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Hurricane Sandy grounds 15,000 US flights
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NEW YORK — Nearly 15,000 flights were grounded on Monday as the powerful storm Sandy thwarted travel up and down the US East Coast with powerful winds and blinding rain that could linger for days.
The number is expected to grow as the slow-moving cyclone churns inland after making landfall near Atlantic City, New Jersey and combines with a cold front coming down from Canada that could whip up as much as three feet of snow.
Tens of thousands were stranded as the mega storm's impact on air travel was felt as far afield as Asia and Europe, delaying business trips and ruining holiday plans just ahead of Wednesday's popular Halloween family festival.
Pablo Gomez decided to drive the 800 miles (1,300 kilometers) from New York to home in Chicago after his 6:00 a.m. Monday flight was cancelled.
"The drive is exhausting, but they said I might not get back until Thursday," Gomez, 41, told AFP.
Gomez left Sunday evening to avoid highway closures and the oncoming storm but didn't get home until Monday at dinner time after lengthy delays.
"The roads aren't too bad, just a lot of rain," the university professor said Monday morning from Ohio.
"I wouldn't have known anything was going on if it weren't for all the electricity trucks — the big ones — driving the other way."
At Washington's Reagan National Airport, Italian exchange student Joelle Carota, 21, said she has been waiting 36 hours for a flight to Rochester in upstate New York and is taking it with patient resignation.
Carota slept Sunday night in a seat at the airport, plans to do the same Monday night, and said people at National are taking the delays in stride, as they know how dangerous the weather is.
It is her first brush with a potentially deadly storm.
"I have always seen this kind of thing on the news. Now here I am, and it is sort of strange," Carota, who is studying English and Spanish at Nazareth College in Rochester, told AFP. "Here, it is safe. I am safe."
Damien Cirotteau, 35, was in New York on holiday from Paris with his wife and two young children.
They were supposed to be flying to San Francisco on Monday. Instead, he was scrambling for a place to stay after Jet Blue told him they wouldn't get there until Friday.
"The kids weren't happy about being stuck inside all day, it's hard for them to be patient," he told AFP.
Three smaller coastal airports shut down completely Monday and many others — including as far inland as Philadelphia — might as well have, as nearly every flight was cancelled.
Some 1,371 flights were cancelled on Sunday as airlines prepared for the storm, according to the online aviation tracking service flightaware.com.
Another 7,744 were cancelled Monday, including 1,220 in Philadelphia and around 1,000 at each of New York's three airports.
A further 5,269 flights have already been cancelled for Tuesday and 487 on Wednesday.
Subway services, buses and commuter trains were shut down in New York, Philadelphia and Washington and Amtrak suspended rail services in the region.
Safety fears over the monster storm caused disruption as far away as Hong Kong and France even before the hurricane reached the US coast after barreling across parts of the Caribbean and leaving 66 people dead.
The European Organisation for the Safety of Air Navigation, Eurocontrol, said 300 of the usual 500-odd flights between Europe and the US had been cancelled, with more expected.
In Asia, Hong Kong's flagship carrier Cathay Pacific announced it was scrapping a total of eight direct flights between the southern Chinese city and New York on Monday and Tuesday.
Flights from India and Japan were also affected, as were flights from Canada, Mexico and Latin America.
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At the Forge - CouchDB Views
So far, the examples here have focused on writing "map" functions, which take the list of documents and outputs a series of key-value pairs. But, as you might imagine, the map-reduce paradigm has two parts, the second of which is called reduce. The idea is that you use map to filter and transform the data into a list, and then use reduce to turn that list into something even more useful, typically a single value. For example, you can define the reduce function as follows:
function(keys, values, rereduce) { return 1; }
From within Futon, this returns a list of three documents, the keys of which are the birthdays, and the values of which is the number 1. This isn't very interesting, to be honest, because you could have accomplished the same thing from within the "map" request. But, if you invoke the same query from curl, you get something else entirely:
{"rows":[ {"key":null,"value":1} ]}
Why the difference? And, why is there only a single row now?
The answer is that reduce is designed to, well, reduce things. That means instead of returning a result for each row, it returns a single result from all rows. The reduce function actually can be invoked in two ways:
The usual way, in which the "keys" and "values" represent document keys and values. In such cases, the "rereduce" parameter is set to false.
For rereducing, the "rereduce" parameter is set to true, the keys are null, and the values represent values from a previous, partial run of the "reduce" function.
As the CouchDB Wiki states, this means the reduce function must be both commutative (that is, the order in which arguments are processed doesn't matter) and associative (that is, the order in which operations are executed doesn't matter). This often (but not always) means the reduce function ends up performing addition or multiplication, returning the result of executing the function on all documents. One example of a reduce function that I found calculates the standard deviation from mapped results, so you can find out how similar the documents are along at least one dimension.
Learning to use map-reduce in CouchDB can take some time. However, this paradigm has proven itself for a decade or so. For example, as the backbone for Google's search system, map-reduce has demonstrated excellent performance and flexibility. Granted, Google is using something (or some things) that are not CouchDB, but with a similar interface and paradigm.
If you like the idea of using JavaScript, MVCC, easy replication and JSON documents, CouchDB might be a good choice. It apparently is not as fast as some of its non-SQL competition, such as MongoDB and Cassandra. However, CouchDB's built-in (and sophisticated) Web interface, RESTful communication and the flexibility of map-reduce are all good reasons to use it. CouchDB is so easy to set up and use, why not try it out? Even if you end up not using it, CouchDB is a great way to learn about map-reduce and to try to create some small functions using it.
The home page for CouchDB is at the Apache Project (couchdb.apache.org). There, you not only can download the software, but also read documentation, from tutorials to an active wiki. The CouchDB Web site also has links to drivers for the various languages you're likely to use when working with CouchDB.
If you're interested in the JSON format used by CouchDB, you can learn more about it at the main Web site: json.org.
Finally, two good books on CouchDB were released in the past few months. Beginning CouchDB by Joe Lennon, published by Apress, is aimed more at beginners, but it has a solid introduction to CouchDB, Futon and how you might use the system. CouchDB: The Definitive Guide by J. Chris Anderson, Jan Lehnardt and Noah Slater, published by O'Reilly, is a bit more advanced and meaty, but it might not be appropriate for beginning users of non-relational databases.
For a list of interesting map-reduce functions for CouchDB, along with explanations of how they work, see this page on the CouchDB Wiki: wiki.apache.org/couchdb/View_Snippets.
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The hearing is scheduled for 7 p.m. in the Council Chambers at City Hall, 15 N. Third Ave., but could be called off if a judge earlier in the day grants a preliminary injunction.
Kerr will determine whether the estimated 550-square-foot painting of an octopus peeking over a castle wall on Catsiff's Main Street storefront violates city code.
City officials say the painting qualifies as a sign and thus violates the legal size limitations allowed by the city code.
Catsiff has maintained the painting is a work of art and therefore not regulated by the sign code. He has also said the municipal sign code is vague and thus enforcement of this particular piece is selective on the city's part.
The toy store owner was served a civil violation notice about a month ago. In its notice, the city said it will charge Catsiff $100 a day for every day the mural is not removed.
Catsiff has also been charged another $300 in fines for failing to obtain permits related to painting the octopus mural on the front of the building at 7 E. Main St., as well as another on the back exterior. He has admitted that he did not seek permits to occupy the right of way or for approval to paint the mural when it was created over Labor Day weekend.
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WoW servers still down
Is it just me or are the servers still down? I thought they were supposed to come back up at 11. It's almost 1 now.
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They're still down yeah, and apparently the forum login is busted as well (which is not at all surprising).
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Still down.
I hate the world and it's complete lack of MMORPG options at this time. Give me something good to move too please for the love of god.
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Ouch, i feel for ya guys, when EverQuest usto go down (back in the day) id just sit and stare at the login screen for hours waiting for it to come back up!!! :bugeyes:
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I can't even afford to wait for patches these days, I wanted go try WOW with my GF but we need a 2nd game (still $50), and then $30/month to play.. Guild wars is getting anoying.
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Well, Elune was up yesterday at 2pm PCT time and up all DAY! :D
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Snow leopard species identification PCR assay specificity. Snow leopard-specific PCR assay results showing amplification in only the snow leopard sample and complete lack of amplicons in other species assayed. The bottom two bands in the ladder are 100 bp and 200 bp, respectively.
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NewsBusters' Ken Shepherd sneaks in right before the deadline with the runaway winner for "Worst Example of Purported Liberal Media Bias of the Week." His latest blockbuster scoop is headlined: MSNBC Promo Narrator Also Does Work for Pro-ObamaCare Group. Take it away, Ken:
But it's not just the on-camera talent that has all the fun cheerleading liberal policies. It seems a promotional ad narrator for MSNBC also does voiceover work for a pro-ObamaCare group, Health Care for America Now (HCAN).
I noticed the HCAN ad at 11:20 a.m. EDT today and worked up a mashup featuring excerpts of the HCAN ad and a promo for tonight's MSNBC programming.
You can watch for yourself, but a quick note for Shepherd: when your video hinges on the premise of people being disturbed by a narrator saying things like "What's MSNBC talking about tonight?" and "MSNBC: The Place for Politics," you probably don't have much of an argument. Though in Shepherd's defense, I could definitely detect the narrator subliminally encouraging a public option in the way he pronounced "tonight."
Helpfully, Shepherd does most of the work demolishing the entire point of his post with his final paragraph:
NBC Universal's Alana Russo informed NewsBusters via e-mail that MSNBC's announcers are freelancers, "not in-house staff employees." Asked if there were any "contractual limitations" barring those freelancers from "doing political ads while under contract with MSNBC," Russo answered that "[t]hey do not have exclusive contracts with MSNBC."
I have spent the better part of an hour trying to determine how Shepherd thought this was worth posting after receiving a perfectly reasonable response from MSNBC. The narrator is a freelancer. Let's hope Shepherd doesn't hear the same narrator in a promo for Dan Brown's latest DC-based thriller -- he'll be connecting those dots for weeks.
Here at County Fair, we have made it a bit of a cottage industry mocking the blog commonly seen as our counterpart on the right, and with good reason. By comparison, let's have a look at what an actual conflict of interest surrounding health care reform coverage at a major news outlet looks like, courtesy of fellow County Fair blogger Matt Gertz:
Media Matters for America has obtained evidence that CNN contributor Alex Castellanos' political consulting firm, National Media, is the ad buyer for the insurance industry group America's Health Insurance Plan's (AHIP) new ad blitz attacking Democratic health reform plans. CNN has a responsibility to insure that Castellanos' obvious conflict of interest does not tarnish their future coverage of the health care debate.
One of these things is not like the other.
Beck (!) says McCarthy was a "nightmare" because he "made cries of communism a joke"
Given Glenn Beck's one-man crusade to root out communism in the Obama administration, a crusade which most recently led him to spend a whole show attacking Anita Dunn because she once cited Mao has a "favorite political philosopher," and which targeted Van Jones, and which led him to claim that "the president has an agenda that is radical, revolutionary, and in some cases, Marxist," and which most amusingly has led him to look for signs of Marxism and fascism in the artwork of Rockefeller Center (which also houses Fox News)...
Given this long history fomenting fear about communism, one might expect Beck to idolize or romanticize trailblazer Joseph McCarthy.
But in his 2003 book The Real America, Beck writes:
One of the worst things that ever happened to America was Joseph McCarthy-and not for the reasons that everybody else thinks that Joseph McCarthy was a nightmare. I give you that Joseph McCarthy was an out-and-out nightmare for all the reasons everybody thinks, but it goes much deeper than that.
Joseph McCarthy made cries of communism a joke. He makes the cries of socialism a joke. Nowadays when you say, "Um, you know, So-and-So is a Socialist," everybody laughs. It's like calling someone a witch, or a pirate. It just doesn't have any meaning anymore. "Oh no, he's a Socialist! So what?"
In the same way, Al Sharpton makes cries of racism a joke.
Keep it up, Al. You really want to hurt the cause of the African-Americans? Keep crying racism, because nobody will pay attention to you.
When they hear it, it will become a joke, and they will laugh. Quite honestly, Al, the way they're laughing at your hair now.
So Joseph McCarthy had his witch-hunt in the 1950s, and he tried to find all the Socialists, all the commies, all the pinkos, and you know what? Some of them really existed. But the lasting repercussion of this is that nobody is afraid of socialism, nobody thinks communism is a bad thing. (pp. 114-115)
Got that?
Beck is accusing McCarthy of making the "cries" of communism and socialism a "joke."
Moreover, Beck says that the "lasting repercussion" of McCarthy's "witch-hunt" is that "nobody is afraid of socialism, nobody thinks communism is a bad thing."
Ugh. Here's the Post headline, about how Obama's supposedly moving way to slow on judicial nominations:
Obama Criticized as Too Cautious, Slow on Judicial Posts
And the lede:
President Obama has not made significant progress in his plan to infuse federal courts with a new cadre of judges, and liberal activists are beginning to blame his administration for moving too tentatively on what they consider a key priority.
Interesting, right? Liberal activists are really upset with the Obama White House because it's moving too slowly in filling vacancies on the federal bench. Well, that would be interesting if the Post could find any truth to the premise. It can't, but that doesn't stop Micheal Fletcher from typing it up anyway.
In truth, so few judges have been confirmed because, as the Post concedes, Republicans are placing holds on the nominations and doing everything they can to block the confirmation process. To most readers, that would seem to be the story. But the Post wants to spotlight those supposed angry "liberal activists" who are annoyed with Obama re: judges. The problem is, the Post can't find any to quote.
In the entire article, the Post does not include a single quote from any "liberal activists" who "are beginning to blame," or who have "criticized," the White House for "moving too tentatively" of judges, or anything remotely like that. The Post just invented that news angle, even though it couldn't substantiate it.
Here's The New Republic's Jonathan Chait:
In my field, we have something called the National Magazine Awards. Magazine writers tend to be both obsessed with who wins and convinced the process is a pathetic joke. This isn't just sour grapes, either. The last time The New Republic won a National Magazine Award, it was for publishing Betsy McCaughey's infamous anti-Clintoncare screed "No Exit," which is probably the worst article in the history of TNR. It's as if the last American to win the Nobel Peace Prize was Timothy McVeigh.
Which, of course, raises the question of why TNR hasn't given back the award -- and why its editor claims the magazine has "recanted" and "apologized" for "No Exit," even though it has done nothing of the kind.
In recent days, Glenn Beck has turned his neo-McCarthyite crusade against communism and "czars" against Anita Dunn after Dunn said of Fox News: "As they are undertaking a war against Barack Obama and the White House, we don't need to pretend that this is the way that legitimate news organizations behave." Beck devoted most of his October 15 Fox News show to claiming that Dunn "worships" and "idolizes" "her hero" Mao Zedong. Dunn had once commented that Mao and Mother Teresa were two of her "favorite political philosophers."
Of course, Beck excels at turning molehills into mountains of misinformation. If Beck were to actually turn his specious spotlight on conservatives who have cited or praised influential communist figures, he would have at least a week's worth of shows. That list includes fellow Fox News friend Newt Gingrich; former Christian Coalition director Ralph Reed; Stephen Shadegg, adviser and "alter ego" of Sen. Barry Goldwater (Beck has repeatedly called on Republicans to "get back to the conservative roots of Barry Goldwater"); Peter Germanis, who served as a senior policy analyst in the Reagan administration; and even President Bush, who encouraged Karl Rove to read a Mao biography and whose Social Security reform strategy was reportedly influenced by Lenin.
Beck's crack research staff could fill in the details and no doubt find even more tenuous communist connections among conservatives. But there's one conservative that would provide Beck with endless material if his anti-communist witch hunt was actually anything more than a shtick to smear the Obama administration and play to his conservative base.
Grover Norquist.
In Blinded by the Right, Media Matters founder David Brock wrote of the Americans for Tax Reform president:
There was nothing traditionally conservative in Grover's approach. As I conformed myself to the movement, I was being inculcated into a radical cult that bore none of the positive attributes of classical conservatism-a sense of limits, fair play, Tory civility, and respect for individual freedom. On the contrary, Grover admired the iron dedication of Lenin, whose dictum "Probe with bayonets, looking for weakness" he often quoted, and whose majestic portrait hung in Grover's Washington living room. Grover kept a pet boa constrictor, named after the turn-of-the-century anarchist Lysander Spooner. He fed the snake mice, all of them named David Bonior, the outspoken liberal House whip.
It's not hard to imagine the weeks of mock outrage that would ensue if Beck -- or Hannity -- discovered that a prominent progressive had -- or had ever had -- a portrait of Lenin hanging in his Washington living room.
Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov! In his living room!
But not only did Norquist entertain guests under a portrait of the first head of state of the Soviet Union, he also studied the writings of Antonio Gramsci, the most famous Italian Communist, best known for his concept of cultural hegemony.
From Blinded:
Despite his promise as an academic, Gramsci became active in the Socialist Party and launched a career as a fierce pamphleteer, making himself a voice to be reckoned with throughout Italian political circles. Inspired by the Bolshevik Revolution in October 1917, Gramsci sided with the Communist minority within the Socialist Party and built up the Italian Communist Party at the dawn of the Italian fascist movement. After serving as Italy's delegate in Moscow to the communist International, he was elected general secretary of the Communist Party in Italy. Soon thereafter, Gramsci was arrested by the government in Rome and spent ten years in prison producing his most influential revolutionary writings, in the form of notebooks and letters, before dying of a cerebral hemorrhage in 1937. Two decades later, his writings were studied carefully by the radical left throughout the world, particularly by leaders of revolutionary movements in the Third World -- and by the anti-Communist Grover Norquist.
Gramsci's concept of cultural hegemony was sprung out of his quest to understand why the working classes weren't more willing to rise up and overthrow the ruling classes. Gramsci posited that culture must be investigated to see what norms contributed to reinforcing (or dismantling) of the larger social structure.
Given his populist framing of his anti-tax group and its efforts, Norquist seems to understand what Gramsci was getting at, albeit with a much different goal.
And given Beck's populist framing of his own partisan attacks against progressives and progressive causes, he also seems to grasp what Gramsci was getting at.
(Uh-oh. Better not let Beck find out.)
From Greg Sargent's The Plum Line blog:
Castellanos' Firm Also Has Contract With U.S. Chamber Of Commerce
One of Castellanos' firms, as you know, was the ad buyer behind a major insurance industry TV campaign against health care reform. His firm also has raked in nearly $500,000 from the Republican National Committee, which enlisted him to craft anti-reform talking points.
Here's one more interesting data point: Another one of his firms, Purple Strategies, also has a contract with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, one of the most determined and well-funded foes of Obama's governing agenda.
J.P. Fielder, the Chamber's spokesperson, confirms that Castellanos' firm is doing the advertising on the Chamber's ongoing multi-million-dollar campaign hailing the virtues of the free-market system - which has the specific goals of derailing Obama's climate change and health care reform initiatives.
To be clear, there's nothing necessarily amiss here, and I wanted to take this occasion to clarify something. The reason we're digging into Castellanos is not because of Castellanos per se, but because his case tells a larger story about how Washington works. You hear a lot about the revolving door between government and lobbying. But there's another, less-remarked-on revolving door: One between consulting and commentary.
Sargent: CNN Admits That On-Air Commentator Worked For Insurance Industry, Promises Full Disclosure
CNN's Castellanos' firm is ad buyer for AHIP's anti-health care ad blitz
Just a few short weeks ago, Glenn Beck was voicing his concern about the potential effects Rev. Jeremiah Wright's sermonizing might be having on President Obama's policy toward Israel. Remember, Beck believes that the president is a racist who hates white people, so don't be surprised that Rev. Wright is still a hot topic of discussion on his program. Anyway, Beck asked former United Nations ambassador John Bolton: "Do you think it's possible to sit in the church with somebody who is as anti-Semitic as Jeremiah Wright is and not come away with an anti-Semitic view?" Beck went on to allow that Obama's Israel policy "may not be anti-Semitic," but the implication was clear -- Obama's thinking was influenced by Wright, and is therefore suspect. Beck clearly thinks the views and opinions of a person's mentors, if that's the proper word, are tremendously important when understanding the view and opinions of that person. So perhaps we should be taking a closer look at Beck's own "mentors."
Beck's affinity for the writings and theology of ultra-conservative activist W. Cleon Skousen is well-documented. Skousen's book, The 5,000-Year Leap, is at the center of Beck's 9-12 Project, and Beck called the book "divinely inspired" in the foreword he wrote for the 30th anniversary edition. But much of what Skousen wrote has been forgotten or never progressed far beyond the obscure fringes that Skousen himself inhabited. We've already explored Skousen's unique take on "the story of slavery in America," wherein slave owners were "the worst victims" of slavery, white children "envy the freedom" of slave children, and life in the antebellum South was a "nightmare" of fear for "white civilization." But a mind as fertile as Skousen's couldn't be limited simply to sympathizing with the owners of human chattel.
Take, for instance, Skousen's 1970 book, The Naked Capitalist. It's ostensibly a review of Dr. Carroll Quigley's Tragedy and Hope, and in it Skousen declares that Quigley is an "insider" in a grand "power complex" that will "eventually attain total global control." Skousen gets right to the meat of things on Page 6:
The real value of Tragedy and Hope is not so much as a "history of the world in our time" (as its subtitle suggests), but rather as a bold and boastful admission by Dr. Quigley that there actually exists a relatively small but powerful group which has succeeded in acquiring a choke-hold on the affairs of practically the entire human race.
This is what is known as New World Order conspiracy theorism -- the idea that the affairs of the entire globe are secretly controlled by a small group of extremely wealthy (and usually Jewish, though Skousen didn't seem to buy into that) cabal of individuals who are either Freemasons or Illuminati or Stonecutters or whatever. Of course, Skousen throws his own flourishes in, linking everything to the great communist conspiracy and the apocalypse as predicted by Revelations. Skousen continued on Page 6: "Anyone familiar with the writings of John's Apocalypse might have suspected that modern history would eventually contain the account of a gigantic complex of political and economic power which would cover the while earth." Put bluntly, the whole thing is stonking crazy.
But The Naked Capitalist is also completely dishonest. At least, that's the opinion of Dr. Carroll Quigley, who would be something of an authority on this issue. As Salon's Alexander Zaitchik noted in his handy-dandy Skousen round-up, a 1971 issue of Dialogue: The Journal of Mormon Thought contained Quigley's analysis of The Naked Capitalist, and, as Zaitchik wrote, his "judgment was not kind." Quigley accused Skousen of "inventing fantastic ideas and making inferences that go far beyond the bounds of honest commentary." According to Zaitchik, Quigley actually intended Tragedy and Hope to be a critique of far-right conspiracy cranks like Skousen. But as is the case with most conspiracy theorists, Skousen twisted the evidence before him into something that approximated his own worldview, and then proudly declared his own vindication.
If this sounds familiar, it should -- this is pretty much exactly what Beck does. It's the sort of fevered narcissism that compels Beck to cast himself as the embattled voice for truth who braves death to reluctantly do the job of complacent or complicit journalists who just won't connect the dots between the fascist artwork in Rockefeller Center and the president's speech to schoolchildren. If there's a difference between Skousen and Beck, it's that Beck at least sometimes acknowledges that he sounds like a lunatic as he tumbles down various rabbit holes.
Books like The Making of America and The Naked Capitalist elegantly demonstrate why Skousen never achieved much notoriety as a scholar -- his ideas were too whacked out even for hardcore conservatives. But he's enjoying a bit of a resurgence now as the gravitational center of the Glenn Beck universe.
Given Glenn Beck's specious attacks on Anita Dunn's statements on Mao Zedong, it seems noteworthy that in his 2003 book, The Real America, Beck wrote: "I wish I were the president, just for the 747 and the cabinent I could assemble. I would have the best minds that I could find with a special eye out for those people who would vehemently disagree with each other." He then explains that since he's not president, he did "the next best thing." He gathered books that presumably represent those "best minds."
Among them? Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf.
Beck said he'd love to take lawyer Alan Dershowitz and "put him in a room with ... Adolf Hitler." Beck adds: "I'd love to see those guys go at it."
From The Real America, pp. 210-211:
Why I Am a Mormon
Growing up Catholic in my family, there were questions you don't ask because "the devil is making you question this" or you'd get my favorite answer: "It's a mystery." Now in my thirties, I realized that I really didn't know God at all on a personal level. I only believed in God because someone told me He existed. And I was no longer afraid of questioning.
I wish I were the president, just for the 747 and the cabinet I could assemble. I would have the best minds that I could find with a special eye out for those people who would vehemently disagree with each other. I'd let them argue it out and just listen. Well, I'm not the president so the jet doesn't take off when I tell it to and I can't hire great minds to argue.
So, I did the next best thing, I drove to the bookstore. Here is who I put on my "book cabinet": I got Alan Dershowitz. He's opinionated, obnoxious and at times-when he's not talking about the OJ Simpson case-he makes a good point. Let's see, let's put him in a room with... Adolf Hitler. I'd love to see those guys go at it. So next: Hitler's Mein Kampf. The something by Pope John Paul, along with Carl Sagan. I looked really hard, who else would I like to see in a room together? Hey, how about Nietzsche and Billy Graham? Yeah!
I thought it all made sense and was cool until I got to the checkout counter. I will never forget the look on the woman's face or her comments as she scanned the bar codes "Oh! Alan Dershowitz! That's a great book (Boop!) Okay, Pope John Paul (boop!)... and Nietzsche... interesting. (Boop!)... Adolf Hitler... Uh...(boop!) Thank you!"
As I saw the freakish collection of titles pass through this woman's hands I realized I was assembling the library of a serial killer! This is what Hannibal Lecter reads. I began to imagine that the FBI databanks were being alerted as to my location. "Oh, one more thing, do you have a copy of The Catcher in the Rye?"
Meanwhile, my quiet little friend Pat was still saying, "Glenn, if you're looking for answers I have some for you."
"No thanks, Pat! You Mormons are freaks!"
Really? Which sick freak is reading Mein Kampf?
First to speak on my book council was Carl Sagan, who's an atheist. He took organized religion apart, and did it very well. He talked about the power and the manipulation and the greed, and I said to myself, "Now, there's a point of view I've never really considered. I've never considered atheism. Maybe there is no God. Maybe I'll try this on." That's the kind of world I live in. I try things on. I immerse myself in things, then pick them apart from the inside.
So I tried on atheism. I said to God, "I don't know if you exist. I do know, however, that if you were really our 'Father in Heaven' that you would leave breadcrumbs for your children to find their way back. Why would you erase your tracks. If you exist, I will find you, because you would want me to find you."
My path, my spiritual journey ended up taking me to Yale. There were too many questions that I couldn't figure out without some kind of structured study.
Yet another column on the Fox News feud, and yet another (zzzz) Beltway pundit insisting it was a very, very bad thing for the White House to label the channel a propaganda arm of the GOP. (Doesn't the White House know Democrats are never allowed to push back on the press?)
USA Today's Chuck Raasch, offering up his tsk-tsk appraisal of the situation, deftly repeats what's already been said many, many times for the last week, which, of course, means Raasch never even hints that Fox News routinely traffics in blatant lies and misinformation. But Raasch actually breaks new ground when he claims the White House attacked Fox News' viewers, which is a shockingly dumb reading of the recent dust-up.
Here's Raasch [emphasis added]:
Attacking whole segments of the population belies Obama's promise of bringing people together.
And again:
There is still a thing called presidential decorum. Sending out a taxpayer-paid partisan to attack a network, and by extension, its viewers, is not presidential.
Set aside the idiocy of suggesting administrations aren't allowed to criticize unfair press, and that Democratic administrations are simply supposed to roll over and allow Fox News air as many lies has possible without ever hearing a peep of protest. More importantly though is this: Where, exactly, is Raasch's proof that Obama or anyone else at the White ever, ever, ever attacked Fox News viewers; that anyone attacked "whole segments of the population" when it recently criticized the purposeful misinformation produced by Fox News?
If the Obama White House wanted, for whatever foolish reason, to attack Fox News viewers, they would have. But the White House didn't, so why did Raasch concoct the claim that it did? Why is Raasch criticizing Obama for doing something he never did?
From an October 16 Washington Times editorial:
Fifty-three Republican congressmen yesterday demanded that President Obama fire his embattled "safe schools czar," Kevin Jennings. Mr. Jennings' bizarre sexual agenda for American grade schools is one reason the president should dump this dangerous radical.
Mr. Jennings wrote the foreword to a 1998 book titled, "Queering Elementary Education." The book he endorsed was a collection of essays by different authors who supported teaching young children about homosexuality. Mr. Jennings' foreword explains why he thinks it is important to start educating children about homosexuality as early as activist-educators can get away with doing so. "Ask any elementary-school teachers you know and - if they're honest - they'll tell you they start hearing [anti-homosexual prejudice] as soon as kindergarten." And "As one third-grader put it plainly when asked by her teacher what 'gay' meant: 'I don't know. It's just a bad thing.' "
As another author in the book notes: "Any grade is 'old' enough [for the proper education] because even five-year-olds are calling each other 'gay' and 'faggot.' " Other writers claim there apparently is no problem getting into these discussions because, "The belief that children are not sexual beings is not substantiated by research."
The authors of "Queering Elementary Education" don't seem to be bothered by the dearth of evidence to justify their position in favor of teaching children about homosexual relationships. Because they do not provide the names of teachers who told various anecdotes included in the book, there's no way to check how many of the stories are secondhand exaggerations or even pure fiction.
One author in the book attacks the conservative notion that "artificial insemination, transient relationships, same-sex marriages and tangled family structures are not issues children should have to know about." Others contributors advocate that "sexual-diversity issues are central to multicultural education" and that schoolchildren should sing songs such as "In some families we have two Moms." Mind you, the authors don't provide scientific evidence that their policies accomplish the strange goals they push.
"Queering Elementary Education" argues consistently that children should be taught that same-sex-parent families are as normal and common as the traditional two-parent family or single-parent families. But it is one thing to argue certain behavior is acceptable; it is quite another to distort basic facts in an effort to change the worldview of children.
Mr. Jennings is one who claims that homosexual couples are more common than they actually are. One of his books titled "One Teacher in Ten" claims that 10 percent of people are homosexuals. Almost no one defends the old Alfred Kinsey survey that Mr. Jennings relied on to make this claim. That 1948 survey interviewed a high percentage of prison inmates and known sex offenders. There's plenty of more objective studies out there. For example, the National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago found that the number of homosexuals in America was less than 1 percent.
Advocating the indoctrination of kindergarten children based on anecdotal evidence or flawed science isn't Mr. Jennings' worst offense. But it's certainly not what Americans expect from a White House "safe schools czar" who is responsible for making policy decisions that impact children's safety.
Yet another falsehood-based smear of Jennings on Hannity: Jennings "indoctrinat[ing]" kids about homosexuality
Hannity and "Great American" panelists fearmonger about Jennings "indoctrinating" children, "promoting homosexuality"
Smears of "sick and immoral" "pervert" Jennings: the worst of the worst


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When you think back to good rabbis you've known (or to bad ones), you're probably less likely to recall their command of the liturgy—they all know that— and more the personal touches they put on their dealings with you, whether at a family bar mitzvah or even a family funeral. They don't teach that stuff in Rabbi School, though. Except now, reports the New York Times, they do. Yeshiva University's seminary gets actors to come in and play the roles of congregants in need of special ministering: bereaved children, depressed folks, that sort of thing. The students, in turn, gain some experience of this unsung but nonetheless crucial aspect of being a rabbi. Of one student, the reporter writes: "The lessons he learned from the simulation, he said, were these: People may not believe you when you tell them. It may take a long time for them to absorb the shock. And after that, it only gets worse." All the more reason for congregants to be able to turn to a rabbi with some practice.
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As for Pancho, well, let's face it, he probably wouldn't have reached 140 with anything, at least not with that old motion of his. As you may well know percentage was big back in Pancho's heyday, and his motion and mindset reflected that. (In fact I've seen it mentioned that Pancho's regular 1st serves were more like Pete's best second serves!)
I've seen one match of Pancho's(his 112 game match, a 2224 16 1614 63 119 win over Pasarell at '69 Wimbledon) & in terms of power his serve doesn't seem anywhere near the league of Newcombe, Ashe or even Laver.
But as you said his goals on serve weren't to hit aces etc, but to get a high % in(he made 33 straight 1st serves at one point & served at 84% in the last 2 sets....I can only recall Wilander, Borg or Nadal getting those kinds of numbers so late in a match)
I can see why he had such legendary stamina, since he paced himself so well on serve. And backed it up so well with great volleys & overheads(think he hit more overheads in this one match than any player today hits in months)
Only lost serve 3 times, one in the 1st, twice in the 2nd(& it seemed like he basically tanked the 2nd set since he was infuriated by the decision to not stop play after the 1st set. Light was pretty bad at that point)
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PRINCETON, N.J., June 14, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Household relationships, gender preferences and population penetration aren't exclusive to the U.S. Census – new findings released today as part of the Trojan® U.S. SEX CENSUS uncovers that the sexual habits of our nation are just as multiplied and diverse as the population. On a national level, the survey finds that the average American (18 and over) has sex 120 times a year (2.3 times per week), and reports very high levels of sexual satisfaction (76 percent satisfied). Despite the high findings, sixty-three percent of respondents still wish they were having sex more frequently.
The geography of American sexuality points to a decidedly northeasterly trend in sexual frequency. Indeed people in the Northeast report having more sex than any other U.S. region, averaging 130 times per year (2.5 times per week), compared to the Midwest (125 times per year / 2.4 times per week), West (120 times per year / 2.3 times per week) and South (114 times per year / 2.1 times per week). When it comes to practicing safe sex, Northeasterners (43 percent) are more likely to report using a condom during sexual activity.
"As we saw with the Indiana University's National Survey of Sexual Health and Behavior, there is enormous variability that exists in the sexual repertoires of U.S. adults," said Michael Reece, Ph.D., Director of the Center for Sexual Health Promotion at Indiana University. "The Sex Census adds to our understanding of sexual behavior across different parts of the country, having probed deep into the sexual landscape, reinforcing that Americans demonstrate a high comfort level in exploring with and learning from their partners."
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Regulators sue JBS, National Beef over deal
Sen. Herb Kohl, D-Wis., chairman of the Senate Antitrust Committee said in a statement that he would have preferred that the Smithfield portion of the deal be blocked as well, but he was glad part of it was. Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, chairman of the Senate Agriculture Committee, applauded the move but said he remained "concerned over the impacts of JBS's acquisition of Smithfield's beef division on independent cattle producers."
States involved in the suit are from the central part of the U.S. and the west and have strong meatpacking ties. They include Colorado, Kansas, Missouri, Ohio, Wyoming, Minnesota and Texas.
R-CALF United Stockgrowers of America, which represents independent cattle producers, hailed the lawsuit as a way to protect the industry from the types of consolidation seen in the poultry and hog industries.
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Two years ago, I coined the term ""ARR Ratio". The ARR Ratio (Adopting Release to Rule Ratio) is calculated by dividing the total number of words in the Adopting Release by the total number of words in the actual text of the rule being adopted. For example, I calculated the ARR Ratio of the SEC's Compensation Committee Rule to be 14.44. The ARR Ratio illustrates that it took the SEC more than 14 times as many words to explain the rule as it did to actually state the rule.
The really important question is what is the legal effect, if any, of preambles to rules? One might argue that since a preamble is not subject to notice and comment, it is not legally binding under the Administrative Procedure Act (5 U.S.C. § 551 et seq.). However, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals held earlier this week that an administrative law judge could consider the regulatory preamble. Peabody Coal Co. v. Dir., Office of Workers' Comp. Programs, 2014 U.S. App. LEXIS 5996 (9th Cir. Apr. 1, 2014). In reaching this conclusion, the Ninth Circuit distinguished the U.S. Supreme Court's holding in Wyeth v. Levine, 555 U.S. 555, 129 S. Ct. 1187, 173 L. Ed. 2d 51 (2009) on the basis that the preamble in that case involved a legal interpretation rather than an explanation of the scientific and medical basis for the rules. The Ninth Circuit also distinguished a holding by the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals in Home Concrete & Supply, LLC v. United States, 634 F.3d 249 (4th Cir. 2011) on the basis that the preamble at issue in that case contradicted "plain statutory language".
What the Ninth Circuit seems to be saying is that preambles don't merit deference if they constitute legal interpretations (Wyeth) or contradict a statute (Home Concrete) but they can be considered as background information by an administrative law judge. Regardless of these legal distinctions and the Administrative Procedure Act, I expect that the SEC will continue to cite and rely on its statements in adopting releases.
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Jeffery Amherst Amherst, Baron (ăm´ərst), 1717–97, British army officer. He served in the War of the Austrian Succession and in the early part of the Seven Years War. In 1758 he was sent to America as a major general to lead the Louisburg campaign in the last of the French and Indian Wars. The capture (1758) of the French fortress gave Britain her first important victory in the war, and Amherst replaced James Abercromby as supreme commander in America. The next year (1759), pushing northward from Albany, he took Crown Point and Ticonderoga, but he arrived too late to help General Wolfe take Quebec. He directed (1760) the capture of Montreal and returned (1763) to England. In the American Revolution, Amherst refused to command British troops in New England, but in 1778 he became commander in chief of home defenses. Amherst, for whom Amherst and Amherst College is named, was created baron in 1776 and was made a field marshal in 1796.
See his journal (ed. by J. C. Webster, 1931); biography by J. C. Long (1933).
Jeffery Amherst: Selected full-text books and articles
J. C. Long.
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William R. Nester.
Praeger Publishers, 2000
Francis Parkman.
University of Nebraska Press, vol.2, 1994
Francis Parkman.
University of Nebraska Press, vol.1, 1994
Piers Mackesy.
University of Nebraska Press, 1993
William R. Nester.
Praeger Publishers, 2000
Alfred A. Cave.
Greenwood Press, 2004
Joseph Lister Rutledge.
Doubleday, 1956
Middleton, Richard.
Michigan Historical Review, Vol. 32, No. 2, Fall 2006
James S. Olson; Robert S. Shadle.
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