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City Hall Reporter's Notebook: Comeback editionDecember 03,2012I'm back from hiatus and would like to thank the staff at Rutland Regional Medical Center for getting me through a nasty bout of pneumonia.
In the time I had to think between violent coughing fits, I did a certain amount of reflection on an event outside the city that many of us inside the city watched with great interest: the vote on Flory's Plaza.
When the Rutland Town Select Board asked voters if they wanted to spend town money to clean up the property and place a lien on it, there was a sense that something was, at long last, going to be done about what many consider the most prominent eyesore in the county.
The voters didn't go for it, though, and Select Board Chairman Stan Rhodes said he does not see anything else for the board to do.
"There's no move on our part," he said. "The voters said they didn't want to use any of our tax money, so we're not going to do anything. ... Majority rules, so that's it. The monkey's off the Select Board's back as far as I'm concerned."
Tony Flory, who has represented the family in discussions over the property, was quoted after the vote, saying that "things are in the works" at the property. I tried, unsuccessfully, to get him to elaborate.
"I don't say nothing," Flory said. "It'll work out. The Florys have been in this town for 90 years."
Flory had declined to comment every previous time I contacted him, but last week he had a few things to say about the public's interest in the property.
"You seem to be worried a lot about a piece of property that the taxes are paid on," he said. "I think that's why the country's going straight to hell. Instead of worrying about things that matter, they're worrying about things like this."
City residents and officials have been watching the process because, as they keep pointing out, Route 4A is a gateway to the city, and the city would benefit from a more attractive gateway. Might it then be in the city's interest to prod town voters along by offering to kick in part of the cost from our own coffers? The mess may not be our responsibility, but perhaps it is, at least in part, our problem.
"Under the circumstances, if all of our blighted properties in the city were taken care of, that would be a fair thing to consider and explore," Mayor Christopher Louras said.
Right now, though, Louras said the city has plenty of its own problems.
"I can think of a number of locations here in the city that are as much of an eyesore and create as much of a blight where money can be used," he said.
I also put the idea to Alderwoman Sharon Davis, who chairs the Community and Economic Development Committee. Her initial answer was unprintable.
"I think the town suffers from a lack of zoning," she said. "There's a Flory family that has the ability to make a decision. The leadership in the town needs to have those conversations with the family. ... I think everybody, whether you live in Rutland City or Rutland Town or West Rutland or Proctor, wants to see that cleaned up, but would I throw them money to do it? Heck, no."
Blood flow
Organizers of the Gift of Life Marathon are getting antsy.
"I'm a little nervous," Steve Costello told me this week. "We're not where we want to be."
At issue is the number of appointments made by donors. The blood drive, scheduled for Dec. 18, needs to collect 1,969 pints if it is going to break the national record. Early last week, appointments had yet to top 1,000.
This year's drive will be Rutland's last chance of capturing the national record — currently held by Manchester, N.H. — for one-day blood drives as officials for the Red Cross in the Northeast have declared that they will no longer put their resources behind such marathon events, wanting instead to concentrate on multiple smaller drives.
Appointments can be made by calling 1-800-RED-CROSS or visiting giftoflifemarathon.com. Potential donors are also encouraged to visit www.redcrossblood.org for eligibility requirements.
No parking
Downtown employees are being asked to think about where they are parking during the holiday season.
Downtown Rutland Partnership executive director Michael Coppinger sent out an email claiming that a parking space right in front of a business can mean $150 a day in revenue and asking employees to keep those spaces clear.
Coppinger also pointed out that a little-enforced section of the parking ordinance forbids remaining parked in one of downtown's metered spaces for more than two hours and suggested that "there may be pressure for the city police department to begin to actively enforce this ordinance" if downtown spaces remain taken up by long-term parkers.
The city's winter parking ban also kicked in over the weekend. From Dec. 1 to March 31, parking is forbidden on city streets from midnight to 6 a.m.
The Board of Aldermen meets at 7 p.m. today. The agenda includes grants for a community center on Hickory Street and the Wonderfeet Children's Museum, the boundaries of the Special Benefits District, a proposed change to the charter, and an unclaimed loan from the downtown revolving loan fund.
The Finance Committee meets at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday to discuss the water and sewer rate study.
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Has anyone seen this documentary on netflix?
Glad to see a women give her newborn (still in the hospital) a bottle before taking a line of dope.
My one friend is from Hopedale, OH, which is down in that area. She says "buggy" to refer to shopping carts.
I have some family from WV, I'll have to watch this video after the kids are in bed. Hopefully I'm not related to these people!
Have some fucking compassion for the fact that I am facing my biggest fear.
Please help me raise money for my surgery-
Watching that right now. Damn!!!!!
I watched it a few times now.
I've watched it quite a few times. It is funny! Disgraceful as hell to those of us from WV that are normal. I have lived in WV for 99% of my 31 years, and I have NEVER seen anyone in our area (near Morgantown...GO WVU!!) act this way. But Boone Co is like "The Lost World". Time seems to have stood still there. But all areas have there "Jones'" to keep up and the "Whites'" to look down on. They just had the balls to let themselves be taped! I like seeing them "Plum out the frame". Better than any other reality show I've seen in a while!
Laura--Damian's Wife on June 30, 2007
Delyla Lawren's Mommy on July 17, 2009
Working hard at being a good mommy...what a tough job!
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How embarrassing for them. And what's worse, is they probably don't know that they should probably be embarrassed!
Also, I'm from SC and I used to call carts buggies. I now live in the pacific northwest and say cart...because I don't want to look like a "dumb hick".
You uncultured swine.
"Our fate lives within us. You only have to be brave enough to see it"
Yeah because there aren't trashy people of all colors in all states. How offensive. (Yes, I grew up in WV - nowhere near Boone County).
Holy fuck. My husband recognized two of those people, they pass through where we work at least once a week.
Their family name is White. It's not made-up for the show.
ETA: I never knew about that show. Geez. There are a ton of people like these Whites around here, but not nearly all of us are that fucked up!
Psst... I like to Pin.
I watched this show a few weeks ago.
I didn't really find it funny. I found it incredibly sad actually. The horrible spiral they are all in and can't seem to get out of is absolutely tragic.
The older brother who is the tapper reminds me of Billy Bob Thornton though.


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The fragile and faltering state of American democracy.
The Federal Reserve has always been a very masculine institution. In economic affairs, the Fed chairman resembles the stern father figure who disciplines the children and occasionally punishes them for unruly behavior. Only now, for the first time in its 100-year history, the Federal Reserve will be led by a woman—Janet Yellen. But will that make any difference?
In this era of gender equality, the polite answer is, no, a woman in charge of this powerful institution will do pretty much what any man would do in the same circumstances. I devoutly hope not. The confirmation of Janet Yellen as Fed chair raises intriguing possibilities for altering the operating values of the central bank and broadening its obligations to the country. Isn't that what makes "old boys" of Wall Street nervous? Yellen, of course, is obliged to dismiss the question. Like any woman who manages to break through the glass ceiling, she has to bring superior technical skills and an impressive résumé in central banking. Yellen has both—and a reputation for thinking beyond narrow-minded traditions in economics.
Monetary policy, in other words, is a feminist issue, though in ways that may not be obvious at first. At a very deep level, girls learn to see some things differently from boys, and in Fed policy-making this can put women at odds with men. I witnessed this cultural tension in real personal terms at the Federal Reserve during the 1980s when Paul Volcker was chairman and described it in Secrets of the Temple: How the Federal Reserve Runs the Country (1987).
Listen to how Federal Reserve Governor Nancy Teeters—the very first woman to hold that title—described the experience. Teeters was appointed in 1978 by Jimmy Carter and served during Volcker's dramatic campaign to defuse inflation with a long and brutal recession. Teeters dissented in meetings of the Federal Open Market Committee as Volcker persisted with the blood-letting. She was politely ignored. Her strong talk irritated the boys.
"I gave the FOMC a lecture," Teeters told me. "I told them, 'You are pulling the financial fabric of this country so tight that it's going to rip. You should understand that once you tear a piece of fabric, it's very difficult, almost impossible, to put it back together again.'" The metaphor, she pointed out to me, was one only a woman might use. "None of these guys has ever sewn anything in his life," Teeters said.
Her opposition was not sentimental. As a professional economist, she argued that Volcker's harsh policy was extreme and unnecessary. "It was very difficult for me philosophically to run the unemployment rate [which reached 12 percent]," Teeters said. "It was perfectly obvious to me we didn't need to put interest rates up that high. We couldn't do it without a recession, but recession is still a difficult decision to make. People get hurt. All sorts of nasty things can happen if it gets out of hand." Which happened. The financial system became so frayed Volcker had to back off.
Teeters acknowledged frankly what most men would never admit. "I was scared and so was everybody else," she said. Some of her colleagues resented her frankness. One complained, "She never said 'we.' She always addressed the other committee members as 'you.' 'If you do this, you're going to have worse unemployment.' She was very consciously the outsider." In practical terms, she truly was an outsider. When Teeters joined the Board of Governors, she found only two women in senior-grade positions.
Behind her back, the male-dominated orthodoxy disparaged Teeters as too liberal, but Governor Martha Seger, a conservative Republican who served after Teeters retired, was left isolated, too. Seger, too, dissented from Volcker's unrelenting interest rates that kept unemployment higher even after the economy recovered. Seger told me she felt cut out of any policy discussions that mattered. "We have very little input into what I call the formulation stage, which I'm not accustomed to," she said. "In corporate America, there is input all along the line."
The differences in reasoning between girls and boys were examined as "gender-related moral differences" by Harvard psychologist Carol Gilligan in her best-selling book, In a Different Voice. Women, Gilligan explained, will usually seek to avoid "the fracture of human relationships that must be mended with its own thread."
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It is striking that Nancy Teeters and Carol Gilligan both used the same metaphor—the torn "social fabric"—to explain what makes girls different. Gilligan argued the society needs sensibilities that make equal space for what women know. "Sensibility to the needs of others and the assumption of responsibility for taking care lead women to attend to voices other than their own and to include in their judgment other points of view," Gilligan explained.
Achieving that standard would pose a high challenge, not just for the Federal Reserve, but for the entire governing system. A lot of progress has been accomplished since the eighties, both in society and government. Hey, a forward-leaning woman named Yellen is now running the Fed. Maybe Yellen can take that powerful place further down the road to equality.
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Behind his back, they called him "Tall Paul" in the 1980s and Volcker was indeed awesome then as Federal Reserve chairman alongside Ronald Reagan as president. Together they refashioned government—shifting everything rightward and setting up the triumph of the financial sector that has reigned ever since with its destructive qualities.
The Gipper did the fun part—cutting taxes from the top down—but Volcker did the heavy lifting. He presided over a long, brutal recession that broke inflation and labor wages and lots more. It was a decisive injury to organized labor He was a civil service giant, brave and also scary. At six-foot-seven, Volcker towered over the pedestrian ranks of Washington politics. Also important bankers and the US Senate. Reagan's White House staff tried to push him around (though not Reagan himself) and Volcker brushed them off like gnats.
For all those reasons, I see his triumph—finally getting federal regulators to adopt his "Volcker amendment" to limit proprietary investing by the mega-banks—as a melancholy moment. It took three years for regulatory agencies to fend off the thousands of bank lobbyists and approve something. That's better perhaps than a hollow victory but still far short of the reforms that are needed to get control over the out-of-control mega-banks.
I haven't read the bill, but the financial press and Wall Street talkers are not impressed. It is something like 850 pages and so dense with loopholes and clever snares it will probably take another three years for bank examiners to understand what they are supposed to do with it.
Meanwhile, the too-big-to-fail banks will go on about their business, getting sweet on America's troubles and pretty much ignoring prudent restraints. The real solution will not come until another Congress or a new president find the courage to break them up, cut them down to size and restore the old Glass-Steagall division of commercial banking from investment banking. A few years of experience with the Volcker Rule will probably be enough to demonstrate that it's insufficient to change the behavior of JP Morgan and the banker gang. The risk is that the bankers will go wild again in the meantime.
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Paul Volcker must be feeling a sense of personal regret if not guilt. He was present at the creation, after all. As Fed chairman. He blessed the first rounds of serious deregulation that repealed the caps on interest rates and doomed the savings and loan industry that financed housing. However reluctantly, Volcker also engineered the first big rescue of a too-big-to-fail bank—Continental Illinois in Chicago. He could have hung tough but he caved to the bankers. The Fed has lived off that precedent many times since.
The Federal Reserve and Treasury Secretary want us to believe they won't do it again. I judge from his body language and muted comments that Paul Volcker doesn't believe them.
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The one word you never hear from the lips of a practicing capitalist is "guilt." Milton Friedman taught a generation of business execs and bankers that their only job is to make as much money as they can. Leave the blame game to dewy-eyed liberals. Economists and business schools picked up on the theme and told losers who didn't share in the good times it was their own fault. They didn't work hard enough or get a proper education. Maybe in their next life they can go to grad school or choose a career that doesn't involve working with their hands.
Only now comes this world-class player from the privileged "1 percent" to admit he is feeling guilty. Two cheers for Bill Gross, the co-founder and managing director of PIMCO, the California-based bond house that manages some $2 trillion in other people's wealth. Gross himself has accumulated $2.2 billion, which puts him at #252 on the Forbes 400.
"Having gotten rich at the expense of labor," Gross confessed, "the guilt sets in and I begin to feel sorry for the less well-off." The message is addressed to fellow rich guys who are IMCO clients, in Gross's latest monthly Investment Outlook. He calls them "Scrooge McDucks." He suggests they stop whining about the enormous taxes they pay the government and give more back to the society they degraded with inequality.
"Admit that you and I and others in the 'magnificent 1 %' grew up in the gilded age of credit," Gross wrote. "…You did not create that wave. You rode it. And now it's time to kick out and share some of your good fortune by paying higher taxes or reforming them to favor economic growth and labor, as opposed to corporate profits and individual gazillions."
Gross propose this reform: "The era of taxing 'capital' at lower rates than 'labor' should now end." That heresy is a little like punching PIMCO customers where they live, but Gross will no doubt get away with it. They are used to hearing his occasional heresies and Gross has made them lots of money over the years. Besides, the capitalists are counting on the politicians to protect them from higher taxes.
Some other wealthy capitalists like Warren Buffett have made similar raise-my-taxes pleas, but Bill Gross's is distinctive because, first, he acknowledges a personal sense of guilt and, second, he bluntly describes the fundamental conflict as capital versus labor. You seldom hear that kind of talk any longer in American politics and certainly not from financial-market billionaires. Gross is not a closet commie. He is simply acknowledging in plain English the underlying ideological contest that has dominated the last thirty years.
Capital won and labor lost. Not just union workers but middle-class people of all kinds, especially "those who used their hands for a living," as Gross puts it. That verdict is now so obvious that even timid commentators talk about it obliquely. The middle class is breaking up, while the largest capital owners continue to claim an ever larger share of the nation's wealth, even during the economy's bad years. This trend has been obvious to working people for years while elite opinion was celebrating the triumph of market economics. Neither political party wishes to inquire too deeply into the causes since both Republicans and Democrats are implicated.
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Maybe it requires unorthodox sources of truth-telling—odd heretics like Bill Gross—to put these questions on the table. Certainly, the political system will not find any real answers as long as most politicians are afraid to ask real questions. Gross expressed his own frustration with reluctance of elected officials to face hard truths about the hollowing US economy.
He cited Barack Obama's recent speech sounding "a faint alarm" about the failure of corporations and capitalists to invest in US productivity. Obama said, "It's time for folks to…focus on doing everything we can to spur growth and create new, high-quality jobs." Gross was exasperated. "Folks?" he responded. "Ordinary folks, the 99 percent, don't have money any more. Mr. President. The rich and corporations do."
I am a little biased in Gross's favor because I first encountered him fifteen years ago with my book on the globalizing economy—One World, Ready or Not—which described the capital-labor struggle and the threatening consequences I foresaw for Americans. Gross invited me to address the semi-annual conference PIMCO has its bond traders from around the world. I asked him why. Prominent economists and financial reporters were disparaging my fears as silly. Bill Gross said he thought I had the story right and his people needed to hear it. The bond traders, rather loudly, did not agree.
William Greider writes that the $13 billion JPMorgan settlement is a good start—but not enough until someone goes to jail.
The latest hot controversy launched by Citizen Snowden's revelations involves the National Security Agency's listening to the personal cellphone of Angela Merkel, Chancellor of Germany. Embarrassment all around and the White House now says it is "reviewing" what other foreign leaders the NSA may be eavesdroping on.
But here Is a more explosive question that needs an answer: Is the NSA eavesdropping on Barack Obama?
Officially, this will be promptly denied, of course. But can we believe opaque denials from the same intelligence officials who have previously lied to the press and misled Congress about the unlimited range of NSA snooping? More to the point, can Barack Obama believe them?
This question will doubtless be dismissed as a paranoid conspiracy theory. Surely, officials of this super-secret government agency would not use its vast technological capabilities to spy on their own boss, our president. But why not? Information is power. Bureaucracies typically use their information power to protect themselves or weaken their political rivals. As investigators dig into the secret world of NSA power, I expect they will sooner or later have to examine this possibility.
As it happens, there is a scandalous precedent for this kind of abuse, and his name is J. Edgar Hoover. During the long reign of Hoover as FBI director, the agency was notorious for "keeping a file" on all sorts of political figures and leaking the damaging content to the press. But Washington politicians—senators and even presidents—faced a more dangerous threat. The FBI was most likely keeping files on each of them. A politician would know his own personal transgressions, but so might J. Edgar.
Hoover curried favor in Congress by letting friendly politicians sneak a peek at salacious material agents collected on left-liberal-labor figures. The FBI campaign to ruin the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was perhaps its most notorious effort. Only after King's death and Hoover's did the stories surface to confirm the Director's legendary power over politicians. The mere threat of exposure—even if the accusations were fabricated—was enough to freeze many politicians from acting.
When Congress finally confronted the scandal and reformed the FBI, it enacted limited terms for the FBI director and chose people with exemplary records of public service. That didn't entirely eliminate politics from the agency's behavior but it put each new director on notice that his performance would be subsequently examined by his successor.
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Among other reforms, the NSA will need similar restraints to restore a modicum of public trust but, above all, to change the poisonous culture that politicians have allowed to flourish in the institution. President Obama should start by dismissing NSA Director Keith Alexander and National Intelligence Director James Clapper, neither of whom seem to grasp that their evasive behavior is deepening suspicion and making the broad public even more distrustful.
If Obama fiddles around with inquiries that do not change much of anying for the spy masters, then the president himself may be incorporated in the suspicions. Some people will ask: what did the NSA or CIA have on Obama?
Robert Scheer thinks President Obama should thank Edward Snowden.
James Dimon, chairman and CEO of JP Morgan Chase & Co., speaks at a conference, Tuesday, October 27, 2009 in New York. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)
JPMorgan Chase, the star of mega-banks, is up against the wall at the Justice Department, trying to settle its myriad crimes for $13 billion. That's real money, even for a trillion-dollar bank. So this is progress. After years of scandalous indifference, the Obama administration appears to have found its backbone.
Better late than never, grumpy citizens can say. But that doesn't settle the matter. Four years ago, Senator Ted Kaufman of Delaware crisply described the more fundamental problem posed by the wantonly reckless behemoths of Wall Street.
"People know that if they rob a bank they will go to jail," Kaufman said. "Bankers should know that if they rob people they will go to jail too." Can we hear an amen on that? Not yet. But the complaint Kaufman voiced repeatedly is now on the table. "At the end of the day," the senator warned, "This is a test of whether we have one justice system in this country or two. If we do not treat a Wall Street firm that defrauded investors of millions of dollars the same way we treat someone who stole $500 from a cash register, then how can we expect our citizens to have any faith in the rule of law?" (See my piece from April 2011, "How Wall Street Crooks Get Out of Jail Free.")
Attorney General Eric Holder was stung, his reputation severely damaged. His lieutenants in the criminal division explained repeatedly that while the megacrimes seemed obvious, it is fiendishly difficult to locate the people in a huge, complex financial organization who can be successfully prosecuted as criminals. The popular anger did not go away, however, because in JPMorgan's case the outrages only got larger and more obvious.
So here we are four years later and leading newspapers report that Justice is on the brink of a record-setting settlement—$13 billion. Jamie Dimon, JPMorgan CEO and formerly the president's favorite banker, has personally negotiated the terms with the attorney general. The Morgan bank started with an offer of $1 billion and quickly raised it to $4 billion. Holder's office kept saying, no, not enough. According to The New York Times, seven federal agencies are investigating the bank, plus state banking regulators and a couple of foreign governments.
The offenses include an all-star list of duped victims—of mortgage fraud against home-buyers, investor fraud against people and pension funds that purchased the rotten mortgage securities and defrauded the federal agencies (Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac) that bought the mortgage bonds and applied federal guarantees to them. Nevertheless, if there is no identifiable "criminal" who can be sent to jail, the case could be treated as merely another bureaucratic crime and adjudicated with lots of cash, a very familiar exercise in this era of high-flying capitalist buccaneers and bandits.
But here is the exciting and suspenseful element in this story. Eric Holder and his prosecutors have so far refused to settle on such amicable terms. Federal prosecutors in Sacramento believe they have established the personal linkage—who ordered the dirty deals, who carried them out—that could support criminal indictments of individuals or against the corporate "person" known as JPMorgan Chase. That would be truly unprecedented—a "game changer" in Wall Street/Washington parlance—and with threatening potential for the defendant bank.
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In the negotiations, Holder has refused to give Dimon what he seems to want most—an agreement to drop the criminal charge and settle for bigger money instead. That might weaken the storm of private lawsuits already filed by the victims of JPMorgan's fraudulent profiteering. The star banker kept raising his bid. The AG kept saying no way. Americans should stay tuned and maybe send fan mail to the Justice Department, urging the prosecutors to hang tough.
But you can't send a bank to jail, can you? No, but you could place it under court supervision and empower a federal judge to order and supervise internal reforms in the megabank, perhaps even downsizing. Does that sound too harsh? If the feds can do this to a corrupt labor union like the Teamsters, why not to an outlaw bank like JPMorgan?
Last week, Congress struck a blow to Monsanto that few noticed.
Larry Summers. (Reuters/Jason Reed)
The Sunday afternoon announcement that Larry Summers is giving up his quest to become Federal Reserve chairman resonates with meaning for reform—both for government and the Democratic party. After several decades of dominance by the center-right financial perspectives of New Democrats, this is a huge loss for the Rubin-Clinton wing. And it foretells more to come.
When the Obama White House let it be known in early summer the president expected to appoint Summers as successor to Fed chairman Ben Bernanke, the party erupted in rage and rebellion. It amounted to rewarding the very policy architects who led the country into ruin with their financial deregulation and Wall Street–friendly non-enforcement and bailouts for the too big to fail bankers. Instead of going along meekly, progressive Dems built a firestorm against Summers and kept throwing on new logs.
The White House leakers kept reassuring favored reporters that the deal was done, the president really wants Larry in this pivotal position determining policy on money and credit for the country. Leading reform senators—Sherrod Brown, Elizabeth Warren and Jeff Merkley—fired back and raised the ante. If Summers is nominated, these key members of the Senate banking committee intend to vote against his confirmation. That could well be fatal to Summers's and Obama's ambitions. To make it worse, Senator John Tester of Montana, a moderate by any measure, let it be known he would join them in voting to block Summers. Among other disabilities, Summers was contemptuous of policy opponents and known for refusing to acknowlege collosal errors—the very opposite of a consensus leader.
Finally, the White House mercifully pulled the plug on flawed Larry. (It seems very unlikely Summers got the message on his own, considering his record for stubborn egotism.)
This is a huge victory for the prospects for genuine economic reform—well beyond anything Obama has so far proposed or accepted. The president might fumble around for a similarly conservative appointment, but he has a chance to change the outlook dramatically by appointing a new Fed chair who understands the deep dislocations created in part by Federal Reserve policy during the last three decades, from Volcker to Greenspan to Bernanke, under Democrats as well as Republicans.
Obama can start the healing by naming Janet Yellen, the moderately liberal vice chair of the Federal Reserve, who well understands that much deeper change must be considered to get the US economy back in balance again. It will not come quickly, but this can be the political watershed—the moment when this Democratic president chose to focus on the future rather than clinging to the failed past.
In other words, Obama can create a quite different legacy for himself by restarting his economic policy and encouraging serious reform at the central bank and in traditonal policies. The president of course cannot complete this new agenda in his remaining years, but he can launch the action and teach public opinion what the task of economic reconstruction should involve. That is, he can begin the "new politics" many of us had hoped he would bring to Washington.
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In the next few months, as it happens, President Obama will appoint four and as many as five new governors for the seven-member Federal Reserve Board. That is an unprecedented opportunity to influence the future if he chooses wisely and reaches beyond the usual list of safe choices with conventional views. The best part is this power is unilateral. This is one instance where Barack Obama doesn't have to make nice with know-nothing Republicans or seek permission from Wall Street titans. He can do this on his own.
But the defeat of Larry Suummers tells the White House and this president they had better start listening to the restless reformers on the left of the party. Senators and progressive Democrats in the House have serious ideas for reform. Having won this pivotal victory, they are sure to push for larger goals. Instead of running away from the liberal-labor progressives, Obama's presidency should put an arm around them.
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Secretary of State John Kerry, flanked by Joint Chiefs Chairman General Martin E. Dempsey and Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, September 3, 2013, during a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on Syria. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
Whatever Congress decides to do about bombing Syria, the United States is still trapped by a historic contradiction of its own invention. Our open-ended commitment to deter or punish bad guys anywhere around the world has not led to the peaceful vision of military planners and humanitarian hawks. It leads instead to more war—longer and more ambiguous conflicts in which there will be no victory, only abstract claims about teaching lessons to wayward nations.
The American Goliath, armed with awesomely superior weaponry and described as "indispensable" by admiring scholars, seems to have forgotten an ancient truth the Greeks and Romans understood. War is about purposeful violence, not diplomacy by other means.
In history, the fundamental objective of war has always been brutally obvious: the conquest of real estate and resources, the subjugation of other peoples. For two generations, the US has gone to war claiming nobler purposes, the protection and liberation of helpless others. But, our statesmen add, the defense of world peace requires us occasionally to go to war pre-emptively. Shoot the bad guys before they can shoot us.
The American people evidently understand this now and want no part of it. They are overwhelmingly fed up with intervening in other people's wars. Iraq and Afghanistan taught bitter lessons. The experiences told Americans to disregard whatever presidents and intelligence officials claim to see as an imminent threat. The patriotic exhortations from governing elites in Washington now disparage "isolationist" sentiments, but constituents back home simply want a more rational definition of "national self-interest."
Goliath may be having some sort of nervous breakdown. He sounds confused and conflicted, muscle-bound and unsure of himself. The American arsenal can destroy targets and people 1,000 miles away but it now promises it won't deploy any American soldiers to the battlefields where people are being killed. US war plans keep changing—hotter, colder, then limited or maybe not. Our moral justifications get muddied when we learn that the supposed good guys in Syria—our rebel allies—commit war crimes too (executing prisoners with a bullet to the back of the head).
Nobody knows, of course, but it is conceivable this war of confusion could evolve into a stunning historical shift—the moment when militarism and the military-industrial complex begin to lose their iron grip on US politics. The arms industry still dominates the domestic economy and will remain influential when good jobs are still scarce. In past wars, whenever Americans were sent to fight abroad, the people quickly rallied 'round the flag. Popular patriotism soars in wartime. Only after bitter losses accumulate do people begin to turn against the war and want out.
This time feels different. People generally are already antiwar. The high-minded Goliath devoted to defending global peace is now preoccupied with crippling domestic weaknesses. This is new ground for the world's only superpower—unlike anything that has faced Washington since its triumphant role in World War II. Governing authorities, if they are wise, ought to recognize the longstanding political order is now highly vulnerable and back away before there are explosive reactions. Yet it is not easy for either the president or Congress to accept strategic retreat from the nation's bloated ambition to run the world. Ultimately, these adjustments cannot be avoided but they can also not be achieved without producing humiliation and recrimination for the country.
Oddly enough, Americans will probably feel safer once they are liberated from the all-purpose myth of an all-powerful Goliath who is always ready to fight another war. But here is the hard part: digging out of decades of myth-making and propaganda, asking honest questions about how the country got into its peculiar dilemma and how it might get out. I tried to explain the core problem with our military strategy in a book I wrote four years ago, Come Home, America:
"The US military, despite its massive firepower and technological brilliance, has itself become the gravest threat to our peace and security. Americans may find this accusation disturbing, but I hope they will consider it seriously. Our risks and vulnerabilities around the world are magnified and multiplied because the American military has shifted from providing national defense to taking the offensive worldwide, from being a vigilant defender to being an adventurous aggressor in search of enemies."
Go looking for enemies in the world, you are likely to find some. How did this happen? Officials still talk about "national defense" as though Americans only want to protect their homeland—to be left alone in Fortress America. But that hasn't been US strategy for more than sixty years. After the triumphant US role in World War II, America and allies agreed they should not dismantle peace-keeping military power and allow rabid dictators to arise unchallenged. Never again. The United Nations and NATO and the Marshall Plan were intended remedies.
Rearmament seemed reasonable until it swiftly became the Cold War rivalry and nuclear arms race. Starting in Korea, both super powers underwrote or clandestinely fought scores of shadowy proxy wars for hegemony in developing countries. It was ugly business with staggering bloodshed. Millions died in the name of competing ideology.
The basic problem was this: given the nuclear threat, neither side could really afford to win. They could injure the opposition, decapitate its leadership, cause economic havoc and foment social rebellions. But the one thing neither side dared was to fight a full-out war and win total victory.
This practical legacy of stalemate led to bitter frustrations, at least on the American side, first in Korea, then Vietnam. The United States bombed the stuffings out of North Vietnam but always rejected hawkish fervor for using nukes. American conservatives like Senator Strom Thurmond sounded a bristling campaign declaration: "Why not victory?"
For many Americans, it sounded like a fair question, maybe still does for some. But the battle cry also revealed the essential trap that still binds the hands of America and other major powers. Yes, the US could totally obliterate any minor country that gives us a hard time. But, no, that would not bring peace to the world nor stability. More likely, it would produce horrendous bloodshed and perhaps a twenty-first-century version of world war.
So the United States plays peacemaker and pleads for cooperation from friendly allies and on occasion drops a few explosives here and there to demonstrate its sincerity. But, no, it doesn't want to do a war. Or at least it doesn't want to win the war. The US only wants to send to a message: behave or we will rough you up. If you listen to Barack Obama's rhetoric, you can hear the contradictions. He is simultaneously asking to enforce world order and uphold moral principle, but not by conquering Syria or Iran or any other uncooperative nations. He proposes to bomb a little here and there, win their respect by degrading their capabilities, then talk. These are the new euphemisms for humanitarian war-making, and they are not very convincing.
Killing is still killing. The political debate dumps blame on Obama or Congress or the Pentagon, but the dilemma really belongs to the nation and to other nations trying to uphold principles. My notion of progress would be a rule that says no country can go to war for diplomatic purposes or to demonstrate a bargaining position. If victory is unimaginable, then maybe the war should be unlawful. Killing people to influence negotiations seems about as as immoral as spraying innocent bystanders with poison gas.
The Friday and Thursday editions of The Washington Post are seen in Washington, Friday, August 3, 2007. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari)
When the news broke that The Washington Post had been sold to Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, Linda and I were lost in melancholy for awhile. It felt like a death in the family, the fond uncle we hadn't seen in years. Or maybe we were simply mourning our own lost youth and those golden memories of fast times at the Post.
It was exhilarating to be part of the Post crowd in those scrappy days of the late 1960s and '70s. I was on the national staff and Linda contributed articles, reviews and essays on food, family life, gardening and design. We felt in the midst of national tumult and tragedy, the dreadful war in Vietnam, racial upheavals and triumphs. In DC, these felt like local stories, and the Post was always in the middle of events.
On rare occasions, some of us were invited to attend a sit-down dinner party with the power elite at the Georgetown mansion of Katharine Graham, the Post's patrician publisher. I remember one of these where reporters and wives (not many female reporters in those days) were huddled in one drawing room while the "war criminals" (her friends Kissinger and McNamara) were in another. Mrs. Graham tried without much success to get the two sides to mingle. She thought we should talk.
It was thirty years ago when I left the Post. Yet the news of its fate still feels personal to us. The newsroom was intense in those days, because executive editor Ben Bradlee inspired an edgy, competitive attitude among the reporters. Get it first, get it right. Go for impact. Tell the story with style and drama. And keep your elbows up, lest "bigfoot" reporters try to horn in on your story. The place often resembled a locker room at halftime, loose and profane, very masculine.
A French sociologist hung out with us in the newsroom for several months in order to compare The Washington Post with Le Monde. His study concluded that Bradlee had created an "entrepreneurial" spirit among reporters and editors (though Bradlee would never have said anything that stuffy). Bradlee was a Boston Brahmin who majored in classics at Harvard, but he talked like a street-smart sailor. I remember columnist Mark Shields once teased him for being one of those high-born characters with a three-syllable middle name—Benjamin Crowninshield Bradlee. Bradlee smiled and may have responded with an obscene hand gesture.
This is part of where the Post's greatness came from. The paper in those days was utterly outmatched by The New York Times and its thorough, sober coverage. But we played off the Times's stuffiness. We had fun puncturing conventional wisdom and telling the informal truth about the powerful (sometimes including the publisher's best friends). We were encouraged to take chances. If you fell on your butt, nobody helped you up.
Into this volatile stew in the early '70s came two very young reporters from the metro staff, which only covered local news. They picked up on a third-rate police story and stayed with it until they eventually brought down the president. What is the chance of that ever happening again? It is still breathtaking to recall that Woodward and Bernstein were only in their late 20s at the time. Imagine the risks. Older heads from the national staff urged Bradlee to put more experienced reporters on the case before these two kids got the Post into deep trouble. He listened and worried, but he stuck with them. Their lack of cynicism is what got the story.
Katharine Graham, the gutsy publisher, was the other part of the greatness. She was stuck with the epic risk—a live possibility that her family's newspaper could be destroyed if Woodward and Bernstein were wrong. Given her status among Washington's governing elite, her fortitude was especially impressive. Graham and Bradlee, working together, were like an electrical charge—a self-sustaining mix of audacity and courage.
Notwithstanding her boarding-school good manners, Mrs. Graham had a bluntness that, if anything, was more sharp-pointed than Bradlee's. I experienced this several times in the newsroom when she stopped by my desk to express her strong feelings about something I had written. On one occasion, I had disparaged some of her best friends as the "junior varsity" of the Best and Brightest who got us into the Vietnam War. She didn't like this at all, but conceded that my view was probably shared by many readers. On another occasion, her tone was considerably harsher. I had written about the Post's labor troubles and expressed some sympathy for the union printers being displaced by new technology. As she talked to me, almost nose to nose, other reporters backed away as if the publisher had dropped a grenade at my feet.
The point, however, is that nothing happened afterward. My career did not go up in flames. She expressed herself and walked away and that was it. She became my model of the ideal publisher—candid in her strong views but not vindictive. After all, it was her newspaper.
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Don Graham, her son, inherited very different challenges—technological changes that basically destroyed the business model for profitable newspapers. Until digital came along, he focused on building a broader base of localized support for the Post and largely succeeded when other newspapers were withering. He wanted a newspaper that would feel close to an extraordinary diversity of people, rich and poor, white and black and Asian and Latino, city and suburbs and small towns. For many years, he succeeded while other big-city newspapers were shrinking, though he probably didn't get the credit he deserved. The digital revolution changed all that.
In the end, Don Graham's singular act of courage in selling the paper was in recognizing that the Post probably has a more promising future with Jeff Bezos as the innovative owner instead of the Graham family. We do not yet know if Bezos will be up to maintaining the same public values. This requires more than money.
The more Linda and I talked over our warm memories, we came out at the same place: feeling good about the past. Feeling very lucky to have been there. For fifteen years or so we got to experience what was maybe the very best time and place ever to be a reporter and writer at the most dynamic newspaper in the country. Because we know something about how and why that came about, we do not expect the same combination of people and events to come again anytime soon, or maybe ever again. The past was rare, but it is also past. We feel grateful we were there.
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Lawrence Summers waits to be introduced before delivering a speech at the Brookings Institution in Washington, March 13, 2009. (Reuters/Molly Riley)
This is the second post in William Greider's series about Larry Summers. His first post is "Stop Larry Summers Before He Messes Up Again."
Among his other outstanding attributes, Lawrence Summers is perhaps most distinguished by his mendacity. I have encountered this up close over the years in interviews. He bristles and turns nasty when his assertions are challenged. I am not naïve about untruth in politics—I know it well—but Summers takes it to extremes. Three years ago, he made an appearance on the PBS NewHour that blew out my tolerance. I posted an exasperated blog titled "Professor Pants-on-Fire."
"How can I say this nicely?" I wrote. "Larry Summers is a clumsy public liar. His noxious, condescending manner helps explain why he failed as president of Harvard. But it is the crude mendacity that ought to bother people now. The man is President Obama's top economic adviser."
I ticked off some of the self-serving lies he told to cover up his own role in destabilizing the financial system when he was Treasury secretary in the Clinton administration—when he personally blocked tougher regulation on the financial time bombs known as derivatives, when he collaborated with Republicans and the Federal Reserve in dismantling Glass-Steagall and other New Deal protections. Larry and Bill, Robert Rubin and Alan Greenspan paved the road to financial collapse. Afterwards, nobody went to jail.
These scandalous matters are relevant once again because the White House propagandists are pushing hard to make Larry Summers the next Federal Reserve chairman. If Obama makes that choice, Wall Street wins again. Summers is their candidate and at home in their money culture. As Fed chair, he would become their main watchdog .
If so, this will be a sick joke on us hopeful voters who re-elected the president last fall. Summers worked on Wall Street after he got bounced as Harvard president and before he joined the Obama administration in 2009. During the year before, he earned $5.2 million at a leading hedge fund, D.E. Shaw.
Then he made another $2.8 million for speeches, more than forty of them, mostly delivered to audiences at mega-banks and leading financial firms. These included JP Morgan Chase, Citigroup, Merrill Lynch and others. Goldman Sachs paid him $135,000 for one speech. When Summers learned Merrill Lynch was receiving federal bailout money, he gracefully contributed his $45,000 speaking fee to charity. The point is, this watchdog will know some of the swindlers personally.
These sticking points about his nomination for the Fed chair may be obvious to Nation readers, but none of his liabilities or gross errors or giant fibs were mentioned by Washington Post blogger Ezra Klein when announced on Tuesday that Summers is now the leading candidate for the Fed appointment. That news quickly swept the web as though it were a done deal. Let's hope that is wrong. Klein is a conscientious policy wonk and often insightful about economic policy but on political questions he can sound like an establishment camp follower.
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Klein took the feed from his White House sources and obediently recited the supposed virtues they see in Summers compared point by point with the rival contender, Fed vice chair Janet Yellen. "Rightly or wrongly," Klein wrote, "there's a sense that Summers has the market's trust in a way Yellen doesn't." That put-down is a nasty bit of knife work sure to please Klein's sources, but is truly slanderous if you know Yellen's biography and intellectual stature. If the White House blather and media ignorance prevail, it will be sad for the country and shameful for Obama.
Does the Clinton-Rubin establishment believe, like Larry Summers, that boys really are smarter than girls? Reporters like Klein should ask, because that's the way it looks. Women at large should mobilize an aggressive pushback—no more second chances for Larry Summers. The Obama administration should impose a glass ceiling on the old boys who got it wrong.
For more reasons why Larry Summers should not be the next chairman of the Federal Reserve, read William Greider's "Stop Larry Summers Before He Messes Up Again."
Larry Summers watches as President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden speak in the East Room of the White House on January 30, 2009. (REUTERS/Jason Reed)
Washington insiders are spreading an alarming news alert. Barack Obama, I am told, is on the brink of making a terrible mistake by appointing Lawrence Summers as the new chairman of the Federal Reserve. That sounds improbable, since Summers is a toxic retread from the old boys' network and a nettlesome egotist who offended just about everyone during his previous tours in government. More to the point, Summers was a central player in the grave governing errors that led to the financial collapse and a ruined economy.
Surely not, I thought, when I heard the gossip. But my source heard it from the White House. Obama's senior economic advisers—still dominated by Clintonistas and aging acolytes of Robert Rubin—are pushing the president to choose Summers as the successor to Ben Bernanke, whose term ends in January. And they are urging Obama to make the announcement right now, before the opposition can get organized.
To thwart this ploy, Democratic senators and rank-and-file constituents need to sound the alarm promptly and promise, loud and clear, to vote against Summers if Obama once again accepts the choice of the Clinton-Rubin crowd. The former Harvard president was himself a Wall Street player between his government positions. He was a soft-on-banks adviser to Obama during the president's first term. Choosing Summers now would be another great gift to the mega-banks. But it would be a very tough vote for Democrats who claim the mantle of reform.
There are many reasons to oppose Summers as Fed chair, but the strongest objection is that Obama would be rewarding the same guys who got things disastrously wrong for the country—the Clinton-Rubin policy makers who danced to Wall Street's tune of financial deregulation and collaborated with the Greenspan Fed and Wall Street to gut prudential regulation like the Glass-Steagall Act. Those actions set the stage for the crisis that devastated middle-class home owners and working people generally.
Summers was an over-confident cheerleader posing as superior intellect. People called him "the smartest man in the room," and Summers definitely believed it. As Treasury secretary during Bill Clinton's second term, Summers personally did the knife work that cut up Brooksley Born, the brave regulator earnestly trying to impose meaningful limits on the explosive derivatives market. He still owes Born—and the country—an apology.
Summers got bounced as president of Harvard for his derogatory remarks about women as scientists. He dissed black professors as inadequate scholars. Personality defects aside, the Democratic party has a huge stake in this decision—whether the money-friendly "New Democrats" who have controlled the party since Bill Clinton will continue to dominate the party's agenda and smother any attempts to embrace true reform.
When Summers came back to Washington in 2009 as Obama's chief economic adviser, he pushed aside rival views and once again underestimated the nature of the crisis or how to deal with it. When other Democrats called for much stronger stimulus measures, Summers was a voice for doing less, and he accepted disappointing results as the best that government could do. Obama, alas, adhered to that advice.
Summers has been trying to rewrite his reputation as he campaigns openly this year for the Federal Reserve appointment. The Washington Post offered him a prime pulpit for a series of op-ed columns in which he makes himself sound like a bleeding-heart liberal. Don't be misled. If opponents dig into his old speeches and over-confident pronouncements, they will find rich material to make the case for rejecting him. The question is not about left or right policy decisions. The question is incompetence.
The best reason to turn Summers out to pasture is that Obama has a far better choice available—a more experienced central banker and moderately liberal economist named Janet Yellen. She is vice chair of the Federal Reserve Board in Washington and has been a close ally of Bernanke and a strong voice for focusing on jobs and other threatening weaknesses in the broad economy. She served for some years as president of the San Francisco Federal Reserve Bank and before that a term as governor before Obama appointed her as vice chair.
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It doesn't hurt that Yellen would be the first woman ever to serve as Federal Reserve chair. It's about time. Next year is the 100th anniversary of the central bank. The stolid masculinity of this cloistered institution has failed the country spectacularly and needs to be pried open for public policy debates. The most chilling failure was that its conservative leaders—Alan Greenspan and Ben Bernanke—did not see the crisis that was coming (evidently neither did Yellen).
That institution's reputation has been gravely diminished by the bank bailouts and other adverse events. The public was shocked and remains deeply skeptical. People don't trust the Federal Reserve, and for good reason. What people could see with their own eyes was that the Fed expended trillions to rescue the mega-banks from the troubled waters while people were left to drown. The illegitimate banker-government relationship has exposed an urgent need for fundamental reforms.
Obama might ask himself which candidate would be most likely to restore public trust in the Fed and see the need for substantial reforms. The smart guy from the old boys' club or an experienced woman who is ready to make history?


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Fan Fic: Alter Series
A very well developed pic drabble series which is a Fullmetal Alchemist Conqueror of Shamballa Alternate Universe Fic in which Edward Elric met up with the alter world counterpart for Roy Mustang, Masuta Ichiro, rather than Alfons Heiderich. It chronicles their journey together through Europe as they attempt to help Ed find a way home. In addition to its excellent characterization and story telling, there is plenty of Ho Yay between Ed and Masuta.It can be found here.
This work provides examples of:
- Alternate Self: Premise of the fic.
- Alternate Universe
- Artificial Limbs: Masuta was shocked when he saw Ed's canon prosthetic arm.
- Cool Teacher: When Hohenheim taught at Oxford, he was this to Masuta.
- Death Glare: Masuta gives Ed a very venomous one after Ed badmouths Hohenheim, who was a favorite mentor of Masuta.
- Doppelgänger: When Masuta initially met Roy, he mistaken him for this.
- Doting Parent: Hohenheim is this to Ed to make up for lost time, while he's not overtly doting he did brag about him a lot to Masuta.
- Eccentric Mentor: Hohenheim was also this.
- Fangirl: Mustang and by extension Masuta have them
- Freak Out: When Masuta is waken by Roy, he has this.
- Here We Go Again: Masuta presses Ed's height Berserk Button after they first meet.
- Identical Stranger: Also, the premise of this fic. Edward on his search meets the real world counterpart of Hughes, Havoc, Hawkeye, Lust, Alphonse and Nina. Masuta also gets hit with this trope when he meets Izumi and Siegfried, who are his parents in his homeworld.
- Irony: While Roy Mustang is The Casanova, Masuta Ichiro is a Celibate Hero.
- Ironic Echo: Masuta's funeral in the real world is played in the same as Hughes's death, right down to the tears.
- Loony Fan: Masuta gets kidnapped by Mustang's fanclub.
- Mundane Utility: Masuta learns alchemy to recreate green tea.
- Our Nudity Is Different: When Masuta ends up in the world of Fullmetal Alchemist, he is shocked by how little Winry wears. While Winry's tubetop and overalls is only showy to Edward, it's outright indecent to Masuta. In his world, not even the prostitutes wear such skimpy clothes.
- Relative Error: Izumi thinks Masuta is looking at her because she's resembles a lost love, he's actually looking at her because she's his mother.
- Riddle for the Ages: Thomas(Alter!Hughes) never finds out what happened to Masuta or Ed and believes him to have died.
- Round Robin - Several LJ Users took part in making up certain parts of the series.
- Sick Episode: When Masuta first enters the world of Central, he gets really sick. According to Ed that is just a side effect from entering a new world.
- Twin Switch: Roy and Masuta switch places for Roy to goof off from paperwork.
- Walking the Earth: Edward travels all over Europe looking for a way home with Masuta tagging along side him.


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August is traditionally a top travel and vacation month. Travel is one of the best ways to educate oneself and to break down barriers between cultures and people. As Mark Twain said, "Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime."
At this month's book club meeting, we are going to talk about why travel is so important and valuable, especially to humanists. We will use the experiences of Franz Wisner in Honeymoon With My Brother as a guide for the discussion. This book is an easy read, but it is often profound and written with compassion. The author definitely has a love for learning about other countries, culture and people.
Honeymoon With My Brother is the true story of Franz Wisner, a man who thought he had it all- a high profile career and the fiancée of his dreams- when suddenly, his life turned upside down. Just days before they were to be married, his fiancée called off the wedding. Luckily, his large support network of family and friends wouldn't let him succumb to his misery. They decided Franz should have a wedding and a honeymoon anyway- there just wouldn't be a bride at the ceremony, and Franz' travel companion would be his brother, Kurt.
During the "honeymoon," Franz reconnected with his brother and began to look at his life with newfound perspective. The brothers decided to leave their old lives behind them. They quit their jobs, sold all their possessions, and traveled around the world, visiting fifty-three countries for the next two years. In Honeymoon With My Brother, Franz recounts this remarkable journey, during which he turned his heartbreak into an opportunity to learn about himself, the world, and the brother he hardly knew.
About Franz Wisner
Franz Wisner has no idea what to label his profession. Writer? Travel addict? Professional dumpee? In addition to How the World Makes Love, he is the author of Honeymoon with My Brother (St. Martin's Press), a New York Times best-selling memoir about the two- year, 53-country honeymoon he took with his brother Kurt after being left at the altar by his fiancée. The brothers have told their offbeat tale on Oprah, the Today Show, CNN, and Fox News, among others. Franz has also penned essays for NPR, Redbook, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Toronto Globe and Mail, Coast Magazine, and any other publication that will have him.
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Facilities: Fitness & Training
Beyond the "Big Three"
by Heather Peavey February 2008
Three pieces of cardio equipment are expected in any fitness facility: treadmills, ellipticals and cycles. These are considered the big three of cardio equipment, and your fitness center should have at least two of them.
Maximizing Personal Training Profits
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Creating a solid plan can help you increase personal training evenue at your facility. Get your whole staff involved, offer a variety of training options, and educate your members through orientations and seminars.
The 'Issue' Is Facility Design
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The 'solution' is to comply with written organizational standards and guidelines, as well as the suggestions and lessons learned from other industry professionals and suppliers.
There Are Many Ways to Achieve the Benefits of Field Aeration
by Andrew Cohen January 2008
The benefits of field aeration are well understood, though there are many different ways to achieve them.
Tax Exemption for Ohio's Nonprofit Fitness Centers Draws Ire
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A tax exemption offered to Ohio's nonprofit fitness centers draws fire from just about everybody.
Fitness Center Insurance Needs and Tips
by Julie Anne Eason December 2007
A lot may have changed for your fitness center in the past year, and that may affect your insurance needs. Here are some tips to heed when you perform your year-end insurance review.
Fitness Programming Changing the Way Group Ex Rooms Are Designed
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Evolving fitness programs are changing the way group exercise rooms are designed, but not their flexible nature.
Fitness Facilities Go Green
by Amy Scanlin October 2007
There are many ways your fitness center can make environmentally sound choices, and set a good example for members, staff and competition alike.
Towels: Customer Service or Money Pit?
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To run a successful towel program, you need tokeep your costs in check and have a good monitoring/inventory system in place.
Accreditation, Standardization and Industry Respectability
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Accreditation of facilities can bring respect, and revenue, to fitness centers and the industry as a whole.


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Ralph W. Backa was born on November 6, 1927, at Deaconess Hospital (now Columbus). He passed away July 6, 2013, at Benefis Senior Center with
his wife, Joyce, of nearly 60 years holding his hand. During those 85+ years he led a full, interesting life.
Services are 10:30 a.m. Thursday, July 11, at Croxford Funeral Home. Burial with military honors will be in the Highland Cemetery military section.
His dad tried farming during the hard times and went to construction and mining leading to attendance at many schools. Ralph started school in Geyser while living with grandparents. Other schools followed: Wheeler, Yellowstone Park, Glacier Park, Butte, where he graduated from the eighth grade. Four years of high school in Neihart where he graduated as Valedictorian of his class of seven.
After three years of work, he decided there had to be something better so he enrolled at Montana State University, now U of M. He majored in education and enrolled as an Air Force ROTC candidate, graduating in 1953. During the senior year, he was square dancing as well as calling square dances and this was how he and Joyce met! They were married in October while Ralph was using his degree to teach school in Wilsall.
He became active in the Air Force in June of '54 reporting to Lackland AFB, TX for induction and then school at a base in Denver. Future home bases included Lincoln, NE; more schooling in Denver and Indian Head, Maryland; Thule, Greenland, Springfield, Massachusetts; a base near Oxford, England; Kincheloe AFB in upper Michigan; two tours at Barksdale AFB, LA with a one year tour at U-Tapao Airfield, Thailand. During this 22 year career he served in Strategic Air Command, specifically in Munitions from loading officer to Squadron Commander, Weapons Inspector and retired as Director of Munitions, HQ2nd Air Force. His duties were recognized as he earned a Commendation Medal with two Oak Leaf Clusters, a
Bronze Star
and wore a Master Munitions Badge. He was very proud of his Air Force Career. During retirement, two of his past commanders told us he was the best inspector they had every had.
Following retirement, Ralph has his own Home Repair business; kept very busy and had to say "no" to jobs so he could come to Montana to hunt and fish. He made the trip for many years before actually moving to Craig. He and Joyce also worked as tellers at several horse race tracks in the south, Hot Springs, Arkansas, in Oklahoma and for several years during the Kentucky Derby at Church Hill Downs in Louisville, Kentucky. Being part time work, they enjoyed travel, visiting friends, playing cards, Ralph was a "champ" at many games. He became a "farmer" when he moved to Montana in '91. Dahlias became a favorite of his and he raised many of them along with roses, glads, and vegetables; especially potatoes. He enjoyed giving talks to garden clubs about the raising of his dahlias. Favorite activities were fishing and hunting
and many, many meals at his home were made up of wild game as well as produce from his garden. He became an avid Grizzly fan, shot the cannon at games for many years; only missed three home games since 1996 and traveled to many our of state games, including Championships. Look at his car!
The family included son Curt, a Sports writer at the Tribune who began the bowling column. He fought cancer but lost in July of 2011. Phyllis is a retired teacher in Bossier City. She works as a representative of Graduate Sales, Inc.; still working with young people. Richard is a Senior Project Executive with a concrete contractor in the Tampa, Fl. area.
Other family members include a nephew and niece, Kevin Schmid (Debbie) and Holley and Tanner of Great Falls, Karen Schmid Rider (Ken) Kyle and Kris of Colorado Springs, CO.
Preceding him were parents, Charles and Lempi Backa, Son Curt; sister and brother-in-law Darlene and Ron Schmid.
Memorials may be made to according to the donors choice.
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We welcome experienced yoga students to Sunset Yoga Center. Iyengar Yoga classes can help you refine your alignment and knowledge of the poses and learn how to use yoga props safely and effectively. Our teachers care about each student and are highly trained to work with the body you have today. Learn ways to deepen your yoga practice...
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Americans for a Clean Energy Grid support policies that will modernize the nation's electric power network and unlock clean energy and economic opportunities across the country. The backbone of a clean electricity system and a strong economy is a resilient and reliable transmission grid. Smart state and federal policies that improve the way the grid is developed, planned, and paid for will help it become a more robust, reliable, and secure network that supports expansion of renewable energy, competitive power markets, energy efficiency, and lower costs for consumers.
On April 1, 2015, Americans for a Clean Energy Grid and The Utton Transboundary Resources Center hosted the Southwest Clean Energy Transmission Summit at the University of New Mexico, headlined by Senator Martin Heinrich. Click below to view videos and slides from the day!Click here to read more
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This article was originally written by Ken Silverstein and posted on Forbes on April 13, 2015. Want to increase the use of green energy and reduce the level of harmful emissions? Invest heavily in the grid to both modernize and expand it, which will accomplish such aims while also building the US economy. That's the […]read more
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Senator Martin Heinrich announced his intention to introduce legislation that would give the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) siting authority "as a backstop in the rare case where states have been unable to act on priority projects" that have been selected as part of FERC's regional transmission planning process under Order No. 1000. Heinrich made […]read more
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On April 1st, Americans for a Clean Energy Grid (ACEG) will host its 10th Regional Clean Energy Summit in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The Southwest is a prime area for renewable energy development, with Arizona and New Mexico both ranked very highly in solar and wind potential. Pair that with relatively low demand, and the need […]read more


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- Heeding Francis, Iowa Catholic leaders to pressure '16 field Updated: Jul-02-15 3:40 am
DES MOINES, Iowa - Roman Catholic leaders in the early voting state of Iowa will call Thursday on candidates for president to follow the teachings of Pope Francis and focus as much on the environment and income inequality in 2016 as they have in past elections on opposing gay marriage and abortion.
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ALBANY, New York - Judge Susan Read plans to retire after more than 12 years on New York's highest court, which hears appeals from lower courts and often makes case law for the state.
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CARSON CITY, Nevada - As the 2016 election inches closer, a number of Republican presidential candidates are booking an increasing number of trips to Nevada.