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WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is promising the nation an economy that gives a shot to everyone and not just the rich, using Tuesday night's State of the Union address to draw an election-year battle line with Republicans over fairness and the free market. Driving everything about the speech: jobs, including his own.
Overshadowed for weeks by the fierce race of the Republicans seeking his job, for one night Obama had a grand stage to himself.
He planned to pitch his plans to a bitterly divided Congress and to a country underwhelmed by his handling of the economy. Targeting anxiety about a slumping middle class, Obama was calling for the rich to pay more in taxes. Every proposal was to be underlined by the idea that hard work and responsibility still count.
Tens of millions of people were expected to watch on television, turning an always-political speech into Obama's best chance yet to sell his vision for another four years.
For an incumbent on the attack about income inequality, the timing could not be better.
Ahead of Obama's 9 p.m. EST speech, Republican presidential contender Mitt Romney released his tax returns under political pressure, revealing that he earned nearly $22 million in 2010 and paid an effective tax rate of about 14 percent. That's a lesser rate than many Americans pay because of how investment income is taxed in the United States.
Obama, though, has his own considerable messaging challenges three years into his term.
The economy is improving, but unemployment still stands at the high rate of 8.5 percent. More than 13 million people are out of work. Government debt stands at $15.2 trillion, a record, and up from $10.6 trillion when he took office. Most Americans think the country is on the wrong track.
Obama's relations with Republicans in Congress are poor, casting huge doubt on any of his major ideas for the rest of this year. Republicans control the House and have the votes to stall matters in the Senate, although Obama has tried to take the offensive since a big jobs speech in September and a slew of executive actions ever since.
"It's hard not to feel a sense of disappointment even before tonight's speech is delivered," said Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell. "The goal isn't to conquer the nation's problems. It's to conquer Republicans. The goal isn't to prevent gridlock, but to guarantee it."
House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, has called the themes of Obama's speech a "pathetic" rehash of unhelpful policies.
The State of the Union remains one of the most closely watched moments in American politics. Despite the political atmosphere in Washington, the scene is expected to have at least one unifying touch. Outgoing Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, who survived an assassination attempt a year ago, is expected to attend with her colleagues. Her husband, former astronaut Mark Kelly, was attending as a guest of first lady Michelle Obama.
Obama's tone was under as much scrutiny as his proposals.
He was aiming to find all the right balances: offering outreach to Republicans while sharpening his competing vision, outlining re-election themes without overtly campaigning and pledging to work with Congress even as he presses a campaign to act without it.
The context was set not just by the re-election year, but by the awful past year of partisan breakdowns in Washington. The government neared both a shutdown and, even worse, a default on its obligations for the first time in history.
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Exceptional txt. First class, tfln.
Come out of the closet and be proud of who you are, then tell her the business partner said you were better, tehe!
First truly good TFLN I've read in a while. Kudos.
A family worth years of black mail....
Love it!! Sounds like a convo between my brother and I haha
This is the end, end of the fucking road
Touché, is correct. Touché.
Best tfln ever!!!!! Lmao!
I find this as a fail too.
This is the best TFLN I've seen in a while.
10:35, you said all.
Fuckin fake
sounds like a conversation between Mycroft and Sherlock Holmes
I agree therealthatguy.
Definitely bro and sis- I'd say- a draw
Bahahahaha. Domination.
Yes! Finally something funny.. Tfln use to be halarious now just any stupid text is posted.
This totally happened to me
Sounds like an episode from Arrested Development.
Siblings???\nI'm def getting the cheating spouse vibe\n\nCause I mean I don't think the dad would be THAT pissed off if his daughter slept with his business partner..I mean end a partnership yeah\n\nBut his wife sleeping his business partner...yeah all 3 are fucked for sure!
Ahh, siblings.. Gotta love em
Idk if I was the dad I'd give the one who fucked his partner a bonus for sealing the deal
This sounds oddly familiar...
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It seems they are evenly matched in the ways of the tattling
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Amazing. Haha nice.
Touché sir, toooouché!
11:45 how do u know this is between a brother n sister? It could be two brothers
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SOUTH PASADENA, Calif. (BRAIN) — Ice Carbon bib shorts are designed in the U.S. and feature a 10-panel construction, flatlock stitching, breathable mesh panels and compression leg bands.
The bibs have a gel-padded antibacterial chamois and are available in either all black or black with red accents.
PITLOCHRY, Scotland (BRAIN) — Under uncharacteristically clear blue skies, Giant unveiled its all new range of Defy road bikes to editors who attended the 2015 on-road media event set in the Scotland Highlands last week.
BREDBURY, United Kingdom (BRAIN) — Renthal's new Apex stem range is designed for mountain bike use from cross-country racing to trail riding with bars as wide as 780mm.
OSAKA, Japan (BRAIN) — Shimano is looking to help bike manufacturers streamline the use of disc brakes on road bikes by introducing a new, more direct mounting standard.
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (BRAIN) — RockShox is looking for more aftermarket rear shock sales by offering its Monarch and Monarch Plus shocks in configurations to fit selected Specialized and Trek frame models. The shocks are configured with specific mounting hardware and tuning for the bikes.
STEVENS POINT, Wis. (BRAIN) — Rudy Rack's new Super Tray is designed to allow dealers to display bikes with the majority of wheel sizes without manual adjustment.
SAN DIEGO (BRAIN) — Maxima Racing Oils, a 35-year-old powersports brand, has a new bicycle division and product line.
KORBACH, Germany (BRAIN) — Continental has added a new line of Chinese-made tires to its offerings. The company will now have three bike tire product lines: the Premium line, which is all made in Germany; the new Performance Line, made in China; and the Sport line, also made in China.
SAN DIEGO (BRAIN) — Speedplay is now including a new Ultra Light Action cleat with its Light Action pedals. The cleat's redesigned spring reduces engagement effort by 50 percent while retaining the same retention security and release of other Speedplay cleats.
SCOTTS VALLEY, Calif. (BRAIN) — Bell Helmets has unveiled a new aero road helmet. The Star Pro features "Active-Aero" technology, allowing riders to regulate airflow, temperature and aero efficiency on the fly with a simple slider mechanism that opens or closes its vents, the company says.
PHILADELPHIA (BRAIN) — Fuji released its new aero road bike at a press event in England prior to the start of the Tour de France, where it is being raced in some stages by the NetApp-Endura team.
SCOTTS VALLEY, Calif. (BRAIN) — Giro Sport Design on Friday announced its new Empire SLX road shoe, which will go on sale this fall for $350.
WATERLOO, Wis. (BRAIN) — Trek has unveiled what it claims is the world's lightest production road bike, the Émonda, which weighs 10.25 pounds and will retail for $15,749.99 in its most expensive configuration.
INDIANAPOLIS (BRAIN) — Silca is launching some new valve extensions for use with deep-section wheels. The company says the extensions will elmiminate the need for electrical tape on valve stems, used by many riders to prevent the stems from clicking against the rim.
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While the Phenom II's overclock gives it a 15% speed increase over stock clock rates, it's not enough to catch the i7's advantage thanks to Hyper-Threading in this application. The overclocked i7-920 performs about 70% faster than the stock Phenom II X4 945.
We didn't use the Photoshop benchmark in our last SBM, so here we can see the overclocked Phenom II showing a nice 22% performance increase over the stock speed.
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0mi1ez , 25 September 2009 17:07Quote:And remember, these systems are all being given away at the end of the marathon. Keep an eye on this space; this is where we'll post the link to enter the contest for all three systems once the series concludes!
And remember folks, this competition is NOT open to UK residents!
0rickbmb , 26 September 2009 08:57Nice !
Interesting choice going with 4 cards, i wonder how much difference you would get with 2 x 4890, i bet it'd be real close to the 4 x 4850.
-1jimishtar , 26 September 2009 23:58four cards is simply stoopid. i mean, its 4850, who needs four of them??
0broken_sticks , 29 September 2009 19:49if i won that machine, i'd swiftly put two of those GPUs to better use...
0devilxc , 5 October 2009 19:44I assume the price for the intel computer was what it was in April and not now? If that is the case; the intel computer is cheaper, better at everything excluding gaming, about the same at gaming and cheaper to upgrade (2 cards instead of 4).
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2015 Study: How Credit Scores Impact Car Insurance Costs By State
Everyone knows that auto insurance is mandatory (except in New Hampshire). Furthermore, we know that our credit scores dictate the types of loans and credit cards for which we can garner approval. But when it comes to the connection between credit scores and car insurance, most of us are in the dark.
With that in mind, WalletHub set out to determine 1) how transparent insurance companies are in disclosing the use of credit data in underwriting decisions; 2) how transparent they are about the source of their credit data; and 3) the extent to which credit data impacts insurance policies across the 50 states and the District of Columbia.
In evaluating the importance of credit data to insurance underwriting, WalletHub obtained quotes from five of the largest auto insurance providers in the country for two hypothetical consumers who are identical save for the fact that one has excellent credit while the other has no credit. This allowed us to isolate for the role of credit in insurance policy pricing, but it is important to note that the exact credit-based pricing fluctuations discussed throughout the report may not hold true for all consumers given the multitude of other factors that contribute to the insurance policies each of us are extended. In other words, the fact that credit scores impact insurance premiums to a significant extent should be the main takeaway for consumers, rather than the exact amount of the impact.
Key Findings
- Farmers Insurance appears to rely on credit data the most, with the WalletHub Scenario revealing a 62% fluctuation in premiums between a consumer with excellent credit and a consumer with no credit. GEICO, on the other hand, appears to rely on credit data the least, displaying a 32% premium fluctuation.
- There is a 49% differential in the cost of car insurance premiums for a person with an excellent credit score and a person with no credit history, in the average state.
- Credit data has the smallest impact on insurance premiums in Connecticut (15% fluctuation) and the biggest impact in the Michigan (115% fluctuation).
- As was the case in 2014, Progressive is the most transparent insurer regarding the use of credit data in quote generation as well as the source of that credit data, scoring the maximum 10 points in this category. The least transparent insurer, Liberty Mutual – the lowest scoring provider – obtained a score of only 4.5.
- Out of the five major insurance providers that WalletHub examined, Geico use credit data in the fewest states (30), while Allstate uses credit data in all but three states.
States Where Credit Data is Most & Least Significant
*All numbers in the above chart are percentages.
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Average Premium Fluctuation by Company
*Averages reflect quotes for the WalletHub Scenario. States in which credit score is not used have been excluded.
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Insurance Provider Transparency Ratings
Company Transparency Score*
*For information about how transparency was evaluated, see the Methodology section of this report.
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In order to determine the impact of consumer credit data on car insurance premiums, we collected premium quotes from the websites of five of the largest insurance providers in the United States, based on the total number of insurance premiums issued, according to SNL Financial. In light of the fact that insurers use numerous variables in pricing their policies, we obtained quotes for two hypothetical consumers, identical save only for their credit history. More specifically, one consumer has excellent credit while the other has no credit history.
Our base case, also referred to as the "WalletHub Scenario" in this report, assumes the following details about the driver and the automobile:
Base Case – Experienced Male Driver
|Annual Mileage: 16,000
|Licensed: 21 Years / Age: 37 Years
|Marital Status and Gender: Single Male Employment Status/ Profession: Job that is not eligible for discounts
|Commute: 20 miles each way
Days per week: 5 Days
|Vehicle: 2009 Honda Accord LX, 4 cyl., Sedan
|Assume driver side air bag, standard performance, no anti-theft device.
|Bodily Injury Liability coverage of $50,000/$100,000
|Property Damage Liability of $50,000
|Minimum Personal Injury Protection or MedPay coverage in states where required
|Uninsured Motorist Coverage of $50,000 (where available)
|Underinsured Motorist Coverage of $50,000 (where available)
|Collision with deductible of $1,000
|Comprehensive with deductible of $1,000
The insurance coverage details were used as guidelines, as different states have different requirements. Where we were unable to match the coverage details to the above specifications, we chose the value closest to our base case data, or the cheapest option for the coverage limits that were available. State specific and other miscellaneous taxes have been included in the quote as needed.
In order to receive a quote from the insurance provider websites, a specific zip code was required. For each state in which the company was active, we chose zip codes where the average household income was closest to the average income for the state as a whole.
Once we received the quote with the total amount of the premium, we divided the amount by the number of months the premium was for in order to get an equal monthly payment and a fair comparison point.
Insurance Provider Credit Use Transparency
We also evaluated the top 10 insurance companies in the in order to determine how transparent each company is about the use of consumer credit information in their pricing policies. We reviewed each company's website based on the following criteria:
A. How easy is it for a consumer to find out if the insurance provider is accessing their credit information and using it to provide pricing information? This question is worth 5 points total, and we scored it based on 2 dimensions: location of information and how prominent it is. If the information could not be located, no points were given.
Based on location:
1 point - If information is found on the first page of the quoting process.
0.5 points - If information is found on a subsequent page of the quoting process.
Based on how prominent the information is:
4 points - Prominent and normal size font.
3 points - Prominent and small size font.
2 points - Prominent accompanied by a pop-up.
1 point - Not prominent.
B. How easy is it for a consumer to determine which credit reporting agency credit data is being requested from? This question is worth 5 points total.
5 points - Information can be found on site and is a part of the quoting process.
4 points - Information can be found on the site, but needs to be searched for outside of the quoting process.
2 points - Information can be obtained through customer service lines.
1 point - Information is provided by the Public Relations department.
0 points - Information is not present on the website, cannot be obtained through customer lines or from the Public Relations department.
We sent the transparency scores to the included insurance companies so that they may verify the data and provide comments or corrections. There were no changes reported compared to last year.
USAA and State Farm said they will take our findings into consideration as they review opportunities to update their website.


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A recently encountered photograph, taken January 1, 1908, depicts a gathering of Confederate veterans at Hahira, GA. Among them was William Joseph Lamb, who long resided in Georgia Militia District 1144, the Ray's Mill (nka Ray City) District, Berrien County, GA.
William J Lamb joined General Levi J. Knight's "Berrien County Minutemen," Company C , Georgia 29th Infantry Regiment in Nashville, GA on August 1, 1861. On the 16th of May, 1862 he was appointed 3rd Sergeant of Company E, Georgia 54th Infantry Regiment. In September 1864 he was shot in the leg. He was sent to a hospital, then furloughed home. Later, Dr. H. M. Talley and Dr. M.Y. Allen, who examined William for his confederate veterans pension application, described the injury, "a gunshot wound just below the right knee, the leg was fractured and gangrene set in." While William was recuperating at home the war ended.
Before the Civil War, William J. Lamb was one of the wealthiest men in Berrien County, with a total estate of $17,880 in the Census of 1860. In 2009 dollars that would have been about $58 million. But by 1870, the relative worth of his estate had declined by 97 percent. By 1900, completely penniless and unable to support himself, he applied for and eventually received an Indigent Confederate Veteran's Pension from the State of Georgia.
William J. Lamb passed away on June 13, 1908 just six months after the group photo above was taken. He was buried in Beaver Dam Cemetery, Ray City, Berrien County, GA. (see Obituary of William J. Lamb ~ died June 13, 1908)
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A second Ghostbusters: Sanctum of Slime developer diary has surfaced today, taking another extremely brisk tour through some of the game's ghoulish apparitions that you'll face, as well as briefly detailing some of the tasks and locations you'll have to go through as a Ghostbusters rookie.
"Possessed orderlies, dangerous demons, freakish phantasms, screaming spectres and things that go bump in the night" are the order of the day in Ghostbusters: Sanctum of Slime, and they're shown in this developer diary in some capacity.
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(born 1935). Bulgarian-born environmental sculptor Christo is noted for his outdoor sculptures and displays of fabrics and plastics. His huge works are temporary, involve hundreds of assistants in their construction, and are seen by viewers who would not necessarily visit museums. Christo's sculptures force observers to rethink the way they view the nature of art. Although controversial, especially among environmentalists, his work has for the most part been critically well received.


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What they need to do is make it so you could go to different Pokemon tournaments in game after beating the Elite 4. It would use the player generator in PWT and they would happen once a week. You could chose whether or not you wanted to go that week so it wouldn't be bothersome. If you win you would get certain prizes (Master Ball, Lucky Egg, etc..) and an in-game trophy that would go in your room.
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Comedy Nights With Kapil has pulled off a major coup by getting Sunny Leone and Ekta Kapoor together on the same platform. The show is known to invite youth icons as guests too, which explains the appearances made by popular cricketers in recent times.
The producers were keen to have an otherwise camera-shy Ekta Kapoor on the show and she consented as it was to promote the keenly awaited 'Ragini MMS 2', featuring Sunny Leone.Ekta and Sunny are expected to shoot for Kapil this evening in Mumbai.
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My favorite was Porygon2. I always liked how it looked sort of like a duck. It reminds me of those drinking birds that dip their heads in water and pop back up. It was also the first Pokemon papercraft I ever made. I ran out of cardstock, so I made it out of regular printer paper. It was pretty flimsy, but it jumpstarted a whole summer of making papercrafts.
Thank you Porygon2!
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Mumbai, April 20 (IANS) Popular Bollywood couple Abhishek Bachchan and Aishwarya Rai completed six years of marital bliss Saturday.
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Aishwarya and Abhishek tied the knot April 20, 2007 as per Hindu rituals at a ceremony at Bachchans' Juhu residence Prateeksha. It was a lavish affair, and attracted media attention from all quarters.
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The girl was abducted April 15 and was held hostage in east Delhi's Gandhi Nagar for over two days, according to police.
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Tuesday, a three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said Washington's law banning felons from voting violates the 1965 Voting Rights Act because it disenfranchises minority voters disproportionately.
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The ruling cited "durable, sustained difference in treatment faced by minorities in Washington's criminal justice system," and said those differences can't be accounted for by "factors independent of race."
Gonzaga University law professor Lawrence Weiser represented the prisoners, with the help of his students. "This case recognizes there is a problem in our society and it needs to be addressed," he said Wednesday. "All of us need to think about what we do to perpetuate that system."
We all know the United States has been on an imprisonment frenzy for more than two decades.
It seems to have reached its peak, but only because the cost was bankrupting states.
A Tuesday editorial in The New York Times said the United States, with less than 5 percent of the world's population, has 25 percent of the world's prisoners.
We also know that Americans who are black, Hispanic or Native American are incarcerated at disproportionately high rates.
Part of the broad difference between incarceration rates can be explained by a higher crime rate among some black men. The rest is attributable to different treatment in policing, prosecution and sentencing.
University of Washington sociology professors Katherine Beckett and Robert Crutchfield provided much of the information that supported the prisoners' case in Washington.
Crutchfield told me that in this state more than half the difference in incarceration rates has to do with different treatment by the justice system.
As citizens, we ought to be outraged by the different treatment. At the same time, given that not committing crime is an excellent way to stay out of prison, we should ask why there is more crime in some demographic categories.
I pulled from my files a 2004 study by sociologists Becky Pettit of the University of Washington and Bruce Western of Princeton University. It found that incarceration disparities have been getting worse and that economic and education levels have a big impact.
After World War II, new opportunities allowed black Americans to begin closing income and education gaps that separated black and white people. That progress began to stall in the 1970s.
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The rate of crime (at least the kind that makes daily headlines) is higher for people with less education and people who live in poor neighborhoods.
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I know weekends typically upset my system and are a difficult thing for me to manage. This weekend in particular really put me in a downward spiral. I didn't count calories for three days in a row and while I'm pretty sure I didn't over eat, I just don't know.
I didn't get a chance to prep for the week or adequately plan meals. I didn't grocery shop at my normal time and the store was out of all the things I wanted, like Salmon and other items on sale.
On Sunday we got some news regarding a home we are looking to purchase and I totally shut down. There was no getting anything done.
Monday was an extra weekend day for me, and while I am pretty sure my caloric intake was okay, I don't know. Tuesday my nanny was very sick so I had to work from home with my kids and spent the day trying to focus on work while attending to little needs. Healthy habits (like drinking lots of water) went out the window.
While I don't think the damage was too bad I know I didn't drink my water. The water gets me every time! Yesterday I went to a wellness fair and found out my % body fat is at the very bad range of poor. Not great news, and it certainly left me feeling gross about myself.
So what do I have to celebrate? I did still manage to lose a half pound this week. I also did my best to have healthy salads for lunch and manage my portions even if I had a couple of calorie questionable meals over a few days. I also made sure my kids consumed more fruit (they don't know it, but their diet is getting modified as well). And I'm still here on spark - even though I took a few days sabbatical.
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Speaking of computers, old ones...I have an Apple 2c+ that still works. I don't actually 'use' it but do get on once in a while just to keep the mechanics of it working. It is one of the early ones with the keyboard and computer in the same unit. I have not tried to buy a ribbon for the printer in ages...dot matrix.
Update: I'm hoping to come up with most of the parts for the Hawthorne soon for not to many goats and alfalfa or something. Like to keep the chickens and Hereford though
The Schwinn's front tube survived 10 months after it was originally stolen but something finally got to it and I couldn't keep it up as it went down as fast (unless it was the stem getting loose).
I've tried selling good stuff cheap on Craigslist and all I get is spam. It doesn't make up for that if I sit there and flag the fake freaky chicks out of the water in Casual Encounters, either.
Everything is still happening here, Tempest is in the shed waiting for all the parts to be ready.
When the fairing has the vinyl wrapping finished (it's not as easy as it sounds due to the difficulty of handling the radical geometry presented) I will have the glass shop fashion a flush cover to seal the headlamp tunnel and make it more aerodynamic and clean. The light will be serviced from the back and boxed in with the battery, combination of the Wamco Winner relay and lighting circuits, 12V horn and radio. I have my work cut out for me cleaning and fixing the saddlebags also. Eventually I will replace the windshield as well.
I think I found somebody nearby to help with fenders for the Schwinn and others for my tanks. This friend showed me the rebuilt wheel well on his van and the really nice body woek and paintjob on his '84 Tercel 4WD Wagon and he said he'll help if I need it.
The Hawthorne seat rebuild I sent to Nyssa with the Schwinn's original seat will be white on the edge and green on top with that hot rod cross stitching and nicely padded.
I'm going to Kmart to get some knobby whitewalls very much like the OEMs at 14.99 each and retire two tires that are 14 years old! Even I am amazed and very pleased that only the pedals and original kickstand have departed the bike since 1995!
My home life and health plus of course no money most of the month make things slow right now although I'm always planning this and that. Fall is almost here so I really want to get things done before winter brings a hiatus to my bigger spending until spring. You'll know second because if I know it second that sounds like a problem!
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Okay, I'm going to do some basic assembly on Tempest but I've kept her in the shed because there isn't any good place to put her outside where she's safe and can't be messed up yet (and my house is a 'wherehouse'--where is this, where is that)...
I'm still investigating a $12 pair of mahogany Electro-Voice Aristocrat cabinets (1950s) I got at last week's local auction and cleaning so I will do what I can.
Now, if I am accused of having a bunch of junk all over, let it be said I have the most interesting and BEST junk I know of.
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Your pedal comes loose on the Flyer. It's not the Chinese-made pedal, however.
The thread on the right side of the crank cracked.
Well, maybe at 40-45 years old you really cannot fault it so much. I call that 'my money's worth'.
The chainwheel is unaffected.
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Germaine has new shoes for the first time...
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Of course, the tube repair didn't hold up and so it was a short trip, mostly spent walking.
I got to sleep around 8 am Monday and woke up after 4 pm. Went out the door after 2 am this morning to check for mail (after the back decided to fire on 8 cylinders for a while) and looked at the Schwinn.
The tire was up? The Tube Fairy showed up?
I don't recall anybody being over!
Well, that was nice
Nobody left a quarter on the seat though?
I'm getting along, it takes longer though!
The two seats I sent for rebuilding and the upholsterer's shop came back today!
The green and white one is the Hawthorne's.
It's not doing attachments or something....
Nope, I cleared cookies and everything. Don't tell me my pix are outta gas?
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It is good to hear that things are happening...slow but sure, that is one of the things I say. I am patiently awaiting for pics. No pressure, take your time.
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IE 7 is presenting an error on page message. says 'character expected' each time I try to manage my attachments. AllenG, I think while having you put them in could work, this just happen and I don't think it has to do with Windows Pop-Up Blocker and THAT icon isn't appearing when this happens, I think.
Or whatever. Maybe it was just that darned post. We now return you to your regularly scheduled Bike Forums and Rollfast, newly improved with tacos for breakfast
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There you had Homer's (Simpson) Odyssey but they were worth the bread and the wait. Rollean's Upholstery did the seats and I am pretty happy with them, especially to have saved the original seats and repaired them.
Looking really good, RF.
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While I was finding parts from some parts bikes I managed to pull a nice 80s or 90s straight bar Western Flyer single speed (probably converted from hand brakes) with no handlebar stem or handlebars and then again today Mom and I went back and grabbed an AMF 3-speed to replace the crank for Kayleigh which cracked on the pedal thread, got more reflectors and two stems with bars, one with green glittery grips (not Schwinn) and the other BMX. My friend with the blue WF frame gets the BMX one and I hope the green grips will come off easily so that I can put them one the Hawthornes new Torrington handlebars. I have a rusty old battery bullet lamp I might clean up and an entire unused Sears 6V generator set to choose from there. Wheels and chain cleanup and then it just needs a front basket and paperboys...and I still want a flat rack to cover the top of the paperboys!
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Holy cow! I go away for a few months, and things are happening like lightning over here!
Wow, that gray seat looks sweet!
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It's actually BLACK but I need to work on using the flash on my Mavica...it's all or nothing. It was easier than the other one because it had all the foam and the Hawthorne's seat had naught but a flap of the cover with no foam.
As soon as I locate the other red piece (rail mounted part to hold the seat mount in place) I will mount the rebuilt Viscount-made Schwinn seat.
Doesn't look like a smooth ride otherwise...well, yeah.
I believe the red pieces were part of the original seat on the Rollfast when I got it. I am using a seat with the ridges built in on it right now, an exercise bike seat. If I can repair the other seat that I replaced the original with I will go back to it.
Also progress shots of the Hawthorne and where all the old wheels and stuff are at the moment *don't panic
More Hawthorne news: I got the green grips off the other handlebar I had (the dishsoap trick I read about somewhere else here worked) and I'm going to get a couple Alex X202 rims and rebuild two wheels myself.
Remaining: Rust removal, front and rear baskets, a flat vintage rack and installing lights.
For Germaine: Re-installing the original seat and getting the nine hole rear rack integrated into the paperboys.
Kayleigh is at mom's getting a replacement crank.
When she gets back we'll see about returning the 3-speed Schwinn that was in the parts heap I drew from back into service for somebody at that home. I have new cables and pads that I never used when I decided to convert the Hawthorne and the seat and post from the donor bike I used to fix Kayleigh can hopefully be patched and given a gel cover to finish the Schwinn's repairs. The parts pile was small but it was almost exhausted and this has been the best distribution of it in my opinion.
More Hawthorne news yet...
The rims have spokes replaced and are trued and now I need to install a new chain and clean up some rust, add the generator lighting and still wait for the baskets to show up somewhere...75% NIB vintage, reused and rebuilt is still my goal. Pictures later (looking for the CAMERA and it's also karaoke night).
My 3V turn signals I had my friend get for me on eBay arrived and should be repirable without too much trouble. That's a picture from eBay...haven't rounded up the camera yet.


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A musical journey through the swamps of the Louisiana Bayou, the juke joints of the Mississippi Delta and Moonshine soaked BBQs in the North Mississippi Hill Country. Visiting the last original blues devils, many in their 80's, still living in the deep south, working without management and touring the Chitlin' Circuit. Let Bobby Rush, Barbara Lynn, Henry Gray, Carol Fran, Lazy Lester, Bilbo Walker, RL Boyce, Jimmy 'Duck' Holmes, Lil Buck Sinegal, LC Ulmer and their friends awaken the blues in all of us.
Neil Dalal
Set in a remote forest ashram in India, the film explores the daily life of the followers of Swami Dayananda, one of the last teachers of Vedanta. Rather than focus on the Swami or the intricacies of his teachings, Gurukulam places the audience in the ashram, evoking a visceral presence of the place and a tactile sense of the sacred.
Terence Davies
Considered a seminal Scottish novel, Lewis Grassic Gibbon's 1932 classic, Sunset Song, sounds echoes of Thomas Hardy and DH Lawrence in its bracing tale of a farmer's daughter enduring all that life can throw at her in the World War I era. Beautifully photographed, Terence Davies' film is a heartbreaking melodrama about emancipation, poverty, and life during wartime.
Deniz Gamze Ergüven
Evocative of both The Virgin Suicides and Lorca's House of Bernarda Alba, this (French-made) Turkish drama is the tale of five young, free-spirited sisters, house-bound and married off, one by one, at the insistence of their conservative muslim uncle and grandmother. Rich in character, nuance and beauty, Mustang has won international acclaim everywhere it has shown. Nominee: Academy Awards, Best Foreign Language Film
Evocative of both The Virgin Suicides and Lorca's House of Bernarda Alba, this (French-made) Turkish drama is the tale of five young, free-spirited sisters, house-bound and married off, one by one, at the insistence of their conservative muslim uncle and grandmother. Rich in character, nuance and beauty, Mustang has won international acclaim everywhere it has shown.
Nominee: Academy Awards, Best Foreign Language Film
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Stephen Frears
Ben Foster is Lance Armstrong, multiple Tour de France champion, cancer survivor, and, as we all now know, cheat. Scripted by John Hodge (Trainspotting) and directed by British veteran Stephen Frears (The Queen; Philomena), The Program fairly rockets through the early stages, tracing Armstrong's meteoric rise - and concurrent investment in performance-enhancing drugs - in bold, brash strokes, before zeroing in on the crusading Irish journalist David Walsh (Chris O'Dowd), apparently the only man in cycling to smell a rat.
Matteo Garrone
Once upon a time Italian director Matteo Garrone (Gomorrah) decided to film a trio of medieval fairytales with the gusto and lustre of a modern day Fellini, and an international cast including Salma Hayek, John C Reilly, Vincent Cassel and Toby Jones. The results were ravishing, gleefully mischevious, and definitely not for kids…
Cesc Gay
Two of the Spanish-speaking world's finest actors, Ricardo Darin and Javier Camara, team up for this moving, wry film about friendship, family, and last wishes. Julian (Darin) is dying, but doing his best not to make a big deal of it. Unexpectedly, his old friend Tomas (Camara) shows up on his doorstep (all the way from Canada). He can only stay for a few days, but Tomas means to make them count, whether Julian likes it or not. All the latter seems to care about is what to do about Truman, his beloved dog…
Grímur Hákonarson
One of the hits of VIFF last year, this tale of Icelandic sheep farmers beset by disaster is a sleeper hit. Gummi and Kiddi are siblings and neighbours who have not spoken to each other for decades, but when one of their flock goes down with disease the stakes go sky high. The film is funny, raw, and surprisingly lean. It begins as absurdist comedy but winds up closer to existential tragedy.
Anna Rose Holmer
On the surface The Fits is a simple story about an 11-year-old girl joining a local dance group, but this mesmerising film is truly about bodies, movement, individualism and the group. The title puns on physical fitness, fitting in (Toni's brother boxes in the gym next door to the rehearsal space, and Toni works out there too), and the unexplained physical spasms that befall several of the dancers.
Jia Zhangke
Another film of immense ambition and scope from leading Chinese filmmaker Jia Zhangke (A Touch of Sin; The World). Set over three decades, from the turn of the millennium to 2025, the film charts the ranging fortunes of two men and the woman they both love (Jia's muse, Tao Zhao). This is a film about China's embrace of capitalism, but told with an unforced poetic simplicity and rueful conviction.
Victoria Lean
Attawapiskat is a name we are hearing more often: it's the community that has been riven with a horrific spate of suicides this past year, and the same community which Stephen Harper implied was some kind of mis-managed money pit for Canadian tax payers (misleadingly, as it turns out). Vicky Lean filmed there from 2008 to 2013, a period which saw the much-heralded arrival of a new neighbour for Attawapiskat in the form of a De Beers diamond mine, just 90 miles away. Her film may be the most pressing portrait of Canada you will see all year.
Lee Chung
In this kinetic horror/kung-fu mash-up, an innocuous-seeming dry cleaners fronts for a hitman-for-hire operation. When a nameless contract killer becomes haunted by his former targets, he enlists a psychic for help, but their quest to make peace with the past puts them at odds with his ruthless employer. Colorful and brimming with unforgettable characters, The Laundryman puts the stylish influences of Wong Kar-Wai on the spin cycle. (Chicago Film Festival)
Liang Chieh-te
In 1991, a man makes a promise to create a detailed account of the Black Kites (a specie of eagle) of Taiwan. Produced by the Raptor Research Group of Taiwan, Fly, Kite Fly! follows Chen-Chung Shen, a.k.a Mr. Eagle, on a 20-year journey across Taiwan as he observes its 200 remaining Black Kites. The film chronicles a story of rapid urbanization, conservation, and the dangers of pesticide use, through the plight of the Black Kites, borrowing the voice of famous director and scriptwriter, Wu Nien Zhen. Carefully shot scenes of the Black Kites playfully gliding over Taiwan's coast will inspire the same desire to protect these precious creatures as it did for Mr. Eagle almost 20 years ago.
Gavin Lin
An eccentric young girl has her dreams of traveling to America dashed after her grandmother takes a tumble down the stairs. Their desolate hot springs resort is left in her care, along with a debilitating debt. What's more, a strange young foreigner stumbles upon the resort with limited funds and even more limited Chinese. Join these two in an unusual partnership as they try to keep the resort afloat, while discovering its hidden romantic secrets. Welcome to the Happy Days will invite you on the vacation of a lifetime with its comic book-style storytelling and vibrant colors of a pre-WWII resort.
Jing-Jie Lin
Eileen's life takes a turn for the better when a motorcycle accident lands her with free violin lessons. She develops a newfound relationship with retired police officer turned taxi driver Liao Chun-Ming as well as Kevin, the man of her dreams. Elena portrays the struggles of the average Taiwanese working class, and the difficulties they face in a rapidly changing country that sees rusty old factories as a thing of the past.
Gabriel Mascaro
Wild, sensual and utterly transporting, Brazilian writer-director Gabriel Mascaro's second fiction feature unfolds within the world of the vaquejada, a traditional exhibition sport in which cowboys try to pull bulls to the ground by their tails. Neon Bull explores the vaquejada through the eyes of Iremar, a handsome cowboy who works the events. While he's not afraid to get his hands dirty, Iremar's real dream is to design exotic outfits for dancers.


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PORTLAND — Leonard Brightmon finally came up with the answer to a question people have been asking for centuries: What in the world could possibly be better than a free meal?
Easy. Being able to pay for one yourself.
Two years ago, the Portland resident was in line at the Trail Blazers Harvest Dinner, an annual event that feeds more than 5,000 homeless and underserved individuals at the Rose Garden.
Thursday, the 43-year-old was a volunteer there, but he wasn't serving turkey and stuffing longside Nate McMillan or former Blazers Jerome Kersey and Brian Grant. He was handing out information about the Portland Central City Concern's Community Volunteer Corps — also known as the organization that gave him his life back.
See, Brightmon has been homeless for the better part of his life. But hungry as he was, it wasn't the pursuit of food that him led to a life of crime that's gotten him arrested more times than he can remember. No, for Leonard, the heroin needle was a far more powerful incentive.
Brightmon, a Dallas native, said that he has been addicted to some kind of drug ever since he was a teenager. He lost his father as a 7-year-old, and while he credits his mother as his biggest supporter, confesses the instability of a single-parent household helped trigger his downward spiral.
So for about two decades, he turned to the streets to chase his fixes while the police chased him. The most discouraging part? Brightmon thought he had mastered the art of life.
"I thought I was doing all right," Brightmon said. "The drugs didn't really catch up until my late 30's."
That's when two events took place that pained Brightmon worse than any comedown or withdrawal symptom.
First, the courts took away his then 1-year-old daughter, Amaylah. Not long after, his mother told him candidly "I don't even recognize you anymore."
It was then that Brightmon realized that he didn't recognize himself either, and that change had gone from a desire to a necessity.
So he reached out for help. Soon after, he had been integrated into the Central City Concern's Community Volunteer Corps, performing simulated jobs that taught him basic responsibilities such as working in groups and meeting deadlines. Not long after that, he was fully employed by the CCC as a janitor.
"I had gotten to the point where I was tired, where I wanted something different," Brightmon said. "I guess you can say that I found some way, I found a way to stand on my own two feet."
These days, Brightmon has a roof over his head in a North Portland apartment complex and has been clean for 29 months.
He said he loves waking up and being able to pay bills, but not nearly as much as he enjoys going to the park with his 5-year-old daughter, of whom he now has 50 percent custody.
He is also as close to his mother, Grace, as ever. And when he isn't with family, he is taking strides to lure others to the CCC so that they may experience similar transformations.
"People come up to me daily and tell me that I'm a role model in their life," Brightmon said. "I feel like I'm helping them turn themselves around."
Nowadays, it doesn't appear as if Leonard has anything to complain about in his life.
Well, except for one thing, of course — the Blazers did lose to the Mavericks in the first round of the playoffs last season.
"Actually," Brightmon said, "I've always been a Dallas guy."
Matt Calkins covers the Trail Blazers for The Columbian. He can be reached at 360-735-4528 or email firstname.lastname@example.com


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Defining the "status quo" in the South China SeaPosted: June 14, 2015 Filed under: Academic debates, China-ASEAN, China-Australia, China-Malaysia, China-Philippines, China-US, China-Vietnam, South China Sea | Tags: artificial islands, ASEAN, ASEAN and South China Sea, Ashton Carter, china maritime dispute, China-US relations, coercion, diplomacy, international norms, Malaysia, Malaysia and South china SEa, maritime disputes, reclamation, regional united front, Shangri-la Diaologue, south china sea, Spratly, spratly islands, status quo, The Diplomat, United States in South China Sea, 南海现状 9 Comments
Below is a piece published at The Diplomat, running through what the "status quo" is in the South China Sea, and the difficulties encountered in trying to define it. Aside from identifying some key metrics of the current situation in the disputed area, the aim was generate some debate, or at least second thoughts, about the usefulness of the "status quo" as a normative standard. The concept has proved useful in diplomacy over Taiwan, Korea and elsewhere, and (arguably) in international relations theory. But given the complex, watery nature of the South China Sea dispute, i argue it's not likely to help in establishing the kind of clear-cut, universally recognized standards the region needs to forestall escalation there.
The South China Sea: Defining the 'Status Quo'
The term's broad-brush vagueness – it simply means "the existing situation" – may make it appealing for practitioners of diplomacy, but the lack of clarity limits its usefulness as an analytic tool. More troublingly, being such an all-encompassing term, its use as a normative standard is inevitably selective, resulting in inconsistencies that risk breeding misunderstanding and mistrust. Unless used with care and nuance, it is a term that is more likely to undermine than underpin a "rules-based order" in maritime Asia.
The U.S. position on the East and South China Sea disputes, as Defense Secretary Ash Carter and other officials have frequently reiterated in recent months, is that it opposes changes to the status quo made through force or coercion. Senior U.S. military and civilian officials have used this standard formulation frequently since mid-2013, most prominently in relation to the PRC's East China Sea Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ), and its well-publicized island-construction project in the South China Sea.
Claimants in the disputed seas have also embraced the idea of defending the status quo from Chinese advances. The leaders of Japan and the Philippines on June 4 affirmed their opposition to "unilateral attempts to changes the status quo." Vietnam maintains a slightly subtler position that stops short of outright opposition, as typified by Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung's call for countries to refrain from "actions that would complicate the situation and change the status quo of rocks and shoals."
What's not in the latest photos of China's Spratly island construction?Posted: February 25, 2015 Filed under: China-ASEAN, China-Malaysia, China-Philippines, China-US, China-Vietnam, South China Sea, Western media | Tags: artificial islands, CBMs, Chinese foreign policy, deterrence, photography, reclamation, regional united front, spratly islands, western media 6 Comments
The spectacular photographs of China's progress in creating artificial islands in the South China Sea have deservedly generated a flurry of attention in the media and punditry in the past week or so.
The pictures show the amazing transformation, over the past year or so, of submerged atolls into sizeable islands with harbours, roads, container depots, workers' dormitories and even cement plants. The reclamation activities have been documented periodically since early 2014 by Vietnamese bloggers, the Philippines foreign ministry, defense publisher IHS Janes, and, most recently, the Washington-based CSIS's Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative.
These images seem to have a special ability to catch people's eyes and draw attention to the issue. On my own humble Twitter feed, where most posts are lucky to be noticed by anyone, when i've attached images of China's artificial Spratlys, the stats suddenly light up with dozens of retweets, many from strangers.
With this viral quality, and visual impact, they could well become iconic images that define the South China Sea issue as a whole. So amidst the surge of interest, it's worthwhile reflecting on what's not in the pictures. Here's my stocktake, together with a collection of less widely-circulated photos:
- The scoreboard: China is still well behind
- The company: reclamation is part of most claimants' Spratly strategies
- The history: it's not new, and that does matter for policy responses
- The regional context: easing tensions
- The environment: an unfolding tragedy
Additions, omissions and arguments most welcome!
Japan upholding the "path of peaceful development"? China's complimentary criticism of Abe's collective self-defensePosted: July 2, 2014 Filed under: China-Japan, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, State media, TV | Tags: Article 9, collective self-defense, Japanese constitution, Japanese Self Defense Force, JSDF, PRC-Japan, Shinzo Abe, Sino-Japanese relations Leave a comment
On Tuesday, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe announced that his cabinet had passed a new resolution on the interpretation of Article 9 of the post-war constitution, such that the Self-Defense Forces can now be used to defend Japan's allies. Coverage of China's official comments on the matter has typically focused on the "concern" it expressed, but there was also a curiously timed compliment contained within the PRC's response.
Can the US tone down to ASEAN's tune?Posted: May 27, 2014 Filed under: Academic debates, China-ASEAN, China-Australia, China-US, South China Sea | Tags: ASEAN, ASEAN and South China Sea, China-ASEAN, China-Australia relations, China-US relations, China-Vietnam, CNOOC, diplomacy, face, HYSY-981, peripheral diplomacy, public statements, regional united front, Sino-Vietnamese incidents, south china sea, US and South China Sea 4 Comments
East Asia Forum was yesterday kind enough to publish a piece called 'Can the US tone down to ASEAN's tune?'. I was asked to write about how the region should respond to crises like the Sino-Vietnamese standoff in the South China Sea, and the following is just my attempt at contributing something vaguely original to the discussion. I'm ready to be told it's naive, silly or completely nuts; my only request is that if you think so, please say so!
As Bill Bishop suggested in the Sinocism Newsletter a couple of weeks back, the region at this point appears unable to impose costs on Beijing for the kind of escalatory conduct exemplified by its unilateral placement of the oil drilling rig HYSY-981 in disputed waters this month. This is definitely worth thinking long and hard about. We also need to consider the incentives that the international situation may be creating for this kind of assertiveness, and work to reduce these.
The following article's bold proclamation about "what is needed" isn't meant literally; although that wording suggests otherwise, i really am not claiming to know what is needed or tell the real experts that they don't. It's just a suggestion, a case to be made, which is based on:
- My reading of how China sees these issues and its strategic interests (relatively sensitive to the possibility of ASEANization of the issue, relatively insensitive to US grandstanding);
- What hasn't worked to deter Beijing from assertive behaviour thus far (the US leading the criticism of China's provocative actions and strengthening ties with China's rival claimants); and
- Discussions with some friends and experts, whose feedback was vital to refining the idea (i'd name them but i'm not sure they wouldn't prefer to remain nameless).
EAF allowed me a generous 1200-odd words, and i ought to thank the editors for their excellent job of compressing it. Nonetheless, a few other clarifications had to be left out for space reasons, so i'm adding them after the end of this post, mainly for my own benefit i imagine.
Anyway, here's my crackpot idea, which which i put out there to be critiqued, so please don't hold back . . .
"War is good, it reshuffles the cards": Qiu Zhenhai's taxi ridePosted: April 20, 2014 Filed under: Academic debates, China-Japan, Diaoyu, State media | Tags: anti-Japanese protest, Chinese foreign policy, Chinese internet, Chinese nationalism, Diaoyu Islands, 邱震海, Li Weizhi, online nationalism, Qiu Zhenhai, south china sea 1 Comment
The introduction to Phoenix TV host and international affairs commentator Qiu Zhenhai's book, excerpted in Southern Weekend a couple of weeks back, reprises an important issue for everyone studying nationalism in China: to what extent should we really understand the phenomena that get labelled "Chinese nationalism" in those terms?
Creative tensions and soft landings: Wang Yizhou explains China's foreign policy agendaPosted: December 17, 2013 Filed under: Academic debates, China's foreign relations, China-ASEAN, China-Japan, China-US | Tags: Carnegie-Tsinghua Center, China-Japan, China-North Korea relations, China-US relations, China-Vietnam, China-Vietnam relations, Chinese foreign policy, Chinese foreign policy scholars, Chinese strategy, creative tensions, 王逸舟, New kind of great power relations, north korea, Paul Haenle, peripheral diplomacy, PRC foreign policy, Sino-American relations, Sino-Japanese relations, Sino-Vietnamese relations, south china sea, Wang Yizhou, Xi Jinping foreign policy 4 Comments
Peking University Professor Wang Yizhou, one of China's top foreign policy scholars, did an interview for the excellent new Carnegie-Tsinghua podcast last month (Part 1 and Part 2), covering a very broad sweep of China's emerging foreign policy, regional strategy, territorial disputes, global role, and bilateral relations with the US.
His main points are noted below, starting with regional strategy and China's maritime territorial disputes. I've just done this as an exercise to try to better grasp the significance of what Wang says; for most people it's probably better to just go listen to the podcast. The italicized blockquote bits are a mix of direct quotes and paraphrasing.
Xi's task: a "soft landing" for the South China Sea dispute


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I am using Exchange server in my home computer. if i send 10 messages from one user, i want to know how many users read my message.
I am using Exchange server in my home computer. if i send 10 messages from one user, i want to know how many users read my message.
I think that Exchange server already has the ability to generate message tracking log files, that contains the information you want to be able to not only track messages through the system, but to also be able to produce reports. So for that you have to turn on message tracking first, which is found on the properties of the server object in Exchange System Manager. Don't forget to tick the box for subject tracking, which is really useful. Once that is done, get ready for yourself with a suitable 3rd party software package that can read in the information in these tracking log files such as the Promodag Reports or the MessageStats from Quest.
Its very difficult to understand message tracking log file. Is there ant 3rd party tools available to track this information.
I think that the Microsoft Exchange Server Profile Analyzer tool lets administrators collect estimated statistical information from a single mailbox store or across an Exchange Server organization. You can use the collected data to perform the following operations:
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When the NFL lockout ends, one of the big questions to be answered is how quickly rookies might be able to contribute without the benefit of being part of spring camps/organized team activities and having fully digested a playbook under the watch of coaches.
In New England, the position many will be watching is left tackle, because that's where first-round draft choice Nate Solder plays. Can Solder do what Matt Light did as a rookie in 2001, starting the majority of the team's games (15 of 19) at such an important position?
Opinions differ.
In his Sunday football notes piece for the Boston Globe, Greg A. Bedard quotes four anonymous NFL scouting executives, and three of them pick Solder as the Patriots' draft pick most likely to contribute this season.
In a blog entry, Bedard himself expresses some surprise at that, which highlights the differing views on the topic.
From this perspective, Solder is going to need more time. I'd be surprised if he's a Day 1 starter.
In a related note, the Colts seem to be thinking along the same lines with their first-round pick, left tackle Anthony Castonzo of Boston College (see "Things I Didn't Used to Know" section of Dan Pompei's Sunday Blitz piece on National Football Post).
One factor to consider with the Patriots is the status of the offensive line as a whole. If Light doesn't return (he's an unrestricted free agent), that could thrust Solder into the mix quicker. Other options include moving Sebastian Vollmer from right tackle to left tackle, or simply inserting Nick Kaczur, Mark LeVoir or Steve Maneri at left tackle.
Elsewhere on the line, there is some uncertainty with starting left guard Logan Mankins, who has been assigned the franchise tag. Will he sign it? In addition, starting right guard Stephen Neal retired, opening that spot on the first unit, with Dan Connolly a top candidate.
When all those factors are considered, what do you think when it comes to Solder and the likelihood he could start at left tackle from Day 1?
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You've got to love the French. Despite our country's love for all things that come in vending machines — e.g. newspapers, DVDs, soft drinks and the list goes on — only the French could have conceived using these convenient little boxes to pump wine! In order
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Conventional wisdom suggests that you shouldn't retire with any debt.
A key reason that debt rose so rapidly for boomers is this: That group spent more on housing and took out larger mortgages, compared with earlier cohorts. And, the authors say, boomers retiring in the next several years are more likely to carry this debt into retirement, compared with previous cohorts.
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