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"As we look forward to where the U.S. budget is headed, at a minimum expected a $500 billion reduction over 10 years, and a maximum of a trillion over 10 years," said Dennis Muilenburg, CEO of Boeing Defense, Space & Security, at a recent Bank of America/Merrill Lynch investor seminar. The latter would include the impact of sequestration.
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Arizona's auto dealers and AAA Arizona are squabbling at the Capitol over what the latter claims is a power grab. Legislation being pushed by the dealers would spell out in statute that vehicles must be delivered directly from the dealership to the customer.
Bobbi Sparrow, president of the Arizona Automobile Dealers Association, said that's what the law already requires.
But AAA spokesman David Cowley said the measure is aimed at auto brokers like the one run by his agency. He said the change would undermine one of the key reasons that people buy from brokers: They don't want to deal with dealers.
Sparrow, in turn, responded that it is only AAA that sees a sinister motive in the measure. And as proof, she produced a letter from Desert Schools Federal Credit Union, which also has a buyers' service, saying it has no problem with the proposal.
Nothing in the legislation would put these brokers out of business.
But what happens now, Cowley said, is that after a deal is made and AAA finds a car for a customer, someone from his organization will pick it up from the dealership and bring it either to the AAA office or to the buyer's home.
Sparrow's legislation would end that practice. Cowley said that's a bad idea.
"People we've surveyed don't want to go to the dealer,'' he said.
Cowley said one reason they come to brokers in the first place is they don't want the high-pressure sales tactics, not only for the vehicle itself but for those "add-ons'' that can be very profitable for the dealer. He said that once customers show up to pick up a vehicle they will be subject to the sales pitches for everything from undercoating to the extended warranties.
"That's what we want to avoid,'' he said.
Sparrow, however, said the dealership is already required by law to handle the title and registration. She said this legislation just clarifies that has to be done at the dealership.
Cowley said there's no reason that paperwork must be done in a dealer showroom. He said right now the dealership gives the partly filled-out paperwork to the AAA broker, who gets the rest of the information and then ships it back to the dealership for processing.
Sparrow also said there are safety issues. She said dealers take the time to walk a car buyer through all of the features and issues, ranging from how to turn off the air bag in the front passenger compartment to where a child should — and should not— be allowed to ride.
"That's the argument,'' retorted Cowley, saying it has no merit.
"All of our people are former salesmen from dealerships,'' he said, familiar with the vehicles they are buying. And if they're not, Cowley continued, they will call the dealership and have someone come over.
Sparrow said that Cowley's argument that dealers are trying to sell one more thing to buyers ignores one basic fact: The deal is already done by the time the customer comes to get the vehicle. She said they have a check in hand for the negotiated amount and the dealership isn't likely to foul the sale by trying to get the buyer to purchase some other product or service.


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slipknot5678 wrote on Dec 3rd, 2014 at 8:06am :Giving you fake-mod powers was the best decision the UG team ever made.it's great, I can't get warned or banned for anything anymore, so I can pretty much do what I want. I love it. Don't know if it quite makes up for having to read the comments for the "Wednesday Question" articles but...it's at least some compensation
yo how are the college apps going? anywhere in the UK?
slipknot5678 wrote on Jul 13th, 2013 at 9:15am :It's good to have you back.
thanks dude! good to be back!
Bro what's your phone number/Facebook?
slipknot5678 wrote on Nov 7th, 2012 at 3:04am :Nice Norwegian flag. >_>
Uhh.. Thanks, I guess?
slipknot5678 wrote on Jul 11th, 2012 at 6:59pm :Late response. You don't seem nosy. I'm willing to answer most questions. I hope you succeed in your career as a clinical psychologist.
Thanks bro. :3
slipknot5678 wrote on Jul 6th, 2012 at 5:08pm :You're a pretty cool guy yourself.
I don't actually hate myself or anything like that, my wording is just pretty bad. We unearthed my 2009 posts a couple of nights ago and those were way worse.
Good to hear. Sorry if I seem too nosy, it's just that I plan on becoming a clinical psychologist and I'm getting myself ready for my future career.
slipknot5678 wrote on Jul 4th, 2012 at 11:58pm :Glad they're doing alright.
I'm working on an ambient/nature sounds album for the UG split challenge. I'm also simultaneously writing for my proper debut (which will probably be out in a year ) that will be a pop album with all sorts of different influences.
I can dig that, brother!
You seem pretty chill, but from what I've seen you post you seem kinda down on yourself sometimes. That makes me a saaaaad panda.
slipknot5678 wrote on Jul 3rd, 2012 at 1:54am :Congratulations on being engaged! (and not living with your parents : )
That's very good of you; I hope they're all right.
Thank you.
They seem to be doing okay. I believe they're all going back to their respective homes today and they're letting us have whatever is left in the house. There's a nice couch with a fold-out bed that I'm thinking about taking and my fiancee is probably going to take all of the philosophy books.
Anywho, what kind of music are you working on right now?
slipknot5678 wrote on Jul 1st, 2012 at 10:44pm :Just shit. I've just been packing to move and writing music for UG. You?
I'm getting ready to go back to work and move into an apartment with my fiancee. I just got done helping my neighbor's family get his things in order after he died last week.
slipknot5678 wrote on Jul 1st, 2012 at 2:43am :I just noticed you visited my profile. It's odd, because I see you post all the time yet I don't think we've ever really interacted with each other.
It is odd. You always stand out because of your cockatoo. So, what's up?
slipknot5678 wrote on May 12th, 2012 at 8:30pm :I only made it on that list because of your joke vote. :it was only a semijoke. now ou can gloat to the rest of the pit. :P
#99 on the top 100 eh? I do remember when we first met, i think about it every night
slipknot5678 wrote on May 10th, 2012 at 7:41pm :http://soundcloud.com/will-letcher/cockatoos-soari ng
Here it is. I had a slightly longer version with drums in it but I don't know what happened to it.
Verryyyy nice, man. That's a great start.
slipknot5678 wrote on May 9th, 2012 at 7:29pm :I saw your space riff video.
I wrote a space rock riff that uses similar effects and that same chord you used at the end.
I mad.
Which one is better? lol
slipknot5678 wrote on Apr 23rd, 2012 at 2:04am :Even though I requested a ban, I admittedly still log onto UG once a week or so. >_>
I was looking in the forum of the banned, and where is this video of you singing Marylin Monroe?
lol loserrrrr
It's nowhere.
It died.
A painful.
You're still on the website, you definitely don't have willpower.
slipknot5678 wrote on Mar 22nd, 2012 at 11:41pm :Nothing relationship related really. So I wasn't trolling, but I was spamming. Just a huge overreaction to an IRL event that caused me to spam. It's worse than my 09 posts. I deleted the posts because it was just so stupid.
It's a good thing though; they caused me to rethink my entire attitude on everything. :
Hahaha well then I'm glad you'e come to a newfound and hopefully productive epiphany :
slipknot5678 wrote on Mar 22nd, 2012 at 11:37pm :I found out something today, and being the angsty kid I am, I decided to spam UG, including the relationship thread, where I tried to loosely tie my first world problems with my non-existent girl problems. So I got the ridiculing I deserve and didn't handle it very well.
I promise to never damage your thread again.
Lol it's not "my" thread, unless you're trolling it, I don't think anything's going wrong.
What happned?
slipknot5678 wrote on Mar 22nd, 2012 at 11:21pm :I hope you don't hate me now.
You have no idea how embarrassed I am.
For what?
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Omar M. Gooding[1] (born October 19, 1976),[2] also known by his stage name Big O,[3] is an American actor, rapper, voice artist and comedian.
Omar M. Gooding was born in Los Angeles, California on October 19, 1976 to Shirley and Cuba Gooding, Sr. He has an older brother, actor Cuba Gooding, Jr.[4] He attended University High School (Los Angeles, California).
Gooding is best known for appearing in television shows, such as Hangin' with Mr. Cooper, Smart Guy, and Playmakers, and also the films Ghost Dad and Baby Boy for which he received critical praise for his role as "Sweatpea."[3][5] He was one of the original hosts of the Nickelodeon television show Wild & Crazy Kids from 1990 to 1992. Gooding played D.H., a running back, on Playmakers in 2003. He played the character Odell in the 3rd season of Deadwood. In 2005, he took the role of Calvin Palmer, Jr. in the television series Barbershop (filling in for Ice Cube), based upon the 2002 film of the same name. Coincidentally, he also appeared on the UPN sitcom One on One as a barber in Flex Washington's barbershop. Gooding also appeared in the Grey's Anatomy episode "Superfreak."
From April 2010 to July 2010, Gooding starred as trauma charge nurse, Tuck Brody, in the Bruckheimer television series Miami Medical.[6][7]
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Hi all - To be honest, things have been fairly quiet on the SIOC front for the past year, but I am gathering material for the next ³Tales from the SIOC-O-Sphere² (#11!). The last ³Tales from the SIOC-O-Sphere² was published during summer 2010. Drupal 7 was the main story of course, but there were about 30 items related to SIOC in all. See: http://newtechpost.com/2010/06/23/tales-from-the-sioc-o-sphere-10 Regarding multiple types, has foaf:Person been replaced with schemaorg:Person and is it okay to say that a person is also an account? Thanks, John PS The list of applications also has to be updated as per the previous updates: #9 http://sioc-project.org/node/336 #8 http://sioc-project.org/node/334 #7 http://sioc-project.org/node/328 #6 http://sioc-project.org/node/310 #5 http://sioc-project.org/node/294 #4 http://sioc-project.org/node/272 #3 http://sioc-project.org/node/271 #2 http://sioc-project.org/node/138 #1 http://sioc-project.org/node/79 On 13/10/2011 19:34, "Stéphane Corlosquet" <email@example.com> wrote: > > > On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 6:32 PM, Jeni Tennison <firstname.lastname@example.com> wrote: >> Lin, (Steph,) >> >> Yes, I thought there were examples in Drupal. I was looking at openspring.net >> <http://openspring.net> and saw that there's typeof="schema:Person >> sioc:UserAccount". The point of using schema.org <http://schema.org> is >> obvious, and there are a list of SIOC applications at: >> >> http://www.w3.org/Submission/sioc-applications/#using >> >> Do you know anything about the current state of any of the SIOC apps? > > I'm cc'ing John, Alex and Uldis for an update on the SIOC apps. > > Steph. > >> >> Jeni >> -- >> Jeni Tennison >> http://www.jenitennison.com >> > > -- John Breslin www.johnbreslin.org Lecturer, Engineering and Informatics, NUI Galway www.nuigalway.ie Researcher, Social Software and Semantic Web, DERI www.deri.ie General Chair, AAAI ICWSM-12, 4-8 June 2012, Dublin www.icwsm.org johnbreslin on LinkedIn / Skype / Twitter / FacebookReceived on Tuesday, 18 October 2011 16:41:48 GMT
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The hummingbirds have been really active at the feeders the last few weeks, apparently getting ready to fly south at the end of the month. Sadly, one more sign that summer is coming to a close.
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HBO Announces Trio of Cancelations, One Renewalby Matt Richenthal at . Comments
HBO has announced a few shake-ups to its schedule.
First, the network renewed Lauda Dern's under-performing comedy, Enlightened, for a second season. The series scarcely earned 30,000 viewers per week, but it earned solid reviews this fall along with Golden Globe nominations for Best Comedy Series and Lead Actress in a Comedy for Dern.
On the flip side, HBO has canceled the following shows:
- How to Make It in America
- Bored to Death
- Hung
Which will you miss most?
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Hung put that his pimp on the screen... too much....not interested in her story.....and was bored most of the episodes this season...... As for Enlightened....watching that annoying chick ANNOY...is one tough watch.... but you watch for the train wreck....i'm one and done with that....won't be back next season. Bored to Death was watchable last season when Bateman was central theme as a fumbling/bumbling private eye....but it lost its charm this season !
Really dissappointed that HBO has cancelled How To Make It In America. I really enjoyed the show and felt it needed to be given a fair go. I mean 6 20min episodes per season and 18 months delay between seasons, how do you expect to establish a show and fanbase. I wonder why HBO bothered in the first place.
If they canceled Hung due to low ratings, then I blame HBO. They moved the premiere dates from it's original airing from June to October. It got well over 2 million more viewers when it ran from June to September. If they had left it, instead of moving it to October to December, where it goes just over 1 million viewers or under, it would have done much better, as it wasn't competing with all of the Fall shows that air in September/October. Leaving it during the Summer run was the best thing for it. They destroyed the show by moving it.
What's going on @ HBO? I wish they kept how to make it in America. That was a good show. Byatches!
I've been waiting for Hung to be canceled for awhile now. I really enjoyed the first season, and a bit of the second but just went on and on, nothing happened! Might go back and watch the final season though, just to say I did it.
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- For the mission of the same name, see Fame or Shame (mission).
Fame or Shame is a reality talent show in Grand Theft Auto V, hosted by Lazlow and viewable on the Weazel network. It is a parody of reality talent shows such as The X Factor.
Role in the GTA V plot
Michael De Santa's teenage daughter Tracey attempts to audition for the show; however, Trevor Philips did not want her to become a laughing stock on national television. He and Michael drive to the Maze Bank Arena to stop Tracey's audition, assaulting Lazlow in the process. Trevor and Michael then chase Lazlow out of the arena, eventually confronting him at the Los Santos River.


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Intel's latest batch of NICs is atrocious on our networks in Windows 7. It will just sit there trying to get an IP address forever unless it has been cold booted. This gets a bunch more reliable when you upgrade the BIOS and use the very latest drivers from the Intel site but the issue still persists.
Looking in the drivers advanced properties I think that I have found the culprit. For some unknown reason Intel have decided that a good default value for their "Wait on AutoNeg Complete" setting would be auto which defaults to just reporting that the card is ready whether it is or not.
Setting this to on seems to have made these cards much more reliable. In our environment at least the setting is stored in a standard location in the registry:
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In this Danish film, the MV Rozen is captured by Somali pirates and held for ransom. The ship owners in Denmark negotiate for the crew's release but balk at the cost. Talks drag on for months leaving the crew in limbo under deteriorating conditions as the negotiators suffer their own psychologica... Read More »
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For a hijacking movie, it is surprisingly slow, boring and very little action.
This entry in the catalog should not read "Kapringen". Very confusing.
spooky, not real. filmed with some ones bad imagination about a real occurrence. cannot believe I watched the whole film. to many details not in the film.
Very well done! Not a typical suspense movie as advertised - it's basically two stories: #1 is the negotiations between the professionals at the company and the hijackers. #2 is the relationship between the ship's crew and the hijackers. Feels clinically made but also pumps adrenaline. Full of surprises too. Great flick.
The movie succeeded to get me all upset (so it is effective to get some audiences emotionally involved) at the Danish executives dragging the hostage negotiation on while the hired helps are suffering on the ship, in order to save on the ransom money, from $12 mil down to $xxx ...
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1) Maintain my weight at +5 / -14 pounds
still ~5-6 lbs over goal range at month end but this has changed for June
3) Do some sort of housecleaning or maintenance daily
5) Finalize my budget by the end of Jan and stick to it to pay off at least 3 loans by Dec.
Debt #3 to be paid in June
6) Ready to test for black belt by end of June:
6c) Make terminology flashcards by end of February; review weekly until testing
Have not been reviewing weekly
6d) Assist in 4 classes per month (20 total required)
Ahead of schedule, have 17 classes of 20 needed by end of May; 3 more to go
6e) Learn and master sais kata
Have learned most of the form, need to confirm the final few steps next week
6f) Keep running so as to maintain ability to run 2 miles in 18 minutes
My 90 seconds is still missing because I was barely running in May. This has changed in June
6g) Be able to do 55 pushups in May; 60 in June
7) Goal revamped � finish mailbox / light switches / outlets / floors / doors / ceiling fans / curtains before I move, timing TBD
2 doors & ceiling fans installed, mailbox finished, switches & outlets finished, floors done (the ones I had planned to do, now I have to do the small bathroom floor which I had not planned on); 3 doors left to do
8) Postponed to 2013 - Run my first marathon by October 21
My priority is black belt testing; I will aim for the Paris marathon in April 2013.
9) Other goals as they occur to me.
Refinanced my car; tested for & earned my new professional certification; finalized my expatriate employment contract; closed out the kids� high school records
10) Have fun and stress less!
11) NEW GOAL - weekly pushup challenge
Doing 5 sets of pushups, 6 days per week. Currently at 5 sets of 30 plus extras during karate training class.
2) Become a half fanatic by the end of August
4) Break my dependence on Splenda
6b) Ni kyoso suro no kata approved in February; Bassai kata approved in March
I've always known I work better under pressure. And now that I have deadlines things are finally getting done. Not necessarily the way I would have done them had I had plenty of time to save for the materials I wanted, but at least done well enough to get through the next few years.
I finally have carpet in the living room and the tile gone on the rest of the floor. I got my garage cleaned just in time to trash it again with a huge pile of tile & subflooring torn up from the house. My parents were in town to visit last week and my Dad stayed a few extra days to put the floor down. He put up the door trim around the bedroom doors and fixed the 2 doors that the last handyman hung a few weeks ago. Apparently the handyman did a craptastic job, according to my Dad who is a carpenter. So out of curiosity I asked him how well my and my daughter's bedroom doors had been hung...mine was not bad and my daughter's was "damn near perfect". Guess who hung the door to my daughter's room?
I am even if it did take me 2 weeks to do it.
He also fixed the broken stair riser in the garage for me. And I had to call an electrician last Monday since a breaker kept tripping and wouldn't reset. Turned out a wire went bad, possibly because the doorbell transformer blew. So he came back on Friday to fix that and while he was here I had him fix the 2 light switches that were giving me fits and move a third light switch from one side of a room to the other. He also showed me how to determine which wire gets connected to which screw for a 3-way switch so I was able to install the last 3 of them myself and fix a 4th I had mis-connected originally. So the electrical is done and I am FINALLY finished with the switches and outlets. Except for 1 outlet which is making me crazy b/c the wiring in the dining room is too heavy a gauge for the plugs I used so I have 1 single plug in the whole house which is different. It is a constant irritant to me so I am picking brains on how to make it work (safely of course) with the plug I want and without rewiring the room. Did I mention this 1 plug being different from all the rest is making me crazy?
I have been accused of being obsessive-compulsive.
I prefer to think of it as paying attention to details.
My ex-h finally came over tonight to tow the old mini-van up to the scrap yard. They gave me $360 for it...and considering I paid $350 for it in 2008, let my sister drive it for more than a year when she didn't have a car, and used it a lot myself in the summers to go back and forth to the garden centers & hardware stores I think I definitely got my money's worth. I'm putting the $$ in my son's account to use for his first car or school.
And tonight my son finally got a job. He's been putting in applications since January and gotten nothing. A few weeks ago they tore down the local Dairy Queen and started putting up a new expanded building for it. On Tuesday morning I saw they had a "now hiring sign" in front so I told him to have his dad take him up there today to put in his application. Of course his dad did not do this so I took him up there at 5 and after a few minutes he came out and said he had to come back at 6 for orientation, and now has training daily until Wednesday with the opening on Thursday. He just happened to walk in at exactly the right time, they had already received over 500 applications.
Of course the timing is pretty bad too since I am leaving for France Saturday night for the next 2 weeks. And since he does not yet have his license I can't leave my car for him to use. So he will be walking on several days when my sister is not able to drive him, unless I can talk him into actually riding a bike. I'll be able to take him to get his road test and license when I get back and then see if we can talk his dad out of his truck for a while. His dad has 3 vehicles, please tell me why a single person who has nothing to haul or trailer to pull needs a pick-up in addition to his main car and his "spare" car? I understand having a spare "just in case" vehicle, that was why I had bought the mini-van, but 3 vehicles? Really?
My new position is now officially announced and effective tomorrow. I am finally getting the job I should have gotten last year which they gave to the worm instead. He is being moved into a different role and I am taking his position. Justice at last. I will spend the next 2 weeks there with him to transition the projects over to me. My daughter will come over next weekend so she can take her placement tests for school before they close for the summer.
Unfortunately while everything else has been so busy I have been neglecting exercise and nutrition. I'm no worse than I was at the beginning of the month (several pounds over my goal range) but no better either. I'll take it considering I've done more eating out than in this month and lucky to have gone running once a week. I don't anticipate it getting any easier for a few months, at least until we are finally moved and settled in sometime in August or September. But I am taking my running shoes with me this trip and plan to check out the bike paths along the river to get in some miles.
I'm as busy a bee!
I have so much going on I don't even know where to start.
HR is finally moving on the paperwork for my new position / move. And I actually know what I'll be doing now; my actual job had changed at least 4 times in the last 3 months but it is settled now. HR should be posting the announcement next week.
I got my carpet ordered for the living room & the rest of the floors measured. I will order the rest of the flooring at the end of the month, but now I have to get real busy tearing up the tile b/c there is now way I will pay labor that is literally twice the cost of the materials.
I finally installed the light trim for the recessed lights in the bathroom my ex had partially installed many years ago. The handyman hung the 2 bedroom doors and installed the new ceiling fans. 3 more doors to go next month. All the doors need to be stained. I need an entire house full of trim & moldings. I have a new doorbell speaker to install, and curtains in all the rooms, and I got tired of adding things to the to-do list.
My parents will be in town on Monday for the week. So I have major house cleaning to do this weekend too. But I'm hoping my Dad will get the upstairs trim done while he is here.
Yesterday, today & tomorrow I am participating in a neighborhood garage sale. Well, my son is participating while I am at work. I haven't had time to go through the house but I did have some things collected for donation that I've put out. Whatever I earn will be donated to his Eagle Scout project.
Tomorrow my daughter & I are running a 5k for Save the Manatees. Sunday my son has fife practice. I have karate to practice and documents to locate and French to start learning.
Next week (I hope) I will be able to set my schedule for June & July; I will be traveling back & forth to France to start my new position (I can't stay there yet until I get my visa, a 2-3 month process).
Black Belt testing has been delayed a month to August 4 b/c the man with the building keys is getting married on the original date and is too paranoid to trust any one else with the keys and alarm code. As if Sensei B can't be trusted to lock the doors? What a moron. But at least I have an extra month to get ready now.
Wednesday track practices have started again, which I need to get my speed back to where it needs to be. I have cancelled my gym membership, although it is not official until June 11.
I am making progress on my Netflix queue and TBR book pile. I have started listening to audio books on my commute so I can multi-task.
I took and passed my exam for the new certification & got that mailed in. I'm scrambling to get all of our new reporting processes set-up for 2013; I'm trying to simplify & idiot-proof them as much as possible so they can be rolled into new years going forward with minimal upkeep. Currently EVERYTHING is hard coded with specific dates and date specific file locations and names and formulas which makes updating every year a nightmare. On the up side, once I have it done I will have taken a 3+ hour reporting process down to 10 minutes and the yearly file transitions from I don't even know how many hours down to 5 minutes. I am awesome.
I have to get the Tour Permit for the group going to summer camp (Boy Scouts) in VA. Plus everyone's health forms and final payments and roster and I'm sure there is more. Plus transition my "jobs" with the Troop over to someone else. Plus get my son progressing on his Eagle project and finding a job & finishing his last 2 high school classes and starting college. And pet vaccinations & micro-chipping. And getting rid of the old mini-van and re-quoting my house & car insurance since they decided to raise my rates for no real reason. And a new driver's license before I move.
And so much more that I can't even think about right now or my head will explode.
Except for dinner, I have to think about that or my kids will kill me and eat me for dinner tonight since I haven't yet been shopping for the week and they claim to be hungry.
Found these when going through my phone today. I'm not good with pictures and don't take many, usually just of the things that strike my fancy and not your "normal" vacation pics. Here are some of the more interesting (to me):
Birdcages in Houston
Christmas street light decorations in London
Paris catacombs
Paris street art
Appetizers in Mexico - crickets & ant larvae..and, yes, I ate them
My son, who is a fifer with the 1st Michigan Fife & Drum Corps, went to Boston for the Patriot's Day celebrations to commemorate the events starting the Revolutionary War. We found a video of one of their performances whilst in Boston, at the Olde North Church. They are at the 6:44 mark, my son is the fifer on the end in front of the bass drum.


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British Prime Ministers: Lord Palmerston
A.J.P. Taylor on one of those surprising outsiders with a touch of mischief – in this case a man whose political career spanned nearly sixty years.
Among the surprising careers of British Prime Ministers, none has contained more surprises than that of Lord Palmerston. For twenty years junior minister in a Tory government, he became the most successful of Whig Foreign Secretaries; though always a Conservative, he ended his life by presiding over the transition from Whiggism to Liberalism. He was the exponent of British strength, yet was driven from office for truckling to a foreign despot; he preached the Balance of Power, yet helped to inaugurate the policy of isolation and of British withdrawal from Europe. Irresponsible and flippant, he became the first hero of the serious middle-class electorate. He reached high office solely through an irregular family connection; he retained it through skilful use of the press – the only Prime Minister to become an accomplished leader-writer.
Palmerston was not a member of one of the great Whig families or even connected with them. He was an Irish peer, moderately rich, who naturally entered politics to supplement his income. For a peer, he was an educated man. He went to Cambridge, which – even at the worst time – provided a solid grounding in mathematics; and he early absorbed the principles of political economy. Hence, he was not staggered, as Peel and Gladstone were, by the sudden impact of the Free Trade case; this had been a commonplace of his thought for thirty years. Born in 1784, he entered the House of Commons at the age of twenty-three, without either strong convictions or defined party ties; simply a young man of the fashionable world who wanted a good appointment and – rarity enough – was qualified to hold one. Having a reasonable grasp of figures and of economics, he was offered his choice among the junior financial offices," he chose that of Secretary at War and retained it for twenty years. This was the equivalent of the present day Financial Secretary to the War Office; a post strictly administrative and financial, without a seat in the Cabinet.
Though Palmerston ran his office competently, he did not trouble much with politics and seemed to care only for life in society. Good-looking and fickle, he established himself as 'Lord Cupid', a name which tells everything. But the years of obscurity were not wasted; he served a more prolonged apprenticeship in administration than any other Prime Minister has ever done and, when he cane to sit in Whig Cabinets, was distinguished from his colleagues by his ability to run an office. It was this ability, not his policy or his personality, which finally made him Prime Minister in 1855. Though Palmerston served a Tory ministry, it would be wrong to describe him as a Tory; he was simply a 'government man'. Nor was he a Canningite until late in the day; what brought him over to the Canningites was his support for Catholic emancipation. With his gaiety of spirit and his easy-going morals, he hated tyranny and oppression wherever it occurred. After twenty years of comfortable office, he left it for the sake of the Catholics; just as, at the end of his life, he threatened to resign as Prime Minister rather than relax the struggle against the slave-trade. In 1828 Palmerston, out of office, found himself associated with Melbourne and Huskisson, the Canningite remnant who had broken with Wellington and were drifting over to the Whigs. There were also personal grounds for this tie. After a good many adventures, Palmerston had settled down with Lady Cowper, Melbourne's married sister. He lived with her more or less openly; had children by her; and married her in the late 1830s after Lord Cowper's death. Melbourne was a more important man than Palmerston, more influential and better connected; when he joined the Whig cabinet in 1830, he carried his illegitimate brother-in-law with him. Without the Melbourne connection, Palmerston would hardly have reached the cabinet rank which started him on the path to the Premiership; and Melbourne was to sustain him against the criticism of the orthodox Whigs at the end of the 1830s. In the last resort, Palmerston owed his position as Prime Minister to the odd chance that the sister of one of his predecessors had become his mistress.
Palmerston was to make his name at the Foreign Office; but this was neither intended nor expected. Lord Grey, Prime Minister in 1850, had been Foreign Secretary in a remote era and meant to conduct foreign policy himself; all he wanted was a competent underling in the House of Commons. Lady Cowper was again of service. Princess Lieven, her closest friend, recommended Palimerston to Grey as presentable and well-mannered. For some time it was believed that Grey supplied the policy; Palmerston was held to be 'frivolous' and failed to establish his hold over the House of Commons. The peaceful solution of the Belgian question was primarily a triumph for Grey. When Melbourne became Prime Minister, Palmerston had things more his own way; and his conduct of British policy during the eastern crisis of 1839-41 was brilliant, perhaps the most perfect in the records of the Foreign Office. But it was a performance for experts. It did not make him popular with the general public; and it made him much disliked by many of the great Whigs, such as Holland and Durham. In 1841, when the Whig government declined into collapse, Palmerston was still a relatively little-known figure. His frequent evocation of Canning, whose policy he neither understood nor followed, was an implied confession that he could not stand on his own feet.
The five years between 1841 and 1846, when Peel was in office with a Conservative government, were decisive for Palmerston's future. The succession to Melbourne as Whig leader was open. Lord John Russell assumed that it would automatically be his as political representative of the greatest Whig family; and he thought he had done all that was necessary when he secured the allegiance of such Whig managers as 'Bear' Ellice. Palmerston could hardly play his family connection against Russell's, even if it had counted for anything; he therefore decided to play the British public. He built himself up deliberately as a public figure: established relations with the press and himself wrote leading articles in his forthright, unmistakable style. At the end of 1845, when Peel first resigned, the third Earl Grey made it a condition of his taking office under Russell that Palmerston should be excluded; the condition wrecked Russell's cabinet-making. The episode was at once an unconscious recognition by the great Whigs that they had taken a cuckoo to the nest, and a sign that the cuckoo was now too strong to be ejected. Later, in 1846, Russell formed the last Whig government of our history; and Palmerston went undisputed to the Foreign Office. This feeble government had a record of failure, broken only by Palmerston's dazzling display in foreign policy. His policy had its serious side and can be defended, as it were, on technical grounds; but there was a flamboyant touch as well – Palmerston was deliberately playing Russell off the centre of the stage. His triumph came in 1850 with the Don Pacifico debate, when he held his own against the greatest speakers of the age – Peel, Gladstone, and Cobden; held his own and worsted them. The triumph was not one of oratory in the conventional sense. Palmerston was always a bad speaker; full of 'hums' and 'haws', his voice trailing away before the end of the sentence, and the pause filled up by a flourish of his handkerchief. Rather it was a triumph of character. With his dyed whiskers and his red face, Palmerston exemplified British self-confidence and bounce.
Still it needed the impact of war to finish the job for him. At the end of 1851 Russell finally got rid of Palmerston; early in 1852 the Russell government fell in its turn. Then, at the end of the year Russell and Palmerston found themselves together again in the coalition of Whigs and Peelites, brought into being by Prince Albert and presided over by Aberdeen. Palmerston was relegated to the Home Office. He was rescued from it by the disasters of the Crimean War. Though he shared the common responsibility of the Cabinet, public opinion seized on him as the man of destiny, the man who would win the war. This was the moment of crisis in Palmerston's life and, for the historian, the most interesting point in his career. Again and again in modern history, Great Britain has drifted unprepared into war; then, after early failures, has discovered an inspired war-leader. How does public opinion make its choice? And what is it that Palmerston had in common with the elder Pitt, Lloyd George and Winston Churchill? It was not done merely by advertisement, though all four made skilful use of publicity; it was not even done by brilliant speeches in the House of Commons or outside. It turned rather on the impression of resolution and courage laid down in the House of Commons over a period of years. During a crisis the members of parliament broke away from the conventional pattern – whether of family connection or party organisation – and acted according to their patriotic duty. Curiously enough, the popular choice has always been right; on all four occasions it hit on a leader who was not only more colourful or more dramatic than his peace-time predecessor but who was also more efficient technically.' This is puzzling. The general public or even the members of the House of Commons could hardly deduce from Palmerston's speeches that he was an administrator of the first quality, who could challenge the Peelites on their own ground of efficient government without any of the high moral tone with which they found necessary to accompany it.
The government which Palmerston formed in 1855 was neither a party government nor a coalition; it was an association of individuals, united only to win the war. The old system of family connections was in decay; the new system of defined parties had hardly begun. The Conservatives were on the way to becoming a party in the modern sense; but they were doomed to perpetual minority so long as there was a middle-class electorate. Those acceptable as ministers were in confusion. The Peelites broke with Palmerston and disintegrated; when Russell bungled the conference at Vienna shortly afterwards, Whig solidarity also dissolved. Palmerston's personality was the only stable point in a fluid political system. It would be absurd to claim that his government was a war-cabinet of the highest order. Though it began the reform of the British military system, these reforms stopped half-way, like the Crimean War itself. Opportunity had come to Palmerston too late in life: he was seventy-one when he became Prime Minister. More important, opportunity came at the wrong time: Great Britain could not be turned into a military nation only three years after the Exhibition of 1851. Still, in one way, Palmerston did better than his peers, those other great men who have saved their country. He not only won the war that he had been called on to win, he actually survived his success. The elder Pitt, Lloyd George, Churchill, were all ruined by victory. All three were ejected from office before the end of the war or shortly after it. Palmerston stayed safely in office; and, even more remarkable, won a general election a year after the war was over.
The general election of 1857 is unique in our history: the only election ever conducted as a simple plebiscite in favour of an individual. Even the 'coupon' election of 1918 claimed to be more than a plebiscite for Lloyd George; even Disraeli and Gladstone offered a clash of policies as well as of personalities. In 1857 there was no issue before the electorate except whether Palmerston should be Prime Minister; and no one could pretend that Palmerston had any policy except to be himself. Of course, we know very little about the general election of 1857 (nor for that matter about any other in the nineteenth century); and it may turn out on detailed examination that the result of it was really determined by less obvious factors, Still, there was in it, at the least, a plebiscitary element: as though even the British had to be in the fashion and had caught the taste from Louis Napoleon. In the same way, Neville Chamberlain in the 1930s got as near the Fuhrerprinzip as an Englishman could.
The political victory of 1857 was not the end of Palmerston's career. He had presided over, and in part caused, the end of the old political order; he was destined to inaugurate the new. His period of personal government lasted only a few months after the general election of 1857. The rather cantankerous patriotism which had sustained him against the Peelites and the pacifists turned on him when he tried, sensibly enough, to appease Louis Napoleon after the Orsini plot. Since no one could form a government with majority support, (he Conservatives – as in 1852 – formed a government without one; this in its turn was bound to be followed, again as in 1852, by a coalition. But the government which Palmerston organised in June 1859 was a coalition of a different kind: not a coalition of groups which looked back to the past, but a coalition which anticipated the future. Had it not been for Palmerston himself – too individual, too full of personality to be fitted into a party-pattern – it would have been the first Liberal government in our history. Everything that was important in it was Liberal – finance, administrative reform, its very composition: the first government with unmistakable middle class Free Traders as members. Palmerston would even have included Cobden, if he could have got him. It was Cobden who had scruples against tolerating the irresponsible survivor from an older world; and not the other way round. Of course, tolerance and good nature had always been Palmerston's strong points; not virtues for which radicals are usually distinguished.
Palmerston was too strong a character to be swamped by Liberalism even in old age. It was not so much that he resisted reforms; he himself had welcomed and often promoted the administrative reforms of the preceding thirty years. It was rather that he thought a government had other tasks than to be always reforming: it should conduct a forceful foreign policy and strengthen the national defences. Palmerston is one of the few Prime Ministers who has literally left his mark on the face of the country: all those odd-looking brick fortifications behind Portsmouth are his doing – they are still useful and effective, which is more than can be said for Gladstonian finance. But Palmerston in his last ministry was fighting, and winning, the wrong battle. For nearly a hundred years – ever since Dunning's famous motion, in 1780 – self-confident British aristocrats had aimed to reduce the powers of the Crown – to prevent its interference in the course of government and of policy. Melbourne and Palmerston had had four blissful years on the accession of Queen Victoria when the Crown seemed on the point of becoming politically null. The process had been reversed by Prince Albert; and, when Palmerston was at the Foreign Office between 1846 and 1851 he had to contend with ceaseless royal interference – the more galling for being justified by every historical precedent. The years of the Crimean War had been too serious to allow of constitutional squabbles; but these began again in 1859. Between 1859 and 1861 the Crown fought persistently the policy of Palmerston and of Russell, now Foreign Secretary; intrigued, as George III had intrigued, with members of the Cabinet behind the Prime Minister's back; dreamt of ejecting Palmerston as the Fox-North coalition had been ejected in 1784.
Then, in 1861, the Prince Consort suddenly died. Victoria was both unwilling and unable to carry on the contest; she became again and remained the political nonentity that she had been before her marriage. Palmerston had fulfilled the highest Whig ambition, though after the death of the Whig party: the Crown had been eliminated from politics. It turned out almost at once that the victory was of no use at all. The Whigs had evoked public opinion against the Crown; Palmerston had played off public opinion against his Whig rivals. Now public opinion interfered more effectively than the Crown land ever done. Though Palmerston had been much harassed by the Crown when he was at the Foreign Office, he had always got his way in the end; and this was equally true of Palmerston and Russell in the severe disputes between 1859 and 1861. Despite the Prince Consort's Germanic enthusiasm for Austria, they managed to back up Italian unification from start to finish. Things were very different between 1862 and 1865. Russell, for instance, would have liked to recognise the southern states in the American Civil War and to go to war for the sake of Poland in 1863; Palmerston would have threatened war for the sake of Denmark in 1864. They were overruled by the majority of the Cabinet, itself reflecting the opinion of the majority of members in the House of Commons, and they in their turn accurately voicing the opinion of the middle-class electorate. It is often said that Palmerston's foreign policy was a failure at the end of his life; it would he much truer to say that he was not allowed to have a foreign policy. Public opinion had pulled off the feat that was beyond the Prince Consort or even George III. Palmerston, the first – perhaps the only – Prime Minister to owe his success solely to public opinion, ended his life its prisoner.
Yet he was very near hitting on the method by which public opinion would be tamed. At the time of the general election of 1859, party organisation meant nothing at all except perhaps among the Conservatives. Whig grandees put up money to fight a few constituencies, from a mixture of family and party motives; all the rest still depended on local initiative. By 1868 the Liberal Whips were handling a party fund, and were seeking subscriptions much more widely than at Brooks's. The transition took place when Palmerston was Prime Minister. He it must have been who decided to leave these matters to the Whips, and to keep the Prime Minister out of the financial side of the party-system; it may even have been Palmerston who first, though unwittingly, recommended men to honours in return for their contributions to the party-chest. Gladstone found the system settled when he took over the leadership of the Liberal party in 1868. After all, it was the only way to run a party once the monied men pushed aside the members of the great families; and Palmerston no doubt acquiesced in it the more easily since he had never belonged to these select Whig circles. Thus, without knowing it, he invented both the Liberal party and the modern party-system; no mean achievement for an individualist adventurer.
This is the essential point about him, the secret of his failures as of his success. He was never dependent on connection or on party, and rather disliked both; he was self-made. Men have written many books about his foreign policy; and will write more. Very little has been written, or ever will be, about his place in British political life; for it is an empty one. The British political system has no room for the rogue elephant. Though he may ruin others – as Palmerston ruined the Whigs, or as Lloyd George wrecked the Liberal party sixty years afterwards – he will certainly ruin himself. He will be barren as Prime Minister; he will not create. Our system is admirably suited to represent interests and to voice general ideas; it does not like independent characters, except as an eccentric adornment. In war both interests and ideas are pushed aside; hence, as an exception to the rule, the great individuals then triumph. Once peace comes, their power is ended, even if they cling to office as Palmerston managed to do. The steady men of solid principle and mind are the ones who achieve effective success; but the adventurers are more fun. Palmerston was not the spokesman of a class, though he defended the Irish landowners towards the end of his life; and he did not voice any great principle or idea. He was simply an individual of strong personality – resolute, self-confident, and with great powers of physical endurance. As Foreign Secretary, he was always too independent of the Prime Minister and of the Cabinet; as Prime Minister, though he stood loyally by his colleagues, he failed to dominate the Cabinet or even to lead it.
He was not an Irish peer and an Irish landowner for nothing. He had an Irish jauntiness which always wins English hearts. He could never rein in his irrepressible good spirits; even his best speeches have here and there a touch of flippancy. He would rather make a good joke than win a debate. He was not, as is sometimes alleged, a survivor from the eighteenth century. Rather he had 'Regency' written all over him – in his clothes, his morals, even in his way of talking and his metallic laugh. Nor did he "represent" the electorate of the Reform Bill, if this means that he resembled the middle-class voter. The men of the time delighted in Palmerston just as Churchill is now admired by millions who would never vote for him; but their serious taste was for Peel and Gladstone – these were the truly 'representative men'. Palmerston was certainly the most entertaining of Queen Victoria's Prime Ministers. Though there have been greater Prime Ministers, there has been none more genial; and, for that matter, none so good-looking.'


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Where are they? Where are your friends now? Tell me about the loneliess of good, He-Man. Is it equal to the loneliness of evil?
That is awesome work!
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MOTUC NEEDS more TROLLANS !!!
Great work! I never saw this figure growing up.Hope we get him in classics but highly unlikely.
I love it. It makes me want one in MotUC.
i like it too
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Definitely want one of these in MOTUC. I love the minicomic rendition of how he acquired these powers!
Evil Simian Mechanic of the Horde!
That is some great work, love me some Laser Light Skeletor.
fantastic! is that a NA connection I see in the skull-moon?
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Thank you all very much! Glad you like it.
@ Soulgem
Yes, you are right. To the customer basicly the Laser Light Skeletor is the New Adventures Skeletor.
And i personally look forward to the Classics version, and i hope he sports these translucent elements so i can build a lamp inside for him to glow
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Wow very cool!
love your work and I like that you tied in New Adventures
That is awesome! Nice work!
In the bleak midwinter, frosty wind made moan,
Earth stood hard as iron, water like a stone;
Snow had fallen, snow on snow, snow on snow,
In the bleak midwinter, long ago......a stable place sufficed.
What can I give Him, poor as I am?
If I were a shepherd, I would bring a lamb;
If I were a Wise Man, I would do my part;
Yet what can I give Him?....[I can] give my heart.
This is with the best drawing I stood off has ever agreed!
to many thanks to again