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He works his field after the river waters recede. His primary activity is growing maize (corn), niébé (cowpeas), vegetables, okra, and tomatoes. In general the population works growing market gardens after the river waters recede and during the rainy season.
The local practice of selling off crops before the harvest does not provide them with security, on the contrary, it bankrupts them. This practice involves selling the future harvest at rock-bottom prices to an affluent person to get hold of the money required for farming. Tired of this practice, he has asked for a loan of 190,000 FCFA to farm about 1.5 hectares of the aforementioned crops.
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Skip to comments.NEWT: CLINTON COMMITTED ONE OF WORST CRIMES, ENDANGERED COUNTRY IF HIT ABDULLAH UP FOR CASH
Posted on 10/06/2005 8:34:32 PM PDT by Mia T
October 6--Newt Gingrich, appearing tonight on Hannity and Colmes, was asked to comment on the revelations by former FBI Director Louis Freeh, that bill clinton, when president, attempted to extort money from the Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah for the Clinton Presidential Library by using the threat of siccing the FBI on the Khobar Towers bombing suspects the kingdom had in custody.
Gingrich, outraged, said that if clinton did this, he committed one of the worst crimes in modern history and endangered the country. He added that it would be important for Freeh and his sources to testify about this under oath.
"I remember exactly what happened. Bruce Lindsey said to me on the phone, 'My God, a second plane has hit the tower.' And I said, 'Bin Laden did this.' that's the first thing I said. He said, 'How can you be sure?' I said 'Because only bin Laden and the Iranians could set up the network to do this and they [the Iranians] wouldn't do it because they have a country in targets. Bin Laden did it.'
I thought that my virtual obsession with him was well placed and I was full of regret that I didn't get him."
bill clinton
"Mr. bin Laden used to live in Sudan. He was expelled from Saudi Arabia in '91 and he went to the Sudan.
We'd been hearing that the Sudanese wanted America to start dealing with them again. They released him [bin Laden].
At the time, '96, he had committed no crime against America, so I did not bring him here because we had no basis on which to hold him, though we knew he wanted to commit crimes against America.
So I pleaded with the Saudis to take him, 'cause they could have; but they thought it was a hot potato. They didn't and that's how he wound up in Afghanistan."
bill clinton
by Mia T, 12-30-02
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f mutability of meaning was necessary for the survival of the clintons--their survival hinged ultimately on the deconstruction of words and laws--it is more than a little ironic, and a manifestation of the special sway and shortsightedness of the pathologic ego, that clinton's monument to himself will necessarily define the clintons with the permanence of great inviolate places of iconic architecture.
Whereas a huckster removes meaning from institutions--the wife picked up where the husband left off--an architect encodes meaning in buildings. James S. Polshek, the architect with the dubious distinction of having been commissioned to build the William J. Clinton Presidential Center in Little Rock, Arkansas, believes that a successful architectural solution must necessarily be rooted in relevance.
Just as Polshek's buildings have physical layers, so too do they have layers of meaning. His Rose Center for Earth and Space, for example, is informed formally and programmatically by the historic architecture of a designated landmark even as it redefines itself, (often too self-consciously, in my view), in Star-Trekian terms. Reduced to its essence, the building is the nascent universe before the Big Bang, the promise of the undifferentiated cell in its mother's womb.
The "bridge to the 21st century" was, perhaps, clinton's most delusional conceit, so it is not surprising that it would become clinton's self-referential metaphor of choice. His library was to be that bridge, if he had anything to say about it...
The architect is often the master of the inside joke, witness Robert Venturi's postmodern chairs. Venturi exploited--unabashedly and with abandon--the vocabulary of Las Vegas, its stage-set-as-reality and its roadside culture--bright, clashing, ugly and fake. The architect's inside joke is his hedge against the sycophancy that comes with patronage.
The flip side of the encoded meaning of the architect is the terrorist's decoding of it. To bin Laden, the World Trade Center was Jewish capitalism encoded in urban space. If Polshek's vision of clinton's library is a bridge, the inside joke is that, at best, it is a bridge to nowhere.
More likely, it is a bridge to the 7th century...or a doublewide to house clinton double-speak. Take your choice.
copyright Mia T 2002, 2005
Bubbah is an immoral fool whose actions have betrayed his country.
Excellent work once again, Mia!
I saw that. Man did Newt make a point out of that. And the loser Colmes quickly tried to say that the Rove/Plame bit was more important. Thanks for constantly reminding us of how corrupt and devoid of humanity the Clintons really were.
The heart of liberalism is exposing itself.
Great art and it's art with a 3-d message. Now that's communicating.
great thread.
In Mia T, I've found someone who hates the Clintons as much as I do (or at least I hope I'm interpreting these postings to reflect that view). BTTT
When I first read this here:
I about went through the roof. This is such an egregious act of conduct, and it was harmful to our national security.
The implication that a sitting U.S. President would actively solicit funds from a foreign head of state is too chilling for words.
Great post.....BUMP.
On one hand, the pervert pampered China; on the other, he ignored Islamic terrorism.
Will this stop Newt from hanging out with Hillary?
Bill needs to be behind bars now!
"Will this stop Newt from hanging out with Hillary?"
Will it stop GHW Bush and GW Bush from hanging out with Clinton? What's that about fleas?
"In Mia T, I've found someone who hates the Clintons as much as I do (or at least I hope I'm interpreting these postings to reflect that view)."
There are plenty of people, especially on Free Republic, who hate them just as passionately as do you. Count me among that group.
I wonder if Prince Abdullah 'did' donate to Clinton's library? Dan Burton would know.......
The Enemy is now Within...
and always has been.
BILL CLINTON's refusing 3 free offers from the Sudan during the 1990's to give us OSAMA bin LADEN on a silver platter =
911 Lifesaving Hero RICK RESCORLA, r.i.p.
"There are plenty of people, especially on Free Republic, who hate them just as passionately as do you. Count me among that group."
"The problem with this report, is that I wouldn't trust Freeh to speak my weight. He's trying to make sure that all the crap he allowed to go on during "his watch" is stuck on someone else. He's as dirty, and as guilty as any of the Clinton crew."
There's a very good reason one old adage is an old adage -- Don't look a gift horse in the mouth.
"The Enemy is now Within...
and always has been."
Thanks Ronnie for remindng us once again of that fact. Tonight, we're wondering if/when the bombers will strike the NY subway system. We already know enemies like Cindy Sheehan and her left wing backers, including the MSM, are attacking us daily. We must be vigilant. Your links are worth a visit.
I glossed over the bolded material before, but now it has hit me like a brick wall. What a weak, pathetic individual -- he was truly a President In Name Only. 19 U.S. servicemen were killed and 372 were wounded, and he's comforting the stonewallers? He himself was obstructing justice by his actions!
Now I'm going to get even more incensed every time I see his smug face (and the leftover GOP Senatorial sellouts).
Colmes was pathetic. You could actually see him reading the dem faxed talking points.
What a dream world. An absolute dream world.
Why did clinton ignore terrorism?
The answer was inadvertently if somewhat obliquely provided by Madeleine Albright at the cabinet meeting that would decide the disposition of the USS Cole bombing by al Qaeda [that is to say, that would decide to do what it had always done when a "bimbo" was not spilling the beans on the clintons: Nothing]. Only Clarke wanted to retaliate militarily for this unambiguous act of war.
According to Albright, a [sham] Mideast accord would yield [if not peace for the principals, surely] a Nobel Peace Prize for clinton. Kill or capture bin Laden and clinton could kiss the accord and the Peace Prize good-bye.
Pathologic self-interest (Nobel Gas)
If clinton liberalism, smallness, cowardice, corruption, perfidy--and, to borrow a phrase from Andrew Cuomo, clinton cluelessness--played a part, it was, in the end, the Nobel Peace Prize that produced the puerile pertinacity that enabled the clintons to shrug off the global danger.
The clintons made their decision not to go after the terrorists for reasons of their own legacy and power. The clintons reasoned that inaction would MAXIMIZE THEIR CHANCES TO RECEIVE THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE. No matter that the inaction would also maximize the terrorists' power, maximize America's danger
On the other hand,
BILL CLINTON & DIANE (HILLARY) RODHAM were actively on the side of our terrorist enemy, North Vietnam Communist Dictator HO CHI MINH, and against Freedom for the then still Free South Vietnamese People during the Vietnam War =
Pictues of a vietnamese Re-Education Camp
I'm sure this is only the start of what the Clintons did. All I know is that this is one book I'm going to buy
Thank you for your kind support of CLARITY, fellow Freeper Cautor.
There are quite a few books out there that lay out plenty of reasons why Clinton should be in jail. One more book aint gonna make it happen.
Thanks for posting this. I saw a little bit of Newt on Hannity and Colmes, tonight, and didn't understand what they were talking about. Now, I do. This is much more important than all the drivel that we are hearing from most of the media.
Frankly, I was getting fed up with FreeRepublic and all the negative articles about the Meirs nomination. This is a welcome change of topic.
What...Newt's statement? No, I don't think so.
Clinton spent his life winning prizes that he could brag about - he figured that's what life is all about.
Of course, his selling nuclear secrets to China didn't help much, either.
When I first saw the Clinton double-wide, my first thought was that the plan must be to attach Hillary's so it would span that river and create their socialist one-world bridge. Good job, Mia!
Why isn't the Klinton's donor list public information? Are there some embarrassing money trails on it?
China launches first manned space flight
Wed 15 October, 2003 02:07 BST
BEIJING (Reuters) - China has launched its first manned space flight from the Gobi desert, Xinhua news agency says, in its bid to become the third country to put a man in orbit after the former Soviet Union and the United States.
The Shenzhou V, or "Divine Ship V", was expected to orbit the Earth 14 times before returning after about 21 hours.
Xinhua said the craft carried astronaut Yang Liwei, 38. The launch on Wednesday, 42 years after the Soviet Union put the first man into space, marked a milestone for China's secretive space programme, which analysts say has its sights set on a manned mission to the moon.
Johnny Chung audio included above
Mr. Chung has told us that the general told him the following: ''We really like your President. We hope he will be reelected. I will give you 300,000 U.S. dollars, and you can give it to your President and the Democrat party.'' Shortly after this Mr. Chung gave $35,000 to the DNC.
Mr. Chung has told us that he was told other people were also giving money to ''do good things for China.'' One of the other people who was mentioned was Mark Middleton, a former high-level White House aide. He was told that Mark Middleton got a half a million dollars from a source that remains unclear. Mr. Middleton has taken the fifth with this committee. He has refused to talk to us.
Johnny Chung has also told us that he was told that a Boeing representative from Hong Kong, a Mr. Young, was also working with the Chinese Government. We still haven't resolved who this is.
Johnny Chung has informed us that he was told by another source that Charlie Trie asked the Chinese Government for $1 million to help the President. He'll testify that he saw the head of the United States consulate in Beijing take cash in exchange for visas. This is just outrageous.
Did Mark Middleton get half a million dollars from the Chinese Government? If he did, what was it for? Did Charlie Trie try to get $1 million from the Chinese Government, and did he get it? We know that he got over $1 million from a Macau developer with close ties to China.
>And the loser Colmes quickly tried to say that the Rove/Plame bit was more important.
What a dream world. An absolute dream world.<
Indeed. In that world according to Colmes, 3000 Americans died because Rove outed the pencil-pusher, Vanity cover-girl Plame as the Superwoman.
As the clinton presidency unfolded ther was much castigation of his moral bankruptcy and dereliction of duty on this website.
Now we are seeing books like this that show that we were DEAD ON accurate in our assessment at the time.
The man is utter scum.
Newt, for Newt, was more than just a bit exercised about the Klintoon. Allen doing his imitation of an Extraterrestrial from the movie "They Live" tried diverting attention to crimes by Rove et al.
A terrible crime however Bill Clinton's greatest crime was impersonating a president.
sad but true
"Why isn't the Klinton's donor list public information? Are there some embarrassing money trails on it?"
If it's all private donationss, it might be hard. If publc money is involved, it should all be available to ask about with a freedom of informaton inquiry. You'd think if it was on the up and up that there would be a donor wall prominent in the place.
You mean impersonating an American, don't you?
that too
At the time, '96, he (OBL) had committed no crime against America, so I did not bring him here because we had no basis on which to hold him, though we knew he wanted to commit crimes against America. -- Fmr U.S. President William Jefferson Clinton
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Headphones.... this dude has collected what I've estimated to be about 100 grand worth of headphone equipment...
The amount of weed that could buy you... amazing..
Headphones.... this dude has collected what I've estimated to be about 100 grand worth of headphone equipment...
The amount of weed that could buy you... amazing..
You could have a party with a lot of people, each listening to different music on their headphones. It would look wild if they started dancing, each to the beat of their own music. Of course the wires would get all tangled up....
"Think Outside the Cage"
Probably drag a couple of tube amps down on the ground, pop out a couple thousand volts and kill the whole bunch of em...
How do you know he's NOT a drug-lord, eh?Originally Posted by MERTON
Actaully it's just some old guy living in the cayman islands... so yeah probably a drug lord..
i was in a Headphone Specific store in tokyo a few years ago, and some of the headphones i was listening to music with were absolutly incredible. Its easy to spend that kind of cash on audio equipment.
All that money spent just for em to be out of date in a year...Originally Posted by free_pizza
I remember the first time I heard music on headphones (Jantzens?) years ago. It blew my mind, as we said back then.
"Think Outside the Cage"
What are the units on the top shelves sitting on the racket balls?
Those voices in your head aren't real, but they have some great ideas
Of all the mass produced products, one of the top of the line ear bud headphones, Etymotic ER-4S's $350, have been pretty much on top for the past 10 years. Along with the sennheiser HD580/600 headphones $250-350, which has been up there for about 8 years or so.Originally Posted by aadhils
Of course the prices are lower now but they're still the best.
It's actaully a pretty good investment if you know what you're doing.
I like my sennheiser HD580s, bought on discount, but I don't have the headphone amp to do em justice.Originally Posted by slvoid
One must live the way one thinks or end up thinking the way one has lived.
--Paul Bourget
The one in the center looks like an old IBM hard drive from the '80s. CD's are optical,shouldn't have to isolate the drive that much, but with that much equipment I guess everything comes into the headphones. Another obsessive hobby is spot on.Originally Posted by MERTON
Those voices in your head aren't real, but they have some great ideas
That's what I'm using now.. about to pull the trigger on some HD650's and pass on the 580's to my gf who's about to pull the trigger on the SR71 amp.
You gotta get an amp, you have no idea how much you're missing...
Originally Posted by sunninho
No!! I've been so good at not buying impulsively latelyOriginally Posted by slvoid
One must live the way one thinks or end up thinking the way one has lived.
--Paul Bourget
It's a Shanling T300 cd player.. get within 10 ft of it and the inner core pops up 6ft in the air, detonates, and wipes out your living room.Originally Posted by Shifty
It's actually pretty obessive cause the cd player is already dampened. Actually people go through a lot of lengths to dampen stuff. Sony even makes a player where the laser sits still and it moves the entire cd back and forth. The whole unit weighs like 50 lbs, there's so much mass in there.
Plus it runs on tubes. I have a vacuum tube amp and the tube's are so microphonic, I can hear it loud and clear when I turn the volume knob on the thing. I had my laptop's fan facing the unit once and I heard the sound of the air blowing over the tubes.
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Get the carbon bike... buy that amp... do it...Originally Posted by sunninho
oooooooooooooooooooooooooo *drools* i want oneOriginally Posted by slvoid
dont look too hard
I had one of the first damped CD players ever, a Pioneer unit that came out in the early 90's. The cool feature was the tray slid out an alumium platter like a turntable platter. The CD loaded on the platter label side down.
It took a full miniute to spin up that platter, though, and it was way too easy to get fingerprints all over the CDs, but it was next to impossible to make it skip.
Much better view, work of art, WOW!Originally Posted by slvoid
Those voices in your head aren't real, but they have some great ideas
So what's the difference that has this unit costing over $4k? What the specs on it that's so superior to anything else?Originally Posted by slvoid
I grew up in the house of an audiophile. My father was crazed. But back in the 50's and 60's, anything special usually had to be built by the phile themselves. So, our basement became electronics central. Schematics hanging on the walls, Ocilloscopes scoping, and resistors in our teeth. My father would build anything. Our first color TV, huge 4 ohm 16 inch speakers I still have hooked up, and his first computer. Too bad he died before the onslaught of the internet or the CD madness. He would have been in pig heaven.
The 1s are straighter and the 0s rounder than with a $2k player. Seriously I doubt it's anything objectively measurable when compared to other solidly built high quality players. High endists say you either hear the difference or you don't. If you don't, then more power to you, just go buy a cheaper player and invest the leftover in smoking carpet, for example.Originally Posted by DannoXYZ
Just to clarify: I very much believe I'm in the group that would not hear the difference. Not that I have been fortunate enough to get to really test it.
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Isn't the idea to reproduce the original waveforms as accurately as possible? With digital technology, shouldn't the data on the disc be as best as can be mastered? If the data's not on the disc, you're not gonna hear it right?
Then it's about the player extracting the info and reproducing the analog waveform. It appears we're really limited by the CD specifications of 44khz. This would mean that highest frequences that the human ear can pick up, around 20khz would be represented by square-waves! This would also mess up the harmonics of a 10khz note as well.
So it would appear we have a conflict of interest. We can convert the data into analog waveforms as closely as possible and end up with shrill high-end. Or we can do some signal-massaging and smoothing/interpolation to get a more enjoyable sound, albeit less accurate. Could this be where the high-end players differentiate themselves? Perhaps they have an interpolation algorithm that's more complex and yields more natural sounding output compared to teh low-end players?
Well you're thinking of normal CD's, which have limited range and bandwidth.Originally Posted by DannoXYZ
SACD's are sampled at 2800khz whereas cd's are done at 44.1khz, then you have the dynamic range which is 108 vs. 98.
There's a law of diminishing returns. The difference between a $1000 and a $2000 bike might just be 50%, but the difference between a $4000 bike and an $8000 bike might only be about 5%. Same usually applies for audio except it's exponentially diminishing. The difference between a $1000 system and a $18000 system might only be 5%, which is why for around $1500 or so you can get pretty much 99% the quality of a good system costing 5 figures.
It's kind of like, why get a ferrari when you can cheap out and get a corvette.


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I've never been shy about my love of the toxic tonic. In fact, I take pride in the tolerance I've built, and my ability to drink other women (and most men) under the table. Sure, it's put me in some bad spots over the years. Like the time I challenged my large, rugby-playing male friend to a drink-off that I honestly believed I had a chance of winning. I probably don't need to tell you that it didn't end well. Or, in recent history, when I forgot I'm not still in college (read: not partying 6 nights a week) and overindulged in my old friend, Mr. Jameson.
But overall, I don't regret my glass of wine at dinner, or even the occasional (I stress occasional) Saturday-night bender that ends only with the appearance of the sun. Above all, though, I know my limits, and neither I nor my family or friends is concerned about my level of alcohol consumption. That's why I'm a little taken a back by the concept of Dry January.Dry January is being heralded as a quick-fix weight-loss and mental-clarity solution. On Facebook, the group's tagline reads, "Start 2011 with a revolution for a resolution - NO alcohol for a month. How hard can it be . . . ?"
Seriously? When will we learn that depriving ourselves of something isn't ever the hidden answer to health? What ever happened to a little self-control? Or simply remembering the popular mantra "Everything in moderation"? I'm not advocating that those with a true alcohol problem should jump off the deep end and start double-fisting bottles of vodka; I'm merely saying that I don't understand the need for a whole movement dedicated to giving up the sauce. Isn't that what AA is for?
Now before I start getting hate mail from the masses, let me clarify that I'm not opposed to slowing down if your body is telling you it can't handle one more Jagerbomb. I have quite a few friends who've decided for one reason or another that they needed a booze break. I don't fault them. I'm just skeptical of the concept of putting a time stamp on the self-constructed "good" meter. What's the difference between February 1 and January 31? (Besides the inevitable reality that you'll have missed out on throwing back brews with your buddies during the college bowl games and NFL playoffs.) What's the benefit in withholding for 30 days only to get annihilated in a "YAY! I can drink again" extravaganza? It seems a tad disingenuous, and, honestly, like not a whole lot of fun.
When I asked my boyfriend what he thought about the idea of Dry January, he replied, "Ringing in the new year with sparkling water is like washing your child with wet wipes. Sure, it gets the job done but it takes all the fun out of splashing around in the bathtub."


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Preemptive Romney Bashing
Courtesy of the Boston Herald:
The book is another step in Romney's long metamorphosis from the moderate who dueled with Ted Kennedy in 1994 to fierce partisan warrior. He started out as a Republican many Massachusetts Democrats thought they could live with.
But he learned years ago that moderate will not cut it in Republican national politics; that's when Massachusetts became a punch line for him.
True, he wasn't much of a governor, health care excepted, but then, he didn't really want the job. He wanted the title and the power, but sparring with some Senate president from East Boston was never part of the vision.
Now he is off on his unannounced campaign for president. (Any politician whose book tour takes him to Iowa and New Hampshire is running for president.)
But a campaign is coming, and he seems to be in it. At different times Romney has supported, then opposed, abortion rights; he's been a moderate, a populist, a stalwart of the Religious Right, and a gun-control opponent. With many of those stances out of style, he is now an Obama-bashing hawk. Underneath all those labels is an ambitious and accomplished person. But Republican primary voters aren't the only ones who have a hard time deciding what he stands for.
This mirrors an article from the Wall Street Journal during the 2008 primaries: WSJ on Romney: What convictions?
But a more humorous take on the guy championed as a "true conservative" by deluded conservatives obviously desperate and deluded came from the Democrats for Romney campaign in Michigan:


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John C. Goodman at P.A.U.L. Festival 2012
Recorded: Friday, August 24, 2012
Independent Institute Research Fellow John C. Goodman addresses P.A.U.L. Festival 2012 on The Free-Market Alternative to Obamacare.
Type: TelevisionIssues: Bureaucracy and Government, Economic Policy, Free Market Economics, Government Waste/Pork, Health Care, Politics, Privatization, Public Health/ Consumer Protection, Regulation and Deregulation, Taxes
Robert Higgs: Warfare, Welfare, and the State
Recorded: Tuesday, July 24, 2012
This presentation by Independent Institute Senior Fellow Robert Higgs was presented on July 24, 2012, at Mises University, sponsored by the Ludwig von Mises Institute, in Auburn, Alabama.
Experts: Robert HiggsType: TelevisionIssues: Bureaucracy and Government, Business, Corporate Welfare, Defense and Foreign Policy, Government Power, History (U.S), Political Ideology and Philosophy
John C. Goodman on Special Report with Bret Baier: Alternatives to the Affordable Care Act
Recorded: Friday, July 6, 2012
Research Fellow John C. Goodman, author of Priceless: Curing the Healthcare Crisis, discusses alternatives to the Affordable Care Act on FOX News Special Report with Bret Baier.
Experts: John C. GoodmanType: TelevisionIssues: Economic Policy, Health Care, Political Ideology and Philosophy, Politics
Let Market Forces Cure Healthcare, Not Obama
Recorded: Monday, June 11, 2012
Research Fellow John C. Goodman, author of Priceless, interviewed on The Street says market forces, not government intervention, are the key to curing the healthcare crisis.
Experts: John C. GoodmanType: TelevisionIssues: Culture/ Society, Government Power, Health Care, Public Health/ Consumer Protection
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Recorded: Wednesday, June 6, 2012
Research Fellow Dr. John C. Goodman is interviewed by Mary Kissel of the Wall Street Journal: Opinion Journal on his new book Priceless: Curing the Healthcare Crisis.
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Recorded: Monday, June 4, 2012
Ivan Eland, Independent Institute Senior Fellow,
discusses America's waning as a soft power with Peter Lavelle on RT's CrossTalk.
Experts: Ivan ElandType: TelevisionIssues: Defense and Foreign Policy, Diplomacy and Foreign Aid, Government Power, Politics
Ben Powell on Immigration Myths
Recorded: Tuesday, May 8, 2012
Benjamin Powell debunks immigration myths
Experts: Benjamin W. PowellType: TelevisionIssues: Culture/ Society, Economic Policy, History (U.S), Immigration, Politics, Regulation and Deregulation
John Stossel: Why Government FailsBut Free Individuals Succeed
Recorded: Thursday, April 19, 2012
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John Stossel of Fox Business Network speaks about his new book, No, They Cant: Why Government FailsBut Individuals Succeed.
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Tram station and weird evening clouds
pretty sweet, I think you shoulda waited maybe ten more minutes until it was dark and gotten the same effect wih the lights and gotten a better focus on the buildings. But then again you may have missed the tram if you waited.
I dolike it though, its pretty cool=]
I dolike it though, its pretty cool=]
It was a third tram, while I was figuring the best angle, and it drives opposite way than I needed ) Had no tripod with me that day, so couldn't take picture with bigger depth of focus, anyway bokeh is pretty nice ^__^
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Stephen Chapman over at ZDNet did some sleuthing today and found a "morsel" noted on software/gadget engineer Ben Peterson's portfolio page. It's a teaser for a brand-new Microsoft project having to do with the Xbox 360. And with a completion date of 2015, Chapman surmises that it's likely for the next-generation Xbox console.
Here's the latest project he's working on.
Microsoft Xbox: Confidential / Collaboration with Microsoft's IEB Design group investigating future user experiences and hardware for 2015. *Work samples only permissible in person.* (March 2011)
We can glean from the noted March 2011 date above that this is a completely new project just getting underway. As for the black devices we see, obviously he did not want to disclose more than a huge tease. The top half looks like a stand of some sort with something attached to the top if it while the bottom half looks like a zoomed-in section of a Kinect-shaped device, but that's merely guess work on my behalf, of course.
The press team at Microsoft didn't immediately respond to questions seeking confirmation of the rumor. But with a 2015 completion date, one can only hope that a new Xbox console will be available, considering the Xbox 360 will be 10 years old by then.


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SCHOFIELD BARRACKS, Hawaii -- A new outdoor classroom at Hale Kula Elementary School, here, was officially dedicated, here, Oct. 25.
Known as the Saving Your Nation's Energy, or SYNERY outdoor classroom, it's the first of its kind in U.S. Army Garrison-Hawaii.
"This is another great example of how our housing partner, Island Palm Communities, and Hale Kula Elementary School and USAG-HI work together and ultimately benefit our Soldiers and our families," said Col. Douglas Mulbury, commander, USAG-HI, in his remarks.
"Our teams have worked over the past several years to create several programs -- and this is one of them -- to help our Soldiers and families become better stewards of the environment," Mulbury said.
The school's fifth-graders will use the garden in sustainability projects. Key to those projects is a rain harvesting system. An 8-foot-wide, 9-foot-high tank can hold 3,000 gallons of rainwater collected from the school's roofs. Rainwater, free of pollutants and salt, will help sustain tall stalks of corn and vines of cherry tomatoes.
Flowering Native Hawaiian plants, such as pohuehue, or beach morning glory, and pualoalo, or hibiscus, will provide bursts of color in the aboveground garden. Raised planters provide seating and an area for these native plants and others to grow.
Native plants conserve water since they're adapted to the local environment. Mulch surrounds the plants to further conserve water by preventing moisture in the soil from evaporating.
Shaded fabric covers the classroom to keep students cool.
The rain garden will receive excess rainwater from the storage tank and filter the water through the local sandy-soil blend and gravel layer to the plants.
Mulbury told the audience that the garden will help fifth-graders learn how to take care of the land and water.
"The idea for this outdoor classroom came about a year ago," Mulbury said. "We're here to celebrate the completion of this project, and we look forward to all of you taking advantage of this classroom.
"This classroom is a great opportunity to teach you, our children, the importance of protecting the environment and using our natural resources wisely," Mulbury said.
A traditional Hawaiian blessing followed Mulbury's remarks.
Kahu Kamanaopono Aweau-Agres marked the start of the blessing by blowing into a conch shell to call the Hawaiian ancestors to the ceremony.
"Our ancestors would be very proud of the things that are going to be taking place here," Aweau-Agres said. "It's about how we can improve our environment. Water catchment is such a wonderful idea because we're reusing what has been given to us."
Lend Lease established the SYNERGY program to help create awareness about environmental, social and economic sustainability through information, resources and activities. Funding for the classroom was received through a $10,000 grant from the Lend Lease Community Fund. Also, the Environmental Division, Directorate of Public Works, USAG-HI; IPC; and local businesses donated more than $10,000 and 100 hours of labor.


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We have been blessed this year to join a farm share. So every week we get a pile of fresh produce, meat, eggs, milk... It has been the best thing that ever happened to healthy eating in my house! We start all meal planning with our veggies and our protein because those are what is most readily available in the fridge - as it should be. It has been a challenge to eat creatively and seasonally. It is winter now and the selection is much smaller, lots of sweet potatoes, potatoes, kohlrabi, some kale, and our weekly allotment of meat that we chose at the beginning (we asked for plenty because I was pregnant when we started the share and I am now nursing a 4 month-old who wears 9 month clothing, so I eat A LOT of protein!)
Well, we got our stuff for this week on Saturday, it was a busy day of chores and errands, then I got a call from a mama in labor... Short version? Our bag of beautiful farm raised, delicious meat got left on the kitchen floor over night. Blerg. My husband was almost in tears.
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This week we got pork ribs that will become dinner tonight, cooked in the oven with tiny potatoes and a big salad. We got stew meat that I'm going to toss in the crock pot to become lunch at work for me and hubby this week. We got a bunch of ground beef that is going to become meat loaf (several meat loafs) One will go to a friend who is helping me out today, one will be dinner tomorrow night, and I will probably just cook up the third. Meat loaf sandwiches?
It is so easy to get sucked in to thinking that the world is out to get you, and that lame things keep happening. Truthfully, it really seems like they do keep happening right now! But I am gong to make the conscious choice, as hard as it may be, to see these these things that "keep happening" as a bountiful rain of chances to use my creativity, my problem solving skills, my optimism!
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Munster prop Robaird Wilmot - one of eight UCC players in the province's squad on Saturday - is felled.
Munster lock Richard McCarthy tries to see up ruck position as Connacht duo Paul Loughnane and Andrew Browne challenge him. Lock Browne is the Connacht captain and was capped by the Ireland Under-19s last season.
Connacht's Paul Harte, one of five Buccaneers players to make the starting XV, has nowhere to go as Tim Keneally and UL Bohs full-back Mike Skelton wrap him up in a tackle.
Sean Carey of Ballinasloe and Connacht has UL Bohs and Munster winger Edwin Torrie for company.
Buccaneers and Connacht winger Alan Gaughan is caught in a tackle by Edwin Torrie.
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I'm looking for a realistic checklist of baby (especially newborn) necessities. Can anyone help me out? Its been 8 years since I've had to prepare for a baby and I remember when DD was a baby I seemed to constantly have to go out and pick something up. This time I want to be prepared (and register for everything I can) since we'll be scary broke once this little girl arrives. I don't want to panic, I want to enjoy my complete family!
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PULLMAN — Washington State, coming off two straight last-place finishes in the Pacific-10 Conference, is the consensus pick to bring up the rear of the Pac-12 North this year.
Paul Wulff, already wearing a bull's-eye on his back after going 5-27 in his three years as coach, responds to the doubters by saying the Cougars can contend for the North title with nationally ranked Oregon, Stanford, and anyone else.
"It's time for our players to start thinking that way and putting that up as a major goal to do that," Wulff said last week as he prepared for Sunday's opening practice of fall camp. "It's the next step in the progression of building a program.
"I think these are progressions these guys want and they've worked so hard to get to. It's to not only win, but to win a championship. Our guys sure as heck aren't practicing and working their tails off to win a couple games."
Wulff gives little credence to those who pick the Cougars to finish last.
"That's their opinion," he said flatly. "That's fine. I understand why they pick us.
"It doesn't surprise me. It doesn't anger me. It doesn't matter to me, to be honest, because believe it or not, it has no bearing on how our kids perform. If anything, maybe it motivates them a little bit."
Speculation has been widespread among media and fans that the Cougars must show significant improvement this season for Wulff to be retained. He acknowledged that he faces more pressure to win this year.
"I think everyone expects that, and I do myself," Wulff said. "I really don't spend a lot of time on it. Sometimes, I just have my blinders on, and I'm doing the job that needs to be done to improve this program, and we're doing it.
"Our grades are better. Our talent's better. Our work ethic is better. Our discipline and off-field issues are better."
Wulff, a standout center at WSU before enjoying a strong run in his first head coaching job at Eastern Washington, stressed from the beginning that off-field improvement was essential if the Cougars were to improve on the field.
"Be consistent with our development as people, players and students," Wulff said. "When we got all that in line and it starts to roll over, the last thing you get is wins, because that's the final product of all that.
"I think we're in a position to get wins. Are we going to get a championship? I don't know. We're going to find out. Who knows how it evolves?
"But I will tell you this: This program is headed in that direction. As youthful as it is, it's only going to get better and better."
Athletic director Bill Moos said he is supportive of Wulff, though there has been no discussion about extending the coach's contract beyond 2012.
"My support for him is unwavered," Moos said, "and I'm pleased with the progress that has been made this past year, especially in recruiting.
"I'm behind him 100 percent. Nobody hopes more than me that we have a successful season."
Wulff said there is "no question" this year's team appears to be his best at WSU.
He hopes that leads to the Cougars' first bowl appearance since a 2003 win over Texas in the Holiday Bowl.
"I think we've got a legitimate chance, I really do," Wulff said. "Things have got to evolve … the right guys have to stay healthy."
1. Can the offensive line block anybody?
WSU finished 2-10 last year (1-8 Pac-10), largely because the Cougars ranked 119th out of 120 Football Bowl Subdivision teams in quarterback sacks allowed (51) and 117th in rushing yards per game (91.0). The offensive line returns largely intact and should benefit from experience gained under Steve Morton, a highly respected O-line coach who returned to his alma mater last year. The Cougars hope freshmen Rickey Galvin (who redshirted last year) and Marcus Mason can join senior Logwone Mitz in spicing up a running attack that must improve to take pressure off talented junior quarterback Jeff Tuel. Jeff Karstetter and Marquess Wilson lead a quality group of receivers.
2. Can the defense stop anybody?
The 2010 Cougars ranked 104th or lower all five major team defense statistics, including yards allowed per game (118th at 467.0). Young players like defensive end Travis Long, strong safety Deone Bucannon and middle linebacker C.J. Mizell learned on the job last year. Coach Paul Wulff raves about the leadership qualities of players like outside linebacker Alex Hoffman-Ellis, free safety Tyree Toomer, cornerback Nolan Washington, and middle linebacker Mike Ledgerwood.
3. Can the special teams remain special?
The Cougars are unproven in several key areas of special teams, though Andrew Furney showed a strong leg as a true freshman handling the No. 1 kicker duties last year. A pair of four-year starters, Reid Forrest (seventh in the nation in punting) and Zach Enyeart (a rock-solid long snapper), graduated along with kickoff specialist Niko Grasu. WSU led the nation in kickoff returns defense last year (17.0). The Cougars are hoping freshman Rahmel Dockery can help out on kick returns, but he has yet to be cleared academically.


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I wanted to share this family favorite recipe. We have loved this one for a while and it is pretty simple and sneaks in a lot of vegetables.
Winter weather calls for soup in my book. I love having recipes that have lots of vegetables and are quick and easy to throw together. It's also important to me that the ingredients not be something I have to search for. This recipe is great because I have everything in my food storage so I just get to shop at home. Hope you enjoy!
- 1 lbs ground beef
- ½ onion, chopped
- 2 (10.5 oz) cans of beef consommé
- 2 cups water
- 1½ cups chopped fresh tomatoes or 1 (12 oz) can diced tomatoes
- 2 TBLS sugar
- 1½ cups fresh corn or 1(11 oz) can of corn
- 2 carrots, peeled and sliced
- 4 potatoes, peeled and diced
- 1 tsp. taco seasoning
- salt and pepper to taste
- 1 cup grated mozzarella or parmesan cheese (for topping)
- Brown ground beef and onion. In a large saucepan combine all ingredients except cheese. Cook uncovered until vegetables are tender. Add grated cheese to individual servings.
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I make a lot of soups, especially in the winter. The surprise ingredient here? Taco seasoning. Wouldn't have thought to try that, and now I will. I actually just thawed some ground beef for this evening so thanks for the recipe!
Melissa Says: January 13, 2014 at 6:26 pm
This looks delicious!! Do you think it would freeze well for a crockpot meal?
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this was okay, but would be MUCH better without the sugar. WAY too sweet for me.
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The work of Paris-based Matali Crasset always makes us smile. Her ability to take something basic and make it appear fun and fresh is unparalleled. More remarkable is her ability to do this while avoiding the gummy-colored slide that so easily leads to overly cute, fake and just plain childish.
Including just enough color to pop, adding just enough quirky shapes to make a point, and leaving everything else out, makes this little university grocery shop a delight.
Mini M grocery is a neighborhood grocery store at the Toulouse University where the student services organization is working to improving the options and accessibility of various food service alternatives from eat-in and take-out to grocery stores.
This colorful market is designed to stand out from the concrete buildings that surround it. Its overall feel is positive and fun; it is a market-stall-like casual shop, clearly different from the typical, boring convenience stores and corner stores elsewhere in the city.
Crasset worked on this project with graphic designers from Praline and branding specialists of Terres Nuages. - Tuija Seipell
With our fascination with both minimalism and color, we've kept an eye on Emmanuelle Moureaux, the French-born and Tokyo-based architect famous for her use of candy-hued colors in many of her projects.
Since 2003, she's run her own Architecture and design firm in Tokyo.
Her solo exhibition, "100 Colors" is currently on at the Shinjuku Mitsui Bldg., 55 Square, Tokyo, as part of the Shinjuku Creators Festa 2013.
For many years, Moreaux has explored the use of color and the use of the traditional Japanese paper screens as dividers. Many of her projects in retail, hospitality and public spaces express some combination of the two, using colorful screens as dividers and using color as a space maker. - Tuija Seipell.
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Filmed at sunrise on the 57th floor of 4WTC in lower Manhattan, this short film captures an extraordinary and moving performance of Christopher Wheeldon's After the Rain. It is a testament to the resilience of the human spirit, and a tribute to the future of the city that New York City Ballet calls home. Beautifully shot.
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Romita Comedor is a restaurant that is less than two years old yet it has the ambience of a well-loved, casual tradition.
The interior touches - the use of wood and tile, the wood furnishings, the many plants and various surface treatments - all seem to belong here, and they seem to have belonged for a long time. Nice vintage-chic patina that also looks fresh and modern – not easy to achieve.
The dining room is located in Mexico City, in the heart of Colonia Roma, at Avenida Álvaro Obregón 49.
The building dates back to early 1900s and its style was inspired by grand railway stations. It is also protected by the INBA (Instituta Nacional de Bellas Artes).
The massive windows, glass ceiling and a retractable awning all take full advantage of the station-style architecture, and let the light in for the benefit of the many plants.
The building's current owner, Rodrig Espinoza, and his two partners, Marcela Lugo and Arturo, designed the restaurant with the idea in mind that it would become a gathering place that would attract not just the locals but visitors as well.
Romita Comedor is known for authentic Mexican cuisine, great cocktails at the two bars, and live entertainment by well-known DJs. The building also houses a design shop and a hair salon. - Tuija Seipell
As the ice cream and cupcake shop genre has become increasingly pink and cute, to the point of icky and utterly boring, we were delighted to run across Once Upon A Cream.
It is an ice cream shop in the beach resort town of Hua Hin, about 200 km south of Bangkok, Thailand. The refreshing shop was designed by Bangkok's MADA Design Factory.
The design team was led by co-founder and creative director Nisachol Loetritsirikul. She managed to avoid the cute overload and instead came up with a crisp balance of whimsy and old-word dairy.
A few little nods to Willy Wonka are there – the pieces of machinery and copper fixtures, the pepperminty red-and-white round tables, the chewing-gum blue seating, the blue sky and fluffy clouds in the ceiling. But they are counterbalanced by the old-dairy accents: The white tiles, the clean surfaces, the wooden boxes.
The wood boards, rattan chairs and again the blue sky - references to the resort town location – round out the design concept. - Tuija Seipell.
This is what we call breathing room! A room in which one can breathe. Where the sea breeze moves freely. Where the scent of the ocean is ever-present. And the best part? It is not in a deserted island far, far away, but in an urban setting.
This 300-plus year-old house is located in the ancient port city of Jaffa, the oldest part of the Tel Aviv-Jaffa municipality in Israel.
The gorgeous renovation is by the Tel Aviv-based Pitsou Kedem Architects, already well known for their minimalist approach to architecture and design.
The single owner of the house asked the designers to maximize the sea view while keeping the historical feel of the building intact. The project team - Pitsou Kedem, Irene Goldberg and Raz Melamed - has achieved this beautifully.
The residence consists of a 100 square meter (1,076 sq.ft) living area (living, dining and kitchen) plus an additional 80 square meters (861 sq.ft) that includes the master bed room, a study and a guest room.
Our main attraction points in this cool sanctuary are the gorgeous arches, the exposed texture of the old stone, the subdued colour pattern, and the lovely balance between the old and the new. It looks so easy and natural, but it is very tough to achieve such poise.
There is an overall sense of peace and harmony that is a luxury in itself. Breathtakingly lovely. We are seriously envious of the owner. Tuija Seipell
Design team: pitsou kedem, Irene Goldberg, Raz Melamed
Photographer: Amit Geron
We are quite easily charmed. Or, perhaps more truthfully: When certain elements exist we are highly likely to take a second look.
Give us beautiful use of wood, minimalist approach, classic lines, incorporation of nature in design, and we are intrigued.
And, if you can add that elusive 'something,' that special stroke of genius that makes your design unique, delightful, quirky, even weird, and we will really take a really good look.
The Tree Snake House in Pedra Salgadas by Luís Rebelo de Andrade and Tiago Rebelo de Andrade fits the bill perfectly.
The Lisbon-based architect duo has worked in the spa town of Pedras Salgadas in northern Portugal for some time, creating an Eco-Resort in the park. The resort huts are little eco-lodges made of modular systems and built on stilts.
The two Tree Snake Houses have many of the same characteristics and the architects worked with the Modular System Company to come up with innovative ways to create the feel of a tree house.
Each Tree Snake House has a studio, a bathroom and a kitchen.
The architects are working on additional versions of the Tree Snake House for different environments and climates, including mountainside, riverbank, urban and sand. They expect those to be available to purchase to the general public.
So, we suggest you start saving up for your own Snake House now. We certainly have been snake-charmed and can picture our office in one of them one day! - Tuija Seipell
Photographer: Ricardo Oliveira Alves for TCH
See also Treelife by TCH
Get off your butt and go already!
As we said in our long-ago post "It's time to do your own thing"
You need to trust your gut and go. But to do your own thing, you also need perspective. Pretty much everything can be improved, and the solution is often on the other side. The second look, the upside-down view. The kid's version. The new perspective.
You also need inspiration. Change the scene. Behave differently. Take a new route. Walk backwards. Jump. Watch others jump. Go somewhere scary. Shut down your gadgets and just look, listen, smell and feel.
You need to figure out the big picture, or at least give yourself the benefit of the wonder that you'll experience when you do see the bigger picture.
Travel is the cure and the answer for all those needs. Get out and go somewhere new. Do it now and do it often.
We at TCH believe strongly that travel helps not just every individual but also the world at large. The more you see, the more you want to see. The more you see, the less you think your way is the only way. The more you understand others.
Even our tagline says: Roaming the Globe so you're in the know.
In an interview, retired Commander Chris Hadfield – the Canadian guitar-playing astronaut and former commander of the International Space Station – commented on his experience in space. "In space, your convictions get heightened. You find yourself laughing and crying much more."
"You start to think, about all those people you know in, say, Saskatoon, and how they're not that different from the people in the city in Africa that you've never been to – trying their best, raising their kids – and how your particular set of loves relates to everything else."
This is what happens on this Earth, too, when you travel and let yourself live a bit differently, and see others live differently.
No text book, degree or diploma will give you the valuable experience of what another city or country can provide
Travel the world, live in other cities, learn cultures. Learn because it keeps your mind young and your ideas developing.
Traveling offers you possibilities. When you're stuck about what to do next in life, get on a plane and spend time in another country. You not only learn about others, you learn about yourself.
Travel opens up options you never knew you could have. You'll become clearer on what to do in life or what exactly you should be doing.
Answers become clearer when you are in another country, exploring a different culture. We don't know why or how, but something triggers answers when you are out of your environment in a place different from yours.
The answers have probably been there all along, but they'll pop up when you are exploring the globe.
Travel now, not some other time when you have more time, more money, more this or that. Those days may never come and you may never have enough if this is your attitude.
Just make it work now. Experience is far more valuable than money will ever be. The less you need, the richer the experience. Your true value is what is left if you lost everything you own.
When you are old, it is your memories that you have to feast on. Don't make those be regrets. Don't be one of those who says: I wish I had, Why didn't I, When I still could I should have…
The only thing constant is change, so you have to learn to embrace it.
We think we've figured the Answer to Life – and no, it is not 42. It is about moving forward. Whatever tragedy you face – and you will: you may lose a parent or someone close dies from cancer, you will go through heartache, a divorce, an end of some sort - and you cannot remain in that place of grief and heartache and worry forever.
You have to keep on moving forward, no matter what. Don't look back, keep moving forward. Pain is temporary, it may last for an hour or a year but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. Just keep moving forward. Travel is an incredible cure for the pain in life.
Everyone keeps being amazed at how quickly life passes by, so do yourself a favor, don't think about it any longer - make a choice, just decide, book your ticket and explore the world and keep on doing it, year after year after year, a new city, a new experience.
You'll become far more interesting than the person you are now. And you will learn to love life on a totally different level.
"Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions," says the Dalai Lama
Make your life a wonderful adventure.
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Imagine the renovation dilemmas. A huge penthouse of a converted 1930s office building in TriBeCa, New York, is to be turned into a functioning home for a family with three teenagers.
In fact, we can not quite imagine the issues that faced Steven Harris Architects when the family showed up, literally, at the doorstep of the celebrated architect and asked if he'd like to work on their home. Harris said yes and proceeded to make his magic.
The scale of the apartment is huge and the freedom from budget constraints allowed for some spectacular solutions.
Harris's work is often distinguished by clarity and light, by the use of glass, by the maximization of views and, above all, bold solutions. All of those are evident in this project.
What emerged as a result of the TriBeCa Penthouse project, is a multi-level (27th and 28th floors) nearly 8,000 square-foot (743 square meter) family-friendly residence that includes self-contained guest quarters and a new glass-and-teak-beam rooftop pavilion that functions as a recreation room.
The most frequently used areas of the apartment – kitchen, master bedroom, rooftop gym, even the laundry room – have the best views, including those of Manhattan and Brooklyn, and many of the city's significant landmarks.
The double-height living area on the lower floor boasts an 18-foot high window with the view of the Woolworth Building. The room gained its height by necessity because adding the rooftop pavilion took the condominium conversion over its allowable floor area ratio. The team solved this problem by cutting off part of the lower-level ceiling, thus creating the double-height living area.
Harris's team replaced the existing 70 double-hung windows with single-panel tilt-and-turn versions, and used glass in dividers and doors where-ever possible. The window panes were limited to 61⁄2 by 91⁄2 feet in size because of the size of the building's freight elevator.
Early on, when the owners and architect realized they were looking at a substantially dramatic remodeling but the owners did not want to move out of the building, the family bought a couple of other apartments in the same building for temporary residence – and had them renovated before move-in, too. Those two apartments are now for sale.
One of our favourites in this apartment are the stairs. They are made of ¾-inch-thick steel plates wrapped in leather. The stairs appear to float in space and take up almost no visual room yet they are also stunning eye-catchers. Stairway to heaven, indeed, or at least toward it. - Tuija Seipell.
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Beautiful Antique L & L WMC Highly Decorative Crystal Bowl With Solid Brass Victorian Base.
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Skip to comments.Boortz Not Buying Huckabee or Smerconish "Friendlier" Talk Angle (lukewarm talk a bore)
Posted on 04/23/2012 6:46:21 AM PDT by raccoonradio
In the upcoming May 7th issue of Radio Ink magazine talker Neal Boortz discusses the recent push by Cumulus and others for a more toned down type of talk radio. Cumulus launched Mike Huckabee April 9th pushing the show as a friendlier conservative talk host. Boortz isn't buying that consumers have tired of the likes of Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity and others and they want to see more talkers like Huckabee and Michael Smerconish. Boortz says listeners want to be entertained. "Mike Smerconish is immensely talented. Barack Obama likes him. But on the radio, he is not compelling or exciting. He is methodical and dependable. The listeners are not going to react with overwhelming enthusiasm to somebody like that."
Boortz adds, about Smerconish, "I can see where he would want to go on the air and say "The type of talk radio I do, that's what the consumers want. That is what they are going to be looking for in the future." It's a great sales pitch to get people to sign on to your show. I still think what the consumers are looking for is, number one, entertainment. They want to be entertained. It can be a liberal, a libertarian, or a conservative. It can be far-left or far-right. If they are entertained, they are going to tune in. The ratings are going to be there and the advertisers are going to be happy." Smerconish is syndicated by Dial Global.
In our interview with Boortz, he also says, "syndication is really destroying the supply of good local talk show hosts. The talent pool is very shallow. So, the wonderful world of syndication, while it's been marvelously lucrative for the few hosts that manage to really get into it, it has really smothered the development of local talk radio talent." Neal Boortz has now been on the air for over 40 years and is heard on over 200 radio stations.
Equivocation radio is what I call them. They never seem to take a stand and are always saying, "I can see the other side's point of view". Bunch of wishy-washy poltroons.
Anyone who buys his "Conservative" act is a fool.
I do agree with what he says about local talk show hosts getting squeezed.
I really learned a lot about conservatism in the People's Republic of Maryland by listening to Ron Smith (RIP) and Tom Marr. I live in York now and the local guys here on WSBA (Gary Sutton and Jim Horn) have a GREAT morning show. They talk about local issues AND national issues, and are very entertaining. They have great guests and ask really good questions, not allowing their guests to "spin" things, but not talking over them like Bill O' Reilly or Hannity.
Smerconish is worse than boring. He is going to get Limbaugh's time slot here in Philly. When Limbaugh relocates (rumor is to FM) he will overrun the nancyboy on 1210 AM. He is a wannabe and never was. A RINO.
After 3 months count the number of listeners gained, lost or remained relatively consistent.
Those who lost are losing the radio stations money.
Let the listenership decide. It worked with Air America.
Huckabee is on now in Silicon Valley opposite Limbaugh. Nice to have a new voice now and then, especially when Rush gets a little lax and has repeated his talking point for the seventh or eighth time in the same segment.
A perfect example of why this radio won't work surfaced almost immediately with Huckabee. He was having a Love Fest for Dick Clark, a man who was celebrated for doing the exact same thing Alan Freed was jailed for doing.
Good job, Huck!
See my tagline.
I tried listening to Smerconish a couple of times and found him to be a complete bore. Never bothered with him sense.
I can't stand that guy, his show was boring. I assume his ratings tanked and that's why they took him off WOR in NYC.
For the past year or so I have seen the stations I listen to, moving to more moderate (boring) talk show hosts. I simply turn off the radio and put in an audio book.
Um, "since".
I wish potato-faced Schmuckabee would just fade into oblivion.
I'll say one thing for Huckabee...he's a great cure for insomnia. I started watching his tv show one time, and the old eyelids started drooping after about one minute.
Yes, what is known at least for now as "Hannity 106.9" WWIQ will probably be his new home, within days or weeks. There was a 90 day opt-out clause and Rush's syndicator does plan to put him elsewhere, with 1210 going for Smerconish.
It will take time for the move but it will happen
I am not necessarily sold on Huckabee. But I can relate to the need to have a better level discussion.
Rush and Hannity, while sometimes offering new information, do it in a manner that to me has gotten very tiring.
I haven't heard Huckabee's show, so I can't respond to his radio style.
But yes, I would like to see a conservative radio show that is less bombast and more substance.
In Boston and New England it's newspaper columnist and author Howie Carr who talks about corruption, high taxes and fees,
immigration, EBT card abuse, elections, pop culture, etc.
It does pretty well (heard in much of New England and online)
If being intelligent, non-confrontational and funny was the winning formula, Dennis Miller would be the undisputed king of talk radio.
Talk radio is the voice for Americans continually ridiculed and mocked by elite media and popular culture. It's a daily expression of the anger and frustration felt by those who are tired of the non-stop assault on our traditional values.
Metaphorically speaking, we don't want to have an Oxford-style debate about it, we want to beat the crap outta someone.
Interesting point. Last night on the Bill Cunningham Show, he interviewed the head of Talker Magazine, who said it's kind of a chicken and the egg argument. Before the end of the fairness doctrine and the spike in the popularity of talk radio there were only about 75 talk stations in the whole country, so there weren't a whole lot of opportunites for local talkers. With Rush's boom and all those that followed in his wake, the number of talk stations grew to accomodate the market, which actually expanded the job opportunities for local talkers.
What he stated was, yes, the nationally syndicated biggies, do take time slots that could theoretically be filled by local talent, but without those nationally syndicated personalities, their shows and the money they bring in, many of the local talk stations would fold or go to an other-than-talk format (as they were before syndication of Rush, Hannity, etc.)
I stopped listening to Boortz when he told the world that he voted for Mittins in the Fla. primary, saying he was the only one who could beat Zero. Lost all credibility as a Libertarian.
Dennis Prager fan here.
Prager and other "Salem Communications" hosts used to be on in Boston but Salem switched it to Spanish language religion.
The shows Salem does (via Wikipedia):
General Market (secular) programs
Bill Bennett 6 a.m. to 9 a.m. ET
Mike Gallagher 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. ET
Dennis Prager 12 p.m. to 3 p.m. ET
Michael Medved 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. ET
Hugh Hewitt 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. ET
The woman who got Smerconish started in talk radio is the prog. dir. of an FM talker here and yup they run him.
Yes. I didn't hear that show but I assume you mean Michael
Harrison (Talkers).
Talk stations in Boston, for example, have a blend of
national and local
Tom & Todd (local), business show (local), Ingraham (syndie),
Jen Brien (local), Howie Carr (flagship station—synd. through New England but very Boston based), then syndie with
Savage, Jerry Doyle, Redeye Radio
Jeff Katz (local), Beck (syndie), Rush (syndie), Jay
Severin (local), Hannity, Levin, Coast to Coast (all syndie)
Talk only at night: Dan Rea and Steve Leveille, both local
Moonbat:Jeff Santos (local), Stephanie Miller (syndie),
Ed Schultz (syndie), Rebuild America (local) then various
syndie shows though often pre-empted by Red Sox baseball—
in Spanish...
Eagan and Braude, Doug Meegan (both local), Smerconish
(syndie), Michael Graham (local), Wall St Wrapup and
John Batchelor (syndie), Overnight America (syndie)
Salem here in LA premiering Hedi Harris 6am-9 today. Not so sure for the long term. We'll see.
I'm not talking about repeating the same topic every couple of minutes for new listeners, I'm talking about the same talking point literally every minute for eight to ten minutes straight. (I happen to have been able to find the very segment here: http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2012/04/09/maybe_sen_mccaskill_can_tell_us_why_we_need_thousands_of_irs_agents_to_provide_health_care , "Find Next Occurrence of" "IRS" until your mouse button stops working to see what I mean.)
I don't want to hijack the thread, but I have some questions on radio and TV advertising that I've been wanting to ask somebody for quite some time.
1) What's going on with showing the same commercial twice in the same commercial break, or even two times in a row? For a while, I thought my memory was shot, but now I see and/or hear this practically every day. Is this gross incompetence on somebody's part, or some legal trickery ("you said to run your ad twice during the show, well we ran it twice")? Is the American attention span now down to the life expectancy of a soap bubble?
2) In the old days, big advertisers (e.g., Campbell's) wrote their contract so that no competitor's ad would be on the opposite magazine page or in the same radio or TV commercial break. But these days I don't know if I could say that there's any company in the country that has that deal. Over Christmas, I saw TV commercials from four different car manufacturers in a row, then something else, then two more car ads. Why would an advertiser be in that environment?
Re DVR technology for radios, I often find myself lunging for a "rewind 30 seconds" button on my car radio as I immediately remember (over and over again!) that I actually had one. There are radios that let your record what's being broadcast, but I haven't found anything that also has that short-rewind button to let you hear it again while it's recording.
The thread was on radio choice, so it never occurred to me to offer complaints about MSM repetition. That said, one of the things that will get me screaming is when they have only one five-second clip of some new event and play it virtually nonstop while their panel blathers on about the event. Court TV might be the worst — if they have some grainy, telephoto picture of the back of a guy's head as he's getting into a car, then that's the picture they'll slowly rotate and zoom on five, ten, fifteen times in a row during the segment.
Hear hear on Miller. We had him in Silicon Valley for about two years and then the station did their quarterly schedule blow-up and he was gone. I'm not quite dedicated enough to pay for the podcast and take the extra effort to listening to it that way.
LOL, ain't that the truth!
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I had a surprise visit from my hubby here at Air Force tech training this past weekend and I forgot that I was ovulating Saturday, we did the deed about 7 times friday, saturday, and sunday, how soon will I know that I am pregnant? I have a funny feeling that I am.
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I was 7 weeks pregnant when I found out and could tell. My boobs felt super sore and I was so tired I couldn't do anything but want to sleep! I felt super hungry and wasn't sure what was going on and this was going on for a few weeks before I took a test! so If I would of known or thought hum I wonder if I may be pregnant then I bet I would of known like 3 weeks after! Congrats if you are (:posted 08/27/2013 by a BabyCenter Member
Isn't it random though, that you notice these things only when TTC? I had so many "symptoms" but wasn't pregnant either. I'm hoping that means that when I get my BFP that the real symptoms aren't actually that bad. PMS and early pregnancy symptoms are the same because they are caused by the same hormone - progesterone. During your 2ww, your body is preparing itself to be pregnant whether or not your cycle will end in a viable pregnancy. This is a just in case mechanism so that your body is prepared for any possible pregnancy. So your body does act as though it is pregnant for roughly two weeks out of every cycle in preparation. If you are indeed pregnant, those symptoms will lengthen and intensify. New ones will appear too as your pregnancy progresses and hCG accumulates. I'd suggest you to read this book from http://pregnancyhours.com that can help you to get pregnant fast and have a healthy pregnancy. Guaranteed! I tried this too and it's worked.posted 02/23/2015 by a BabyCenter Member
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text: Well im new to this forum so im keeping it short and sweet. I own a Trek 3900 mountain hardtail '08. My hand Grips seem they are too long, Its hard to describe but there is a small amount of the grip hanging off the metal, And it does interfere with my riding, any help is greatly appreciated.