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Malakai Fekitoa will make his starting debut for the All Blacks this weekend but that honour could have easily belonged to Beauden Barrett.
When it was revealed that Conrad Smith had broken a bone in his thumb against England last weekend, ruling him out of Saturday's third test in Hamilton, two things happened.
First, it left the All Blacks needing a replacement at centre, with Fekitoa, the heir apparent to Smith's No 13 jersey, the obvious option for inclusion.
And second, it quashed any thoughts the All Blacks coaches had of handing Barrett a maiden run at first five-eight, leaving Aaron Cruden to play pivot in front of his home fans at Waikato Stadium.
Barrett has been breathing down the neck of Cruden throughout the English series, impressing off the bench in each of the first two tests.
But the strong case he had made for a starting spot was dashed when his Hurricanes teammate came up lame following the All Blacks' series-sealing win in Dunedin.
Instead, Barrett will have to watch on as Fekitoa enjoys the chance to impress from the opening kick off, content with another cameo and safe in the knowledge his time will come.
"With Malakai at centre, that's a new combination with him and Ma'a (Nonu), and one of the reasons why we haven't changed and given Beauden a start is that," Steve Hansen said after naming his side this morning. "We don't want two new combinations on the park. The other [reason] is we obviously trust Crudes to do the job.
"We thought a lot about it. [Barrett] is playing really well but the team comes first. We just feel that's the best thing to do - run with that combination early and bring Beaudy on later in the game. He'll get plenty of game time."
And he should certainly earn an opportunity to don the No 10 jersey at some point in the near future, even with the looming prospect of a returning Dan Carter. Hansen pointed to the example of Ben Smith, whose long wait for a run at fullback ended in spectacular fashion at Forsyth Barr Stadium.
"If you've got an imagination you can work out what [Barrett] is going to do when he starts, because he does it when he comes on," Hansen said. "He's been a fantastic player off the bench for us - if you think about all the tests when he's come on, he's made a difference."
Hansen is also trusting Fekitoa will make a difference in midfield on Saturday night, unperturbed by any potential problems created by he and Nonu sharing a similar style.
"I think, though they're similar in some ways, they're vastly different in others. They'll be a good combination going forward but, like any combination, it takes time.
"I think [Fekitoa] is going to be a special player and they guy inside him is already a special player. As long as they talk to each other during the game and they're reading what's in front of them, both defensively and attacking wise, there shouldn't be too many problems."
The only other change to the run-on XV sees the return of Kieran Read at the base of the scrum. His inclusion, after a spate of complications from concussion, sees an in-form Jerome Kaino shift to blindside flanker and leaves Liam Messam the unlucky man out.
"It was tough but you've got to make tough decisions," Hansen said. "We know that [Read] is not conditioned enough to go 80, so we won't ask him to do that. We'll just ask him to go 40 or 50 and then let Liam loose."
All Blacks v England
Waikato Stadium, 7.35pm Saturday
15 - Ben Smith
14 - Cory Jane
13 - Malakai Fekitoa
12 - Ma'a Nonu
11 - Julian Savea
10 - Aaron Cruden
9 - Aaron Smith
8 - Kieran Read
7 - Richie McCaw (c)
6 - Jerome Kaino
5 - Sam Whitelock
4 - Brodie Retallick
3 - Owen Franks
2 - Dane Coles
1 - Tony Woodcock
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One of the fun things about living in Central Square Lynn, is the random pieces of art and decor one finds from time to time. Here's a closer look.
The tag reads: "My tree describes me because my trunk is sturdy and strong. As well as my trunk my branches are also strong. The top appears fragile as I am a delicate person. My tree has many roots because I'm from a multi-cultural family."
Here's two of the other things I've found:

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Times Union Implores NY Senate to Bring GENDA to a Vote in 2013!
Posted by Sunny Bjerk , May 07, 2013
Image from GENDA bill sponsor Senator Daniel Squadron's flickr page.
Over the weekend, the Times Union Editorial Board published a letter about the Gender Expression Non-Discrimination Act (GENDA), calling for the same action that Housing Works has been calling for in our own Change.org petition: "It's time for Senate Republicans to stop holding up a vote on the Gender Expression Non-Discrimination Act."
This letter and its bold criticism of the New York Senate for blockading GENDA is remarkable not only because it comes from a news outlet, but also because the paper's main audience is the state's Capitol Region—Albany, Schenectady, Troy, Rensselaer and Saratoga—cities that have generally been reluctant to pass the bill in years past.
The Times Union Editorial Board goes on to argue that bringing GENDA to a vote is not "politically risky," despite many Senators' fears and reluctant to cast votes on GENDA during an election year. "A 2011 national poll by the Public Religion Research Institute found overwhelming support—89 percent—for equal rights and protections for transgender people, including 86 percent among Republicans." They also go one to note that at least sixteen states have passed similar legislation, ending their piece by stating, "It's time for New York to catch up and do the right and decent thing."
And Housing Works could not be in more agreement with the Times Union's piece. There is no ifs, ands, or buts about it: The Empire State is severely falling behind in LGBT rights. Sixteen states and over 160 cities and counties nationwide have gender expression non-discrimination protections, but New York State does not.
Housing Works is demanding that the Senate bring GENDA to a floor vote this year. Transgender and gender conforming New Yorkers have waited far too long for GENDA to pass. Truth be told, their rights, protections, and equal access should never have to be voted on, but in this imperfect world, we are tethered, for better or worse, to the democratic process.
Join us in the fight for GENDA to come to a vote in 2013. Please re-share this post and sign onto our petition now at change.org.
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Armstrong may race in Australia
Adelaide's Tour Down Under might be the first race next year for star comeback cyclist Lance Armstrong.
The seven-time Tour de France winner stunned world sport last week by confirming he would try to win another Tour title, aged 37.
Tour Down Under organisers have tried for several years to attract Armstrong to the race, but cost and scheduling issues have always stopped them.
Now the respected cyclingnews (cyclingnews) website is quoting Armstrong as saying he wants to race in several countries, including Australia.
The January 20-25 Tour Down Under achieved ProTour status this year and for several years has been the first major event on the international road race calendar.
Armstrong nearly died from cancer in 1996 and his main motivation for returning to competition is to highlight awareness of the disease.
"The most important issue is taking the global epidemic of cancer really to a much bigger stage," cyclingnews quoted him as saying.
"The best way to do that is to race the bike all over the world. So you race in Australia, South Africa, South America, Europe, America, ... that is the first priority."
"What's important is that we take the Livestrong message to all the other countries in Europe, all the other continents around the world, that's the most important thing.
"At the end of the day, as I've said, we've had an impact in Texas, we've had an impact in the US and I think well have an impact around the world."
The Lance Armstrong Foundation and its Livestrong brand have raised more than $250 million to support cancer sufferers and research into the disease.
Tour Down Under race director Mike Turtur said last week it would be sensational for the event if it could entice Armstrong.
But there is very little detail yet in Armstrong's comeback - he does not even have a team, let alone a 2009 race schedule.
On Saturday, Armstrong was part of a team that won the 12 Hours of Snowmass mountain bike race in Colorado.
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SANTA CLARA — Quarterback Russell Wilson's sudden rise to stardom with the Seattle Seahawks hasn't surprised at least one 49er: Scott Tolzien.
Tolzien was Wilson's predecessor at the University of Wisconsin, and several times last year, Tolzien sent Wilson congratulatory text messages after Badgers wins.
"It's funny, because everyone gave him a hard time in the draft process that he was too small," Tolzien said. "He's a confident, humble guy and a good leader."
Wilson, a 5-foot-11 rookie, leads the upstart Seahawks (4-2) into Thursday night's matchup with the host 49ers (4-2). Tolzien, a third-string quarterback, isn't the only 49er who's kept tabs on Wilson.
Cornerback Tarell Brown called Wilson a "complete player" who plays with uncanny poise and passes where receivers "can make plays." No play has been more discussed than Wilson's game-winning touchdown pass Sept. 24: a 24-yard heave that replacement officials awarded to Golden Tate for a 14-12 victory over the Green Bay Packers.
The Seahawks pulled out two other narrow wins since then: 16-12 at Carolina on Oct. 7 and 24-23 on Sunday against the visiting New England Patriots.
"What he's done is exactly the formula you want for a rookie quarterback: Don't be the reason your team loses," former 49ers quarterback Steve Young said on ESPN's "Monday Night Countdown."
Another reason the Seahawks have fared so well is running back Marshawn Lynch — their "bread and butter," according to 49ers defensive coordinator Vic Fangio — as well as the NFL's second-ranked defense in terms of points allowed.
But Wilson's "sense of the moment" drew praise from Young, and Thursday night marks the Seahawks' first return to prime-time since their controversial win over the Packers.
"Ever since I landed here in Seattle, everybody talks about the NFC West and how big this game is," Wilson said Tuesday on a conference call with Bay Area media.
Wilson then downplayed the matchup as just "another game on the schedule." His Seahawks, however, already are 0-2 in the division after road losses to the Arizona Cardinals and St. Louis Rams.
Drafted in the third round (75th overall), Wilson was named the Seahawks' starter Aug. 26 after beating out high-priced newcomer Matt Flynn, a former Packers backup who received a three-year, $26 million with $10 million guaranteed.
"He's so real that everybody quickly accepts him," Seahawks coach Pete Carroll said of Wilson. "He sounds like a guy that's been prepared for years for this."
That preparation included studying the best quarterbacks of all time. Wilson specifically identifies with their "tremendous leadership, unbelievable attention to detail and competitive nature that's relentless, and that's what I try to bring to the field."
Wilson also credited his ascension to playing experiences, including two seasons as a Colorado Rockies minor league infielder.
Three months ago, however, Wilson was best known for his college football prowess, first at North Carolina State before transferring last year to Wisconsin.
Helping him learn Wisconsin's schemes before the 2011 season was Tolzien, who was preparing for his NFL rookie season.
Wilson referred to Tolzien as "a huge Wisconsin alum that everyone loves."
"He asked a couple questions about our offense but nothing crazy," Tolzien said. "I've seen plenty of Russell's leadership, and it shows the way he plays."
Wilson has an 85.6 passer rating this season, completing 62.5 percent of his passes for 1,108 yards with eight touchdowns and six interceptions. Against the Patriots, he posted a 133.7 rating (16 of 27, 293 yards, three touchdowns, no interceptions).
"He'll be their quarterback for a long time," Fangio said. "That's a credit to them seeing through his height and picking him."
Asked whether he's more like Joe Montana or Steve Young, Wilson said his speed is akin to Young's while his arm matches up more with Montana, if merely because "I'm a righty." Montana, of course, was a third-round pick, too.
"I'm trying to get to their level," Wilson said of Montana and Young. "They're two amazing quarterbacks and men I'd like to be like someday."
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Submitted to: Clinical and Vaccine Immunology
Publication Type: Peer Reviewed Journal
Publication Acceptance Date: 3/15/2011
Publication Date: 5/1/2011
Citation: Trible, B.R., Kerrigan, M., Crossland, N., Potter, M., Faaberg, K., Hesse, R., Rowland, R.R. 2011. Antibody recognition of porcine circovirus type 2 capsid protein epitopes after vaccination, infection, and disease. Clinical and Vaccine Immunology. 8(5):749-757. Interpretive Summary: In late 2005, sporadic cases of a high mortality disease were observed in growing pigs among swine herds of the United States. Following preliminary investigations, a presumptive diagnosis of postweaning multisystemic wasting syndrome (PMWS) was made based on clinical signs, lesions, and the consistent finding of porcine circovirus type 2 (PCV2) in affected pigs. Although, commercial vaccines are now available for this devastating disease; veterinarians have very little understanding of the mechanism of cross-protection between the vaccine virus and the field virus affecting the pig. This paper describes a study designed to investigate what portions of the virus capsid protein (the protective coating of the virus) that the pig's immune system responds to and compared these results across 462 recent PCV2 viral isolates from pigs in the United States. Results from this experiment demonstrate a small conserved protein sequence that generates the highest antibody responses in pigs with the most severe forms of PMWS disease in pigs. In summary, this paper suggests that this small portion of the virus may play a critical role in causing severe disease in pigs.
Technical Abstract: Open reading frame 2 (ORF2) of porcine circovirus type 2 (PCV2) codes for the 233-amino-acid capsid protein (CP). Baculovirus-based vaccines that express only ORF2 are protective against clinical disease following experimental challenge or natural infection. The goal of this study was to identify regions in CP preferentially recognized by sera from experimentally infected and vaccinated pigs and to compare these responses to those of pigs diagnosed with porcine circovirus-associated disease (PCVAD), including porcine multisystemic wasting syndrome (PMWS) and porcine dermatitis and nephropathy syndrome (PDNS). The approach was to react porcine sera with CP polypeptide fragments followed by finer mapping studies using overlapping oligopeptides that covered amino acids 141 to 200. The results showed that vaccinated pigs preferentially recognized only the largest polypeptide fragment, CP(43-233). A subset of experimentally infected pigs and pigs with PDNS showed strong reactivity against a CP oligopeptide, 169-STIDYFQPNNKR-180. Alanine scanning identified Y-173, F-174, Q-175, and K-179 as important for antibody recognition. The results from this study support the notion of PCV2 modulation of immunity, including antibody responses that may represent a precursor for disease. The recognition of CP(169-180) and other polypeptides provides opportunities to devise diagnostic tests for monitoring the immunological effectiveness of vaccination.


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Rep. Waters Seeks Probe of Ethics Investigators
A struggle inside the House ethics committee could spill out into the open later today when Rep. Maxine Waters (D., Calif.), the subject of an ongoing investigation, calls for an official probe into the indefinite suspension of two people investigating her.
Rep. Waters, whose public trial was abruptly delayed late last month, plans to offer a "privileged resolution" as early as Tuesday "directing the speaker to appoint a bipartisan task force to investigate the circumstances and cause" of a decision to place two investigators on paid leave, according to excerpts of the resolution.
She wants the special task force to wrap up the investigation by the end of the month and recommend possible punishments for the aides and lawmakers involved. A "privileged resolution" would force a vote by the full House within two days. There is no guarantee it will pass.
Morgan Kim, the committee's deputy chief counsel who was directing the Waters probe, and Stacey Sovereign, another staff attorney, were put on paid administrative leave the Friday before Thanksgiving – the same day the panel announced it was restarting its investigation into Ms. Waters. It's still unclear why the pair was suspended, and no wrongdoing has been alleged.
Ms. Waters, who faces charges that she sought stimulus funds for a minority-owned bank in which her husband owned stock, wants the committee to hold its public trial as quickly as possible so she can clear her name.
In the resolution, she argues that the suspensions "have subjected the committee to public ridicule, produced contempt for the ethics process, created the public perception that the committee' purpose was to unjustly impugn the integrity of a member of the House and weakened the ability of the committee to properly conduct its investigative duties."
Richard Sauber, a lawyer for the two ethics committee attorneys placed on leave, said they "welcome any inquiry into their activities."
An official at the ethics committee, formally known as the Committee on Standards of Official Conduct, declined to comment.


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I went to clean my kitties litter box and he ha not pooped at all only peed a few times.... I went to clean it today an
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If you only have one sandbox, check it again 2x a day and see that he is eating. So if he's eating, (ideally) he should be pooping. Diarrhea sometimes comes up like pee clumps, so check for that, especially if he's had medicine recently, such as a deworming, or if you have changed foods on him. A healthy cat food is MaxCat (in the pet store); my cats are regular on it. They have indoor and outdoor chicken or salmon varieties. ^_^
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CANADA STOCKS-TSX falls to a one-week low as resource stocks weigh
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* Eight of the TSX's 10 main groups were lower
TORONTO Dec 30 (Reuters) - Canada's main stock index retreated on Wednesday as the slide in crude oil prices weighed on energy stocks, while mining stocks contended with a drop in the price of gold.
The biggest drag on the market was Canadian Natural Resources Ltd which declined 2.1 percent to C$30.48.
Enbridge Inc fell 1.7 percent to C$45.32. The company said on Tuesday it has halted operations on its Ozark pipeline due to flooding along the Mississippi River.
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Thursday, May 5, 2011
Warmer weather is causing students to be more active outdoors, but some students have personal injuries preventing them from springtime activities like baseball.
Baker University soccer and baseball player Steven Stewart has a broken navicular bone in his foot.
"It happened during soccer season. I kicked the ground," Stewart said. "I didn't practice during the week, I just played games. I took pain pills before games so it didn't hurt to play."
Stewart tried to play baseball for a month, but was injured too badly. Now, he is in a cast for six weeks and cannot put pressure on his foot.
Stewart uses a scooter to travel from place to place without putting pressure on his injured foot.
"It's much easier than crutches, and it's a lot less work," Stewart said. "I actually get places faster than normal people. It was actually something I chose to get."
Ruth Sarna, director of student health services, thinks scooters can be a big help to people with injuries.
"Those scooters are awesome," Sarna said. "It doesn't hurt under your arms like crutches would."
Stewart likes the support he gets from his friends, but having the injury has made some tasks difficult.
"Showering is the hardest actually. I can't get my cast wet either," Stewart said. "Just getting around my room, I have to hop around on one foot."
Stewart is not alone in coping with an injury.
Junior Alexa Cioffi is also injured with a fractured ankle and tibia and is wearing a walking boot.
Cioffi was playing a role in the musical "Honk!" when she hurt herself.
At first, she didn't think anything had happened to her ankle, and thinks she may not have realized it because of her adrenaline. She later ended up getting an x-ray and an MRI.
"I had to move downstairs in the dorms, and I can't shower standing up," Cioffi said.
Cioffi has even had a professor move a class for her so she can get there easier. Student Academic Services can help students that are injured and need some extra help.
Sarna said it is necessary to get medical attention quickly a person thinks he or she may be injured.
"If it's a break, the bone can knit back wrong, and you may have to have surgery to fix it," Sarna said.
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any pics of the ones with purple inside?
010s? wont find pics here go to SUFU but here are some from there.
Pretty much same as 007 but with purple hint to them.
Sized down one
Exactly like 007s but like I said earlier instead of blue fading it will have a hint of purple here are some faded pics.
If you guys want more pics I can provide via SUFU for you lazy bastards who don't want to search there.
indirectdelete how you sized on these? i really like them (fades/fit).
Originally posted by Inactive UserI'm looking to get 005s. Problem is, I'm in college dorms, so I can't soak anywhere.
I could get 005 onewash, but i heard they dont have starch on them, so creases will take a while.
If I get raw ones, and then put them for a hot wash inside out, will some starch be left?


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About Parent Concerns
Students can obtain vaccinations here at the Health Center after they arrive. We offer PPDs $20, MMR $90, tetanus $50, Meningitis $55 and HPV $175 if they need them.
If an exemption is needed, please find these forms on the FORMS web link
Other Vaccines available for students are flu shots, Hep A and B
HIPAA VS FERPA Knowing the difference can help if there is a medical emergency.
When your son/daughter sign a UIPAA compliant consent for release of information, it gives our facility the student's permission to share protected health information with parents. Without it, our Student Health and Counseling Center cannot provide you with any information in regards to medical, counseling or billing items in regards to your student.
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Effective 8/25/15, UAF will no longer be sponsoring a student health insurance plan except for International Students and Graduate Students who are RA's or TA's on a stipend. For information on obtaining a plan, see the Health Insurance Options link below. In addition, UAF will no longer require that students carry health insurance however it is strongly recommended.
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We inhabit a time in history when leaders want to build walls. In Israel Prime Minister Netanyahu wants an ever higher, better wall to keep out terrorists. In America, the Republican party is committed to the proposition that a wall will prevent illegal Hispanics from entering our fair land, and building our roads or picking strawberries so that God fearing American people will be denied the right to be a migrant worker. Of course, that is the dream of every American youth, pick peaches since there are no jobs in the corporate world. So, why be surprised when a leader in Ukraine wants to build a wall to keep out Russians whose desire is to once again rule Ukraine.
Billionaire businessman Ihor Kolomoisky is proposing the construction of a 1,200 six foot high wall along the border with Russia. Naturally, the wall will also allow for electronic fields, mines and an assortment of weapons of destruction in order to make certain that separatists keep to themselves in dear Mother Russia. Ihor holds the title of "governor" so why not allow him to spend his own money on this wall of separation?
Now, if only someone could build a wall that keeps Vladimir Putin holed up in the Kremlin without any access to the world….


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A big change this year over two years ago was the tremendous amount of trees that fell into the river (due to the fierce storm we had over the winter). On a couple of occasions the trees blocked the passage of our canoes and we had to work around them.
I might add that if you want to go on this route, make sure you have an experienced back person because the trees have created some fun twists and challenges for small craft. Trip took 5 hours.
We saw some osprey, ducks and even one bald eagle. Otherwise no other mammals (perhaps we were too loud).
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WHO THE F*** IS BIGTRUCKSERIES?comments powered by Disqus
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Due to his background in the sciences, he recognizes liberal propaganda when he sees it. There is nothing "green" about electric cars for example. He sees the world's waste and psychological obsolescence leading to rampant consumerism as more dangerous to the planet than a few SUVs could ever be. Recycling may clean the ecosystem, but it ultimately does more damage to the environment due to low-mpg recycling trucks being used to collect the trash - and the energy required to sort it.
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I see the Calico Solar Project is having some changes. Southern California Edison canciled it's contract with Teeeera Solar for power from the 663 megawatt project. The 709 megawatt Imperial valley Solar project is planned to power San Diego Gas & Electric. It is ok to bury Americans under I-5,10 & 15 and burn or chemically dislove them, but to mess with ancient Indian sites is a Federal no-no. The Irish conglomerate NTR developing the Imperial Valley Solar Project has sold it's Calico Solar project in San Bernardino County to K Road Sun a San Diego firm. Ref: San Diego Union-Tribune 12/28/10 & 12/03/10, page C1&2 The Navy has awarded $7E9 in contracts to build 20 of it's new littoral combat ships. Lockheed Martin will assemble 10 of them for $3.62E9 over 6 years and Austal USA a unit of Austal Limited, in Australia with a yard in Mobile, Alabama will build 10 for $3.52E9. Ref: San Diego Union-Tribune ,12/30/10 page C1 &2 Austal Limited also built the U.S. Marine Corps high-speed 101-meter Theater Support Vessel in 2001


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st: RE: RE: means of dependent variables in estout
"Ben Jann" <email@example.com>
st: RE: RE: means of dependent variables in estout
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I'd like to point out two things:
- Matthew uses old -estadd- syntax in his example. Please
update (-ssc install estadd, replace-) and see -help estadd-.
- The command
. estadd ysumm
adds the mean and standard deviation (and other statistics)
of the dependent variable to e().
Therefore, to report the mean and standard deviation of the
dependent variable in -estout-, you may type something like
. sysuse auto, clear
. regress price weight mpg
. estadd ysumm
. estout, stats(ymean ysd)
weight 1.746559
mpg -49.51222
_cons 1946.069
ymean 6165.257
ysd 2949.496
Nick wrote:
> Few first posts include two programs!
> An important detail is that these programs
> calculate results for all available values
> of the dependent variable, regardless of what
> was used in the model. You probably need
> an -if e(sample)- restriction in each case.
> Otherwise there is scope for cutting out middle macros:
> program estadd_mu, eclass
> syntax [ , prefix(name) * ]
> su `e(depvar)' if e(sample), meanonly
> ereturn scalar `prefix'mu = r(mean)
> end
> program estadd_sig, eclass
> syntax [ , prefix(name) * ]
> su `e(depvar)' if e(sample)
> ereturn scalar `prefix'sig = r(sd)
> end
> Also, "sig" is an ambiguous name for a program.
> I guess you have in mind "sigma" as the conventional
> symbol for a population s.d. But "sig" means
> "significance level" (i.e. P-value)
> to many, perhaps more than it does "sd".
Matthew wrote:
> Hi all,
> This is my first post, so please bear with my if I have made some
> mistakes. I spent some time with a colleague yesterday trying to
> figure out how to get estout to report the means and standard
> deviations of the dependent variables in the stats option, with r-
> squared and N, etc. This proved to be quite a bit different from
> reporting the means of the regressors, which is detailed in the
> instructions. I thought I would post how I did it in case anyone
> else found it useful. If there is a better way that anyone knows of,
> then perhaps you can correct me, but this worked for me, and I could
> not find a simpler way to do it.
> *First, we create a subroutine (which I called "mu" and "sig"
> respectively) to get the means and SDs from r( ) to e( ):
> program estadd_mu, eclass
> syntax [ , prefix(name) * ]
> local depvar=e(depvar)
> sum `depvar'
> local mu=r(mean)
> ereturn scalar `prefix'mu = `mu'
> end
> program estadd_sig, eclass
> syntax [ , prefix(name) * ]
> local depvar=e(depvar)
> sum `depvar'
> local sig=r(sd)
> ereturn scalar `prefix'sig = `sig'
> end
> *Next, we use estadd, after the regression(s), and before estout, to
> add the stats we generated to the stored estimates:
> estadd [depvarlist], stats(mu sig)
> *And finally, in the estout command, add mu and sig to the stats( )
> option, along with other stats you may want.
> That's all. I hope this is helpful.
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Annaly Capital Management (NLY) on August 1, 2012 surprised analysts when it reported its performance for the second quarter of the current year. Both revenues and earnings figures were far above what analysts had expected.
The table above illustrates how the company's reported performance exceeded its expectations. The company earned $546 million or $0.55 per share on revenues of $720 million. Both the top line and bottom line beat analyst estimates by 29% and 13%, respectively. The following table gives the details about selected income statement items, alongside key matrices for Annaly Capital.
Sequential Financial Review
It is evident from the table above that during the second quarter, despite a decrease in the net interest spread, the company was able to generate interest income of $886 million, 4% above what it generated during the first quarter of the current year. This was primarily the result of a 3% increase in interest income accruing from investments, and a significant 420% surge in interest income accruing from U.S. treasury securities.
When comparing sequentially, the 25% surge in interest expense was primarily associated to a 23% surge in the interest paid on repurchase agreements, and a 28% surge in interest paid on convertible senior debt. Fair value for repurchase agreements increased 7.6%, and during the second quarter, the company issued $750 million worth of new convertible senior debt, resulting in the surge in interest expense.
The surge in interest income for the second quarter offset the effect of a surge in interest expense, resulting in a flat net interest income of $720, compared to the previous quarter. Earlier in a report on Annaly Capital, we noted that one of the most significant risks that the company faces is the interest rate risk. We thought the company will experience a drop in its interest income due to a decrease in the net interest margin. However, despite a 17bps drop in the net interest spread, the company was able to keep its net interest income flat.
During the quarter, the company was able to manage its operating expenses efficiently, which resulted in a 5% decline in the total operating expense, compared sequentially. This decline in operating expense and the surge in the top line helped the company post a bottom line of $546 million, up 3% when compared to the first quarter.
The net interest margin that the company earned during the quarter dropped 17bps to 1.54%. This was the result of a flattening yield curve due to continuous efforts made by the Federal Reserve Bank. For the same reason, yields on assets, which are long term in nature, fell 19bps to 3.04%. The nature of interest being liabilities in the short term, with 216 days of weighted average maturity. The cost of funds dropped marginally by 2bps during the second quarter. The company maintained the same leverage, reflecting the continuation of its conservative strategy.
Although 92% of the company's asset portfolio is composed of fixed rate agency mortgages, it hedges 41% of the entire portfolio for interest rate risk, which is why the company experienced an increase in its book value of only 30bps (due to a decline in interest rates).
The stock maintains a dividend yield of 12.71%, sufficiently attractive for investors looking for regular income. The company had a free cash flow yield of 17.35%, meaning investors can expect shareholder distributions to continue for the foreseeable future.
The stock has attractive valuations when compared to its major peer. It is trading at a premium of 7% to its book value. However, when compared to one of its major competitors, American Capital Agency (AGNC), the stock trades at an 11% discount on P/B value multiple. Historically, the stock has traded at a book value multiple of 1.16 times. With 2012 earnings estimate of $16.15, we expect the stock to trade at around $18.7.
Capstead (CMO), another major mortgage REIT in the U.S. financial sector missed analyst estimates when it reported its performance for the second quarter. Capstead, however, is not a direct competitor of Annaly, as the former invests exclusively in adjustable rate mortgage securities. American Capital Agency , one of Annaly's direct competitors, is scheduled to report on August 2, 2012 (today).
The Fed has recently signaled its intention of taking more steps to stimulate the sluggish U.S. economy, which has been hit by stubbornly high unemployment and weak retails sales, pushing analysts to lower their GDP forecasts for the country to as low as 1.6%. Besides bringing down the long term rates, the Fed is also weighing prospects of a short term rate cut. Some sort of an initiative from the Fed is widely anticipated, and in the event of a short term rate cut, we believe Annaly Capital would benefit alongside the rest of the mortgage REITs. Cheap borrowing costs would enhance interest rate spreads for these companies.
In conclusion, the company maintains a strong balance sheet, and has been able to beat analyst estimates despite a decrease in its interest spread, due to the declining interest rate environment. Going forward, further action by the Fed is highly likely, which will lead to a decline in interest rates. In the event of a further decline in interest rates, the current dividend yield of 12.7% that the stock offers will be even more attractive. Besides the shareholder distributions, investors can also expect a price appreciation. Therefore, we reiterate our buy rating on the stock.
Disclosure: I have no positions in any stocks mentioned, and no plans to initiate any positions within the next 72 hours.


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Lotto Powerball has jackpotted again, meaning this week's draw will match the $27-million mark struck by supermarket worker Trevor Cooper in April last year.
Although no lucky punter woke up this morning $25 million richer, Lotto retailers throughout the country are smiling after one of the busiest weeks ever.
At United Video Blockhouse Bay, owner Harry Wadan sold $1,000 in tickets in the first half hour yesterday to his first four customers.
"When Powerball goes up above $20 million we have quite a few more big players. We have two players who spend $3,000 to $4,000," he said.
Printing so many tickets could take up to an hour, but customers chose the store because of its 16 previous first-division winners. Selling a Powerball winner would put the store on the map, he said.
Lotto is a big retail business, with 1,200 stores employing 5,000 people.
In response to questions from the Herald on Sunday that New Zealand Lotto revealed its "retailer operations manual" included these tips:
• Customers don't just buy a piece of yellow paper, they buy something that makes them feel lucky for a while. That "feeling" is the real product on sale.
• Many customers need advice on what ticket to buy. "It is a good idea to tempt them with a particular ticket and remember, the more lines they have on their ticket, the more chances they have to win - so you could point out that the higher-priced tickets actually give them more chances!"
• While waiting for tickets to print, ask customers what they are going to do if they win. "Encourage them to think about what they would do if they were lucky enough to have their numbers come out on the draw!"
• Every time you hand over a ticket, give them a feeling of optimism. When a customer hands you a ticket to check, remember that the piece of paper in your hands could change that person's life."
Lotto corporate communications manager, Emilia Mazur, said Lotto was the country's single largest retail network and in the past 12 months had received only one complaint about perceived aggressive selling tactics from a retailer. "The retailer was visited by their local sales representative, who reminded all operators that their job is to be informative but not to be pushy."
She said Lotto provided safe gambling that allowed people to play and win while contributing back to communities. In 2012-13, Lotto NZ transferred more than $200 million to the Lottery Grants Board.
An Auckland "odd-jobs" man, 60, who has undertaken counselling at the Problem Gambling Foundation, told the Herald on Sunday that he'd bought a Lotto ticket almost every draw since its launch in August 1987. His biggest win was about $300 on a Strike ticket in 2002.
He said the idea money was going to charity encouraged gambling addicts like him. "I hate it. Some people can have fun with it, but it seems to be getting a bit big for a small place. It's all getting a bit scary. I'm wondering what they're going to invent next to trap me."
Foundation spokeswoman Andree Froude said Lotto was only a problem if people spent more than they could afford.
However, chief executive of the Federation of Family Budgeting Advisors, Raewyn Fox, didn't see any difference between Lotto and any other retail product.
"If the customer has some spare spending money and that's what they decide to spend it on, that's up to the customer."


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Update on Homicide Case - Gregory Allen Ross, 19 yrs old.
The location the victim was shot at, 833 N. Florence Avenue is what is commonly called a "Trap House" (Term used to define a crack house, or the surroundings in which a drug dealer would use to make their profit).
Items of evidentiary value were located in the house which would indicate drug activity. No other details will be discussed on items located inside the house.
On 2/28/14 at 11:23 p.m., the Lakeland Police Department responded to the Lakeland Regional Medical Center (LRMC) in reference to Ross being shot in the right thigh. Ross stated that while walking west on 13th Street near Kettles Avenue, he heard what sounded like "firecrackers" and then realized he had been shot. Ross walked to LRMC at this time. Ross stated he saw no vehicle or person that could have caused this injury. Officers discovered dark marks near his wound that were consistent with stippling (Shots fired from close range leaving marks are discolorations of the skin caused by burning gunpowder) indicating the injury was self-inflicted or by an "unknown" person up close. Ross gave several conflicting statements to responding officers at LRMC.
Detectives are still working the case, attending the autopsy today and following up on leads. Anyone with additional information on this case should call Det. Hurley at 863-834-8973.
On March 8, 2014 a relative arrived at 833 N. Florence Avenue to check on Gregory Allen Ross Jr., 19 years old. At this time, Ross was found inside the residence deceased from a gunshot wound. The relative then called 9-1-1 at 8:23 pm. The Lakeland Police Department responded to the scene at 8:25 p.m. and located Ross who was later pronounced deceased by EMS at 8:37 pm.
The Violent Crimes Unit and Crime Scene personal responded to scene and canvassed the area for any additional evidence or witnesses. No witnesses or suspects have been located at this time and detectives are continuing with their investigation. Ross was transported to the Medical Examiner's Office for an autopsy which is scheduled for Monday, March 10th. At this time, no additional information is being released.


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Nina is so lucky to have such a sweet and attentive boyfriend like Ian. Plus, she wore the same dress to the airport that she wore to the People's Choice Awards — and she was carrying her award.
Ian Somerhalder is such a good boyfriend. After leaving the People's Choice Awards on Jan. 11, The Vampire Diaries star and his girlfriend/co-star Nina Dobrev headed to the LA airport where he was spotted wheeling not only his bag, but Nina's as well.
Nina's hands were free from her baggage, but she did have her award in hand and was all smiles as she chatted on the phone. Nina won the People's Choice award for favorite TV drama actress earlier in the night.
Ian, 33, and Nina, 23, must have headed straight to the airport after they left the awards show because Nina was wearing the same beautiful green dress that she wore at the show.
BFFs — don't you think that Ian is such a good boyfriend?
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text: The following quote is from DetNews. "It changes things, man, it does," Billups said. "When Chris is out there, we go through him and let him make plays. When he's not, I'm attacking, I'm aggressive and I am making plays. I am struggling with that a lot -- when to do what." It's not a mystery why they haven't established a rhythm. Since the team returned from a 5-0 West Coast trip, the two haven't been healthy at the same time. Billups missed the better part of three games because of an injured groin. When he returned, Webber had the flu. "The only thing that's different is Chris," Billups said. "He's the only new guy and he's a big piece. He's a guy that can really make plays. On one hand, it takes a lot of pressure off me. I don't have to make every play. On the other hand, it puts me in too much of a passive mode and sometimes it's hard for me to turn it back on." Webber and Billups are confident the issue will resolve itself with a few more games. Webber, in fact, seemed surprised it was even a concern. "I don't understand that," he said. "In the second half (Sunday against Miami), Rip (Hamilton) was really cutting hard and moving and he got involved a lot when I had the ball. Both him and Tay (Prince)." True. With Webber distributing four assists, Hamilton scored 10 points and Prince five in the third quarter. Billups, meanwhile, had two assists. "But Chauncey is the man and he needs to be aggressive at all times," Webber said. I'd have to agree with Webber. Chauncey needs to be aggressive at all times. They have been together for several months now. They should be on the same page by now. What bothers me most is Webber didn't even know there was a problem till now. Billups should have talked about this sooner. We are on the heals of a playoff run. They need to get on the same page.


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Thousands of Ballots Not Yet Counted in California's Primary Election
At least 770,000 ballots have not yet been counted from California's primary election.
The secretary of state's office has posted a partial tally that shows the totals of outstanding ballots in 24 of California's 58 counties.
Election officials in every county except Sierra are still processing thousands of ballots that arrived late or need verification.
There are 166,000 in Los Angeles County alone.
Turnout from Tuesday's statewide primary is expected to be the lowest for any regular statewide election in history.


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Ger Benne necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 47 diseños de 11 diseñadores freelance.
Logo needed for independent interim manager to be used on stationary, business cards, website etc.
Show me the stationary, business cards and website.
Benne Interim Management
I am an independant interim manager and mostly work for non profit organisations in social housing in the Netherlands.
(In Dutch; Ik ben zelfstandig interim manager , zzp'er, en werk voor woningcorporaties)
These organisations hire me when they need a temporary manager, or need a manager to solve a problem.
- A simple but strong and modern logo that reflects my skills as a manager which are; trouble shooting, custumer service, front office manager, people manager
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Jose Mourinho Wants Vidic at Real Madrid, Daily Mail Says: Soccer Roundup
The following is a roundup of soccer stories from U.K. newspapers, with clickable links to the Web.
Adios Vidic?
Jose Mourinho, the new Real Madrid Manager, wants to bring Manchester United defender Nemanja Vidic to the Bernabeu, the Daily Mail reported.
Vidic's agent Paolo Fabbri refused to confirm that his client will be staying at Old Trafford for the start of the season, the Mail said.
Fabiano Transfer
Luis Fabiano, the Brazil World Cup striker, has urged Tottenham Hotspur to make a transfer bid for him after failing to attract the interest of Manchester United and AC Milan, the Sun said.
"It's only in the last few weeks I have understood just how big Spurs' ambition is," said the Seville striker, according to the Sun.
Jol to Fulham?
Martin Jol, the former Tottenham Hotspur manager, is the favorite to become the new Fulham boss, according to the Daily Mirror.
Robinho Release
Robinho, the out-of-favor Manchester City forward, is the subject of a 20 million pounds ($30.8 million) transfer bid from Shakhtar Donetsk, the Daily Mail said.
The Brazil striker was released on loan by City last season and is believed to want to leave Eastlands, the report said.
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Boyleing Points
This is the column of too much information. If I have to get my leg lanced because of some freak infection, I'm gonna write about it. One reader told me she turned the page as soon as the word "lance" appeared. I'm guessing the word "colon" might scare off a few. So you've been warned.
When I was a kid I cracked my knuckles and old folks would say to me, cut it out you're gonna get arthritis. And wise old me would say, they'll have a cure by then. So much for that. Now I can't put my arm through my coat sleeve unless a bunch of Mormons help me.
Anyway that's a warning to my young readers who hope modern technology will keep advancing and do away with that main ingredient of a mid-life physical check-up: the colonoscopy. But like with me and arthritis, don't get your hopes up. As far as I can tell, the only advancing they've managed with colonoscopies in the last 20 years is the cameras have gotten better. And now you can put it on youtube.
Though I won't be doing that – this is just between us. Next time you hear from me, I'll be light as a feather, my personal Ramadan over. Yep, I end my January resolution as a human shish-kabob.
For you holdouts, those of you who've passed the age of forty, certainly fifty, and haven't had the personal roto-rooter, it's time. Just do it. It's plain sensible and you can get in on the joke.
I'd like to use the expression, all kidding aside - - but you can't put all kidding aside. It's the procedure which makes comedians out of every patient. Gastro docs have heard it all. "Tell my wife you didn't find my head up there."
"Now I know how a muppet feels." "You put your left hand in, you take your left hand out…" "Captain Kirk, you're boldly going where no man has gone before."
If the two doctors I've had are representative of the field, they're among the most affable docs you could find. The first guy I went to in Brooklyn had a phone number of 718- 748-SHIT. That's pretty good marketing – how could you forget that number.
While behind me, so to speak, he discovered a polyp and announced "We're engaged." That meant, I'd be seeing him again. But it was a good thing it was caught when it was. This was more than 10 years ago. That one time polyp got caught and hasn't been seen since.
Of course, colonoscopies and its weird cousin, the colonic, have become hip since the doctor first landed on my moon. You've got Katie Couric, Leo de Caprio, and Gwyneth Paltrow and others extolling the wonders of the colon clean out. And I gotta say, you do feel like a million bucks when it's all over.
Just don't make plans the night before. Even the directions on the nuclear stuff you take says, don't worry, it will work. Be patient. If you need something from the store, send someone else to get it. Once the purge starts, you are … as the door on the airplane says, occupido. And word to the wise, never trust a cough, sneeze or even a giggle.
When the fun starts just remember it's for a good cause (and you don't even have to start a non-profit).
So you newbies, you scaredy cats, get to it. The procedure itself is a walk in the park. Hey, I was even awake for one of them and watched it all in technicolor. I kept looking for Raquel Welch. (That's a Fantastic Voyage reference for you movie buffs). Chances are, you'll opt for the anesthesia. And as soon as you're alert, you can make lunch plans.
Anyway, like anybody who's got a connection, I've got a guy. Not sure where to go or how to start? Email me and I'll send you my guy's info. It's your health. Take care of this and join the club. You'll be glad you did and you'll have lots of crappy new jokes.
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In the U.S. media, coverage of the massacre at Virginia Tech has analyzed almost every aspect of the shootings in far more detail than the issue of gun control. Newsweek has an entire package up, with stories warning against demonizing "boy's play" (I'm dead serious), the role of a South Korean action flic in Cho's behavior, a careful timeline of Monday's events, and stories about survivors and victims. Only one piece addresses the gun issue at all.
In the international press, the response was universal: When will the United States stop giving its citizens the tools to kill each other?
OK, so we're not going to ban handguns as England has done anytime soon.
Side note: In some of the comments to my previous posts focused on gun control, I was repeatedly pointed to the high crime rate in Britain. Not so. New York City, whose population is a mere seventh of that of Britain and Wales, had 10 times as many firearm-related homicides last year. Britain's rate was its lowest since the late '80s. (Overall crime rates in the UK are down by almost half since the mid-1990's [PDF].)
But here's what we could do. One, close the loophole allowing people to buy guns at gun shows with no background check. That's just insane! Two, make weapons designed to kill large numbers of humans illegal: Reinstate the federal assault weapons ban.
The international press also referred repeatedly to America's gun culture. Even the Australian PM John Howard, who has strongly aligned himself with Bush, blamed gun culture. What does "gun culture" mean? One of our editors remarked that Cho looked, in his video, for all the world like the cover of Guns & Ammo (ammo vest, holster, shooting glovesfingerless on trigger hand). She ventured that the NRA had groaned a bit when they saw that. But the question isn't why a mass murderer looks like the cover of a magazine(a) delusions of grandeur, (b) consumer magazines work by making you want to look like the coverthe question is why do we have magazine covers that look like mass murderers? Why do we make movies where the heroes look likeand, um, aremass murderers?
The one Newsweek story that does address the gun issue also raises another fairly obvious point. Gun sales should be limited to people who don't have a history of violent mental illness. Newsweek suggests that the law already technically calls for that, but enforcement amounts to a question on the paperwork the buyer fills out: "Have you ever been adjudicated mentally defective or
committed to a mental institution?" Cho answered (falsely) "no," and then bought a semiautomatic weapon. I mean, they don't even take your word for it at the DMV that you don't need glasses.
The BBC observed that from the Democrats, nary a peep. Shame on them.
Cameron ScottApr. 20, 2007 5:31 PM
Rick Perlstein has an interesting and persuasive little column on AlterNet today. It goes sort of like this: First they came for the spinach. Then they came for the peanut butter. Then they hurt my dogs and I got pissed. Post pet-food recall, Perlstein looked into the Food and Drug Administrationthe agency responsible for ensuring the safety of human and pet foodand found that it, too, had fallen victim to Bush's starve-the-good-parts-of-government philosophy. Between 2003 and 2006 FDA safety inspections were down 47 percent and staffing, 12 percent. Safety tests conducted on food produced in the United States were down by three quarters from last year to this. Not only is no one making sure your food is produced safely, they don't even care about your dog's kibble.
I'm with Perlstein. Bush can take my money, my health insurance, and my civil liberties, but he'll have to pry my little furry friend from my cold, dead hand.
Cameron ScottApr. 20, 2007 4:06 PM
Since the Israeli wall was such a great ideaand has been so effective in reducing terrorist strikes against Israelthe United States has decided to build a 3-mile long wall in Baghdad. The wall will further the balkanization of the once diverse city by dividing one of the more "restive Sunni Arab districts from the Shiite Muslim neighborhoods that surround it." My favorite thing about it is that the Sunnis and Shiites actually agree that it's a bad idea:
"Are they trying to divide us into different sectarian cantons?" said a Sunni drugstore owner in Adhamiya, who would identify himself only as Abu Ahmed, 44. "This will deepen the sectarian strife and only serve to abort efforts aimed at reconciliation."
"I feel this is the beginning of a pattern of what the whole of Iraq is going to look like, divided by sectarian and racial criteria," Abu Marwan, 50, a Shiite pharmacist, said.
The fact that Shiites and Sunnis agree on only one thingwanting the Americans outmakes a pretty strong case that us leaving gives them a better shot at reunification than us stayingand building permanent cultural barriers.
(By the way, Mother Jones has a great photo essay of life along the Israeli wall.)
Jonathan SteinApr. 20, 2007 2:56 PM
Here's what two conservatives idiots had to say in the aftermath of the Virginia Tech tragedy. These comments are not only in incredibly poor taste, but demonstrate such poor judgment and such a complete lack of understanding of basic human instincts, it makes one wonder why the people who said them still have a venue to spout their opinions.
John Derbyshire, from the conservative National Review (yeah, this guy):
Where was the spirit of self-defense here? Setting aside the ludicrous campus ban on licensed conceals, why didn't anyone rush the guy? It's not like this was Rambo, hosing the place down with automatic weapons. He had two handguns for goodness' sakeone of them reportedly a .22.
At the very least, count the shots and jump him reloading or changing hands. Better yet, just jump him... And even if hit, a .22 needs to find something important to do real damageyour chances aren't bad.
Yes, yes, I know it's easy to say these things: but didn't the heroes of Flight 93 teach us anything?
Nathaniel Blake of the conservative Human Events Online:
College classrooms have scads of young men who are at their physical peak, and none of them seems to have done anything beyond ducking, running, and holding doors shut. Meanwhile, an old man hurled his body at the shooter to save others.
Something is clearly wrong with the men in our culture. Among the first rules of manliness are fighting bad guys and protecting others: in a word, courage. And not a one of the healthy young fellows in the classrooms seems to have done that.
Like Derb, I don't know if I would live up to this myself, but I know that I should be heartily ashamed of myself if I didn't.
And thankfully, the strongest condemnation comes from conservative quarters, proving there is sanity on that side of the aisle. Derbyshire's colleague at the National Review, John Podhoretz, steps in:
I have to dissent, in the strongest possible terms, from John Derbyshire's shocking posts on Virginia Tech. The notion that a human being or group of human beings holding no weapon whatever should somehow "fight back" against someone calmly executing other people right in front of their eyes is ludicrous beyond belief, irrational beyond bounds, and tasteless beyond the limits of reason.
Amen, brother. Now get your coworker who is "ludicrous beyond belief, irrational beyond bounds, and tasteless beyond the limits of reason" booted from your office.
Jonathan SteinApr. 20, 2007 2:38 PM
Yesterday at the Gonzales hearings, after almost everyone had gone home, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island busted out some snazzy charts that effectively displayed the breakdown of the wall between the White House and the Department of Justice, a wall that even Gonzales admits is important to maintain because of (1) the need for DoJ work to be impartial, non-partisan, and free of politics, and (2) the need to avoid conflicts of interests in the occasional situation where the DoJ prosecutes someone from the White House.
In the Clinton White House, four White House officials -- the President, the Vice President, the White House Counsel, and the Assistant White House Counsel -- were allowed to make contact with three Department of Justice officials "regarding pending criminal investigations and criminal cases."
In the Bush White House, the DoJ has almost become a wing of the White House. Four hundred and seventeen White House officials, including national security staffers and all members of the office of the White House Counsel, can make contact with roughly 30 Department of Justice staffers.
We probably shouldn't be surprised, though. After all, before Alberto Gonzales was named Attorney General and took his position at the top of the the DoJ, he was the White House Counsel himself. Any hope that the DoJ would function as an independent body went out the window a long time ago.
Spotted on Kevin Drum's Political Animal and Think Progress.
Jonathan SteinApr. 20, 2007 2:28 PM
I blogged two days ago about the impeachment drive currently underway in Vermont, and how it had seen success in local governments but had stalled in the state legislature. Well, no longer.
The Vermont Senate this morning approved by a 16-9 margin a resolution calling on the U.S. House to launch impeachment proceedings of Pres. George W. Bush and Vice Pres. Dick Cheney.
The Vermont Senate is the first state legislative body in the country to call on Congress to begin impeachment proceedings. Impeachment resolutions are currently active in Hawaii, Missouri, New Jersey, and Washington.
Next up is Vermont's House of Reps. We'll keep you updated. Thanks to Kos for the tip.
Oh, and PS - I also highlighted some truly fantastic Doonesbury cartoons in that earlier post. Very funny.
Julia WhittyApr. 20, 2007 2:09 PM
I've spent a lot of time at sea and wish no mariner harm. But
the Canadian sealing fleet is stuck in heavy ice off Newfoundland! CTV reports the Canadian coast guard estimates that between 400 and 500 people are stranded in as many as 100 vessels. "It's a dangerous situation,'' Eldred Burden, 48-year-old skipper who is trapped aboard his 18-meter vessel, told the Canadian Press via telephone. "There's not one thing you can do ... We're getting dragged out pretty good. You're up all night and the boat is heaving and twisting.''
Supplies and fuel are running low for many of the ships -- most of them longliner fishing vessels waylaid off the coast of northeast Newfoundland and southern Labrador, while on their way home from last week's seal hunt. Even a Coast Guard ice breaker, the Sir Wilfred Grenfell, sent to help, was stuck in the ice Wednesday as the massive sheets closed in around it. It's since been freed, but another icebreaker, the Ann Harvey, is now stuck.
Some of the ships have been stuck in the ice for as long as eight days, and it appears that conditions wouldn't improve until at least next week. In total three icebreakers are working the rescue, with three helicopters delivering supplies, and another three Cormorant search and rescue helicopters on standby. As many as a dozen of the ships are extensively damaged and some could even begin to take on water as the ice pressure subsides and they begin to slip back into the water.
If only Neptune had waylaid them before the seal hunt.
Altogether a bad season for sealers (and seals), since the southern slaughter grounds were decimated by ice melt earlier this spring, drowning the baby seals and forcing even the hard-hearted Canadians to call off that stage of the hunt.--Julia Whitty
Josh HarkinsonApr. 19, 2007 11:27 PM
Joe Trippi, the manager of Howard Dean's 2004 presidential race, who revolutionized political campaigning by embracing the internet, joined the campaign of Senator John Edwards today. He will serve as a media advisor to a campaign that is already distinguishing itself as one of the most tech savvy in the field: the Edwards website features an interactive blog and 23 different social networking tools; Edwards sends text messages to supporters via the geek-chic site Twitter; and he maintains (an occasionally raucous) virtual campaign office in Second Life. Trippi told me the Dean campaign is already looking like ancient history. Since 2004, the number of blogs on the Internet has grown by a factor of 50 and the launch of Facebook, MySpace, and YouTube has popularized social networking and Web video. "By the end of 2008, I think people will look back at the Dean campaign and say, 'Wow, it was so primitive, it was so yesterday,'" Trippi said. "I still think any of these campaigns are capable of just blowing the doors off and transforming our politics, and that's really likely to happen in 2008."
The campaign landscape on the Web has become much more competitive since 2004, when Dean had the virtual space mostly to himself, but also more volatile in ways that dark horse candidates can harness for quick and dramatic gain, Trippi asserted. "I really believe this: I think we are in a situation where one of these candidates could say something in a debate, or in a major address, or in a response to something that President Bush says, and all of a sudden, on that day, a million Americans decide, 'I'm going to sign up for him.'" He added: "That never would have happened in 2004; (the Web) wasn't mature enough."
Trippi said he's working for Edwards because he likes his stances on poverty, his work on global warming issues, and his position on the war, though, he noted, "it would be maybe a tough call between Obama and him on that issue, but they are both closer to where I am." He's also impressed by Edwards' effort to build a community of voters that would offer policy feedback and support well after Edwards is electedsomething Dean was also interested in, he said, but never got to implement.
Abidingly speaking from a commuter train this afternoon, where his cell phone dropped our call probably 20 times and his voice mail quickly filled up, Trippi also pointed out an interesting parallel between his early political life and that of Edwards' wife, Elizabeth. Years ago, Trippi was drawn to the Web through the first bulletin boards on sites such as Prodigy and Motley Fool, and as a lurker and occasional contributor to blogs. "The same with her," he said. "I read her book, and I didn't realize that basically, when her son Wade had died, she was on the Web, and on greeting boards, boards where people came together and talked about what they were going through and the loved one they had lost, kind of consoled and talked to each other, and she had been a part of that community on the web for a long time before Edwards had decided to run for president. And like me, she started hanging out on political boards later in her life, when he was running. And that's why she is doing what she is doing today. But you don't see it in any of the other campaigns"--which Trippi believes have been slow to reach out to the blogs--"It came to her naturally, because of what she's been through."
Mother JonesApr. 19, 2007 8:56 PM
In the wake of the media blitz surrounding the Virginia Tech shootings, some are appalled at the airing of the videos, claiming insensitivity. Others may be wondering why the media has reported on the possibility of a backlash against Asians. Why has the media conjured up a scary threat of possible hate crimes with none forthcoming?
I think part of this answer lies in the media's attempt to address the fears of the post 9/11 climate. Many of us who are of Asian background waited with bated breath when the killer was identified as "Asian." That's a pretty damn big category: "Asian" could mean East Asian, South Asian, or Southeast Asian. And for South Asian Americans, vivid memories of post 9/11 backlash loom. People of South Asian descent were the first victims of deadly hate crimes. And just last month, Kuldip Singh Nag—an Indian American who is an Iraq war veteran—was assaulted by the police in Joliet, Ill., for being a "fucking Arab" and a "fucking immigrant."
So media outlets dutifully remind that entire communities cannot be held responsible for atrocities committed by a lone gunman, but meanwhile they are busy constructing and stereotyping the "Korean American community." Take for example this LA Times article. To its credit, the article points out that there is a history of minorities having to bear the brunt of collective punishment (think World War II). It also highlights how some Asian Americans are irritated that their so-called "community leaders" are falling over themselves to "apologize" and voice their "collective guilt." Minorities in this country shouldn't have to "represent" and "distance" themselves from every act that someone who resembles them commits.
But then, the article goes on to say:
For Korean Americans, the sense of shame may be particularly acute because of their cultural commitment to interdependence. "Here in America, we think of ourselves as much more separate and autonomous," said Stanford University professor Hazel Rose Markus, an expert in cultural psychology.
"Foundational to Korean thinking is the sense that you need to
adjust yourself to expectations. It's very, very important that you protect your family face and reputation, recognize that whatever you do has consequences not just for you, but for others as well."
"Korean thinking"? Wasn't the idea to suggest that you cannot make generalizations about the presumed thinking of entire peoples? The "Korean community" is no more cohesive and homogenous than the "Muslim community" or "South Asian community." When the shooters of Columbine went on a rampage, no one in major media outlets quoted "experts" saying, "You see, foundational to white thinking..." They didn't go looking for loosely defined "white community leaders" to gauge the white community's collective response. Describing "Korean thinking" and treating the 1.3 million Korean Americans as a uniform group that has informal "representatives" who speak for them is just sloppy.
—Neha Inamdar
April RabkinApr. 19, 2007 8:11 PM
If you're reading this, chances are you're well-versed in global warming, maybe even "eco-anxious." But to get inside the heads of those still in denial, there's a helpful piece by John Lanchester in the London Review of Books. Since it's an 8,000-word essay, here are some of the most provocative passages:
"It is strange and striking that climate change activists have not committed any acts of terrorism. After all, terrorism is for the individual by far the modern world's most effective form of political action, and climate change is an issue about which people feel just as strongly as about, say, animal rights."
"Unfortunately, the climate debate came along at a time when the Republican Party was wilfully embracing anti-scientific irrationalism. One way of telling this story adopted by Kim Stanley Robinson in his novel Forty Signs of Rain begins with the Scientists for Johnson Campaign, run by a group of eminent scientists who were worried about Barry Goldwater's apparent eagerness to wage nuclear war. Their campaign had a considerable impact, and when Richard Nixon got to the White House four years later he was convinced that scientists were a dangerously anti-Republican political lobby. Nixon shut down the Office of Science and Technology, and kicked the presidential science adviser out of the cabinet an effective and still unreversed removal of science from the policy-making arena in the US."
"I suspect we're reluctant to think about it because we're worried that if we start we will have no choice but to think about nothing else."
He quotes James Lovelock: "I am old enough to notice a marked similarity between attitudes over sixty years ago towards the threat of war and those now towards the threat of global heating. Most of us think that something unpleasant may soon happen, but we are as confused as we were in 1938 over what form it will take and what to do about it. Our response so far is just like that before the Second World War, an attempt to appease. The Kyoto agreement was uncannily like that of Munich, with politicians out to show that they do respond but in reality playing for time."
He very briefly touches on the energy-industry's war on science: "The techniques in play were learned by the tobacco lobby in the course of the fights over smoking and health."
For Mother Jones coverage of global warming denial, read here, here, here, and here.
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Freedom's Ladder: WNYC and New York's Anti-Discrimination Law
On March 12, 1945, when Governor Thomas E. Dewey signed in to law the Ives-Quinn Anti-Discrimination Bill, New York became the first state to enact legislation curtailing the practice of discriminating against job applicants and employees on the basis of race, religion, or creed.
The Bill was modeled after the policies of the Fair Employment Practices Commission, created by President Roosevelt as part of Executive Order 8802 on June 25, 1941.
Support for the Bill was widespread among politicians and the public, but opposition from business and organized labor did exist. Among the criticism were claims that discrimination is an issue best left addressed by educational programs and that laws and provisions already in place at the time provided enough security against discrimination in employment. The enactment of the Ives-Quinn Bill, opponents argued, would impede economic growth in the state and, in some cases, drive established businesses away.
Despite this opposition, the Bill was passed by the State House and Senate and signed by Governor Dewey on March 12, 1945.
In an article published in the April, 1945, issue of The Crisis, the official publication of the NAACP, Julia E. Baxter writes that the Law was "wisely conceived." She continues:
"It embraces provisions for immediate action as well as machinery designed to educate the public to the awareness that discrimination undermines the entire social structure. Although New York over a period of years has enacted more social and economic legislation than any other state, most of its fourteen anti-discrimination laws depend on local prosecutors for their effectiveness. And now the Ives-Quinn bill comes to supplement and complement these laws. It establishes for all persons the right to employment without discrimination by employers, labor organizations, employment agencies or other persons. It creates a state agency whose function it is to see that discrimination in employment is prohibited."
"They Can't Stop Me Now"
The great impact of this Law is felt in a story taken from the biography of baseball executive Branch Rickey by Lee Lowenfish, in which Rickey, then the General Manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers, hears about the new Law:
"On the morning of March 13, 1945, Branch Rickey was drinking coffee and reading the newspaper in the spring training lodging at Bear Mountain. [Where the Brooklyn Dodgers had their very chilly spring training during the war.] Suddenly, he looked up from his paper with an animated expression on his face. 'What's wrong dear?', Jane Rickey asked her husband, wondering what now was bothering her easily-agitated mate. 'It was in the paper, Mother, that Governor Dewey has just signed the Ives-Quinn Law!' he exclaimed. 'They can't stop me now.'"
Stop him from what? From breaking an unspoken rule in baseball at the time and signing an African-American player for the first time, which he would accomplish later that year when he signed 26 year-old Jackie Robinson to the Montreal Royals, the Brooklyn Dodgers' farm team.
"A Wholesale Attack Against Prejudice"
There are many examples in the Municipal Archives' WNYC audio collection of local reactions to and effects of the Ives-Quinn Law and other topics related to discrimination. According to Baxter, the state's previous initiatives to teach tolerance in schools left much to be desired, so one of the aims of the new Law was to "commend to the appropriate state agency programs for formal and informal education." She continues: "In recognition of the newness of this legislation, its duties are expanded to provide development of a statewide adult education program to promote understanding and leadership in a wholesale attack against prejudice."
To that end, WNYC aired many programs aimed at raising awareness of racial issues and instructing the citizenry on the ways in which this Law would impact their lives.
One such program, "Freedom's Ladder," mixed entertainment with discussion of navigating the ins and outs of the new Anti-Discrimination Law. In this undated episode from 1946, host Bill Chase discusses the Anti-Discrimination Law with Lillian Sharp Hunter of the New York State Commission Against Discrimination and Ludlow W. Werner, editor of the New York Age; introduces performances by Triangle of Rhythm and the Peterson Sisters; and interviews actress Laura Bowman.
"Fostering a More Firmly-Cemented Interracial Bond"
Both Chase and the show's producer, Clifford Burdette, were African-American, a rarity in the world of radio. According to an article published in the New York Post on March 18, 1947, two years after the passing of the Ives-Quinn Bill, even though one in ten Americans was African-American, "only one out of every 150 steady jobs in radio goes to a Negro, and even then the job is likely to be that of porter, page boy or manual laborer."
The article goes on to quote research presented at a National Negro Congress panel discussion featuring CBS's Robert Heller: "There are only two Negro radio directors, Bill Chase and Cliff Burdett [sic], both on WNYC." Of the four locally-produced radio shows featuring contributions by African Americans at the time, WNYC claimed responsibility for two, "One More River" and "Freedom's Ladder."
Chase was a columnist and cartoonist for the Amsterdam News, an African-American newspaper in the city since 1909. According to Tim Jackson, a cartoonist and historian of black cartoonists, Chase was born in Arkansas in 1913 and worked as a cartoonist for the Amsterdam News from 1933 to 1949. At least one comic strip, "Pee Wee," is attributed to him, in addition to many editorial and sports cartoons.
Chase also covered society topics in a regular column called "All Ears." One edition, about the need for African-American women to be featured in the "Meet Miss Subway" advertisement series, was recently the topic of a post on the New York Times City Room blog. In the original article, published February 7, 1942, he writes: "I wish as many people as possible would write him [John Robert Powers, the man in charge of selecting models for the campaign] a letter (247 Park Avenue) requesting his use of a colored girl's picture at some early date." He then goes on to list the names of many women "who would photograph effectively (which means they'll appear brown enough so that there'll be no question in the minds of subwayites as to their true racial identity)."
The City Room blog post reports that it wasn't until 1948 that an African-American woman, Thelma Porter, was chosen as a Miss Subways.
The Ives-Quinn Law in the WNYC Archives
In addition to the program featured here, the Municipal Archives' collection of WNYC recordings also includes another episode of "Freedom's Ladder," in which Chase talks to Edward L. Carter Jr. about discrimination and performs an original composition with Melba Pope. Unfortunately, we only have one part of this show right now; the second part was transferred from a lacquer disc on to an acetate reel which also includes the December 9, 1946, episode of another Chase show, "Freedom is Everybody's Business," in which, according to old card catalog information, Chase talks to Monica Lewis and, again, Melba Pope. We are very excited to find this recording in the future!
At the end of last year, we found another of Chase's shows, the Easter episode of "One More River," a series created "in the sincere hope of fostering a more firmly-cemented interracial bond between all peoples and eliminating the virus of hate and bias," according to its introduction. This episode, from 1947, features the Nameless Choir and was produced by Ken Joseph in collaboration with Chase.
What we first noticed about "Freedom's Ladder" as we transferred it was the name of its producer, Clifford Burdette, whose work in radio has been well-documented, but difficult to find. Burdette was the creator of several radio programs on New York stations focused on the lives of African-Americans, including "Those Who Have Made Good," about the careers of successful African-Americans in the early 1940s, and "All Men Are Created Equal," which the New York Times described as having the "laudable aim of endeavoring to promote better understanding among all people, regardless of race of color" and was broadcast on stations WNEW and WINS around the same time.
In an article published in the Daily Worker on January 20, 1942, reporter James Morison applauds Burdette's work on the radio programs aired on WNYC: "Burdette has found a way not only to express himself, but to express the determination of his own people, the Negro people, to win complete equality in America by defeating discrimination and by counteracting the efforts of the Negro-haters."
He goes on to quote Burdette's own account of how he got in to the radio business: "I got a job as a stock boy in the silk store and later as a salesman. Soon I was able to get auditions on the air, and finally to sing in broadcasts. From that point it was increasingly easy to find a way to keep my faith with my parents' wish, that I do something to help my own people. I induced WNYC to let me experiment with an interview program, and finally the NAACP sponsored it. Today it is a popular feature with Negro and white listeners, wherever WNYC is heard."
This featured episode of "Freedom's Ladder" illustrates the importance of the work Chase and Burdette did at WNYC - and elsewhere - to further the discussion of racial and religious tolerance in the city. We look forward to discovering more evidence of their legacy in the collection.
Listen to another edition of Freedom's Ladder: HERE
Audio courtesy NYC Municipal Archives collection.


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