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Celebrating 250 Years of the New York City Saint Patrick's Day Parade is the name of the groundbreaking illustrated history of one of the of the most famous and frequently contentious parades in the world. CAHIR O'DOHERTY talks to Parade Grand Marshall Mary Higgins Clark and the books press representative Turlough McConnell about the sure to be bestseller, that tells the whole parade story, good and bad.
It may come as a surprise to some, but controversy has been a frequent participant in just about every Saint Patrick's Day parade ever marched in New York City.
From it's earliest moments 250 years ago, the parade has often produced an element of the unexpected – thanks to varying degrees of crowd control and public order, or political statements, or even contested banners or contested participants.
In the remarkable new book Celebrating 250 Years of the New York City Saint Patrick's Day Parade, celebrated New York historian John T. Ridge has assembled for the first time a comprehensive and often moving look at one of the most famous and frequently contentious parades in the world.
The celebration of Saint Patrick's Day in New York City can be traced as far back as 1762, when a man named John Marshall hosted a dinner "at Mount Pleasant, near the college," to mark the Irish patron saint's day. Although there's no record of a parade having taken place on the day, it is the first recorded example of a celebration in the city of the Irish patron saint's feast day.
After that it kept on growing. In the 19 century it became quite common for the spectators to cause huge delays in the line of march by insisting on shaking the hands of their parading friends, or the politicians and bigwigs – even the grand marshal often had to contend with all the glad-handing.
Grousing parade officials have been a familiar element of the parades over three centuries, too: frequently complaining that routes were either too long or too short, or that the crowds were allowed to roam too freely, or that the participating groups were grandstanding shamelessly and holding up everyone else.
It's surprising, in some respects, how little has changed. Trust the Irish, who have always excelled at discovering drama in even the most mundane arrangements. Quinnipiac University Press Representative Turlough McConnell, who was instrumental in the book's genesis and promotion, told the Irish Voice it was a journey of discovery for all involved.
"The book came about because John Leahy, President of Quinnipiac University, has been involved in the parade for many years – since he was a young guy – and he always cared about the parade and has made it a big part of his life."
In 1997 Leahy was appointed Grand Marshall of the parade and he decided to use his role as an educator in 1997 (the 150 anniversary of Black '47, the darkest year of the Irish Famine) to educate people on the Great Hunger. He was also one of the people instrumental in getting the history of the Famine introduced to the High School curriculums in Connecticut.
"In the last few years Leahy felt the parade needed a real endowment to continue the work it has done," McConnell says. "To date the parade has existed on a core voluntary group putting it together. Leahy decided that since the 250 anniversary of the New York City Saint Patrick's Day parade is this year he would publish a book on the history of the parade as a milestone, through Quinnipiac University Press."
Leahy appointed his Vice President of Public Affairs, Lynn Mosher Bushnell, as general editor of the book. "She thought she'd go out there and there'd be a whole archive of easily accessible historical materials to research. But there was nothing. There were just some photographs here and there. There was no archive, no central place."
That proved they were doing groundbreaking work. Mosher Bushnell took on the project over two years, conducting research at every historical archive and every newspaper in New York. The most helpful place for source material turned out to be the Irish American archive at New York University (NYU) where she gathered previously unseen images for the book.
Meanwhile historian Ridge had written a chronology of the parade in 1989 that had impressed Leahy. Ridge was commissioned to write the text for the new book in association with the research material complied by Mosher Bushnell.
"The book has images that stretch all the way back to the late 1800's," says McConnell. "It's a great historic document that we have about the parade that never existed before. Currently the exhibition that accompanies the book is on display at the Irish consulate and we've been invited to bring to the Irish Cultural Center in Phoenix, Arizona – where there is a significant former New York population.


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Verizon Pension Gets Boost From Rising Rates
Verizon Communications's pension deficit has been sliced by almost half this year because of rising interest rates, according to the Chief Financial Officer, Fran Shammo.
An increase in discount rates, used to calculate the present value of future pension obligations, helped reduce the telecommunications company's unfunded liability by roughly $4 billion, he said.
Verizon reported an unfunded liability—the difference between its pension obligations and the amount in assets held by the plan—of $8.5 billion at the end of last year. The company owed roughly $26.8 billion and held assets of $18.3 billion.
"The unfunded liability will continue to close," if interest rates keep rising, he added in an interview with CFO Journal. That would mean fewer and lower cash contributions to Verizon's pension plans.
Rising rates have benefited most companies with pension obligations. Corporations use a so-called discount rate based on corporate bond yields to calculate the present value of payments they expect to make to retirees over the life of their plan. The higher the discount rate, the lower the company's pension liabilities.
Rates rose to 4.74% in June from 4.41% in May. And that narrowed the gap of underfunded liabilities by a combined $47 billion for the 100 largest defined benefit plans, according to Milliman Inc., an actuarial firm. Their deficits now total $179 billion.
Verizon has moved aggressively to reduce the burden of its pension obligations. Last October, the company bought an annuity that transferred roughly a quarter of its pension liability to Prudential Financial
Verizon on Thursday reported that second-quarter earnings rose 23%.


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Linspire is doomed. No, they haven't signed an unholy alliance with ID Software involving pre-installing DOOM on all Linspire computers. In my opinion, they are doomed to die a painful death in the operating system world. Why? Read on to find out.
Problem 1: White noise
Recently, Linspire/Freespire has really not had much to set it apart from other GNU/Linux systems like Ubuntu or SuSE. The Linspire site has an article containing ten reasons to move to Linspire. In order, it lists cost, CNR (the Linspire package manager), ease of use, Windows file-compatibility, lifetime license, security, stability, internet safety, open source, and money-back guarantee. As of now, CNR is the only item on that list that is actually exclusive to Linspire. Most will admit that CNR is the easiest way to install software for GNU/Linux, and as of now it has been the main appeal of Linspire. Not only does it have free (as in speech) software like many other package managers, but it includes freeware (as in beer), and commercial software. Recently however, Linspire announced that Debian, Fedora, SuSE, and Ubuntu users will have access to CNR (more operating systems will come soon). So what's going to set it apart from the hundreds of other GNU/Linux distributions? Debian has the history and dpkg. Fedora has the legacy of Red Hat. SuSE has the huge community and Novell's backing. Ubuntu has the six month cycle and the wonderful community. And Linspire has... CNR.
Problem 2: Unholy alliance with Microsoft
Linspire has an even bigger problem. The free software community has recently decided that Linspire was on their blacklist. Why? Most (if not all) of it is a backlash from the recent Linspire-Microsoft deal. Basically, Linspire agreed to help with Microsoft Office and OpenOffice.org compatibility, Pidgin and Windows Live Messenger compatibility, and Windows Media and TrueType font support in Linspire. Microsoft also promised not to sue Linspire users. But what is given in exchange? Freespire isn't covered, major upgrades are invalidated (so you have to buy again to maintain protection against patents), and if you use free software, business software, software running on servers, or "clone" software, you could still be sued. After three years, this protection runs out. Plus, Microsoft can stop offering protection whenever they want. And to keep it, you can't share the software, resell it, modify it, or use it for an unauthorized use. As you can guess, this didn't go over well with the GNU/Linux community. Not only was a Linux company doing a deal with Microsoft, they were admitting that Linux was infringing on Microsoft's patents.
Problem 3: Installer
If the white noise attracted you and the bad reputation didn't hinder you, perhaps the actual operating system will. The installation is hardly better than Windows'. The Linspire/Freespire live/install CD doesn't let you test drive and install it at the same time. Why not? Ubuntu has this. Debian has this. Why not Freespire?
The disk partitioner is horrible too. It doesn't even mention the sizes of the partitions! Do you really want to risk installing Linspire over your main Linux install? Almost every single Linux distribution comes with a modern partition editor (GParted, QtParted, heck even parted). You'd think Linspire would put a little effort into it. It's almost harder to dual-boot with it than Windows!
All I can say is, good luck. You're going to need it. People have almost no positives to running Linspire/Freespire, several negatives, and the possibility of being looked upon as a jerk by other geek heads. Take your pick.
lindows, linspire,
lindows, linspire, limpspire, or whatever name you want to give it..this distro is about as interesting as washing the laundry. xandros is not far behind.
The distro that rose from the ashes of Linspire & Xandros...
I absolutely agree with this post and the post immediately following.
When those distros turned on their loyal user base, their users have been leaving those distros in droves.
Where did they go?
Some went to PCLinuxOS, some to Kubuntu and other distros, but a significant contingent started a new distro that's in alpha testing right now. KlikIt-Linux and its community was created mainly by a group of former Linspire and Xandros users who left after the Microsoft patent deals. They have also received a great deal of help from a group of PCLinuxOS users.
KlikIt-Linux is based on Kubuntu Feisty, and then they put their own touch to it.
It's already an amazing distro already, even as an alpha that's not even feature locked yet!
According to their site: http://www.klikit.org/
"Klikit-Linux is a non-formal project oriented on developing a modern, free, user-friendly and fun Linux desktop. It uses the well known, award winning KDE environment.
Klikit-Linux can run as a LIVE-CD on practically any PC (x86), and can be installed to your hard drive in just a few minutes.
Klikit-Linux is based on the latest release of Kubuntu, taking advantages of many of its best features, and then adds its own touch, depending on the desires of the community. The release dates of Klikit-Linux will depend on the stability of the latest Kubuntu packages.
Klikit-Linux comes with a collection of applications that will meet most of your daily computer needs, such as office, graphic, multimedia, and internet work.
Klikit-Linux is a true community-driven project. You and the community are, and will always be, the main voice behind any decision.
Klikit-Linux is and always will be completely free, You will be able to use it, modify it, distribute it and do whatever you want with it. You will always have the freedom of choice."
Klikit also has something new to compete with CNR.
It's called the KlikIt StoreHouse: http://www.klikit.org/storehouse-first.html
And it's FREE as in beer!
It's not fully built yet, but you can see the parts that are enabled, and it already looks great.
One-click install/uninstall of applications. It's very well laid out. Myself, I can't wait to give a try when it's up and ready to go!
I've read many of their posts in the KlikIt forums, and this looks like a top notch and extremely friendly community.
They say they are a distro for friends, by friends, and from what I've seen so far, I'd have to agree.
Their community is very active and very friendly.
KlikIt-Linux might just be able to give many of the top distros a run for their money in terms of stability, ease of use, beauty of the interface, functionality, and over 20,000+ packages in their repositories!
All I can say is: If Klikit-Linux is this good now, what will it be like when they are done?!
Freespire's on the road to nowhere
Mate, by a curious coincidence, around the time this article was being posted, I was behaving like a Benedict Arnold in preparing to sneak a disk of Freespire into a perfectly normal Kubuntu box.
This had been suggested as a solution to Kubuntu's refusal to mount a particular Ipod even though it claims to do this automatically.
I went straight to install rather than wait for it to run as a 'live' CD first.
Off it went, then got about half-way along the first progress bar, and stopped.
I went to the toot while I was waiting for it to get started again, but ten minutes later it was still sitting where I had left it, so plan 2 was to run it as a 'live' disk first.
It managed to load itself OK this time, but insisted that I set up the time and other things that you don't normally have to do when running a Linux 'live' CD. Then it swept me straight on to setting up this so-called CNR package manager. I went along with it until it tried to force me to 'register' with the package site even though the OS wasn't installed on the computer.
I gave CNR the flick and went back to the desktop and clicked on the 'install' icon.
A long time later it finally decided to proceed with this suggestion to restart, but made me remove the CD before it would continue. This meant I had to take the CD out, hit 'enter', then get the CD drive open again to replace the CD as soon as the splash screen appeared a couple of seconds later. Only Microsoft could dream up something as silly as that.
This time the OS actually installed in a surprisingly rapid ten minutes. I later found out that this was because it had only loaded the OS and precious little else.
You're right about the lack of disk partition information. I just went with the whole disk option, but it didn't tell me anything about what it did, or even what sort of file system it had installed.
I had to go through the normal setup information again that the 'live' Cd had just demanded, then it took me straight back to the CNR rego bit which I completed this time. There was also a box full of legal gobbledegook that looked suspiciously like a Microsoft EULA that had to be signed before it would allow me to proceed any further.
In fact, the whole setup was more Microsoft than Linux, with continual coercion to do what the OS wanted to do and not what I wanted.
I then continued with CNR to try to get some essential software downloaded.
For the life of me I can't imagine why they would want to boast about this disorganised excuse for a package manager. It's the sort of software that would be better left unmentioned until they manage to get it working properly.
Parts of it look like they were re-cycled out of the XP SP2 spare-parts bin and it doesn't work harmoniously as a well sorted piece of software.
Some of the items are marked as free while other Microsoft items have the prices attached alongside.
Many of the things I downloaded failed to subsequently appear in the menu listing.
My whole impression, so far, was more of Microsoft than Linux and the whole thing is hardly in the spirit of Free Software.
If this is the sort of thing that gets produced by collaborating with the likes of Microsoft, then leave me out.
Microsoft is simply trying to re-make Free Software in their own image.
Your conclusions regarding the future of Linspire are entirely correct.
Linspire, Xandros
Linspire just seems lost, like they're trying to save their business by selling products online and not making a huge effort at their own distribution any more. They've been Ubuntu'd into submission as they realized they were gaining no market traction. Might as well use PCLinuxOS or Kubuntu instead. Good think the computer I tried Freespire on was not a dual boot system. Their installation choices and instructions were not exactly the best if you wanted to do that.
As far as Xandros is concerned, I use it on my desktop for business work, and it's been rock solid. So what if it's not cutting edge: I'm getting my work done, and it saved me from an absolute disaster of a Windows crash. I've written about it at http://members.whattheythink.com/allsearch/articleerc.cfm?id=30033 . Xandros' install for dual boot setup was excellent. It was worth paying for.
I run my notebook on Ubuntu 7.04, and it is dual boot with XP. I am anxious for 7.10 to come out to buy a new notebook with everything optimized for it. Ubuntu has been quite impressive, though its forums don't live up to their reputation. The Xandros forums are far better, with much better answers and discussion, and the company does a good job of monitoring them and responding as well.
Must not have looked at a current Version
I take issue with some of these points, first lets look at this statement.
"Linspire announced that Debian, Fedora, SuSE, and Ubuntu users will have access to CNR (more operating systems will come soon). So what's going to set it apart from the hundreds of other GNU/Linux distributions?" CNR has the potential of becoming the first universal package manager for linux. If Linspire can get CNR to interoperate accross all package types, .deb and RPM, then this would certainly set Linspire as a company apart from the others. Although the OS may take a back seat to what LS is doing w/ CNR the OS is easy to navigate from the average home user perspective, especially those dumping M$.
Unholy alliance with Microsoft - On this point I pretty much agree with Andrew, if the gain was to increase interoperability with MS apps and extensions, the loss was in how it alienated many in the Linux community.
Installer - "The Linspire/Freespire live/install CD doesn't let you test drive and install it at the same time." The version that must have been tested must not have been the latest version. Version 5.X and Freespire 1.X versions did not offer this capability, however Freespire 2.0 does allow you to run live test drive and then install while running in the Live mode, and I am sure that Linspire 6.0 will have the same feature as they are more than likely to be the same version with different branding.
The disk partitioner is horrible too. It doesn't even mention the sizes of the partitions! Do you really want to risk installing Linspire over your main Linux install?" This is also untrue in the latest version of Freespire 2.0. It has g-parted and does display your partition size. I resized an older Linspire version and installed Freespire 2.0 without any issues. It was a marked inprovement from prior versions.
Conclusion - "All I can say is, good luck. You're going to need it. People have almost no positives to running Linspire/Freespire, several negatives, and the possibility of being looked upon as a jerk by other geek heads. Take your pick."
I agree that there are some not so positive things happening in the Linspire camp. I feel the OS is not as bad as you make it out to be, and that the real gem over at LS is CNR. If they can make it work as a universal package manger for all Linux Distros then the OS will end up taking a back seat and you will have your choice of distro to use with a simple way to deliver your packages to it.
Linspire and Xandros are sell-outs
Linspire and Xandros sold out on the principles on which they were founded. That's the type of backstabbing that their past customers, present customers, and potential customers will remember for a long time. I have personally witnessed the Xandros user base plummet with the many comments on the Xandros forums, and the same with the Linspire/Freespire communities. These companies are destined to fail in a big way, and once they are officially dead, Microsoft will be there to buy up the liquidated assets.
Bye bye Freespire
Further to my comment above, I'm just about to replace Freespire with Kubuntu again, on that machine.
K3b never worked properly in that Freespire 2.0 edition, and now, CNR seems to have vanished and refuses to load anymore.
Linspire have taken Microsoft on at their own game and failed. Sure, they have succeeded in producing an OS which is buggy, unreliable and infuriating, like Microsoft, but they can't provoke that true red mist of utter fury that Microsoft does with such complete ease.
Maybe Linspire should ask their Microsoft buddies if they can borrow that witless little animated paper clip thingo? That might do the trick.
Forget about
Forget about Linspire/Freespire. I am sick and tired of waiting the release of Linspire 6 (2 years).
Now I use Pardus which is free, has great package manager(pisi) and out-of-the-box multimedia support.
I have to echo the good
I have to echo the good words about Klikit. I started using Freespire at 1.013b and upgraded a few time. It was... ok... But it's not seemed to live up to it's promise and has been passed by several other distros. Klikit at an alpha state is better for me than Freespire ever was. Also Chris, the developer, is very open to suggestion and is incorporating our recommendations into the distro. Already it's been described as Kubuntu on Steroids. It's my daily OS and I'd reccommend it to anyone.
Unable to install
I decided to try for myself, and downloaded the Freespire 2.0 ISO. I targeted my test machine, on which I'd just finished testing Ubuntu 7.10 Tribe 1 rather successfully.
It failed to run in Live CD mode at all, stopping just after the "loading non-free drivers..." message (apropos?). After about 30 minutes, I gave up.
Being a glutton for punishment, I then attempted a hard drive install directly. The machine got stuck at 17% (that is, the "elapsed time" and "time remaining" continued to update, but after 10 hours no further progress had been made and I turned off the machine).
This is a fairly generic home-brew machine, on which I've tested literally dozens of distros. I've never had one fail to install (though a few have had non-trivial issues once running).
One instance does not a trend make - but as my first data point, it doesn't bode well for Linspire's future.
Freespire 2.0.3 sucks just as much
After installing PCLinuxOS, i was fairly happy with my PC. But still i tried Freespire 2.0.3 as a Live CD.
It started. Well, that was about all it did. I know that wifi is sometimes an issue with my card, and didn't expect it to work at first, but Freespire didn't even get my Graphics Card to run. It was all in 320x200, you would maybe get the fixed-size "change resolution" window on screen at very long last, but what good is that if you can't even reach the OK button? What a waste of a good CD-r...
Not all true.
You have many good points; however, if it weren't for Lindows 4.5, I wouldn't be using Linux at all. Even though you couldn't partition with Linspire(I couldn't with any Linux if I wanted to), it was a truly easy to use system. CNR is one of its greatest options available. How many distros could you download a software program and have it installed automatically for you? Not Fedora. Fedora is always missing dependencies. Ubuntu loses drivers. And the Ubuntu 7.1 is a very flawed download. Linspire 5.0 recognized my wifi out of the box. No, and I mean NO other distro did that! You obviously have never used Linspire. It was the easiest to install and use. The only reason I dumped them is because of the Microsoft deal. I choose Linux because I choose not to use Microshaft. YOU, my friend need to use something before you comment on it. You obviously know nothing about Linspire. I used them for over two years. I bragged about them and boasted about them! I was let down with their deal; but they were truly the best for non-users! My advice is: try before you brag! Other wise you make yourself into an idiot! I have recently dumped them for Mandriva One. If, and only if they truly dump, or are dumped my Microshaft, will I go back and help them. I USED THEM FOR TWO YEARS! I KNOW WHAT THEY ARE! YOU DO NOT!!!!! KNOW WHAT YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT BEFORE YOU OPEN YOU BIG FAT MOUTH AND USE YOUR KEYBOARD!!!!!!!!!!
Definition of "fanboy"
If anybody wants to know what a "fanboy" is, read the comment above!
And my prediction...
...was 100% accurate.
From http://www.linux.com/feature/144307:
Linspire, the distribution originally launched as Lindows, is no more, says Xandros CEO Andreas Typaldos.
Andrew Min
I started using Freespire at
I started using Freespire at 1.013b and upgraded a few time. It was... ok... But it's not seemed to live up to it's promise and has been passed by several other distros. Klikit at an alpha state is better for me than Freespire ever was. Also Chris, the developer, is very open to suggestion and is incorporating our recommendations into the distro. Already it's been described as Kubuntu on Steroids. It's my daily OS and I'd reccommend it to anyone.


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SOUTH MOUNTAIN — Justin A. Kauffman, 18, of Waynesboro was flown to Hershey Medical Center with moderate injuries he received when his 2000 Kawasaki 250 dirt bike was involved in an accident at the intersection of South Mountain and Spruce roads at 3:29 p.m. Oct. 25, according to a news release issued this week by Pennsylvania State Police.
Police said a 1990 Plymouth Acclaim driven by Aaron D. Smith, 57, of Fayetteville was traveling east on South Mountain Road and attempted to turn north onto Spruce Road, failing to see the motorcycle. Kauffman, traveling west on South Mountain Road, was unable to stop and hit Smith's vehicle, according to police.
Smith, who was not hurt, was charged by police with a left turn violation and Kauffman was charged with driving an unregistered vehicle.
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Headlines for Tuesday:
|@19:30 Trapeze classes
|Organized my book notes
|Uploaded LinuxChix pictures
|Library run
|Sent some postcards
|Uploaded food pictures, blogged
|Set up blosxom
|Gave myself a facial
1. Conversations with bookworms: 10:38
People often wonder where I find the time to read books. I wonder if I'll ever have enough time _not_ to read books. I get so much out of them, including incredibly rich conversations with new friends. Here are two examples from just last week.
I met Driss Benzakour for coffee at Farcoast last Wednesday. I had first met him at the Third Tuesday event in February that featured Wikinomics co-author Anthony Williams, but hadn't heard from him since then. He got in touch with me because he was looking for a job, came across my contact information in his notebook, learned I was joining IBM, and thought I might have some tips to share.
When I learned that he was interested in consulting, I mentioned a great book I'd read recently: Flawless Consulting. "By Peter Block," Driss said, nodding. Having thus performed the secret handshake of booklovers, we proceeded to talk about a great number of books. I'd mention one of my favorite books, and he'd show the audiobook he'd downloaded from Audible.com. I scrolled through the list of books he'd listened to, and suggested a couple more. Knowing common books allowed us to take shortcuts in our conversations. We could refer to concepts without explaining them all over again, and we could talk about combinations of book ideas. It was a fun and energizing chat, and we talked about far more than we could've if we didn't have common books.
A similar thing happened when I met Michael Nielsen of the Perimeter Institute in Waterloo. Michael showed me a website full of awesome book reviews by one guy with very diverse reading tastes. I said, "He's building a syntopicon!" Michael guessed that I'd read the classic How to Read a Book. Secret handshake!
Books are terrific. They offer some of the best excuses to connect and keep in touch with people. If I didn't read extensively, I'd have to work much harder at finding common ground and following up with interesting thoughts! <laugh>
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p.s. Here's another interesting bookworm Michael Nielsen recommended: Cosma Shalizi. When I grow up, I'm going to be like them.
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2. Food photography attempt: 10:59
That's what we had for Thanksgiving dinner. I borrowed W-'s camera to take the shot, as his was already all set up. This picture used the room light and an external flash unit placed diagonally in front of the pan. I like how the background is nice and soft, the roast is detailed, and the mashed potatoes are cheery but not overwhelming.
If I could shoot this picture again, I'd add another flash behind the roast in order to add more definition. I'd also find a way to minimize the shadow cast by the front edge of the pan, perhaps by raising the front-diagonal flash or increasing the toplight. I'd get rid of that sprig of whatever that is in front of the lamb, too. I'd also increase the depth of field by changing apertures so that more of the roast is in focus.
W- and I enjoy cooking and taking pictures of food. We usually have time to get a few shots in before hunger sets in. <laugh>
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3. Up and over: 23:26
The raw skin under my ripped blister glistens next to the red and tingling mounds on my palm, where calluses are beginning to form. Despite the lingering sensitivity, I'm glad I went to trapeze class this evening, and I can't wait to go back as soon as the blister heals.
I'm not there for the pain—who, me? I'm there for the thrill I get when I set myself a challenge and make progress towards it. I'm there because I love seeing the other two students try, fail, try again, learn, and perform, and I want to be able to that too. I'm there because the things I imagine myself doing once I have more experience (and thicker calluses!) make it easier for me to get through my daily exercise routines. I'm there because trapeze scares me, but in a way that I can overcome that fear.
Today I managed to get my knees over the bar entirely on my own. It took me one and a half sessions to learn how to do that with plenty of help from Mark, the ever-so-patient instructor. I learned to swing my knees up, contract my abdomen, and extend my knees. I learned to engage my shoulders by tensing them, but not too much. I learned how to trust myself to hang on while I allowed my legs to swing back, pendulum-like, around my center. I learned how to bend into the swing on the way forward, pulling my legs as high as they could go. I learned to flex my toes in order to clear the bar. And I learned to stop thinking so much and just do it... <laugh>
I know I'm probably going to forget many of these things and re-learn them during the next lesson and the next lessons after that, but that's okay—learning is part of the fun of it all.
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How Much Will Mortgage Rates Rise In Fannie, Freddie Overhaul?
Most Americans probably haven't paid much attention to the debate over what to do with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the mortgage-finance giants that the U.S. took over in 2008 to stave off a broader housing depression.
But here's one big reason they should: Fannie and Freddie play such a central role in the nation's mortgage market that how they are restructured or replaced could raise mortgage rates for many middle class Americans.
The Senate Banking Committee beginning Tuesday will take up a bipartisan bill that so far has attracted the most support from lawmakers from both parties. It would replace Fannie and Freddie with a new system by which private firms could issue mortgage-backed securities and purchase federal insurance. Private investors would be required to take initial losses before government guarantees would kick in.
In memos made public last week, Fannie and Freddie said capital requirements for these new firms, and the design of the new system more broadly, could raise mortgage rates sharply.
Mortgage rates are likely to rise under any plan that would overhaul Fannie and Freddie to limit the risk of future bailouts. There's little dispute Fannie and Freddie failed because they held too little capital for the risks they were taking.
But the latest estimates illustrate the key dilemma facing lawmakers: requiring successors to Fannie and Freddie to hold more capital could reduce the risk of future taxpayer losses, but it would also raise borrowing costs. The Senate bill would require successors to maintain a 10% capital cushion, which some economists say is more than double what Fannie and Freddie would have required to withstand the 2008 crisis.
So how much could rates rise? Estimates vary depending in part on how regulators interpret and implement the new rules. Fannie estimates that rates would rise by around 0.5 and 1 percentage points from current levels, though borrowers with small down payments and weaker credit could see rates rise by more than 3 percentage points. Borrowers with strong credit and large down payments could see rates fall slightly.
Fannie estimates that if the capital cushion is dropped to 5%, however, then rates for more borrowers might actually be lower than current levels, and rates for all borrowers would rise by an average 0.2 percentage points.
Freddie constructs four different scenarios that vary depending on how regulators calibrate capital standards and on the rate of return sought by private investors. Under the low- and mid-cost scenarios, rates rise by 0.1 and 0.6 percentage points, respective. Under the high- and extreme-cost scenarios, rates rise by 1.4 and 2.2 percentage points, respectively.
Economists Mark Zandi and Cristian DeRitis of Moody's Analytics, meanwhile, estimate rates would rise between 0.4 percentage points and 0.6 percentage points. Mr. Zandi says he didn't include the more extreme cost scenarios modeled by Freddie because he says those are "much less likely."
If ever there's been a case where the devil is in the details, this is it. If the estimates are anywhere in the ballpark, they illustrate the tension between higher capital standards and lending costs for consumers. Mr. Zandi says the estimates show that the current bill offers too much flexibility to a regulator to set up "a system that either has too little capital protecting the taxpayer or is way too expensive."
He says lawmakers could more narrowly define capital standards to strike a balance between creating "an adequate capital buffer without creating a prohibitively expensive mortgage market." An amendment submitted by Sen. Charles Schumer (D., N.Y.), for example, would require regulators to set equity capital levels at somewhere between 3% and 5% of the loan principal insured by guarantors.
Because any overhaul would be phased in over many years, borrowers wouldn't see an immediate price spike. In fact, rates could actually fall at first if the government provides an explicit federal guarantee of mortgage securities, economists say.
Right now, Treasury has made clear that it will provide enough cash for Fannie and Freddie to remain solvent and pay bondholders, but it hasn't actually guaranteed their debts. Mortgage bonds that carry a full government guarantee—those issued by the federal agency Ginnie Mae—produce rates that are slightly cheaper than those offered on loans sold to Fannie and Freddie. The difference between the two results in savings of around a 0.2 percentage point to borrowers on government-insured loans that are sold to Ginnie Mae.


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PARKERSBURG - A local piano player last month did a gig in Germany with Landau Eugene Murphy Jr., the West Virginian who won America's Got Talent.
Duane E. Flesher of Williamstown played before servicemen with the Logan County singer in a tour from Nov. 8-12 over the Veterans Day holiday.
"We had a great time," Flesher said.
Murphy, a Logan County native, won America's Got Talent in September 2011. The competition started about a year earlier and involved thousands of acts before the final performers appeared before Howie Mandel, Piers Morgan and Sharon Osbourne, the celebrity judges for the popular television show, for the finale of the show's sixth season.
Flesher was asked by Murphy's music director, Jeff Flanagan of Charleston, W.Va., if he was available for the short tour in Germany. Flesher said he has known Flanagan for years.
The performances in Germany were for Armed Forces Entertainment, Flesher said.
"It was a real honor to play for all the soldiers and their families," he said.
Venues included the Edelweiss Lodge and Resort at Garmisch, Germany, located in the Bavarian Alps, and a U.S. Army base in Stuttgart, Flesher said.
Murphy opened the shows with songs by Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin, Flesher said. He ended the shows with "My Way," a Sinatra classic.
Murphy performed "Ain't That a Kick in the Head' and Nat King Cole's "Unforgettable" in a duet with his wife, Jennifer, who accompanied him on the tour, Flesher said.
"The houses were packed," he said.
Flesher has played the piano for more than 50 years. An Air Force veteran, Flesher also has performed with the U.S. Air Force Band from Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.
Locally, he has frequently appeared at the Blennerhassett Hotel and played with Insured Sound, a popular local band, and The Five Men.
He also is a member of the Smoot House Band and will next perform at the downtown theater at "Hometown Christmas' at 8 p.m. today. Local singers and dancers also will perform.


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New "X Factor" judges Mario Lopez and Khloe Kardashian are already squabbling.
TMZ is reporting that Lopez likes to talk so much, he's stealing Khloe Kardashian's lines on "X Factor" -- and she's upset. Sources connected with the show said Kardashian got "really upset" because Lopez lifted her lines several times, reading his lines and then reading some of hers.
Has anyone considered the idea that maybe she just can't read?
Kardashian confronted producers after Thursday's show, wondering if Lopez was doing it on purpose. Apparently everyone figured out there were production glitches that caused the confusion during the live broadcast.
In other words, they placated her before she beat Lopez up,
Kardashian has apparently heard the rumors that producers are starting to realize it's a bad idea to make her read a teleprompter, because it robs her of her personality. It's supposedly difficult for a novice to read a prompter.
Right. Just ask Sarah Palin.
Kardashian is allegedly open to leaving hosting duties to Lopez and taking on the personality-driven interviews without a teleprompter.
BRITNEY SPEARS WANTS TO BE AN AUTHOR: Britney Spears is writing a novel.
Please don't spit your meal all over the room like that. It's not very dignified.
No, really -- the pop star and "X Factor" judge is in talks for a book deal with HarperCollins imprint It Books, a source confirmed to E! News.
No, it's not a memoir. It's a novel, you guys. Like, with made-up characters and stuff.
Well, technically. Spears will follow the lead of such noted literary giants as Lauren Conrad and Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi and write something technically fictional that's based on her own experiences.
Spears' rep confirmed to the Hollywood Reporter that the book negotiations are happening. No word on what part of Spears' life the book would cover, though we real fans undoubtedly hope boy bands, head-shaving, and early morning Las Vegas weddings are involved.
KRISTEN STEWART DOESN'T LIKE VAMPIRE SEX: Kristen Stewart says vampire sex with Robert Pattinson was "awful."
That's right -- we're once again working a 'Twilight" star's into a conversation about sex just to drive you Twihards crazy. This is what's known as 21st-century impact journalism, folks.
Stewart made the remarks while promoting the upcoming "Breaking Dawn Part 2" film. The 22-year-old actress told E! News she can't imagine anyone else but Robert Pattinson playing Edward Cullen to her Bella Swan.
"It's so obvious; it slaps you in the face anytime you meet somebody who you're like, 'We definitely need to work together!'" she said. "We clearly are into this, maybe not for the same reasons, because he's a nut, but I knew instantly. With Taylor (Lautner) too. I take full and complete credit for those boys."
We're assuming when she says "boys," she doesn't mean Rupert Sanders.
It's a good thing Stewart likes Pattinson because, as everyone over 40 years old out there knows, the two had to film some very intense sex scenes in the two Breaking Dawn flicks.
"(Director) Bill (Condon) kept saying that he wanted to make this one feel like you're very much inside of the experience," Stewart said "Like you're there, you're sort of a part of it, which is odd. But to do that we had to look directly into the camera instead of at each other."
So, it wasn't romantic, she was saying. Maybe she meant, like, like making out with your director or something.
"It was awful!" she said. "I was like, 'Bill, you're depriving me of this experience. We've been waiting for vampire sex! What are you doing?!'"
Oh, we all know you two kids didn't have to wait long.
NO DOUBT REMOVES VIDEO: No Doubt has removed the band's "Looking Hot" music video from YouTube after receiving complaints from fans and the Native American community.
In the video, singer Gwen Stefani wears Native American clothing while being tied to poles and fighting cowboys.
That just sounds like another Friday night at Madonna's house.
"As a multiracial band our foundation is built upon both diversity and consideration for other cultures. Our intention with our new video was never to offend, hurt or trivialize Native American people, their culture or their history," Stefani, Tony Kanal, Adrian Young and Tom Dumont explained on the band's official website. "Although we consulted with Native American friends and Native American studies experts at the University of California, we realize now that we have offended people. This is of great concern to us and we are removing the video immediately."
The statement continued, "The music that inspired us when we started the band, and the community of friends, family, and fans that surrounds us was built upon respect, unity and inclusiveness. We sincerely apologize to the Native American community and anyone else offended by this video. Being hurtful to anyone is simply not who we are."
Yeah? Then why don't you return my calls, Gwen? I find that kind of hurtful.
"Looking Hot" is the second single from the band's latest album, "Push and Shove."
SHARON OSBOURNE'S 'TALENT' REPLACEMENT EYED: "America's Got Talent" has three women targeted for the judge's chair vacated by Sharon Osbourne last season, according to TMZ.
The website's sources say producers allegedly have their eyes on Shannen Doherty, Carly Simon and LeAnn Rimes. The show is supposedly looking for a strong and opinionated woman.
Right ... Carly Simon. That Carly Simon. Right ... the one from the '70s. The one no one under the age of 50 will be able to identify.
The spot became available over the summer after Osbourne decided to quit because, she claimed, NBC dropped her son Jack from a reality show due to his MS diagnosis.
It's possible that might not be the only seat the show has to fill. Howard Stern and Howie Mandel are reportedly not under contract for next season. So the show might have an entirely new panel.
As for Doherty, Simon and Rimes, allegedly no offers have been made yet.
NBC spokesman Sharon Pannozzo said no such list of prospective judges exists. But TMZ said their sources are good ones. Because if they weren't, they'd certainly say so.
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Tuesday is Nov. 6, the 311th day of 2012. There are 55 days left in the year. This is Election Day.
1632: King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden was killed in battle.
1860: Former Illinois congressman Abraham Lincoln defeated three other candidates for the presidency: John Breckinridge, John Bell and Stephen Douglas.
1861: Confederate President Jefferson Davis was elected to a six-year term of office.
1888: Republican Benjamin Harrison won the presidential election, defeating Democratic incumbent Grover Cleveland with an electoral vote count of 233-168, even though Cleveland led in the popular vote. In 1893, composer Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky died in St. Petersburg, Russia, at age 53.
1928: In a first, the results of Republican Herbert Hoover's election victory over Democrat Alfred E. Smith were flashed onto an electric wraparound sign on the New York Times building.
1934: Nebraska voters approved dissolving their two-chamber legislature in favor of a nonpartisan, single (or "unicameral") legislative body, which was implemented in 1937.
1944: British official Lord Moyne was assassinated in Cairo, Egypt, by members of the Zionist Stern gang.
1947: "Meet the Press" made its debut on NBC; the first guest was James A. Farley, former postmaster general and former Democratic National Committee Chair; the host was the show's co-creator, Martha Rountree.
1956: President Dwight D. Eisenhower won re-election, defeating Democrat Adlai E. Stevenson.
1962: Democrat Edward M. Kennedy was elected Senator from Massachusetts.
1977: Thirty-nine people were killed when the Kelly Barnes Dam burst, sending a wall of water through Toccoa Falls College in Georgia.
1990: About one-fifth of the Universal Studios backlot in Southern California was destroyed in an arson fire.
2002: A jury in Beverly Hills, Calif., convicted actress Winona Ryder of stealing $5,500 worth of high-fashion merchandise from a Saks Fifth Avenue store (she ended up serving probation).
2007: Six lawmakers were killed by a suicide bomber in northern Afghanistan during a visit to a sugar factory; 61 students also died as a result of the bombing and shots fired by guards. Country singer Hank Thompson died in Keller, Texas, at age 82. George Osmond, father of Donny and Marie Osmond and patriarch to the family's singing group The Osmond Brothers, died in Provo, Utah, at age 90.
2011: Greece's embattled prime minister, George Papandreou, and its main opposition leader, Antonis Samaras, agreed to form an interim government to ensure the country's new European debt deal. Geoffrey Mutai of Kenya shattered the course record in the New York City Marathon, winning the men's title in 2:05:06, while Firehiwot Dado of Ethiopia made a stunning comeback for her first major marathon title in 2:23:15.
Director Mike Nichols (81), actress Sally Field (66), singer-musician Glenn Frey (The Eagles) (64), jazz musician Arturo Sandoval (63), TV host Catherine Crier (58), California's former first lady, Maria Shriver, (57), actress Lori Singer (55). actor Lance Kerwin (52), rock musician Paul Brindley (The Sundays) (49), Education Secretary Arne Duncan (48), rock singer Corey Glover (48), actor Peter DeLuise (46), actress Kelly Rutherford (44), actor Ethan Hawke (42), actress Thandie Newton (40), model-actress Rebecca Romijn (40), actress Taryn Manning (34), actress Emma Stone (24).
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SNOWMASS VILLAGE - Faces old and new will look down on the Roaring Fork Valley as the 37th Snowmass Balloon Festival kicks off Sept. 14. The oldest balloon festival in Colorado has featured a revolving cast of characters, who over time have introduced ballooning to younger folks and kept the tradition going in Snowmass Village. Balloonists first got together in Aspen/Snowmass in the mid '70s, when Chauncey Dunn got three balloons together that launched from downtown Aspen. Then longtime Aspen resident and pilot, Betty Pfister got involved after a flight with Dunn in Albuquerque, and she thought Snowmass was more suited because of its openness. Dunn invited 30 pilots to that first Snowmass event in 1976, and 17 showed up. "From there on it was off and running," Dunn said. The first day was windy, and the balloonists could not fly, but unbeknownst to the pilots Pfister had promised the festival's sponsors a ride. Dunn and the other pilots took them out the next day. In those days there was an event in the winter and one in the summer. Dunn said in winter pilots took skiers up and would navigate to the top of a cross-country course, and the athletes would jump out and race while the balloonists floated around and waited for their passengers to finish. Dunn calls Snowmass Village heaven for ballooning. Pilots can catch different winds just by changing altitudes. "That is phenomenal," he said. "That is a treat of treats for a balloonist. ... The scenery is just spectacular, lots of game. That was my favorite part of it."Jim Carter was one of the balloonists Dunn invited to that first meet in Snowmass. Mary Jo Carter said she and her husband knew about Dunn because he was one of the premier balloonists in Colorado at the time, as was Jim. She never piloted but was a chaser, following her husband in the car and trying to meet the balloon where it landed. "Now it isn't nearly the challenge that it used to be because we didn't have radio," she said. "Of course, we were young then."Flying in the winter can be nerve-racking because you have to land on a road, said Randy Woods, who organized the festival for 10 years beginning in the early '80s. "If you don't ... you can't get your balloon out," he said. "We had some challenging balloon retrievals."Pfister organized air rescue for balloons for a time, Woods said. "There are many, many stories of people who would land in high places," he said. Dunn said the festival became a summer-only event mainly because the organizers could get enough rooms then for the pilots and their crews.
Woods learned how to fly a hot air balloon in 1980 while Pfister was still running the festival. Woods took over shortly after that. The Snowmass Resort Association was the primary sponsor then. "It was quite a big affair," Woods said. "It was in June. It was a great flying time of year. ... All our parties were coat and tie and quite upscale. We really had a ball."Woods estimated about 25 or 30 balloons flew in the event in those days. This year, 26 pilots, most from Colorado or New Mexico, have signed up to fly. Most balloon races last two days, but the Snowmass event added a day during that time because participants wanted to have a downvalley race. "In the first early days of that event we launched on the runway," Woods said. "People went as far as they could. We had some really extraordinary great flights. In the early days there were so many people that would come to those balloon races. Early in the morning there would be nonstop traffic from Aspen to Snowmass."The downvalley race is still a highlight of the festival. This year the balloons will take off from the Snowmass Village softball field about 7 a.m. on Sept. 14 and float on downvalley winds through the Highway 82 corridor. Some other events that were added in recent years - such as the Dawn Quixote, in which pilots took flight with ski poles and tried to pop the most helium balloons - have been cut from the schedule because the FAA changed some of its regulations, according to town public relations manager Patsy Popejoy. Pilots will still light the flames in their baskets on Sept. 15 for the Balloon Night Glow."In the old days we did not have balloon glows in the evening," Woods said. "I don't know why but nobody did balloon glows then."
Woods is still ballooning, although he says flying in St. Louis, where he now resides, is much more challenging because it's a big city, which means more obstacles. He last attended the Snowmass Balloon Festival two years ago. As for Dunn, he flew balloons most of his life but stopped after turning 80. "I never had a problem, and I didn't want to have one," he said. Dunn is an example of a trend Woods has noticed in ballooning. "What has changed is there are not many young pilots getting involved in ballooning anymore," Woods said. "Pilot age is getting older and older." The modern hot air balloon came into its own in the '60s, Woods said, so until recently it was still a new, developing sport.Woods also owned Unicorn Ballooning Company, which distributed to dealers all over Nebraska, Colorado and Kansas and ran commercial rides in Aspen/Snowmass and Scottsdale, Ariz. During that time, the company carried 10,000 people, mostly in Aspen, and did weddings, funerals and promotional events on the slopes with Aspen Skiing Co."Flying in Snowmass, Colorado, is one of the most beautiful places you can fly a balloon," Woods said.
Although the Carters have always lived in Pueblo, Mary Jo Carter says they consider the Snowmass Balloon Festival their hometown race, and they almost always have relatives join them there. For the Carters, ballooning has always been a family affair: Their son, Pat, still flies a balloon with the same Colorado state flag design that his father flew under since the early '70s, and contrary to the trend Woods has noticed, Mary Jo says some of her grandchildren think they want to start."Colorado High" has been registered at every Snowmass festival, although it didn't fly in every one. Last year, it didn't pass Federal Aviation Administration inspection, and Pat Carter is working to get a new one approved in time for this year's event. Jim Carter passed away two years ago, shortly before the 35th Snowmass festival, and Mary Jo says replacing the balloon is a bittersweet time for the family. "It definitely was him," she said. She says it's meant a lot that her family keeps ballooning. "We all had kind of a family meeting, and we agreed that we couldn't give it up," she said, referring to her tribe as a "5 a.m. family." "That was such a very strong part of our lives." Purchasing a new "Colorado High" is important to keeping the family tradition going, according to Pat Carter. He has a backup balloon he could fly, but he's hoping "Colorado High" will be ready. It would be fitting, after all, since its predecessor took its first flight in Snowmass as well. "Snowmass is the inaugural place for this balloon," he email@example.com


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HELENA, Mont. - A phone book company has settled a lawsuit over its placement of a Montana restaurant in the "Animal Carcass Removal" section of its yellow pages, a listing the restaurant owner says cost him customers and made him the butt of a Jay Leno joke.
The terms of the Nov. 16 deal between Dex Media Inc. and Big Sky Beverage Inc., the parent company of Bar 3 Bar-B-Q, were not disclosed. A tentative agreement proposed in September said a deal would include a payment to the restaurant owner.
Restaurant owner Hunter Lacey sued Dex after the listing appeared in the 2009 phone book and was reprinted in other print and online directories in 2010 and last year. It gained national notoriety after Leno featured it as a joke on the Tonight Show in January 2011.
Lacey's lawsuit claims a Dex salesman deliberately published the free listing under the "Animal Carcass Removal" section after he refused to buy an advertisement in the phone book. The salesman no longer works for the company.
Lacey claimed the negative publicity caused business to drop off at his Bozeman and Belgrade restaurants and his brand's reputation to suffer. His lawsuit alleged negligence, defamation and slander, among other charges.
Dex has said it was an erroneous listing the company removed from its online directory when it was discovered.
The case seemed to be headed for court after it was filed in U.S. District Court in September 2011. But settlement talks began in earnest after U.S.
Strong took issue with the timing of Dex's release of audio recordings of the salesman's calls to Bar 3 Bar-B-Q and a company document without giving the other side adequate time to inspect them in preparation for questioning the salesman.
Attorneys for both sides told the judge less than two months later they had reached a tentative settlement, which was finalized this month.
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1. The first link in Irving's self-proclaimed chain of key documents which demonstrate that Hitler was the best friend the Jews ever had in the 'Third Reich' does not in fact relate to the 'Third Reich' itself but to a relatively early incident in Hitler's career. The revolution of November 1918, which had overthrown the Imperial structure and for the first time in Germany history set up a fully democratic state, soon led to a backlash from the right. This backlash was most extreme in Bavaria. Under a counter-revolutionary government, Munich quickly became the centre for a variety of nationalist or völkisch sects which had formed all over the country since the end of the First World War.
2. One of the völkisch groups was the DAP, the German Workers' Party. It would in all likelihood have remained an insignificant and obscure splinter sect, had not Adolf Hitler, at the time a political agent for the German army, the Reichswehr, decided to use it as the platform for the launch of his political career. Hitler soon became the leading figure of the party (he officially took over the leadership of the party in July 1921) which changed its name in February 1920 to NSDAP, National Socialist Workers' Party, or Nazis. While there was some local support for the Nazis, it was only with the crisis of the Weimar state in 1922 and 1923, that the Nazi Party started to expand beyond its Munich power base. In this time of instability, intensified by the perceived threat of an immenent Communist rising in central Germany, the Nazis became increasingly powerful on the right-wing fringe of the political spectrum.
3. In late 1923, Hitler tried to translate his perceived strength into action and attempted a 'March on Berlin' to seize power. On the evening of 8 November, Hitler and some armed supporters stormed a meeting in the Bürgerbräukeller, (a Munich beer-cellar). The meeting was addressed by Gustav Ritter von Kahr, who as General Commissioner possessed almost dictatorial powers and was the most powerful politician in Bavaria. Hitler fired a shot into the ceiling. Then, he led von Kahr and others senior figures, such as the police president Seisser, into a back room, where they were forced to declare their support of the putsch.
4. Once Hitler had secured the backing of these men, his supporters, who were assembled in another beer hall, the Löwenbräukeller, were informed via telephone that the 'national revolution' had broken out. Hitler's followers in the Löwenbräukeller were led by Ernst Röhm, an army officer who was actively engaged in arming right-wing paramilitary groups. With Röhm were members of his own paramilitary organisation as well as SA (Storm Division) troops - the brown-shirted paramilitary wing of the Nazi Party. From April 1924 the brownshirts too would be led by Röhm. Once Röhm got the message that Hitler had apparently been successful, he mobilised his troops and marched towards the District Military Headquarters to take them over. But Hitler had seriously miscalculated his influence over the Bavarian government and army. He failed to win the support of leading political figures like von Kahr, who started counter-measures against the coup once he had been set free by Hitler. A small group of determined Nazi marchers set off for the city centre at noon on 9 November 1923 and were dispersed by armed police who fired on them as they approached the Odeonsplatz.1
5. The trial against Hitler and some of his accomplices began on 26 February 1924 before a political court, the Bayerisches Volksgericht. The trial aroused great interest in both the domestic and the foreign press. The presiding judges allowed Hitler to turn the trial into a propaganda show for the Nazi party. Hitler was able to elaborate his ideology at great length, without interruption. The sympathies of the Bavarian judge were openly manifested in the sentence meted out to Hitler on 1 April 1924 the minimum possible, namely five years' incarceration in a Festung (a much milder form of imprisonment than prison or penitentiary). Hitler was released in December 1924.
1. Ian Kershaw, Hitler 1889-1936: Hubris (London, 1998), pp. 195-219.
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How can we better utilize public-private partnerships to advance translation of science into new medicines for some of our most challenging diseases, such as neurological disorders?
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Amy Comstock Rick
CEO, Parkinson's Action Network
In a traditional research model, scientists look to answer a specific question using public or private funds before those findings are translated into clinical research and trials. This process can be quite slow and waste a great deal of time, a precious commodity for people with progressive diseases like Parkinson's. In a well-executed partnership, the right people come to the table early on, as demonstrated by a recent report from United for Medical Research, which found that successful private-public partnerships led to private sector growth and innovation, job creation, and a strengthened national economy.
The Parkinson's community would particularly benefit from more successful private-public partnerships. In fact, currently there is no cure, therapy, or drug to slow or halt the progression of Parkinson's disease. Unlike many other diseases, Parkinson's disease also has no known biomarker and the cause of the disease is unknown. For the 500,000 to 1.5 million Americans living with Parkinson's disease, ground-breaking research is absolutely necessary. In addition, a study released earlier this year found that the economic burden of Parkinson's disease is at least $14.4 billion a year in the U.S., further highlighting the need to support increased funding for research and development.
More recently, the Parkinson's community took this approach when Vanderbilt University, The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research (MJFF), and Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMS) collaborated to develop a promising new treatment for Parkinson's disease. At a Congressional briefing in November 2012 hosted by the Parkinson's Action Network (PAN) and Vanderbilt University, the collaborating organizations met with Capitol Hill staff and members of the biomedical research community to discuss how their arrangement could become a model for future public-private partnerships.
The drug in development is a potential symptomatic treatment for Parkinson's disease that targets the neurotransmitter glutamate. That long-term commitment between Vanderbilt and MJFF attracted the much needed additional funding and development by BMS. It is important to note that the original research for this drug was federally funded and conducted through the National Institutes of Health's (NIH) Morris K. Udall Center for Excellence for Parkinson's Disease at Emory University.
Having such strong collaborations between all parties early on in the research process helps a disease community get drugs into the pipeline faster, think about clinical trials sooner, and work toward better efficacy and safety standards. Unfortunately, too many promising discoveries that are funded by NIH never make it to clinical development. That is why PAN played a key role in the creation of the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS). NCATS brings together NIH's translational activities and expertise into one Center, aimed at supporting and strengthening translational research; fostering collaboration between federal agencies, the private sector, and non-profits; and supporting and training current and future translational research investigators.
Examples like these give people in the Parkinson's community the confidence that better drugs and devices will soon enter the market. PAN will continue fighting to support the funding and policies that encourage more of these collaborations to lead to better treatments and a cure for Parkinson's disease.
Randall L. Rutta
CSO, EVP, Public Affairs, Easter Seals
Public-private partnerships make the seemingly impossible possible by translating the complexities of science into healthcare products and services that improve and save peoples' lives. Easter Seals' nearly 100 year history of serving people with disabilities and their families provide many examples of successful outcomes that enhance the lives of people through research to practice collaborations with partners. During the mid-20th Century, Easter Seals helped lead the charge to eradicate polio along with the medical community – one of the most difficult public health challenges of the time. Today, with the advent of amazing discoveries in brain plasticity, we are working with neuroscientists to help individuals and families affected by neurological/cognitive conditions such as Alzheimer's disease, Depression, Schizophrenia, Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorders.
Whether Easter Seals is providing adult day health services, early childhood interventions to "Make the First Five Count," delivering rehabilitation, workforce, speech/hearing or service for military service members and veterans, the goals remain the same – to leverage the power of partnerships to improve the lives and independence of individuals with chronic or disabling conditions. Easter Seals Brain Health Center is one such example. As a national network of service providers, Easter Seals is focused on creating solutions and expanding awareness of how people can use new and emerging brain training regimens and products to improve many of their cognitive functions. It's why we created Easter Seals Brain Health Center, a nexus of information, service and research-to-practice partnership.
These collaborations result in major outcomes for people and partners. When caring for individuals with neurologic disorders, public-private partnerships stimulate the development of breakthrough interventions for conditions like Alzheimer's disease. According to the Alzheimer's Association, today over 5 million Americans are living with this disease, but by 2050, that number could be over 16 million. More recently, Easter Seals' is mobilizing our thousands of personnel on the ground to address the needs of tens of thousands of veterans with traumatic brain injury and Post-Traumatic Stress.
Promising new discoveries in neuroscience combined with pioneering brain-imaging research techniques are creating less invasive and less expensive diagnostic techniques along with new medicines and new online tools. Powerful smartphones and emerging computer-based delivery systems are transforming millions of lives. Personalized therapies help people with neurological conditions make tremendous strides. Easter Seals' commitment to public-private collaboration is a steadfast and a proven path for life-changing progress.
Stevin Zorn, PhD
EVP, Neuroscience R&D, Lundbeck Research USA
Some of the world's most debilitating disorders fall under the category of mental illness and affect the central nervous system - depression, mood disorders, schizophrenia, Alzheimer's, to name a few. The percentage of those affected by these disorders remains on the rise. In fact, according to the World Health Organization (WHO), depression is already the leading cause of disability worldwide, and by 2030, will be the leading global burden of disease.
The reason depression and other central nervous system (CNS) disorders are so debilitating is because they affect the mind – an organ that differentiates humans from all other living creatures. These disorders, when untreated or not effectively treated, can have a major negative impact. They can keep sufferers from fully enjoying life, socially interacting, remembering things, and even performing basic biological activities like eating, walking and sleeping.
The research we - as an industry - perform is aimed at creating medicines to help address these problems. But we cannot do it alone. For example, Lundbeck is one of the few pharmaceutical companies entirely focused on addressing disorders of the brain. While our own research efforts are ambitious, significant progress in R&D and treatment, both now and in the future, is not possible without collaborations with government and academic institutions
Public-private partnerships with industry, government and academia are critical to advancing breakthroughs in medical sciences. Alone, none of these institutions have the full value chain including the knowledge, capabilities, or technology to tackle the complexity of central nervous system disorders that allows the translation of underlying disease biologies into the discovery and production of needed innovative new medicines.
Succinctly, academia and government laboratories have the ability to dig into the basic science and underlying disease biologies to a level and depth that industry simply can't, and industry has the depth and know-how to expand on and translate such biologies to formulate them into medicines. Ultimately, no one group has the ability alone to validate ideas and to generate medicines. It really takes a community effort to do so.
Thus, in an ecosystem where academia, industry and government research all work together, a tremendous synergy exists allowing the combination of intellectual capabilities, financial resources and technical expertise to come together and enable the common goal of understanding the biologies behind these devastating disorders and translating them into collective achievements. This will yield more new and hopefully better medicines.
In addition, these partnerships are a critical component to our work because the ecosystem is constantly changing. Brain disorders are incredibly difficult and challenging and the total number of companies devoting significant financial resources to treating these disorders has diminished over time. This has resulted in less interaction and collaboration amongst industry partners while increasing the financial burden and risks associated with research and development.
This makes public-private partnerships more important than ever. These partnerships have the power to create a framework by which everyone can work together to achieve our common interests, share and act quickly on emerging critical new discoveries and knowledge and minimize risks through working together and pooling our resources.


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UNDP works directly with national and international partners to prevent, mitigate, manage and recover from natural disasters in Jordan. We collaborate with national and local authorities as well as civil society and academia. The main focus of UNDP in Jordan is to make sure that a transformational change takes place whereby Jordan moves towards managing disaster risks rather than responding to the destructive consequences of disasters.
UNDP is supporting Disaster Risk Management efforts in Jordan through four interlinked projects: two nation-wide, one in Aqaba and one in Petra. It is anticipated that the UNDP-supported projects in Aqaba and Petra will provide the local authorities with fully functional DRM Units within the structures of the local authorities in the two locations in Southern Jordan to.


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NORTH AUGUSTA, S.C. (WRDW) -- The manager of an Augusta bar is accused of sexually assaulting a woman early Sunday morning.
The victim says 32-year-old Frank Colafrancesco came into the Playground Bar on Saturday night and got drunk, saying he was having problems with a new girlfriend.
She says Colafrancesco was too drunk to drive home, so she offered to drive him to his home in North Augusta.
She claims that when she helped him get inside, he forced himself on her, saying he would tie her up with rope if she did not comply.
The victim says the incident went on for over two hours and that she tried to leave multiple times, but he would grab her by her hair and pull her back. During the altercation, the victim says Colafrancesco also grabbed her around the neck and left bite marks on her arms.
When the victim was able to leave, she drove home and called 911.
Colafrancesco is charged with first-degree criminal sexual conduct and kidnapping.


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Watches on diet
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Looking around for a trendy watch, I realized that the 2012 lines of fashionable watches seem to live in our time: they are getting outlandishly overweight if not obese. They are heavy to lug around, cumbersome at best and unrealistically hard to hide under the cuff. And I noticed too that the trend extends to women's wrists. Are they the reflection of the world going fat? Amidst this epidemic of bigness in the world of telling time, it is nice to come across the thin, fine lines of a Piaget watch. Has it been in a pseudo South Beach diet that it is able to keep its shape through the years? But a Piaget is a Piaget, which means, if anything is surprising about this classy brand, it is not its thinness. It introduced the ultra-thin mechanical movement in watches back in the sixties, when it brought out the Calibre 12P, which at 2.3 mm is the world's thinnest automatic movement as affirmed in the Guinness Book of Records. Not to say that thinness is all there is to a watch; yet when you know that it is harder to create a thin watch than a bulky one, a Piaget stands out. It takes better engineering, a more sophisticated craftsmanship—honed since the 1870s when Piaget was founded in a quaint Swiss town—so that the fine lines and precise movement is a "harmony at the heart of a Piaget watch," so said George Piaget, the founder.
Image: The Altiplano 43mm (Anniversary Edition with Calibre 1200P)—the world's thinnest automatic
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For years I have been searching for a corn bread recipe that reminds my husband of his childhood memories. Well move over Paula, but I recently discovered Bill's Aunt Leota's recipe tucked into a very old cookbook. Bill was ecstatic – this is the corn bread he always talked about.
Yesterday was another snow day at Whispering Pines Bed & Breakfast, so I secretly got all the ingredients together and surprised Bill with warm corn bread, soft whipped butter and pure untreated honey that we buy from a local producer. He savoured every bite as we enjoyed the falling snow over Atwood Lake.
I thought I would share this old recipe with you. The only change I made was using butter instead of Crisco. I hope you have a chance to make this and to let me know your comments.
Sift together in a large bowl:
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3 T. butter, melted and cooled
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Mix until just combined. Pour into an 8 x 8 buttered pan and bake for 25 minutes at 375.
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The video shows how UNDP's partnership with the Department of Justice, Ministry of Law and Justice, Government of India is helping poor and marginalized communities across India access justice and secure their entitlements. Since 2009, the partnership has reached out to two million people including women, dalits, scheduled castes, and scheduled tribes and people with disabilities in seven states of India. As a result of the partnership, legal information centres and mobile Right to Information clinics have been established to help communities learn about and demand their rights. In addition, radio and training programmes enable widespread dissemination of information on a range of legal rights.
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TUSCALOOSA | Holiday garbage drop-off will be available on from 8 a.m.-2 p.m. today, according to a news release from the Tuscaloosa Environmental Services Department.
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- McAbee Activity Center, 3801 Loop Road.
- Tuscaloosa Fire and Logistics Center, 2015 McFarland Blvd., in front of Belle Foods.
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Wacha is the Cardinals Adam Wainwright clone as a prospect in the organization. He's of a similar build to Wainwright. He has a similar demeanor on and off the mound. He even has a similar repertoire to the Cardinal ace.
I don't need to remind you how Waino established himself in the big leagues back in 2006. If you don't know, just ask his teammate, Carlos Beltran.
Why not throw Wacha on the same career path as his soon-to-be mentor? The exposure to the veterans on the staff and in the clubhouse, and the indoctrination to the "Cardinal Way" did wonders for Wainwright at the beginning of his career. I think the same can happen for the 2012 first round pick out of Texas A&M.
As a 20-year old last year in the minors, Wacha threw 21.0 combined innings between rookie ball, high-level A ball, and double-A ball. He struck out forty batters, walked just four and crafted a combined 0.86 ERA.
This spring with the major league club in Jupiter, Wacha did not allow a single earned run in 11.0 innings pitched covering five appearances. He allowed just seven hits and struck out 15 of the 44 batters he faced.
As you can see, this guy has the stuff to miss bats in the ninth inning.
Now, GM John Mozeliak and Matheny will likely consider this particular option No. 79 on the list of alternatives to Boggs. That I understand. But I'm also crazy enough to think it could be the answer this year, and be in the best interest of Wacha long-term before he joins the rotation full time in 2014.
5) Kobe. Bean. Bryant.
I am by no means a Kobe fan. Anyone who knows me knows where my NBA allegiances lie.
I personally believe he would have fewer rings on his finger if not for the presence of Shaquille O'Neal in the first phase of his career.
I also believe he would have more jewelry in his collection if he didn't have the arrogance to contribute in running Shaq out of town before the big fella was out of his prime (Shaq takes blame in the matter, too).
But no one wants to see a player and competitor of Bryant's caliber suffer an injury of that kind. The game will suffer without Bryant to contribute to the storyline.
The Lakers are probably going to be the 8th seed in the Western Conference. Now, a potential matchup with the defending Western Conference champions, Oklahoma City, in the first round has lost its luster.
Kobe was playing 38.6 minutes a game at age 34, in his 17th NBA season. That's absurd. Only Chicago's marathon man, Luol Deng, was playing more minutes per game this season.
Bryant was on par, minutes-wise, with Portland's dynamic whirling dervish, Damian Lillard. Lillard is likely going to be the NBA Rookie of the Year (he's that good), but he's also twelve years younger than the ageless Vino.
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WASHINGTON (November 8, 2012)--President Barack Obama will become the first U.S. president to visit Myanmar and Cambodia when he travels to the Asian nations later this month.
The White House says Mr. Obama will also visit Thailand.
The trip comes less than two weeks after Mr. Obama's re-election.
Mr. Obama's trip to Myanmar marks the culmination of a dramatic turnaround in the country's relations with Washington.
Myanmar, also known as Burma, has shifted from five decades of ruinous military rule and shaken off the pariah status it had earned through its bloody suppression of democracy.
The president has suspended sanctions to reward Myanmar for political prisoner releases and other democratic reforms.
In Cambodia, Mr. Obama will attend the East Asia summit and meet with the leaders of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations.
Meanwhile Thursday, the White House said Mr. Obama has spoken with more than a dozen world leaders following his re-election and expressed his desire to continue to have close cooperation with them.
Mr. Obama spoke Thursday with British Prime Minister David Cameron, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper and several other world leaders.
The White House said the president thanked them for their friendship and partnership, and interest in maintaining close cooperation between the U.S. and their country.
Mr. Obama also spoke with the leaders of Australia, Brazil, Colombia, Egypt, France, India, Saudi Arabia and Turkey.
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