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Agatha Christie had a learning disability. It may seem paradoxical that a woman who was one of the most popular and prolific writers in the English language had a learning problem. In this paper I will review the evidence for this diagnosis of learning disability.

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Sunday, March 25, 2012
A tumor in Umno...
While some were generously in support of Daim, one or two gave a 'true insight' of the actual situation in BN, especially Umno that might lead the ruling party to a more disastrous result than 2008 national poll.
I believe the writer is a politician or someone used to be with Umno inner circle as the way he posted his comment did not reflect him/her as a novice in domestic politics. And what he penned also speaks for many disgruntled Umno members who found themselves confined and locked from having their voice heard by the party leadership.
JR (a reference to Just Read):
Since u r so in the know with PM Najib's key people- here's a message for them. Daim is right. You r also right that Badawi did not chose to listen to voices on the ground. Because there was no voice. PM Najib too overlooking the same thing. The enemy is in UMNO
Its not about just listening to news from your people. You must have all sources covered and counter checked, as- more often - they give you news PM, Ministers and UMNO key leaders want to hear- and they in turn are fed with news that they want to hear.
Why? Because people on the ground know you wont counter check them. They know this routine so well. If they talk to 10 people they will say 100 people. After all if AC Nielson can do that why not them la.
Najib is still keeping mistakes the dishonest pimps called the Ketua Bahagian, you know that animal?
These r animals who keep their postions by paying for favours to get re-elected and keeping people who will back them on a leash - with money and promise of projects. They are marking time - waiting for election money and campaign funds to POUR in. These are not passed down to the members and party workers.
The hard up useless Umno leaders on their payroll will be happy with the little they get, the big pie is reserved for the ketua bahagian and the one person above them who make sure money is passed to them. So these group of dishonest people will turn bad news into good news, or a middle view. The ketua bahagian will inform bosses, the PM - 'everything ok boss'.
Come campaign funds day. The Ketua Bahagian hoards the money. Why because they have plans. There's always Umno elections after general elections. So keep the money for that. In reality like 2008 things will turn bad and ugly - when money and expenses are not passed down to party workers on the ground. In 2008, it was obvious PKR and DAP had more money to spend for elections - from party workers comparing notes.
So 2008, while the ketua keep the funds for themselves and their future politics, many workers and others abandoned UMNO. They stay at home or if angry enough, they vote opposition.
So yes. The enemy you cant see today - are the KETUA BAHAGIAN. They are the scumb bags who sold UMNO and the country in the last electons. Some are stillaround like in Selangor.
Today some call themselvels Najib's chosen men. Remember the story of several ketua bahagian under the State number 1 man's protection, were seen slogging to remove bags of cash from the MB's election office, after the state was lost?
That was not just a story. That was reality check.
They expected the rest of us to use our money first - which we will never get back. AND have never gotten back.
Our message to you since you are showing off about being so close to PM's aides, you can tell them - if they really care for the PM, the country, dirty your pants and get to the ground, counter check your sources, esp if u r getting smoke signals from someone like Daim.
If you dont - for the same above reason - you will lose Selangor and Daim is right because he knows about these immoral activites in most states under UMNO. Of course he should know.
I feel sorry for the many hardworking ordinary UMNO men and women who are working so hard for the party. Because they love and believe in the PM and the country - and will do it for the Malays.
But the small time leaders they are working for are nothing but typical UMNO mafias, (some even get to sit on board of anti corruption bodies). If their own members are disgusted with them, do you think the ordinary people will believe them to vote UMNO BN?
So don't be too cocky that you have covered all corners.
NOTE: During Umno General Assembly last year, I did mention things like these in three postings in a row. As an Umno member, I do love Umno and will always support BN but if the grassroot voice is not heard, Umno will gradually lose ground in Malaysian politics. Think about it!
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dah berbuih dah cakap. dah beribu kali nak bagitau tetapi ketua bahagian tak sampaikan kepada pihak atasan.
memang ada ketua bahagian yang jadi duri dalam daging kepada parti.
kalau najib nak cantas diorang dari sekarang, umno boleh hilang banyak kerusi.
orang umno takkan pangkah parti pembangkang kali ini... cuma takkan keluar mengundi je!
- March 25, 2012 at 10:37 AM
stupid la the writer.
if evrybody wants to become leaders, who should become ordinary members?
that also u dont know aaar!!!
- March 25, 2012 at 10:38 AM
house cleaning
- March 25, 2012 at 11:10 AM
Umno has been gradually losing ground a long time ago
Just that umno people don't know it
They're busy enjoying their wealth
- March 25, 2012 at 4:04 PM
Hey this guy should be listened to - seems sincere altho quite frustrated
whistle blowing MUST be encouraged to treat the tumor in UMNO - started by anwar's brand of money politics
- March 25, 2012 at 5:37 PM
Umno perlu ubah bnyk perkara, terutama cara pentadbiran serta pendekatannya.
Inilah yg jadi duri dlm dagingnya selama ini apabila pemimpin tak berapa berani buat perubahan walaupun berjanji untuk merobahnya.
Ke mana umno selepas ini jika makin ramai ahlinya yg makan hati?
- March 25, 2012 at 11:50 PM
Good advise always fall on deaf ear!
- March 25, 2012 at 11:52 PM
All corners covered?
Those who said that are a bunch of ball lickers who want to please d boss.
They dont know d actual situation.
Pity these morons!
- March 25, 2012 at 11:54 PM
Cant blame them lar.
Politic is all about money n power. No money means u cant land a foot in politic.
Our leaders have set d precedent. If u dont make tons of money during your tenure, better hang yourself!
- March 26, 2012 at 2:38 AM
Penyakit dlm umno mmg sukar diubati. Ia sudah smpi ke tahap paling kritikal.
Biarpun ada niat dan usaha utk memperbaikinya, nampak mcm dah terlambat.
Susah nak ubat bila dah jadi busung
- March 26, 2012 at 2:41 AM
This BETRAYED fella is an umno. Easy to tell.
Agree wt u that he sounds like someone used to be close to d inner circle.
But i also believe he is just like another kadir shk fadzil... Felt dejected for not having his political quest fulfilled.
Stupid bugger
- March 26, 2012 at 2:50 AM
komen tu macam kau rekacipta sendiri jo'. den konal kau jang oi. hontikanlah cerita karut kau
- March 26, 2012 at 9:46 AM
PM Najib,
By now, you should know which Ketua .bahagian yang tak boleh pakai.. The ones that are too long in the position half dead... pleasela get them replaced.
There must be a way to ensure that campaogn funds are properly consumed and maximized towards the campaign and not for the Ketua .bahagians?!
Pls la Dato Najib, want to win election or not?!!
The above article has got merit.. digest pls.
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Close friend of mine went to a New year's party. He was looking for some action but got none. This poem was written by him but he shall remain anonymous because he didn't want future employers to see this in case they googled his name. So, ladies and gentlemen, I present to you the unedited version of "The Rime of the Ancient Engineer".
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It's official: Middle Tennessee State will be a member of Conference USA this year.
An announcement Tuesday from the C-USA league meetings in Irving, Texas, confirmed MTSU and Florida Atlantic will join the league on July 1. Both accepted invitations in November to join C-USA in either July 2013 or 2014.
Both opted to take the earlier path in leaving the Sun Belt and pay an exit fee of $700,000 - a figure voted on and offered by the Sun Belt executive committee, commissioner Karl Benson said. ...


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Thermal decomposition of metal carbonates
Class experiment
This experiment involves a comparison between the thermal stabilities of carbonates of reactive metals, such as sodium and potassium, and the carbonates of less reactive metals, such as lead and copper.
Lesson organisation
This experiment can be carried out as a class exercise, individually or in pairs. Because of the toxicity of lead compounds, it may be best to leave lead carbonate out with less reliable classes.
The experiment should take about 40 - 45 minutes.
Limewater (calcium hydroxide solution), 10 cm3 per carbonate
About 2 g each of following solids:
Copper carbonate (HARMFUL)
Lead carbonate (TOXIC, DANGEROUS FOR THE ENVIRONMENT)
Potassium carbonate (IRRITANT)
Sodium carbonate, anhydrous (IRRITANT)
Zinc carbonate
Refer to Health & Safety and Technical notes section below for additional information.
Eye protection
Each group will require:
Test-tubes, 2 (per carbonate)
Delivery tube (right-angled)
Bunsen burner
Clamp and stand
Health and Safety and Technical notes
Read our standard health & safety guidance
Wear eye protection. It is important not to inhale dust of lead carbonate or the oxide formed. Wash hands after using lead compounds.
Limewater (calcium hydroxide solution), Ca(OH)2(aq), (treat as IRRITANT) -see CLEAPSS Hazcard and Recipe Book.
Copper carbonate, CuCO3.Cu(OH)2(s), (HARMFUL) - see CLEAPSS Hazcard.
Lead carbonate, PbCO3(s), (TOXIC, DANGEROUS FOR THE ENVIRONMENT) - see CLEAPSS Hazcard.
Potassium carbonate, K2CO3(s), (IRRITANT) - see CLEAPSS Hazcard.
Sodium carbonate, anhydrous, Na2CO3(s), (IRRITANT) - see CLEAPSS Hazcard.
Zinc carbonate, ZnCO3(s) - see CLEAPSS Hazcard.
a Put a large spatula measure of the carbonate to be tested in a test-tube.
b Fit a delivery tube and then clamp the test-tube so that the delivery tube dips into a second test-tube containing 2-3 cm3 limewater.
c Heat the solid gently at first, then more strongly.
d Lift the delivery tube from the limewater before, or as soon as, the heating is stopped. This is to avoid "suck-back".
e Write down all observations. Notice what happens to the limewater and how long it takes to turn milky (if at all). Notice whether any melting occurs in the heated test-tube and any colour changes taking place. Write your results in tabular form.
f Repeat the experiment with the other metal carbonates supplied, and in each case write down your observations.
g Wash your hands thoroughly at the end of these experiments, since some of the metal carbonates are toxic.
Teaching notes
It is important to emphasize how "suck-backs" are avoided before the students begin, otherwise there are bound to be mishaps.
It is also important to ensure that students wash their hands after using lead carbonate, and to ensure that dust is not raised when this solid is being used.
The relative ease with which the carbonates of some of the less reactive metals are decomposed has been used in the extraction of these metals from ores that contain the metal as a carbonate, for example zinc carbonate (calamine).
|Colour before heating
|Colour after heating
|Gas evolved
|Ease of decomposition
|Potassium carbonate
|very difficult
|Sodium carbonate
|very difficult
|Zinc carbonate
|yellow when hot, white when cool
|carbon dioxide
|fairly easy
|Lead carbonate
|some melting / yellow
|carbon dioxide
|fairly easy
|Copper carbonate
|carbon dioxide
Students should find that sodium and potassium carbonates give no carbon dioxide or any other sign that decomposition has taken place, even after prolonged heating.
Those metal carbonates which do decompose leave a residue of the metal oxide and evolve carbon dioxide in the process:
eg ZnCO3(s) → ZnO(s) + CO2(g)
At an elementary level, the relative thermal stability of the carbonates of the metals cannot easily be explained in terms of simple ideas of bonding in these compounds. A simple relationship between the reactivity of the metal and the stability of its compounds, such as the carbonate here, will have to suffice.
With abler and older students it may be appropriate to refer to the polarization (distortion) of the electron cloud of the carbonate ion by the metal ion, and that this is bound to be more pronounced when the metal ion is doubly, rather than singly charged, and small. Polarization eventually leads to abstraction of oxygen from the carbonate ion, producing the oxide ion and a carbon dioxide molecule. The greater the polarization, the lower the temperature needed to decompose the carbonate.
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Some firefighters were sent home Thursday from the South Tahoe fire and 500 more were expected to be released today.
Seven strike teams departed, dropping the number of personnel working the fire to 2,005 from a peak of 2,180, after helping stop the Angora inferno that has consumed 3,100 acres since Sunday.
Rich Hawkins, U.S. Forest Service incident commander, described remaining operations as mopping up and said the fire wouldnt ruin the Fourth of July weekend in the Tahoe Basin.
But if forecasted wind gusts of up to 30 mph materialize Saturday, the fire could create new problems, he said.
I always worry around this point that we become too complacent, Hawkins said. Its entirely possible well change the containment date from Tuesday to an earlier date.
The history of timber fire in the United States is that some burn as long as three months. Luckily, we have this one stopped in place.
Investigators determined the fire started near a rock outcropping on Seneca Pond and was human-caused but not arson, he said.
A blocking perimeter has been established around the fire, now 70 percent contained.
He said infrared photos show only 20 percent of the flames remain.
Hawkins expected two days of mopping up on the north end and four to five days on the south end near South Lake Tahoe.
He said a firefighter who suffered a broken arm Wednesday from a falling boulder had been scheduled for surgery but needed only a cast.
Police found a methamphetamine laboratory in the fire area.
Thats a common problem in forests and other ef4deral lands, Hawkins said. Peo[ple worried about the whole thing blowing up and do it at night where no one can observe.
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More than 600 ewes and their lambs are back at work on the Bureau of Land Management's Fort Ord Public Lands in Monterey County.
The grazing program is part of a cooperative strategy to improve rangeland conditions in this ecologically unique area.
With the return of the sheep herds, the BLM reminds visitors to the area to be careful around the sheep.
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The Westchester Hudson Valley chapter of the American Institute of Architects, or AIA, has given out this year's design awards and several local projects were honored.
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On August 11, Mitt Romney announced his pick of Wisconsin Congressman Paul Ryan as his running mate. A few days later, CrazyPete Hoekstra renewed his earlier call for the repeal of the 17th Amendment in the name of state's rights. More recently, a poll based on off-year turnout model reported Mitt and Hoekstra would win MI. And seemingly in response to that poll, Mitt came to MI to race bait about how he was born in MI, unlike that brown fella.
It all sort of makes you believe MI's Republicans don't plan on running a fair election this November.
All of which makes me grateful that Nate Silver just called out both that earlier poll and an even crazier one that came out yesterday. As he notes, yesterday's poll–showing a tie in the Presidential and, even more improbably, a one point CrazyPete lead over Debbie Stabenow–assumed that African Americans would not be voting in November.
The head of Mitchell Research, Steve Mitchell, wrote a long memo accompanying his poll release on Monday. In that poll, he weighted the survey to assume that African-Americans would make up only 8 percent of Michigan's turnout. By contrast, black voters represented 12 percent of the turnout in Michigan in 2008 according to exit polls, and 14 percent according to another source, the Current Population Survey. Blacks also made up 13 percent of Michigan's vote in 2004 and 11 percent in 2000, according to exit polls. Continue reading
There's an ominous storm brewing in flyover country that may amount to little more than higher food and fuel prices, or may amount to something else.
First there's the drought. Last week's heat wave and the last month's dry weather hit just as much of America's corn crop was set to pollinate. And if the corn doesn't pollinate, it never grows kernels. Even as I've been writing this post, USDA sharply cut forecasts for the corn harvest.
As a result, corn prices (soy prices too) are rising sharply. Which will, for better and worse, have repercussions on all the aspects of our super-processed life that relies on corn.
"The drought of 2012 will be one for the records," said Peter Meyer, the senior director for agricultural commodities at PIRA Energy Group in New York, who forecasts a drop in output to 11 billion bushels if the hot, dry spell lasts another three weeks. "Whether it's ethanol or livestock, no one is immune from this impending disaster. The ramifications will be widespread, affecting everything from your food to your gasoline."
And all that's before any follow-on effects, if the drought continues. Even in Grand Rapids, we've had some unusual fires. Rivers that were experiencing historic floods last year are approaching record lows this year; traffic on the Mississippi has already slowed.
Yet all that–even with our country's industrialized reliance on corn–might be no more concerning than other droughts, such last year's drought in Texas.
Meanwhile, banksters keep stealing farmers' money–first via MF Global and now with Peregrine.
The U.S. futures industry reeled as regulators accused Iowa-based PFGBest of misappropriating more than $200 million in customer funds for more than two years, a new blow to trader trust just months after MF Global's collapse.
Curiously, in his chronology of the talking point, "the War on Women," Dave Weigel doesn't mention the actual terrorist attack on a Planned Parenthood clinic a few weeks back. Nor does Marc Ambinder in his thoughtful piece on the outrage mobilized by the term. And these men commenting on the Democratic Party's effort to mobilize its tribes by raising outrage over the GOP's treatment of women are right, up to a point. In DC, that metaphor, "War on Women," has been cognitively divorced from what happens when a man conducts a terrorist attack (one not treated as a terrorist attack, mind you) on a clinic designed to help women access the same life choices men get by default.
In their review of the outraged response to Hillary Rosen's suggestion that Ann Romney had never worked a day in her life, neither Weigel nor Ambinder nor just about anyone else noted the unspoken implication of Mitt Romney's defense of his wife that raising their five children (with help, mind you) was a full time job. Mitt effectively admitted that he wasn't doing the child-rearing–still a common gender assumption among men of Mitt's age, but nevertheless stunning in the way no one noticed that Mitt admitted his role as father involves outsourcing all the child-rearing to the mother. The true scandal of the Hillary Rosen poutrage, IMO, is that no one considered the flip side of Ann's full-time job as mother: Mitt's abdication of child-rearing as a father. Sure. When his boys were little, he was a busy man and all that–he had people to fire and jobs to outsource. But he was able to focus so closely on those things because Ann did the parenting work for the two of them.
Meanwhile, the Democrats are still going to use GOP attacks on women as a political stunt. DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz tweeted or re-tweeted 7 comments about women's issues yesterday, in addition to the seemingly mandatory condemnation of Rosen.
I was particularly amused by this DWS tweet:
Bottom line: Choice, affordable contraception, and Planned Parenthood are at stake in this election. http://j.mp/I6A8c0
As it happened, a few hours after DWS sent that tweet, I went to a Debbie Stabenow event hosted by a local women's group. As we were waiting for the Senator to speak, a top county Democrat was sitting several rows behind me trying to convince some of the women not to support Trevor Thomas. "There is absolutely no way he can win," the guy said (the polling says he's wrong, and I suspect he knows that). In addition to saying a gay man can't win, he also said a pro-choice person can't win in the district (his listeners pointed out that Stabenow herself had won the district; so have at least two other pro-choice candidates). Then he described Steven Pestka, using the line Michigan Democrats used to defend Bart Stupak as he was rolling back access to choice for women across the country.
He's with us on everything else.
Just interrupting pre-game to bring two pieces of interesting political news from MI.
First, we might finally have exciting news in my congressional district, where the party has thus far failed to recruit anyone to run against the unpopular Justin Amash even after his own party put a target on his back by making the district more Democratic. One of the key players in the successful DADT fight, Trevor Thomas, is thinking of challenging Amash. Now, local Dems are worried about an out gay and pro-choice man carrying the Democratic banner. Even aside from the bigotry implied by that worry, they don't seem to be thinking about the benefit of having such a proven campaign winner carrying the banner of working people. Don't our working men and women deserve the same kind of successful advocate that our gay service members got? (Trevor was also involved in Jennifer Granholm's thumping of Dick DeVos in 2006, so he knows how to win locally, too.)
Trevor is reportedly going to make his decision in the next few days. If and when he announces, you can expect to hear more from me about him, because I'd be genuinely excited about this race.
Meanwhile, speaking of bigots, here's the stupid, racist ad I'm going to be treated to during the Super Bowl. Continue reading
"Who will be the last senator to not want to end a mistake? Me." – John Kerry
That's the way MightyOCD interpreted John Kerry's vote–along with 66 of his colleagues–not to repeal the Iraq war that is ending whether they like it or not next month.
The vote was on a Rand Paul amendment to repeal the 2002 Iraq War AUMF.
Along with Paul, DeMint, Heller, and Snowe, a bunch of liberals and Blue Dogs like Bad Nelson and Manchin voted to end the Iraq mistake.
Yet liberals like Levin, Stabenow, Reed, and Whitehouse voted to continue the war that is ending.
By my count, something like 25 men and women who weren't around to vote for the AUMF when it first passed in 2002 voted in favor of continuing this infernal war–and that's not counting people like Levin and Stabenow who voted against it the first time.
So we're going to have all these AUMFs lying around on the books. authorizing secret powers we're not allowed to know, rather than simply and cleanly declaring a war over. Done.
In the good old days, you'd declare victory and give the men and women who served a big parade. How I'd love a parade about now.
DDay and Zach Carter both reported yesterday on the NY Fed's conclusion that the 2005 Bankruptcy Bill had pushed an extra 200,000 people into foreclosure. Here's Zach:
Economists at the New York Federal Reserve have concluded that a controversial 2005 law backed by banks and credit card companies pushed more than 200,000 people into foreclosure and exacerbated the subprime mortgage crisis.
In a paper released Tuesday, New York Fed researchers Donald P. Morgan, Benjamin Iverson and Matthew Botsch determined that the law sparked about 116,000 additional subprime mortgage foreclosures a year after going into effect.What's more, they note, these foreclosures pushed home prices down, which may have lead to additional foreclosures. When the value of a home drops below what a borrower owes on the mortgage, it becomes nearly impossible to get out of the loan by selling the house or refinancing, making foreclosure more likely if they become unable to afford the monthly payment.
"By making it harder for borrowers to avoid paying credit card debt, [the 2005 bankruptcy law] made it more difficult for them to pay their mortgages, so foreclosure rates rose," the economists wrote.
Which I guess means it's time again to recall what Chuck Schumer responded to me on January 28, 2008, when I pointed out that the bankruptcy bill was going to exacerbate the financial crisis that was about to hit. Schumer, Byron Dorgan, and Sherrod Brown all agreed the law was a problem. (Schumer and Dorgan voted against the bill, though Debbie Stabenow, pictured in my post, voted for it.) But, Schumer said, we couldn't just fix the obvious problems with it in 2008 because (you guessed it) we needed a bigger majority.
Senator Schumer explained that he didn't want to pick around the edges, he wanted to make a real fix, and we're not going to be able to do that until we get a bigger majority.
That was, of course, in 2008. That November, the Democrats would win solid majorities in both houses, as big a majority as you're ever going to get. Yet the Democrats never found time to get around to fixing the Bankruptcy bill.
I'm going to have a few follow-up posts about Steven Rattner's Overhaul generally and Saturday's book salon on it. But for the moment, I wanted to add something to two excellent reviews of it by Malcom Gladwell and Felix Salmon. Together, they both distinguish between the product GM makes and the debt it had. Here's Salmon:
That Rattner's team managed not one but two insanely complex bankruptcies in a hitherto unimaginably short timeframe is a real and noteworthy achievement of the Obama administration. Rattner is right about that. But Gladwell's got a good point too. This kind of biz-school restructuring is easy to show off about. What's hard is making millions of cars which are so good that the picky US consumer will buy them rather than the incredibly well-made competition — and making a profit by doing so. Eliminating GM's monstrous debt burden by sending it through bankruptcy was a necessary step in getting there. But it's not at heart what managing a company like GM is or should be about.
And here's Gladwell making a point bmaz and I argued, that Rick Wagoner, whatever his faults, had done significant work to fix GM before the overhaul.
Wagoner was not a perfect manager, by any means. Unlike Alan Mulally, the C.E.O. at Ford, he failed to build up cash reserves in anticipation of the economic downturn, which might have kept his company out of bankruptcy. He can be faulted for riding the S.U.V. wave too long, and for being too slow to develop a credible small-car alternative. But, especially given the mess that Wagoner inherited when he took over, in 2000—and the inherent difficulty of running a company that had to pay pension and medical benefits to half a million retirees—he accomplished a tremendous amount during his eight-year tenure. He cut the workforce from three hundred and ninety thousand to two hundred and seventeen thousand. He built a hugely profitable business in China almost from scratch: a G.M. joint venture is the leading automaker in what is now the world's largest automobile market. In 1995, it took forty-six man-hours to build the typical G.M. car, versus twenty-nine hours for the typical Toyota. Under Wagoner's watch, the productivity gap closed almost entirely.
Most important, Wagoner—along with his counterparts at Ford and Chrysler—was responsible for a historic agreement with the United Auto Workers. Under that contract, which was concluded in 2007, new hires at G.M. receive between fourteen and seventeen dollars an hour—instead of the twenty-eight to thirty-three dollars an hour that preëxisting employees get—and give up all rights to the traditional retiree benefit package. The 2007 deal also transferred all responsibility for paying for the health care of G.M.'s retirees to a special fund, administered by the U.A.W. It is hard to overstate the importance of that second provision. G.M. has five hundred and seventeen thousand retirees. Between 1993 and 2007, the company paid out a hundred and three billion dollars to those former workers—a burden unimaginable to its foreign competitors. In the 2007 deal, G.M. agreed to make a series of lump-sum payments to the U.A.W. over ten years, worth some thirty-two billion dollars—at which point the company would be free of its outsized retiree health-care burden. It is estimated that, within a few years, G.M.'s labor costs—which were once almost fifty per cent higher than the domestic operations of Toyota, Nissan, and Honda—will be lower than its competitors'.
In the same period, G.M.'s product line was transformed. In 1989, to give one example, Chevrolet's main midsize sedan had something like twice as many reported defects as its competitors at Honda and Toyota, according to the J. D. Power "initial quality" metrics. Those differences no longer exist. The first major new car built on Wagoner's watch—the midsize Chevy Malibu—scores equal to or better than the Honda Accord and Toyota Camry. G.M. earned more than a billion dollars in profits in the last quarter because American consumers have started to buy the cars that Wagoner brought to market—the Buick Regal and LaCrosse, the Envoy, the Cadillac CTS, the Chevy Malibu and Cruze, and others. They represent the most competitive lineup that G.M. has fielded since the nineteen-sixties. (Both the CTS and the Malibu have been named to Car and Driver's annual "10 Best Cars" list.)
What Wagoner meant in his testimony before the Senate, in other words, was something like this: "At G.M., we are finally producing world-class cars. We have brought our costs, quality, and productivity into line with those of our competitors. We have finally disposed of the crippling burden of our legacy retiree costs. We have expanded into the world's fastest-growing markets more effectively than any other company in the United States. But the effort required to bring about that transformation has left our balance sheet thin—and, at the very moment that we need a couple of years of normal economic activity to refill our coffers, auto sales have fallen off a cliff. Do you mind giving us a hand until things get back to normal?" [my emphasis)
Now, FWIW, I'm agnostic about keeping Wagoner on as CEO. Gladwell makes the same points bmaz and I were making. But I am utterly sympathetic to the notion that any CEO getting a bailout should be fired as part of the deal. The best solution, IMO, would have been to keep Fritz Henderson on as CEO. That's partly based on my impression–developed during my visit to GM's Tech Center just a few weeks after Fritz took over as CEO–that he had begun to implement the same kind of cultural change that I saw very quickly at Ford after Alan Mulally took over.
But neither Salmon's nor Gladwell's review mention two key details that I think are important to this debate. The first is Rattner's description of learning about the dire straits of the auto finance companies on April 1, 2009.
I entered the byzantine world of the fincos the very next day, April Fool's Day, as it happened. We faced off in a Treasury Department conference room against an imposing lineup of businesspeople: the top management from Chrysler Financial, GMAC, and Chrysler, plus Steve Feinberg and the guys from Cerberus. They all knew more about automotive finance than we did. We were trying to fly solo without having taken flying lessons, and I hoped we wouldn't crash and burn.
Pretty quickly I discovered that the fincos posed a bigger problem than I'd imagined. Auto finance companise are a lot like banks, but there is one crucial distinction: Banks rely on deposits form consumers and businesses for most of the money they use for loans. Finance companies have no such depositors unless they happen to own a bank: instead they must depend on larger borrowings from banks and investors for the cash that they lend to car buyers (known as the retail trade) and auto daelers (known as the wholesale or floor-plan borrowers).
I began to understand how the collapse of the financial markets had created havoc for automakers. As a result of the credit crunch, both GMAC and Chrysler Financial had seen their ability to borrow form banks severely curtailed. Continue reading
This could be an interesting, beneficial outcome of this year's election: Debbie Stabenow ascending to Chair the Agriculture Committee.
As of his last calculation, Nate Silver gives the Democrats an 84% chance of keeping the Senate. But they'll keep it without Blanche Lincoln, whom Nate gives a 100% chance of losing to John Boozman. And that'll open up the Chairmanship on Ag.
The Politico reports that, in spite of the fact that four people have more seniority on the committee, Stabenow stands a decent chance of getting the post, though Bad Nelson might demand it as his reward for staying in the caucus.
Michigan's Debbie Stabenow is seen as the front-runner to replace Lincoln, but that's not a given. Nebraska moderate Ben Nelson might win the post as a consolation prize for staying in the Democratic Party, or Kent Conrad of North Dakota could abandon his budget chairmanship to take the helm.
"Everybody in town seems to think that she is most likely going to be the next chairman," said one lobbyist who tracks the committee.
Sources close to the panel say the Michigan Democrat is well-liked by her colleagues and earned their respect during the last round of farm bill negotiations by bridging the interests of states with commodity crops and those with specialty fruit and vegetables.
But because Michigan isn't your typical Big Ag state, some observers say Stabenow might face opposition from powerful industry lobbies. "There would probably be fear among some of the industry leaders of the cotton people and the wheat people and the barley people if they saw Stabenow take the helm," said an industry source close to the committee.
Now, Stabenow isn't always the most hardnosed leader. And on occasions (notably, the bankruptcy bill) she has put corporate interests ahead of her constituents.
But as the Politico article suggests, she would make a very interesting Ag Chair because of the nature of our Ag industry in MI. That's because MI's Ag industry has a diversity second only to CA, but (because of the scale) much less dominated by big players. Here's a snapshot:
nation in terms of inventory.
(Somehow, that list neglected to mention blueberries, where we also lead the nation). MI farms are, on average, smaller than the national average, though they are more profitable per acre. There's a very healthy farmers market culture here, and also some proactive efforts to develop locally-branded processed food from our harvest, such as the soy processing plant 10 miles from here that offers a non-GMO soy oil. Our local big grocery chains do a pretty good job of promoting locally produced products.
And then there's Tony the Tiger, which is about as Big Ag culture as we get.
In other words, if Stabenow gets the Chair it'll put someone who is not beholden to Big Ag the way the Ag Chairmen typically are. At a time when the local Ag movement is picking up steam, we might have someone whose constituency would support such an effort.
Compare that with the most likely alternative: Ben Nelson. Who represents, among other corporations, Con Agra. As big as Big Ag gets.
Mind you, the decision may be made by the margin with which the Democrats keep the Senate. If we keep it by just two votes, I imagine we'll see Con Agra continue to rule. But if we can eke out a few more seats, it'll give Bad Nelson much less leverage to demand this Chairmanship.
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I just got this email:
Marcy —
President Obama recorded a video to speak directly to you about his economic recovery plan.
America is facing an urgent and unprecedented challenge. The economic crisis requires bold and immediate action.
Watch President Obama's video and share it with your friends and family:http://my.barackobama.com/recoveryvideo
And I've also gotten friends inviting me in the last week to watch some other Obama videos together–that is, I've been invited to House Parties to discuss this. That means people are doing just as Obama (or David Plouffe) asks in their email alerts.
But I still haven't been invited to call my Senators or Congressman (all of whom, granted, have voted for stimulus, but Debbie Stabenow voted for a stupid Tom Coburn amendment forbidding any stimulus money being used for musems and parks–I do plan on chatting with her about that and if you're a Michigander, you should too!). Nor have I been invited by Barack Obama to call Sanctimonious Joe's latest gang–Joe, Haggis, the Bad Nelson, and Susan Collins–to ask why they're opposed to funds that will help states avoid cutting back necessary services, or why they're opposed to constructing schools.
Mobilizing the millions of people on Obama's email list is great. But isn't it better to mobilize them to do the same thing the wingnuts are mobilizing their people to do–talk to members of Congress? Wouldn't it be better to use that list to press for a more progressive (and effective) stimulus package?


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Philadelphia Eagles coach Andy Reid speaks with members of the media during a news conference at the team's NFL football training facility, Friday, Dec. 14, 2012, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
Back in 1999, way before the countdown of the Mayan calendar even began, Andy Reid arrived in South Philadelphia with a thick black playbook, thicker than the piles of transcripts from all the press conferences where he repeated "taking full responsibility" for every bad bounce of the football over the last 14 seasons.
This thick black playbook enamored Jeff Lurie. The Eagles owner raved how this assistant coach from Green Bay, who wasn't even a coordinator with the Packers or any NFL team, was meticulously prepared for every and any event possible on and off the football field.
This thick ...


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Sonitrol Pacific Pharmacy Security
Special Thanks To: Everett Police Department
Location: Community Health Center of Snohomish County Everett Pharmacy
Listen to an excerpt of security audio from this burglary.
Pharmacy theft attempt ends in arrests
Live security audio of a burglary in progress at an Everett pharmacy allowed police to arrest two suspects and recover stolen drugs. Sonitrol Pacific Operator Minta Christopherson received an activation of the audio security sensors inside the Community Health Center of Snohomish County's Everett Pharmacy. She heard what sounded like a saw followed by movement noises and called Everett Police. While officers were on their way, Christopherson could hear the rattle of pill bottles, heavy breathing and whispering. When officers arrived at the pharmacy, they could see one suspect inside and ordered him to come out. The man surrendered. Police found a second man inside. All the drugs, including narcotics, that had been gathered to take from the pharmacy were recovered. The center is undergoing construction and the pharmacy is in a temporary facility. According to police, the men squeezed under the trailer's skirting and used a chain saw to cut a hole in the floor. Sonitrol Pacific's sound based security monitored by an expert led to a fast, verified detection of the break-in and the police making arrests.
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John Sanders listens Tuesday to the testimony during his murder trial in which he is charged with murder in the death of his daughter Ja'Nayjah Sanders. / Greg DeRuiter | Lansing State Journal
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Sentencing for John Harold Sanders, who was convicted Thursday of first-degree felony murder and first-degree child abuse, is set for Jan. 15, 2014. The mandatory punishment, under state law, for a first-degree murder conviction is life in prison without parole.
MASON — A 38-year-old Lansing man was found guilty late Thursday of first-degree felony murder and first-degree child abuse in the death of his infant daughter.
John Harold Sanders will be sentenced to life in prison without parole. Under state law, that is the mandatory punishment for a first-degree murder conviction. Sentencing is set for Jan. 15, 2014 in Ingham County Circuit Court before Judge William Collette.
According to his own statements to police and others, Sanders was alone with his 3-month-old daughter JaNayjah the morning of Jan. 4 when she suffered violent head injuries and stopped breathing. He never gave an explanation about how she suffered those injuries.
In closing arguments Thursday, Ingham County Assistant Prosecutor Mike Cheltenham said Sanders was tired that morning. He hadnt been sleeping well. His relationship with JaNayjahs mother was strained. He was working only sporadically. He was undergoing treatment for long-term marijuana use, and crack cocaine was found in his apartment
He was at a breaking point, Cheltenham said.
All those factors taken together, Cheltenham told jurors, help explain why a father would inflict such violence upon his own child.
In his closing arguments, Sanders attorney, Joe Ernst, suggested that JaNayjahs injuries could have been accidental caused by Sanders as he frantically tried to revive her or caused by someone else.
Sanders was dating JaNayjahs mother, 20-year-old Shamarrie Kittle, although their relationship had become strained. They lived together for about a year but Kittle moved out shortly before Christmas 2012. The night of Jan. 3, Kittle brought JaNayjah to Sanders apartment.
The following morning, Kittle took a bus to the county health department to fill her infant formula card.
Kittle was at the health department when Sanders sent her a text message, saying JaNayjah had stopped breathing. Sanders called his uncle, who drove him to the hospital. JaNayjah died about 13 hours later. Sanders told several people that he left the infant on a bed to prepare a bottle, and that when he returned she wasnt breathing.
Ernst raised several possibilities, including that Sanders had, in fact, found JaNayjah not breathing, and in his best efforts to revive her, shook (her) too hard.
Ernst also placed suspicion on Kittle, asking jurors to consider the possibility that Sanders could be covering for someone.
Cheltenham told jurors that all the evidence, including the Sanders own statements, show that he was the only person with JaNayjah.
Sanders being responsible for her death, Cheltenham said, is the (only) explanation that makes sense, based on the evidence and common sense.
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The New York Police Department so far has spent almost $2 million, mostly in overtime costs, to patrol lower Manhattan in recent weeks, as Wall Street protesters gear up for another week.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg has already ordered budget cuts that Police Commissioner Ray Kelly has said may imperil a January cadet class.
Source: Business Week


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Back to Portland
Ian Doescher, a singer/songwriter, couldn't afford to move from the east coast, so he wrote songs about Portland. The profit from the cds paid for the move to Portland.
Ian has now promised, as a thank you, to write 52 songs about the Rose City. You can listen to the other songs by clicking here! Click on "Portland: The Album" for a list of songs and then click "track listing and audio samples." Just click on the song of your choice to get lyrics and click the sample link in the title to hear a snippet of the song.
The totally free songs are on the "One Year of Portland Songs" Blog page, which is where the 52 new songs come from ( this is different from Portland: The Album, which was the initial set of ten recorded last summer)
We heard one of those songs called "Back to Portland."
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Gandaning candhana mahanani anyesing ati, ngluwihi anyesing sorote rembulan. Manawa gandaning candhana iku ditikelake loro, isih kalah karo anyesing pangandikane pandhita kang pindha tirta mareta. Geni iku panas, ngluwihi panasing srengenge. Nanging manawa panasing geni iku ditikelake loro, isih kongkulan panasing guneme wong ala
The cool fragrance of sandalwood, even more than the moonlight, refreshes the heart. But if its fragrance were doubled in sweetness, it would still not be as sweet as priestly words flowing like the water of immortality. Fire is hotter than the sunshine, but if its heat were doubled in ferocity, it would still not burn as hot as the words of an evil person.
Purwaning sembah katur ing ngarsaning
Gusti Ingkang Murbeng Dumadi.
Petikan kasebat ing nginggil punika kapendhet saking Serat Nitisastra titilaranipun Kraton Mojopahit,
minangka bebuka manawi panjenengan badhe kersa mundhut pirsa ngengingi bab Serat-serat Jawi kina
ingkang kathah-kathahipun wonten gandheng
cenengipun kaliyan sejarah utawi
ulah kabatosan.
Pangimpun sami kumawantun nglempakaken pepethikan Serat-serat Jawi punika minangka
atur pamundi-mundi kula dhumateng para
leluhur ingkang sampun nilari wejangan punika.
Piwulang punika lajeng kawula wedharaken
wonten beranda warta punika ing pangajab
sageda sumebar dados wawaosing ngakathah
ing saindenging jagad nata.
Pangimpun rumaos gadhah kuwajiban tumut nguri-uri kabudhayan Jawi, langkung-langkung ingkang ngengingi panyuraosipun piwulang ing babagan filsafat
lan ulah kabatosan.
Wondene panyuraosipun piwulang kasebut
saged nuwuhaken pangertosan ingkang warni-warni amargi serat-serat punika sami dhinapur
ing pralampita. Dene badharing pralampita
wau muhung saking pangertosan kita
Panggelaring sadaya serat piwulang punika
prasasat boten wonten tembung ingkang ukaranipun kadamel prasaja, ananging tansah nyimpen
wewados kalimpadaning basa.
Sarehning makaten kawontenanipun,
kula nyuwun sih samodranng pangaksami
mbokmanawi panyuraosing piwulang wau wonten
klentunipun awit kula piyambak dereng mumpuni
saestu ing babagan punika.
Wewejangan punika tansah kadhapur tembung
paribasan, pasemon, pralambang, tuwin pralampita. Umpaminipun tembung "
" tegesipun emut.
Nanging ugi anggadhahi teges; tumindak ingkang
boten nyalahi tata krama; sifat pasrah marang Gusti,
kahanan alam pikiraning manungsa, sadar
saksampunipun semaput, lsp.
Dados manawi kita badhe nyuraos piwulang,
punika kita kedah ngengeti parwa lan
slokanipun, yen boten makaten tamtu
badhe klentu panyuraosipun.
Minangka pungkasaning rembag, manawi
panjenengan badhe maos serat-serat Jawi punika
kedah kanthi penggalih ingkang suci, tentrem, teliti,
lan wening supados saged mangertosi wejanganipun.
Sampun ngantos grusa-grusu, srakah,
punapa malih kanthi regeding manah.
Wasana sugeng rahayu.
Mas Budi - Mastoni
All praise is due to God, the Lord of the World.
The above passage, a translation of the
Serat Nitisastra from the Mojopahit Dynasty,
is a good introduction to the way the Javanese
view their literature, most of which concerns
their history or spirituality.
We were inspired to collect these ancient
Javanese texts, and offer them to you with
the utmost appreciation and respect to our
ancestors who left these teachings to us.
We hope that by offering them on
the World Wide Web, we will preserve
the Javanese culture and add in some
small way to the philosophical and
spiritual discourse of the people.
The meaning of these ancient texts is
quite naturally the subject of much speculation
and debate among scholars. Many passages
are famous for their hidden prophecies.
Regardless of our attempts to come to terms
with their meaning, we have produced
a translation that does not attempt to clear up
their often-perplexing ambiguity.
We recommend that you read and ponder
them with an open mind.
As an aid to understanding them, we offer
the following; these poems are often written in
the form of parables, and are replete
with sayings and complex symbolism.
Words often have more than one meaning.
For example, the word "
" means; remember.
But depending on the context,
also means:
an ethical value; a level of depth in one's spiritual
awareness; a return to consciousness
after fainting, etc.
It is difficult to translate without forcing an
interpretation on the text. However, we will do
our best to offer alternate meanings in the
footnotes where we feel they are relevant.
Keep in mind that it is important to be aware
of where we are in a given poem. Context is
often a great clue as to their meaning.
Finally, to put oneself in the proper disposition
to read these Serat Jawis, it is necessary to be
peaceful, attentive, clear of mind, body and spirit.
While contemplating them, one should strive not
to be rude, coarse, hurried, greedy or have
impure thoughts.
This is so you may reach
our noble aim of spiritual enlightement
as a result of properly understanding
the meaning of these teachings.
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