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Fans of Andy Rementer's work in New York have a week left to check out his exhibition of acrylic paintings on canvas at the Mondo Cane gallery in Tribeca…
The exhibition, entitled I Wish I Knew, features a number of New York-inspired 36 x 48inch canvases by Rementer which are among the largest original works he's produced.
"I've always been a draw-er rather than a painter," says Rementer, "but in the past year painting has taken a more significant role in my practice. Painting is a great way to take my illustrated work into another dimension."
"I really like the physical presense of a canvas," adds Rementer, "and I hope to continue in this direction."
I Wish I Knew by Andy Rementer runs until November 12 at Mondo Cane, 174 Duane Street, Tribeca, New York, NY 10013.
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text: The Kororinpa: Marble Mania wiki last edited by SaturdayNightSpecials on 07/06/13 11:20PM View full history OverviewKororinpa: Marble Mania is a puzzle game which requires the player to roll a marble through a maze, collecting gems along the way, until it reaches an end point. The player achieves this not by rolling the marble itself, however, but by using the Wii Remote to tilt the maze itself, this in turn gives a much higher degree of control to the player, allowing them to roll the marble along and up walls, jumping large distances, even returning from a fall over the edge, which the game manual adds as a hint: "Don't ever give up, even when you're falling over the edge!".GameplayThe main game is split up into 5 main areas: Park, Candyland, Day Town, Toyland and Night Town, each area containing 10 levels, except for Night Town, which contains 5. Each and every (except one) level requires the player to collect red gems scattered around the level, usually in a linear fashion, which activate checkpoints, in some levels, then when all gems are obtained, the exit pad, however if the player does not collect all gems, but still roll over the exit pad, they will have to restart from the furthest checkpoint reached. Each level also features one green gem, placed in a difficult to reach location, often disabling the player from returning without falling off. Unlike most common ball rolling games, the player does not have lives, however if they do fall of of the edge or get destroyed by a hazard, the clock does not reset, it just keeps going. When the player finishes the level, if they have completed it within a required time, they will receive either a bronze, silver or gold trophy, prompting the player to not fall off too much. Before starting a level, players are able to choose from a variety of marbles to roll through the maze, each one having specific traits that advantage and disadvantage it, though only one marble is available to begin with.Objects/HazardsThere are several different objects to challenge and help the player throughout the game:Conveyor Belt - replacing normal stretches of track, these move in one direction, forcing the player to tilt the maze further, rolling the marble more forcefully, which often leads it over an edge once it gets off of the belt.Scissors - giant scissors that are placed over a portion of track, these open and close periodically, preventing the player from progressing until they open again.It's s-s-s-slippery here!Ice - covering sections of track, they reduce traction, making it very difficult to move carefully, which can be very effective on narrow tracks.Lava - covering sections of track, if the player's marble touches this, the marble will be destroyed as if they had fallen off of the track.Magnifying Glasses - these hover over the parts of the level, usually rotating, magnifying the sunlight to be as powerful and deadly as lava, destroying the player if they touch it.Cannon - these, when the player rolls their marble into it, shoot the player upwards to a higher platform, however if the player does not keep the platform level, the marble has a good chance of falling off again.Magnet - these automatically attract the marble to them, letting the player cross large gaps without fear of falling.Jelly/Honey - covering sections of track, these reduce speed, forcing the player to tilt the level further.RewardsSshhh! Don't tell anyone, it's a secret!If the player is able to collect a certain number of green gems, they will unlock a secret area, full of 15 levels of varying difficulty, though they must collect all 45 green gems to unlock 14 of the levels. If the player is able to complete each level in a small amount of time, they will receive a gold trophy, which, although would seem unnecessary for non-completionists, serves a purpose. If the player can obtain 5 gold trophies, they will unlock an extra level in a new area, Outer Space, which contains 5 levels, these levels can be each unlocked when the player obtains an additional 5 trophies for each level. Additionally, if the player can complete those five space levels, they will unlock the 15th secret level, totaling in 65 levels in the main game, and if the player can complete all 65 of those levels, they will progressively unlock extra background music and 19 extra marbles. If the player completes the 45 regular stages also, they will unlock mirror mode, simply reversing left to right direction for additional challenges for the player.


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Posted by Simon Perry on 26 May 2009 | Tagged as: Content, UK, User Generated Content (UGC)
Social Media reporting show a much better angle that the National media.
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Social Media reporting show a much better angle that the National media.
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Well done to the Best Before team who are behind AudioBoo, they're really building user numbers and adding features. AudioBoo, if you haven't come across it already, lets you record and post audio entries from your iPhone. These messages live on AudioBoo and can be integrated into your own blogs – giving you an audio [...]
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Another day, another use of Twitter. Today it's being used to report the levels of snow falls around the UK. All very useful individually, but the power of a mass of people reporting this information is when it's brought together.
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Burger King has releases a rather strange Facebook App – Whopper Sacrifice. In exchange for you un-friending (burning) your Facebook 'friends,' it gives you credit towards a Whopper. Burn ten and they'll give you a burger in the US.
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A couple of new Twitter converts came to our attention last night, despite what Nick Curtis thinks of it. Oasis, who are on a tour in the US at the moment, jumped on to Twitter a couple of days ago with their @OasisOfficial account. They haven't exactly gone mad on it, making only two posts, [...]
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We're at FOWA listening to speakers and popping around chatting to people. Suw stepped in due to a last noshow but presented a fascinating talk. It's slightly in note form, but the essential are there. Suw looks into how humans (that's us) become addicted to certain Web sites and services like email. To build proper [...]
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Looks like Facebook and Intel are happy to tell everyone that they're going out together – and Intel will be providing their server processors. Facebook users the world over will be breathing a sign of relief, as frankly it can be a real drag to use it, as it often runs like treacle.
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Lisa Nova is well known on YouTube as making amusing videos where she either plays a character or makes a joke of other people, at their expense. Her latest target Twitter, or rather Twitter users.
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NBC Universal, Fox News Network and Fox Television Stations have filed copyright infringement legal action against Redlasoo, a site that makes video content from TV available to bloggers and provides tools to embed the clips onto Web sites.
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Citizen Journalism site, The-Latest, has been told by the Press Association that they are the first UK citizen journalism site to force the resignation of a public official. Marc Wadsworth from The-Latest carried out an interview with James McGrath, until recently Boris Johnson's deputy chief of staff and political advisor.


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As Christians we are called to a life of serving God and others. We must be strong servants of God. We feed the homeless and needy downtown Asheville each Thursday on Patton Avenue. God has supplied the need for this ministry in boundless ways. If you would like to help feed and serve in this ministry please call:
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In conjunction with Photography and the American Civil War, NOMA is delighted to present an evening with Pulitzer Prize winning playwright and screenwriter Tony Kushner. Drawing on Mr. Kushner's recent work as the screenwriter for Steven Spielberg's Lincoln, the conversation will address the role of writing and photography in bringing historical figures to life.
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Tony Kushner's plays include A Bright Room Called Day; Angels in America, Parts One and Two; Slavs!; Homebody/Kabul; the musical Caroline, or Change and the opera A Blizzard on Marblehead Neck, both with composer Jeanine Tesori; and The Intelligent Homosexual's Guide To Capitalism And Socialism With A Key To The Scriptures. He has adapted and translated Pierre Corneille's The Illusion, S.Y. Ansky's The Dybbuk, Bertolt Brecht's The Good Person of Szechwan and Mother Courage and Her Children; and the English-language libretto for the opera Brundibár by Hans Krasa. He wrote the screenplays for Mike Nichols' film of Angels In America, and for Steven Spielberg's Munich and Lincoln. His books include Brundibar, with illustrations by Maurice Sendak; The Art of Maurice Sendak, 1980 to the Present; and Wrestling With Zion: Progressive Jewish-American Responses to the Palestinian/Israeli Conflict, co-edited with Alisa Solomon. Kushner is the recipient of a Pulitzer Prize, two Tony Awards, three Obie Awards, two Evening Standard Awards, an Olivier Award, an Emmy Award, two Oscar nominations, and the Steinberg Distinguished Playwright Award, among other honors. In 2012, he was awarded a National Medal of Arts by President Barack Obama. He lives in Manhattan with his husband, Mark Harris.
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New allegations of misconduct by Tory party spin doctor Andy Coulson emerged last night on Channel 4's respected current affairs programme 'Dispatches'.
An anonymous witness whose words were spoken by an actor appeared on the programme to recount his experience working as a senior journalist at the News of the World during Coulson's tenure as editor of the newspaper.
He told the programme that Coulson personally listened to intercepted voicemail messages. "Sometimes, [journalists] would say: 'We've got a recording' and Andy would say: 'OK, bring it into my office and play it to me' or 'Bring me, email me a transcript of it'.
"Andy was a very good editor. He was very conscientious and he wouldn't let stories pass unless he was sure they were correct ... so, if the evidence that a reporter had was a recorded phone message, that would be what Andy would know about.
"So you'd have to say: 'Yes, there's a recorded message.' You go and either play it to him or show him a transcript of it, in order to satisfy him that you weren't going to get sued, that it wasn't made up."
Coulson has so far denied knowing about any illegal phone hacking activity at NoW, but a number of private investigators and journalists who worked for the paper while he was editor -- including Clive Goodman, Glenn Mulcaire, John Boyall and Steve Whittamore -- have been convicted of bribing police officers, intercepting private phone calls and voicemails, and/or illegally procuring confidential private information.
The new allegations about Coulson's involvement with phone hacking goes much further than previous claims made by reporters Sean Hoare and Paul McMullan. Hoare has said Coulson "actively encouraged" phone-tapping, while McMullan told the Guardian "illegal activity was so widespread" that Coulson "must have known about it".
So far Prime Minister David Cameron has given Coulson his full backing. In a recent statement he said: "We take the same view that Andy resigned from the News of the World all those years ago for what went wrong under his tenure. He took responsibility then, and I feel that people are trying to punish him twice for the same offence. The question I would ask is: has anyone got any complaints about how the Downing Street press operation has worked since he took over?"
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President Obama has repeatedly pledged that he will never allow Iran to obtain nuclear weapons. But given that his various attempts at engagement, diplomacy and now sanctions show no signs of working, it is inevitable that speculation about his willingness to use force persists. However, that is the one thing Washington has never seemed willing to contemplate. Though even the president will occasionally say that no options are being left off the table, the administration has been doing its best to argue that military strikes would only give the West a temporary respite. But, as Lee Smith writes in Tablet, the claim that strikes on Iran wouldn't effectively end the threat tell us more about the president's unwillingness to use force than it does about its effect on Iran.
This premise that Iran's nuclear program is basically invulnerable to military attack is wrong. Though its targets are spread out and many have been hardened to render air strikes less deadly, the notion that a concentrated campaign couldn't take them out underestimates American air power. Moreover, the notion that the Iranians would have the personnel, the resources and the will to start from scratch again overestimates their capabilities. The difficulties that are cited as insuperable obstacles to an attack have been inflated out of proportion to the actual problem, because the administration has no interest in undertaking the mission.
As Smith writes, if the United States were to knock out Iran's air defenses, its missile program as well as the nuclear plants, it would present the regime with an impossible dilemma because the cash-starved government barely has the resources to maintain its infrastructure, let alone rebuild it.
Smith quoted one credulous Israeli who expressed faith in the Obama administration's willingness to go to the mat with Iran despite everything it has done and said that would incline a more sober observer to conclude it has no intention of making good on its promises. Indeed, as Retired General Jack Keane (the former vice chief of staff of the U.S. Army) said to Smith:
I don't believe this administration has any intention, ever, of attacking Iran. I don't believe it, the Israelis don't believe it, and the Iranians don't believe it.
Keane is right. The whole thrust of American diplomacy has tended to reinforce Iran's belief that President Obama is a paper tiger who will never challenge them. That explains their arrogant refusal to play in the P5+1 talks where they could, if they wanted it, accept a weak deal that would probably enable them to eventually go nuclear because of the probability that the West hasn't the will to enforce such an accord.
So long as the United States is committed to diplomacy, the odds are Israel will not act on its own. The "window of diplomacy" that the president has touted is all but closed, but it is likely that it will limp along at least until the November election. After that, should the president be re-elected, belief in his willingness to act on Iran, even as a last resort, rests on pure faith that is undermined every day by the signals emanating from the administration.


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I said I would believe Lance Armstrong doped when I heard it from George Hincapie, one of the best-loved athletes in cycling. Well, I've heard it from George Hincapie.
On Wednesday, for whatever reason, the United States Anti-Doping Agency released a report putting Armstrong at the center of what has been described as "the most sophisticated, professionalized and successful doping program (cycling) has ever seen."
The report included damning testimony from the rider lovingly referred to as "Big George," who rode his last Tour de France in July after announcing he would retire at the end of this season. The last stage before the ride into Paris was a time trial. As Hincapie crossed the finish line for the last time, he gave a tiny wave to the crowd.
It was sad and ominous.
Cycling fans speculated on the reason behind his retirement and his decision not to participate in the London Olympics. We expected exactly what has happened: Hincapie has been outed by Armstrong's doping mess.
On his website, Hincapie admitted he took performance-enhancing drugs. He said he did it because everybody was doing it, and a rider couldn't compete at the highest levels without the drugs. He said he has ridden clean since 2006. (Armstrong "retired" after the 2005 Tour de France, but returned in 2009.)
I haven't read the USADA report yet, but the information coming out of it portrays Armstrong as a cycling gangster surrounded by faithful lieutenants who held to a code of omerta. Floyd Landis, Tyler Hamilton and Frankie Andreu were the first to break the code. Armstrong's lawyer has called Landis and Hamilton "serial perjurers." I simply refused to believe Andreu when he said Armstrong admitted to doping.
In the back of my head, however, was a quote from a British gentlemen who said something like: "If you believe those boys ride up mountains on salads and fizzy water, you're quite mistaken."
I don't defend them; I can't. But the Tour de France is an impossible race. An introduction to one history begins: "the line between insanity and genius is said to be a fine one, and in early 20th-century France, anyone envisaging a near-2,500-km-long cycle race across the country would have been widely viewed as unhinged."
It's a freakin' epic journey those crazy boys embark upon each July, pushing themselves to the limit and beyond every single day. I love it, I really do. And I am not surprised that some riders exceeded acceptable limits in their desire to win the greatest race in the world.
But, no matter how you slice it, it's just wrong. "Everybody does it" is a reason, not an excuse.
So, blah, Lance Armstrong: Look what you've done to yourself, your teammates, your fans, your sport. Just go away, please, and let us start over.
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Jerry Power is the Executive Director of The Institute for Communications Technology Management (CTM) and a clinical professor of marketing at the University of Southern California. CTM is the world's leading Institute focused on digital communications, content, and commerce, offering its members cutting-edge global research and business strategy, executive education and leadership forums for the digital industry. CTM's corporate partners include AT&T, Verizon, HP, Cisco, Qualcomm, Motorola, Alcatel-Lucent, Ogilvy, Intel, Adobe, Fox and Disney. As CTM's Executive Director, Jerry works with the Institute and its board to identify emerging trends that will reshape the evolutionary trajectory of the communications sector.
Jerry was a co-author of the groundbreaking book, Transforming Business: Mobility, Big Data and Globalization (Wiley, 2012), which explores how technology is changing business practices among successful companies. The book was based on extensive primary research of more than 5,000 knowledge workers, functional leaders and business decision makers across the United States and China. Jerry's market research efforts have also been discussed in The Shift: The Evolving Market, Players and Business Models in a 2.0 World and Identity Shift: Where Identity Meets Technology in the Networked-Community Age.
For over three decades, Jerry has been active in the areas of mobility, video services, optics, IP/data networking, and network management. Jerry has worked for Alcatel-Lucent, Siemens, and Motorola, holding positions in Marketing, Corporate Strategy, Business Development, Product Management, and Product Development. Throughout his career, Jerry has been a strong proponent of anticipating and encouraging behavioral shifts that increase the utility of services that serve to grow market demand.
Jerry received MsSc in Computer Science from Pennsylvania State University in 1982 and has published numerous articles describing the impact of technology on networks operations, business practices, users, and more. He is a frequent speaker at communications conferences and has served on various industry committees working to improve the telecommunications industry.
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Jay Tucker is a marketer, educator, and technology leader with over 20 years of experience in the technology, academic and entertainment sectors. At CTM, Jay is responsible for communicating the Institute's vision, thought leadership, educational offerings and major events to consortium members and the larger community. Tucker also handles CTM's forums and programs, including the semi-annual Executive Roundtable.
In fall 2012, Jay launched Silicon Beach @ USC, a two-day event featuring a venture competition and a conference focused on innovation, investment, and new ventures related to technology and digital content. In 2010, Jay re-launched the Advanced Management Program, CTM's flagship five-day educational experience for rising leaders. Jay also helped to co-author the strategic plan for the Marshall School of Business.
Previously, Jay spent over 10 years building out network infrastructure, developing websites, managing IT support and teaching students and educators to use interactive media. He has taught courses on technology management, technology convergence, digital media, and media literacy to professionals at corporations and non-profit organizations. Jay also speaks at academic and industry events, covering digital technologies and media, technology start-ups and other topics.
Jay holds an MBA in Marketing & Media Management from the UCLA Anderson School of Management, an MA in Instructional and Learning Technologies from Columbia University, and a dual Bachelors degree from Stanford University in Political Science and African & Afro-American Studies. He resides in Santa Monica, CA.
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Most recently, Josette Bonte served as Executive Digital Media Strategist for Cisco's IBSG, a division responsible for performing large-scale strategic consulting engagements for Cisco's leading clients across industry verticals. Prior to Cisco, Bonte worked for Cookie Jar Entertainment where she was Vice President of Digital media. She also served as Vice President of Content & IPTV for Ovum, working on IPTV content deployment strategies with service provider clients including AT&T, Verizon, France Telecom, and BT.
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Andrea directs the Digital Home research project, CTM's year-long research study carried out jointly by CTM and corporate sponsors. Digital Home provides insights into the connected, multi-screen digital home, including key factors for adoption and perceived value of digital devices and services. Andrea also disseminates our results to research contacts at CTM member companies and conducts Digital Home workshops.
Prior to joining CTM, Andrea spent 9 years at major international telecommunications companies (Global Telesystems, Siemens Hungary), where she developed an in-depth knowledge of market analysis, research and strategic planning. Andrea has a Master of Science degree in Economics from the University of Miskolc, Hungary.
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Resident Director of Executive Education
Steven Shepard is the president of the Shepard Communications Group in Williston, Vermont. A professional author and educator with 24 years of varied experience in the telecommunications industry, he has written books and magazine articles on a wide variety of topics. He is the author of Telecommunications Convergence: How to Profit from the Convergence of Technologies, Services and Companies; A Spanish-English Telecommunications Dictionary; Managing Cross-Cultural Transition: A Handbook for Corporations, Employees and Their Families; An Optical Networking Crash Course; SONET and SDH Demystified, Telecom Crash Course; Telecommunications Convergence, Second Edition; Telecom Crash Course, Second Edition; and VoIP Crash Course. Steve is also the Series Editor of the McGraw-Hill Portable Consultant book series.
Mr. Shepard received his undergraduate degree in Spanish and Romance Philology from the University of California at Berkeley and his Master's Degree in International Business from St. Mary's College. He spent eleven years with Pacific Bell in San Francisco in a variety of capacities including network analysis, computer operations, systems standards development, and advanced technical training, followed by nine years with Hill Associates, a world-renowned telecommunications education company, before forming the Shepard Communications Group. Global clients include major telecommunications manufacturers, service providers, software development firms, multinational corporations, universities, professional services firms, advertising firms, venture capital firms, and regulatory bodies.
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James E. (Jim) Short is Lead Scientist, San Diego Supercomputer Center, at UC San Diego (UCSD). He directs the How Much Information? (HMI) research program and the How Much Media? (HMM) research project at USC. Jim's research has focused on information growth and the value of information, corporate communications and disclosure, and selected topics in storage and information systems management. His work on market transparency and corporate information disclosure has been published in The Accounting Review. His applied work has focused on information metrology and the value of information. With co-author Roger Bohn (UC San Diego), the first of several studies on information growth was published in December 2009, "How Much Information: Report on American Consumers." A second report on enterprise information, "How Much Information: Report on Enterprise Servers," was published in April 2011.
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Carolyn graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater with a bachelor's degree in International Relations and a minor in Spanish. She attended the USC School of Policy, Planning, and Development, and graduated with a Master of Public Administration in 2007. She enjoys being a resident of the University Park neighborhood in South Los Angeles, where she and her husband have resided since 2001.
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KWAME HOLMAN: For more than a year, working with an ethics subcommittee investigating Speaker Newt Gingrich, Special Counsel James Cole dutifully maintained his silence. But when the public hearing on the recommended sanctions against Gingrich began shortly after 3 o'clock this afternoon, Cole was free to talk.
JAMES COLE, Ethics Committee Special Counsel: In determining what the appropriate sanctions should be in this matter the subcommittee and I considered the seriousness of the conduct, the level of care exercised by Mr. Gingrich, the disruption caused to the House by the conduct, the cost to the House for having to pay for an extensive investigation, and the repetitive nature of the conduct. In addition, the violation did not represent only a single instance of reckless conduct but rather over a number of years and in a number of situations Mr. Gingrich showed a disregard and lack of respect for the standard of conduct that applied to these activities.
KWAME HOLMAN: Over the course of an hour Cole presented the case against Gingrich.
JAMES COLE: The subcommittee found that in regard to two separate projects Mr. Gingrich engaged in activity that was involving 501C-3 organizations; it was substantially motivated by partisan political goals. The subcommittee also found that Mr. Gingrich had provided the committee with material information about one of those projects that was inaccurate, incomplete, and unreliable. The first project was a television program called "The American Opportunities Workshop." It is many times referred to as AOW. It took place in May of 1990, and the idea for this project came from Mr. Gingrich. And he was principally responsible for developing the message that was to be broadcast through this program. AOW involved broadcasting a television program on subjects concerning governmental issues.
Mr. Gingrich had hoped by using this program he would be able to create a citizen's movement and in doing this workshops were set up throughout the country where people could gather and watch the program and where people could be recruited for this citizen's movement. While the program was educational, the citizen's movement was also considered to be a tool to recruit non-voters and people who are apolitical to the Republican Party. AOW started off as a project of GOPAC. GOPAC is a Political Action Committee which is dedicated to, among other things, achieving Republican control of the United States Congress. The methods GOPAC uses to achieve this goal include developing and articulating a political message and disseminating that message as widely as possible. One avenue of dissemination for GOPAC's message was AOW.
The program, however consumed a great deal of GOPAC's resources. Because of this, Mr. Gingrich and others at GOPAC decided to transfer the American Opportunities workshop to a 501C-3 organization in order to attract tax deductible funding. The second project utilizing 501C-3 organizations that Mr. Gingrich was involved in encompassed a college course that he taught which was called "Renewing American Civilization." Mr. Gingrich developed the course as a subset of and a tool of a larger political and cultural movement, which was also known as "Renewing American Civilization." The goal of this movement, as stated by Mr. Gingrich, was the replacement of the welfare state with an opportunity society. The primary means of achieving this goal was the development of a message for the movement and a dissemination of that message as widely as possible.
Mr. Gingrich intended that a Republican majority would be a heart of the movement and that the movement would professionalize the House Republicans. The methods that were described for achieving this included using the message of the movement to attract voters, resources, and candidates to the Republican Party. The same message that was used for the movement was also the same message used as Mr. Gingrich's campaign theme in 1993 and 1994, and Mr. Gingrich sought to have Republican candidates adopt the message as well in their campaigns. In the context of political campaigns, Mr. Gingrich told the subcommittee that the term "welfare state" was used as a negative label for Democrats and that the term "opportunity society" was used as a positive label for Republicans. As general chairman of GOPAC during this period of time, Mr. Gingrich had decided that GOPAC would use the "Renewing American Civilization" message as its political message and as its theme during 1993 and 1994. GOPAC, however, was having financial difficulties at this time. It could not afford to disseminate its political messages, as it had in the past. And it looked for other ways in which to do this. GOPAC had a number of roles in regard to the course.
For example, GOPAC personnel helped to develop, manage, promote, and raise funds for the course. GOPAC charter members helped the idea to even teach the course, and GOPAC charter members at one its charter meetings developed some of the messages that would be used in the course and used for GOPAC. According to Mr. Gingrich, GOPAC was better off as a result of the nationwide dissemination of the "Renewing American Civilization" message that was done by the course because the course disseminated the message of the movement and of GOPAC without cost to GOPAC. The major costs for "Renewing American Civilization" as a course were for the dissemination of the lectures. There was very little money needed to be spent to actually put the course on, itself. This expense of dissemination of the message and of the lectures was paid for tax-deductible contributions that were made to various 501C-3 organizations that sponsored the course. Over the three years that the course was broadcast approximately $1.2 million was spent on this project.
KWAME HOLMAN: Cole then laid out the subcommittee's conclusion based on that evidence.
JAMES COLE: In both instances GOPAC had initiated the use of the message that was in each of those projects as part of its political program to build a Republican majority in Congress. In both instances there was an effort to have the material appear to be non-partisan on its face yet serve as a partisan political message for the purpose of building the Republican Party. The subcommittee's expert was of the opinion that these facts presented a clear violation of 501C-3. Mr. Gingrich's tax attorney disagreed. Both, however, would have advised their client in these situations not to use a 501C-3 organization for these purposes.
Some members of the subcommittee and I agreed with the expert that was retained. Other members of the subcommittee were troubled by reaching this conclusion and believed that the facts of this case presented a unique situation that had not previously been addressed by the legal authorities. As such, they did not feel comfortable supplanting the functions of the Internal Revenue Service or the tax court in rendering a ruling on what they believed to be an unsettled area of the law. In looking at this conduct in light of all of the facts and the circumstances the subcommittee was faced with a disturbing choice.
Either Mr. Gingrich did not seek legal advice because it was aware that it would not have permitted him to use a 501C-3 organization for the projects, or he was reckless in not taking care that as a member of Congress he make sure that his conduct conform with the law in an area where he had ample warning that his intended course of action was fraught with peril. The subcommittee decided that regardless of the resolution of the 501C-3 tax question, Mr. Gingrich's conduct in this regard was improper, did not reflect credibly on the House and was deserving of sanction.
KWAME HOLMAN: Cole then referred to letters Gingrich sent the Ethics Committee asserting GOPAC had no involvement with the college course, a position Gingrich later reversed.
JAMES COLE: Mr. Gingrich's lawyers said they relied on Mr. Gingrich and his staff to ensure that the letters were accurate; however, none of Mr. Gingrich's staff had sufficient knowledge to be able to verify the facts of the letters. The only person who reviewed the letters for accuracy with sufficient knowledge to verify those facts was Mr. Gingrich. During his testimony before the subcommittee Mr. Gingrich stated that he was very busy during the times that the letters were prepared; that he did not intend to mislead the committee; and he apologized for his conduct. This statement was a relevant consideration for some of the members of the committee but not for others.
KWAME HOLMAN: A copy of Cole's final report has been sent to each member of the House who on Tuesday will vote on a punishment for Gingrich.
JAMES COLE: Under the rules of the House a reprimand is the appropriate sanction for a serious violation of the House rules. A censure is an appropriate sanction for a more serious violation of House rules. It was the opinion of the subcommittee that this matter fell somewhere in-between.
KWAME HOLMAN: Cole and the subcommittee agreed on a reprimand, which would allow Gingrich to retain his speakership and a $300,000 fine to reimburse the committee for extra work it had to do because of inaccurate information sent to it under Gingrich's name. Gingrich and his lawyer Randy Evans have accepted that recommendation. Evans spoke once Cole had finished.
RANDY EVANS, Gingrich's Lawyer: I think that while the facts are largely not in dispute that the conclusions and analysis of those facts may, in fact, be in dispute, and different conclusions may be drawn because I believe that while certainly the facts are carefully stated in the special counsel's report, I think that they are often stated in a way which ignores the realities and the context in which the events that are being described was occurring. The Speaker was not charged with violation of U.S. tax laws. The Speaker was not charged with intended to deceive the committee. The Speaker was not charged with illegal activities or criminal tax violations. The Speaker was not charged with money laundering.
And any suggestion that has been made in the press or otherwise by any member or by any other entity that any of those items are true are false and maliciously false, given that the statement of alleged violation has been in the public domain, free for anyone to read the statement of alleged violation to see, in fact, what it charges. I should note that the standard, as Mr. Cole pointed out, for the subcommittee was whether there was any reason to believe that a violation had occurred. We could only conclude that not only did the statement of alleged violation not charge any of those items, but there was no reason to believe that a legal or criminal or other such activities occurred.
KWAME HOLMAN: Gingrich, himself, did not appear at the hearing, and his problem might not end with the House vote on Tuesday. The Justice Department reportedly is considering its own investigation of the ethics violations.


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Some parts were entertaining, but overall, I didn't get it.
Back in the tumultuous 60s, I tried Kurt Vonnegut, because everyone had one or another of his books at the ready for spare moments of reading. Cat's Cradle, Slaughterhouse Five, and Jailbird seemed to be popular titles. I read Mother Night, and a little later, Breakfast of Champions, but didn't care for them at all. About this time, I began to develop my love for the works of John Updike, so Vonnegut faded from my reading radar. Recently, a friend suggested Cat's Cradle, and I owe hearty thanks in that direction.
Kurt Vonnegut was born in Indianapolis, Indiana in 1922. He passed away in 2007. He is known for his dark humor and imagination. Graham Greene declared, Vonnegut "was one of the best living American Writers." I remember him as a writer everyone read, but no one would admit to owning any of his books.
Cat's Cradle is a peculiar book in style, structure, and story-line. About 125 chapters make up the story, and most are only a page or two. This fragmented reading can cause some confusion, but large chunks of the book can be digested in each reading. The narrator, Jonah, wants to write a biography of a scientist involved in the Manhattan Project who had peculiar habits at best. He wanted to stay working at a small foundry, where his numerous patents were shamefully exploited by his employers. He also wanted to work with the construction of the bomb, but he wanted to work alone. When he died, his children scattered, and the narrator must track one of them to a near mythical island in the Caribbean, San Lorenzo. The islanders all adhere to a mysterious, Zen-like religion, Bokononism, which the dictator has outlawed. The islanders all follow this religion in secret, because the punishment for practicing it is a slow and painful death on "the hook." This tyrant, known as "Papa" Monzano, is near death, and the heir apparent is Frank Hoenikker, son of scientist Dr. Felix Hoenikker the subject of the biography. Jonah becomes entangled in the politics and religion of the island
Vonnegut, was, to say the least as peculiar as some of his novels. Sampling his style here might leave my listeners as bewildered as I was while immersed in the story. Vonnegut's moments of humor are as dark as a reader might expect, and those are to be savored. Here is a small sample, so good luck. As "Papa" lies dying, he asks for the last rites from his doctor, a shadowy former SS doctor. Vonnegut writes, "'I am a very bad scientist. I will do anything to make a human being feel better, even if it's unscientific. No scientist worthy of the name could say such a thing.' / And he climbed into the golden boat with 'Papa.' He sat in the stern. Cramped quarters obliged him to have the golden tiller under one arm. / He wore sandals without socks and he took these off. And then he rolled back the covers at the foot of the bed, exposing 'Papa's" bare feet. He put the soles of his feet against 'Papa's" feet, assuming the classical position for boko-maru" (219-220).
Cat's Cradle becomes another novel I have added to the list of works which need to be experienced, rather than merely read. Readers tend to two extreme views of Vonnegut: either, "I read all his books when I was in college; I love him," or "Too weird for me!" I now place myself in the middle of these two extremes. If you read Vonnegut in the heady days of the 60s – or if you didn't – he is certainly worth a re-visit. 5 stars
--Jim, 10/17/14
I'm still unsure about how much I like this book as it is very strange. It explores how scientists make discoveries without caring where the technology will lead, religion, dictatorships and all sorts of issues that affected the world in the 1960s. It was a very witty read, but I found the short chapters distracting and would like to have seen more made of the ice-9.
Still ranks high on my list of fantastic books. I don't recall when I last read this, but I do know that, when I first read it in highschool, I must have missed quite a bit of the subtlety and irony in this. Now I know that I have to revisit all of Vonnegut's works.
"Cat's Cradle" is an irreverent and often highly entertaining fantasy concerning the playful irresponsibility of nuclear scientists. Like the best of contemporary satire, it is work of a far more engaging and meaningful order than the melodramatic tripe which most critics seem to consider "serious."
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By Hector Saldana : April 16, 2014 : Updated: April 16, 2014 11:06pm
Photo By Courtesy photo.During a rehearsal on Wednesday, Little Joe Hernandez sported a T-shirt with the political message: "I Just Look Illegal."
Photo By Kevork Djansezian/APLittle Joe, accepts the award for best Mexican/Mexican-American album for Before The Next Teardrop Falls at the 50th Annual Grammy Awards on Sunday, Feb. 10, 2008, in Los Angeles.
Photo By Hispanic Entertainment ArchivesLittle Joe y la Familia, circa 1975. Johnny (left to right) Rocky and Joe Hernandez.
Photo By Lefty Ray Chapa/COURTESY PHOTOTejano legend Joe Hernandez of Little Joe y La Familia
Photo By BILLY CALZADA/SAN ANTONIO EXPRESS-NEWSFile: Children from St. Philip of Jesus Elementary School slap hands with "Little Joe" Hernandez of Tejano music fame as he promotes the Little Joe's Diabetes and Obesity Prevention Campaign during a press conference at San Antonio City Hall on Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2009.
SAN ANTONIO – When Little Joe y La Familia perform this weekend with the San Antonio Symphony at the annual Fiesta Pops concert at the Majestic Theatre, the two-night Fiesta event becomes part of the continuum of Chicano pride that Joe Hernandez represents, dating to the days of César Chávez.
That's because Hernandez's song, "La Nubes," was among the most famous and beloved of the rallying cries for Chavez's United Farm Workers.
On Wednesday, Hernandez rehearsed with the orchestra. He sported a T-shirt with the political message: "I Just Look Illegal."
At Fiesta Pops, he'll sing four songs with the symphony (including "Las Nubes"), one song with his legendary band ("That's the Way It Goes") and a song with Campanas de America.
The event, which will include a spectacular performance on stilts by the Guadalupe Dance Company, runs from 8-10 p.m. Friday and Saturday.
"It's an incredible lift," said Hernandez backstage about being swaddled in symphonic sound. "I used to imagine what it was like to sing with a whole orchestra. It's a great honor; it's been a long and winding road."
He's performed with the Denver Symphony, but admitted that he's still "a little intimidated."
At 73, the legendary singer remains in good voice and in good shape. He was diagnosed with diabetes six years ago, but keeps it in check.
Hernandez, who is the topic of a documentary in progress, is a pillar of Texas music, as important in his own way as Willie Nelson or S.A.'s Doug Sahm.
"Doug was Chicano at heart," said Hernandez. He recounted seeing Sahm at the Broken Spoke in Austin a few days before he died and pitching an upbeat song to him for the Texas Tornados. It was called Rosita Mamacita." "I wrote it for Doug."
The moment is etched in his mind because Hernandez's mother died the same day and year as Sahm – November 18, 1999.
Hernandez, down-to-earth and personable, understands that he "represents la cultura and the struggle."
"I have to guard that," he said. His musical legacy reaches from Temple to the Bay Area to Washington, D.C.
He's considered a Tejano icon, but Hernandez prefers a different title. His music resonates with Mexican Americans the way that the early blues resonated with African Americans.
"They call it Tejano, but I've always been Chicano," Hernandez said. "This is an American band. What we play, the people feel."
He recalled the time that he defended Cesar Chavez on a radio show in California. It was the early '70s. Hernandez had no idea that the farmworkers' leader was listening to the broadcast. They'd never met. Then his phone rang, and it was Chavez on the other end thanking him. "I can still hear his voice," Hernandez said.
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a very creative one, i like it.
well i have to say, i'm a fan of your crossed fingers series. it is an interessting theme you realised it in a kind of sad but beautiful way. in these pictures are the bitter truth, that everybody may be a dishonest in a relationship. well done!
pistola, you have realized and felt exactly what I hoped viewers would, you have made my week!
I love the crossed fingers series too. Thought provoking. Here he is absent, yet, initially, I assumed she was present, in spite of the fact that I couldn't see her face. They could be mutually insincere, after all... Interesting.
Well, we are accustomed to show honest and fond feelings but not everybody manages to express disloyalty so perfectly as you did!!! Congrats :-)
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You've been memed! Your beautiful picture inspired My Meme this week!
I like what you've done with this photo. Can I just ask who the guy is in the photo, because a friend of mine showed me this photo and the guy looks like just me lol.
Hi! Thanks for giving this photo a Creative Commons. We have used it in a blog post here: www.athomemagazine.co.uk/home-a-garden/3725-the-unfaithfuls
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this is PERFECT! going to use it in a blog article. i'll send you the link when i get it up! thank you for this!
oooo! it will be up on Dec. 15 at www.indevpeoplesearch.com/blog
sorry. forgot i had a bunch scheduled to post. but really, this is about the coolest photo!
@Kieran Farnes - the photograph is of my best friend and her boyfriend. The shot was made several years ago while still in college and I'm happy to say they are still together and very much in love!
@hangzhoubelle - thank you for your kind words, I am excited to see the blog on the 15th. Thank you for using my photograph to aid in your article!
And good luck to them for the future :) Could I ask, what is his name? Plus, do you have any other shots of him? As in this photo he looks just like me, but I can only see half of his face.
his name is Mark and sadly I do not have other shots with him in it. I'm happy to announce that on Christmas Eve he proposed and they are happily engaged!
Nice photo, thanks for sharing it under creative commons! I have used it on this webpage:
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Almost a week into the NBA season, we have seen the return of some of the game's best players, most notably Derrick Rose and Kevin Love. While we wait for the returns of Kobe Bryant and Rajon Rondo, another superstar emerged from the injury bug, that being Russell Westbrook of the Oklahoma City Thunder. What Westbrook brings to the table every night for this team cannot be undermined or understated, because as great of a player Kevin Durant is, the Thunder have absolutely no chance of competing in the Western Conference without the assistance of Westbrook. But, even with Westbrook now aboard after last night, do the Thunder still have a conceivable chance of competing for the NBA title with the current assembly of players who suit up every night? It depends on who you ask.
Westbrook comes in now to fill the starting point guard position which was being held down by Reggie Jackson, who still in his youth is not ready to man a team capable of having a chance to be a viable candidate for the Western Conference's spot in the Finals. Westbrook looked to be back to where his game left off, displaying a wide variety of highlight moves while maintaining his ability to burst throughout the lane with no disregard as to how he gets there. His game is predicated on the basis of having the ball in his hands at all times, thus limiting the number of possessions his counterpart Durant has to secure the rock and create his own opportunities.
But, that has been the battle cry against Westbrook during his whole career: his inability to recognize when his offensive game is either helping or extremely hurting his teammates. Westbrook only plays the game in one gear, and that is a gear consisting of a nasty tenacity to attack the opposing defense at will, disregarding everything that is going on around him. Westbrook's propensity to ignore a team strategy concept that involves creating open looks for all his teammates, especially Durant, has always surrounded the way he plays the game. Although he continues to lead his team in assists every year, when you are continually playing with the ball in your hand 98% of the time it would be hard not to find open teammates every once in a while. Whenever I watch the Thunder play, I always wonder why Scotty Brooks cannot find a better way for Westbrook and Durant to operate together. I am not suggesting they have no chemistry and play terrible together because that is just incongruent with how this team works, but there are glaring weaknesses among how they coincide with each other, with little movement coming from either guy when the other is being disruptive to how the team should play.
Where the Thunder goes wrong with the Westbrook/Durant dynamic is they are not around each other enough when the other has the basketball in hand. The Thunder's team based philosophy strives on being mentally tougher and more prepared then their opponent, taking the fundamentals of basketball to the next level by being cognizant of how a defense has chosen to approach trying to stop two of the five best basketball players alive on the same court. Maintaining activity amongst everyone on the court, whether it is through back door cuts, back screens to another screen or ball penetration to open up the perimeter, is apropos to creating multiple scoring opportunities for everyone involved. But, this all starts with Durant and Westbrook, who I continue to believe, should work off each other more than they already do. The next time you watch the Thunder play, try to be aware of how many times they approach each other when the other has the ball. Durant has always shown ineptitude of not being selfish enough when it comes to him touching the basketball, seeing as how there are always two or three stretches each game where you almost forget Durant is even on the floor, something that should not be said about Durant or any other superstar who is on the floor. One way to improve on the Westbrook and Durant combination would be to start using them together in pick and roll opportunities. Instead of continuing to use Serge Ibaka as Westbrook's main screener, why doesn't the Thunder instead use Durant as Westbrook's main facilitator when it comes to setting screens? With Durant used at the helm for screens, the possibilities of scoring become endless when you envision how dangerous the usage of Durant as the screener could be. How potent would scoring options be when as a defense you either have to decide to send two guys in front of Westbrook's penetration, or when Durant is given the ball to shoot over Westbrook's defender, who obviously would be considerably shorter than Durant, thus not giving his long shooting extension any worries. This is just one way to improve on the dynamic grouping of Durant and Westbrook, but this team's seasons is highly more dependent on a number of other factors, most notably how this team's will be able to score consistently outside of their incredible pair of superstars.
Whereas a team like the Miami Heat has discovered a winning formula to match the needs of their two superstars, the Thunder have been less than accommodating when it comes to fielding a team that is suitable or compatible with their team's best two players. While this point has been hammered home ad nauseam for the past year, let's say trading James Harden away for peanuts and no formidable talent that can help within the next two years is a bad place to start. By keeping Harden around, you alleviate the pain you feel when one superstar could potentially go down knowing you have two more ready to take their roles to the next level. I am not one to speculate but the Oklahoma City Thunder and its organization crying "small market" and "unsustainable salary cap implications" is not reason enough to trade away one of the best 15 players in the league, probably even higher. When you are lucky enough to have found three guys at three different positions who possess all the tools needed to lead an NBA franchise, you have to find a way to make it work, salary cap implications aside. I have never understood or ever heard a great reason as to why they traded him and probably never will.
By focusing on the past and ignoring the present and future, we begin to overlook all of the glaring weaknesses staring back at us when we analyze this Thunder squad. The very first thing we tend to focus on is personnel and the kind of players you have chosen to field your team. Outside of Durant and Westbrook, it is hard for me to consider or find two players who I would consider starting for a team I deem ready to compete for a world championship. The other three starters, Thabo Sefolosha, Kendrick Perkins and Serge Ibaka all provide greater weaknesses when compared to their strengths. Sefolosha has proven the ability to knock down a corner 3 consistently and finds ways to occasionally disrupt the opposing team's best scorer, but where some might label those as great strengths I see those as characteristics all starting two guards in the NBA should have. I need my starting two-guard to be able to knock down an open trey. I need my two-guard to be able to provide the defensive energy and tenacity needed to stop the opposing team's best player on a nightly basis. We have come to expect these needs, not reward a player's stature by possessing traits that are necessary to being a competent starter in this league. Sefolosha struggles to create his own shot and has never looked natural while dribbling the basketball or attacking the rim. He doesn't provide that spark needed from his position, and a lack of scoring mobility deters the overall meaning of his game and doesn't fill the void left behind by James Harden. Kendrick Perkins is statistically one of the worst centers in the league and the Thunder has proven to being more formidable when he is off the court as opposed to being on it. With age creeping behind in his rearview mirror, I don't think it will be much longer for the Thunder to decide to part ways with Perkins. He has a borderline offensive game, complete with no distinguishable low post moves or even a consistent baby hook shot. His wallowing keeps him out of prime position for offensive rebounds, as he almost does more good by complaining consistently than his game provides. His routinely laughable skill of jacking himself up to guard the opposing team's guard on switches on pick-and-rolls are a gem. Seriously, the next time you watch a Thunder game look for this moment to happen. Perkins finds his way out to the perimeter, last night going up against the likes of Eric Bledsoe, and begins clapping ferociously as if to scare the guy who is about to dribble right beyond him. When the guard does decide to make a move, Perkins is either left in the dust picking up his shadow or finding a new pair of skates to try on because the ending is never good in this scenario. Aside from all that, what we find in Serge Ibaka's game now is almost the same thing we would have found three years ago, except now he believes he has what it takes to stand in the corners anticipating dribble drives leading to his attempt to consistently knock down corner three pointers or your occasional mid-range jumper. When Ibaka first came into the league, his dynamics were much more noticeable on the offensive side of the floor than they are today. His sudden recognition of routinely flaring to the baseline waiting for a pass to come his way instead of setting corner screens or working to find space in the middle of the paint has been a catalyst to the Thunder's glaring offensive woes. Ibaka's first priority on the floor should have never evolved into him becoming a jump shooter because that is not what his game is predicated around. By moving his mentality from shot taker to shot facilitator or creator for others, Ibaka would help open up the floor for others while being able to crash the boards at will, using his physical gifts to help control or maintain extra possessions for the Thunder, an area at which they have succumbed to being one of the league's worst teams in.
Outside of the starting five, it doesn't get much better for this Thunder team as well. A combination of Reggie Jackson, Jeremy Lamb and Perry Jones, all under the age of 24, is expected to log big minutes for this team. Although they all possess the raw talent needed to compete for NBA roster spots, expecting those types of minutes for unproven commodities is a mistake and something that will haunt the Thunder down the road toward the playoffs. Maybe these guys can learn to grow as basketball players by being out there and competing with the best players in the world, but from Durant or Westbrook's point of view, wanting to win now should not come as sacrifice to teaching these young men the intricacies of playing professional basketball. Those two superstars need players who are ready to compete now, willing to sacrifices all they have in playing 20 minutes a game, sometimes less than that. Playing off the bench as a young player can be more mentally fatiguing then physically fatiguing, and learning to adjust your game accordingly is something that shouldn't be valued on a team such as this. The superstar duo is prepared to win now, not sit around waiting to see if maybe one or two of these players blossom into something more formidable than average NBA talent. Couple these lowly expectations with the rest of the Thunder bench, a way over-the-hill Derek Fisher, one tool phenom Nick Collison and rookie center Steven Adams, and the Thunder may have assembled one of the worst combination of talent around two superstars in quite some time.
The question for this team is where they will stand come playoff time. If Durant and Westbrook are prepared to shoulder the load night in and night out, a feat we should expect from them, then this team should have no trouble climbing toward 50 wins and a shot at the playoffs. Those projected wins come solely at the discretion of both players remaining healthy throughout the season and playing at superstar levels while doing so. If either one of those guys would unfortunately go down with an injury, then the Thunder will need to find a way to manufacture some kind of replacement to help offset such a devastating occurrence. If not, it could become a long season for a team which has carried high expectations since piecing together Durant and Westbrook. I wonder if James Harden is still on the market.


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We noticed the article in today's NY Times that the GAO will be releasing the first audit of the TARP program. Here is what Yves Smith of Naked Capitalism has to say about it:
The New York Times reports that the General Accounting Office is readying to issue a report that will criticize how Treasury has handled its spending under the $700 billion TARP program. The main shortcomings are failure to track how the money is actually being used and inadequate controls to prevent conflicts of interest.
Gee, I thought of those supposed failings as features rather than bugs.
Here's what the Times had to say:
The first operational audit of the $700 billion financial rescue plan, to be delivered to Congress next Tuesday, is expected to be critical of the Treasury Department's failure to set up ways to track how its bailout money is being used in the marketplace, according to people briefed on a draft of the report.
The audit, done by the Government Accountability Office, is also likely to call for tighter controls over the conflicts of interest that are arising as financial specialists, institutions and law firms are hired for Treasury work that could later aid their private-sector clients, said these people, who would speak only on condition of anonymity because the briefings were confidential.
But the overall assessment was "a mixed bag," as one person put it. It was clear, he said, that the auditors took into account how quickly the program was carried out, how much its focus shifted over time and how little feedback Treasury has had from oversight agencies so far.
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