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July 27, 2004
For anyone who found Spider-Man 2 an overwrought retread--there must be some of you out there; I can't be the only one--the video release of Hellboy this week may offer some consolation. An eclectic and fiercely entertaining blend of X-Men, Men in Black, and "Buffy the Vampire Slayer," Hellboy, like the first Spider-Man, has the infectious zest of a movie made by enthusiasts not yet worried about their place in box-office history.
A Big Thud
July 20, 2004
Elmore Leonard is perhaps the most cinematic novelist writing in the English language.
Past Perfect
July 13, 2004
<?xml:namespace prefix = dsl />A woman and a man sit on a moonlit beach. She's a mobster's girlfriend, who shot him and absconded with $40,000. He's the private eye sent to bring her back. He's found her here, in Acapulco, and fallen for her. They kiss, and she pleads with him not to take her back: "I didn't know what I was doing. I didn't know anything except how much I hated him.
Sin City
June 22, 2004
A few minutes into City of God, the narrator offers (in English-subtitled Portuguese) a pointed description of the sprawling slum outside Rio de Janeiro that gives the film its name: "There was no electricity, paved streets, or transportation. But for the rich and powerful our problems didn't matter." This introduction could easily have marked the beginning of a filmic diatribe about the plight of the poor in Brazil, an earnest work intended to inform but not entertain. Instead it marks the beginning of a glorious exercise in cinematic style.
Bend In The River
June 15, 2004
It's hard to believe, but Mystic River is Clint Eastwood's twenty-fourth feature film as a director. Since his debut behind the camera (he was also in front of it) in Play Misty For Me in 1971, he has directed more movies than either Martin Scorcese or Steven Spielberg. Some are memorable (Unforgiven), some are awful (Absolute Power), and at least one is equal parts each (A Perfect World; if you've seen it, you know which part is which).
Along Went Ben
June 08, 2004
Ben Stiller has the rare distinction of starring in two of the funniest American films of the last decade, the Farrelly brothers' There's Something About Mary and David O. Russell's lesser known Flirting with Disaster. Stiller also has the rather more common distinction of starring in a lot of utter rubbish. It will probably come as no surprise that Along Came Polly, out on video this week, falls into the latter category. In Polly, Stiller plays Ruben Feffer, an insurance risk assessor who is predictably terrified of any risk in his personal life.
Age of Innocence
June 02, 2004
Editor's Note: This article has been corrected. If the last few years have taught us anything about the Oscars, it's that the Academy loves a glamorous actress in an unglamorous role. There was Hillary Swank's reverse drag act in 1999, Julia Robert's white-trash beauty queen in 2000, Halle Berry's inmate's widow in 2001, and Nicole Kidman's Pinocchio act in 2002.
Into the Sunset
May 25, 2004
Last week MGM released a "special edition" extended version of The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, Sergio Leone's classic spaghetti western from 1966. The concluding chapter of the "Dollars trilogy" (following on the heels of Fistful of Dollars and For A Few Dollars More), it involves the hunt by three ruthless men (Clint Eastwood, Eli Wallach, and Lee Van Cleef) for a hidden cache of gold coins in Civil War era Texas.
The Talented Mr. Malkovich
May 18, 2004
In the introduction to Home Movies I noted that, given the ascendance of video rental over theater attendance, movies are generally reviewed months before most people will see them. One exception, of course, is movies that aren't reviewed at all, having never been released theatrically. Ripley's Game, which Fine Line Features has put out on video after declining to distribute it to theaters, has not quite suffered this fate: A minor cause célèbre, it has gotten some attention in the press, and even enjoyed a three-night, sold out run in New York earlier this year.
Land That Time Forgot
May 11, 2004
Every now and then, a film comes along that clearly demonstrates how low our expectations for the medium have fallen: Give us a few laughs or thrills and avoid abject stupidities, and we'll probably be happy. Osama, the first film produced in post-Taliban Afghanistan, is a reminder that motion pictures can do more, that at their best they can transport us, with utter conviction, to a time and place far removed from our own. In this case the "time" in question is only a few years ago, before the toppling of the Taliban, but it might as easily be millennia.


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You can only promise to make a chocolate cake for so long until it's time to pay the piper. In my chocolate raspberry puff pastry bites post I offered an easier version of a chocolate dessert in lieu of promised chocolate cake. Then it comes to the moment when hubby asks for the 10th time, "So what about that chocolate cake?," and then its time to suck it up and make the cake.
So I decided to try one of the delicious cakes in the new Martha Stewart Living. It had caramel in the middle with chocolate cake and chocolate icing. The only unfortunate thing about some Martha Stewart recipes is that they tend to have a lot of ingredients and many different steps. No doubt you will end up with a great end product but its easy to zone out before you even start to make it. In that vein, I decided to change the recipe a wee bit. It may be sacrilege but when your making an overdue chocolate cake on a Friday night after a very long week at work, you do what it takes to get you through it. These are my small changes:
- Instead of baking the cake in one large pan and slicing it into three small layers, I poured it into two 9 inch pans and reduced the baking time
- I did not want to make the special milk chocolate crunch so I decided to add Honey Bunches of Oats clusters instead (classy right?)
- Lastly if I were to do it over again, I would use the chocolate icing recipe off the Hershey cocoa box. Its easier and more delicious.
In any case it turned out well and I don't have plans to hear the phrase, "What about that chocolate cake?" for a while.
1 1/2 cups self rising flour
3/4 cup unsweetened cocoa
1 1/2 cups sugar
2 large eggs
3/4 cup warm water
3/4 cup buttermilk
3 tbsp vegetable oil
1 tsp vanilla
1 cup Honey Bunches of Oat Clusters
Caramel Sauce
1 cup granulated sugar
1 cup heavy cream
1/2 cup light corn syrup
3 tbsp unsalted butter
1/4 tsp vanilla
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Butter and flour (2) 9 inch round cake pans. Sift flour, cocoa powder, and sugar. Add eggs, warm water, buttermilk, oil and vanilla. Beat with a mixer on medium speed until smooth. Bake until toothpick comes out clean. 20-25 minutes.
Make the caramel sauce - bring granulated sugar, cream, corn syrup and butter to a boil in a medium saucepan over medium high heat. Cook until mixture registers 236 degrees on a candy thermometer or until light golden brown (around 10 minutes) Immediately remove from heat.
Assemble the cake - pour slightly (mixture will be warm but not hot) cooled caramel sauce on top of one of the cake layers. Top with the Honey Bunches of Oat clusters. Place the other cake layer on top and spread frosting over the entire cake.

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It's that you have to look at it, day after day. Most people get up, do their thing and walk out to their car or truck. Maybe it has a place of honor in a multicar garage or maybe it sits bereft in a parking deck as gray as the skies. But there it is. Every morning, the moment recurs when we possess our automobile all over again. That's me, that's my ride. Turdblossum.
"Man, I need a new car," you think. Which means you have to go to a dealership, which also means you get to be a schmuck. It can't be helped.
Ford's wonderful Fiesta ST
If you want to stave off long-term ownership ennui, the Ford Fiesta ST is the way to go, says Dan Neil.
The following paragraphs constitute all I know about the retail car-buying experience. Consumers make the process needlessly antagonistic and stressful. People come into car dealerships in fits of near-delusional paranoia, convinced that everybody's trying to rip them off. They will wave a printout from Edmunds.com or Kelley Blue Book like it was a machete. They will scream and throw themselves to the ground just to get free floor mats.
I dare you: Stand a post for one day in a busy car dealership. The public = nuts.
The irony is that many people, begrudging the sales doofus his meager dimes, give away dollars.
Car buyers routinely drive off the lot having spent way more money on wheels, horsepower, seats and audio than they ever intended. And the sales people don't have to do anything but hand over the paperwork. "The Audi S7 with the executive rear seating? Yes, sir, Mr. Neil! Right away!" Clap, clap!
In retail sales, upselling is free money.
Meet the King of the Upsell: the 2014 Ford F, +2.34% Fiesta ST, a hot-hatch version of the company's megaselling global subcompact, now in its seventh generation.
Sure, you walked into the dealership figuring on spending about $15,000 on the base five-door hatchback, but now the sales guy drops the ST on you. Boom! You love it. Because: fun.
The ST scampers around town like a randy squirrel. Its 1.6-liter, four cylinder is turbo-boosted to the stars (21 psi) and redlines at over 6,000 rpm. It is shod with overachieving 17-inch Bridgestone Potenzas and—OMG!—it's got an old-school six-speed manual transmission.
The Fiesta is one of the world's best-selling cars. Engineered by Ford of Europe, it is basically the official car of every public servant, barmaid and shopkeep in the United Kingdom.
The Fiesta ST's taut modernist bod, bandy proportions and unsmiling, on-task visage help it avoid the box-office poison of cuteness. Think of it as a hot-hatch Aston Martin.
Fiesta vacated the U.S. market in 1980 and returned in 2010. Ford moved the tin to the tune of 57,000 sales in 2012.
So there is absolutely nothing wrong with the Fiesta in its less highly contented form: seven air bags, heated outside mirrors, Bluetooth and plug-and-play media with voice recognition, power windows and doors with keyless entry.


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PROVIDENCE — Tolman High's emerging volleyball dynasty showed off its teamwork on Wednesday night during a convincing 3-0 victory over East Greenwich in the Division II championship finals.
"We got contributions from everyone," head coach Neil Nachbar said after the Tigers answered every challenge from the Avengers while prevailing by scores of 25-22, 25-19 and 25-19. "Our team is not carried by one or two players. We spread the ball out on offense and on defense everyone chips in."
Tolman has now won two straight state titles for the first time in its volleyball program's 18-year history and three over the past four years. Nachbar, who helped found the program, has now coached five state championship teams at the school.
Tolman came into this matchup knowing it needed to neutralize EG's tall front line. The Tigers have one player over six feet in height – the 6-foot-4 senior Denzel DePina. East Greenwich had three players who could look DePina in the eyes.
Tolman's strength rests with a versatile roster of regulars who could exploit holes in the opposing defense. Setter Kelvin Reyes consistently found weak spots in the backside of EG's defense for his patented placements. Senior outside hitter Eric Silveira finished off rallies on numerous occasions with his big hits. Right side hitter Tyler Harry kept EP honest with his presence around the net. Libero Jason Aguilera, middle hitter Ken Vieira and senior outside hitter Keanu Perry also came up with big plays in the first two games as Tolman established control of the match.
"Kelvin Reyes did a great job of recognizing what EG was doing," Nachbar noted. "That comes with experience. Our seniors have been playing together for four years and that experience really helped us out tonight."
Tolman got four kills from Silveira while winning the first game. East Greenwich came out full of energy and kept pace with the Tigers for the first half of the game. Tolman led 11-10 when Reyes set up Silveira for a kill that started a 7-2 run for the defending state champions.
The Avengers stopped the bleeding with three points in a row. That's when Keanu Perry found an opening in EG's defense for a momentum-stopping point. And then Silveira killed another bullet into the middle of EG's defense, an unreturnable blow that made it 19-15. Perry added another point with a difficult serve that the Avengers couldn't handle.
EG rallied one more time, closing to 23-22 before serving long and out of bounds, giving Tolman a gift point at a crucial time in the match. Silveira then delivered the winning point, hitting a hard serve that EG returned straight up in the air, the ball hitting the ceiling rafters above the court and falling to the floor as the Avengers looked on in dismay.
Having won the opener, Tolman turned it up a notch in the middle game, jumping out to an early 8-2 lead as DePina made three blocks at the net and Silveira served an ace. EG pulled itself together and made a run, closing to 13-9 before Silveira drilled a winning shot on the backside of the Avengers' defense.
DePina, a defensive force all night, followed with another block at the net for a 15-9 lead.
The Tigers still led 22-17 when EG once again served into the net. The Tigers went up 24-19 and then watched as East Greenwich hit long to end the second game, 25-19.
When Tolman defeated EG 3-1 during the regular season, the Avengers' only victory came in the third game. Nachbar and his players knew there could be no letdown this time, not with momentum such a fickle force in any volleyball match. And even though EG jumped out to a quick 3-1 lead, the Tigers were having none of it. DePina delivered two of his game-high six kills and then Silveira served an ace for a 4-3 lead. Tyler Harry added a kill to make it 5-3.
The third game went back and forth. EG rallied to tie at 8 before Tolman again took charge, pulling ahead 13-10 behind big plays from DePina, Silveira, Harry and Reyes. The game would be tied again at 17 before Reyes found a weak spot in EG's defense and tapped a shot to the opening for an 18-17 advantage.
One of the shorter Tolman players, Ken Vieira, then made a kill at the net for a 19-17 lead, smiling and accepting congratulations from his teammates as the door to another state title began to open. EG pulled back to 20-19 before serving long again. And then Vieira came up with his second kill for a 22-19 lead.
Kelvin Reyes took over and served out the match. Silveira finished off a rally to make it 24-19 and then East Greenwich couldn't get Reyes' final serve back over the net. That was game, set and match for the Tigers, who fell into one another's arms on the court.
"We're really just one big family," DePina said with a smile. "We've been playing together so long and we all wanted to go out with another state title and an undefeated season. What an awesome feeling this is."
Silveira, a cousin of DePina's, stood on the court, speaking quietly and thoughtfully about this team and its accomplishments.
"It's just amazing," he said, "to win two state titles in a row and three of four. We had a great game plan for East Greenwich. We wanted to keep the ball away from their two best players (John Condon and Sam McLimans) and that worked pretty well for us. Then we had so many players come through for us tonight. Denzel was really big for us. Kelvin did a great job all over the court. Everyone played great."
The Tigers' balance showed in every game. Silveira led with four kills in the first game, Reyes led with three in the middle contest and DePina had six of his 11 total kills in the third game. Reyes finished with 16 assists, many of them setups for kills by his front line hitters.
It was DePina who stepped to the forefront in the final game.
"Denzel was using finesse in the first two games, instead of hitting the ball with power," Nachbar said. "In the third game, he came alive and began hitting the ball hard into their defense. That helped us finish them off."
Tolman finished 21-0 for its first undefeated season ever. The Tigers won their first state title ever in 2000 with a team led by Peter Firth and they won again in 2003 as Kevin Firth led the way. But the program has reached new heights over the past four seasons, with a collection of seniors who will be hard to replace.
"This was a special group of players," Nachbar admitted.


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Thanks Andre, yeah i had those 6 buttons too, but i love the classic ones better.
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Land revitalization activities at formerly contaminated sites can help to promote sustainable redevelopment through refinements to existing enforcement policies and the use of green building and greenspace designs in property redevelopment and reuse. EPA's Land Revitalization Initiative is also helping to promote sustainability through a variety of efforts across EPA, and through partnership with other organizations. The following list provides links to and explanations of a number of EPA programs that focus on sustainable revitalization.
EPA Sustainable Revitalization Activities and Initiatives
- Green Buildings
The design, construction, operation, maintenance, and removal of buildings takes enormous amounts of energy, water, and materials, and generates large quantities of waste, air, and water pollution, as well as creating stormwater runoff and heat islands.
- The Green Buildings on Brownfields Initiative
This Initiative is an EPA effort designed to promote the use of green building techniques at brownfield properties in conjunction with assessment and cleanup. Through several pilot projects, EPA is providing communities with technical assistance to facilitate the development of green buildings on their brownfields.
The Environmentally Responsible Redevelopment and Reuse (ER3) Initiative is an initiative led by the Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assistance that uses Agency-wide incentives (including enforcement incentives) to promote sustainable redevelopment of formerly contaminated sites.
- Urban Rivers Projects
The Urban Rivers Project pilots emphasize partnerships among many organizations promoting freshwater wetlands restoration and brownfields revitalization.
- Smart Growth
Through EPA's Smart Growth Program, EPA is helping states and municipalities better understand the impacts of development patterns. "Smart Growth" seeks to preserve greenfields and encourages infill development where pre-existing infrastructure supports reuse.
- Environmental Justice
Environmental Justice is the fair treatment and meaningful involvement of all people regardless of race, color, national origin, or income with respect to the development, implementation, and enforcement of environmental laws, regulations, and policies. The Office of Environmental Justice (OEJ) at EPA works with all stakeholders to constructively and collaboratively address environmental and public health issues and concerns.
Sustainable Revitalization Partnerships and External Resources
- Sustainable Management Approaches and Revitalization Tools electronic
SMARTe is a joint effort of the U.S.-German Bilateral Working Group, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and the Interstate Technology Regulatory Council (ITRC) Brownfields Team. The tool, which is still being developed, is intended to be used by brownfield project stakeholders for assessing both market and non-market costs and benefits of redevelopment options, clarifying both private and public financing options, evaluating and communicating environmental risks, and easing access to pertinent state-specific information related to specific projects.
- Wildlife Habitat Council
EPA has entered into a cooperative agreement with the Wildlife Habitat Council (WHC) to research, test, develop and demonstrate the ways and means that state and local governments, industry and community groups can use ecological enhancements to increase the rate at which contaminated lands, both private and public (state, tribal, and local), can be remediated and reused. Through this agreement, it has been found that a variety of reuses, including wildlife habitat enhancement, can be included as part of restoration designs.
- Groundwork USA
The Groundwork Trusts are independent, not-for-profit, environmental businesses that work with communities to improve their environment, economy, and quality of life through local action. With support from the EPA Brownfields Program and the National Park Service Rivers, Trails and Conservation Assistance Program, Groundwork USA helps people reuse brownfields for community benefit. Because the goal of most publicly funded programs is to reuse brownfields for economic development, many brownfields sites are being left behind because they are too small, surrounded by blight, or located in areas with other constraints, such as flood plains or dense residential neighborhoods.


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4.19: Division of Decimals by Decimals using Zero Placeholders
Have you ever tried to divide two numbers but it didn't work perfectly? In the last Concept, you saw Miles divide a decimal by a decimal and it worked out perfectly in the end. What if it didn't? What would Miles do then? Look at this problem.
Jessie decided to try her hand at the sand and the hourglass too. But she used a different bucket. Jessie's bucket would hold 6.75 pounds of sand. 1.25 pounds of sand could go through the hourglass at one time.
Jessie thinks that she can run the sand through the hourglass six times before needing to refill the bucket.
Is she correct?
To solve this problem, you will need to divide once again. Pay attention to this Concept because you will need a new skill to complete the problem.
The decimals that we divided in the last Concept were all evenly divisible. This means that we had whole number quotients. We didn't have any decimal quotients.
What can we do if a decimal is not evenly divisible by another decimal?
If you think back, we worked on some of these when we divided decimals by whole numbers. When a decimal was not evenly divisible by a whole number, we had to use a zero placeholder to complete the division.
When we divided 13.6 by 5, we ended up with a 1 at the end of the division. Then we were able to add a zero placeholder and finish finding a decimal quotient. Here is what this looked like.
We add zero placeholders when we divide decimals by decimals too.
The first thing that we need to do is to multiply the divisor and the dividend by a multiple of ten to make the divisor a whole number. We can multiply both by 10 to accomplish this goal.
Now we can divide.
Here is where we have a problem. We have a remainder of 3. We don't want to have a remainder, so we have to add a zero placeholder to the problem so that we can divide it evenly.
Uh Oh! We still have a remainder, so we can add another zero placeholder.
Sometimes, you will need to add more than one zero. The key is to use the zero placeholders to find a quotient that is even without a remainder.
Example A
Solution: 2.3
Example B
Solution: 6.2
Example C
Solution: 3.5
Now back to Jessie and the sand. Did you figure out that you will need a zero placeholder to figure out if Jessie's estimate is correct? Let's look at the original problem once again.
Jessie decided to try her hand at the sand and the hourglass too. But she used a different bucket. Jessie's bucket would hold 6.75 pounds of sand. 1.25 pounds of sand could go through the hourglass at one time.
Jessie thinks that she can run the sand through the hourglass six times before needing to refill the bucket.
To figure out if a 6.75 pound bucket of sand can be divided into 1.25 pounds six times, we will need to divide.
Next, we can divide.
Our answer is .
Jessie isn't correct. She will need to refill the bucket after pouring 1.25 pounds of sand through the hourglass five times.
Here are the vocabulary words in this Concept.
- Divisor
- the number doing the dividing, it is found outside of the division box.
- Dividend
- the number being divided. It is found inside the division box.
- Quotient
- the answer in a division problem
Guided Practice
Here is one for you to try on your own.
To complete this problem, we must first move the decimal point one place in the divisor which makes 3.2 into 32. Then we can simply divide. Notice that you will need to use zero placeholders and keep adding them until the division is complete.
Our answer is .
Interactive Practice
Video Review
Khan Academy Dividing Decimals
James Sousa Example of Dividing Decimals
Directions: Divide the following decimals. Use zero placeholders when necessary.
DividendIn a division problem, the dividend is the number or expression that is being divided.
divisorIn a division problem, the divisor is the number or expression that is being divided into the dividend. For example: In the expression , 6 is the divisor and 152 is the dividend.
QuotientThe quotient is the result after two amounts have been divided.


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SYDNEY: Emerging Asian nations will account for around a quarter of global consumer products markets by 2016 and brands will have to develop localisation strategies to take the fullest advantage, a new study has said.
Ernst & Young, the global accountancy company, canvassed the opinion of 276 Asia-based senior executives of leading consumer products companies and retailers in eight markets and found that 69% thought emerging markets would be the main driver of growth and profit over the next three years,
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Kristina Rogers, global consumer products emerging markets leader at Ernst & Young, said that these markets would also account for 37% of total consumer products growth.
She noted that those global businesses looking for growth in the region were finding tough competition from well-established local and multinational players.
"Global companies need to be agile and light on their feet, by putting consumer value first and foremost, in order to win over the increasingly sophisticated and demanding Asian consumer," she said.
She also suggested they would need to "adopt a highly disruptive approach to managing their business through selective localisation and above all, flawless execution".
The report outlined an approach to localisation that involved greater local autonomy, granularity, focus and agility.
Andrew Cosgrove, Ernst & Young global consumer products lead analyst, echoed this requirement.
"Global CP companies need to adopt a selectively localised portfolio approach across all the elements of the supply chain from conception to consumption," he said.
"Whilst this approach incurs higher costs in terms of time and resources, versus a universal approach, it is a price that companies must be prepared to pay in order to capture profitable growth."
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Basye/Orkney Springs Community Library, a station of the Shenandoah County Library, was established in 1993 by a group of volunteers. Volunteers continue to operate the library, which is open Monday through Saturday from 10:00 am to 2:00 pm and also on Tuesday from 4:30 to 6:30 pm. Area residents may obtain a county library card by applying through the Shenandoah County Library System's website at:
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Books and more!Although small, the library provides to all Basye-Orkney Springs area property owners and visitors a wide selection of fiction, non-fiction, audio books, DVDs, and reference materials, as well as an extensive collection of information about local history and attractions. Free Internet access is also available during library hours at four computer terminals, while wireless access is available around the clock. Other Services:
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Visit one of Bangkok's most-remembered religious structures The Giant Swing, the world's most legendary one of its kind, which sets surrounded by Wat Suthat, Bangkok City Hall and The Brahman Temple. This 21-meter, maroon-colored swing is a Brahman religious structure built in circa 1784 from teakwood. In the old days, it was used as part of Tri Yampawai, a Brahman rite of which priests swing themselves in order to pay homage to Shiva God to celebrate his annual visit to the earth. The rite was cancelled in 1935, during the reign of King Rama VII, as there were a number of unexpected accidents while conducting the rite. The Giant Swing has received several refurbishments and reconstructions; the current Giant Swing was built in 2006 with teakwood from Phrae province.
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Paroles de la chanson I'm Ready For Love :
Verse 1:
I want a smile on my face.
A happy alert to my brain.
I want to be on the other side.
I want a wonderful life.
I want to avoid the rush.
I don't even wanna hide.
I want a smile make this worth while.
And get as much,
As I can.
I want to fly just you and I.
I'm ready for love,
Yes I am.
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I want a rainbow above me.
And feel inside so free.
I want to have you right here.
I want to fly up above.
And feel all the love.
I want everything so clear.
[Refrain] x1.
I want a smile.
All worth while.
I want to change.
And just rearrange.
I want to be.
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I want a smile on my...
[Refrain] x1.
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SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) - U.S. stocks will extend their losses next week as concern over poor earnings, oil nearing $100 a barrel, and more turmoil in the banking and brokerage industries promise to rock Wall Street for a second week, with Citigroup Inc. at the center of the action on Monday after an emergency weekend board meeting.
The market's attention is poised to stay trained on the financial sector after the group suffered its worst week in years as Merrill Lynch & Co.'s MER, -0.13% chief executive was forced out and Citigroup's C, +2.57% board prepared to decide whether to accept the resignation of CEO Chuck Prince as well.
"The market is obsessed with these credit problems. People feel like they're standing in a mine field and they don't know where all the mines are," said Brian Gendreau, investment strategist at ING Investment Management. "We're looking for an opportunity to go back into equities. I just don't think next week is going to be the time. There's still just too much uncertainty."
The unraveling of the subprime mortgage crisis on Wall Street shook the financial services sector and much of the stock market during the past week, with uncertainty about the extent of losses in the collateralized debt obligations business locking up many of the global credit and derivatives markets. See Market Snapshot.
Earnings worse then expected
The worsening state of quarterly results from Corporate America may pull stocks lower as well, with a 1.6% decline in earnings, down from a 1% decline last week, according to data from Thomson Financial. Investors will assess results next week from Cisco Systems Inc. CSCO, +4.23% General Motors GM, +0.09% oil firm Total SA TOT, +2.22% American International Group AIG, +1.91% and Walt Disney Co. DIS, +0.83%
Also to come will be Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke's congressional testimony on the outlook for economy, monthly sales figures from retailers, and the first look at consumer sentiment in November heading into the all-important holiday shopping season.
News from Citigroup could be a highlight of the new trading week, with the board of the country's largest bank expected to hold an emergency meeting this weekend, The Wall Street Journal reported late Friday. CEO Charles Prince is expected to offer his resignation, and the subject of more write-downs could be part of the discussion, according to the Journal. See full story.
Last month, the company reported a 57% drop in third-quarter profit after billions of dollars in write-downs related to the troubled credit markets.
Wall Street could also find itself weighed down by a further climb in commodity prices, particularly crude-oil which jumped 4.4% this week and closed above $95 a barrel on Friday. See Futures Movers.
"The all-important $100 level [for oil prices] may be a psychological breaking point for investors," said Michael Sheldon, chief market strategist at Spencer Clark, LLC.
The market found pockets of strength this past week, notably after the Federal Reserve delivered a widely expected quarter-point cut in its key interest rate to 4.5%. Tech stocks, as measured by the Nasdaq Composite Index COMP, +1.56% edged higher with help from Google Inc. GOOG, +2.32% as it surpassed the $700-a-share level for the first time.
But the dismal news from the financial sector and quarterly profit misses at oil giants ExxonMobil XOM, +1.23% and Chevron Corp. CVX, +3.04% contributed to weekly losses in the Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, +1.85% and the S&P 500 Index SPX, +1.83%
"Holders of U.S. equities are nervous and holding on by their fingernails. There is going to be little or no good news coming any time soon," wrote Adam Hewison, president of INO.com, a technical analysis Web site.
Financial frets
Key indices that track the financial group suffered heavy losses this week. The Amex Securities Broker/Dealer Index $XBD which includes Merrill Lynch, dropped 5.6% and the KBW Bank Index $BKX which tracks 24 leading banks, fell more then 6%.


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BalanceNG Frequenty Asked Questions
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Table of Contents
1. General Questions
Q1.01: Is BalanceNG available for other platforms ?
2. Technical Questions
Q2.01: Does BalanceNG forward the original client address unchanged ?
1. General Questions
Q1.01: Is BalanceNG available for other platforms ?
BalanceNG is currently available for Linux/x86, Solaris 9+10 (SPARC) and Solaris 10 (x86) . The agent of BalanceNG (bngagent) is available in source and is supported on several platforms (Linux, Solaris, Mac OS-X, HP-UX and more).
Q1.02: How is BalanceNG related to balance ?
BalanceNG and Balance are both from the same company. Besides of that there's no further relationship between Balance and BalanceNG. BalanceNG is a complete Layer2/Ethernet based load balancer for Linux, whereas Balance is a TCP only proxy tool with load balancing capabilities. BalanceNG and Balance do not share code since the design approaches differ substantially. Anyway, the Balance project will be continued as before (see http://balance.sourceforge.net).
Q1.03: Is there performance data available for BalanceNG ?
BalanceNG comes with its own integrated benchmark functionality, take a look at our collection of BalanceNG benchmark results.
Q1.04: Could you explain the licensing and purchasing process ?
Q1.05: Isn't BalanceNG a bit expensive ?
No, we don't think so. It's quite the contrary: With BalanceNG you are able to replace hardware devices (Like Nortel/Alteon, Cisco/LocalDirector and BigIP/F5) that easily cost more than 10000.-- EUR/$ per node.
Q1.06: Are there alternative products from other vendors ?
"Central Dispatch" from Resonate appears to be a software competitor (noticed by customer which has moved to BalanceNG). In the open source community there's Linux Virtual Server (LVS), check www.linuxvirtualserver.org for information. There's also Keepalived which represents a keepalive and health checking facility for LVS. There are several companies which sell preconfigured boxes based on LVS.
Q1.07: What are the main advantages of BalanceNG compared to a LVS/Keepalived combination ?
Take a look at the Customers page, we included links to the most promiment customers. A nice live example is www.nieuws.nl, one of the biggest news portal sites in the Netherlands. BalanceNG in a HA-configuration distributes the load of up to 5 million hits per month to a server farm. The session table holds more that 10000 concurrent sessions at low traffic hours.
Q1.09: Is there a Web GUI available ?
No, we don't offer our own Web GUI. However, we encourage and support interested users and partners to build their own. Just contact us to get some recommendations and hints.
Q1.10: Which configuration do you recommend for beginners ?
We recommend to setup a DSR (Direct Server Return) configuration first, since that does not require network topolgy changes and fits well into already existing networks. The loopback aliases have to be established correctly on the targets, but that is manageable and well documented.
Q1.11: Does BalanceNG support SSL offloading ?
No, BalanceNG itself does not include this functionality. We recommend using BalanceNG is a combination with stunnel on the target servers (where stunnel may use acceleration hardware) thus "offloading" the SSL efforts to multiple stunnels.
Q1.12: Do I need a separate license for V2 and V3 releases ?
No, one license key enables all releases of BalanceNG (1.x, 2.x or V3). Note that the free "advanced trial licenses" are release dependent (just specify the desired release).
Q1.13: What is the ECCN (Export Control Classification Number) of BalanceNG?
The ECCN of BalanceNG is "EAR99/NLR" ("No License Required").
2. Technical Questions
Q2.01: Does BalanceNG forward the original client address unchanged ?
Yes, this is a basic property of BalanceNG (or feature).
Q2.02: Can we load balance to applications running on the same machine ?
Yes, but BalanceNG needs to have its own physical interface and "set localdsr 1" enabled in the configuration. Take a look at Example 6 for further information.
Q2.03: Can I load balance traffic between several ISP links ?
Yes, BalanceNG supports Link Load Balancing (since release 1.526). Take a look here (Example 4) for a more advanced application example.
Q2.04: Is there a bngagent port to Windows ?
There's a bngagent implementation available as a customer contribution (without warranty and support), take a look into the "contrib" directory of the distribution. It's called "BngAgentService" and implements a Windows Service which integrates into the Windows operating system. It is implemented in Delphi 7 (Object Pascal), source code is also provided.
Q2.05: Do you have a "single legged" configuration example ?
Yes, take a look at the Single Legged Example (Example 1).
Q2.06: Do you have a "transparent switch" configuration example ?
Yes, take a look at Layer 2 Dual Legged Switching Mode Example (Example 2).
Q2.07: Do you have a Direct Server Return configuration example ?
Yes, take a look at Direct Server Return Example (Single Legged) (Example 3).
Q2.08: Do you have a VRRP tracking configuration example ?
Yes, take a look at Link Load Balancing Example (Dual Legged, HA) (Example 4).
Q2.08b: Do you have a link load balancing configuration example ?
Yes, take a look at Link Load Balancing Example (Dual Legged, HA) (Example 4) too which shows various concepts and techniques at the same time.
Q2.09: ARP is misbehaving on my Linux boxes, what's going on ?
Please check if you are hit by the "Linux ARP flux" problem. Linux answers ARP requests on wrong and unassociated interfaces per default. This leads to the following two problems:
Q2.10: Is there a function to synchronize master and backup configuration files ?
No, not at the moment. The configuration files have to be synchronized manually for the time being.
Q2.11: How do I make the loopback alias permanent in Solaris 10 ?
Q2.12: How do I establish the loopback alias for Direct Server Return operation (DSR) on Linux ?
Q2.13: What features are expected to be available shortly ?
Q2.14: How do I setup the loopback alias for DSR on Windows ?
Q2.15: Can BalanceNG load balance TFTP traffic ?
Yes, that works with no problems by not specifying ports at server and target definitions ("all service load balancing" like in conf001.txt).
Q2.16: Can BalanceNG load balance ftp over SSL traffic (FTPS) ?
Yes, that's also working with BalanceNG in a "all service load balancing" configuration. It turned out that BalanceNG worked over big name hardware vendors like Cisco and Nortel in that case !
Q2.17: How do I specifically route back server traffic to the Load Balancer (setup "Source Routing" on Linux) ?
In practice there are several situations, where a specific routing configuration is needed to route only the traffic related to the service from the target back to the load balancer. This can be done with Linux using iptables and the iproute2 functionality. The following script has to be run on the target and assumes an apache server listening on port 80 on the target IP address 10.1.1.1. The addresses 10.1.1.10 and 10.1.1.11 in this example are the "network real" addresses of the master and backup node, respectively. The address 10.1.1.20 in this example is the "network virt" address represented by both nodes using VRRP and may be reachable via eth1.
Q2.18: How do I setup wget as an external HTTP health check ?
This is very easy, just add an additional "script"-definition to the target section like this:bng# target 1 script "wget -q -O /dev/null -t 1 -T 2 http://www.BalanceNG.net",4,10
Q2.19: What's important to run BalanceNG on VMware ?
BalanceNG needs the ability to operate the connected, physical interfaces in promiscuous mode. In a VM setup this requires that the VM has the permission to do that in turn. The solution is to either run the VM as root or to set the permissions of /dev/vmnet* doing a "chmod go+rw /dev/vmnet*" on the vmware host before starting the VM.
Q2.20: How do I enable the loopback adapter on Windows 2008 ?
This requires the following actions:
Q2.21: The SNMPD interfacing does not work, what should I check ?
Q2.22: Does BalanceNG support IPv6 ?
Q2.23: Does BalanceNG run on Oracle "Unbreakable Enterprise Kerne" (UEK) ?
Q2.24: How do I activate session table synchronization with newer releases ?
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One of my recent search terms was the title of this post! And so, here you go, a few ways I've worn this cardigan I got from Target for $11. :-)
The first few looks are all with neutrals, as this cardi makes for a great way to add color to an outfit. Orange is fun to pair with another color too, as I have below with blue and green.
With jeans:
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Whew, I didn't realize I'd worn this cardi so much! Who knew an orange cardigan would get so much wear. :-)
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7-3A speedsters aim for Austin
There won't be any lack of speed at the upcoming Class 3A Region I track meet, and much of it will come right out of Abilene's backyard - from District 7-3A.
Wylie's Gary Edwards, Sweetwater's Skye Green and Comanche's Michael Byrd will be among the favorites in this week's competition, which gets underway Friday at Odessa's Ratliff Stadium.
The meet headlines a trio of 3A Region I events this week in Odessa; Golf begins Monday for girls and Tuesday for boys at the Nueva Vista Golf Club. Tennis will be played at the Ector County ISD Courts, beginning on Wednesday at 8:30 a.m.
''I think our district will represent Region I very well,'' Sweetwater coach Patrick Villa said. ''Wylie has been deep and I think they'll do a great job, we've got (Green) and we've been strong in the relays and Comanche has Byrd.''
Edwards, who finished fourth in the state a year ago is the odds-on favorite in the 200, having posted a personal-best time of 21.25.
Green, however, may be the fastest athlete in the meet. Recently signed by Texas Tech, Green placed third in the state as a junior in the 100, finishing in 10.58. But defending state champion Shawnbrey McNeal from Dallas Madison returns, possibly setting the stage for a huge showdown in Austin.
''In pure sprints, I think our district is probably one of the strongest in state,'' Comanche coach Stacey Martin said. ''Third place from our district will have faster times than some kids at state.''
In Byrd, Martin has the sixth-place finisher in the 400 in last year's state meet, who has posted a personal best of 49.7.
Currently being pursued by UT-Arlington and UT-San Antonio, Byrd is also considered a contender for the state meet in the 200, but will likely need to eclipse his personal best of 21.75 in order to achieve that.
''I think you should see quite a few sprinters from our area going to Austin,'' Wylie coach Eddie Lang said. ''I think Edwards should win the 200, Green should win the 100 and Byrd should win the 400.''
On the girls side, athletes to keep an eye on include Edwards' little sister, Bessie, who qualified for state a year ago in the 200, but was unable to compete after becoming dehydrated. She has covered the 200 meters with a PR of 25.14.
Clyde sophomore Emily Yates is another, having qualified for the regional in the long jump, triple jump, the 100 and the 200.
Here are each school's top contenders for the state meet, along with their personal bests in parenthesis:
Shot put - Daniel Rodriguez, junior (48-6)
Long jump - Adam Riley, junior (20-1)
Triple jump - Jackie Cooper, senior (41-1)
200 - Chauncy Bradford, junior (22.8)
400 relay - Chauncy Bradford, Matt Miles, Adam Riley, Michael Hayworth (43.5)
800 relay - Bradford, Troy Roberson, Riley, and Hayworth (133.8)
1,600 relay - Taylor Fambro, Ronnie Langford, Riley, Hayworth (3:37)
Pole vault - Kylee Singleton, junior (9-0)
Triple jump - RaiDiance Lawson, junior (35-3)
High jump - Markell Stoker, junior (5-4)
400 relay - Lindley Brown, Lawson, Emily Stultz, Hannah Langford (50.4)
800 relay - Stultz, Lawson, Brown, Langford (1:47.5)
Shot put - Curtis Kevil, junior (46-3)
Pole vault - Chris Anderson, freshman (12-6)
Long jump - Emily Yates, sophomore (17-11/2 )
Triple jump - Yates (35-3 1/4)
Discus - Cristi Jackson, junior (110-3 3/4 )
Pole vault - Haley Jenkins, junior (9-6)
High jump - Amy Withrow, sophomore (5-4)
100 - Yates (12.13)
200 - Yates (24.99)
800 - Jennifer Portlock, sophomore (2:22.86)
Shot put - Jonathan Tindol, senior, (46-7)
100 - Michael Byrd, senior, (10.54)
200 - Byrd (21.75)
400 - Byrd (49.7)
Long Jump - Rachel Miller, senior, (16'10 1/2)
300 hurdles - Jenna Duncan, freshman, (48.8)
3,200 - Marissa Salazar, sophomore (12:59)
Long Jump - Kenneth Turner, sophomore (20-8)
100 - Turner (10.72)
200 - Turner (22.29)
1,600 - Dominic Cabrera, sophomore (4:33)
3,200 - Cabrera (10:30)
Pole vault - Cayelea Rhodes, junior, (8-6)
800 - Connie Martinez, sophomore (2:34.0)
Long jump - Joseph Banyard, senior (21-7)
100 - Skye Green, senior, school record 10.54 in state last year two-time regional titlist.
400 - J.J. McCoy, Joseph Banyard, Duone Cunnings, Skye Green (42.67)
800 relay - McCoy, Cunnings, Banyard, Green (1:28.60)
1,600 relay - Justin Rodriguez, McCoy, Cunnings, Banyard (3:31.01)
400 - Morgan Shelton, sophomore (59.9)
400 relay - Shelton, Denise White, Morgan Young, Ravenn Rudel (50.3)
800 relay - Bennie Smith, White, Young, Rudel (1:47.4)
1,600 relay - Shelton, White, Young, Rudel (4:08.31)
Long jump - Gary Edwards, senior (21-11 1/2)
Triple jump - Austin Gray, freshman (42-10), James Rosenbaum, senior (43-4 1/2)
High jump - Gray, (6-0)
200 - Edwards (21.25)
800 - Michael Strong, senior (2:02.1)
400 relay - Edwards, Tanner Mitchell, Clay Kinney, Kris Gilmore (42.91)
1,600 relay - Chance Perkins, Drew Seale, Michael Strong, Edwards (3:26)
200 - Bessie Edwards, sophomore (25.14)
300 hurdles - Amy Pease, junior (46.55)
400 relay - Edwards, Morgan Sconiers, Christina Hartsfield, Baleigh Walker (49.65)
800 relay - Edwards, Sconiers, Hartsfield, Walker (1:44.96)
1,600 relay - Amy Pease, Hartsfield, Paige Hughes, Walker (4:05.65)
Region I-3A Sites
3A Region I Golf Tournament
Site: Nueva Vista Golf Club, Odessa
Time: Girls April 23-24 8 a.m., Boys April 25-26 8 a.m.
3A Region I Tennis Tournament
Site: Ector County ISD Courts at Ratliff Stadium, Odessa
Time: April 25-26 (8:30 am Wednesday, 9 a.m. Thursday for girls; 10 a.m. Wednesday and 9 a.m. Thursday for boys)
3A Region I Track and Field Meet
Site: Ratliff Stadium, Odessa
Time: April 27-28, (10 a.m. Friday, 9 a.m. Saturday)
UIL Regionals
Monday marks the beginning of regional week, with trips to state at stake in golf, tennis and track. Here's the schedule for Big Country schools:
Region I-5A in Lubbock
Monday-Tuesday: boys golf
Wednesday-Thursday: girls golf
Friday-Saturday: tennis, track
Region I-4A in San Angelo
Monday-Tuesday: golf, tennis
Friday-Saturday: track
Region II-4A in Denton
Monday-Tuesday: golf
Wednesday-Thursday: tennis
Friday-Saturday: track
Region I-3A in Midland/Odessa
Monday-Tuesday: girls golf
Wednesday-Thursday: boys golf, tennis
Friday-Saturday: track
Region I-2A at ACU
Monday-Tuesday: golf (at Shady Oaks Golf Club in Baird)
Wednesday-Thursday: tennis
Friday-Saturday: track
Region II-2A in Stephenville
Monday-Tuesday: girls golf, boys tennis, mixed doubles
Wednesday-Thursday: boys golf, girls tennis
Friday-Saturday: track
Region II-A at HSU
Monday-Tuesday: golf (at Maxwell Golf Course in Abilene)
Wednesday-Thursday: tennis
Friday-Saturday: track (at ACU)
Region IV-A in Brenham
Monday-Tuesday: golf
Wednesday-Thursday: tennis (at College Station)
Friday-Saturday: track (at Huntsville)
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Hello everyone. Decided to join this wonderful site after finally learning enough about Gimp to be able to shed all of my previous image applications. There is however one thing that I find personally quite annoying since I frequently work with over 100 photos, many of which require a little individual finesse here and there, meaning that I can't simply use a batch job on all of them at once. Searching this site revealed that other people have this issue as well but I couldn't find an actual solution.
Does anyone know of a permanent auto-crop solution that can be used from the time that Gimp is opened up on the screen? Photoshop and Paint Shop Pro both had settings which could be enabled or disabled, causing a freshly resized or zoomed image to be automatically cropped to the window border that contained the image.
I'm wasting literally hours of time (talking about thousands of photos) having to constantly auto-crop images that I'm working on. Even worse, if an image that I'm working on is larger than my desktop the first auto-crop usually won't work, displaying a huge fat grey area under the image which then causes me to have to auto-crop yet a second time. I'm honestly surprised that cropping with Gimp functions as it does since that method is (IMO) really not very practical at all. Is there a script that anyone knows of which would permanently & automatically cause for images to be cropped after zooming/sizing?Is it possible to ask someone here to create custom scripts?Any help to accomplish this goal would be sincerely appreciated.
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I use this a lot for my animations.Moving layer content easily and so forth.
You have to have Python-fu installed if you run Windows. I suppose a script could be written in SCM for this also but i know of none out there.
You will find the filter in Image>Auto crop linked layers after you place the python file in your plug-ins folder.
Other than that script there is no other way to mass auto crop Gimps layers for an entire session.
Not that i know of any ways.


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Miquel de Icaza: Moonlight Making Progress
Mono developer and Novell employee Miquel de Icaza reported on the progress being made by Moonlight at the XML 2007 Conference in Boston. Moonlight is the Linux variant of Microsoft's Silverlight solution.
In mid-April, Microsoft announced the Silverlight plug-in as its new platform for interactive, multimedia Web content – that is as an alternative to Flash. In June, a team of developers led by Miguel de Icaza who work on Novell's Mono project programmed a software that emulates Silverlight's functionality without knowledge of the source code: this was the birth of Moonlight. In early September, Microsoft announced that it would be cooperating with Novell on the Linux implementation of Silverlight.
Miquel de Icaza's employer Novell is planning to release version 1.0 of Moonlight early in 2008. De Icaza demoed Moonlight at XML 2007 in Boston and emphasized the fact that Moonlight will bring the same functionality to Linux as the Microsoft original, Silverlight.
Moonlight is part of Novell's Mono project and will be available as Open Source. Right now, the Linux version of Silverlight is only available as a SVN version. In 2008, the Novell Mono project is planning to release packages for all major distributions via the Suse build service. Novell supports both the Mono project and the Silverlight implementation. The source code for the browser plug-ins will be open, apart from the Microsoft codecs, although they will be freely available. The source code of the developer status of Moonlight is currently available as a patchwork of multiple modules. The project page has more details.
In his blog, project developer de Icaza reports on the progress being made with Mono and Moonlight, and various demos at events. In early October de Icaza attended Remix 07 in Boston, which was hosted by Microsoft.
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The Rubin Con Goes On
Posted on Aug 10, 2010
The corruptions of journalism were on full display when CNN's Fareed Zakaria turned to Robert Rubin this past Sunday for advice on how to fix the financial crisis that he, as much as anyone, caused. I was trapped on a treadmill in front of an overhead television and unable to turn the thing off in time to avoid this assault on my mental and physical health.
As a result I was forced to hear Rubin, Bill Clinton's treasury secretary, insist that he always favored regulating toxic derivatives and is therefore not at all responsible for the ensuing economic meltdown. He was responding to the sole critical question from the CNN host, who quoted a question by New York Times columnist Paul Krugman: "Did all the senior members of the [Obama] economics team have to be protégés of Robert Rubin, the apostle of financial deregulation?" Unfortunately, Zakaria just rolled over when his guest simply lied in response:
"First of all, I am not the apostle of financial deregulation. Quite the contrary. On derivatives … I developed a deep concern about the systemic problem that was created. When I was back at Goldman Sachs, it was a concern I had … a concern I had when I was in government. And in fact, when I wrote my book in 2003, I was so concerned about it that I actually included that discussion in there."
Zakaria ended the show recommending it as his book of the week: "He wrote a great memoir that covered his two distinguished careers, both … on Wall Street and in Washington. … It was written with Jacob Weisberg, a great writer, the editor of Slate, and the two men weave a compelling tale that has many lessons for today."
To be charitable, I will assume that Zakaria has not actually read that book, which omits any discussion of the radical deregulation legislation that Rubin ushered through Congress and got the president to sign. Bill Clinton is on record stating that he got bad advice from Rubin and his handpicked successor, Lawrence Summers, on derivatives regulation: "On derivatives, yeah, I think they were wrong and I think I was wrong to take it," Clinton told ABC News last April 10.
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Rubin and Summers were responsible for forcing Brooksley Born out of the Clinton administration because as chair of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission she had the temerity to suggest regulating the mortgage-backed securities that eventually proved to be so toxic. Instead, Rubin and Summers pushed the Commodity Futures Modernization Act, which Clinton signed into law in his last month in office, categorically exempting those suspect derivatives from any government regulation.
By then, Rubin had moved on to a $15-million-a-year job at Citigroup, which became a prime exploiter of the subprime housing market. As a result of its massive involvement with toxic securities, Citigroup, with Rubin in a leading role until early 2009, had to be bailed out by the federal government with a $45 billion direct investment and a guaranteed Fed protection for $306 billion in potentially toxic assets.
Citigroup, a merger of the old Citibank and Travelers insurance company, was made legal only by the Financial Services Modernization Act, which Rubin backed while treasury secretary. Then, in one of the most egregious conflicts of interest in U.S. history, he went to work for the new bank, which took advantage of the changes in the law to buy up the infamous subprime lenders, beginning with Associates First Capital. The Economist magazine wrote of that purchase that "it extends Citi's already huge credit card operation to a lucrative new niche (price insensitive, if default prone, borrowers)" and questioned whether investors would see Citi's bold new venture "as something smart, such as 'evolved credit extension,' or something seamy such as loan-sharking."
Rubin was a major proponent of the firm's seamy expansion into the mortgages that proved to be toxic, and by 2007 Citigroup was the second-largest subprime servicer, after the only slightly more infamous Countrywide. As The New York Times pointed out on Nov. 22, 2008, after a decade of flattering portraits of the man, finally acknowledging Rubin's role in Citi's disgrace: "The bank's downfall was years in the making and involved many in its hierarchy, particularly [CEO Charles O.] Prince and Robert E. Rubin, an influential director and senior adviser."
There is much more, and I haven't even touched on Rubin's shameful role in Enron's shenanigans. Enough said, though, to question not only Zakaria's journalism but, far more important, Barack Obama's leadership in first turning to Rubin as a key campaign adviser and then putting his disciples in charge of the U.S. economy.
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By WOWzah!, August 15, 2010 at 6:57 am Link to this comment
There's almost no point in belaboring that slimeball Robert Rubin and his jock-sniffers. What's needed is not a far-left view of Obama as the leftish stalking-horse of international banking, but a solid grasp of the personality type of Rubin, Summers, wee-Bush and even Obama (though the jury may still be out).
By Mike, August 13, 2010 at 1:57 pm Link to this comment
Oh sure, and ABC This Week recently had Greenspan on to give his views and advice! Who cares what he has to say after he admitted he was all wrong, and rode off with his millions leaving the wreckage behind.
These media outlets have to simply be ignored. Cancel your cable subscription and watch a few things via over-the-air antenna broadcasts if you must waste some of your time. I hope it is true that no on under 50 watches the major network news.
By rob, August 12, 2010 at 3:37 pm Link to this comment
Whenever Fareed appears on the tube I turn it off.
By msgmi, August 12, 2010 at 11:48 am Link to this comment
Rubin-CON, neo-CON, Beltway-CON and Wall Street-CON…a recipe for an economic implosion.
By bogi666, August 12, 2010 at 3:41 am Link to this comment
Tobysgirl, you're right President ObambyaBush did reveal himself during the campaign just by virtue of his "advisers". It was Brzezinski who got the USG involved in Afghanistan over 30 years ago because of his revenge against the USSR and the atrocities it conducted in Poland. As for the Prez, he was all platitudes, nothing substantial. I didn't vote for him and he had enough "tells" to vote otherwise. It was obvious he would just resurrect the Clinton gang which destroyed the Democratic Party with the DLC, the corporate Democrats. The USG now has its own 30 years war for the history books, but somehow I don't think the Texas school board which now uses grade school textbooks for propaganda purposes will include the USG 30 years war for what it is.
By Micah, August 11, 2010 at 10:34 pm Link to this comment
It's as if there is a plot to completely destroy America. Although it is really the age old force of GREED. Can we pull this baby out of its nose-dive? I hope so.
By Igloo, August 11, 2010 at 7:17 pm Link to this comment
Anyone who thinks the US press is free to tell the truth had better had their head examined. What Tocqueville said in 1833 still rings true: any view which deviates from the mainstream will get shut out. What no despot in a tyranny was able to do with the secret police, "Democracy" will do it in spades thru the tyranny of the majority!
By Pete Hockley, August 11, 2010 at 9:16 am Link to this comment
Some of us are still playing catch up on some of this.
By E.F., August 11, 2010 at 8:01 am Link to this comment
Why are we surprised that we have liars on TV further muddying the waters?
*most likely this post like so many of my other ones will NOT be published / posted… shame on you minstrel editor
By richard wagner, August 11, 2010 at 7:48 am Link to this comment
Whoa is us!! When do we begin the surgery and begin cutting out the
By norman harman, August 11, 2010 at 7:13 am Link to this comment
fearnotruth wrote: "The two-party system serves none but the global finance
How true, and therein lies the serious problem of trying to reform - through
How can we elect "reformers" to work to get the influence of money out of
So long as we accept the MSM's method of determining a candidates
A good example in the last election cycle was Mitt Romney; he never gained
Even those candidates we're inclined to like - those who talk about real reform
By Old Man Turtle, August 11, 2010 at 6:28 am Link to this comment
Here we have yet another rhetorical snapshot of the "civilization" disease in he
As at-least a couple of commenters have suggested here, though, Mr. Sheer
Whether meant as a mere throw-away line or not, however, Bill Clinton got one
So what we're wondering here in Indian Country is whether our tame Sisters
By paul, August 11, 2010 at 6:08 am Link to this comment
$15 million a year annual salary? Only people like Al Capone can make that kind of money. Show me someone making $15 mil per year and I will show you a criminal.
By Mark, August 11, 2010 at 6:02 am Link to this comment
Zakaria is a shill for Wall Street. He undertook a defense of Goldman Sachs about a month ago in Newsweek.
According to Zakaria, GS did nothing criminal, and anybody who thought they did was obviously not smart enough to understand the complexities of the modern financial system. Moreover, nobody saw the meltdown coming.
So per Zakaria, the biggest financial crisis in the U.S. since the Great Depression wasn't the result of the machinations of Wall Street, and couldn't be avoided.
By StormeeATL, August 11, 2010 at 5:26 am Link to this comment
Yes, Clinton made mistakes and so has Obama. But Reagan and both Bushes are just as responsible if not more responsible for the deregulations that set off the orgy of greed that blew the bottom out of the economic ship. Both sides of Congress are guilty as well. Yet U.S. voters keep going back and forth betweem politicians from both parties who continue to make the same mistakes and bring in the same old people with the same old bad ideas - Bush had most of his daddies and Reagan's people in his cabinet and look where that got us. Until we get people in office who really break away from the same failed policies we will continue this economic downward spiral (and please for God's sake, not the tea party right - they may talk like they are going to restore fiscal conservatism but if you really look hard at them, they just want to take the typical failed Republican economic policies to an extreme)
By Ivan Hentschel, August 11, 2010 at 4:31 am Link to this comment
Yep. Nothing revelatory here, either about Rubin or Fahreed. Or Obama. They all share a sameness in lack of integrity, an abhorent greed, smarmy opportunism and uniform amorality. I think that about covers it.
Been there, done that. Next?
By WSmart, August 11, 2010 at 1:55 am Link to this comment
"Don't reward these guys with your vote!", Matt Gonzalez
The two party system is really a one party system with a
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Is the "Irish Car Bomb" Politically Incorrect?
I was in New York a couple weeks back hanging out at an Irish pub, and I ordered an "Irish Car Bomb".
Irish Car Bomb 101:
You fill a shot glass with half Bailey's and half Irish Whiskey, and you drop the shot glass into a half pint of Guinness Beer. Immediately after dropping the shot glass you must chug or suffer the fate of a curdled drink.
This cocktail is surprisingly smooth and tasty, very chocolaty and approachable for people that don't typically drink Guinness.
So back to the original question:
Is the Irish Car Bomb politically incorrect? Violence and car bombings were a very real threat in Ireland from the late 1960's to the late 1990's with religious and political conflicts raging, which is where the cocktail gets its name.
Would you be psyched to order a "9/11" made with a combination of Middle Eastern and American ingredients? I wouldn't think so, so why so insensitive about Ireland's troubles. I don't have an answer to this question, and am interested in what you think…
WineDiverGirl | Wednesday, October 15, 2008
I'm with you on that one. Suppose you lost a loved one in such a tragedy…it would suck to go into your favorite watering hole and hear someone ordering that…for (presumably) pleasure. I say re-name it: Call it an Irish Nipple, or Irish Pub Hound, or Irish Multi-Vitamin …ANYTHING, but Irish Car Bomb.
Lam | Wednesday, October 15, 2008
Sensitivity is for the weak….Weaksauce…
From the words of Futurama:
Fry: Don't girl me with that girl stuff. Bender and me are guys. Guys don't have feelings.
Leela: Bender's not a guy, he's a robot.
Fry: Same thing.
I think i'm going to have to create a "9/11″ shot/drink…
Middle Eastern Coffee
Layer on top some Jack Daniels
Light On Fire.
And BAM….. 9/11!
morgan | Saturday, October 24, 2009
I hear the drink is called an "Irish Reck" or "Irish Train Reck" in ireland.
Austin | Monday, November 2, 2009
I think that it being compared to a proposed "9/11″ shot is slightly over kill. Theres the atomic bomb shot. Ive never seen a Japanese guy get offended by that. I mean we have the Jager Bomb because u drop the shot into the energy drink. Thats the same reason the Irish Car Bomb is a "Bomb" drink. So the bomb part of the whole thing is just how u serve it. And we have way more offensive drink names anyways.
Anyways simply put. Irish Car Bomb = Good.
enough said
aesop | Monday, December 21, 2009
im irish and general consensus is drink on… nobody cares
OldHornygoatweed Irishman! | Friday, March 12, 2010
People use humor to distance themselves from tragedies. But it is all in the timing. You wouldn't walk up to Jesus Christ and offer him a drink called "The Hammer and Nails" on the day of his ressurection. But give it some time/distance from the event and things become "Jokeable". I'm not saying that car bombings or 9/11 are jokeable events. I am only saying that humor is how people learn to deal with tragedy and humor is the way the misinformed or unenlightened will approach a taboo subject. I can remember when the Shuttle Blew up over Florida and the joke that came out three days later was "What does NASA stand for?" Answer " Now Accepting Seven Applications." Horrible? Yes, but it lends credibility to my point. Cheers!
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Alex | Sunday, December 18, 2011
It is extremely politically incorrect!! :O Statistically the troubles for us were far worse than even 9/11 for Americans!! In the 9/11 around 2,819 people died within a population of 307,006,550! For us 3,466 of us died in a population of less than 3,500,212!! It is insensitive and not funny…….


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When I was a kid my family had a traditional holiday baking party, where we'd make several kinds of cookies and pack them up in pretty boxes to give away as gifts. This was a weekend-long event, but getting there was the tough part — what kinds of cookies would we make? This decision-making process would have been cut in half if we had the Martha Stewart Makes Cookies app.
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With House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) out, Republicans are staring down a leadership reshuffle among their ranks.
The race is already on to replace Cantor as majority leader, with some conservatives mounting support behind Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), as a likely top contender. Rep. Pete Sessions (R-Tex.), who chairs the House Rules Committee, is also eying the spot, while House Finance Services Chair Rep. Jeb Hensarling (R-Tex.), dealt a blow to conservative Republicans by announcing he won't seek the position. House leadership elections are scheduled for June 19.
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