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Enough already with chilly gray winter. Time to pick up a bouquet of bright pink tulips and start thinking about spring.
In many places, it will be weeks before daffodils and hyacinths start peeking through the ground, but there are plenty of flower shows to see in the meantime.
Some are big annual events with themes that change every year, such as the famous Philadelphia Flower Show, this year March 1 to 8 with a "Bella Italia" theme, (tickets, $22).
Other displays focus on one type of flower, such as the various orchid shows that showcase the jungle plant's intense blooms at gardens and exhibit halls around the country.
One of those annual orchid shows held each year just as the cold weather starts to lift is at the New York Botanical Garden."We're in the last gray days of winter," says Marc Hachadourian, curator of NYBG's Glasshouse Collection. "What better place to be than a tropical paradise filled with exotic orchids?"
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- The New York Botanical Garden in the Bronx hosts its seventh annual orchid show, this year showcasing the plants in a contemporary Brazilian garden design with fountains, pools, mosaics, and palms. "The Orchid Show: Brazilian Modern" takes place Feb. 28 to April 12. The garden is open Tuesday-Sunday, 10 a.m.-6 p.m.; admission, $20.
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Welcome to the Zonak Charubin Website. My name is Theresa Louise Zonak Zimmerley. I have been interested in genealogy for a long time. The family tree on my mother's side had already been done but we had no information on my father's side. No one talked about it. I had two documents to start my research. I had Jozef'a (Judgy) Naturalization Papers that I received from my aunt Natalia (Lodga) Zonak Meiners. The other document was a mass card that Judgy had filled out to have a mass read for people who had passed away. This document was given to me by Reggie Ceruti Ceccarini. I couldn't find anything that could help me untangle our family history. Before my cousin Mary Ceruti Martel passed away I had Reggie (her sister) ask her if when she went to heaven if she would ask Zofia and Jozef help me find our relatives in Poland. Four days after Mary was buried I received an email from Poland. Tomasz Kaminski had seen a posting I had put on the internet looking for information on Charubin and Zonak's. I was skeptical at first because I could find nothing. He then sent me 3 pictures and asked me if Natalia was my mother. On the back of one of the pictures Judgy had written Jozef and Natalia. Still not convinced he sent me another picture this time there was no doubt. It was a picture of my father Joseph Zonak and my Uncle Michael. They were in their early 20's. The last picture I received was of Regina, Reggie (2 yrs old), Zofia (Bubby) and Wanda. He was working on the family tree from Poland so we exchanged information. I then had the Charubin family tree. I still couldn't find anything on the Zonak's. Four days after my aunt Regina Zonak Ceruti passed away I received an email from a woman named Stella Zonak (no I'm not kidding). She said she thought we may be related. I was then emailed by Wanda Gromadzki and Milena Pijewska. Lucky for me Milena is learning English. When I emailed with Tomasz we had to wait for his wife to interpret what I was saying and converted Polish to English for me. When I first starting talking with Milena and Wanda they said there was much confusion about Jozef Zonak. I had information that wasn't matching documents I had. Wanda went looking for any documents she could find so we could get to the truth. I cannot thank her and Milena for all they did for me. I could never have found this information without them. I would like to thank Reggie Ceruti Ceccarini for all her help, guidance,patience and laughter especially when we were trying to learn to speak Polish. I am sure I have missed information and I will be adding more photos. If you see any errors or people I have missed, please email me and I'll will update the website. I am also looking for photo's. Thank you, Theresa Zonak Zimmerley |
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I don't know why you bother reading the Economist when your alternative reading material is the Mail. A few points:
- The figures referred to by the Mail are for 2009 (reported in 2010).
- In that year, the three variant spellings of Mohammed in the top-100 were given to 6,535 children, behind 'Oliver' and Jack'.
- The 2010 figures (reported in 2011) show that 6,576 were named Mohammed (including variants), now fourth behind 'Oliver', 'Jack' and 'Harry'.
- All figures are taken from the website of the Office for National Statistics (search for 'names').
I am much more concerned about falling literacy standards among web-posters. Particular problems include incomplete sentences, incorrect use of the possessive and RAndom Capitalisation.
I would be very surprised if Françoise ever appeared in France in the list of the top 10 (or 20, or 50 or 100) most popular names for boys. I suppose however that in this age of gender-bending anything might happen...
Bjorn has never been the most common name in Sweden :P.
More seriously, I suspect that the reason why it topped in the UK is because that with Muhammad they took all the versions, but didn't return the favour with Christian names.
Sweden has a larger percentage muslims, 5 % vs 3.5 %, and Muhammas doesn't even break top ten:
http://www.scb.se/Pages/PressRelease____307093.aspx (site in Swedish)
Yes, because obviously all those Mohammeds are carbon copies. A veritable army of clones, you might say!
In the next few years, the most common baby boy's name in the European Continent will NOT be Francoise in France, Harry in England, Hans in Germany, Bjorn in Sweden, Pablo in Spain, Boris in Russia or Antonio in Italy.
The most common boy's name in Europe will be Muhummad with various spellings.
IT already is Number One in the UK since 2010.
It begins with a name. And culture will follow. And demography is destiny.
Europe is changing.
Well who isn't tired of these made up American black ghetto names? They recently have become quite absurd.
Rubbish. Muslims are (sorry to discriminate) rather unimaginative when it comes to naming their children.
I remember once working for a few weeks in a school in East London where half of all the muslim boys were called some form of "Muhummad". By contrast, where I grew up it was very rare to have children share the same first name.
My father-in-law is a pediatrician in the US Midwest. He tells the story he heard from a neonatal nurse who cared for twins in the 1990s named Lemonjello and Oranjello.
Err... Françoise is a girl name, François is the male version (the s is silent). Anyway, Lucas/Lukas is the #1 French first name for 2011, followed by Mathis and Noah. François comes #153 and Mohammed #280. François had its time of glory in the 60s.
GOI = Get over it.
My brother once dated a girl labouring under the name of Daisy Plante. Clearly it runs in the family, her dad's name was Basil. More worthy of pity was a University acquaintance from Germany, Robert Wanke. My University created email addresses by adding your initial to the end of your surname...
I think that Brazil is the most tolerant and creative country when it comes to names. Almost every day I am here I come across a name I had never heard before. Many reflect local spelling of foreign, often American, names (for example, Braian for Bryan). Others are made up by combining Dad's and Mom's first names (I know one Marped, son of Maria and Pedro!) Still others combine firstname+last name of a historical person (Benjaminfranklin.) Others are completely made up by the parents out of fun ("it just sounds nice.") Many are, of course, the result of a wrong spelling (either by a registrar employee, or an illiterate parent)which then caught on and became familiar.
What is particularly amazing about Brazil is that nobody seems to mind. You mind think that a high proportion of on-off names would create, in addition to ridicule, some practical issues when you have to spell it out or create serious mistakes on government documents. But apparently that is not the case. The press reporting a story will more often than not get the name right (Spanish daily El Pais, I remember when I lived there, would often spell the well-k,ow Anglo-Saxon name, John, as "Jhon."
Apparently Deniece and Denephew exist.
Leave it to the Economist to come up with a fantastic human interest story with just the right amounts of fact and humor.
A very interesting article...
As a teenager I learned from my uncle that my surname means Son of Ugly. I already knew that Don meant King. Needless to say for most of my life I have been hiding this information. However at age 66 I let my sense of humor rule and now proudly tell the story to make people laugh.
About a decade ago, at a community college, a classmate was known as Trina. One time before class, she was asked if that was her full name and she said, no it was LaTrina and she hated it.
I said I'd thought Trina was from the Scandinavian version of Catherine. I think when she had business cards made later, she did go by Trina, so she got something out of the class.
Has any country ever considered the other option? - Of restricting overly popular names? I say let's get rid of some Johns, Jeans and Jans in this world. I live in Slovakia and just 3 girls' names (Jana, Zuzana and Katka) account for more than half the female population.
Watching MTV's "16 and Pregnant" might have you cringing behind a cushion at the goofy names given, but at least later you don't spend 23% of any conversation establishing which John (y'know the one from school) you're meant to be talking about. (Which one?)(Y'know the fat one)(Err, which one ...
And surnames! What is the point in having a surname Lee, Chan, Kim ... if it serves no purpose in differentiating you from the other 692 781 415 other Chinese (/ Koreans) with the same name?
but you post seems to be based on (well analyzed) facts and thus does not have an alarmist or end of the world as we know it note....
But seriously - there is a trend there - I am an immigrant in the country I live in (Germany) and my girl is the only one in kindergarden from her group that spoke German when she arrived there.
As for names. I read interesting article about why Mohammad not the most popular name in Europe is (and possibly only in England). Not all Muslims give their male babies Muhammad (or one of its versions) as name as they have different backgrounds and Turks in Germany have their own naming traditions for instance.
In England however most Muslim immigrants come from former colonies where a traditions has it that first son is to be named Mohammad. They also go on to name all their sons Mohammad but the call names are different - this is not shown by statistic from England that caused the alarm.
So trend is there England is (again) special but not for for the ignorants would like us to believe.
I'm French Canadian, my familly have been in Canada for over 10 generations and they were all farmers in little villages, so we still follow that tradition. Marie is not exactly a name, it's more a gender marker, the boys get Joseph. So you have the sex marker, the baby's name and the godmother or godfather's name (depending of the sex of the baby, although that one is being replaced by a second name at the choice of the parent rather than godfather or godmother). Anyway, this second name will help to sort people with the same first name and last name, so you won't marry your cousin or claim to be the father of someone else kid.
So, my name is officially Marie Marianne Geneviève but you will only see Marianne on my papers, my brother is Joseph Dominic Mathieu a.k.a. Dominic.
Now, you're wondering, how do I write it if I want to call my girl Marie or my Boy Joseph? It's just the gender marker + the second name or the gender marker plus two other names. I hope it was helpful.
If you want to hear some real winning names, talk to a nurse or admissions counselor at an emergency room (in the US, I mean). A couple I've heard about, and I swear I am not making these up, are "LaTrina" and "F'ck".
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The Miseducation of Florida No. 3: Psych Students Shouldn't Think About Sex
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The crime: Veteran educator Frank Rozanski presented his advanced psychology students with a ten-question test full of what might be considered sexual innuendo. The ambiguity was the point. The students were studying "social psychology and perceptions," and the test was designed to demonstrate how certain combinations of words, which young children would consider innocent, can become sexually charged when used by adults.
Never mind that the point was a good one -- the kind of subtle and important lesson that no teach-to-the-test automaton would ever invent on his own. Never mind that the exercise might have encouraged critical thought or inspired students to actually think independently for a moment about the relationship between language and meaning. Never mind that psychology is a discipline fundamentally tied to human sex drives and that even a beginning psych student ought to give our gonadal imperatives some
Granted, I haven't seen the test -- but how dirty is too dirty for advanced psych? High school biology students dismember mammalian cadavers to learn about the body -- how is that less offensive than studying human mating behavior to learn about the mind?
Oh, right. Because death, while bad, isn't nearly as bad as sex, because God causes the former and abhors the latter. That's it, isn't it? Is there any question that those offended by their high school seniors' being exposed to Frank's frank sex talk are motivated primarily by some kind of religious fuckaphobia? Sorry, folks: Sex is real, sex talk is real, sexual psychology is real, and all have a proper, shameless place in our pedagogy. Ill-considered bronze-age morality? Not so much.
The hero of this story is the Classroom Teachers' Association -- one of those dratted unions we're all supposed to hate so much and whose wild devotion to its members prevents Rozanski from being easily fired. Let's remember: Though they do sometimes protect bad teachers from good administrators, they also occasionally protect good teachers from bad ideas.
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HOSTILE TAKEOVERStudents, teachers, and community members in Memphis protested the takeover of local schools by Tennessee's state-run Achievement School District, which contracts the administration of failing schools out to charter providers. Students chanted in protest while brandishing signs reading, "We're not going down without a fight." For the full story on the ASD and other reform measures in Tennessee, drop everything and turn to Nelson Smith's classic 2013 report for Fordham.
BLOOMBERG PUSHES LOW-INCOME KIDS TO COLLEGEAs has been widely reported, dropping out of college can exact a dreadful toll on job prospects and future income. Today, just one-third of all top-performing high school students from the bottom half of the income scale attend a college with a six-year graduation rate above 70 percent. To address the problem, Bloomberg Philanthrophies has started an initiative to boost that portion to one-half, the New York Times reports.
"STUDENT"-ATHLETESThe Hechinger Report's Joseph Rauch has an excellent, searing take on the academic scandal haunting the University of North Carolina. Though it's easy to feign shock over a decades-long fraud, the university's bogus "shadow curriculum" is actually just one episode in a long history of the exploitation of NCAA student-athletes. "Helping students cheat," he writes, "is just one of many methods that educational institutions use to maintain this status quo where students allow them to rake in money without...
THANKS OBAMAMany observers found Secretary of Education Arne Duncan's recent admonishment of testing to be a puzzling change of direction. However, it now appears that his motivation may have been executive in nature. Alyson Klein writes that President Obama's new position on testing likely influenced Secretary Duncan. What has made the President rethink the issue is not as clear.
MO' MONEY, REFRESHINGLY FEWER PROBLEMSA new study from Mathematica Policy Research lends credence to a somewhat intuitive notion: If you pay teachers more, educational outcomes will improve. The case in question is that of Manhattan's Equity Project, a mostly Hispanic charter school in Washington Heights that pays its teachers roughly $125,000 annually. Eighth graders at the school have experienced gains in math performance comparable to an extra year and a half of instruction at a district school.
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CUOMO SLOW-WALKING COMMON CORENew York Governor Andrew Cuomo's reelection campaign has been tough on his Republican opponent, and now it's training its sights on Common Core: In a new ad, Cuomo vows to hold off on using Common Core test results for evaluation purposes for at least five years. Of course, by that time, he'll have already lost a bid for the Democratic presidential nomination, so there will be no worries about backlash.
REVOLVING DOOR FOR URBAN SUPERINTENDENTSThe departure of Los Angeles public schools chief John Deasy sheds light on the high turnover rate of urban school district superintendents. A tenure of three and a half years is about average, though experts argue it takes at least four years for superintendents to begin making a long-lasting impact.
FORDHAM CINEMA CLUBReal Clear Education showcases First Generation, a new film documenting the lives of first-generation college students. These students often face difficulties during the admission process and have little knowledge of how to navigate student loan applications. Research shows, however, that almost all college graduates see a return on their investments, earning upwards of $1 million more over a lifetime than those with just a high school diploma.SHOP CLASS AS FINAL CREDITIn what could be a major step forward for the revival of Career and Technical Education, the New York State Board of Regents...
EDUCATION SNAPSHOTFederally owned schools located on Native American reservations, which serve about 48,000 students nationally, face extreme poverty and lack of resources; they are also marked by low performance scores, with some schools reporting proficiency at 25 percent. The AP's Kimberly Hefling looks at the sorry state of an under-resourced elementary school on a Navajo reservation, where housing, transportation, and local facilities are in appalling disrepair and scarcity.
COMMON CORE PUT TO THE TESTIn a recent Washington Post op-ed, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan argues for high-quality standardized testing. Two major state assessment consortia, PARCC and Smarter Balanced, are in the process of evaluating Common Core-aligned assessments, as Education Week's Catherine Gewertz reports.
DOLLARS AND PENCELast week, Governor Mike Pence elected not to apply for a federal grant that might have afforded up to $80 million for Indiana preschools. In a statement justifying the decision, he wrote, "It is important not to allow the lure of federal grant dollars to define our state's mission and programs." Fordham tackled the issue of Pence's repudiation of the Common Core standards this spring in the scintillating "Indiana's Potemkin Standards?"FRESH CHANGES TO AP COURSESLooking past the enormous hue and cry surrounding changes to the AP U.S. History curriculum, the College Board is going forward with new content in a bevy of subjects areas. The Hechinger Report ...
MOVEMENT ON BULLYINGA new report by the nonprofit Child Trends reveals that about 70 percent of D.C. Public Schools and D.C. Public Charter Schools enforced anti-bullying policies in line with the 2012 Youth Bullying Prevention Act. The study did not study implementation of the policies in question, and it found that a small number of schools neglected to submit any policy whatsoever.
CASH-FLOW PROBLEMSThe Center on Budget and Policy Priorities has released data showing that state funding for K–12 education has been cut in thirty of forty-seven states reviewed. Budget cuts are especially evident in regard to talent acquisition, with the widespread dismissal of teachers and support staff. For information on D.C. school spending, check out our new Metro D.C. School Spending Explorer.
REDEFINING THE SCHOOL DISTRICT IN TENNESSEEChalkbeat Tennessee just launched an interactive page to educate the public on the state's Achievement School District. The ASD is composed of struggling schools that have been taken over by the state from local districts and grouped into a single, larger entity. Seen by many as a controversial approach to school improvement, similar programs exist in Louisiana and Michigan. For the definitive panorama of district-level reform in Tennessee, stop whatever you're doing and check out Nelson Smith's seminal 2013 report for Fordham.WAR OF ATTRITIONIn a must-read/long-read Education Next piece, four Mathematica researchers examine the question of whether KIPP's attrition rates may be an important factor...
On Wednesday, CCSSO (the organization of state superintendents) joined with CGCS (the organization of big urban school districts) to announce joint plans to reassess and scale back testing programs. This is big news, and it's getting lots of attention. Here are the ten big things to know about the announcement.


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During the credit crisis, financial institutions have supplied important disclosures about their value-at-risk numbers. But has this data painted an accurate picture, and what metrics can we use to gain a better understanding of these risks? Aaron Brown analyzes recent VaR numbers reported by major Wall Street firms and explains how metrics (such as a risk price to earnings ratio) can be employed to shed more light on risk disclosures.
As a professional risk manager, I feel that equity analysts pay inadequate attention to the risk information in financial statements. An earnings per share (EPS) surprise of a few cents can make a stock price jump, and equity analysis reports are filled with ratios and projections about future revenues, costs, cash flow and other accounting numbers. But who notices whether value-at-risk (VaR) went up or down? Who counts the VaR breaks -- i.e., the days when trading losses were greater than the VaR amount?
VaR has received insufficient attention paid partly because risk disclosures are buried in the notes. That's not the whole story, however, because analysts have learned to delve into the fine print for details about option plans, leases, reserve changes, etc. I think analysts also are deterred because the presentation of risk information is technical. Unless you're in the business, you probably don't have time to learn what you need to translate the financial note into a sophisticated understanding of the firm's risk strategy.
In an effort to address this problem, I propose two simple risk metrics that anyone can understand: a risk price to earnings (RPE) ratio and risk beta. Like other financial statement analysis metrics, such as price/earnings (PE) ratio or debt/equity (DE) ratio, these are indicators, not conclusive determinants. Not every low PE ratio stock is a good buy, and there are highly levered firms with low stated DEs.
The risk metrics I propose do not always point to the correct picture of risk. But most of the time, these ratios give you some good general information and help you ask questions. They let you do quick comparisons of many firms, even firms in different businesses.
I'm going to concentrate on VaR, because it underlies most risk reporting at financial firms (see "Flabby VaR" sidebar, pg. 14). The blue line in Figure 1 (above, right) shows the average one-day 95% VaRs reported by Goldman Sachs over the last eight years. I computed the red line, which I call "market-implied VaR."
I used the implied volatility of short term, deep out-of-the-money puts on Goldman Sachs stock to estimate the amount the market thought the firm's value could decline in one day, 5% of the time. I hereby name the ratio between market-implied VaR and reported VaR the risk price to earnings (RPE) ratio. For Goldman, it ranged from a low of 14 to a high of 48 over the eight-year period.
The numerator of the RPE ratio, market-implied VaR, is measured in terms of market capitalization, while the denominator, reporting VaR, is measured in terms of P&L or earnings. Therefore, the RPE ratio is a form of a PE ratio.
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[1] Using electric field measurements gathered on the C/NOFS satellite, we report, Schumann resonance signatures detected in space, well beyond the upper boundary of the resonant cavity formed by the earth's surface and the lower edge of the ionosphere. The resonances are routinely observed in the satellite ELF data during nighttime conditions within the altitude region of 400–850 km sampled by the satellite. They exhibit the distinctive frequency patterns predicted for Schumann resonances and are consistent with the corresponding frequency characteristics of ground-based observations of this phenomenon. The observations of Schumann resonances in space support a leaky cavity interpretation of the ionosphere and call for revisions of models of extremely low frequency wave propagation in the ionosphere. They suggest new remote sensing capabilities for investigating atmospheric electricity on Earth and other planets.


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IT'S HALLEY'S COMET!....Why did the White House conduct those pre-election "informational briefings" for federal agencies that just happened to include extensive information about which vulnerable Republicans were most urgently in need of help? White House spokeswoman Dana Perino didn't have any plausible answers at hand yesterday, so apparently she just pulled out Excuse #23 from the permanent file: Clinton did it too!
She was wrong, but who can blame her for trying? It usually works fine.
remember republican outrage when it surfaced that al gore might have made a politics related phone call from a government phone? can jan. 2009 get here quick enough?
Does this suprise anyone? She learned from Tony Snowjob after all. Is there a lie that these folks won't say?
How about May 2007 and President Pelosi?
The return of a Democratic executive will see the return of Clinton Rules among the Gang of 500. That skepticism and willingness to challenge authority will triumphantly emerge hibernation. And if they can't find any actual Democratic lies, they will run to their friends in the GOP and help peddle some fake ones.
I still remember the sneering disdain that Mara Liasson on NPR used to bring to any account what she was hearing from the Clinton spokespeople. It will come right back, like riding a bicycle.
Where is that transcript?
The really interesting part should have come right after that.
Q: When did the Clinton administration do these sort of briefings?
Q: Do you have any evidence to substantiate that claim?
Q: When did you know that the Clinton administration did these briefings?
Q: Do you plan to have briefings like this again?
Q: Do you perceive that there is anything illegal about these briefings?
Q: Were these briefings done at any other time and at any other than the 20 listed?
What's the follow through?
It doesn't matter that it isn't true. In the 'he said / she said' media of today, it will be reported as true. So not only is lying to the media not busted, it is swallowed.
There's absolutely no doubt but that jimBOB is correct. It's already begun with the ridiculous magnification of the Edwards haircut. The White House press corps will try to "re"-establish some sense of credibility with the next administration -- provided it's Democratic. Which of the candidates is going to slap this down before it snowballs? None, I'm afraid.
The same press that created the Clinton Rules, that created the environment in which "Clinton did it" becomes a valid explanation, is suddenly going to start calling 'bullshit'?
Na' ga' happen.
She was wrong, but who can blame her for lying? It usually works fine.
Well, for me, the interesting thing about what she said was her off ther cuff rejoinder, when the reporter kept pressing, something to the effect of, "Are we supposed to make decisions based on the CBS / New York Times Poll?" If I were the reporter, I would have immediately asked, "Decisions? What do you mean by that? Exactly what decisions were you making at these agencies based on the political presentations?" Because that is exactly the point. It was not just informational, they were trying to get the agencies to use their mechanisms to help Republican candidates. And she's too dumb to realize her statement all but bolsters that charge. Nice, suit, though. My aunt has a throw pillow with that exact pattern.
I think this is known as the "B-b-b-b-but Clinton..!" defense.
Imagine if the next administration can use Bush's behaviors as its limits. Frightening.
Ah Kevin.
You're wrong. It's excuse #1.
I expect that in 2008 the Republican campaign slogan will be:
"Vote Republican. We're no worse than the Democrats."
Of course, it won't be true, but what do they care about that?
Ah, yes, this from the folks who campaigned in 2000 on the promise to "restore decency and integrity to the Oval Office."
Perhaps what Dana meant to say was that Clinton did her, too. That's not as disingenuous, but is certainly more believable.
I still want to know what a male prostitute was doing during his sleep-overs at the White House.
Disputo. Actually Kevin and you are both right.
Its excuse #1, #6, #11, #17, #23 and so on.
It usually works fine.
When was the last time that excuse worked?
Judges? Nope. Firings? Nope. Al Queda? Nope.
...Dozens of times they've lied? Nope.
But the faux news always stops at that excuse, as if it were true, and the average person never gets told they were lied to.
Of course! We all remember that Dan Burton, after having finished his investigation into Sock-the-cat-fanmail-gate, blew the lid off those Clinton briefings.
Oh, wait. No he didn't.
C'mon, Dana. If Dan Burton didn't use them as a pretext to investigate, then they didn't happen.
A prime example of the low education standards in today's schools.
"Clinton did it too" is actually number 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 19, 23, 29, 31....to infinity, in the list of Republican excuses.
It doesn't matter. This story is already dead.
It is a perfect illustration of exactly what is wrong with the cozy relationship between the mainstream media covering the White House and the Republicans.
Despite the fact that Perino is a liar, and one that is easily caught in her lies at that, the press corp doesn't want to rock the boat. They like it when their kids get to meet the President and First Lady at Christmas and they especially like it when they get to fly all over the world in Air Force One. They are bought and paid for stenographers.
More importantly, their corporate masters don't want any more scandals right now. They really want Bush to go away, not to be impeached. That's because they are early all Republicans and have been so for years before Bush and the Texas wackos showed up. They are looking down a really dark well and not seeing any light. The last thing they want is to have their reporters tar the Republican party as the party of utter corruption.
Prove me wrong boys. Prove me wrong.
"That decency and integrity is under this here podium somewhere." teehee gwb
I think excuse number 1 is "it's Clinton's fault" and excuse number 2 is "Clinton did it too." Related, but not quite the same.
Ron - did you see the Josh Marshall interview for Moyers Journal?
Now GHWB's love for Clinton can be easily explained.
The father purposely lost to Bill so he could set all these precedents so that son has ready execuses everything that the current administration does.
Clinton is more evil than anyone can imagine.
Ron - You are exactly right about the view of the corporate media masters and their minions. Their actions still perplex me to some extent however. Bush and his crew are totally useless to them and nothing but a plague on them at this point. If I were Jack Welch, Rupert Murdoch etc., I would consolidate the Republican/Conservative brand around those Republicans not directly tainted and tarred by Bush et.al. and scream bloody murder, demanding accountability, maybe even impeachment, as to the Bushies claiming how upstanding, honorable and courageous we were for doing so. But they are not, they will not, and that is why the Republicans are inbred with corruption and dishonesty and are not fit to ever lead again.
No Blue Girl, the local PBS station in my town (which I think is your town) is running an auction. I have read Josh's interview.
I really would like to know how you saw the interview.
I'm a night-owl. It was on after midnight.
Is it just me, or does Perino make you pine for Snow?
At least he had some skill at the lies. Scotty was fun too, if only to see him sweat, and because he sometimes looked like he had a conscience regarding the massive disparity between his words and the truth.
She's more like Ari, a soulless lie machine. Unfortunately for her, the press is less easy to roll than they were back then. (They still roll, but sometimes the ask a reasonable follow-up.)
I had the same response as Disputo (surely, I thought, that's escuse number one) but I salute NeilS's solution, that it is so useful that it appears at multiple places in the list.
I will, however, propose an alternate theory: the excuse is so exhausted by over-work that it has been placed low in the order in the hopes it will recover some plausibility.
Not that plausibility would help; Even if Clinton had spent his days strangling kittens, it would hardly justify similar depradations by the current administration.
Now I know what Clintonâs problem was. He was not nearly juvenile enough. Every time somebody as him about women, he could have legitimately said âSo? Practically every Republican leader of the House and Senate has done worse. Whatâs the big deal?â.
And he would not even have been telling a lie.
I agree with Disputo. It's always been excuse #1, but they haven't hauled it out quite as much recently. Nevertheless, it's always the fallback position when all else fails.
Actually, I wish to amend my previous post--Emma Anne is more correct. #1 is "It's all Clinton's fault," and #2 is "Clinton did it too." They really don't want to claim they're merely doing the same thing he did unless they have no other excuse. Still, the magic word in any excuse is "Clinton."
Wait...so the evidence that Clinton didn't do it is...a former Clinton official's brief denial? I'd like to see better evidence put out there.
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Giedo van der Garde is one of five drivers enjoying his debut Formula One season in 2013. In the latest of our series charting the personal and professional progress of this years F1 newcomers, the 27-year-old Dutchman reflects on his maiden Grand Prix weekend, which included enduring one of the most disjointed qualifying sessions in F1 history
My trainer Carlos and I had put together a plan a while ago that built up to the first race, so we did what we could to make sure I wasnt affected by the jetlag or everything else that was going on around me in the run-up to the race. I did a few fun things in Australia before we started work on track, including meeting a lot of jellyfish in the sea when we went paddle-boarding one day, but apart from that it was all what youd call normal for an F1 driver.
Quali was pretty tough, but it was a good session. FP3 had gone well - we made a few changes overnight and the car felt good right from the first lap - but then the rain came in. It was so hard the start of Q1 was delayed, so I was sitting in the car just waiting to go out, but I was relaxed. Theres nothing you can do to change that sort of situation and you can only influence what you can control, so there was no point getting tense about it.
When the session started we went out as soon as we could on full wets. I had an early problem when I hit a big puddle and damaged the front wing, but we fixed that quickly and then, for quite a bit of the session, we were looking good, maybe even pushing on Q2. Then the conditions improved enough for inters and we made the change, went out and my last lap was quick, really good. Unfortunately I had to back off for double yellows and that cost me a lot. I dont know where Id have finally ended up but knowing wed done well in those conditions was good.
I think were very realistic about where we are at this point of the season, so anything more would have been a bonus, even in those conditions. We made the call to go to inters at the right time and if luck had gone our way a little more then maybe it would have been a different story, but it is what it is.
The drivers parade - my very first - was pretty cool. We did the 2013 driver photo before the parade and that was a great feeling, knowing Im part of the show and surrounded by a lot of guys Ive known and raced with for a long time. Then we set off around the track on the back of some convertible cars and it was good, seeing the stands full, feeling the energy from the crowd. But to be honest it was all over in a blur and then it was back to the garage, back to preparing and it was all over pretty quickly.
Sitting on the grid I honestly was calm. I had done everything I could up to that point, I was in control of the car, the launch procedures and my performance engineer Yoshi and race engineer Juan had talked me through the formation lap/start process, so I was focused on getting a good start. It went well - I passed a few cars into Turn 1 and was pushing well, so Id have to say it went to plan.
In the race, the most difficult thing to cope with was tyre management, simple. Everything else is what all my years of racing have trained me for, but switching on the tyres and then managing the various states of degradation is key to performance, and the more laps I do the better that will be.
Everything else went pretty well. The stops were good. I had a slow puncture on my first set of primes and that meant I had to box earlier than planned, but, again, thats out of my control so no point getting frustrated about it. I did my job as well as I could and getting the car over the line in one piece, even with the floor damage, was what I was supposed to do.
At this stage of the season were mainly fighting a couple of other cars, so for us, where we are now, its maybe not as aggressive as it was for me last year in GP2, but one big difference is managing the blue flags. You obviously lose time backing off for the leaders, so you have to drive with one eye in front and one eye behind. Juan keeps me updated on whos around me, but youre almost doing two races, one ahead and one behind, so that was a little tough, but I dealt with it fine.
It was good - maybe not the final finishing position Id have liked, but the main thing was to get the car to the end of the race, learn as much as I could and enjoy myself. I did all of those successfully so I can say Im pretty happy with how my first Grand Prix went. After the race I felt good physically, so the hard work Ive put in over winter has paid off, and we also found that the car had damage to the floor, quite a bit actually, enough to cost us a lot of time and affect the cars braking stability. So it wasnt the easiest start to my F1 career, but pretty good all the same.
We know points are a long way ahead of us now, and it was my first ever F1 race, so finishing was the goal. I think I did okay - the team were pleased, everyone who is around me was pleased and I got a lot of great messages from around the world after the race, so I think I achieved what I set out to do as a basic target in my first race.
I think we can always keep improving, little by little, right across the team. The car is at a performance level now that is going to be improved, so thats encouraging, and for me every lap is helping me understand how to get the most out of the tyres, how to use the full performance envelope in every sector, and how to keep improving my feedback for the engineers. Its all part of being a rookie - you keep learning, and our team is still very young, so we keep moving forward together.
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This is sadSubmitted by Guest123456 (not verified) on Tue, 12/23/2008 - 7:51am.
I'm going to repost a comment made last week on a similar story:
While this service may give some people peace of mind at the convenience of seeing where sex offenders live, the whole sex offender registry needs to be completely revamped.
I work with the underpriviledged, and I see a huge downfall to this system from the other side. When a young man, say 18 years old, has a girlfriend who is, say 15 years old, and the two engage in consensual sex because they "love" each other, this is considered statutory rape. Now, I'm sorry, this is NOT a crime to me. This is not a case of a 40-year-old man kidnapping and raping a 12-year-old child; that's heinous. However, the two will be viewed as equals, slapped with the same exact label for the rest of their lives. The 18-year-old will never be able to move anywhere in the country without people thinking he's a pervert. He'll never get a decent job, or adopt children, or be able to go to a public park with his own kids, and all because the mother of the 15-year-old didn't like that her daughter was having sex with her boyfriend. I mean come on, 3 years difference? What's disgusting is 70-year-old men having trophy girlfriends who are 27 years old. That's a crime.
Call me crazy, but there needs to be a distinction between the heinous crimes and the "technicalities" of sex crimes. It is unnecessary to punish someone for the rest of their lives in a case like this, a case which happens more often than people might realize.
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Greetings, DC!
I've got a good question for you: what's a good side-rail scope for an SLR-101S. I don't need 2486928628528x magnification because AK's aren't accurate beyond a few hundred feet from what I hear, but I figure it wouldn't hurt to have 2 or 4x in a good, crisp, clear scope.
Is there one that you folks have sorta consensus agreed upon as a great option?
Also, how does a side-mounted scope even work? Wouldn't shots always be to the right since the rail is on the left of the gun? Or is that the case with all scopes and you learn how much correction is needed to hit your target?


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Hi Folks,
Hopefully someone can help me with this one.
I have an ssl cert installed and it works find in WHM, I also have a joomla site and WHMCS installed when i use https on those I get a 500 internal server error.
output of log is:
andCode:SoftException in Application.cpp:422: Mismatch between target UID (99) and UID (503) of file "/home/adminroo/public_html/clients/cart.php", referer: http://lmas-networks.com/
UID 99 is nobody I think?Code:SoftException in Application.cpp:422: Mismatch between target UID (99) and UID (503) of file "/home/adminroo/public_html/index.php"
If i stat a directory that contains files that give the 500 error I get:
and a file:Code:File: `public_html' Size: 4096 Blocks: 8 IO Block: 4096 directory Device: 37h/55d Inode: 53739932 Links: 17 Access: (0755/drwxr-xr-x) Uid: ( 503/adminroo) Gid: ( 99/ nobody) Access: 2010-08-08 04:10:10.000000000 +0100 Modify: 2010-08-06 17:44:33.000000000 +0100 Change: 2010-08-08 02:05:59.000000000 +0100
I have seen a few threds saying the cert may have been installed as the wrong user but im not sure how to check that and I am farly sure I installed it as adminroo.Code:File: `index.php' Size: 2049 Blocks: 8 IO Block: 4096 regular file Device: 37h/55d Inode: 54595371 Links: 1 Access: (0644/-rw-r--r--) Uid: ( 503/adminroo) Gid: ( 500/adminroo) Access: 2010-08-14 17:23:05.000000000 +0100 Modify: 2010-07-18 04:01:24.000000000 +0100 Change: 2010-08-08 02:06:07.000000000 +0100
Any ideas?


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Taryn Simon
Taryn Simon's new installation at the Museum of Modern Art, "A Living Man Declared Dead and Other Chapters I-XVIII," is the most depressing and hopeless exhibition I have ever beheld, which is not to say that it is powerless, far from it.
Simon, a travelling registrar of world misery, emerges as the only participant empowered by her surveyor's lens: "innocently" she thrives and survives on despair. Taryn is enamored by documents, whether they be official endorsements of polygamy in Kenya or official endorsements of her project by the Chinese government, whose Xinhua news agency created an official genealogy for her creative purposes.
Simon willfully rejects esthetics: were I to praise the strange beauty of her picture of a dead leper floating in the Ganges, she would (as she has on Artnet TV) tell me to look at the wall text. I have been long puzzled by Simon's strange faith in texts as the justification for her practice, but this show argues that text is all that survives, if only for a while.
Taryn has very specific antennae for cruelty which would crush a less detached soul. She is like a one woman Donner Party, cannibalizing everything around her into art, be it rabbits, suicide bombers, orphans turned into whores or living people officially declared dead.
Indeed, generalizing her suffering census is paradoxically the best escape from the consequences of what Simon says. If all is despair, then why even try to "improve" anything? Might as well be in dreamland. Indeed, this is precisely why Simon insists that she makes no moral judgments and that, if we do so, in the presence of this installation at MoMA, we are engaging in false consciousness, much as her subjects have no hope of improving their lot, no matter how they try.
Like Dostoyevsky's Grand Inquisitor, Taryn Simon mocks the search for meaning and redemption. We, and she, might as well have never been born.
"Taryn Simon: A Living Man Declared Dead and Other Chapters I-XVIII," May 2-Sept. 3, 2012, Museum of Modern Art, 11 West 53rd Street, New York N.Y. 10019
CHARLIE FINCH is co-author of Most Art Sucks: Five Years of Coagula (Smart Art Press).


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½ cup chopped NOW Real Food® Walnuts* |
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The World's Most Perfect Boobs – According to Zoo Magazine
The world's most perfect boobs is a pretty bold statement but its hard to completely disagree with Zoo when the girl they talk about is Sammy Braddy. There is no such thing as the perfect pair of boobs because almost all boobs got something great about them but Sammy is definitely top of the line!
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PUBLISHED: 24 Feb 2012 13:48:28 | UPDATED: 26 Jul 2012 08:59:39PUBLISHED: 25 Feb 2012 PRINT EDITION: 25 Feb 2012John Wasiliev
Deloitte Private's John Randall says the annual fees for a very simple DIY fund, with just a property and a bank account, would probably be about $2000. Photo: Jim Rice
Owning a retirement investment such as a commercial rental property through a do-it-yourself super fund can be an attractive proposition.
There is the tax-exempt rental income once a property-owning DIY fund is paying its members super pensions, which are tax-free if the members are older than 60.
Another advantage is being able to escape capital gains tax when a property is sold for a profit while the fund is paying a pension or pensions. An additional attraction is the opportunity to transfer a commercial property from private ownership into a DIY fund with minimal or no stamp duty, a concession available in many Australian states.
Some advisers highlight this entitlement to sell the idea of transferring commercial property into DIY super. But like any strategy promoted for tax purposes, it also needs to stack up on investment grounds.
A reader who owns a commercial property outside super, which he envisages will provide him with rental income during retirement, asks if he would be better off shifting this to a DIY fund. One reason he is interested is there won't be any stamp duty to pay.
The property is valued at about $500,000 and delivers a net annual return of 8 per cent. However, there is one complication: it's only 50 per cent paid off.
He plans to pay down most of this debt over the next three years before he retires, although he might fall about $100,000 short. This could be covered by some of his employer super.
The attractiveness of such a strategy depends on a number of factors, says Deloitte Private superannuation director John Randall.
For instance, if the property is likely to be the only asset owned by the DIY fund, any tax or super benefit may be marginal given its value.
While there may be little or no stamp duty to pay, the reader will be personally responsible for any capital gains on a transfer from private ownership to the DIY fund.
The fact that the property has an existing mortgage presents challenges. While a DIY fund can borrow money to buy a property and could probably refinance the commercial property loan, this is not a simple exercise. It will very likely cost several thousand dollars to organise and set up the legal arrangement that will own the property while the mortgage is being paid off. It would be better to transfer the property without any debt, Randall says.
While owning a property through super has tax advantages, there are other considerations.
A DIY super fund costs money to set up and run. The annual fees for a very simple fund with just a property and a bank account would probably be about $2000, according to Randall. If you use a corporate trustee arrangement, the set-up costs might be about $1000.
If it's only one property providing the reader with his major income in retirement, Randall says, he should be aware of other tax breaks available to retired Australians that can come close to matching the super concessions on offer.
Once Australians turn 65, they are entitled to the senior Australian tax offset. When combined with the low-income tax offset, this concession can allow a single senior to earn $30,685 a year before paying tax, while a couple can earn up to $53,360.
The reader needs to consider that he is required under the government's pension rules to make annual minimum income withdrawals. While the property is generating net income of 8 per cent, this is fine because the required minimum income is below this level.
For a single-property DIY fund, the minimum pension requirement rules can become a real issue if the property is untenanted for a prolonged period and the fund is unable to pay the pension. A fund that can't pay the required minimum annual pension loses the right to treat investment income as tax-exempt. The fund becomes a taxpayer again, until it can satisfy the minimum pension payment rules. If this leads to a decision to sell the property, which produces a capital gain while it is not paying a pension, there could be a tax liability.
Given the reader's situation, Randall recommends preparing cash-flow projections setting out the proposed strategy and how it might pan out both inside and outside super.
These projections should detail the debt-repayment schedule as well as the costs of owning geared property inside and outside super. It should show capital growth and income expectations, a pension payment schedule and calculate how they translate. It should include "what if" scenarios such as the property being untenanted for a period and how this might be dealt with. Such an exercise should help make sense of the strategy and form the basis of a long-term plan.
The Australian Financial Review
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