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Why Isn't Hong Kong Stamping Passports Anymore?
There's a certain smugness that comes with flipping through a passport full of stamps from all over the world. Unfortunately for travelers who enjoy that feeling, stamps from Hong Kong are no longer part of the action.
Forgive us for being super late on this news, but Hong Kong SAR (Special Administrative Region) started dispensing little slips of paper in place of stamps in March 2013, with a full goodbye to stamps in December 2013. It wasn't until our most recent visit last month that we were alerted to the change, and looked at this tiny piece of paper like a step backwards.
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The 10 Small Things Cathay Pacific Does to Make Economy Class Special
"OMG, you're going to have such a great time" isn't the typical response to someone saying they're about to spend over 14 hours on a plane...in Economy.
Alack and alas, we find ourselves reacting in this way when said travel involves flying Cathay Pacific.
Since Cathay Pacific is based in Hong Kong, a "Special Administrative Region" under China and only 426 square miles in size, it has no domestic flights. Every flight from Hong Kong International Airport is truly international, and thus Cathay is an airline completely equipped for long-haul travel, with a fleet of all wide-body aircraft. On top of that, Cathay only introduced their new Economy seats in 2012, so the interiors aren't as tired as you may have come to expect from long-haul aircraft.
While other airlines may offer some of these perks, it's Cathay's particular ratio of comfort to friendliness that may help travelers be least anxious about spending a 14-16 hour nonstop in coach.
How Cathay Pacific makes Economy Class special:
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Is Travel to Hong Kong Still Safe? An Update from the 'Umbrella Revolution'
As the "Umbrella Revoltution" in Hong Kong continues into its second week, is it still safe to visit the city?
Last week we said yes, and this week we stand by that verdict, but now have the first-hand experience to back it up since arriving to HK a couple days ago.
Things we have not seen: violence, police, more than a few closed roads, loud demonstrating.
Things we have seen: signs, a wall of post-it notes with inspirational quotes and Tupac song lyrics, protesters napping or reading in the midday sun, and news crews desperate for new video footage.
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Is Travel to Hong Kong Safe Right Now?
In light of this week's mass protests and #OccupyCentral movement in the heart of Hong Kong, some travelers may be worried about disruptions to their travel plans.
Approximately 70 people were arrested in Saturday's protests, and Sunday saw the movement spread to Kowloon, in the always-busy Mongkok neighborhood. An excellent and quick explainer of what's happening in Hong Kong can be found at CNN.com, and also via video on Vox.com. What's most important to remember is that the protesters are not violent; it's about voices, presence, and future freedoms for Hong Kong.
So, should you go? Yes, absolutely still travel to Hong Kong, but do know these things:
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Plan Far Ahead for This Awesome Airfare Deal to Hong Kong
Hong Kong may be clear on the other side of the world from New York, but Cathay Pacific's 777-300ER airplanes can make the journey in one swift hop over the North Pole. Come next spring, they'll even be doing so often with a new nonstop route from Boston-Logan International Airport.
This will be the airline's 6th US destination (following JFK, EWR, SFO, LAX, and ORD). To celebrate, and to fill up their first month of flights with smiling faces, they've launched a deep discount airfare sale on the new route, with roundtrip tickets going for a total of $753.88. That's a whole $4 cheaper than last year's similar launch sale to Newark.
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Inside the Brand New Qantas Lounge at Hong Kong International Airport
Hong Kong�s Chek Lap Kok airport is not a bad place to spend a few hours pre-departure. In fact, it�s high on our list of favorite airports around, especially if you�re flying in a premium cabin on Cathay Pacific or another oneworld airline for the excellent airline lounge options. We just took you inside a private Cabana in the flagship �The Wing� First Class lounge and the latest Cathay addition �The Bridge,� and are finishing up with the even newer Qantas lounge, which arrived in April.
Located on level 7, but at the opposite end of Cathay Pacific�s The Wing Lounge, the new Qantas Hong Kong Lounge brings the previous underground Business Class Lounge up to where its separate First Class Lounge used to be, redesigning the whole space in the process. It's huge for a dedicated airline lounge at an airport where there already are a range of oneworld alliance lounge options, and it seats up to 300 passengers at a time.
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Inside a First Class Cabana at Cathay Pacific's 'The Wing' Hong Kong Airport Lounge
Hong Kong gets a lot of love from us for many reasons, not least among which is its awesome airport, Chek Lap Kok. No matter how you pass through HKG, you�re likely to have a pleasant experience, but this being the home of Cathay Pacific, flying in a premium cabin or having the right status with oneworld alliance means you�re in for a real treat.
The airline lounges here are among the best in existence, and they're regularly updated with the newest lounge niceties. When we flew out of Hong Kong earlier this month, we made sure to build in enough time to explore them all. Naturally we first aimed straight for the top, with the private cabanas in the redesigned Cathay Pacific �The Wing� First Class lounge.
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Inside Cathay Pacific's New 'The Bridge' Lounge at Hong Kong International Airport
Hong Kong�s Chek Lap Kok airport is not a bad place to spend a few hours pre-departure. In fact, it�s high on our list of favorite airports around, especially if you�re flying in a premium cabin on Cathay Pacific or another oneworld airline for the excellent airline lounge options. We just took you inside a private Cabana in the flagship �The Wing� First Class lounge and are continuing with the latest Cathay addition: �The Bridge�.
With �The Wing,� �The Pier,� and �The Cabin,� you�d think Cathay wouldn�t need another airline lounge, but they went ahead and did it anyway, opening �The Bridge� late last year. The lounge is located at the far end of the terminal, just after gates 35 and 36, "bridging" the base of the Y that the building splits into at this point.
The Bridge is a combined business & first class lounge, and depending on your departure gate it might be a bit of a longer walk / detour, but we�d likely seek out The Bridge regardless of proximity to our gate the next time we�re in Hong Kong � read on to find out why.
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Battle of the Tea Museums: Hong Kong vs Seoul
Above: Hong Kong's Flagstaff Museum of Tea Ware
Both Hong Kong and South Korea love their tea, although they have quite different styles; the Chinese prefer black teas like oolong, while Koreans love green and flower teas and Hong Kongers are known for their obsession with milk tea.
Though we�re not going to take a side on which tea we like the best, we did visit tea museums in both cities, and we�re ready to advise you on which one�s more worth a trip:
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Inside the Amenity Kit: Cathay Pacific Business Class (Men)
We come across some downright awesome airline amenity kits in our travels, and the surprises of each zippered pouch can often make or break comfort on a premium flight. With this in mind, here's to our new series: Inside the Amenity Kit, wherein we unzip, unwrap, and expose the loot inside:
Traveling from North America or Europe to Hong Kong means a long flight no matter which way you play it, but it's HK's hometown airline Cathay Pacific that leads in premium plush to make the hours pass a little faster.
Up in business class, Cathay keeps passenger happy with lie-flat seats (all with aisle access), many-course meals complete with signature drinks, and luxe little amenity kits.
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Cathay Pacific's New Signature Sipper is Non-Alcoholic and Needing a Name
If you like drinking at 38,000 feet (who doesn't?) and have plans to pop over to Hong Kong, you may get a chance to sample Cathay Pacific's newest in-flight cocktail.
Similar to previous contests, which resulted in Cathay's other signature cocktails like the Cathay Delight, Pacific Sunrise, Cloud 9 and Oriental Breeze, this year's winner will be served in First and Business Class cabins. If you're a fan of the previous winning concoctions, don't worry as they'll still be on the cocktail menu.
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On Friday We Eat Dim Sum: 7 Tips for Hong Kong Tea Houses
Call it what you want: dim sum, yum cha, appetizers or small plates. Regardless of what rolls off your tongue when talking about it, Hong Kong's national dim sum dishes can be found all around the city and Tea Houses are where you'll want to go first to dig in.
One very popular and well-located tea house in the city is Lin Heung on Wellington Street in the Central District.
Now, this isn't your typical Chinese restaurant; it takes some subtle (and not so subtle) tips to navigate around the establishment. Walk into the corner building's ground floor bakery and head upstairs for a sit-down meal. Once you've made it this far, all you'll need are our Hong Kong tea house tips to finish out the meal:


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April starts with a day of pranks (lies), and it ends with a day of honesty. National Honesty Day may not be as popular as April Fool's Day, but its intentions are far more noble. National Honesty Day was started by M. Hirsh Goldberg in 1991. Goldberg spent several years researching his book, "The Book of [...] Today Is National Honesty Day, April Fool's Day's Unpopular Cousin is a p
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Monday, October 29, 2012 The markets are closed Monday, and likely on Tuesday as well, due to the approaching Hurricane Sandy. The decision to close all market activity on Monday reversed the earlier partial shutdown call that would have kept open electronic trading activities even as it closed down all trading floors. This is the first unscheduled market shutdown since September 2011. All scheduled economic releases on this week's calendar are expected to come as originally planned, though some of the earnings announcements have been delayed. Most of the major economic reports are coming out later this week, with the October non-farm payroll report coming out Friday morning. The consensus expectation is for the jobs report to show gains of 120K this month, with a modest uptick in the unemployment report. More so than market impact, this jobs report will likely have far more resonance in the political field given the charged electoral backdrop. The ADP report on Thursday will give us a preview of the government jobs report. We will also get the October manufacturing ISM survey on Thursday. On the earnings front, this week's busy reporting schedule is unlikely to change the overall weak tone of the reporting season thus far. Including results this morning from Loews Corp . ( L ) and CNA Financial ( CNA ), we have third quarter results from 273 companies in the S&P 500 or 54.6% of the index's total members. Total earnings for these companies are down 2.4% from the same period last year and only 61.5% of the companies are beating earnings expectations. Total revenues are down 2.1%, but only 30.7% of the companies are able to beat revenue expectations. Combining the results the 273 companies whose results are known already with the 227 reports still to come gives us a composite growth rate for the third quarter of a 1.1% decline (the composite revenue growth rate is 2.4%). The predominantly negative tone of company guidance has started showing up in estimate revisions, but overall estimates for the fourth quarter and beyond still remain elevated at this stage. Total earnings are expected to grow 6.1% in the fourth quarter and in excess of 11% of in 2013. These growth expectations have come down from a few months back, but they still have more room to fall. The market weakness of recent days is largely a reflection of this uncertain and downbeat corporate earnings picture. Sheraz Mian Director of Research
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Those who knew 23-year-old Airman Dan Johnson say he was the strong, silent type, who loved his family, his faith and his job in the Explosive Ordinance Disposal program, or EOD, at Vandenberg Air Force Base.
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Irwin Hodson Teams with KBA and ClimatePartner on Eco-friendly Printing
May 2009Rapida 105 integral to the sustainability strategy
One key element of the sustainability strategy is the new press installed just a few months ago: A 35-metre-long, 14-unit KBA Rapida 105 (predecessor series of today's Rapida 106) with UV facilities. It is the first sheetfed offset press from KBA at Irwin Hodson Press, and the undisputed showpiece in the print room, which it shares with further medium-format presses from other manufacturers. Unusual for a 10-colour perfector is the configuration with five printing units and an inline coater between two dryer towers before the perfecting unit, and then another five printing units and a further coater before the dryers in the press delivery.
Unique features such as the sidelay-free infeed DriveTronic SIS and the high level of automation, with fully automatic plate changers, washing systems, KBA Densitronic Professional colour measurement and control, and the KBA Logotronic production management system, reduce makeready times and start-up waste to an absolute minimum. A reel-to-sheet feeder permits the use of more favourably priced reel stocks and further enhances the productivity of longer runs. With the two coater towers before and after the perfecting unit, it is possible to coat both sides of the sheet in a single pass, alongside additional finishing effects guaranteed to catch the imagination of agency customers.
"With the new press, we have the perfect means to differentiate ourselves from the rest of the market," says president and CEO T.J. McDonald. "It underlines our role as innovation-oriented pioneers. And we can also offer our customers whole new possibilities for their product design and refinement. There is probably no-one else on the West Coast who can match our new KBA Rapida."
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0Feb 13, '05 by VinI'm looking for some agency/per diem work to supplement my other job. Anyone know of any good agencies to work for in Northern Jersey (I'm in Bergen county)? Can you give me an idea of what is reasonable to expect- i.e. hourly rate. I am currently an ICU nurse with 2 years experience.


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Someone gave me a hydrangea plant bought from a store (no tag, no indication of what KIND of hydrangea it is). I kept it inside. I watered it as frequent as the other house plants, but then I found that it dried so quickly and watered it everyday. I did not take off the wrapping paper that held the water from overflowing until today. I did not check if it was watered too much. Two days ago, I found that the wrapping paper was holding a lot of excess water. It has kept losing its leaves. I saw moldy surface on the soil. The leaves are turning dark brown
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or better yet.. get it out of the house.. it is NOT a houseplant ... and plant it in mother earth in shade that involves avoiding the hot part of the day.. but otherwise sunny ... basically.. i would sum it up.. as you are trying to love it to death.. free it.. so it can attain its greater potential ... the fast drying is indicative of being root bound in the pot .. ken |
Thank you both tsugajunkie and ken_adrian. Good advice. I knew that it is not a house plant, but I was concerned about "drying out so quickly" even in a shady area (actually I don't have any true shady area but slight morning sun with afternoon shades). I was thinking to plant it outdoor once Fall arrives. Now, the best way is to plant it outdoor then.... Thank you again |
Looks like Botrytis or Grey Mold very common. Hydrangeas are prone to it being leafy as they are. It is easy to stop, dry the plant out and pinch of the rotten leaves. New growth should be happy and healthy. And like Ken mentioned get it outside. |
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Pittsford, N.Y. A proposed development in the Village of Pittsford faces another road block.
Village board members voted that changes need to be made to the Westport Crossing Project at 75 Monroe Avenue.
Board members say the size of the project and reduced green space from the initial design could have negative effects.
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The best at what we do. Rouge Valley Health System is an innovative leader committed to delivering the best patient/family experience in its two hospital sites—Rouge Valley Centenary, and Rouge Valley Ajax and Pickering. Focused on improving the health of our community, we are committed to learning, innovation and providing the best patient care experience for our patients and their families. Join our team as we meet the needs of our growing communities.
Rouge Valley's Lean approach to continuous improvement puts our patients first in everything we do. Through our Lean philosophy, Rouge Valley respects our staff's talents, skills and diversity and seeks to optimize value for patients. Help us lead transformation in health care. Our commitment to providing the best patient care and an effective workplace has resulted in many well-earned awards by our team of staff, physicians and volunteers: CBC's The Fifth Estate "A" rating, based on research by the Canadian Institute for Health Information and in 2013; Exemplary standing, the top rating from national hospital surveyors by Accreditation Canada.
Opportunities exist in our Intensive Care Unit. The successful candidate will report to the Manager of ICU and be responsible for assessing, planning implementation and evaluating nursing care and practice activities in a multidisciplinary environment. Patient caseload includes critically ill coronary patients, critically ill oncology patients, high-risk obstetrical patients, and acute medical-surgical patients.
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Empowering Business Mobility through Virtualisation
This whitepaper takes a closer look at two solutions with similar names but otherwise not comparable products and where one outshines the other. •Learn why although the two products claim similar offers, one doesn't really live up to the marketing •Understand the specific differences between the products so you are better able to make a decision •See why clarity and depth of vision for the future of business - software-defined workplace - is what really sets the two apart Download whitepaper »
The following report, is based on a global survey of 706 IT and security professionals conducted in the United States, Canada, Germany, United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand. The goal of the survey was to capture data on current attitudes and trends with mobile devices and IT security. This is the third survey on this topic and this report evaluates differences in responses to similar questions asked over the past two years. Download whitepaper »
A new acronym has been defined for the solutions that address this space: Application Aware Network Performance Management (AANPM). Gartner Group has now begun tracking this as a new sector, which they have termed Network Performance Monitoring and Diagnostics, and are developing a Magic Quadrant on the solutions available. This White Paper examines the need for AANPM and how it helps organisations to optimise the performance of business critical applications while speeding up network and application trouble-shooting and minimising downtime. Download whitepaper »
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Firestone Library Renovation
In light of the library's importance in teaching and research at Princeton, the University has begun planning for a complete renovation of Firestone Library.
The renovation architects, Shepley Bulfinch, are working with design partner Frederick Fisher and Partners for a total renovation. In December 2010, the library hosted open houses to update the campus community on the plans, which have been informed by meetings with the Faculty Steering Committee on the Firestone Renovation, focus groups with library users and meetings with library staff.
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The planning for the renovation of Firestone is focused on creating a building that is well-suited to support modern library services and contemporary approaches to scholarship while also providing the proper environment for one of the world's great book and manuscript collections.
Principles guiding the renovation include:
- Improving navigability and wayfinding throughout the building, especially in the open stacks.
- Improving the quality of user spaces, including graduate study rooms, carrels, quiet public reading rooms and seating in the stack areas.
- Creating more efficient shelving layouts.
- Creating a larger and consolidated space for the Department of Rare Books and Special Collections.
- Concentrating exhibit spaces on the first floor.
- Consolidating library service points into more efficient and effective groupings.
- Designing efficient and comfortable staff spaces.
- Bringing the building into compliance with current building and fire codes and accessibility standards.
The renovation and reconfiguration is conceived as a long-term phased project taking more than 10 years, during which the library will remain open and occupied. Efforts will be made to schedule the most disruptive work at times of the year when the library is not as heavily used, and to create temporary spaces to keep noise and dust to a minimum.
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Macquarie Group Ltd. has poached Morgan Stanley's head of infrastructure investment banking in the Americas, Perry Offutt, according to people familiar with the matter. Read More »
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Macquarie Group Ltd. has poached Morgan Stanley's head of infrastructure investment banking in the Americas, Perry Offutt, according to people familiar with the matter. Read More »
Investors are expected to submit bids topping five billion Australian dollars (US$4.7 billion) Tuesday for Australian toll-road operator Queensland Motorways, writes Ross Kelly in today's Moneybeat column. A price above US$5 billion would rank the privatization of Queensland Motorways, which is owned by Queensland state, among the biggest takeovers in Australia in recent years. Read More »
Sudan is rolling out the red carpet for investors from wealthy Gulf Arab states as it aims to attract billions of dollars in foreign direct investment, part of a drive to stabilize its economy and modernize its infrastructure. Read More »
With a years-long bottleneck of crude oil in Cushing, Okla., finally opening up, other kinks in the nation's energy infrastructure are coming into focus. Read More »
Australia's decadelong mining boom may have peaked, but stressed federal and state government balance sheets are creating opportunities for investors in infrastructure assets such as toll roads, ports and electricity networks.
In a new report, Australia & New Zealand Banking Group pegged the infrastructure-investment opportunity at more than 220 billion Australian dollars (US$197 billion) through 2020. Read More »
Commodity bulls live and die by metrics of Chinese demand. So the analytical folks at Sanford C. Bernstein reviewed the scope of that demand through another, less-used indicator: China's completion and announcement of infrastructure projects. Read More »
In November 2013 U.S. government agencies, including the Department for Homeland Security, engaged in a massive emergency drill. GridEx II, as it was known, involved thousands of utility employees, the National Guard, the FBI and officials from Canada and Mexico in a simulated failure of large parts of the North American power grid. Read More »
As gingerly as a baby giraffe, the world's youngest country is getting to its feet. The South Sudanese government and rebel forces signed a cease-fire agreement on Thursday. The Wall Street Journal's Heidi Vogt and Nicholas Bariyo report that this is one step toward ending more than a month of fighting that has left an estimated 10,000 people dead, displaced many more and sent tremors through the oil market. Read More »
The growing crowd of hedge funds and insurance companies offering banks "capital relief" by taking on risk in their lending books gained a new member this morning. Read More »
Remember the pivot to Asia? It was meant to be a seismic shift in the balance of global geopolitics. America would turn its focus to China and the Korean Peninsula, at the expense of its dominant Middle East interests of the recent past.
But events, dear boy, events in Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Syria and the rest have meant Secretary of State John Kerry just hasn't had the time to pivot anywhere. Read More »
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The 27th season of the acclaimed POV series begins on Monday, June 23, 2014 at 10 p.m. on PBS and continues weekly through Sept. 22. The season, featuring 13 new independent nonfiction films and an encore broadcast, concludes with a special presentation in fall 2014.
Read More »Ahead of its release later this month, Indiewire has obtained two exclusive new clips from Jason DaSilva's documentary "When I Walk." The film, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, captures his life following being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. Despite the risk of debilitating side ef...
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We love throwing out the phrase "ensemble cast". It gives you this great feeling of value for money if you go and see a movie with an ensemble cast. It normally means that you will see a picture with more than one or two significant, recognizable characters. Director, Steven Soderbergh, has used an ensemble cast before, namely in his Oscar winning movie, "Traffic". In his remake of the 1960s Rat-pack crime movie "Oceans Eleven", he brings an ensemble cast to the screen once again. Danny Ocean (George Clooney "Solaris", "Welcome to Collingwood", "The Perfect Storm") has been released from a New Jersey prison ready to abide by his parole terms and become a good citizen. For about fifteen minutes. He tracks down his old crime buddy Rusty Ryan (Brad Pitt "Troy", "Spy Game", "The Mexican", "Snatch") in California, and asks him to join him on the biggest heist ever three casinos in Las Vegas. Not just any old casinos though the MGM Grand, Bellagio and Mirage all owned by the extremely slick Terry Benedict (Andy Garcia "Desperate Measures", "Things to Do in Denver When Youre Dead", "Accidental Hero"). To pull such a job, Ryan and Ocean work out that they will need eleven guys in total. Amongst them are croupier Frank (Bernie Mac), experienced conman Saul (Carl Reiner), a Chinese acrobat (Shaobo Qin), computer guru brothers Virgil and Turk (Casey Affleck and Scott Caen) and sly pickpocket, Linus (Matt Damon "The Bourne Identity", "Jersey Girl", "Finding Forrester", "Good Will Hunting"). Financially backed by the self-motivated Reuben Tishkoff (Elliot Gould "American History X", "The Big Hit"), the entourage make their way to Las Vegas and begin the planning of the elaborate crime. And everything goes to plan until Rusty happens to see a beautiful lady called Tess (Julia Roberts "Erin Brockovich", "Runaway Bride", "Michael Collins", "Notting Hill") in the casino. Now hes worried Yes, it is an ensemble cast. And I havent even mentioned the un-credited Don Cheadle. Steven Soderbergh has taken on a moderately-received Frank Sinatra vehicle from 1960 and turned it in to one of the more enjoyable Hollywood romps in recent years. Criticism is hard to level at any part of the movie. From the excellent cast, albeit with a rather bland turn from Brad Pitt, to the witty script and dialogue, to the genuinely exciting plot progression, "Oceans Eleven" remains addictive viewing right to the end. The casting is excellent. Clooney once again pulls out a great performance as the charismatic conman who manages to somehow keep control of his motley crew. Carl Reiner amuses, Cheadle is hilarious, Damon does his job well and Garcia is thankfully used sparingly but to good effect. Theres little depth to the characters save for the obvious, black and white presentation of Ocean and Benedict. Ocean is the typical fraudster who lies, cheats and steals his way through life but in the main is a good guy who will look out for you. Benedict is sleazy, slimy and money-grabbing despite his misleading "sharp-dressed man" appearance. Who are you going to cheer for? Soderbergh has calmed down on the irritating symbolism that raped his 2000 movie "Traffic". He goes straightforward here save for the odd split screen. And it works brilliantly. The movie bristles along at break-neck speed so even the duller scenes dont hang around for long and theres no narrative slowing down the pace. The plot is somewhat contrived and unlikely with some rather convenient situations unraveling to help the great plan unfold. You cant imagine anyone being able to plan a robbery to the extent that Ocean has managed to. But even so, suspension of disbelief can be applied and all is well. With a sequel on the way ("Oceans Twelve" ahem), one might shuffle uncomfortably but if Soderbergh repeats the formula and introduces a character with a new dynamic, we could be in for another winner. As it is "Oceans Eleven" is unmissable Hollywood fare.


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insipid commented on the blog post What the Verdict in Bradley Manning's Trial Means for Whistleblowers
What the fuck does Obama have to do with it? There's no President that would of allowed the indiscriminate dumping of documents by a soldier. FDR? The guy you guys are all clamoring for Obama to be more like? Would certainly of executed Mr. Manning if he did that during WWII. LBJ? JFK? Both of them were hard core hawks that would of pulled the switch.
The notion that there's a President anytime anywhere in our history that would let this go is a delusion.
insipid commented on the blog post What the Verdict in Bradley Manning's Trial Means for Whistleblowers
Military justice has NEVER been reasonable or proportional. I was just a National Guardsman and i sure as hell knew that. Bradley should of known that.
You can't just dump 100s of thousands of documents and expect to get away with it. I'm sorry, but i see nothing unfair or unreasonable about Mr. Mannings treatment. The trial was fair, the sentence was fair.
insipid commented on the blog post What the Verdict in Bradley Manning's Trial Means for Whistleblowers
Sorry, i thought i was replying to Mattcarmody above. Nothing anti-semetic about your post eternal.
insipid commented on the blog post What the Verdict in Bradley Manning's Trial Means for Whistleblowers
Happy to see that it's not JUST racism at FDL. Anti-semitism is doing pretty well too.
I'm not really sure what the bitch is. The man indiscriminately released thousands and thousands of pages of documents. Was some of it "whistleblowing?". Sure. But a lot of it was leaking. FDL, predictably, is selecting the good stuff he revealed but leaving out the bad stuff.
Either way, he's a soldier in the army. He didn't try to go through the chain of command, he didn't bother looking at what he was sending out. He KNEW he was breaking the law. He beat the most serious offense. No matter what, even with the charges he admitted to he was going to get some serious time. Did you think they were going to throw him a parade?
insipid commented on the blog post Obama, The Not-So-Great Debate, Austerity and the Election
Well, that's the Bill O'Reilly response when people point out his racism, either shout him down, shut him up or ignore him. Stop the double standard and i'll stop pointing it out.
insipid commented on the blog post The Lost Narrative of the Stimulus
A long time ago I got into an argument with some people about Abraham Lincoln. They insisted that Abraham Lincoln was a slaveholder and that they read it in some book. I told them at the time that "If I read a book that said something that patently absurd and ignorant I'd stop reading and throw it across the room." While I wouldn't throw my computer across the room, I'd certainly stop reading David Dayen were it not for the fact that he still has influence.
You say you didn't "crack" the book. Very believable after reading this:
This is a law that deliberately tried to hide its main tangible benefit, based on some questionable behavioral science, by taking a few dollars less out of weekly paychecks through lowering withholding instead of handing people $500.
The payroll tax holiday had nothing to do with the stimulus. That came with the budget negotiation deal almost two years later. Not that I should expect you to know that, you were too busy with your "OBAMA CAVES!" narrative to actually learn what was in the deal. I understand.
The fact that you don't know this very basic thing is illustrative of the problem. There are too many in the media that feel that they can speak intelligently about politics without knowing policy. In fact they talk about policy as little as possible and favor speaking almost entirely about the politics. Thus the Obama administration has a dual disadvantage 1. They have to inform people about what is in the legislation and 2. They have to counter the IDENTICAL "Obama is weak and ineffectual" meme coming from both the left and the right.That is a problem that Roosevelt did not have to deal with. Yes, there was politics but because there were fewer media outlets those that wrote for newspapers at least had to know what they were talking about. If someone made a whopper of a mistake like the one David made in his opening paragraph, he'd be fired and there'd be a big correction the next day.
Thus back then, the politics sprang from the policy. Today the PERCEPTION of the policy stems from the politics of the author. Both the left and the right ignore the policy and instead pursue the Democrats suck! meme. And the Obama administration has to fight both the meme and the policy ignorance. Since very few our even interested in reporting the policy. As David demonstrated, very few even know the policy.If the supposed progressives started first by learning the policy and based their analysis on that I have no doubt that the politics would take care of itself.
But instead we have a major blogger for one of the most influential blogs revealing just stunning ignorance about not one, but two pieces of legislation. I don't mind the fact that you're stupid, David. It's that you're damaging and stupid. It's that you're dangerous and stupid. That you feel that you can- from a position of ignorance -lecture this President and still be taken seriously.
insipid commented on the blog post Obama, The Not-So-Great Debate, Austerity and the Election
Yes, that's true. Social Security is solvent if we fund it. But in order to fund it we need to talk to Republicans. I'm sorry, we can't just wish them into the cornfield, we can only vote them there. If you want to vote them away, i'm with you. But while they're there pretending they don't exist or getting mad at Obama for not "standing up" to them is the strategy of wishful thinking, not saving Solcial Security.
Also, SS is not like the military. SS takes up far to much of our budget to fix at a moments notice. We don't have the luxury of waiting till 2033 in order to fund the shortfall. Again, read the trustee report if you don't believe me.
insipid commented on the blog post Obama, The Not-So-Great Debate, Austerity and the Election
Denials of racism does not mean anything. Every racist denies they are a racist. The way you're able to tell is by the way they act, not what they say. While your racism is not as obvious as a bone through the nose nor as crude as a field of watermelons you are still racist in that they have one standard for white men and another for a black man (my guess is that the white presidents- who also dropped a considerable number of bombs- were never referred to as murderous curs).
The fact is that there is not a single President in history that has ever measured up to the standards of the Professional Left which is 1. Get sweeping legislation done 2. Never make deals to get the legislation done 3. Never compromise an inch.
FDR does not live up to that standard. He doesn't even come close. FDR bailed out banks. And i don't recall any mass arrest of "banksters" from my reading of history. FDR hired the head of General Motors to be his Secretary of Treasury, and he hired a robber baron to be the first head of the S.E.C. . Imagine what the PL of today would say to that?
FDR "caved" to the blue dogs of his day when he excluded the vast majority of black people from Social Security eligibility. He also capitulated to the America Firsters when he denied Jewish refuges. Do I need to even mention the internment of Japanese Americans? Remember that FDR did all this "caving" while having majorities in both Houses that Obama could only imagine. The day that Obama sees 75 Senate Democrats will be the day when the Professional Left's woeful comparisons have validity (this was at a time when there were only 96 Senators since Hawaii and Alaska weren't States yet).
While we all love to hear stories of the New American Camelot, the reality is that both JFK and RFK came to power largely by sucking up to Joseph McCarthy. JFK's Secretary of the Treasury was a hold-over from Eisenhower's administration. JFK's chief economic accomplishment was in cutting capitol gains tax for the wealthy. JFK "caved" to Hoover's desire to bug Martin Luther King and referred to CORE as "Pains in the asses." Aside from a really nice speech, JFK wasn't any better in terms of Civil Rights than Eisenhower.
And with his 64 seat Senate majority and similar majority in the house what major legislative accomplishments did Kennedy accomplish for the 99% in his too short two years in office? The Peace Corp? He got that done through executive order. The fact is that JFK, unlike Barack Obama, was lousy at getting his agenda through Congress.
Barack Obama has done more than any other President with similar majorities has done. That is a fact that I DEFY any member of the professional left to disprove. If Barack Obama is such a sub-par President then this should be an easy way to shut me up. If any President could do it, why didn't they? I'll even give a helpful link: http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0774721.html.
Clinton had the same majorities and an easier opposition to start and failed to get much done in the way of progressive legislation. Carter had 61 Dems in the Senate just as large a majority in the house his ENTIRE term to work with and did not do much with it.
LBJ (68 Dems) caved to the insurance companies of HIS day in making sure that Medicare only applied to those over 65. This is when insurance companies had MUCH less pull then they have now. And then there's the capitulation to the military industrial complex in Vietnam.
Every President, Democratic and Republican, compromises to get their agenda passed. There is no President that measures up to the standards imposed on Obama. The fact that they're holding THIS President to such a double standard is the precise reason why minority authors such as Mellissa Harris Perry, Imani Gandy of Angry Black Lady and Spandan Chakrabarty of the People's View think that much of the hyper- criticism coming from the left is based largely on racism. The Professional Left cries foul at these allegations but until they explain the obvious double standard, this accusation appears valid.
insipid commented on the blog post Obama, The Not-So-Great Debate, Austerity and the Election
Holy straw-man Batman!
The ONE argument that you CLAIM I'm making that I actually am making is that there is little difference between tea-left and tea-right. They're both characterized by blatant lies and, yes, racism.
Like the Dim Son, they invent a whole new reality when the existing one does not favor them. In this alternate reality, Obama and the Democratic Party cannot fail, they can only be failed. Jane Hamsher, Glenn Greenwald, and a handful of lefty bloggers are far more influential on public opinion than the President of the United States.
First off, YOU'RE the ones claiming to be the Democratic "base" declaring that the President ignore or criticize the typing commandos at his peril. My criticism of the "handful of lefty bloggers" which includes Arianna Huffington is the same as my criticism of Fox News- they lie. They lie for the same purpose- to depress Democratic turn-out. Neither Fox News nor the Frustrati are more influential on public opinion than the President. What they are good at is fomenting anger and hatred towards this President among a rabid few. At the same time both are ironically claiming to be the ultimate keepers of the truth. Fox at least mobilizes people to action- FDL just seems to want folks to whine.
Republican Presidents are invincible evil Supermen, but Democratic Presidents are so, so limited. Gore won Florida in 2000 when it's time to bash Bush, and Bush won Florida when it's time to bash Nader. The magic number of Senators floats up and down at will from 51 to 60 to 70. When progressive voters don't show up to the polls, it's because they're "purists" who "didn't get their pony", or in your own words "We either forget how bad things were and don't show up to the polls or we decide they're not getting better fast enough and don't show up for the polls."
I don't know about the mythical "obamabot" but I do know that I never claimed Bush won in Florida. I did claim that Bush lost Florida but that the frustrate at the time enabled him to be close enough to steal it. Nuance! Deal with it.
Bush was evil, but no superman. His record in terms of domestic accomplishments was as pathetic as the rest of his presidency. There was no Social Security reform, no immigration reform, Harriet Miers is not on the SC. He had two major domestic accomplishments: No Child Left Behind, passed with the help of Ted Kennedy and the Tax cuts. He wanted the Bush tax cuts to be permanent. They're not, the only way Republicans can keep them is by making concessions to Democrats.
While it is true that President Bush accomplished almost his entire foreign agenda, the same can be said of President Obama. That's just a function of the way our Constitution was set up. However President Obama, unlike Bush, has a record of domestic accomplishments far exceeding any President since Johnson. In fact, President Obama has been a more transformational President for Democrats than Reagan was for Republicans.So far, Obamabots and their predecessors in the Democratic Party have failed to create Homo Democraticus. Yelling at people to blindly support their political party no matter what has not created a revolution in human behavior. Progressive are human just like everyone else, and they want to vote for candidates who make a real difference in their lives.
I'm not asking you to "blindly" support anyone. What I am requesting is that you stop blindly condemning . President Obama has made a real difference in the lives of millions of people including myself. He's made a difference to those who are saving 600 a year because of the closing donut hole. He's made a difference to people like me who can now get insurance because of the high-risk pool. He's made a difference to those who are no longer being charged a $37.00 overdraft fee on a pack of gum. He's made a difference to gays who can now serve openly in the military. He's made a difference to the union people working in a GM plant. He's made a difference to the parents of a child with a pre-existing condition.
Many voters did not find that things were "not getting better fast enough" in Obama's first two years. They found that their situation was getting worse. Income declined by more during the "recovery" than during the recession. In the first two years of the "recovery", 88% of the gains went to corporate profits, far more than in any recovery in at least the past four decades. There were a truly shocking number of foreclosures and the Administration did little to prevent them. Millions lost their jobs.
Again, it's a lie that Republicans got "everything they wanted". Aside from that, this is EXACTLY what happened under FDR. The economic crises we faced in 2008 with 800,000 jobs being lost a month and the economy contracting at 9% was at least as great, if not greater, than the crises we faced in 1929. The only reason why it was not worse than 1929 was 1. The remnants of the New Deal/great Society and 2. The Herculean efforts of a great President and Congress that prevented that disaster from occurring. Yet despite the fact that the economy for the first two years of Roosevelt was growing at a slower rate than it is now, Democrats THAN went to the polls and gave him a LARGER majority. They didn't whine- they acted. That's why they are called the greatest generation.
insipid commented on the blog post Obama, The Not-So-Great Debate, Austerity and the Election
What's amazing to me is not how similar President Obama is to the Republicans, but how similar sites like this are to tea party sites. Basically both red state and this site lie in order to arrive at the same conclusion: the black man is coming to steal from you, be afraid. Both are delusional, of couse, so far President Obama has raised the Social Safety net more than any President since Johnson and was willing to shut down the whole damn U.S. government in order to save Planned Parenthood. But, if you are to believe David Dayen the President unwilling to end Planned Parenthood, he is bound and determined to slash end Social Security.
David, like the right wing, proves his point through selective quotes. Yes, he's showing the proper Krugmanian umbrage over "belt tightening" analogies but refuses to also aknowledge that he's stolen that annalogy in order to justify increased investments. But why focus on that when we can all be mad at the "he didn't build that" or in this case "let's tighten our belt."
The main difference between tea party left and tea party right is that at least tea party right works tpwards a goal that they're achieving: wiping out the social safety net. And David Dayen, by treating any mention of any deal as this traitorous betrayal of all things good and holy is actually HELPING them with that goal. While it's true that SS did not contribute to the debt and is doing fine for now, the long term solvency of SS should be addressed.
This is not me, an Obama "appologist" saying that it's the Trustee Report
Lawmakers should not delay addressing the long-run financial challenges facing Social Security and Medicare. If they take action sooner rather than later, more options and more time will be available to phase in changes so that the public has adequate time to prepare. Earlier action will also help elected officials minimize adverse impacts on vulnerable populations, including lower-income workers and people already dependent on program benefits.
Many right wingers use the trustee report as evidence that the system doesn't work and that we should end it. That's NOT what the report says. In fact the changes that need to be made to set SS on a solid footing are slight and there are many ways to address it without causing a lot of pain or "slashing" benefits. That's true because we have a while before any crises happens, but the longer we wait the more difficult it will be to address. Again, that's not this resident "appologist" saying that, that's the SS trustees saying that. Unfortunately, since most of you have no interest in even attempting to give President Obama FDR like Majorities, the only way to address this problem is to deal with Republicans. Sorry, that's the reality you helped create in 2010.
By insisting, obstinately that this President who's so far expanded the Safety net can't even talk about the safety net you're insuring actual draconian cuts in the future. By insisting that our side (and yes, President Obama is on your side, even if you don't know it) can't even talk about SS or Medicare you're insuring that ONLY their side is talking about it since the Republicans make no demands as to what their leadership can and cannot say.
The reason why the Republicans are latching onto the 716 Billion dollar lie is because they want to perpetuate the beliefe that it is impossible to save money and still keep-in fact improve- the system. President Obama's changes added 8 years to the solvency of medicare AND increased benefits for seniors. And most of you, to your shame, fought tooth and nail to stop him. Now you, like the Republicans are using the same scare tactics doing all you can to insure that it's only the Republicans that have a say in how SS is dealt with. I only hope you fail as badly as you did last time.
insipid commented on the blog post Late Night: Eleventy Dimensional Chess
Oh, you have a list! How very Hannityesque of you! Great technique put out a lot of bullshit knowing that it takes a second to spout an incantation but it takes time to refute the talking points. Safe to say it will be a sad day for you but a good day for the country WHEN Bradley Manning gets life in prison. And i'm sure you would of been there railing against FDR picking Captains of industry to head HIS Treasury Department. And you would of been full of shit then too.
But since you're so into the google how about this:
And yes, my point is an accurate one. Real liberals SUPPORT Obama even in bad times:
So my thesis is proven, you speak for whiners, not liberals.
insipid commented on the blog post Late Night: Eleventy Dimensional Chess
Excuse me, but YOU do not get to speak for what liberals feel. You can speak for the irrelevant firebaggers and the crowd that has been preaching rebellion and electing Republicans since 1968 but you can't speak for liberals. I am a liberal, MLK was a liberal, Nelson Mandella and Frederick Douglas were liberals. Any real liberal would be thrilled with Obama because he has gotten more progressive legislation done and did more for Civil Rights then any President in the past 50 years and did it with the most antagonistic Congress ever. Real liberals believe in progress over whining, activism over camping, voting over "teaching them a lesson". Real liberals believe in the possible, accomplish it and then work for more. Barack Obama is a real liberal.
Here's a good quote from a "real" liberal:
"Is not this trickery the hallmark of this Wall Street tool, this President who always stabs in the back while he embraces? How unctuous is his empty solicitude for the ragged, hungry children…with the ruthlessness of a devoted Wall Street lackey spending billions for war and profits and trampling on the faces of the poor."
Sounds like Jane could of wrote it, right? Only it was written about FDR by the leader of the Communists at the time, Earl Browder. Now who today is recognized as the father of modern liberalism and who is forgotten? 20 years from now President Obama will be beloved as the man who gave us universal health care and Jane Hamphshire will be a footnote who we'll introduce to show how crazy some on the left were. Either that or she'll be pretending she was with him all along and lamenting why President Clooney couldn't be more like him.
insipid commented on the blog post Obama Didn't Lose Today
No, i'm a Democrat. A lifelong Democrat. I'm just saying the way it is. You can't pretend that Bob Dole represent what is today's Republican anymore. Saying that it is a Republican Bill because the Republicans of twenty years ago supported it is dihonest.
The Republican party doesn't represent the Bob Doles anymore because the Right wing got active. If the Democrats don't represent the frustrati, it's because they got lazy.
Believe it or not, your goals and my goals are probably the same. You just see this as something preventing single payer, i see this as a first step towards that goal.
insipid commented on the blog post Obama Didn't Lose Today
Right. Government subsidies to health insurers, provided by taxes, make up the difference. Take from what used to be the middle class and give to the poor. Be still my heart.
Actually it is paid for by an increase in taxes on those making over 250k and the mandate. So, once again, you're wrong. Maybe you sould just read the bill instead of what Jon spoon-feeds you about it?
insipid commented on the blog post Obama Didn't Lose Today
Why does it matter who proposes the thing? It saves peoples lives and lowers the cost of health care. It's a good thing.
Plus let's dispense with one idiotic notion. It is now a Democratic bill. Not just because a Democrat passed it but because the parties have changed. The Republican party is now the party of the teabaggers because the teabaggers took it over.
Conversey the folks that make up the majority of this board have made theirselves irrelevant because you've left the Democratic party. Dennis Kucinich lost, and lost BIG. He lost not to a Republican, but to another Democrat.
So this is not a Republican bill anymore because the Republican party is now a crazy for coco puffs party. That's because the Tea Party folks when they got mad they mobilized they ran for office they showed up to vote. When you guys got mad you stayed home to "Teach Obama a lesson" and you went camping on a city block.
Well, the lesson is that a single person in a voting booth is more powerful then a thousand people occupying Wall Street. The Republican party no longer represents the Bob Doles or the "old" Mitt Romney because the Republicans got active. The democratic party does not represent Jane Hampshire or Jon Walker anymore because they got lazy, and dressed their laziness up as principles.
insipid commented on the blog post Obama Didn't Lose Today
I was addressing Jon, not you.
insipid commented on the blog post Obama Didn't Lose Today
The worst part is that it does so little for the under-insured. Maybe people will believe medical costs will go down after 2014. But medical related bankruptcies are going to keep rolling in.
That's just false. There is a cap on how much you can shell out based on your income. There's also a minimum amount of coverage that health care must give, including mandatory payments of preventive care services.
Classic Obama. Put a liberal veneer on a Republican bill and call it a smashing victory.
It is a smashing victory. Not just for him but for the millions that are helped by the bill. It's a smashing defeat for the baggers on the right and the left who'd rather people die if it means they don't get their way.
insipid commented on the blog post Obama Didn't Lose Today
Still going with the idiotic thesis that Obama is running from the law? How many times do you firebaggers have to be proven wrong until you accept the facts that 1. You don't know what you're talking about and 2. The President is a whole lot smarter than you.
The provisions of the law are popular Jon. They just don't know what is in the law because people like you would rather misinform then tell the truth about the law.
But the truth is that- despite your best efforts- over 6 million kids between 18 and 26 have health care now.
Despite your best efforts, seniors are now enjoying the benefits of a closed donut hole.
Desptiet your best efforts over thirty million people will be able to get health care in 2012.
Despite your best efforts the insurance companies are now limited to an overhead of 80-85 percent and already folks are getting money back.
Despite your best efforts people are already enjoying the benefits of free preventive care.
We are much closer to single payer now because the bill was passed. The insurance company no longer has the millions to spend on lobyists because that is NOT a part of care. And despite the extra customers, because of the loss provisions it is no longer a cash cow.
So you're just wrong. Obama has not run from the affordable care act, he's actively campaigning on it. And he'll continue to do so. Cause now when Romney says he'll repeal the affordable care act in a debate Obama can simply say "Which part?"
If he says he'll re-open the donut hole, he loses the senior vote.
If he says he'll get rid of the children staying on your health plan, he loses what little he has of the youth vote.
If he says he'll get rid of the end to pre-existing conditions he loses everyone else.Even the mandate is only unpopular because people like you do a shitty as hell job explaining it. It only applies to people rich enough to not get subsidies and still refuse to get insurance. Less than 6% of the population. The tax goes to the fact that these people cost us a large amount of money each year due to emergency room visits.
So no, he's not "running" from it. He's putting it front and center. And he should. He's saved a lot of lives with it.
insipid commented on the blog post Americans Continue to Have Strong Objections to the Individual Mandate
Yes, and i'm sure you can name me the 60 Senators and 235 congressmen that will vote for that.
insipid commented on the blog post Americans Continue to Have Strong Objections to the Individual Mandate
It's opposite day in FDL land:
CNN poll, majority now support the individual mandate.
Plus, unlike most of you who just read the headlines, i actually LOOKED at the Kaiser poll. It meant mostly bad news for the likes of Jon Walker and other members of the media. Basically the poll says that the majority of people just are misinformed about the law. Unfortunately, Jon Walker is one of the chief misinformers.
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What have you seen, and what are you doing if anything, to counter the unending march towards anti-gun tyranny aided by the Dept. of Education and teacher's unions rank and file against us through our children? This is nothing new...The education of all children, from the moment that they can get along without a mother's care, shall be in state institutions at state expense. MarxGive me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted. LeninEducation is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed. StalinHe alone, who owns the youth, gains the future. Give me the youth, and Germany will rule the World.Let me control the textbooks and I will control the state. The state will take youth and give to youth its own education and its own upbringing. Your child belongs to us already..what are you? Hitler"What we need to do is change the way in which people think about guns, especially young people… really brainwash people into thinking about guns in a vastly different way… every day" The video is especially scary when you realize this is what they are willing to say in public!
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Yea! "We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control. No dark sarcasm in the classroom. Hey! Teachers! Leave us kids alone. All and all we're just another brick in the wall.........." Lets just do away with education! We could turn around the deficit with the savings.
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Just need to focus on the three R's. Readin', 'Ritin' and 'Rithmetic!
As a father I have made damn sure I educated my 3 children as much as their teachers did in school. I don't see as a parent how a teacher can brainwash a kid if the parent is actively involved in raising and educating their kids.
What do you expect from public schools?
War is the continuation of politics by other means. Carl von Clausewitz VThe best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.Winston Churchill
If you are a positive influence on your children the schools can not brainwash them. All the schools are teaching kids is how to play the political game at an early age, if you are a positive role model. They will learn to write what the teacher wants to see in order to get a good grade but they know what the is right if you do your part.


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Full of flavor, colorful and easy pasta dish that's flexible enough to allow you to make all kinds of creative substitutions...
servings4 servings
1/3 cup Pesto (store bought or homemade)12 oz linguine
2 cup asparagus, cut in 1/2" pieces
1/4 cup finely diced red onion
1/4 cup sun-dried tomatoes coarsely chopped
1/4 cup pitted Kalamata olives, coarsely chopped
Lemon zest from 1 large lemon
Bring a large pot of water to a boil. Add linguine; 4 minutes before pasta is cooked according to package directions, add asparagus. Cook until pasta and asparagus are al dente - or to your liking.While linguine cooks, heat remaining oil in a medium skillet over medium. Sauté onion, tomatoes, and olives for about 6 minutes or until onions are translucent.
Reserve about 1cup of pasta cooking liquid. Drain linguine and return to cooking pot; stir in pesto. Add cooking liquid until desired consistency is achieved. Divide linguine among 4 plates. Top each with an even portion of the sun-dried tomato mixture and lemon zest and serve.
You can use any vegetables you have on hand that you think would mix well w the other ingredients. Sliced zucchinis, sugar snap peas...
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main ingredients: Pasta
cuisine: Italian
dietary considerations: Vegetarian, Healthy


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I've been looking all over the internet for information on how to rewire an old chandelier. I have had no luck at all, which surprises me. Does this mean that diy people shouldn't be undertaking this? My experience is limited to rewiring lamps (there are lots of sites that give step by step instructions for that) but I'm assuming that a 5 arm chandelier would be more complicated. If anyone knows where I can find instructions, can you let me know? Or, should I even try this? Thanks! |
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It is about the same as a lamp but higher temp wire is used instead of plain old zipcord. This alows the insulated wires to have a smaller diameter to fit through the arms. The central body of the chadelier typically has some volume available to joint the wires for all the arms together and take a single set of wires out to connect to the branch circuit wires. |
Thanks brickeyee - I think I might give it a go myself. |
Use a high temperature insulation that is also thin. There are plenty of them around, but they can get a litle pricey. Since you only beed a few feet it is not really that expensive. |
- Posted by texasredhead (My Page) on Mon, Jan 22, 07 at 8:49
There is a lamp socket at each arm. Is there wiring to those sockets now? To rewire, it will be necessary to be able to remove the sockets so the new wires can be attached to the bases of the sockets. Quite often on older sockets the wires are soldered to the sockets. There are new sockets available at most hardwares that have screws on the bottoms to attach the wires. All of this depends on the size of the sockets on the arms and how much room is available. A black and white wire need to be attached or soldered to each socket. Then it is a matter of bring all wires to the center of the fixture and connecting all like colors together to be attached to the main line that will go through the top of the fixture to be attached to the ceiling box. Hopefully the romex in the ceiling is grounded so that the ground wire should be attached in some manner to the mounting apparatus of the chandelier. Recently we did this with 20 antique chandeliers when we were wiring a large winnery in Dallas. Imagine hanging 35 lb. chandeliers on a 30 ft. ceiling. |
- Posted by woody_grow(email@example.com) onSat, Jul 7, 07 at 17:34
see http://www.repair-home.com/Repairing_a_Chandelier_Arm This is an instruction sheet on how to rewire a single arm of a chandelier, but basically the instructions would just be repeated for each arm. There is a typo in sentence 2 of #7 of the instructions: instead of 'pull the old wires' it should read 'pull the new wires' to read: 7. To thread the new wires into the chandelier arm, you will attach them to the old wires with electrical tape. Then pull the new wires through the arm as you pull out the old ones. Remove the tape and discard old wires |
- Posted by old_sooner (My Page) on Thu, Sep 27, 07 at 15:46
Any one know where I can get a spare bulb socket for my hallway ceiling light fixture. I have tried several lighting stores and hardware stores, but no one carries something like mine. The bulb socket is ceramic, and has a screw thread on the outside of it. After putting the glass bowl on, a metal type screw sleeve (collar) has to be screwed on to secure the glass bowl. By the way, the fixture is such that the open end of the glass bowl is on top. Specifically, bulbs are inserted from the open top of the glass bowl. Please see link for a picture of what I mean. Thanks Thanks in advance for any help in identifying where to find such a bulb socket. |
Here is a link that might be useful: example
My husband completely rewired an antique chandelier last year. Shortly thereafter, we noticed that the area around the bulbs was getting burned. Too much heat seemed to build up in the socket. Now, most of the lights do not light because the sockets are burnt out. I recently read that you are supposed to use special "high heat" wire in chandeliers. Does anyone know anything about this problem and/or where we can get new wire to solve it. |
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switching a hard wired to a plug-in, hang anywhere chandelier, 5 lightbulbs, still in the box light fixture |
I have a kitchen chandelier with 6 arms and a center spot light. The spot light socket blew out and needs to be replaced. The socket is a 3-way turnkey - spot light, arms, or both. I want to be sure the I connect the 3 leads to the correct screws (2) on the socket |
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Life Balance: How Do You Stack Up?
By Curt Canada
Are you finding it difficult to simply keep up with your work schedule leaving you, your daily chores, and family on the back burner? Difficult scheduling a doctor's appointment? I look terrible? Maybe setting some priorities, a little delegation, and a pinch of organization just might be the plan. Most of us have so many demands on our time and energy, life can feel like a three-ring circus.
Take this quiz to see how well you are meeting responsibilities, while also recognizing and fulfilling personal needs and aspirations.
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1. The only way I can successfully manage my life is to take care of myself physically and emotionally.
2. Nurturing myself enlarges my capacity to help others.
3. I eat healthfully and exercise regularly.
4. I get check-ups, go to the dentist, and take preventative precautions.
5. I set aside personal, quiet time for myself, whether I'm meditating or simply letting my thoughts drift.
6. I experience the gifts of each season: ice skating, sledding, bundled-up beach walks; gardening, hiking, more time outside; camping, swimming, visiting a museum, barbeques; harvesting the bounty, gathering wood, spending more time inside.
7. Creativity nurtures me, too. I do what I love, whether that's cooking, drawing, painting, writing, dancing, singing or another creative pursuit.
8. Reaching out to others enriches my life. I spend quality time with family and friends.
9. Contributing to the world provides connection and purpose, so I give my time, energy and experience where it is most useful.
10. I notice and heed the emotional signals that tell me I'm out of balance: irritability, overwhelm, resentment.
11. If I feel that I'm catching a cold, I realize I may have stressed my immune system with over activity, so I stop and take care of myself.
12. When I need or want to, I say no to requests for my time.
13. I listen to and honor the requests my body makes for such things as a nap, a walk, green vegetables, hot soup.
14. If I have something planned for myself, I don't just toss that aside when someone makes a request of me.
15. I'm busy, but I find time to do the things I want to do.


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