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Dunk, Where did you get that soldering iron? And also, i've heard that soldering guns are bad for sensitive componenents.
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On a quiet street in bustling Miraflores, close to shopping, restaurants, and a few major attractions
The Antigua Miraflores Hotel is located in the heart of Milaflores, which is a safe and popular area with Peruvians and international tourists alike.
Most visitors to Lima flock straight to Miraflores, which is widely known for its shopping areas, gardens, well-maintained parks, and beaches. It's one of Lima's more upscale areas and is a cultural center with theaters, galleries, and cinemas. The area is home to many hotels, cafes, pubs, restaurants, and stores that are popular with both tourists and locals: Calle de Las Pizzas ("Pizza Street") is lined with pubs and bars that are filled with teenagers and young adults (especially on the weekends). The beaches here are popular with surfers and sunbathers alike (especially during the hot summer months) and are a great alternative to walking around in unbearably warm weather.
Housed in a beautifully restored Spanish Colonial-style pink mansion in the heart of Miraflores, the Antigua Miraflores Hotel is a charming property, with tiled floors, wonderful woodwork, and lots of traditional Peruvian details throughout. The gorgeous common areas were renovated in the early 2000s but preserve the flavor of an elegant colonial residence, from the small but solid restaurant where the free breakfast is served every morning, to the tranquil courtyard. However, the rooms, though spacious and bright, are basic, with dated comforters, and can feel a bit musty. All in all, its location on a quiet street in hopping Miraflores is hard to beat, and the property's historic charm helps compensate for the average rooms.
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Federal report claims Vietnam dumped catfish on U.S. market
WASHINGTON The U.S. Commerce Department has released a preliminary finding that Vietnamese exporters sold frozen catfish fillets below their "normal value" and will make imports subject to an anti-dumping duty if the finding is confirmed in three months.
Sen. Thad Cochran, R-Miss., hailed the ruling as a victory for domestic catfish producers and said the department has helped "begin to move toward ensuring fair trade" in the imported pangasius fish that compete with American catfish.
"This is very good news for Mississippi's catfish farms and those who work them," Cochran said in a prepared statement. "They have been harmed for years by unfair trade practices."
Hundreds of farms raise catfish in Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana and Mississippi, states at the center of the U.S. industry.
Catfish sales surpass $4 billion annually, but imports of the fish surged between 2003 and 2010 to 57 percent of the market from 3 percent, industry reports say.
According to its 28-page analysis, the Commerce Department looked at imports from 45 Vietnamese companies, many of which it determined were affiliated and produced similar or identical products with "significant potential for the manipulation of price or production." Vietnam is on a list of "non-market" state-controlled economies whose exports have to be compared to similarly developed countries producing similar product for the anti-dumping case analysis. In Vietnam's case, the department selected Indonesia's fish exports.
The Vietnamese Association of Seafood Exporters and Producers reported $135.8 million in seafood exports to the U.S. in the year ending in July, for a 17.2 percent annual increase.
The figure reflects imports of shrimp, tuna and mollusks as well as pangasius, the fish species sometimes known as basa and tra that compete with American catfish. Pangasius imports to the U.S. were down slightly from last year in the first half of the year, according to the association's web site.
The association's representatives in Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi did not immediately respond to email messages seeking comment on the preliminary ruling.
A spokesman for the National Fisheries Institute, a non-profit Virginia-based trade association which counts the Vietnamese Association of Seafood Exporters and Producers as a member, played down the significance of the Commerce ruling.
"This is just a preliminary ruling that is part of an ongoing procedure," said NFI spokesman Gavin Gibbons. "Rhetoric that claims it's anything else is premature and inaccurate."
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Explorer of the Seas Cruise Review by EdjaCruiser: Non-smokers beware
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If you do not like second hand smoke, do not go on the Explorer of the Seas. Smoking is permitted on one side of the ship and in the Casino. The Royal Promenade is open to the Casino one deck below. The smoke permeates the Royal Promenade and is distasteful for non-smokers.
Otherwise, the ship is quite nice but not necessarily any better than Carnival, Holland America or Princess.
Ice show was awesome. and the other shows in the Palace Theatre were mixed. Singers and comedians were good. However, not enough variety.
No quiet music or classical music like we have encountered on Carnival or Princess.
Excellent wait staff.
Express walk off at disembarkation was extremely good.
My preference for cruise lines in order: Princess, followed closely by Holland America, Carnival and then Royal Caribbean.
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03- Pixar Sneaks A-113 into Toy Story 2
Easter eggs really started to go crazy with Pixar's third film (and first sequel) Toy Story 2 from 1999. First we see A 113, once again as the license plate on Mom's van.
Toy Story 2 Pizza Truck
The pizza truck shows a substantial uptick in visibility. Since the toys actually car-jack the truck, it has an important part in the plot of the film. It get's Buzz to the airport in time to save Woody…
When the toys get to the airport, there is an announcement over the PA for "LassetAir Flight A113."
Toy Story 2 Easter Eggs
But where Toy Story 2 really shines is with the incredible amount of other Easter Eggs in the film. ANd they start in the opening credits. Those stars? They align to form the lamp from Luxo Jr.
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The ball from Luxo Jr. also makes a few appearances in Toy Story 2….
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Toy Story 2 also features a few nods to the previous film, A Bug's Life. Note the calendar behind Bo Peep, The story book Mrs. Potato Head is reading, and Heimlich on the branch Buzz brushes aside.
Pixar Shorts Easter Eggs
Many Pixar shorts make appearances in the film, too. Some are just titles of books on a shelf, some make quick appearances when Hamm flips through the TV channels (including the old Pixar logo, Tin Toy, Knick Knack and Red's Dream), and even Geri from Geri's Game as the repairman fixing Woody.


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Summary: 5000 years ago the Minoans flourished on the island of Crete. Their advanced culture became the setting for many famous Greek myths. Yet in their heyday the Minoans were wiped from the pages of history. The cause of their downfall has remained a mystery of the ancient world. Sinking Atlantis explores the usual theories about the disappearance of the Minoans and reveals the truth behind the reign and fall of the great Minoan civilization.
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Obama's 100 days: when I think of history, I think Obama is bringing the values of America back. so, yes I am proud of America. there is no where to go but up now. number 43 took us as low as we can go. so let us give our President full support! It will be marked in history that his first 100 days was a test to see if he would last. but not only will he last, he will get a second term.
My Words of Wisdom: Behold they say the truth will set you free. I say the truth will hold you captive, unless the truth you speak of, are your own words and not the words of the liar. for the angel of light is the devil,and truth be told he has convinced the world that he don't really exist.
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18-year old singer Mary Hopkins pictures in a London hotel. She was the first girl to be launched on The Beatles' Apple label. Her first song 'Those Were The Days' replaced 'Hey Jude" at the top of the charts.
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A movie directed by Eli Roth
I don't get it, no wait do get it. No wait . . . now I understand, I got it, I just don't care.
Bear with me for a moment and a metaphor. My knitting skills did what skills do when you leave them alone. I've been working on the same scarf for ages and it isn't getting much longer because I keep making mistakes that tick me off, so I unknit back to a known good spot and continue. Well now I'm just doing a sort of knitting reset and picking up the pattern again rather than unknit back to the . . .
Oh wait, yea, this is a movie review. See how engaged I was?
Alice Evans is on a deadline to write a screenplay. She goes to a country estate, presumably offered to her by the producer who wants more than the screenplay. Her friend Rebecca drops her off but is very concerned. Apparently, Alice has had a bit of a stressful life of late and Rebecca is less than convinced that a week alone in the country with nothing but her mind and laptop are such a good idea. They wander the house a bit together. In one huge room there is nothing but a babycrib (odd). And this makes Rebecca, again, advise Alice not stay there because she would only make herself crazy again. Rebecca finally leaves.
Within seconds the clichés reach their cruising altitude of 32,000 feet, ladies and gentlemen we will be touching down in Obviousville where the time will be exactly what you expect; there may be a little turbulence ahead because the writer seems to have tried to throw a little confusion our way, not to worry, we should pass through that pretty much as you would expect . . .
Alice tries to convince herself that the noises are just noises but cannot halt the urge to do the standard digging around a spooky house. She finds (or is shown in a ghastly sort of way) a shoebox with videotapes. They show a couple that had lived in the house before, Lucy and David Woods.
The videos start tame enough. We discover that the Woods are newly married, then that they are newly pregnant, then that [yawn] David might be crazy. The more Alice watches the videos, the more unbalanced she becomes which means that the story, told mostly through her eyes, becomes more disjointed. Or just poorly edited.
First piece of advice: do not name your movie something as hackneyed as Deadline unless it has the goods, otherwise the name will be fodder to stuff like "Deadline is dead" or "Deadline flatlines." Each means the same thing: I wasted my time.
Since it took about 5 minutes to know the story, I thought why not pay attention to the things we sometimes miss when actually entertained. The camerawork, sound, and the sudden "AAAAHH" moments were predictable to the frame. I think you can call up Sony pictures and get a standard package: The non-bloody horror movie in an old mansion; a cast of four—ah you want the budget package then—o and no pretty teenagers, that cuts you in for another discount, are you sure you don't want to rethink this pretty teenage thing—it's usually worth the extra . . . no? Ok, well this means we throw in the skeleton sitting in the wheelchair for free. We guarantee it will make the film for you. We must warn you, though, if you change any of the settings, you know, try to be clever and switch something up, the equipment will fail—it is programmed only for the non-bloody spook pic with no hot kids ONLY. Otherwise, all you need to do is make sure Ms. Murphy doesn't get her latte and you'll have a movie on the big screen in no time. Yes these technical aspects are honestly that overdone.
Brittany Murphy (Alice) is not a strong enough actor to carry a movie. She is never convincing and her attempts to look crazy really just look like she's staring at a laptop screen after just waking up and realizing that she is out of good coffee and there is no car to go to Starbucks and there is no Starbucks in a hundred miles. I can be convinced that she's jonzin for caffeine but not that she's insane. But what is truly horrific is that, as tradition demands, Alice begins to channel the Lucy she sees in the videos. As she puts on lipstick and tries to look alluring, she looks like a low rent prostitute (also in need of a Starbucks).
Marc Blucas (David) and Tammy Blanchard (Rebecca) are plot devices, not characters—one has to hope they were paid SAG wages and not based on being the equivalent of a piece of furniture.
Thora Birch (Lucy Woods—yea I noticed the tree reference too) is actually good. I don't need to say any more except that it is best for you not to check behind me to see if I'm right.
Deadline can't even suck right. The makers rented a "this movie sucks" package so even that part comes straight out of the box.
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Phoenix is a beautiful Osprey who joined HH&H as the newest Education Ambassador in November 2014. She is a female, as identified by the brown spotted necklace she is wearing. Phoenix, who used to be called Singe, was rescued from a fire by Wildlife Images in Merlin, Oregon. Singe suffered damage to her wings and feathers and lost her ability to fly with ease. She has now found herself a permanent home and has risen from the ashes! Phoenix loves salmon and trout and loves to tear the lips off her fish! Ospreys live by water as they are strict fish eaters and are found throughout our communities. We are dedicated to working with Phoenix to get her comfortable in her new role as an Education Ambassador.
Hover, our American Kestrel
Hover is a handsome American Kestrel who joined HH&H as an Education Ambassador in August 2014. He is a male, as identified by his striking blue-grey coloring on his wings and head. Hover is imprinted on humans, meaning that he does not know he is a Kestrel and would behave in a very un-bird-like manner in the wild. Hover's favorite food is a fat mealworm, but he likes mice and the occasional quail bits. He is quite the communicator, chattering every time we come near him. We continue to work with Hover to make him feel comfortable in his role as an Education Ambassador. HH&H has worked with Hover at several presentations where he is a favorite!


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Mangalitsa lard biscuits and sausage gravy
1 hour, 10 minutes. Serves 4 to 6
Lard biscuits
5 1/2 cups (23.4 ounces) flour
3 tablespoons baking powder
2 tablespoons sugar
1 teaspoon salt
12 ounces cold lard (Sqirl uses lard rendered from Mangalitsa pigs)
1 1/2 cups buttermilk, plus extra for the egg wash
2 eggs, divided
Cracked pepper and fleur de sel
1. Heat the oven to 400 degrees.
2. In a mixing bowl, whisk together the flour, baking powder, sugar and salt. Using a pastry cutter or fork, cut in the lard until it is reduced to pea-sized pieces. Stir in the buttermilk and 1 egg just to form a dough.
3. Remove the dough to a well-floured surface, and pat to a thickness of about 1 inch. Cut out biscuits using a 2-inch round cutter and place on a parchment-lined baking sheet, spacing the biscuits about 11/2 inches apart. The recipe makes about 1 dozen biscuits. Beat the remaining egg with a few tablespoons of buttermilk to form the egg wash. Brush the biscuits with the egg wash, and sprinkle over the cracked pepper and fleur de sel.
4. Bake the biscuits until puffed and golden, 12 to 17 minutes, rotating the tray halfway for even baking.
Sausage gravy
1 pound breakfast or standard pork sausage, crumbled
1 shallot, small dice
2 cloves garlic, minced
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Intel BayTrail processor keeps pace with Snapdragon 800 in benchmark testing
Based on their 22nm Silvermont architecture, Intel's BayTrail processors have a lot of promise. Traditionally a PC chipset manufacturer, Intel recognizes the growing shift toward mobile devices, and is planning accordingly. In an attempt to get their BayTrail technology noticed, Intel allowed Engadget to benchmark the processor on an Android reference tablet.


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California-based Filipino-American singer Jason Farol is coming to Manila for the first time to spend a two-month stretch of promoting his debut album and immersing himself in Pinoy culture.
He is scheduled to arrive on Sunday morning, October 13.
The 24-year-old, 6'1" tall power balladeer made waves after he placed 3rd in the reality singing show "Duets" where he was paired with American Idol Kelly Clarkson.
Music in his genes
A distant relative of Pinay singer Claire Dela Fuente, Jason is now a signed artist of Viva Records as his eponymous album intends to showcase his charm as a balladeer.
The track "I Believe In Love Again" is now playing in local radio and MYX channel while a Tagalog piece "Kung Ikaw At Ako" is expected to endear him more to Filipino listeners.
Fans of the 23-year old singer can see him perform in intimate shows scheduled on October 18 (District Cavite), October 20 (Glorietta Mall), October 25 (Trinoma Mall), October 26 (Harbor Point, Subic), and October 27 (Marquee Mall, Pampanga).
Yahoo Philippines OMG! chatted with Jason (via YM) in time for his Philippine arrival and tour that includes being Sarah Geronimo's guest in her upcoming major concert. Here are key excerpts from the conversation.
Can you tell us more about your Filipino roots?
My dad was born in Batangas and my mom was born in Manila. It is my first time coming to the Philippines so I'm really excited to see the culture and where my family grew up. They also tell me that the Philippines has some of the best beaches in the world so I can't wait to visit.
How are you preparing for your Philippine visit?
I have been doing constant rehearsal getting as comfortable as possible with my songs, especially my Tagalog song. I'm still trying to learn the language so it can be a little tricky at times.
Can you tell us more about that Tagalog song and the experience of recording it?
I recorded the song here in the States, it was produced by Christian De Walden. I knew how to pronounce some of the words, but my mom helped me in translating it so I could get the right emotion for the song. I was lucky enough to have Christian's wife there to help me with the pronunciation as well. Overall, I'm very happy with how the record turned out.
That's cool to hear. How about your guesting at Sarah Geronimo's concert, what can we expect from you there? How familiar are you with Sarah?
I am super excited to have the opportunity to perform with her! She is an amazing vocalist and I'm just in awe of her talent. We are performing a song that I performed on the show "Duets" with Kelly Clarkson. I'm not sure if I'm allowed to say which song, but it's one of my all-time favorites. I was lucky enough to see her in concert when she performed here in Los Angeles and got to meet her after, she's super humble in person which is very admirable.
Let's go to Kelly. What's the best thing you've discovered about her so far?
I always knew she was a great vocalist, but hearing her sing right in front of you was a little daunting. But in person she is so friendly and goofy that it's so easy to work with her and it's a lot of fun.
What's your favorite duet song with Kelly and why?
There were so many that I loved but if I had to pick one it would definitely have to be "Mercy".
I feel like that was my breakthrough performance on the show where I finally came out of my shell and just had fun. It's also my favorite type of music (throwback soul, doowop). She even let me perform it with her at her concert at the Hollywood Bowl. It's high energy and a lot of fun to perform.
How amazing you ended up third in "Duets" when you were in the bottom two 4 times.
That definitely hurt a lot. I was trying so hard, but for some reason some of the judges didn't like what I did. In the beginning it was very defeating and stressful, but ultimately it made me push myself harder, and I think without all that harsh criticism I wouldn't be where I am now.
If given the chance, would you welcome a showbiz career in the Philippines?
I definitely won't say no, It does seem interesting. I'm sure once I get more experience in the music industry, I eventually will want to branch out into the acting scene.
Jason Farol's Manila tour is supported by Holiday Inn Makati and Ayala Malls in District Cavite, Gloritta Mall, Trinoma, Harbor Point, Subic and Marquee Mall, Pampanga.
Jason is on Facebook, Twitter and Tumblr. Watch him on YouTube and listen to his songs on Soundcloud.
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The Kansas Jayhawk Community College Conference grind has not been easy for the Barton Lady Cougars.
Part 1 was accomplished on Wednesday night, when the NJCAA No. 19-ranked Barton Community College Cougars basketball team dismantled Cloud County 60-41 at Kirkman Activity Center.
Steve Johnson, Larry Schugart and Kurt Budke are on the threshold of entering the Barton Community College Sports Hall of Fame.
This Kansas Jayhawk Community College Conference Western Division basketball game had all of the earmarks of a blowout.
When the Barton Community College Lady Cougars closed the gap on Cloud County, a few turnovers would allow the Lady Thunderbirds regain a lead on Wednesday night.
As far as Barton Community College head basketball coach Craig Fletchall is concerned, the Cougars need to ratchet up their play.
PRATT - Leading 31-25 at halftime, the Barton Community College Lady Cougars looked set to pounce on Jayhawk West win No. 3.
PRATT - Barton Community College's Al Key recorded his fourth double-double of the season in leading the Cougars past Pratt on Saturday night.
The mid-range, pull-up jump shot seems to be a dying art these days.
Shaky at times, the Barton Community College women's basketball team never really put Colby away.
The brand-new basketball court installed in Kirkman Activity Center on the Barton Community College campus over the holiday break has been dedicated.
Coming off a loss isn't really something to write home about.
Go ahead, circle Wednesday, Feb. 13, on the calendar.
HUTCHINSON - In a historic week for the National Junior College Athletic Association Division-I basketball ranks, Barton Community College tried to pull a comeback for the ages on Wednesday night at the Hutchinson Sports Arena.
HUTCHINSON - It didn't really look like the nation's No. 1 women's community college basketball team versus an unranked opponent on Wednesday night.
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What does it mean when you catch a girl staring at you in class and she looks away when you notice?
So there is this really cute girl in one of my college classes and I recently noticed she has been staring at me. The other day I looked over at her... Show More
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Girls don't want to make their feelings vulnerable unless they are sure that the guy likes them back. She's staring at you because she finds you attractive and she probably doesn't know what to do about it. She is most likely shy and isn't good at approaching guys. She may think you are too cute for her and that you are out of her league and there is no point in approaching you because she thinks she isn't good enough for you. She looks away when you catch her staring because she is shy and she doesn't want to look like a creeper or anything. Trust me, you should most definitely stare back at her because although she may get nervous, it will give her a rush and she will begin to think that she does actually have a chance with you. Definitely show some interest and you can approach her if you want because she's not staring at you for no reason. She is probably interested in you.
Also, girls play games because it makes things interesting. It's fun and it gives us a rush.
Ok so I don't know what other stares there are besides these 2 but if you can think of any other ones, I can translate
looking away when you catch a girl staring- she's shy and probably interested
stares back at you when you catch her- she knows what she wants and she's not afraid to let you know or she's forcing herself to show interest because she knows she won't get you if she doesn't
This is kind of a tangent, but I just realized something from the first sentence of your response. So when I first asked out my ex I told her I liked her and then asked her out, but she said nothing about liking me. I just assumed she liked me because she agreed to go out with me, so it wasn't really a big deal. Then I would say and do things to show her that I really liked her, like call her and text her and IM her. She really never did any of this back for a couple weeks so...
I started being distant to see if she would start showing at least some interest back. About 4 days go by and she doesn't even call me even though she said she would. She then breaks up with me and says it is because I didn't pay enough attention to her and she didn't think I was that into her... I was like "You never called me once the whole time we went out." Then a week later I find out she has a new bf. Why didn't she show feelings even though I clearly liked her a lot?
Sorry for such a big tangent. Thanks for the advice by the way, I think I will play the staring game a little more in class and then approach her soon.
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Not to burst your bubble,but she could have just spaced out an started staring at you..lol I do that sometimes and ill space out and start staring at a guy and for some reason it always seems to be the hottest guy in the class.haha but I wasn't trying to check him out! EKK its really embarresing.lol but yeahh..thats my 2 cents
dude we stare because we think either
1. ur a total HOTTIE
2. we think ur cute
3. we wanna talk to you but donno how to
or 4. you look weird
i think you can cross out no.4
i say talk to her and don't make an excuse just say hi what's up or I donno
how did you think you went in that like pop quiz or exam ..:]
I hope you're not the guy that has caught me staring. What college do you go to?
Haha, I doubt it. I live in Michigan.. So how did you avt when he caught you staring at him? Did you keep doing it?
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Yea, shy guys are a challenge. I used to be a shy guy in high school and when girls had crushes on me I really never talked to them unless they talked to me first. After a couple times of talking to him I'm sure he will feel a lot more comfortable with you and break that shyness. I think I'll start a convo with her about the class or something, it's good to know that just talking to her would make her day.
Good luck with that. I'm probably going to do the same as you (start a convo about class) with this guy. Hopefully, no awkward silence.
I completely agree with that answer if this was taking place in high school because I actually was that shy girl in high school! I'm not really sure which one of us started the staring but I do remember I would look away at first... then I got brave enough to hold it for 2 seconds longer. I was madly crazy about that guy but way to nervouse to make a move. Staring was kinda like playing peekaboo.
college is different though...
She could be shy, she could remember you from another course or encounter, you might remind her of someone else she knows, maybe someone told her something random about you, or maybe your just a good piece of eye candy. We have countless reasons to stare. Who wants to keep their eyes glued to the professor lecturing? Believe it or not, a lot of people in class (guys included) are looking around at other people or distract themselves some other way.
Staring games are fun but they will never amount to anything more if neither of you take the initiative. My guess is this girl probably won't. Are you allowed to sit in any seat in the classroom? Are there group projects? Study groups? That might be your best route to introducing yourself since you don't want to make up an excuse. But trust me, any excuse will do! Just putting yourself out there would make her feel a lot more comfortable around you. Plus you are acknowleging that you noticed her which will make future encounters less awkward. A friendly invitation from you offers her a reason to say hi to you again in class or around campus.
Taking that first step will help you determine whether or not she really is shy.
GO FOR IT MAN! You've got nothing to lose!
Ok, I know you asked this question 3 months ago, but the girl in your scenario is me, (metaphorically speaking of course). I did the same things to the guy that I thought was cute in one of my college classes, and I am guessing he didn't get the hint that I was interested but EXTREMELY shy to do anything about it. The girl definitely likes you because she looked away when you were looking at her. Pay attention to the expression on her face (that is, if you still have the class with her or if you still see her) if she gets all flustered and she looks away very quickly after your eyes meet she is a shy girl. I know that I think that the guys I like will never like me back like that and I would never want to make it so obvious that I was looking. Don't play staring games because that, in my opinion and experience, leads to nowhere. If you like her, get to know her (again this is if you still see her). She will appreciate the forwardness and will be happy to get to know you. I hope this helped, if not for now, at least for future endeavors.
Because we like you and want you to know but are too shy to approach you lol. I always stare at the guy I like and he stares at me but I think we're both too shy to do anything about it :( The diff stares I do:
1.I catch him staring so I'll look back until it goes on too long so I'll keep looking away then back again.
2. Where he is with his friends and I try to act like I'm not interested so it'll just be quick glances every now and again-so that he knows I've noticed him.
3.Where I'm looking and then he catches me, I'll look away straight away but then 2 secs later look back at him to see if he's still looking (which he is).
Because when we like a guy we don't really know we are afraid to make the first move
We don't know if they are already with someone or not
I'm in college now. First year there's this guy in two of my classes who I like and I stare at him a lot with out even meaning to when he notices he smiles or mouths what ? While smiling and we are in the same group for English
What I'm trying to say is its hard to express feeling
Btw dose
she try to sit near you ?
We play the staring game because we like to look at those who we attracted to we hope they play it back
Or that's why. Do I ;-)
Did you or her start the staring first? How long has this been going on?
I just noticed her doing it a few days ago and started to play along and we kept staring at each other throughout the whole class. I never really noticed her doing it until just a few days ago tho.
Maybe she's staring at you just because you're staring at her. But you obviously want something to happen and you think she's cute... so go around look for her kinda. When you bump into her around school then say "Hey you're in my ___ class! Where you going? I'm going that way too... I'll walk you. You wanna study?" etc. I believe that's the easiest and most comfortable way.
Okay, thanks, I'll try that out. :)
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Albright's hereditary osteodystrophy
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|Albright's hereditary osteodystrophy
|Classification and external resources
Albright's hereditary osteodystrophy consists of a constellation of features including a form of osteodystrophy,[1] that occur in pseudohypoparathyroidism type 1a.
The disorder is characterized by a lack of responsiveness to parathyroid hormone,[2] resulting in low serum calcium, high serum phosphate, and appropriately high serum parathyroid hormone.
Individuals with Albright's hereditary osteodystrophy have short stature, characteristically shortened fourth and fifth metacarpals, rounded facies, and often mild mental retardation.[3][4]
Albright's hereditary osteodystrophy is commonly known as Pseudohypoparathyroidism because the kidney responds as if parathyroid hormone were absent. In fact, blood levels of parathyroid hormone are elevated in Pseudohypoparathyroidism due to the continued Hyperphosphatemia & Hypocalcemia.
It is associated with epigenetic genetic imprinting.[5] Because of this the disease can occur when a mother with mild clinical symptoms or a de novo mutation of the maternal allele passes it to her offspring.
It is believed to be inherited in an autosomal dominant pattern.[6]
It is associated with a Gs alpha subunit deficiency.[7]
The disorder bears the name of Fuller Albright, who characterized it in 1942.[8][9] He was also responsible for characterizing McCune-Albright syndrome as well as a number of other bone disorders.
He originally named it "Sebright Bantam syndrome", after the Sebright Bantam, which demonstrated an analogous hormone insensitivity.[10]
Much less commonly, the term "Martin-Albright syndrome" is used,[11] after the first author of a 1940 paper in a Swiss medical journal that may have described a case.[12][13]
See also[edit]
- Archibald's sign
- Brachydactyly mental retardation syndrome, a similar disease.
- List of radiographic findings associated with cutaneous conditions
- Pseudopseudohypoparathyroidism, the syndrome of GNAS paternal inheritance which results in similar dysmorphology but normal biochemistry.
- ^ Rapini, Ronald P.; Bolognia, Jean L.; Jorizzo, Joseph L. (2007). Dermatology: 2-Volume Set. St. Louis: Mosby. p. 657. ISBN 1-4160-2999-0.
- ^ Namnoum AB, Merriam GR, Moses AM, Levine MA (March 1998). "Reproductive dysfunction in women with Albright's hereditary osteodystrophy". J. Clin. Endocrinol. Metab. 83 (3): 824–9. doi:10.1210/jc.83.3.824. PMID 9506735.
- ^ Online 'Mendelian Inheritance in Man' (OMIM) 103580
- ^ Garavelli L, Pedori S, Zanacca C et al. (April 2005). "Albright's hereditary osteodystrophy (pseudohypoparathyroidism type Ia): clinical case with a novel mutation of GNAS1". Acta Biomed 76 (1): 45–8. PMID 16116826.
- ^ de Nanclares GP, Fernández-Rebollo E, Santin I et al. (June 2007). "Epigenetic defects of GNAS in patients with pseudohypoparathyroidism and mild features of Albright's hereditary osteodystrophy". J. Clin. Endocrinol. Metab. 92 (6): 2370–3. doi:10.1210/jc.2006-2287. PMID 17405843.
- ^ Fitch N; Opitz, John M.; Herrmann, JüRgen (January 1982). "Albright's hereditary osteodystrophy: a review" (FREE FULL TEXT). American journal of medical genetics 11 (1): 11–29. doi:10.1002/ajmg.1320110104. PMID 6278930.
- ^ Patten JL, Johns DR, Valle D et al. (May 1990). "Mutation in the gene encoding the stimulatory G protein of adenylate cyclase in Albright's hereditary osteodystrophy". N. Engl. J. Med. 322 (20): 1412–9. doi:10.1056/NEJM199005173222002. PMID 2109828.
- ^ Wilson LC, Trembath RC (October 1994). "Albright's hereditary osteodystrophy" (PDF). J. Med. Genet. 31 (10): 779–84. doi:10.1136/jmg.31.10.779. PMC 1050125. PMID 7837255.
- ^ Albright F, Burnett CH, Smith PH et al. (1942). "Pseudo-hypoparathyroidism-example of 'Seabright-Bantam syndrome'; report of three cases". Endocrinology 30: 922–932.
- ^ synd/164 at Who Named It?
- ^ Quist SR, Franke I, Hiort O, Gollnick HP, Leverkus M (January 2009). "First diagnosis of Martin-Albright syndrome in a 58-year-old patient". J Dtsch Dermatol Ges 7 (1): 43–5. doi:10.1111/j.1610-0387.2008.06862.x. PMID 19138295.
- ^ synd/1654 at Who Named It?
- ^ Martin D, Bourdillon J (1940). "Un cas de tétanie idiopathique chronique. Échec thérapeutique de la graffe d'un adénome parathyroïdien". Revue médicale de la Suisse romande (Lausanne) 60: 1166–77.
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This Year in Jerusalem, by Mordechai Richler
Bad Trip
This Year in Jerusalem.
by Mordechai Richler.
Knopf. 292 pp. $23.00.
Mordechai Richler first came to prominence by virtue of two novels set among the Jews of Montreal. The first, Son of a Smaller Hero (1959), recounts the struggle of its hero, Noah Adler, to free himself from the prejudices and limitations of the Jewish community; the second, The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (1959), later made into a movie, is a rags-to-riches story, formulaic but also satiric (it was reviled in some parts of the Jewish community). Since then Richler has written seven more novels, numerous screenplays, and, in 1992, a book (Oh Canada! Oh Quebec! Requiem for a Divided Country) severely critical of the Quebec separatist movement.
As we learn from his latest book, which is in part a memoir, Richler grew up in a hasidic family in Montreal. He attended a traditional religious school but also became involved in the Labor Zionist youth movement called Habonim, not out of strong commitment to Zionism but, as he freely admits, in order to spite his pious grandfather and lay hands on girls broken loose from the bonds of piety. But those "hallelujah days of Habonim" (as he calls them here) were also a time of moral certitude, when he still believed that Jews deserved a state of their own and that the best young people would leave the wasteland of the Diaspora, where Jews were destined for assimilation, and make their way to the land of Israel as pioneers.
Soon, however, Richler found that the American novelist John Dos Passos "spoke" to him more than Jewish writers did. His "ride into goyish culture," begun at Montreal's Sir George Williams University, was so "exhilarating" that in 1950 he set sail not for Tel Aviv but for Paris, where he lived for two years before going on to London for another twenty. So far had he emancipated himself "from childhood religious observances" that in 1951, he writes, he was surprised to find a kosher restaurant—to which he wished to take a Gentile friend—closed on Yom Kippur. Nor do the ensuing decades appear to have brought him back to Jewish sources: a reader, for instance, curious about the origin of a sentence Richler quotes here from an ancient rabbinic text, the Mishnah, will be directed by the endnote to consult Leo Rosten's The Joys of Yiddish.
Although Richler made a brief visit to Israel in 1962, it was not until 1984 that he became curious about the path not taken, about those old friends from Habonim in Montreal who had actually moved to the Zionist homeland. Still, he managed to restrain his curiosity for eight years until he was invited to be a guest at Jerusalem's Mishkenot Sha'ananim, an elegant guest house to which the Jerusalem Foundation invites artists and intellectuals, and so was afforded an occasion for writing this book.
This Year in Jerusalem combines Richler's talents as a chronicler with his new penchant for social-political criticism, now applied to Israel (whose prospective division into two states he contemplates far more favorably than the possible dismemberment of Canada). Insofar as a jerry-built book can be said to have a narrative skeleton, it is supplied by Richler's travels through Israel to look up his old friends from Montreal, ostensibly to show us what has happened, physically and spiritually, to comrades from the old neighborhood who now live in Israel's cities or kibbutzim.
Haphazardly draped over and obscuring this skeleton are recollections of his family, memoirs of growing up in Jewish Montreal, bits and pieces of Zionist history culled from secondary and tertiary sources, and political commentary on Israel and every other Jewish issue that happens to cross his field of vision. If there is a unifying theme underlying Richler's observations, it is Albert Einstein's declaration (of 1938), quoted as an epigraph and repeated in the fourth chapter—that the "essential nature of Judaism resists the idea of a Jewish state with borders" and that nationalism will cause severe "inner damage" to Judaism.
Readers familiar with the Israeli scene and its interpreters will find very little that is new in Richler. We get the standard horror stories about ultra-Orthodox religious leaders, the fulminations against religion by Israeli members of the Peace Now movement (to which Richler also belongs), a reactionary Moroccan-Jewish taxi driver, an Arab expelled from a home where his ancestors lived "for a thousand years," the incessant depiction of the 100,000 Jews living in the disputed territories as Uzi-toting lunatics expecting the Messiah to arrive next month, the repetition ad nauseam of the mindless slogan about how "you make peace with your enemies," and—this above all—the ritual depiction of Arabs as Jews.
Since Richler's preferred guides to the Israeli-Arab scene are the leftist journalist Amos Elon, the leftist novelist David Grossman, and Village Voice reporter Robert I. Friedman (who, Hillel Halkin once wrote, shows "how it is possible for a reporter to be thoroughly dishonest without telling too many outright lies"), he must know just how stale this formula is; yet he doggedly adheres to it throughout the book. Palestinian nationalism is for him the mirror-image of Zionism. Just as Grossman, in his The Yellow Wind (1987), likened a boy he saw on the roof of a house in an Arab refugee camp to a "fiddler on the roof," so Richler reports that Arab junk collectors in Jerusalem make their pitch in Yiddish. If Jews call Sukkot Ha-chag, then Arabs use the word hagg to describe the pilgrimage to Mecca. And so forth.
But the cultural aspect of this equation is trivial compared with the political-military. If 750 "collaborators" were executed by their fellow Arabs during the intifada (actually the number is much higher), then, admonishes Richler, we must recall that the Stern Gang (allegedly) did the same to about twenty Jews between 1940 and 1948. If it is really the case that the PLO is in collusion with Hamas, why then "its mirror-image was arguably the Zionist faction that was once led by Vladimir Jabotinsky." If Jews do not much care for "Hamas youngsters . . . sharpening their daggers in praise of Allah" (is that all they do with those daggers?), then the ever-ready Richler recommends that they contemplate "the God-crazed settlers wearing prayer shawls and phylacteries, Uzis protruding from their belts." (The exhortation to make peace with one's enemies would appear to extend only to enemies wearing keffiyehs, not to those wearing yarmulkes and tefillin.)
It never occurs to Richler to ask why, if the Palestinian Arabs are a distinct people requiring a distinct state, they (abetted by a thousand publicists) need to represent themselves as Jews. The answer is not far to seek: to misrepresent an aggression against the Jewish state as a case of victimization by that same state. Neither does Richler ask an equally obvious question about the missing element in his Arab-Jewish equation: in which cafés in Damascus have Syrian novelists argued for the legitimacy and moral necessity of Israel? In what purlieu of Montreal is there a Canadian-Arab writer making the case for the Jews?
Although This Year in Jerusalem is social commentary rather than fiction, it resembles Richler's novels in at least one important respect. Those books elicit disdain for the vulgarity of Montreal's Jews without ever showing anything that might complicate that vulgarity with the weight of the Jewish past; they display, in the novelist who wrote them, a lazy weakness for the easy target and the easy laugh. That laziness is still in evidence here. In fact, the same straw men into whose mouths Richler puts the crudest objections to his novels—"You earn big money writing novels that make fun of the Jews." "Are you a Jewish anti-Semite?"—turn out to be also the most foolish Zionist rams for his sacrificial knife.
Now and then, however, he overcomes his intellectual indolence and appears to sally forth against strong adversaries. One such is David Bar-Illan, executive editor of the English-language Jerusalem Post, Israel's most unabashedly Zionist newspaper and a standing affront to Diaspora visitors of the Peace-Now persuasion who (like Richler) do not read the Hebrew press. Declaring that he "almost never agree [s] with" Bar-Illan, Richler tries to rebut him.
According to Richler, Bar-Illan's "case" against the Arabs is based on two shaky, irrelevant premises: one, that Palestine was a desolate land before the Zionist return; two, that the notion of a Palestinian-Arab identity is a recent invention, since, prior to the 1960's, the only people who called themselves Palestinians were the Jews. But, retorts Richler, even if the land had gone to ruin over the centuries, this did not justify the "stiff-necked" Jews coming in, saying "move over or get out" to Arabs who had tended their sheep and olive groves "for generations," whether they called themselves Palestinians or not. And besides, "the dispute is not about semantics."
It would be too much to expect a dilettante with Richler's prejudices to have delved into the history of high Arab in-migration into predominantly Jewish areas since the inception of Zionist settlement in the late 19th century, or to be aware that the coastal plain, for example, really was empty of population on the eve of Zionist settlement. But one might think that a person who earns his living as a writer would acknowledge the importance of words and the political potency of linguistic larceny. If semantics are unimportant, one wonders why Richler is so punctilious about referring to the "Old Testament" instead of the Hebrew Bible, about saying "West Bank" instead of Judea/Samaria, and "Greater Israel" instead of Land of Israel, or why he takes the trouble to include a glossary in which he disputes (for example) the definition of Fatah Hawks as terrorists.
Much later in the book Richler seems about to take on a second adversary: Hillel Halkin, an American who settled permanently in Israel in 1970. Halkin's Letters to an American Jewish Friend: A Zionist Polemic (1977) is one of the most important books to come out of Israel since the founding of the state, yet Richler could not, he complains, manage to read it because it is "out of print." (Apparently there are no lending libraries in Montreal.) Therefore, in preparation for a Tel Aviv meeting with Halkin, he read a short magazine essay by him so that he could paraphrase Halkin's argument for aliyah, Jewish immigration to Israel.
As usual, he gets it wrong. "Halkin's assumption that it was impossible to lead a full Jewish life in America was unnerving," Richler writes. But in his book Halkin says nothing of the kind. Rather the opposite:
I am not saying that you cannot live an authentic Jewish life in the Diaspora; I am saying that if the criterion is the future of the Jewish people, you are living it in the wrong place.
Although he has only the vaguest idea of what Halkin's position is, Richler "refutes" it by listing a score of prominent, "caring" Jews who by virtue of living (and writing) in the Diaspora disprove the Halkin thesis. Had Richler taken the trouble to look, he might have thought better of this mode of argument. Here, for example, is what the late Irving Howe, one of Richler's Diaspora all-stars, wrote about Letters to an American Jewish Friend:
When . . . Hillel Halkin sent from Israel a powerful book arguing that the Jews in the West now had only two long-range choices if they wished to remain Jews—religion and Israel, faith and nationhood—I searched for arguments with which to answer him. But finally I gave it up, since it seemed clear that the perspective from which I lived as "a partial Jew" had reached a historical dead end.
Repeatedly, from his Einsteinian epigraph until the book's end, Richler harps on the theme that Jewish nationalism, i.e., Zionism, is "contrary to what had evolved as the Jewish tradition." But in him this non- or anti-religious Diaspora "Jewish tradition" amounts to nothing but a puffed-up "pride" in Jewish neighborhood origins and a fossilized left-wing ideology. That is a considerably deader end even than the one Irving Howe confessed to, but it is in that dead end that Mordechai Richler complacently has chosen to live. This book shows it.


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The Case of the Shaky Ally
The U.S.-Australia Cold War of 1972-73.
Jun 25, 2012, Vol. 17, No. 39 • By ROSS TERRILL
"The 'general line' was always set in Moscow," Theodore Draper said of the U.S. Communist party, and the same occurred Down Under. True, the CPA did struggle for Aboriginal rights, help the unemployed, and later push East Timor independence. But Moscow was an albatross never far from its neck. Laurie Aarons and his flock were wounded by the Stalin-Hitler pact, blindsided by Petrov's defection, given pause by the crushing of the Hungarian uprising in 1956, made fools of by the split between China and the Soviet Union, and appalled by the Soviet invasion of Prague in 1968. Ultimately, Soviet spying in Australia and Communist undercover efforts within Labor were two sides of a coin. Moscow's brain and purse were inseparable. The Soviets paid the bills even as they stymied the CPA's political prospects.
In 1958 Aarons visited China (which also bankrolled the CPA), and later, in Moscow under Nikita Khrushchev, he waxed eloquent to his hosts about Mao's Great Leap Forward. "It was very tactless, when I think about it," he later mused, "and went down like a lead balloon." He "suddenly understood" that Beijing-Moscow relations "weren't too flash." In Melbourne the head of the pro-Beijing faction of the CPA, Ted Hill, prepared to found his own Communist party and acquire weapons and train workers in the jungles of northern Australia for "armed struggle" in the coming "class war." (I later interviewed Hill, a successful lawyer neat in suit and tie, for my biography Mao; although his organization in Melbourne was pitiably small, he was often received by Mao in Beijing. Mao didn't talk to Hill about guns and Molotov cocktails, leaving that enthusiasm to Paris intellectuals and the New York Review of Books.)
As the crisis in Prague built in 1968, Aarons was "invited" to visit the Soviet ambassador in Canberra and hear a letter from Moscow on Czechoslovakian reformer Alexander Dubcek. "They wouldn't give you the letter, so you had to write it down. It was six or seven foolscap pages. . . . That was the worst political experience I've ever had. . . . We had some lunch and some vodkas and I came back [to Sydney]. On the plane I read the thing, and my heart was sinking." It dawned on Aarons that Australia, as a small country like Czechoslovakia, could also one day face Soviet intrusion. He belatedly began a search for "an Australian socialist model." Most of Aarons's doings were observed by ASIO, whose hit-and-miss, amusing reports make it virtually a coauthor of The Family File.
Thanks to Soviet string-pulling and the good sense of the Australian electorate, the CPA never made it into parliament and the cabinet, as Togliatti's Communists did in Italy and Thorez's Communists in France. To its credit, right-wing Labor, exemplified by Bob Carr and Kim Beazley—the current ambassador in Washington—kept its distance from the Moscow-Beijing-subsidized cabal that was Australian communism.
To be sure, some blame for the 1972-73 crisis belongs on the American side. Kissinger at first referred to Prime Minister Whitlam in our December 23 talk as "Mr. Whitelaw." Assistant Secretary of State Marshall Green said to me of Gough Whitlam and his deputy, Lance Barnard, three weeks after their election: "I know and like them both, Mr. Gough and Mr. Whitlam." Secretary of State William Rogers was unaware that a Labor prime minister did not (then) choose his cabinet members; Walter Rice, the American ambassador in Canberra, had not told him. The Nixon administration was ill prepared for a changed Australia and paid the price.
In late April 1973, the Australian embassy in Washington had zero assurance that Nixon would receive Whitlam on a planned July trip to the United States. No newly elected Australian prime minister had ever been in such a pickle. "Snub!" cried the press. Whitlam's top aide, Peter Wilenski, phoned me at Harvard on April 14 from Canberra. "The PM agrees with you," he said, "that the [Washington] embassy's access to the White House is not very good. He wants you to arrange a meeting for me with Kissinger." The prime minister feared that requests to Nixon through the embassy, if refused, would get into the press and besmirch his government.
Whitlam told Wilenski, "If you get this meeting with Kissinger and my meeting with Nixon is set for July, you can take a week off on the way back to Australia!" Kissinger quickly agreed to see Wilenski on May 2. Wilenski swore me to secrecy before that talk, and he told the Australian ambassador about it only one hour beforehand. Kissinger assured Wilenski that Nixon would receive Whitlam. Wilenski got a few days on the beaches of Hawaii.
Marshall Green, Rice's successor as ambassador, took effective steps during the first half of 1973 to ease tensions. At a dinner the Australian ambassador in Washington gave for him on April 18 before he left for Canberra, I told Green a certain operative at the U.S. embassy there was objectionable to Whitlam. "I'm getting rid of him, he's going to Tokyo," said Green. He also remarked to the dinner table, "If we can't get on with Australia we can't get on with anyone." Green and Whitlam came to respect each other, and the atmosphere improved by 1974.
At the White House, when Kissinger calmed down over Whitlam's cable, he reminisced about Zhou Enlai, whom we had both met, and made a prescient remark: "For American policy [in East Asia] there are two phases. In the first, Thailand has to be linchpin. But that will give way to a second phase, when détente with China will be the best guarantee of security in Asia." I knew this would appeal to Whitlam, who had switched Australia's embassy from Taipei to Beijing immediately on taking office. In Sydney the prime minister asked me, "What am I going to say at my press conference about the Hanoi bombing?" I explained Kissinger's "two phases," which pleased him. If phase two came soon, it was clear, Australian-American relations would stabilize. This eventually occurred.
The collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 quickly brought the collapse of the CPA. What Ronald Reagan called (in advance) the "sad, bizarre chapter in human history" of Soviet communism reached its final page. Robbed of hope for revolution, 400-500 amiable political orphans gathered in a hall in Sydney to disband the CPA, close its bank accounts, then stroll into the Australian sunshine to plan their personal futures. As Aarons's son concluded, "There were no models to inspire new generations." Some joined the Labor party to pursue mere political "evolution." A Stalinist remnant obtained explosives for terrorist acts against police, greedy businesses, Rupert Murdoch, and other oppressors.
The Communist problem for the Australian democratic left evaporated not only because of world events, but also because the pro-market economic policies of the Labor government of Bob Hawke (1983-91) and later the conservative one of John Howard (1996-2007) made Australia prosperous and rendered "class struggle" an anachronism. Hawke's changes were not all permanent, however (just as Clinton's changes to the Democratic party did not preclude Obama's leftism). One of Hawke's successors as Labor leader declared the U.S. alliance "the last bastion of the white Australia mentality" and called George W. Bush "the most incompetent and dangerous American president in decades." But Howard thrashed him at the 2004 election; thus did the electorate speak.
Democracy solves many problems among democratic allies. Nixon and Kissinger were agitated over Australia in 1972-73, but the Australian people spoke, the democratic process worked, and it would work again three years later to toss Whitlam out. He lost in 1975 despite his achievements in foreign policy because he was a poor economic thinker and a social engineer beyond the taste of individualistic Australians (he wanted to start a government newspaper!).
Later, in turn, Prime Minister Hawke was agitated over the coming of Ronald Reagan. "The United States hasn't had a decent president since Truman," he complained to me in 1986. Yet Reagan influenced Hawke's rule just as Hawke's economic deregulation eventually helped Howard. The electorate is generally correct, and Labor leaders must follow it to win. (Alas, this corrective lacks with allies that are not democracies.) In a democracy each side learns from the other, though loath to admit it. Whenever Labor has teetered toward the far left, the Australian people have rejected it.
Kissinger as secretary of state (1973-77) never visited Australia and was ribbed for the omission. "It was because you never gave me any trouble," he beamed. Indirectly, surmounting "trouble" in Australia-U.S. relations in 1972‑73 benefited Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser (1975‑83) and subsequent prime ministers. The conservative Fraser accepted Whitlam's foreign policy departures in Asia and stronger voice within ANZUS. Likewise, without Reagan there could not have been a Clinton. Without Thatcher there could not have been a Blair.
In Australia today, the old Communist impulse flickers on as anti-Americanism, disgust at capitalism for the fresh sin of destroying nature, and a preference for China over the United States as the dominant power in the Asia-Pacific region. The Labor party dabbles in the fancy middle-class enthusiasms of climate change, environmentalism, and gay marriage, but its base remains the trade union machine.
Current Labor party prime minister Julia Gillard's chief skill seems to be clawing for power. A product of the semi-Marxist left establishment as a lawyer for Melbourne unions, she came to power in a 2010 coup when intraparty maneuver knifed Kevin Rudd (a sitting prime minister!), who'd defeated Howard in 2007. To her credit, Gillard has held at bay the Beijing-appeasers, but her domestic policy line swings almost by the month, and she pushes a crippling tax on the mining industry and expensive carbon tax goals.
As prime minister, Tony Blair made a remarkable speech in 1997 in which he implied the British Labour party had made a mistake by setting up a separate workers' party. They should have stayed in Lloyd George's Liberal party, which they assisted with its dramatic establishment of the welfare state after a big Liberal victory in 1906; they could have formed its vigorous left wing. Blair pointed out that the Labour party instead spent decades in the wilderness between the end of Lloyd George's government in 1922 and its first real stretch of power under Attlee from 1945 to 1951. This speech gave the rationale for Blair's turning his party into New Labour, weaning it from the unions and nationalization—and giving it a record 13 years in power.
Today the Australian Labor party, its past ideology gone, yet not having sought renewal in the mold of New Labour, has little to guide it beyond opportunism. Only when an occasional leader lifts his eyes to the electorate—then wins—does this trade union party of factions escape the smoke-filled room. Gillard is not a soaring principled leader, and victory seems likely soon for Tony Abbott's conservatives.
Ross Terrill is the author of The Australians, various books on China, and Socialism as Fellowship (a study of the British social democrat R. H. Tawney).
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thanks for accepting the invite stay safe
over 6 years ago
Thanks for accepting my invite. Give your children a big hug for me and hold them tight. I lost my son in May of 2007. A little known disease took him from me just days after he contacted it. He was my only child and was just 2 weeks from graduating high school.
You think that you have all the time in the world with your children............................until.
Remember this.
Stay safe, brother.
over 6 years ago
Just stopping by to say hello...hope all is well, and have a great rest if the week!!
over 6 years ago
Thank you for the add. Have a nice time and watch you six o'clock Virgil
over 6 years ago
120 Comments
I wanted to take the time to wish you a very Merry Christmas and a fantastic start to 2009,
over 6 years ago