knell, I think it throws up some new ways to power creativity and give people greater access to the huge potential of the electric guitar," The Edge says, adding: "It was the combination of time-honored traditions of guitar production with some very fresh ideas about what the company can do going into the future that hooked me."
Speculation is that Fender could also get into "headphones and other sound systems," as well as "digital education … The company already makes a guitar that can plug into a computer; a natural next step could be online guitar education." The U2 alliance does not mean The Edge will give up his "array of Gibson and Gretsch guitars and Vox amps," however he says,"I'm excited about what new instruments and hardware I can help create with Fender."


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Cabin, 2 Bedrooms + Convertible bed(s), 1 Bath, (Sleeps 7)
Looking for somewhere to take a romantic out-of-the-way vacation or mini- vacation? This is the perfect place. The cabin has a beautiful view of water on three sides and mountains in the background. Wake up to a view of the lake from your bedroom. Enjoy the foliage, dogwoods, sunsets and Arkansas River. Relax on the decks beside the gas fire pit while watching the squirrels, ducks, birds, geese, deer, wild turkeys, pelicans and perhaps bald eagles or take a leisurely stroll around the shoreline or through the woods. A cozy fire in the wood burning fireplace is always inviting at the end of the day.
Bring your boat or jet ski for your water sports, fishing or duck hunting enjoyment on the 34,300 acres Lake Dardanelle. Park your boat in the private covered dock in front of the cabin. Convenient for Fishing Tournament participants. .
The National Forests are nearby with miles of trails, you might want to bring your ATV for trail rides and nature site-seeing.
Keywords: Secluded Lakeside Cabin, with private covered boat dock,. Great fishing, water sports or just relax or sight see
- Suitability:
- children welcome
- non smoking only
- pets considered
About Joye Byrd
We are retired and enjoy living at the lake. We are Arkansas Razorbacks fans and attend most events. We enjoy spending time on the water and in the woods. We are dog lovers. We have Brandy and Muzbee. We have always lived in Arkansas.
Joye Byrd purchased this cabin in 1983
Why Joye Byrd chose Dardanelle
This was our favorite fishing and water sports lake. Also, near the forests and ATV trail riding.
What makes this cabin unique
We moved to the lake when we retired and built a new house nearby and used the cabin for a guest house. We decided to list the cabin as a rental for the enjoyment of others. The decks have beautiful views and are very relaxing or build a fire in the fireplace and enjoy a glass of wine. We can also take a leisurely walk in the woods. This is a quite secluded area within an 1-1/2 hour of Little Rock, Ft. Smith, Hot Springs, Eureka Springs and many points of interest
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Showing her rangeSalt is a highly anticipated film, starring Angelina Jolie as a female Bourne. Lots of action, lots of acting by Jolie's lips.Who wouldn't want to see it?Well, possibly anyone who's gone to an Angelina Jolie in the past ten years.Among her films in the past decade:
Angelina Jolie's big picture -- is she in the "needs a hit" category yet? -- opens this month, and is generally being described as "a female Bourne" or terms like that.Which means plenty of frantic cutting, shaky camera work, pulsing music, CGI explosions and -- well, you know the list of ingredient ... More >>
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I imagine most of you are aware of the sad news by now, but just in case you hadn't heard, Spider-Man 4 isn't happening: A few days after script issues pushed it off the May 2011 calendar, Columbia Pictures and Marvel Studios announced today that Spider-Man 4 ain't gonna happen at all, and that ... More >>
I used to review movies (over here, if you care), an endeavor I had to quit for a variety of reasons: my hectic neurosurgery rotation, for one, as well as the increasing physical demands of the new Mrs. Vonder Haar, Carla Gugino. But among the non-imaginary factors influencing my decision was the ... More >>
Halloween is coming, and that means many, many costuming mistakes will be made by normally sane adults. To help stop this scourge, each Thursday we will be offering tips and analysis of what to avoid, or possibly what to do. It seems that every year Halloween becomes less and less about scaring othe ... More >>
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Ugh! The only interesting thing about the whole damn show was the realization that Goldie Hawn looks like Mickey Rourke. Stop with the work, lady! Seriously. God love Hugh Jackman, but this is not the Tonys. Could that Beyonce "Best of the Musicals" number been any more cheese ball? I have exp ... More >>
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There are two kinds of people in this world: Those who wear fake reindeer antlers during the Christmas season and those that don't. I am the former. What. You thought I would be the latter? Just because I love to make fun of crap? Honestly, what kind of pop culture writer would I be if I didn't ... More >>
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In her introduction to the morbidly entertaining Doomed Queens: Royal Women Who Met Bad Ends from Cleopatra to Princess Di, author Kris Waldherr asserts that there are still "doomed queens among us." "Whatever your opinion of [Hillary] Clinton or [assassinated Pakistani Benazir] Bhutto, ther ... More >>
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With its secret boys club and bloody good fun, this one has all of the fight with none of the guilt
In an effort to stay hip with the times (always the Vatican's primary objective, right?), the Catholic Church has decreed that there are seven new deadly sins (now, even deadlier!) that will accompany the old-fashioned original seven we've all come to know and love so well. The new ones inclu ... More >>
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FORT WORTH — Firefighters combed through the rubble of a house in the Morningside area where a man was found dead Friday afternoon as stunned friends and neighbors gathered outside.Relatives identified the man as Larry Davis, a Vietnam veteran who served in the Air Force. The fire was reported shortly before 5 p.m. in the 1200 block of East Baltimore Avenue, and several neighbors said they heard an explosion.Firefighters found a man in the house, and he was pronounced dead at the scene, said Battalion Chief Richard Harrison, a Fort Worth Fire Department spokesman. He had not been officially identified late Friday.Investigators had not determined what caused the fire, Harrison said.Donald Laury, who lives down the street, said he heard shouting and saw neighbors running. Initially, he thought a fight had broken out among kids. But as he got closer, he saw heavy black smoke rolling out of his friend's house.Neighbors tried to break windows and beat down the door, Laury said, but the smoke proved too thick to breathe or see anything."We tried," Laury said, shaking his head. "We really tried."Davis' daughter, Nakia Davis of Arlington, said her father had just returned home after spending a couple of days in jail for unpaid traffic tickets."He was so happy to be home," she said.Davis, who was in his 60s, enjoyed spending time with his four children and about 20 grandchildren, his daughter said. Every year on Veterans Day, Laury said, he and Davis ate at Golden Corral, which serves veterans free meals as part of a military appreciation dinner."He looked forward to that all year," Laury said. "He never missed it."It was the second fatal fire within 24 hours in Fort Worth and the third this week in Tarrant County.Late Thursday, a man was found unconscious shortly after 11 p.m. in a first-floor unit at Springbrook Apartments in the 6500 block of Normandy Road, east of East Loop 820 off Handley Drive.The man, identified as Darrell Chambers, 50, was taken to John Peter Smith Hospital and was pronounced dead at 12:12 a.m. Friday. The cause of death had not been determined late Friday, according to the Tarrant County medical examiner's website.The cause was accidental, possibly food left on a lighted stove, according to a Fire Department news release.On Monday, a 45-year-old man was killed in a fire at an east Arlington apartment complex.Michael Eaves died of smoke inhalation and "thermal injury," according to the Tarrant County medical examiner's website. He was found dead in a bathroom at Cimarron Crossing Apartments at 2014 Remington Drive, authorities reported.Four children and 12 adults were displaced, fire officials said.
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Even as Republican presidential candidates soldier on in their opposition to the auto industry bailout, new polling indicates that the American public has changed its attitude about the $80 billion spent to help both Chrysler and General Motors restructure. According to The New York Times, a poll conducted in February shows the gap between those who approve of the measures and those who remain opposed has shrunk, while a different, more recent poll shows a slim majority of Americans now support the bailout. In the midst of the 2008-2009 crisis, polls suggested that three out of four people were against government intervention.
The New York Times suggests the post-bailout success of the automakers is the most likely driver of the change in attitude, citing the return to profitability of both Chrysler and GM. That success has resulted in real job creation, with some 126,500 positions in the motor vehicle manufacturing industry added, according to the report. GM has promised to spend $2 billion on factory investments this year and next, including $385 million at its Romulus, MI, engine plant pictured above.
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Sunday, August 3, 2014
Query this
When a monarch formally -- but not functionally -- vacates his palace only to occupy -- perhaps along with his considerable staff -- the rooms formerly reserved for guests in, say, the guesthouse, who benefits? And why?
August 3, 2014 in Brennan, Patrick | Permalink
Wednesday, July 30, 2014
Sub ubi?
One of the results of MOJ's recent move to the Law Professor Blogs Network is that now a picture of men's underwear for sale often impinges on the retained (and beautiful) image of Our Lady Mirror of Justice. Perhaps this is the (unintended) application of the schoolboy's Latin pun "semper ubi sub ubi"?
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014
I was just reading about how the cause for the canonization of Pope John Paul I is advancing in Rome. This on the heels of the announced beatification of Pope Paul VI in October and the recent canonizations of Pope John XXIII and Pope John Paul II. Only Pope Francis and Pope Benedict XVI among the pontiffs to reign during or after the Second Vatican Council are not either declared saints or current candidates for sainthood. Meanwhile, Pope Francis has reminded us that the cause for Ven. Pope Pius XII, who lived and reigned before the aforementioned Council, is stalled, and it was only recently that the Vatican website actually acknowledged the fact that Pope Pius X, who also blessedly lived and reigned before the aforementioned Council, was declared by the Church to be a saint (in 1954). My understanding is that Sarto became a saint even while living in the Papal Apartment, the high cost of frugal living perhaps not appealing to the greatest Pope of the twentieth century.
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Friday, July 25, 2014
"What is traditional Christianity anyway?"
Perhaps my principal difficulty in contributing to this blog "dedicated to the development of Catholic legal theory" is the endless plasticity that now molests the denotation -- to say nothing of the connotation -- of the capital-C adjective "Catholic" in so many minds. Most, though by *no* means all, of the disputes among contributors to this blog can -- and *should* -- be traced to their origins in different understandings of what it means to think as a Catholic.
The Second Vatican Council changed no doctrine of the Faith, as it was exactly a "pastoral" Council. The oft-asserted spirit of "Vatican II," however, did, with the help of its enablers, introduce what Chris Ferrara has aptly termed "the regime of novelty" into the life of the Church (see Ferrara and Woods, The Great Facade: Vatican II and the Regime of Novelty in the Roman Catholic Church (2002)). Consider that, these days, the closing of countless parishes on account of the auto-demolition of the Church is couched in terms of "Making All Things New." Hah! Even Rex Mottram would see through the shams that have become the way of diocesan business in so much of the Church in the United States. Here in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia, the much-touted "new springtime" in the Church has resulted in a fire sale (to pick just one among countless possible examples: nursing homes sold ) that will spare precious little of what those who held the Faith built brick by brick in a spirit of sacrifice and appropriate Christian triumph of the Church Militant
The point is, nothing Catholic -- neither doctrine nor discipline -- prevents Catholics from faithfully holding and practicing the Faith as it was held and practiced before the Second Vatican Council. If that Council contributed prudential solutions to today's problems, that prudence has yet to be demonstrated, in my judgment. Rod Dreher asks with characteristic insight "what is traditional Christianity anyway?" The term "Traditional Catholicism" is a piece of pleonasm made necessary by the regime of novelty, but Catholicism will outlive the partisans of novelty, as Cardinal Newman taught us. The true Church is Christ-continued-in-the-world, and the faithful live by the promise made in Matthew 16:18 .
July 25, 2014 in Brennan, Patrick | Permalink
Wednesday, July 23, 2014
Genocide of Christians in Mosul -- and crickets
The Islamic terrorist group ISIS has recently rebranded itself (in Western fashion) as the Islamic State. We mustn't let this self-promotion lull us into any illusions of legitimacy, however. This terrorist organization has declared war on the Christians of Mosul. The Christians in Mosual must convert to Islam, pay vast fines, or be killed -- or, in one last indignity, be robbed (of their crucifixes) as they flee for their lives. The story is here
Pope Francis has repeatedly condemned this persecution, and the U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon has declared it a crime against humanity. What the terrorists known as the Islamic State are accomplishing in Mosul is without a doubt genocide within the meaning of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, which was signed in 1948 and took effect in 1951.
Yet where is the White House in all of this? Why has President Obama not condemned *this* genocide?
President Obama needn't start by calling it what it is, that is, genocide. He could start by, say, actually acting to enforce the International Religious Freedom Act of 1998. Yes, yes, I recognize that "religious freedom" doesn't do conceptual justice to genocide, but "religious freedom" doesn't itself do justice to the essence of true religion, yet nearly everyone in the West seems to be on board with "religious freedom," at least nominally. And so, when will that great champion of "religious freedom," the USCCB, bestir itself to condemn this epochal violation of religious freedom and perhaps even call the Catholics of the United States to prayer and penance in solidarity with their persecuted brothers and sisters in Christ?
The Syrian Catholic Archeparchy in Mosul was burned to the ground the other day as a part of the ongoing purge. What traces of ancient Christianity will be left in Iraq when U.S. (and other Western) foreign policy has run its course there? I think the terrorists there know the answer, which no doubt emboldens them still further.
July 23, 2014 in Brennan, Patrick | Permalink
Thursday, July 17, 2014
"The inferiority of a Jesuit education"
Would any educated person today care whether someone was educated by Jesuits? Harvard used to refuse Catholics *because* of their Catholic education. Good for Harvard, in a way.
July 17, 2014 in Brennan, Patrick | Permalink
Monday, July 14, 2014
The essential rule of interpretation of Pope Francis
The essential rule of interpretation of Pope Francis: No, it's not the great-nice-try that was the "hermeneutic of continuity." Instead, according to Fr. Bernd Hagenkord, SJ, Head of the German-language Section of Vatican Radio, it is power:
"Francis knows exactly how power is spelled," says Bernd Hagenkord, a Jesuit who is in charge of German programming for Vatican Radio. "He's a communicator in the league with Mother Teresa and the Dalai Lama.They say he's being unclear, but we know exactly what he means."
For the context of the quote, follow the lead in Rorate Caeli
As one senior European prelate who has served under the last three popes once told me, "Francis doesn't often refer to himself Pope, but when you're in his presence, you know that he knows he's the Pope, and that's why he doesn't need to call himself Pope." Indeed, we know exactly what he means.
July 14, 2014 in Brennan, Patrick | Permalink
Sunday, July 13, 2014
Mixed messages on poverty from the Domus [UPDATED]
Pope Francis has stressed his desire for a "poor Church for the poor." Now the same Vicar of Christ has convened many of the world's most highly paid athletes, participants in the recent World Cup, to play a soccer match in Rome for the purpose of promoting "dialogue" among world religions.
We in the United States have heard much about a "consistent ethic of life." I'm just wondering, therefore, as something of a thought experiment, what place professional sports, especially (but not only) at the richest level, would have in a "consistent ethic of poverty."
Consider how much it costs to travel far to attend the World Cup. Consider, further, what immediate benefit, if any, the playing of the World Cup has to the poor of Brazil. I've been to Brazil; I've seen (and smelled) the poverty; and I can conjure the impassable gap between the hovels and the stadium.
We've heard Pope Francis pass moral judgment on everything from pets (he's down on them) to nice cars (he won't ride in them and criticizes some who do). What about the bread and circuses of professional sports industries that concentrate vast sums of money in the hands of small groups of those who are lucky enough to be able-bodied, coached, and thus relieved of life's ordinary burdens in order to "play" all the time? Don't get me wrong, sport has its place in a healthy human life, perhaps even as an example of what some refer to as the "basic good" known as "play." Sana mens in sano corpore, and all that.
But what about the economics of professional sport as such? What has the Holy Father to say on this topic? Perhaps I've missed it, but I do keep a pretty attentive eye on what gets published under the name Franciscus, including the redacted homilies preached in the Domus, and I can't recall any condemnation of the mega-wealth accumulated on the backs of the poor (and the middle-class) in the name of, say, World Cup.
I recently read an editorial some place that baldly contended that the World Cup mocks the poor. It's a contention that's worth pondering, especially now as the beneficiaries of the World Cup prepare to gather in Rome at Pope Francis's invitation in order to engage in "dialogue."
(Never mind the lack of all evidence that professional athletes are dialogically inclined or adept. In any event, calling something "dialogue" doesn't necessarily make it a good idea, not even in this post-Vatican II Church).
UPDATE: A reader helpfully called my attention to an address Pope Francis delivered in May 2, 2014, to Italian soccer players and officials in which he warned that "today soccer is turning into a big business: advertising, television, and so on. But the financial factor must not prevail over the sporting factor because it risks polluting everything, both at the national and local level." A story about the address is here
I'm not sure exactly what the Pope meant to rule out when he stated on May 2nd that "the financial factor must not prevail over the sporting factor." Speaking a week later to the U.N. officials in Rome, the Holy Father set off a firestorm by speaking far more bluntly when he called attention to governments' responsibility to effect "legitimate redistribution" of wealth. By challenging modern governments to concern themselves with legitimate redistribution, the Pope was doing no more than commendably echoing basic tenets of traditional Catholic social doctrine. One wonders, therefore, how the Pope would urge experts to apply that doctrine to the mega-wealth amassed by the beneficiaries of the professional sports industries.
July 13, 2014 in Brennan, Patrick | Permalink
Thursday, July 3, 2014
Dietrich von Hildebrand on "religious pluralism"
As we move forward following the Court's decision in Hobby Lobby, it's important to be clear about what we mean if we think, as many still do, that the answer to our day's social problems amounts to no more than a consensus that values pluralism. Consider, by contrast, the judgment of Dietrich von Hildebrand (1889-1977), whom Ven. Pope Pius XII described as nothing less than "a 20th century doctor of the Church" (Pope Saint John Paul II and Pope Benedict XVI had similarly admiring things to say about von Hildebrand's work as a theologian):
Insofar as cultures are concerned, multiplicity has a value, just as does the pluralism of national characters. When, however, it comes to metaphysical or ethical truth -- and especially when it comes to religion -- any pluralism is an evil. Evil, too, are the many fluctuations in the life of religion that occur in history. Unlike cultural pluralism, religious pluralism is in no way a sign of life, but rather a symptom of human fraility and insufficiency. Great metaphysical and ethical truths, and the true religion itself, are destined to take root among men. Here the 'oughtness' of assuming social reality gives to their aliveness a special significance. It represents a descending of Christ into the soul of the individual person and the erecting of His Kingdom in the interpersonal sphere. It is the dimension of Christ's victory that He predicted in saying: 'Where two or three are gathered together in my name, I am in the midst of them.' To supplant truth in its transcendent existence with a merely social reality is to imprison man and history in a desolate immanentism. On the other hand, the incarnation of transcendent truth in man and history represents the victory of transcendence over the purely immanent.
Trojan Horse in the City of God: The Catholic Crisis Explained 103-04 (1967; 1993).
John Cardinal O'Connor's Foreword to the 1993 edition of von Hildebrand's book adds the following: "It is against secularism that von Hildebrand inveighs most strongly and consistently. It is the invasion of secularism into the life of the Church that he sees as most analogous to the invasion of Troy by the Athenians. 'To be sure,' he says, 'secularization is an evil primarily because it implies an apostasy from Christ, and it is for this reason that we fight it on every page of this book'" Id. at xi. The late Cardinal O'Connor's Foreword concludes with these words about what the Church should be doing in every age: "I hope that [readers] will take special note of Dietrich von Hildebrand's quoting John Henry Cardinal Newman about the Church: 'She holds that unless She can, in Her own way, do good to souls, it is no use Her doing anything.'" Ibid.
By the way, von Hildebrand was sentenced to death (in absentia) by the Nazis for publishing a weekly opposition newspaper with the assistance of the great Austrian Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss, who for his part was assassinated by the Nazis in 1934.
July 3, 2014 in Brennan, Patrick | Permalink
Tuesday, July 1, 2014
Enough already of the hosannas on high in praise of what little the Supreme Court actually accomplished for the good and the true in Hobby Lobby. Joey Fishkin offers a sober perspective here, to which I would be grateful to hear Archbishop Kurtz, president of the USCCB, reply once he's done "thank[ing] God for RFRA" here. Archbishop Chaput's praise (here) is appropriately muted, but is he correct when he asserts that "In our country, no person and no organization grounded in religious conviction should be forced to choose between complying with the law and violating their religious beliefs"? Our criminal law is busy every day denying individuals the opportunity to act on their "religious beliefs," and for that I do indeed thank God. The Church through and since the Second Vatican Council has encouraged licentious thinking about "religious liberty." I offer the corrective perspective of Catholic Tradition here and here.
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While this banter of hypothetical and historical situations is somewhat amusing, it does not address the questions of when is Lethal Force justified! As a new CCW permitee, with a stepson who is a sheriff in my state, and me managing a police station remodel for an LE dept in Mexifornia, I have ask the same question! And the proverbial an opinion is like a anus, everybody has one! holds true. One thing that has helped me with working this out is reading Massad F. Ayoobs books, In the Gravest Extreme and The Gun Digest Book of Concealed Carry. Another that Im currently reading is Self-Defense Laws of All 50 States by Attorney Mitch Vilos & Evan Vilos. This book takes the state laws/codes and breaks them down. In my search for enlightenment, Im also taking a MAG-40 hour class (Massad Ayoob Group). EXPENSIVE BUT IF IT SAVES ME FROM GOING TO JAIL IT IS WORTH EVERY PENNY! I would recommend taking as many classes or getting as much information as possible.
Here is a real life example, Two (2) would be home invaders storm into a garage, the home owner draws and shoot the first, when the second flees the home the homeowner chases him down and shoots him. The first was Justifiable! The second shooting, the homeowner is now on trial for murder!
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Included in the kit are the components for a jigsaw, diverse variations of woodturning machines , a handheld sander, a stationary sander, and a handheld drilling machine. All the machines of the UNIMAT 1 BASIC kit are child-friendly. Due to the short strokes of the jigsaw blade, the fingers of a young carpenter cannot be injured. At the same time, professionals are delighted by the accurate and precise cutting of the saw.
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