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Senator reveals plans to legislate drone attacks after CIA director John Brennan's defense of the strikes prompts anger
- Adviser John Brennan said drones only used on targets planning attacks
- Sen Dianne Feinstein said the drone program should be open to the public
CIA Director-designate John Brennan's vigorous defense of drone strikes to kill terror suspects - even American citizens - overseas is causing lawmakers to consider lifting secrecy from the drone program and push to regulate its use.
Brennan, President Barack Obama's top counter terror adviser, was grilled for more than three hours Thursday before the Senate Intelligence Committee on the drone program he leads and on leaks of classified information to the media, which Brennan vehemently denied being a part of.
Despite Brennan's wide-ranging testimony and the White House's release of a top secret memo explaining its legal rationale for the strikes just hours before the confirmation hearing began, some senators afterward said it was time to bring the drone program into the open.
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In the hot seat: John Brennan addressed a number of issues- including the drone strikes- at the hearing
Protests: Brennan was interrupted repeatedly by people protesting the drone strikes
In a hearing that was marred by anti-drone protests that brought it to a brief halt at the outset, Brennan told the committee that missile strikes by the unmanned drones are used only against targets planning to carry out attacks against the United States, never as retribution for an earlier one.
'Nothing could be further from the truth,' he declared.
Referring to one American citizen killed by a drone in Yemen in 2011, he said Anwar al-Awlaki had ties to at least three attacks planned or carried out on U.S. soil.
They included the Fort Hood, Texas, shooting that claimed 13 lives in 2009, a failed attempt to down a Detroit-bound airliner the same year and a thwarted plot to bomb cargo planes in 2010.
'He was intimately involved in activities to kill innocent men women and children, mostly Americans,' Brennan said.
Clear message: A secret drone report was shared with the Senators at the hearing following a leak earlier this week
After the hearing the committee's chairwoman, Democratic Sen Dianne Feinstein said she wanted to make the program more open to the public so U.S. officials can acknowledge the strikes and correct 'exaggerated' reports of civilian casualties.
Sen Feinstein said she and other senators were considering legislation to set up a special court system to regulate drone strikes, similar to the one that signs off on government surveillance in espionage and terrorism cases.
Brennan said drones are only used on targets planning attacks on the U.S. - never as retribution
Speaking with uncharacteristic
openness about the classified program, Sen Feinstein said the CIA had
allowed her staff to make more than 30 visits to the agency's northern
Virginia headquarters to monitor strikes but that such transparency
needed to be increased.
Her comments came after the White House, under
pressure from the committee, gave senators on the panel a Justice
Department memo outlining the legal justification for drone strikes. But
senators complained that their staff wasn't allowed to see it.
'I think the process set up internally is a solid process,' Feinstein said of the methods used to decide when to launch drones and against whom, but added: 'I think there's an absence of knowing exactly who is responsible for what decision. So I think we need to look at this whole process and figure a way to make it transparent and identifiable.'
Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff, a member of the House Intelligence Committee, said his panel also had been looking at establishing a 'court-like entity' to review the strikes.
'I think the House and Senate ought to put their heads together and come up with some way to require either initially or after the fact, a review of an operation when it takes the life of an American citizen,' Mr Schiff said.
Under oath: The hearings were watched even more closely because of the recently-leaked memo about the use of drones, as Brennan is thought to have been the 'architect' of the program
Next step: Brennan is a veteran of more than three decades in intelligence work, and most recently served as Obama's top counter-terrorism adviser in the White House
In a long afternoon in the witness chair, Brennan was questioned on other issues, such as the use of waterboarding and other interrogation techniques in the George W. Bush administration.
He declined to say whether he believes waterboarding, which simulates drowning, amounted to torture, but he said firmly it was 'something that is reprehensible and should never be done again.'
Brennan, 57, is a veteran of more than three decades in intelligence work. He withdrew his name from nomination to head the CIA four years ago amid questions about the role he played at the CIA when the Bush administration approved waterboarding and other forms of 'enhanced interrogation' of suspected terrorists.
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More common: Fewer than 50 strikes took place during the Bush administration while more than 360 strikes have been launched under Obama
On the question of waterboarding, Brennan said that while serving as a deputy manager at the CIA during the Bush administration, he was told such interrogation methods produced 'valuable information.'
Targets: Strikes are carried out in Yemen, where three American citizens with al Qaeda connections have been killed including Anwar al-Awlaki (pictured in 2008)
Now, after reading a 300-page summary of a
6,000-page report on CIA interrogation and detention policies, he said
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Brennan bristled once when he was questioned about leaks to the media about an al-Qaida plot to detonate a new type of underwear bomb on a Western airline.
Republican Sen James Risch accused him of having leaked classified information in a telephone call with former government officials who were preparing to make television appearances to explain the plot.
'I disagree with that vehemently,' the nominee shot back.
On May 7 of last year the CIA thwarted an ambitious plot by al-Qaida's
affiliate in Yemen to destroy a U.S.-bound airliner, using a bomb with a
sophisticated new design.
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anniversary of the killing by U.S. Navy SEALs of Osama bin Laden.
The next day, The New York Times and the Los Angeles Times reported that the would-be bomber was cooperating with U.S. authorities.
Time to talk: The hearing was led by Senator Dianne Feinstein (right) and Brennan (left) had to answer legal questions about the use of drones
Risch and Sen Dan Coats of Indiana were among those who contended Brennan inadvertently had revealed that the U.S. had a spy inside Yemen's al-Qaida branch when, hours after the first report appeared, he told a group of media consultants 'there was no active threat during the bin Laden anniversary because ... we had inside control of the plot.'
Brennan won praise from several members of the committee as the day's proceedings drew to a close.
'I think you're the guy for the job, and the only guy for the job,' said Democratic Sen Jay Rockefeller.
The panel will meet in closed session next week to discuss classified material.
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The fall season hasn't yet started and LSU baseball has lost a pitcher.
Whitty had knee surgery last winter and redshirted his true freshman season last season. He pitched some this summer, but struggled before the physicians uncovered the injury.
Mainieri would not give details on Whitty's surgery, but said it was "not major."
Whitty's absence isn't expected to put a dent in a 2015 LSU pitching staff that may be one of the deepest and talented Mainieri's ever coached.
All three pitchers are expected to return for the fall season, joining six hurlers in LSU's top-ranked 2014 signing class. The fall season begins Oct. 6.
LSU has 20 pitchers on its roster. It finished last season with about 13 healthy hurlers.
"I've never once in my coaching career said we've had too much pitching. It'd be a nice problem to have if it happened once," Mainieri said.
Newman and Pelaez were shut down during the summer while rehabilitating. Reynolds pitched just a handful of innings over the summer before straining an oblique muscle, forcing him to shut down.
Reynolds will participate in the fall season, but might not be as prepared as the coach would have liked.
"He was having moderate success in those four innings," Mainieri said. "Wish he could have pitched another 20. Wasn't able to do that. I'm afraid he's going to be pretty rusty."
LSU will hold its Purple and Gold World Series the same weekend the football team hosts Alabama.
The annual three-game series is set for Nov. 6 (6:30 p.m.), Nov. 7 (7 p.m.) and Nov. 9 (5 p.m.). The Tigers football team plays Alabama in Tigers Stadium on Nov. 8.
Three ex-LSU players coach each team. Teams are split evenly by Mainieri and his staff.
The other team's coaches have not been decided. Admission is free to all games.
Former Dunham pitcher Ryan May will walk on to the baseball team this fall, Mainieri said.
May, an all-district first team player in high school, will have a shot at making the team during the fall season. May impressed Mainieri during his summer ball season.
"He pitched extremely well," the coach said. "His last three outings he went six innings each time, shutout ball on three hits."
May joins Episcopal catcher Turner Graham as walk-ons vying for roster spots.
With Whitty's absence from fall, LSU has 38 players on its roster. The Tigers must get to the NCAA maximum of 35 to start the 2015 season.
The list of 38 players includes Jared Foster, who joined the football team this summer as a reserve quarterback. A decision has not been made on Foster's future with the baseball team.
He has two years to play one season of baseball. He'll play in 2015 or 2016, Mainieri said.
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BEIJING, March 25, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- The Chinese sensor contract manufacturing and export market had taken a hit from the European debt crisis but managed to stay buoyant due to the strong domestic demand from the automotive, consumer electronics and process industries. The Government's initiatives and stimulus packages aimed at stoking local demand will further assist market growth. New analysis from Frost & Sullivan ( http://www.sensors.frost.com), Chinese Sensor Contract Manufacturing and Exports Market, finds that the market earned revenues of $2.62 billion in 2012 and is expected to reach $4.92 billion by 2019 at a compound annual growth rate of 9.4 percent.Automotive sensors, such as brake and tire pressure sensors, are crucial for vehicle safety. This criticality of sensors, along with the rising purchasing power of citizens, is boosting the uptake of automotive sensors in China. "Meanwhile, high demand for mobile phones and computers has increased the sales and the manufacturing contracts of acceleration and vision sensors," said Frost & Sullivan Measurement & Instrumentation Research Analyst Leo Jia. "The requirement of different types of sensors in railway high-speed and infrastructure has multiplied manufacturing contract orders." The export market, however, has not fared as well as the domestic market due to the rising value of China's currency. Owing to the thinning profit margins and fluctuating exchange rates, exporters need to win long-term purchase orders to insulate themselves against these changing market dynamics. In 2012, there was a significant slowdown in demand from both local and foreign original equipment manufacturers (OEMs). Further, the anticipated downturn in the sensor contract manufacturing industry compelled participants to re-evaluate their business strategies. With the global economy still battling poor form, participants may experience a further dip in exports.
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A real treasure found in the Cotswolds, Mary's Acre is a Grade II listed Cotswold stone house with a thatched extension dating back to the 17th Century. With an abundance of traditional features including an open fire, flagstone flooring and exposed beams, complemented by the contemporary kitchen and bathrooms this beautiful home offers the best of both worlds.
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Entrance into a large hallway in the centre of the house.
Drawing Room has two large comfortable sofas and coffee table in front of a large inglenook open fire.
The TV Room has a large corner sofa and additional chair, coffee table, 3D TV with Blu-ray player and Orbit Sound sound bar including iPod dock all in front of the large feature fire place with wood burning stove.
The impressive Dining Room has an open fire and a large oval table seating 10 in comfort, perfect for celebrations.
Four large steps down to fully fitted Kitchen / Diner (part of the Thatched extension) which includes an AGA cooker, dishwasher, two under counter fridges, microwave and La Pavoni coffee machine. There is a large table which can be extended to seat 8, small LCD TV with Freeview and DVD player and a Bowers and Wilkins iPod / iPhone dock.
A separate Utility Room has a small under counter freezer, washing machine and tumble dryer.
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Large spacious landing.
Bedroom One has a double bed, two bedside tables and lamps, chest of drawers and a built in wardrobe.
Large Bathroom includes a bath with shower attachment, separate walk-in shower, double wash basin, heated towel rail and WC.
Bedroom Two has a King size bed, two bedside tables, dressing table and stool, chest of drawers, fitted wardrobe and a DABS radio alarm clocks with iPod/iPhone dock.
Bedroom Three has a super king size sleigh bed, two bedside tables and lamps, built in wardrobe, a decorative fireplace and a DABS radio alarm clocks with iPod/iPhone dock.
The thatched extension has a Double Bedroom with wonderful views over the garden which can be accessed via a spiral staircase (Please note that this staircase may not be suitable for people with mobility problems) from the utility area. There is also a Bathroom with a shower, wash basin and WC. Please note that this bedroom and bathroom are separate from the rest of the 1st floor and can only be accessed through the kitchen. For this reason, this bedroom is not suitable for small children.
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Master Bedroom is a pretty room with beams on the ceiling and the wall and views across the garden and countryside beyond. It includes a super king size bed, two bedside tables and lamps, Rotel multi speaker music system with iPod / iPhone dock and digital radio also linked to the bathroom speakers. This bedroom leads on to a Dressing Room with built-in wardrobes, a dressing table and stool and a full length mirror.
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A basket of logs is provided.
Off street parking is available.
A high chair and travel cot can be provided on request.
Mary's Acre is strictly a non smoking and no pets establishment.
Mary's Acre is located in the quiet and picturesque village of Broad Campden which has a pub a very short walk away. Just a mile from the beautiful town of Chipping Campden you will find a larger selection of pubs and restaurants, antique shops to browse in and delicatessens and bakeries to sample local delights as well as exploring the different styles of buildings found in this ancient town.


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Built in 1928 by Templeton Crocker, this elegant residence is situated at the top of Russian Hill on a cul-de-sac street in a stately and secure building. The apartment boasts sweeping views of the North Bay, Alcatraz, San Francisco, the Financial District to the East Bay and the Richmond and Bay Bridges. The views are spectacular during the day as well as the beautiful city lights at night. This apartment offers spacious rooms that are ideal for entertaining. The apartment consists of the following:Private entry and foyer that leads to a spacious living room with fireplace, sunroom with north east exposure, chef's kitchen with many built-in cabinets, granite counter tops, double ovens and wine refrigerator. Breakfast area and laundry closet,large gallery hallway that leads to two bedrooms and the library/den,master bedroom and large dressing area with custom built-ins, custom designed master bath with marble and large shower, library/office with built-in bookshelves and wet bar.
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You may not have symptoms with varicose veins. Most people identify varicose veins by the appearance of twisted, swollen, bluish veins just beneath the skin.
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Confronting Many-Many Problems: Attention and Agentive Control
Article first published online: 20 JAN 2011
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0068.2010.00804.x
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I argue that when perception plays a guiding role in intentional bodily action, it is a necessary part of that action. The argument begins with a challenge that necessarily arises for embodied agents, what I call the Many-Many Problem. The Problem is named after its most common case where agents face too many perceptual inputs and too many possible behavioral outputs. Action requires a solution to the Many-Many Problem by selection of a specific linkage between input and output. In bodily action the agent perceptually selects, and in this way perceptually attends to, relevant information so as to guide the execution of specific movements. Since perceptual attention is a necessary part of solving the Many-Many Problem, it is a necessary part of bodily action. Indeed, the process of implementing a solution to the Many-Many Problem, as constrained by the agent's motivational state, just is the agent's performing an intentional bodily action in the relevant way.


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Well since I'm new to this forum I thought I'd show everyone what I got, I've recently got into the fling of fish, I took over some friends fish and just tossed them into my tank, this is my 10 gallon tank that will actually be getting sold once I get my 30 gallon going.
I got nothing special, just a few things here and there....I tried live deadwood, snails and plants before, wasn't my route to go. To busy of a person for that stuff.
Anyways heres some pictures, honestly let me know what you think, I'm not the greatest at this sorda thing!
I think it's pretty nice but I think you should keep the ten gallon as a hospital tank!
Very nice tank!
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Looks great! In the future you might want to invest in a bigger tank because goldies are messy, and grow rather large, but the tank and fish look great!
I actually just put together my 30gallon tonight, it will need some more plants, but it's not to bad..I'll get some pictures when I put the fish (9 gold fish) into the tank in about a week or so....30 gallons sure takes a long time to fill up!
9 goldfish in a 30gallon?!?!?
that's not going to turn out very well, i don't even have that many goldfish in my 55gal, 9 is way too many
I love your tank setup! The only thing I would add decoration wise is a background, we put one on ours and I'm soo happy with it I really gave my tank look of more depth (I also have a 10 gallon). Also it will hide your cords in the back. :-)
goldfish are large messy fish, they need large tanks and good filtration. right now i have a 55gal with 5 goldfish and 660gph(Gallons per hour) of filtration. as a starting point they recommend 10gallons for each fancy double tailed goldfish and at least 20gallons for each single tailed common goldfish, so a 30gallon should have 3 fish or less. goldfish live for quite a long time if cared for properly and can grow to be huge, fancy's can get over 8 inches long and very girthy and commons can be well over a foot long. i don't know if im allowed to link other forums but there are forums dedicated to goldfish care, you can find all the info you need there. im not trying to sound nasty, but i just think your setting yourself up for failure, i dont think you realize how much work is involved in caring for goldfish.
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Chapter One
The world, stuffed into a little black dress
We might as well start, just to work the kinks out, by going dress shopping with my wife. Now, if you're a man reading this, it's a safe bet that you're not thrilled about the prospect of going dress shopping with my wife, much less with your own wife, or going shopping for much of anything save for handheld electronics or a massive, high-definition video monitor. Chances are, if you're a man reading this, you're a grab-and-go sort of chap when shopping by yourself, or a wait-and-whiner when shopping with your wife. Either way, you're not likely to be wild about coming along on this foray. Grab-and-goers and wait-and-whiners have been subjected to serious academic scrutiny. I've looked at some of those studies, but they haven't told me much beyond what I already know. If you're a typical grab-and-goer, your overriding mission is to get into and out of stores quickly and stealthily. If you're a wait-and-whiner, you're crabby and impatient. You sit sullenly on a backless bench (if you can find a bench) while your partner picks over merchandise or tries things on, interminably. For now, if you're that kind of dude, hang in there. This first expedition won't take very long. And, happily, you can come along without leaving the comfort of your LaZ-Boy, with a caipirinha to keep you chill.
The reason for the dress-shopping trip was, on the surface, straightforward: Linda needed -- maybe just wanted, the distinction gets tricky, as I've already mentioned -- a little black dress.
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The invitation, in keeping with the tradition that this was no ordinary fundraiser, but a "gala" fund-raiser, calls for "cocktail attire," meaning that men are expected to wear business suits and women, well, cocktail dresses, that is, not long dresses with beads and excessive froufrou, just classy dresses, usually but not necessarily black. When the invitation arrived, Linda mentioned something about having worn the same thing to the past two fund-raisers and that she "wouldn't mind" looking for a new little black dress for the upcoming occasion. Now, normally she would just go off on her own and look for something like this, leaving me at home to fiddle around online. But given that I was beginning research on a book about why and how people buy, I asked whether I could tag along with her, an embedded reporter. There's a catch, I said. If I go, the reader goes, too. Linda was fine with that, or so she said. Deep down I knew she wasn't wild about having me -- let alone you -- play peeping Tom as she slipped in and out of dresses in a cramped changing room. I don't imagine this is anyone's idea of a pleasant shopping experience, not that shopping experiences are always pleasant to begin with, whether you travel solo or in a platoon of friends or total strangers.
We started out walking south on Michigan Avenue. Hundreds of shops line the Magnificent Mile, large and small, cheap and expensive, freestanding and tucked away in vertical malls, the majority in business to sell clothes and accessories to women. I intend to revisit the Mile quite a few times before this story ends, assessing stores that sell everything from American Girl dolls to Harley-Davidson dog collars. But for now the plan was strictly to look around for a little black dress at one of the Mile's large department stores. Why a department store? Linda is a pragmatic shopper. She knows, every woman knows, that department stores offer a generous selection of dresses at a suitable range of prices, and there are always -- especially in crummy economic times -- things on sale. Department stores practice what the trade refers to as HiLo pricing, meaning that merchandise is initially marked up so it can be methodically marked down to give customers the idea that they're getting a deal. Because the HiLo game has been played for so long, most of us are trained almost never to buy anything that isn't on sale. You know it and I know it: the HiLo game is something of a scam, yet we fall for it again and again.
Our first stop was to be Bloomingdale's. But on the way there we passed a run of ultrachic designer boutiques. Impetuously, we stopped in at Chanel, if only to see how the fabled French fashion house defined that season's edition of the little black dress. At the front of the shop, where merchants display what they deem to be "impulse buys," we encountered a rack of Chanel sunglasses -- more precisely, and especially at these prices, Chanel eyewear. Each pair sat in its own elegant Lucite cubby, dozens of cubbies in all. Between the columns of cubbies, in elegant typography (lest anyone forget she is looking at eyewear in a store called CHANEL, not Lane Bryant):
The repetition of CHANEL CHANEL CHANEL reminds us how the concept of product branding came to be: a red-hot iron searing (so as never to fade from living memory) a mark of possession into an animal's hindquarters.
Duly singed, we browsed the generous selection of eyewear styles, many in the form of immense, wraparound tortoiseshell frames with none-too-modest overlapping Cs anchored to the temples. (The iconic Cs were designed by CC herself, back in the midtwenties.) I gathered that on some of those frames the Cs were crafted in real leather, a level of detail that comes at a price: Chanel sunglasses cost $350 and up, a rather expensive impulse buy by any reasonable standard. But relative to other impulses that might grip us on a rainy-day lunch break or a Saturday afternoon when we need a mood lift, $350 is not an unreasonable price tag -- assuming we're well enough fixed to buy our antidepressants at Chanel. At Chanel, $350 doesn't buy much more than what you'll find near the front door. Venture deeper into the shop and you'll encounter spirit-enhancing Chanel shoes that start at around $500; chase-the-blues-away handbags at $1,000 and up. Of course, the savvy shopper knows that Chanel knockoffs -- sunglasses and handbags mainly -- are available at considerably less cost on street corners in most major cities, assuming one is willing and able to live with Not The Real Thing. Asian shoppers, for example, are notoriously designer-brand fixated and demand the Real Thing. It's commonly reported that over 90 percent of Japanese women own something Louis Vuitton, having spent on average $247 per handbag. A great many teenagers also crave the Real Thing, though only teens in certain ZIP codes have any interest in, or can afford, Chanel. But even teenagers who live beyond Scarsdale, Greenwich, Lake Forest, or Beverly Hills happily pay a premium for the Real Thing, if the Real Thing is North Face, Juicy Couture, or Rugby, among other brands that, at any given trend nanosecond, impart a necessary je ne sais quois to the self-expression their hormones are aching for.
We arrived at Bloomingdale's on this chilly weekday only to find the store so empty you could shoot off a cannon without hitting anybody, as my father used to say. Department stores are facing stiff challenges in an age when buyers prefer to shop in specialty stores, spectacular flagship stores, and big-box discounters. Stepping off the escalator, I (we) followed my wife across the empty sales floor to a far wall, where a thicket of little black dresses clustered. They carried labels -- ABS, Bianca Nero, Kay Unger, David Meister, Laundry by Shelli Segal, Chetta B -- that meant nothing to me and not much more to Linda. Maybe some were private labels masquerading as "real" brands, maybe not, who knows any more? Department stores are hell-bent on rolling out their own labels, because there's more profit to be made by cutting out the big-name middlemen and women -- Ralph, Liz, Donna, Ermenegildo, and the rest. At JCPenney, for example, about half the chain's apparel sales derive from exclusive Penney lines: Arizona, Worthington, a.n.a., and so on. At Macy's and similar department stores, private-label sales have been increasing three times faster than sales of tried-and-true brands. In 2007, Macy's made Tommy Hilfiger a "strategic alliance" offer he couldn't refuse. Hilfiger agreed to sell his signature line exclusively at Macy's, in effect making Tommy a semiprivate label. New and instantly recognizable private labels are launched routinely in today's marketplace. Many carry the signatures of celebrity endorsers who have little hands-on involvement with design: Madonna's line at H&M on the lower end, Kate Moss's at Barney's New York on the upper -- that is, before Kate went on to bigger things at Topshop.
Linda began to work her way through the acres of chrome racks, rattling hangers as she went, lingering a bit longer near dresses on racks with little sale signs attached. The signs promised a further reduction of 25 percent should one of the dresses make it through the decision-making process and wind up at the cash register. Keeping a safe distance, I watched as Linda sifted through the lot, feeling fabrics with a thumb and forefinger to determine whether they have what the trade calls a "good hand." There was something a bit melancholy about those dresses on sale: wallflowers at the orgy, they seemed to me. Buyers had passed on them for whatever reason: bad lines, a bad "hand," or perhaps a bad Bloomie's buyer had simply bought too many of them. Out of compassion for the onsale dresses, but also out of hope that we could save a few bucks, I secretly rooted for Linda to find a dress here worthy of marriage. A man for you, right? In any case, fifteen minutes of hanger rattling yielded results: a quartet of little black dresses, all priced between $200 and $300. Linda handed them over to a saleswoman who ushered us into a changing room, where we locked ourselves in.
Changing rooms can be grim, as everyone knows. A survey reports that seven out of ten shoppers want changing rooms to be big enough to accommodate two people; seven out of ten want to be left alone in the room, whatever its size, with no salesperson hovering outside. The changing room at Bloomingdale's seemed to have been spruced up recently. There was an enormous mirror, squeaky clean, and a comfortable leatherette bench for me (you, too) to slouch on as my wife slipped out of her street clothes and prepared to try on the four little black dresses lucky enough to have made it to the quarterfinals. Each seemed to be waiting, dying, to be the one asked to the cash wrap, then on to the gala.
For a lot of shoppers, particularly male shoppers, to get out of your clothes, try something on, take it off, try something else on, take it off, and so on until it's time to put your own clothes back on, is one of life's -- that is, life in a consumer society's -- most dreaded rituals. Many women, too, have told me they hate trying on clothes; others, not so much. Linda doesn't seem to mind, even with onlookers present. Those who dislike trying on clothes give several reasons for their dyspepsia. One: cramped, usually dingy, quarters. Two: you're not really sure what looks good on you to begin with -- does it make my ass look big? Three: the dressing room feels like an isolation booth, just you and your insecurities trapped in a small space. Four: you're usually conflicted about spending money on whatever it is you're trying on. Five: there's all too often the annoying presence of the dreaded hoverer, who keeps coming to the door, calling out questions presumably meant to be helpful but that in fact rush the decision-making process and apply even more pressure:
"How ya doin' in there?" "Everything OK in there?" "Can I bring ya anything else in there?" "How's it goin' in there?"
Linda shimmied into the first dress (the label read Laundry), zipped up the back, and with narrowed eyes took a good hard look in the mirror. Though no expert, I'd say the technical term for what she had on was "corseted"; that is, rather tight around the midsection and calculated to amplify what in my wife's grandmother's time was referred to as a "bosom." After staring at her reflection for a minute or two, turning left, turning right, checking out her legs, shoulders, and accentuated bosom, Linda rendered her verdict:
"I look like a dominatrix."
Quick color commentary: this much I know from personal experience -- there's more going on here than meets the eye. Settling on a dress, a necktie, a pair of high heels or athletic shoes, is complicated business. The decision to buy has to do with far more than "I like it/I don't like it." Many of the things we decide to purchase -- clothes for sure, but also home furnishings, cars, kitchen appliances -- must surmount hurdles far beyond those relating to a product's practicality or, sad to say, its objective "value." The decision to buy something like a dress is a kind of puzzle. Multiple pieces need to fall into place before we, as buyers, cough up a yes. If a potential purchase crashes into one of the hurdles, or various puzzle pieces fail to fall into place, the Buy is rejected. In the case of dress number 1, which now lay rumpled on the floor, Linda decided it flunked the Appropriateness Test. You don't go to a fund-raiser at your kids' school dressed as if you are panting to take a riding crop to the headmaster.
Okay, back to the action -- dress number 2.
This time my wife didn't step into it, she pulled it over her head (which, come to think of it, is another reason to hate trying on clothes: it messes up your hair). Until that moment, I'd never thought about why women sometimes step into dresses, while at other times they pull them on over their heads. I suspect many other men haven't thought about it either. But watch people shop, you learn things. If a dress has a zipper on the side, a woman pulls it over her head. If the zipper's in the back, she steps into it. The dress my wife was pulling on now, by Chetta B, was one she'd especially liked while rifling through the racks. One tiny problem; the store didn't have it in her size -- Linda generally wears a 6, this was a 4. But she elected to try it on anyway because, as every woman knows, size matters, though not very much to clothing manufacturers, for whom "size" is fairly arbitrary. I happen to know this because when I worked at Lands' End I often heard merchants talk about how one label's 2 is another label's 6. Part of this has to do with shrewd marketing strategy: let 'em eat cake, but if you want to sell 'em clothes, trick 'em into thinking that the cake they eat doesn't put on pounds. The trade term for the ruse is "vanity sizing," which flatters customers into believing they're more svelte than they really are. The deception occurs worldwide, and authorities abroad are acting. In 2007 the Spanish government declared war on vanity sizing, decreeing that female store mannequins be draped in size 10 or larger. As far as I know, no such trailblazing legislation is pending in our own nation's capital, even though, according to an industry trade magazine, more than one out of two female shoppers in this country say they have a problem finding clothes that fit, with inconsistent sizing a prime reason. Over 40 percent say the sizes of clothes in their closets range widely, and nearly 20 percent say they have items they've never worn because they never bothered to have them altered.
In this case Linda elected to try on the dress anyway, because if she really loved how she looked in it, she could ask the store to order another in the next size up. Well, it turned out that the 4 was too small, but that's not what scotched the deal. What scotched it was that this little black dress had made a much better impression when worn by a cheap plastic hanger than by a living human being. The dress had, as Linda put it, "way too much going on" -- waves of pleats running up and down the dress from the neck through the bosom, all the way to the hem. In other words, the dress had failed to clear the Aesthetics Hurdle.
Dress 3 was by Vera Wang, whose bridal shop on Madison Avenue has for years been where the affianced rich, or those who strive to be, order their wedding gowns and dresses for bridesmaids. But like just about every other luxury brand -- Chanel, Gucci, Vuitton, Armani, and so on -- Wang has over the past several years elected to go wide (not mass, darling, wide, or in Vera's case double wide) by expanding her product line in every conceivable direction. These days, buyers aren't so much fashion victims as brand victims. Or, more precisely, brand-cum-lifestyle victims -- a brand such as Vera Wang isn't just about luxury, it's about a way of life. Result: if you're into Wang, bring on the Wang. A Vera Wang brand victim can now slip her painted toes into Vera Wang footwear, hide behind Vera Wang eyewear, sparkle in Vera Wang fine jewelry, spray Vera Wang fragrance behind her ears and under her breasts, write thank-you notes on Vera Wang fine papers, set out Vera Wang china and stemware when she entertains, even slumber on a Vera Wang mattress, which, however ludicrous a Vera Wang mattress might sound, is perhaps the most logical brand extension of all. Wear Vera Wang on your wedding day, sleep on Vera Wang that night (and, should you be so lucky, through the many years of blissful nights that follow). And now there's also SimplyVera, a low-price Vera Wang line that is to Kohl's what Martha Stewart Everyday was to Kmart: a Faustian brand-extension risk.
The (not Simply) Vera Wang dress Linda had by now slipped on bore little connection to a wedding day or night, save for a subtle hint of same: a couple of cream-colored buttons on the front, covered in fabric -- brocade? Jacquard? Turkish taffeta? what do I know? -- one associates with a wedding dress. I couldn't help but see those buttons, however, as anything but two wide-open eyes staring out from just below the bosom. I stared at them, they stared back. They unsettled me but didn't seem to bother Linda, probably because she couldn't make eye contact with them except in the mirror. After considerable reflection, Linda judged the dress to be simple and tasteful, "kind of cute," she said, a phrase women shoppers commonly murmur when they run across something they are, in fact, wild about. When Linda asked me what I thought of the dress, I hesitated for a moment. I'd resolved to be as invisible as possible throughout this expedition, a fly on the dressing room wall, better to observe things as they really happened without influencing the eventual buying decision. But discipline failed. I told Linda I didn't honestly think the shape of the dress was all that flattering, and hard as I tried, I couldn't take my eyes off the buttons that kept staring at me. So I told her so. That comment was, sorry to say, sufficient to kill the deal. The moments also illuminates yet another Buy hurdle: doubt -- a reservation planted by a husband, a wife, or some other companion along for the ride.
(Hang in there, guys; we're almost finished.)
The fourth dressed turned out to be made by the same designer who gave us the dominatrix dress, only this one, in the words of my wife, was "flapperish": a dress to Charleston in, not that anyone does the Charleston anymore, not even at bar mitzvah parties. After turning left, turning right, walking to the mirror, then back to her original spot, Linda uttered the magic words -- "but it's also kind of cute." It was also kind of -- no, not kind of, incredibly -- wrinkled. No one had bothered to give the dress even a cursory steaming when it was unpacked it from the shipping carton that carried it on its journey from a village in China, where it had -- no surprise -- been sewn together. But even wrinkled, the dress was cute, I had to admit. The skirt was short, just above the knee, a plus given that Linda has really nice legs. The dress came across as playful and kicky. Linda thought so, too, but therein was buried the seed of yet another potential reason to reject: the Projection of Self Hurdle. "I think it might be too young for me," she said, all the while examining the dress from every angle. Buying clothes gets especially tricky when you reach middle age, Linda remarks all the time. A woman of a certain age doesn't want to buy things that make her look frumpy, but she also doesn't want to buy things that make her look like she's trying to pass for a chick three decades younger or, just as bad, a bar-hopping cougar on the prowl. There's nothing less appealing than that, Linda says. But I could tell she truly liked herself in that particular little black dress, which is doubtless why she spent so much time in it, noting that she generally appreciates how she looks in a flared skirt, and that the dress would be knockout worn with black tights and slingbacks. Then -- threateningly -- the Age Cloud passed over again.
"Tell the truth, is it too young for me?"
"No," I said, by now dying to get the hell out of there. "I think you look really great in that dress. Young, but not too young. Not a hottie, no way."
After further reflection, Linda decided to buy the dress. And -- cue the brass section -- the chosen one turned out to be on sale! We had made it across all the hurdles, and my wife now had a new little black dress to wear to the gala fund-raiser. For those of us keeping score:
Price tag: $290 (Less) Hi-Lo discount (20%): $58 (Plus) Illinois sales tax: $20.88 (Bottom line) VISA charge: $252.88 Total time spent looking to buy little black dress: 1 hour, 45 minutes
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The excursion now in the bag, what are we to make of it?
Bluenoses out there -- anticonsumerist Buy Scolds -- would argue that dark forces conned my wife into thinking she needed a new little black dress in the first place. They'd point a damning finger at slick advertising carried in fashion magazines that, in fairness to the Scolds, Linda sometimes reads. More generally, Buy Scolds rail at the bloated, superficial culture that seduces women into thinking that it's what's on the outside, not the inside, that counts.
Others who comment on reasons we buy say that even if my wife wasn't exactly manipulated into purchasing the little black dress, she was conditioned by decades of media images. Armani suits, you'll recall, registered on men's radar with the release of American Gigolo, starring the impeccably
Armani-clad Richard Gere. As for the little black dress, movies and fashion retrospectives have relentlessly promoted it as an iconic wardrobe staple, a must-have. Credit belongs to Coco Chanel, who presented us with the LBD long before her trademarked interlocking Cs were seared into the hindquarters of our brains. Chanel's triumph was aided and abetted by Vogue, which in 1926 proclaimed the little black dress "a sort of uniform for all women of taste." Thirty-five years later, Audrey Hepburn etched the little black dress further into mass consumer consciousness. Remember the opening scene in Breakfast at Tiffany's, when Holly Golightly wanders the empty morning streets of New York City, lovely, lonely, vulnerable in a little black dress (designed not, as it turns out, by Chanel but by Givenchy)? Holly nibbles breakfast out of a brown bag and peers into the Tiffany store window on Madison Avenue. In fact, that very dress lives on, having turned up for auction at Christie's a few years ago, where it fetched close to a million dollars -- or four thousand times what we paid for Linda's onsale dress at Bloomingdale's.
Okay, maybe the movies helped write the script. But hand the little-black-dress dossier over to an academically accredited Buy sleuth and you'll get an entirely different explanation for what happened at Bloomingdale's that day. Academics who practice qualitative research -- i.e., those who, armed with clipboards, cameras, or binoculars, either in full view of subjects or concealed behind pillars, watch people shop and follow up what they observe with indepth interviews -- would seek to decode a pattern of behavior in my wife's pursuit of the little black dress. I put the matter to Albert Muniz, who teaches marketing at DePaul University, specializing in how people form communities around the brands and products they buy. He told me he'd try to draw a finer picture of how the buying of the dress linked up with the occasion at hand -- the fund-raiser -- and what a woman such as my wife "desires to say about herself via the dress. To get at this," Muniz said, "I'd interview that woman before she went shopping. I'd want to know plenty about her background, her life story, to gain a better understanding of where she was coming from. I'd ask her to take me on a tour of her closet, identifying favorite outfits. I'd want to know what her goals were for the event in question. Does she want to impress and influence others? And I'd like to accompany her as she went shopping, asking her to explain her choices. Finally, I'd have a follow-up interview after the fund-raising event. I'd want to know how it went, who was there, and how she felt about her purchase afterward."
Muniz's approach parallels that of Americus Reed, a young faculty member at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School. Reed is a social psychologist by training. After I recounted the dress episode, he told me the impulse to purchase is related to our desire to obtain "feedback" in the form of social acceptance. Given that the evening was branded a "gala," that it called for "cocktail attire," and that Linda was inclined to dress appropriately, Reed said he would classify her a "high self-monitor" -- one whose consumer choices enable her to "fit in," to adhere to the social cues and behavior one attributes to a particular event or environment. To be a high self-monitor is to possess a chameleon quality: you buy and wear what you judge to be right for the occasion. Low self-monitors aren't as much concerned with extracting positive social feedback. They buy and wear whatever they like to a school fund-raiser -- mom jeans, if the spirit so moves.
Finally, a renegade anthropologist, Grant McCracken, who has taught at MIT and the Harvard Business School, offered me this elliptical response: "The Elizabethan Lord Burleigh removed his outer robes one festive occasion, saying, 'Lie here counselor, while I go off to dance.' An anthropologist runs the question in reverse and asks of a woman buying a new dress, say, what self do you take up with this dress, who will you now become?"
What McCracken was getting at: the little black dress, like so many things we buy, possesses a kind of transformative power.
Our journey had just begun, and one thing was already clear, at least to me: everyone has a take on what happened in that store, and no one knows for certain. When we look for all the possible explanations for why we buy what we buy, wear what we wear, drive what we drive, dine where we dine, or furnish how we furnish, we find ourselves adrift in explanations that range from the broadly trivialized -- fashion victim! shopaholic! social climber! -- to the truly arcane. There are those who would see Linda as a knot of sexual hang-ups, which we'll come to. And there are white coats in neuro labs who aren't the least bit curious about Linda the person but seek to understand her behavior in terms of switches and wires and electrical currents begging to be technologically scanned. There's got to be a buy switch amidst all that static and ooze, wouldn't you think?
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1Make sure that you definitely need your teeth removed, because once they are removed, that is it. They won't ever grow back in again, unless you are having your milk teeth removed.
2Don't worry. The dentist are professionals and know what they are doing so don't panic because you are in safe hands. The more you panic the worse it is going to be. It doesn't hurt as much as you think it does. You go in and then you're out a few minutes later!
3Listen to what your dentist says. The dentist will give your teeth a check up and then if it's all OK, he will inject a local anesthetic. When he does this, it feels like a pin-prick. You will then be asked to wait 5 minutes for it to kick in and your mouth will go completely numb. The dentist will then extract the tooth and clean your mouth. Then you can go home!
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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is seeking more than $2 billion to respond to the flood of immigrants illegally crossing the U.S.-Mexico border and asking for new powers to deal with returning immigrant children apprehended while traveling without their parents.
A White House official said Saturday that Obama plans to make the requests of Congress in a letter to be sent Monday.
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The president will ask that the Homeland Security Department be granted the authority to apply "fast track" procedures to the screening and deportation of all immigrant children traveling without their parents.
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Forager Langdon Cook draws his cooking inspiration from the wild edibles he gathers, so he pays careful daily attention to local weather and happenings. When first asked to share a recipe, Cook, fresh from his first geoduck-digging expedition ("fun, exhausting, dirty"), offered kung pao geoduck with wild chicken-of-the-woods mushrooms. But a few days later, he thought better of it. Instead, he shared his recipe for creamy chanterelle pasta because, as he explained, "Chanterelles are finally popping with the recent rain" and "geoduck can't be easily foraged now that the daylight low-low tides are done." (Fear not, geoduck lovers, you can find the kung pao recipe on his blog, Fat of the Land.)
Cook's first book, Fat of the Land: Adventures of a 21st-Century Forager, arrives in bookstores this week. He'll be on KUOW's Weekday tomorrow morning, talking about foraging from 9 to 10 a.m. On September 14, Cooks & Books will host a Fat of the Land dinner at Lark. The dinner, cooked by Chef John Sundstrom, will feature items gathered by Sundstrom and Cook on a joint foraging adventure. Reservations are available through the Cooks & Books website.
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Serves 4
Says Cook: This is a simple, hearty recipe that is perfect comfort after a day in the woods hunting mushrooms. I adapted it from one in Marcella Hazan's Essentials of Classic Italian Cooking. You can substitute half-and-half for the cream, and use whatever amount you want. I like the final dish to be rich and creamy, so I usually serve a simple green salad and a couple bottles of red wine to go with it.
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Salt and ground pepper to taste
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text: Ascher, Uri M.; Mattheij, Robert M.M.; Russell, Robert D. Numerical solution of boundary value problems for ordinary differential equations. (English) Zbl 0843.65054 Classics in Applied Mathematics. 13. Philadelphia, PA: SIAM, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics. xxv, 595 p. $ 39.50 (1995). The first edition of this book was published in early 1988 by Prentice-Hall, see Zbl 0671.65063. The authors pursued only a limited revision consisting of simply correcting small mistakes (mostly typographical). The path of limited revision is reflected in the list of references, which remains current only up to 1987.Reviewer: P.Chocholatý (Bratislava) Cited in 92 Documents MSC:65L10Boundary value problems for ODE (numerical methods)34BxxBoundary value problems (BVP) for ODE34E15Asymptotic singular perturbations, general theory (ODE)65-02Research monographs (numerical analysis)65L12Finite difference methods for ODE (numerical methods)Keywords:initial value methods; textbook; boundary value problems; finite difference methods; singular perturbation problem BibTeX


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