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DUBAI The telecom network MTC yesterday launched the BlackBerry in Kuwait, citing the country's economic boom, to deliver a suite of applications for its customers in 20 countries, and following a new agreement it forged with Emitac Mobile Solutions (EMS).
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It was an unremarkable January day, with a steady stream of lobbyists among the thousands of daily visitors to the White House and the surrounding executive office buildings, according to a Washington Post analysis of visitor logs released by the administration. The Post matched visits with lobbying registrations and connected records in the visitor database to show who participated in the meetings, information now available in a search engine on the Post's web site.
The visitor logs for January 17 — one of the most recent days available — show that the lobbying industry Obama has vowed to constrain is a regular presence at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. The records also suggest that lobbyists with personal connections to the White House enjoy the easiest access.
More than any president before him, Obama pledged to change the political culture that has fueled the influence of lobbyists. He barred recent lobbyists from joining his administration and banned them from advisory boards throughout the executive branch. The president went so far as to forbid what had been staples of political interaction — federal employees could no longer accept free admission to receptions and conferences sponsored by lobbying groups. "A lot of folks," Obama said last month, "see the amounts of money that are being spent and the special interests that dominate and the lobbyists that always have access, and they say to themselves, maybe I don't count."
The White House visitor records make it clear that Obama's senior officials are granting that access to some of K Street's most influential representatives. In many cases, those lobbyists have long-standing connections to the president or his aides. Republican lobbyists coming to visit are rare, while Democratic lobbyists are common, whether they are representing corporate clients or liberal causes.
Lobbyist Marshal Matz, for example, who served as an unpaid adviser to Obama's 2008 campaign, has been to the White House roughly two dozen times in the past 21 / 2 years. He has brought along the general counsel for the Biotechnology Industry Organization, the chief executive of cereal maker General Mills and pro bono clients, including advocates for farmers in Africa.
In April 2011, Matz came to the Old Executive Office Building with the owner of Beef Products Inc. to meet with Robin Schepper, a woman he has known for years who heads Michelle Obama's anti-obesity campaign. The company owner argued that one of his products should be promoted for school lunches, according to two participants in the meeting.
Matz, like most of the lobbyists contacted for comment, declined to be interviewed. But Howard Hedstrom, a Minnesota sawmill owner and president of the Federal Forest Resource Coalition that hired Matz, said: "I appreciate Marshall's ability to have access. . . . He opened the door, but basically the conversation was carried by those of us who know the issues."
White House spokesman Eric Schultz referred in a statement to Obama's "unparalleled commitment to reforming Washington" and noted that this is the first administration to release the visitor records. "The people selected for this article are registered lobbyists, but this article excludes the thousands of people who visit the White House every week for meetings and events who are not," he said. "Our goal has been to reduce the influence of special interests in Washington — which we've done more than any Administration in history."
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I have worn this ring day and night for a week. It's comfortable, well-finished and the bamboo coral looks alive. It has slight veins that give the stone character. I'm pleased with the investment.
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I did not hesitate to order this ring the first time I saw it on tv because I have other pieces from this line and they are exquisite, just like this piece. Very detailed and well made and its natural gemstones. The coral is gorgeous and just the right size on the hand. This looks like something you brought back from Italy. Just stunning!!!!
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This ring was packaged very well with much care and attention. If you want a fine and beautiful ring that looks very delicate on the hand, this is the piece of jewellery for you. The silver and the stonework is marvellous and the gem is completely natural.


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By Hend Hassassi | Feb 18 2012American Studied Center Mobile Records ,Ashraf Aouadi ,I Watch Tunisia ,National Democratic Institute
The Tunisian people spoke loud and clear in poll results released today by Tunisian think tank I Watch: the economy must take precedence for Tunisian politicians.
In spite of all the media attention concerning Islam and the "Arab-Muslim identity," the numbers show that Tunisians are far more concerned with making ends meet. In response to the question "What is your main priority today," 40% answered "the economy" while only 18% said "national identity."
Neither do Tunisians appear particularly concerned by the process of writing the country's new constitution. Far more respondents chose "security" as their priority (31%) over "the constitution" (11%).
The results were communicated by the I Watch organization at a press conference today in Tunis entitled, "The Perceptions of Transition in Tunisia." It is considered to be the largest poll carried out in the history of Tunisia.
It is a poll that tries to follow the evolution of public opinion, said Ashraf Aouadi, founder of I Watch Tunisia.
The poll, conducted via text message, gathered the opinions of more than 15,000 Tunisians in 24 governorates. Participants answered a series of questions about their expectations concerning the constitution, their priorities, their concerns, their favorite political party, and their approval of Prime Minister Hamadi Jebali, President Moncef Marzouki, and President of Constituent Assembly Mustapha Ben Jaafar.
Perhaps surprisingly in light of his recent faux pas and a stream of mockery and criticism on Tunisian social media, President Marzouki continued to be the most popular politician in the country, with his approval rating increasing by a point to 69%.
However, the poll results date to January, before Marzouki made the public flub of sending away a Syrian ambassador who was in fact no longer in the country.
We expect more changes for February, because the government has been taking decisions that are likely to influence public opinion," asserted Aouadi.
Prime Minister Jebali's approval rating stands at 48%, up 8 percentage points from December, mostly coming from undecided voters, while Ben Jaafar's is at 49%, up two.
Support for Ennahda continues to see its popularity increase vis-à -vis the other parties, reaching 56%. Conversely, CPR's popularity has fallen to 22%, Ettakatol's to 8%, and Aridha Chaabia's to 5%. The PDP, battered in October's elections, has enjoyed a modest rise in the polls, arriving at 9%.
Cynicism seems to have set in for a large portion of Tunisia's population regarding the Constituent Assembly elected last year to draft the country's constitution. A little less than half (49%) of participants expected that members of the body will represent the people's interests, while the rest believed they will either do what their party tells them (35%) or will serve their own individual interests (17 %).
As to the process of writing the constitution itself, opinion was also divided, with 44% "satisfied," 15% "somewhat satisfied," 11% "not satisfied," and 20% "not sure."
When asked about Tunisia's impact in terms of foreign policy, 33% responded that it has been "positive," 42% said "mixed," 14% said "negative," and 11% said they didn't know.
The poll was conducted in cooperation with the National Democratic Institute and the American Studies Center Mobile Records, which prepared the results.


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Finding Grace in a Cemetery
Eventually she stood and wiped her tear-stained cheeks. Soon I'd be standing in the Rainbow Bakery, waiting for her to select her own dozen pastries–prune Danish and fig squares–so that I could point out the exact cookie I wanted. Back in Uncle Rum's car, I'd bite into its thick sweetness, feel the grainy sugar on my tongue.
Outside my window, the familiar streets of my childhood passed slowly by. Down Providence Street and the little white school where my brother and I, my mother and her nine siblings, and even Mama Rose herself had gone. Up Prospect Hill, with its dilapidated, rundown houses at the bottom slowly giving way to the houses built by the immigrants, like Mama Rose's parents. They had stone walls and lush gardens; grapevines, fig trees, tomato plants spiraled upward on high stakes. Women bustled down the street, their kerchiefed heads bent. Men in sleeveless T-shirts chomped on stogies. Children played. This was life. This was home. As soon as Uncle Rum parked the car, I burst from it, crumbs on my jacket and face, as if I could run from what I'd just seen.
There was a cemetery in the woods behind our house. In this small square bordered by a stone wall, the graves were marked with half-buried, jagged, broken stones. The carving was faded. Beer bottles and cigarette butts littered the area. This cemetery didn't seem like the ones where Mama Rose took me. The people here had died 100 years ago or more. They were strangers, their names exotic: Jeremiah, Prudence, Isaiah, Abigail. Unlike the Debbies and Kathys and Susans who filled my life, these people were from another era, another world.
My brother Skip and I went there to play. On our way, we had to cut through part of a golf course, and Skip often got sidetracked finding stray balls that he could resell to golfers. But I liked to sit in the cemetery and make up stories about its inhabitants. I populated my stories with infant children lost in epidemics, fathers lost at sea, mothers dead in childbirth. These characters loved passionately and died heroically. If I remembered to bring a trash bag, I picked up all the litter and scraped the dirt from the tombstones, tidying. You like it so much here, I'm going to bury you here when you die, Skip would tease me, his pockets bulging with golf balls. No, I'm going to bury you here! I'd yell back.
In 1982, at the age of 30, Skip died in a household accident. Years before, he had converted to Judaism to marry his Jewish girlfriend. In the shock after his death, forced to find a grave for him, my parents settled on a Jewish cemetery nearby with the help of his by then ex-father-in-law. I didn't think it was suitable for my agnostic brother, but those cemeteries of my youth lay along roads tangled by years and memory. The old one in the woods was probably gone, mowed down by developers who had built new houses in those woods. So on a hot July morning, we buried my brother right off Route 95, across the street from one of our favorite restaurants, Greg's. Planes were taking off and landing at the airport down Post Road. None of it seemed right–mostly that my vibrant, funny brother was dead. Does your face hurt? he'd ask me when we were kids. Because it's killing me! Once he had calculated how old we'd each be in the year 2000. You'll be 49, you'll be 49, I'd chanted over and over, an unthinkable age. Old.
My mother went to that cemetery daily. After Mama Rose's death, she had taken over the role of gravekeeper. I was never sure how diligently she tended those graves; I didn't want or need to know. From time to time she'd mention that she'd been to the cemeteries and that she felt better for having gone. With my brother's death, she became vigilant in the care of his grave.
That cemetery sits so close to the exit off the highway for so many things we do weekly: discount stores, Greg's, plane trips. Each time we drive past it, even now, my mother cranes her neck to find Skip's grave among the countless ones there. As for me, I never went back after the funeral. Perhaps it was all those Sunday trips to cemeteries with Mama Rose that had turned me away from the idea that visiting graves brings us closer to our loved ones. Perhaps it was a cynicism that took root in me after my brother died. I can't say for sure. But even when my father died in 1997 and we buried him in the veterans' cemetery, I didn't visit his grave. Once, on a gray afternoon when my missing him grabbed hold of me and wouldn't let go, I drove there. I stared at his name on the headstone and tried to feel something: better or different. But I felt only the sadness I'd felt since he'd died.
When the unthinkable happened five years later and my own 5-year-old daughter, Grace, died suddenly from a virulent form of strep, I was thrown into the world of cemeteries and funeral parlors, forced to make decisions while my feet dragged across a kitchen floor still covered in glitter from an art project she'd done less than 48 hours earlier. My husband and I had to choose a casket, a cemetery, a gravesite. Can you do this? I asked him. Not only could he do it, but by doing it he took some form of solace. He could help our child in these final parental decisions. I could not. Looking back, I suppose I could pretend it wasn't real if I didn't have to choose the small white coffin, or tour the cemetery in search of the best spot to leave my daughter. My husband's ability to do these things, and to do them well and with love, remains one of the bravest things I've ever witnessed.
Swan Point Cemetery here in Providence is beautiful. That first spring when I moved here from New York City, Lorne and I would stroll its curving paths, beneath pink dogwood blossoms, and read the names on the older stones, choosing which ones we liked for our own, unborn children. A picture of me from that spring sits on a bookshelf in our home: The blossoms are dazzling, and I see in my own eyes the hope and optimism of new love, of a future that seems bright and happy.
Lorne took our children, Sam and Grace, bike riding in Swan Point. He pointed out all the graves of the dignitaries buried there, governors and writers and historic figures. Sometimes they played hide-and-seek among the majestic stones. On another, later, spring day, he drove me down the winding roads, pointing to a spot on a hill, another nestled in trees. Through his tears, he talked about the beauty and virtue of each. Whatever you want, I said, because in that moment there was no perfect spot for Grace except back home with us, where she belonged.


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We are cracking on with our theme of memory enhancement, today is a gentle process and rather ambiguous one, there is little technique other than allowing your mind to create change in your own perception of yourself and belief in your memory and I have had a lot of anecdotal and subjective reports of the success with this technique in advancing our memory and recall.
This technique has no real strategy other than enhancing belief and sensation that the brain is developing its memory, which in turn affects your behaviour, thoughts and attitude. When you believe in your memory, it is very likely it'll work more effectively.
Six Steps To Penetrate Your Brain And Advance Your Memory With Self-Hypnosis
Step One: Induce Hypnosis. You can do so by any means you desire or know of. You can use the process in my self-hypnosis book, use the free audio at this website to practice or have a look at the following articles as and when you need them; they are basic processes to help you simply open the door of your mind:
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Once you have induced hypnosis, move on to step two.
Step Two: Imagine yourself in a place in nature. It can be a favourite place, or a place you create, a place you imagine or someone you have actually been to. Engage with this place by noticing the sounds; those that are near and far, sounds from yourself too. Notice the sights, the colours, the details, the shades of light and enjoy feeling safe, secure and at peace in this place.
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Step Three: Now imagine a coloured beam of light coming from the sky. Perhaps from beyond the clouds, or from beyond the sky, notice it emerging from way beyond your furthest level of perception. Let the light be a colour that you associate with memory enhancement and a healthy mind. It is a beam of light that moves closer and closer towards you and it is unusual to notice such a thing happening. This is hypnotic time you are in and so you watch the beam of light travelling toward you.
Observe the light and get a real sense of it as it beams all the way to your forehead. As you imagine it getting closer to your forehead, notice the sensation as you anticipate it arriving and touching your forehead.
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As this happens, continue to tell yourself that you are going deeper, and then when you have developed a notable sensation of some kind, move on to the next step.
Step Four: Spend some time now imagining the light is improving blood flow to the brain. You can feel oxygen enriched blood moving through, if you focus deeply, you may even detect its sound and movement.
As that happens, imagine the circulation speeding up in the brain and all those connections in the brain becoming more efficient and effective in all the right ways that get your brain improving the memory function.
Tune in and really let happen whatever you imagine needs to happen for you to believe your memory and brain functioning is improving. Interpret this in your own creative way and enjoy the process.
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A SENSOR embedded in a tooth could one day tell doctors when people have defied medical advice to give up smoking or eat less.
Built into a tiny circuit board that fits in a tooth cavity, the sensor includes an accelerometer that sends data on mouth motion to a smartphone. Machine learning software is taught to recognise each telltale jaw motion pattern – then works out how much of the time someone is chewing, drinking, speaking, coughing or smoking.
The inventors – Hao-hua Chu and colleagues at National Taiwan University in Taipei – want to use the mouth as a window on a variety of health issues. The device can be fitted into dentures or a dental brace, and the team plan to miniaturise the device to fit in a cavity or crown. The researchers say the sensor shows great promise: in tests on eight people with a prototype implant ...
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Rutherford Ranch Winery Description
Rutherford Ranch was started in the late 1970s and was known as Round Hill Winery. Today the winery is part of the Rutherford Wine Company that includes Rutherford Ranch, Rutherford Ranch Reserve, Round Hill and Grand Pacific brands. In addition, ASV Wineries, located in Delano and San Martin, is part of the same ownership, making it one of the largest producers in the state. The Rutherford Ranch label produces wines with some of the best values in the Valley. Rutherford Ranch wines are produced from fruit sourced from many different vineyards in Napa Valley, while most of the fruit for the Round Hill wines is sourced from other areas of California.
The grounds of the winery are very attractive, featuring many trees, walkways, rock gardens, brightly colored umbrellas and a pond. The modern, attractive winery building is a mix of glass, concrete and natural wood. The tasting room is moderate in size and awash in bright fall colors highlighted by heavy wood beams supporting the ceiling. The small tasting counter provides a wide range of wines including Sauvignon Blanc, Chardonnay, Merlot, Cabernet Sauvignon, a sweet Moscato, White Zinfandel, Pinot Noir, and Syrah. A new wine is their proprietary red blend Rhiannon, made from Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Petite Syrah, Syrah and Zinfandel. There is a separate VIP tasting room for those desiring a more personal experience; call for reservations. There are also some boutique items for sale, including clothing and pottery.
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Director of Finance
This is a senior management position responsible for oversight and leadership of all financial and legal compliance, risk assessment, IT and HR oversight and management as well as strategy. This position will manage the finance staff, and is responsible for overseeing the full range of financial management systems including fiscal analysis, budgeting, internal controls, audits and reports. The Director of Finance is a key member of the executive team and will operate under the supervision of the Executive Director. S/he also will work closely with the Managing Director, Director of Operations, Board Treasurer, auditors and other members of the Finance Committee as necessary. The Director of Finance also provides strategic financial direction for project teams in the field and regional sites worldwide.
Type: Full-Time
Base: San Francisco, CA
Start Date: Immediate.
Salary is commensurate with experience. Architecture for Humanity offers a competitive salary and benefits and the opportunity to join a staff dedicated to using design to change lives.
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Oversee and work with the HR Manager to direct all human resource needs and continually evaluate hiring practices, staff review tracking, time tracking, maintenance of all personnel files and management of all employee benefit program.
- The ideal candidate will bring a passion for sustainable design and a high level of personal and professional integrity, excellent written and oral communication skills, the ability to communicate financial reports effectively and clearly to a broad range of stakeholders, and prior success developing effective working relationships with staff and a Board of Directors.
- B.A. or B.S. Degree in Accounting, Business or related field required. C.P.A., Masters Degree in Accounting, Finance or related field is a strong plus.
- Ten years experience in finance, accounting or a related field, inclusive of five years finance experience within a non-profit context, professional services sector or project management accounting in a construction or related field required. Understanding of nonprofit management and governance preferred.
- Expertise in financial analysis and activity, accounting, budget development, control and reporting, project and grant management and internal controls required. Experience in management of investment income required. Experience in managing and reporting on government contracts and grants preferred.
- Extensive recent experience in QuickBooks and proficiency with MS Office, Excel etc. is required.
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- A sense of humor, energy for challenges, flexible, self-starter, ability to meet deadlines and multi task in a fast paced environment.
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Qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to age, race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation or national origin. We participate in the E-Verify program.


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Revenge Season 2: What Will Mason Treadwell Do With His Information About Amanda Clarke?
Forget Victoria Grayson and Kara Wallace Clarke! Emily Thorne and Fauxmanda Clarke's biggest threat on Revenge is currently a four-eyed journalist with a passion for bow ties and digging up dirt. And this time, Mason Treadwell has stumbled upon the story of the century!
Forget terrorist plots, he's about to unlock the secret to Emily Thorne's identity — and all it took was a tiny peek at Fauxmanda's back. The real Amanda was caught in fire during her time in foster care, leaving a large scar across her skin. And not surprisingly, Fauxmanda is missing the tell-tale mark.
It didn't take long for Mason to realize that Fauxmanda is more faux than foe. But who will he tell and what will he do with this precious information? If he can get past Emily's kung-fu death grip, chances are our boy will reach for his keyboard to record the latest dish.
He could publish the intel on his hit blog, The Treadwell Report, or he could start on a new book. Who knows? In this day, he could just tweet out the info to his many followers.
But we have a feeling Mason will sit on the evidence while he plots his big reveal. Maybe he'll even take the scoop to his old pal Victoria Grayson, trading it for a bigger bank account. How else do you think he can afford all of that Brooks Brothers merchandise?
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Bring the wonder of winter to your holiday party with these pretty table covers. Featuring a stunning red poinsettia on a white background, these table covers are made from durable plastic and make a great decorative accent. At 9'L x 4.5'W, these table covers can be used with a variety of table sizes and are a great way to protect your table tops. Use them as a finishing touch to your holiday party décor, and then enjoy the easy after party cleanup.
Give your guests a favor they can use when you give personalized glass ornaments and personalized holiday matches.


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Thermal management is a mission-critical function for system reliability. The race to build higher performance systems is fueling the need to dissipate more heat per square inch of board space. The demand for energy efficient products and "always-on" cloud computing systems is driving the need to provide more advanced features such as hardware-based fan control, automatic noise reduction, and predictive fan failure algorithms.
Cypress's Programmable System-on-Chip (PSoC) is a unique programmable architecture that allows system designers to do more with less. PSoC offers the best-in-class performance - hardware and/or firmware control for up to 16 fans, support for the largest number of analog and digital temperature sensors, thermal zone management algorithms, EEPROM based fault logging and predictive fan failure algorithms - perfect for designing systems to meet ever-increasing reliability standards. PSoC's ability to integrate disparate analog and digital functions allows all this and more, while lowering your BOM costs.


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Volleyball Hosts Kentucky Saturday at Kenney Gym
April 14, 2014
Urbana, Ill. - The University of Illinois volleyball team will host its annual home Spring match on Saturday, April 19, at Kenney Gym. The No. 16 Illini will host No. 20 Kentucky in a rematch of their 2013 opening weekend contest, in which the Illini took down the Wildcats, 3-2, at the Long Beach State Mizuno Invitational. Both teams will have a training session beginning at 10 a.m., and following a lunch break, will compete in a five-set exhibition match at 1 p.m. Both events are open to the public with free admission.
Due to ongoing renovations at Huff Hall, the exhibition match will take place at Kenney Gym. Located at 1402 W. Springfield Ave., in Urbana, Kenney was home to Illinois volleyball for the majority of its home matches prior to 1990. Parking around Kenney Gym is limited, but most campus pass lots are free on Saturdays, and there is plenty of street parking on the blocks surrounding Kenney.
Saturday's competition marks the third of the Illini's four interscholastic spring competitions, after participating in the Indy Collegiate Invitational on April 5 and the Kansas City Spring Tournament on April 12. The Illini will conclude Spring play with a trip to Saint Louis to take on the Billikens on April 26.
In contrast to previous Spring semesters, the Illini's full 16-player squad for 2014 is already on campus and training together. Brandi Donnelly, a defensive specialist from Riverton, Ill., elected to begin her collegiate career a semester early, and Allison Palmer (Laguna Beach, Calif.) transferred to Illinois in January after three semesters at Arizona State, which included breaking the Sun Devils' single-season assists record in 2012. The pair will make their Champaign-Urbana debut on Saturday, as Illini fans will get a first look at the Orange and Blue squad that's set to kick off the 2014 season on the brand new Huff Hall floor on Aug. 29 against Long Beach State.


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Robert Rubin,, former Clinton Treasury Secretary-Mr. Rubinomics himself-thinks that the building blocks for a grand bargain are here right now in a unique opportunity:
"Congress's failure to reach a fiscal "grand bargain" last summer manifested the deep economic-policy divide separating Democrats and Republicans. Fortunately, the so-called fiscal cliff will soon create an extraordinary second opportunity for a breakthrough compromise."
He does make the good point that this time doing nothing doesn't maintain the status quo:
"there is no choice available to Congress that does not involve significant changes to taxes and spending that members of each party will oppose. Unlike any situation I remember, Congress cannot simply maintain the status quo by failing to act."
"Doing nothing means tax increases and massive cuts in defense and nondefense spending. Kicking the can down the road requires compromising with the other party on taxes and spending. And biting the bullet on the hard choices will necessitate compromises and action as well. The compromises required for constructive action are substantially harder than the compromises necessary to punt, but taking the easy way out requires actions that come with their own set of political costs. And, the longer you avoid tough choices, the deeper the hole gets, the greater the resulting crisis is and the harsher the necessary measures necessary to reestablish confidence and recover."
I do agree there's a lot more on the line this time. I think the biggest difference is that many things the GOP really doesn't want to see will happen if there is no action. Rubin goes through the list at what each party stands to lose if there is no agreement:
"The 2001 and 2003 tax cuts for middle-class and upper-income taxpayers, and the payroll tax holiday, will expire at the end of 2012. The dramatic mandatory reduction in spending ("sequestration") required by last year's debt-ceiling deal will take place in January 2013. And the debt ceiling will need to be raised again in late 2012 or early 2013."
"Each of these events is unacceptable for one or both political parties. Sequestration includes deep cuts to nondefense spending that Democrats oppose, and similarly deep cuts to military spending that make Republicans (and many Democrats) recoil. Republicans oppose the expiration of tax cuts on upper-income Americans, Democrats oppose the expiration of the payroll tax holiday, and members of both parties oppose the expiration of middle-class tax cuts."
I can't help but wonder if this time that failure to get a deal would make more things happen that the Republicans really hate than Democrats. I mean sure, I would rather the tax cuts for the middle class don't expire but I also can't hep but reflect that the rates in this event would be what they were during the Clinton 90s-the age of Rubin's Rubinomics and I don't remember great suffering. To the contrary the 90s were the largest peacetime expansion in US history:
Rubin lists the terrible things that will happen to the economy if we don't do something:
"Washington's continued failure to get our fiscal house in order poses five basic risks. One, government borrowing risks crowding out private investment. Two, our unsustainable fiscal outlook undermines business confidence by creating uncertainty about future policy, economic conditions and our ability to govern, which in turn dampens investment and hiring."
"Three, deficits constrain our capacity to make the public investment critical to competitiveness, growth and widespread income gains. Four, deficits hamper our financial ability to cope with economic weakness or geopolitical events. And five, our fiscal position creates a strong potential for some form of severe macroeconomic distress at an unpredictable time: high inflation, high interest rates and low confidence in the future that produce an extended period of slow or negative growth, or a harsh financial crisis."
Looking at this entire list it strikes me that Joe Stiglitz is right that Democrats learned all the wrong lessons from what he calls the "Roaring Nineties." Stilgitz like Rubin was a Clintonite but Stiglitz is rare in that he understands this. A large part of the myth of stimulative austerity comes from the wrong lessons being learned from the Roaring Nineties.
Of all his risks only risk 3 do I have any sympathy with at all and even here it's less that "deficits matter" contrary to what Dick Cheney said but more because of politics. On the other hand worries about high inflation, interest rates much less a loss of Krugman's Confidence Fairy are pure chimeras.
But yes I do agree with Rubin about the need for more public investment in infrastructure and education. And I do like what his priorities are regarding any bargain-grand or otherwise:
"I believe the three principal criteria should be economic impact, fiscal effect and progressivity. We should increase the top rate, reform the alternative minimum tax to create greater fairness without penalizing the middle class, and increase capital gains and dividend taxes to levels that best satisfy those criteria. There are also opportunities presented by revising tax credits and deductions, but the impacts are complicated and the potential may be limited."
Certainly agree with the focus on economic and fiscal effect and progressivty. Because he does take fiscal effect in consideration he agrees that the deficit reduction shouldn't start till after the recovery is finished. Still he doesn't consider how much of the deficit will disappear once the recovery is finished. Of the current $1 trillion dollar deficit $400,000 billion is due to the Bush tax cuts and military spending in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The principle of Starve the Beast is that the American people must never see the government do anything positive. In this sense deep budget cuts are self-sustaining as the more cuts the less effective government is and the more calls to cut it further seem justified.
Look in a perfect world I'd rather keep the middle class tax cuts and just raise the top rates a long with raising the top rates for capital gains and dividends as Rubin rightly calls for. Rubin may well be right that the GOP is so loath to see all the Bush tax cuts end along with the military cuts that they will finally be forced to negotiate. However if they still aren't having all the cuts expire is acceptable.
PS I appreciate as well that Rubin says that closing "loopholes" has effects that are "complicated" and potential that is "limited." It's important to bear in mind that while cutting "loopholes" may sound very salutary in the abstract what such "reform" actually has in mind is cutting mortgage deduction-the major refundable tax credit most middle class Americans benefit from-and the Earned Income Tax Credit that is the main refundable credit most of the working poor benefit from. Rubin's pessimism and skepticism about them is a welcome sign that the groundswell for them-which was at an insitutional high among policymakers during last Summer's debt ceiling fiasco and largely informs Simpson-Bowles


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Good if you like subtletyIf you're the type of person who likes subtle, work-friendly colors then these shadows are for you. There aren't very many bright or wild colors, and even the few "wild" colors can be worn anywhere at any time. The thing that irks me the most is how much it costs just for two little squares of eyeshadow! I agree with the others--even while wearing a primer, I noticed that the shadow wore off over time. Such a bummer! — 3 years, 5 months agovolta | 562 reviews
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Great Idea, Poor ExecutionI really wanted to love these eye shadows as I love their loose mineral eye shadows. While I loved the colors and the way they felt on the eye, the color simply didn't last (even with a primer). I also found that they were less pigmented on the eye than I would have liked. I have friends, however, who wore these with great staying power. It may be based on your body chemistry. Be sure to wear them around for a bit before purchasing to see how they work on you. — 3 years, 8 months agoTheLacqueredLady | 751 reviews
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Just as good as the loose mineral shadows...I've got about six or seven of these duos. Yes, they are a different consistency than the loose minerals, absolutely. However, I don't see why people seem to have a problem with them. I'm using the exact same brushes I've always used and I'm getting excellent color, coverage, and wear. I also find that using BE's blending brush at the very end of application helps everything look gorgeous, smooth,...read more and professional. Definitely use a primer with these, they will last all day. Also, there's a lot less shimmer in these than there are in regular BE loose shadows. All in all, these work well for every day. I'm not fond of all of the color combinations, but there are a few that I think are real winners. So far Azure Iris is my favorite. — 2 years, 10 months agoMissPoison | 245 reviews
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A Montage of Mass Effect Musical Mayhem!
So, it seems the long, drawn out saga of Mass Effect 3 is coming to a close. The news media is phasing out related stories. The anger for the ending subdued as fans wait for that new DLC, one eyebrow raised in trepidation.
Over the last month and a half, while doing research for any of the several different articles I've written about Mass Effect 3, whether it be my counterpoint to Jordan's Defense, or my recent analysis, I've encountered a lot of Mass Effect 3 related media. From video guides for strategies and tactics, to heartfelt pleas of change, to conspiracy theories or rants, Ive seen 'em all. Including a heck of a lot of memes.
Like MrBTongue has said in his Tasteful, Understated Nerdrage videos, "for whatever reason, people really like Mass Effect." A whole heck of a lot, and even more surprisingly, across a large swath of the cultural landscape. If there was a trendy sci-fi series to like other than Star Wars, it seems Mass Effect was pretty much it. I mean you don't end up with pornography for your series unless you do, right?
Actually, no. It's the internet, so maybe you do.
So it's not the porn, or the fan-fiction, or the even the often fantastic fan art that really shows just how many people love this series. No, what I find fascinating is that for whatever reason the Mass Effect fan base has made quite a number of music videos to show their love for Shepard and company. Maybe it's just me, but making music always seemed the purview of the popular and this penchant for crafting tunes for Turians to dance to shows just how far reaching Mass Effect was in the public consciousness.
I say "was" because at least for myself, I'm done. Aside from the Multiplayer (which I'm finding quite addictive) it's time to move on. So I want to send the Mass Effect series a fond farewell as it exits both the news cycle and my heart. However, since I found quite a few of these music videos to be quite entertaining, I figured I'd do that by sharing them with you.
So what follows are the cream of the crop, the best of the best of the online Mass Effect melodies set to moving (and occasionally not so moving) pictures. All with a minimum of dubstep! I give you . . .
The Top 5
Mass Effect Music Videos on the Internet
(by Category)
Take it away Mixmaster Mordin!
5) Shepard's Spectacular Speech Sung Soundly
Ah the classic AMV. Mixing a favorite song with some favorite footage, ideally trying to create a theme that links the two together. It's a tradition that any anime fan was already well aware of, but now thanks to YouTube, so is the rest of the world.
Now there are a LOT of videos in the AMV style about Mass Effect. It's got to easily be the most packed category. Sometimes the song is chosen to match Shepard's story, sometimes as a tribute to some of Shep's pals. Some are humorous takes on popular songs and others try to capture the game's freaky alien romances via Katy Perry.
But while a lot of those are pretty cool, none of them capture a scene quite as perfectly as this one. Taking one of the more specific traits of everyone's Commander Shepard, the inspiring pep talk, and combining it with easily the best song from one of the most "meh" Disney films, Mulan, we get this great moment of Shepard singing the disparate crew of Mass Effect 2 into a fearsome fighting force.
4) Re-re-re-re-remix Effect . . . IN SPACE!
Considering the fact that the vast majority of the actual music in Mass Effect is inspired by the moodier electronica of the eighties, it's not surprising that it gets remixed quite a bit. Heck, there's at least one official album of remixes available. Besides, it IS a video game, and there are entire sites devoted just to remixing just video game music out there.
From turning the awesome "Uncharted Worlds" map music into a dance floor epic or into an NES classic, taking some of the actual dance music and turning them lo-fi, to making the Illusive Man's theme smoother than he is, there's a ridiculous amount of good stuff.
Then there's the VO remixes. Oh man the VO remixes. They are a delight, and often hilarious.
Crafty YouTubers turned FemShep into a woman on the prowl, and made Garrus's "calibrations" more innuendo laden than ever. An album featuring DJ Harbinger brings some fine videos featuring everyone's favorite Reap- ASSUMING DIRECT CONTROL! But of the funnier remixes out there, the prize goes to well, The Prize.
Like I said, after the direct tribute videos, remixes take the cake when it comes to sheer amount of stuff to find. Even BioWare themselves got on this train, remixing one of the ads for the third installment into something a lot like their multiplayer mode: repetitive as hell but strangely alluring.
But for my theoretical internet dollar, I have to go with this piece, called Space Effect. Pulling together a bunch of different elements, mostly from ME3, it is TEH SEXX0RZ as the kids might say:


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Starring: Anthony Hopkins, Ben
Mendelsohn, Toni Collette,
Alwyn Kurts, & Dan Wyllie
Genre: Comedy/Drama
Audience: Adults
Rating: PG
Runtime: 95 minutes
Distributor: Miramax
Director: Mark Joffe
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Producer: Max Dann and Andrew Knight
Writer: Richard Brennan and Timothy
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(B, C, L) A positive portrayal of unselfishness and caring attitudes in a business setting marred by 3 mild obscenities and one profanity;
EFFICIENCY EXPERT is a gentle and subtle Australian film, a sort of Frank Capra tale told in whispers, which celebrates the virtues of kindness and generosity in a small factory. There are no car crashes, chases, murders, or mayhem, but plenty of sly humor and a wonderfully understated performance by Anthony Hopkins. Highly recommended.
EFFICIENCY EXPERT is a quietly redemptive story. In this Australian production, Anthony Hopkins plays Wallace, an efficiency expert who helps the owners of large factories engineer huge layoffs. However, his next assignment is a small moccasin factory owned by Mr. Ball. Mr. Ball's employees are a family, who love and care for one another. After a few days, Wallace concludes that a large number of workers must be let go, or the business will go belly up. However, he begins to have second thoughts as he experiences the devotion of Mr. Ball's people to their boss, and the kindness they extend to him as well. Before long, Wallace repents, restores his marriage, breaks with his unscrupulous partner, and looks for creative ways to turn the company around.
EFFICIENCY EXPERT, named for the suburb of Melbourne, makes its points with subtlety, gentleness and sly humor. It is a Frank Capra tale told in whispers. Its opening exposition requires some patience, a commodity unfortunately in short supply among audiences jaded by shock, schlock and hyperkinetic editing. However, it deserves to be seen and supported for its warm embrace of the virtues of generosity and kindness. Seek it out, and bring a few friends.