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Mark Webber said he was pleased with the progress made by Red Bull during the second F1 test of the winter in Barcelona, despite the poor conditions that affected the final day of running at Catalunya.
Webber was eighth fastest on Friday as teams carried out their first wet running with the 2013-spec Pirelli tyres to conclude another solid week on track for the defending champions.
While the new RB9 has yet to top the times this year, Webber said the team could be happy with its week work in Barcelona, and praised the mechanics who had worked hard to ensure the Milton Keynes-based team was able to complete its programme.
"It was cold out there today, I can't remember having a full test day this cold," he said following Friday's running. "But actually it was reasonably consistent; the conditions were pretty stable all day, although not very representative of a grand prix weekend. So, unusual conditions but I was happy with what we got done today. The mechanics were incredible in getting through everything. We got a lot of good stuff done today. The boys did a great job – the best I've seen them, I think, so all credit to them.
"We did a lot of housekeeping work today, whether it was pit stops or other race weekend elements and we did that really well – as a team," he added. "We're back here next week and we'll do more of the same for sure: ongoing investigations into how the tyres work, learning more about those, checking how they perform in different temperatures, all of that kind of thing.
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JERUSALEM (AP) - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry says he remains "committed" and "determined" to reaching a peace accord between Israelis and Palestinians.
In an interview with Israel's Channel 2 TV's flagship investigative program "Uvda" aired Thursday, Kerry says he is not distracted by the naysayers and has not given up hope.
Kerry said: "That's not the way I operate. People who know me know that when I sink my teeth into something ... I try to get it done."
Kerry has visited the region more than a dozen times since talks were launched in July. With an April target date for an agreement approaching, Kerry will soon return with bridging proposals for a framework deal. Recently, both sides appear to have hardened their positions while questioning the effectiveness of Kerry's efforts.
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Today's FT carries a front page story (£), based on research by the Health Foundation, stating that the financial 'black hole' facing the National Health Service is bigger than previously forecast. This is a result of a sharp decline in productivity during 2013/14. It is suggested that the NHS will need an emergency injection of cash after the election, whoever forms the next government.
This productivity decline follows an increase in the number of agency nurses employed in the wake of concerns about understaffing. It also follows the reorganisation that followed the 2012 NHS and Social Care Act. There is, as one might wearily anticipate, dispute over whether the reorganisation has also contributed to this drop in productivity.
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Kaspersky Lab announces support for OpenBSD operating systems, and exim e-mail gateways
Kaspersky Lab, an international data-security software-development company, announces the release of the latest version of the popular KasperskyTM Anti-Virus for Unix/Linux operating systems.
The latest version of Kaspersky Anti-Virus affords customers the opportunity of additionally installing a centralized anti-virus defense for file servers and application servers operating on OpenBSD (version 2.8) and also for exim e-mail gateways (one of the five most popular e-mail gateways for Unix/Linux).
"Development of this anti-virus package came about as a result of responding to the needs of mid-size and large corporate customers using Unix, and particularly Linux. This also includes Unix-based e-mail gateways that are one of the most widespread standards," commented Vsevolod Ivanov, Sales and Marketing Director at Kaspersky Lab. "We are pleased to fulfill the wishes of our users and provide a full information security solution that is capable of defending an enterprise-wide network."
Today, Kaspersky Lab presents customers with the most advanced problem-solving solution embedded in the anti-virus scanning for the Unix/Linux platform. Currently, Kaspersky Anti-Virus can be utilized on Linux, FreeBSD and OpenBSD operating systems, and also contains a ready-made solution for integration into sendmail, qmail, postfix, and exim e-mail gateways. The package includes the scanner, daemon and monitor anti-virus technology, and also includes automatic anti-virus database updates via the Internet, an interactive parameter set-up shell and a module for generating and processing statistic reports.
In addition to supporting OpenBSD and Exim, the latest Kaspersky Anti-Virus version for Unix/Linux has other innovations, making the defense-process network even more reliable, effective and full-scale.
The most important addition increasing the program's reliability is the introduction of the multithreaded object-scanning technology allowing the anti-virus scanner to simultaneously check any amount of files, with the number of such sessions limited only by the server's capabilities. The amount of active sessions can easily be set in the start-up command line or in the Kaspersky Anti-virus configuration file.
In order to simplify development of the third-party applications when using Kaspersky Anti-Virus for performing an anti-virus scanning, the program has been powered by an advanced version of the API interface. A specialized library containing the procedures for interacting with the anti-virus daemon's protocol has been added to the package.
For the first time, the latest Kaspersky Anti-Virus for Unix/Linux has been equipped with a system for the remote control of the program for use with a Web interface through a secure HTTPS connection. This allows the system administrator to decrease the amount of time and means for managing the program significantly: The whole process can now be conducted completely remotely without the necessity of using a third-party utilities.
The anti-virus monitor contained in Kaspersky Anti-Virus for Linux has been significantly perfected. Unlike previous versions, the latest monitor intercepts file operations and transfers objects in real time for scanning by the anti-virus daemon without using a buffer directory with delayed scanning. In addition to this, monitor installment no longer requires the recompilation of the operating system's kernel and reboot of the active server.
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Bank of Ireland CEO Says Home Loan Arrears to Peak in 2012
Bank of Ireland Plc Chief Executive Officer Richie Boucher said he expects the bank's home-loan arrears to peak this year and loan-loss impairments will "reduce over time" as the Irish economy recovers.
Shares in the largest Irish lender advanced. The proportion of Irish home mortgages more than 90 days in arrears rose to 5.6 percent at the end of December from 3.76 percent a year earlier, Boucher told reporters today as the bank posted a narrower loss.
"We don't anticipate" that arrears have "peaked yet," Boucher said. Still, the Dublin-based bank expects "the ratio of increase will start to ease in 2012 and will peak in 2012."
While impairment losses rose to 1.94 billion euros ($2.56 billion) last year from 1.86 billion euros in 2010, they were below the 2.9 billion-euro level in 2009, which the bank said marked a peak. Bank of Ireland is alone among the country's six largest lenders in escaping control by the state, which sold a 34.9 percent stake last year to five investors, including Toronto-based Fairfax Financial Holdings Ltd. and WL Ross & Co.
"Irish loan books and operating profitability will be tested most severely in the coming months, but it is our estimation that a solid enough foundation has now been put in place to weather this storm," said Karl Goggin, an analyst with Dublin-based NCB Stockbrokers, who rates the shares "buy."
Bank of Ireland shares rose as much as 8.6 percent in Dublin trading and were up 7.1 percent to 15 euro cents at 10 a.m. local time.
Loan Arrears
The stock has rallied more than 80 percent this year after plunging 78 percent and 55 percent in 2011 and 2010, respectively. The shares peaked at 11.88 euros five years ago.
The bank aims to "prudently" disengage from the state's bank-guarantee plan after paying 449 million euros of fees for this protection last year, Chief Financial Officer Andrew Keating said.
Bank of Ireland's so-called underlying pretax loss narrowed to 1.52 billion euros from 3.45 billion euros a year earlier, according to a statement today. The 2010 figure was boosted by 2.47 billion euros of losses on risky real-estate loans it sold to the National Asset Management Agency, the nation's so-called bad bank.
Bank of Ireland said home-loan arrears increased in the second half as lenders implemented a new code of conduct amid "considerable public speculation" about potential government assistance for homeowners struggling to pay debts incurred in the nation's property boom. Boucher said the bank set aside about 1 billion euros of provisions for bad mortgage loans.
Government Mortgage Policy
Ireland is reshaping its bankruptcy and insolvency laws after its real-estate bubble collapsed in 2008 and unemployment tripled to 14.2 percent as of December. Some 14 percent of the country's private residential mortgages were either more than 90 days in arrears or had been restructured at the end of September, the country's central bank said Feb. 17.
Boucher criticized a Moody's Investors Service estimate that as much as 25 percent of the country's mortgage debt is open to writedowns as a result of the government's proposals.
"I don't know where they got their figure from," Boucher said. "The legislation doesn't provide for mandatory writedowns of mortgages, and I think the government have been pretty clear about that."
Irish homeowners seeking to get their mortgages at least partially written off need agreement from lenders under the proposed new laws. Any agreement will require support from at least 75 percent of creditors who have security on their loans.
'Significant Uncertainty'
Bank of Ireland expects its impairment losses to be "higher" than the central bank's base case set out last year, as the domestic economy is expected to be weaker this year than originally forecast, Keating told reporters. The impairment losses will still be "well within" stress-case assumptions, he said.
The bank raised 5.2 billion euros of capital last year following a stress test in March.
"Forecasts at Bank of Ireland are fraught with significant uncertainty, given the macro headwinds, domestically and internationally," Eamonn Hughes, an analyst at Dublin-based Goodbody Stockbrokers, said in a note today.
While the bank said last year it plans to rebuild its net interest margin, the difference between its funding costs and lending rate, to more than 200 basis points by the end of 2014, the timing of the recovery has become "much more challenging" as interest rates remain low and competition for deposits remains "intense" in Ireland, Boucher said.


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The line for the corn dog cart can grow to be just as long as the line for any amusement ride.
While Disneyland is known for their nighttime fireworks, ridiculously long lines and some familiar cartoon characters, the amusement park is also packed with some tempting restaurants and snack carts. The Happiest Place On Earth just happens to have some of the most delicious food on earth.
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2000: Ghostface Killah - Supreme Clientele
Top five reasons (amongst many others) why Ghostface Killah's Supreme Clientele is among the best hip-hop albums of our current decade:
1. Ghost rhymes "big microphone hippie" with "Poughkeepsie," probably the first person in the world to ever couple these words. Never mind that they wouldn't rhyme had anybody else said them. Never mind that he outshines almost every other MC on the planet with this couplet. However, you may want to take into account that this all comes within 15 seconds of his first verse on the record. Kinda makes "It's gettin' hot in here/ So take off all your clothes" seem like it was written by a five-year-old, doesn't it?
2. The man knows how to pick beats. A perfect example of his now-trademark cherry-picking: jacking Inspectah Deck's self-produced beat for "Elevation" for his own "Stay True," immortalized by the original tracklisting where it's called (what else?) "Deck's Beat." Even since Supreme Clientele, Ghost has continued to display the ability to sift through filler and pick out only the hottest shit, whether it's stealing a simple loop or calling in a proper collection of should-be higher-profile producers, like Juju of the Beatnuts for "One." The majority of Wu solo albums were unable to accomplish this same feat after 1997, although they certainly tried (see Raekwon's Immobilarity and GZA's Beneath the Surface).
3. "Who Would You Fuck" is the best hip-hop skit ever made, bar none. And it only gets funnier with age. Every guy has conversations with buddies about famous women they would sleep with. But this team is the first to put it on an album, which makes it all the better for treading the line between stupidity and brilliance. It sounds like the crew just decided to press record when they were up late smoking blunts and drinking beers, talking about things guys talk about. Naomi or Tyra Banks? Nia or Halle Berry? Ahh, the wonders of hypothetical sex.
4. Raekwon talks all kinds of shit about a pre-fame 50 Cent on the "Clyde Smith" skit. In hindsight, his recognition of 50's controversial "How To Rob" street hype seems to be a prophetic way of decrying media stunts in the current hip-hop mainstream. Perhaps to avoid too much drama, Rae's voice is rendered unrecognizable, but heads have come to realize that it was indeed he who says, "I don't even know why he tried to do that dumb-ass shit right there." Still, the whole situation provides a subdued counterpoint to the overblown Game/Fiddy G-Unot nonsense that has inexplicably dominated message boards for the past few years.
5. Endless slang invention. For kids in the suburbs, Supreme Clientele is like hieroglyphics; it takes years of training to figure out how to translate it. It would be easy to equate his rhymes on this album to the works of a poet, but Ghost is no Wordsworth or Frost. He speaks in a highly encoded language, coming across as completely alien on first listen, but if you pick apart his verses, they make profound sense in small portions, as if he were spitting clear stream-of-consciousness thoughts straight from his brain. Slowly but surely, the listener is able to put his stories together, figuring out something new every time they listen. This isn't just poetry; these are street puzzles, God. For real.
1977: Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
The oxymoronic matrimony of harmony and heartbreak proved to be an especially stimulating and fertile musical cocktail for Fleetwood Mac during the recording of their aptly titled album, Rumours – the most popular and critically acclaimed work in the canon of the ever-evolving band.
In 1974, founders Mick Fleetwood (drummer) and John McVie (bassist), as well as McVie's wife, Christine McVie (singer/keyboardist), were joined by Lindsey Buckingham (singer/guitarist) and his girlfriend, Stevie Nicks (singer/pianist). Together, they formed the most gifted ensemble of songwriters and musicians in the band's history. Having already recorded one successful album in 1975, the self-titled Fleetwood Mac, the band was reaching an artistic zenith, as the recently minted lineup self-actualized into a musical entity.
Each musician's disparate strengths and influences -- from Fleetwood and McVies' funk-inspired grooves to Nicks' esoteric melodies and rhythms to Buckingham's affinity for riff-driven '50s styled rock -- coalesced flawlessly to create the engaging mood and exciting songcraft. This hallmark sound is best displayed on "The Chain," the sole track written by all five members. The fractured song unites, despondent and ebullient, with striking results, as a richly ornamental Buckingham guitar riff enlivens an ominously pulsating McVie bassline while august harmonies juxtapose bleak lovelorn lyrics: "If/ You don't love me now/ You will never love me again." Although "The Chain" produced the album's signature mantra, the buoyant "Never break the chain," turmoil in the band's numerous amorous relationships led to painful breakups, which were never rekindled during the recording of the album.
As the band was reaching musical concord, each member was experiencing emotional discord. Their incestuous relationships left them writing about and recording with bandmates they once, but no longer, loved romantically. The most musically interesting of these separations was between Buckingham and Nicks. Both songwriters treated Rumours as a cathartic canvas for their broken hearts to decant out onto. As Buckingham sardonically cries, "I ain't gonna miss you when you go," on his anxious opener, "Second Hand News," there is Nicks harmonizing with her jilted lover. Buckingham returns the favor, as Nicks more sanguinely sings, "I don't want to stand between you and love/ Honey" to him on her bucolic "I Don't Want To Know," creating a fascinating dynamic that resonates throughout the album.
Christine represents the dissolution of her marriage to John with her trademark joyous, sunny pop. Excising any feelings of bitterness and remorse from her palette, she instead composes with invigorating optimism about the future ("Don't Stop"), showcasing a resolute fondness for romance as she repeatedly professes: "I love you" ("Songbird"). Fleetwood was not freed from heartbreak himself, as his wife had an affair with his best friend. Although Fleetwood and John were not able to express themselves lyrically, Fleetwood's passionate drumming on "Go Your Own Way" and "Don't Stop," along with John's bluesy basslines on "You Make Loving Fun" are at their finest.
Although recorded over 30 years ago on a foundation of sorrow, Rumours doesn't sound dated or stand as a testimonial to acrimony and gall. Instead, by portraying the timeless themes of compassion, absolution, and perseverance with pleasing, accessible aesthetics, it remains an enduring touchstone of pop music.
1993: Seefeel - Quique
When Seefeel started to gain notoriety among college radio DJs and skinny, pale kids after their debut release Quique, traditional rock critics around the globe sighed a collective, worried "Fuck." Their worry had nothing to do with the music itself, but instead regarded the inevitable onslaught of lesser talents that would soon flood the already low-barrier entry shoegaze market. My Bloody Valentine had opened the gates wide, and, as always, when a "new" musical style (particularly one that does not require much presence or sophisticated musical ability) gets popular, hordes of star-eyed followers will soon follow in suit -- it can sometimes destroy a whole genre. Grunge was mauled by angsty, bass-voiced Eddie Vedder wannabes, while the image of house music will forever be tainted by countless Garage Band teenagers hoping to be the next Oakenfold. Shoegaze, as a genre, was neither necessarily revolutionized nor annihilated by the multitude of artists who followed Seefeel's example of adding electronic drum loops to cumbersome sonic layers -- but Quique still managed to shine through as a special album, indiscreetly drifting between many musical scenes over the past 14 years.
Originally released by Too Pure/Astralwerks in 1993 and re-released as a two disc Redux in 2007, Quique – at 14 years old – still sits comfortably alongside today's synth heavy artists like Ulrich Schnauss, Strategy, and Stars of the Lid. Accordingly, the main reasons why Quique, or any enduring album for that matter, still survives are the indescribable, intangible elements that critics have a tough time putting into words, and copycat bands have an even tougher time duplicating. The foreign drones somehow ring familiar; the guitar feedback feels warmer than the now-standard glacial Icelandic variety, and the undemanding, beautiful melodies stop short of haunting, but linger in your head long enough to make you question the meaningfulness of the rest of your musical collection.
Throughout the album, Mark Clifford, Daren Seymour, Sarah Peacock, and Justin Fletcher appear to meld together three seemingly disparate musical approaches. First, on their better-known songs ("Climactic Phase No. 3," "Imperial," "Plainsong"), Seefeel harnesses the spirit of Moondawn-era Klaus Schulze by weaving loopy, fantastic textures with heartening rises and falls, leaving off stylistically where Mouse on Mars and Cornelius eventually pickup. Second, the band infuses their local flavor into "Polyfusion" and "Industrious," with gloomy grooves that probably earned them head-nods from their (pre) grimy British contemporaries, Tricky and Portishead. Third, the band further explores the fringes of the aural universe with dim-washed ambiance like on closing tracks "Filter Dub" and "Signals." The perfect instrumentation and minimalist restraint on the final tracks prove that the indefinable qualities that make this album age so well are actually the result of thousands of knob adjustments on the synths and millimeters of difference in microphone placement. They just made it seems so easy.
Though the members of Seefeel made a few more records and eventually split to pursue separate music careers, Quique remains their ghostly masterpiece. And although we often laugh today at the majority of the early '90s musical output, Quique stands proudly alongside Loveless and Dummy as the relevant diamonds in that period's musical rough.
1991: Superchunk - No Pocky For Kitty
Superchunk are the Saint Maria Goretti of indie rock -- so pure and chaste, releasing every record since 1993 though their own label, Merge -- though their super-frenzied punk-pop could have easily made a serious splash in the major leagues. Twin guitars buzz and rumble over bracing, joyous melodies, and Mac McCaughan's tattered yelping somehow sounds both embittered and encouraging all at once. "Life-affirming," I guess you'd call it.
No Pocky for Kitty, Superchunk's first full-length on Merge and last with original drummer Chuck Garrison, was recorded in Chicago by Steve Albini, on a three-night hiatus from the band's first nationwide tour. In the liner notes, McCaughan recalls how the engineer shared Chunk's "insane work ethic" and how he scored the lowest rates at the Chicago Recording Company by booking the 6 PM-6 AM shift. "It's hard to believe now, but at the time it didn't seem at all crazy to be going about things that way," admits guitarist Jim Wilbur, who, in the spring of '91, was still recuperating from a semi-serious bronchial infection.
Albini receives no sleeve credit (as per usual), but Pocky is one of his best works; the signature "Albini sound" -- unbuffed mistakes and harsh, massive guitars -- click with the songwriting instead of working against it, like on The Wedding Present's Seamonsters or PJ Harvey's Rid of Me. These songs are huge. "The Chapel Hill, N.C. quartet writes about mundane, everyday occurrences -- a slack co-worker, a teetering relationship -- and shouts about them from the rooftops," praised the Chicago Tribune.
Indeed. "Skip Steps One & Three" is about a reckless driver. Or a pot smoker. "Seed Toss" is about a bitchy girlfriend. "That's the fun of it," said McCaughan. "The challenge is to take a small thing and make it into something worth talking about, even though it probably wasn't to begin with."
Rock, even punk rock, doesn't sound like this anymore -- raw, vital, unstoppable. Listen to No Pocky for Kitty, then anything by Against Me!. Sounds like music from a Bugs Bunny cartoon.
1998: Burning Witch - Crippled Lucifer: 10 Psalms For Our Lord of Light
There are some progressive thinkers out there who believe hell is not a place of brimstone and churning magma vats, but rather a place you might go to live out your worst worldly fears for all of perpetuity. For many, sitting in solitary confinement, listening to the shriek of demons for all-time at top decibel while traversing their infertile mental landscape, constantly haunted by the internal demons that inhabit the deep, dark reaches of their own spiraling negative infinity for eternity might be kind of a drag. These people are most likely not Burning Witch fans.
For the uninitiated, Burning Witch is Greg Anderson and Steven O'Malley's band before anyone ever heard of those names. Greg Anderson's Southern Lord imprint, along with its most vital act, O'Malley's Sunn O))), has become synonymous with the new breed of creeping gaseous heavy drone that has oozed its way into the metal market in these opening days of Aquarius. You won't hear Anderson's playing on this collection though, as he left the band to form Goatsnake before the Witch ever entered the studio. The original Crippled Lucifer, also released on Southern Lord, was a compilation of their first two EPs, Rift Canyon Dreams (Merciless Records) and Towers (Slap-A-Ham). Towers was actually a reissue of their demo, recorded in '96 by Steve Albini. Their follow-up to the Albini sessions became Rift Canyon Dreams. Sadly, this would be the band's last release. In '98, the original Crippled Lucifer was compiled, including the two EPs (sans the track "Communion," which was inexplicably omitted).
This latest manifestation I review today was supposed to be released earlier in 2007, and went so far as hitting store shelves when a manufacturer's defect was discovered and a mass recall was ordered. Now, the glitches have been corrected and 10 years after the original Crippled Lucifer release, Southern Lord gives it the deluxe treatment. Finally, all of Burning Witch's material is beautifully collected on two CDs with a magnificently printed sepia-toned, 40-page booklet complete with handwritten lyrics, photographs, and thermodynamic diagrams to boot. (Seriously, does anyone do a more knock-out job of packaging than Southern Lord?)
Fans of the new breed of drone metal will hear the seedlings of their favorite bands like Sunn O))) and Khanate being planted. However, the subtlety and tectonic slowness of Sunn O))) compress the more aggressive use of drones by Burning Witch to vapor. The tracks from the Rift Canyon Dreams are less insistent and more of a celebration of natural landscapes. There, one can see a closer approximation to the aforementioned bands' style of creeping death. The older tracks are more in line with the hardline, Sabbath-worshipping stoners, Eyehategod and Cavity. Singer, Edgy 59's vocals are probably the biggest difference between the new mostly vocal-less acts. An often face-painted King Diamond look-a-like, Edgy 59's range runs from death-rock Christian Death pandering to Geddy Lee style vocal theatrics -- when he's not shrieking like a bat out of hell. O'Malley's guitar is as crushing as anything he's ever done, each drone hanging out in negative space; a new drone is not created until the previous one evaporates into the atmosphere, as the drums slowly plod along in a merciless war cry.
For fans of this style, no excuse should be made for not picking this collection up. Even if you've collected all of the Witch's material in their previous incarnations, this package here is a beautiful and concise oeuvre that is, as stated on the Southern Lord website, finally awarded its "appropriate sheath." You, the listener, will also be rewarded, with near two hours of demonic doom that should, if you're lucky, remove all light and joy from your petty little existence.
1984: The Egyptian Lover - On the Nile
For a few years, I held down a DJ slot on a free form radio station. While it mostly provided me with an advanced education in music, from time to time I would lure guests into the studio for offbeat interviews. One such guest was the porn juggernaut Ron Jeremy, who was in town making an appearance in the local branch of sex toy chain shop. During the anticipation leading up to the interview, I found myself wondering what I would talk to him about. Admittedly, I am not a connoisseur of his movies. I tried to research him online to prepare, but the only thought that kept going through my head was I wondered what Ron Jeremy smelled like. I started asking friends what they thought his aroma would be, and hypothesis such as baby powder, lube, and Hi Karate aftershave came my way.
That experience provided me with the only time in my life that I ever wondered what a person smelled like until I sat down with this album from Egyptian Lover. Why would listening to his seductive electro beats and staring at his come hither portrait on the album cover trigger the olfactory nerve endings of my mind? With that thought, I closed my eyes and let the beats transport me to the smokey and low-lit backstage area at an Egyptian Lover gig in 1984 where I was greeted by a thick waft of frankincense and myrrh. Pushing my way through an entanglement of scantily clad exotic beauties, I turn a corner to witness The Egyptian Lover himself sitting upon a futuristic throne of solid gold, aviator glasses on, erotically draped with luscious babes in a carnal trance while being fanned by palm frond enhanced women who resembled Princess Leah in Jabba bondage gear. He waves his hand for me to take a seat at his feet without saying a word while the women scatter out of the way. He then says to me in a hushed voice, "Shuggypop, my aroma is a blend of juniper berries, cyprus, and lotus flower oil."
At the recent Tiny Mix Tapes holiday office party, house DJ Monte Rock III threw this album on, and next thing you know, a Svengali-like mind control gripped a room full of usually mild mannered music reviewers who began bump and grinding in a manner reminiscent of MC Hammer's "Pumps and a Bump" video. At the 4:37 mark in "Egypt, Egypt," a sheepish young intern in guy-liner had gotten such a jolt of confidence from the robotic grooves that before anybody knew what was happening, he was on the phone challenging Kimbo Slice to a backyard brawl. This is what this album can do to you.
Egyptian Lover is one of the pioneers of Southern California's electro/hip-hop scene. When this album came out in 1984, LA was considered too soft compared to the gritty New York hip-hop world that is now celebrated in lavish coffee table books. This was before the media crazed East Coast vs. West Coast posturing was used as a marketing tool, and before Eazy E came straight outta Compton with a bravado on roids known as gangsta that put LA on the rap map. While celebrated MC's in New York were producing poetry from the streets, Egyptian Lover seemed more concerned with freakish primal matters, that would make Penthouse Forum blush, delivered over tasty beats to pop and lock to. And I for one am thankful for it.
On the Nile takes the robotic trance of Kraftwerk and mixes in the flavor of the urban American streets. If Breakin' 2 Electric Boogaloo had more cred, it would have featured Egyptian Lover cuts on their soundtrack. Some of these b-boy beats stretch out upwards of nine minutes, and one song tends to blend into the next with only the minimal vocal tag lines distinguishing the difference to those not paying close enough attention. Most of his kinky in a Prince sort of way vocals are nothing more than a repetition of a lustful desire that are barked by a stud's voice with what appears to be a posse of robots as backup singers. If you are into lyrical prose, Egyptian Lover isn't for you. If you want a feel good boost, then I suggest booking a one-way ticket to Egypt to get your love freak on.


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the last ounce of my first bottle of Dickel 9, then Im gonna have some HH6BIB. Ive learned that, though I like HH6, if I have it first, it does something to my palate that makes the Dickel unenjoyable
Been on the rye & single malt train for a while now but I'm stepping back to Bourbon with a bottle killing pour of 4RSmBLE'12 tonight.
It was some ECSB 22 for me tonight. Tasted alot less oaky tonight than some of the other drams in the past.
It's a Four Roses night for me...some BP OESQ and OESO...really hits the spot!
A small pour of JPS17 batch #2 now that the wife is in bed. Catching up on some TV and decompressing.
After some rye, I switched over to Four Roses BP OESK. Opens up quite nicely with just a little water. Simply a pleasure to drink.
just finished a brutal weekend of work (2 16 hour days)
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WASHINGTON (October 2, 2012)--A U.S. Border Patrol agent was killed and another was wounded in a shooting near the U.S.-Mexico border in Arizona, the Department of Homeland Security said Tuesday.
The agents were shot while patrolling in Naco, Ariz., at around 12:50 a.m. CST Tuesday, according to the Border Patrol.
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The last U.S. Border Patrol agent shot to death on duty was Brian Terry, who was killed in a shootout with Mexican bandits near the border in December 2010.
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Posted on: January 6, 2011 10:59 pm
Polamalu is one popular dude
Posted by Josh Katzowitz
Tim Tebow didn't lead the league in jersey sales this season (that's shocking for the Wonder Boy, I know). Neither did Drew Brees nor Peyton Manning nor Tom Brady nor Roger Goodell nor Michael Vick (nor Ron Mexico for that matter).
You know who did? Troy Polamalu.
According to CNBC's Darren Rovell, Polamalu is the first defensive player to earn this distinction since Brian Urlacher in 2006.
The list:
1. Polamalu
2, Brees
3. Tebow
4. Manning
5. Brady
6. Vick
7. Aaron Rodgers
8. Eli Manning
9. DeSean Jackson
10. Mark Sanchez
11. Tony Romo
12. Brett Favre
As Rovell writes, Vick wasn't even in the top-25 of jersey sales through Halloween (I guess being pretty awesome at quarterback helps your bottom line). Meanwhile, Favre hasn't been this low since 2006 when he finished 14th (I guess being a lightning rod for criticism, sexual and otherwise, helps kill your Q rating).
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Posted on: December 30, 2010 12:02 am
The latest obligatory Sanchez update
Posted by Andy Benoit
For some reason, America has developed a particularly keen interest for whether Jets quarterback Mark Sanchez will rest his sore right shoulder or play in his team's meaningless game against the Bills this Sunday. This interest probably derives from the fact that Rex Ryan spoke so bluntly about the issue almost immediately after learning that the Jets were in the playoffs.
Ryan initially said that Sanchez would rest. But then he said on Monday that because Sanchez had gotten in a groove the past two weeks, he'd play.
On Wednesday, Ryan said there was "no way" Sanchez will play all four quarters. "I haven't decided he's going to play 'X' amount of plays or if he's going to play at all," Ryan said, according to Conor Orr of the New Jersey Star Ledger. "I'm leaning to think that maybe he'll play some, but we'll see."
Sanchez has been throwing with his left hand in warm ups and soft-tossing with his right. That is all precautionary. Sanchez, of course, is preparing this week as if he's going to play. This is part of the reason it behooves Ryan to not decide on his quarterback's status this early in the week.
In short, the news here is that there really isn't any news. Ryan is still undecided about Sanchez. But we relay it anyway because, hey, it's the Jets, and at least we know the quotes aren't typical NFL nonsense.
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Posted on: December 28, 2010 10:08 am
Sanchez could start Sunday. Or he might not
Posted by Josh Katzowitz
First, Jets coach Rex Ryan wasn't going to play QB Mark Sanchez in New York's regular-season finale against the Bills this Sunday, because he wanted to rest Sanchez's sore shoulder. Then, he changed his mind, because he doesn't want to force Sanchez out of his groove by benching him for what is essentially a meaningless game.
Now, Ryan has reserved the right to do either one.
"This is kind of tough," Ryan told reporters Monday on a conference call, via the NY Post. "Here's what I'm looking at: obviously, his health is the No. 1 priority, [but] the fact that he is in such a groove right now . . . we have to look at it as the week goes on.
"It's kind of a fine line because he's hot right now. We can't afford for him to take a dip. We need him to stay at this level. Those are things we'll definitely consider. I don't want to say 100 percent he's out or he's in, to be honest with you. That's what I'm weighing right now."
The Post predicts, though, that Sanchez will start. As evidence, the paper points to the three scenarios this season in which the Jets had more than a week between games. In those contests combined – one came after a bye week, one came in the season opener after the offense rested during the final preseason game and one came 10 days after a Thursday night game – Sanchez completed 46.7 percent of his passes for zero touchdowns and five interceptions.
You can understand why Ryan would want to avoid a repeat of those performances. The sense here, though, is that Sanchez will play at least part of the game. Which, in reality, is probably the smart move to make.
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Posted on: December 27, 2010 9:45 am
Edited on: December 27, 2010 1:29 pm
Sanchez likely to sit in Week 17
Posted by Andy Benoit
The NFL scheduled only division games in Week 17 in order to avoid a slew of meaningless contests sweeping the final week of the regular season. Still, the league realized that having at least a few meaningless contests was inevitable.
One of those meaningless contests will be the Jets-Bills. The Jets, despite losing to the Bears on Sunday, clinched a Wild-Card berth after the Jaguars lost to the Redskins. Now Rex Ryan would like to treat next week's game against the Bills as a quasi-bye.
Ryan is likely to sit quarterback Mark Sanchez, who has been battling a sore right shoulder as of late. (Though maybe a sore shoulder is just what Sanchez needs, given that he's played perhaps his most solid football the past two weeks.) Mark Brunell is likely to start.
"This isn't my 18th year, so I need as many reps as possible," Sanchez said, according to Rich Cimini of ESPN New York. "With the situation we're in now, with my shoulder, we want to see how it responds to the game. We'll take it day to day. I'm with Coach. Whatever he thinks is best for me and the team, we'll handle it like that."
UPDATE 1:25 p.m. ET: After saying Sunday that Sanchez would likely sit, Ryan indicated on Monday that he may let the quarterback play because "he's in such a groove right now." That said, Ryan's top priority is Sanchez's health. The decision will likely come down to how Sanchez's shoulder feels throughout the week.
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Posted on: December 27, 2010 1:18 am
Edited on: December 27, 2010 1:19 am
10 stories worth your attention Week 16
Posted by Andy Benoit
**Hard to believe that the upper bowl at Arrowhead Stadium was only half full for the Chiefs division-clinching win against the Titans. The Chiefs, remember, sold out a record 156 straight games from December 1990 through December 2009.
**I have heard from a few people recently about the outstanding play of Bills NT Kyle Williams. I'll have to watch the film closer after the season, but on a surface level glance, I have trouble believing any members of the league's worst run defense is playing very well. Every time I looked over at the Patriots-Bills game Sunday, BenJarvus Green-Ellis and Danny Woodhead were picking up five yards on runs that should have gone for one or two. It's been that way all season with the Bills.
**Despite being a game manager his first two seasons as a pro, on Sunday Joe Flacco became just the sixth player in NFL history to throw for 10,000 yards in his first three years.
**Aaron Rodgers debuted his new, safer helmet against the Giants. My question is if the NFL is so concerned about concussions, why aren't more players, whether they've had a concussion or not, being forced to make this helmet switch?
**The Raiders-Colts final score (31-26) was only close because the Raiders got an opening kickoff touchdown return from Jacoby Ford and 59-yard and 54-yard field goals from Sebastian Janikowski.
**The Chargers ought to be worried about first-round rookie Ryan Mathews. Besides being injury prone and inconsistent, the Fresno State product has been downright inexplosive. Mathews' 24-yard touchdown scamper against the Bengals marked his longest run on the season.
**Will Brinson and I reviewed all of the major Week 16 stories in the CBSSports.com Football Podcast Sunday night. Click here to check it out.
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Posted on: December 26, 2010 11:42 am
Edited on: December 26, 2010 12:17 pm
Week 16 AFC Inactives
Posted by Josh Katzowitz
First, those who ARE active: Jaguars WR Mike Sims-Walker, Ravens CB Chris Carr, Jets QB Mark Sanchez (who is starting), Colts RB Joseph Addai, Browns NT Shaun Rogers.
Now, those who are NOT active:
Maurice Jones-Drew, RB, Jaguars: We figured this was coming, but still, it's important to note that this is the first time Jones-Drew has missed a game due to injury. Rashad Jennings will take over, and he should be fine today.
Aaron Hernandez, TE, Patriots: The rookie TE who has been so impressive this season didn't travel with his team to Buffalo, so this isn't a surprising. Look for Rob Gronkowski to get even more action.
Todd Heap, TE, Ravens: He's been dealing with a hamstring issue, and after an inconsistent week of practice, he's sitting down today.
Karlos Dansby, LB, Dolphins: Miami will miss one of its best linebackers, but Dansby is dealing with a toe injury and didn't practice all week.
Chad Ochocinco, WR, Bengals: Apparently, Ochocinco tweeted today that he was inactive. With this guy, though, I would wait until the official inactive list comes out to confirm it.
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Posted on: December 24, 2010 5:02 pm
Sanchez should be ready to start
Posted by Josh Katzowitz
Jets coach Rex Ryan sounded concerned Thursday by what he saw from QB Mark Sanchez. Basically, he saw a quarterback who perhaps wasn't fit to start Sunday because of a small cartilage tear in his shoulder. He didn't have zip on his passes, and Ryan said Sanchez could be a gametime decision for Sunday's game vs. the Bears.
After today's practice, that prognosis has changed.
"The thing I'll say about Sanchez today, he threw the ball a lot different than he did yesterday," coach Rex Ryan told reporters, including the Newark Star Ledger. "He looked really good. The thing we have to watch for now is how he comes back because he really pushed it and was throwing a lot of balls today so we'll see how he comes back from it."
The shoulder isn't 100 percent, Ryan said, but Sanchez is most likely going to start. On the team's injury report, he's listed as probable.
Said Sanchez in a statement released by the team: "I threw it just like I did the week before and throughout the season. The treatment has been working; I felt better than the two days prior and I'm going to be ready to play on Sunday."
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Posted on: December 23, 2010 1:12 pm
Edited on: December 23, 2010 1:20 pm
Key Matchup Wk16: Jets offense vs. Bears defense
Posted by Andy Benoit
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Soooooo, I bit the bullet and weighed myself last Saturday and what I expected was confirmed. One stone has been gained. Ahhh! Can't say I didn't deserve it, have not been on plan in any way for a good three months, so I can't even blame Christmas!!
So, I am going for a weekend away in April and I'd like to be back to target by then. 14 lbs in 12 weeks. Should be doable???
I don't go to class any more so will be doing it from home. Might go back in a month's time, depending on how well I do in that period (my local class is at an awkward time for me) so if anyone see's anything blatantly wrong in my diary, please do let me know, like if I'm synning things wrong.
I take my syns as 105 over a week instead of 15 a day and that worked great for me last time, so I'll be doing that again.
Here goes!
Monday 13th January 2013
Red Day
Cherry Bakewell Alpen Light Bar (Part of HexB)
Mango Mullerlight (Free)
Tin of tuna (Free)
Cottage Cheese (Tesco Healthy Living, Chive and Onion) (Free)
Salmon Fillet (Birdseye Baked to Perfection Lemon and Herb) (Free)
Balsamic Oven roasted vegetables (Tomatoes, onion, red onion, courgette, red pepper, green pepper, mushrooms, garlic, balsamic vinegar) (SF)
2 Mandarin Oranges (SF)
2 Laughing Cow Light triangles (Part of HexA)
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I have a 2002 Audi A4 3.0 Quattro. About a month ago, I started getting warnings on my instrument panel, the emergency brake light would flash, beep three times, and continue flashing. I noticed this only when I turned right, I have not noticed any difference in the braking, my pads are still good, I've got maybe another ten thousand miles on them. Recently however, I am experiencing this problem more frequently, the light will flash sometimes when I'm headed in a straight line and shift even slightly to the right, and I will have to turn the steering wheel left before it will stop flashing. I've searched online and I've come to three problems that this has been attributed to. One was low pads, the other was low brake fluid, and possibly an ABS control module failure. I'm not sure what to do at this point, please, any help would be greatly appreciated, this literally happens anytime I turn right at all!
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The legalization of marijuana would create new jobs that will be desperately needed if the sequester goes into effect. The taxation of marijuana can generate new revenue for states that can be put toward education and infrastructure, two areas that will be greatly affected by the possible spending cuts.
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Good Wife season 5 real reason Will died & more revealed by Will actor Josh Charles. Recently, TV Line talked with "The Good Wife" Will Gardner star, Josh Charles (left), to get the skinny on why his character was abruptly killed off the show like that. It turns out that it was all Josh's decision to leave, because he was just ready to move on.
When asked about it, point blank, Josh said: "It wasn't anything bad. Creatively, I was just ready to move on to the next chapter. After having a long conversation with Julianna, and with series co-creators Robert and Michelle King, I liked the idea of coming back and doing a finite amount of episodes.
It all sounded like positives for me and for the show, and that turned out to be true. Once the decision was made and we knew what we were doing, it made it very special for me because I knew going into this season that this would be my last year, that I would be doing these 15 episodes. And it gave everything a real heightened quality for me."
Next, he revealed that his decision to leave was made last year, stating, "I knew last year. Through discussions with the producers and Julianna, we all kind of thought of an idea that included me coming back this year to do a set amount of 15 episodes, and really build towards something and give the character a more proper goodbye." Josh was also very supportive of the way they just killed his character like that. He stated: "I was very supportive of it. I thought it sounded really powerful and strong and shocking."
When asked about any possible regrets for walking away from his award-winning character, Josh basically said, nah, not really, stating, "No. Creatively, I'm excited about where this year has gone, and the depths that they've taken Will to has been really interesting for me. It has been an overwhelmingly positive experience. But you just kind of know sometimes when you're ready to move on to new experiences. And that doesn't mean there's something wrong with this experience. It's more about what I want to explore. It does me no good to second-guess that."
Next, Josh talked about how sad it was to leave his peeps behind, stating, "It's sad, obviously. The beauty of television is the sense that, unlike any other medium, you develop relationships of such depth and length, more so than films or even theater. You see these crewmembers that work so hard and give so much and help contribute and collaborate to make the show what it is. You see them more than your own family. So the bonds are really deep. There are a lot of people on that show that I'm going to miss a great deal."
Finally, Josh left off,explaining how his character's death will ultimately be good for the show, sending it in a new direction, and what not, stating, "I know people will be shocked and some fans will be upset, and maybe even angry, and I can take the hit on that one. If they're going to blame anybody, they can blame me. But I think it's going to send the show in a new direction and it's going to just keep being fantastic.
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Mangham's Ridge Heisler (13) looks for an open receiver during the Class 1A championship game against Haynesville at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome.
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Mangham fell behind 21-7 early but fought back to tie the game 21-21. A Ridge Heisler touchdown pass to Trei Criff out of a unique formation just before halftime made it 21-14, and the Dragons followed with a two-yard touchdown run by running back Kemme Weeks on the first drive of the ...


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presidential election in 2000, believing then that he best reflected my
love for America and for our tradition of liberty. I supported
the war in Afghanistan. In March of 2003, I believed that the
invasion of Iraq was justified based upon pre-war revelations presented
to Congress and to the American people. Accordingly, the
indictments contained herein apply, first and foremost, to myself.
Many Americans whom
I know and love, including many current supporters of President Bush,
remain conflicted over both his ultimate intentions in Iraq as well as
domestic curtailment of civil liberties.
Many have given the
benefit of the doubt to President Bush, and, in a misdirected spirit of
unity, have supported, as did I, Administration policies that conflict
with our essential values.
This essay explores
many of the issues that led me personally to the recognition that the
policies I was supporting in Iraq were not consistent with the
justifications made for the invasion in the spring of 2003, that
implicit in our post-invasion actions was the goal of permanent
occupation, which would
ensure endless war and the resultant degradation of our liberty, our
security, and our moral authority.
For me, recognizing
that I could no longer support the President for whom I voted, and the
occupation of a land we had invaded, remains personally painful.
I have learned that
while it is difficult to admit being wrong, such recognition is a
prerequisite for redemptive action, necessary both for individual
growth and for the healing of our nation.
It is in this
spirit that I submit these reflections.
William Frey, M. D.
November, 2005
"Nations, like individuals, are punished for their transgressions."
Ulysses S. Grant
Heeding the admonitions of battle-hardened generals is scarcely a strength of the Bush administration.
Eisenhower's presidential leadership was forged in his experience as
Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary
during WWII. Facing, in the dawn of the nuclear age, an arms race
with the Soviet Union, he cautioned,
is no way in which a country
can satisfy the craving for absolute security, but it can bankrupt
itself morally and economically in attempting to reach that illusory
goal through arms alone."
In his farewell
address, Eisenhower was the first to describe and warn Americans of
the dangers he observed in the rapidly expanding military industrial
"The total influence – economic,
political, even spiritual – is felt in every city, every statehouse,
every office of the federal government……..The potential for the
disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. We must
never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or
democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert
and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge
industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods
and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together."
judicious leadership and balanced priorities, despite a unified,
nuclear-armed, and assertive Soviet Union, averted nuclear catastrophe
and preserved civil liberties.
In contrast,
despite the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the Bush regime, not
content with America's current status as the world's sole superpower,
has adopted
a National Security Strategy which seeks American hegemony and
total dominance, entailing a military industrial complex far greater
than any of which Eisenhower warned.
Those familiar with the Project for the New American Century (PNAC), whose founders include Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld among many who went on to serve in the Bush administration, are familiar with their long advocacy of increased reliance upon the assertion of American military force, supported by an expanded worldwide network of permanent military bases.
Regarding the
Middle East, the PNAC policy statement published in 2000, "Rebuilding
America's Defenses", plainly stated the objective of an increased
military presence in the region as a reason for invading Iraq,
"While the unresolved conflict with Iraq provides the immediate
justification, the need for a substantial American force presence in
the Gulf transcends the issue of the regime of Saddam Hussein."
An Administration Astray
These goals of total military dominance,
pursued by civilian, mostly non-combat-experienced, war-hawks despite
opposition and warnings from many
of our most
experienced generals, not only conflicts with American ideals, but
is irreconcilable with administration rhetoric. Indeed,
President Bush and members of his administration have taken precautions
to dispel any notion that they have plans for a permanent military
presence in Iraq:
On April 13,
2004, President Bush said,"As
a proud and independent people, Iraqis do not support an indefinite
occupation and neither does America."
Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, testifying before the Senate Armed Services
Committee February 17, stated,
"We have no intention, at the present time, of putting
permanent bases in Iraq."
The U.S.
ambassador to Iraq, Zalmay Zadeh, said
in an interview on Iraqi television August 15, 2005, "We are not
seeking to maintain permanent bases in Iraq."
But concrete speaks
louder than words. In March, 2004, the Chicago Tribune reported the
planned construction of 14
"enduring bases" in Iraq. By May, 2005, the Washington Post
reported that plans called for consolidating American troops into 4
large, more substantial facilities, designed to withstand direct mortar
attacks, centered around the airfields in Tallil in the south, Al Asad
in the west, Balad in the center and either Irbil or Qayyarah in the
north. These were re-designated "Contingency
Operating Bases" in February, 2005. Funding for the first
group of redesigned barracks was included in the $82 billion
supplemental war-spending bill approved by Congress in May.
Also included was funding for construction of the world's
largest embassy, located on 104 acres with a staff of 1020 and 500
dissonance between President Bush's rhetoric of democracy and
self-governance and the reality of his actions has yet to be
Once again, we
may find guidance
in Eisenhower's words, which are relevant not only to our Iraq, but
within our own borders,
know that freedom cannot be served by the devices of the tyrant.
As it is an ancient truth that freedom cannot be legislated into
existence…… And any who act as if freedom's defenses are to found in
suppression and suspicion and fear confess a doctrine that is alien to
problem in defense is how far
you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend
from without."
Indeed, within America, in the name of defending our freedom, we witness the ongoing and significant erosion of fundamental civil liberties, and of the rule of law, erosions so egregious that it is indeed difficult to comprehend their reality and future implications:
The moral
gymnastics a patriotic American one must perform to reconcile support
for these positions with long honored American traditions of justice
grow greater with each subsequent encroachment.
How has it
come to this?
the Issues
"No speech about homeland security or Iraq should begin without a reference to 9/11 ....
"If you describe it simply as a 'preemptive action,' some Americans will carry deep reservations about the rightness of the cause. Americans are conditioned to think that hitting first is usually wrong .... By far, the better word to use than 'preemption' is 'PREVENTION ' ...."
from GOP spinmeister Frank Luntz's June, 2004 talking points
A predictable
pattern has developed. Misguided policy – most specifically, policy
which convinces
Iraqis that we are intent upon permanent
occupation – fuels
increasing insurgency. With each set-back President
Bush has reacted by rhetorically "upping the ante". Each
escalation of rhetoric is accompanied by increasingly strident claims
that those taking exception to his policies are "siding with the
Such framing
of the issues encourages a view of reality with only two options:
siding with an infallible, virtuous, freedom-spreading America led by
George Bush, ordained by God to democratize the world, or siding with
"Upping the
ante," as well as the re-defining of both patriotism and divine will so
as to be in accord with administration policy, solidifies our emotional
commitment to the premise that every act of war, every Fallujah, every
death of a son or daughter, every "liberated" Iraqi civilian who
becomes "collateral damage", every new infringement
upon our civil liberties, is all for the greater good. By
such a process, we may find solace, avoid recognition of the actual
horrors we have come to support, and psychically deflect responsibility
for the unintended, but predictable, consequences of our actions.
When faced with facts
that do not fit this world view, a "true believer" may resolve the
cognitive dissonance by simple disbelief: When
confronted, on Hannity & Coombs, with the revelation that American
hero Pat
Tillman, killed while serving as an Army Ranger in Afghanistan,
opposed what he viewed as an illegal war in Iraq, Ann Coultercould
only express
disbelief. Hannity agreed, "I don't believe it either…..He signed
up because of a desire to fight." Coulter then
incorrectly speculated that this must be a fabrication of the media.
The reality of a patriotic American who would give up a lucrative
sports contract to risk his life defending America in Afghanistan,
while simultaneously opposing the war in Iraq, appeared, to both Ann
Coulter and Sean Hannity, simply incomprehensible.
A "With us or
against us" dichotomy forces Americans to choose between blind support
for misguided policy, or painful but necessary patriotic dissent while
simultaneously being unjustly maligned as "siding with the enemy".
Like the
courageous and patriotic Pat Tillman, many Americans share a more
nuanced view of the world, and are committed to proper moral action.
But rejecting a falsely polarized, overly simplified "Us or Them"
administration view may be painfully difficult for those patriotic
Americans who share a deep commitment to our values of liberty, but who
also feel a moral obligation to speak out to correct misguided policy
inconsistent with those values.
Breaking free
from this false framing of reality requires independent vision,
intellectual honesty, and the courage to face painful realities.
Skillful control of the framing of issues
has been a significant factor in advancing the Bush/Rove agenda.
Utilizing the skillful linguistic and psychological
cunning of Frank Luntz's talking points, pre-digested prior to delivery
to legions of surrogates in the media, the Bush/Rove machine has
mastered the art of issue framing and spin.
But just as
the fabled unclad emperor learned, there are limits beyond which a
false version of reality cannot be sustained. There comes a point at
which the price at which believing the prevailing myths becomes too
Such is now
the case on the ground in Iraq.
But President
Bush is undeterred by these patriotic voices of realism.
As with his
threats to veto Congressional attempts to re-instate American bans on
torture, the President rejects Congressional action to neutralize the
greatest of source of Iraqi resistance by committing to a policy
rejecting a permanent military presence in Iraq.
On a national
level, the "moral
bankruptcy" of which Eisenhower warned may be reflected in a loss
of American moral
authority. Not only may this be a factor in
worldwide loss of esteem, but it may provide passion and longevity to
the widespread resistance to our leadership.
The most tragic moral
consequences, however, accrue
to those who suppress their more noble instincts to blindly accept
ill-fitting and ever-changing rationales for policies
that conflict with our most cherished principles.
That this may be done out of a misdirected sense of
patriotism or faith is of little consolation.
Emerging from moral bankruptcy requires that we properly reframe the issues:
We must not surrender
flag and faith to those who would use both to support a war which
honors neither.
We must not surrender flag and faith to those who would use both to support a war which honors neither.
To those who would
attempt to silence
Americans with the call that "We must support our troops," we must meet squarely on the
issues: The troops are our sons, our daughters, our husbands, our
wives. They volunteered to defend our nation, not
to pursue a hidden agenda of those who do not honor our nations values.
We must never abuse their courage, their patriotism, and
their sacrifice.
To those who insist we must spread liberty: Our founders
established our nation as a beacon of liberty. We
must never confuse the defense of liberty with the pursuit of an agenda
of domination that is offensive to our democratic values and
counterproductive to our security, inflaming the passions and
determination of those less powerful.
To those who exploit a climate of fear
to assert that we must now abridge fundamental liberties for the sake
of security, we must remind of the insights of wiser Americans,
"Any people
that would give up liberty for a little temporary safety
deserves neither liberty nor safety." Benjamin
"Liberty is
always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have." Harry Emerson Fosdick
"If Tyranny
and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of
fighting a foreign enemy" .... "We are right to take alarm at the first
experiment upon our liberties." James
To those who claim that we who oppose the war in Iraq are "anti-American", we must confront with the truth that we who oppose the occupation come from all points on the political spectrum - Democrats, Republicans, and independents - left, right and center - and include the majority of Americans. To those who persist in challenging our patriotism, we must remind of the words of Theodore Roosevelt, "To announce that there should be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president, right or wrong, it is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American people."
Americans, with
broad bipartisan support, have not only embedded our unambiguous
of torture into American law (establishing legal constraints which the
Bush administration is now determined to dismantle), but have for
generations been in the forefront of establishing such standards
worldwide through treaties including the Geneva Conventions.
previous generations of Americans - left, right, and center - have been
unified in the belief that not only is such conduct essential for the
safety of our own captured servicemen and women, but that any nation
which does not adhere to its own basic values (regardless of any
self-proclaimed virtue) would cease to possess the moral prerequisites
for genuine success.
Our present
need for "the
decent respect for the opinions of mankind" is no less compelling
than it was for our founders. But the primary need for realigning
our actions with our values is not improved public relations. The most
compelling need is, for the benefit of our own society, to reaffirm
moral constraints upon our actions, individual and collective, without
which the character of our nation will be diminished.
this can only be done by reframing the issues in a manner which befits
our Judeo-Christian and American values.
This will be
contentious. The unifying values implanted by America's
founders - values of liberty, non-aggression, and antipathy to
authoritarian government – have historically prevailed only despite
significant opposition from Americans with less honorable priorities. Indeed, the very
eloquence with which Jefferson, Madison, and other founders defended
civil liberties and warned repeatedly of the dangers of unrestrained
executive power and the pernicious consequences of war and empire is
primarily because their views were not universal. Their beliefs
in liberty, defended by non-aggressive, anti-imperial foreign policy,
and the right of dissent have survived to become the "common ground" of
the American civic vision only after bitter and divisive political
battles. During such times these cherished principles - now universally
claimed (even those whose oppose the substance of their beliefs claim
them rhetorically as their own) and taken for granted – have not
infrequently been severely threatened.
Today the
rhetoric of this consensus American vision of liberty and
non-aggression remains unscathed. But the substance of the
beliefs of our founders (which constitutes the basic "common
ground" of our political compact) is under assault. Certainly no
one overtly challenges our commitment to "liberty" and
"democracy". Yet we witness proponents of "freedom" at home and
abroad advocating perpetual military occupation, rationalizing
permanent detention of American citizens without charges or
trial, and those who claim to respect the "rule of law"
remaining silent while administration lawyers concoct methods for the
president to evade American legal prohibitions of torture and promote
the legal theory that the president has the "inherent
authority" to "set aside" American law.
How have
conscientious and patriotic Americans come to support policies
so antithetical to our values?
Most sobering is that
these perverse
sentiments do not result solely, or even primarily, from the shameless
exploitation of fear. Rather, they arise as the unintended
consequence of a world view that derives it strength from a direct
appeal to and diversion of American's most honorable instincts.
Support for virtuous
goals may mutate over time into support for malignant
policy. Many, perhaps
most, who now tacitly support perpetual occupation would never have
supported such policy at the time of the invasion. Many
supporters of President Bush applauded his repeated
past assertions that any commitment of troops requires an "exit
strategy," and his rhetoric
opposing conquest, occupation, and "nation building".
Congressional Republicans cited similar convictions in opposing the war
in the Balkans.
Support for misguided war policy evolves incrementally with shifting justifications for the war. After support solidifies, the "goal posts" may be moved to align with a prior hidden agenda. Doubts as to the soundness of the policy or the propriety of its circuitous implementation are deflected by appeals to patriotism. Ultimately, anesthetized supporters may dismiss abhorrent consequences with such mantras as, "Bad things happen in war."
casualties may paradoxically galvanize support as it becomes ever more
consequential to acknowledge error. Culpability is negated by
increasing commitment to the initial noble goals, and to the contention
that the policy befits those goals. Conflicting information
eliciting cognitive dissonance is met with increasing denial.
Views calcify.
In this manner
good people may become
inexorably committed to malignant policy.
The noble values
upon which such a flawed paradigm is based both underscores the import
of the proper framing of the issues, and illustrates the formidable
challenges of achieving constructive change.
perversely augments this process. In a perilous world, simplistic
authoritarian measures that exploit an insatiate desire
for security become especially seductive.
Our present
policies provide ample evidence of the perverse outcomes of such an
illusory quest for security. In Iraq, the pursuit of "stabilization" by
means of perpetual occupation is bearing instead the fruit of endless
war. And in America, the upward ratcheting of the "national
security state" in illusory pursuit of "safety" can only deliver one
assured result: the preemptive abdication of our individual liberty and
open society. Countless refugees from tyranny are witness that
authoritarian suppression is no guarantee of safety.
When Edmund
Burke observed, "The people will only give up their liberty under some
delusion," he presciently foretold
our current paradox: a "freedom loving" people not only
acquiescent to the surrender of their liberty, but welcoming "Big Brother" in the
pursuit of the mirage of security.
Rejecting such
beguiling but false promises requires more than the courage to
face uncertainty. Although authoritarian solutions are
counterproductive in securing liberty, a frenzy for safety may reward
the unscrupulous politician at the polls.
an American consensus for honest, reality
based policy, one which pursues non-expansionist national defense
while protecting civil liberties, requires the integrity to refrain
from short-sightedly exploiting the twin passions of fear and hope.
But this is
the challenge we must overcome if we are to avoid endless war, and
preserve for our children a free and open society.
attainment will be difficult. The cult of empire is propped up by a ubiquitous and
effective spin
machine. Megastar media surrogates saturate the airways with their
24/7 presence. They advance a creed of conquest that confuses
strength to defend the nation with the pursuit of world domination.
Their message thrives on the demonization of both foreign power and
domestic dissent. While they peddle a creed that holds in
contempt both the actual exercise of liberty and the practice of
authentic faith, these false prophets cloak their message with a veneer
of professed moral and patriotic values. And they have infected
our culture with their audacious claim that their values reflect the
values of America. The difficult challenge of properly reframing
these issues is amply illustrated by the 22% of Americans who state
that they rely on talk
radio as their primary source of news.
The moral
blind spots displayed by those who profess respect for the "rule of
law" and "moral values" regarding a presidential "inherent right" to
"set aside law" and legitimize torture are symptoms of the "moral
bankruptcy" of which Eisenhower warned.
These blind
spots reflect a void in the soul of America. Filling this vacuum
requires rejecting false idols, repairing a flawed paradigm, and
restoring a consensus based upon authentic American values. No
simple formula will address all issues. But the "common ground"
to be found in the still revolutionary vision of America's
founders - a vision embracing individual
liberty, opposing wars of conquest,
protecting the rights of dissent,
limiting presidential powers,
and maintaining the moral high
ground with unambiguous rejection of any legitimate role for
torture - maintains it power by virtue of its moral authority.
This compelling vision provides unifying objectives to America's
growing antiwar majority.
supporting current policies will continue to use all the resources of
their propaganda machine to attempt to perpetuate their distorted view
of the role of power, of empire, and of America's role in the
world. And they will continue to appropriate the rhetoric of "freedom" to
promote policies which repudiate the substance of the American vision
of liberty.
We cannot
permit a war begun for the purpose of disarming a tyrant to be
used to justify the permanent unwanted occupation of a foreign land.
We must never
enable the rhetoric of patriotism and faith to support a policy of
domination pursued through deception.
Nor the
rhetoric of fear to blind us to the dismantling
of the legal framework for our freedoms.
We can no
longer tolerate business-as-usual politicians in either party who will
not act to reassert historic constitutional restraints on executive
power, end a misguided war, and repel the perilous assault
on civil
action requires that we first overcome our own denial.
We cannot
absolve ourselves from responsibility by pointing to our cowardly media.
John Locke,
intellectual mentor to America's founders, stated in his Essay on Human
Understanding in 1689 "It is vain to find fault with the arts of
deceiving, wherein men find pleasure to be deceived."
Overcoming this human
frailty remains a formidable
The False Comfort of Self-Deception
For many
reasons it may be problematic to move beyond the illusory comforts of
denial to experience the uncertainties of reality.
adherence to the false conceits of those whose quest is world
domination can lead only to continued erosion of our moral authority,
our esteem and influence abroad, and damage to our freedoms and
democracy at home.
In the
eloquent prose of the King James translation, the Author of Proverbs
tells us, "Pride goeth before destruction, and a haughty spirit before
a fall."
The solace to
be found in self-deception is impermanent.
A true solace,
one more substantial than that afforded by the denial of reality, may
be more profitably sought in
constructive action.
Jefferson told us, "All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people
of good conscience to remain silent."
Patriotic Americans can no
longer afford the hollow comforts of
blind self-deception, nor the transient respite of continued silence.
"The New American Militarism"
How Americans Are Seduced by War
by Andrew Bacevich,
Prof. of International Relations, Boston University
Graduate of the United States Military Academy
Retired Colonel, U. S. Army
"Why This Soldier Can't Support This War"
Justin Gordon,
1999 Graduate of United States Military Academy,
Iraq Veteran
"The Logic of Suicide Terrorism"
"The American Conservative"
Robert Pape
University of Chicago,
former instructor in air power strategy at the USAF's School of Advanced Air Power Studies
"The central motive for anti-American terrorism, suicide terrorism, and catastrophic terrorism is response to foreign occupation, the presence of our troops. The longer our forces stay on the ground in the Arabian Peninsula, the greater the risk of the next 9/11, whether that is a suicide attack, a nuclear attack, or a biological attack."
Robert Pape,
"The Logic of Suicide Terrorism"
"America Alone: The Neo-Conservatives and the Global Order"
Stefan Halper,
Senior Fellow, Cambridge University's Center of International Studies; Served in Nixon, Ford, and Reagan administrations; Former U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State; National Policy Director of George H. W. Bush's 1980 presidential campaign; Director of Policy Coordination for Reagan-Bush 1980; Senior foreign policy advisor to Republican National Committee, author of
"What Would Reagan Do?"
She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all.
She is the champion and vindicator only of her own.
She will commend the general cause by the countenance of her voice, and the benignant sympathy of her example.
She well knows that by once enlisting under other banners than her own, were they even the banners of foreign independence, she would involve herself beyond the power of extrication, in all the wars of interest and intrigue, of individual avarice, envy, and ambition, which assume the colors and usurp the standard of freedom.
The fundamental maxims of her policy would insensibly change from liberty to force....
She might become the
dictatress of the world. She would be
no longer the ruler of her own spirit...."
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How to Distill
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1Find a large pot with a tight fitting lid.Ad
2Drill a hole in the lid so that a length of copper tubing will fit snug into it.
3Fill the pot with water. You may choose to use saline, or salt water to prove the distillation process will work, but keep in mind you change the boiling temperature of water when you create or choose to use a solution.
4Use duct tape to seal the lid of your pot to prevent the steam from escaping when you begin distilling.
5Route the tubing from the pot lid through some type of cooling medium, a sink full of cold water will work, then continue the tubing to a location where it can discharge the condensate into the container you plan to "catch" it in.
6Turn the stove or burner on with which you are going to heat your "still".
7Heat the water slowly so that it does not boil too rapidly, this will cause pressure to form inside the pot, and could potentially blow the lid off the experiment.
8Watch the end of the tubing where the condensate should begin to drip out. With normal tap water, you will have very little chemical "boil off", in the form of chlorinating chemicals or other products the utility provider adds to the water.
9Keep the still heated to a temperature that gives a constant flow of liquid from the condensate discharge tubing, with little or no steam or water vapor venting out at this location. This flow should not be near the capacity of the tubing, or pressure may build in the pot, causing a dangerous situation. A steady "trickle", or slow flow is what you are looking for.
10Boil the contents of the "still", or pot, until the liquid is almost gone, but do not boil the pot dry or you will risk damage to it.Ad
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- You may want to drill and tape threads for a pressure gauge and thermometer if you plan to use this process for more scientifically exact purposes.
- For large volume distillation, you may want to purchase a fractionating column from a scientific or industrial supplier. This is one technique for producing potable water from seawater or other sources.
- Drilling and taping threads for a tubing connector will give you a better seal, preventing steam from escaping.
- Distillation is a process that can be used to separate liquids with a substantial difference in boiling points or vapor pressures, or to separate liquids from solutions with solids suspended in them.
- Because the lid to the still is not mechanically attached to handle pressure, do not stand over it or allow anyone near it during the distillation process.
Things You'll Need
- Large pot with tight fitting lid.
- Means to drill a hole for the tubing in the lid of the pot.
- Duct tape to seal the lid on the pot.
- Water, or other liquid with a relatively low boiling point.
- Copper tubing.
- Stove, or outdoor gas cooker.