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Mark Mori's Bettie Paige Reveals All hits theaters tomorrow. Learn the facts you need to know about the The Queen of Curves.

I've had a giant Bettie Page photo hanging on my wall since college. It was handed down to me from my older sister, who had it on her wall before I did. As much as I loved Page's iconic beauty, I didn't really know much about the black-haired bombshell at first. Only that she had fierce bangs, a killer rack and she handled her whip delicately. Eventually I found out that she was shot by Playboy's photographer Bunny Yeager. And then I started to dig and I learned more about Bettie Page's colorful life.
Bettie Page married Billy, her high school sweetheart, before he was drafted into the navy in World War II. Page moved all over America searching for steady employment, eventually finding her way to Port-au-Prince, Haiti for four months, where she almost became the secretary to the ambassador to the U.S. Page fell in love with a Haitian man but was surprised to discover he had a pregnant wife on the other end of the island.
Page eventually divorced Billy and packed her bags for New York City in hopes of becoming a star. She was quickly discovered by a policeman and amateur photographer. Back then, "camera clubs" were highly popular in the underground to evade laws against nude photos. "I bet there's thousands of photos of Bettie out there for that reason," says Mark Mori, a renowned documentary filmmaker whose Bettie Page documentary Bettie Page Reveals All debuts in select New York theaters tomorrow. "We're going to be seeing a lot of Bettie Page photos pop up for a long time."
After the release of the 1996 book Bettie Page: The Life of a Pin-Up Legend, her revival went into full swing but Bettie was nowhere to be found. She was a recluse from her newfound fame and seemed to want to keep it that way. "When I saw Bettie's image in that book for the first time I thought, 'Wow, I know that face, I've seen that!' but I didn't know the name and I didn't know the story," explains Mori. "But now she's just everywhere in the culture and people realized it after the book. Not long after I was able to get introduced to her and started the documentary at that point."
Mark Mori's name may sound familiar to die-hard Bettie Page fans. He'd been working on a feature film based on Page prior to The Notorious Bettie Page feature film of 2005. "I had Martin Scorsese attached to direct and Liv Tyler to play Bettie. When it didn't work out, I went back to the documentary."
There are a lot of Page books and films out there, but it's safe to say Mori's will go down in history as the be-all and end-all, the Holy Bible of all things Page. Not only did Mori know Bettie personally, Page herself narrates the film almost in its entirety to settle the lore around her pinup/BDSM queen image once and for all. "Some people thought that she must be into all of that as well, which she wasn't necessarily," Mori tells me. "Because she was having such a good time, people figured that's what she really does in her private life."
While the spunk and charisma you see in her eyes carried over to her real life, she'd leave the rest behind once she peeled off her boudoir attire (in the early days, Page made most of her own lingerie), even those where she's depicted hogtied and gagged on a bedroom floor. "She really didn't think a lot about it. It was something she did. It was a job that she got paid for," explains Mori. "She was told that she was supposed to do it and she did it. It's not to say that she had any negative judgment about it; it was a way for her to make a living," he says.
While Page was known to pose nude, she was adamant about not appearing in sexually explicit situations. In a 1998 interview for NashvilleCitySearch, Page spoke about refusing to do strip sets but being coerced into doing a few sleazy shots after having a few glasses of sweet May wine. Those images were eventually leaked to the public. In that same interview she admitted to throwing out all of her net stockings and bikinis in January of 1959 after becoming a Christian, items she eventually came to regret parting with.
She was married a number of times, both during her career and afterwards, but in her last years decided that she had had it with men. After the end of her modeling career she began working for various Christian organizations, even attempting to become a Christian missionary in Africa. She was turned down for being a divorcée. After the end of yet another tempestuous marriage, she moved to Southern California. In 1979 she had a nervous breakdown and was sent to the state hospital after being diagnosed with acute schizophrenia.
I wondered if it was hard for Mori to speak to her about her mental health. "She didn't volunteer that [information] to anybody, including me, when I first met her. But later, after the Richard Foster book was released and it exposed that, then she had me interview her extensively about it. She talked about it intimately. You will hear some of it in the film."
Then the revival slowly began building, to the point where she has become the staple in feminine, fashion and pinup culture she is today. "She couldn't understand that at all," explains Mori, "she just couldn't wrap her mind around it."
But while people were profiting from the retro throwback of Bettie's personal style, she wasn't receiving a cent for it.
Enter Hugh Hefner. "Obviously, she was an important early Playboy centerfold and a part of the sexual revolution and Hefner was a champion of hers in her later years," says Mori. "[Hefner] got her into a position where she could benefit financially from what was going on. I know that he was very fond of her and wanted to see her taken care of. Hefner ultimately arranged for her to get an agent to begin corralling the money that was being made from her image."
Although Bettie mania was in full swing in the '90s, it took a while for her to see any money. In a phone interview with Entertainment Tonight, Page admitted to living in a group home, stating famously that she was "penniless and infamous." As she began to age, Bettie was secretive about her aging figure, refusing to appear in pictures and television interviews due to concerns over her weight. One photo appeared in Playboy in August of 2003, but not much else has surfaced. In the end, she wanted to be remembered as she was, not as she ultimately became. On December 11 2008, after falling into a severe coma, Page was pulled off life support.
"Why do I think she's still an icon? I think there are several reasons. The Paris and Milan fashion designers like Bettie because of her flair, her style, her fun with dressing up. I think young women are attracted to her because the dominant culture puts forward this unattainable notion of beauty. From Madison Avenue to supermodels.… It does something negative to women to think that that's what they have to do to be attractive or sexy, and somehow Bettie allows them to access their own confidence in their sexuality," says Mori.
"But for me? I think it's that sparkle in her eye that you see in the photographs, that personality. I mean, getting to know that personality and finding out, 'Oh, that's what's going on in the pictures, that's who she is!' It was really amazing to get that in the flesh."
Mark Mori's documentary Bettie Page Reveals All opens in New York City at the Village East Theater on November 22 and at the Nuart Theater in L.A. Get more opening dates and see more photos at bettiepagemovie.com.


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The right to free counsel for poor persons accused of a crime is enshrined in law in the West Bank. Yet the government legal aid system is not meeting the need and few lawyers are trained to provide effective criminal defence services. In addition, police, prosecutors, and courts often engage in practices that are unsupported by law and further undermine the rights of the accused. more >>
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For Nepal's Chepang people, an indigenous group living in the Himalaya foothills, poverty and marginalization remain a daily reality. Chepang women are further marginalized by lower literacy rates, lack of access to health services, and scarce economic and political influence in a traditionally male-dominated environment. more >>
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An UNDEF-funded project in Liberia works to empower rural women by providing speedy information and networking opportunities via radio and mobile technology. Implemented by the Liberia Women Media Action Committee, the radio-to-mobile service makes broadcasts of Liberia Women Democracy Radio, LWDR 91.1 FM, available via cellphone and on line. more >>
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Given the large volume of proposals, only applicants who advance to the short list will be contacted by UNDEF. This is expected to be in mid-2015. The project proposals originated from applicants in 143 countries, the vast majority local civil society organizations in Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Americas. more >>
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Cameroon suffers from a shortage of communication and accountability between local elected leaders and their electorates in planning and implementation. This is why UNDEF funds a project to build participatory governance and including local communities in local decision making processes. more >>
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Two boats full of courageous passengers were on their way to Gaza when they were intercepted on Friday, November 4, by the Israeli military in international waters. They were unarmed, and the Israeli military knew that. They were simply peace activists wanting to connect with civilians in Gaza, and the Israeli military knew that. Yet naked aggression was used against them in international waters—something that is normally considered an act of piracy.
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Hope College finished among the nation's top NCAA Division
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men's and women's cross country, volleyball, women's basketball, men's
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Hope has been ranked among the nation's top 100 NCAA III programs in all
of the program's 17 years. Hope's place in the standings year-by-year
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Just bought the wifey a BERSA THUNDER in .380Auto for Xmas. The THUNDER model is pretty close to the CC in features and design. (CC has a larger cap. mag and no pinky extender I believe) I've done lots of background research on-line using GOOGLE and forums like this one, plus borrowed similar guns to shoot from gun club members before I purchased it. Here's my FYI I've discovered/learned from my experience owning the BERSA THUNDER:
1. It seems to be vey accurate up to 15+yrds - AFTER I bench tested it and sighted it in by tightening the rear sight in place..... (see my earlier post)
2. VERY affordable - $300 bucks. I also compared : WALTHER PPK $500+ / SIG232 $650+ / BERETTA 84 CHEETAH $550+
3. Great safety features & easy to use
4. Nice 3DOT night sights
5. A side/side comparison w/SIG232 was virtually a tie. THe SIG won but not by much?????? (can't remember all the details) I think the final decision was influenced with SIG's long history of reputation and quality of their other models they offer. So a gun that's rated A+ that's just as good as a SIG for 1/2 the price....is a no brainer in my books, unless you've got cash coming out the wazzoo.
1. .380Auto ammo is more expensive to shoot than 9mm, unless your into reloading + it is only about 2mm shorter, but in the area of being only about 3/4 as "powerfull" as 9mm. NOTE: some will tell you 9mm itself is a joke and the ONLY cal. to have is .45ACP too. Opinions vary greatly and the debate goes on.......me......shoot what your comfortable with & can afford
2. The gun is pretty stiff/a little awkward to break down due to the strong hefty recoil spring.
3. The gun is VERY sensitive to feed jams if you happen to accidently "limp-wrist" when firing. I've only had 2 in 250rnds so-far.
4. For some unknown reason the BERSA doesn't supply a case and only comes with 1 7rnd mag. I've searched everywhere - on-line or thru local dealers & the entire line of mags are "Back-Ordered" with no confirmed re-stocking date - So I wait.
It's a great CCW, not a serious "plinker" or a range "target gun". The local dealer I bought the wife's from - can't keep it in stock due to it's popularity & price. Alot of forum members luv their's and swear by it's dependability/accuracy/price/features/ease of maintenance, all which I tend to agree with. IT'S A NICE STURDY GUN.
For me.....it's too SMALL, and it's sub-compact frame I've found doesn't work well for those with large hands even w/the pinky extender on the magazine. After about 50rnds of target practice, I find the energy transfer from recoil actually makes my hand hurt, even though I'm only shooting 95grn FMJ "whitebox" Walmart target rounds. (not sure but maybe the fact that the 3" barrel is "fixed" is a factor)
The model I bought was the total "black" ver. and not the stainless or "mixed" frames that BERSA offers. SO I can't really speak as to any overall do's/don't when it comes to cleaning/maintaining. I clean it like I do my Beretta 92FS......after every trip to the range. It's all good.
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When you drink too much and you can feel the water moving around in your stomach. This use of the term water belly is in no way related to sheep-oriented diseases.
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When you drink a lot of water, then do some sort of physical activity. You are moving so much that can feel the water moving around in your stomach, and it hurts.
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She's referring to the co dependency that Bella develops with Edward gone. She thinks its irresponsible to set an example of being defeated by someone else' s love for you being more important than your love for yourself. Grief over a lover leaving you is healthier when you value yourself. So ball your eyes, eat gallons of haagen daas but for crying out loud don't kill yourself over a jerk that left you. Even if he did it to (puhleeze!) To protect you.
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A great Filipino dish
How to cook this great Filipino dish
Kalderata Manok is a Spanish influenced dish that your find being cooked throughout the Philippines and is known as Chicken Calderata.
For my English pallet its a wonderful curry and this is Naomi's version.
600 gm Chicken fillets cubed
Pinch of Salt
Pinch of mono sodium glutamate
1 Large Onion chopped
cooking oil for frying
1 can of peeled tomatoes
250 ml coconut milk
3 cloves of Garlic
1 tea spoon Hot Chilli and garlic sauce
250 gm cubed potato
125 gm cubed carrot
200 gm Pineapple
Heat cooking oil in a wok and then add the garlic and Onion until brown, then add the potato, carrots, salt,Mono sodium glutamate and chicken, add a little water, stir and simmer for 10 min.
Then add the tin of chopped tomatoes and coconut milk, simmer for an additional 20 min then add the pineapple slices and cook for a final 5 min.
Serve with rice and enjoy.
Naomi will be preparing this dish for guest staying at La Forge.
#2 Sun 17 Mar 13 8:12pm
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Re: A great Filipino dish
Thanks for that...
#3 Sun 17 Mar 13 10:54pm
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Re: A great Filipino dish
How delicious Leon!
#4 Mon 18 Mar 13 2:37am
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Re: A great Filipino dish
Thank you.
#5 Thu 21 Mar 13 11:53pm
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Re: A great Filipino dish
Nice post, more Filipino stuff please, despite living with Filipino's I know litle about the food.
#6 Fri 22 Mar 13 7:29pm
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Re: A great Filipino dish
Thanks Leon. I cooked my first Fillopino dish last week & we loved it..we are garlic crazy & the rice was fantastic so I will post that too.
Beef Salpicao - copied from Not Quite Nigella Blog
Serves 2
300g/10 ozs. beef tenderloin
6 cloves garlic
2 teaspoons black pepper
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon sesame oil
1 tablespoon oil
2 large chillies (optional)
1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce
1 tablespoon oyster sauce
1 tablespoon soy sauce
1 teaspoon cornflour mixed with 1 tablespoon cold water
1 tablespoon butter
boiled rice to serve or garlic rice*see recipe below
1. Slice beef into cubes and place in a bowl. Chop garlic cloves and add these to the bowl along with the black pepper, salt and sesame oil and toss to combine. Marinate for 20-30 minutes. In the meantime, mix the Worcestershire, oyster and soy sauces together in a small bowl.
2. Heat a frypan or wok on high heat and wait until smoking hot. Add the oil and fry the beef and seasonings for a few minutes until browned. Add the chillies and the sauces and fry coating the beef with the sauces.
3. Remove the pan from the heat. Mix the cornflour and water slurry (it often settles at the bottom) and add this to the sauce to thicken it. Add the butter to the pan and toss to coat the beef. Serve over the rice.
Garlic rice
2.5 cups chicken stock, hot
4 teaspoons chicken stock powder
100g/3.5 ozs. butter
1.5 cups jasmine or basmati rice
4 garlic cloves, chopped
1. Dissolve the chicken powder in the hot chicken stock. Melt the butter in a saucepan and then top with the stock and rice and turn down the heat and place the lid on the pan tightly so that the liquid evaporates. After about 10 minutes, it should have disappeared. Stir around the rice moving the rice from the top to the bottom and add the garlic in and keep the lid on for another 5 or 10 minutes.
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Re: A great Filipino dish
I love Filipino foods. I have been in the Philippines last year and oh my they do have a lot great foods to try out. My favorites are adobo, sinigang and caldereta also. I have happy memories there too. Really a nice place.
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Legislators sound off on forecast for lower budget deficit
The February budget forecast for Minnesota shows a projected budget deficit of $627 million for fiscal years 2014-15, which is an improvement from the November budget forecast that showed a projected deficit of $1.1 billion.
Fiscal year 2012-13 is now projected to have a positive balance of $295 million. Of that, $290 million is directed to paying back the school shift, leaving a balance of $801 million owed to the schools.
Following is reaction from area legislators to the most recent projected budget deficit.
District 10 Sen. Carrie Ruud, R-Breezy Point
"This is great news for Minnesota," Ruud said. "It proves that a responsible approach to government spending works. Under Republican leadership the past few years, we were able to improve Minnesota's financial outlook without raising taxes. The forecast proves that Gov. Dayton's "all-tax" budget is completely unnecessary and bad for Minnesota. There is no justification for raising taxes on clothing, haircuts and other everyday items. It's absurd to insist on raising taxes $3.7 billion to close a $627 million deficit."
District 10A Rep. John Ward, DFL-Baxter
"I'm pleased that our deficit is shrinking, but it's still another in our decade of deficits," Ward said. "Instead of balancing the budget honestly, we've papered over deficits with gimmicks and one-time solutions. Minnesotans deserve a budget that is balanced honestly without gimmicks, one that funds the things we value as Minnesotans and keeps us economically competitive."
District 10B Rep. Joe Radinovich, DFL-Crosby
"This is positive news, but a $627 million deficit and an $800 million IOU to schools means there is still work to do," Radinovich said. "We have less of a mess to clean up, but a mess nonetheless. We need to close this deficit and begin re-investing in Minnesota's future."
District 9 Sen. Paul Gazelka, R-Cass County
"This budget forecast is the final result of the tough choices that were made during the time we held the majority in the Minnesota Senate," said Gazelka said. "It's the final budget that we as a Republican majority caucus can truly take credit for. When all of us took office in 2011, we faced an unprecedented budget deficit of $6 billion and we turned it into a $1 billion surplus by controlling spending, and without raising taxes."
From fiscal year 2012-13 to fiscal year 2014-15, Minnesota's projected revenues are increasing by a billion dollars, and spending is projected to go up by $1.6 billion.
"It's important to note that our projected budget surplus for FY 2016-17 has also increased. Our projected revenues will be increasing because our focus was on strengthening the private sector economy and helping Minnesota's small business owners feel confident about hiring again, not by extracting more from the average employee's income taxes," Gazelka said. "It is my hope that the new Democrat majorities in the House and Senate will respect the power and influence small businesses have on our economy. However, I'm concerned that they are more focused on strengthening and growing our government than they are with being a support system for our small business owners and middle class citizens."
District 9A Rep. Mark Anderson, R-Lake Shore
At some point you would think our string of economic reports showing surplus revenue in Minnesota would serve as a wet blanket on proposals to increase taxes.
How long can Gov. Mark Dayton and the new Democrat majorities continue clamoring for tax increases on all Minnesotans when it is becoming more and more clear they are unnecessary?
The new economic forecast from Minnesota Management and Budget is the fourth consecutive report to show more revenue than previously projected, for a combined $2.8 billion dating back to November 2011.
State revenue is projected to grow by 3 percent in the upcoming biennium. All we need to do to balance our bottom line is to craft a budget that stays within the comfortable limits of 3-percent growth. We can resolve our budget without raising taxes.
The problem is Dayton wants to increase spending by 7.6 percent and raise taxes by $3.7 billion to pay for it. Democrats in the House and Senate have not issued their budget proposals, but already are introducing plans to increase our taxes. Maybe the most over-the-top proposal would raise taxes on some liquor by 1,000 percent. The tax on a gallon of wine would increase from $3 to $30, for example.
Democrats wrapped last fall's campaign around a plan to make the "rich" pay their "fair share." The tax increases being pushed by Dayton and fellow Democrats would impact us all.


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text: Growth spurts and body changes have killed off many a promising skaters career in the transition from juniors to seniors. Adelina Sotnikova really struggled last season, following on from winning World Juniors the season before that. In contrast, Liza T, who finished 2nd to Sotnikova at 2011 World Juniors, won her first two senior Grand Prix events. So, which of the Russian skaters listed in the poll is most likely to succeed in the senior ranks?


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If you haven't yet discovered Husbands, it's a charmingly witty, web-based sitcom from Jane Espenson and Brad Bell that launched just this past March but has already won a Telly Award and been nominated for a Webby Award and Indie Soap Award. The show follows a new couple: Cheeks, a well-known entertainment personality played by Bell, and Brady Kelly, a Dodgers baseball player played by Sean Hemeon. At a marriage equality event in Las Vegas, they end up getting drunk and getting married. The final episode of season two hits the web tomorrow.
The episodes are super short–you can watch two seasons in about an hour. ("We're the kind of show you can watch in a night!" Bell exclaimed in our interview.) Its YouTube channel has more than 16,000 subscribers and nearly three million views. In their Dragon*Con panel last week, with the second season coming to a close, the team announced that the show will now become a six-issue comic from Dark Horse. Each issue has a different artist and an alternate-universe premise.
Moving to the page affords the project a lot of options that couldn't be done on a web-show budget. Also during that Dragon*Con panel, Espenson and Bell joked about the many ways to "burn money" producing a show like this one. Its second season was funded by 956 backers on Kickstarter, donating $60,001, but Espenson said they're reluctant to turn to Kickstarter again for a third season.
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The Oscar-winning Coen brothers have released the first trailer for their follow up to True Grit.
Inside Llewyn Davis is loosely based on Dave Van Ronk, a central figure in the Greenwich Village folk scene of the 60s which gave rise to luminaries such as Bob Dylan.
Its trailer shows Davis, played by Oscar Isaac, struggling to find recognition for his music and enduring a withering lesson on sex from his former love interest, played by a dark-haired Carey Mulligan.
John Goodman also makes an appearance as a imposing, acid-tongued industry figure.
Joel and Ethan Coen have directed and produced the movie.
The trailer is backed throughout by Bob Dylan's Farewell, a 1960s-era B-side the folk legend released in 2010.
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The Kindness of Strangers
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Martin and I had to take three trains to get to Rotenburg from Dresdan as Rotenburg is a small town off the beaten track in Germany. We made our first train transfer in Leipzig and waited for our train to arrive, but there was no train at the platform that had been indicated on our itinerary. The train was late? This just wasn't possible in Germany where everything runs on time! So Martin went to the conductor of the train on the adjoining platform and asked him if that was the correct train. He asked him three times, saying "Sprecken ze Englisch?" and showing him his ticket, but the conductor kept saying "Nein, nein" and walked away. As the train pulled out of the station, a man and woman came running over to us and asked if they could help
Thus we ended up taking four (instead of three) different trains to get to Rotenburg and I had to call Katrin and tell her we would be over an hour late. (A couple of the trains we took were high-speed ones, reaching speeds of up to 200 km/hr.) They were packed with holiday-goers returning home, students going back to school and partyers making their way back from Oktoberfest in Munich. It was a madhouse on the hour-long Hannover-Bremen train trip and we were relegated to the aisle with many others. I found a piece small space across from the WC and managed to sit on my backpack; Martin stood for the entire time. On average, someone visited the toilet every three minutes - I only had my toes trampled on twice. (Note: "Keen" sandals - they're actually boating shoes - are great for travelling because they have toe protection.)
Katrin was very excited to see us; she is very vivacious, so interested in everything and has a great sense of humour
Katrin is an only child and her mother and father were only children, so she had no aunts and uncles. She is not married and, since she is in her mid-40s, it is unlikely that she will have any children. Thus she spent a lot of time with Anni's nieces on the other side of the family and considers them her family. I jokingly offered her one of my three sisters and, without hesitation, she accepted. I guess I take my family for granted.
Katrin lives on the top floor of a house in a small town just outside of Rotenburg. Her apartment is decorated with souvenirs from her travels and Ikea furniture. (It's as popular here as at home, even more so.) In her spare time, she visits with friends, rides her bike, travels and also enjoys "ze natur" (i.e., going for long walks).
We both noticed that Katrin's English has improved tremendously since we last saw her 10 years ago. When she had difficulty finding the right word, she would say, "Moment" and run for her German-English dictionary.
Katrin grew up in Chemnitz, just outside Dresden, in the former East Germany. She did not learn much English as a child; rather they were taught Russian in school. She told us that they were not given much instruction about the western world and were only allowed to travel in the other eastern block countries. She also did not like the strong presence of the military in East Germany and how you couldn't trust anyone because you might be reported for doing something unpatriotic.
Thus she was glad when east and west were reunified and for many reasons does not miss the Communist system. She can now travel wherever she wants and they have access to better food and a wider variety of food. She told us that the only fruit they had was apples, except at Christmas when everyone would be given one banana and one orange. It bothers her, however, how quickly reunification occurred. After 1990, it was just expected that all Germans would lead the West German lifestyle and no thought was given to the fact that many East Germans lost their culture and the life that they had known for 40 years
The weather during the past three plus weeks in Europe has been fairly pleasant, though fall-like. Our nicest days were about 20C and sunny (what Karina called "old woman summer") and we've had a few days of rain. The leaves are just starting to change colour here; on this visit corn is being harvested.
It has been a challenge getting our clothes dry when we've done laundry in Europe because of the cooler weather and humidity - and few people have dryers. Next trip I'm going to make sure I buy some of that quick-dry underwear!
During our two days with Katrin, we toured nearby Bremen, known for the Grimms Brother's fairytale, The Four Musicians of Bremen, where the singing of four animals - a donkey, a dog, a cat and a rooster - foil a robbery. Bremen, population 500,000, is also famous for its chocolate, coffee and Beck's beer. It was heavily bombed during WWII, but the Allied forces deliberately missed their targets to avoid hitting some of the historical buildings. We also visited with her friend Eva, a single Mom who has been raising her kids alone for the past 10 years (divorce is as common here as in Canada) and with S�nke and Katya, Ulrike and Heiko's neighbours. Katrin has many friends that she has met through the Luthern church, and has been to Namibia travelling with a group from her church.


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Electronic Arts today announced that it has made an offer to purchase Take Two, parent company of Rockstar Games, for around $2 billion.
EA proposed $25 cash for each share of Take Two, an offer which was rejected. A further offer has now been made, of $26 per share, which EA CEO John Riccitiello claims is a "unique opportunity" for shareholders. At the close of business on Friday, Take Two's shares were valued at $17.36 each. The $26 offer is almost $2 greater than the company's highest share price in the past twelve months.
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I went back and found that Franchesca Chiera was at the glacier falls competition over the summer where she beat Mirai in the Lp and finished third behind Courtney and Polina.
I went back and found that Franchesca Chiera was at the glacier falls competition over the summer where she beat Mirai in the Lp and finished third behind Courtney and Polina.
I'm SO happy to see that Sam and Mirai are (respectively) the 3rd and the 4th among the American girls in the final GP ranking (http://www.isuresults.com/events/gp2013/gpsladies.htm)!! (and Mirai is in 4th probably only because of her NHK misadventure)
Mirai's poor showing at NHK certainly did affect her final GP ranking. Here's hoping she just gets even better as the Season progresses.
Also consider that Angela got 131 by bombing both programs while Caroline did an OK SP. So that still illustrates my point that Caroilne would had a more difficult time making nationals had Angela been there.
US Ladies Power Rankings
1. Ashley Wagner. Although she had a rough outing at the GPF, Wagner still reigns supreme as the #1 US lady. In fact, the last time Wagner lost to another US lady was Nationals 2011. That's pretty remarkable! Also remarkable was that up until 4CC 2012, her personal BEST International score was 167. Starting with 4CC 2012, she hasn't had an international score below 176. It's like night and day. Wagner looks as confident as ever, and is poised to take home an Olympic medal if there is a splatfest.
2. Gracie Gold. She has the potential to score big if she is clean. Problem is, she's never clean. However, Gracie Gold is America's next shining star. She (like Wagner) had a disappointing Nationals experience in 2010-2011. But in 2011, Gracie Gold worked her butt off to improve her jump technique and has come out one of the best jumpers that we've seen in a while. If she stay's healthy, she will be tough to beat a US Nats after Wagner retires.
3. Courtney Hicks. Heck, yeah! Courtney is one of the more underrated American Ladies. In this calendar year, she won the International Classic (beating Gold, Cesario, and Zadawski), Glacier Falls (beating Chiera, Nagasu, and Edmunds). She had a relatively rough outing at Skate Canada, but still managed to win the Ice Challenge. Courtney's Remarkable stat is that she is a much better skater while skating in the USA, then when skating internationally. I'm not talking about a Rachel Flatt-type scoring difference; there's an actual performance difference. For example, Courtney was less than impressive at the JGP Slovenia, and she wasn't in the conversation for Nationals. Then, she went to Nationals ans skated cleanly. People expected her to medal at Junior World, but she finished 5th, behind Cesario. Then she was impressive at Glacier Falls and The Classic and earned a Skate Canada Spot. She blew the short program at Skate Canada.
4. Mirai Nagasu. As much as I hate to say it, she still has the potential to make a big splash. Mirai was the only one of the "3rd spot" hopefuls to medal on the Grand Prix circuit this year. Underrotations are killing her score though. I don't expect her to make the team.
5. Christina Gao. Yep, she's in 5th again. Christina's programs are not that technically demanding, yet she continues to struggle with them. Her GP performances the past 3 years have been the opposite of Mirai's. Mirai tends to do poorly at her first event and do well at her second. Christian tends to do well at her first event and do poorly at her second.
6. Agnes Zadawski. She's kind of a sleeper here. If she lands her jumps, she will score HUGE. Problem is, she hasn't been able to land her jumps. Liza will never skate a clean short. Adelina will never skate a clean long. Agnes will never skate clean for either program.
7. Hannah Miller. Ooh, she's the dark horse. She just put up a 174 at sectionals. She is from the same area as Gracie Gold, is one year younger, but hasn't had the same success that Gracie Gold has. She might have her breakthrough at nationals.
8. Polina Edmunds. She has been really impressive on the JGP, but it's really easy to be impressive when there are no expectations on you. However, she got no UR calls with freaking Shin as the caller. That's impressive.
9. Samantha Cesario. Note to Sam, stop trying the 3R-3R, seriously.. Samantha Cesario has competed very little domestically in her career because of injuries. It's weird that she's basically the came age as CZhang, but Zhang is considered to be on her way out and Samantha is a rising star. Her programs this year are showy.
10. Ashley Cain. Ashley put in a solid performance at sectionals, and has skated well enough to now not become all the butt of all US Ladies jokes. ala "Raisin Cane with Ashley Cain!".
I don't think Courtney is underrated. Everyone agrees she is a great jumper with average skating skills. I would not mind seeing her on the team though; her scores can improve with more clean programs in front of international judges.
You know, it is fun to speculate. But I hope US Figure Skating lets someone earn the last spot. Only Ashley and Gracie (somewhat) have proved to be ready for this big of a stage. Give the one that can withstand the enormous pressure of Nationals and skate the best a shot!
The problem with Hicks is her average skating skills and clunky presentation. Internationally, when she lands her jumps she gets good TES but her PCS scores are low.


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Kazunori Yamauchi has continued to reveal interesting bits of information on Twitter about the new official Gran Turismo 5 steering wheel, the Thrustmaster T500 RS. Unlike the last "official" wheel, the Logitech Driving Force GT, it seems Polyphony Digital will now be endorsing a premium product which commands a considerably higher price tag. According to Yamauchi, the T500 RS will sell in the range $500 (keep reading…), with the separate gated shifter sold separately for a still undisclosed amount of money.
Before you grumble, keep in mind that it's not clear if the $500 price actually refers to the US, EU, or Japanese regions. As noted by Shirakawa Akira in our forums, the Logitech G27 already sells for around $450 in Japan (it's $299 in the US), so it may not actually be that much more expensive. Other "premium" wheels, such as the Fanatec Porsche 911 GT3 RS, sell for as much as $349.95, so there is clearly enough demand in the higher end of the market and it is very encouraging to see Polyphony Digital supporting enthusiast hardware with the T500.
Kazunori reinforced this notion with more tweets, stating that the "T500RS […] is a high-quality, premium steering [wheel]," and "you can feel the delicate and rich feel of the steering." It will feature three pedals, a "high-power motor, belt drive backlash-free, [and] high-speed processing at low latency."
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Will the TS500RS be compatible with Playseats or any other racing seat??
The only experience I have had with Thrustmaster products is their joysticks from a long, long time ago. They were very accurate, comfortable, and well made. The only problem was programming them but that has been fixed. If this wheel is anything near the quality of their old joysticks it will be well worth the money.
Is there a photo of the shifter out there yet? wonder if we will be able to mod a handbrake to this.
After using the Driving Force Pro with GT4 and upgrading to the Driving Force GT for GT5 (which didn't arrive as we all know) so the wheel was used for Prologue and other driving games, its a shame to see Logitech 'losing' the GT licence…
The question is, if this T500 is the new official wheel, why has the 'on the fly' extra buttons been dropped? The Plus and Minus buttons, scroll wheel and menu button? It seems strange that if you go for this wheel, you can't do that anymore, you can tell this if you go into the options to configure the T500 in GT5, there is no option to configure any of the unused buttons for these Driving Force GT only buttons.
Also looking at the T500, how would you attach it to a desk (I have my Driving Force GT clamped to my desk using the internal clamps) but I can't see anything on the photos of this new wheel?
I don't possibly see how I could enjoy this wheel more than my G27. Especially for what will close on $600 for the shifter and base unit. Wow.
wow thats ridiculous! who would pay $500 for a wheel and then pay another $50-100 for a shifter? just get a g25/g27!
I think that the reason PD and Kaz have teamed up with Thrustmaster is because the official wheel must be a better "fit" with GT5. GT5 is one hot horrible mess, alot of hype leading up to a big dissapointment. PD and Kaz figure the Thrustmaster T500-RS is going to be the same way. 500units of money from whatever region for a really dissappointing "standard" wheel with blocky shadows and no option to be racemoded.
i cant hate on Kaz though because it is not my business who he sleeps with behind closed doors in the privacy of his home. but i hope he wasnt too busy or blinded by this hot new romance to miss seeing all the faults being released in GT5. i wouldnt be surprised all the cars on display at the madrid launch party where actually owned by him. i cant hate i can only be envious.
i dont understand why people bought the G27/25 for GT5, and are now mad that it isnt working 100% with GT5. not that this is acceptable, but the DFGT was the "official" wheel for GT5.
i see a lot of faults with this new wheel, a lack of buttons jump out at me first, but its the same for G27/25.
i love my DF, DFP and DFGT as i still have all three and will continue to use DFGT for GT5, DFP for FIA GTR2 and RACE-07 and my DF is now resting in the hall of fame after clocking in more then 50,000kms on GT3
As much as I try to defend Polyphony and GT5 they keep doing things that really grind my gears. From delaying the game, to a really clunky menu system, to something as simple as not having fast foreword or rewind in replays. They continue to fumble.
I bought a G27 a month before the scheduled Nov 2nd release of GT5, and it seems many followed suit as everystore that was selling them sold out as the date got closer when a few of my friends tried picking one up.
Now I see they worked to tailor the game to a wheel thats not even available?
Jack you should probably read the article again, It's unknown if $500 is the US street price.
Sounds like a really stupid marketing move. the Logitech Driving Force GT goes for about $130, and designating it as "the official wheel of GT5" probably encouraged thousands of people to buy one. Nobody but the hardest of the hardcore are going to buy a $500 wheel to play video games with, so the endorsement is a complete waste of time.
And it'll have the stupidest name for any gaming accessory I've ever considered owning. Thrustmaster 500 coming to a porn set near you.
I'd consider getting it at some point if they do it in right-hand drive.
Since the gearbox is sold separately I'm sure it will be like the G's an 911's where the shifter isn't fixed to the wheel.
I'll buy it if its cheaper than the G27 :)
I wont be buying it i've bought thrustmaster peripherals before and funnily enough they all broke within a few months/weeks/hours and the bulid quality is on par with a shantytown
Thanks Kaz, ive just wasted £85 on a steering wheel thats not the official 1 for GT5, im over the moon, I DONT THINK
Sticking with G25.
I have currently owned a DFGT for over a year now and its had quite a lot of hammer from playing Prologue, is it worth upgrading to a G25 or G27 because my DFGT is rather noisy now compared to one that's new. I like the button support on the DFGT but I would like to know how much better the feedback from the wheel is on the G25 or G27.
I have never owned a DFGT, I did have a DFP before getting G25, and I have found the playing experience to be better with the G25, along with quality.
That H.E.A.R.T. logo and acronym really makes me feel like this is going to be a cheap, plasticky feeling affair with an unjustified high price tag. Belt drive? I'm not sure but do the Logitech wheels use belts? That doesn't exactly fill me with confidence either, but time will tell I suppose. The shifter is separate too? Well, I think I'll run my DFP into the ground (which will be soon, probably) and see how much G25's go for…
Of course, if this turns out to be the very, very best wheel ever made then I'll eat my words, but my experience of Thrustmaster hasn't been as positive as it has been with Logitech. I'm not sure how well this will do against the G25/27 seeing as those in the market for a wheel won't mind sacrificing a little functionality and saving a lot of money.
Wheels! I dont need no stinking wheels!
Where we're going etc etc
I had to save just to get my $95 DFGT, so I can't possibly rationalize getting a wheel for $500. I don't think my wife would appreciate it either. She was good enough to let me build a cockpit in the living room, I'm not going to push my luck any further.
I hear ya bud… I had to explain to mine how long I've been waiting for GT5 so she could understand why I bought the more expensive collectors edition. Still don't have a permanent setup for cockpit though, need to set it up every time I want to play.
It seems that this t500 wheel will be the most amazing piece of kit to play gt5 with and the demographic it is aiming for is the serious trackday guy who is into GT. Also for those with disposable income I would say it is going to be an amazingly built piece of kit. Looking at it it seems to have carbon fibre bits, anodized aluminium and whatever else a premium wheel has. Still way out of my league but for those who can afford it, you lucky sods.
Peace out!
Sounds great I'll be buying one of those then, my DFGT is slowly falling to bits.
I think I'd rather go on holiday than buy that wheel, a holiday might be cheaper too. I'm happy with my G25 purchased for a reasonable £125
I find it funny reading the negative responses from people that haven't even seen the product yet! Why not wait and then offer some constructive comments when you have had a chance to see it in action?
I find it funny reading the positive responses from people that haven't even seen the product yet! Why not wait and then offer some de-constructive comments when you have had a chance to see it in action?
better they use optical sensor for paddles.im sick with old tech,obsolete potentiometers.my G25 started to brake-sticking. :(
this wheel will be a huge fail. Why ? because the dfgt/g25/27 have gained the respect for being great performing well built wheels, what do thrustmaster have other than a pornstar-name ?
you're right there my friend. All i know from thrustmaster is nerds trying to keep me away from it in high school. "Logitech Mate,the best joysticks, keyboards, mouses,…headsets,…"
And now for me 6 years the best in wheels…
And not only for gt5, but for Simbins games, i racing…
God i'm glad i listened t the nerds back then…
And yeah, name me one product thrustmaster made that went into history…
Controllers (wich wheels fit into) are still the best in logitech hands and minds, whatever my dear god YK comes up with…
I really like Logitech a lot, but it's not impossible for Thrustmaster to do something good here, this thing is $500, so we better be getting a lot of product for that.
is it better than the g25/g27?
Nice to read it will be a more "serious" product.
Belt drive, contactless pedal sensors,mmmmmm
I detect Thrustmaster have been following closely what Fanatec have done.
G27 so missed the chance of a proper upgrade/improvement over the G25. It will be nice to see what Thrustmaster comes up with.
You're right it is a good thing that something new is hitting the market, and I've always wondered why there weren't more wheel products out there. Logitech and Fanatec have enjoyed pretty exclusive market up until now, and this new wheel could breed better wheels in the future. Logitech screwed up big with their almost pointless G27 upgrade (no seq. on the shifter) and I think Fanatec could have done better marketing. For $500 with a GT brand, I'm sure this thing will be better than the G's and 911's, but it's a bit of a fail they didn't advertise this thing before the launch of GT5, cause I'm sure they've missed out on 1000's of potential sales.
it says backlash free but you need backlash especially for drifting.
I think Kaz should concentrate on sorting out GT5's niggly issues…very irritating downright disappointing issues
I hate to say but I think GT5 is a bit of a mess!
If this wheel is as good as i hope in quality, as their HOTAS stick was awsome, then i´m giving away my g25 to a friend. :)
Hey Aengardx, do you want to add me to your friends list? ; )
Will be very interested in this wheel. My DFGT is doing a great job for a sub 100 euro wheel.
Meh…I'm not well off, so I will stick with my Force GT thanks very much. Price of wheels is getting ridiculous-you could almost buy another PS3 AND a Force GT for the price of this wheel.
Very happy with my €89 DFGT. No need for another wheel at the moment :)
I agree. I just bought the G27 and I love it, end of story. I don't need to re-spend $300.
I wonder if it will incorporate a stand?
should do for that price
As long as the brake pedal is pressure sensitive, like the fanatec clubsport pedals, then this product will have a chance. Thrustmaster is an old, very reliable joystick company. Logitech made their way with "mice"and trackballs, so I don't think it will be hard to dethrone their arrogant, non product supporting, reverse gear breaking asses.
Lolz @ "reverse gear breaking asses" :D
Anywho, I'm in if this is true. There's always room for yet another steering wheel in the market. Especially if it's one sold in regular high street stores, and has proper customer support from the manufacturer.
I do hope the shifter will have a sequential mode as well, preferably back to upshift/forward to downshift.
"Get your smokey on!"
500 and no shifter included? Good thing I have a G27! 149.99 and has everything I need!
revelation1115 wer did u get a g27 for $150???? im looking for a g27 or a g25 for under $200
Very Irresponsible to say you G27 was 149.99. I mean, when you got it from that guy who stole it of a truck, did he really give you a penny back when you gave him $150?
you just have to keep your eyes open and be patient. I even saw one on amazon for that price about a year ago. Unfortunately for me I couldn't afford it and it almost immediately went up in price. I've found that in the last year, wheels have gone up in price. (probably because of GT5)
So, the term "500" on T500 RS came from the price tag.
Isn't it ?
Not necessary for me but seems cool though.
Same here, my DFGT has been made GT5P so much more enjoyable when I got it last year. And with GT5, and the makes the experience so much better. And for $150, it's a damn good deal. That $500 thing better come with a Coca-Cola dispenser.
I want an official rumble and tilt racing seat. I'd pay $500 for THAT
exactly my point. +1 and not even real cars Nardi, Momo, Personal, Omp etc racing steering wheel go for that much.
yeah but a "real" steering wheel only has…the wheel. This has motors, electronics, mouldings, pedals etc. Can't see how they are connected..?
i rather buy new suspension for my real car.
Agreed, I have huge expenses coming up soon due to rebuilding a race engine for my car, my G25 is already good enough for simulators like rFactor and I fail to see why it shouldnt be good enough for PD to include full support (Change gears while drifting, adjust sensivity, deadzones and buttons) for it in GT5 because of some agenda for a new wheel :S
Sorry, if they wanted me to buy their fancy wheel, they should have released it before the game so I didn't invest in a G27 that I am very happy with.
Do i need this really cool steering wheel? No, but i want it.
If this means PD are not gonna devote time towards proper G27 support then i'm gonna be such a hater towards this wheel!
But if it is better, more power to them. I just want full support for the G27 :/
The G25/27 support is already there, (no triangle needed to enable the clutch), but the extra buttons will be supported with the patches to come , from what I've read. Crap! I have a broken, no reverse gear G25, and it drives quite awesome on this game. Lets welcome some wheel competition!!! Better for us right?
^ Same here, rolling with a G25 and it's pretty much perfect for my driving style as it is.
The last steering wheel I bought that wasn't a Logitech was a Mad Catz Puma GT some 10 years ago. It's going to take one hell of a wheel to top the G25/7.
What he probably means is to have the ability to program the buttons to your own specifications. I really hate that I can only use TWO of the six buttons on my wheel, and two of the four buttons on the shifter module. What the heck? They really need to support the G25/G27 better.
I just bought a G27 a few months ago, hopefully this wheel won't be much better and we will get full support for the G25/27.
Same here. Will be disappointed if I've bought an unsupported wheel given how much it cost.
1st…..And I will buy
When's it for sale, i'm in. :) I've no wheel and can't get a top of the line Fanatec or Logitech as they're all sold out.
Agreed. If its within 300 USD then I'm all in. If not I'll probably just buy a g27 wheel.
I almost bought a G27 but I hesitated missed getting it for $198. Now that this new wheel is arriving soon I going to look into this one.
thrustmaster = nice looking but = bad VERY bad quality
ican just hope for you that thrustmaster will make a wheel with a good quality because of PD/SONY
i had 2 thrustmaster wheels and both had a very bad quality
they look good and you think it's good but they aren't
lets see …
why am i getting the feeling the introduction of this wheel and not fully supporting other premium wheels is not a coincidence?
this smells like a big pile of ****


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By Alex Wolinsky
According to the National Bureau of Economic Research, the Great Recession came to an end in June 2009. National output figures support this assertion, as GDP has surpassed its 2008 prerecession peak and continues to rise.
Despite this, much of the economy appears to remain depressed, and we currently approach the end of a fourth year of abysmal employment numbers. Unemployment currently stands at 8.2 percent of the labor force, well above the approximately 5 percent jobless rate prior to the recession, and its decline is excruciatingly sluggish. As a result, jobs and the labor market remain decisively at the forefront of political discussion.
A traditional recovery — one achieved through expansion of America's conventionally strong industries, namely manufacturing and construction — might not, however, be effective or even desirable. This is because the economy has in the last decade undergone a revolution, of sorts, in which the driving force is no longer the production of physical goods but the conception and implementation of ideas. Indeed, as noted by UC Berkeley Economics Professor Enrico Moretti in his recent book The New Geography of Jobs, the most depressed areas of the country are those that have historically relied on manufacturing as an economic engine, and their situation has only worsened since 2008's meltdown.
One might wonder why a recovery with its roots in traditional sectors is not an ideal target — after all, shouldn't an economic rebound driven by any industry be appealing? There are reasons to believe that such a recovery might be short-lived and could even compromise the long-run economic well-being of the country. The United States is no longer the world's dominant manufacturer, and it's unlikely that it will ever regain that role. The reason for this is that other nations — especially China — possess larger pools of unskilled labor and thus far cheaper production overall. American workers produce far more goods per hour of labor, but attempting to compete with China's sheer manpower is essentially hopeless and even counterproductive, because doing so would consume labor resources better allocated elsewhere.
So if not through an expansion of manufacturing and a proliferation of blue-collar jobs, how can America's leaders take action to combat unemployment?
One answer being proffered is as simple as it is clichéd: support greater access to higher education, and encourage youth to pursue advanced degrees. According to the 2009 American Community Survey, only 27.9 percent of Americans aged 25 or older have a bachelor's degree, and a mere 10.3 percent possess advanced degrees. Given the level of expertise required for jobs in ideas-based fields, these numbers, especially the latter, are wholly inadequate.
At its peak, manufacturing directly employed nearly one-fifth of the labor force. The nation's emerging economic engine cannot hope to approach this figure unless a larger proportion of the population acquires the necessary skills. An expansion of education might thus be in order to secure the nation's economic future.
• For a list of programs examining the employment problems of today and tomorrow from a variety of angles, see The Commonwealth Club's August series The Future of Work
Sally Ride 1951-2012
Sally Ride, America's first female astronaut to enter space, died yesterday at the age of only 61. She had been fighting pancreatic cancer.
Though much of the news coverage this day after her passing is focused on her groundbreaking flight aboard Space Shuttle Challenger in 1983 or on her previously unknown female partner of 27 years -- both of which are important and interesting angles -- at The Commonwealth Club of California we also remember her crucial work championing math and science education for girls. That was the focus of her program at the Club seven years ago, titled "The Greatest Challenge Facing Humanity."
Read a PDF of her speech and audience Q&A at The Commonwealth Club on June 16, 2005.
The Austerity Conflict
Analysis by Alex Wolinsky
Earlier this year, the Greek parliament voted to approve austerity measures in exchange for increased foreign aid in an attempt to resuscitate the country's moribund economy. Later that day, central Athens burned.
Given the origins of Greece's predicament -- a bloated welfare state and dishonest bookkeeping, in addition to an array of other factors -- one might conclude that austerity, in conjunction with greater external oversight, is an integral ingredient of any solution to the European economic catastrophe and, by extension, to that in the United States. Economist Paul Krugman, however, argues otherwise.
"This is not the time for that, because it is literally self-defeating," he said during a lecture before The Commonwealth Club in May. "Try to do austerity now, and it actually just deepens the depression."
According to Krugman, such action would trigger a reduction in the size of the economy as workers and businesses that depend on the government for wages and revenue cut their spending. As a result, the tax base shrinks, the deficit problem -- as well as the crisis as a whole -- worsens and the solvency of the government is placed further in jeopardy.
So, if expected results resemble those described above, why would anyone advocate a policy of austerity?
The answer is that the projected outcome is decidedly rosier. By classical economic theory, a reduction in government expenditures --a fiscal contraction -- does in fact cause a decline in GDP, but accompanying this is a bolstering of foreign confidence in the long-run solvency of the government and thus greater willingness to grant loans, which can be used for economic revitalization and a brighter future.
Though there are certainly examples of austerity being successful, more often in the post-recession world -- especially in Europe -- its results are similar to those described by Krugman. Indeed, as noted by former Council of Economic Advisers Chairwoman Christina Romer in an April 28 column for The New York Times, "[A]usterity is uniquely destructive right now."
With this in mind, what should be done to combat fiscal insolvency?
Many economists, including Romer, argue that less important than a government's total debt is its debt-to-GDP ratio. Intuitively, this makes sense: A country with a larger economy should be able to assume greater total debt than a nation with a smaller GDP before it suffers from insolvency concerns. This presents the novel conclusion that a country can mitigate insolvency either through cutting spending -- through austerity -- or through boosting its GDP. This latter action is most easily pursed by implementing an increase in government expenditures, which wholly contradicts the stipulations of austerity measures.
Overall, the debt-to-GDP ratio idea offers the immensely attractive concept of an economic recovery without further, government-induced pain. And, given the current state of the austerity-rife European Union, exploring related policies might be the tempting -- albeit admittedly unlikely -- next step.
• Related upcoming event: September 6, Economist Paul Saffo -- The Great Turbulence: Economics and the New Global Order


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By Kris Rodriguez
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(March 12, 2007)--The UTSA Center for Innovation and Technology Entrepreneurship (CITE) will present Fred Dinger, former president and CEO of Osteobiologics, headlining a list of distinguished speakers and panelists at the inaugural Technology Entrepreneurship Boot Camp from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., Friday, March 23 in the John Peace Library Building Assembly Room (4.03.08) on the 1604 Campus.
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Other presenters will include Janet Campbell, CEO of Sena Medical; Jay Campion, co-founder and managing director of Access Venture Partners; David Spencer, president of Mandelbrot Ventures Inc.; Joseph Picken, executive director of the University of Dallas Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship; James Poage, president and CEO of the San Antonio Technology Accelerator Initiative (SATAI); Cory Hallam, CITE director and Raymond Teske, professor in the UTSA College of Business.
The daylong event will feature presentations on fundamental entrepreneurship topics including opportunity identification, business plan basics, intellectual property and the UT System, introduction to business law and funding a technology start-up. A networking reception will close the day.
CITE fosters the growth of entrepreneurs and new technology-based ventures through a process of education, experiences, resources and support.
The Technology Entrepreneurship Boot Camp is sponsored by the UTSA College of Business, UTSA College of Engineering, UTSA Institute for Economic Development, UTSA Office of Sponsored Research and SATAI.
Registration is $95, free for UT System students and employees. Because of limited space, early registration is advised. Register at the CITE Web site.
For more information, contact Cory Hallam at (210) 458-6595.
Technology Entrepreneurship Boot Camp schedule
Friday, March 23
7:30-8 a.m. -- Registration
8-8:15 a.m. -- Welcome and introductions
8:15-8:45 a.m. -- Overview of technology entrepreneurship
8:45-9:15 a.m. -- Opportunity identification
9:15-10 a.m. -- Basics of the business plan
10:15-11:15 a.m. -- Intellectual roperty and the UT System
11:15 a.m.-noon -- Starting your own business and the law
Noon-1 p.m. -- Lunch
1-2 p.m. -- Funding the start-up in San Antonio
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Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner discusses the economy and the auto industry with CBS.
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Angela Merkel has served formal notice that she will lead the German wandering away from the American alliance.
Seven years after the end of the Second World War, on the 10th of March 1952, the governments of the United States, the United Kingdom, France, and the newly established Federal Republic of Germany received an astounding note from the Soviet Union.
The Soviet Union offered to withdraw the troops that then occupied eastern Germany and to end its rule over the occupied zone. Germany would be reunited under a constitution that allowed the country freedom to choose its own social system. Germany would even be allowed to rebuild its military, and all Germans except those convicted of war crimes would regain their political rights. In return, the Allied troops in western Germany would also be withdrawn—and reunited Germany would be forbidden to join the new NATO alliance.
Should you drink more coffee? Should you take melatonin? Can you train yourself to need less sleep? A physician's guide to sleep in a stressful age.
During residency, I worked hospital shifts that could last 36 hours, without sleep, often without breaks of more than a few minutes. Even writing this now, it sounds to me like I'm bragging or laying claim to some fortitude of character. I can't think of another type of self-injury that might be similarly lauded, except maybe binge drinking. Technically the shifts were 30 hours, the mandatory limit imposed by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education, but we stayed longer because people kept getting sick. Being a doctor is supposed to be about putting other people's needs before your own. Our job was to power through.
The shifts usually felt shorter than they were, because they were so hectic. There was always a new patient in the emergency room who needed to be admitted, or a staff member on the eighth floor (which was full of late-stage terminally ill people) who needed me to fill out a death certificate. Sleep deprivation manifested as bouts of anger and despair mixed in with some euphoria, along with other sensations I've not had before or since. I remember once sitting with the family of a patient in critical condition, discussing an advance directive—the terms defining what the patient would want done were his heart to stop, which seemed likely to happen at any minute. Would he want to have chest compressions, electrical shocks, a breathing tube? In the middle of this, I had to look straight down at the chart in my lap, because I was laughing. This was the least funny scenario possible. I was experiencing a physical reaction unrelated to anything I knew to be happening in my mind. There is a type of seizure, called a gelastic seizure, during which the seizing person appears to be laughing—but I don't think that was it. I think it was plain old delirium. It was mortifying, though no one seemed to notice.
As Republicans in Congress try to fend off the flurry of scandals, they are haunted by a question: Is this as good as it's going to get?
The speaker of the House strode to his lectern on a recent Thursday to confront another totally normal day on Capitol Hill: health care, tax reform, a president under investigation, rumblings of impeachment.
"Morning, everybody!" Paul Ryan chirped. "Busy week!"
It was indeed: Less than a day had passed since the appointment of a special prosecutor to investigate Russia's involvement in the presidential campaign; just a few hours since President Trump angrily tweeted that the investigation was "the single greatest witch hunt of a politician in American history!"; and only minutes since the Russia-linked former national-security adviser, Michael Flynn, had begun defying congressional subpoenas. A few days prior, the president had been accused of revealing sensitive intelligence information to the Russian foreign minister.
She lived with us for 56 years. She raised me and my siblings without pay. I was 11, a typical American kid, before I realized who she was.
The ashes filled a black plastic box about the size of a toaster. It weighed three and a half pounds. I put it in a canvas tote bag and packed it in my suitcase this past July for the transpacific flight to Manila. From there I would travel by car to a rural village. When I arrived, I would hand over all that was left of the woman who had spent 56 years as a slave in my family's household.
What's the healthiest way to keep everyone caffeinated?
"I don't have one. They're kind of expensive to use," John Sylvan told me frankly, of Keurig K-Cups, the single-serve brewing pods that have fundamentally changed the coffee experience in recent years. "Plus it's not like drip coffee is tough to make." Which would seem like a pretty banal sentiment, were Sylvan not the inventor of the K-Cup.
Almost one in three American homes now has a pod-based coffee machine, even though Sylvan never imagined they would be used outside of offices. Last year K-Cups accounted for most of Keurig Green Mountain's $4.7 billion in revenue—more than five times what the company made five years prior. So even though he gets treated like a minor celebrity when he tells people he founded Keurig, Sylvan has some regrets about selling his share of the company in 1997 for $50,000. But that's not what really upsets him.
The condition has long been considered untreatable. Experts can spot it in a child as young as 3 or 4. But a new clinical approach offers hope.
This is a good day, Samantha tells me: 10 on a scale of 10. We're sitting in a conference room at the San Marcos Treatment Center, just south of Austin, Texas, a space that has witnessed countless difficult conversations between troubled children, their worried parents, and clinical therapists. But today promises unalloyed joy. Samantha's mother is visiting from Idaho, as she does every six weeks, which means lunch off campus and an excursion to Target. The girl needs supplies: new jeans, yoga pants, nail polish.
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At 11, Samantha is just over 5 feet tall and has wavy black hair and a steady gaze. She flashes a smile when I ask about her favorite subject (history), and grimaces when I ask about her least favorite (math). She seems poised and cheerful, a normal preteen. But when we steer into uncomfortable territory—the events that led her to this juvenile-treatment facility nearly 2,000 miles from her family—Samantha hesitates and looks down at her hands. "I wanted the whole world to myself," she says. "So I made a whole entire book about how to hurt people."
Colleges are adjusting to increasing contact with adults who are more ingrained in their children's lives than ever.
Stacy G.'s daughter was having a meltdown. Her daughter, a sophomore at a prestigious private college, wanted an internship at Boston Children's Hospital, a plum job that would look great on her applications to graduate school. After four weeks of frantically waiting for the school to arrange for an interview at the hospital, Stacy called her daughter's adviser at the internships office to complain.
"For $65,000 [in full attendance costs], you can bet your sweet ass that I'm calling that school ... If your children aren't getting what they've been promised, colleges are going to get that phone call from parents," Stacy said. "It's my money. It's a lot of money. We did try to have her handle it on her own, but when it didn't work out, I called them."
Today in shoesplaining: Until your career is at its height, ladies, maybe you should stick to flats.
It went like this. At a reverse-demo event in New York last night, Jorge Cortell, the CEO of the healthcare startup Kanteron Systems, noticed a female attendee wearing shoes. He snapped a picture of the shoes. He then tweeted the picture of the shoes. This is what he said:
Event supposed to be for entrepreneurs, VCs, but these heels (I've seen several like this)... WTF? #brainsnotrequired pic.twitter.com/Z1vBKxlLzo
Sexist! the people cried. No, it's not! Cortell responded. His #brainsnotrequired musings were merely protective, he explained, of the health of the shoe-wearer. And, by extension, of the health of us all. Heels are dangerous. Heels are dumb. High-heeled shoes are not, as it were, "sensible shoes."
The increasingly illiberal European country offers shelter to a growing number of international nationalists.
In February 2017, at the state of the nation address, Viktor Orbán, the prime minister of Hungary and the leader of the far-right, anti-immigrant Fidesz party, offered his vision for the country in the coming year. "We shall let in true refugees: Germans, Dutch, French, and Italians, terrified politicians and journalists who here in Hungary want to find the Europe they have lost in their homelands," he proclaimed.
In reality, Orbán's "refugees" have been moving to Hungary, and Budapest in particular, for years. A small clique of Identitarians, or aggrieved nationalists from Sweden, the United Kingdom, the United States, France, and elsewhere, all motivated by their disdain for their home countries' commitment to liberal values, have found an ideological match in his Hungary, where two extreme far-right parties, the governing Fidesz and Jobbik, the largest opposition party, make up most of the National Assembly. Jobbik is the first European political party to champion a border wall. Its members frequently express open anti-Semitic and anti-Roma sentiments, and prioritize the preservation of "Hungary for the Hungarians."
Some firm handshakes, forced smiles, and awkward sword dances. In short, nothing.
Let's hear it for the Rainbow Tour
It's been an incredible success
We weren't quite sure, we had a few doubts
Will Evita win through?
But the answer is yes
There you are, I told you so
Makes no difference where she goes
The whole world over just the same
Just listen to them call her name
And who would underestimate the actress now?
—Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice, Evita
Like Donald Trump, Juan and Eva Perón were populists. They seem to have shared Trump's understanding of the purposes of philanthropy (for more, read up about the Eva Perón Foundation) and the importance of fiscal probity. And like Eva in 1947, Donald Trump has just completed a glitzy overseas trip.
It had ample farcical episodes: the Saudi king, the dictator of Egypt, and the president of the United States placing their hands on a glowing orb that evoked for some a lampoon of Lord of the Rings. The secretary of state assuring us that no one overseas was paying attention to Trump's domestic troubles (palpably, indeed laughably, untrue) even as his spokesman excluded the American press from a briefing attended by the considerably more docile reporters of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The national-security adviser insisting, "The entire trip is about human rights, about all civilized people coming together to fight the hatred"—an odd remark to make in a country that lops the hands off thieves and the heads off apostates. The commerce secretary, in one of his more witlessly thuggish remarks, observing complacently about urban Riyadh: "There was not a single hint of a protester anywhere there during the whole time we were there." And then there were the video clips: Melania flicking away her husband's groping hand and the Leader of the Free World giving the prime minister of little Montenegro a good hard shove.
Uncovering the link between early trauma and lifelong illness
"It serves no one, the media or Trump, to have an almost thermonuclear war with each other."
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NFL player speaks to students in Rigby
There was lots of excitement in Rigby Friday when students at a local elementary school got to meet an NFL star.
Rexburg native Mark Asper, who now plays for the Buffalo Bills, dropped by Jefferson Elementary Friday morning.
Speaking to about 70 Spanish immersion students in Spanish, Asper discussed healthy living and his career as a professional football player.
"It's a little daunting because cause I'm out of practice with my Spanish and they're in school, they're learning every day, so I was worried that they'd know more than I did," said Asper.
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Introducing OneNote Clipper for Chrome and Springpad to OneNote migration tool
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Introducing OneNote Clipper for Chrome and Springpad to OneNote migration tool
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