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When people hear about networking, they begin to imagine a giant task that they cannot do on their own. In reality, setting up a small computer network is something that does not require you to move mountains. In this article, we are going to explore how to set up a local area connection (LAN) of ten computers running Windows XP. We will use XP because it is simple and a lot of cyber cafes and school computer centres still use it.
To set up your network, you need:
– The computers
– Network cables of desired length depending on the size of the area the network is to be installed in
– RJ-45 plug and crimping tools
– Network switch
– And YOU!
Cutting the cable and fitting the clips
In every Ethernet cable, there are 8 tiny coloured wires. The wires are placed in a certain order and with the crimping tool, they are attached to the RJ-45 plug. Due to space constraints, I would not be able to describe the whole crimping process in this article but a detailed demonstration would be done in a later article. For now, we'll simply look at making the work stations communicate with each other.
Setting up the Network Switch
A network switch is a central device to which all your network cables are plugged in. It "distributes" the network. Plug in all the cables from all the computers into the switch.
Configuring the Computers
Now that all the cables have been plugged into the switch, on each of the client computers, run the Network Setup Wizard on each of the computers. Go to Control Panel, click on Network and Internet Connections and the on Network Setup Wizard. In the options on how your computer connects to the internet, your computer connects through another computer so select the second option. In the option for workgroup, put the same workgroup name (e.g. SigmaCafe) in all the computers. This allows you to share resources between the computers more easily. In the option to turn on file and printer sharing, select the first option because we'll need to share files and printers among the computers on the network. Finish the setup.
To share an internet connection
So far, all the computer are interconnected and interact through the network switch. If you have an internet connection and let's say your ISP supplies you a Hughes 7740S modem, you will need to connect the modem to the server and then connect the server to the switch. (The Hughes modem is a standing modem with four blue lights).
In order to do that, there has to be two network cards on the server. Connect the modem to one of the network cards and lets call it LAN1 and connect the switch to the second network card and let's call it LAN2. The computer may name it differently. The important thing is to know which one is which.
Go to Control Panel and click on Network Connections. Open LAN1 and click on Properties. Click on the Advanced tab. Select Allow other network users to connect through this computers internet connection. Click OK.
Open LAN2 and click Properties. From the list, select Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) set the IP address to 192.168.0.1 and the Subnet Mask to 255.255.255.0. These are the default settings for a computer sharing an internet connection. Click OK.
Your internet ready Local Area Connection should be well set up by now. By default, all computers on the network would be able to access the internet because they are all interconnected through the switch.

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Jhene Aiko Involved In Car Accident
Last night, singer-songwriter Jhene Aiko was in a car accident that left her with significant injuries.
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This is the most honest statement about the strength of the republican party from a major republican player that I have ever heard. Maybe this will help us to focus on the real problem with giving the republicans any significant leadership role in our government. They are angry white men. What kind of leadership do you think they will provide? They don't like change and will do everything in their power to kill it.
Sen. Lindsey Graham: Not Enough 'Angry White Guys' to Sustain GOP
Try as Republican leaders might to foreground as many minority party members as they can find, the lack of racial diversity in the GOP is evident, and at least one prominent Republican lawmaker is becoming increasingly concerned.
"The demographics race we're losing badly," Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) told the Washington Post. "We're not generating enough angry white guys to stay in business for the long term."
True enough: In a recent piece on the presidental election's "racial calculations," National Jounal's Ron Brownstein noted that Camp Romney needs to secure a likely unattainable percentage of white voters for a chance to win in November.
"A GOP coalition that relies almost entirely on whites could squeeze out one more narrow victory in November," Brownstein writes. "But if Republicans can't find more effective ways to bridge the priorities of their conservative core and the diversifying Next America, that weight will grow more daunting every year."
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State Charities Collect Nearly $400 Million in Sandy Donations
New York state charities took in nearly $400 million in donations to aid superstorm Sandy victims since the storm hit in late October, according to new figures released by the state Attorney General's office, which is monitoring Sandy charities.
The bulk of the donations, $330 million, were raised by five groups: The American Red Cross raised $188 million; the Robin Hood Foundation raised $67 million; the Mayor's Fund to Advance New York City raised $45 million; The Empire State Relief Fund raised $15.4 million, and the eastern Territory Salvation Army raised $14.3 million.
The Robin Hood Relief Fund–which received money donated from the 12-12-12 benefit concert featuring musicians such as Bruce Springsteen, the Rolling Stones and the Who–has already raised $50 million from the event, according to a report the charity filed with the Attorney General's office on Dec. 18. That money came from ticket sales, sponsorships, telephone and web donations and concert-related merchandise.
The Fund expects the concert will bring in additional money from the online auctions of signed merchandise from the concert, sales of recordings on iTunes, rebroadcasts on television and CD and DVD sales.
Many of the 88 groups that responded to requests for information from the Attorney General's office have been already begun spending the donations on relief efforts.
The Robin Hood Relief Fund has disbursed $17.6 million of the donations it raised through grants to 165 organizations for housing, food and mental health and other services.
In its report, the American Red Cross estimated its spending on Sandy relief would total $110 million by year's end. The Mayor's Fund to Advance New York City has spent or committed $18 million, and the Salvation Army's Eastern Territory has spent $2 million.
Out of the five largest fundraising groups, only the Empire State Relief Fund–a charity set up by New York's Gov. Andrew Cuomo to provide help for homeowners in need of funds for rebuilding– reported it had not yet disbursed any of the money raised.
Non-profit advocacy experts questioned the structure of the governor's fund in December because it is being run by a state agency, and a board of political fundraisers with connections to the governor will decide which organizations are eligible for grants.


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Every team has a player that isn't the most popular with the fans.
And in Manchester United's case there are one or two that are regularly slammed for being well below the standards demanded by United and their hard-to-please fans.'
Ashley Young and Tom Cleverley are those players. Both of which were in the starting XI for United's clash with Sunderland today and both of which and both of which were absolutely nailed by unhappy United fans.
Here's just a smidgen of what was being said about them in the early stages of the game…
How Tom Cleverley got a professional football contract is beyond me, the boy is useless #MUFC #ManUtd #Cleverley
— Raj Choudhury (@RajeebSays) August 24, 2014
Some of the decision making from likes of Young and Cleverly is baffling #MUFC
— Simon Shaw (@shawry89) August 24, 2014
Watching Young and Cleverley repeatedly concede fouls is painful. Only 80 minutes to go…. #MUFC
— fran mitchell (@frangipan_) August 24, 2014
cleverley & young…i just dont have the words to describe their performance thus far. horrible would be an understatement. #MUFC
— 50 Shades Of Red (@havium) August 24, 2014
Cleverley and Young competing for the "Who fucked up the most" award. #mufc
— Lucas (@Lucas_MUtd) August 24, 2014
— CaitlinTownsend (@CaitlinMUFC) August 24, 2014
I will pay you £75 millions to take Ashley Young away! #mufc
— Louis Van Gaal (@LouisVGaal_) August 24, 2014
Cleverley and Young giving the ball away under no pressure. Terminate their deals ffs #mufc
— Shinji (@Bryan_Mufc) August 24, 2014
Fletcher Young and Cleverly are nowhere good enough #ManUtd #MUFC
— L'Homme Nouveau (@iLunga26) August 24, 2014
As to how Cleverly is still playing football is beyond me. Thank God Di Maria is coming. Young should be far from this team. #MUFC
— Possibility Thinker (@_swoosh_69) August 24, 2014
Watching football since 2002 wc !! Seriously Young is the worst player I've ever seen !! #MUFC
— Sandhu (@SandhUTD) August 24, 2014
I wonder why Chelvery is being offered with new deal. The manger should also say him to leave the club. I guess the manger is holding Young and Chelvery untill the new signings are through. But Janauji can play well instead of Young and instead of Chelvery , the manger can use Kagawa. Although, Kagawa is an attacking midfielder..m sure he will not mind playing as DM….Instead of Welback..Young and Chelvery should leave. We all know that we are weak in MIDFIELD area and in Wings also we lack that threatening approach and having Young and Chelvery is not making any difference….
In today match…Valancia, Young and Chelvery..all were flops for me…They say football players are like wines..with time they become better but..the above mentioned players are deteriorating with time…I guess without them ManU will play better..


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…my dear friend Jules Darboux, wishing to do me a refined aesthetic favour, had touched my sleeve and said, "I want you to meet —" and led me to Nina, who sat in the corner of a couch, her body folded Z-wise, with an ashtray at her heel, and she took a long turquoise cigarette holder from her lips and joyfully, slowly exclaimed, "Well, of all people —" and then all the evening my heart felt like breaking… (40)
Victor's anguish over Nina is made all the more noticeable by her LACK of longing or pain. He suffers all the more for knowing that she doesn't return his feelings.
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…and overheard one man saying to another, "Funny, how they all smell alike, burnt leaf through whatever perfume they use, those angular dark-haired girls," and as it often happens, a trivial remark related to some unknown topic coiled and clung to one's own intimate recollection, a parasite of its sadness. (40)
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Sidebar: Location Times Two
A key advantage of having two Zoo locations just 75 miles apart is that keepers, biologists, and vets work closely together and are familiar with all the cheetahs. Cats can be shuttled back and forth without need for the quarantine and extensive exams required when animals arrive from other zoos.
The Cheetah Conservation Station is a popular stop at the Zoo's Rock Creek campus. (Mehgan Murphy/NZP)
The ability to shift animals between Front Royal and Rock Creek also means the Zoo can deal swiftly with health and behavior problems. "If we have a skittish cat that is always wired, we will not be doing any service to her or the species by trying to force her to be on exhibit," Saffoe explains. "We can send her to Front Royal and hopefully avoid stress-related illness.
On the other hand, if Front Royal has ten enclosures filled, and a skittish animal is reacting poorly to all those other cats, we could bring her to Rock Creek. Or let's say we have a prospective mother at Front Royal, and we're not sure how she'll react with other cats around. We could bring her downtown and let her give birth in isolation."
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The Morning Download: Google's Poorly Augmented Reality Show
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Good morning. Google would like CIOs to take its business services more seriously, but its co-founder shows more interest in futuristic goggles than in business tools that are literally beneath him.
As CIO Journal's Rachael King reports, right after Google's Sundar Pichai's keynote presentation introducing new business services, such as a competitor to Amazon's EC2 cloud infrastructure bundle, the Moscone Center's large video screens cut away to a live feed of Sergey Brin clowning around on the roof with his new toy, Google Glass.
The new cloud platform gives customers access to Google's high performance computing infrastructure, and the ability to run Linux virtual machines on Google servers. But parking applications on a third-party vendor's cloud isn't a decision taken lightly. It's hard to imagine CIOs giving this a second's consideration given the apparent lack of interest on the part of Google's senior leadership.
Google's augmented reality glasses bear watching. Augmented reality, the technology underlying Google Glass, is already widely available. AR overlays data on top of images seen through a smartphone camera, and could become a critical tool for CIOs to provide product information to customers and employees at just the right moment, Gartner analyst Brian Blau tells CIO Journal. The advantage of glasses is that users would be able to read data without having to look down at their smartphones, which could make a tremendous difference in certain situations, such as an employee receiving status updates about machines on a shop floor.
Happy birthday, iPhone. Apple's iPhone is now five years old. Its impact on business and on computing itself is hard to overstate. It has changed the way people work, altering the structure of the enterprise (it's mobile now), changing the relationship between workers and a humanized IT, and ushering in the era of the app. CIO Journal takes a look at what has changed for business over the last five years.
H-P hires new CIO for enterprise services. H-P has hired a new chief information officer with significant business experience, which should come in handy as he takes over the IT reins at H-P's enterprise service division on Monday. The new CIO, Steve Bandrowczak, has previously been CIO at Lenovo and DHL, but his most recent experience is with Avaya, where he remains vice president and general manager of alliances through Friday. In an exclusive interview, Bandrowczak tells CIO Journal that driving transformation at a large organization requires "creating innovation in smaller chunks, getting it out quicker, making incremental investments and driving incremental value."
Supreme Court reboots health IT. The U.S. Supreme Court's decision to uphold most aspects of the Affordable Care Act means hospitals will receive more federal funds to provide holistic health care, boosting technology deployments in the health care industry. The ACA provides incentives for health care givers and organizations to coordinate care, eliminate duplication of services, lower preventable medical errors and lower costs. That "can't be achieved without the implementation of technology," Zeynep Sumer, vice president of regulatory and professional affairs at the Greater New York Hospital Association, tells CIO Journal.
Google v. Amazon. Google unveiled its answer to Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud with an infrastructure service of its own, allowing businesses to build and host applications in the cloud. "It's a textbook infrastructure-as-a-service play that shows how readily and quickly Google can scale up and down on demand," writes AllThingsD's Mike Isaac.
Google Compute Engine gives developers access to the same high performance computing infrastructure that Google uses, and lets companies run Linux virtual machines on Google servers. It's similar to Amazon's offering, except EC2 is geared for broader use and offers more than one operating system. It's also less expensive than EC2, and the tools are built on an open application programming interface, CIO Journal reports.
ZDNet's Larry Dignan says the effort "lacks the depth and options" offered by its competitor.
Chrome moves to iOS. Google showed off its Chrome browser for iPhones and iPads at its developer conference. The new browser supports cross-device syncing, allowing mobile users the ability to access a browser tab originally open on their PC, GigaOM's Janko Roettgers reports.
Google v. Everyone. GigaOM's Om Malik marvels that the search giant is "fighting a lot of battles on many fronts." Google Apps and its Chrome browser have a chance of carving out a large role in corporations, he writes, but in most places it's "trench warfare." For those wanting to keep score, Malik includes a rundown of the search giant's clashes with the big four: Apple; Microsoft; Amazon and Facebook.
RIM: "Ruh Roh": RIM said on its quarterly earnings call that its new BlackBerry phone won't be ready until next year. The market duly noted this means no new phones for the holiday shopping season and sent shares down 17%. The company also disclosed a $518 million loss for the quarter. RIM plans to cut 5,000 jobs from its 16,500-strong workforce by the end of the fiscal year, the WSJ's Will Connors writes.
Microsoft shares new OS plans with partners. Microsoft is sharing Windows 8 upgrade plans with select partners, according to ZDNet's Mary-Jo Foley. According to Foley, users upgrading to Windows 8 Enterprise from Windows 7 Professional and Windows 7 Enterprise will be able to maintain their existing Windows settings, personal files and applications, as long as they aren't changing architecture, say from 32-bit to 64-bit, or switching language.
Twitter's mobile ads begin to click. Twitter is showing early signs of success selling advertising on mobile devices, an area that is bedeviling Internet companies including Facebook and Google, the WSJ's Shira Ovide reports. On most days, Twitter is now generating the majority of its revenue from ads shown to its users on mobile gadgets, rather than from ads on Twitter.com, company executives said.
Apple hardware chief retires. The Apple executive in charge of hardware engineering for the iPhone, iPad and other Apple products is retiring from the company, PCWorld's James Niccolai reports. Bob Mansfield, who reports to CEO Tim Cook, will leave Apple in the next several months after transitioning his role to a replacement. Cook called Mansfield an "instrumental part" of Apple's executive team but asserted that the engineering team would "not miss a beat" during the transition to a new leader.
Wiping away your Siri 'fingerprint.' Apple iPhone 4S users are giving away personal information every time they use the voice-activated Siri service, writes MIT Technology Review's David Talbot. The human voice can be a biometric identifier, although not quite as unique as fingerprints. Talbot suggests that the company do part of the data processing on the device, and not store queries on its cloud. IBM CIO Jeanette Horan said last month she turned off Siri on employee iPhones because she worries spoken queries could reveal sensitive information.
Because a tweet is forever. A web tool called Politwoops enables users to view tweets deleted by politicians. Yesterday was a doozy for deletes, the WSJ's Elizabeth Williamson reports. A useful reminder to employees with a tendency to post off-the-cuff tweets.
Analysts predict death of the Windows desktop. Gartner says by 2020 the Windows desktop will account for just 10% of users' time. By then, the browser and most applications will run in Metro using WinRT, its mobile OS. "That means Microsoft will likely spend little energy from this point forward improving the Windows desktop," writes InfoWorld's Gregg Keizer.
Microsoft plans Zune 2. Microsoft is planning a music service allowing users to stream or download digital music for a monthly or annual fee, write Bloomberg's Andy Fixmer and Dina Bass. The service, expected to launch next year, is Microsoft's second foray into music after the failure of Zune, which Microsoft is shutting and transitioning customers to Xbox Music.
Speaking of iTunes. Apple is working on an overhaul of its media software, sources tell Bloomberg. The company wants to further integrate it with its iCloud storage service and also make it easier for people to share music. Apple's media service generated almost $1.19 billion in revenue last quarter.
Every week, CIO Journal offers a glimpse into the mind of the CEO, whose view of technology is shaped by stories in management journals, general interest magazines and, of course, in-flight publications.
- Fighting for the next billion customers. Proctor & Gamble's "eternal battle" with Unilever takes on new dimensions as both companies seek customers in emerging markets, writes The Economist. Unilever has proven to be the more successful adopting product marketing and distribution to local markets. In Internet-poor India the Anglo-Dutch firm has recruited an army of 50,000 women to sell products in remote villages. The company has also found success "reverse engineering" products so they can be affordable to poorer customers–Unilever has been selling its shampoo in small sachets to certain markets for years. Meanwhile P&G's reputation as being one of the most integrated multinationals may be working against it. P&G, which centralizes decision-making at headquarters in Cincinnati, has not proven as adept at understanding local markets in the developing world as Unilever, which recently decoupled local and global planning.
- You will want Google Goggles. Writing for MIT's Technology Review, Slate's tech columnist Farhad Manjoo makes the executive case for the search giant's augmented reality goggles. Imagine your boss asking about your weekly sales number, Manjoo writes. Instead of fumbling with your smartphone—thus demonstrating your ignorance–you could repeat: "This week's sales numbers?" and unbeknownst to your boss, trigger your goggles "with Siri-like prowess" to display the report before your eyes. Job saved. Manjoo talks to Google researcher Thad Starner, who has been wearing augmented reality goggles since the early 1990s. Starner's argument: "We're trying to make mobile systems that help the user pay more attention to the real world as opposed to retreating from it." Manjoo, who thought wearable computers "hopelessly dorky," leaves Google headquarters a believer.
- The anti-organization behind Anonymous. Wired's Quinn Norton reveals the anti-organization behind the Internet collective. "Anonymous is a classic 'do-ocracy,'" Norton writes. "There's no one to grant permission, no promise of praise or credit, so every action must be its own reward." Yet the group somehow "still succeeds in speaking with a single voice." Are we going to see Anonymous case studies in biz school? Likely not, but here's one piece of advice for the C-suite: insult the Internet collective at your company's peril, lest it become a case study of "How Anonymous Picks Targets, Launches Attacks, and Takes Powerful Organizations Down."
After 14 hours of negotiations, EU leaders have reached a deal to radically restructure Spain's €100 billion bank recapitalization plan, allowing EU bailout funds to eventually be injected directly into Spanish financial institutions, "meaning Madrid can sweep the burden of the bailouts off its sovereign books," the FT says [registration req'd].
The group also said they would push forward on "a specific and time-bound road map for the achievement of a genuine monetary union." That will likely include steps toward a "grand bargain" of mutual bond issuance in return for the watertight regime of fiscal discipline that Germany wants, the WSJ reports. They're back at the negotiating table today for another round of talks.
SEC could force Nasdaq tech revamp. The SEC might force Nasdaq to upgrade its trading systems after last month's Facebook debacle. The exchange group's executives are also reviewing its management structure, focusing on the operations and technology areas overseen by Anna Ewing, the WSJ reports. Some executives said her responsibilities, which include overseeing Nasdaq's own trading technology as well as products it sells to brokers, would be too broad for any manager.
Are bankers lying about the numbers? It's now so widely accepted that many of the world's banks are burying losses and overstating their asset values, even the Bank for International Settlements is saying so, writes Bloomberg's Jonathan Weil. As we noted in the Ledger, BIS said in its annual report that banks have to adjust their balance sheets to "accurately reflect the value of assets." But BIS's approach is all carrot and no stick, says Weil. "At some point, the cycle will break, only nobody knows when. This you can count on: It will take more than subtle inducements to make banks fess up to all their losses."
J.P. Morgan models under scrutiny. The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency wants to have a closer look at the models J.P. Morgan uses to monitor risk. The OCC is aiming to make sure that J.P. Morgan's reporting is "robust enough that we can actually see what's going on in the institution," Thomas Curry, Comptroller of the Currency, told the WSJ. "That appears to have been an area of potential weakness."
CORRECTION: Google switched to a video feed of Sergey Brin on the roof of the Moscone Center after the end of Google's Sundar Pichai's keynote presentation introducing new business services. An earlier version of this article stated that Google switched to the video feed during Pichai's presentation.
Tom Loftus contributed to this article.


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Grave Markers
Installing Grave Markers
Once your loved one has been interred and the headstone has arrived you may find that the cemetery has very specific requirements when it comes to installing grave markers. Very few of them will allow you to simply set the marker on the ground at the head of your loved one's final resting place. Not only is this likely to be unsightly, but over time it will not be safe, as the ground shifts the marker could easily fall over and hurt someone.
You will of course need to check with your particular cemetery, but you are likely to find that in order to install grave markers, most will require a poured cement foundation for it to rest on. The cemetery owners will do the work for you in most cases and charge you a fee to do so. All of the headstones we craft at Legacy Headstones are made to sit on a flat concrete foundation and to be secured in place.
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Howl's Moving Castle
by Diana Wynne Jones
Howl's Moving Castle Chapter 19 Summary
In Which Sophie Expresses Her Feelings With Weed-Killer
- Sophie is in a truly bad mood by this point.
- Howl tries to ask her what's wrong, but Sophie is too furious to explain (even to herself, maybe).
- Howl finally notices that the dog-man keeps changing dog breeds—somehow he had managed to miss that the dog-man is under a curse.
- And then Howl gets furious that Sophie never mentioned it.
- He drags the dog-man in front of Calcifer, even though (weirdly) the dog-man doesn't seem to want Howl's help.
- The curse has a lot of layers: Calcifer and Howl peel off the dog disguise first, so the red-headed man is standing in front of them.
- The poor guy has no memory of who he is.
- Calcifer has to tell the former dog-man that he most recently answered to the name of Percival and that the Witch apparently kept his head on a shelf for a while.
- He's also got the parts of some other guy mixed in.
- Sophie takes a bucket of really amazingly efficient weedkiller that she made by accident, thanks to her terrible mood, and she and Percival go to the mansion entrance—which nobody has paid attention to up until now—with this intense weedkiller.
- She uses it to start cleaning up the driveway.
- Apparently the Witch wanted Percival to tell her everything he knows about Howl, but Percival can't remember what he might have known then (before his head got removed, we guess).
- Percival does recall finding his way to Lettie's after the Witch transformed him into a dog, and he also remembers the Wizard Howl hanging around Lettie—asking about Sophie.
- Percival agreed to come to the moving castle to keep an eye on Sophie as a favor to Lettie.
- Rather than making Sophie happy that her sister is concerned about her, this news makes Sophie even angrier.
- She starts throwing the weedkiller around like there's no tomorrow—the whole driveway is practically smoking.
- Sophie seems upset at the idea that she's fallen for Howl, or that Howl might be interested in her.
- The scarecrow suddenly appears at the mansion, but Sophie repeats, we're not here, we're not here, and the scarecrow moves away.
- As she's looking back at the mansion, Sophie sees a curtain twitch—she realizes that Howl is there, watching (and possibly hearing).
- She storms into the moving castle, where Michael, Howl, and Calcifer have all obviously been listening in on every embarrassing thing she has just been saying to Percival.
- It turns out that everyone has been telling Howl about Sophie's curse—he's talked it over with Michael, Lettie, Calcifer, Mrs. Fairfax, and Mrs. Pentstemmon—and he now believes that Sophie has to be keeping the curse on by herself.
- Sophie throws the weedkiller at Howl in rage.
- It's Midsummer's Day tomorrow, which means whatever is going to happen with the Witch is going to happen soon.


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Europe's Morning MoneyBeat: Equities on a Firmer Footing
Good Morning Europe
Stocks are forecast to start out on a very firm footing as Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke has reassured investors that monetary policy will remain 'highly accomodative' for the foreseeable future.
Speaking in Boston Wednesday he said he expects the Fed won't raise short-term rates for some time after the unemployment rate hits 6.5%, which would be more than a full percentage point lower than its current level.
Bernanke's comments have seen Asian stocks rise, and knocked the dollar hard. The Nikkei is a notable laggard as investors take fright at a stronger yen.
Capital Spreads is calling the FTSE 100 up 104 points, the DAX up 97 and the CAC 40 up 45.
A light data calendar will be dominated by U.S. jobless claims figures for last week.
By David Cottle.
What You May Have Missed From MoneyBeat:
Noble Hires Advisor After Yanzhou Bids for Yancoal Australia: Singapore-based commodities trader Noble Group Ltd. has hired Goldman Sachs Group Inc. as its advisor after China's Yanzhou Coal Mining Co. Ltd. this week unveiled plans to buy out minority shareholders in Yancoal Australia Ltd.
Mubadala Cuts Exposure to Brazil's Eike Batista to Around $1.5 Billion: Abu Dhabi's Mubadala Development Company has lowered its exposure to Brazilian tycoon Eike Batista, who has been plunged into financial crisis amid production problems at his flagship oil company.
T-Mobile CEO Likes What He Hears From Charlie Ergen: T-Mobile CEO John Legere says he's "intrigued" by Dish Network Chairman Charles Ergen's vision of combining his satellite TV provider with a wireless carrier, although it sounds like the two aren't dancing quite yet.
Australia's REITs Are Capital-Raising Stars: As Australia's long resources boom fades, bricks and mortar have emerged as the fundraising stars of the country's capital markets.
From The Wall Street Journal:
Fed Affirms Easy-Money Tilt: Ben Bernanke sought to reassure jittery markets that while the central bank could start winding down its $85 billion-a-month bond-buying program later this year, Fed officials aren't abandoning their broader commitment to easy-money policies.
E-Book Ruling Crimps Apple: The tech giant colluded with five major U.S. publishers to drive up the prices of e-books, a federal judge ruled Wednesday in a stern rebuke that threatens to limit the technology company's options when negotiating future content deals.
China: GlaxoSmithKline Workers Bribed Doctors: Chinese officials said they have found evidence that the U.K. drug maker's sales personnel in China rewarded doctors, hospitals, government officials and foundations with cash and perks for prescribing medications.
Humble Roots Fed Smithfield Deal: China's Wan Long, who aims take over U.S. pork processor Smithfield Foods, has overcome modest beginnings to become a savvy political operator and deal maker.
Insiders Shift Trades as Bankruptcy Nears: A review of stock trades by corporate insiders before their companies filed for bankruptcy found the trading veering heavily toward selling instead of buying.
BOJ Upgrades Assessment of Economy: The Bank of Japan upgraded its assessment of the economy Thursday, saying the nation is starting to recover moderately. It was the first time the central bank had used the word "recover" to describe economic conditions since January 2011.
Crédit Agricole Bids Adieu to Pricey Lunch: New rules at Crédit Agricole mean investment bankers must be more frugal when dining and traveling.


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Aruna Dindane
Dindane playing for Lens in 2009
|Personal information
|Full name
|Aruna Dindane[1]
|Date of birth
|[1]26 November 1980
|Place of birth
|Abidjan, Ivory Coast
|5 ft 9 in (1.75 m)[1]
|Playing position
|Youth career
|Inconditionnel D'Adjamé
|ASEC Mimosas
|Senior career*
|ASEC Mimosas
|→ Portsmouth (loan)
|Crystal Palace
|National team‡
|Ivory Coast
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 00:00, 27 May 2012 (UTC).
Aruna Dindane (born 26 November 1980) is an Ivorian footballer who is currently unattached and plays as a striker.
He has 62 caps and 17 goals for the Ivory Coast since his debut in 2000, and has played at four Africa Cup of Nations and two FIFA World Cups.
Club career[edit]
Born in Abidjan, Ivory Coast,[1] Dindane transferred from Ivorian club ASEC Mimosas to RSC Anderlecht in summer 2000 and helped the team to win the Belgian First Division Championship in 2001 and 2004, as well a Supercup in 2000 and 2001. In 2003, Dindane won both the Ebony Shoe as best player of African origin in the Belgian League and the Golden Shoe as the best player in the Belgian League. In November 2004, he was given a Swan D'Or Award for a spell of back-to-back hat-tricks.
In June 2005, Dindane signed for French Ligue 1 club Lens. In August 2009, he joined Premier League team Portsmouth on a one-year loan deal, with the option to sign him at the end of his loan spell. He scored his first goal for Portsmouth in a 3–1 League Cup win over Carlisle on 22 September 2009.[2] and his first Premier League goal as part of a hat-trick in the 4–0 win over Wigan Athletic on 31 October.[3] On 5 December 2009, he scored against Burnley with a header after missing a penalty earlier in the game. On 9 February 2010, Dindane scored a 95th-minute equaliser in the 1–1 draw with Sunderland at Fratton Park.
On 21 March 2010, it was revealed he was left out of Portsmouth's match squad the previous day as if he played one more game the club would have to pay a £4 million fee to his parent club Lens.[4] With Portsmouth in administration, they could not afford to pay this fee, and so he was dropped. However, he subsequently played in the FA Cup semi-final against Tottenham Hotspur on 11 April 2010,[5] and Portsmouth were aiming to negotiate terms with Lens that allow him to play in the FA Cup Final and the remaining Premier League games without incurring the £4 million fee.
On 4 April 2010 it was revealed that Blackburn Rovers were preparing to bid for the £2.5 million striker in time for the 2010–11 season and the player underwent and passed a medical at the club only for the transfer talk to cool due to financial disagreements between Blackburn Rovers and Aruna's club Lens. On 30 April 2010, Dindane reiterated his desire to stay in English football after the loan to Portsmouth had ended.[6] However, on 24 May 2010, Dindane agreed a three-year deal with Lekhwiya of Qatar.
In January 2012 Dindane agreed to join Qatari club Al-Gharafa. After a short spell at Al-Gharafa, he signed a one-year deal with Al-Sailiya Sport Club on 27 May 2012. After half a season he was released and started training with Leeds United. On 23 March 2013, he signed for Crystal Palace until the end of the 2012–13 season.[7] He was released just prior to the end of the season without having made a senior appearance & with doubts over his fitness [8]
International career[edit]
Dindane made his debut for Côte d'Ivoire on 9 April 2000 against Rwanda. He participated in the 2006 FIFA World Cup, where he scored twice in a memorable comeback to win 3–2 in their last group match against Serbia and Montenegro.[9] However, the team failed to reach the second round due to previous defeats against Argentina and the Netherlands.[10][11]
Dindane represented his country at the 2006 African Cup of Nations, but left the tournament on 22 January 2006 following the death of one of his twin daughters.[12] He was also selected in the Ivorian squad for the 2008 African Cup of Nations in Ghana. He currently has 67 international caps for his country.[13]
After Dindane's successful season in England for Portsmouth, where he scored 10 goals in 24 appearances,[14] he was called up to the Ivorian squad for the 2010 FIFA World Cup. Dindane was a starter in their first two group games, against Portugal and Brazil.
ASEC Mimosas
R.S.C. Anderlecht
- Belgian First Division: 2000–01, 2003–04
- Belgian Supercup: 2000, 2001
RC Lens
- Belgian Ebony Shoe: 2003
- Belgian Golden Shoe: 2003
- ^ a b c d Hugman, Barry J., ed. (2010). The PFA Footballers' Who's Who 2010–11. Mainstream Publishing. p. 119. ISBN 978-1-84596-601-0.
- ^ "Carlisle 1–3 Portsmouth". BBC Sport. 22 September 2009. Retrieved 26 September 2009.
- ^ Reekie, Harry (31 October 2009). "Portsmouth 4–0 Wigan Athletic". BBC Sport. Retrieved 3 November 2009.
- ^ "Pompey drop Dindane over £4m fee". BBC Sport. 21 March 2010.
- ^ Burnton, Simon (11 April 2010). "Tottenham 0 Portsmouth 2 – as it happened!". The Guardian. London.
- ^ "Dindane desires English stay". Sky Sports.
- ^ "Aruna Dindane: Crystal Palace sign Ivory Coast striker". BBC Sport. 27 March 2013. Retrieved 3 May 2013.
- ^ "Aruna Dindane leaves Crystal Palace after failing to prove fitness". Croydon Advertiser. 12 May 2013. Retrieved 11 January 2014.
- ^ "Ivory Coast 3–2 Serbia & Montenegro". BBC Sport. 21 June 2006. Retrieved 2010-05-25.
- ^ "Argentina 2–1 Ivory Coast". BBC Sport. 10 June 2006. Retrieved 2010-05-25.
- ^ "Holland 2–1 Ivory Coast". BBC Sport. 16 June 2006. Retrieved 2010-05-25.
- ^ Dindane leaves tournament
- ^ Aruna Dindane at National-Football-Teams.com
- ^ http://www.goal.com/en/news/9/england/2010/06/21/1988221/lens-striker-aruna-dindane-admits-he-could-be-set-for-shock
External links[edit]
- Aruna Dindane career statistics at Soccerbase
- Aruna Dindane at National-Football-Teams.com
- Profile, stats and pictures of Aruna Dindane
- 1980 births
- Living people
- Sportspeople from Abidjan
- Ivorian footballers
- Ivory Coast international footballers
- Association football forwards
- ASEC Mimosas players
- R.S.C. Anderlecht players
- RC Lens players
- Portsmouth F.C. players
- Crystal Palace F.C. players
- Expatriate footballers in France
- 2002 African Cup of Nations players
- 2006 FIFA World Cup players
- 2006 Africa Cup of Nations players
- 2008 Africa Cup of Nations players
- 2010 Africa Cup of Nations players
- 2010 FIFA World Cup players
- Belgian First Division A players
- Ligue 1 players
- Ligue 2 players
- Premier League players
- Ivorian expatriates in Belgium
- Ivorian expatriates in France
- Expatriate footballers in Belgium
- Ivorian expatriates in the United Kingdom
- Expatriate footballers in England
- Ivorian expatriate footballers
- Lekhwiya SC players
- Expatriate footballers in Qatar
- Qatar Stars League players
- Ivorian expatriates in Qatar
- Al-Gharafa Sports Club players
- Al-Sailiya SC players


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Matt Gonzalez Runs, but Not Too Far
Despite resignation, former supervisor still a hit with students
February 2, 2005 6:52 PM
Matt Gonzalez is a politician and a lawyer, but unlike many of his high-profile peers, he doesnĺt seem motivated by money or power, which makes him unpredictable. Heĺs a maverick or a rebel, maybe both, depending on whom you ask. His mere presence in San Francisco government has, for the past four years, shaken up many notions of what politics is supposed to be about. One thing is clear about the man and his politicsľ Matt Gonzalez makes things interesting.
A case in point ľ during Gonzalezĺs last meeting with the Board of Supervisors in early January, a friend showed up at the public speakerĺs podium dressed in a red cape, scarlet horns, a plastic tail and a matching pitchfork.
ôMatt,ö said James Beckett, playing the Devilĺs Advocate, ôfor the last four years youĺve stymied my agenda. What have you to say for yourself?ö
Gonzalez smiled, but said nothing.
Later on in the meeting, fellow supervisor Jake McGoldrick read a farewell poem for Gonzalez, comparing him to a vegetable.
ôOnion, luminous flask, your beauty formed petal by petalů in the secrecy underground, your belly grew round with dewů so did the Earth make you,ö said McGoldrick.
Gonzalez took it in stride.
In many ways, McGoldrick is right ľ Gonzalez clearly has many layers. Heĺs a complex person, an activist and an attorney, a man of conscience and conviction. But as you peal away his layers, you quickly realize that Gonzalez isnĺt spending much time weeping over his recent departure as president of the Board of Supervisors. He may have left City Hall, but Gonzalez hasnĺt yet left the political scene.
ôIĺm not out of politics,ö said Gonzalez during a recent interview in a back room of the house he rents near the Western Addition. ôMany of the most politically important people in San Francisco do not hold an elected office. Iĺve merely joined their ranks.ö
Yet itĺs hard to believe that Gonzalez really means what he says. Six years ago, he entered politics mainly to tweak his then current boss in the Public Defenderĺs office, former San Francisco District Attorney Terrance Hallinan.
ôI had a kid who was convicted for selling marijuana. The prosecutor wanted to recommend a six-month sentence, which I thought was stupid. I ran for district attorney to bother the incumbent [Hallinan], and to really call him on his wild claims of being extremely progressive. I was trying to hold his feet to the fire,ö said Gonzalez.
Although Gonzalez lost his initial bid for elected office, his next attempt at gaining a seat in City Hall fared much better. During his run for the Board of Supervisors spot in district 5, he stunned political insiders by leaving the large and well-financed Democratic Party, opting instead to join the tiny Green Party. Politically, it wasnĺt an easy decision, but for Gonzalez it all hinged on trust.
ôDo you know the number of times Iĺve had people say to me, ĹMatt, youĺre going to join the Democrats and run for the state assembly and try to go to Congress as a Democrat, arenĺt you?ĺ It says to me that thatĺs the conventional wisdom. I was able to get a lot of people to trust me as a political figure, in terms of Ĺtrust me on the political issuesĺ, at the outset,ö said Gonzalez.
Yet trust isnĺt something that Gonzalez easily gives. He said heĺs been burned by both fellow politicians and local media, which he chalks up to what he calls a style of machine politics that he said he often sees in government.
ôMayor Brown and I used to have these breakfasts,ö Gonzalez said. ôAt every breakfast, we were joined by two African-American attorneys who were Greens, one of them in his 50s and one of them my age. Willie liked their company. He was impressed by the radicalism of the Greens and he identified with it as the radicalism that he had when he started.
ôBut then, a month later, heĺs calling me a racist,ö said Gonzalez. ôThatĺs the machine.
ôThe machine says, ĹWe need your help crushing this threat.ĺ I understand it. I get it. I get along with him [former mayor Brown] fine. I know what he was doing. He knows that I know what he was doing. He tries to make it up to me. He talks about what a great lawyer I am. Itĺs his way of saying, ĹMatt, I had to fuck you while you weĺre running for mayor, and I had to say bad shit about you, but now itĺs all good. I want to make up for it.ĺö
But even if the establishment isnĺt impressed with Gonzalez, it doesnĺt seem to faze him. He is, at heart, a misfit, and Gonzalez appears to thrive on playing the role of the perpetual underdog, rejecting powerful allies to side with other misfits, typically those with the least amount of clout in local politics.
ôI have a long history with disenfranchised groups, like artists and musicians and what have you; people that are more likely not going to get involved in politics,ö said Gonzalez. ôYou get a candidate that you like, one that knows something about what you do, and you get excited about that.ö
ôWe were quite excited by the Matt Gonzalez campaign for mayor,ö said Donnelly. ôI was energized, not only by his politics, but by the kind of person he is.ö
Even if Gonzalez lost the mayorĺs seat to Democrat Gavin Newsom, it was a tight race right to the end. By the time the votes were tallied, Gonzalez had come within three percentage points of beating Newsom, a stunning finish for a third party candidate and a man most voters had never even heard of just four years before.
Gonzalez claims heĺs not bitter about the defeat to Newsom, yet itĺs clear he hoped that heĺd beat the odds just one more time.
ôAfter the election, we werenĺt disappointed,ö said Gonzalez. ôWe understood the historic nature of this possible victory for the Green Party. What was disappointing was that we got so close. Itĺs really more like a missed opportunity than anything else.ö
Shortly after the mayorĺs race, Gonzalez met with John Halle, another elected Green Party official from New Haven, CT. According to Gonzalez, the two discussed their political futures and both agreed not to run for second terms.
ôIt was funny ľ I was trying to talk him out of it and he tried to talk me out of it. I think thereĺs a real lesson there. We did our work, we enjoyed our time, we fought as hard as we could. Weĺre OK walking away,ö said Gonzalez.
Although Gonzalez said he intends to spend his next few years starting a new law firm, crusading against big business and working on the occasional criminal defense case, itĺs hard to believe that he can avoid getting involved in politics again. Gonzalez wonĺt rule out another run for elected office, and his friends and advisors agree heĺs unlikely to abandon the political arena.
In any case, Gonzalezĺs fellow supervisors in City Hall already admit that they feel his absence.
Q: So, how does it feel to be out of politics for a while?
A: Well, Iĺm not out yet.
Q: Well, almost - about a day to go, right?
A: Yeah - Iĺm not out of politics. Iĺll be out of holding an elected office. I think itĺs important that people understand that you can be politically engaged in your life without holding elective office. In fact, many of the most politically important people in San Francisco do not hold an elected office. Iĺve merely joined their ranks. Look at Kevin Danaher and Medea Benjamin from Global Exchange. I consider folks like Peter Camejo, in Contra Costa County - heĺs never won an elective office in the 30 years heĺs been running. What I mean is, for the Greens, itĺs good that we have some people on the outside and some on the inside.
Q: Let me ask you this - Iĺve been doing some research on you, and on the Green Party as well - one of the things that really astonishes me is that only about 3 percent of registered voters in San Francisco are registered in the Green Party.
A: Right.
Q: And yet, in the elections, you seem to do very well, much better, obviously than 3 percent. Whoĺs voting for you?
A: Well, I think it speaks to what happens if you donĺt have a spoiler phenomenon at work. If youĺve got more than two candidates in a race, everybody always says, ôThe Green is going to spoil the election, Ĺcause he or she is taking votes from somebody.ö In a two-person race, right - once Iĺm in a runoff, itĺs two-person, they canĺt say - what are the typical arguments against the Greens? ôYouĺre going to spoil the outcome,ö or that youĺre not experienced enough to hold office. ôWe like you, but youĺve got no experience.ö
Well, in this case, in a two-person race, I became president of the Board of Supervisors. So those arguments donĺt work and they have to listen to what youĺre talking about. The people that listen say, ôHey, Iĺll vote for you.ö In this city, in San Francisco, Iĺd say many of the independents are probably closet Greens, people who are independents so they can vote in the Democratic primaries.
Q: How do you think the political process is going to change now that the supervisors, and the mayor, are going to be chosen through ranked-choice voting?
A: Well, I think itĺs not going to change ľ itĺs not going to have as dramatic an impact locally as district elections had, because the Greens won a seat in your traditional runoff, right? Thatĺs how I got elected. But I think itĺs going to serve as an example for the rest of the country. The Democrats canĺt complain about Florida in 2000 when thereĺs a measure that they can implement, on a national scale, to allow for majority elections so that it couldnĺt happen again. Weĺve essentially given them an example that they canĺt deny.
One thing that people said about IRV (Instant Runoff Voting) is that it favors grassroots candidates, because in traditional elections, what often would happen is youĺd have one very identified ômachineö candidate, and everyone else would be running as an independent ľ well, think of the mayorĺs race. Susan Leal ľ ôGavin Newsomĺs the machine, heĺs not good.ö Angela Alioto ľ ôNewsomĺs not good, heĺs the machine.ö As soon as thereĺs a runoff, then you have the press conferences where, because theyĺve been promised things, they come back on board. Everythingĺs copasetic, theyĺre all back in the fold, because the machine cuts the deal and takes care of them.
With IRV, you would have to say to say to your supporters, ôNewsomĺs terrible, but vote for him second.ö Thatĺs not going to ľ you would lose votes if you did that, so it (IRV) favors, I think, the independent candidate, because they hear the message, and if itĺs an anti-machine message, then itĺs more likely to stay that way.
Q: You definitely donĺt seem to be very interested in the machine politics. I mean ľ Iĺve talked to some people who know you, Iĺve read some of the articles that youĺve written. Iĺm told that you donĺt own your house ľ you rent it. Youĺve got roommates, and I would never have imagined that the president of the Board of Supervisors in San Francisco rents his own home and shares it with roommates. One of your former aides told me that you get your suits at second-hand stores. How is it to deal with a system where money and politics intertwine so deeply? How do you stay apart from that?
A: Well, look ľ first off, I havenĺt gotten a suit at a second-hand store in awhile, OK? But Art Agnos gave me some suits right before the mayorĺs race, and we had a running joke that the race was really about trying to get the suits back in Room 200, right?
I think money is the problem in politics. Youĺre not going to change anything as long as candidates have to seek money to run elections. Letĺs be candid ľ I got defeated (in the 2003 mayorĺs race) because my opponent outspent me by a wide margin, and people say it and act as if it doesnĺt mean anything. ôWhatever ľ he won, itĺs over.ö
But if you think about what that really means, to be outspent 10 to 1, with all the soft money and everything combined, 10 to 1 ľ imagine what would happen now, if this fellow and I got in a fight with you, just 2 to 1. Imagine 10 to 1. (They say), ôWeĺre going to fight you 10 to 1, so we can pour mail all over the city talking about lies, that you want to double taxes, that you donĺt like school kids, that youĺre a Bohemian thatĺs going to lead to municipal anarchy.ö And you have to respond.
Well, youĺre fighting on a lot of different fronts. Every day, a new piece of mail is hitting the neighborhoods calling you a communist and you have to respond. Well - it canĺt be done. 10 to 1 ľ thatĺs very difficult.
If youĺre ever going to get a non-millionaire into that office, or somebody who isnĺt looking for the next office that theyĺre going to hold, itĺs only going to be done because of public financing. If the public doesnĺt trust somebody that doesnĺt run with public monies, they actually start developing an ethic that says, ôPutting your own money in a campaign, or raising money among rich people is seen as like, Ĺthe curse.ĺö That will happen someday, but itĺs difficult.
In Massachusetts, voters approved public financing of campaigns. They approved it also, I believe, in New Mexico ľ incredibly successful. Even incumbents that ran with public monies, what they had to do was they had to go out and get like 150 or 75 people to give them $25 contributions. Once they had that, they qualified, and then they got money to run. If you didnĺt want to agree to public financing, you didnĺt have to, you could do it the old way. But everyone that did it the old way was losing; the public only wanted the new way. And the people that won said, ôWow, thatĺs great, I donĺt have to listen to the lobbyists that come to my office. They come to my office now and I treat them totally different.ö
The Massachusetts state legislature ľ I think it was Massachusetts and not Maine ľ repealed public financing by a voice vote of the legislature, and it was a Democratically-controlled legislature that repealed something everyone agreed had been successful. That, you know ľ thatĺs what weĺre up against.
Q: Do you think that weĺll see, in the next 20 or 30 years, a major Green Party candidate hold statewide office or national office?
A: I would say yes, because of the experience of the Socialist Party in the early part of the 20th century, and also the Progressive Party in the 1930s. In California, in San Francisco, Frank Havinor was elected president of the Board of Supervisors as a member of the Progressive Party. Before me, this was the last time someone outside the two parties, a member of a third party, had won that post. He later went on to Congress.
He was elected to Congress as a Progressive. Now once he got to Congress, by then the Progressive Party had fizzled out, and he ended up joining the Democrats and being part of their caucus, because the party didnĺt sustain itself.
The Socialists had probably a hundred mayors in the United States in their heyday, and they elected Victor Broner to Congress ľ they had a congressman, believe it or not.
Q: That I find astonishing.
A: Yeah, it really is, and heĺs still alive and he got up there and talked about all the good things that he did back then, the park system that they implemented, this and that. People were very happy with what they did.
Q: It seems like what I hear, especially among you people ľ you know, Iĺm your age, I go to school where Iĺm dealing with people who are in their early 20s, and I hear a lot of talk about social justice. I was trying to think today, ôHas this changed in the last 20 years, in the last 30 years?ö Is it more important to people now, less important to people now ľ which way is it? Has it changed? What do you think?
A: Well, I think your question is very ambiguous. Social justice encompasses so many different social phenomena. I think the generation of the 1960s was the most active in terms of trying to liberate our country from sexual, repressive ideas, promoting drug use and other kinds of liberty.
In the 1960s, you still couldnĺt find probably two or three printers in San Francisco that would print the word ôfuckö if you wanted to print a newspaper, you know what I mean? Times have changed dramatically, and that was part of that effort, so weĺve made some big steps.
What weĺre finding though now is that there is a phenomenon of the widening disparity between rich and poor, because of the nature of international capital that is making the corporate entities larger and larger. People that work in these entities, theyĺre not making enough money. Theyĺre not keeping pace with inflation, not since the 1960s. I think thatĺs the problem ľ itĺs not easy to fight these gigantic, monolithic institutions. Itĺs very, very difficult. You look at Bechtel Corporation, you look at PG&E ľ the city is going to get excited because weĺre going to get PG&E to give us about $30 million a year by changing a particular fee that they owe to us. Thatĺs great, but this is like the crumb off the table. It means nothing to them.
Q: Does it ever bother you that your opponent in the mayorĺs race parties with the Gettys? I mean, he (Newsom) certainly seems to live the moneyed lifestyle.
A: That doesnĺt bother me. What company you keep is your business. What bothers me is that the press never stopped to really contemplate where his wealth comes from.
If youĺre a politician, and we want to make you wealthy, we want to give you independent wealth and we want to prop you up, we canĺt give you ľ I canĺt give you a million dollars. Thatĺs against the law, right? But I could ľ now assume I have Getty wealth, right, Iĺm as rich as anybody, I could say, ôHum, I want you to ľ Iĺm going to pay you money to manage some of my investments.ö Oh great ľ youĺre just a city councilman, this guy wants you to manage money for him. Now, Iĺm sorry, but I think that this is pretty scandalous. Just on its face, why would we ľ thatĺs a fucking bribe. Thatĺs somebody giving you money, because theyĺre trying to prop you up, and ultimately, maybe itĺs not a bribe because they donĺt want something directly in return, but clearly youĺre trying to enrich a politician for certain reasons.
And then, letĺs say Iĺm interested in opening some restaurants, and nightclubs and wineries, and in every investment I do, youĺre going to be a partial investor. Iĺm going to loan you the money to invest in these ventures. When you get asked by the press, you think that youĺre paying back this money, but you canĺt even tell the reporters how much youĺre paying. Youĺre confused, ôOh yeah, what are my house payments? I canĺt even remember.ö This is basically what went on.
And then, later on, when these entities get sold at a profit to a silent partner who happens to be me, and somebody else buys these back from me and you, you are now a millionaire. Youĺre running around saying that youĺre an entrepreneur and that you know about business and youĺve got a record for being able to accomplish something, and youĺve paid taxes and youĺve paid the payroll tax, and that Gonzalez fellow over here, heĺs a lawyer who represented poor people and we donĺt even know where his money comes from. Do you know what I mean? Thatĺs what happened.
Q: How should it be told?
A: The way I just gave it to you. Itĺs really offensive that somebody is going to claim to be an entrepreneur because a rich guy wanted to give him money and found a way to launder money into his personal account. I just want to tell you the way it fucking is, because I think you can deal with it, and I get a sense that youĺre a righteous guy. Iĺm just telling it the way it is. It hilarious ľ you wouldnĺt believe it if it were in a movie.
Meanwhile, hereĺs a true story: The Chronicle calls me up, and they want my tax returns. Iĺm running for mayor and they want to see my tax returns. Fine ľ I donĺt make any money. Iĺve got a salary of $37,000 a year before the salary went up (for members of the Board of Supervisors). I call the IRS, I say, ôHey, Iĺm running for mayor, I need a copy of my tax returns.ö I donĺt even keep the things because thereĺs nothing in them. ôOkĺ, they said, ôWe donĺt do that anymore, but we can give you a summary of your taxes.ö ôA summary?ö I said. ôWhy canĺt you just send ů ö ôWell, we just stopped sending the complete thing, we just prepare a summary.ö So I say, ôOK, why donĺt you do that for the last couple of years, and if I get somebody on the phone that wants to ask questions about the summary, can you answer them with my permission?ö ôYeah, OK.ö
We turn over the summaries to the Chronicle, which says I made $37,000. I donĺt own any property; I donĺt have any investments out of whatever I have in the retirement things, because I work for the city. We say (to the Chronicle reporters), ôYou can get on the phone and ask anything you want.ö And then they publish, over and over again, that I wouldnĺt release my taxes.
Q: Why?
A: Because they wanted people to think that I was wealthy and that I was trying to hide my wealth. The Chronicle reporter came to me after the election and wanted to talk me. She was a relatively new reporter with the Chronicle. She said, ôMatt, why do you have this attitude?ö And I told her this story. I said, ôLook, just let me give you this example, if you guys do shit like that, how are you going to expect me to be your pal?ö She says, ôWell, you know, itĺs funny.
One of the first assignments I had was to come to City Hall and get the document you file every year, which is your disclosure of economic interests.ö I said, ôOK, so you know I don't own anything.ö She says, ôYeah, because I got it and looked at it. It was the same thing that was in your tax summary.ö Well - duh. They knew I donĺt have anything, but theyĺre trying to promote that idea.
I just gave it to you as an example, but the media is enormously powerful. In this race, they certainly went ľ ôit was an independent expenditureö someone was saying to me, itĺs like funding the other guyĺs campaign.
Q: I read the article you wrote about, what was it, ôWhy I Turned Green.ö I remember in it that you mention that you were standing ľ I think you were doing a demonstration for a friend of yoursů
A: KRON ľ Medea Benjamin.
Q: Right. In the article, you basically describe that, ôIĺm standing out here, I canĺt get any (media) coverage on this and television coverage is just supremely important when youĺre running for elective office.ö Do you think the media has treated you fairly? Do you think they treat third-party candidates fairly?
A: My answer is no to that, but I have primarily relied on what are considered lesser sources, student newspapers, independent weeklies, the online stuff and it has driven the Chronicle crazy. Theyĺre so happy to have a new supervisor in my place, not because ľ theyĺre going to miss the stories that they could write about me, but what they love is the idea that theyĺve got someone thatĺs going to talk to them.
I would only talk to them if I really wanted to. If I had something to really say, Iĺd go to someone Iĺm going to trust to get the word out, because, you know, these guys can really spin what you say in very negative terms.
During the mayorĺs race, Iĺm giving a talk at City College, and I say, ôHey, you know, we have a problem, a widening disparity between rich and poor. We gotta deal with this. A lot of it has to do with education, technology ľ community colleges are a way to try and bridge the gap and get people educated, so they can compete in these environments.ö John Wildermuth writes a story in the Chronicle, ôGonzalez Calls For A Class War.ö What kind of bullshit is this? This is reporting? I would have called up and complained to his editor, except Iĺm sure he was, you know, right on board with that.
Q: Let me ask you this ľ where do you go next? In three months, what is a typical day going to look like for Matt Gonzalez?
A: Iĺm going to be in court litigating cases. Iĺm going to try and get some big lawsuits off the ground, lawsuits that could take five to ten years to deliver. Iĺve got a couple of ideas already. Iĺm meeting with an expert, on Monday probably, to try and kick this around. To sustain that, weĺre going to do nuts and bolts civil litigation and criminal defense work, in cases where we believe that somebody deserves a righteous defense, either because theyĺre innocent or because theyĺre guilty but donĺt deserve what the state wants, the pound of flesh that they want. Thatĺs what weĺre going to do. Hopefully, we can put together something successful.
I think I will continue to be a presence, politically, locally. Iĺll continue to write. I write my little thing for Mesh Magazine, Iĺll do that every two months. Iĺll continue to write my three op/eds a year somewhere, the Examiner, the Chronicle, elsewhere. I just got asked to give a commencement address at New College Law School in May, so Iĺm going to do that. Iĺm going to still be involved.
Iĺve joined the board of a group in Sonoma County called the Praxis Peace Institute. They host a lot of good political discussions. Iĺm going to be hosting something later in the month, a lunch here in San Francisco for Ralph Nader, whoĺs trying to deal with raising money to continue his ballot fight against the presidentĺs re-election effort. So, you know, Iĺm going to be very involved.
Q: I was reading on the Web this morning about elections in Iraq, and I wondered what you think about that. You seem to be someone whoĺs very involved in democracy. Itĺs a word that crops up frequently in your writings. Do you think weĺre ever going to have democracy in Iraq? Do you think weĺre going to enforce democracy there?
A: I donĺt know the answer to that. I think itĺs pretty clear that a minority can disrupt elections. I think that if there was that kind of minority movement in the United States, you could have a serious disruption of elections. I think weĺve seen some of that, but I think it speaks to the fact that the United States doesnĺt have any legitimacy there.
Nobody trusts the United States, so even if what weĺre offering is ultimately, in principle, a sound concept, like people voting for their own leaders, people are suspicious because of whoĺs bringing this gift. I think it really cries out for a transition with other nations becoming involved. The U.S. has got to get out and let the United Nations ľ beg the United Nations ľ to come in with regional partners to try and stabilize whatĺs going on there.
I donĺt know if it can be done. Itĺs so messed up. There are so many warring factions ľ I donĺt know.
Q: In the last election, San Franciscans agreed that the United States should be out of Iraq, but what are we going to do? What can we do?
A: Well, I think that it ought to be a litmus test for people running for public office. I mean, the right wing won elections because they had litmus tests. For instance, I will not vote for a candidate who voted for the PATRIOT Act. I donĺt care if itĺs a school board election, or if heĺs trying to get elected class president. I donĺt care if he wants to get elected to go buy groceries at the corner store ľ Iĺm not voting for anyone who voted for the PATRIOT Act, period. Done. Never. I donĺt care who their opponent is. I will stay home.
I think that there have to be consequences when we get treated that way. These are not allies of ours, the people who do this. Iĺm not going to pretend that John Kerry was going to stop the war when he was saying he was going to escalate the war. People that wanted to pretend that was going to happen: Iĺm sorry, it wasnĺt going to happen.
Q: Do you think that thereĺs anything that the average citizen these days can really do anymore? Iĺm thinking of the people at my school, young people graduating college. Theyĺre going to get their degrees, go out ľ but what are they going to be able to do? Theyĺre not graduating from Stanford, theyĺre not graduating from Harvard, theyĺre not graduating Yale. What are they going to be able to do?
A: Did you ever read the book Working by Studs Terkel?
Q: No, I donĺt think I have.
A: He writes about an interview with a guy who works in a factory line making automobiles. The guy just talks about the dullness of the work, and in the interview, the guy admits that sometimes, he just likes to fuck Ĺem up. He likes to put a little scratch in the car as itĺs leaving the factory, just to personalize it. I think that this is what we, as human beings, have to do when we are working within these places that are so ľ theyĺre so much larger than us.
Obviously, we canĺt just decide to live outside of this particular society. Weĺre kind of stuck with what we have. We need to find a way to metaphorically scratch what weĺre dealing with, personalize it. If youĺre in a position of power in a law firm or a corporation or in anything, in any kind of bureaucracy, government, school, you have to lean on the side of the most progressive stuff that you can do.
Q: Back in the election, when you were running for mayor, you did pretty darn good. You got 47 percent of the vote as I recall. Yet, I get the feeling that, in some ways, youĺre a little bitter about it. During your last meeting with the Board of Supervisors, you talked about your run for the mayorĺs office. Did it hurt to lose? Did you think youĺd win?
A: No, I didnĺt think Iĺd win. I think that after the election, we werenĺt disappointed because we understood the historic nature of this possible victory for the Green Party. We would have been assured of a place to be able to grow from. This would have been a major victory for us. What was disappointing was that we got so close. Now, we werenĺt supposed to get that close, that was not supposed to happen, so itĺs really more like a missed opportunity than anything else.
Disappointment? Sure, you get disappointed. Iĺm not as disappointed that I lost the mayorĺs race as I was about losing the recent non-citizens voting measure. That one is more recent in my memory. We lost by one percentage point, one and a half percentage points, whatever it was. Thatĺs politics ľ you win and you lose.
What youĺre hearing in terms of bitterness is just someone who is angry about the state of political matters, period. I hope I stay angry, because out of that comes a willingness to do things, like getting a minimum wage passed, or changing how elections are done, or fighting chain stores, or keep zoos from having elephants or whatever the hell the issue is. That doesnĺt come because Iĺm happy with everything; that comes because you gotta be pissed-off. You get out there, you try and change it, you expend political capital to try and make it happen.
The other side feels they have had many losses in these past four years. They know how many elections theyĺve lost. We had our fair share of victories.
The progressive community came out stronger than we were six months before the mayorĺs race. The progressives were in tatters, we didnĺt have a candidate, Newsom was going to win in a landslide. If you look at the numbers, this is something to be proud of. In this election, versus four years earlier, Ammiano ľ I mean, (Former San Francisco Mayor Willie) Brown and Newsom, four years apart, got the same number of votes, 132,000, 133,000 votes.
The difference was, I had basically 120,000 or 119,000 votes. Ammiano (four years ago) had 90,000. The progressive candidate, in a four-year period of greater displacement, because of gentrification, got 30,000 more votes while the establishment candidate is treading water. They had to spend ten times as much money to do that. Thatĺs phenomenal. I mean, if I were a member of Newsomĺs camp, Iĺm sitting around saying, ôWeĺve got a problem on our hands, Ĺcause if they pick up another 10,000 votes or 20,000 votes, this thingĺs over.ö
Q: Do you think people are more pissed off now? Why is that change occurring? Is it occurring because people are unhappy with the system as it is, because theyĺre unhappy with the ômachineö politics, because theyĺre unhappy with all the money in politics, because theyĺre tired of seeing people walk into politics to line their own pockets?
A: This is what I think; I think that, at one time, people looked at the political spectrum, before Greens were on it, and preferred the progressive Democrat, the middle-of-the-road Democrat. With a Green in there, with such a small percentage of the registered voters in the party, if you run for mayor from a party that has such little power, immediately people know that thereĺs something authentic about you. Why would you have thrown your lot with such a weak party if all you cared about was political power, right? Why would you do that? It doesnĺt make any sense, right?
Do you know the number of times Iĺve had people say to me, ôMatt, youĺre going to join the Democrats and run for the state assembly and try to go to Congress as a Democrat, arenĺt you?ö It says to me that thatĺs the conventional wisdom. I was able to get a lot of people to trust me as a political figure, in terms of ôtrust me on the political issues,ö at the outset. I have a long history with disenfranchised groups, like artists and musicians and what have you, that are more likely not to get involved in politics. You get a candidate that you like, one that knows something about what you do, you get excited about that.
Q: How did you choose to get involved?
A: In what?
Q: In politics. I mean, as I understand it, you worked in the Public Defenderĺs Office for 10 years.
A: Yeah, I ran for district attorney in 1999. I had a kid that was convicted for selling marijuana. The prosecutor wanted to recommend a six-month sentence, which I thought was stupid. I ran for district attorney to bother the incumbent (Terrance Hallinan), and to really call him on his wild claims of being extremely progressive. It was extremely funny. He was good at getting press coverage, but he wasnĺt good at implementing his progressive message. I was trying to hold his feet to the fire. Out of that came the political experience that led to the Board of Supervisors.
Q: Youĺve been called one of the highest-ranked Greens in the nation, the person whoĺs gotten the furthest. That makes me think that the people in the party may see you as a torchbearer, as someone who is going to take the party somewhere and do something. Yet, youĺve decided to step down. Has there been pressure from people in the party to keep at this, to keep trying to win elected office?
A: Look ľ when I ran for D.A., people thought I was crazy. They said, ôWhy are you running for D.A.? You donĺt have a chance.ö When I joined the Green Party, people said, ôYouĺre crazy. You donĺt have a chance. Youĺre not going to get elected.ö When I threw my hat into the mayorĺs race, people said, ôYouĺre crazy ľ you donĺt have a chance.ö I want to step down from politics. Do you think I care what all the people who told me I was crazy all those times ľ I mean, itĺs like you have to follow your own counsel. Iĺve got people around me that Iĺm relying on that have kicked this one around and who have helped me make my decision.
This is a decision that was made prior to the mayorĺs race. If Iĺd have won the mayorĺs race, hey ľ I would have served my term, but otherwise I was thinking it would be good to have another Green get the seat. Itĺs a pretty safe seat I think, and I can continue doing other things.
John Halle was an elected official in New Haven, Connecticut. Heĺs a music professor at Yale. He is one of the kick-ass, Green-elected officials in the country, and he stepped down after one term. It was funny ľ he was out here visiting me about a year ago. I was trying to talk him out of it (leaving office after one term). He told me that it was the decision that he had made. I told him that Iĺd made the same decision, and he tried to talk me out of it. I think thereĺs a real lesson there. I mean, here we are, we did our work, we enjoyed our time, we fought as hard as we could, we had no illusions of what it is weĺre up against. Weĺre not going to pretend. We know what it is, and nevertheless, weĺre OK walking away.
Everyone has a responsibility to go in there and do their term of service. Itĺs not just me. Everybody out there, anybody out there that has any resentment over the fact that Iĺm leaving, I want to know why theyĺre not running. Theyĺre got an obligation to get out there and do something.
Q: Youĺve done your time, itĺs their problem now?
A: Iĺm willing to go back, but I think that you need to be rejuvenated outside of these institutions. They are very oppressive places. Itĺs good to go back and remember who you are.
Q: When you said theyĺre very repressive places ľ how so? Whatĺs it like being on the Board of Supervisors?
A: The machine wants to marginalize you, always. The machine tries to stop you from doing what you want, right? The machine is talking to the press every day, against you. Go try that for a couple of years. Itĺs cool. I fight back every day.
Four years from now, it will simply be eight years since I stepped aboard. Iĺll still be doing what? Iĺm still going to be promoting candidates. The only thing that happens now is that the public gets to assess my four-year tenure and people write nice stories about me. Ross (Mirkarimi) ľ people write nice stories about him because heĺs coming in. No one is threatened by me. ôWe can be nice to Matt.ö
The Greens get all this good press that we wouldnĺt have gotten if Iĺd just gotten re-elected, right? We just keep going. When Iĺm leaving, I get so much ink itĺs incredible. Weĺre the story.
Q: Itĺs like they say, ôNow we can finally be nice to you?ö
A: Yeah, well, look ľ the press has said a lot of nice things about me. But the machine takes over.
The machine says, ôWe need your help crushing this threat.ö You know, I understand it. I get it. I get along with him (Mayor Brown) fine. I know what he was doing. He knows
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