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Blair's spinners would like to opt for Attlee, but they know it won't wash. Failing that, they go for a kindly Vulcan image - firm, just, logical, and impervious to human emotional spasms. Meanwhile, comparisons with Harold Wilson are rejected out of hand - despite the obvious parallel between Wilsonian "white heat" modernisation and New Labour.
What of the other possible model - Hugh Gaitskell? Gaitskell was brave, honourable, resisted the Left, tried to drop Clause Four, fought against unilateralism, and wondered about the union connection. Some of his disciples have recently expressed a sense of deja vu. Ought not Tony to be seen as a reincarnated Hugh?
Not if he can help it, seems to be the answer. It tells us a lot about the underlying mood of Labour today that the Gaitskell analogy is an unacceptable one. As Brian Brivati points out in this interesting study, Roger Liddle and Peter Mandelson, leading apostles of Blairism, delicately avoided mentioning the name in their recent doctrinal text.
A few years ago the reason would have been tribal: for all his virtues, Gaitskell was the essence of the bourgeois right-winger rank-and-file comrades regarded with distrust. Times have changed. Today, Brivati suggests, the new establishment does not wish to be thought "Gaitskellite" because the lost leader held views that look embarrassingly left-wing. "To compare Gaitskell and Blair," he argues, "is to associate Blair with a politics of ethical collectivism whose objective was greater equality." In short, Gaitskell was a socialist - and much closer, philosophically, to his arch- enemy and rival, Aneurin Bevan, than either were to the eclectic politics of his successor-but-five.
It is a novel argument, which helps to give point to this re-evaluation of Labour's most unusual leader. Yet the question remains: is a new study of a politician who never made it to No 10 needed, given that a very thorough one already exists?
In 1979, the late Philip Williams published an official life of Gaitskell that was the mother of all political biographies. It was a meticulous, thousand-page account, in which almost every sentence was sourced, sometimes several times over. Challenging such a monument of scholarship is therefore an act of courage in itself.
However, there are grounds for making the attempt. First, Gaitskell is so central to an understanding of post-war British politics that it is important to get him right. Second, Williams's great study is a flawed work, written in a 19th-century tradition. The author's account of Labour politics in the 1950s and early 1960s has no equal for detail and accuracy. However, his argument is one-sidedly Gaitskellite; he turns a blind eye to Gaitskell's sometimes unconventional private life; and the characterisation of a reputedly robust figure is thin. However much the author insists that Gaitskell was not the "desiccated calculating machine" of Bevanite legend, desiccated is how he comes across. Thus the attempt of a young historian, born after Gaitskell's death and unaffected by Gaitskellite fervour, to add flesh to dry bones is as welcome as it is timely. The result succeeds and fails in unexpected ways. Half the length of Williams's volume, Brivati's Gaitskell is more energetic in its intellectual analysis, and more adventurous. But the author has written it under his own set of constraints.
Instead of gaining access to more documentation, he has been able to see less: the Gaitskell papers have not been available to him, and although he has had access to other newly available state and private papers his range of interviewees is narrower than Williams's, partly because some of the best witnesses are now dead. Hence, most of difference between Brivati and Williams lies in the interpretation. There are some fascinating contrasts. In particular, Brivati sees more strategising and guile, and less snow-white principle, than did his predecessor.
As Brivati reminds us, the future Labour leader's early career was nearly as unremarkable as Attlee's: both came from a highly convention-bound stratum of the professional middle-class. Where Gaitskell differed from his predecessor was that his middle-class education - the Dragon School, Winchester and New College - took him down an intellectual and aesthetic path. At Oxford, according to Brivati, Gaitskell moved "in a fast, fashionable and predominantly homosexual set". Yet he appeared to be worthy rather than exceptional. Like Blair, Gaitskell "was not born into the Labour Party but he chose it" - and a mystery still surrounds his conversion to socialism. An undergraduate project on Chartism encouraged him to take up WEA teaching, but becoming a Labour politician seems largely to have been a career choice at an early age.
Brivati reckons that Gaitskell's most important pre-war mentors were the puritanically serious Evan Durbin, later an MP, who died tragically in a drowning accident in 1948; and Hugh Dalton, patron of bright and personable left-wing young men. According to the author, Gaitskell did not emerge from the shadow of the booming Etonian socialist - "the defining political relationship of Gaitskell's life" - until the mid-1950s. As important as any individual, however, was Gaitskell's attachment to a group of New Fabians who set out in the 1930s to apply the new Keynesian economic thought to the woolly socialism of the Ramsay MacDonald era.
After an unsuccessful contest in 1935, he was adopted as candidate for South Leeds, a seat he won ten years later and held for the rest of his life. Gaitskell had a good war in Whitehall, assisting Dalton at the Ministry of Economic Warfare, and later at the Board of Trade - an experience, close to a highly political minister, that gave him first-hand knowledge of the permanent civil service, and of the scope and pitfalls of political leadership. Entering parliament at the age of 34, he quickly established himself in the Attlee government as a technocratic young minister who owed his place in the fast stream not to political credentials but (like his colleague and rival Harold Wilson) to his possession of rare and precious skills.
At this stage, Gaitskell was a typical evangelist of the age of austerity. While Douglas Jay declared that the gentleman in Whitehall was usually right, Dalton told smokers to save on imports by puffing their cigarettes right down to the butt, and Wilson deplored "New Look" dress because of the waste of cloth, Gaitskell - as Minister of Fuel and Power - instructed the public not to take baths, on the grounds that too much washing was a selfish indulgence. "Personally I've never had a great many baths myself," he confessed almost incredibly, declaring in the authentic tones of 1940s Big Brother socialism: "I can assure those who are in the habit of having a great many baths that it does not make a great deal of difference to your health if you have less. And as for your appearance most of that is underneath and nobody sees it."
Despite a rapid ascent, he was not an imposing public figure: in style unexciting, in appearance an early middle-aged Little Lord Fauntleroy, with his wavy hair and prim upper lip. It was the 1949 devaluation crisis, from which he emerged with greatest credit among the younger ministers, that transformed his fortunes, catapulting him to the Chancellorship of the Exchequer when Stafford Cripps retired, and enabling him to overtake not just the green-eyed Harold Wilson but the older, even more outraged Aneurin Bevan.
Brivati provides an excellent summary of the 1951 teeth-and-glasses row, when Gaitskell provoked Bevan beyond endurance over the proposal to breach the principle of a free service by imposing health charges. To Bevan, it was an unforgivable blasphemy committed by an unacceptable interloper: Gaitskell, he stormed, "represented nothing, unless it was the civil service- cum-middle class." His anger was genuine and so, Brivati thinks, was Gaitskell's cool rationality. The author makes a persuasive case that, by resigning, Bevan played straight into Gaitskell's hands - and that Gaitskell knew it. Where Williams saw Gaitskell's resistance as a matter of principle, Brivati sees a gleam of shrewd long-termism: though the crisis led to an election defeat, it also made Gaitskell a political star. But for the 1951 row, the author believes, he could never have become Labour leader. Because of it, he became the politician best placed to succeed Attlee if the party's mood was to skip a generation.
Brivati is convinced that Gaitskell's overwhelming victory over Bevan and Herbert Morrison in the 1955 leadership contest was no accident: after the 1951 Labour defeat, he maintains, Gaitskell's house in Frognal Gardens, Hampstead, "became the centre for a long and successful campaign for the leadership of the Labour Party". It was a campaign that permanently shifted the image of what a major leader should be like; he was the youngest major party leader of the century by a decade.
The choice marked a new departure in another way as well: Gaitskell was the first Labour leader to be chosen since the position emerged in the 1920s who was unmistakably identified with a faction. In this respect, it was a disaster. There were lulls. Mainly, however, Gaitskell's eight- year leadership was marked by a deep tension between the Bevanite and Gaitskellite wings of the party for which the party leader, who made no attempt to compromise, must certainly bear much of the responsibility.
Yet it is also true that Gaitskell developed a standing far beyond his own clique and even beyond the Labour Party. The other side of obduracy was conviction. The first and most impressive demonstration of this was over Suez in 1956, an escapade which at the time commanded the overwhelming support of public opinion. Brivati provides an interesting account of the joint Bevan-Gaitskell stand against Eden over the Anglo-French attack. Tony Benn, a young Gaitskell associate, wrote in his diary that the Leader's home "at that moment was one of the centres of the world".
It was a moment of unity. Usually, however, Gaitskell and Bevan were at each other's throats, or planning the next stranglehold. Much has been written in explanation - that it was personal, temperamental, chemical. There were also policies. Gaitskell's new biographer makes the interesting case that, despite the fierceness of the passions aroused on both sides, the assumptions were often identical. For example, although Gaitskell differed bitterly from Bevan over foreign policy and defence, the apparent gulf between Gaitskellite Atlanticism and Bevanite "Third Force" neutralism masked an unacknowledged agreement that Britain's continued position of world leadership should be taken for granted. Even the dispute over nationalisation was largely hair-splitting: Gaitskell was not against public ownership per se. "Nationalisation is a vital means," he declared on one occasion, "but it is only one" - by which socialist ideals should be achieved.
What were those ideals? That was and remains the nub. Freedom, certainly, was one of them. However, the biggest difference between Labour and the Tories in the Fifties and Sixties - and, in Brivati's opinion, what distinguishes Bevan and Gaitskell alike from New Labour - was a Durbin-and-Dalton derived commitment to equality: not just equality of opportunity, but a greater degree of equality of income, wealth and access to public goods and services. This was the faith Gaitskell adopted in his youth, Brivati suggests, and he remained true to it.
The author sees the 1959 election as the leader's apogee. The gains of a brilliantly fought campaign were apparently thrown away by an unwise pledge not to raise tax. Yet, curiously, Gaitskell emerged with his standing enhanced. In place of the calculating machine was a momentary charisma: after the poll, even Crossman wrote of "the godhead emerging from the man". It was an opportunity for healing: instead, the leader saw it as a chance to press home his advantage. Withdrawing into his coterie of "Hampstead Set" supporters, he gave revisionism its head, and the party was soon plunged into a civil war that threatened Labour with an anti- nuclear winter.
Yet it was a switchback ride: unlike in the 1980s, when Labour's divisions came close to annihilating the party altogether, the setback proved short- lived and (once again) adversity served to strengthen, not weaken, the leader. Gaitskell's survival - and above all his 1960 Scarborough "fight, fight and fight again" speech for which he is best remembered - seemed to set him on a road to No 10 (and, possibly, to a new internecine war with his own supporters over British entry into the Common Market, which he appeared to oppose).
His popularity in the country, and his party, was never greater than at the time of his unexpected death in January 1963. Brivati rightly rejects the rumour that he was murdered. Nevertheless, it was as if Wilson had been caught with a smoking gun: much of the Labour Party felt bereaved and cheated throughout the era that followed.
Such is the saga, varied in detail but not in essence in this new account, which succeeds better than its predecessor in showing how and why virtues in the eyes of supporters were seen as besetting weaknesses in the eyes of detractors. Less of a Gaitskellite partisan, the author succeeds in painting a more substantial portrait.
He is less successful with the private life, territory which Williams skated over. We might have hoped, not entirely pruriently, for more investigation. Brivati is not coy on the topic and maintains (in effect) that his hero was a serial adulterer who began an affair with his future wife, Dora, when she was married to somebody else, before cuckolding the creator of James Bond. He speaks of "meetings in Crosland's flat". Yet questions remain unanswered.
When, how often, and who knew about it? That a politician should have taken such risks, in a pre-permissive age, with his own career and with the reputation of his party is relevant in itself. Brivati tells us several times that Gaitskell just wanted to have "fun". He does not adequately discuss the light this sheds on the rest of his subject's character. Nor does he go into the apparent emotional ambivalence Gaitskell shared with his mentor, Hugh Dalton, and his friend and disciple, Tony Crosland, and which characterised the close friendships between the three of them.
A trunk full of letters between Gaitskell and Ann Fleming allegedly exists, which nobody has ever been allowed to see. So there may be a story yet to tell. Meanwhile, Brivati's study shows Gaitskell as egotistical and self-seeking, as well as tough and principled: in other words, a contradictory, believable and - warts and all - attractive human being.
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Richard Curtis, who wrote the screenplays for Four Weddings and a Funeral and Notting Hill and was the writer/director of Love Actually, uses time travel as a storytelling device in his latest romantic romp - all in an effort to prove you only need to live life once, as long as you live it well.
It takes a long time to get to the point of this film - to cherish loved ones and live for the moment - and when you get there it seems so obvious you might wonder what's been going on for the past couple of hours.
Well, what has been going on is much the same as previous Curtis films. Lovely, bumbling Englishman Tim (Gleeson) falls for London-resident American girl Mary (McAdams) and after negotiating their way through a series of misunderstandings they find true love. Along the way there's a wedding and a funeral, of course, and plenty of self-deprecating wit. The twist is that the added device of time travel means we get to do all this twice.
The method of time travel is deliberately silly. Tim presumes his father (Nighy) is having him on when he tells him men in their family can travel, and that they do it by shutting themselves in a cupboard, clenching their fists, and thinking of a moment in their life they'd like to return to. The scene where Tim tries for the first time is a delight, with Bill Nighy giving a very endearing performance.
Being able to travel back in time is essential when it comes to Tim wooing the love of his life, a very bookish-looking McAdams. Firsts with Mary quickly become seconds; as you can imagine things improve second time round, but while it adds some humour it also reveals a downside - it turns Tim into a fraud.
Curtis has compromised his lead man by seeming to ignore the selfishness of one man changing people's lives to suit himself, but Domhnall Gleeson is so likable as the Hugh Grant of all this, it's easy to forgive him. Gleeson handles the slapstick well, has a sweet chemistry with Rachel McAdams and the chops to handle the more dramatic moments. Other than Gleeson, McAdams and Nighy, everyone else just gets lumped rather lazily into the quirky box.
About Time is less funny and more philosophical that we expect from Curtis, and is a shapeless film that meanders on. But it still has all the right cues to make you laugh, and cry. Unfortunately, it will also have you glancing at your watch wondering when time will be up.
Stars: 3/5
Cast: Domhnall Gleeson, Rachel McAdams and Bill Nighy
Director: Richard Curtis
Running time: 122 mins
Verdict: A long, formulaic Richard Curtis rom-com


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So I've got Scrivener open, and I'm writing words - good words, they are coming easily, my people are sounding true. It's tiring, because I've got the tail end of the flu, and damn near everything is tiring, but the writing is going well.
I take a tea break, come back to the story - and a fist of panic punches me in the throat; I feel sick and tearful, and I can't, can't, won't, can't touch this story again. It takes me a a good half an hour to return to my senses. Nothing like this has happened to me before, but I know why it has today.
It feels like this story matters. To me, obviously - it's a story I want to tell well, and I'm not sure I have the skill. It feels like I've wobbled into the ice rink and, instead of staying by the barrier, I've pushed off towards the middle.
Now, you who know me may remark that a person who has been finishing short stories for over ten years, and having them published and enjoyed for as long, might possibly have more confidence in her skating. To this I say... wouldn't that be nice.
I write really good erotica/erotic romance. I'm not going to do a dance of modesty about this, because I've worked at it, and became good. I have this story in my in my head right now about this girl in a faux-Regency town, she has her hair cropped short, and dresses as a boy, and earns her bread by writing out letters for farmers who come to the Saturday market, and then she meets this - anyway. I'll write this story some time, and I don't feel at all anxious about it. I know I can make the story on paper be as good as the picture in my head.
And it doesn't Matter. Somehow my jerk-brain has decided that none of my skill, none of my successes in erotica matter. They are canceled, they don't count. The story I'm working on today is near-future SF, and if I submit it, it will be under my own name (my maiden name in all likelihood), and as far as my jerk-brain is concerned, this one follows straight from my previous straight-SF story, which I wrote a good three years ago, and which is so flawed I can't to this day work out how to fix it.
Jerk-brain thinks I can write only stories that don't matter.
The thing that helped me get over this fugue today was stopping to ask myself this: why does erotica not matter to my jerk-brain? Because, it said, there's very little competition. To which I say, bullshit, there's more bad pr0n than there is SF, I mean, have you *been* on the Internet? OK, it says. OK. It's because writing a good piece of erotica is easier, because come what may (hur-hur), some people are going to be doing sexual things, so some of your scenes are predetermined. To which I say, hello, you think that makes things EASIER?
Well, you find it easy, says the jerk-brain.
And here it hits me. I've convinced myself that, because I feel comfortable and confident when doing a thing well, it must be an easy thing to do. If I'm good at something, it must be easy, it must not MATTER. A thing I'm good at can't matter, I mean, god, seriously, *that fluff*.
When I hit this bit, I had a giggle, and gave myself a pat on the head for a stellar display of self-knowledge. I can see right back to when I started writing as a wee kid, and how my jerk-brain managed to turn every success into an accident or make it otherwise insignificant.
I got accepted into a writing workshop, but it didn't matter, because not many people got turned down. I had a couple of stories published, but it didn't matter, because it was only in shitty Porog, anybody could get published there. (This may have been true.) I got an award, but it didn't count, because it was only from an editor of this one magazine, and anyway, I didn't write anything else for years.
Then I moved to the UK, and started writing in English, and some people liked it, but it didn't matter, because I wasn't getting published. Then I did get published, but that didn't matter, because the story wasn't actually that good. Then I wrote some good stories, and they got published, and I started getting letters from actual fans, and invitations to exciting anthologies, but it didn't matter, because these weren't novels, and anyway it wasn't proper writing, it was porn, OK?
Well played, jerk-brain, well played. You can go to your cave now.
I guess there should be some sort of moral here, but I didn't mean this to be an essay, more of a record of how I set off to write a near-future mundane SF story, and got a bucket of enlightenment and self-knowledge.
That said, a moral: the jerk-brain lies. Yours does too.


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text: Up, up, I hike, through the mountainous steppes as I search for geodes of banded agate and crystal. With legs already sore from over 30 kilos of geodes in my backpack, I press on—there's another one right here, and another just over there. Heading for the summit, I am drawn to a collection of sun-bleached bones. A horse, I think, although no skull can be found. I've seen wild horses here before, and I passed another, more complete set of bones in the coulee below. At the summit now, the bones and the view compete for my attention; I've always loved bones and the stories I wrap around them, and yet the enormity of a Patagonian landscape grabs at your consciousness with its wildness. This is one of those blank places on a map, an indescribably wild place where you can stretch to your fullest and never touch the edges. I wonder if the horse came to this spot feeling its weakness and waning days, seeking that sense of fullness proffered only by a great expanse of wilderness. What a place to go, I think to myself in admiration, as I turn circles to take in the view. I spend a moment considering the complacent conviction that the world has been made for humans by humans; bewitched by our mad societies we too often forget that there are extraordinary places unresponsive to the flip of a switch or the press of a button and which have their own rhythms and orders of existence. Immersing myself in this rhythm quells the desperate search for authenticity that often plagues my city days. Finally I glance down to examine the bones, and I'm surprised to see a Pichi—one of the smallest of all armadillos—sunning itself in the meager lee of a weathered leg bone. About the size of a mango, this Pichi hasn't noticed me, or maybe hasn't cared to notice me. Out here, it may not have a fear of humans; in its short life I may be the only one it has ever encountered. While talking to the Pichi, I slowly bend down and caress its head. Still showing no fear or distress, I place the whole of my hand over its sun-warmed back. I can feel the slight expansion of its armour each time it inhales. We stay like this for many minutes; the Pichi breathing beneath my hand and I admiring the intricate existence of such an unlikely creature. Touching this armadillo, reliving the last moments of this horse's life, and taking in the wildness of the landscape around me makes me feel only very recently tamed, as if I could just slip between the blades of grass and belong to this Earth, effortlessly.


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Winona Republican-Herald, The (Newspaper) - November 18, 1950, Winona, Minnesota Cloudy Tonight; Colder, Snow Late Sunday K Inner p. m. Mon. American p. m. W Tuesday Rogues' p. m. Wed. Your p. m. Fri. The p. m. Fri. N Hannibal Monday U Through Saturday VOLUME 5C. NO. 233 FIVE CENTS PER COPY WINONA, MINNESOTA, SATURDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 18, 1950 FOURTEEN PAGES BERSERK NEW JERSEY GUNMAN KILLS FIVE Banker 'Liked Him' Cohen Cites Loan Without Security By James R. Bacon Los Kefauver Senate crime committee, admit- tedly unsatisfied with Mickey Cohen's version of the Los Angeles crime problem, plays a holdover date here today. The crime Kefauver Tobey (R.-N.H.) and Wiley planned to be in San Francisco tod'ay. Instead that session was postponed until I Tuesday. Jimmy Utley, an under-1 j world foe of Tohpn will hr amnnu borrowed more than a quarter of Those heard mmion last years Rudulph Halley, committee coun-l and pald Uttle of u back' He told sel who persistently quizzed Cohen yesterday, said he was "doubt- ful" of some of Cohen's answers. He said he believed Cohen answer-1 "He Just took a liking to ed questions truthfully when explained, was sure they were drawn from Mr. Cohen, you undoubtedly must official records. j be a man of considerable charm Halley's persistence on certain to borrow from a bank president j questions aroused Cohen's ire on j under such enviable several occasions. j observed Senator Kefauver. Cohen gave some puzzling ans- j Cohen said he wants very much wers. Among them: jto pay the money back but he "I haven't the slightest idea why j can't get into any business be- anyone would want to kill me. I! cause "I got cops that put me to have spent thousands of dollars sleep and wake me up again." trying to find out. I have nothing. Senator Kefauver asked Cohen No one would want to muscle in about his visits and numerous tele- on me. I just ain't got nothing." j phone calls to hoodlums and gam- He opened his wallet, showed I biers in most of the nation's large and said it's all he had. He cities. added that he is in debt "I never had any business deal- and has been borrowing heavily. ings with any of "them. They're The "borrowing" puzzled the f just personal the witness senators, who learn that he has I replied. of borrowing from the pre- sident of the Hollywood State bank with no note nor interest. Army Adopts Marine Green Tanks, Infantry Gain in Blizzard American infantrymen thrust through a snow- itorm today toward the Manchurian frontier in rugged northeast Korea. mercury was skidding sharply. Only scattered rifle fire from nearby hills opposed the doughboys Of the U. S. Seventh division in the four-mile drive that carried them within two miles of burning Kapsan, 21 air miles south of the Red border. Washington Front-line soldiers are going to look more like that rival outfit the Ma- rines. The Army announced yester- day it has ordered new com- bat uniforms of dark olive green to replace present olive drab ones as they wear out. A spokesman, without the flick of an eye toward the Ma- rines' greens, said the new Ar- my uniform has a better de- sign and better camouflage properties than the present bat- tle dress. The Army is also working on a new garrison uniform for inspections, parades and desk work. It hasn't made up its mind on whether to have blue- gray or gray-green. Acheson Flays Critics, Raps 'Re-examinists' A irSer vice Near for Winona By John Hightower Washington Secretary of State Dean Acheson has decided to fight it out with his Republican critics, some of whom want him I of Madison is problematical, but May Be on Temporary Basis at Start Committee Back From Washington Hearing Optimistic Airline service for Winona, on a temporary basis at least, seems certain within the very near fu- ture. This was the optimistic report given to city officials and airport managers today by J. M. George, Winona attorney who represented the city at a pre-hearing confer- ence before the Civil Aeronautics board Wednesday in Washington, D. C, Whether the service will be pro- vided by Mid-Continent Airlines of Kansas City or Wisconsin Central fired. service on a temporary basis is This became clear today in the virtually certain pending the out- light of his sharp attack last night on post-election statements made by Senator Taft It was verified by Acheson's aides. In last night's speech, Acheson come of the hearing involving the entire route between the Twin Cities and Chicago and the ques- tion of trunk line feeder line ser- vice. said, without naming Taft, that he I Attend Hearing has read that the "isolationist" hss i At the Washington hearing were disappeared from the American Congressman August Andresen, scene and that a new figure has appeared, whom he called the "re- examinist." Taft, in post-election statements, said that "anybody is an idiot who calls anybody else an isolationist." State Aeronautics Commissioner, L, L. Schroeder and Joseph Bright, assistant attorney general of Min- nesota; Mr. George; representa- tives of La Crosse and Rochester who have intervened in the case Correspondent Tom Stone, g rearm' with the Seventh, reported that j .Acheson spoke beFfore nation. the storm, dropping temperature and rocky terrain were the biggest obstacles. However, a field officer to TODAY- President Worried, Heartsick By Joseph <.nd Alsop j foo.OOO North'Korean had shown their lack of con- al council of Negro Women. In an acidly humorous series of jibes, he suggested a "re-examinist" is the same thing as an "isolationist" and I declared those who advocate such a course "incapable of the very foundations of leadership." I But the significance in the speech I what he said as the fact that he Little Resistance said il' since tte election Re- Elsewhere Red resistance evap- Publicans have been demanding his i orated. But on the western sector I resignation on the ground that the Smoke still was rising from the town from heavy Allied air strikes covering the advance. The Seventh the Am He called for a re-examination of I with Winona and attorneys for most of the nation's airlines. Following the pre-hearing con- ference, a private hearing to pre- sent the case of the three cities was held before F. W. Brown, chief examining officer and James Verner, assistant to Delos Rentzel, chairman of the CAB. This, in turn, was followed up by personal conservations with most of the members of the board or their assistants by Mr. Schroeder and Waihington of those presen' at President Tru- man's press c' flference last week carried away with him a sense of utter unreality. It was not that there was anything unusual about the press conference. It was the first since the election, and it was natural that most of the questions concerned the election results. At le-ist one i were reported dig- iccidL uiic n ging into a low mountain defense line south of the Yalu river's inter- national powersites on the Man- churian border. The Red objectives appeared on the basis of intelligence reports to be: U. N. forces get ahead under harassment into the higher mountain gaps in the northeast i ft .1 iii me iiui With his usual cheerfulness, the where they might be ti d d President insisted that the results j through the bitler cold winter at were not really unfavorable -the the end snowbound supplv lines Democrats lost less than any party 2-Resist on a 60-mile line run- in power had lost in any off-year I mng through uplands from Taechon election since 1916, except for 1934. j on the southwest to Tcikchon With his usual stubbornness, the amj Chongchon river area President also insisted that he i China Reds stuck by his whole domestic politi- j Intelligence sources at Eighth cal program-now quite obviously Army headquarters estimated a footnote to history and that about Chinese in three divi- he expected the new Congress to sion-size task forces are on the Taechon-Tokchon line with about North Koreans. Other units There was nothing unusual, eitn- are in supporting positions. There cr, in the President's appearance. was no reported evidence of any The four neat points of his pock- Reds pulling back to the Yalu in fidence in him. pass it. No Nervousness Shown Murder, Assault Charges Filed Against Attacker Hayward, Wis. A 25-year- old resort worker who told author- ities of a bloody attack on his fam- ily Friday was in jail today on charges of first degree murder and assault with intent to murder. I 7o "provide" Stanley Crocker telephoned Saw- such service immediately, there is Mr. Bright. Patience Exhausted "Winona has already had two sets of patience Josh Lee, a member of the board, said. He and other members assured the Minnesotans that Winona's case as well as that of La Crosse and Rochester will come up for general discussion by the board at its next meeting. "This said Mr. George today, "That Winona is going to get special consideration because it does not have airline service." Mr. Schroeder was equally op- timistic, i "On the basis of our conversa- he told The Republican- Herald, "it appears the board rec- ognizes the fact that Winona needs air carrier service and cannot wait for two years until the entire case has been decided." Wint Prompt Servic, He said if the board does not Wounds Four Others in ill1! f r "i Wife s Family Caught in Attempt To Escape Police Net Ernest Ingenito, center, 25-year-old Piney Hollow, N. J., war veteran who machine gunned to death five of his in-laws and wounded four others, has his head held up for a picture after his capture early today near Vineland, N. J. New Jersey state police troopers who captured Ingenito after an automobile chase are Leonard Cunningham, left, of the Malaga police barracks, and Ray Vorberg, of the Port Norris barracks. (A.P. Wirephoto to The Republican-Herald.) yer County Sheriff William Sands from a hotel at Winter Friday morning and asked to be arrested. Dead in a backwoods cabin was Stanley Crocker, Jr., 18 months old. His sister, Christine, four, was et handkerchief wcro red. instead that area 45 miles northwest of! fatally wounded and their mother, of the customary white. His face Tacchon._____ j Irma, severely cut. looked a shade pinker than usual. shade plumper. He spoke with his j Cigarette Levy Deductible hands clasped behind his back, pos-! Oklahoman Gains Draw in Bout Over Income Taxes By Charles Molony v-...v. ................-r can take a federal income tax deduction ness. This happened when a re- slate cigarette taxes paid in a state which requires that each pack porter risked him about the stories bc Tto Lhe amount of the levy. of inadequate clothing for the: I Thompson, an Oklahoma City cement finisher, won a troop: in Korea. Truman replied decision on this point from the U. S. tax court yesterday. Thompson _ ,_ im itr _i_ J r a good possibility it will request Wisconsin Central to do so. To provide the type of ser- vice Winona needs, however, would require a remapping of (Continued on Page 9, Column 1) AIR SERVICE Bodies Of Two of the five victims of Machine Gun Slayer Ernest Ingenito lie on the lawn and in the doorway of the Piney Hollow, N. J., h )me of Armando Pioppi, grandfather of the killer's wife. The bod; in the foreground under a cloth is that of John Pioppi, who the killer with a knife in an attempt to stop the slaughter, but was cut down by a bullet blast. Slain Mrs. Theres'a Pioppi lies where she fell in the doorway of the house. Standing guard are unidentified New Jersey state police troopers. (A.P. Wirephoto to Thp Republican-Herald.) 1 By Frank O'Brien Vineland, N. J. A berserk 25-year-old appliance salesman I was captured without a struggle early today four and a half hours I after he machine gunned to death j five of his estranged wife's family and wounded four others. Ernest Ingenito. a "pleasant fac- led" war veteran, was captured by I two New Jersey state troopers aft- I er a two-mile automobile chase down a country lane in the scrub i pine flatlands of nearby Landis I township. He gave up without a j struggle, saying simply, "I'm the one you are looking for." He was whisked away under heavy guard to Malaga state po- lice barracks where officers at- tempted to determine why Ingenito started his reign of terror. A few miles away, authorities pieced together the story of the I horror-filled moments that brought j death to: Michael 44, Ingeni- to's father-in-law, Pearl Meizoli, 45, In- genito't mother-in-law. John Pioppi, 46, uncle of In- genito's wife. Mrs. Theresa Pioppi, grand- mother of Ingenito's wife. Marion Pioppi, 28, wife. Wounded were the gunman's wife, Tessie, 23; a eight-year-old cousin, Jean Pioppi; Frank Maz- zoli, 35; Michael Mazzoli's brother, and Frank's wife, Hilda, 34. Frank Mazzoli and Jean Pioppi underwent emergency operations shortly after being taken to New- comb hospital in Vineland, All the wounded except--Mrs. Ingenito were listed in critical condition. The shootings occurred less than 20 miles from the scene of another massacre. On September 6, 1949, Howard Unruh walked grimly down Camden's River road, killing 13 victims with a Luger pistol. Un- ruh, a war veteran, now is held in the New Jersey state hospital for the insane at Trenton. Heavily Armed State Police Captain Howard A. Carlson said Ingenito was heavily The paper was found by a re-1 armed when captured by two pair man in a tube used to send troopers. Leonard Cunningham interoffice communications at the and Raymond Vorberg. 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Window Jamb question
I am ready to install a window jamb into my basement window now that I have the sheetrock finished. I am having an issue though where the distance from the window to the sheetrock varies around the frame, anywhere from 8" to 8 1/2". I want the jamb to be flush with the sheetrock, so how is this accomplished? Is leaving a gap in the rear against the window and simply caulking it ok? Or is there something I am missing here? Is there a tool I could use to shave the front down level with the sheetrock and not make it look like a 3 year old did it?
Sometimes you have to just custom cut every board.
Plainer, sander, table saw, might be in and out of the frame 30 times before it's right. :thumbsup:
Install the jamb. Leave it stand out past the wall. Install temporary 1x3s around the jamb and against the drywall. Then use a router to trim the jamb back almost flush with the finished wall. You want to leave it stand a little proud (1/16") so you can sand it almost flush with the drywall.
Thanks for the ideas, I think I'll try what you suggest maintenance 6, sounds like a winner to me. I'll post my success (or failure) when I get done!
When I had this problem, I scribed the jamb projection unto a piece of 3/4" wood that was the length of the window trim.
Then, I cut along the scribe on my table saw.
I then glued this to the window trim, before cutting the corner miters.
Didn't own a router at that time!
Ok so what I ended up doing was just cut my jamb boards at 8" around the entire window. This of course left a gap. I mounted them flush to the drywall, leaving the gap in the rear against the window. I then used peices of latice that I cut to overlay the gap. This leaves a small 1/4" raised surface of course, but it looks rather nice. This way I didn't have to waste multiple boards trying to custom cut my jamb. I primed and painted the jamb and it all looks really nice!
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Follow these 12 pro drywall-taping tips to improve your skills, speed up the job and result in smoother walls. They include mixing, knife techniques and problems to avoid.
Use a paddle-type mixer in a 1/2-in. drill for this mixing method.
The masher-type hand mixer works well if you don't have a 1/2-in. drill for the paddle mixer.
If you've just opened a bucket, remove about a quart of the joint compound to make room for water. Then add about two or three cups of water and start mixing the compound. Pros use a powerful 1/2-in. drill with a special mixing paddle. But a hand-powered giant "potato masher"–type mixer made for this purpose works great for the casual taper.
The best consistency for joint compound depends on its purpose. It should be pudding consistency for hand taping, and a little thicker for the final coats. For smaller jobs, transfer some of the joint compound to another pail before mixing so you can make custom batches for taping or finishing.
The potato masher-type mixer smoothes the compound and gets the air bubbles out.
Joint compound straight from the pail is simply too thick to apply and spread evenly. So before you start taping, begin by thinning and mixing the joint compound.
Fill gaps top to bottom with setting compound.
Setting-type compound is perfect for prefilling because it hardens quickly and doesn't shrink as much as regular joint compound.
Start by breaking or cutting out areas of the drywall that are broken or crushed, then peel away any paper shreds left around the edges. Then mix up a small batch of setting-type compound (if you mix too much, it'll harden before you use it up). Mix it thick so it'll stick in the holes without sagging. When the compound sets to the hardness of soap, scrape off high spots and lumps with the edge of your taping knife. Also fill gaps between sheets with setting compound and let it harden before you apply joint compound and tape.
Hold a utility knife at an angle and slice off the drywall edges to create the groove.
The paper facing on drywall ends may show through the taped seam. Avoid this problem by carving a shallow "V" groove between the sheets after you hang them. Then fill the "V" with setting-type joint compound before you cover the seam with joint compound and tape. This will really help out with the toughest taping challenge—butt joints.
Run a 6-in. taping knife over all the joints when dry to knock off ridges. The ridges are usually there, even if you don't see them!
Even experienced tapers leave little globs of joint compound and an occasional ridge. If you don't get rid of these after they dry, they'll cause you all kinds of grief. Chunks of dried compound can break off and get stuck under your taping knife and cause streaks in your fresh joint compound that you'll have to fill in later. Avoid the problem by scraping the joints between coats. All it takes is a quick once-over with a 6-in. taping knife to knock off ridges and bumps. Hold the knife at a low angle and push it across the taped joints.
Press the tape into the compound, spreading the squeeze-out along the sides.
You can avoid a lot of extra work later by making sure paper tape is thoroughly embedded in the joint compound. Start by laying a thick bed of joint compound down the center of the seam. Then smooth it down to a consistent thickness of about 1/8 in. with your 5- or 6-in. taping knife. Wet the tape and press it into the joint compound. Then, starting at the center and working toward the ends, press the tape into the joint compound with your knife. The key to success is making sure joint compound oozes out from under both sides of the tape as you embed it.
If compound doesn't ooze out, the tape probably won't stick in that area.
Paper tape that's not completely embedded in joint compound will bubble or fall off later when it dries. Keep a close eye on the tape as you embed it with the taping knife. If you see sections of the tape where one or both sides remain dry with no joint compound oozing out, pull off the tape and apply more joint compound under the dry areas. Then reapply the tape over the new joint compound.
Working both sides of a corner at once seems faster, but actually results in more nicks, dents and ridges.
It's pretty easy to get a nearly flawless coat of joint compound on the first side of an inside corner. But if you start on the second side before the first is dry, things get tough. That's because it's impossible to avoid messing up the wet compound on the first side, and you won't be able to avoid making a groove in the corner.
Smooth one side; then allow it to dry before mudding the other side.
The trick is to coat one side of each corner and let it dry overnight before troweling joint compound on each adjacent side. Start by spreading about a 3-in. band of joint compound over the tape on one side of the corner. Then smooth it with a 5- or 6-in. taping knife. Press the outside edge of the knife against the drywall to create a feathered edge that won't require much sanding. Try to avoid leaving too much joint compound over the tape—a buildup at the corner will make it harder to fit baseboard or crown moldings tight to the wall.
Taping the metal corner helps to prevent cracks.
Cracking along the edge of metal outside corner beads is a common problem. And usually it doesn't happen until after the wall is painted, so repairing the crack means repainting the wall again! There are a couple of solutions. One method that's become standard practice for professional tapers is to use special corner bead that is held on by joint compound rather than nails. No-Coat Ultratrim is one such product.
If you don't want to go shopping for special corner bead, avoid future cracking by applying paper tape over the metal edge after you've nailed on the bead. Embed the tape just as you would on any joint. Then fill the corner as usual.
Dampen, but don't soak, the tape in a bucket of water.
Wetting the tape before you embed it in the joint compound can help eliminate troublesome bubbles that show up after the joint dries. Keep a bucket of water nearby and quickly run each piece of tape through it before applying the tape to the wall.
Completely remove all bubbled tape and remud.
Even if you're diligent about embedding the tape, you'll occasionally run into a section of tape that bubbles or comes loose. Don't try to bury the problem with more compound. It'll just reappear later. Instead, cut around the damaged area with a utility knife and remove the tape. Avoid a divot in this spot by filling the recess with setting compound and letting it harden before applying another coat of joint compound.
Have the necessary tools for this DIY project lined up before you start—you'll save time and frustration.
You'll also need a potato-type mixer or paddle mixer and a 1/2-in. drill.
Avoid last-minute shopping trips by having all your materials ready ahead of time. Here's a list.


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Boston Hedge Fund Highfields Capital Management apparently had had enough. It watched in dismay as its investment in the nation's No. 3 electronics retailer, Circuit City Stores Inc. (CC ), floundered. Finally it took action. But Highfields didn't sell its 6.7% stake and then maybe try its luck at shorting the stock. Instead, it decided to buy the whole company, making a surprise $3.25 billion bid on Feb. 15. The stock soared 16% that day.
Highfields and its reclusive managers, Jonathon Jacobson and Richard Grubman, are on the leading edge of a new wave of corporate raiders. Flush with hundreds of billions of dollars in cash from investors and hard-pressed to maintain the double-digit returns they promise as competition stiffens, many hedge funds are reinventing themselves as private investment firms. They charge the high fees of a hedge fund but, no longer content with shorting shares or pursuing other hedging strategies, they're seizing control of companies.
In all, hedge funds and their affiliates have announced deals for at least 23 companies, valued at about $30 billion, in the past year. Already, New York-based Cerberus Capital Management, named for the three-headed dog that guards the gates of hell in classical mythology, controls companies worth at least $20 billion that employ tens of thousands of people.
The escalating battle over chunks of Corporate America is creating fear and outrage in many executive suites. Even if they're unable to buy companies outright, hedge funds are winning board seats, ousting chief executives, and forcing companies to shape up by making big stock and bond purchases. They're butting heads with rival buyers for outfits that are for sale and launching hostile tender offers for those that aren't. And they're no respecters of size. A former Morgan Stanley (MWD ) managing director, Scott Sipprelle, the 42-year-old chairman of $1 billion Copper Arch Capital, has become so frustrated at his old firm's underperforming stock that he is publicly calling on the company with a $65 billion market cap to dump its credit-card and retail-brokerage operations. Morgan Stanley insiders believe he is trying to put the company in play.
Some of the raids threaten to be far bloodier than those launched a generation ago by Street-smart raiders such as T. Boone Pickens and Henry R. Kravis. For one, the new raiders don't need any help financing their deals, as the 1980s crowd did. A few have $10 billion or more in their war chests. Dozens have more than $1 billion, a far cry from the select group that dominated the takeover game back then.
What's more, the new raiders can be more aggressive than their predecessors because the times allow them to be. In the wake of Enron and other scandals, companies have never been as vulnerable to shareholder demands as now. Businesses must disclose more information than ever, their poison pills are gone, and their spats with shareholders on earnings calls are widely broadcast. Hedge funds can exploit this changed climate because, unlike traditional buyout funds, they don't have conservative pension funds that loathe public controversy stopping them from making hostile moves.
It's not just CEOs who are suffering sleepless nights. Traditional buyout firms are getting the jitters, too. Some, such as Texas Pacific Group, are setting up partnerships with hedge funds to compete for investor dollars. Some bankers expect that, as more hedge funds turn hostile, the more nurturing private-equity firms will present themselves as white knights ready to ride to the rescue of the hedgers' targets. "I would not be surprised if private-equity firms tried to top Highfields' bid for Circuit City," says Alan K. Jones, a senior banker at Morgan Stanley.
Still, hedge funds are rewriting the rules for Corporate America. They are supplying jet fuel for mergers and acquisitions. And their leaders are emerging as a new managing class. Some are forcing managers to admit that assets, such as real estate, are worth more than entire businesses. They are taking the idea that CEOs work for shareholders to an entirely new level, speeding up the revolving door to head honchos' offices. "We're not going to see the Jack Welches any more who are allowed their periods of ups and downs," says John Challenger, CEO of executive recruiting firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas Inc.
Private equity firms charge that these often young, impatient numbers guys who run hedge funds and sit for hours in front of computer screens are ill-equipped to run companies. Veteran buyout specialist Kravis warns that hedge funds do not know how to create value. "Companies are not pieces of paper," echoes Michael G. Psaros, founding partner of private equity firm KPS Special Situations Funds.
Hedgers maintain that they are better qualified to run businesses than are most chief executives. "I've invested in hundreds of companies," brags 39-year-old Thomas R. Hudson Jr., founder of nearly three-year-old Pirate Capital, which has raised almost $400 million and had a 29% return after fees last year. "Most CEOs have come up through the ranks. Maybe they've worked at four or five places." Plus, some hedge funds have former CEOs and CFOs on their payrolls, ready to be parachuted in at a moment's notice.
The new raiders often hunt in packs. In August, several, including Och-Ziff Capital Management Group, teamed up with Berkshire Hathaway (BRK ) and White Mountains Insurance Group (WTM ) to buy insurer Symetra Financial, formerly owned by Safeco, for $1.35 billion.
Some funds buy just enough stock to bark out orders to management. Call them the Attack Dogs. Others, the Midas Men, straighten out struggling companies. Then there are the Crackerjacks, who use cutting-edge maneuvers to outsmart other bidders. Here's how they work:
When 39-year-old Warren G. Lichtenstein made a hostile bid for rocket-motor-maker GenCorp Inc. (GY ) in November, he stunned Wall Street vets who never imagined a hedge fund buying such a company. But for Lichtenstein, founder and principal of the $3 billion New York-based Steel Partners, it was all in a day's work. From his perspective, he "owns" 25 companies, bought with downpayments of less than 15% of their stock -- as though they were houses. "We're called a hedge fund because of our fee structure, but we're just a partnership that can invest in public and private companies. We hedge by buying cheap," he says.
Distinction without a difference? Perhaps. As a major shareholder, Lichtenstein is chairman of aerospace technology company United Industrial Corp. (UIC ). There's little hint that just two years ago Lichtenstein was an outsider waging war against the company's management. Since he became chairman, the company's stock has doubled, to $33. That contributed to the roughly 35% return after fees that Lichtenstein's fund racked up in the past year, making it one of the hottest around. What does Lichtenstein bring to companies that managers can't? "Discipline," he says. "Empower the people. And then hold them accountable."
Now Lichtenstein is setting his sights on bigger trophies. He used to invest in $100 million companies. These days he hunts mostly for bargains in the $2 billion range, believing he'll fare better because there's less risk in bigger companies. They employ higher-quality people and ultimately have more suitors willing to pay top dollar for them, yet they are riddled with inefficiencies and excessive costs.
Another top raider prefers a more swashbuckling image. Surrounded by buccaneer memorabilia in Pirate Capital's office in Norwalk, Conn., Hudson and his crew fire off lawsuits and testy letters to companies that they consider poorly run. They helped to oust the chairman and CEO of educational services provider Cornell Cos. (CRN ) and to attract offers for John Q. Hammons Hotels Inc. (JQH ).
James A. Mitarotonda, a co-founder and principal of Barington Capital Group, has created waves, too. From his office opposite Carnegie Hall in New York City, he spurred changes that led to the Feb. 7 resignation of the CEO of Register.com Inc. (RCOM ).
At the other end of the spectrum, most deals pursued by Midas men are not hostile. But these alchemists who spin distressed companies into gold increasingly find themselves facing off against private equity and corporate buyers for bargains. Stephen A. Feinberg, founder of Cerberus, which manages more than $14 billion, backed out of a deal last year for Clayton Homes Inc. that was also pursued by Warren E. Buffett.
But Feinberg has outmaneuvered other buyers to pick up old-line companies such as Anchor Glass Container (AGCC ) and MeadWestvaco's (MWV ) paper unit along with its 900,000 acres of forest land. In December he took public BlueLinx Holdings Inc. (BXC ), a building-products distributor bought from Georgia-Pacific Corp. (GP ) last May.
Iconic companies aren't out of the hedge funds' reach. D.E. Shaw & Co., with $12 billion in capital and populated by PhDs, bought toy emporium FAO Schwarz out of bankruptcy last year. Founder David E. Shaw, himself a PhD in computer science, personally promised Frederick August Otto (F.A.O.) Schwarz, Jr., the founder's great-grandson, to make the retailer the world's greatest toy store. "Our feeling was that the brand was strong and the things FAO used to do were important and worth something," says Shaw, whose mother viewed toys as works of art. "If we brought [FAO] back to its original mission, [the company] should be profitable."
If Shaw pulls off the revival, it will indicate that hedge funds can be better managers than critics give them credit for. There are positive signs. People beg to be let in to FAO Schwarz's flagship New York store on Fifth Avenue before its doors open at 10 a.m. Once it's time, three salespeople, dressed as toy soldiers, roll out a red carpet and blast a trumpet to greet shoppers. Shaw says the catalog and online businesses have "exceeded expectations." The company says it is profitable.
Hedge funds are adept at finding new wrinkles in traditional dealmaking. Like many financiers, Edward Lampert's ESL Investments started buying shares of his target, Sears (S ), before making a bid for the company. But there was a twist: He already owned and ran the company's rival, Kmart Corp. (KMRT ), and it was Kmart that actually made the bid.
Consider, too, Richard Perry's battle with Carl Icahn, the legendary financier. Icahn -- who is trying to raise about $3 billion to start his own hedge fund -- is suing Perry Capital for $1 billion for allegedly meddling in a proposed acquisition of generic-drug producer King Pharmaceuticals by a larger rival, Mylan Laboratories. Icahn charges that Perry used complex hedging techniques to obtain shareholder voting rights without holding an economic interest in the shares. Perry declines to comment.
The reinvention of hedge funds marks a new era for the industry -- and for Wall Street. During the 1990s fund managers took their cue from George Soros, morphing into multistrategy types and taking advantage of inefficiencies between the world's stock, bond, and currency markets. In a similar metamorphosis, hedge funds now are buying whole companies.
Some of the new raiders simply want to make changes, rake in the rewards, and move on. Others plan to hold on to companies and rebuild them over the long haul. Either way, they're not long on tolerance. If CEOs slip up, these guys will take their companies from them. Consider yourself warned.
By Emily Thornton, with Susan Zegel in New York


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Pete Carroll Talks About Thursday's Game At Arizona State
Nov. 20, 2007
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COACH CARROLL: This is a tremendous week. This is really an exciting time for us here to get ready for such a good match up with a really good obviously good winning football team in ASU. To have the opportunity to play on the holiday, you know, the guys have figured this thing out a while back and decided to match us up, came out with a great match up. So it's very exciting to be in this situation for us.
It's a short week so this is Thursday, and we're working on it if you can think of it that way, it's really Thanksgiving here. But we're having some fun with it. Everything we see in our opponent, Arizona State, they match up. They do everything well. They're a balanced offense, run the football, throw the ball, highlight quarterback, Rudy Carpenter is having a great year, big play makers, defense plays really well. Their statistics are right in line with the top of our conference. They return the ball, they kick the ball, everything. This is a really great challenge, and hopefully we'll pose a great challenge for them, as well.
The way we understand the situation at the stadium, we all think it's going to be warm in Arizona, it's supposed to be cold that night so it might be different than what we were expecting. But we're pumped up before it and looking forward to it.
We've had good work. The week we took leading into the game week worked out fine. We got our guys some breaks and got the guys that needed some rest some rest. We got the young guys the work that they needed, I think, to help us a little bit more the last couple games of the season as we finish.
Now that we're into game week, I think it worked out well having the break as we've had it. We're going to try to maximize this opportunity. We feel strong and are going to try to make the most of this.
Q. What is Sam Baker's status?
Q. How do you feel about playing on Thanksgiving?
Q. Did you believe that you would still be in contention for the Pac-10 title at this point?
But I'm excited to be talking in that vein with our team and pointed in the direction of this match up being so significant. You know, it really does feel like it's the midst of playoff time and playoff run and all of that, so it's really fun.
Q. Does it feel strange playing on a Thursday?
Q. How is John David Booty's finger?
Q. Is Rudy Carpenter's style similar to John David Booty's style?
He's done that in a lot of instances during the season to get these guys back in games. They started out slow at times and had games where they were trailing, you know, and considerably at times, and then they came roaring back, and he always was right in the middle of the comeback, the middle of the fire burning.
He's a problem for us. So he's completing a bunch of passes, his numbers are great. But more than that, it's that special play that he has in him that you don't know when it's going to happen and you can't predict it that makes him difficult.
Q. Is Arizona State really as good as their ranking?
I know he did it one, he's very experienced at coming into programs; he's done that a lot. But this time in particular the message to the players was really clear about what they wanted to do and how they wanted to play, and they came out firing. He's had a coach of the year type of year, and you can just see the experience and the comfort that his team has and plays with. You can see his style that he's brought over the years come out in these guys. I think it's remarkable and it's really, really a job well done. It's hard to do that. I like what he's done.
Q. (No microphone.)
Q. The idea is that you might one day go to the Chargers...?
Q. What about New England?
Q. Can New England remain perfect?
The way I know Coach Bill Belichick will handle it, they're not going to get all full of themselves; they're going to stay very even keel, and we might just see a season of all time, and it's really cool. They have a chance.
The exciting thing I think is not of course they have a great football team, but can they hold it and are they able to make it through the last six games of the schedule and hang on to such a tremendous level of play. Few teams in any sport ever get to do that. It's really something to be watched. With all of that as it gets down to it, with Coach Shula getting after them and all the people bringing all this attention, it's going to be really exciting to see if they can pull it off.
Q. Is it unusual that Arizona State outscores its opponents so handily in the second half?
We have that in mind, too. If we get off to a good start against them, we know that they're going to come roaring back. That's why the start of the game really doesn't matter, it's really how you finish it, and they've been doing it in great fashion.
Q. You are familiar with Dennis Erickson...
They're not real complicated. They have a very solid, sound package. We understand it and we know what it is, but they just play it really well. I think, again, it goes back to Dennis and the coaching staff have really conveyed the philosophy in quick order and they've gotten great results out of them. They've got a heck of a notebook, and the guys are playing like it.
There's no weaknesses to them. They've even got some young kids playing, some freshman back there, and they're athletic and fast and tough, and it's a very good group.
Q. Did you face Erickson in the NFL?
You can see it. As he goes from one team into another team you can really see the common philosophy. It's really solidly expressed that they have a way of doing things, and it's been proven to be successful. He's a terrific football coach.
Yeah, I like that part of it. Yeah, we know him and he knows us, so we see how we tweak our stuff and the subtleties that we turn into our game plan and what they turn into their game plan, it's always fun. I've always looked forward to the guys that you know because it's always more important to me to play well against those guys for some reason.
Q. What kind of year is John David Booty having?
I think we've been a little bit off at times, you know, and some of that has been to the newness of our receivers. It's just been pretty well chronicled that we've transitioned new guys and it hasn't been as clean as it was with the great group we had a year ago, and certainly the quarterback is the recipient of that. So it's been a little more challenging.
We're happy to have him going, we're excited he's going to be playing, and we think he gives us a great chance to win this football game. How that turns out if he does what he did last week and complement what we need in the game, that's really what we are looking for.
It's all we've ever looked for from our quarterbacks. We've never expected our guys to throw 400 or 500 yards a game and throw it 40 or 50 times. We want to have a balanced attack and fit it into the game as we need it. John David is certainly ready to do that again. I thought he played a great game under the circumstances last week in most challenging conditions. So if we can come out and do that again, we'll have a chance to win.
Q. What about all the injuries to quarterbacks in the Pac-10 this year?
You know, you can see what happened in Oregon. It couldn't have been more obvious there. UCLA, they've had a very difficult time with this thing, the guys just trying to keep even the backup guys healthy. For the first time in the years we've been here, we went to the backup quarterback, a challenge with Mark Sanchez playing, and he did a great job. It sends a shock in your team because you're playing with a guy that hasn't been out there.
You know, the interesting part about it, it's different when you start the season you go back to when Matt Leinart started, he hadn't played, either, but he started and got us going against Auburn and away we went. The quarterback, if Mark is the starting quarterback next year, it'll just feel different than coming off the bench.
But it does it is a big aspect, and it's a big factor in games. You look across the country on any level, it makes a difference. Coaches that are able to overcome that have done a fantastic job, to keep their team winning and keep them on the top side of this thing because it just changes so drastically.
Q. Is Oregon done for the year?
Q. Is the spread offense the next new trend in college football?
The offense features Florida, I haven't watched them at all, but I'm sure they feature things that he does, that he can do really well, just like Oregon did with Dennis. How are they going to shift gears at Oregon with Leaf playing now, now that they have to do it and the game plan is really set in accordance with that. So it's an offense that's really centered around a mobile quarterback, I think. If it's not a real mobile quarterback, then it's a very standard offense, it's not that different, just coming out of the shotgun.
It's the legs, the feet, the quickness like a guy like Dennis Dixon has that is so far out of line with most quarterbacks. Jake Locker is doing it, as well, at Washington, an incredibly gifted runner and a fast kid, and they changed the game. That offense in particular puts those guys in a more featured role than other offensive styles.
It's very similar to going back to split back veer offenses that were run back in the '80s and the '70s where the quarterback was really a featured guy, the wishbone offenses with the great running quarterbacks. They have the ball in their hands every play and have a chance to factor in. That's what the spread offense has brought.
We see it across the board in high school and junior colleges. There's a lot of people doing it, and again, it goes back to the special dimensions of the quarterback and how you use that.
Q. So you will be rooting for UCLA this weekend?
Q. Talk about Arizona State's running game...
Q. Would USC ever recruit a Dennis Dixon-type quarterback?
But we don't have anybody in the program that's a featured running quarterback, and we don't have anybody in our recruiting sights that really would fit into that, so we're not going in that direction for a while anyway.
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Is Lennon's "Imagine" Coming True?
A recent report from Europe brought to mind Beatles legend John Lennon's 1971 megahit, Imagine. You'll recall that Lennon's utopian song yearned for a world with "no religion," among other things. According to the UK's Guardian Unlimited, "[t]he Swedish government has announced plans to clamp down on religious education. It will soon become illegal even for private schools to teach religious doctrines as if they were true." You read that correctly. Ouch. Even from this side of the Atlantic, where we see Europe rushing headlong to rid itself of a rich Christian heritage, it seems stunning. A couple more excerpts:
Creationism and ID are explicitly banned but so is proselytising even in religious education classes. The Qur'an may not be taught as if it is true even in Muslim independent schools, nor may the Bible in Christian schools. There is little doubt that combating Islamic fundamentalism is the underlying aim. . .
Granted. But last time we checked, Europe's troubles with terrorism can be traced to a particular expression of one religion, and it's not Christianity. I guess if you ban one you have to ban them all. But does that mean the state will function as the arbiter of truth? History screams for Europe to grasp hold of its senses on that point. What would be the purpose, then, of sending children to private schools? Apparently, for whatever societal benefits (happy, cooperative people) can be derived from such schools apart from religious dogma. Author Andrew Brown, mulling over whether Britain should adopt such a policy, notes:
Certainly this works quite well with the Church of England. Anglican schools are happy, by and large, to teach religion as if it were not true; to put it in a more flattering light, they concentrate more on the fruits of the spirit than on dogma.
What do you think? What would be the result of such a policy? Can you divorce the "fruit" from the "faith"? Christianity is foremost a set of beliefs that it claims to be true. Whether Christianity "works" is secondary and a function of its truthfulness, is it not?


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While watching Carson Daly the other night I was exposed to a really exciting photographer named Andrew Zuckerman. On the show he was promoting his newest project MUSIC which I'll probably post here later in the month. But while researching his other works I came across an older project he did called Wisdom. These last few projects Andrew has taken on have involved shooting people (or animals) on pure white backgrounds while simultaneously interviewing them for a documentary. It's pretty brilliant to have both the single frame and the interview for both formats and what Andrew gets his subjects to reveal is really worth its weight in gold. Check out a little behind the scenes video on how he made Wisdom and check out the final hardcopy book here.
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Very awesome!
Love that sound of the hassie (?) shutter.
I started watching this for the technical aspects of the shoot, and now I really want to see this piece. Always interested in the views of the been there done that group. thanks for sharing guys! loving it!
This is incredible! It's so much more creative and intriguing to be hearing about the conceptual aesthetic process that goes into a themed series - like about using the standardized background - then to just here him list off pointless technical details about which light he was using and how to pack 17 suitcases and blah blah blah. please keep posting this type of video where we learn about the SOUL of photography, not just the superficial data.
Ah great BTSV! Interesting on a photography and human level.
I was just looking at Andrew's book Creature ABC yesterday with my family and went to his website to find out more about him. I didn't see this awesome video so thanks for posting.
Had the book for 12 months now and that video has just added so much enjoyment to the still images. I visit your site most days. Credit were that is due. Steve
Wow. A lot of interesting things going on there from the people interviewed to dissecting his lighting. Looks like 2 backlights, one overhead softbox, one beauty dish below, black flags on each side.. set up was awesome.
Brzezinski and Kissinger...now there's two guys who can teach kindness to the world...


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Personalities of PyCon Interview Series
Meet the personalities behind PyCon, the community run conference that brings together users and developers of the Python programming language.
PyCon is taking place in Atlanta, Georgia beginning tomorrow, Wednesday, March 9th, 2011 through Thursday, March 17, 2011 at the Hyatt Regency Atlanta.
This event is broken down into to 3 parts: tutorial days on March 9-10, main conference days on March 11-13, development sprints on March 14-17.
In preparation for this event we have highlighted several of the community planners behind this event: Steve Holden, Catherine Devlin, Vern Ceder, Wesley Chun, and Jesse Noller in the PyCon Personality interview series. Want to know more about the history of this event, how these planners found their way to Python and FOSS, as well as how you can get involved? Find out how in these interviews.
PyCon is utilizing several social media tools to keep the community informed and up to date this week. Those tools include as it unfolds this week can follow: Convore: Twitter (Follow @pycon and use the #pycon or #pycon2011 hashtags) Facebook, IRC (server: irc.freenode.net, channel: #pycon), and Lanyrd.
More about PyCon and Python can be found on PyCon website.
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Some people graciously accept it and use it to their advantage whilst others brush it aside as 'haters'. In this live cast I share stories from my own experience and give tips on how artists can get the most from criticism and ignore the ones that don't matter.
"Criticism is easy, art is difficult."
-Philippe Destouches
"Criticism is something we can avoid easily by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing."
"Know that the amount of criticism you receive may correlate somewhat to the amount of publicity you receive."
-Donald Rumsfeld
"Criticism, like rain, should be gentle enough to nourish a man's growth without destroying his roots."
-Frank A. Clark
"It is ridiculous for any man to criticize the works of another if he has not distinguished himself by his own performances."
-Joseph Addison
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Jul 6, 2006 at 7:14 pm #1218961
Johnny GishMember
@jtgishLocale: Coppell, Texas
anyone have suggestions on light MP3 players. Looking for the following:
Long battery life
I would like a screen and radio.
Price(the lower the better)
I decided against a shortwave radio.
I already have an ipod shuffle 512mb. Looking for something a little better.
thanks in advance.Jul 6, 2006 at 7:55 pm #1359027
check out the samsung yp-mt6 1gb
took it on the jmt last year, never touched the second battery (takes 1 AA), if i remember correctly, i paid around $150 for it. lots of options, think its got everything your looking for.Jul 6, 2006 at 8:00 pm #1359028
MarkBPL Member
@mlarsonLocale: Southeast USA
Aside from the Shuffle, I haven't seen any iPods I'd want to take in the woods. It's a shame.
I like the Creative Zen Nano Plus. About 1oz and 1gig, flash-memory, 18hrs of play with a AAA, FM tuner. Pretty good sound quality and cool color options. The Plus models also come with an armband, I believe. I think it's one of the better values out there.
I've also been fascinated with the iRiver U10 for a while. 2.5oz, 1gig, flash-memory, 34hrs of audio, FM tuner. Pretty cool UI and also supports Ogg files, if that matters to you. Also might want to take a look at their T10 model, with a similar feature set and ~40hrs on a AA battery.
I'm not personally familiar with them, but Sony's mp3 products are reputed to be easy on the batteries.
If you can bear it, you can ring out more battery life by switching to lower bitrate riles, say mp3 files in the 96-112kbps range. You'll be able to get more from your batteries by avoiding audio files with DRM restrictions.
-MarkJul 6, 2006 at 8:10 pm #1359030
Summit COMember
@summitLocale: 9300ft
I have a Samsung YP-MT6Z 1GB player because it is small, runs on 1 AA battery, and has a life of 40-45 hours on one battery. With a lithium, it weighs nothing and lasts 50-60hrs. I love it. It works perfectly for me.
Every piece of electronics I ever use runs on AA batteries: Headlamp, Digital P&S, SLR, MP3 player, GPS, Avalanche Beacon, Radio. While I rarely have more than 3 of these at a time unless skiing, Interchanging batteries = gnar.Jul 6, 2006 at 8:15 pm #1359031
you want cheap? i just found the samsung on ebay for $10. lolJul 6, 2006 at 10:42 pm #1359039
Joseph RothsteinMember
Check out the Muvo TX FM series. They have an FM radio and a voice recorder, and run on a AAA. The 1 GB version is about $70 on Amazon. My older Muvo NX model gets 10+ hours on an alkaline AAA, and weighs about 1 oz (without the battery). It also functions like a normal USB flash drive, unlike other MP3 players that require special software for file transfer.Jul 6, 2006 at 11:11 pm #1359040
Summit COMember
@summitLocale: 9300ft
The Samsung also functions as a normal USB flash drive and has an integrated FM receiver.Jul 7, 2006 at 10:40 am #1359055
Sam HaraldsonBPL Member
@sharaldsLocale: Gallatin Range
> i just found the samsung on ebay for $10
But I bet there was a $50 s/h charge, huh?
I personally feel the requirements for a trail mp3 unit would be:
long battery life
lots of storage
fm receiver
voice recorder
ease of use with unfamiliar machines (for thru hikers)Jul 7, 2006 at 12:31 pm #1359061
Mark RegaliaBPL Member
@markrLocale: Santa Cruz
I've used the Creative Labs Nano. I set it up for a friend. I like it quite a bit.Jul 7, 2006 at 1:10 pm #1359066
But I bet there was a $50 s/h charge, huh?
$6.00 s/hJul 7, 2006 at 1:55 pm #1359069
John ThompsonMember
Look at the Sandisk…they have a 4gig player which runs on one AAA battery and includes an AM/FM radio, voice recorder (for trail logs), and will hold lots of tunes. Check out Circuit City as they have been running the things on sale for $150 or less. Another good accessory for this is the silicone rubber protective sleeve which can be had for $10 on sale or $15 normally. Don't pay retail – go to the website and see if it's on sale…it usually is.
There's no rechargeable battery and the whole thing is about the size of two Ipod shuffles with a lot more storage capability. Drag and drop file loading and the thing comes complete with everything you need to use it and has no moving parts…oh, yeah..it runs 15-19 hours on a single battery and using an expensive lithium cell would shave a couple of grams off the weight…just keep it dry.
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