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In what can only be described as a swift, total and stunning victory - SOFTWAR defeated the Clinton administration in Federal Court today. During a pre-trial hearing, Richmond Federal Judge Robert Payne ordered the Commerce Dept. to deliver all documents in reference to the Chinese Army Unit COSTIND within 60 days.
Judge Payne's ruling came after Joan Evans, Assistant United States Attorney representing the Commerce Dept., failed to show a reasonable cause to withhold the documents.
Judge Payne called the Clinton administration defense arguments "too weak". Judge Payne also noted that the Commerce Dept. had defined the Freedom of Information request by Softwar to be as tiny "as a BB pellet".
"I want you to open this up all the way," Payne ordered the Justice lawyer. "I want it full bore, double barrel, 12 gauge, shotgun open. I want everything."
Ms. Evans, the Dept. of Justice lawyer, noted that the Commerce Dept. has already discovered "thirteen" documents responsive to the SOFTWAR request on the Chinese Army Unit that met with Ron Brown.
Judge Payne warned the DOJ lawyer and the Commerce Dept. to comply with his orders.
"I will come down on you like a ton of bricks," Judge Payne warned the Dept. of Justice lawyer representing Commerce. "I don't want any fooling around."
Judge Payne also ruled that any documents that Commerce wishes to withhold under any national security provisions may be reviewed by the Court. This review is called a "Vaughn" index after the Court case in which it was first established. The index is a complete description of each document and the reason to hold them from release. Judge Payne will review the index of the documents and if necessary, review the documents themselves to ensure the withholding is correct and legal.
Judge Payne ordered the Dept. of Justice attorneys representing Commerce to work with SOFTWAR to develop a reference of meetings, documents, and known personnel of COSTIND. Commerce can use that reference to respond but the reference will in no way limit the search for responsive materials.
SOFTWAR and the Commerce Dept. go to Federal Court today for pre-trial hearings over a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit. Softwar took the Commerce Dept. to court when the agency refused to release records involving meetings between Commerce Secretary Ron Brown and the Chinese Army unit COSTIND.
According to the GAO, "COSTIND" - the Chinese Commission of Science, Technology, and Industry for National Defense, "oversees development of China's weapon systems and is responsible for identifying and acquiring telecommunications technology applicable for military use."
The Commerce Dept. refuses to "confirm or deny" that data on COSTIND exists inside their files. According to the Commerce Dept., even if records on COSTIND did exist - they would be withheld in the "national interest".
Softwar argues that Commerce has already returned loads of documents on COSTIND. According to documents obtained from the Commerce Dept., COSTIND Lt. General Shen Rougjun met with Ron Brown and Loral CEO Bernard Schwartz at the personal request of President Bill Clinton.
You can see some of the documents that, according to Commerce, do not exist and should have been withheld in the national interest at:
The Defense Dept. has upped their estimate on the number of intermediate and short range Chinese ballistic missile facing Taiwan. According to the Defense Dept., satellite photos now show over 200 DF-11 and DF-15 mobile units are in position to fire their missiles at the tiny island Republic. The red missiles are reported to be armed with nuclear and chemical warheads.
According to the little red book (Chairman Mao) the nuclear and chemical warheads are under the control of Communist party Politburo officers. The warheads are carried separately under Politburo guard and only attached to the mobile missiles under the direct command from Beijing party headquarters.
DOD satellite photos also show that China has already begun their new nuclear missile program. DOD has quietly reported that China is scheduled to deploy an estimated 600 new mobile short and medium range tactical missiles over the next 24 months. The DOD total force estimates are based on known production and new storage/basing facilities built for the Chinese 2nd Artillery Corps.
The tactical DF-15 mobile missiles are currently being produced at their highest rate ever recorded. China previously manufactured no more than one DF-15 missile per month. DOD analysts say that satellite photos show that China has increased mobile missile production to as many as 20 brand new nuclear tipped units per month.
China is expected to field a total force of about 1,000 nuclear tipped missiles, including a large number of strategic mobile missiles capable of striking anywhere in America. The new Chinese DF-41 mobile ICBM is based on the Russian SS-27 Topol M.
Taiwan has rushed their newly purchased, extended range version of the U.S. Patriot missile into service. The Taiwan Defense ministry announced they have rushed 400 hastily trained Army personnel and the new Patriots into action. 200 ROC Patriots have been activated around Taipei in response to the nuclear tipped mobile missiles now facing Taiwan from the communist Chinese Army.
DOD sources say the Iraqi secure fiber-optic integrated air defense network (NATO codename TIGER SONG) is still very active. According to bomb damage assessments, the hundreds of millions of dollars invested in DESERT FOX (Monica-Storm) missile strikes did not knock out the Iraqi Internet for SAM missiles installed by the Chinese Army under contract to Saddam Hussein.
The Iraqi "Tiger Song" air defense network is made up of U.S. and French fiber-optic systems sold to China under so-called "commercial" licenses. In 1994, the Clinton administration allowed an encrypted fiber-optic, network to be sold by AT&T directly to a unit of the Chinese Army. The system included the encryption source code.
In addition, according to the GAO, President Clinton personally approved the export of an encrypted, fiber-optic, air traffic control system directly to the Chinese Army Air Force (PLAAF).
U.S. forces have changed tactics, following the unsuccessful strikes against the Iraqi "Tiger Song" system. U.S. forces are now concentrating on Iraqi Surface-To-Air (SAM) missile units and radars instead of attacking the fiber-optic command network.
One change is a new recon robot drone. The USAF has just activated a unit of PREDATOR unmanned aerial vehicles over Iraq. The Predator's mission is to find and target Iraqi SAM missile units with its computer imaging Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR).
The change in U.S. tactics also includes a new weapon in the American arsenal. The JSOW (Joint Standoff Weapon) was used in anger for the first time against an Iraqi Surface-To-Air (SAM) missile battery. The 2,000 glide bomb was delivered by a U.S. NAVY F/A-18 Hornet and scored a direct hit on the Iraqi SA-3 (NATO codename "GOA") mobile missile unit.
According to NAVY sources, the heavy JSOW was "much more lethal" than expected. The results were so impressive that the Air Force is accelerating their purchase of the long range glide bomb to replace shorter range laser and TV guided smart bombs.
In addition, the Dept. of Justice now officially recognizes SOFTWAR as a member of the "media". The Dept. of Justice decision is considered a TOTAL victory for Freedom of Information and open government.
Softwar could not have done it without you. The Softwar appeal included a telephone and mail campaign by our fans to force the Dept. of Justice to surrender the HUBBELL files.
Special thanks go to fellow WORLDNETDAILY columnist and radio talk show host Michael Reagan and his listeners. Their efforts were invaluable in finally forcing Janet Reno to release the documents.
Stay Tuned - More to COME!
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Is Ashley Judd's topless turn on December's Marie Claire cover a first? According to editor Joanna Coles, it appears so. Coles told FishbowlNY that she believes Judd is the first cover subject to go nude — noteworthy considering how feverishly designers jockey to get their couture on Judd — and, for that matter, on Marie Claire.

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I think that how we cook and consider food is an important component of green apartment living. On paper, we're doing it right: I live in a LEED-certified building. We recycle, and use the recycling containers that our building provides on our floors. Being LEED-certified means our apartment is so efficient that we haven't once run the heater and have heard from neighbors that we might use our A/C once. We don't own cars, so we take public transportation, bike or walk everywhere. I've greatly reduced the amount of packaged products I buy in general, including soaps and shampoos that are bars (and unpackaged) or are packaged in materials that are recyclable (paper) or sustainable (bamboo).
But a way more fun to "go green" and be conscious about decisions that impact the environment, is to consider how your food choices and cooking habits can positively impact your community and environment.
Eat Food
We recently wiped out all of the packaged "food-like substances" from our cabinets in favor of replacing those things with their real food counterparts. No more Hellman's – we're making our own mayo now. No more Ragu — the pasta sauce happens on our stove top. I thought peanut butter was going to be tough to give up and/or replicate – but it turns out, we can make that from scratch too. There are a couple of exceptions, but even those are consciously chosen. For instance, bread. We aren't making our own bread yet, but we're opting for choices like Dave's Killer Bread. DKB is a local bread-making company that promises (and their labels support this) only natural ingredients.
We're buying locally when we can, and are reducing the amount of packaging we bring into the house, eliminating trash/waste. It's been a delicious change and adventure!
Want to know how we did this? Here are the quick recipes I use for Homemade Mayonnaise, Spaghetti Sauce from Scratch, and Natural Nut Butter.
Whole Egg Mayonnaise
I'd heard a lot of things about how difficult mayo is to make from scratch – there's whisking and whisking until your arm falls off, waiting for that perfect moment when "stiff peaks" form in the egg whites. Since I don't even know what a "stiff peak" is, I had to find something that was simple. And foolproof.
That's when I found this recipe for Whole Egg Mayonnaise. It is amazingly simple, and only requires a blender (no whisking!).
What You Need
- 1/2 teaspoon dry mustard powder
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 2 eggs
- 2 tablespoons white vinegar (I've also used champagne vinegar, and would imagine that you can play with all kinds of flavors here)
- 2 cups vegetable oil (or olive oil)
What You Do With That
Crack the egg in the blender, and add the mustard powder and salt. Blend it until smooth. Remove that thing in the middle of the blender top so that you can stream in the oil. Turn the blender on and slowly stream the oil into the blender to mix with the egg. I've found that the more slowly you stream in the oil, the thicker the mayo gets.
It lasts for up to two weeks in the fridge.
Wanna spice it up? Add cayenne. Add herbs. Add paprika. Sky's the limit!
Spaghetti Sauce from Scratch
Next up, I had to figure out a way to honor my carbilicious cravings without grabbing a box of pasta and a jar of sauce. Enter: handmade pasta. I found this at our local Zupan's, and I know a guy at the Farmer's Market that sells fresh-made pasta also (which is where I'll get it next). As for the sauce, while truthfully you can find some good, natural, organic sauces out there, but I prefer to know how to do it myself.
Now, I read somewhere that a traditional Italian spaghetti sauce is thin, saucy, and chunky. Sorry, but I like mine blended and thick, so that's how I make it.
One of the things I love about making spaghetti sauce from scratch is that it's SO versatile. You can add herbs and spices in exactly the right combo for your taste buds. Here's the right combo for mine:
What You Need
- 28 oz. crushed tomatoes (if you can find Pomi, use that. It's JUST tomatoes. No citric acid, no additives. JUST tomatoes)
- 2 medium tomatoes (or Roma tomatoes), chopped
- 1 cup chopped mushrooms
- 1 medium onion, chopped
- 2-3 cloves of garlic
- 1/4 c. red wine
- 1/4 c. sugar
- 1/4 tsp oregano
- 1/4 tsp thyme
- 1/4 tsp parsely
- 1 bay leaf
- 1-2 TBSP Extra Virgin Olive Oil
- Optional: (cooked) ground chicken or ground turkey
What You Do With That
Heat the olive oil in a pan. When heated, add in the mushrooms and garlic and saute a couple of minutes until they're soft and translucent. Add in mushrooms and red wine. Simmer until the mushrooms are cooked, about 5-6 minutes. Add crushed tomatoes, sugar, and herbs. Stir.
This is where I got in there with my immersion blender and thickened/blended up the sauce. You don't have to if you like chunky bites of vegetables in your sauce. I don't mind it, but I prefer it blended, so that's what I do.
Now, here's where we can be a bit flexible. I made this for dinner earlier this week and let it all simmer for about 15 minutes while we boiled the noodles. However, I've also made it and let it summer for a couple of hours. Both are awesome, and you can tailor this based on the amount of time you need/have on hand.
Homemade Nut Butter
I LOVE peanut butter. Like, eat-it-by-the-spoonful-love peanut butter. But, packaged and processed peanut butter has a lot of crap in it I don't love, so I knew this would be something I had to learn how to replace from-scratch. I found this recipe for White Chocolate Peanut Butter, but since Oregon is the Hazelnut State, found some hazelnuts from local growers here at the farmer's market and tried that out instead. The awesome thing about this recipe is that you can sub in different nut varieties: peanuts, hazelnuts, almonds, whatever. And with this recipe, you can add twists of flavor like Jessica did with the White Chocolate.
What You Need
- 1 1/2 cups nuts (I used hazelnuts. You use peanuts, almonds, whatever)
- 1 1/2 tbsp. canola oil
- 1 tsp. vanilla extract
- 2 tsp. brown sugar (optional, and to taste)
What You Do With That
[From HowSweetEats.com, with my notes in italics]
Add peanuts to a food processor and blend until a thick nut butter forms. Stream in oil and vanilla with the processor on, continuing to run it until the mixture is smooth – this took me about 3-4 minutes. (She's right. This does take a few minutes, but the mixture will go from crumbly to oily. You'll see it.) You can add more oil if needed, just do it in small increments. Turn off processor, add melted chocolate, and turn processor back on. (This is where I skipped the white chocolate – I don't like it that much – and added brown sugar instead.) Blend until smooth.
Next on my list: jellies and jams, and thanks to Ashley for sending me some great information on that! I also want to do ketchup and BBQ sauce from scratch, so if you have a recipe for those, please share!
Also, don't forget that today is Street Food Friday! Check out Jess's blog for a Chicago street food experience.


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Ignore, for a minute, the looks that have made Helena Christensen a supermodel: the eyes that are the color and complexity of lapis, the sculptural curves of what Gianni Versace once called "the most beautiful body in the world." After two decades in the industry, Christensen's still got it. But the most alluring thing about her just might be her voice.
It's low and slightly smoky, with a lingering Danish accent. During our interview, her voice shifts from mirthful to conspiratorial as she volunteers different anecdotes. Her words tumble into each other when she's excited about a subject, which is often. She jokes about her young son's class cookbook project, for which he reasoned they could simply "put 'organic' in front of everything" to make a recipe healthy. She expresses disgust for tabloids and expounds on her love of print media, especiallyMAD Magazine and The New York Times. "I want to be buried with a MAD Magazine, on my chest," Christensen declares. "Just in case I wake up."
Maybe Christensen has mastered the art of the interview. She's been in the public eye now for half her life, as a former Miss Denmark who became the face — and body — of Victoria's Secret and countless magazine covers and runways. More recently, she's worked as a photographer, shooting everything from Peruvians affected by melting glaciers to a Nike campaign with some of the world's greatest female athletes. But Christensen's also genuinely warm, with a crackling humor and disarming word choice. She describes learning to surf, while shooting for Nike in Hawaii, as "the raddest thing I've ever done in my life." About two melancholic works by Henryk Górecki, one of her favorite composers, Christensen says, "['Sorrowful Songs' and 'Goodnight' are] definitely the kind of music, if you're feeling sad about something else, it either pulls it out of you and negates it, because it's so sad itself — or it makes you want to slit your wrists."
What you notice in conversation with Christensen — besides that marvelous voice — is the many interests she reveals and the evident passion she has for each. When she talks about traveling the world, her careers and, most of all, being a mother to her young son, you wonder how she has the time and energy to do it all. But the work that Christensen is most famous for is only a tiny part of her universe. And what else you've likely heard about her isn't nearly as interesting (or factual, for that matter) as what she'll tell you.
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Pop Culture's Greatest Lanes
There's Avenue Q, Sunset Boulevard, "The Street Where You Live," "Life is a Highway," Abbey Road, and Jason Street. And those are all great! But none of those thoroughfares can hold a candle to the Lanes. There are characters named Lane, characters who live on lanes, and lanes that represent an era, a romance, or a place for the Muffin Man to live. These are the greatest Lanes in pop culture.


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BBC NEWS | England | Somerset | MP slams Bath Spa project delays
"The ill-fated Bath Spa project is four years overdue is still not open, with no opening date in sight," he said.
"It's Ł20m over budget and is costing every one of my constituents the equivalent of Ł116 in waste."
A pub petition demanding the project be halted is gaining backing, with shops in the city also running the petition.
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This is Part Five of a five-part series: Joy of Honesty in Business.
During the first year of Smart Bear's existence, my software was crap. How did I get customers, and why were they so vehemently loyal to what was clearly a wobbly, new product from a teeny tiny company-of-one?
Because of folks like Tom.
So Tom calls up one day . . .
Now wait, understand this is already a newsworthy event! Remember we sell software to software developers, legendary for their phone-aversion. (I'm no exception!) So let me try that again:
Tom called me. On the phone.
Tom wants to talk about new features. What a relief — for six weeks it's been nothing but bug reports. Real bugs, I admit. In fact, Tom had single-handedly debugged a significant amount of my shitty code, even enlisting his own employees for the cause. (Why had he done that?)
Anyway, Tom lists 20 new features he'd like to see. When does he expect delivery?
"Oh, I know you're just a one-man shop, so just do your best. If you get through this half as fast as you get through bugs, we'll be fine."
Whozajigga-wha? I never said I was a one-man shop!
"We" always use the first-person plural when talking about "our software" and "our release cycle" and "our tech support." My Web site was professional-looking (uhhh, right?). Tech support always came from email@example.com; my name was never on it.
So was Tom the Sherlock Holmes of small business façades? Hardly. The Web site doesn't look that professional. Tom's gotten sales support, tech support, and bug fixes for weeks now; he recognizes the same style and phrases. He's called the main line and never found anyone but me.
But this was going to be a problem (or so I thought). See, Tom worked for a big company (I don't have permission to say which) with thousands of employees and billions in revenue. Big companies don't buy software from one-man shops. Or, so I've been told.
I almost puked out the mantra of how, yes, I'm the only full-time employee, but I use consultants for stuff when the workload goes up. And I almost went into defensive mode, talking about how good our my service was and all that.
But, fortunately I recognized that Tom didn't want to hear that. Tom was saying, "I know who you really are, and I accept it. I still want to do this. How about a few features since we put up with those bugs?"
I had to match that honesty. Anything else would be an insult to his intelligence and a step backward in the relationship.
Truth is such a rare thing, it is delightful to tell it.
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It wasn't until I visited him in Ottawa that I fully understood why Tom was so solicitous. We met with two of Tom's bosses in a small office to discuss widespread purchase and roll-out of our peer code review tool.
Tom introduced me in a way I didn't expect: "Half a year ago I found this company in Austin. They had the beginnings of a code review tool. I've been guiding their development so now it works perfectly for our environment."
Hmmm, that's not exactly accurate . . . or is it? I'm on the spot, so I just nod in agreement.
The bosses questioned the utility of the tool. How much time could it save? Tom had the answer: "I do sixty code reviews every day."
He might as well have said, "I can squeeze crude oil from cow patties."
One boss flatly said, "That's impossible."
Honestly I'm not sure whether he was referring to Tom's fortitude or the tool's efficiency. But they both looked at Tom's evidence and approved the roll-out.
In that moment, I understood Tom's motivation: Tom was a hero.
Tom had figured out how to deliver code with fewer bugs and was training his new hires faster than other team-leads. Tom didn't do this by paying IBM or implementing a process he read about in Dr. Dobbs — he found a little company (us . . . I mean "me"), and he was now personally responsible for directing our product development. We jump when he says jump; therefore, the perfect product (for their company) had been forged.
All due to his prescience, product development prowess, and a relationship he had forged with the founder.
Don't forget, this was before "relationship" became the buzzword of modern marketing — before blogs and Twitter and back when the fastest-growing demographic on Facebook wasn't women over 55.
I can't begin to tell you the amount of crap Tom put up with over the years. We're good at this now (no really, 15 people counts as "we!"), but back then screens would lock up, reviews would inexplicably disappear, installers would install the wrong files, and occasionally we'd run computers out of memory.
He put up with all of it. Why? Because it was just him and me. Because he knew I always kept my word. Because he knew he could stick his neck out for Smart Bear, and I wouldn't let him down. Because he knew I would ensure that as the product changed it continued to solve his problems better, because I didn't want to let him down.
So he pinned his own reputation on it and won. As a bonus, he lived vicariously through Smart Bear as a product designer.
If I hadn't fessed up and behaved honestly, perhaps none of this would have happened.
What will your first hundred customers look like? Big, established companies with bureaucratic purchasing systems that you will bluff your way through? Well-known consumer-advocacy bloggers?
No, they'll be early adopters — folks who like trying new stuff and like working with new companies who still have spark and something to prove. Folks who want to be part of the creative process and be able to tell their friends that they were there at the beginning.
If you pretend to be something you're not, they'll see right through it. Then what have you done? You've lied to those who would have loved you for who you are; that's not how you build a relationship.
It doesn't mean never telling a lie. Cath Lawson points out that authenticity doesn't mean abandoning social white lies. We all know the difference between outright lies and the business equivalent of "No, those pants don't make you look fat."
Theoretically, honesty should be easier than dishonesty. After all, "if you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything" (Mark Twain). It's true that in business you're so accustomed to fluffing your feathers and making a show it can be hard to remember to act like a normal human being.
"Be yourself" is just as hard in business as it is in personal life. But it's worth it.
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Pride is the master sin of the devil.Edwin Hubbell Chapin
Let pride go afore, shame will follow after.George Chapman
If you would estimate the extent of a woman's pride in youth, see how much remains even after she has passed the age of pleasing.Nicolas Chamfort
It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.St. Augustine of Hippo
Misquotation is, in fact, the pride and privilege of the learned. A widely- read man never quotes accurately, for the rather obvious reason that he has read too widely.Hesketh Pearson
All sufferings come from false pride.Shri Radhe Maa
We had our pride shattered, and without humility there can be no humanity.John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir
There are many kinds of smiles, each having a distinct character. Some announce goodness and sweetness, others betray sarcasm, bitterness and pride; some soften the countenance by their languishing tenderness, others brighten by their spiritual vivacity.Johann Kaspar Lavater
Almost everything: all external expectations, all pride all fear of embarrassment or failure. These tings just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.Steve Jobs
I waited day and night for the voice of God within me, to know what He had to say to me, to learn what I had to do. In this seclusion the earliest realisation, the first lesson came to me. I remembered then that a month or more before my arrest, a call had come to me to put aside all activity, to go in seclusion and to look into myself, so that I might enter into closer communion with Him. I was weak and could not accept the call. My work was very dear to me and in the pride of my heart I thought that unless I was there, it would suffer or even fail and cease; therefore I would not leave it. It seemed to me that He spoke to me again and said, "The bonds you had not the strength to break, I have broken for you, because it is not my will nor was it ever my intention that that should continue. I have had another thing for you to do and it is for that I have brought you here, to teach you what you could not learn for yourself and to train you for my work." Then He placed the Gita in my hands. His strength entered into me and I was able to do the sadhana of the Gita. I was not only to understand intellectually but to realise what Sri Krishna demanded of Arjuna and what He demands of those who aspire to do His work, to be free from repulsion and desire, to do work for Him without the demand for fruit, to renounce self-will and become a passive and faithful instrument in His hands, to have an equal heart for high and low, friend and opponent, success and failure, yet not to do His work negligently. I realised what the Hindu religion meant. We speak often of the Hindu religion, of the Sanatan Dharma, but few of us really know what that religion is. Other religions are preponderatingly religions of faith and profession, but the Sanatan Dharma is life itself; it is a thing that has not so much to be believed as lived. This is the Dharma that for the salvation of humanity was cherished in the seclusion of this peninsula from of old. It is to give this religion that India is rising. She does not rise as other countries do, for self or when she is strong, to trample on the weak. She is rising to shed the eternal light entrusted to her over the world. India has always existed for humanity and not for herself and it is for humanity and not for herself that she must be great.Sri Aurobindo
Let us rejoice and give thanks. Not only are we become Christians, but we are become Christ. My brothers, do you understand the grace of God that is given us? Wonder, rejoice, for we are made Christ! If He is the Head, and we the members, then together He and we are the whole man.... This would be foolish pride on our part, were it not a gift of his bounty. But this is what He promised by the mouth of the Apostle: You are the body of Christ, and severally His membersSt. Augustine of Hippo
One of the best temporary cures for pride and affectation is seasickness; a man who wants to vomit never puts on airsJosh Billings
Two things cause people to be destroyed: fear of poverty and seeking superiority through pride.Ali bin Abu-Talib
Nothing is ever done beautifully which is done in rivalship: or nobly, which is done in pride.John Ruskin
A competitor will find a way to win. Competitors take bad breaks and use them to drive themselves just that much harder. Quitters take bad breaks and use them as reasons to give up. It's all a matter of pride.Nancy Lopez
Besides pride, loyalty, discipline, heart, and mind, confidence is the key to all the locks.Joe Paterno
Pride separates excellence from mediocrityNatalie
Human prosperity never rests but always craves more, till blown up with pride it totters and falls. From the opulent mansions pointed at by all passers-by none warns it away, none cries, 'Let no more riches enter!Aeschylus
Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.Giorgos Seferis
What is a novel if not a conviction of our fellow-men's existence strong enough to take upon itself a form of imagined life clearer than reality and whose accumulated verisimilitude of selected episodes puts to shame the pride of documentary history?Joseph Conrad
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Sipping coffee one morning in early April, my eyes quickly darted to an article in my city newspaper by our local hunting columnist entitled "De-extinction coming to Montana." I didn't even need to read the column to know what was coming.
Having just read the cover story in the April issue of National Geographic on bringing back extinct species, our columnist — who has spent years fretting over a conservation initiative to restore bison to the grasslands of eastern Montana — now found good reason to fear that the reintroduction of woolly mammoths and other extinct species was headed our way.
Fast forward a week later and I was in Cambridge, England, along with Conservancy Chief Scientist Peter Kareiva, at an international conference organized by the Wildlife Conservation Society on the topic of synthetic biology and how it may influence the future of nature and conservation.
You may already be asking yourself, just what is synthetic biology? In a recent paper in PLOS Biology, Kent Redford and colleagues, borrowing from the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues, defined it as "a scientific discipline that relies on chemically synthesized DNA, along with standardized and automatable processes, to address human needs by the creation of organisms with novel or enhanced characteristics or traits."
The Cambridge meeting brought together over 80 synthetic biologists and conservation scientists to learn about each other's disciplines and explore how we could work together. (It may be easier to think of synthetic biologists as genetic engineers, as they definitely approach their discipline from an engineering perspective.)
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I was rummaging through the library at work, looking for a thesaurus while I was editing an upcoming supplement we're publishing on the global liquefied natural gas industry, when I stumbled upon one of those mouldering gems of history only a geek or a historian could love. It seems we have not one, but two copies of one of Robert Ebel's earliest works, The Petroleum Industry of the Soviet Union, published by the American Petroleum Institute (API) in 1961.
API wasn't simply culling from back issues of Pravda or unclassified Central Intelligence Agency documents and guessing about then-Soviet oil wells, pipelines, refineries and terminals. They actually sent a 10-member delegation — the first — of American notables, executive vice presidents of well-known companies like Socony (the Mobil part of ExxonMobil), Standard Oil New Jersey (the Exxon part of ExxonMobil) Chevron, Phillips, some then-independents, and a couple of U.S. government officials (Ebel himself worked for the Interior Department at the time) to wander around the USSR for a bit, take a lot of photos, collect a bunch of data, and get what appears to have been fantastic access to the then-Soviet Union's oil and gas industry — from wellhead to service station.
The API team visited the Soviet Union during the trial of Francis Gary Powers, and Ebel noted specifically that "little rancor was evident on part of the people we met." A number of Leningrad and Moscow residents were pleased to meet actual Americans to practice English-language skills hard-won from nights hunched over the shortwave listening to the Voice of America, though "[c]ontent of the program did not have much meaning" because the listeners were "puzzled by the religious tinge" and were not able to "correlate [American] assertions of having achieved world leadership in materialistic success with any religious devotion."
And I'm sorry, God forgive me, but the first image I had in my mind when I read this was Fox News, which makes it clear we definitely live in a post-Soviet world:
The propaganda to which the Soviet people are subjected is heavy and constant and every medium is utilized — newspapers, magazines, posters, radio and television. Each industrial installation, institute, school, Palace of Culture and the like exhibit charts comparing USSR achievements and plans to that of the US. Conversely, a considerable amount of propaganda is directed against the way we live and work, against our conveniences, and, of course, against our "unfriendly" acts. Even in the simplest mind some confusion must result from simultaneously holding us up as a goal and a thing to scorn. (Ebel, 4)
I haven't had time to plumb the depths of this work, largely because it is mostly statistics that are 40 years out of date, and I've no burning desire to know what the naphtha content of Urals crude was in 1958. Plus, being as the work in mostly tables, charts, maps, graphs, and so forth, it's simply not as entertaining as German journalist Harry Hamm's visit to Albania later that same year, the visit he wrote about in Albania — China's Beachhead in Europe in 1962 (which I found in the Alexandria public library's discard bin). The kind of products Soviet refineries squeezed out of a barrel of oil in the 1950s doesn't hold a candle to Albanian Communist leader Mehmet Shehu saying at that benighted little country's 4th Party Congress:
"If anyone is not in agreement with our leaders in any point, we shall spit in his face, bash him on the jaw, and if necessary put a bullet through his head." (Hamm, 144)
(Which also sounds vaguely like Fox News, come to think of it.)
However, it turns out our complimentary copies of the Soviet oil survey also have little gift cards from the then-president of API, Frank Porter, who is ever intent to remind us the book's
publication at this time will serve to point up some of the problems that face the United States oil industry as it operates within the framework of our free, competitive-enterprise economy.
Maybe I'm reading this wrong, but Porter almost seems to imply that the lack of a guiding five-year plan is a liability, a weakness, something that will doom the likes of Socony, Jersey, Chevron, Phillips, and the minor lights of the then-oil industry to penury and failure.
Too often, conservatives — particularly cultural conservatives — look at what appears to be a well-disciplined opponent marching in apparent unison and working together with one mind and toward one goal, compare it with what seems to be our chaos and decadence, and get anxious. Unless we get disciplined, work together and sacrifice as much as they are, whether we want to or not, we're doomed.
Because the bad guys will beat us don't.
That seems to be the way many conservatives reacted toward the Soviet Union, echoing in many ways the critique of the Marxist-Stalinist moralists that somehow we were far too soft and decadent to win a prolonged struggle with a people willing to bear cold, misery and sacrifice. Our individualism, our pursuit of individual interest and pleasure, our unwillingness to sacrifice, to fight, to go without, showed we were weak. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, a brilliant man whose three-volume Gulag Archipelago has sat by my bed since I was 16 as perhaps the best thing I've ever read on how to live a moral life (and what that moral life means) in a world that deliberately destroys moral individuals, lectured us eagerly on our weaknesses in the mid-1970s.
He was wrong. And thank God.
More important, the moralists of enforced social order are wrong — we're strong in large part because of our decadence, because of our quest for individual interest and pleasure, because most human beings seek naturally to live comfortably, easily and responsibly. And they seek, more than anything, the right and ability to define their own lives, and not have someone impose that definition upon them.
So, when anyone tells you that hoards of young bearded men are sitting in mosques across the Muslim world, fuming over American foreign policy, reading and re-reading certain verses of the Qur'an demanding war against Christians and Jews, and happily teaching their children to hate us and eventually kill us, don't believe it for a minute.
I spent about six months working and living in Saudi Arabia (as chief copy editor for The Saudi Gazette in Jeddah) late last year and early this year, and can tell you most young Saudi men spend their days flirting with girls, driving their cars too fast while playing their music too loud, studying, looking for work, and working. The same is true of most young Saudi women as well, though they tend to think more about work and school and less about boys than you would expect.
The modern jihadi ideal of creating a world-spanning Islamic state, imposing Islamic law, and restoring the Caliphate — the viceregency of God — as the only legitimate government simply has never been a best-seller in the modern Muslim world. Only in Egypt and Algeria in the early to late 1980s did these ideals have anything remotely resembling popular appeal, and that was hardly mass appeal. Widespread terror in Algeria throughout the 1990s after cancellation of the 1992 election has pretty well soured Algerians on the idea of Islamic rule, and violence in Egypt in the late 1980s isolated the revolutionaries from the rest of the country. Combined with some pretty ferocious policing, Islamic revolution was largely beaten in Egypt.
And the revolutionaries have again reached too far and alienated just about everyone in Saudi Arabia. A major bombing attack that killed foreign Muslims last year combined with a number of shoot-outs between police in the rural heart of the country and around the holy city of Makka, have stripped the Saudi franchise of the international Islamic revolution of much public sympathy and support.
Only when they market jihad under the banner of the ongoing injustices (real and imagined) they see — the plight of the Palestinians, the occupation of Iraq, the never-ending war in Chechnya, the influence of decadent Western culture — do they get significant sympathy. Which can get you a box of riyals and rupees, but that's hardly the same thing as active support.
Take heart. Bin Laden has already lost, and the proof of that was the September 11 attacks. In order to get his revolution, he had to involve us in a war and occupation of a Muslim state, use us as leverage to try and persuade enough Muslims to side with him against us. And even though the revolutionaries have gotten that war — our idiotic, counter-productive and immoral occupation of Iraq — with its ability to recruit and train a whole new generation of muajehdin, they are still going to lose. The most the revolutionaries can hope for is to go from anarchists who can bomb and kill to Bolsheviks who can seize power (and that may be possible at some point in Iraq, though they won't be able to hold power for any meaningful period of time). But that is all. Bin Laden may win straw poll popularity contests that have utterly no consequences, but I doubt anyone will actually cast a ballot for him or take to the streets on his behalf if they ever got the chance.
A few smart people knew, early on, that the best way to deal with the Soviet Union was calmly and patiently. A bad system based on bad ideas was bound to fall apart on its own sooner or later. And it did, though many of us (including myself) believed it would not. To contemplate the power of decadence and liberty, consider what Moscow was 40 years ago and what it aspired to. See that once-closed Soviet oil industry is now open to foreign investment, albeit imperfectly and with a great deal of uncertainty. BP (which includes the former Standard Oil of Indiana and Standard Oil of Ohio) has the stake in TNK, and ConocoPhillips holds close to 10 percent of Lukoil.
And not the other way around.
Most Muslims understand that revolutionary Islam, with its utopian promise of God's perfect order and the just society in the here-and-now, cannot deliver peace, prosperity and security. They still aren't quite sure how to make those things for themselves, but that's something every person and human society has to work out for itself.
We can help when asked. And stay out of the way otherwise.
Charles H. Featherstone [send him mail] is a Washington, D.C.-based journalist specializing in energy, the Middle East, and Islam. He lives with his wife Jennifer in Alexandria, Virginia.


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