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Bradford PlumerJan. 26, 2006 5:27 PM
This is getting annoying. Once again, the White House is floating the notion (on page A1, no less) that its soon-to-be-proposed tax deductions for health expenses are somehow "designed to help the uninsured." They are not. Making progress on the 45 million uninsured people in this country will cost about $80-100 billion per year. There's no getting around that number. Bush will not propose anything of the sort.
Tax deductions will do little to help those who currently pay no federal income taxesor are in the 10 or 15 percent bracketwhich includes the majority of the uninsured. Tax deductions will largely help those making over $50,000 who currently can afford insurance but just don't value it enough to get it. If the president's tax deductions look anything like what he proposed on the campaign trail, then, according to CBPP, they will actually increase the number of uninsured by 350,000 while costing tens of billions of dollars. That's all.
Bradford PlumerJan. 26, 2006 2:51 PM
Marc Lynch raises some crucial questions about Hamas' victory in the Palestinian parliamentary elections yesterday:
Hamas winning and presumably moving to form a government is the first real instance of an Islamist movement on the brink of winning power democratically since 1992 [i.e., since the FIS won elections in Algeria, only to be denied power by a military coup].
If [Hamas takes] power, we are going to see some major political science propositions put to the test: does power moderate or radicalize Islamist groups? Will they be willing and able to work with non-Islamist parties in a coalition? Will they use their democratic victory to abolish democracy? Will Islamist groups concentrate on the pragmatics of rule or resort to foreign policy grandstanding? Will they use their position of power to pursue terrorism? Will they be willing to set aside doctrine and work pragmatically with Israelis and Americans? Will they use government power to impose unpopular sharia rule over their people? Will they oppress Christian and non-Islamist Muslims?I'm not sure anyone knows the answers for sure. A handful of reasons for optimism: Hamas has mostly adhered to the ceasefire over the past six months, certainly more strictly than Fatah has; at the local level, where it has previously won elections, Hamas has been dealing with Israel regularly and for the most part has focused solely on day-to-day governing and economic development, rather than talking up the virtues of a sharia state. And judging from recent polling, most Palestinians would support a compromise peace settlement with Israel, and increasingly are souring on Hamas' armed wing, the al-Qassam Brigades. Popular opinion could prove a moderating force. On the other hand, this is Hamas, after allit's still a terrorist group with extreme views, a bloody reputation, and clandestine wings ready to resume attacks against Israel at any time.
At any rate, here's an insightfuland I assume fairly firsthandaccount of how and why Hamas actually won the elections, courtesy of a commenter on As'ad Abu Khalil's site:
It is only partially (and I stress partially) true that the vote for Hamas was a vote against [the largely corrupt] Fatah, but it was much more than a protest vote. The candidates that Hamas fielded were
by and large very qualified candidates who are well known and respected in their districts. They are well-educated professionals including doctors, professors, teachers, etc.
What struck me was the level of organization, dedication and quiet self-confidence of the Hamas campaign. In most polling districts Hamas volunteers, armed with computers, helped voters locate their names in the registries and their polling place. Early in the evening, most pollsters were predicting a Fatah win, but as early as 6 hours after the close of the polls, Hamas was quietly and confidently saying that their internal counts (based on volunteers at every polling station) showed them winning more than 70 seats (not far from the actual outcome). To me that was very impressive.
An interesting factor that could explain why the exit polls did not predict the outcome is that many voters (especially among police and security services) were afraid to tell the pollster that they had voted for Hamas.
A win like this does not come easy. Hamas worked hard in the face of large obstacles to achieve it. In the face of US and European financing for Fatah and some so-called "independents," Hamas financed its campaign (with a smaller budget) by asking for a 10% contribution from the salaries of its cadres. In addition, they received free support from thousands of volunteers. Hamas proved the value of its grassroots organization.One could also wonder how much Western support ended up hurting Fatah at the polls. Also note that if more than 6 percent of the some 250,000 Palestinians living in occupied East Jerusalem had been allowed to vote, the election might have turned out differently. This bit, from the same commenter, is also interesting, and perhaps a sign of things to come:
The second observation is that Hamas, before and after the election, is reaching out to all Palestinians, including Fatah. There is no gloating in their victory; instead they emphasize national unity and partnership. During the campaign, I tried to keep up with the pronouncements of both Fatah and Hamas. To Hamas' credit they did not engage in smear campaigns, dirty tricks, name calling, etc which Fatah used. I think that Hamas set a much better tone and an example, and that, no doubt, helped it.
Western countries have not done the one thing that might have had a positive impact: try to shape Hamas's policies by exploiting its clear desire for international recognition and legitimacy. There is every reason for the West to withhold formal dealings at a national level, at least until it renounces attacks against civilians and drops its opposition to a two-state solution, but the current confused approach boycotting Hamas while facilitating its electoral participation; facilitating its participation without seeking through some engagement reciprocal concessions makes no sense at all.
Without conferring immediate legitimacy on Hamas, engaging its national officials or removing it from the terrorism list, the EU in particular which has more flexibility than the U.S. in this regard should encourage the Islamists to focus on day-to-day matters and facilitate a process of potential political integration and gradual military decommissioning. With Prime Minister Sharon's sudden incapacitation, an already impossibly perplexing situation has become more confused still. Using Western economic and political leverage to try to stabilise the Palestinian arena would be far from the worst possible investment.All of that seems sensible, worth trying, and hardly naïve about what Hamas is and what it's known for. As Marc Lynch points out, if the United States doesn't even give Hamas a chance, that will further undercut perceptions about its commitment to democracy in the Middle East. On the other hand, Israel may not prefer to try to moderate Hamasafter all, it's much easier to justify the security barrier and settlements in the West Bank if there's an extremist group on the other side. I guess we'll find out when the Israeli elections come around.
more: Jonathan Edelstein is, as always, endlessly informative.
Bradford PlumerJan. 25, 2006 8:44 PM
Over the past week, I've been reading the San Jose Mercury News' massive and much-recommended five-part series, "Tainted Trials, Stolen Justice." Based on a three-year investigation, the report looks at 727 court cases in Santa Clara County over a five year period. In over a third of the cases, the paper found, trials were marred by questionable conduct that worked against the defendantswho, judging from the case studies, tended to be minorities and poorand a number of cases led to wrongful convictions. Among the findings:
In nearly 100 cases, prosecutors engaged in questionable conduct, including withholding evidence, defying a judge's orders or misleading juries. "Experts say individual prosecutors reflect the dominant culture in their office, and too often it's all about winning rather than ethics and fairness." Often district attorney offices are extremely slowtaking years and yearsto discipline prosecutors who overstep their bounds.
The Mercury News was "unable to determine" whether Santa Clara County was particularly dysfunctional or whether its problems mirrored those of justice systems elsewhere in the country. I'd note that Santa Clara, while relatively liberal in most things, is considered a "tough on crime" region, one of the six highest sentencing counties in California during the '90s, with law enforcement agencies that practiced "broken windows" policing and invoked the "Three Strikes" law at extremely high rates. Interestingly, in the 1990s, San Francisco under the "ultraliberal" DA Terrence Hallinan saw its crime rate decrease much more rapidly than Santa Clara's did. Go figure. At any rate, read the series, it's a good one.
Diane E. DeesJan. 25, 2006 7:22 PM
There has been a near total lack of cooperation that has made it impossible, in my opinion, for us to do the thorough investigation that we have the responsibility to do.
The Bush administration is stonewalling the Congress.
We have been trying--without success--to obtain Secretary Rumsfeld's cooperation for months.
The Bush administration is stonewalling the Congress.
We have been trying--without success--to obtain Secretary Rumsfeld's cooperation for months.
Though these statements sound like statements made during the September 11 Commission's failed attempt to get the administration to cooperate with its investigation, they are, rather, statements recently made about the administration's failure to cooperate with two Congressional committees investigating the response to Hurricane Katrina.
As before, the White House is citing executive branch confidentiality in refusing to turn over requested documents. These documents include Katrina-related emails and other communications among White House staff members. The administration has also refused requests for testimony from White House chief of staff Andrew H. Carrd Jr., deputy chief of staff Joe Hagin, domestic security advisor Frances Fragos Townsend, and her deputy, Ken Rapuano.
Senator Susan Collins, says it is "completely inappropriate" that that witnesses "have told us when we begin to ask about any communications with the White House" that they cannot respond, even if the discussions are not related to specific advice given to the Bush that could "legitimately" be held back under executive privilege.
The White House, for its part--and we've heard this before, too--maintains that it is thoroughly cooperating with the investigation and has handed over thousands of documents, as well as providing multiple witnesses.
In the early morning hours of August 29, a memo was sent from the Department of Homeland Security to the White House situation room which warned of a possible breach of levees in New Orleans and a resulting crisis. A few days later, Bush said: "I don't think anyone anticipated the breach of the levees."
Bradford PlumerJan. 25, 2006 7:05 PM
Here's a great headline from the AP:
U.S. says Venezuela spending too much for military items.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Venezuela is planning a "buying spree" for military equipment that goes beyond the country's legitimate needs, the State Department said Friday.
In recent days, the United States has sought to block proposed sales of military planes and other equipment to Venezuela by Spain and Brazil.
The transactions are part of what "we would consider an outsized military buildup in Venezuela," State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said. In other news, the Pentagon's latest Quadrennial Defense Review is out, and as Noah Schachtman notes, it's chock full of proposals for multi-billion dollar weapons systems to prepare for some future war or other with China
Bradford PlumerJan. 25, 2006 4:54 PM
According to UPI, ministers from 25 "major trading powers" are now trying to resuscitate the Doha round of WTO trade talks that stalled in Hong Kong last month. The EU, it seems, wants to see more concessions from developing countries to reduce their tariffs before it will agree to open its own agricultural markets. Okay, fair enough. But I still don't see what incentive developing countries have to make large concessions, or how, as The Economist put it by way of chiding those stubborn holdouts, "the Doha round
is geared specifically to help poor countries." How much help are we talking here?
Not very much, it seems. Two months ago, an extensive study from the World Bank found that under "likely Doha scenarios" for cuts to agricultural subsidies and tariffs, and reductions in industrial tariffs, liberalization would provide the world a one-time gain of between $17.9 to $119.3 billion by 2013. Not a whole lot, when it comes down to it, and most of those gains go to the developing world. An analysis of the World Bank study by Frank Ackerman the Global Development and Environment Institute suggested that the "most likely scenario" would boost the world's income by a mere $96 billion. Of that, $80 billion would go to developed countries, and $16 billion to poor countriesless than a penny per day per capita.1
Meanwhile, the World Bank found that the vast majority of those gains would go to eight nations: Argentina, Brazil, China, India, Mexico, Thailand, Turkey, and Vietnam. Other developing countries will likely be hurt by the reduction in agricultural subsidies, especially those that are net food importers. The Middle East, parts of Africa, Bangladesh and Mexico would be all net losers from "likely Doha scenarios," and those are already countries that have the most difficulty attracting investment and growing.
Now in a sense, this is an overly dire picture. A "mere" $16 billion to the developing world is still better than nothing. And surely lifting 2.5 million people out of poverty, as the Bank estimates for "likely scenarios," is worth doing. Even if these gains aren't huge, why not take them? (Although it does reaffirm the fact that trade can only be a small part of any poverty-reduction agenda.) Plus, these numbers may well understate the side benefits that supposedly come with trade liberalization: like "better institutions," or increased foreign investment, or whatever sort of magic free trade is supposed to create. (cf. "New Evidence" that trade liberalization "has robust positive effects on growth," etc.)
On the other hand, these projections may not be dire enough. The World Bank study, for instance, presumes that developing countries will instantly make up the revenue they'll lose from slashing tariffs by raising domestic taxes. Is that realistic? According to UNCTAD, for developing countries, tariff collection accounts for 20 percent of government revenue in some developing countries. Quite the tax. UNCTAD predicts that tariff revenue losses could amount to up to $60 billion for these countries (I assume annually), dwarfing the estimated benefits from trade, and would lead to either cuts in social services or domestic taxes that would create their own distortions, just like tariffs do now.
It's also not clear what the effect of the new agreement on intellectual property will be, although allowing developing countries to import generic drugs more easily seems like an obviously good idea (here's a more in-depth look by the Asian Development Bank that I haven't read). Stilland I'm willing to be convinced otherwisethe idea that there's so much at stake for poor countries in the Doha rounds that they can't afford to see this fail seems a bit overstated.
[1] The summary of the World Bank study claims a $287 billion one-time gain by 2013, but that's an estimate for complete trade liberalization, which isn't under discussion right now. At any rate, only 40 percent of that gain would go to the developing world; less than 7 cents per day per capita.
Bradford PlumerJan. 25, 2006 3:07 PM
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A review of Norah Vincent's Self-Made Man
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Bradford PlumerJan. 24, 2006 7:06 PM
Glenn Greenwald has a must-read post eviscerating NSA Director Gen. Michael Hayden's defense of the NSA domestic spying program. From all appearances, the NSA wasn't doing any sort of data-mining, as previously thought (although Hayden's denial is vague enough that this could still be a possibility). Instead, it was, apparently, illegally lowering the standards required for monitoring U.S. citizens and circumventing the FISA Court by refusing to get warrants, which are required by law. It's hard to see how this isn't illegal.
Meanwhile, in his Q&A session, Gen. Hayden never really gave any indication that the new programor the new, illegal criteria for monitoring domestic suspectsactually works, or has led to arrests or any sort of tangible domestic security success. And no one seems to have really pressed this point. Granted, this sort of pales beside the issue of whether the administration broke the law or not, but it's still a pretty crucial question.
Bradford PlumerJan. 24, 2006 6:13 PM
Winslow Wheeler, a former staffer for Sen. Pete Domenici, has an article in Counterpunch explaining how Congress can secretly add $12 billion in pork projects to the last defense appropriations bill while simultaneously reducing the apparent size of the bill by $4.4 billion. (Answer, they hide the money rather than cutting anything.) It's one of the better explanations around of how Congress fiddles with bills to sneak in projects here and there. Wheeler, after all, helped design some of these tricksfor instance, "cutting" programs only to stuff them later into "emergency" spending bills, so that the money is spent but doesn't show up on budget projections.
If that's all that was going on, that would be bad enough (mind you, usually pork is just pork; a small waste, sure, but things wouldn't get done without itbut the ever-inflating Pentagon budget is far more disconcerting, I think). But Wheeler points out a few places where actually crucial funds seem to have been cut in the appropriations billfor instance, $1.3 billion for "Peacetime Training" and "Operations Support"and then weren't put back in the emergency bill, as they were presumably supposed to be. A bit of a morass, to say the least.
Bradford PlumerJan. 24, 2006 2:48 PM
So the president, as we know, wants to "do" health care in his upcoming State of the Union address. Any talk of reform would, ideally, begin by addressing the 45 million Americans who go uninsured each year. There are several things that make the United States a second-rate nation, but one of the biggest, I think, is that 11.2 percent of all children in this country8.3 millionlack even basic health insurance. Judging from Peter Gosselin's overview, President Bush has no interest in tackling this little problem next Tuesday, although there's some talk that his "Health Savings Accounts" will lower the cost of health care so dramatically that many more people will be able to afford insurance.
Is this even remotely plausible? Well, no. Not really.
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Wauwatosa has its first candidate for mayor. John Pokrandt today announced his intention to run for election in April.
"My family and I have lived in Wauwatosa for the last 11 years and are proud to call this special place home," he said in a statement. "I have decided to run because I believe that Wauwatosa deserves a passionate and engaged leader. I want to return Wauwatosa to its history of sensible, good governance."
Pokrandt has never held elected office, but he said he has been involved in the community through the Quarry Heights Neighborhood Association.
His campaign slogan is, "Putting Wauwatosa first."
"It means working for business investment and standing up for the city in cases such as Waukesha's water return plans," he said. "Putting Wauwatosa first means being active and engaged in the marketing of this community to businesses and potential residents. It also means being out in the community and being visible, open and available to the residents of this city."
He wants to see more transparency in city government and said his background in sales and marketing qualifies him to work as Wauwatosa's spokesman.
"I will be a tireless advocate for the city, whether it's on economic development issues, public safety or community planning," he said.
He criticized Mayor Jill Didier - who has not said whether she will seek re-election - as not being visible enough within the community.
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"Well, that's all from us at Channel 4 News at 10, until next time. I'm Lydia Coleman, goodnight," and upon signing off, she let her smoulder hang until the lights turned off, signifying the end of the broadcast. Suddenly, Lydia's best news face turned into a scowl, and she slumped back in her chair, relieved that her day was nearly over.
She whipped back her platinum blond hair out of the way of her flawless face. Her high cheekbones, bronze skin, button nose, and sultry lips. Then Lydia yelled, "Charlie!" who came running, and immediately popped a cigarette into her mouth, and he was ready with a lighter, which he brought to life, singing the edges of Miss Coleman's death stick. Her drag was considerable, and after a minute, she released a plume of smoke large enough to kill a rat.
"Thank you, Charlie," said Lydia appreciatively, dismissing him with a flick of her wrist, and he disappeared from the news desk as quickly as he appeared.
The hourglass woman then rose, and strode away, her pumps echoing off the hard floor with every step she took. It was the same walk she made every day after her newscast since the very first. Initially, she would seethe in silence, with a lit fag between her fingers, and her hands sweeping by her sides. In so doing, she was prone to lighting things on fire, which is why John followed closely behind her every night with an extinguisher. And like a newborn forest fire, her inner rage would slowly burn out of control.
Lydia shouted to the universe, "Who the fuck was responsible for writing the shit I was forced to read tonight?" Whenever crude words like these were uttered, someone was sure to get an earful. And like cockroaches when the lights turn on, everyone on the news crew scattered. "Where the fuck is Jerry?" Lydia continued, "Jerry!"
Jerry was the producer, and was usually the one to be subjected to Lydia's bouts of anger, who was blamed for every fault Lydia found with the show. He was used to it by now, combatting her anger with sarcasm, but he always flinched whenever she slammed the door open.
"What was that miserable tripe I was forced to rub my tongue all over?" said Lydia marching in, referring to her script for the most recently aired report.
"You paint a horrible image, Lydia. I hope that tripe is a metaphor for top stories?"
"Who was fucking responsible for it? Was it you?" she asked, ignoring Jerry's smugness before turning around and yelling at John at full volume, "Fuck off, John, or I'll trounce all over you with my stilettos on!" John quickly evaporated, and Lydia returned her wrath upon Jerry.
"Lydia, for the millionth time, I'm the producer, not a reporter—"
"Be that as it may, you have the final say over the transcripts, and I'll be damned, if I'll roll over every night, and let you fuck me in the ass!"
"Very charming, Lydia."
"And another thing, should you insist on having me read shit, the least you could do is edit the swill, so I'm not drowning in the fucking shit!"
"How eloquent you are."
"Excuse me?!"
"I said, how right you are. Lydia, you have my word, I will try to do better for tomorrow."
"God fucking help you if you don't Jerry! Because I swear…" It was here, that Jerry said under his breath, every word she said, before she said it. And he had done so for years without being discovered because she could not hear him over her own thunder, "… I will KILL you if you dont! I will tear out your heart and make you eat it, in a pile of the human excrement you have forced me to read!!!"
Silently, Jerry nodded, as Lydia's rampage came to a taper. Then he closed his eyes in preparation for the blast of cigarette smoke she was about to blow in his face. Lydia then flicked the butt onto his desk, before she stormed out in a huff, and John promptly ran back inside Jerry's office with the fire extinguisher, spraying the desk.
Jerry sighed, "Thanks, John."
Before Lydia left the building, she hurled one final obscenity toward Jerry, "Fix it Jerry! Or I'll pull your pants down and ram your own cock up your asshole! I'm the one who shares the news with the general public, you fucking cunt!"
John whispered to Jerry, "Well that last one was new. Very colourful." The last they heard of her until the next day was, "Charlie! Cigarette!"


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The short answer from both politicians' offices is that the Met police commissioner has done a very good job in reforming the force since becoming its no 2 in 2000 and taking over from Sir John (now Lord) Stevens as no 1 last year. In the process he has made enemies, who are using the opportunity provided by two counter-terrorist gaffes - the De Menezes killing in Stockwell and last week's Forest Gate raid - to destabilise him.
So the form of words used by the (new) police minister, Tony McNulty, that Sir Ian's job is "entirely safe" for now was unfortunate; an attempt to be positive without prejudging the imminent, much-leaked reports known as Stockwell I and II. As far as Blair I - Tony - is concerned Blair II - Ian - is safe unless the reports prove a lot more damning than weekend leaks suggest. "Complete confidence" was Blair I's unequivocal verdict last night.
"Most of the issues here are not about terrorism policy, but about other issues," one senior Labour politician explains.
Ministers, MPs, and the mayor all agree that Sir Ian is paying the price with some senior police officers for reform. He diverted men and resources into community policing, including community support officers (CSOs, fashionably visible on the beat); and he belatedly recruited ethnic minorities to more accurately reflect the capital's amazing diversity.
"The Met has been better at the 'capital city' stuff like handling the IRA than it has at basic crime fighting," explains a Home Office veteran. That is right, says No 10, but not universally popular.
That is not the whole story, of course. Blair II has always been good at schmoozing top brass, less good than Lord Stevens (now a mischievous columnist on the News of the World, which ran Sunday's damaging leak) at stroking the rank and file. Blair II talks too much, not always wisely.
One well-placed Tory described Sir Ian as over-impressed with social policy instead of tackling crime.
Little wonder that rightwing newspapers, led as ever by the Daily Mail, want his scalp.
Hence the leaks from in or around the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) and weekend claims that M15's Forest Gate tip-off was referred to Whitehall because the Met's special branch (SO12) was sceptical while counter-terrorism (SO13) was "gung ho".
Like much else, that version is disputed. But well-informed MPs accept that the threat is real."Even if the intelligence is only 50-50, the operation has to be 100%, you can't plan for half a bomb," one MP said of Forest Gate.
Fortunately for Sir Ian, fellow police chiefs and Len Duvall, Labour chairman of the Metropolitan Police Authority, the body which would have to sack him - after talking to John Reid - remain on his side, not the Mail's.


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Just picked some of these bad boys up. They came very recommend by the sales people(which ride), but I'd thought I'd get some opinion on this board about em...
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I think you misinterpreted my usage of the word "board", I was referring this 'message board'. As in "thought I'd get some opinion on this message board about em... " I probably should have said forum, but meh...
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Two years of physical/chemical and algal abundance data obtained from national Stream-Quality Accounting Network records of 10 river sites in Kentucky USA (4 Ohio River sites and 6 Ohio River tributaries) were analyzed to determine how seasonal changes in river phytoplankton related to changes in physical and chemical parameters. Phytoplankton assemblages differed among rivers as a function of drainage basin characteristics, but exhibited common seasonal changes related to temporal variation in the physical/chemical environment. Distinct shifts in algal dominance were identified between spring (March, April), late summer (July, August, September), and transitional (May, June, November) periods in the 10 systems. Nine common algal genera were found to differ in their response to changes in physical or chemical parameters. Abundances of Anacystis, Oscillatoria, Scenedesmus, and Melosira were strongly positively correlated with temperature while Chlamydomonas and Navicula abundances were inversely related to temperature. Other physical/chemical factors that were significantly positively ( + ) or negatively ( - ) correlated with algal abundances included discharge and alkalinity (Oscillatoria, +), pH CChlamydomonas and Cyclotella, (both + ), turbidity (Anacystis, \s- ; Navicula + ), silica (Cyclotella, - ), and ammonium/organic N (Anacystis, -). Genera within the same algal division exhibited different seasonal patterns and responded to different physical/chemical parameters.


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The ancient sport of falconry is today seeing quite a revival, but amongst the fun and pageantry, political issues are simmering away. A number of falconers are currently petitioning Sheikh Hamdan Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, head of the United Arab Emirates Falconers Club and the Hunting and Safari Club. This latter group is involved in negotiations to lease land from the Hadzabe tribe in Tanzania. That in itself is not a problem, as the tribe is amenable as long as they can continue to coexist on it. However, the Tanzanian Government plans to take them off the land and relocate them in 'shanty towns'.
The tribe of hunters and gatherers, which lives on 4,000 square kilometres of land near Lake Eyasi, is one of the oldest indigenous groups on the planet. Their right to their land and their way of life is under threat, and a storm of protest is gathering worldwide, resulting in the request to Sheikh Hamdan to review the case personally and see that the Hadzabe are treated with respect. This is not the first time that falconers have got together and used their influence to resolve complicated legal issues – the most famous being their contribution to banning the use of DDT in 1972.Kenyon Gibson
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This article reads more like a Meave Leakey press release than scientific reporting. Without attribution or support, it lists as facts many assertions still widely contested, such as that these fossils represent a new species, let alone a new genus. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 220.127.116.11 (talk) 23:40, 1 November 2013 (UTC)
Hello! I added some information to the Kenyanthropus platyops article. As it was, the article was short, and did not include the anthropological significance of the find. I attempted to create a re-direct from Flat-faced man to Kenyanthropus (a term with which the non-anthropologist individuals would be most familiar), but I couldn't get it to work. Would someone else give it a try? I'll check back later. Thanks! Firecircle (talk) 21:41, 7 January 2008 (UTC)
- Done. All you need to do is create a link someplace like this: Flat-faced man. then follow the link and add the redirect info. (Go here to see what it looks like.) - UtherSRG (talk) 22:19, 7 January 2008 (UTC)
Firecircle (talk) 23:49, 7 January 2008 (UTC) Hey, great! I tried it and it works great. Thanks for the help and the info (as well as the fast response). Firecircle (talk) 23:49, 7 January 2008 (UTC)
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The fossils of Kenyanthropus platyops indicate that hominins were more taxonomically diverse during the middle Pliocene."
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The justifications presented for sinking this into Australopithecus are terrible. Is there any primary literature that suggests this? 220.127.116.11 (talk) 19:19, 18 July 2015 (UTC)
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One Month Later and Still No Answers In Williston Murder
WILLISTON-- Its been over a month since Leo Rives was killed near Northeast 218th Avenue and 35th Street in Williston.
I spoke with the family today and they're desperate for help.
With no suspects in custody, there are still more questions about what happened that night.
On July 5th, Levy County Sheriff deputies found 31-year-old Leo Rives on the ground next to a car.
Investigators say he had been shot to death possibly by someone who was riding in the car with him.
The family does not know who he was with that night, but detectives believe they knew each other.
There are a few suspects but investigators couldn't share any more details of the investigation at this time.
The family says they still have fond memories of rives.
(Arianna Bostick, Rives Niece) " hes very funny person, kids loved him, we all loved him, he used to always make jokes about random things."
Rives leaves behind a wife and two kids.
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And FWIW, I'm reading that the Ravens said that "Our selection process [for which 32 out of the 60 cheerleaders were chosen] was based upon three criteria: seniority, performance ability and personal conduct throughout the season". I haven't followed this breaking news itm story as close as I should have, but how did Lenz confirm that she was overlooked explicitly and solely because of her 1.6 pound weight gain? I see three criteria, and the linked article also suggests she may have violated one or more of the squad "rules".
Is there a link to what happened, or more likely to what SHE says specifically happened and confirms the weight gain as the reason to exclude her? Thanks...
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Why can she just not showing up for try out next year, then they'll know she is retire. She is so self centered that she needs to announced her retirement.


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In 24, it is not only the secure phones that are scrambled. With its false leads, double-crosses and triple-bluffs, the story has whisked many viewers, not to mention protagonists, into a state of delicious confusion.
If Nina is the traitor, why did the bad guys instruct Jack to kill her? Why did she inform Teri that Alan wasn't really Alan? Come to that, why didn't Alan just kidnap Teri straight away, instead of waiting until she found out that he wasn't Alan? And why does everyone have such good cheekbones?
A first-rate thriller can withstand a few superfluous twists. The Big Sleep famously contained an entire subplot that not even its author, Raymond Chandler, could explain. But 24 is different: it ticks with teleological purpose. The ingenious use of 'real time' (in which each of the 24 episodes represents an hour of unfolding events), the intricate plotting and primed-bomb tension all along have pointed to a neat resolution.
Now, with just one episode to go, and doubtless a second series in mind, that no longer appears likely. Short of a last-minute intervention by a hound named Scooby, the loose ends seem destined to remain flagrantly untied. But let's not get anal before we reach the story's bottom.
Just 23 hours ago (although it seems more like six months), Jack Bauer (Kiefer Sutherland), of the Los Angeles Counter Terrorist Unit, was sitting at home scrutinising a chess board. His next move has still to be played because, at the stroke of midnight, his opponent and daughter, Kimberly (Elisha Cuthbert), was lured away into the darkness. His skills as a strategist, however, are put to exhaustive use in what he calls, without exaggeration, the longest day of his life.
To begin with, Kimberly is abducted, held hostage, threatened with rape, subjected to a near-execution and rescued in a shoot-out. Later, she escapes from another kidnap attempt, but is mistakenly arrested in a drugs sting. Once released she is recaptured. In the course of her day she witnesses at least five murders, and, for most of it, is forced to wear a skimpy, if rather fetching, red top. Yet such is the narrative richness of 24 that Kim's travails have often seemed like a trifling sideshow.
Right after his daughter's disappearance, Bauer learns of a plan to assassinate a black presidential candidate, Senator David Palmer (Dennis Haysbert), as well as a conspiracy at the heart of the secret services. Subsequently his boss is shot dead in front of him, although not before issuing the warning: 'Don't trust anybody.'
Sound advice, indeed. Not since the mid-Seventies, and films such as The Parallax View and The Conversation, has paranoia seemed so sensible. Nor has night-time LA ever looked more sinister. Under the glare of a restless camera, the empty suburbs almost shimmer with malevolent intent.
Bauer patrols vacant offices, long-silent corridors and depopulated streets in pursuit of a truth that is seemingly just beyond his grasp. While everyone else in the secret services travels in a black-suited retinue, Jack is a free spirit in a T-shirt, and something of a loner. Nevertheless, he is constantly plugged into a digital support system of mobile communications, swipe cards, surveillance cameras and satellite images. That's the thing about contemporary isolation: you never have to be alone.
If Bauer is the modern version of Chandler's hero - neither tarnished nor afraid - then 24, with its shadowy sets and keyboard cops, works as a kind of nerd-noir. Instead of cigarettes, Bauer, like everyone else, carries a mobile phone. And while no one is shy about using a gun, the weapon of choice is a computer rather than a Colt 45. Breaking heads is now secondary to breaking codes.
The underlying irony, of course, is that while Bauer is hooked up to the world, he finds it difficult to communicate with his wife. Not long ago they separated following a lugubrious period when Bauer returned from a secret mission in Belgrade. Although the couple are reunited, it's not until Teri (Leslie Hope) is also kidnapped that her husband finds the right words, which are, essentially, don't worry, I'm coming to save you.
At the centre of 24, surrounded by international intrigue, is a domestic tale of two high-achieving families - the Bauers and the Palmers - placed under intolerable pressure. The stress, alas, is routinely treated with a syrupy dose of sentiment - the series features more 'I love you's than an early Beatles album.
Even so, and unusually for an action drama, the role of the two wives is pivotal. Sherry Palmer (Penny Johnson Jerald) is a woman whose livid ambition makes Lady Macbeth look like some loved-up hippy in a flowing dress. She has her work cut out with her husband, who acts as if he's only just accepted that Santa Claus doesn't exist. Still, with a woman like that pulling the strings, anyone could become President.
Teri, on the other hand, is a study in unspoken disappointment and indestructible elegance. It is a generous performance from Hope, which allows the other characters space in which to manoeuvre; and Nina (Sarah Clarke), Jack's assistant and former lover, wisely uses it to explore her sashay. She may appear to keep her lips sealed, but there is nothing the poor girl can do to prevent her hips from making a full statement. Nina can turn a dash to the loo into a stroll along a Paris catwalk.
Most of the Bauers' and the Palmers' problems can be traced, via Jack's Belgrade mission, to a third family, the Drazens, a trio of homicidal Serbs. But it should also be said that most of 24's problems can be traced to the same source.
For the first 12 episodes, the series successfully tethered political fantasy to suburban realism. While exploding jumbo-jets and beautiful lesbian assassins stretched credibility to its pleasurable limits, the authentic dialogue of familial disputes and office feuds brought us knowingly back to earth.
In this manner, the progression towards a climax is slickly controlled. Thus the dead-eyed punk who abducts Kimberly and is a dab hand with a crowbar is properly menacing - though not nearly as menacing as Gaines, the icy crime boss who kills him without a first, let alone a second, thought.
But as ruthless as Gaines is, he is still shot dead by Jack at the halfway point, which means the next bad guy in the conspiracy has to be even badder. Alexis Drazen doesn't look bad. He looks good, too good. In a show in which patrol cops, junkies and even air hostesses are physically stunning (and when did you last see a head-turning air hostess?), Alexis stands out with his magazine-model appearance. And although we see him kill a lot of people, the only anxiety he produces stems from the suspicion that he is probably running late for a Calvin Klein underwear commercial.
For all his eastern European abruptness and readiness to slot the first person to give him a funny look, Alexis's brother, Andre, is no more unnerving. That leaves their father, Victor, the ethnic cleanser and all-round madman who lays claim to the title of the baddest of 24's baddies. Victor is apparently the mastermind behind the plot to kill Palmer, Bauer and Bauer's family. Half-man, half-monster, he is held captive, like some modern-day Minotaur, in a secret underground labyrinth. We first see him with a sack over his head. The disappointment I experienced when the bag was removed reminded me of the comedown I felt as a child at the moment in The Wizard of Oz when the curtain is pulled back to reveal dotty old Frank Morgan as the Wizard. It was Frank all over again; Frank from Blue Velvet, that is, otherwise known as Dennis Hopper.
One of the many joys of 24 has been the textured performances given by largely unknown actors. Even Sutherland, the nominal star and major revelation, was a certified has-been (working as a rodeo rider). His haunted, sleepless features are showing signs of the same appealing scepticism that made his father so watchable. It is not easy to make moral decency look interesting, but Sutherland is never less than compelling.
By the same token, it should be hard to make depravity look dull. Hard, but not beyond Hopper. His cartoonish, raised-shoulders psycho-act has become tiresomely familiar. The only novelty is his attempt at a Balkan accent. The guiding principle seems to be that, when in doubt, add an extra two syllables to a word. It is the closest 24 comes to a joke. With the possible exception of the Vicar of Dibley, this series could prove to be the longest-ever stretch of television in which nobody makes an effort to be funny. Such is the extraordinary pace and inspired editing that levity has simply not been required.
That sustained suspense, I fear, has had a similar effect on viewers as it had on Teri. 'I think,' said her doctor friend, 'you've got a condition called disassociative amnesia. We need to get you home.'
For those of us who can't remember life before 24, finding our way back is going to take a little time.


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Watch free runner, Damien Walters run a "Loop The Loop"!
After 18 years at WKYC TV 3, as a chief meteorologist, morning anchor, reporter and everything in between, Mark Nolan is back in the medium that started it all for him... radio. "There's nothing like cracking that microphone, talking up a Sly and the F


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Hang On One Pancake-Flipping Moment...
Little did Elorie know, but at that very moment, somewhere in a small rainy island on the other side of the world in an even smaller room in an unremarkable looking Army house, something equally as strange was going on.
Beepity beep! Beepity beep! Beepity beep! Went the small bedside alarm in it's usual irritating fashion.
"Gnaaaah! Shuddup you stinking thing!" snarled a voice from under a tangled mess of duvet, matress and limbs. A hand groped out from under the blanket, hunting for the off button and muttering vengefully in Latin.
"I'll get that!" says a voice, and the beeping stops.
"Thankees kindly." said the hand, beginning to wrestle it's way out of the duvet. Soon a tousled head pokes out from under the duvet to join the hand and a pair of bleary eyes peered about, looking for the source of the help.
"Hmm," said the owner of the voice, a tall individual with scraggy black hair and a slightly mangy look about him. "I wasn't quite expecting this. So you're the infamous SpookOfNight?"
"Yeh, what of it?" said Spook, scrambling out of her bed and hunting on the floor for her boots. The figure shook his head and called back to a second figure in the room.
"Not quite as threatening as you'd think is she Alara?" he called. "Then again, appeareances can be deceptive. We both know that."
"Indeed." said Alara, stepping forward to peer at Spook, who was now looking at them with an expression usually worn by confused ferrets who've just come out of a tumble dryer. She shook her head, chewing her lip and inspecting her visitors carefully:
"Alara... I know that name. And you, you're familiar too... now where have I seen you..." Then, something seemed to click and Spook ricocheted backwards onto the bed. Alara stepped forward, but Spook skittered across the room, grabbing a spork from the bedside table and brandishing it as if it were a sword.
"Hang on a pancake-flipping minute!" she yelped, "What are you two doing here? Get back in my head! What the fuzzballs are you doing here? And don't get too close, I know how to use this thing!"
The two characters looked at her for a moment, Alara looking slightly amused by the antics of her young author. Then she turned to her companion and said:
"You know Ash, I think this might be a bit harder than we'd first have thought..."


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THE YEAR'S BEST: STAGE VIEW; Civilization and Savagery Collide in Metaphor
By Mel Gussow
Published: December 24, 1989
''JUAN DARIEN,'' THE PUPPET MUSICAL by Julie Taymor and Elliot Goldenthal, is an eloquent expression of the power of theatrical transformation, which in this case approaches transmutation. As the audience watches, objects and images shift and assume radically different, often metaphorical form. A jaguar cub is reborn as a boy (named Juan Darien), and, suffering at the hands of his fellow man, he is driven back to his beastly origins. In this ''carnival Mass,'' civilization and savagery repeatedly collide. The show is the stage equivalent of the magic realism of novelists like Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Isabel Allende. As in their fiction, the apparently mundane suddenly turns into the miraculous.
For Ms. Taymor, ''Juan Darien'' is an adventurous leap from such past ventures as her two versions of Thomas Mann's ''Transposed Heads'' and the various shows she has designed for other directors. She has grown from being an imaginative scenic designer and puppeteer into a conceptual director with a fabulist's view of the mythic possibilities of theater.
The scenery in ''Juan Darien'' is in constant flux. A church collapses and then evolves into a jungle, which envelops the stage with dense foliage and slithering reptilian forms. The jungle is replaced by a hill town of stuccoed cottages, with a narrow road winding to the top, along which appears a funeral cortege. Foliation occurs on cue and, in a flare of color, the sky is filled with fluttering butterflies. In performance, the show is like an animated film live on stage.
First presented by the Music-Theater Group for a brief engagement early in 1988, ''Juan Darien'' returns for a six-week run beginning Tuesday at St. Clement's Church. While I have not, of course, seen the present production, the show's representatives indicate that no changes have been made. The revival should approximate the 1988 version.
The musical, which has no spoken words, exists in scenario form, filled with demanding stage directions like ''The vulture flies through the space to the sound of loud drums.'' Characters are played alternately by puppets and actors in masks. Juan Darien himself has five different guises - as rod, hand and Bunraku puppets, as a doll and as a real boy (played by Lawrence A. Neals Jr.). Drawing from diverse sources, Ms. Taymor, designer and director as well as co-author, uses puppets of limitless variety, some minuscule, others as towering as telephone poles. A spindly, parsnip-nosed schoolteacher, whose hairdo is an open book with flapping pages, stares haughtily at his students through five pairs of spectacles - itself a satirical statement about academic shortsightedness. A skeletal symbol of Death does a nervous danse macabre, and, in a flamboyant carnival scene, a tiger tamer leads a Picasso-like parade of saltimbanques, acrobats and aerialists.
In contrast to other examples of performance art that are marked by their coolness and by their emphasis on the visual to the subordination of everything else, ''Juan Darien'' communicates on an emotional as well as a physical level. It transfixes us with its stage pictures and with its mystical tale of innocence defeated by blind bigotry. The world simply cannot contain a creature as pure as Juan Darien.
In this dramatization of a story by the Uruguayan writer Horacio Quiroga, Juan's ordeal becomes a passion play, a feeling that is enhanced by Mr. Goldenthal's score, which combines liturgical music with pulsating folkloric songs (the lyrics are in Latin and Spanish). The instrumentation is as diverse as the puppetry, using flutes, whistles, gongs, keyboard and the didgeridu from Australia, and the scenic design is influenced by Latin American muralists like Orozco and Rivera.
Ms. Taymor is at the crest of a wave of performance puppeteers who have elevated the craft far beyond children's theater, using it as a bridge between scenery and actors. There is intuitive crossbreeding among these various puppetmasters, who generally act as their own designers.
The tradition in the United States can be traced back to Peter Schumann's Bread and Puppet Theater, whose soulful political pageantry has been a moral presence on our theatrical landscape for many years. Similarly, Ms. Taymor creates pieta-like figures. In contrast to Bread and Puppet's street shows, Theodora Skipitares writes chamber puppet musicals that offer challenging lessons from history, with special emphasis on exploration and scientific discovery (her most recent piece, ''Empires and Appetites,'' was a chronicle of food and famine through the ages).
In ''Blue Night,'' Janie Geiser, an Atlanta-based puppeteer, constructed a walk-through diorama of a walled city. Through lighted windows, one could see scenes of puppet domesticity and intimacy, just as one can on that path to the top of the hill in ''Juan Darien.'' For his one-man shows, Bruce D. Schwartz wears a puppet stage around his body as if it were an overcoat. In effect, he becomes his own stage. In related fashion in ''Juan Darien,'' a walking puppet stage is an ambulatory schoolhouse that swings around and reveals the classroom inside, with puppet children hard at play, Punch and Judy style.
Led by Ms. Taymor, ''Juan Darien'' is a feat of engineering and synchronization. Primary contributors include G. W. Mercier, who collaborated with her on the sets and costumes, and the team of actors who sing, dance and manipulate puppets. During the show's absence from New York, Ms. Taymor was represented at the New York Public Library branch at Lincoln Center with an exhibition of her theatrical designs (puppets, masks, scenery and sketches). Illustrations of shows that she designed for other directors, like Andrei Serban (Carlo Gozzi's ''King Stag''), shared space with work for which she bore a greater artistic responsibility. Surrounded by totemic figures emerging from Ms. Taymor's imagination, one could feel the vibrations of ''Juan Darien.'' It was like entering a silent magical forest. Music, drama, actors and living sculptural design are reunited at St. Clement's - with exhilarating results.
The character Toledo from ''Juan Darien,'' by Julie Taymor and Elliot Goldenthal (Carol Rosegg; Kenneth Van Sickle)


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Affiliations: Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, Germany,
Medical School University of Thrace Alexandroupolis, Greece
Correspondence to: Claus Kroegel, MD, PhD, FCCP, Department of Pneumology and Allergy, Friedrich-Schiller-University, 07740 Jena, Germany; e-mail: email@example.com
To the Editor:
We enjoyed the comprehensive review on the potential therapeutic applications of interferon (IFN) in pulmonary diseases by Antoniou and associates (January 2003).1
Here, we would like to extend the conditions responsive to IFN treatment to include the Churg-Strauss syndrome (CSS).
The CSS is an uncommon type of eosinophilic granulomatous inflammation with associated vascular necrosis accompanied by marked eosinophilia, raised IgE serum concentrations, and usually severe corticosteroid-dependent perennial asthma.2–
In 1997, we treated a 31-year-old woman with a histologically proven CSS resistant to first-line therapy. Administration of IFN-γ (50 μg) lead to a substantial clinical improvement allowing a low-dose steroid maintenance therapy.3
During the past 3 years, we have offered IFN treatment to four additional patients with histologically confirmed CSS who were either resistant to standard therapy (oral corticosteroid alone or in combination with immunosuppressants) or suffered from severe drug-related side effects (Table 1
The patients were treated with 9 μg IFN-αcon (equivalent to 3 million units of IFN-α2b) administered subcutaneously thrice weekly. In all patients, IFN-α induced a significant clinical improvement with respect to clinically relevant parameters of the disease (asthma, rhinitis, sinusitis, hypereosinophilia) with partial (patients BG and UG) and complete remissions (patients KV and BK). In patient KV, both the symptoms of the hemorrhagic cystitis and the Cushing syndrome (weight reduction of 19 kg) disappeared. Also, the peripheral polyneuropathia in patient KV continues to improve since initiation of therapy. The above improvements were achieved despite tapering of oral steroids in all patients. In two patients (patients KV and BK), corticoid treatment could be discontinued. Side effects occurring 2 to 12 h after injection included arthralgia, nausea, malaise, and fever, but were transient and decreased within 3 to 4 weeks. One patient (patient UG) acquired a hyperthyroidism 5 months after initiation of IFN therapy.
Our data are supported by a total of six patients who have also responded to IFN. Tatsis et al4–
studied the effect of IFN-α (7.5 to 63 million U/wk) on four patients with CSS. Treatment led to a remission of the disease in all patients and a substantial reduction of the prednisolone requirement in two patients who had attained incomplete remission with cyclophosphamide or methotrexate. In one patient, stabilization of the condition was achieved. Interestingly, another sustained remission was achieved after treatment for 1 year. Lesens et al5–
reported a case of severe CSS resistant to standard treatment with mediastinal eosinophilic lymphadenopathy, which showed significant clinical improvement after IFN-α2b was initiated. A beneficial response to treatment with interferon-α2b was also observed in a patient with prominent skin involvement.6
Taken together, the data summarized above suggest that CSS may be another pulmonary disease entity responding to treatment with IFN.
We thank Kroegel and colleagues for their interest in our recent review1–
on interferons and their application in the diseases of the lung. There are, indeed, a few case reports indicating the beneficial role of interferon-α and interferon-γ in various rare interstitial lung diseases, such as idiopathic hypereosinophilic syndrome2–4
and the Churg-Strauss syndrome.5–7
However, given the rarity and the course variability of these diseases, multicenter, comparative trials are needed in order to verify these case reports.
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FOMC Day
Good day… And a Wonderful Wednesday to you! A very cold and snowy Wednesday here in St. Louis. I got caught behind the line of snowplows this morning, and it took me what seemed like for-ev-er to get here! Oh well, I'm here, so let's get going, eh?
Well… The currencies saw some profit taking yesterday, only to rebound overnight, which seems to be the recent pattern. The overnight markets' participants drive the euro (EUR) and other currencies higher, and the U.S. market participants sell the euro and other currencies… Makes you want to side with the overnight markets participants, eh? Oh well, the euro is trading with a 1.3255 look to it this morning, as I turn on the screens…
The World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland began today. This is usually a huge economist boondoggle, but this year, it has a different look to it. You see, the U.S. boys and girls that normally attend, are missing this year, as they don't want it to look silly after they took bailout, TARP, and any other kind of government handout. Sort of like the story yesterday that Citigroup was going ahead with their plans to purchase a $50 million jet plane, after taking TARP money. Once the media got wind of that story, Citigroup backed off and announced that they would NOT go through with their plans to buy the jet plane!
If anything, maybe all this will cause a "corporate conscience"… Probably not, but maybe!
Right out of the starters blocks this morning, we have the economists that did show up in Davos, ripping U.S. Treasury Secretary Geithner, a.k.a. "the cheater"… The "ripping" centers around "the cheater's" statement that China was "manipulating" their currency and that they should seek to allow the currency to appreciate… Let's listen in on some of the comments regarding this first call of "the cheater's"…
"Allowing the yuan to strengthen would be 'economic suicide' amid an economic slump, Stephen Roach, Morgan Stanley's Asia Chairman, told a panel in Davos, Switzerland, today. 'I've never seen an economy in recession voluntarily raise their currency. It's horrible advice.'" (Remember, that the renminbi is the official name of the Chinese currency and the yuan is the slang name… It's easier to say, and spell, so the media uses the slang name! HAHAHAHAHAHA!)
"'Shouting from Washington to Beijing is not going to make a difference,' said South Africa's Finance Minister Trevor Manuel on the same panel."
So, the boys over in Davos have Geithner's back…. NOT!
Oh… And just for the record, ever since Geithner (I got tired of typing "the cheater") made his call on Monday, the Chinese have basically told him what to do with his thoughts! The Chinese officials have allowed the renminbi (CNY) to weaken versus the dollar the last 3 nights! Those Chinese, they are wild and crazy guys! But seriously… This is what happens when you have a house in disarray and you begin pointing the blame finger at other houses that have done everything they need to do to rise up from the sleep they've been in for eons… The house that gets blamed bites back! Of course, I prefer the Chinese pushing the renminbi softer, than the alternative of selling their Treasuries!
You know what gets my goat about what Geithner said? (It's important to remember that I believe it was Obama's words that Geithner spoke.) It's why point the finger at China and not every other country in the world that "fixes", "pegs", and manipulates their currencies? There's a whole laundry list starting with Hong Kong, and ending with Saudi Arabia, with the likes of Japan, Singapore, and the other oil states in between.
OK… Well, the FOMC will end today… I received two calls yesterday from writers that wanted to interview me regarding what the Fed was going to do… First an old contact at the Wall Street Journal, and then Reuters… I told them both the same thing… Wouldn't it be nice if we could wake up in the morning when the day was new… NO! WAIT! That's not what I said… Come on Chuck, stick with the program!
Here's what I said… Wouldn't it be nice if Big Ben Bernanke came true on his promise to make the Fed more "transparent" when he was sworn in? And in doing so, wouldn't it be nice if the Fed made a statement that said what it was they were going to do… For how long… How much… And how they would monitor it? Of course it would! But you can expect more cloak and dagger from them!
So… Did you see the S&P/CaseShiller House Price Index yesterday? I told you it would probably show an 18% fall in home prices year-on-year… And the figure was -18.2%, and in November the fall was -19.1%… The annual figure of -18.2% is a record low for a year.
In addition to the House Price Index yesterday, we also saw consumer confidence, which I had thought would give us a head fake improvement… Unfortunately, consumer confidence fell to a HISTORIC LOW of 37.7, falling from 38.6 the previous month. I wonder, wonder, wonder, wonder, who… No, WHEN… When we'll get the Obama bounce. It's beginning to look as though it's not going to come… And that's not a good thing for a new administration.
Speaking of the new administration… They're waiting on the next stimulus package… And the House will vote on the "new and improved" stimulus package that totals $816 billion today… Again… And I won't beat the proverbial dead horse on this, but we don't have the money to do this, and we're only getting deeper into debt!
Gold backed off $15 last night, and is back below $900… Wink, wink…
I'm rushed this morning because it took me so long to get to work, so I'll head to the Big Finish and get to radiation.
Currencies today 1/28/09: A$.6695, kiwi .5297, C$ .8190, euro 1.3260, sterling 1.4305, Swiss .8770, rand 9.9150, krone 6.7150, SEK 8, forint 215.10, zloty 3.2825, koruna 20.66, yen 89.20, sing 1.4980, HKD 7.7585, INR 48.93, China 6.8450, pesos 14.11, BRL 2.31, dollar index 84, Oil $41.25, Silver $12, Gold… $887.34
That's it for today… A great big HAPPY BIRTHDAY to my long-time friend, colleague, and Pfennig Pfill-in… Chris Gaffney! I have known Chris for a long time now, and the guy looks the same now as he did 20 years ago! He has been a great support for me during these past two years of trials and tribulations… So… Happy Birthday! Hey! I was quoted in the Chinese Wall Street Journal yesterday! That was tre' cool! I have a customer conference call this afternoon… This ought to be interesting… OK, time to get on the road again… I hope your Wednesday is Wonderful!


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Check Out How The New Serj Tankian Album Cover Came To Be [VIDEO]
A time-lapse video has been released showing how the cover art to Serj Tankian's "Harakiri" came to be.
A time-lapse video has been released showing how the cover art to Serj Tankian's "Harakiri" came to be.
Serj Tankian is letting people download his new song for free. Its called "Cornucopia" and its live on his website. I haven't heard it yet so I won't comment, but the lyric video is below.
"Cornucopia" is the new official lyric video from Serj Tankian taken from his new album "Harakiri" due on July 10.
Its called "You Be Da Judge" and its just that. a reality competition where stars compete to be the next reality tv show judge. Sounds like it should be a real show if you ask me.
Serj Tankian released the video for his new track "Figure It Out". He told the website Noisecreep that this song is "a comical political song talking about abusive capitalism and the differences created in economic stature and the reaction to it." Ok...
Serj Tankian has released a teaser clip for his latest song "Figured It Out."
It's been a while since we heard from Serj, or really anybody in SOAD. Serj has, however, kept working including this track he did for the new "Batman" video game...


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I was born in the village and so was my father. Growing up was great, we used to walk over the common, which we lived in front of in Bunces Lane, leave doors unlocked etc, go for bike rides, in the village everyone knew everyone! If you got done or caught by the local copper, he would tell you off and then see your parents, so when you got home you had another telling off! The village has changed a lot over the years, some for the good and some not. I am still in the village and this is where I shall stay.
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OK if I don't get the miles in on Thursday I'll probably join you running back - cheers.
Still thinking about the FOD, need to look at what else is in the race diary......
Funny clip!
NST - How's your Russian?
I do like their robust response to oil spills, think they should have given it a go in the States....
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Forest of Dean, your all so keen!!
FL, been out this am, so probably wont go later now, im going swimming again tonight, im going to be like aquaman at this rate!!
check out the buggy i got in mind speed machine!
NST, have a good time in london,
FF, can we catch up this week, whats your plans for tuesday!? me and chris are looking to do a hilly 10?
I like the speed machine, think you should take it on our long runs and if FL gets tired he can sit in it.
Looks like I have a problem with the side of my foot, it was sore on Saturday and it took a while to warm it up before the race of Sunday. I realised this afternoon that my shoe seemed tight, I took it off and looked at my foot and it is really swollen........I don't know what the hell it is. I know I should rest it and ice it etc but I think I'll see if I can shoehorn it into my running shoe tonight.
FF, love your approach to rest and recovery mate we are a long time dead.
As for the speed machine, I'd love to be pushed around in it but don't think I'd get in it with you being in there before me. And after I came back for you when your wheels came off.
You entered FOD yet?
My foot is f*****d.
Got my foot in the shoe, tried running, went about 100 yards and had to give up.
Too uncomfortable to run, it's very swollen around the bottom of the ankle bone on the side of my foot. The only positive is that its not an acute pain. I've got ice on it so we'll see what happens. If I'm lucky it'll be the newish shoes I used for the long run, and changing back to my older ones will make it go away.
Great news mate. And good to see you went out to try it and not just sit around hoping your foot don't fall off. That's a tasty work out on your own and with one foot mate. So your looking good for the weekend then?
Any thoughts on FOD yet? or you going 10k?
Thanks son, its a tasty little run that one. 59.52. We will have to see what we can do may next time.
what time did you come it at...
FF, some very good miles, did you do them with WA?
NST, will be good to have you back in the fold.
Weekend looking good......just need to see how and when to do the long run this week. I may still have a crack at it on Thursday night....if not then I'll join you guys after the XC.
What tempo did you do tonight?
Bryn - Yep did them with WA.
A bit colder tonight, glad it was dry though!!
Bryn, did 1:16 for the 12m 2mins faster than last time. Went through the 10 in about 62/63ish. But felt better this week.
FF, great to see WA is running better. You need to get him out on the long runs with us.
FF, did WA keep up with you?
the run tonight was an undulating 10 miler designed by NST and FL, lots of hills.
how far are you going on thursday then? if you dont go long do you fancy a 11-12 miler from yours after work? nothing mad though.... the run home after the race is approx 7-8 miles i think, nothing like that trek you did after the race at the gnoll
im getting a new mobile tomorrow, i can do map my run on the move.....wooo hoo!!