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Several Michigan State University professors have been asked to submit months worth of e-mails to the Mackinac Center, a public policy think tank that claims to protect the best interests of Michigan residents. The professors say they're being treated unfairly. But the Mackinac Center says its just doing its job.
"They've requested all of our e-mails for the last three months that contain the words: Wisconsin, Madison, Scott Walker, Collective Bargaining or Rachel Maddow," said Michelle Kaminski, associate professor for Human Resources and Labor Relations at MSU.
Those words are seemingly harmless on the surface, but they have made a handful of MSU professors in the Labor Department the target of an investigation by the Mackinac Center.
"It feels a little like finding out your phone has been tapped," said Kaminski. "You've been going about doing your job and suddenly somebody wants to see everything you've done."
Ken Braun, managing editor for the Mackinac's online news site says, Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests were first sent to Wayne State University's Labor Department.
"The one we were primarily interested in was the Wayne State Labor Studies Center which has been running what looks like a political action committee out of their department rather than a teaching and research university or department," said Braun.
Braun said as recently as Monday, Wayne State's mission statement for its labor studies center included phrasing such as "designed to assist progressive organizations in their campaign needs, building coalitions, mobilizing for aggressive political action."
Braun: "These are not the sort of things that teaching and research professors normally are associated with."
Braun added that the Center wants to see if there are any e-mails between the universities that would suggest any kind of political activism agenda.
"A whole lot of tax dollars go to these public universities and when they're doing things outside their mandate, potentially not legally of their mandate or against the law itself, we have a right to ask questions," said Braun.
Many professors at MSU understand a need for boundaries when using university resources, but some say the Mackinac Center has gone too far.
"I certainly understand if I'm accused of any kind of wrongdoing that they think I've done some wrong, they've got the right to look at it," said Kaminski. But that's not what this is about. The Mackinac Center is on a fishing expedition to find out stuff they don't like or agree with."
"We don't care what their opinions are," said Braun. "We care about whether they are using their taxpayer resources properly and not entering improperly into political action committee-like material."
"I believe it's just an attempt to harrass and to silence people, to intimidate them, make them think twice before they speak out and express their opinions," said Kaminski.
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Tenants are requested to contact the Management Office as far in advance of the move date as possible, but no less than two (2) weeks prior to any move in to or out of the Building, to coordinate the move and reserve the freight elevator. All move-ins/outs must take place after 6:00 pm, Monday through Friday, or on weekends and are scheduled on a first come, first served basis. Additional Charges for loading dock personnel, elevator operators, and security guards to accomplish the move will be charged to you at prevailing rates.
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A pickup used by former President George W. Bush at his Crawford ranch will be auctioned off next month to raise money for The Fisher House Foundation, an organization that helps service members and military families.
The truck — to be sold by Barret-Jackson Auction Company on Jan. 19 in Scottsdale, Ariz. — is a white 2009 Ford F-150 King Ranch 4 X 4 SuperCrew. Bush has used the truck, which has a 5.4-liter V8 engine with 310 horsepower and 11,200-pound towing capacity, since shortly after he left the White House in 2009.
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For some area students, voting for the first time in a presidential election carries a sense of excitement - and responsibility.
"It's scary, because I've done a lot of stuff in high school, but this is really the biggest thing I've ever had to do," said Jessica Coulter, a Waterford High School senior who will turn 18 before the Nov. 6 election. "You can change the country. If you vote for one person and they do something right and it benefits the whole country, you made the right choice."
Young voters were a strength for President Barack Obama in the 2008 election, and members of both parties are making efforts to court the youth vote in 2012. The latest Associated Press poll shows Obama leading Republican challenger Mitt Romney 54 percent to 38 percent among voters younger than 35.
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That puts Fort Frye High School senior Travis Miller in the minority.
"My views, I believe, are somewhat more similar to (Romney's) than Obama's," he said.
Miller said he tries to stay updated on what both candidates have to say, mainly via the Internet. He said he's looking forward to voting because it's one of the only ways citizens have to make their voice heard.
"I'm pretty excited to actually have a say," he said.
Several other students contacted Tuesday said they're still making up their minds.
Waterford High School senior Kyle Miller, 17, no relation to Travis, said he plans to do more research before making his selection. It's a choice he doesn't take lightly.
"You've got to think about things," he said. "You can't just go, 'Oh, I'm going to vote for him because everybody else likes him.'"
Coulter said she plans to research issues and watch some of the upcoming presidential debates, which kick off next month, to help her decide. She said she's one of only four students in one class who will be eligible to vote in the presidential election, but the race is a topic of interest even among those who won't be casting a ballot.
"Everybody's looking at you, asking who you're going to vote for, what are you going to do, what party are you, and it's just a lot," Coulter said.
Fellow Waterford senior Alan Brooker isn't quite ready to commit his vote either.
"I'm pretty sure I know but not entirely sure yet," he said.
Brooker said one of the most important factors in his decision is whether he'll have a job after he finishes college.
"I'd like to go into green architecture, so I'd like to see some more initiatives on green technology," he said.
Waterford senior Carrie Simms said she often discusses election-related issues with her family, but feels her decisions on the ballot will be her own.
"I talk to my parents about what's going on and get their thoughts, and then I compare them to my thoughts," she said.
Kyle Miller said he's always thought of voting as a rite of passage, like getting a driver's license when you turn 16.
"We just happen to be turning 18 the year of the" presidential election, he said.
Frontier High School senior Daniel Matheney said he'll probably vote in the upcoming election but isn't sure. Being eligible to vote isn't "that big of a change because my family doesn't talk about it," he said.
Matheney said he is learning more about the election because it's a frequent topic of discussion in Keith Robinson's citizenship class. He expects to get most of his information from the Internet and television news.
If he does vote, he said it would be for "someone who's honest and would stand behind what they're going to do," Matheney said.
Citizenship classmate Danielle Watkins won't turn 18 until after Election Day, but that hasn't stopped her from following the race.
"I just get really into it," she said.
Watkins said both candidates have different views which makes the race more interesting. Still, she doesn't think it would be an easy decision.
"They're going to say things to get people to vote for them ... which makes it hard for people to know which one would be best," she said.
Robinson, who teaches government and American history at Frontier, said students' interest in the race seems to be more reactionary at this point.
"Overall they're interested, but it's moreso when they hear something in the news or they hear someone talking about it, they come to class with questions," he said, noting recent convention speeches by actor Clint Eastwood and former President Bill Clinton seemed to get their attention.
The lengthy run-up to the election has rendered it something akin to background chatter for many students, but Robinson expects he'll see more interest as the election approaches.
Washington County Board of Elections director Peggy Byers said her office has registered about 350 18-year-olds to vote in the last six months. That number does not include 17-year-olds who will be 18 by Election Day. The office also has a program called Youth at the Booth, which offers seven students from the seven high schools in Washington County a chance to work in polling places on Nov. 6.
"The idea of the program is to get them into the process, and hopefully they'll stay in the process," Byers said.


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Mile-High Musings
Those who have attended the Great American Beer Festival (GABF) over the past several years will know that the Brewers Association-presented event has grown into much more than the four tasting sessions that accommodate 49,000 brew seekers over a three-day period. It's become a news-making platform for craft brewers and even the big brewers that extends beyond the walls of the Colorado Convention Center to the rest of Denver and in many cases well beyond the city limits. As always, it was a whirlwind few days for me as, like always, I tried to be three or four places at once so as not to miss anything. While that's against the laws of physics, I was able to pick up a few tidbits.
Community Support
GABF took place barely a month after the devastating floods in the festival's home region and the beer community banded together to help neighbors rebuild. The festival had a specially designated flood relief donation area, headed up by two of Colorado's leading craft brewers, Oskar Blues and Left Hand. Both earlier this year set up their own charitable organizations designed to give back to the community and help in crises such as these natural disasters. Left Hand in May introduced the Left Hand Brewing Foundation and Oskar Blues in September launched Oskar Blues CAN'd Aid Foundation.
Wholesale Honors
Congratulations are in order for Mechanicville, N.Y.-based DeCrescente Distributing Co., which the National Beer Wholesalers Association (NBWA) and Brewers Association selected as Craft Beer Distributor of the Year. The two organizations presented the award jointly at GABF, noting that DeCrescente is well on its way to achieving its goal of 20 percent craft share in its local market by 2018.
Here Be Dragons
Preceded by the type of fanfare, mystery and intrigue reserved for the Seven Kingdoms of Westeros, Cooperstown, N.Y.'s Brewery Ommegang finally revealed on night one (Thursday, Oct. 10) of GABF what the latest addition of its Game of Thrones line would be. Fire and Blood Red Ale will be the third offering in the line officially licensed by HBO to tie-in with its hit series based on George R.R. Martin's epic "A Song of Ice & Fire" book series. It will debut through Ommegang's nationwide distributor network in spring 2014, coinciding with season four of "Game of Thrones" on HBO. Ommegang offered GABF attendees a sneak peek at the Fire & Blood's artwork, which incorporates the series' three dragons: Drogon, Rhaegal and Visarion.
Life After Death
Finally, I have to give a shout-out to Shmaltz Brewing Co. founder Jeremy Cowan who was showcasing He'Brew Death of a Contract Brewer black IPA. The beer marks Shmaltz's transition this summer from 100 percent contract-brewed to running its own brick-and-mortar brewery in Clifton Park, N.Y. It's been quite an eventful year for Shmaltz. Shortly after opening the brewery, Shmaltz announced the sale of its Coney Island brand to Alchemy & Science, a subsidiary of Boston Beer.


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Welcome to my little user page on the IMSLP. Feel free to take a look around ;) You will of course notive, that my page looks a lot like the actual IMSLP Main Page. This is because I use this user page as a sort of customized homepage to browse the categories that I use the most.
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Digitalization of the original prints of three rare educational works written by German musicologist Otto Tiersch
- "System und Methode der Harmonielehre" (1868)
- "Kurze praktische Generalbass- Harmonie- und Modulationslehre" (1876)
- "Kurzes praktisches Lehrbuch für Contrapunkt und Nachahmung" (1879)
|This user is a professional electric bassist.
|This user is an advanced percussionist.
|This user is an intermediate contrabassist.
|This user is an intermediate pianist.
|This user is an intermediate guitarist.
|Dieser Benutzer spricht Deutsch auf Muttersprachler-Niveau.
|This user speaks English at a native level.
|Cet utilisateur parle français.
Favourite composers
Modest Mussorgsky.
Johann Sebastian Bach.
Robert Schumann.
Ludwig van Beethoven.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
Joseph Haydn.
Short biography
- Born in 1992 in Bückeburg - Germany (known as the residence of Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach)
- Started making music at the age of 4
- First lessons at the age of 5
- Produced first handwritten music at the age of 5
- Keyboard lessons at the age of 6
- First contact with the "Pictures at an Exhibition" by Modest Mussorgsky between 6 and 10, which led to a passion for composing music
- Started composing and producing music actively at 11
- Started playing Drums at 12
- Started playing Electric Bass at 14
- Educated as musical mentor for instrumentalists, conducting and directing ensembles, arranging, music production and event management
- Released his first album with the band "analogue" in 2009
- Started playing contrabass at 17
- Recorded and produced over 15 artists in his private studio
- E-Bass lessons with an Associate Professor of the Osnabrück College since 2010
- Switched from Keyboard to classical Piano lessons at 17
- Theory lessons at the "Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien" - Hannover and the Bückeburg Music School since 2011
- Finished his first Symphony at the age of 18, along with smaller works like Overtures, a string quartet, a two-movement-Variation and accumulated over 250 musical sketches spanning over many genres
- Recently received a scholarship for the 31st international Jazzworkshop in Erlangen-Germany
- Academic Jazz studies beginning in Autumn 2011
Music is and always was my main purpose in life. I am practicing Bass (electric) almost every day from 2 up to 7 hours and write music almost every day aswell. My daily procedures also include ear training with steadily increasing difficulty, atonal music dictations and so on. Besides making music I do sports like body-building, swimming and long-distance-cycling, and I design graphics and deal with astronomy, philosophy and visual arts.
My greatest inspiration was and is the russian composer Modest Mussorgsky whose music I first encountered somewhere between the age of 6 and 10. I immediatly knew that there was no greater meaning in life to me than creating music. The staggering vividness, the metric structure of the "Promenades" and almost every other fact of his "Pictures at an Exhibition" simply captivated me. The list of my current favourite classical composers includes Johann Sebastian Bach, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven, Robert Schumann, Paul Hindemith, Gustav Holst, Claude Debussy, Franz Schubert, Georges Bizet, Antonine Dvořák and many many more...
Jazz and Classical music are my "main" styles of music. The ones that I compose and that I "think music in". To me, Jazz is like the natural evolution of classical music paired with strong influence of the African music tradition and I believe it could last just as long ;)
When it comes to Jazz artists, I listen to Esbjörn Svensson, Avishai Cohen, Miles Davis, Duke Jordan, Chet Baker, Louis Armstrong, Art Blakey, Charlie Parker, Dave Brubeck, Duke Ellington, Viktoria Tolstoy, Nils Landgren, Fats Waller, Charles Mingus and almost all artists that were relevant in Jazz history.


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I'm a complete newbie to scripting in QCad.
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How can I produce a prompt in then command line from within the script and get the value of user input in my script?
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icarus502 wrote: squirtisblow wrote: there was a man on top of the mall, the beverly center, with an uzi shooting down at people.
I've read a shit-ton about the LA uprising and I've never heard that there was a guy randomly shooting people from a building with an uzi.
squirtisblow wrote: there was a man on top of the mall, the beverly center, with an uzi shooting down at people.
Bandini wrote: icarus502 wrote: squirtisblow wrote: there was a man on top of the mall, the beverly center, with an uzi shooting down at people.
I've read a shit-ton about the LA uprising and I've never heard that there was a guy randomly shooting people from a building with an uzi.
The LA uprising? Gimme a break.
Bandini wrote: Youre really going to equate what happened in Egypt to the LA riots? That couldn't be any more of an apples to oranges comparison. The Egyptians peacefully assembled to take down a longstanding dictatorship. The LA rioters descended into mob rule and burned and pillaged small businesses in their community and assaulted innocents. There was no political end. Sure, you can point at the underlying social and political causes that sparked the riots, but at some point it stops being revolt and starts being opportunistic thuggery. Really not fair to people who work for real political change, like those in Egypt, to make that equation.
And its the same thing in the UK right now. Yes, people have reasons to be angry, but I find it disingenuous when people say thats why theyre doing it, because I bet half the people kicking in shop windows dont have half a clue about Mark Duggan and have never suffered at the hands of police. Theyre gleefully joining in the lawlessness for the rush and power. Its opportunism at this point, not political revolt.
And that fuck you comment: try not to get so emotional on the internet, Icarus. It makes you look immature.
Quote: An open letter to those who condemn looting (Part one)
[given length, this is in two parts]
Dear you all,
I fear we have nothing to say to each other.
What follows may therefore represent one half of a dialogue in the way that yelling at a jukebox made of ice does. Perhaps the sheer exertion of speaking - a certain quantity of hot air - will soften the surface a bit, but it's a pretty one-sided discussion. And it doesn't mean you can or will stop repeating the records you have been given to play, those looping phrases and evasions.
After all, we've heard what you have to say. We too know the words by heart. We find it, at best, deeply unconvincing, and, at worst, bilious, evasive, racist, average, murderous pap not fit for mouths or ears. And there is very little that is best these days.
I expect you would say the same about our position, albeit with a different set of adjectives. Juvenile, destructive, unreasonable, and naive come to mind, if your previous history of accusations gives any indication. Unfortunately, given the structure of the media and the flow of information, we cannot but hear what you say while you can very easily continue to ignore what we do. Until lots of angry people are burning your city, at which point you might, in a fit of weakness, concede to listen to those who have some opinions on the matter. Unlikely, though. We live in noisy times.
It is too bad, though, because we actually agree on a few things. For you say of these riots, and this looting, that they are opportunistic. That they are unreasonable and stupid. That "this isn't a protest, this is a riot." That they are "not political." That "this is about individuals using the excuse of what happened the first two nights to make sure what happens the third night is worse". That this is "havoc." That this is "criminality pure and simple." That they do not "have the right" to do this. That "no benefit will come in the long term," from "looting a local shop," "setting a bus on fire," or "nicking a mobile phone." Above all, as you, Home Secretary put it, "There is no excuse for violence. There is no excuse for looting." (For a further litany and bestiary of speech, see here.)
And we agree.
There are some points of difference, it's true. We don't think "these people" are "apes," rats," "dogs". But we believe that you truly see them that way, and that what happens now is not the reason for your belief: it is merely a confirmation of how you've always thought of those who are definitely more poor and often more brown than you. As for the claim that your error lay in that "we should have helped the IPCC come closer to the Mark Duggan's family more quickly," it seems that you have already helped the police come plenty close to his family, in the worst way possible. One can't really say that it was the delay of the IPCC's approach to the family that is the problem here, can we? Doesn't it have more to do with the fact that he did not shoot at the police who murdered him?
Lastly, we disagree that "what we're witnessing now has absolutely nothing to do with" that shooting. And that is the real difference, the tiny crack between us that widens into a yawning gulf, a division that cannot be squared.
For we want to understand the world in its historical particularity, how and why it has gotten to be the way that it is, and why that is insupportable. You, however, simply want to make sure that it goes on as long as possible. Regardless of the quality, regardless of the consequences, regardless of anything other than your collected capacity to declare that it's a nasty world out there, but at least we have our decency. At least we sit high enough to look out over the killing fields. At least we got here by legal measures. And how dare they. How dare they.
But despite this, you've said much that is entirely correct. Let us, then, begin with where we agree.
1. This isn't political
"Political" here would seem to mean "that which has the character of politics" or "that which pertains to the set of concerns and questions addressed by the activity and category called politics." That seems clear enough.
What is meant by politics, not in general and always, but when we speak of it now?
Politics is the management of the social (i.e. the messy realm that acknowledges that there is not one person but many of them) and its contradictions. It does so through institutional representation of varying scales of involvement, ranging from the fantasy of one-to-one direct democracy to the election of presidents by millions of people. It runs alongside economics, which also bears on, determines, and relies upon the sphere of social existence. The economic order we have - the reproduction of capital - dictates a set of social relations between people and their world, and it understands those people, their time, and their exertion as a resource to be managed, extracted, tended, and circulated. Economics manages resources, through a set of relations dependent upon the material abstraction that is value. Politics manages subjects and their needs, through a set of representations dependent upon the material abstraction that is citizenship. One can't think politics without economics and vice versa, although there are periods of time in which one seems more determinant, in the first and last instance, than the other.
Given the polices you enact or support, it's hard to imagine you would disagree with this, although you probably don't like the language.
To take any account of this era, then, is to understand the rapidly increasing difficulty for either politics or economics to govern, handle, or structure the fact of masses, the fact of the social. This story shows itself most clearly in two ways.
First, the utter incapacity to provide adequate employment to an adequate number of people, such that the ranks of those who cannot be employed swells. This is a structural fact of the way capital develops. This is no accident of bad governance, though there is loads of ineptitude across the ruling board. This is not the fault of a "soft" immigration policy, in which growth rates would somehow have weathered the general collapse of manufacturing profitability for nearly forty years if only Britain could have been kept white, if post-colonial meant that those in the ex-colonies stayed put when the Empire found them too unruly to manage.
Second, the slow bleeding, coupled with a recent gutting unprecedented in its severity and rapidity, of the carcass of the welfare state, through attacks on social programs, housing, and pensions. Such that the ranks of those who are employed, but not rich, and those who cannot be employed are further distanced from the means to adequately reproduce their own lives and those of their friends and families. This inability to do so is coupled with the present and vicious face of an old fact: when the poor get poorer, their needs - and desires, that thing always mocked by the upper and middle classes as if wanting something you can't afford means you are a moron - do not have the good grace to disappear. They get more desperate, the zones of the city get more rigorously divided, and the police get rougher.
These are the basic axes on which we turn and which hang, deadly, over the heads of the mass. In short, the conditions which ground politics and economics - namely, citizenship and value - and produce the grounding assumption that both are natural and ongoing are in a shuddering, terrified disarray.
To say, then, that these riots and this looting are "not political" is to understand something very key indeed. Namely, that politics as it heretofore stands has shown itself, for many years and more clearly than ever, to be utterly inadequate in addressing the concerns and needs of those who barely fall beneath its shadow to start.
To mourn this fact is merely to insist, as you do, that "these people" should go back to their parts of the city and to the official channels of complaint, the ones that can be recognized as political, that you can know as such when you see it (even extending as far as a peaceful rally that knows when to go home!). Back to taking impossible shelter beneath a relation that has serves only as a dividing line that keeps them out. Back to not being considered as viable political subjects. As such, only when they act "not politically" (skipping the mediation of citizenship and representation to appear) does that term even appear, as a negative definition. But you've never understood them "politically." You look the other way and hope that they do the same.
But we are in Janus times, albeit ones where the two faces are wrenching their shred head apart in an attempt to spit in the face of the other.
Riots are the other side of democracy, when democracy means the capacity and legitimacy to vote into place measures that directly wound the very population they purport to represent.
Looting is the other side of credit, when credit entails the desperate scrambling of states and institutions to preserve a good line, cost to those who might borrow that credit be damned.
(It is, to be sure, a coincidence that these specific few days have seen at once the riots, the lowering of the US credit rating, and severe turbulence on stock markets. But it is not incidental. Rioting and looting are as old as the economic extraction and political management of populations. In a time in which such extraction and management stop working so well, in which work itself is seized up, how can stopping and seizing not come more to the fore?)
And "havoc," that which is being wrought? One of the earlier meanings of the word was not destruction as such (the thing wreaked) but the cry uttered that was the sign and injunction to start plundering. You cry havoc.
Havoc, then, is the other side of class, which itself meant - and means - both a division of people into classes for the purpose of extracting wealth (taxation) and a calling to arms. Havoc is held off by class and threatens to overwhelm it, the anarchic turn of stealing and laying waste that illuminates, negatively, this other relation, of legal theft and sanctioned destruction of lives and resources.
Havoc is the basic criminality of class. Are you surprised to see that it is hard to contain?
2. This isn't fair
This is a common rejoinder, and again, it is entirely true. Folded into it is a fully legitimate recognition of the damage and trauma being done, primarily through loss of property, to many who clearly are nowhere near rich, who also scrape to get by, who build up a small life over many years.
And for those who would ask us, in hopes of mocking us, yeah, but what if it was your house? Your car? Your shop? we say:
We would be furious. We would be devastated. How could we not?
Because the point here has nothing to do with "legitimating" violence or with disavowing the shock and horror of those caught in the crossfire. It is that insofar as the very standard of the political collapses, insofar as its basic capacity to adequately capture and express the contradictions of an enormous mass of lives, so too its basic conceptual standards.
Above all, the very notion of compromise which is fundamental to the blockage of real attempts to intervene in disastrous situations. The very idea of a cost-benefit analysis. And joined at the hip to economic concepts, the notion of equivalence and equality, such that you could adequate between the suffering and rage of desperately poor teen shat on by the country that mocks, loathes, and criminalizes him and the suffering and trauma of a poor shop-owner whose store was looted, whose capacity to get by is already stretched thin by gentrification-fueled rents, economic downturn.
For us to genuinely think beyond the deadly impasse of politics is to reject these forms of evaluation and weighing. To abjure fairness. And instead to say:
It is brutal that people are so cut off from access to bare necessities that they have to sell drugs and are consequently jailed for life for doing so.
It is brutal that a family watches their home burn because of a riot.
It is brutal that police shot first.
It is brutal that people need to defend their stores with baseball bats, in fear of losing them.
It is brutal that people have to spend their lives working in those stores, in fear of losing them.
None of these are mutually exclusive. They are all true. But it is precisely that notion of restricting dissent and struggle to "politics" that performs the operation of grouping them into sides, such that you could balance and weigh them.
They are incommensurable. They are also consequences of the same set of relations that make it extraordinarily difficult for much of the world to live.
And we are in a time in which such a double condition, of that which cannot be measured and that which cannot be accidental, rules. It rules in the breakdown of sides, of the metric of fairness, in the upsurge in the midst of all that we thought could be clearly divided. It is a scrambling of poles of identity. One doesn't defend a riot. It is not "good" or "bad." A riot is a scrambling of positions of belonging and of judgment.
Often, it is an internal dissolution of what might have appeared common lines of class.
It involves situations the likes of which we are sure to see more, the turning of the hopelessly poor against the poor-but-just-getting-by, between shop-owners and looters, between workers and rioters, between those breaking the windows and those who clean them, and, internally, between individuals themselves, who cannot always be split into one or the other.
This seems the way things are going now and are likely to go more in the coming decade, as the state recedes and regroups, intervenes brutally in explosive moments, but largely leaves both sides of the same poor to fend for themselves and to fight one another. They, and you, will come in only at the end to clean up the mess, take photos with brooms in hand, wring those hands, hope that everyone learned their lesson, and get back to the business of ignoring the legitimate concerns of those who are still there.
And of course what happens is terrifying, thrilling, idiotic, sad, staggering, and inevitable. Of course. We never expected anything otherwise. And neither did you.
Quote: Researchers found that in almost all of the worst-affected areas, youth unemployment and child poverty were significantly higher than the national average while education attainment was significantly lower.
"Child poverty rates in local authorities where riots flared are stubbornly high," it stated. "While poverty is no excuse for criminality, it places additional pressure on families not only to make ends meet but also to spend time together
The political debate is likely to rage on for some time but there is also an urgent need to understand what is happening in communities where violence flared."
The Guardian's analysis is based on unprecedented access to court results granted by the Ministry of Justice.


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Hello, everybody. This is going to be my last blog for the season. I might give one out over the summer or I might not. Depends on how I feel.
Our team goal this year was to make it to the postseason and go on a Cinderella run like Butler and VCU from last year but unfortunately we fell short. But, we did finish out on a positive note sending Chris out with a win. It's too bad we couldn't take him to the postseason.
I think a Cinderella team to watch this year is Detroit. Their stud, Ray McCallum, Jr., went to middle school with me. "Ray Michael" (that's what his mom called him when he was in trouble) and I played together my eighth grade year. We were by far one of the best middle school guard 1-2 punches in the city. Unfortunately, we lost in the district championship to a school with a bunch of man-children. They had chest hair in the eighth grade. CHEST HAIR IN THE EIGHTH GRADE!!!!!!
Shout out to T-Time getting Honorable Mention from the conference. I feel like he should've been named Second Team and he feels the same way, but that gives him something to work toward in the offseason.
Speaking of the offseason, usually offseasons are a chance to improve individually. At the beginning of the offseason, teams usually get one to two weeks off to take care of nagging injuries, focus on schoolwork and catch up on some sleep as well. Only a few coaches start offseason right away with workouts.
As far as offseason workouts, teams usually focus on getting stronger and preparing for the grind next year with pretty heavy lifting and skills work. Most of our conditioning is open gym unless guys act up and we have to run for punishment. But that's not our team.
Anyway, back to March Madness. My favorite NCAA Tournament run by any team is the George Mason run in 2006. Those dudes played like a team and played unselfish basketball. I think a couple of them were originally football players too. How crazy is that? Pretty crazy.
My favorite March Madness game is a tie between the Vermont vs. Syracuse upset in 2005 and Bucknell surprising Kansas in 2005. I pretended to be UVM's T.J. Sorrentine for the rest of the spring and summer. That shot is ridiculous. Check it out.
No doubt in my mind we'll be that next Cinderella team sooner or later.
Enjoy the Madness.
It's been real!
Charlie Hurd is a junior who is sitting out this season due to NCAA transfer rules. The Houston native played two years at Division II Tarleton State before coming to the Island University.


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Gerhard Richter. Sinopse
Gerhard Richter: Survey
Caixa Cultural Brasilia, Brasilia, Brazil
05 May 2011 – 12 June 2011
Orchidee IV
Orchid IV
1998 47.8 cm x 50.3 cm Editions CR: 105
Offset print, each copy on different paper, passepartout
Yellow, red, blue, and black offset print, each copy on different paper, white mount.
After the oil painting Orchid [CR: 848-9] from 1997, which in turn is based on a photograph taken by Richter. Versions I through V each show different parts of the subject.
19 copies, signed and dated in felt-tip pen at top right or bottom right; instead of numbers, the prints have dates: 25. - 29. Okt. 98, 4.- 6. Nov. 98, 11. Nov. 98, 18.- 22. Nov. 98, 6.-10. Dez. 98.
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The catalogue Gerhard Richter. Survey accompanies the eponymous exhibition of the German Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen (IfA), which has been composed by Gerhard Richter himself...
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At the conclusion of Beverly/Lowell Post 389/750's season-ending loss to Cambridge Post 84 Sunday at Don Coss Field, head coach Todd Engle, like he does every year, said goodbye to the group of players who will not be returning next season due to age restrictions.
Evan Sawyer, Jordan Satterfield, Austin Campbell, Kordell Antill, Dustin Duffy and Terrance Mayle all played integral roles in Beverly/Lowell's 2013 season, but will be too old to compete for Engle's squad again next summer.
While that is a tough group to lose, what Beverly/Lowell returns should lead to an even more successful campaign in 2014.
While leadoff hitter Campbell will be gone, the team returns its 2 through 6-hole hitters in what was a very potent lineup throughout the District 11 tournament this past weekend.
Warren's Ethan Estes, Lance Schafer and Gunnar Smith will likely return to hit second, fourth and fifth, respectively, in Engle's lineup again next summer, while Parkersburg Catholic's Jake Ullman (third) and Morgan's Justin Greer (sixth) will also be back.
Marietta's Devin Leister could potentially move from the 9-hole to the leadoff spot next year while playing either second base or an outfield position.
Ullman will be back at shortstop, Estes at third or in left, Greer at first, Smith behind the plate and Schafer somewhere in the outfield.
On the mound, Engle will have a lot of innings to make up for with the departures of Sawyer, Duffy and Antill, but should have enough arms returning to do it.
Marietta grad Ben Barnas is expected to be back and will likely be the team's ace. Caldwell's Kyler McElfresh and Warren's Justin Hill will be other options for Beverly/Lowell's rotation, as well as Federal Hocking's Phillip Hoffman.
Add to that a solid junior team from this season and Engle and his staff has a lot to be excited about for summers to come.
"We should be fun to watch here for a long time," he said.
Jordan Holland is a sports writer for The Marietta Times. He can be reached at 740-376-5449 or at firstname.lastname@example.com


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For four days, 15 Camdenton R-III students ranging from fifth to seventh grades learned about SeaPerch, an underwater Remotely Operated Vehicle. The High School's FIRST LASER team along with Camden County 4-H hosted the camp which is in its second year.
Students built the vehicles literally from the ground up. The kit consists of low-cost, easily accessible parts. Teams of three students and one teacher focus on learning engineering concepts, problem solving, teamwork and technical applications.
The Navy SeaPerch Camp not only teaches the kids about the vehicle itself but broadens their idea of engineering job opportunities.
Mitch and Sherry Comer are in charge of the high school team and were eager to collaborate with 4H for this camp.
"It involves more kids and gets them excited about STEM," Sherry Comer said. "It is a good way to gear them back up for school."
Some of the high school team members volunteered throughout the week. For Mitch Comer, that is what it is all about.
"It is a part of our mission," he said. "It is just another great learning opportunity."
Manuevering a vehicle underwater is very different than driving a robot on lands. With the ripples in the water and the distorted view the driver gets above the water, it makes it difficult. The fact that this camp focuses on marine technology was why Michele Kroll with MU Extension wanting to host the camp.
"With us living at the lake area, I thought it would bring a different type of robot," Kroll said.
The vehicles can be used throughout the year for various purposes.
Kroll was able to find a grant to fund the first year of the camp. The camp has continued due to its success. It costs each student $100 to attend but scholarships are available.
Monday through Wednesday, teams built their vehicles and researched marine technology. On Thursday, all of their hard work came together when they took their vehicles to the Sleep Inn pool and competed in various events.
Each event had a time limit. Teams operated the vehicles from outside the pool and directed them to perform certain tasks. One task was to go through large hoops underwater. Another task was to remove rings from a stand and place in a basket. The scoring varied.
Students were able to experience what it felt like to have their hard work pay off.
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Kim Kardashian's sex tape caused Nick Cannon to dump her, the former Nickelodeon star said last week on the "Howard Stern Show."
Shouldn't we use the word "escape" instead of "dump?"
According to the Huffington Post, the 32-year-old "America's Got Talent" host, currently married to Mariah Carey, said Kardashian lied to him about the now-notorious tape, which she made with former boyfriend Ray J.
Calling Kardashian a "great businesswoman," Cannon also suggested that Kardashian may have leaked the tape herself.
May have?
"This was my issue. We talked about this tape. And she told me there was no tape. If she might have been honest with me I might have tried to hold her down and be like 'That was before me' because she is a great girl. She's actually one of the nicest people you'll ever meet. But the fact that she lied and told me that there was no tape? And I still think she might have even had a part to play with (its release)."
He talks as if Kim Kardashian wanted her terrible burden of being famous. That's really hard to believe.
Contact Tony Hicks at email@example.com or on Facebook at www.facebook.com/BayAreaNewsGroup.TonyHicks.


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SAN JOSE -- Burglary rates have been spiking all over San Jose, and it escalated in the public's consciousness Wednesday after a city leader publicized the theft of a young girl's puppy in a home burglary.
Marissa Mabanag, 10, has offered the contents of her piggy bank to add to a $6,000 reward pooled by the city's police and firefighters' unions as well as the office of City Councilman Ash Kalra, who grew up in the South San Jose neighborhood where Meeko -- a 6-month-old reddish brown Yorkie-Shih Tzu mix, or "Shorkie" -- was taken Monday.
"She wants to give all her money. She just wants her doggy back," said Michael Mabanag, Marissa's father.
The spike in burglaries is not only a safety issue in San Jose, it's a political issue in light of the continuing tension between City Hall and the police union over the cutback in salary and benefits and downsizing of the police department. Police say the escalation in crime is a direct result of trimming the number of officers.
Not only was there a reward offered for the return of Meeko, but there was a news conference about the stolen dog that featured two City Council members denying there was a political angle to the reaction to the dognapping.
"Forget politics. This is what's happening out in the neighborhood and community," Kalra said.
Kalra and Councilwoman Nancy Pyle, who represents the area, faced a battery of TV cameras hastily assembled in front of the Mabanags' home, which has been burglarized twice in just over a year. They both decried City Hall's sluggishness in bolstering a beleaguered police force, saying it has emboldened thieves.
Burglaries in the district have jumped 53 percent in the first six months of 2012, compared with the year before. Michael Mabanag said over the past two years, neighbors have been more frequently reporting burglaries of homes and cars.
"It's a criminal element that knows what is happening in San Jose," said Kalra, who grew up in the neighborhood where the Mabanags live.
Meeko was nowhere to be found after Michael Mabanag came home Monday afternoon to an open garage, shattered rear sliding-glass door, a slough of pried cabinets, and an array of missing electronics, purses and bicycles.
"The first thing, I was calling for the dog," said Michael Mabanag, an IT specialist for Applied Materials whose brother is a San Jose police officer. "It was one of the worst days of my life. How do you break that to your daughter?"
Marissa Mabanag told a group of reporters how she and her sister taught Meeko how to roll over and speak, and how the pup is a dead ringer for "Chewbacca from 'Star Wars.' "
"Whatever you do," Marissa said to the cameras, addressing whoever has him, "can you just return him back?"
Michael Mabanag noted how his two daughters, including older sister Marianna, are decorated black belts in tae kwon do, but that an event like this reminds him of their innocence.
"You think they're fighters, that they're tough," he said. "But with something like this, you see they can't be tough all the time."
The Mabanags' home was burglarized in July 2011, with the loss including electronics and jewelry. By the time they were hit again Monday, Marie Mabanag, a sixth-grade teacher at Christopher Elementary School, said she hadn't yet replaced what was lost in the first break-in. She said she was heartened by the outpouring of support from friends and the community, who are trying to spread the word about Meeko.
Marie Mabanag, a childhood schoolmate of Kalra, echoed the city councilman's thoughts about San Jose police.
"They're overworked, underpaid and there's not enough of them," she said. "Let's start working together and get our city back."
Anyone with information about the whereabouts of Meeko can contact the Mabanag family at 408-224-0765 or leave a tip with Silicon Valley Crime Stoppers at 408-947-STOP or svcrimestoppers.org.
Contact Robert Salonga at 408-920-5002. Follow him at Twitter.com/robertsalonga.


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Styling Profiling Nadia Ali
Earlier this week, I had the pleasure of styling the talented and ever-so-charming Nadia Ali for a press photoshoot.
As many of you know, Nadia is the melodic voice behind such hits as"Pressure," "Feels So Good" and of course "Rapture (Avicii Remix)." But even with her crazy tour schedule (click here for more info) we were able to slip in a quick photoshoot before she headed off to Russia.
The idea behind this shoot was to show the "true" Nadia – Nadia as her natural, effortless, beautiful self. And the results were more than immaculate, thanks to our wonderful team – photographer Reka Nyari and makeup artist Amanda Beczner.
As for the styling, I decided it would be best to pull clothing with rich textures as opposed to jarring prints to really bring out her divine features. So I stuck to lace, fur and metallic pieces, and bitty pops of bijoux. We even found a clever way to incorporate them into the background, but you will have to wait for the final images to see it!
In the meantime, here is a glimpse into a day of our lives at a photoshoot. Bisous NYS
(As always, special thanks to Dolce & Gabbana, Christian Louboutin, Maison Michel Paris, Bliss Lau, Red Light PR, Jovani Couture, NikkiCast, NIMANY, and Diana Rosh – Chaarm Furs)


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The dates for the Lenten fish fries have been announced.
The events will take place every Friday, beginning Feb. 15 and continuing through March 22.
Each fry will start at 4:30 p.m. and go through 7 p.m. at the Knights of Columbus Hall in Hannibal.
Each meal will feature catfish along with sides and desserts.
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ANAHEIM -- The A's exasperating collapse in Los Angeles ended with manager Bob Melvin watching the final seven innings Sunday in the clubhouse and A's players questioning the professionalism of the home plate umpire.
Thanks to a second-inning ejection, Melvin got to watch the bulk of the A's 8-1 loss to the Angels on television. What he saw was "the worst," in a setback that capped a four-game series sweep of defending American League West champion Oakland that left the A's a season-high five games out of first place. Before Josh Reddick's RBI single in the eighth inning, the A's had gone 29 consecutive innings without scoring.
Melvin waited until the troops came off the field, then sealed the clubhouse and lit into them for a level of play the manager called "embarrassing."
"What can you say? That was pathetic, embarrassing," Melvin said. "We don't play like that. The last three games here are the worst I've seen this team play in I can't remember how long.
"I feel bad for our fans to have to watch that."
Earlier in the series, Melvin had said he was happy with the effort put forward. What changed?
"I got to watch it on TV," he said. "It's different. It was just frustrating. We can't play like that. We are not going to be able to play like that.
"The reason I'm this upset is because that is not who we are. That's not who we've been for three years. And for the last I don't know how long, it's mounted, it's been frustrating. But the last three games for us are not us at all. It's embarrassing."
Losing pitcher Scott Kazmir was knocked out of the game at the same time Melvin was ejected with one out in the second. The moves came after the last of three consecutive walks, two coming with the bases loaded. Kazmir said Melvin told the club what it needed to hear, but he also was wondering if the strike zone calls from umpire Gerry Davis were payback.
Several A's players said Davis had been reprimanded Sunday after making what was called a "crybaby face" to the A's dugout after Saturday's game, players demonstrating by putting up their balled fists near their eyes as if they were in the act of weeping.
"That's just not professional," Kazmir said of the ball-strike calls. "I'm trying really hard to rise above the B.S. to be honest with you. It's late August. It's a tough time of the year for anyone in the game, it really is. But it's important to rise above any personal issue and call a fair game. We owe it to the game to do that.
"And what I saw on video, I saw 10-plus pitches I thought were right there. I don't know if it has something to do with last night when he got reprimanded, but professionalism is something I have an issue with. No matter what happens on the field, some things are just unacceptable."
Those three walks, coming after there were already two men on and a run in, forced two more runs across the plate and set up a backbreaking single by Mike Trout that brought home the fourth and fifth runs of a six-run inning.
Davis had nothing to do with the A's bats, which were enfeebled long enough to stretch the A's scoreless streak to 29 innings, the third-worst stretch in club history. The two clubs who did worse, in 1997 and 1978, lost 97 and 93 games, respectively. The current club is, or was, competing for having the best record in baseball.
A's third baseman Josh Donaldson, at this point the most consistent hitter the team has, said the Melvin outburst was entirely justified.
"Something had to be said," Donaldson said. "This is a wake-up call. This is the time of year to be playing our best, and we're playing our worst."
Catcher Derek Norris, who said Kazmir's pitches were "right where I set up my glove," said Melvin was on the mark.
"We've got to figure it out," he said. "Frustration, anger, disappointment, embarrassment all added up."
For more on the A's, see John Hickey's Inside the A's blog at ibabuzz.com/athletics. Follow him on Twitter at twitter.com/JHickey3.
Monday's game
Seattle (Chris Young 12-6) at A's (Jason Hammel 9-10), 1:05 p.m. CSNCA


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What to Watch for From Fed Meeting
The Federal Reserve's policy committee concludes its latest two-day conclave Wednesday, and it's a cliffhanger. The day is chock-full of events: The policy statement and economic projections come out at 2 p.m. EST. At 2:30 p.m. EST, Ben Bernanke steps to the mic for his final scheduled press conference as Fed chairman. Here are five questions about the meeting:
Will they taper? The employment and growth data have improved since the last Fed meeting in October, and Congress has reached a two-year budget deal. This sets the stage for Fed officials to contemplate making the first reduction to their $85 billion-per-month bond-buying program. It's a tough call. Some will likely argue in favor of waiting a bit longer to make sure the numbers stay strong. Those who want to wait may also argue the central bank shouldn't pull back while inflation remains so stubbornly below the Fed's 2% target (The November consumer-price index showed prices up just 1.2% from a year earlier). If officials decide to hold off, they could signal when the first cut is likely to come — say "in the coming meetings" — in the statement or Mr. Bernanke could discuss the timetable at his press conference.
What do they cut? If officials chose to taper, they'll have to decide what to cut and by how much. Since the start of the year the Fed has been buying $40 billion a month in mortgage bonds and $45 billion a month in Treasurys. Minutes from the Fed's October meeting showed officials debating the merits of trimming both types of bond purchases versus scaling back the Treasury purchases "more rapidly." Some officials see evidence that the mortgage bonds have been more effective, and cutting back more slowly on these purchases could "signal an intention to support mortgage markets," according to the minutes. If the Fed does taper, the first cut will likely be relatively small.
Do they fiddle with forward guidance? Fed officials have been debating for some time whether they should adjust their communications strategy known as "forward guidance" – the statements they make about the likely future course of policy. The Fed has said it plans to keep short-term rates pinned near zero at least until the jobless rate falls below 6.5%, as long as inflation isn't expected to rise above 2.5%. One idea is to lower the unemployment threshold to 6% or below, which would signal the Fed plans to keep rates lower than currently expected. Another is to add a lower bound on the Fed's tolerance for inflation, saying the Fed won't raise rates if inflation is running below a certain level, perhaps 1.5%. Minutes from the October policy meeting showed little consensus on either of these moves, raising questions about whether officials can come to an agreement on changing thresholds at this meeting.
If the Fed does taper, Mr. Bernanke could try to placate some officials reluctant to make that move through adjusting the thresholds. A more likely adjustment would be for officials to add a sentence in the statement stressing that even after the 6.5% milestone is passed, the Fed "can be patient" in judging that the economy is strong enough for the central bank to start raising rates – a point Mr. Bernanke made in his last speech. Such language would be a way for the Fed to enhance its forward guidance without tinkering with the thresholds.
What are their economic projections? Fed officials will release their updated economic projections as well. Keep an eye on their forecasts for inflation and unemployment in 2014 in particular. They have said their decision on pulling back on bond purchases depends on the economy performing as expected. If their forecasts hold up, that would help them justify a decision to scale back the bond program.
How will Bernanke handle his swan song? This will be Mr. Bernanke's last scheduled press conference as Fed chairman, and therefore an opportunity for him to reflect on the long, strange trip he's been on over the past eight years. He was the first Fed chairman to hold regular press conferences.


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Why Bill Ackman Is Bullish on Fannie, Freddie
Bill Ackman detailed his bullish bet on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. It boils down to this: The companies that were too big to fail are now too important to replace.
Mr. Ackman's Pershing Square Capital Management disclosed last November that it had taken 10% stakes in the common stock of Fannie and Freddie. On Monday, he spoke in greater detail at the Sohn Investment Conference in New York. on his investment thesis.
Fannie and Freddie, whose shares both trade over the counter at around $4, are worth $23 on a conservative basis, he said, and could be worth as much as $47. Here are a few frequently asked questions:
Doesn't the government own Fannie and Freddie? It's complicated, but the answer is no. The U.S. took over the companies in 2008 through a legal process known as conservatorship. The firms' common and preferred shares plunged (and Mr. Ackman, who had shorted the companies, made out handsomely). But the U.S. didn't acquire the companies entirely because that would have forced the Treasury to consolidate some $5 trillion in mortgage obligations onto the government's books.
Instead, the government said the U.S. would inject vast sums of aid to keep the companies solvent and mortgage markets running smoothly. The Treasury took a new class of "senior preferred" stock in exchange, along with unexercised warrants to acquire nearly 80% of the firms' common stock. Those senior preferred shares initially paid a 10% dividend.
In 2012, as concerns mounted within Treasury that Fannie and Freddie might exhaust the amount of aid the government had pledged in order for the company to make those dividend payments, the Treasury revamped those terms. Beginning last year, Fannie and Freddie don't have to pay dividends when they lose money, but they have to send all of their profits to the Treasury as dividends in a so-called "profit sweep." This means they can't build capital.
The Obama administration has said it wants to wind down and replace the firms. Why would anyone bet on companies that can't recapitalize themselves and are being wound down? Investors are betting that it won't happen.
Shareholders have sued the government to challenge the profit sweep, and courts could rule later this year on whether the Treasury breached its authority to take all of the profits of a company when it has rights to just 80% of them. Rulings in favor of plaintiffs, which include the hedge-fund firm Perry Capital LLC and mutual-fund company Fairhome Capital Management, would constrain the government's ability to take the profits of Fannie and Freddie. This means that even if the companies are liquidated, the preferred shares and possibly the common stock, could be in the money.
Mr. Ackman is essentially saying to Congress and the White House: you aren't going to get rid of these companies, and replacing them with some untested set-up is going to be too difficult. Bruce Berkowitz of Fairholme has said the same. Lawmakers, the thinking goes, will conclude that getting rid of the companies could do unnecessary damage to the mortgage market and that any desired market overhaul could be accomplished by restructuring rather than replacing the companies.
Messrs. Ackman and Berkowitz are betting at some point down the road, once the government has lost its court case and once Congress has tried—and failed—to put together a coalition to replace the companies that the government will sit down at the table to negotiate a settlement.
But isn't there a bipartisan bill in Congress to overhaul Fannie and Freddie? Yes, but the Senate bill is struggling to gain traction because an array of interest groups—some backed by shareholder campaigns—are opposed to the proposed fixes. Conservatives worry that the bill, which provides for a continued government backstop of the mortgage-bond market, is too expansive. Liberals worry that the bill doesn't do enough to limit potential rate increases for homeowners.
The legislation would replace Fannie and Freddie with a new system in which the government would guarantee certain mortgage-backed securities in which private investors have insured against heavy initial losses. Mr. Ackman on Monday suggested that there wasn't enough private capital to fill the void required by the bill.
Lawmakers postponed last week a committee vote on the bill as they seek to garner a stronger majority, which many believe would be needed to compel a Senate floor vote this spring. If the bill doesn't get out of the committee, it would be a clear sign that the support for replacing the companies isn't as strong as the Obama administration and other longtime critics imagined it was.
Mr. Ackman said Monday that the companies are "essential to preserving the housing market." Other countries don't have Fannie and Freddie, and yet people still buy homes. What is he talking about? Key to the trade is understanding just how central Fannie and Freddie remain to the nation's $10 trillion mortgage market, which is unique among industrialized nations because it is one of the only where the 30-year, fixed-rate mortgage is a dominant product.
Fannie and Freddie don't make loans but instead buy them from lenders who package them into securities. They provide guarantees to investors when those loans default, and investors have treated those bonds like near-sovereign debt. That, in turn, has built deep and liquid markets for those bonds, enabling broad access to the popular 30-year, fixed-rate mortgage.
Rather than get rid of Fannie and Freddie, investors are betting that the companies will be shorn of their large investment portfolios that were a key source of systemic risk, and that their mortgage-guarantee businesses will be restructured and spun back out to private investors.
Mr. Ackman also said that private investors were unlikely to invest in any hybrid replacements of Fannie and Freddie. Is that true? This is a common line among investors, who have argued that Wall Street isn't likely to invest in any new setup if investors are treated capriciously by the Treasury's profit sweep. Given the rule change, "we don't think there's an investor in the world of any consequence that will invest in the new version of Fannie and Freddie," Mr. Ackman said Monday.
It's not really clear if that's the case. For one, Messrs. Ackman and Berkowitz began investing in Fannie and Freddie after the government had already put the profit sweep in place. So while other investors may have been whipsawed by the change in terms, these funds knew what they were getting into—and with the shares up strongly over the past year, they've made handsome profits.
Moreover, in an interview with Bloomberg TV last month, Warren Buffett said that while he didn't see any role for Berkshire Hathaway Inc. in Fannie or Freddie as presently constructed, he left the door open to investing in any successors. "There could be some [role for Berkshire] in some housing arrangement that gets worked out in the future," he said.
Where does this all go from here? Keep an eye on what happens to the investor lawsuits. That will determine what Congress and the Obama administration can do with profits of Fannie and Freddie.
Next, keep an eye on Congress. If it can't forge consensus around the proposed replacement of Fannie and Freddie, then legislation could idle for years, raising the prospect of the restructuring fix favored by Mr. Ackman.
Finally, watch the firms' regulator, the Federal Housing Finance Agency, which has new leadership. Until January, the agency was headed by Edward DeMarco, an acting director who strongly believed that only Congress had the power to end the conservatorship and that the firms shouldn't be restored. But the new director, Mel Watt, hasn't said anything publicly yet about how the government conservatorship should be run.
Mr. Watt has broad powers to transform the companies and end the conservatorship, though only the Treasury Department can unwind its funding arrangement. If legislation falters, Mr. Watt could become the most important player on this issue.


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Editor's note: This column, submitted by Vail Resorts, showcases the nonprofits that the company supports through its Vail Resorts Echo program.
AVON - Eagle County nonprofit Bright Future Foundation offers a variety of free and confidential services for victims of domestic violence and sexual assault, including a 24/7 crisis hotline, legal advocacy, counseling and school-based violence prevention groups. Program areas include the Freedom Ranch Safehouse, Advocates Against Assault, Transitional Housing, Youth Advocacy (including Buddy Mentors), and a Self Sufficiency Initiative.
We are enormously grateful to Vail Resorts Echo for their support. We commend their commitment to serving vulnerable families in our community.
A brief interview with a past Bright Future Foundation client:
How has Bright Future Foundation helped you and your family?
"I am a single mom of three children, who moved with my American husband to the U.S. from Europe. His behavior was extremely controlling since the beginning of our marriage and eventually evolved to violence. As a stay-at-home mom, I had no access to bank accounts, no American driver's license. My husband told me that nobody would listen to me if I called the police. I was afraid and ashamed. A friend from a church told me about the BFF. I got hope that my family's lives could change for better."
What Bright Future Foundation programs did you find most beneficial?
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What do you recommend to others experiencing domestic violence and/or sexual assault?
"Contact the Bright Future Foundation. Domestic violence is not just physical abuse with broken bones and bruises. The most important thing is to admit that we are victims and need help. This help is available through the BFF. They really change people's lives. I am the best example!"
For more information on the Bright Futures Foundation, including volunteer opportunities, visit www.mybrightfuture.org. If you need help due to domestic violence and/or sexual assault, contact the confidential hotline at 970-949-7086.
Sheri Mintz is the executive director of the Bright Future Foundation. Through Vail Resorts Echo, Vail Resorts hopes to connect its communities to its efforts - from on the ground conservation programs to grants for local schools. Aimed at both protecting the natural resources that surround the resorts and helping build stronger communities where its employees live and work, Vail Resorts Echo encompasses three core efforts: environmental stewardship, charitable giving and community engagement. Learn more at www.vailresortsecho.com.


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- Era: WWII, Korea
- Number of Pages: 384
- Subject: Biography
- Date Available: October 2009
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Oliver P. Smith fought at Peleliu and Okinawa and then commanded the 1st Marine Division in Korea during the assault at Inchon, the recapture of Seoul, and the breakout from the Chosin Reservoir. Called one of the twentieth century's great Marine leaders, Smith was known as an outstanding combat commander and a man of great intellect and moral courage. This biography, written by the granddaughter he helped raise, illuminates the general's remarkable life. It draws on interviews, oral histories and a thorough examination of letters held by the family and not previously available to researchers. Gail Shisler's investigation of Smith's relationship with his Army superiors in Korea and with his Marine Corps peers and superiors takes exception to previously published descriptions and adds new insights into the Corps' postwar battle for survival.
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Kris and Bruce Jenner have officially split, according to TMZ.
Well, thank goodness it's a private family that doesn't like airing its dirty laundry in public.
The couple issued a statement, saying "We are living separately and we are much happier this way."
The statement confirms what has been rumored for months. Sources connected with the family said Bruce Jenner now lives in Malibu and spends a lot of time with sons Brody and Brandon. Kris remains at the family home in Calabasas with her daughters.
The website reported that Bruce has told his sons that living away from Kris was just the way the relationship evolved.
Boy, this is disheartening. If those two kids can't make it, what chance do the rest of us have?
They also said in their statement they will continue to have love and respect for each other.
Sources -- and I don't know if these are the same sources we were just talking about -- say Kris was the prime mover behind the separation, but has not contacted a divorce lawyer. Maybe she's waiting for her daughter Khloe to finally realize her marriage is over, too, and they can get a 2-for-1 discount or something.
Of course, TMZ said, both Jenners seem to be OK with the status quo, as they don't want to screw up their cash cow reality show "Keeping Up With the Kardashians."
Contact Tony Hicks at Facebook.com/BayAreaNewsGroup.TonyHicks or Twitter.com/insertfoot.