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'Coffice' Etiquette: How to Politely Work From a Coffee Shop
Last week, alarms were set off by a story that ran in MSN Money about some coffee shops giving the boot to professionals who use their premises to conduct their business.
True, there are coffee shop customers who feel it's in their right to take advantage of a business' value added services; Just because they've spent $2.50 on one cup of coffee they feel they can "camp out for hours" and use a table, the wifi and a power outlet.
Regardless of what you may have read about these seemingly drastic coffee shop measures -- whether it was about aesthetics, safety concerns or store culture -- these measures were business decisions. They were instituted for the good of the bottom line.
And that's okay -- sort of.
Before any more coffee shops take drastic measures in the name of business decisions, let's all get back to our respective corners, grab a fresh cuppa joe, take a breath and look at this with cooler, calmer heads.
For anyone reading this and scratching their heads wondering what all the fuss is about, you'll know if you've ever bought coffee from any number of local coffee shops that the people you see behind their laptops are the ones at the centre of this issue.
They are a rapidly growing segment of professionals who prefer to work from locations other than an office cubicle. They are called teleworkers, telecommuters, mobile workers, "cofficers".
Love it, or hate it, the coffee-shop-as-office phenomenon -- the "coffice" -- isn't going away. In fact, in all likelihood, unless there's a worldwide, permanent power outage, it's only going to grow.
Here are some facts and stats to consider:
- More people are discovering and utilizing telecommuting for their work. And 75 per cent are from the for-profit sector, with other sectors realizing the benefits.
- Mobile traffic is rising 1.5 times per year. Smartphone subscription growth globally is 31 per cent with a 21 per cent penetration rate. This means the work many of us do is becoming increasingly mobile.
- Employers can save more than $10,000 per year for each two-day-a-week telecommuter. These dollars add up and present a compelling reason for companies to encourage telework practices in order to cut costs. For many it can mean the difference of being able to stay in business and keep employees on when times are tough.
- Over the past four decades, global coffee consumption has nearly doubled. It's expected to reach 9.09 million tons by 2019.
If you put these facts together, it's fairly simple to conclude that the number of people choosing to get their work done in nearby coffee shops is only going to rise.
In reality, coffices are only a sliver of the mobile workstyle pie. The other slices are home offices, co-working spaces, short-term office rentals, park benches, city street corners and companies with flexible work arrangements. (No, Yahoo! didn't ruin that one for everyone else.)
While the argument gets made that cofficers are taking up space other customers could use, the fact is there are many loyal, laptop-free customers who spend the better part of a day in coffee shops talking to their friends, holding long meetings, feeding their babies, reading books and newspapers, doing crosswords and Sudoku, knitting and crocheting, drawing, writing in their notebooks, or simply exercising their corporate-granted liberty to watch the ice melt in their cups. So how do you limit their stay? Take away chairs? Charge for empty cups? Lock the bathrooms?
If pulling the plug is where it starts, where does it end? When it comes down to it, if a coffee shop chooses to hang a "seating time limited" sign, they'll lose customers to other coffee establishments who will see this as an opportunity to attract a new customer base.
So with the growth of cofficers, it makes good business sense to figure out how to service the need AND ensure that the bottom line is addressed. But it's a two-way street.
Spending extended periods of time in a coffee shop is not an inalienable right -- no matter how unlimited the supplies and services. As someone who uses a coffee shop as a regular coffice, I believe there's a better solution than cutting off valued services because of those abusing them.
There's a specialized brand of etiquette cofficers need to maintain, and coffee shops may want to adopt that etiquette as policy moving into the age of the growing mobile workforce. Having this "code of ethics" will not only serve to build positive relationships between business and customer; but to build it among all customers as well.
Cofficer etiquette:
- Share your space with other customers. Or go away at peak times when traffic is highest.
- Use wifi and power responsibly. Don't hog bandwidth and share power outlets.
- Buy something once an hour at a minimum.
- Treat coffee shops, owners and staff with the same respect you would hope to receive in return. Clean up after yourself, tip well and be nice.
- Repeat tomorrow.
The coffee shop is a business first and foremost. Owners have bills to pay, mouths to feed, revenue goals to meet and bosses to please. They have every right to adjust their business accordingly -- even if it means alienating a segment of their customer base.
Cofficers who want to continue utilizing these spaces and moreover, to see them thrive and grow must understand that the wifi and the power, not to mention the napkins, table space, bathrooms and water, are not free. Only by practicing business -- supportive behaviours will cofficers be part of the solution -- ensuring coffee shop owners never have to make up rules to change negative customer behavior.
There's a fine line between helping a business and hurting it; between customer and loiterer. And by being a good customer first and foremost, the ability to be a welcome cofficer will follow.
Rooster Coffee House On warm evenings you can see Toronto's gleaming skyline and the Don Valley before you. Strike up a conversation with some of the friendly locals, or head for a more substantial meal on the Danforth or Chinatown East. Also try: White Squirrel Coffee Shop
Aroma Espresso Bar Finding a cafe that does good, affordable food can be hard. How many times have you had a horrible quiche or a limp, tasteless salad at an otherwise decent cafe? Fortunately for Torontonians, Israeli chain Aroma has opened their shops all over the city. Their filling sandwiches feature bread baked daily and a great range of salads (think sweet potato, lentils and goat cheese) for the health conscious. Also try: Sense Appeal Coffee Roasters
Ella's Uncle A comforting fixture on Dundas Street West, you'll almost always see a hard-at-work baker in the window at Ella's Uncle. What this means is that you're getting handmade, freshly baked pastries. Take your pastry and coffee to nearby Trinity-Bellwoods park right after. Also try: Phipps Bakery Cafe, Nadege Patisserie, Capital Espresso
Dark Horse Espresso Bar The Spadina branch of mini coffee empire Dark Horse features two huge tables perfect for pounding out novels, blogs, computer code or grant proposals. The well-made espressos help too. It doesn't hurt the inspiration that the cafe sits on the main floor of the Centre for Social Innovation, so that laptop jockey sitting next to you might be working on a brilliant idea, too. Also try: Cafe Pamenar, Manic Espresso
Tequila Bookworm There's plenty of space in this Queen Street West cafe and bar. Find yourself a nook and make yourself comfortable. This grungy and friendly staple doesn't have the greatest coffee but you can always switch to beer.
Sam James Coffee Bar Blink and you'll miss Sam James's tiny shop on Harbord Street. But you probably won't miss the gangsta rap blaring on the speakers. The puckish Sam James is one of the best baristas in the city and has trained others in cafes across town. There's probably six seats in the whole joint so you're better off getting your Americano (black, naturally) to go. HIs brew is not exclusive to the hipster crowd though, with a new location in the PATH for Bay Street types. Also try: Lit Espresso Bar, The Common, The Mascot, Ezra's Pound.
Bull Dog Coffee The baristas at the Bull Dog cafe often make lattes so pretty you almost don't want to drink them. Think flowers, hearts and of course — bull dog faces. Also try: Toronto Life lists a few places with lattes it loves.
Mercury Espresso Bar Coffee-snobby Torontonians might claim that the best espresso in the city is west of the Don. They're wrong. The coffee slingers at Mercury (or Dark Horse, or Te Aro) are easily some of the best in the city. Also try: Dark Horse Espresso Bar, Te Aro, The Black Canary Espresso Bar, Lazy Daisy's Cafe, The Bandit Espresso Bar
Snakes and Lattes Move over Monopoly. Shuffle over Scrabble. A runaway success since it opened in mid-2010, Snakes and Lattes is a mecca if you're a board game lover. The cafe has hundreds (if not thousands) of games in its library. Be warned it gets BUSY. Call ahead for a reservation. Also try: Go Lounge
Jet Fuel Coffee Shop It's like Cheers, but in an espresso bar. The baristas at Jet Fuel have been serving Cabbagetown locals for 18 years(!) so you can forgive the crusty exterior a bit. The place is also a favourite pit stop for bike couriers. Also try: I Deal Coffee, Belljar Cafe, Cherry Bomb Coffee
Tired of trying to cram your baby stroller into your tiny local cafe only to get glaring looks from childless hipsters? Smock Cafe's open and contemporary space in Roncesvalles is pretty enough for parents and full of fun activities and classes for kids and grownups alike. They also serve up beautiful and healthy snacks for all ages. Also try: Playful Grounds, Lil' Bean N' Green
For Picking Up White Squirrel Coffee Shop Dog lovers? Check. Queen West hipsters? Check. The White Squirrel's proximity to the park means it's always been a great people-watching spot. If you play your cards right you can grab your second coffee, pastry or ice cream in the park with your new crush. Also try: Rooster Coffee House, Saving Gigi
Balzac's Coffee Roasters With a name like Balzac's this Distillery District cafe is full of old-time charm. Note the interior, all wood and brick and antique-looking posters. There's also the giant eye-catching chandelier. If you think hard enough you can almost imagine you and your sweetie finishing your coffee and taking a walk somewhere more exotic than downtown Toronto. Also try: Rooster Coffee House
Merchants Of Green Coffee Some people want to know the story behind the coffee they drink. If that's you, then head over to this hidden gem. The knowledgeable staff can tell you where that cuppa came from. They also hold workshops, classes and other educational events. Also try: I Deal Coffee, Green Beanery
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May 19, 2012
1. Persistence is the best way to kill perennial weeds.
Yard and Garden May 19, 2012
How can I get rid of tree of Heaven & other invasive runner trees. Also my yard is overrun with bindweed?
-Ann B. Kingston & Hillsboro, NM
The best (and really the only) herbicide effective against the tree of heaven is persistence. If you choose to use chemical herbicides (2,4-D based or glyphosate based) or if you use elbow grease (digging and hand pulling the trees), they will return until you have depleted the stored foods in the roots remaining in the ground. These stored foods are used by the plant to produce new sprouts. This is one of the important differences between perennial weeds that return from a persistent root system and annual weeds that must grow from seeds each year. The perennial weeds may also produce seeds, but the roots more quickly replace plants that you remove.
Manual removal of trees and roots (remove as much as possible) can be effective, but must be done frequently to adequately deplete the food reserves used to produce new growth. If the trees are allowed to grow 2 weeks once they develop new leaves, they will begin feeding the roots, so you must be very persistent. Do not let new sprouts or growth remain more than about 10 days before removal. This will result in withdrawal of stored foods to produce the new growth, but will not allow the new growth to replace those nutrients. In time, the sprouts will become fewer and fewer. Eventually, you can eliminate the trees.
If you choose chemical treatments, you may speed the process slightly. Combined chemical and manual management techniques may be the fastest way to eliminate the trees. 2,4-D based products can be applied to the leaves of small trees and new sprouts. (If you have pets, keep them away from the area for a week or so to allow the chemical to break down, though it is unlikely that they would ingest the tree of heaven sprouts.) To minimize unintended consequences, you can apply the chemical directly to the leaves of the sprouts with a paint brush (after diluting the product according to the label directions). Some glyphosate (and brush and stump killer) products are labeled for "frill application" which means they can be applied full-strength into frills (notches cut just through the bark into the phloem and cambium layers that will carry the chemical into the roots). This is most effective in the late summer/fall when there is more movement of materials downward in the tree, but it can be done now with somewhat less downward movement. With chemical management (or combined chemical and manual management), persistence remains critical. Do not let the sprouts remain more than 10 days before removing them. When using chemical treatments read the label directions, looking for weeds controlled and proper treatment procedures. Follow those directions carefully. If you need help understanding the directions, contact your local NMSU Extension Service County agent.
Regarding bindweed: The same information mentioned above applies It is another perennial weed with extensive roots that quickly produce new sprouts. Removal every 10 days, or treatment with chemicals every 10 days over a period of time will reduce the problem. Seeds will remain dormant for several years, so even after the original plants have died, new plants may develop from these dormant seeds.
For more gardening information, visit the NMSU Extension publications Web site at http://aces.nmsu.edu/pubs/_h, or to read past articles of Yard and Garden go to http://aces.nmsu.edu/pubs/periodicals.html
Send your gardening questions to:
Yard and Garden, Attn: Dr. Curtis Smith
NMSU Agricultural Science Center
1036 Miller Rd.
SW, Los Lunas, NM 87031.
Curtis W. Smith, Ph.D., is an Extension Horticulture Specialist emeritus with New Mexico State University's Cooperative Extension Service. NMSU and the U.S. Department of Agriculture cooperating.

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Historians disagree on whether Bush is another TrumanHistorians in the News
"I know that President Bush admires Harry Truman -- we have talked about that," [David] McCullough said, though he was cautious about offering any snap assessments of the Bush presidency. "About 50 years has to go by before you can appraise a presidency -- the dust has to settle."
He did say he sees similarities between Truman and Bush, especially in their capacity to endure "merciless criticism and personal abuse" that he doubts "many of us could take."...
Historians are divided about this kind of assessment from the administration. Fred I. Greenstein, a Princeton scholar regarded as a preeminent authority on the presidency, alluded to one major difference between Bush and Truman, often cited by Democrats. "The Marshall Plan was part of a broad-based diplomatic effort, and it was enacted by Truman's bipartisan leadership of a Republican Congress," he said in an e-mail. "Bush's efforts have been heavily unilateral internationally and divisive internally, except those just after 9/11."
James G. Hershberg, a Cold War historian at George Washington University, said he doubts that history will judge Bush as kindly as it has Truman, saying Truman's roles in fostering European recovery and building the NATO alliance were seen as solid accomplishments at the time. "Bush, by contrast, lacks any successes of comparable magnitude to compensate for his mismanagement of the Iraq war and will be hard-pressed to produce any in his last two years," he said.
But Greenstein said he has been struck by parallels between the two presidents, including their feistiness, the fact that neither seemed up to the job in their early months in office, that both had responses to crises that made them seem more presidential and that both saw their approval levels drop after stalemated wars. "As one who remembers the Truman presidency," he said, "I often have a sense of deja vu."
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Arnold A Offner - 12/20/2006
I agree that it is nonsense to compare Truman and Bush. Truman did have the capacity to rethink and to reassess, e.g., in the case of his own assessment of "overreach," regarding North Korea, he agreed within a week of PRC intervention to look to get out of the war with honor. He also fired MacArthur--at great political cost--when the general opposed seeking a cease fire in April 1951. Alas, Truman got caught up on the POW issue (ignored the Geneva Convention!) and it took until Ike and 1953 to end the war. But it was still done in three years--and after 3 and half years Bush remains in a state of denial while his White House hawks call for more troops and maybe attacks on Iran. And of course, Bush has NO foreign policy achievements to speak of, whereas HST had the Marshall Plan and NATO--and on the domestic front he was a million years ahead of Bush, including calls for expanded Social Security, minimum wage increases, and in 1949, National Health Insurance. Please save us from any future comparisons--not even David McCullough will be able to "hagiograp-hy" Bush, who will ultimately rank where he should--at the bottom of the presidential list.
Keith Robert Schmitz - 12/20/2006
There is no comparison based on motive and their careers leading up to the Presidency.
Truman saw government as service, Bush sees it as self enrichment.
Truman had a record of accomplishment as a chief judge in Jackson county and in his role in the Truman Committee, Bush was a total business failure and served as governor in a state where they have set up a weak governors ship.
The whole notion of comparison is nonsense.
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Warm up holiday gatherings with this hot spicy entree from Sue Dannahower in Fort Pierce, Florida. "The dry rub keeps the tenderloin moist and tender," Sue promises. Because it's so fuss-free, just pop it in the oven or grill, then sit back and make merry with guests...maybe catch the Super Bowl! TASTY TIP: For a festive change of pace from beef, resolve to try this spicy Cajun rub on pork tenderloin, too!
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- 1 beef tenderloin roast (3 pounds)
- 4 teaspoons salt
- 1 tablespoon paprika
- 2-1/4 teaspoons onion powder
- 1-1/2 teaspoons garlic powder
- 1-1/2 teaspoons white pepper
- 1-1/2 teaspoons pepper
- 1 to 3 teaspoons cayenne pepper
- 1 teaspoon dried basil
- 1/2 teaspoon chili powder
- 1/8 teaspoon dried thyme
- 1/8 teaspoon ground mustard
- Dash ground cloves
- Tie tenderloin at 2-in. intervals with kitchen string. Combine the seasonings; rub over beef. Using long-handled tongs, moisten a paper towel with cooking oil and lightly coat the grill rack.
- Prepare grill for indirect heat. Grill beef, covered, over indirect medium heat for 50-60 minutes, or until meat reaches desired doneness (for medium-rare, a thermometer should read 145°; medium, 160°; well-done, 170°), turning occasionally. Let stand for 10 minutes before slicing.
- To roast the tenderloin, bake on a rack in a shallow roasting pan at 425° for 45-60 minutes or until meat reaches desired doneness. Yield: 12 servings.
Originally published as Cajun Beef Tenderloin in Light & Tasty December/January 2006, p59
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Update, Monday November 16, 2016: Gwen Ifill passed away Monday. She was 61.
For a decade, Gwen Ifill's been a fixture on PBS's Washington Week and The NewsHour, the mild-mannered staples of capital-S serious TV news. "You may not see me tweeting soon," she confesses, but she says she's happy to see bloggers burst the Beltway bubble. Mother Jones caught up with Ifill during a schedule packed with nightly shows and a national tour for her new book, The Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama. Ifill shared her thoughts on moderating Sarah Palin, being spoofed by Queen Latifah, and checking the rabid fervor of Obamamanics: "Calm down, people…Prepare to be disappointed—that's almost inevitable."
Mother Jones: In your book you describe politics as like sandpaper, moments of friction that rub up against one another and then we reach a smooth new place. Is that politics in general or specific to racial progress?
Gwen Ifill: I think it speaks to politics in general; the degree to which it's unique or specific to racial politics is that race is itself the ultimate sandpaper in our culture. So if you take the conflicts we are used to dealing with, race over the years in America, and you combine that with the desire or aspiration to political power or taking power from other people, which is what politics is all about, you end up with a lot more friction than you would normally see with just straight-ahead politics. It's a very complicated and ever-changing evolution, race and politics in this country, because of the history of the nation as well as the nature of politics.
MJ: What's it like being in more than 3 million homes each night? Do you take particular care to reach a broad audience?
GI: I think I would do that no matter what I was doing. Even though I am in television now, I spent my career trying to speak to the broadest possible audience whether it's in print or whether it's in television. Because I would never work for a niche publication or a niche program on television and because I am a journalist and not an opinion person, my job is to try to see how many different points of view I can represent or how. It's not even a question of who you don't offend because you are always going to offend somebody. The question is how can you get people to listen to the information you have to present. You don't do that by telling them, My way or the highway; this is what I think. And you don't do it by saying, Let me just talk about this one slice. Barack Obama didn't get elected president, would never have been elected president, had he decided to run as a black candidate. In order to reach the broadest number of people you have to speak to their interests as broadly as you can.
MJ: And yet cable news at least is full of pundits, and from Rush to Rachel, there's a definite personality worship going on. Is opinion taking over, and what does that say about the role of the media?
GI: I don't think it takes over, but it's different; they do a different job than I do. I don't think if you ask Rachel Maddow if she's a journalist she would say she is. Jon Stewart doesn't say he's a journalist. Sean Hannity, I don't know what he'd say, maybe he goes back and forth. But to me it is really incumbent on us to be as clear in our definition as possible of what we mean when we say media. Because media could be anything. I think it's great to have a vibrant and lively public debate out there about points of view, as long as you're willing to listen to the other side, too. I don't see myself as a pundit and I take great pains not to be one because I always want to consider that the other guy might have a point, too. Otherwise, I couldn't do my job. So I don't think it's taking over. I just think we as consumers of information media must be very clear what it is we are consuming. Whether we are choosing to get our information by listening to people fight about it. Or whether we're choosing to get it by listening to the facts or watching the facts as they're laid out and then reaching our own conclusions. It's very different ways of info gathering, but it's not all journalism.
MJ: Have Americans come to rely more on punditry versus reportage?
GI: I hope not. I don't think so. I think that, for instance, and this isn't punditry per se, but people who laugh at Jon Stewart. I have a lot of college students say to me, That's all I watch. I guess I am supposed to be dismayed by that, but I'm not, because in order to laugh at Jon Stewart you have to understand the underpinnings of the joke. You have to know who Nancy Pelosi is; you have to have your basic information. That's true for a lot of people who watch shout shows. They are also getting their information from someplace, their basic information. Some of it is flawed, some of it is not. But at least they're taking it in, which for, you know, pre-cable I went to college at a time when people weren't even reading the paper. So I want them to be getting some sort of engagement, even though it might not be the kind of engagement I would choose to give.
MJ: Shout shows?
GI: Shout shows. People who sit in different boxes and yell at each other. I call it more heat than light.
MJ: Do people just want to be told how to interpret events as they happen?
GI: Some people just want someone to agree with the conclusions they have already reached. I don't think people are looking to make up their minds on these shows. I think they've already made up their minds. If you're watching Keith Olbermann or Rachel Maddow, you have probably already made up your mind what you think, and you want someone to say, Doggone right—that's what I thought. [Laughs.] You know, we praise people who agree with us. But that means they formed their opinions somewhere else. There's nothing wrong with having reached your conclusions about your opinions; it's just not what I do. And I don't think everyone, I don't think most people are that hard and fast. Rather, there's that sponge-like quality. They want to know more.
MJ: The PBS ombudsman said of The NewsHour that he finds it "sometimes too polite, too balanced when issues are not really balanced." What do you think he means by "too balanced"?
GI: In the media universe we're in, where there are people screaming on one end, there is no problem at all with having a little bit of extra politeness. At the NewsHour, our goal is not necessarily to be polite but to be respectful, of various points of view. Now, what we struggle with sometimes is the notion of false equivalency, which I guess is what he's alluding to, the idea that you have engaged an evenhanded debate when there is a clear point of view that is unchallenged. I can't think of an example, but that is one of those endless inside journalism debates we all have.
But at The NewsHour we really think our role is to vet as many points of view as possible, put as much information on the table as possible, and assume, I think correctly, that the people at home are willing to take that information and make up their own minds. We're never going to say, This is the truth, or, This is the end, this is the way you should believe. We like to think that maybe, just possibly, conceivably, people are smart enough to make up their minds for themselves. I have time after time after time found that to be true. That people are engaged in, that people want to be engaged in getting the information but they don't necessarily always want to be told what the conclusion ought to be. And The NewsHour is very—we are very careful with our prize, which is an hour of commercial-free time every night, to go as deeply as we can into subjects, to lay out as many, sometimes five points of view about a single thing and try to just lay it all out there for viewers to make their own conclusions. And our viewers are really smart. They really do figure it out on their own; we don't have to lecture them.
MJ: Alternately, The NewsHour has been criticized for catering to the right and center more than to the left. What is your response?
GI: The joy of The NewsHour is that we've been criticized for catering to everybody. The right is as unhappy with us as the left; the middle is as unhappy with us as either the right or the left. And after a while you don't spend a whole lot of time pulse checking for who's been criticizing you today and do the best job you can on a certain day, and one day you will displease one side and another day you'll displease the other side, and hopefully you'll displease them all at once on occasion.
MJ: I guess that means you're doing your job then.
GI: Yeah, that's my thinking.
MJ: It seems like sometimes people equate neutrality with boring. How can the straight-arrow media, without the fancy interactive maps and the crawl, hold people's attention with just the facts?
GI: I also do Washington Week on Friday nights, and we don't have maps, well not very good ones anyway. [Laughs.] We don't have holograms, but I get constant feedback from viewers, and it's appointment television: They sit down on Friday night and have someone explain to them why something happened. They've had a week, if they choose, of having someone holler at them what did happen. Then we sit there on Friday night and say, Okay, this is what drove this point, this is actually what's in that bill that everyone is yelling at you about, no one tells you what's in it, here's how this will change your life, and here's the politics behind it. And it goes very quickly and people are uniformly, at least to my face, grateful to have a place to sort it through. There is so much information; there are so many ways to get little pieces of information now that it runs the risk of misinformation on a broad scale. So to have someplace which is almost kind of a safe place to go where someone's gonna synthesize it for you, whether it's Washington Week or Newshour, is great. Now if that's not the way you want to get your information, then there are other things to do, but there ought to at least exist this one safe place where you can go.
MJ: What role do you see public television holding with new, young, online YouTubers? I mean, I don't see Jim Lehrer or Ray Suarez tweeting. Okay, maybe Suarez.
GI: [Laughs.] I don't think you'll see Jim Lehrer tweeting, but you do see our Online NewsHour as—I think I would argue could be the most robust part of our operation now. Like every other news organization, survival depends on finding a way to embrace new ways of reaching viewers, and in our case, in the case of public television, which depends so heavily on contributions from viewers like you, but also from underwriters and other people who are willing to support public broadcasting. We also have to be of the moment, we have to catch up, we have to prove that we are relevant. In our Online NewsHour section we have so much original programming that doesn't air necessarily on the air, and as we go on every day we try to figure out how can we integrate this, how can we drive viewers to the Web, and vice versa. This is something which I would say, just in the last two or three years, has become a major focus of what is happening in The NewsHour. A part of our formula for staying relevant. Now you may not see me tweeting soon, but I will do my Web chats!
MJ: Since everyone has an opinion and we as viewers know this, maybe we get to a place where we want to know the opinions of the personalities we come to trust, namely media personalities like you. How do you deal with that constant demand, for your innermost thoughts?
GI: People don't demand that that much of me. People ask and I tell them pretty honestly I think that they shouldn't really care what I think. People assume what I think. That's what happened before the vice presidential debate. A lot of people assumed they knew what I would say or what I was doing. Even though none of them asked, no one asked me what I was doing or saying, they just assumed it, based on my physical characteristics, I can only assume. But as far as actually asking me what I think, I don't get a lot of that. And when I do get someone asking I usually just challenge them why they need to know. Because it's not my job; it's not my desire. I have always resisted the desire to express my opinion to the point now that I probably have the hardest time voting of anyone I know, because I have spent so much time absorbing all points of an issue, that I have a hard time actually pulling the ballot once I get in there. Which, you probably shouldn't rely on me because I am always going to tell you, I am always going to be counterintuitive. I was talking to an audience last night where person after person basically suggested that Barack Obama walks on water and if they could only touch the hem of his garment he would solve all their problems, and I had to say, Calm down people. He's a man, and he's new, and it's been three weeks. Prepare to be disappointed—that's almost inevitable. But that doesn't mean that you just write the guy off. Or that doesn't mean that you endow him with superpowers. We all have to find some level place to be and analyze what's going on in a discussion way, and that's where I come in. I'm not in love. I'm not out of love. I'm just trying to find some version of the truth in the middle of it all.
MJ: Washington Week reaches 97 percent of US television households. How do you prepare yourself each week to hang out in 97 percent of living rooms?
GI: I find if I get the smartest reporters I know around one table with the understanding that we want to shed light rather than emit heat, the show practically unfolds on its own. All of our panelists are deeply engaged in the topics at hand, so that leaves me free to convene a little dinner party, sans alcohol, and invite the rest of America to listen in.
MJ: You've described Washington Week as your sandbox. Would you say the viewpoints on the show are representative, or how would you describe the varying perspectives, the spectrum?
GI: I try to, um, I am very careful. Well, I think I'm careful. My goal is to try to stay away as much from opinion journalism as possible. And if one of our panelists comes on and says, Well, this is what I think, they generally don't get invited back. I see a pretty bright line between analysis and opinion. And so, to that end, my goal on Friday nights is to try to assemble the smartest reporters who are available to me that week who have been involved in covering the news. Who can tell me something that happened on the elevator after the doors closed, who can tell me what the backstory was on any set of things. Now, because it's Washington, and because I insist on reporters rather than pundits, that narrows pretty dramatically, I think, the kinds of people I can bring on the program. I have a constant pet peeve about diversity. But the truth of the matter is, in Washington, covering big beats, the big newspapers and networks haven't spent a whole lot of time putting people on those beats from diverse points of view. The people who cover Washington are generally the people from the biggest newspapers, which, in fact, are shrinking before our eyes, so it's harder to get even geographic diversity around the table. But that's something I'm constantly, constantly pushing against and stressing because I feel, based on my own experience, that where you come from can affect the way you see a set of facts. Not necessarily change your opinion, but change the thing you see, that you literally can witness with your eye. And that's why, and the people you talk to, and the people you're comfortable with, these people will tell you, it just becomes richer if it comes from someplace other than all these Harvard accents. That's what I strive for, not always successfully, because Washington is by definition, by the time you get to the top of your profession, a pretty limited place in that respect.
MJ: How much do you think groupthink and conventional wisdom guide the DC press corps?
GI: Usually, it's huge, there's no question. But it's mostly groupthink. It's interesting to see who, over time, who decides what the groupthink is, because it's not new—it's not a new thing. I think groupthink was probably more dangerous in 1962 when the press fell in love with John Kennedy than it is now. Because there was a very tight group of wire reporters and big newspapermen who determined what the groupthink was. Other people either didn't have the resources or access to change it. Now, you still have a smallish group of people, some of them bloggers, some of them aggregators, but there are so many more of them and there are so many outsiders elbowing their way into the party. You know, a gasp of outrage when the president let Sam Stein from the Huffington Post ask a question at his first news conference. It was like someone else had been invited to the party. Now, you could go back and forth about whether that's good or not, because I still believe there are standards of journalism that have to be met, but I think we are actually in a better position right now to explode groupthink than we have ever been in Washington journalism. So I'm not really troubled by it.
MJ: You're no stranger to parody and satire. Queen Latifah has played you—
GI: Twice!
MJ: Yeah, and you reference SNL in your book and have been a part of the political laugh shows yourself. What role does humor play in making the news?
GI: I think it's a big part of it. People are going to get their information from all kinds of resources, so how do you tap into that, how do you stay aware of it? I appeared on both Letterman and The Daily Show and I found both David Letterman and Jon Stewart to be really smart guys. Really engaged in the world around them and in the news. So they're comedians, that's what they do for a living, but they're also citizens paying attention. So if that's what they are, I want to tap into that. Now, there are a lot of people out there who aren't that; they're just comedians, everything is just for the joke, and that's fine, but it's not the same thing as what I do and it's not even related to what I do, it's just for the laugh. So I really think it's important. I think whatever gets you inside someone's head, whatever makes you accessible. People are always surprised when they see me speak live that I have a sense of humor. And I say, Well, you know, there's not much opportunity to laugh when you're reporting the dread news of the day. So yeah, it's not surprising that you wouldn't see that side of me on television, but in real life I find the world to be quite a funny place.
MJ: Sarah Palin rolled through the VP debate you moderated saying whatever she pleased. How is that allowed in a national debate format?
GI: I'm not quite certain how you can force a candidate to stick by the rules that they agreed to, other than spending your precious 90 minutes jumping up and down and screaming. I think that once the candidate and the commission have agreed to what the format is going to be, and keep in mind that one of the basics, whether you sign an agreement or not, of the debate is that you are going to answer questions. If one of the candidates shows up and decides, that's not my job, there's not much you can do about it. One of the unwritten rules in a presidential news conference is that he'll answer questions. If he chooses not to, there's not much you can do about it other than make yourself look like an idiot screaming, which to me is counterproductive.
When she said to me at the beginning of the debate—which, by the way, she did me a favor by making it clear to everyone watching that she wasn't going to answer the questions. When she said that to me, I had an option. I could say, What? How dare you? Or I could let the viewers at home understand, just let it lie, and let them conclude, which most of them did, that she was playing by her own rules. I reached the conclusion a long time ago that chasing someone around the table for theater doesn't really get me what I want, which is the answer to my question. What it does is it draws attention to me, which is not the point. So I don't know if there is anything you can do, whether it's by changing the format, changing who runs the debate, bringing in circus clowns—that's going to make candidates answer questions when they've decided not to. I spent, and I know that other debate moderators do, an inordinate amount of time leading up to these debates trying to think literally down to the clause and the comma how to phrase the question in a way that will best elicit an answer. And then how do I make sure there's an equivalent question for the other person on the stage? The distinction between a debate and an interview format is so fundamentally different, and it was one of the things that was lost on people during the Sarah Palin/Joe Biden debate. When you are interviewing someone, you have a chance to follow up, to press, to dig in. In a debate there's 30 seconds for the other guy, too. And the goal is to get them to engage with each other, not to engage you necessarily. So, different moderators do it differently, but that was the dilemma for me.
MJ: It must have been so frustrating when she said that still. That made you want to say, as you've mentioned, "Really?"
GI: I was actually relieved when she said it. My first instinct was to do that, because my eyebrow kind of shot up. The other part of me thought, Ah, she came prepared to say that. She came prepared to push back, hoping, I guess, to engage me in some sort of spat. But that wasn't my role, and in the end I was just happy she made clear her intentions early on so I didn't have to tease it out of her.
MJ: You have called Barack Obama "murky." What do you expect from Barack the president now that this media aloofness got him elected?
GI: It did get him elected, and I think he is intentionally murky, and I mean murky in the sense of, for us as reporters, it's hard to peel back the layers and find out who's the real guy. And that's our job. I remember when I covered Bill Clinton, he was NOT murky—you poked a little bit and you almost always came across something new with him. He probably could have stood a little bit more murk in the end. But when you're covering the president that closely, you spend a lot of time—you noticed his hair length, whether he got a haircut that day—you spend a lot of time just staring at him and trying to satisfy for yourself, Who is this person? Barack Obama resists all that. He is aware of himself in a way in a manner of probably no other candidate I have ever covered. I always think back to the beginning of the campaign, when people were talking about race and whether he was black enough. I remember thinking anybody who has read his book knew he had given more thought to racial identity than any of us alive, because most of us are who we are and we don't think about it very carefully. He spent a lot of time thinking about himself carefully, and put it down on paper, which is the opposite of murky. But it's almost as if he's reached the point where he's saying, I've told you enough; I'm just going to do my job. So for us that makes—we're always looking for signs of something revealing. That's just what we do, and my sense so far is that he's resisting having us know anything more than we need to know except when he chooses to let us know it. Which, isn't that the ideal for every politician?
MJ: Though not for reporters.
GI: Nooo.
MJ: You talked a little about Michelle Obama, how everyone is obsessed with swatches of her potential clothes, with the fact that she shops at J-Crew. What do you think of this tabloid obsession?
GI: I think it just is what it is. Nothing about it surprises me. We get obsessed with whatever else is new and unexplored. And people did not bother to explore Michelle Obama very carefully during the campaign in terms of what kind of person she was. They latched on to the occasional statement here or there, but they didn't really want to know that much, even though there was a fair bit written about who she was. And she's a brand-new thing for many Americans. No one has ever seen a black woman of accomplishment with a cute husband and cute children who seems perfectly pleasant. And is gorgeous. And because this is America, we still treat women and analyze women in fairly superficial ways, and we get obsessed by the fact that she dresses well. Now, we got obsessed also by Nancy Reagan's clothes, and we got obsessed more in a bad way probably with Hillary Clinton's clothes. This is something in some ways that is completely predictable. But like Barack Obama, there are layers and layers to Michelle Obama we have yet to pull back in part because she came to this role after having a very accomplished career and we've heard almost no talk of what she's going to do with those skills. It doesn't mean that she's going back to work, but it also means she's not going to just be holding teas. She's got to search out that middle ground for what can she be as a first lady.
MJ: You said a few weeks ago, She'll be unlike any first lady we've ever had—how could she not be? Do you believe she will redefine what a first lady is and does?
GI: I think she stands the potential of redefining a lot of things, and it's not just being a first lady. I think a lot of women look at her and say, Wow, she's a mother who's managing to do this. How is she doing that? Someone recently asked me, Will she change the way we look at black families? And I thought, My goodness, I think she'll change, she has the potential for changing the way we look at families. People look at that family, this intact family, with kids who seem to love their parents, parents who seem to love each other, and they represent, and who knows how much of it is what it seems to us, but it represents what everyone wants. It's an American ideal, not just an African American ideal. To have that, and because of their age, because of their youth, it evokes the same emotion that the Kennedys did. Which is, when people say Camelot, I think that's what they mean, even though I don't think it's applicable to Barack and Michelle Obama because the Obamas did not come from the Bouvier and Kennedy families. They didn't have a lifetime of money and privilege. They came from middle-class, food-stamp mothers—not Michelle's mother, but Barack's mother. So you have to assume that they're coming thinking of one generation linked to something different. So that alone means they'd have the possibility to change something, but we don't know what yet.
MJ: Where's the next breakthrough?
GI: Well it's funny, everywhere I go some people ask me whether it's going to be a Latino breakthrough, some people ask me whether it's going to be a female breakthrough, and then I'm reminded that five years ago we didn't even know Barack Obama's name. So it's really possible it's going to be coming from a place we haven't even looked and seen yet, that all kinds of changes are possible. But I just don't know, and I'm not really good at being predictive, so I guess I'm willing to be surprised.
MJ: You say about race that we have not yet come to a "common place." What might get us there?
GI: I think it's fair to say we are on a journey to that common place. No single election or piece of legislation or ennobling speech will get us there. But Deval Patrick likes to talk about the single-generation leap we have taken to get us where we are now. So it's not crazy to think the next leap could take us even further.
MJ: How does the conversation around racial equality go now that we have millions of well-meaning white folk who say, I voted for Barack Obama, so everything's okay now?
GI: I have discovered as I travel the country talking about this book that people are eager to talk about race in a way that isn't about conflict or guilt or blames. But not even the president thinks we have transcended race. Inequalities driven by race are still far too stark for that.


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4R70W Tear down
Does anyone know of a book/video for the tear down of a 4R70W. I've seen a book on generic ford transmissions but a few reviews said it really focuses on the C4 or c6's and not really anything new. I'd really like a video, but anything to give me and idea would help
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not a trans for noobs, if you can't even figure out how to get it apart how do you think you'll get it back together ?
you can get a atsg manual, very helpful
its one thing to put it back together, another to have it actually work!
and if you ever want to get it back together and have it work you NEED these
scroll down to the end of that webpage, they have the manuals and cd's your looking for
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well it's not a dd truck and hasn't moved in a few months actually. I'm basically tearing it down to swap the output shaft to a 4x4 shaft i can buy the shaft and output housing for $100 or I can buy an entire transmission for around $500 (both JY Parts) I'm just trying to decide if I want to convert this transmission to 4x4 or just swap transmissions since I've swapped 4R70W's before and know how easy it is. maybe I'll buy the 4x4 tranny and tear down the 2wd just to see if I can, heck it's the summer and school doesn't start back for another 2 months. I've done gear swaps, engine rebuilds, and tranny swaps, just never tranny rebuilds. So the 4R70W is really that bad of a transmission to start on?
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Don't let these other guys scare you. Yeah, you might screw it up, but hey, if you have the time and patience-go for it! As long as you are ok with the idea that if you mess it up you may have to pull it out and tear it apart again, then you can only learn from trying it yourself.
One thing you will find is the 4R70W is very modular (ie, pump assembly, valvebody, clutch packs), and if you are doing a simple teardown to just swap the output shaft then you aren't dealing with a thousand individual parts, but groups of parts that come out self contained. From there, the level of difficulty increases based on what you want to do (simple rebuild-clutch plates and shift kit, performance mods-adding clutch plates, upgrading internal parts; each process makes it more difficult).
If you are going to try it, there are a couple things that are VERY helpful to make sure you do it right.
1) Contact ATSG as mentioned and get their manuals/videos.
2) Contact Helm Publishing. They are the Ford's authorized publisher. When I rebuilt mine, I got a teardown/assembly binder for the year of my tranny-extremely helpful!
3) Spend at least a week or two on as many boards as you can find that are oriented towards working on these trannys. Find out all the tips and tricks you can from the experienced builders. Also use this time to figure out if you just want to swap the shaft, do a mild rebuild, performance build, etc., and then plan ahead and get all your parts ready. Also find out what tools you will need to buy or make.
4) Once you tear into the tranny, try not to walk away for a month and then come back to it. The more fresh the process is in your mind, the easier assembly will be, and mistakes will be minimized.
5) A good size, cleared off bench is a must, but I found it was most helpful to tear it apart on the floor and work on individual things on the bench. Go get a cheap tarp, and lay out the tranny as you take it apart like an exploded diagram. This will make life a lot easier.
6) As you take it apart go slowly-springs and clips love to pop out, and then when you're putting it back together you'll find asking yourself, 'Which detent did this clip anchor to?' Pay attention to the orientation of things as this is crucial as you re-assemble it. Pay attention to the orientation of EVERYTHING-bands, clips, springs, clutch packs, etc. Even take pics as you go along for reference.
BTW-shameless plug. When I was doing mine, I had a hard time finding stuff online as it related to rebuilding AOD/4R70W's. So, I started a Yahoo group specifically about that. We now have about 240 members and several of them are transmission rebuild shops. It's really become a good repository for knowledge about these trannies.
Good luck!
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Mercedes aren't cool like that, when you remove the valve body about 10 different springs and balls underneath the valvebody fall out. Not fun if you weren't expecting it
There's a reason i get $2k to build a AOD or 700 or whatever, but definatly have at it.(i love 4r100's in big fords, $3200 a pop) You NEED the seal tools tho.
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Couple things to pay attention to- some of these trans have an anti-rattle spring against the intermediate clutch steels- the first clutch pack you'll see, it's a big one, keys to the case. Also down below that there is an anti-clunk spring that wedges the center support over to one side.
4r70 is nice in that the check balls all stay in the valve body, they don't ride in the case like a 4r100. Like all auto trans they are VERY bitchy about having the right number of check balls in the right places.
Pump can be disassembled and inspected- reassemble without the special guide pin tools by flipping pieces over and using the torque converter as an alignment tool.
Torque everything to spec, creep up on the valve body torque; don't hit it all at once, find and perform the so called J-mod to the valve body. If the 2-3 accumulator is aluminum with o-ring seals, pony up the 10 bucks and get the steel/ bonded rubber accumulator. Use a late model mechanical diode instead of a sprag on the intermediate drum.
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2nd Story Bath addition
I would like to put a second bathroom upstairs in a portion of an existing bedroom. If I just put a shower unit in instead of a bathtub, would I still need to brace the flooring? The back part of the room where I would like to put the bathroom in is above an existing bedroom/closet.
Most homes have a flooring system that is strong enough for a tub or shower without bracing up the floor---
Tell us what you have-----one of us will know if it is strong enough without adding anything----
2nd Story Bath Addition
Thanks...I'm not sure what you mean by "what I have" but the floors are hardwood throughout the house.
Have you consulted a pumber yet to see what's going to be involved?
That would be far more likly to be the deal killer more then the floor.
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In an interview with Gamingbolt, Nordic Games development manager Reinhard Pollice has said that he see's no real benefit in choosing to buy a PS4 over a Gaming PC, Nordic Games are responsible for creating the Painkiller games here is a quote:
"I like a few functions that were announced but so far I personally cannot see a real benefit from buying that instead of a gaming PC"
"We will monitor further development closely and are also in a stage, where we evaluate certain game concepts for this hardware. Even a great platform sometimes isn't able to convince a critical mass. A lot of factors are important here. Plus we are not in the position to be under the obligatory first-movers in that sense, so we will be careful for the time being."
Ill list a few benefits of choosing a PS4 over a Gaming PC:
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- Not having to constantly upgrade.
- Not having to deal with driver problems.
- Not having to deal with Windows.
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Hungry travellers can pick up prawn, fish and chicken dishes as well as numerous incarnations of fried rice and noodles, plus soto ayam for 25,000 rupiah.
A bit unusually for predominantly Muslim Ende, many pork specialties are on the menu, including sate, fried rice and sweet-and-sour stir-fried pork.
Just about every main on the menu is priced at 50,000 rupiah, which is at the least a way to keep calculations simple. Large bottles of Bintang go for 30,000 rupiah, while there's even a banana pancake to soothe your inner backpacker for 25,000.
As is always the case in Ende, try to go early -- the door gets locked around 20:30. They stock a dizzying array of Popsicles and other mass-market ice cream treats if you're feeling a bit parched. The sambal it available for sale -- we bought four jars of the stuff.
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New York City Leads the American Workforce Out of the Mad Men Era
New York City, the city is not just world renowned for its bagels and baseball team, but also for being an international business capital and the center of the financial universe. As a country, we're used to keeping an eye on New York to anticipate the next cultural trend or the latest innovation.
So it's only natural that New York should seize the opportunity to lead American workplaces out of the Mad Men era and into the 21st century.
New York's workforce, like the country's, has shifted dramatically over the last few decades. Yet our workplace policies have not kept pace. While it used to be rare for mothers to work outside the home, today two-thirds of mothers are the breadwinners or co-breadwinners for their families. In New York state, women are the primary or co-breadwinner for 56% households and single mothers lead nearly nearly 300,000 families in New York City alone.
These demographic changes—like many innovations—have had a positive impact on our businesses, on the economic well-being of our families, and our economy overall. If it weren't for the dramatic rise in women's work hours, for example, middle-class households would have significantly lower earnings than they do today. Over the last three decades, women are responsible for adding 1.7 trillion to America's gross domestic product.
But as women have moved to work outside the home and the American family structure has shifted, we have failed to restructure our employment policies to match that 21st century reality. Women still earn less than men, and while the wage gap is less dramatic in New York then it is in other states, women are still being shortchanged by more than $154 in wages each week. This wage gap exists, in part, because employers continue to penalize women for being caregivers or because they view their work as less valuable.
While 28% of families are headed by a single parent, only 11% of workers of workers have access to paid family leave. That means tens of millions of workers are forced to choose between being a good employee and being a good parent or caregiver.
Fortunately, we're not in the dark about the best way to support working families. There are concrete steps we can take to help workers succeed – steps that acknowledge the reality of today's workplace and family structure. To start, we should implement a paid family and medical leave policy that ensures no worker has to take leave when they fear losing wages while they care for a sick parent or face a long-term illness themselves. And we should guarantee new parents paid leave when they welcome a newborn or adopt a child, so no parent has to give up a paycheck when they grow their family.
We can also support working families by raising the minimum wage. Since more than two-thirds of minimum wage workers are women, raising the minimum wage would help close the wage gap. It would also lift millions of American families—including many single mothers and their children—out of poverty and improve our economy overall. In New York City, not only would raising the minimum wage have a positive economic impact on families, but increasing wages for women in the most vulnerable neighborhoods by just $2.00 an hour would infuse $1.5 billion back into the local economy. Because women from all walks of life, from diverse backgrounds, and at every economic level are facing challenges like the wage gap and a lack of access to paid family leave implementing policies like these will respond to the every day needs of real women.
To be sure, New York is already doing its part to lead the way on policies that help working families succeed. Mayor de Blasio recently signed paid sick leave legislation into law, giving thousands of New Yorkers access to sick days for the first time. De Blasio's efforts to get more 3 and 4-year olds enrolled in preschool will also go a long way towards supporting the city's working families, and help those children succeed when they get to kindergarten and beyond.
But more can be done—in New York and across the nation—to support women and working families. That's why President Barack Obama, in partnership with the Center for American Progress and the U.S. Department of Labor, is hosting the White House Summit on Working Families in Washington, DC on June 23. In the lead-up to the summit, we are hosting regional events, including one today in New York City, to convene business leaders, policy makers, and experts on the key issues facing workers and families to discuss how to build a 21st century workplace.
New Yorkers are accustomed to change and used to a fast pace. So there's no better place to kick off a conversation about pushing our workplaces out of the Mad Men era and into the 21st century than New York City.
Carmel Martin is the Executive Vice President for Policy at the Center for American Progress.


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SEOUL - North Korea has cancelled for a second time its invitation for a senior U.S. envoy to visit the country to discuss a long-detained American's possible release, the State Department said Monday.
The cancellation comes only days after detained American missionary Kenneth Bae told a pro-Pyongyang newspaper that he expected to meet this month with the envoy. It signals an apparent protest of upcoming annual military drills between Washington and Seoul and an alleged mobilization of U.S. nuclear-capable B-52 bombers during training near the Korean Peninsula. North Korea calls the planned drills a rehearsal for invasion, a claim the allies deny.
The State Department also said in a statement that civil rights leader Rev. Jesse Jackson had offered to travel to Pyongyang at the request of Bae's family. The State Department did not elaborate and referred questions to Jackson, whose spokesman didn't immediately respond to a request for comment.
Analysts say North Korea has previously used detained Americans as leverage in its standoff with the U.S. over its nuclear and missile programs; Pyongyang denies this.
Bae has been held in North Korea for 15 months. Pyongyang accused him of smuggling in inflammatory literature and trying to establish a base for anti-Pyongyang activities at a border city hotel.
Bae was quoted last week in an interview with the Japan-based Choson Sinbo newspaper as saying he had been notified that the U.S. envoy on North Korean human rights issues, Bob King, would visit him as early as Monday and no later than the end of the month.
Bae said the U.S. government had told North Korea that it intends to send Rev. Jackson, but the North instead allowed King to come to the country, the report said, without elaborating.
"We are deeply disappointed by the DPRK decision -- for a second time -- to rescind its invitation for Ambassador King to travel to Pyongyang to discuss Kenneth Bae's release," State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said. DPRK stands for the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, the North's official name.
She said the upcoming military drills with South Korea are "in no way linked to Mr. Bae's case," and that Washington remains prepared to send King to North Korea in support of Bae's release.
In August, North Korea also rescinded an invitation for King to visit, saying Washington perpetrated a grave provocation by flying B-52 bombers during previous military drills with South Korea. Last week, North Korea threatened to scrap reunions of war-divided families in both Koreas later this month because of the upcoming drills and the alleged B-52 flights.
The U.S. Pacific Command wouldn't confirm the North's bomber flight claim but said it has maintained a strategic bomber presence in the region for more than a decade. South Korea's Defense Ministry said Monday that two sets of South Korea-U.S. military drills will begin next Monday and the second, longer one will run until April 18.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is set to visit Seoul on Thursday and Friday for talks on North Korea as part of an Asian tour, according to the State Department and Seoul's Foreign Ministry.
"North Korea appears to be more scared about the B-52s than (about ordinary U.S. military drills) ... because the bombers can conduct precision strikes against the headquarters of the country's leadership," said analyst Cheong Seong-jang at the private Sejong Institute in South Korea.
North Korea has recently toned down its typical harsh rhetoric against South Korea and made a series of conciliatory gestures, and outside observers link this softening to Pyongyang's need for improved ties with the outside world in order to attract foreign investment and aid.
Cheong said talks on Bae's release will likely come only after the U.S.-South Korea drills end in April.
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GEE'S BEND, Ala. Willie Quill Pettway, 78, wants one more ride across the Alabama River on the Gee's Bend ferry, even if he has to be helped on board.
Pettway, who has trouble walking, knows about the Gee's Bend ferry. He operated it for 10 years before Wilcox County officials discontinued the service in 1962.
The official reason for shutting it down and starting a service upriver was to help paper mill employees get to work. The unofficial reason was to keep blacks from registering to vote, says Hollis Curl, chairman of the Gee's Bend Ferry Commission.
One thing is certain: It took 15 minutes to travel to Camden, the county seat, to buy groceries, go to the doctor — and to register to vote — while the ferry was operating. It took about an hour after the ferry stopped running.
If all goes as planned, Pettway will get his wish Sept. 18, the day this poor, south-central Alabama community of 700 — many of them descendants of slaves — is scheduled to get ferry service after nearly five decades.
"I told them I wanted to be the first one to ride it when it comes back," Pettway says. "I hope they hurry up and get it, because I do want to ride on it, just one time."
The high-profile symbols of Alabama's role in the civil rights movement of the 1960s include Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King Jr. and "Bloody Sunday" on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma.
Historians, though, unfortunately haven't paid enough attention to Gee's Bend and its place in civil rights history, says David Carter, an associate professor of history at Auburn University.
To people living in the Gee's Bend area at the time, shutting down the ferry "was the high point of the (civil rights) movement," Carter says. "They justifiably felt like they were being singled out for economic and political retaliation because of their sympathies, but in terms of national attention to what was happening in Alabama ... it was sort of a blip on the radar."
Pettway says he remembers taking civil rights workers back and forth across the river to protest and sign up black voters in Camden. Much of that stopped the day the ferry stopped running.
The community has inspired writers and artists, but it might be best known for the bold, distinctive quilts crafted by the women of Gee's Bend. They have been displayed in museums across the country, and the U.S. Postal Service will dedicate a series of stamps this week honoring the Gee's Bend quilters.
Many Gee's Bend residents carry the name Pettway, the last name of a slave owner who obtained a 10,000-acre plantation from the Gee family. The slaves retained the Pettway name, but the land was named after the Gees.
Nancy Pettway, one of the quilters, says she goes to Camden only twice a month because of the drive and the high cost of gas.
"I'll ride the ferry if it ever gets into operation," she says.
For years, the distance has been an inconvenience for the community, prompting Congress in the mid-1990s to allocate money for a new ferry and $2 million for operations. The project didn't move quickly.
The Alabama Department of Transportation hired Hubert Bonner, a central Alabama boat builder who had never built a ferry. When Bonner, who is now deceased, tried to deliver the finished product in 2004, it got stuck on a sandbar, angering county residents gathered to greet it. It also didn't pass Coast Guard inspections, says Tony Harris, a spokesman for the Department of Transportation.
The department then hired the Indiana-based Hornblower Marine Services, which finished the ferry in May. Dredging could begin as early as today, Harris says.
"We're sorry it has taken this long to get to this point, but we're glad we're here now," Harris says. "The people of Wilcox County have been waiting a long time for this."
He says the ferry can hold up to 149 people and 20 vehicles.
Gee's Bend resident Dwight Carey, 25, says he would use the ferry to get to and from his job in Camden, but he has his doubts about it operating.
"I'll believe when I see it," he says. "I haven't seen it yet."
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A new turkey takes up residence in Waynesville
A neighborhood in east Waynesville has a new resident that doesn't seem to be leaving any time soon. A lone hen turkey, named Ruby by a local business owner, can be found wandering around the yards and businesses located on the old Asheville highway.
This isn't the first time a feathered friend has taken up residence in the area. In January 2011, a wild turkey that affectionately came to be known to locals by many names, including 'Sir Gobbles,' adopted the stretch of road as its home.
The turkey was adored by most residents, business owners and tourists in the area and quickly developed a widespread fan following. Someone even created a Facebook page where he was called Tom Gobbles.
He lived in the area for about a year until his habits of pecking and chasing cars became a safety concern. After several failed attempts to catch and relocate him, the feathered icon met his ill-fated end.
Haywood County Animal Control, working in conjunction with the N.C. Wildlife Resources Department, were unable to tranquilize the turkey as the darts wouldn't penetrate its heavy feathered exterior, so the animal was taken down early one Wednesday morning. Public outcry ensued, and the county's nine-member animal services advisory committee was asked to suggest county policies to address future situations.
Shortly after the committee was formed, however, the decision was made to turn over all wild animal issues over to the Wildlife Resources Commission, said Haywood County Animal Services Director Jean Hazzard.
The means the town's newest turkey resident will be in the hands of the state if complaints crop up.
The new rogue turkey appeared in the neighborhood sometime in August. A bit smaller than the beloved Tom Gobbles, Ruby struts around the yards of residences and the plaza across the street.
On Friday morning, it was found standing in the doorway of RollsRite Bicycles Sales Service & Repair shop, gobbling loudly at the glass door. John Mudge, owner of the bicycle shop, said Ruby seems to be more careful crossing the street than the previous turkey was. However, he worries for its safety
"Cars still slam on their brakes when it gets in the middle of the road. Mine and everybody else's concern is that tragedy will come to it. Sooner or later it's going to get run over or they are going to come shoot it," Mudge said.
Linda Van Cleave, owner of Scooter Boys beside the bicycle shop, said the turkey often roosts in the mulch in front of her store and stares at its reflection in the window. It even wanders into her store sometimes.
Both Waynesville Police Chief Bill Hollingsed and Hazzard said they haven't heard any complaints about the turkey yet.
"It's not been acting aggressive toward anyone or any motor vehicles. The difference might be that this one is a hen instead of a tom," said Hollingsed.
But even if it does become aggressive, it will be out of Hazzard's hands.
"Animal services will not be responding to any wildlife calls," she said.
She said that the best way to avoid a repeat of the former turkey's fate, residents and business owners should remember to not feed the new turkey, or any other wild animal.
"They lose their fear and they will come right up to the people. But when an animal starts causing a public safety issue or causes property damage then it has to be addressed," Hazzard said.
Erin Patton, co-owner of Kaninis, a popular lunch stop in the area, said she's seen the new turkey several times.
"We love the new turkey. She is definitely not as wild as the old turkey. She is much calmer, but she has taken to running across the road lately," Patton said.
She's even heard customers laughing at the fact that a new turkey has shown up in the same area.
Linda Ford Rakes, who lives in the area, was delighted to see a new turkey return to her neighborhood.
"I so enjoy watching for the turkey and finding him or her. It gives me joy and I sincerely hope nobody removes the turkey!" she said in a Facebook message.
VanCleave has been feeding the turkey with plans to capture it and take it to her home near Balsam, where she believes it will be safe.
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NHRA Funny Car: Wilkerson vaults from almost last to first
Tim Wilkerson pulled off one of the most dramatic feats of the day during Friday's second qualifying run in the Lucas Oil NHRA Nationals at Brainerd International Raceway.
In his first qualifying run, Wilkerson was one place from last as he ran a 4.962 at 156.70 mph, finishing 17th. The Illinois resident and his crew cranked it up several notches in his second qualifying pass as he secured the No. 1 qualifying position with a track-record time of 4.049 seconds at 307.16 mph.
"I won't say it's common (to vault 16 places), but we have the potential to run No. 1, and I'm surprised we ran that good," Wilkerson said. "We were trying to run (306 or 307 mph), and we stuck it good enough that it ran that good.
"I think (NHRA historian/public address announcer) Bob Frey was making the comment that somebody's going to come back and go after that, like we did at Englishtown (N.J.) We knew we left a lot on the table at Englishtown, We didn't leave much on the table here. If somebody runs that good I was going to be happy for them."
Wilkerson compared his first laborious run to similar struggles at Seattle and Sonoma, Calif.
"I told my guys I'm over this crap, I'm done with that," he said. "We're smoking the tires or we're going to be faster than we have been the last 2-3 races because when you pull the thing back you get too cautious and then the car runs just like that, and you end up not running to your potential."
John Force was Friday's No. 2 qualifier at 4.067 at 311.85 mph. Cruz Pedregon, the No. 4 qualifier, set a track record with his 311.85 mph pass. Wilkerson has yet to be a No. 1 qualifier entering the finals this season, but he does have 16 in his career, including one at BIR.
Friday was his second quickest run of the season. He entered the weekend 12th in season points, 481 points behind leader Robert Hight. Wilkerson said the fact he trails Hight by such a considerable margin affects how he has approached recent races.
"We want to run as good as we can every weekend and quit being a sissy," he said. "We're going to go out there and hit the thing hard. Mark McGwire didn't go up there saying 'I'm going to get a single because we need a single today.' ... Maybe I'm being cocky for this weekend but it's changed our mentality, believe me.
"(Saturday) we're going to try something different. You may see some tire smoke out of us but I'm trying to learn what not to do on Sunday, more than anything, believe me."
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