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Robert Edward Rubin
served as the 70th
United States Secretary of the Treasury
United States Secretary of the Treasury
The Secretary of the Treasury of the United States is the head of the United States Department of the Treasury, which is concerned with financial and monetary matters, and, until 2003, also with some issues of national security and defense. This position in the Federal Government of the United...
during both the first and second
Bill Clinton
William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton is an American politician who served as the 42nd President of the United States from 1993 to 2001. Inaugurated at age 46, he was the third-youngest president. He took office at the end of the Cold War, and was the first president of the baby boomer generation...
administrations. Before his government service, he spent 26 years at
Goldman Sachs
Goldman Sachs
The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. is an American multinational bulge bracket investment banking and securities firm that engages in global investment banking, securities, investment management, and other financial services primarily with institutional clients...
eventually serving as a member of the Board, and Co-Chairman from 1990-1992. His most prominent post-government role was as Director and Senior Counselor of
Citigroup Inc. or Citi is an American multinational financial services corporation headquartered in Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States. Citigroup was formed from one of the world's largest mergers in history by combining the banking giant Citicorp and financial conglomerate...
, where he performed ongoing advisory and representational roles for the firm. From November to December 2007, he served temporarily as Chairman of Citigroup and resigned from the company on January 9, 2009. He received more than $126 million in cash and stock during his tenure at Citigroup.
He is currently engaged actively as a founder of The Hamilton Project, an economic policy think tank which produces research and proposals on how to create a growing economy that benefits more Americans. He is Co-Chairman of the
Council on Foreign Relations
Council on Foreign Relations
The Council on Foreign Relations is an American nonprofit nonpartisan membership organization, publisher, and think tank specializing in U.S. foreign policy and international affairs...
and sits on the board of the Harvard Corporation, Harvard University's executive board. Mr. Rubin is chairman of the board of the Local Initiatives Support Corporation, the nation's leading community development support organization, and he serves on the Board of Trustees of Mount Sinai-NYU Health. He also serves as Counselor at
Centerview Partners
Centerview Partners
Centerview Partners is an independent investment banking and private equity investment firm. Centerview operates primarily as an investment banking advisory firm. The firm offers mergers and acquisitions advisory, takeover defense, capital allocation and divestitures services. The firm also...
, an investment banking advisory firm based in New York City.
Education and background
Born in
New York City
New York City
New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...
, Rubin moved to
Miami Beach, Florida
Miami Beach, Florida
Miami Beach is a coastal resort city in Miami-Dade County, Florida, United States, incorporated on March 26, 1915. The municipality is located on a barrier island between the Atlantic Ocean and Biscayne Bay, the latter which separates the Beach from Miami city proper...
, at an early age and graduated from
Miami Beach High School
Miami Beach High School
Miami Beach Senior High School, commonly referred to as "Beach High" or "MBSH", is a secondary school located at 2231 Prairie Avenue in the Miami Beach, Florida, right around the corner from the Miami Beach Convention Center and Botanical Gardens on Prairie Avenue and Dade Boulevard...
. He was a member of Boy Scout Troop 35, sponsored by the American Legion, and received the rank of Eagle Scout. In 1960, Rubin graduated with an
Bachelor of Arts
A Bachelor of Arts , from the Latin artium baccalaureus, is a bachelor's degree awarded for an undergraduate course or program in either the liberal arts, the sciences, or both...
summa cum laude
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Harvard College
Harvard College
Harvard College, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is one of two schools within Harvard University granting undergraduate degrees...
. He then attended
Harvard Law School
Harvard Law School
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for three days before leaving to see the world. He later attended the
London School of Economics
London School of Economics
The London School of Economics and Political Science is a public research university specialised in the social sciences located in London, United Kingdom, and a constituent college of the federal University of London...
after graduation and received an
Bachelor of Laws
The Bachelor of Laws is an undergraduate, or bachelor, degree in law originating in England and offered in most common law countries as the primary law degree...
Yale Law School
Yale Law School
Yale Law School, or YLS, is the law school of Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Established in 1824, it offers the J.D., LL.M., J.S.D. and M.S.L. degrees in law. It also hosts visiting scholars, visiting researchers and a number of legal research centers...
in 1964.
Rubin began his career as an attorney at the firm of Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton in New York City. He joined
Goldman Sachs
Goldman Sachs
The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. is an American multinational bulge bracket investment banking and securities firm that engages in global investment banking, securities, investment management, and other financial services primarily with institutional clients...
in 1966 as an associate in the
risk arbitrage
Risk arbitrage
Risk arbitrage, or merger arbitrage, is an investment or trading strategy often associated with hedge funds.Two principal types of merger are possible: a cash merger, and a stock merger. In a cash merger, an acquirer proposes to purchase the shares of the target for a certain price in cash...
department. Rubin proved his skills at the intricate art of investing his firm's capital in high-reward
In economics and finance, arbitrage is the practice of taking advantage of a price difference between two or more markets: striking a combination of matching deals that capitalize upon the imbalance, the profit being the difference between the market prices...
opportunities and became a general partner in 1971. He joined the management committee in 1980 along with fellow Democrat
Jon Corzine
Jon Corzine
Jon Stevens Corzine is the former CEO of Goldman Sachs and of MF Global, and a one time American politician, who served as the 54th Governor of New Jersey from 2006 to 2010. A Democrat, Corzine served five years of a six-year U.S. Senate term representing New Jersey before being elected Governor...
, later a U.S. senator and governor of
New Jersey
New Jersey
New Jersey is a state in the Northeastern and Middle Atlantic regions of the United States. , its population was 8,791,894. It is bordered on the north and east by the state of New York, on the southeast and south by the Atlantic Ocean, on the west by Pennsylvania and on the southwest by Delaware...
. Rubin was Vice Chairman and Co-Chief Operating Officer from 1987 to 1990. From the end of 1990 to 1992, Rubin served as Co-Chairman and Co-Senior Partner along with
Stephen Friedman
Stephen Friedman (PFIAB)
Stephen Friedman is the former Chairman of the United States President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board. He was nominated on October 27, 2005 to replace Brent Scowcroft in the position.-Life and career:...
Rubin has been awarded honorary degrees from several prestigious universities, including
Harvard University
Harvard University
Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...
Yale University
Yale University
Yale University is a private, Ivy League university located in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701 in the Colony of Connecticut, the university is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States...
Columbia University
Columbia University
Columbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...
University of Pennsylvania
University of Pennsylvania
The University of Pennsylvania is a private, Ivy League university located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Penn is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States,Penn is the fourth-oldest using the founding dates claimed by each institution...
New York University
New York University
New York University is a private, nonsectarian research university based in New York City. NYU's main campus is situated in the Greenwich Village section of Manhattan...
and the
University of Miami
University of Miami
The University of Miami is a private, non-sectarian university founded in 1925 with its main campus in Coral Gables, Florida, a medical campus in Miami city proper at Civic Center, and an oceanographic research facility on Virginia Key., the university currently enrolls 15,629 students in 12...
Clinton administration
From January 20, 1993, to January 10, 1995, Robert Rubin served in the White House as Assistant to the President for Economic Policy. In that capacity, he directed the National Economic Council, which
Bill Clinton
Bill Clinton
William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton is an American politician who served as the 42nd President of the United States from 1993 to 2001. Inaugurated at age 46, he was the third-youngest president. He took office at the end of the Cold War, and was the first president of the baby boomer generation...
created after winning the presidency.
The National Economic Council, or NEC, enabled the White House to coordinate closely the workings of the Cabinet departments and agencies on policies ranging from budget and tax to international trade and alleviating poverty. The NEC coordinated policy recommendations going into the President's office, and monitored implementation of the decisions that came out.
Robert Strauss, former U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union, credited Rubin with making the system work. "He's surely the only man or woman in America that I know who could make the NEC succeed," Strauss said in 1994. "Anyone else would have been a disruptive force, and the council wouldn't have worked."
1990s global financial crisis
In January 1995, one year after the signing of the
North American Free Trade Agreement
North American Free Trade Agreement
The North American Free Trade Agreement or NAFTA is an agreement signed by the governments of Canada, Mexico, and the United States, creating a trilateral trade bloc in North America. The agreement came into force on January 1, 1994. It superseded the Canada – United States Free Trade Agreement...
(NAFTA) and immediately after Rubin was sworn in as Secretary of Treasury, Mexico was suffering through a
financial crisis
Financial crisis
The term financial crisis is applied broadly to a variety of situations in which some financial institutions or assets suddenly lose a large part of their value. In the 19th and early 20th centuries, many financial crises were associated with banking panics, and many recessions coincided with these...
that threatened to result in it
Default (finance)
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on its foreign obligations. President
Bill Clinton
Bill Clinton
William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton is an American politician who served as the 42nd President of the United States from 1993 to 2001. Inaugurated at age 46, he was the third-youngest president. He took office at the end of the Cold War, and was the first president of the baby boomer generation...
, with the advice of Secretary Rubin and Federal Reserve Board Chairman
Alan Greenspan
Alan Greenspan
Alan Greenspan is an American economist who served as Chairman of the Federal Reserve of the United States from 1987 to 2006. He currently works as a private advisor and provides consulting for firms through his company, Greenspan Associates LLC...
, provided $20 billion in US loan guarantees to the Mexican government through the
Exchange Stabilization Fund
Exchange Stabilization Fund
The Exchange Stabilization Fund is an emergency reserve fund of the United States Treasury Department, normally used for foreign exchange intervention...
In 1997 and 1998, Treasury Secretary Rubin, Deputy Secretary
Lawrence Summers
Lawrence Summers
Lawrence Henry Summers is an American economist. He served as the 71st United States Secretary of the Treasury from 1999 to 2001 under President Bill Clinton. He was Director of the White House United States National Economic Council for President Barack Obama until November 2010.Summers is the...
, and Federal Reserve Board Chairman
Alan Greenspan
Alan Greenspan
Alan Greenspan is an American economist who served as Chairman of the Federal Reserve of the United States from 1987 to 2006. He currently works as a private advisor and provides consulting for firms through his company, Greenspan Associates LLC...
worked with the
International Monetary Fund
International Monetary Fund
The International Monetary Fund is an organization of 187 countries, working to foster global monetary cooperation, secure financial stability, facilitate international trade, promote high employment and sustainable economic growth, and reduce poverty around the world...
and others to effectively combat and contain financial crises in Russian, Asian, and Latin American financial markets. In its February 15, 1999, edition,
Time Magazine
dubbed the three policymakers "The Committee to Save the World."
Mr. Rubin was succeeded on July 1, 1999, as Treasury Secretary by his deputy, Lawrence H. Summers.
Economic record and the 2008 global financial crisis
Upon Rubin's retirement, Clinton called him the "greatest secretary of the Treasury since Alexander Hamilton". On April 18, 2010, in an interview on ABC's
This Week
program, Clinton said Rubin was wrong in the advice he gave him not to regulate derivatives.
"During his tenure as Treasury Secretary", Senator
Chuck Hagel
Chuck Hagel
Charles Timothy "Chuck" Hagel is a former United States Senator from Nebraska. A member of the Republican Party, he was first elected in 1996 and was reelected in 2002...
(R-NE) said, "Bob was an ideal public servant who put policy before politics."
In 1997, Rubin and Federal Reserve chairman
Alan Greenspan
Alan Greenspan
Alan Greenspan is an American economist who served as Chairman of the Federal Reserve of the United States from 1987 to 2006. He currently works as a private advisor and provides consulting for firms through his company, Greenspan Associates LLC...
strongly opposed giving the
Commodity Futures Trading Commission
Commodity Futures Trading Commission
The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission is an independent agency of the United States government that regulates futures and option markets....
oversight of over-the-counter
credit derivatives
Derivative (finance)
A derivative instrument is a contract between two parties that specifies conditions—in particular, dates and the resulting values of the underlying variables—under which payments, or payoffs, are to be made between the parties.Under U.S...
when this was proposed by
Brooksley Born
Brooksley Born
Brooksley E. Born is an American attorney and former public official who, from August 26, 1996, to June 1, 1999, was chairperson of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission , the federal agency which oversees the futures and commodity options markets...
, the head of the CFTC. Rubin's role was highlighted in a
Public Broadcasting Service
Public Broadcasting Service
The Public Broadcasting Service is an American non-profit public broadcasting television network with 354 member TV stations in the United States which hold collective ownership. Its headquarters is in Arlington, Virginia....
report, "The Warning". Over-the-counter credit derivatives were eventually excluded from regulation by the CFTC by the
Commodity Futures Modernization Act of 2000
Commodity Futures Modernization Act of 2000
The Commodity Futures Modernization Act of 2000 is United States federal legislation that officially ensured the deregulation of financial products known as over-the-counter derivatives. It was signed into law on December 21, 2000 by President Bill Clinton...
. According to the
documentary, they played a key role in the 2008 financial crisis.
Arthur Levitt Jr., a former chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, has said in explaining Rubin's strong opposition to the regulations proposed by Born that Greenspan and Rubin were "...joined at the hip on this. They were certainly very fiercely opposed to this and persuaded me that this would cause chaos." However, in Rubin's autobiography, he notes that he believed derivatives could pose significant problems and that many people who used derivatives did not fully understand the risks they were taking.
Rubin and his deputy Lawrence Summers also steered through the 1999 repeal of the Glass–Steagall Act (1933), which had separated investment banking from the retail side. It allowed the banks to develop and sell the mortgage-backed instruments that became a principal factor in the financial collapse. In September 2011, the UK Independent Commission on Banking released a report in which it recommended a separation of investment and retail banking to prevent a repeat of the 2008 crisis.
In a December 2009
article, Rubin described the extraordinary combination of circumstances that led to the global financial crisis, including market and credit excesses, low interest rates, massive increase in the use of complex derivatives, misguided AAA ratings, stagnant median real wages, abusive mortgage practices, and the over-leveraging of financial institutions, among many other factors. In the article, Rubin advocates for the reform of the financial system in order to better protect against systemic risk and devastating crises in the future. Rubin says "the market-based model must be combined with strong and effective government, nationally and transnationally, to deal with critical challenges that markets won't adequately address."
On January 9, 2009, Citigroup announcedd that Rubin had resigned as a senior adviser and would not seek re-election as a director of the corporation. Press reports noted that Rubin had drawn criticism for his role in the bank's recent problems that drove it to seek federal assistance.
Post-political career
Upon leaving the Clinton administration, Rubin joined the Board of The Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC), the nation's leading community development support organization as Chairman.
Reflecting on his decision to join an institution devoted to bringing economic activity to neglected areas of the country, the
Chicago Tribune
said the following in an editorial: "Even before he became Bill Clinton's treasury secretary, during his days as a high-powered Wall Street executive, Rubin was passionate about fostering business investment as the way to fight poverty in depressed city and rural areas. That made him somewhat unusual among Democrats, who generally emphasized government anti-poverty programs."
In 1999, affirming his career-long interest in markets, Rubin joined Citigroup as a board member and as a participant "in strategic managerial and operational matters of the Company, but [...] no line responsibilities." The
Wall Street Journal
called this mix of oversight and management responsibilities "murky." In an interview with the Journal, Rubin said: "I think I've been a very constructive part of the Citigoup environment." Separately, the
noted that Citigroup shareholders have suffered losses of more than 70 percent since Rubin joined the firm and that he encouraged changes that led the firm to the brink of collapse. In December 2008, investors filed a lawsuit contending that Citigroup executives, including Rubin, sold shares at inflated prices while concealing the firm's risks. A Citigroup spokesman said the lawsuit was without merit.
On January 8, 2001, he was presented with the
Presidential Citizens Medal
Presidential Citizens Medal
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by President
William Clinton
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On July 1, 2002, Rubin became a member of Harvard Corporation, the executive governing board of
Harvard University
Harvard University
Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...
. This happened one year after he had received an honorary doctoral degree from the same university.
Rubin has written a memoir,
In an Uncertain World: Tough Choices from Wall Street to Washington
(ISBN 978-0-375-50585-0), co-written by
Jacob Weisberg
Jacob Weisberg
Jacob Weisberg is an American political journalist, serving as editor-in-chief of Slate Group, a division of The Washington Post Company. Weisberg is also a Newsweek columnist. He served as the editor of Slate magazine for six years, until stepping down in June 2008...
. It was a
New York Times bestseller
as well as one of Business Week's ten best business books of 2003.
Rubin is a member of the
Africa Progress Panel
Africa Progress Panel
The Africa Progress Panel consists of a group of distinguished individuals chaired by Kofi Annan whose objective is to track and encourage progress in Africa, and to underscore shared responsibility between African leaders and their international partners for sustaining it.The APP was originally...
(APP), an independent authority on Africa launched in April 2007 to focus world leaders' attention on delivering their commitments to the continent. The Panel launched a major report in London on Monday June 16, 2008, entitled
Africa's Development: Promises and Prospects
Rubin has been touted as a possible appointee to a cabinet post for President
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
Barack Hussein Obama II is the 44th and current President of the United States. He is the first African American to hold the office. Obama previously served as a United States Senator from Illinois, from January 2005 until he resigned following his victory in the 2008 presidential election.Born in...
. Rubin, alongside
Austan Goolsbee
Austan Goolsbee
Austan Dean Goolsbee is an American economist, formerly serving as the Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers and the youngest member of the cabinet of President Barack Obama. Goolsbee is from the University of Chicago where he is the Robert P...
Paul Volcker
Paul Volcker
Paul Adolph Volcker, Jr. is an American economist. He was the Chairman of the Federal Reserve under United States Presidents Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan from August 1979 to August 1987. He is widely credited with ending the high levels of inflation seen in the United States in the 1970s and...
, is one of Obama's economic advisers.
Rubin is married to Judith Oxenberg Rubin, who served as the New York City Commissioner of
Protocol (politics)
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for four years under Mayor
David Dinkins
David Dinkins
David Norman Dinkins is a former politician from New York City. He was the Mayor of New York City from 1990 through 1993; he was the first and is, to date, the only African American to hold that office.-Early life:...
. The Rubins have two grown sons, James (not to be confused with the former diplomat and journalist
James Rubin
James Rubin
James Philip "Jamie" Rubin is a former diplomat and journalist. He is currently an executive editor at Bloomberg News. Having served in the State Department during the administration of President Bill Clinton, he became a Sky News television news journalist and commentator...
who served under President Clinton) and Philip.
Positions held
During his time in the
private sector
Private sector
In economics, the private sector is that part of the economy, sometimes referred to as the citizen sector, which is run by private individuals or groups, usually as a means of enterprise for profit, and is not controlled by the state...
, Rubin has served on the
board of directors
Board of directors
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of the
New York Stock Exchange
New York Stock Exchange
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, the
Ford Motor Company
Ford Motor Company
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, Citigroup, the Harvard Corporation, the New York Futures Exchange, the New York City Partnership and the
Center for National Policy
Center for National Policy
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. He has also served on the board of trustees of the
Carnegie Corporation of New York
Carnegie Corporation of New York
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Mt. Sinai Hospital and Medical School
Mount Sinai Hospital, New York
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, the President's Advisory Committee for Trade Negotiations, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Market Oversight and Financial Services Advisory Committee, the Mayor of New York's Council of Economic Advisors and the Governor's Council on Fiscal and Economic Priorities for the State of New York. He has been co-chairman of the
board of directors
Board of directors
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of the
Council on Foreign Relations
Council on Foreign Relations
The Council on Foreign Relations is an American nonprofit nonpartisan membership organization, publisher, and think tank specializing in U.S. foreign policy and international affairs...
since June 2007. On November 4, 2007, he became the Chairman of Citigroup and on January 9, 2009 he resigned from the position of Senior Counselor at Citigroup and announced he would not stand for re-election to the board.
Robert Rubin received over $17,000,000 in compensation from Citigroup and a further $33,000,000 in stock options as of 2008.
Rubin sparked controversy in 2001 when he contacted an acquaintance at the U.S. Treasury Department and asked if the department could convince bond-rating agencies not to downgrade the corporate debt of
Enron Corporation was an American energy, commodities, and services company based in Houston, Texas. Before its bankruptcy on December 2, 2001, Enron employed approximately 22,000 staff and was one of the world's leading electricity, natural gas, communications, and pulp and paper companies, with...
, a debtor of Citigroup. The Treasury official refused. A subsequent congressional staff investigation cleared Rubin of any wrongdoing.
Some critics claim the repeal of the Glass–Steagall Act was a key factor in the 2008 financial crisis. Enacted just after the 1930s great depression, the Glass–Steagall Act separated commercial and investment banking. The law was repealed by Congress in 1999 during the Clinton presidency, while Rubin was Treasury Secretary. President Obama's current banking system proposals, appear to be a return to these former principles although there is no talk of reinstating Glass–Steagall.
The White House - Office of the Press Secretary
External links
Council on Foreign Relations
Council on Foreign Relations
The Council on Foreign Relations is an American nonprofit nonpartisan membership organization, publisher, and think tank specializing in U.S. foreign policy and international affairs...
at Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay area
The Warning
PBS Frontline
, 2009


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PHILADELPHIA -- After criticizing Eagles management and comparing the team's front-office to people who play fantasy football, cornerback Asante Samuel backtracked Wednesday night, saying he let his emotions get the best of him.
"Everything's good and I'm happy to be here," Samuel said in a statement to the Philadelphia Inquirer. "I had a talk with coach [Andy] Reid this afternoon and I now have a better understanding of how business works in the NFL. Let's get a win Sunday."
"Unhappy he was trade bait earlier in the season, Samuel ripped into unnamed Eagles executives after practice Wednesday afternoon.Couple people upstairs might not want me, but who cares. They've probably never played football.
" -- Eagles CB Asante Samuel
on execs in team's front office
"Couple people upstairs might not want me, but who cares. They've probably never played football," Samuel said Wednesday. "It's a business and they run it like a business and they're going to do what they need to do. They're playing with a lot of money, playing fantasy football, doing their thing."
Asked if he was referring to general manager Howie Roseman and president Joe Banner, Samuel replied: "Howie and Joe? I don't know, do they fit the comment I made? "There ya go. You think they're upstairs playing fantasy football with the owner's money?"
Samuel, a four-time Pro Bowl pick, said he doesn't have any problem with coach Andy Reid.
"Me and Andy talked, cleared it up, everything is good," Samuel said. "Everything has been good with me and Andy. That's my guy, that's who I play for, that's who I continue to play for. I go to war for Andy. It is what it is, all the other stuff upstairs."
Samuel's name has been mentioned in trade rumors since Philadelphia acquired cornerbacks Nnamdi Asomugha and Dominique Rodgers-Cromartie in July.
"When they traded for Dominique, I was happy. When they signed Nnamdi, definitely was happy," Samuel said. "But when they made the call to me and said they were trying to trade me, that's when it went bad. I know it's not a rumor. I know it's a fact. They called me. They called me and my agent. Talked to both of us."
Reid spoke to reporters early Wednesday, and said neither he nor Samuel were going to discuss the trade speculation.
But after Samuel's critical comments post-practice, Reid issued the following statement:
NFC East blog
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"I am aware of how Asante felt and we have since talked. We both left with a positive feeling going forward. As I have said previously, when we acquired Dominique Rodgers-Cromartie and Nnamdi Asomugha, we had received numerous calls on the availability of our cornerbacks.
"After discussing significant trade offers with other teams, we decided to keep all three cornerbacks on our team. Asante is a valuable member of our team and we appreciate all that he brings to this organization. As far as my relationship with Howie and Joe, I have a great deal of respect for both of them and I know we are all on the same page."
Samuel signed a six-year, $57 million contract with the Eagles in 2008. He's due to make $8.4 million next year and $10.4 million in 2013.
The Eagles (2-4) meet the Cowboys (3-3) in Philadelphia on Sunday night.
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Farley Aguilar answers the door of a modest Edgewater duplex while clutching a frosty gin and tonic and sporting a teardrop-creased fedora that would have made Indiana Jones beam. Clad in a Night of the Vampires T-shirt, plaid socks, and sandals, he heads to the inner sanctum of his rumpled bedroom, where his art career began. Courtesy of Anthony Spinello/Spinello Projects Portrait of Farley Aguilar in his studio.
Inside, graffiti fills the walls, rising toward the ceiling like gunmetal veins of cigarette smoke.
Surrounded by hearts, one of the phrases reads, "Farley loves Kizzy." Another declares, "Farley is blind." Scrawled with a pencil years ago, the words are an odd diary of his budding relationship with Kizzy Gonzalez, the woman Aguilar calls the love of his life and his muse.
"There are also portraits of Kizzy and myself, just very spontaneous, drunk stuff. For some reason I never have wanted to paint over it," he says.
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"I must have painted this around 2005. When I look at it now, it's a very odd image, so ridiculous, but I like it very much."
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It's heady territory for a blue-collar kid from South Miami. The 35-year-old Aguilar was born in Nicaragua and moved with his family to South Florida to escape the political turmoil back home.
His father, Bayardo, was an accountant, and his mother, Delia, a homemaker. The family struggled to make ends meet when they moved here in 1981.
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Growing up in a working-class household left little time for art appreciation, though both of his grandparents on his father's side were talented artists. "My grandfather was a sculptor, and Grandma was a painter who painted pictures of the Virgin on banners for religious processions in Nicaragua," Aguilar says. "But all the things they created were lost during the earthquake that destroyed Managua back in 1972."
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These crooks try to profit from your misfortune, and it all happens in a flash. In some cases, con artists stage accidents using only their own vehicles and a few associates. In others, they target innocent drivers.
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When police arrive, the other driver and passengers complain of aches and pains and blame you for the accident. Later, they file thousands of dollars in claims for injuries against your car insurance company.
"Most of the damage is done by groups of people who make their living doing this," says Frank Scafidi, spokesperson for the National Insurance Crime Bureau. "They're knuckleheads, really."
Last year, property insurers referred 28,553 suspicious medical claims to the National Insurance Crime Bureau, a 10 percent increase from 2008. Seventy-one percent of these were personal auto insurance claims.
The bureau projects if the current pace of questionable claims in the first half of 2010 continues, the total will rise 13 percent this year compared to 2009.
Con artists are becoming more sophisticated and organized, says Bob Cline, national special investigative unit manager for Esurance, an online direct-to-consumer insurance company headquartered in San Francisco.
The crooks work with shady clinics and attorneys, use fictitious names and vehicles that can't be traced to previous accidents, and recruit witnesses and passengers with no criminal histories. In many cases, these recruits are recent immigrants unfamiliar with the legal system.
Another trend Cline sees is the growing involvement of street gangs drawn by a lucrative payoff. Until recently, most of the groups that pulled off auto insurance scams were specialists not involved in other criminal activity.
Florida, California, New York, Texas and Illinois are the top five states for questionable medical claims, according to the bureau. The top five cities are New York; Tampa, Fla.; Miami; Los Angeles and Houston.
"Central Florida is the staged accident capital of the country," Cline says.
A 2010 study by the National Insurance Crime Bureau shows the number of insurance claims related to suspected staged or deliberately caused accidents jumped 58 percent in Florida from 2008 to 2009. Tampa is now at the epicenter of the trend, according to the bureau.
Car insurance scammers look for victims who are alone and drive nice cars likely to be well-insured, Scafidi says.
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Widespread snowfall across Britain
Heavy snowfall in northern parts of UK – Record-breaking waves on Irish coast
A severe weather warning issued by the Met Office today covered large parts of England and Wales, as well as Northern Ireland and most of Scotland.
With snow coating the ground as far south as Exmoor in Devon, the Met Office said Wales, the Midlands, and even southern areas including London should brace themselves for snowy conditions later this week.
Meanwhile in Scotland, severe weather warnings of heavy snowfall above 200 meters and blizzard conditions were issued yesterday.
The alert follows last Thursday's storm, which battered the country leaving thousands of homes without power.
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"Children just aren't going to know what snow is," said Viner.
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Geoff Sharp says:
In five days time the UK and western Europe will be hit by a massive storm…we are just playing right now.
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I don't suppose there is a list anywhere, of all the different people / groups, who have made this same or similar stupid statement?
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soon we may read of times like last century, all iced over and many crops and animals unable to survive. Harvest in aus is weird this year, late due to the LACK of warmth to dry the crops before reaping, and many really good crops copped floods. overall a really decent year after 10 years savage drought, which BTW is perfectly normal for this land.
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international Crack Down on the skeptic climate blogs that received the ClimateGate E-Mails
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Yes, the gift that keeps on giving is still here. I keep waiting to see a new statement from Viner saying that children just aren't going to know what warm summers are like.
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Telling the truth doesn't………….
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England: as my husband says, the bookies must be shaking in their shoes about the possibility of a white Christmas. Ten days to go and they could lose their shirts!
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Here in Germany (Ober Schwaben -Schwaebische Alb) we are having no winter at all. The Alps are bare of snow, and it is unusally warm. However, the Chemtrails have been thick this year, and I believe the temperatures and normal storm patterns have been altered to convince the public that Global Warming is real.
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This is very disturbing : The first blogger to break the Climategate2 story has had a visit from the police and has had his computers seized. Tallbloke's Talkshop first reported on CG2 due to the timing of the release being overnight in the USA. Today he was raided by six UK police (Norfolk Constabulary and Metropolitan police) and several of his computers were seized as evidence. He writes:
After surveying my ancient stack of Sun Sparcstations and PII 400 pc's, they ended up settling for two laptops and an adsl broadband router. I'm blogging this post via my mobile.
That means his cellphone. In his blog report ( http://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2011/12/14/tallbloke-towers-raided-many-computers-taken/ ) are all the details. including actions in the US involving WordPress and the US Department of Justice. Jeff Id at The Air Vent also has a report here: http://noconsensus.wordpress.com/2011/12/14/crackdown-shooting-in-the-dark/ Mr Delingpole Telegraph http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/jamesdelingpole/100124397/climategate-obamas-boot-boys-strike-back/ The Guardian http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/dec/15/hacked-climate-emails-police-west-yorkshire?INTCMP=SRCH and Washington Examiner http://washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/op-eds/2011/12/obamas-justice-department-joins-britains-climategate-leaker-manhunt/2006206
Valerie says:
No snow yet but, babysat my grandchild this afternoon through a five min burst of hailstone that carpeted the streets, houses and hedges lol. Sleet this morning about halfpast ten followed by rain and sleet again, got my soft boots completely soaked (got caught out in it), fur bobbled inside underfoot and rubbed the pad of my heel to a blister!, was NOT nice, lol.
Nick Stoneman says:
Hi Valerie
My partner Sandy bought some cheap faux sheepskin boots/slippers from Marks and Spencer and sprayed them with waterproof spray. Worked a treat! May help your soft boots.
We really have to start rolling back the police state we seem to be heading towards. Can I suggest we all consider joining the British Constitution Group (NOT a racist group – just people who want to use Common Law to protect ourselves from the state), join in Lawful Rebellion (non-violent rebellion) and support the Lawful Bank (deprive the state's masters – international bankers – of income). Find out more at http://www.thebcgroup.org.uk/
Best wishes, Nick
Valerie says:
Hi Nick, just saw this lol.Where do you get it and whats it called?, i'll have a go at that thanks.
John says:
They'll find nothing. He'll be okay. But your right it is a bit big brotherish.
Valerie says:
Hello John, yes it is and the 'Big Brother' stuff seems to be speeding up and digging deeper, ive never seen anything like it.
Valerie says:
We got Snowww! lol, as of this morning 07.38. At 439 feet we have a few centimeters in some parts of Chorley and a couple of inches in others. Absolutely fantastic and only eight days till Christmas!.
Valerie says:
…..then it rained and sleeted :S then a bit more snow lol.
Found this at Climate Realists, looks like Mr Monkton is on it : http://climaterealists.com/index.php?id=8848 what gets me about the previous article i posted on, is that the person who's computers were confiscated was'nt a hacker or even the whistleblower but, a regular 'Blogger', THATS the scary part!.
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Which manual tranny/case to use for a 302V8 swap
Im picking up a 1984 5.0(EFI) mustang Sunday 7/7/13.
It currently has a 5 spd tranny behind it. Im going to part out the Mustang and kicking the idea around to swap the motor into my Willies Wagon. I'd rather drop in a 4 or 5 spd trans. What's my best scenario/option? If I cant find something, then I might opt to putting a C4 trans behind it but will end up looking for the auto mod to replace the manual mod that it has now. Any info would be a big help, thx. Anyone have a 4 or 5 spd w/case? |
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July 13th, 2013, 09:55 AM | #2 |
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If parts ain't flyin' you ain't tryin'
July 13th, 2013, 12:59 PM | #3 |
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ZF5 if its going to see street/highway duty. Four speed if its a trail truck. '84 is pretty unimpressive if its a factory engine (which probably isn't if its been swapped to EFI), find an Explorer/Mountaineer 5.0L.
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I haven't, so far, been able to locate a ZF5spd. Other tranny swaps ive read about on the Novak site were a ford T-18, jeepT176, jeep AX15. Yhe T-18 and AX15 would endup drivers drop cases and if I found a T-176, would be a pass drop case. im leaning towards a T-176. I had one once before and it held up fine behind a amc401. I used it rock crawling and briefly(2 days)sand drags. Last edited by jeepers48; July 14th, 2013 at 08:36 PM. |
July 20th, 2013, 08:53 PM | #5 |
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If this the link doesn't work just go to first part of address. A 205 will bolt up with some grinding, this combo measures 42" from block to ujoint. You will need to support rear of tcase as tranny is aluminum. Last edited by Hoofinit; July 20th, 2013 at 08:59 PM. |
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Spring 2005
AMS 390 • Hedonism and Narcissism in America
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(Ideas and Mentalities: Oh Wild Ecstasy!: The Carnivalization of Recent America "At one of my parents' parties I saw my father disappear into the bushes, right in front of my mother, with his arm around a woman. . .my mother never turned a hair." --- Saucie Sedgwick This is a thematic interdisciplinary research course dealing mostly with ideas, values and emotions in the twentieth century. The American gospel of individualism and the habit of constant self-analysis joined with the demise of Victorian religious ethics (Gertrude Stein set out to "kill the nineteenth century") and William James' loose pragmatic philosophy have unleashed immense new vistas for the study of the dark side of individualism. Europeans, for example, jealous of America's high standard of living, label the United States a society consumed with consumerism, selfishness, arrogance, dissipation, and greed. Others hail America as the new, free avant garde Sodom and Gomorra of, say, Andy Warhol, Studio 54,the Playboy philosophy, the "patriot" values of Larry Flint, Edie Sedgewick as the "Girl of the Year," Tom Wolfe's Bonfire of the Vanities, Janis Joplin, the "Piss Christ," and above all, John F. Kennedy's "Camelot" -- "Happy Birthday Mr. President. M.M.X.X." Veteran readers of Self magazine are also welcome, as are avid fans of commercials for deodorants, hair spray, and the models who demonstrate them. These models are often seen at pseudo events on the arms of producers, unwashed rock musicians, and gay used car dealers dabbling in strip clubs and home steam baths. The course will begin with selected readings and student reports covering the abundance of literature on this subject. However, the primary task of the course will be the writing of a 20-page or article-length term paper, hopefully of publishable quality and of distinct relevance to the course whether it deals with the twentieth century, Generation X, or even the nineteenth century. Benjamin Franklin' s Autobiography, Walt Whitman's Song of Myself, or Henry Adams' The Education of Henry Adams are fair game but hardly original topics from the past. Sin is the real focus! Hawthorne would love this class! After the initial reading and orientation sessions, the class will suspend for several weeks while students write their research papers. The classes will resume. Two copies of each paper will be placed on reserve at the Undergraduate Library and one delivered to the instructor at 224 Geography Building, hopefully on the Friday before the Monday class. Everyone will read everyone else's papers and, taking brief notes, be ready to comment on them in class. The final grade will depend primarily on the research paper, but class participation will also be taken into consideration.


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A Case for Stage 3 Continued Process Verification
Reducing process related failures and quality costs; Continued Process Verification can improve control and lower failure rates
Stage 3A is designed to allow close monitoring of parameters and quality attributes and to detect any undesirable process variability trends observed post launch, thus providing an opportunity to make recommendations and finalize the routine Continued Process Verification (Stage 3B) control limits. Stage 3A is used to perform additional sampling and testing (monitoring), if required, based on the Stage 2 assessment. Stage 3A is performed under a pre-approved protocol. Stage 3A Continued Process Verification Protocol uses statistical measures to determine process performance. Process performance (Ppk) values are computed based on a predetermined number of consecutive commercial batches. Ppk values and Statistical Process Control (SPC) charts are developed for in-process critical quality attributes (CQA) and critical process parameters (CPP) where applicable. Similarly, process performance capabilities and probability of Dissolution Acceptance (Pa) are determined for the Finished Product critical quality attributes. A Stage 3A Report includes a discussion around any excessive intra-batch variability.
Accepted statistical guidelines indicate processes with Ppk more than 1.0 are within statistical control. Appropriate actions (changes, continuous improvement activities, etc.) are discussed in the report if Ppk values are less than 1.0. The Stage 3A statistical analysis provides a science and risk-based assessment of the product meeting the critical quality attributes in the future.
Table 2 shows how compaction parameters might be adjusted post Stage 3A to consistently meet the established quality attributes. The continued batch to batch verification at Stage 3B will further highlight any undesired trends.
A decision to re-validate (Stage 1 and Stage 2) the commercialized manufacturing process starts with the change control process. Supporting data for the change and a technical risk assessment document the process re-validation strategy. Examples of process changes where re-validation may be recommended are:
• Investigation/failure related change recommendations
• Formulation and/or process changes such as scale up/scale down
• Continuous process improvement recommendations
• Material and/or equipment changes
• Regulatory notifications, etc.
Batches are not released for commercial sale until Stage 2 is successfully completed for the change (Refer to Figure 3 - Stage 1, 2, 3, Changes).
Continued Process Verification (Stage 3B) trend reports provide a statistically relevant and current capability score. This information is used for deciding a validation strategy. For example, a lower dissolution probability (low probability of meeting the USP Stage 1 dissolution criterion) may warrant more batches and additional sampling at Stage 2 re-validation to ensure the change did not adversely impact dissolution results.
Figure 4 displays a statistical model developed to determine the minimum number of batches required for Stage 2 re-validation on the basis of the products current capability score. Stage 3B is used to establish a scientifically justified sampling and testing plan while performing the risk assessment and drafting of the Stage 2 re-validation protocol. A review of Stage 3B trend reports aid in gaining knowledge and performance insights of similar process/products. This data is relevant in continuous improvement and determining optimal processing parameters through product development and scale-up activities.
FDA Guidance Process Validation: General Principles and Practices (P. 11) recommend use of credible experience with sufficiently similar products and processes. The cumulative data from all relevant studies (e.g., designed experiments; laboratory, pilot and commercial batches) are used to establish Stage 2 requirements. Bracketing of multiple strengths may be possible with an assessment that demonstrates low risk due to the change based on the Stage 3B trend. A possible candidate for such an approach is wherein an API change has a minor impact to the process and there is very solid Stage 3B trending. A bracketing approach to Stage 2 re-validation, such as three batches of the high and low strengths and one each of the middle strengths, may also be employed.
Another measure of interest, especially during development of a re-validation strategy, is the Stage 3B capability score for routine blend and dosage uniformity results. A low score may indicate a potential segregation concern. The Stage 2 re-validation sampling and testing plan must be developed in a manner that, though low, mitigates the identified risk. A risk-based (stratified beginning and end) sampling plan and an example outcome is provided in Figure 5.


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Article brought to you by: Catholic Online (www.catholic.org)Cosmic murder and the death cry of a star
By Marshall Connolly (Catholic Online)
August 7th, 2012 Catholic Online (www.catholic.org) It must be the dread of every star, if stars had consciousness, being devoured by a black hole. The violent process is by no means quick, and the ill-fated star could take millions of years to be finished off, and now according to scientists, the stars cry as it happens. LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) - Astronomers have just announced the discovery of a star's death cry, while reviewing data from a black hole discovered just over a year ago. The black hole, Swift J1644+57, was discovered on March 28, 2011 by virtue of gamma rays emitted by a star falling into it.
A black hole is a super-dense object created when a massive star, many times more massive than our sun, runs out of hydrogen fuel and has nothing left to keep it burning. Without the outward pressure caused by constant nuclear fusion in the core, the matter, which makes the star, collapses inward. If there's enough matter, that process can continue past a critical point so that the star becomes a nearly-infinitely dense and infinitely small point also known as a singularity. Despite its small size however, the mass of the object is the same as the star it was before and anything which passes too close, may fall towards the singularity. These objects are commonly referred to as black holes because they cannot be seen; their gravitational pull is so great that even light waves, the fastest thing in the universe, cannot escape. In the case of Swift J1644+57, a star passed too close and was drawn into the clutches of this cosmic death-trap. As the star came near, the black hole shredded it, layer by layer, with its gasses swirling around the black hole as water down a drain. As the gasses approached the event horizon, which is the point at which light cannot escape, they swirled faster and hotter, while being strung out like spaghetti. These ultra-heated gasses emit radiation including x-rays and gamma rays, and as they fall past the event horizon, the black hole does a curious thing, which is not yet well understood. From the poles of the black hole are shot jets of matter moving at 90 percent the speed of light. The energy and matter fired in each direction is extreme can be easily detected from billions of light-years away. In this case, one such jet happens to be aimed right at Earth. No worries though, the matter will never reach us because Earth is much too distant. However, the high-speed gamma radiation reached Earth just recently and was detected by satellite. When scientists studied the energy burst, they discovered something new. Such a burst of direct radiation has never been recorded before. They found that as the material fell into the black hole, it essentially let out a pulse that would be audible, if sound could travel in space. This pulse, or cry as they have dubbed it, repeated every three and a-half minutes. A star falling into a black hole would have good reason to cry, or anything else for that matter. Nothing that goes into a black hole ever emerges and is ever seen or heard from again, nor can be. In fact, this is one of the enduring mysteries of astronomy, just what does happen to matter after it crosses the event horizon? Despite the fact the answer may never be found, scientists remain on the case. The data gleaned from J1644+57 may also help in their investigation. Scientists have answered many questions about the physical universe that they thought could never been answered. Perhaps the death cry of this one unlucky star may not have been emitted in vain, and will be a clue in deciphering yet another great mystery of astronomy. Article brought to you by: Catholic Online (www.catholic.org) |


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DK (622) | Mild to Medium | Extremely Mild | Mild to Medium | Pleasant |
From a 12/27/10 review that I errantly placed under PCCA:
This is my third taste-testing of old PCCA straight virginia blends that have come back into production. This one is in the middle, somewhere between the complex spiciness of Rich Virginia Ribbon and the vapid flatness of Aurora.
Upon opening the tin, I'm greeted with the smell of Grandma's spice rack. I'm not familiar enough with the specifics of those spices but the aroma is very spicy to the point where I was convinced this contained oriental tobaccos. I was reminded of the Grand Oriental Series, specifically Yenice Agonya and Katerini. However, I read where this is a straight virginia of the stoved variety. Interesting.
The flavor carried on that light spiciness. This one was not nearly as complex as Rich Virginia Ribbon and was comparatively subdued in flavor. It was a fairly consistent smoke that didn't change much down the bowl. I think the point of this one was flavor, and it was moderately rich tasting, just not nearly the equal of RVR. But compared to Aurora, this was a flavor beast! I'm going to pick up a few more tins for aging, as I trust this one will improve. It was a very decent smoke but not something I'd buy again except as an aging experiment. If you try this and find it good but lacking a bit of flavor and complexity, give RVR a try.
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Maino - What Up Son Feat. The Mafia
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New music by Maino and his new group The Mafia which consists of Maino, Push!, HustleHard Mouse, Lucky Don and more.
Give What Up Son a listen - it's a new offering from Maino, featuring The Mafia. It was dropped on Friday, June 15th, 2012. Maino's musical situation is improving with every new release, and What Up Son will most definitely help the cause. It's a fine addition to the growing body of work Maino has been developing since stepping foot in the game. We're looking forward to what Maino has in store.
Have you heard Maino's Don't Like (Freestyle) , featuring PUSH! & Lucky Don? Check out Maino's profile page for the most recent info, news, songs, and mixtapes.
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The price was good for the PWs, and the chinese ones were slowly dieing, and becoming less reliable.
Ah ok, I just wasn't sure what the advantages were considering the massive price difference.
Plus, I have friends with a studio, and they use PW, so it will help to not need a separate set of triggers.
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- 1 tablespoon(s) fresh dill weed chopped
- 1/2 cup(s) mayo homestyle mayonnaise
- COOK potatoes in boiling water in saucepan 15 min. or just until tender; drain.
- PLACE warm potatoes in large bowl. Add dressing; toss to coat.
- ADD eggs, celery, onions and dill; mix lightly. Stir in mayo. Refrigerate several hours or until chilled.
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I tried installing PIL (Python Imaging Library) on Mavericks recently and ran into a few problems. Normally this should be enough:
sudo pip install pil
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What is the best fruit wine?
My best wine so far has been Thimbleberri/red huckleberri, then all the rest of the fruit wines once I started putting enough fruit in them..........
^yeah, it does make a difference doesn't it IMHO, elderberry/blueberry/pineapple/strawberry are all in for a tie in my book. it's more about what i'm going to eat or what mood i'm in. those can all be very good. there are a few others out there that can be good, but none coming to mind right now as good as the above.
Endless Summer Winery Hermann, MO EndlessSummerWinery.com Making unique wines. We threw away the box years ago!
Hard to say what the best is. Depends on YOUR taste and preferences. As was previously stated, the amount of fruit used in making the wine is paramount in making a good wine and also the amount of water added is important. I had to learn this the hard way. Pick your favorite fruit, add at least 30 pounds for a 5 gallon batch and go for it. I can honestly say I've never had a bad fruit wine and I plan to make many variations of them this year.
I like my Apple the best for a white fruit wine, most of the ladies like my Peach the best. Elderberry & Blueberry are my fav red fruit wines. Planning to blend a Blu Elder Wine from my bulk aged wines, maybe 1/3 blueberry 2/3 elderberry, time will tell, Roy
#1 - Elderberry #2 - Blackberry
Black Currant without a doubt followed byElderberry, then blackberry and then raspberry. I must admit though that second and third get replaced often like Dan's (Runningwolf) Rhubarb was so good that I hope mine tastes as good as that may replace 2nd place in my mind. Abe, if you dont like many of your fruit wines then you probably arent making very good fruit wine or probably just arent using enough fruit!
Simple the one YOU made.
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Much like concerts today, recitals by pianist Sergei Rachmaninoff received coverage in the Duluth News Tribune before and after his 1920 performance.
While the Duluth News Tribune covered Rachmaninoff's Jan. 20 performance and the New York Times covered his performance at Carnegie Hall on Jan. 29, each did so in ways quite different from what we might expect to see today in concert reviews.
Rachmaninoff was one of the most famous composers in the 20th century, performing both his own pieces as well as other famous pieces. However, the coverage for such a musician was both minimal and differently written compared to what we see today.
After a performance at the world famous Carnegie Hall in New York City, Rachmaninoff's recital received only a short two paragraph write up in The New York Times the day after the concert. "A more sincere, more lyric piece of pianoforte writing is rarely to be found; only in such legitimate emotional and musical qualities was the Russian's fine performance of it again 'sensational,'" The New York Times article said.
While this quote was the core of the brief article, it also demonstrates a level of sophistication not often seen in music review writing today.
The Duluth News Tribune offered a more in-depth coverage of Rachmaninoff before and after his performance at the Duluth Armory.
"I play the way I think the masters intended their music should be played," Rachmaninoff said in and interview before his recital. "It is of no consequence that others think their interpretations better. I play for the heart—the heart is all, everything."
The next day the News Tribune ran a follow up story to his concert that was much larger than The New York Times story. The writer of the story, Edward Barr, wrote in such a way that you could almost feel the emotions taking place at the recital.
"There were some 3,500 of us there together, upon a moment, audience and player vanished—we were alone with the piano—the world apart; and suddenly we were all recalled to life and duty and the Ballade mounted in one splendid crescendo." Barr said.
Shades of this style of writing still exist today, but the difference is clear in both the length and style of writing in each of these articles. Regardless of how it is written, Rachmaninoff clearly was a highly regarded musician as he played in famous venues and received tremendous respect in the reviews.
"The Valse was indescribably sweet and light," Barr said. "Contrasting sharply with bits of the Gounod-Liszt Valse, which in its marvelous interpretation first impelled one's feet to the dance, then left the audience aghast at the orchestral crescendos which seemingly demanded everything there is in pianoforte skill—and whose demands were ably met.


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