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Burton Albion chairman Ben Robinson expects FA Cup fever to grip the town when Championship side Middlesbrough visit the Pirelli Stadium next month.The Brewers beat Chesterfield 3-1 on Saturday and now face Boro in the third round on the weekend of 8/9 January. "I would imagine we'll get a capacity," Robinson told BBC Radio Derby. "After the awesome performance against Chesterfield, everyone in the town will be buzzing. That's what the FA Cup does and the excitement it creates." The Brewer.... read more
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Rooney backs England to impress
Wayne Rooney insists England have the potential to perform well at the World Cup - provided they can finish the job and qualify on Tuesday night.
After a nervy first half, England strolled to a relatively comfortable 4-1 win over Montenegro on Friday.
The task that now lies in front of the Three Lions is a simple one - win against Poland next week and qualification is assured.
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If England get to the finals, there are few people who actually believe they can reach the latter stages.
FA chairman Greg Dyke has dismissed the idea that England could win the competition, and he has also highlighted his concerns over the dwindling number of home-grown players getting regular first-team football.
But after watching 22-year-old Andros Townsend make a stunning debut at Wembley, Rooney is full of optimism.
"We have to reach the finals first, but I am sure once we do that the manager will have a few games to prepare for the tournament," the Manchester United striker said.
"We have got some very exciting players, young exciting players.
"I think all the talk about 'there's not enough good English players' - well, we have got six, seven or eight young players.
"Andros did great, he's an exciting player with a great future and then you have (Danny) Welbeck, (Daniel) Sturridge, (Phil) Jones, (Chris) Smalling, (Jack) Wilshere, (Alex) Oxlade-Chamberlain, (Theo) Walcott - the players we have got there, there's some talent.
"So, we are happy with the squad we have got and are looking forward to the future."
Confidence is something that Rooney clearly does not lack at the moment.
Race to Brazil heats up and we have all the updates. Review UEFA'S latest table standings here.The 27-year-old has had a roller coaster of a year so far, falling out with Sir Alex Ferguson after being played out of position and then appearing to agitate for a move away from Old Trafford.
Rooney eventually agreed to stay at the Premier League champions and he has started to hit top form again despite a spell on the sidelines that came when he suffered a nasty cut to his forehead in training.
Rooney, who now wears a protective band to cover the visible scar left by Phil Jones' studs, has scored six in 10 for club and country this term.
His strike against Montenegro made him England's all-time top scorer in competitive matches, knocking Michael Owen off his perch.
Surprisingly, Rooney has never scored for England in two World Cup campaigns and that is something he wants to put right next summer.
"It was a vital goal and I'm sure Michael won't be too pleased," Rooney said with a smile.
"It would be great to try and get a goal to get us there (on Tuesday) and then obviously score goals in the World Cup because I've not done that yet."
Rooney's calmly-converted finish was his 37th goal for England, putting him just 12 behind Sir Bobby Charlton in the nation's all-time top scorers' list.
He could have had another had he not selflessly allowed Daniel Sturridge to convert an injury-time penalty to round off the win against the Montenegrins.
It would have been hard to imagine Rooney doing such a thing a few years ago, but he was happy to share the goals around.
"I was going to take it and then I asked (Sturridge) if he wanted to take it," the former Everton man said.
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"It was good for him, it's good for the team and it shows that the team spirit within the squad is great.
"Daniel hasn't played that many games for England; for him to get another goal will give him a boost. Hopefully he will get another one on Tuesday."
With Ukraine playing San Marino on Tuesday, England must beat Poland to be sure of their place in the finals, and Rooney insists the squad must not believe the job is done despite Friday's win.
"It's a massive game," Rooney added.
"Poland are probably a better team at the moment than Montenegro.
"I think they are much more dangerous on the counter-attacks and we will have to prepare well for that.
"But if we perform like we did against Montenegro then we will be okay."
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The Arizona Game and Fish Commission's decision to allocate more hunt permits for bull elk and antlered deer means those hunters previously bypassed will get a second chance for a permit.
U.S. District Judge Robert Broomfield denied the state's request for more time to comply with his order to revise the Arizona Game and Fish Department's 10 percent cap rule for non-resident applicants in the hunt draw process. As a result, the commission has chosen to allocate an additional 805 hunt permits.
An additional list of applicants will be assembled, consisting of hunters who had the lowest random numbers issued during the draw process. That list will then be sorted without using the nonresident cap.
The additional permits will affect only 42 of 165 elk hunt units and 9 of 108 deer hunt units.
Those hunters already drawn for bull elk or drawn for antlered deer in hunt units 12A, 12B, 13A and 13B will receive permits as planned before the court ruling was issued.
The delay in the draw process will also cause a slight delay in permit mailings. Hunters in the original drawing can check to see whether they've been selected for a permit by checking the department's Web site at www.azgfd.com. They will receive their permits in the mail by July 30. Hunters selected for one of the additional tags will be notified no later than Aug. 10 for hunts that begin in mid-September and will receive their permits by Aug. 30.
In the meantime, Game and Fish has released the names of applicants who have been drawn for species not affected by the court ruling. Hunters who put in for buffalo, bighorn sheep, turkey and antelope can learn their status by checking the department's Web site.
Sheldons' Inc., manufacturer of Mepps inline spinner lures, is asking hunters to save their squirrel tails. The tails are used to dress the hooks on the original French spinner.
However, they are only interested in recycling tails taken from squirrels that have been harvested for table fare. To receive a Mepps Fishing Guide featuring details of the squirrel tail recycling program, visit their Web site at
Webb Engemann and Kyle Pollay, both of Wickenburg, will be representing Arizona in the Junior Bassmaster World Championship Monday on Lake Norman, near Charlotte, N.C.. Young anglers will be competing for a share of more than $27,000 in scholarships and prizes.
Monsoon time can bring some interesting angling opportunities in high country fisheries. Fish, especially trout, can get very active as the barometric pressure drops before a monsoon storm comes rolling across the mountains. Fishing can also be good immediately following a rainstorm, particularly with dry flies and small bugimitating topwater lures. The fish will move into shallow water to eat bugs and other small terrestrials knocked into the water after a rain squall. However, don't get caught on the water or in the open during a thunderstorm. It could prove deadly.


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Fall 2003
AMS 315 • 20th Century African American Popular Culture
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Course Description
This is an interdisciplinary course in American Studies and African American Studies that uses reading and writing assignments to compare overarching narratives of African American cultural history with an examination of different aspects of African American popular culture from 1945 to the present. Robin Kelley argues that in order to properly write a history of black working-class resistance, we need to look beyond labor organizations and formal political movements and focus on "infrapolitics", the daily strategies of resistance, hidden from the mainstream, that inform and shape more formal modes of black political struggle. This course will compare historical narratives, cultural criticism, and primary sources in African American popular culture. Classes will incorporate lectures with discussions, films, and music. Each week, readings and sources will examine a different aspect of the cultural politics of African American life. Topics will include: the Black Arts Movement, representations of ghettos, black nationalism, the cultural politics of funk music and blaxploitation film, representations of the black middle class, the quest for a Black aesthetic, and the emergence of hip hop culture. This course will give students tools for studying African American popular culture as well as opportunities to grapple with the issues both historically and personally.
Grading Policy
Assignments (essays will incorporate personal consultations and a draft/revision process) Essay 1. 6-8 pages. 20% of final grade. Students will analyze a text based on concepts and materials from the first half of the course. Essay 2. 10-12 pages. 35% of final grade. In consultation with the instructor, students will develop their own project. Students will attempt to answer a question about an aspect of African American popular culture and may take a variety of approaches, including historical, autobiographical, or ethnographic. Final Exam. 35% of final grade. Identifications and essays on all units. Class participation and attendance. 10% of final grade.
Texts: The main text for this course will be a course packet, which will include selections from: Amiri Baraka, Black Music; Miles Davis, Miles: The Autobiography; Ben Sidran, Black Talk; Addison Gayle, Jr., ed., The Black Aesthetic, Leroi Jones and Larry Neal, eds., Black Fire, Tricia Rose, Black Noise: Rap Music and Black Culture in Contemporary America, Rickey Vincent, Funk, Kenneth B. Clark, Dark Ghetto, Elaine Jackson, Toe Jam, Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye, S. Craig Watkins, Representing The other texts for this course will be selected from among the following: William L. VanDeBurg New Day In Babylon: The Black Power Movement and American Culture, 1965-1975 Gina Dent, ed. Black Popular Culture Chester Himes, If He Hollers Let Him Go Amiri Baraka, Blues People Gena Dagel Caponi, ed. Signifyin(g), Sanctifyin and Slam Dunking: A Reader in African American Expressive Culture Films: The Spook Who Sat By the Door, Cotton Comes to Harlem Music: Miles Davis, On the Corner; Funkadelic, Funkadelic


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Canada Day In The Glen: 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. in Glen Williams Ball Park. Schedule of events:
• 8:00 – 11:00 am Pancake Breakfast in the Park served at the Glen Williams Minor Ball Association Food Booth
• 10:00 am Baseball game between Glen Williams Alumni vs. Glens People- sign up starts at 9:00 am at the ball diamond
• 10:00 am Historical Walking Tour ~ Meet at The Williams Mill/upper parking lot
• 10:00 – 3:00 pm Tots Activities – Fish Pond, Sand Box under the trees in the park
• 10:00 – 3:00 pm Face Painting at the picnic tables in the park
• 10:00 – 4:00 pm Craft Vendors in the Gazebo field
• 11:00 am T"n"T Disc Jockey (Tony Hulme) at the Gazebo
• 12:00 noon Ever popular Canada Day Parade – Calling all kids: Decorate your bike and join the parade at the corner ofWildwood Road & Beaver Street. Parade route begins at Alexander and Confederation and ends at St. John's United Church. Immediately following the parade, at the Main Stage, is the Opening Ceremonies, Citizen of the Year Award and cutting the Canada Day Cake
• 1:00 pm Demonstration by Rampulla's Martial Arts at the back ball diamond
• 1:15 pm Children's Puppet Show in the Children's Area
• 1:15 pm Watch Your Valuables/Pickpocket Magic in the Park
• 1:30 pm Ball Game – Glen Williams Midgets vs Rockwood Midgets at the front diamond
• 1:30 pm Seniors' Strawberry Tea at the Glen Town Hall
• 1:30 pm Morris Men in front of the Gazebo
• 2:00 pm Random Road Bands at the Gazebo
• 2:30 pm Children's Puppet Show in the Children's Area
• 2:30 pm Toppers Pizza Draw at the Gazebo
• 3:00 pm Glen Pet Show at the back ball diamond.
• 3:00 pm Demonstration by the Halton Hills Fire Dept. at the rear of parking lot
• 4:00 pm The Ducks will leave the Park for their annual race down the Credit River -Winners will be announced at the Gazebo immediately after the race.
Canada Day in Acton's Prospect Park with Concert in the Park, starting at 6 p.m., followed by fireworks display at dusk, by the Acton Fire Fighters Association.
Canada Day Chicken BBQ, concert & fireworks: at St. Alban's Parish Hall & Grounds, 537 Main St., Glen Williams; 6:30 p.m. BBQ start with Halton Hills Concert Band concert, 7:30 p.m., followed by fireworks at dusk. Freewill donations accepted to cover fireworks cost. Dinner tickets: 905-877-8323 or Fioretta, 905-873-6765.
Canada Day in Norval: 7 p.m. BBQ and fireworks at Norval United Church. Cost: $5/person or $15/family. Hot dogs and burgers supplied. Bring a salad, chips, dessert, drink or whatever to share. Don't forget lawn chairs.If you can help at the BBQ contact Gayle Robinson 905-873-8953 or email@example.com.
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I always assumed it would be stainless, but now I see they also come in the color of the sink. Ours will be Biscuit. I don't think I've seen the light-colored strainers. Opinions? Experience? Durability differences? |
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- Posted by andreak100 (My Page) on Tue, Mar 18, 14 at 7:55
We just got the cinder ones. I don't know how they will be. They are plastic, but from what I read on here from others who have, they have been pleased with them. Ours isn't installed yet, but it put in in the sink and it looks nice. |
I have had the Cafe Brown strainer for a couple of months now, has held up fine. I think they are overpriced, but I like the way it looks better than stainless. I also spray painted my white air switch button to match! |
- Posted by lori_inthenw (My Page) on Tue, Mar 18, 14 at 12:38
Thanks, Andrea and fishymom, I think we'll try the biscuit and see how it goes! |
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Are you installing a garbage disposal? Those tend to have a chrome one. Something to keep in mind. Not sure if you want two different colors. |
I have a garbage disposal, Blanco makes a strainer for garbage disposals that includes a cover for the flange. |
- Posted by andreak100 (My Page) on Tue, Mar 18, 14 at 18:54
Like fishymom said, Blanco makes both the regular strainer and one that covers the GD flange. We have a double bowl sink and one side will have the regular strainer and the other will have the GD one. The GD one snaps into place over the existing GD flange. |
- Posted by lori_inthenw (My Page) on Tue, Mar 18, 14 at 22:26
We won't have a disposal, so at least that's one less variable to consider! |
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The Jefferson, Washington, D.C.
This 99-room Beaux-Arts landmark reopened in 2009 after a two-year, floor-to-ceiling overhaul. Thomas Jefferson-inspired design details abound, ranging from toile drapes to three-inch-thick doorframes in guest rooms, just like those at Monticello. In the hotel's clubby bar, Quill, a series of 18th-century maps trace the former president's wine tours through France, Germany, and Italy. The finest display, however, might be the hand-painted silk mural in the hotel restaurant, Plume, depicting the south vineyard at Monticello. Plume has quickly become a D.C. favorite for its inventive European fare. (A glass barrel-vaulted ceiling also makes it one of the city's most stunning restaurants.)
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The Billings School District 2 board will take one more look at its budget Monday night and decide whether to pass it then or wait one more month.
Under state law, the district must adopt its budget by Aug. 25.
Superintendent Keith Beeman has presented budget scenarios to the board each month since January that include various combinations of extensive cuts and new expenditures they could consider.
Proposed cuts have ranged from eliminating steps-and-lanes raises in teacher union contracts to removing critical family illness leave for district employees.
Also proposed has been having district schools and offices go dark during spring, summer and winter breaks and moving to a four-day, 10-hour work week during summer vacation.
Along with those cuts are proposals for additional spending. Beeman has proposed adding counselors and librarians to the district — something the state has said SD2 must do to avoid accreditation trouble.
He's also proposed spending more on technology and increasing health benefits for employees.
If the board approves all the proposed cuts and new spending, the district would break even for the coming school year.
But more distressing for trustees is the 2012-2013 school year. With Beeman's proposed cuts still factored in, the district will be roughly $1.4 million in the red.
A large portion of the meeting will be spent going over a new study prepared for the district by Davis Demographics.
Commissioned last summer for $40,000, the report examines what the school-age population of Billings will look like over the next decade.
The study calculates that SD2 will see an enrollment increase of 5.2 percent by 2020, going from its current figure of 15,583 to 16,399 students. Much of that growth will come as the West End fills in over the next decade, the study found.
Davis uses trends in local birth rates, new construction rates, past district enrollment trends and growth in residential housing, among other data, to calculate its figures.
Trustees hope to use the report to help them draw up new school boundaries. As Billings' population has moved west, more students have had to be bused to schools closer to midtown because of space shortages at West End schools.


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Unlike some I still have a thin shred of hope in the power of the ballot because I don't think people are stupid as a whole, just slow to learn and easily influenced.
We've had 40 years at least to prove that neo-liberal, trickle-down, perfect market economics do not work. They have demonstrated failure in tangible ways that show up at your dinner table every day as you CCPI substitute pet food for people food and wear out your cheap off shored rags in weeks and not years. Your quality of life is declining and it's harder to disguise.
This is not the inevitable increase of entropy, it's the result of management decisions made by our government to enrich our elites at the expense of everyone else.
Fortunately conditions like this do not persist. Whenever there are too many of us and not enough of them there is a revolution. The propaganda becomes repetitive and unbelievable, the cognitive dissonance too much to overcome.
You are not alone. Millions of people see the same things you do, think the same things you think. Including the elites, that's why they are worried and are investing so heavily in more propaganda and more coercive tools for the suppression of mass sentiment. Submit to the charms of illusion or the iron boot of oppression, it matters not as long as you submit.
But ultimately they are dependent on your voluntary submission. They make the calculation that they can distract you with bright and shiny objects or so disillusion you that apathy seems rebellion.
My cynicism is dark and deep, but not that deep. Nope, I'm actually an optimistic sort of guy- not that it does any good.
I think that politicians, who remain at least nominally subject to a process of public approval, and pundits/media news people, who are more directly and immediately dependent on their audience, are open to influence from the populace and ignore it at their peril.
Ways to show that are by showing up at the polls and voting Third Party, changing your registration to a Third Party, or by voting for Third Party candidates like Teachout and Wu in major party primaries. If nothing else you can make Chuck Todd's head explode which is always fun.
I approach this incrementally and pragmatically. If we continue to vote for the lesser of two evils, it is still evil. If the current conditions persist more radical solutions than mine will gain urgency.
If I seem like a centrist, I AM! My beliefs are rooted in the core of New Deal Democracy and Keynesian Economics. It is Andrew Cuomo and his corrupt crony capitalism and double dealing 'bi-partisanship' that prop up the corpse of the New York Republican Party as a Boogieman too scary to dare deserting a Democratic Party that has abandoned every principle and promise.
I am not afraid.
I'd prefer that it not come to pitchforks and torches because I'm more comfortable not being poked and fire has a disturbing tendency to spread beyond your magical circle of intent, but you use the tools you have and if you doubt their efficacy in a modern environment I invite a closer study of recent developments where overwhelming power has not produced the desired results. Humans are a recalcitrant and obstinate lot.
Should you live and vote in New York as a registered Democrat I invite you today to take positive action and indicate your disapproval of Andrew Cuomo and Kathy Hochul.
Vote for Zephyr Teachout and Tim Wu.
It is really the very least you can do.
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]]>I tease my mother by calling her Emily after Emily Gilmore both because overall my family reminds me very much of the Gilmores and because she's never met a brand name she didn't like whereas I'm perfectly content to buy generic.
I thank her among many things for a thorough grounding in the domestic and other arts.
Mom teaches first grade and is actually famous in a quiet sort of way. The kind parents brag about and angle their kids for though she's won national awards too. Of course I owe everything I know about educating to her and among my own peers I'm considered an asskicking trainer.
She also insisted we learn to perform routine self maintenance, little things like laundry and ironing, machine and hand mending. basic cooking. Of course she always indulged us with trips to museums and zoos, made sure we got library cards, did the usual bus driver thing to swim practice, had this huge second career as a Brownie\/Girl Scout Leader for my sister.
At one point when I was old enough for it to make an impression she took her Masters of Fine Arts in Art of all things, so I know a little Art History with Far Eastern. I understand how to bang out a copper pot and make silver rings because she took me to class once or twice. She liked stained glass so much that she and dad made several pieces (you use a soldering iron and can cut yourself pretty bad so it's a macho thing too). They also did silk screening which taught me a lot about layout and graphic arts.
But she always liked fabric arts and in addition to a framed three dimensional piece in the living room, there are Afghans and rugs and scarves and pot holders and wash cloths and hats and quilts and dolls.
And the training kits and manuals for her mentorship programs, and the adaptations and costumes for the annual first and fifth grade play. Did I mention she plays 3 instruments, though mostly piano?
She touch types too.
So to Emily, a woman of accomplishment and refinement, Happy Mother's Day.
]]>Marley was dead: to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that. The register of his burial was signed by the clergyman, the clerk, the undertaker, and the chief mourner. Scrooge signed it: and Scrooge's name was good upon 'Change, for anything he chose to put his hand to. Old Marley was as dead as a door-nail.
Mind! I don't mean to say that I know, of my own knowledge, what there is particularly dead about a door-nail. I might have been inclined, myself, to regard a coffin-nail as the deadest piece of ironmongery in the trade. But the wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile; and my unhallowed hands shall not disturb it, or the Country's done for. You will therefore permit me to repeat, emphatically, that Marley was as dead as a door-nail.
Scrooge knew he was dead? Of course he did. How could it be otherwise? Scrooge and he were partners for I don't know how many years. Scrooge was his sole executor, his sole administrator, his sole assign, his sole residuary legatee, his sole friend and sole mourner. And even Scrooge was not so dreadfully cut up by the sad event, but that he was an excellent man of business on the very day of the funeral, and solemnised it with an undoubted bargain.
The mention of Marley's funeral brings me back to the point I started from. There is no doubt that Marley was dead. This must be distinctly understood, or nothing wonderful can come of the story I am going to relate. If we were not perfectly convinced that Hamlet's Father died before the play began, there would be nothing more remarkable in his taking a stroll at night, in an easterly wind, upon his own ramparts, than there would be in any other middle-aged gentleman rashly turning out after dark in a breezy spot — say Saint Paul's Churchyard for instance — literally to astonish his son's weak mind.
Scrooge never painted out Old Marley's name. There it stood, years afterwards, above the warehouse door: Scrooge and Marley. The firm was known as Scrooge and Marley. Sometimes people new to the business called Scrooge Scrooge, and sometimes Marley, but he answered to both names: it was all the same to him.
Oh! But he was a tight-fisted hand at the grind- stone, Scrooge! a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous, old sinner! Hard and sharp as flint, from which no steel had ever struck out generous fire; secret, and self-contained, and solitary as an oyster. The cold within him froze his old features, nipped his pointed nose, shriveled his cheek, stiffened his gait; made his eyes red, his thin lips blue and spoke out shrewdly in his grating voice. A frosty rime was on his head, and on his eyebrows, and his wiry chin. He carried his own low temperature always about with him; he iced his office in the dogdays; and didn't thaw it one degree at Christmas.
External heat and cold had little influence on Scrooge. No warmth could warm, no wintry weather chill him. No wind that blew was bitterer than he, no falling snow was more intent upon its purpose, no pelting rain less open to entreaty. Foul weather didn't know where to have him. The heaviest rain, and snow, and hail, and sleet, could boast of the advantage over him in only one respect. They often "came down" handsomely, and Scrooge never did.
Nobody ever stopped him in the street to say, with gladsome looks, "My dear Scrooge, how are you? When will you come to see me?" No beggars implored him to bestow a trifle, no children asked him what it was o'clock, no man or woman ever once in all his life inquired the way to such and such a place, of Scrooge. Even the blind men's dogs appeared to know him; and when they saw him coming on, would tug their owners into doorways and up courts; and then would wag their tails as though they said, "No eye at all is better than an evil eye, dark master!"
But what did Scrooge care? It was the very thing he liked. To edge his way along the crowded paths of life, warning all human sympathy to keep its distance, was what the knowing ones call "nuts" to Scrooge.
Once upon a time — of all the good days in the year, on Christmas Eve — old Scrooge sat busy in his counting-house. It was cold, bleak, biting weather: foggy withal: and he could hear the people in the court outside go wheezing up and down, beating their hands upon their breasts, and stamping their feet upon the pavement stones to warm them. The city clocks had only just gone three, but it was quite dark already — it had not been light all day: and candles were flaring in the windows of the neighbouring offices, like ruddy smears upon the palpable brown air. The fog came pouring in at every chink and keyhole, and was so dense without, that although the court was of the narrowest, the houses opposite were mere phantoms. To see the dingy cloud come drooping down, obscuring everything, one might have thought that Nature lived hard by, and was brewing on a large scale.
The door of Scrooge's counting-house was open that he might keep his eye upon his clerk, who in a dismal little cell beyond, a sort of tank, was copying letters. Scrooge had a very small fire, but the clerk's fire was so very much smaller that it looked like one coal. But he couldn't replenish it, for Scrooge kept the coal-box in his own room; and so surely as the clerk came in with the shovel, the master predicted that it would be necessary for them to part. Wherefore the clerk put on his white comforter, and tried to warm himself at the candle; in which effort, not being a man of a strong imagination, he failed.
This lunatic, in letting Scrooge's nephew out, had let two other people in. They were portly gentlemen, pleasant to behold, and now stood, with their hats off, in Scrooge's office. They had books and papers in their hands, and bowed to him.
"Scrooge and Marley's, I believe," said one of the gentlemen, referring to his list. "Have I the pleasure of addressing Mr. Scrooge, or Mr. Marley?"
"Mr. Marley has been dead these seven years," Scrooge replied. "He died seven years ago, this very night."
"We have no doubt his liberality is well represented by his surviving partner," said the gentleman, presenting his credentials.
It certainly was; for they had been two kindred spirits. At the ominous word "liberality," Scrooge frowned, and shook his head, and handed the credentials back.
"At this festive season of the year, Mr. Scrooge," said the gentleman, taking up a pen, "it is more than usually desirable that we should make some slight provision for the Poor and Destitute, who suffer greatly at the present time. Many thousands are in want of common necessaries; hundreds of thousands are in want of common comforts, sir."
"Are there no prisons?" asked Scrooge. "Plenty of prisons," said the gentleman, laying down the pen again. "And the Union workhouses?" demanded Scrooge. "Are they still in operation?" "They are. Still," returned the gentleman, "I wish I could say they were not." "The Treadmill and the Poor Law are in full vigour, then?" said Scrooge. "Both very busy, sir."
"Oh! I was afraid, from what you said at first, that something had occurred to stop them in their useful course," said Scrooge. "I'm very glad to hear it."
"Under the impression that they scarcely furnish Christian cheer of mind or body to the multitude," returned the gentleman, "a few of us are endeavouring to raise a fund to buy the Poor some meat and drink and means of warmth. We choose this time, because it is a time, of all others, when Want is keenly felt, and Abundance rejoices. What shall I put you down for?"
"Nothing!" Scrooge replied.
"You wish to be anonymous?"
"I wish to be left alone," said Scrooge. "Since you ask me what I wish, gentlemen, that is my answer. I don't make merry myself at Christmas and I can't afford to make idle people merry. I help to support the establishments I have mentioned — they cost enough; and those who are badly off must go there."
"Many can't go there; and many would rather die." "If they would rather die," said Scrooge, "they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population. Besides — excuse me — I don't know that." "But you might know it," observed the gentleman. "It's not my business," Scrooge returned. "It's enough for a man to understand his own business, and not to interfere with other people's. Mine occupies me constantly. Good afternoon, gentlemen!"
Marley's Ghost
The First of the Three Spirits
The Second of the Three Spirits
The Last of the Spirits
Why is there never any Rum? Oh, that's why.
The End of It
Marley's ghost, from Charles Dickens: A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas. With Illustrations by John Leech. London: Chapman & Hall, 1843. First edition.
]]>Sometime around December 23rd, but canonically any time between December and May, we celebrate Festivus.
Symbolically represented by the Festivus Pole (seen at right) an unadorned aluminium pole between 3′ to 6′ high stuck in some drab and out of the way corner. It can be used as a weapon and frequently is. Traditionally it is stark and entirely unadorned and the stand crudely fashioned. Under no circumstances should any 'presents' be placed near it unless they're of the sort a too long ignored pet would leave.
There are several rituals that accompany the celebration of Festivus.
Festivus Dinner
A Festivus Dinner menu is typical of any other holiday, Turkey, Ham, Roast Beef, Lamb, with the customary sides poorly cooked and resentfully served. It's rarely if ever eaten and instead used as weapons which explains why it's frequently over cooked to flaccid sogginess except in fundamentalist circles where a Ham Bone or Lamb Shank becomes an instrument of murderous intent. It is often accompanied by copious consumption of alcohol (well, in fairness, the food is inedible).
The Airing of Grievances
The Airing of Grievances takes place immediately after the Festivus dinner has been served (but frequently before any of it is actually consumed). It consists of each person lashing out at others and the world about how they have been abused and disappointed in the past year, particularly the other Festivus celebrants. It often ends in insults that lead to life long resentment and violence.
Feats of Strength
The most misunderstood of the Festivus rituals, there is only one Feat of Strength. The head of the household picks a challenger and engages in a wrestling match. They typically pick the weakest first. This continues until the head of the household is defeated.
That concludes the essential rituals of Festivus. Now you might think that defeat of the head of the household results in ceremonial bragging rights or change of some sort.
It is essentially pointless as is the rest of the Festivus celebration which is, in fact, entirely the point.
No hugging. No learning.
Here's hoping your Festivus is uninterrupted by visits from 'Law' Enforcement Officers or trips to the Emergency Room.
]]>We lefties need to stick together.
]]>How Much Unemployment Was Caused by Reinhart and Rogoff's Arithmetic Mistake?
Dean Baker, Center for Economic and Policy ReSearch
Tuesday, 16 April 2013 09:49
Just to remind folks, Reinhart and Rogoff (R&R) are the authors of the widely acclaimed book on the history of financial crises, This Time is Different. They have also done several papers derived from this research, the main conclusion of which is that high ratios of debt to GDP lead to a long periods of slow growth. Their story line is that 90 percent is a cutoff line, with countries with debt-to-GDP ratios above this level seeing markedly slower growth than countries that have debt-to-GDP ratios below this level. The moral is to make sure the debt-to-GDP ratio does not get above 90 percent.
There are all sorts of good reasons for questioning this logic. First, there is good reason for believing causation goes the other way. Countries are likely to have high debt-to-GDP ratios because they are having serious economic problems.
Second, as Josh Bivens and John Irons have pointed out, the story of the bad growth in high debt years in the United States is driven by the demobilization after World War II. In other words, these were not bad economic times, the years of high debt in the United States had slow growth because millions of women opted to leave the paid labor force.
Third, the whole notion of public debt turns out to be ill-defined. Countries can sell off assets to pay down debts, would this avoid the R&R high debt twilight zone of slow growth? In fact, even the value of debt itself is not constant.Long-term debt issued in times of low interest rates will fall in value when interest rates rise. If there is a high debt twilight zone effect as R&R claim, then we can just buy back bonds at steep discounts and send our debt-to-GDP ratio plummeting.
But HAP (Herndon, Ash, and Pollin) tells us that we need not concern ourselves with any arguments this complicated. The basic R&R story was simply the result of them getting their own numbers wrong.
After being unable to reproduce R&R's results with publicly available data, HAP were able to get the spreadsheets that R&R had used for their calculations. It turns out that the initial results were driven by simple computational and transcription errors. The most important of these errors was excluding four years of growth data from New Zealand in which it was above the 90 percent debt-to-GDP threshold. When these four years are added in, the average growth rate in New Zealand for its high debt years was 2.6 percent, compared to the -7.6 percent that R&R had entered in their calculation.
If facts mattered in economic policy debates, this should be the cause for a major reassessment of the deficit reduction policies being pursued in the United States and elsewhere. It should also cause reporters to be a bit slower to accept such sweeping claims at face value.
Holy Coding Error, Batman
Paul Krugman, The New York Times
April 16, 2013, 1:38 pm
The intellectual edifice of austerity economics rests largely on two academic papers that were seized on by policy makers, without ever having been properly vetted, because they said what the Very Serious People wanted to hear. One was Alesina/Ardagna on the macroeconomic effects of austerity, which immediately became exhibit A for those who wanted to believe in expansionary austerity. Unfortunately, even aside from the paper's failure to distinguish between episodes in which monetary policy was available and those in which it wasn't, it turned out that their approach to measuring austerity was all wrong; when the IMF used a measure that tracked actual policy, it turned out that contractionary policy was contractionary.
The other paper, which has had immense influence — largely because in the VSP world it is taken to have established a definitive result — was Reinhart/Rogoff on the negative effects of debt on growth. Very quickly, everyone "knew" that terrible things happen when debt passes 90 percent of GDP.
Some of us never bought it, arguing that the observed correlation between debt and growth probably reflected reverse causation. But even I never dreamed that a large part of the alleged result might reflect nothing more profound than bad arithmetic.
Researchers Finally Replicated Reinhart-Rogoff, and There Are Serious Problems.
Mike Konczal, Next New Deal
Apr 16, 2013
(T)hree main issues stand out. First, Reinhart and Rogoff selectively exclude years of high debt and average growth. Second, they use a debatable method to weight the countries. Third, there also appears to be a coding error that excludes high-debt and average-growth countries. All three bias in favor of their result, and without them you don't get their controversial result.
This error is needed to get the results they published, and it would go a long way to explaining why it has been impossible for others to replicate these results. If this error turns out to be an actual mistake Reinhart-Rogoff made, well, all I can hope is that future historians note that one of the core empirical points providing the intellectual foundation for the global move to austerity in the early 2010s was based on someone accidentally not updating a row formula in Excel.So what do Herndon-Ash-Pollin conclude? They find "the average real GDP growth rate for countries carrying a public debt-to-GDP ratio of over 90 percent is actually 2.2 percent, not -0.1 percent as [Reinhart-Rogoff claim]." [UPDATE: To clarify, they find 2.2 percent if they include all the years, weigh by number of years, and avoid the Excel error.] Going further into the data, they are unable to find a breakpoint where growth falls quickly and significantly.
Reinhart/Rogoff is the study all the Austerian politicians and pundits, Republican AND Democratic, cite to claim we have a debt/deficit problem.
Well today, with no more changes in policy at all, we no longer have a defict problem and Reinhart/Rogoff is wrong, Wrong, WRONG!
You think that will stop them?
Republicans embrace Obama's offer to trim Social Security benefits
By Lori Montgomery, Washington Post
Apr 15, 2013 11:53 PM EDT
]]>President Obama's offer to trim Social Security benefits has perplexed and angered Democrats, but GOP leaders are embracing the proposal and rushing to jump-start a debate that will delve even more deeply into the touchy topic of federal spending on the elderly.
This week, two House subcommittees plan to hold hearings on "reforms to protect and preserve" programs for retirees, starting with Obama's proposal to apply a less generous measure of inflation to annual increases in Social Security benefits.
Also on the table are higher Medicare premiums and reduced benefits for better-off seniors, and a higher Medicare eligibility age.
I think it's obvious why the more autocratic, authoritarian, and avaricious elements of the current criminal crony system of monarchist mercantile monopolism are constantly attempting to change the commons culture of the Internet.
They want to be able to charge you for access to the library/thesaurus/dictionary/encyclopedia/studio/printing press.
If you're like me you've already switched from the sometimes evil Google to the equally corporate captured but less popular bing or Yahoo. I personally use duckduckgo which has the benefit of not limiting the results of your searches to things you have discovered before. If I'm searching I want to find new things, not the same old stuff I've already seen.
The reason I mention duckduckgo in this context is that they've been out in front of identifying yet another threat to our continued abusive Internet addiction, the WCIT 2/ITU treaty talks being held in Dubai, that hot bed of corporatist freedom.
Indeed the particular bone of contention in these talks is whether providers should be charged for bandwidth as well as consumers with a secondary issue of how long the United States should be allowed to continue it's DARPANET dominance.
Now normally I'm all for socking it to the suits and chauvinists but in this case not so much. Certainly this artistic thing I share without expectation of anything except ridicule and disagreement in return would be made even more difficult as the inputs (that's what they call them in econospeak) became scarce and restricted and my output (such as it is) more expensive to produce and inflict upon you.
Nor am I in favor of outright government corruption and graft which appear to be the goals of the "reformers". Public servants should, oh I don't know, serve the public and not their personal pocketbooks.
I realize this is radical thinking.
So with that declaration of my personal conflicts of interest and prejudice I share these stories and action items.
The not-boring guide to the United Nations' non-takeover of the Internet
By Andrew Couts, Digital Trends
November 30, 2012
Next week, the United Nations will take over the Internet. Or, actually, it won't take over the Internet, but it's going to let the Russians take over the Internet. Or maybe it's just going to poke the Internet with a stick. No, no, wait, that's not right either… Nobody's going to take over the Internet, but a bunch of "important people" from around the world are going to pretend like they know what's best for the Internet, and all we can do is sit around hoping they don't screw it up.
Yeah, that sounds more like it.
I'm talking, of course – of course – about the 2012 World Conference on International Telecommunications, or WCIT, which kicks off in the fun-loving city of Dubai on Monday, December 3, and runs through December 14. During WCIT (pronounced "wicket"), member states of a UN agency called the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) will talk about a whole bunch of complicated stuff that could, somehow, affect the Internet we all love so much.
Problem is, the whole shebang is a giant mess. Worse, most of the filth is a secret – one of the many reasons people, Internet advocacy groups, governments, and companies are freaking out.
The whole thing is really just about moneyIn addition to concerns from U.S.-based Internet companies, like Google, that changes to the ITRs could result in more rules and burdensome regulation, the real worry is money. Some African and Asian nations, as well as the European Telecommunications Network Operators' Association (ETNO) want to impose something called "sender party pays," which would require Web companies to pay local Internet operators around the world for the data-heavy traffic they send through their system. As former U.S. Ambassador David Gross told me earlier this year, the ETNO proposal would impose "a radical change" on "the economics of the Internet."
According to Amb. Gross and others, the establishment of "sender party pays" could, at the very least, result in companies like Google deciding that it is not worth it financially to operate in developing nations that generate little in the way of advertising revenue. This in turn could result in these countries being kicked further behind due to a lack of access to the open Web we enjoy here in the U.S.
Columnist Michael Geist concurs that "sender party pays" would "create enormous new costs for major content providers such as Google or Netflix."
UN internet regulation treaty talks begin in Dubai
By Leo Kelion, Technology reporter, BBC
2 December 2012
"The brutal truth is that the internet remains largely \[the\] rich world's privilege, " said Dr Hamadoun Toure, secretary-general of the UN's International Telecommunications Union, ahead of the meeting.
"ITU wants to change that."
The ITU says there is a need to reflect the "dramatically different" technologies that have become commonplace over the past 24 years.But the US has said some of the proposals being put forward by other countries are "alarming".
"There have been proposals that have suggested that the ITU should enter the internet governance business," said Terry Kramer, the US's ambassador to Wcit, last week.
"There have been active recommendations that there be an invasive approach of governments in managing the internet, in managing the content that goes via the internet, what people are looking at, what they're saying.
"These fundamentally violate everything that we believe in in terms of democracy and opportunities for individuals, and we're going to vigorously oppose any proposals of that nature."
He added that he was specifically concerned by a proposal by Russia which said member states should have "equal rights to manage the internet" – a move he suggested would open the door to more censorship.
However – as a recent editorial in the Moscow Times pointed out – Russia has already been able to introduce a "black list" of banned sites without needing an international treaty.
Vint Cerf – the computer scientist who co-designed some of the internet's core underlying protocols and who now acts as Google's chief internet evangelist – has been even more vocal, penning a series of op-ed columns."A state-controlled system of regulation is not only unnecessary, it would almost invariably raise costs and prices and interfere with the rapid and organic growth of the internet we have seen since its commercial emergence in the 1990s," he wrote for CNN.
I must admit the argument "Censorship is already possible" is not very compelling to me.
Think of all the terrible things governments do to the Internet. The US destroyed Megaupload, Russia jailed activists over a YouTube video, and China monitors Internet users' every move– even hacking activists outside its borders.
Now imagine if a panel of governments, giant corporations, and dictatorships had absolute power over the entire Internet, deciding in secret what you can see & do online.
When the ITU meets December 3rd, they'll decide on this. Only a global outcry can stop it.
Join us on December 3rd, and tell your leaders right now: "I don't trust the world's governments to run the global Internet. Don't give the ITU any more power."
Click through even if you don't want to sign the petition because the page also has a lot of interesting links to further discussions of the issues.
duckduckgo is one of the leaders in Internet privacy and they also featured this petition in a recent doodle which while not directly related speaks to some of the same concerns.
Our nation's privacy laws are profoundly out of date. I am writing to urge you to support updating the Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986 to protect our Fourth Amendment rights and uphold the integrity of law enforcement in the digital age.
My emails, online documents, and text messages should have the same protections from unreasonable search and seizure as my phone calls, postal mail, and paper documents. The government should have to get a warrant from a judge to obtain these documents, or to track my location using my cell phone. Prosecutors, regulatory agencies and other government officials should not be able to issue their own subpoenas to read my emails.
The last significant update to electronic communications privacy legislation was in 1986 when the Internet was in its infancy and email was a novelty. Current electronic privacy laws don't adequately protect online communications. This legal uncertainty harms the growth of modern businesses that increasingly store documents in "the cloud." Updating ECPA will support small businesses, create jobs, and reinforce our Constitutional rights.
I am following this issue closely and look forward to your reply.
]]>Our rights are in danger. The Bill of Rights was intended to grant all Americans protection from unreasonable government intrusions into our lives. Two decades ago, Congress recognized that the courts were not keeping up with the times, so it passed a law to preserve privacy rights in electronic communications. The 1986 law made some critical reforms, but came from an era with no Google, no Facebook, no World Wide Web. Now, that law needs to be updated to ensure that our rights don't vanish as our lives move into the cloud.
Right now, the government claims that the Constitution does not protect the privacy of communications, calendars, photos and documents stored online. That 1986 federal privacy law provides some protections, but it has crazy distinctions like one rule for email more than 180 days old (no warrant required) and a different rule for email 180 days old or less (warrant required). Bottom line: the statute says the government can read a lot of your most personal stuff without a warrant. That doesn't make any sense.
And the 1986 law didn't even address location information, so the government claims that it can track your location using your phone without ever going to a court and getting a warrant from a judge. Congress has failed to pass common sense updates to that outdated 1986 law to ensure that privacy protections you get in your home apply equally to the Internet.
Congress has acknowledged in the past that legislation must be updated to keep pace with technology in order to protect the original meaning of the Constitution. In 1986 it passed the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA). Congress thought that provisions such as the "180 day rule" made sense at the time, since most companies didn't store your email even for six months. (In 1986, most customers downloaded their email to their personal computer, where, by the way, the government agrees it is protected by the Constitution.)With each passing day, more and more of our personal information, business documents, and communications are stored online. Almost everyone holds years' worth of email in webmail accounts, along with calendars, private photos, drafts and many other sensitive materials. Unless we ACT NOW to urge Congress to make common sense updates to existing privacy laws, aggressive government prosecutors will try to make the privacy promised in the Fourth Amendment obsolete.
The Fourth Amendment allows the government to conduct searches and seize evidence if it can convince a judge it has probable cause that a crime has been committed. These balanced protections have been the framework for legitimate law enforcement since the Bill of Rights was ratified in 1791. Ensuring by law that the same protections apply to the Internet doesn't undermine law enforcement, it strengthens it by providing clarity for officers to do their jobs with integrity.Remember, these aren't new rights! We are simply asking for ALL of our personal information to have the SAME Constitutional protections regardless of how we choose to store it. A few courts have already recognized that the Fourth Amendment applies to the cloud, and Congress can stop the DOJ from undermining this growing body of precedent by updating ECPA.
I don't know what else you can call an 87% haircut.
Greece's bond exchange: it's official
Felix Salmon, Reuters
Feb 24, 2012 13:32 EST
Firstly, they're going to receive new Greek bonds, maturing in 2042. It doesn't matter whether the bonds you're holding mature on March 20, or whether they mature in 30 years' time — everybody gets the same new long-dated bonds, according to the face value of what they now own. In other words, the value of Greek bonds right now is wholly a function of what their face value is, and has nothing to do with their coupon or their maturity date.
The new Greek bonds have a step-up coupon: 2% through 2015, then 3% through 2020, then 3.65% in 2021, and then 4.3% from 2022 through 2042. Bondholders will receive new bonds with a face value of €315 for every €1,000 of old bonds they hold. (Again, remember that it's face value which matters here, not market price.) What's the market price of the new bonds going to be? Not very much; my guess is that they'll trade at roughly 40% of face value. Which means that the "NPV haircut", as far as the new Greek obligations are concerned, is somewhere on the order of 87%.
Mark to market baby.
]]>Of course the Karzai family is heavily implicated in all of this and we've just had a Parliamentary election that was if anything even more fraudulent than last year's disputed Presidential one. There are credible reports of double and triple voting (seems that Iraqi ink isn't quite so indelible after all) and thousands of forged ballots were intercepted being smuggled in from Pakistan.
Speaking of Pakistan it's now clear that a substantial fraction of their Military/Intelligence establishment, perhaps even a majority of it, support the Taliban and are providing them with Safe Havens and logistics support; and that the Pakistani civilian government is either unwilling or unable to prevent this.
Despite the Troop surge our military situation has not improved. We're unable to exert control over the countryside except in limited areas for short periods of time and to prevent co-ordinated attacks against our bases by Company and Platoon size units, even the big ones near Kabul.
But only amateurs talk about tactics, Generals talk about logistics. It is technically impossible to support any more Troops in Afghanistan than we currently have in the field. Anything that can't be airlifted in, which includes almost all the Bullets, Beans, and Gasoline, has to go through about half a dozen choke points that are mostly Taliban controlled. The only way we are able to get through at all is by bribing the Taliban with "security" contracts.
Now this may seem counter intuitive to you. Why should they allow us to supply our Troops the means to kill them?
Because we're doing a lousy job at it and they hardly notice the pain.
Not only that, but once inside Afghanistan supplies are distributed over a road system that is naturally impassible during certain seasons and easily sabotaged. All you have to do is block a culvert and wait for the snow melt to wash out the road, you don't even have to use explosives. And there are hundreds of thousands of vulnerable points, too many to constantly guard or even check on a regular basis.
Comparisons with Vietnam are inappropriate. Afghanistan is much, much worse.
Now despite our lack of progress, any prospect of progress, indeed even a definition of progress, and 9 years of futility, The Man Called Petraeus, our new Westmoreland, is making statements like this-
This is the kind of fight we're in for the rest of our lives and probably our kids' lives.
"I can see light at the end of the tunnel."- General William Westmoreland
"I can't lose the whole Democratic Party."- President Barack Obama
EVEN SCOTT BROWN VOTERS WANT THE PUBLIC OPTION, WANT DEMOCRATS TO BE BOLDER"In an election between Scott Brown and the public option, the public option would have won."
– Charles Chamberlain, political director of Democracy for AmericaHEALTH CARE BILL OPPONENTS THINK IT "DOESN'T GO FAR ENOUGH"
- by 3 to 2 among Obama voters who voted for Brown
- by 6 to 1 among Obama voters who stayed home
(18% of Obama supporters who voted supported Brown.)
- 82% of Obama voters who voted for Brown
- 86% of Obama voters who stayed home
- 57% of Brown voters say Obama "not delivering enough" on change he promised
- 49% to 37% among voters who stayed home
PLUS: Obama voters overwhelming want bold economic populism from Democrats in 2010.
Morons, assholes, or sell-outs.
Take your pick.
h/t John Amato @ C&L
A letter from Birmingham Jail Capitol Hill-
The worst is that I can't help but feel like the main emotion people in the caucus are feeling is relief at this turn of events. Now they have a ready excuse for not getting anything done. While I always thought we had the better ideas but the weaker messaging, it feels like somewhere along the line Members internalized a belief that we actually have weaker ideas. They're afraid to actually implement them and face the judgement of the voters. That's the scariest dynamic and what makes me think this will all come crashing down around us in November.
I believe President Clinton provided some crucial insight when he said, "people would rather be with someone who is strong and wrong than weak and right." It's not that people are uninterested in who's right or wrong, it's that people will only follow leaders who seem to actually believe in what they are doing. Democrats have missed this essential fact.
The stimulus bill in the spring showed us what was coming. In the face of a historic economic crisis, Democrats negotiated against themselves at the outset and subsequently yielded to absurd demands from self-described "moderates" to trim the package to a clearly inadequate level. No one made any rational argument about why a lower level was better. It would have been trivial to write "claw-back" provisions if the stimulus turned out to be too much or we could have done a rescission this year to give these moderates their victory, but none of this was on the table. We essentially looked like we didn't know what the right answer was so we just kinda went for what we could get. This formula was repeated in spades in both the Climate and Health Care debacles.
This is my life and I simply can't answer the fundamental question: "what do Democrats stand for?" Voters don't know, and we can't make the case, so they're reacting exactly as you'd expect (just as they did in 1994, 2000, and 2004). We either find the voice to answer that question and exercise the strongest majority and voter mandate we've had since Watergate, or we suffer a bloodbath in November. History shows we're likely to choose the latter.
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Dragon's Dogma!EDIT: HOLY COW LEVEL. Thanks to everyone for the support! Lilith is ranked somewhere in the top 3,000th of pawns online! (To put it in perspective, when I began playing she was somewhere at the 76,000th mark.) Again, a huge thanks to everyone who took her adventuring! :]Anyone else out there playing this? Very neat game. Very.. mixed reviews about it across the nets, but hey, I'm having fun either way.It's an open world.. actiony.. RPG-y.. exploration.. concoction. I'm not sure how else to put it. It's a pretty wild blend of all sorts of elements I've seen in games like Monster Hunter, Skyrim, Dark Souls and even Shadow of the Colossus. Aaaand I love all those games.I don't mind telling you, I'm getting myself murdered left and right, and I seem to have lost my direction very.. very early on in the game. Shortly after a dragon plucked out my heart and ate it, I found myself protecting a cow on the way to a grand capital city i
Reproduction Work: An Essay Made for Learnin'One thing I've noticed about all plagiarists: the first thing they do when caught is to claim ignorance. "I didn't mean to infringe!" "I love your art!" "I never said -outright- it wasn't original--I was only -redrawing-."Ugh. That word.Redrawing.Take a seat next to teacher here and let's have us a talk.That word is not some magic coverall for trying to pass someone else's work off as your own--and you ARE trying to pass it off as your own if you're changing signatures, names, etc. with no mention as to the original creator or characters you're appropriating. We have a word for that shit...say it with me now...plaaaagiaaarismmmm. Good job.But, Teacher! Isn't copying a way to learn from other people?The short answer is: Sure it is! Just don't be a douchebag about it.I was fortunate enough in my education to be forced to take a Master's Class. For 20 weeks we did nothing but reproduce classical works by artists like Da Vinci and Michelangelo in charcoal and pastel--and I hated eve
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SiS648 HMAC The SiS648 Host & Memory & AGP Controller integrates a high performance host interface for Intel Pentium 4 processor, a high performance memory controller, a AGP interface, and SiS MuTIOL 1G Technology connecting w/ SiS963 MuTIOL 1G Media IO.
The SiS648 Host Interface features the AGTL & AGTL+ compliant bus driver technology with integrated on-die termination to support Intel Pentium 4 series processors with FSB 400MHz/533MHz. It provides a 12-level In-Order-Queue to support maximum outstanding transactions on host bus up to 12. The host interface plays the role of processor transactions' dispatcher. It dispatches transactions to Memory, I/O interface and AGP bus. Transactions to different destinations can be dispatched concurrently in order to maximum pipeline efficiency. In addition to dispatching processor's transactions to corresponding destinations, host interface also forward DMA transactions from AGP masters and I/O masters to host bus for snooping, including master interrupt delivery.
The memory controller supports DDR only. It can offer bandwidth up to 2.7GB/s under DDR333 in order to sustain the bandwidth demand from host processor, as well as the multi I/O masters and AGP masters. The Memory Controller mainly comprises the Memory Arbiter, the M-data/M-Command Queues, and the Memory Interface. The Memory Arbiter arbitrates a plenty of memory access Host Controller, and I/O bus masters based on a default optimized priority list with the capability of dynamically prioritizing the I/O bus master requests in a bid to offering privileged service to 1) the isochronous downstream transfer to guarantee the min. latency & timely delivery, or 2) the PCI master upstream transfer to curb the latency within the maximum tolerant period of 10us. Prior to the memory access requests pushed into the M-data queue, any command compliant to the paging mechanism is generated and pushed into the M-CMD queue. The M-data/M-CMD Queues further orders and forwards these queuing requests to the Memory Interface in an effort to utilizing the memory bandwidth to its utmost by scheduling the command requests in the background when the data requests streamlines in the foreground. The memory controller also supports the Suspend to RAM function by retaining the CKE# pins asserted in ACPI S3 state in which only AUX source deliver power.
The AGP interface can support external AGP slot with AGP 4X/8X capability and Fast Write Transactions. A high bandwidth and mature SiS MuTIOL 1G technology is incorporated to connect SiS648 and SiS963 MuTIOL 1G Media I/O together. SiS MuTIOL 1G technology is developed into three layers, the Multi-threaded I/O Link Layer delivering 1.2GB bandwidth to connect embedded DMA Master devices and external PCI masters to interface to Multi-threaded I/O Link layer, the Multi-threaded I/O Packet Layer in SiS963 to transfer data w/ 1 GB/s bandwidth from/to Multi-threaded I/O Link layer to/from SiS648, and the Multi-threaded I/O Packet Layer in SiS648 to transfer data w/ 1 GB/s from/to Multi-threaded I/O Link layer to/from SiS963.


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Through the new website, supporters of the act can sign a petition voicing their concerns, contact their representative in Congress to urge passage of the act, and find out who its supporters are in the current Congress.
The Protect Life Act would amend the health care reform law so that federal funds cannot be used to subsidize abortion or health care plans that cover it. It would also strengthen conscience protections for individuals and institutions which refuse to perform abortions.
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- Cartoon Characters: Christopher "Maverick" Blair, Commodore Geoffrey Tolwyn, Todd "Maniac" Marshall, Gwen "Archer" Bowman, Lindsay "Payback" Price, Maya, Hector "Grunt" Paz, Blizzard, Thrakath.
- Voice Actors: Mark Hamill, Pat Fraley.
- Directed By Susan Blu.
- Produced By Larry Latham, Adam Foshko.
- Written By Shari Goodhartz, Mark Edens.
- Music: Alexander Bubenheim.
- Editor: Jay Bixsen, Paul D. Calder.
- First Aired on October 05, 1996.
- Originally Aired on USA Network (USA).
- Running Time: 30 minutes.
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With rainfall still well below normal for the water year, state and local governments are girding for a potentially devastating fire season. Jefferson Public Radio discusses what Oregon is doing to prepare. Meanwhile, while Oakland has taken measures to control wildfires since the 1991 blaze that spread across the hills of the East Bay, concerns of a new fire hazard are growing. With the spread of hydraulic fracturing in California's shale formations and high profile oil train explosions elsewhere in the country, plans to ship shale oil through Oakland by rail have residents and environmental groups alarmed. While the Lynchburg, VA train explosion didn't result in the loss of human life, an incident of that scale in a heavily populated area most certainly would.
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Some good and bad news has landed regarding fish populations. First the good; the NOAA fisheries report for 2013 has added thirty four fish populations to its "rebuilt" list since 2000, including the Chinook salmon. The establishment of marine reserves over the last decade (twenty of which are off the California coast) are largely credited for the recovery. The worrying news is that marine snail shells are weakening due to ocean acidification. One of the long-understood side effects of carbon dioxide pollution is the acidification of ocean waters. This has had measurable effects on coral growth and reef health, and now a study has shown that marine snails are being impacted as well. This includes the sea butterfly snail that acts as a food source for many fish species.
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Stabbed Officer Recovering, Two Investigations PendingMember Submissionby Michael C. Fitzpatrick, Morning Journal LORAIN -- Police are conducting two separate investigations into the fatal shooting by a policeman of a Lorain man with a history of mental illness after a fellow officer was stabbed. Ronnie Untalan, 30, was shot and killed by Lorain police officer Joseph Kopronica in a home at 4623 Riverside Drive after Untalan stabbed Kopronica's partner, James Wolford, with a butcher knife. The two officers were called to the home of Untalan's parents by his mother at 10:24 p.m. to calm him down after he grabbed a 12.5-inch kitchen knife, ripped the phone out of the wall and barricaded himself in the kitchen. Untalan was treated at the scene by emergency personnel and was taken to Community Health Partners West, where he was pronounced dead by the emergency room physician, according to police. He was killed by single gunshot to the chest which perforated his heart, according to Lorain County Coroner Dr. Paul Matus. Wolford, a 10-year veteran, was treated for a stab wound he received to his left rib-area and later released, said police. Untalan was diagnosed as a schizophrenic 15 years ago, according to his father Romeo, and had been taking medication for his disorder. He had been discharged from the Nord Center on Monday after spending the past weekend with his parents. "We will do an internal investigation and evaluation to see if standard police policy and procedures were used," said Safety/Service Director Craig Miller. Miller said he, the city prosecutor and Police Chief Cel Rivera will then review the reports to determine what action --Êif any -- will be taken. "We will not rush the internal investigation, but we will do it as quickly and efficiently as possible," Miller said. Miller said the Lorain Police Department should be able to handle the investigation independently. "I don't see any reason for the county or the state to take the investigation any further if our investigations determine the officer acted properly in using deadly force," said Miller. Lorain County Prosecutor Gregory White couldn't be reached for comment. According to Miller, one Lorain police detective will investigate to determine if Kopronica was justified in his use of deadly force. Another detective will investigate Untalan's actions in the incident, to determine if he might have been in the act of committing a felonious assault on a police officer at the time of the shooting. Kopronica has been put on paid leave and will continue in that status until the investigations are complete, according to Miller. The four-year veteran with the force was not available for comment yesterday. According to Lt. Rich Resendez, LifeCare -- a local ambulance service -- had been called to the scene but refused to assist when emergency workers learned that Untalan had a knife. A Lorain police crisis negotiation team was also called to the scene. According to Resendez, when Wolford and Kopronica arrived at the home, Untalan had already barricaded himself in the kitchen, blocking the doorway with a small table. Wolford, standing in the living room, tried to calm down Untalan, and for a brief moment appeared to be making headway. However, Untalan lunged at Wolford with the knife and stabbed him. Wolford fell on the floor and Untalan fell over him, landing on a nearby couch. When Untalan tried to get up from the couch Kopronica, also standing in the living room, fired a shot that struck Untalan in the chest. "As Mr. Untalan got up from the couch, still with the knife in his hand, Officer Kopronica had no other alternative but to discharge his weapon," Resendez said. According to the report, police removed the knife from Untalan's hand only after he was shot. "He did in fact have the knife, there was no doubt about it," said Resendez. Said Romeo Untalan: "It all happened in a split second." Resendez said Untalan's violent behavior forced Lorain police to use deadly force. "I believe he had already stabbed Officer Wolford. Officer Wolford was down, knew he had been stabbed, in fact made some statements 'I've been cut, I've been stuck,' or something to that effect," Resendez said. Resendez characterized Kopronica as a good policeman. "Officer Kopronica is an excellent officer. (He's had ) no disciplinary problems. I had the availability to supervise him when I was assigned to uniform patrol. (He's a) very good officer, very conscientious officer, very caring officer." Romeo Untalan, who had tried along with Wolford to talk his son into giving up, said he questioned if police needed to kill his son. He said Kopronica could have shot Ronnie Untalan in the leg. "Why not shoot to maim him, said Romeo Untalan who moved his family to the United States from the Philippines in 1992, and had moved Ronnie and his wife to Lorain to avoid the violence of New York. "They told me this is safer than New York," he said with a sad shrug. |
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I met my Mother and Grandmother today for lunch and decided to take bouquets cut from flowers from my garden.
I can not remember ever cutting summer flowers on Nov. 18! I hope the flowers are not confused and will bloom strongly next spring! I have regular azaleas and hydrangeas blooming now. The Knockout roses are still going strong and I have a couple of blooms from other roses. What is still blooming for you? |
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- Posted by transplanted2scin07 7b upstate SC (My Page) on Wed, Nov 18, 09 at 17:11
Don't you just love it?! I have a reblooming iris still budded and ready to pop, plus several other flowers. You arrangements are very lovely - thanks for sharing. |
An Iris blooming now would really be great! Hopefully yours will before a freeze knocks it out. |
- Posted by bumblebeez z7b Seneca SC (My Page) on Wed, Nov 18, 09 at 21:36
Beautiful! I really hope we don't have a freeze before Thanksgiving so I can have flowers for the tables. I have the same things flowering as you do. |
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Absolutely, stunning arrangements you've made from your flower garden. I'm a little envious because I have nothing blooming in my garden in Winston-Salem but we made be just a tad bit cooler. Enjoy your flowers! |
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We had our Thanksgiving/Christmas on Wed. while son was here visiting from Europe. I had nothing blooming for the table so I used a grouping of jars of rooting coleus. From 2 feet away they were very colorful. |
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Vinayan has been instrumental in coming up with something that won't go with the trend, but will definitely fetch him results. The latest offering from him for this Vishu Athisayan is such a film, exclusively dedicated to the children who are enjoying the lengthy midsummer vacation. And for the bigger ones, just be in the mind frame of a kid, and you will find the things moving.
The film revolves around Devan, who is himself a child prodigy with high IQ, extremely brilliant in studies and other activities. He is brought up by Maya, a young television reporter, who works for New India Television. Maya, who was also brought up in an orphanage by Father Chanthakkadan, is paying back by taking responsibility of a few orphans, whom she has picked up from the streets and Devan is also a mischievous one among them.
Maya and the children get into touch with R.C. Shekhar, a scientist, who comes to live near their house. He is a world famous scientist who is even nominated for the Nobel's and is currently working on a project, which could make human bodies invisible. Devan who spends most of the time around his lab, finds one day that the scientist has succeeded in his experiments on the theory of invincibility by making a rabbit invisible, with a magic liquid. But on the same day he is urgently called to the U.S as his only daughter there, meets with an accident.
Maya has a friend and lover Roy, who was also a journalist, but is in jail now, being framed in a murder case by some influential politicians. State Revenue Minister Divakaran, minister Yunus Kunju, the Police Commissioner Shanmughan and the very influential Kuwait Nazar are behind Roy as he is the only witness to a murder that was done by the gang. The villains are now into making money by selling big lands to Dubai Company (suggesting the new Smart City deal). With the help of the newly-appointed Collector Anita Williams, Maya shoots on her mobile, a spy video of these baddies accepting crores of rupees as commission from Dubai officials, who are here to sign business deals with the State Government.
Maya immediately goes to her boss Radha Ramanan (Mukesh) who has an eye on her and shows him the clip. Radharamanan thrilled to get a scoop agrees to telecast it, after discussing it with the Board of Directors. But another newscaster of the channel Vijanan Koshy betrays them and let the baddies know about the video. They device plans to seize the memory card of Maya's cell phone which has the clippings. And for that they abduct Maya and manhandle the children of the orphanage. Every one knows who is behind the plot, but can't do a thing to save Maya and Roy as the baddie's are the reigning powers of the state. And then Devan, who knows about the invisible experiment, consumes the magic drink from Shekhar's lab and sets out to save Maya. The story that follows tracks the deeds of invisible devan and relies heavily on special effects, and makes good company to the astonishing minds.
Master Devadas, (actually this is his debut film) who was seen recently in Aanandhabhairavi is appealing as Devan. Kavya Madhavan as Maya has done justice to her role. Jackie Shroff, who makes his debut in Malayalam looks aged but has not, lost his charisma, playing R.C. Shekhar. Thilakan as Father Chanthakkadan, Mukesh as Radharamanan, Jayasuriya as Roy, Devan as Kuwait Nazar, Rajan P. Dev as Divakaran, Ramu as Yunus Kunju, Bheeman Rehgu as Shanmughan, Jagadeesh as the news-reader Koshy, Harisri Ashokan as R.C. Shekhar's assistant Damodaran are in their regulars but not so demanding roles.
Even though the plot of Adhisayan defies all logic and is a hotch potch of various films, it definitely provides some fun for the kids the cinematography by Rajarathnam is in tune with theme. The film has a few good songs by Alphonse.
And for this summer, Adhisayan may satisfy your children, who may want a desperate outing from the movies aimed only for the biggies. Don't forget, it is once in a couple of years that a movie arrives targeting the children. So, just be with them to enjoy seeing them having the fun of new generation graphics.
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