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Actress Gwyneth Paltrow said she and her husband, singer Chris Martin, have had a "conscious uncoupling" between them. They have two children and to reduce the negativity in their surroundings, decided to go in for conscious uncoupling instead.
The message on her lifestyle website, Goop, titled 'Conscious Uncoupling' went this way: "It is with hearts full of sadness that we have decided to separate. We have been working hard for well over a year, some of it together, some of it separated, to see what might have been possible between us, and we have come to the conclusion that while we love each other very much we will remain separate. We are, however, and always will be a family, and in many ways we are closer than we have ever been. We are parents first and foremost, to two incredibly wonderful children and we ask for their and our space and privacy to be respected at this difficult time. We have always conducted our relationship privately, and we hope that as we consciously uncouple and coparent, we will be able to continue in the same manner."
Conscious uncoupling has a different meaning for different couples, one of which can be interpreted as separating of a couple with the least emotional damage. Most couples who have children are the ones who opt for it. To spare the children of the negative effects that divorce brings, uncoupling is seen as an alternative. It is neither considered a legal separation nor a legal divorce.
The National Center for Health Statistics shows that 50 to 60 per cent of the couples opt for divorce. Now, people seem to looking for a separation which is kind and gentle on the children. Tammy Nelson, Ph. D. had said that conscious uncoupling has become a popular trend. She believes that despite a relationship coming to an end, in uncoupling, there is recognition that the relationship had a successful period as well.
A Columbia University study shows that in case of a divorce, the children are effected to a great extent, much into their adulthood and are at a high risk for depression, substance abuse and suicide attempts. The children develop poor interpersonal skills and garner the feeling of being unwanted. Another study by Public Health found that children of divorced families have a higher tendencies to pick up the ugly habit of smoking.
Jane Mauldon from the University of California has said that children from estranged families have a 35 per cent chance of developing health problems in comparison to 26 per cent in all the other children. The divorce can also result in loss of factors required for good health like constant adult supervision and a safe environment.


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Comment on this storySometimes things happen for a reason. When vocalist, Lu Dlamini made a decision to record her solo album she had no idea that it would grow into a project featuring some of the country's best musicians.
Having been a backing singer for artists, like Jonas Gwangwa, Sipho Hotstix Mabuse, Mango Groove and Brenda Fassie, to help pay for her schooling, Lu left South Africa for Brazil and Spain. Here she learnt about the business of the music industry and lent her vocals to compi-lations in Spain.
On her return in 2002, she worked on music events, from clubs to Thabo Mbeki's inauguration, with Kentse Mpahlwa as her partner.
In 2010 she decided it was time to release her solo album and asked Standard Bank Young Artist Award winner and keyboardist Afrika Mkhize to produce the album.
One day when visiting him, she was introduced to the legendary Steve Newman.
"I had never met him before," says Lu, taking up the story.
"I new him only as a gentleman from the newspapers who played with Tananas. Ian Osrin introduced us. I went back into the studio and started singing. Steve and Ian came and said that Steve really liked my voice and could he work with me. Yoh! I was shaking. We started recording right there."
What began as a solo project turned into JikaneLanga ("Turn with the Sun" or "Sunflower" in Zulu).
Through Steve she met Greg Georgiades and tabla player Ashish Joshi, who were impressed enough to play on the album. When percussionist Godfrey Mcina was called in as a session muso, he was so blown away by the music that he asked to join.
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Turn With the Sun was released in December, but the musicians only started promo-ting the album this year.
Steve and Lu will play songs from the album and some of Steve's more popular solo tracks tonight at the Centre for Jazz and Popular Music at Level 2, Shepstone Building at the UKZN Howard College Campus. The doors will open at 6pm.
Lu says about the gig: "We will be playing songs from the album and he (Steve) will also be playing his well-known songs, where I will be singing melodies over his guitar as well as lyrics.
"Sometimes he will play rhythm and I will create a melody around the song.
"We just want to see if our magic is still there."
If you are unable to attend tonight, the duo will also play at Pietermaritzburg's Red Door on February 26, and Headroom at Highfield House in Hillary on February 27.
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Minor Moves: Cole Kimball, Omir Santos
We'll round up some minor moves from the day here:
- The Yankees have signed righty Cole Kimball to a minor league deal, reports Matt Eddy of Baseball America. Kimball, 28, had spent his entire career with the Nationals organization, making a brief big league debut in 2011 with a 1.93 ERA in 14 innings (though he both struck out and walked 7.1 batters per nine). Since then, however, Kimball has struggled with shoulder issues. In 2012, he threw just 5 2/3 minor league innings. Last year, splitting time between Rookie ball and Triple-A, Kimball posted a 7.31 ERA in 28 1/3 innings with 8.9 K/9 against 4.8 BB/9.
- Catcher Omir Santos has inked a minor league pact with the Pirates, the club announced today. The 32-year-old got just one plate appearance last year with the Indians, and has only one season of substantial MLB time under his belt. In 2009 with the Mets, Santos hit .260/.296/.391 in 306 plate appearances. In 222 plate appearances at the Triple-A level last year, he slashed .248/.285/.354.
- The MLBTR DFA Tracker features four situations awaiting resolution, led by Emilio Bonifacio of the Royals, who is set to be claimed, traded, released, or outrighted by the end of the weekend. He is joined in DFA limbo by Brett Wallace (Astros), Donovan Hand (Brewers), and Jimmy Paredes (Marlins).
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Minor Moves: Santos, Heath, Teaford
Here are today's minor moves and outright assignments from around the league…
- Catcher Omir Santos has signed a minor league deal (that contains an invite to Major League Spring Training) with the Pirates, the team announced via press release. The 32-year-old spent the 2013 campaign with the Indians organization, batting .248/.285/.354 with three homers in 222 plate appearances at Triple-A Columbus. Santos, who went hitless in one at-bat with the Indians' Major League club last year, is a career .248/.280/.363 hitter in 349 big league PAs.
- The White Sox announced that they've outrighted right-hander Deunte Heath to Triple-A in order to clear a 40-man roster spot for Mitchell Boggs, whose deal is now official. Heath, 28, has yielded 11 runs in 9 2/3 big league innings but owns a career 3.70 ERA with 9.4 K/9 and 4.2 BB/9 in 233 1/3 Triple-A innings.
- The Royals announced that left-hander Everett Teaford has cleared waivers and been outrighted to Triple-A Omaha. The 29-year-old southpaw was designated for assignment when the team acquired outfielder Carlos Peguero from the Mariners in late January. Teaford has a career 4.25 ERA with 5.3 K/9, 3.0 BB/9 and a 43.8 percent ground-ball rate in 106 big league innings to go along with a solid track record at the Triple-A level.
- With Teaford's outright, there are only two players that are currently in DFA limbo: Brett Wallace of the Astros and Emilio Bonifacio of the Royals.
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Minor Moves: Jeremy Bonderman, Omir Santos
We'll keep track of today's minor moves here..
- The Tigers have signed right-hander Jeremy Bonderman to a minor league contract and he will report to Triple-A Toledo, the team announced on its Twitter feed. Bonderman rejoins the Tigers organization, where he pitched from 2003-2010, after refusing an outright assignment by the Mariners Thursday and electing free agency. The 30-year-old was designated for assignment Monday after posting a 4.93 ERA, 3.8 K/9, 4.0 BB/9, 0.94 HR/9, and 42.5% groundball rate in 38 1/3 innings over seven starts for the Mariners.
- The Indians announced that they have outrighted catcher Omir Santos to Triple-A Columbus. Santos, who has experience in parts of five MLB seasons with the Orioles, Mets, Tigers, and Indians, has a career .266/.303/.351 slash line at the Triple-A level.
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Indians Sign Omir Santos
We'll track the latest minor moves here…
- The Indians announced that they signed catcher Omir Santos to a minor league contract with a non-roster invitation to Spring Training (Twitter link). Santos, 31, appeared in three games for the Tigers in 2012. He spent most of the season with the Triple-A affiliates of the Tigers and Rockies, posting a .310/.318/.429 batting line in 212 plate appearances. Santos has experience in parts of four MLB seasons with the Orioles, Mets and Tigers.
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The Rockies signed catcher Omir Santos, according to their team website. The 31-year-old elected free agency last week after the Tigers designated him for assignment.
Santos appeared in three games with Detroit this month after the Tigers promoted him from Triple-A Toledo, where he had a .310/.315/.417 batting line in 89 plate appearances. Santos also appeared in 11 games with last year's Tigers team and has MLB experience in four seasons. He is a Praver/Shapiro client.
Minor Moves: Omir Santos, Russ Mitchell
The latest minor moves…
- The Tigers announced that they outrighted Omir Santos to Triple-A (Twitter link). However, the catcher declined the assignment and is now a free agent, according to the Detroit Free Press (on Twitter). The Tigers designated the 31-year-old for assignment two days ago after he appeared in three games with the big league club. He posted a .310/.315/.417 batting line in 89 plate appearances at Triple-A before the Tigers added him to their roster.
- The Giants signed third baseman Russ Mitchell, according to the team's website. Mitchell, 27, appeared in 25 games for last year's Dodgers team, posting a .157/.259/.294 batting line in 58 plate appearances. He has a .265/.325/.444 batting line in ten minor league seasons and can play first and second base, as well as third.
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Tigers Designate Omir Santos For Assignment
The Tigers announced that they designated catcher Omir Santos for assignment (Twitter link). The team placed Alex Avila on the 15-day disabled list, purchased the contract of catcher Bryan Holaday and recalled right-hander Jose Ortega in related moves.
Santos, 31, has been removed from and added to the Tigers' roster a number of times in recent years. He appeared in three games with Detroit this month after the Tigers promoted him from Triple-A Toledo, where he had a .310/.315/.417 batting line in 89 plate appearances. Santos also appeared in 11 games with last year's Tigers team and has MLB experience in four seasons.
Outrighted: Thompson, Burton, Pirates, Tigers
Players outrighted off 40-man rosters today:
- The Reds announced that they outrighted Daryl Thompson and Jared Burton off of the 40-man roster. Burton would have been arbitration eligible for the second time and MLBTR projected a salary in the $900K range for the 30-year-old.
- The Pirates announced that they outrighted Brian Burres, Kevin Hart, Brandon Wood and Steve Pearce to Triple-A to create 40-man roster space. All four players can now elect free agency. Wood and Pearce would have been arbitration eligible for the first time this offseason, and though neither player projected to earn even $1MM, the Pirates decided to cut them loose instead of tendering contracts.
- The Tigers outrighted catcher Omir Santos and lefty Brad Thomas, tweets MLB.com's Jason Beck. Thomas would have been arbitration eligible, but it was clear he wouldn't make it to the point of being tendered a contract after missing much of the season with an elbow injury.
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Minor Deals: Adams, Ryan, Bass, Santos
We've seen our share of major moves since yesterday, but the minor deals keep streaming in, too. Here they are:
- The Mets signed Russ Adams and Dusty Ryan to minor league contracts, according to MLB.com's Anthony DiComo. The Blue Jays made Adams their first round pick in 2002, but he disappointed in parts of five seasons in Toronto, batting .247/.313/.372. The Blue Jays drafted Adams as a shortstop, but he has big league experience at second base and in left field. Ryan, 26, batted .199/.333/.349 for the Padres' Triple-A affiliate in 2010. He had cameos with the Tigers in 2008 and 2009.
- Oddly enough, the Tigers signed a former Mets backstop today. MLB.com's Jason Beck reports that Detroit added Omir Santos on a minor league deal (Twitter link). The 29-year-old last appeared in the majors on the 2009 Mets.
- The Phillies signed right-hander Brian Bass, according to Matt Gelb of the Philadelphia Inquirer (on Twitter). The 28-year-old has a 5.16 ERA with 5.1 K/9 and 4.2 BB/9 in 183 major league innings.
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New York Rumors: Beltran, Lee, Jeter, Santos
Rangers officials have told friends that they expect the Yankees to offer Cliff Lee so many years that other teams will have to back off, according to Joel Sherman of the New York Post. But team president Nolan Ryan is expected to push aggressively for Lee's return, so it's far too early to rule Texas out. Here's the latest on the Yankees and the Mets:
- Carlos Beltran says he'd prefer to play center field, but is open to playing right, according to MLB.com's Anthony DiComo (on Twitter). Beltran also told reporters he would consider waiving his no-trade clause.
- Sherman predicts the Yankees will sign Lee to a five-year $125MM deal. The imagined contract would pay Lee $23MM for five seasons with a sixth year option for $25MM ($10MM buyout).
- The Yankees say they're extremely unlikely to pursue a free agent catcher, since they want to give their young catching a real chance to emerge in 2011 as Jorge Posada transitions to DH.
- Mark Simon of ESPNNewYork.com looks back at some recent contracts to prove that locking up pitchers to long-term deals is risky.
- The Yankees don't want to surrender a draft pick to sign a Type A free agent like Scott Downs, according to Newsday's Ken Davidoff (on Twitter).
- It's unlikely that the Yankees will agree to a deal with Derek Jeter next week, according to Andrew Marchand of ESPNNewYork.com.
- There's been a lot of Moneyball talk about the Mets front office, but Ken Rosenthal of FOX Sports believes Sandy Alderson, J.P. Ricciardi and Paul DePodesta are not about ideology. "This is about picking the right players and all of the different ways it can be done."
- Alderson interviewed Clint Hurdle and Don Wakamatsu at Citi Field yesterday, according to Adam Rubin of ESPNNewYork.com. Next up, the GM will interview Mets Triple-A manager Ken Oberkfell in the Dominican Republic.
- Omir Santos and Mike Hessman are free agents after refusing minor league assignments, according to Rubin (on Twitter).
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Mario Karts, Blobs, and Bit.Trips Round Out Nintendo Downloads
The week of Thanksgiving gives a bountiful download harvest.
Thursday of this week is turkey day in the U.S., and Nintendo's accompanying downloads definitely bring plenty of goods for us to digest with a total of 13 new downloads. For WiiWare, we have Bit.Trip Void for 600 Wii Points ($6), the latest in Aksys Games' line of retro-inspired arcade shooters. Also available are Harvest Moon: My Little Shop for 1,200 points ($12), which seems to have the features of your typical Harvest Moon game at a downloadable price. Little Tournament Over Yonder for 800 points ($8) is a 1-2 player real-time-strategy game. Finally, Learning with the PooYoos: Episode 1 is an Early Childhood game for 500 Wii Points, targeted at teaching numbers, letters, and shapes for ages 3-6.
As promised, Super Mario Kart from the heady days of the Super NES hits for 800 Wii Points. This is the title that went on to spark the well-known series. Also gracing the Virtual Console is A Boy and His Blob: Trouble on Blobolonia, the NES classic that inspired a recent reimagining on the Wii. It's a pretty brutal puzzle game that can be braved for 500 Wii Points ($5).
DSiWare brings its own collection of downloadable games and applications. Castle of Magic from Gameloft is an adventure title that lets you take pictures using the DSi camera and integrate them into the game, available for 500 DSi Points. myNotebook: Blue for 200 DSi Points ($2) is a notepad and doodling application. And again, the DS game Electroplankton has been split into various parts for 200 points each: Luminarrow, Sun-Animalcule, Lumiloop, Marine-Crystals, and Varvoice.
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I should sell my Mario Kart for Wii
Posted: Nov 23, 2009 12:00AM PST by SpaceMonkey
Because this game is sooooooooooooooooooooooo much better. Random pick ups and not having to worry about blue shells, earth quakes, and bullets? That's a good thing.
yeah, one mistake or ill spent jelly bean...
Posted: Nov 23, 2009 12:00AM PST by GeorgieBoysAXE
& you might as well just reset the game, but I still really enjoyed this sadistic gmae, cant wait to get my hands on the Wii remake though...
They brought the original blob on there?
Posted: Nov 23, 2009 12:00AM PST by Epic Greenman
That is awesome. I'm gonna need to pick that up.


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What Now for Keith Olbermann?
Since Keith Olbermann's abrupt departure from MSNBC on Friday, there's been a lot of speculation about where the liberal commentator will go next.
Though it seems clear that Olbermann had been anxious to leave the network for a while — the New York Post reported that he's wanted out for at least a year — it also sounds like the breakup was mutual, and may have even preempted a firing. Olbermann was notoriously tough to deal with, and with the rise of other liberal stars on the network and a pending change in ownership, it wasn't much of a loss for MSNBC to let him out of his contract.
Of course, the question is, Where will he go now? As far as liberal-commentary careers go, hosting a nightly show on MSNBC is the peak. You don't really go up from there.
So far, there have been some interesting predictions. The New York Daily News wonders whether he'll go back into sports commentary (based on one of his Twitter updates). The Huffington Post and Entertainment Weekly predict that he may change career direction and star in Aaron Sorkin's new TV series Network.
And the Wrap reports that Olbermann is planning to stake out on his own and build a media outlet similar to the Huffington Post — which sounds far more likely:
With two years left on his $7 million a year contract, Olbermann was seeking a full exit package but he really has his eye on creating his own media empire in the style of Huffington Post, according to the individual. That way, Olbermann would control his own brand and, in his view, potentially earn far more as an owner.
Olbermann already has a high-profile brand as a liberal opinionater, and he might as well take advantage of it. The move also wouldn't be without precedent. Former and current cable news hosts Glenn Beck and Tucker Carlson have both launched pretty successful media outlets.
Will Rewriting History Silence Conservatives?
Chris Matthews writes in the Washington Post about the friendship between Ronald Reagan and Tip O'Neill. Matthews wants us to believe that those were the Good Old Days, years characterized by civility and comity among political opponents, an era when high-minded disagreements were stated in the most irenic way possible.
In short, a time when after-hours lions and lambs laid down beside each other.
Steven Hayward does us a public service by reminding us of what things were really like, with O'Neill saying, among other things, that "evil is in the White House at the present time. And that evil is a man who has no care and no concern for the working class of America and the future generations of America, and who likes to ride a horse. He's cold. He's mean. He's got ice water for blood."
To Hayward's examples I would add a January 30, 1984, Associated Press story, which reported this: "Ronald Reagan has been a divider, not a uniter. He has divided our country between rich and poor, between the hopeful and the hopeless, between the comfortable and the miserable. He has not been fair and the people know it. The American people will reject four more years of danger, four more years of pain,' [Thomas P.] O'Neill said."
Ronald Reagan was, in fact, a deeply hated figure by liberals when he was president.
The effort to pretty up the past is not simply evidence of nostalgia or selective memories. It is an effort by liberals to portray this current moment in our history, when conservatives have, for the first time, a wide array of media outlets at their disposal, as a period of unprecedented incivility. The unstated argument goes like this: for the first time in modern history, conservatives dominate a few media precincts (cable news and talk radio). It is also a period of vitriolic public discourse, unmatched in the annals of American history. We'll leave it to you, the American voters, to connect the dots.
In fact, liberals are inventing a false correlation in order to assert a false causation.
And it's an easy enough one to disprove. Those who lived through the 1980s merely need to dust off their own memories or read contemporaneous news accounts from that period (at the New York Times, the predecessor of Frank Rich and Paul Krugman was Anthony Lewis). An older generation can do the same thing for the 1970s, when Richard Nixon was a reviled figure by the left; and the 1960s, when there were riots in the streets and on American campuses and students chanted, "Hey, hey, LBJ, how many kids did you kill today?"
This is simply part of an ongoing effort by liberals to disfigure American history in order to advance their post-Tucson fairy tale. It's really quite regrettable — and, because it's untrue, I rather doubt it will work.
Why the Arizona Massacre Is Fodder for Liberal Attacks
Even before most of the country had even learned the facts of the Arizona massacre on Saturday, the headline on the homepage of the New York Times website proclaimed that "In Attack's Wake, Political Repercussions," even though the publication of this story preceded most of the accusations of conservative responsibility for the attack that were soon heard on the left. In other words, the Times and other media outlets that immediately adopted this frame of reference for viewing the massacre were shaping the discussion about the event more than they were actually reporting it.
In the days since then, the evidence for any political motivation that could be attached to Loughner has been shown to be completely lacking. His bizarre behavior and beliefs are the stuff that speaks of mental illness, not overheated politics. But that did not stop the avalanche of libelous accusations of ultimate conservative responsibility.
To seize upon just one of the most egregious examples, the Times's Paul Krugman claimed today that the Arizona shooting was the result of a "Climate of Hate" created by conservatives. Yes, this is the same columnist who wrote in 2009 that progressives should "hang Senator Joe Lieberman in effigy" because of his opposition (albeit temporary) to ObamaCare. But just as those who accuse conservatives of spewing hate that leads to violence ignore the daily provocations of TV talkers like Keith Olbermann and Ed Schultz, just as they ignored the unprecedented hate directed at President Bush, the Times Nobel Laureate thinks his own direct call for violence against Lieberman also doesn't count.
Even worse, the facts about Loughner have not deterred the news departments of these media giants — as opposed to the opinion-slingers like Krugman — from reporting the story as one in which the right is guilty until proven innocent. For example, this afternoon the Times published a story that centered on the charge that conservative talk-show hosts were put in the dock as accessories to the crime while they "reject blame." The same day, Politico led off with a story that claimed that the "Tucson shooting marks turning point for Sarah Palin," which took it as a given that the former Republican vice-presidential candidate's future political career would forever be tainted by the Arizona shooting in spite of the fact that she had nothing to do with it. Read More
Richard Holbrooke's Legacy
One of Richard Holbrooke's most significant intellectual contributions to American diplomacy was an address he gave on June 4, 2007, entitled "The Principles of Peacemaking," at a conference on "Israel's Right to Secure Borders" held by the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs.
There is no clearer statement of the principles underlying what Holbrooke called "the most important and celebrated Security Council resolution in the history of the UN." He noted that "every word of [Resolution 242] is significant" and that:
Likewise, an analysis of the original meaning of the resolution, as opposed to its inadvertent or intentional misconstructions by certain people, is essential. This is especially necessary in light of the fact that numerous publications and media outlets have reiterated the misconception that the resolution calls for full withdrawal from all territories.
After analyzing Resolution 242, Holbrooke contrasted it with the Saudi/Arab "peace initiative," which had a fundamental flaw:
[T]he Saudi peace proposal … often referred to as a conciliatory proposal by the Saudis, mentions Resolution 242, mistakenly claiming that it calls for withdrawal from all occupied territories — it uses the phrase "full withdrawal from all Arab territories." More importantly, it sets up a sequence that is in direct contradiction to Resolution 242, demanding Israeli compliance with all demands before offering Israel anything, including normal relations. … More significant, what this proposal really does is to lay out as a precondition for the negotiation the very thing being negotiated: this is a fundamental flaw.
Holbrooke noted that many regarded the Saudi proposal as a very important breakthrough, but that "this is clearly a mistake" — not only because of its fundamental flaw but also because the Saudis were themselves unwilling to participate in the necessary negotiations.
Holbrooke recalled Secretary of State Shultz's 1988 statement that "Israel will never negotiate from, or return to, the lines of partition or to the 1967 borders," Secretary of State Christopher's 1997 letter endorsing Israel's right to "defensible borders," the April 2004 Bush letter that repeated that commitment, and the unanimous congressional endorsement of the Bush letter. He concluded that the basis for a lasting peace was a correct interpretation of Resolution 242.
Last night, Hillary Clinton released an eloquent tribute to Richard Holbrooke. But in her December 10 speech at the Saban Center, there was no reference to Resolution 242 — or "defensible borders," or the Christopher or Bush letters, or even the Roadmap (which sets forth Resolution 242 as the basis for Phase III final-status negotiations). Instead, Clinton praised the "vision" of the Arab Peace Initiative, which she called a "landmark proposal" containing a "basic bargain": peace between Israel and her neighbors "will bring recognition and normalization from all the Arab states." She urged Israel to "seize the opportunity … while it is still available."
It is a little hard to seize an opportunity when negotiations are conditioned on acceptance of indefensible borders as the basis of negotiations, contrary to the underlying principle of the basic document governing the peace process. A more lasting tribute to Richard Holbrooke, and to peace, would be an endorsement by the Obama administration of the position the late ambassador took in his 2007 address.
A Surplus of Enemies
A flock of liberal pundits is now trying to convince its members — and us — that losing the House and maybe the Senate is a really good thing for Obama. It's not because he might moderate his views. Oh no, for in their book, Obama wasn't radical enough. They suggest he'll look better because he'll have an "enemy" — John Boehner.
First, it would be nice if the punditocracy and the president, himself, talked more about the real enemies — Islamic terrorists, mullahs with nuclear ambitions, human-rights abusers, etc. For a gang who whimpered when their "patriotism was questioned" and decried "divisiveness" (i.e., the refusal to capitulate to the Obama agenda), this is rich.
But more important, the president's problem is hardly a lack of "enemies." The problem is, he has too many — Republicans, Wall Street, talk-show hosts, 24/7 media outlets, Fox, pollsters, insurance companies, Islamaphobe opponents of the Ground Zero mosque, the Chamber of Commerce, and, ultimately, the voters themselves, who are too irrational and too scared to appreciate his greatness. The "no-blue-states-no-red-states" candidate has morphed into an angry figure who treats opposition as illegitimate and opponents as "enemies." Or as P.J. O'Rourke said of the Democrats, "They hate our guts." And now the president can't hide his feelings.
As Mickey Kaus points out, the growing enemies' list isn't helping Obama. Quite the opposite:
It's amazing that the Blues don't understand that all BHO's comments, particularly the "punish your enemies" meme, are on FOX, talk radio, and the Internet. Your trash talk goes right into the other guy's locker room. … It's not just that rousing the Dem base also rouses the GOP base (which can hardly be roused more than it already is anyway). It's that rousing the Dem base alienates the middle.
If he intends to base his last two years on vilifying Republicans, he may succeed — in solidifying the not-Obama, center-right coalition.
Bill Clinton ran circles around the GOP Congress following the 1994 midterm debacle because he was more amiable, flexible, and adroit than his opponents. Whatever his faults, Clinton didn't hate our guts. He loved being president, and he loved being praised by his fellow citizens. Obama suffers us — first in silence, and now in public. And flexibility has really not been his strong suit. In short, Democrats long for a repeat of post-1994, but they lack the Bill Clinton part of the equation. (Frankly, they also lack the Newt Gingrich villain figure. Whatever their shortcomings, the current GOP leadership generally avoids personal displays of grandiosity and lacks a compulsion to say whatever ludicrously daft thought pops into their heads.)
So for those Democrats licking their chops at the prospect of an Obama-GOP face-off, they might want to reconsider. Isn't it just as likely Obama will make the Republicans look better than the other way around? He's sure done that during the midterm campaign.
Weeding Out Extremism from the Tea Party
Matt Drudge links to a story in which, according to the Dallas Morning News, Republican congressional candidate Stephen Broden, a first-time candidate who is supported by the Tea Party Express and is challenging Representative Eddie Bernice Johnson in Texas's 30th Congressional District, said he would not rule out a violent overthrow of the government if elections did not produce a change in leadership.
According to the report, in an exchange during a TV interview, Broden, a South Dallas pastor, was asked if violence would be an option in 2010, if the composition of the government remained unchanged by the elections. "The option is on the table," Broden said. "I don't think that we should remove anything from the table as it relates to our liberties and our freedoms. However, it is not the first option."
Now, like almost every other person in America, I have never before heard of Stephen Broden. But you can bet that MSNBC, other media outlets, and the Democratic Party are going to do everything they can to turn Mr. Broden into a household name, to make him a symbol of the Tea Party movement.
Jonathan Neerman, head of the Dallas County Republican Party, said he's never heard Broden advocate violence against the government.
"It is a disappointing, isolated incident," Neerman said. He said he plans to discuss the matter with Broden's campaign. And Ken Emanuelson, a Broden supporter and leading Tea Party organizer in Dallas, said he did not disagree with the "philosophical point" that people had the right to resist a tyrannical government. But, he said, "Do I see our government today anywhere close to that point? No, I don't."
I have news for Messrs. Neerman and Emanuelson: what Broden said is far worse than "disappointing" — and in this context, conceding him a "philosophical point" is quite unwise.
To say that a violent uprising is "on the table" is reckless. These remarks deserve to be condemned on their own terms. And it's also important not to play into the caricature of the Tea Party movement created by its opponents — that the movement, at its core, is fringy, irresponsible, and has some latent sympathy with calls to revolution and political violence.
It doesn't help, of course, that Nevada's GOP Senate candidate (and Tea Party choice) Sharron Angle has said this:
Our Founding Fathers, they put that Second Amendment in there for a good reason, and that was for the people to protect themselves against a tyrannical government. In fact, Thomas Jefferson said it's good for a country to have a revolution every 20 years. I hope that's not where we're going, but you know, if this Congress keeps going the way it is, people are really looking toward those Second Amendment remedies.
The Tea Party movement is a powerful, energetic, spontaneous, and widespread civic response to Obamaism. It will be seen, I believe, as a positive force in American politics, one that can help to limit the size, scope, and reach of government in our lives – and, more specifically, one that can help us deal with our entitlement crisis. But movements like these almost inevitably draw in supporters and candidates who take a justifiable impulse and channel it in exactly the wrong direction. That can't always be helped. But what leaders and allies of the Tea Party movement can do is make it clear that incendiary rhetoric and misplaced historical analogies don't have a place or a part in a responsible political movement.
The ballot is stronger than the bullet, Lincoln said, and we may thank heaven that, for Americans, this choice has long since been made. Those who wish to revisit this choice are temerarious and possibly pernicious. Those who care for and about the Tea Party movement might consider saying so.
Reading (and Misreading) Kim
Now and then a media theme comes along that can only be called fatuous. Next week, North Korea will hold its first ruling-party conference in 30 years. In advance of the conference, the Kim government has promoted to higher office three senior officials with career connections to the nuclear program. The three men in question were prominent in previous iterations of the multilateral negotiations over Pyongyang's nuclear program.
Therefore, Western media are depicting these personnel moves as a sign that "the country's leaders are seeking to stabilize foreign relations and encourage diplomacy." Very few of the mainstream media outlets report, however, that Kang Sok Ju, who has been made the new vice premier, was the chief designer of the North Korean nuclear program. He was chosen in 1994 to negotiate the Agreed Framework with the Clinton administration because he was the North's nuclear chief. From the perspective of the Kim regime — which intended all along to retain its program and achieve a weapons capability — the most senior proponent of the program was the appropriate emissary to the proceedings.
There are a number of indications that Kim Jong-Il is planning to introduce his youngest son, Kim Jong-Un, as his political successor next week. The current Kim was named successor at the last such conference in 1980. Close followers of Pyongyang's ineffable party media note that in the last six months, Kim Jong-Il has been referred to as "Great Leader," a title once reserved for his father Kim Il-Sung. The post of "Dear Leader" is now unoccupied, just in time for the rare party conference. The three men in the new government positions are Kim Jong-Il loyalists: from any standpoint — tensions with the South, the terrible toll of typhoons and flooding this summer, the need to secure a succession — it makes sense for the current Kim to ensure loyalty in his senior ranks.
The logical interpretation of the personnel moves is that they are intended to secure the optimum conditions for Kim's internal political plans. The men in question are trusted, long-time aides of the regime: that's why they were associated with the nuclear program to begin with, it's why they were dispatched for nuclear negotiations in the past, and it's why they are being shuffled upward now.
It bears reiterating that their record in foreign negotiations was all to Pyongyang's advantage. They never negotiated in good faith and North Korea never kept the commitments it made. At no time were they or their regime negotiating in order to cultivate good foreign relations — or, in fact, to seek any common objective with the other parties to the talks.
It hasn't been that long since the Soviet Union collapsed. But today's mainstream media seem to retain no corporate memory of the dynamics of secretive Communist regimes. Regime succession is a recurring national-security emergency for such governments. Many Western media outlets have picked up on the warning from a Russian diplomat this week that the Koreas are on the brink of conflict. But if the Russians are observing a bustling in North Korea's national-defense apparatus, that would be perfectly in character for a Communist thugocracy before a landmark party conference. "The wicked flee when none pursueth," say the Proverbs; it's much more likely that the Kim regime is maneuvering, in the Communist manner, against anticipated threats to itself rather than taking a vow of "good diplomacy" to improve relations with the U.S.
CAIR Explains to the Media: Shut Up
As I wrote yesterday, the Islamists — and their funders and enablers — have perfected the tactic of intimidating pundits and news outlets that stray from the pro-Islamist line. The Daily Caller reports:
Since their founding in 1994, CAIR has sued and/or attacked with consequence such media outlets as: The Washington Times, The Los Angeles Times, The National Post, National Review, Anti-CAIR, various talk radio hosts, and college newspapers. Recently, even The Daily Caller has found itself caught in CAIR's cross hairs.
"It is really impossible to know how many people have been intimidated with these lawsuits because if you read the original letter they sent to me, you know, 'don't discuss this with anybody else.' How many people have succumbed to that and said, 'hey, we don't want to get involved in this,' and they've quietly gone away," Andrew Whitehead, a blogger CAIR sued in 2004 for defamation, told The Daily Caller.
Indeed, it was difficult to find individuals to go on the record for this article about CAIR's alleged intimidation tactics for just that reason, as well as safety concerns of sources.
(As an aside, does Joe Sestak think this is part of CAIR's wonderful work, which he cooed about at a fundraiser for the free-speech bullies?) It is not hard to figure out the strategy here:
CAIR also has been able to terminate careers. In 2005, despite widespread listener support and lip service to the importance of free speech, ABC radio fired Michael Graham from D.C.'s 630 WMAL in the wake of threats and pressure by CAIR for his criticisms of Islam as a terrorist organization. "What was told to me by people who would have knowledge of this inside ABC Disney was, CAIR sent out an appeal to people with large stock holdings in Disney and people from the Middle East responded to the appeal and pressured ABC Disney to dump me," Graham said.
Dr. Zuhdi Jasser, president and founder of the American Islamic Forum for Democracy, has been observing CAIR's tactics for years. "They are completely removed from all responsibility of reform and the ideological problem and to them it is all about intimidation and somehow putting the fear of God into people so that they think it is going to prevent it from happening again," Jasser said. "And then they get up and start telling America about Islamaphobia, when they're creating phobias….It almost seems like their role is to inflame Muslims against their own society."
It is equally obvious how to combat this problem. Politicians who indulge groups like CAIR should be held responsible by voters. Media outlets that adhere to the Islamist line (notice how "Ground Zero" has disappeared and it's all about "Park51″) should be queried and challenged by readers and competing outlets. And, most important, the scrutiny of and research into terror organizations, their sponsors and apologists should continue unabated. The accusation of "Islamophobia" should be dismissed for what it is — an unsubtle attempt to smear and silence critics.
Obama fancies himself the explainer in chief of Islam. What we need are leaders able to explain what radical Muslims are all about and denounce their thuggish tactics that bespeak of an intolerant and totalitarian outlook.
Shut Up, the Islamists Explained
You may not have heard of Rachel Ehrenfeld or the SPEECH Act (Securing the Protection of our Enduring and Established Constitutional Heritage Act), the one truly bipartisan piece of legislation passed unanimously during the Obama presidency. Ehrenfeld, the SPEECH Act, and the relative unenthusiasm that greeted the passage of legislation that concerns both the First Amendment and jihadism tell us a lot about "law-ware" being waged by Islamists.
Ehrenfeld has worked as an investigative journalist and researcher since the early 1990s. She is Israeli by birth and now an American citizen. In 2004 she was sued in the UK by a Saudi billionaire, Khalid bin Mahfouz. In her book Funding Evil, she documented his and other Saudis' connection to and support for radical Muslim groups. Although her book was not distributed there and she is not a citizen or resident of the UK, British libel laws allowed the suit to proceed. (The case was described in detail in Andrew McCarthy's COMMENTARY article, "Can Libel Tourism Be Stopped?" in September 2008.) Bin Mahfouz was the only figure to sue her, although two others named in the book sued other publications. She explained to me in a phone interview that before his death the Saudi billionarie had in essence created a cottage industry suing or threatening to sue more than 40 journalists and publications in England, thereby intimidating Western journalists. Why sue her? "I had a very small publisher," she tells me. And as an Israeli, she was an attractive target. It isn't money the Islamists are after, she explains. "We don't need your money; we need big ads retracting the story," she quotes a Saudi prince. The name of the game here is to silence Western media. Read More
Moderates Aren't Moderate
Trying to puzzle out why it is that the country is entranced with political outsiders (how could it be that the country is in revolt against Obama? such a mystery … ), David Brooks paints a picture of an ordinary guy who's worked hard his whole life only to discover "a political system that undermined the relationship between effort and reward." (Brooks doesn't say it, but the term for this is "liberalism.") Brooks then goes on to bemoan the shriveling political center — "a feckless shell":
It has no governing philosophy. Its paragons seem from the outside opportunistic, like Arlen Specter, or caught in some wishy-washy middle, like Blanche Lincoln. The right and left have organized, but the center hasn't bothered to. The right and left have media outlets and think tanks, but the centrists are content to complain about polarization and go home. By their genteel passivity, moderates have ceded power to the extremes.
But that's not exactly right. It isn't passivity or good manners that have left moderates in the lurch. What's happened is that the moderates have become indistinguishable from liberals. Specter and Lincoln both voted for the stimulus plan, the bank bailout, and ObamaCare. None of them opposed Obama on a single significant legislative matter.
Brooks despairs that when the average voter looked for candidates "who might understand his outrage, he only found them among the ideological hard-liners." That would be liberals or conservatives who don't buy the statist, corporatist Obama vision. Brooks warns the hapless voter that he "is going to be disappointed again. He's going to find that the outsiders he sent to Washington just screamed at each other at ever higher decibels. … Nothing will get done."
But getting nothing done is the first step to reversing the damage wrought by the Democrats' leftist splurge. Divided government and robust debate will slow and hopefully halt the runaway train. Now, if we had a less radical president, we might actually "get something done" — that is, reverse the excesses of Obamaism and return to fiscal sanity. (As a bonus, we'd begin to restore our alliances, get out of the business of sucking up to the "Muslim World," and champion democracy promotion and human rights.) But that is for 2012. Step one is voting for non-statists who won't roll over and play dead whenever Obama pushes for the next radical expansion of government.
Republicans Turn Up the Heat
It seems as though the Democrats haven't quite put Eric Massa out of sight. House Republicans know a good thing when they see it:
The House voted 402 to 1 Thursday to send the ethics committee a GOP measure calling for an investigation into how Democratic leaders handled allegations of sexual misconduct by former Rep. Eric Massa (D-N.Y.). But a senior Democratic aide said the ethics committee never shut down its investigation of the Massa scandal in the first place – despite the fact that numerous sources familiar with the investigation told POLITICO, the Washington Post and other media outlets Wednesday that it had. … The GOP resolution, offered by Minority Leader John Boehner, calls on the ethics committee to create a special investigative subcommittee to look into the Massa allegations and report back to the full House by June 30 on the results of the inquiry.
This, of course, will keep the scandal brewing and test whether the Democratic leadership in fact had an inkling of what was going on. Moreover, the overwhelming vote suggests that the Democrats know they have a problem with ethics and with transparency. No longer can they strongarm the minority and rebuff the media and public with impunity. In the midst of the health-care fight, this wasn't what the Democrats needed.
And this may not be the only ethics issue brewing. It could get worse, as we learn: "On the heels of ethics imbroglios that have ensnared a freshman Dem and a long-time committee chair, Dems could have another problem on their hands: Rep. Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick (D-MI). Kilpatrick and a staffer have been summoned to give testimony before a federal grand jury, according to letters made public earlier this week."
It seems that virtually nothing is going the Democrats' way right now.
First Amendment Defenders
James Taranto's interview with First Amendment lawyer Floyd Abrams is well worth a read. Abrams chastizes critics of the Supreme Court's McCain-Feingold ruling:
And my reaction is sort of a John McEnroe: You cannot be serious! We're talking about the First Amendment here, and we're being told that an extremely vituperative expression of disdain for a candidate for president is criminal in America?
He also reveals that the ACLU favored the Supreme Court's decision, but has been very quiet about it. Abrams warns its board:
Look, you bring cases, such as one to strike down a law of Congress which was aimed at "virtual child pornography"—not real children being filmed, but otherwise wholly pornographic. . . . I said: You didn't do it because you wanted to protect the folks who like to watch child pornography. You did it because you thought the government shouldn't be trusted to make content decisions about who watches anything, and because you thought the principle of avoiding governmental control over what is available on the Internet was so strong. . .I warned that I thought the worst thing the ACLU could do is to become just another liberal public-interest group.
But his essential point, which has eluded the former constitutional law professor who now occupies the Oval Office, is that what is at stake here is core protected political speech. But Obama is not alone in missing (or choosing to miss) the point. As Abrams notes, nearly all media outlets roundly criticized the Court's ruling. Abrams opines that the reason is two-fold: journalists don't understand that they work for corporations (which were protected by the Court's decision) and they confuse "democracy" (or more precisely, a sort of populist leveling in which elections are micro-managed to enforce a level playing field) with the proper constitutional interpretation of the First Amendment. And of course, they don't appreciate the competition that may come from unions and corporations choosing to inject information the press hasn't seen fit to print.
Could there be any better reminder of the importance of Supreme Court Justices who remain faithful to the text and meaning of the Constitution? When the president, Congress, and the media itself lose their way and urge us to abandon First Amendment principals, there are a select group that can set them straight. The composition of the Court may change soon again, and with it, the First Amendment may once again be up for grabs.
Flotsam and Jetsam
Isn't there some way to stop the kidnapping of Isralis like Gilad Shalit and end Hamas's reign of terror? Well, when the people of Gaza have had enough: "Surely there have to be some who have begun to notice the flourishing of their brethren in Judea and Samaria and to ask themselves why they've been sentenced by Khaled Meshaal and his masters in Damascus and Syria to live lives as less than humans, as pawns in Hamas's own very nerve-racking game; and, feeling all the horror of what they've become, begin to contemplate taking a stand against it. The moment they do will be the moment Hamas's power over them—and the Israelis—ends."
Hotline gets it right: "A poll of GOP insiders suggests that ex-AK Gov. Sarah Palin (R) has little support among the party's professional class — and maybe that's just how she wants it."
One of nine reasons why the unemployment figures are bad news for Democrats: "Remember this simple formula: Unemployment drives presidential approval numbers and presidential approval numbers drive midterm election results." And this seems especially toxic for Democrats facing an election later this year: "Also, there is every indication that as the slowly growing economy eventually draws workers back in the labor force, the jobless rate will creep up to new highs. (Big companies remain cautious about hiring, and small biz remains under pressure due to tight capital markets.) The validity of the Obama recovery plan will seriously be cast in doubt."
Sometimes you just can't spin the news: "Unemployment has not gotten better; it has gotten worse, and the statistics have hidden the real decline in 2009. Until now, only a few media outlets bothered to highlight the problem. The AP has finally made it clear — and that will mean a lot more attention in 2010 to the failed Porkulus legislation and the fumbled economic strategies of the Obama administration."
The Democratic Public Policy Polling finds that the Massachusetts senate race is "losable" for the Democrats: "At this point a plurality of those planning to turn out oppose the health care bill. The massive enthusiasm gap we saw in Virginia is playing itself out in Massachusetts as well. Republican voters are fired up and they're going to turn out. Martha Coakley needs to have a coherent message up on the air over the last ten days that her election is critical to health care passing and Ted Kennedy's legacy- right now Democrats in the state are not feeling a sense of urgency." And Scott Brown's favorable odds are actually higher than Bob McDonnell's were in the Virginia gubernatorial race. Yes, this is Massachusetts.
Keep America Safe puts out a devastating video on Obama's reaction to the Christmas Day bombing. Watch it here.
And maybe the Democrats in Congress will finally wake up: "The Obama administration's plans to transfer two more Guantanamo Bay detainees overseas in the wake of the Christmas Day bombing attempt is causing consternation on Capitol Hill. . .Recent reports about increasing rates of recidivism for transferred Guantanamo Bay terrorists is further complicating Obama's goal of shuttering Guantanamo. In recent days, several media outlets have reported on an updated report by the Pentagon's Defense Intelligence Agency saying one in five former detainees have returned to militant activity."
Jon Stewart rags on stealth health care, the broken C-SPAN promise, and all the other Obama campaign pledges that have gone by the wayside. He makes a good point: Fox is no longer the only news organization being tough on Obama.
Sen. Paul Kirk threatens to vote for ObamaCare even if Scott Brown wins. Just in case there was any doubt as to just how much contempt the majority party has for voters. Might this backfire on Coakley?
The Washington Post editors chide Obama for hiding from the press. For a guy who says the buck stops with him is not willing to be grilled, we see, on his own misstatements and performance.


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Got a bit if a dilemma I've had my Avus s4 alloys for 3 years now and fancy a change so I fancy some 18" fat fives, so what do you guys think, should get rid of the s4's for the fat fives or should I keep the avus's.
Tough one that. Avus would be my first choice, but also I could see the appeal of the change when you get used to them. Grass is always greener as they say.
There was some fat fives in the classifieds and dropped the fella a message just waiting for him to get back to me.


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- With respect to SWAT I can't comment as my intent was to leave the
unit as stock as possible in the native load.
With respect to your second question yes I had this problem as well.
There is a script in '/www/script' that expects not only the path to
smbd to be '/usr/sbin/smbd', but also the pid file to reside
in '/var/run'. Thus I took the following approach to get everything
working. Here are my build notes,
1) Modified Makefile such that the pid directory points
to /var/run. This permits the NSS's scripts to find the pid file
(e.g. /www/script/melsub_shutdown.sh).
2) Ran make
3) Ran make install
4) Copied the build location's /usr/local/samba directory to
the real /usr/local location
5) Symbolically linked the smb.conf file via, "ln
s /etc/samba/smb.conf /usr/local/samba/lib/smb.conf"
6) Symbolically linked the samba password file smbpasswd
via, "ln s /etc/samba/smbpasswd /usr/loca
7) Symbolically linked the smb demon via, "ln
s /usr/sbin/smbd /usr/local/samba/sbin/smbd".
Note that rather than modifying /etc/init.d/smb I made a copy of the
older smbd and linked to the new smbd (step 7 above). This solves
the problem with the shutdown script greping the output of 'ps' and
looking for the complete path, not just 'smbd'.
Someone said that they find themself fighting the native LS load. No
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> Has anyone noticed that you cannot shutdown (either via the
> command in a telnet session, via the web interface or the button)
> when running this version of samba, or is it just my configration?
> When I reverted back the samba version that comes with 1.45_13 it
> will shutdown correctly.
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> <whoisnader@h...> wrote:
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> > I can't seem to get SWAT to work. I have made the changes to the
> > inetd.conf file but I get a connection refused error when I try
> > connect to http://ip:901/
> >
> > Here is how my inetd.conf looks like
> >
> > telnet stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd
> > in.telnetd /usr/local/samba/sbin/swat swat
> >
> > I am able to get samba working, just not SWAT.
> > - The postings in the file section all assume the executables reside
in /usr/local. Thus a different build might be required to just
replace the LS's files.
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<philippe.deysine@l...> wrote:>
> Considering previous discussions how to install Samba 3.0.9, do I
> have anything else to do than just replacing the smbd and nmbd
> with the ones you provide in order to have Samba 3.0.10 running on
> the LinkStation ?
> Thanks for your contribution and answer.


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Two-Year Drop in Reinsurance Rates May End After Japan Earthquake Losses
Insurance losses from the Japanese earthquake may be large enough to turn prices for catastrophe cover that have been falling for two years, according to analysts, brokers and underwriters.
Insurers and reinsurers face claims of as much as 2.8 trillion yen ($34 billion) tied to the 9.0-magnitude quake on March 11, excluding damage caused by the tsunami, catastrophe modeler AIR Worldwide estimated. That would follow about $20 billion in losses from four previous disasters in the Asia- Pacific region, based on projections by Guy Carpenter & Co.
"The Japanese quake finally exhausts the natural catastrophe budget for 2011 of a majority of reinsurance companies," said Fabrizio Croce, a Zurich-based analyst with Kepler Capital Markets. "All the ingredients for market hardening are now perfect."
In reinsurance terms, a hardening of markets or rates refers to an increase in prices for coverage. Reinsurers such as Munich Re and Swiss Reinsurance Co., the world's biggest, renew about two-thirds of their annual property and casualty contracts in January, and the remainder in April and July. The renewals on April 1 typically focus on the Asia-Pacific region.
More than 10,000 people may have been killed by the Japan quake, which hurled a 7-meter (23-foot) wave landward after one undersea plate slid beneath another off the coast of Sendai. The country is battling to prevent a nuclear meltdown after blasts rocked an atomic plant north of Tokyo.
Based on AIR Worldwide's preliminary estimate, the quake would be the second-most costly disaster for insurers and reinsurers after Hurricane Katrina in 2005. The hurricane cost the industry $62.2 billion, not accounting for inflation, according to estimates from Munich Re.
The quake in Japan "comes ahead of the Asian reinsurance renewals, so there may be payback for this loss," said Ben Cohen, a London-based analyst with Collins Stewart.
The Stoxx Europe 600 Insurance Index slid 3.3 percent to 160.65 as of 10:22 a.m. Frankfurt time today, following a 4.2 percent drop in the previous two days. Declines have been led by reinsurers, which help protect primary carriers such as Allianz SE (ALV) and Axa SA (CS) against the cost of major claims from disasters such as hurricanes and earthquakes. Hannover Re, Swiss Re and Catlin Group Ltd. (CGL) have all tumbled more than 10 percent following the quake.
Previous Disasters
Reinsurance rates fell for a second straight year in January on high levels of capital available in the industry, according to Guy Carpenter, the reinsurance brokerage of New York-based Marsh & McLennan Cos.
Insurers and reinsurers were hit before the Japan quake by four disasters in the Asia Pacific region -- two temblors that struck New Zealand as well as Cyclone Yasi and floods, which both hit Australia, said David Flandro, London-based head of global business intelligence at Guy Carpenter.
"These claims have exceeded a large portion if not all of the natural catastrophe budgets set aside by reinsurers, making the Japanese catastrophe a capital event as well as an earnings event for reinsurers," he said in a phone interview.
In 2008, Hurricane Ike slammed into Texas in September, costing the insurance industry $18.5 billion and helping push up reinsurance rates by about 8 percent following a two-year decline. After the 2005 hurricane season, rates measured by the Guy Carpenter Global Property Catastrophe Rate on Line Index rose to their highest since 1994.
'Market-Moving Event'
The Japan quake "is probably a market-moving event," said David Carson, head of property treaty at Hardy Underwriting Bermuda Ltd (HDU), a Lloyd's of London insurer. "The culmination of losses in the international market over the past year means this is the tipping point. A month ago Japanese clients were looking for 5 percent to 10 percent reductions, now it looks as if prices will rise globally."
Patrick Hartigan, head of treaty reinsurance at Beazley Plc (BEZ), the fifth-biggest publicly traded Lloyd's insurer by market value, said his company will negotiate with clients before the April 1 Japan renewals.
"It will undoubtedly have an effect on international catastrophe rates," he said. "We have to wait and see how the losses from this event and New Zealand last month pan out."
Lloyd's of London, the world's largest insurance market, said it's too early to put a figure on industry losses from the earthquake. "Lloyd's routinely stress tests individual syndicates and the market as a whole for large-scale natural catastrophes of this nature and we are confident the market can respond to any claims in the normal course of business," it said in a statement.
'In Disarray'
Aon Benfield, the reinsurance brokerage of Aon Corp. (AON), declined to give a price estimate, also saying it's too early, according to spokeswoman Alexandra Lewis. Broker Willis Group Holdings Plc (WSH) is working with its reinsurance clients to evaluate the losses, President Grahame Millwater said in a phone interview from London. "The market may move, definitely in some segments, but it is much too early to tell," he said.
"The April 1 Japan reinsurance renewal season is in disarray," Barclays Capital analysts including Jay Gelb and Sarah Dewitt wrote in a March 14 research note. "We anticipate Asia/Japan property reinsurance rates will climb as a result of increased demand for coverage and capacity constraints. The impact on the rest of the global property reinsurance market is less clear."
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Writing at Kotaku, Luke Plunkett has a very smart post up on the miserable options facing Game of Thrones fans when it comes to video games. The upcoming RPG looks startlingly bad, giving players only two class options and very little customization (including the inability to determine the sex of your character.)
Writes Plunkett:
Aside from The Wall and King's Landing, you'll be spending most of your time in places either never or barely mentioned in the books, and aside from a few characters like Jeor Mormont and Varys, you'll be spending most of your time talking to people created solely for the game. You're also given a choice of two characters you get to play, and that's it. You're a Red Priest or a member of the Night's Watch.
You can't be a Hedge Knight, you can't be a bandit, you can't be a Bravoosi. You can't even choose your gender. Even by action RPG standards, and not true RPG standards, that's pretty damn limiting.
You're damn right that's limiting. Limited, linear role-playing games also break from the spirit of the books.
He continues:
Sure, call me spoiled in this post-Skyrim world, in which I wish every fantasy title and RPG let me wholly customise my experience and explore a sprawling world, but when I think of what I'd want a Game of Thrones title to be, what such a series deserves, I think of all the things I love about the franchise: the scale, the characters and the politics. They're three things the excellent board game gets very right, but are sadly also three things the two video games we've actually seen stuff from so far can't seem to manage.
I've been thinking about this, and it occurred to me that the perfect way to manage a Game of Thrones video game is to do basically what Paradox Interactive is doing with the upcoming War of the Roses PC title.
The game, to be released on PC later this year, is a "team-based multiplayer melee combat experience, [that] sees players and their band of knights going toe-to-toe with their opponents using authentic and visceral weapons of the time period including broad swords, long bows and battle-axes."
Set during the 30-Year War, and a spiritual successor to Paradox's Medieval sand-box game, Mount & Blade (which, I might add, I've finally started playing) the game looks about exactly how I'd imagine a Game of Thrones video game ought to look, minus the Wall and the White Walkers.
Video after the leap.
Not coincidentally, Martin's books are based loosely on the historical events of the War of the Roses (or the 30 Year War, take your pick.)
Martin himself is a huge Medievalist, into model swords and miniatures and all sorts of top-notch fantasy dork stuff. (I recall pictures of his wedding posted to his blog and everyone is decked out like they're at a Renaissance Festival.)
Meanwhile, the books themselves have a vast, sprawling backdrop of history and geography that could be easily tapped into with a really wide-open game like War of the Roses. You could even set the game years earlier, perhaps during the same period as The Hedge Knight.
Anyways, this sort of game, with a really open world and open-ended events and lots of good old-fashioned sword and shield combat, mounts, tournaments and pageantry, seems like exactly the sort of game A Song of Ice and Fire ought to be, and the sort that would probably please Martin the most (though I certainly can't speak for the man.)
Naturally I'll be playing War of the Roses later this year.
(Image by Mike S. Miller and Anders Finer taken from The Hedge Knight by George R. R. Martin)
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Meiai Hostel
The Meiai Hostel is located in a beautiful white house very cosy and very peaceful ! Away from the noise and the traffic from the city, it can provide you a safe and nice stay . We have several shared rooms and 4 Suites with all the comfort that you need. The air-conditioned dormitories at Meiai Hostel feature wooden flooring, individual reading lamps and outlets, and a private locker. The bathroom is shared and linens and towels are provided. We also a Restaurant called Guilhermina, as the name of our street which offers a brilliant and so nice cook and variety menu. |
Availability & Rates
To view availability and prices please select dates and click 'Update Dates'Hostel Facilities & Policies
- 24 hour reception
- 24 hour security
- Air Conditioning
- Airport transfers
- Bar
- Board Games
- Breakfast Included
- Cable TV
- Café
- Common Room
- DVDs
- Free City Maps
- Free Internet Access
- Free Wifi
- Hot Showers
- House Keeping
- Internet Access
- Linen Included
- Lockers
- Luggage Storage
- Meals Available
- Meeting Room
- Outdoor Terrace
- Reading Light
- Restaurant
- Tours/Travel Desk
- Towels Included
Cancellation Policy
This property has a 7 day cancellation policy. Failure to cancel within this time will result in a cancellation charge equal to the first night of your stay.Must-Read Hostel Info
This property has specific Terms & Conditions.***Low Season:**
This property has a 7 day cancellation policy.
Failure to cancel within this time will result in a cancellation charge equal to the 50% on the total booking amount.
**High Season: **
This property has a non refundable policy.
Cancelations will result in a charge equal to the 100% on the total booking amount. All rates will be charged upon the reservation.
PORFAVOR NOTE *** 'Depois de receber a confirmação da reserva do hostelworld, o departamento de reservas do Meiai Hostel irá contatá-lo para solicitar o CVC do seu cartão de crédito para que seja feita a cobrança de 50% do valor total afim de garantir sua reserva."
PLEASE NOTE***. "After you receive the reservation's confirmation, Meiai Hostel's reservations department will send you an e-mail requesting your credit card's CVC number so they can guarantee your reservation by making a debit of 50% of the total amount."
DirectionsShow MapHide Map
We are about 15 minutes from Santos Dumont Airport, about 30 minutes from the Galeao International Airport (GIG), and 15 minutes from the Bus Station (Rodoviaria Novo Rio). The hostel is located in the middle of Botafogo, between Rua Voluntarios da Patria and Rua Sao Clemente, and both of the streets have bus stops that leads you to different directions. Also, the subway is only 3 blocks away
Located Near
Close by the subway, bus stations and bike racks, Meiai Hostel is located 15 minutes from Sugar Loaf and 25 minutes from Christ the Redeemer (Corcovado). Also, we are 20 minutes far from the beaches of Ipanema and Leblon, and 10 minutes from the famous Copacabana beach.
Between two main streets with lots of activity, nightlife, shops and restaurants, Meiai Hostel is located in the middle of the neighborhood (Botafogo


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— By Kevin Montgomery (@kevinmonty) |
Signaling Valencia Street has become our generation's Sunset Boulevard, an Uptown Almanac reader sent us pics of Pablo Sandoval broken down outside of Limon, forced to open up the hood of his ridiculous sports car like a pathetic commoner and beg the nearest Hummer Jeep driver to give his battery a jump.
Really, All we need is for Randi Zuckerberg to snort some black tar heroin and violently overdose in her brother's arms outside of Elbo Room and the transformation will be complete.
Moved back to the mission yesterday just blocks from where scl vid was shot.Just for inspiration.
— Stephan Jenkins (@stephanjenkins) June 4, 2013
[Thanks Jeff!]
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who_the | [Permalink]
It's a freakin' Chrysler with a raft of garish "upgrades" which probably cost more than the car.
And a Jeep.
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That doesn't make it ridiculous?
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I don't ink before I pee | [Permalink]
It is a sedan, not a sports car.
Valencia street this generations sunset strip? Not even close.
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You caught me: I don't know shit about cars.
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Billy | [Permalink]
Why can't a guy who plays for SF eat in the city he plays for? Pretty stupid article. Grow up.
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Milk Steak | [Permalink]
Can you snort black tar?
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Thursday, June 10 | 8:00 a.m. | All hogs must
be on the grounds, check-in and scanning of boars |
Friday, June 11 | 7:30 a.m. | Ring A: Crossbred Boar Show followed by Yorkshire, Landrace, Duroc and Hampshire boars and gilts |
9:00 a.m. | Ring B: Berkshire Show followed by Chester White, Spotted and Poland | |
Saturday, June 12 | 9:00 a.m. | Ring A: Crossbred Boar Sale followed by crossbred gilts (from WPX Junior National only), Yorkshire, Landrace, Duroc and Hampshire boars and gilts |
10:00 a.m. | Ring B: Berkshire Sale followed by Chester White, Spotted and Poland |
Duroc and Landrace – Randy Shipley,
Hampshire – Jerry Brink, Iowa
Yorkshire – Seth Swenson, Illinois
Crossbred boars – Tim Marek, Iowa
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Legendary hair stylist to the stars.
Face Tags
@SJP in the September issue of Marie Claire. Hair by Serge Normant. More photos on our Facebook page!
Always such a pleasure to get creative with my friend L'Wren. I love doing her show and love the collection.
Serge Normant is seen doing Celine Dion's hair in a recent Star Magazine article.