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Difficult issue resolved.
This a email/letter I sent to the GM at Fields BMW Lakeland... Great Job and I highly recommend them in Central Florida area.
First of all I want to say a huge thank you to John and his lead Tech, Terry. Terry has the auto troubleshooting skills I aspire to and the guy was just brilliant at finding the problem before we started ordering a bunch of expensive replacement parts. It turned out to be a single faulty wire on the wiring harness at the DME box. I believe the wire wasnt properly seated in the connector and had loosened to the point where the CAS/EWS module couldnt communicate with the DME. There is no diagnostic computer that would have isolated to that level. It is just pure experience and knowledge of the BMW wiring system to have found that problem. Had Terry not found that one wire causing the issue, John was ready to start quoting me prices for hardware replacement, even when the diagnostic computers werent indicating a problem. We were that close according to John. These cars are so complex and I am glad that Fields BMW Lakeland has the human diagnostic skills to service my car. Kudos to Terry.
As for John taking oversight of this problem, I cannot think of a better person than John Elmendorf to lead your Service Team at Fields BMW Lakeland. I recall Fred G from your competitor in Tampa, then at Fields Lakeland and John just blows him away with his passion to resolve a difficult issue for the customer. Fred was one of the main reasons I stopped having my car serviced in Tampa. He came across as just an all business guy. I can only imagine how tough it is to run a Service business at a dealership. There are all kinds of people who own BMWs, but John saw my passion and knowledge of the car and was able to step back and say something isnt right about this situation and let his tech work through the problem. I cannot say enough about the gratitude I feel for how this was handled and settled with John. I hope the guys on his team learn and follow his passion to do your best and make the customer happy they serviced at your dealership. When you show your passion for what you do, it draws people to you. John and his team will continue to get the work I cannot or dont have time to do myself. In my retirement, I would love to work for John fixing BMW cars.
Finally, I want to say that I am sorry for venting as loudly as I did at the beginning. There is a very personal reason why I was so frustrated with the initial Fields starter diagnosis and repair that didnt fix the problem. My son is into BMX racing and we have been saving money to buy him the parts to build out his new racing bike for the upcoming 2013 racing season. We had a $1200 budget to spend on getting that bike frame race ready. When I found out we blew that money on a unnecessary starter replacement for my car and potentially unknown money on getting it to start again, I blew my own head gasket so to speak. I didnt have the heart to tell my son that I couldnt afford to get his bike finished for him before the start of the next racing season. I made a commitment to him that I would take care of that initial investment to get him started at a competitive level this coming year. Johns handling of the situation and the settlement with me has allowed me to keep that promise to my son and we are looking forward to fun racing season all over the state of Florida. If you see a Titanium Silver 545 on the roads with a silver BMX racing bike on top, that will be us cruising in style to the next race. If you have a couple of small Fields BMW decals/stickers, we would be happy to put them on the bike frame and share this story with others across the state. We are both grateful for how your Service Team handled my car situation.
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Bob Cooper
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Saturday, August 14, 2010
The Lies That Blind
Today's youth. What can be said? For an entire generation, kids have been fed a myriad of lies that have helped to turn them into spoiled, coddled brats. While not all kids are such, I see far too many who are.
Public schools and mainstream media have ensured that the hope for a better future that we parents have in our children has been quelled in exchange for an agenda poised to ruin the very freedoms generations of Americans have loved, fought, and died for. I pray that one day the tide will turn many of today's young people enjoy some of the greatest pleasures of life that my generation did.
To the youth of today:
All of your young lives, you have been told many things. Some are true, some are not. I hope to enlighten you a bit. Trust that my intention is to give you food for thought so you may exercise your God-given right to think for yourselves. The freedom to think for oneself is perhaps the greatest of all rights bestowed upon us by our creator.
Reality Check #1 -- There is NO separation of church and state clause within the Constitution that says you cannot erect a cross on government property. The 'separation' clause seeks only to prevent the government from establishing an official religion for the country in the same manner as many islamic countries. Interpreting the clause to mean that all traces of religion are to be banned from public property only sets to establish atheism as the official government religion in clear violation of the Constitution.
Reality Check #2 -- No one in your life owes you ANYTHING. What you get out of this life will be determined by the amount of hard work you put into making your dreams come to fruition. If you sit back and wait for everything to be handed to you, you will have nothing but the invisible shackles of slavery binding you. When you are given all that you have, you become a puppet of those who say you deserve without having to work for it.
Reality Check #3 -- Corporal punishment is NOT child abuse. Children being beaten and tortured by their caregivers is an abomination under all circumstances, but a swat on the behind of a small child is a totally different thing. You've heard "Spare the rod, spoil the child"? It's true. And, no, it does NOT teach young children to be violent. I offer that being told it's okay to get what you want by using force is what teaches kids to be violent.
Reality Check #4 -- Capitalism is NOT evil. It is what has made this country prosperous since its founding. Do your parents work for what you have? You can thank capitalism for that. When government puts restrictions on capitalism, government becomes the arbiter of what the people deserve. And trust me: government does NOT know what is best for the free individual.
Reality Check #5 -- Evil does exist in this world. There are those who hate America and her people for the way we live. A beautiful, cloudless day in September of 2001 proved that, and no amount of trying to understand and appease those who believe this way will ever change their minds. Appeasement is weakness to them, and they will shake your hand while peeing in your shoes.
Reality Check #6 -- Being exposed to germs will benefit you in the long run. Sure, you may get slightly ill with a cold or flu on occasion, but your immune system will be all the stronger for it. Live in a sterile environment, and your body will not know how to fight off illness.
Reality Check #7 -- You do NOT have the right to NOT be offended. Just as you enjoy freedom of expression, so do those who have opposing views. Don't whine about how offended you are when someone disagrees with you.
Reality Check #8 -- Good self-esteem comes from hard work and success, not the other way around. The drive to succeed will build your self-esteem and make you feel good about your life. When you are taught that 'everyone wins' during your Little League years because there is no score being kept, you grow up thinking that the world will treat you fairly when you reach adulthood. It won't.
Reality Check #9 -- There is no such thing as failure. Falling short of your goal is merely another opportunity to regroup and try again to make your dreams come true.
Reality Check #10 -- Raw cookie dough will not kill you if you eat it. Many generations of people have fought for what is left in the bowl after all the batter has been used. Guess what? We're alive and well. And it's one of the truly decadent pleasures of childhood.
To the youth of today, I pray that some of what I've said causes you to stop and think about everything you get told in school and by the mainstream media. Please stop feeling entitled to everything and learn to be a free individual. It's the most precious thing you will ever learn.
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Thank G-d for the Constitution's "Good and Welfare" clause. I know it's in there. I just know it.
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I often see people driving brand new Kias and wonder to myself why they would buy it, to me it seems like incredibly bad purchase across the board. If you buy a Forte you're getting a car that is very comparable to its counterparts at an only slightly discounted price, resale value will suffer a tad. If you buy a K900 you get a car with far more features than similarly priced cars from larger brands but will be worth $4 and some pocket lint in a year.
So lets assume you bought a Kia, why did you buy it? how did you justify that purchase vs another comparable car in regards to price, availability, and features?
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A 36-year-old woman is in custody at a Kent County correctional facility following a fatal stabbing Friday, police said.
Police said an argument between the female suspect resulted in the fatal stabbing of 32-year-old James Washington at an apartment at 932 Pastiche Dr. south of 28th St.
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Malin Akerman is a mom!
"My husband and I welcomed our beautiful, healthy baby boy to this world this morning!" the "Rock of Ages" actress Tweeted on Tuesday evening.
"Biggest joy of my life!!! #lovemykid," she added.
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Malin also revealed her baby's name on Tuesday.
"PS and his name is...Sebastian Zincone :))) Love him more than life itself!! #whatafeeling !!!" she added.
It was September 2012 that Malin first confirmed she and husband Robert Zincone were expecting a baby.
The actress and her husband married in June 2007.
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BEXLEY, Ohio (WTVN) --Bexley police have identified the women involved in Monday night's fatal head-on crash at East Broad St. and Dawson Ave.
According to the police report, a van driven by Cheryl D. Smith of Columbus went left of center and into the SUV driven by Mary Caplinger, also of Columbus.
Caplinger was taken to Ohio State's Wexner Medical Center where she died.
Smith was treated at the hospital and released.
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The Three B's are found posted on almost every wall at Blossomwood Elementary School in Huntsville, Alabama.
Be Respectful
Be Responsible
Be Resourceful
The Three B's are part of Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS), a systems-based method for improving student behavior, aspects of which are being implemented at Blossomwood.
"For us, it is about consistency," said Carol Costello, Blossomwood's assistant principal. "We needed to set schoolwide expectations for student behavior. PBIS gives our students, teachers, and staff a common language for discussing students' actions."
Less than three miles away, the same words adorn the 80-year-old walls of Lincoln Elementary, another school implementing PBIS. In some ways, Lincoln is similar to Blossomwood. Both schools score well on state testing, consistently meet the Adequate Yearly Progress requirements of No Child Left Behind, and have top-end attendance rates. Demographically, however, the schools are different. About 80 percent of Lincoln Elementary students receive a free or reduced-price lunch, while about 15 percent of Blossomwood students do. Lincoln's student body is 70 percent African American and 30 percent white, while Blossomwood's student body is 81 percent white and 18 percent African American.
Melinda Clark, Lincoln's curriculum specialist, likes PBIS because it is proactive. "We are addressing issues with student behavior before they happen," she said.
Lincoln and Blossomwood are among more than 7,000 schools nationwide implementing PBIS. The program was developed at the University of Oregon and has been shown to work at all grade levels and be effective in districts with greater concentrations of poverty and higher percentages of "at-risk" students. For those schools that effectively implement PBIS, the list of demonstrated rewards is long:
- reduced office referral rates of up to 50 percent per year;
- improved attendance and school engagement;
- improved academic achievement;
- reduced dropout rates;
- reduced delinquency in later years;
- improved school atmosphere; and
- reduced referrals to special education.
The need for PBIS is self-evident. Out-of-school suspension numbers outpace enrollment; juvenile judges find their courtrooms clogged by students, particularly students of color, who have been referred for non-violent misbehavior; and research has shown that school exclusion is ineffective at improving student behavior and may, in fact, be counterproductive. Research has also tied school exclusion to grade retention and dropout problems. The result? Too many students leave school, one way or another, because of school discipline.
Discipline issues also affect teacher attrition. Researchers estimate that almost half of new teachers are no longer in the profession by their fifth year. In a 2005 national survey of teachers leaving the profession, 44 percent of teachers, and 39 percent of highly qualified teachers, cited student behavior as a reason for leaving.
At a time when both students and teachers are leaving our schools because of discipline, a number of districts have been looking to try something different. PBIS — which requires a major shift in a school's approach to discipline — may be the answer.
Teaching Positive Behavior
Positive behavior is not taught in a 15-minute session on the first day of school. Nor is a week, or even a month, of reinforcement adequate. PBIS is a systemwide, sustained approach to behavior management, introduced at the outset and reinforced throughout the year.
Abbott Middle School in Elgin, Illinois, uses "Cool Tools" — lesson plans that model expected behavior, explain the reasons for the expected behavior, and allow for student and teacher role play. "Each department is responsible for teaching different procedures at the beginning of the school year," said Matt Freesemann, an 8th-grade U.S. history teacher at Abbott. For example, the math department taught the students how to comport themselves in the stairwells and the bathrooms. "When we saw a dip in the desired behavior, we re-taught the expectations and worked to reinforce them."
Part of the PBIS model of reinforcement comes from acknowledging and rewarding appropriate behavior. One school awards "gotchas" for good behavior, which can be traded for novelties and school supplies at the school's PBIS Store. Another awards "wildcards" for students who are "caught being good." Students take their wildcards to the front office, where they're entered in a raffle — receiving positive feedback all along the way from teachers and staff. Other schools offer a variety of rewards for positive behavior, including lunch with a friend, homework passes, free time in the gym, or a chance to read outside. Schools also hold pizza parties and ice cream socials as incentives for meeting PBIS goals.
There also are consequences — consequences as clear and consistent as the rewards.
At one school, for example, there is a progression of consequences tied to non-violent disciplinary incidents: a verbal warning, followed by contacting the student's parents, then a school conference with the parents and finally a disciplinary referral to the principal's office.
PBIS schools rely on data, tracked most easily in the form of office referrals, to develop and modify their PBIS implementation plan. Using data helps schools stay abreast of trends or patterns in disciplinary incidents: When and where do most office referrals occur? What types of incidents are most common? Which teachers are referring the most students? Which students are most often referred? Are there gender or racial disparities in the referrals?
"It's hard to argue with the numbers," said Kathy Davis, assistant principal at Abbott. "Reviewing the data makes you aware and more conscious of your interactions with students."
At Abbott Middle School, the PBIS Team, consisting of a representative from each grade level and each department, meets monthly to review its disciplinary data and determine its next steps. "It enables us to see where our efforts are paying off and where we need to refocus," Freesemann said. The team's members bring the data to grade level and departmental meetings for further review and planning. "If we see an upward trend in discipline referrals, we can use different incentives to bring things back into line," Freesemann said. "If we notice certain students continue to receive referrals, we can direct more targeted interventions for specific types of misbehavior."
The result?
"We cut our in-school suspensions and after-school detentions in half compared to the first semester last year," Freesemann said. And out-of-school suspensions went from 20 or 25 a year to just three or four.
Levels of Support
PBIS schools use a multi-tiered approach to intervention. While the universal supports described above are sufficient to maintain acceptable behavior for about 80 percent of students, 15 percent require more targeted supports to reduce specific misconduct such as truancy. The remaining 5 percent require individualized supports to address more challenging behaviors.
In the second semester, teachers rewarded students on random days and at random times if they were "caught being on time." Students who were late to class had to meet with the principal to discuss tardiness. After several weeks, the number of reported tardies decreased, but there were still 14 students who were consistently tardy. These students required individualized supports.
Abbott set up a four-week program that monitored and rewarded the students' punctuality. The four-week period began with a goal of making it to class on time 80 percent of the time, increasing weekly to 100 percent. As students met goals, they were entered in weekly raffles, with prizes such as T-shirts and movie tickets. Students who met the 100 percent goal earned food cards to local restaurants and graduated from the program.
Ten of the 14 students successfully completed the program. Marisol, a 7th-grader, is one of them. "I love it. It helped me a lot. I don't get any more detentions, and detentions are really boring," she said.
Some of Marisol's friends still get in trouble for tardiness. "I am trying to be as quick as I can. If my friends aren't ready, I tell them I need to go and I leave them now. I wanted to pass the program."
Marisol is no longer tardy and is more engaged at Abbott now. "I want to be a teacher," she said.
Growing Pains
Implementing PBIS and changing a school's disciplinary culture are not easy. Most state PBIS programs will not train a school or district unless there is significant buy-in from teachers and administrators. Research suggests that a school cannot implement PBIS successfully without the commitment of key administrators and 80 percent of the school's teachers. "It's a teacher-focused program," Abbott's Davis said. "Could our teachers implement it without the support of the administration? It would be a lot harder, but yes. Could our administrators implement it without the support of our teachers? Absolutely not."
Securing buy-in from both teachers and administrators is hampered by some common misconceptions about PBIS. First, there is the misperception that PBIS only allows for positive reinforcement and not for other forms of consequences. Second, there is the misperception that positive reinforcement is only allowed to be given in tangible goods such as toys, not in less tangible forms of praise.
There are deeper misgivings as well. Those who have watched half-hearted, failed attempts to implement other disciplinary programs may doubt PBIS's structure or the school's ability to implement it. Teachers are asked to handle more minor disciplinary incidents in the classroom rather than sending students to the principal's office — a fundamental restructuring of discipline in some schools.
School redistricting led to an increase in students exhibiting at-risk behavior at Abbott Middle School. In turn, that led Abbott's teachers and administrators to look for ways to improve discipline.
At Abbott, Davis said, "We introduced PBIS to our teachers as an idea, as a possibility. We tried to show our teachers and staff how flexible the program could really be." Abbott's teachers participated in developing common procedures and expectations for behavior.
"We asked for a lot of input. We gave our teachers a lot of opportunities along the way to shape it," explained Davis. Nonetheless, for those teachers who were totally against changing Abbott's approach to discipline, "we let them know from the beginning that we have to change, no matter what," Davis said. "So, whether you buy into this program or you don't, the mentality has to change or you need to think about looking somewhere else."
Sustained effort, throughout the year, is a key to PBIS's success.
"When we saw lulls in expected student behavior in March or April, we had to keep ourselves as teachers from backsliding to other ways of disciplining students," Freesemann said. "It helped that our principal believed in PBIS 100 percent. When talking to students or parents about disciplinary issues, she always referenced our schoolwide expectations. It really began to change the way we thought about behavior as a school."
PBIS and Racial Disparity in Discipline
Researchers are looking at ways in which PBIS can reduce the racial discipline gap. Too often in many schools, students of color, particularly African American and Latino students, are disciplined disproportionately to their presence in the student body. At Abbott Middle School, PBIS lowered discipline rates while maintaining discipline numbers proportional by race to the school's enrollment.
"As we reviewed the data, we realized we had a few teachers who were sending a disproportionate number of African American students to the office," said Kathy Davis, assistant principal at Abbott. "When we looked at these teachers' disciplinary numbers, we found that they were sending children to the office for incidents which are not grounds for office referrals in our school. In short, once these teachers began to actually implement PBIS, these numbers decreased to where they should be."
Unfortunately, Abbott's proportionality is the exception, not the rule, even in schools implementing PBIS.
Russell Skiba, director of the Initiative on Equity and Opportunity at Indiana University has found that, overall, PBIS has enabled schools to reduce school exclusion by appropriately matching the severity of the disciplinary incident to the consequence. While PBIS reduces school exclusion for all students, Skiba found that students of color in PBIS schools were still more likely to receive harsher punishments for similar misbehavior than their white peers. Nonetheless, Skiba sees promise in the PBIS framework as a means to bring these data and these conversations to the forefront.
Skiba advocates for diverse representation on school PBIS teams to ensure that multiple perspectives aid the development of the school's behavior expectations, interventions, and reinforcement. "I believe educators are excellent problem solvers. If they see a problem, they will try to solve it," Skiba said. "If we bring that kind of awareness into the framework of PBIS, we will see that same kind of problem solving."
Alternatives to Suspension
There are a number of ways that schools can cut down on suspensions so that students do not miss class time. Here are some options:
- Conference with the student to provide him/her with corrective feedback.
- Re-teach behavioral expectations.
- Mediate conflict between students or students and staff.
- Create behavior contracts that include expected behaviors, consequences for infractions, and incentives for demonstrating positive behaviors.
- Student completion of community service tasks.
- Development of an open communication system between parents/guardians and school officials in order to address issues the student may be facing in a collaborative manner.
- Reflective activity, such as writing an essay, about the offense and how it affected the student, others, and the school.
- Loss of a privilege.
- Adjust the student's class schedule or placement to maximize academic and behavioral improvement.
- Create a check-in/check-out intervention plan for the at-risk student with a caring adult in the school who tracks the student's behavioral progress and addresses his/her individual needs on a daily basis.
- Require daily or weekly check-ins with an administrator for a set period of time.
- Refer student to counselor, social worker, behavior interventionist, or Building Based Student Support Team.
- Work with the student to choose an appropriate way for him/her to apologize and make amends to those harmed or offended.
- Arrange for the student to receive services from a counseling, mental health, or mentoring agency.
- Detention or in-school suspension, during which the student completes his/her work.


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Mother Is Dead After Attacking Her Child While High on Bath Salts
A Madison, allegedly high on bath salts, is dead after assaulting her child and receiving a Taser shock, while struggling with police. According to CNYCentral.com, Tuesday evening troopers were called to an apartment with reports of a woman assaulting a three-year-old.
While police were responding, several follow-up reports claim that the woman was punching and choking the child, and subsequently began attacking a neighbor. When police arrived they found a 35-year-old woman apparently under the influence of bath salts. When Trooper Christopher Budlong tried to arrest the woman, she became "violently combative." As she resisted attempts to be handcuffed, she "growled" at police. Police first used pepper-spray, but it had no effect. Police then employed the Taser, which enabled him to cuff the combative woman.
After she was taken into custody, this mother went into cardiac arrest. She was taken to the hospital by ambulance, where she later died. This woman had a history of using bath salts, but the autopsy could not pinpoint the exact cause of death. It could take several weeks for toxicology reports. State Police believe they were justified in using the Taser.
On Wednesday morning, witnesses recounted the previous night. One man saw the woman come out the rear exit of her apartment with the three-year-old boy in her arms. She tumbled down the stairs, holding onto her son. She then began assaulting the child and yelling incoherently. At one point, she was sitting on the pavement spinning and laughing as she was hurting the child. The boy's father intervened, taking the child and then the woman went after a neighbor, chasing her into her apartment where she attacked her. Then, the woman went back into the parking lot where she stripped off all her clothes and threatened people passing by. Next, she went back into her apartment, emerging with a pit bull in her arms. She tumbled down the stairs with the dog, injuring the animal. Police asked for her to let go of the dog, and pepper-sprayed her when she did not respond.
Troopers warned her that she would be tased if she did not let go of the dog. After the woman was tased and handcuffed, a neighbor informed troopers that she had undergone surgery to put stents in her heart just two days earlier. The child was taken to the hospital where he was treated for minor injuries and released to family members. Troop D commander Major Rodney Campbell confirmed that the woman was high on bath salts and was not coherent at the time of her death. Witnesses believe the police were justified in using the Taser.
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Yancy Gates is Cincinnati's biggest and most
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"When he plays well, we are at our best - I don't think there's any question about that," head coach Mick Cronin told me. "My biggest challenge is to get him to realize that he has tremendous talent and that he truly can be a great player. He has to come in with that mentality every game. I don't think he realizes how good he is at times."
"We tell him that all the time," said Yancy Gates. "We try to motivate him and pump him up and let him know how good that he is."
Wright was outstanding in Cincinnati's 65-59 victory over Texas, with 11 points, 6 rebounds, 5 assists, and 1 turnover. Foul trouble limited the junior guard to 26 minutes of playing time, and the Bearcats outscored the Longhorns by 13 points while he was in the game. Cashmere will need to avoid foul trouble in Sunday's game against Florida State.
"In the Big East, you can grab people while they're running and when they try to get away, you can hold them," said Wright. "There's not too much of that right now. You actually have to stay away from them because every foul is a foul."
"Dion Dixon can play the point for us, but that's what Cashmere Wright is - he is a point guard," said assistant coach Larry Davis. "When he plays well, we are going to play well. It's no knock against Dion, but Cash understands that position the best."
Coach Davis has known Wright for nearly 10 years and played a key role in getting the Georgia native to sign with Cincinnati in 2008.
"I actually saw him when he was a freshman in high school," Davis told me. "I was the head coach at Furman University and I was down there looking at another kid and the principal of the school said, 'We have a freshman here who is really good.' Cash was a skinny, long-armed, wide-eyed little guy. You can ask him - the first recruiting letter he ever got was from me at Furman."
Wright was part of the same recruiting class as Gates and Dion Dixon but had to sit out his freshman year after tearing his ACL in a preseason workout. Even though Cashmere has another year of eligibility to look forward to, he shares a bond with the seniors who are trying to extend their college careers.
"I posted a thing on Twitter today about the original '08 class," said Wright. "When we came here, our goal together was to go as far as we can go. We feel like this isn't as far as we can go. We came here with a goal of at least getting to the Final Four and that's what we are trying to achieve right now. It ain't about next year. It's about the original '08 class and what we are trying to do for this team."
Cincinnati's destiny could depend on Wright's intensity.
"He always plays hard - it's not that - it's more about being mentally intense," said Coach Davis. "When he does that, he is a very good player. A very good player."
"The thing about Cash is, when he is intense, he stays focused and makes the right plays," said Gates. "Sometimes he kind of fades away and makes plays where you think, 'What's he doing?' When Cash is intense, he is just as good as anybody."
I talked to Wright on Saturday about the third-round matchup against Florida State. Here's a link to the video
If you haven't seen Florida State play this year,
the Seminoles are HUGE.
Their five starters are 6'5", 6'5", 6'5", 6'10", and 6'11", and two of their top four subs are 6'8" and 7'0".
That's a gigantic reason (no pun intended) why Florida State ranked 5th in the country in field goal percentage defense this year after leading the nation in each of the previous two seasons.
"It's really hard to get a basket in the paint," said Coach Cronin. "That's what Florida State is great at - they don't give you anything easy. Fundamentally, they are as good as you are going to see. They can suffocate you. We have to understand that when we are struggling to score, it is time to get fouled...it's time to get a lay-up...it's time to get Yancy the ball down low or beat our man off the dribble - it's not time to settle for another jump shot.
"Hopefully our quickness can be an advantage for us. We have to spread them out and try to make them play individual defense and not team defense. They are a great team defensive team and we have to try to get some guys in some space where we can beat Florida State off the dribble. But then we have to make the right pass, because when we did that against Louisville, we took bad shots because we didn't make the right pass. Our offense is going to be put to the test."
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Trade unions will tonight seek to overturn some of Lady Thatcher's restrictive industrial laws that Labour has refused to repeal since Tony Blair won the 1997 general election.
Thirty-six rebel Labour MPs are backing a campaign coordinated by the TUC to amend the employment bill, which is going through Parliament and comes up for debate tonight.
The legislation will simplify balloting laws, close a legal loophole that allows employers to use agencies to break strikes, give greater protection to individuals following the taking of industrial action and allow unions to expel fascists from unions.
As well as many members of the left-wing Campaign Group, the rebels include Jon Cruddas, the former Labour deputy leadership candidate whom Gordon Brown toyed with giving a ministerial job, ex-minister Kate Hoey, Andrew Dismore, who chairs the joint human rights committee, Michael Connarty, MP for Linlithgow and East Falkirk, Gordon Prentice, MP for Pendle, Dennis Skinner, MP for Bolsover and Eric Illsley, MP for Barnsley Central.
The move has the backing of more than a dozen unions and follows a three-year campaign for a trade union freedom bill, which was talked out by ministers earlier this year.
Unite, Unison, GMB, the Communications Workers union, Public and Commercial Services union, the RMT, Fire Brigades union, Prison Officers' Association, the Bakers' union, Aslef, National Association of Prison Officers and the National Union of Mineworkers are all supporting the TUC campaign.
The most successful amendment - which the government is likely to back - proposes changing the law to expel British National party (BNP) members from unions. Ministers are under pressure from the European Commission to amend the law.
Labour MPs and the anti-fascist campaign group Searchlight want to change amendments to the bill made during its Lords' stages, saying they must be overturned because they prevent unions from expelling people for membership of a political party.
The issue was highlighted when the train drivers' union, Aslef, fought for, but lost, the right to expel a BNP activist. The union had to pay the member compensation and costs.
Jon Cruddas, the MP for Dagenham, said: "It is incomprehensible that, while the threat to our communities posed by the BNP grows, the very law which should support unions as they seek to protect themselves from the far right could be seriously weakened. This is not the time or place to give in to those who do not understand the central role unions play in bringing our communities and workplaces together. We must not open up our unions to the politics of division."
John McDonnell, the MP for Hayes and Harlington, said: "It is wrong that workers should have to pay for corporate greed with their jobs, homes and livelihoods. Having stood by the bankers, the government now needs to stand by the workers.
"Ever since we came to power, Labour party members and supporters have demanded that the government at least make some move to repeal the worst of Thatcher's anti-union laws. Now, at long last, MPs will be allowed to vote on what is commonly regarded as some of the most backward legislation on employee rights in Europe."
The Tories are likely to join with Labour to defeat many of the amendments - the main embarrassment the government could suffer from the size of the rebellion is that Tories will be able to claim they have saved ministers from trade union demands they did not want to accept.


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Lady Gaga Premieres New Single 'Judas' Early
After a low-quality clip of part of her new single 'Judas' leaked online, Lady Gaga decided to release the official version today, four days ahead of schedule.
Gaga wrote and produced the track with RedOne, who worked with the pop superstar on many of her biggest hits: 'Poker Face,' 'Just Dance,' 'Bad Romance' and 'Love Game.'
The song is another club banger with house music influences and half-spoken vocals that sound like Rihanna at times. Gaga sings:
"When he comes to me, I am ready / I'll wash his feet with my hair if he needs / Forgive him when his tongue lies through his brain / Even after three times, he betrays me."
The song is similar to 'Bad Romance' in many respects, from the "Jud-ah Jud-ah-ah, Jud-ah Gaga" vocal breakdowns to the melodic chorus with "Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh" chants.
Gaga touches on religious themes as she sings about being in love with someone she shouldn't: "In the most Biblical sense, I am beyond repentance / Fame hooker, prostitute wench, vomits her mind."
'Judas' is the second single from Gaga's 'Born This Way' album, following the title track, which spent six weeks at No. 1. The potentially-controversial music video for 'Judas' should follow in the next few weeks.
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LP radio has been updated with some new music and words.
EDIT: For people outside the US, listen on this page (the widget for listening is on the right):
LP radio has been updated with some new music and words.
EDIT: For people outside the US, listen on this page (the widget for listening is on the right):
rjcrimzon on January 18, 2012 at 8:30 pm
Idk if this was new or not but I just noticed the Crystal Castles track on there. I've been listening to them for a while now, its pretty good stuff. I would say LP and Crystal Castles are the best of examples of changing my understanding of what music is and can be. If you want to collaborate with them it would be cool with me.
hivlt3 on January 17, 2012 at 8:16 am
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zahralp on January 12, 2012 at 1:19 pm
lp radio yay 🙂
ps:hey jpkaukonen i remembered you from your art tattoo XD it was like 3 years ago omg ..wow…time passed me by rather surprisingly
kattoda on January 12, 2012 at 9:30 am
That's great. I like that you speak about Download to Donate. So people still know that you are supporting them. It would be awesome if you'd make a Linkin Park Radio widget for Google Chrome so that we haven't to go every time to this link. It would be easier for us. =)
mssueellen on January 10, 2012 at 8:05 pm
oh, and I forgot to mention, sometimes, I don't know,depending on the time, maybe, the service it's not available to listen it live. It says it's a service exclusively for the U.S. I don't know if you could fix that, I guess that's a web problem , I don't know if somebody has that problem too. Anyway, I insist that the idea is amazing!
mssueellen on January 10, 2012 at 7:53 pm
Wow Mike, this works GREEAAAAT!!!! And I'm from Honduras, so I guess that anybody can listen it. It worked out with the link that I got from e-mail. I can't be stick to it at all time (cuz of my job and school), but I'll try my best to follow it from my laptop, 'cause it's just an amazing idea.
Congrats and thanks for that!
brysislupin on January 10, 2012 at 2:04 pm
Oh I can listen to it now 🙂
jpkaukonen on January 10, 2012 at 1:23 pm
Mike, if it wasn't for you there wouldn't be this!
My new wall paint:
Love you Mike! ❤
valeria012 on January 9, 2012 at 10:32 am
wow thanks for the radio and put the other members also on the radio mike 😉
ultimateshadow1936 on January 8, 2012 at 6:21 pm
works world wild 😀
gustina05 on January 8, 2012 at 3:42 pm
For the ones who cannot listen because you're not in US try the link that Colin posted. Im in Argentina and it works fine for me
vickykun on January 8, 2012 at 2:04 pm
As if I could heard that radio since it´s not available in my country;.;
That´s me when I found out about it:
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anvanoppens on January 8, 2012 at 12:36 pm
Oh Rob is also on this time 🙂
anvanoppens on January 8, 2012 at 12:33 pm
Heard some music already. Love the talking though. & Thanks Colin for the right link 🙂
adiek84 on January 8, 2012 at 12:20 pm
Great! Gonna listen to it now.
Are you guys sure, that it's only available in the US? It works fine for me, and I'm in Germany, which means that either we've been occupied by the US (again) or it works in other countries, too.
gustina05 on January 8, 2012 at 11:28 am
Hey Mike can you configure the radio so the ones we're not in U.S can listen to it???? The last time, I play it without problems, but now it doesn't let me 😦 im in Argentina by the way
gustina05 on January 8, 2012 at 11:19 am
Awesome Mike thanks!
Nina Nine on January 8, 2012 at 10:23 am
Thank you mike! 🙂
yomarqueslp on January 8, 2012 at 5:46 am
Amazing! Thank you, Mike 🙂
calessi on January 8, 2012 at 4:56 am
why cant we pick up radio station in uk anymore it says only available in america thats hardly fair!
colinreid on January 8, 2012 at 3:48 am
also this is the link that works – http://www.iheartradio.com/cc-common/news/sections/special/linkinpark/?_show
colinreid on January 8, 2012 at 3:31 am
has anyone heard my name being mentioned yet?
evooba on January 8, 2012 at 2:38 am
Awesome! Can;t wait to hear the music you chose this time 🙂 LP Radio is always a great way to discover new music!
anvanoppens on January 8, 2012 at 1:58 am
That's great news! Can't wait to listen to it when the connection is better. Your Spotify has great music already… Any more phone calls included?
Your new background here looks great btw 🙂 Good luck in the studio.
chiragddude on January 8, 2012 at 1:37 am
Awesome stuff Mike, the LP Radio helps me find some awesome new music. BTW, you could check this Indian Indie band out!
Mike, a shoutout to the Indian Linkin Park community on Twitter or here, please!
We've been dying to see you guys and we all might really DIE (XD), if you guys don't make it soon enough. A shoutout would actuate the masses to stand up, ask for it and compel the dormant sponsors/organizers to set it up! We are a huge fan base, and you know that! 😀
brofro7794 on January 8, 2012 at 12:20 am
Jersha_LP on January 8, 2012 at 12:14 am
Nice 😀
Btw Mike, can't wait to hear new stuff, there are so many rumors about the album being almost done and it being very loud… The curiosity is killing me!!
emzlp123 on January 7, 2012 at 11:11 pm
Oh cool! Is this some of the stuff you recorded during the LPU Chat last month?
Hope you had a good holiday season ^_^
dcl1982 on January 7, 2012 at 11:07 pm
mizsnurul on January 7, 2012 at 10:59 pm
spraypaintninkpens on January 7, 2012 at 10:53 pm
Cool story, now what about Fort Minor?
michelle2014 on January 7, 2012 at 8:24 pm
Thanks for updating it mike!,,
atreib on January 7, 2012 at 8:10 pm
Oh, when i will have the best band ever all the time? =/
segumisama on January 7, 2012 at 8:09 pm
segumisama on January 7, 2012 at 8:07 pm
Yeah, Mr. Shinoda, your link is completely messed up lol. The page kinda.. half loads… mostly it's a white screen…
Ally on January 7, 2012 at 8:04 pm
and your link is screwy.
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Although I did not realize that the color was not clear, but more of a blue/green, the bowl is a wonderful size. This is the perfect size for most anything I can cook up or make. This will be my go-to bowl for many years to come.
This bowl is attractive enough to serve out of in addition to using for mixing,baking. I've used it regularly for years. My kids managed to break mine- which is not so easy to do given all the times it's hit the floor and I'm here to replace it.
I RECENTLY USED THE BOWL AND IT WAS GREAT TO MAKE COOKIES AND LATER USED THE SAME BOWL FOR MY FANCY DINNER. Five stars. highly recommended.
love the look and the sizes of the items I bought. I am beginning to purchase items for my daughter as well to start her off with quality cooking and baking items. Can't beat the prices!
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Firstly, the inside of this bowl is smooth. I ultimately assumed it would be, which is why I got it, but you can't really tell from the photo- it looks like it might be "sculptured" on the inside as well, so if you were wondering, there you go. I prefer this bowl because it has great function (substantial but not clunky like ceramic bowls), versatility (there are some ingredients that don't do well in metal bowls), and looks (classic but not so boring to me as the smooth sided glass bowls). The size is a perfect mid-size, and is the one I use most frequently. Washes us easily. Good price.
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I wanted this bowl as an alternative to the lipped Pyrex bowls I also have. I wasn't sure I would like it, but it was on sale and I wanted to give it a try.
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Melissa McCarthy to Direct and Star in "Tammy"
Putting on many hats for her pet project, Melissa McCarthy will direct and star in "Tammy" which she also co-wrote with her husband, Ben Falcone.
The raunchy comedy follows a woman who is laid off from her job at Hardee's, discovers her husband is having an affair, and decides to go on a road trip with her alcoholic, foul-mouthed, diabetic grandmother.
One of the first project she set her sights on after hitting it big in "Bridesmaids," New Line hopes to get the film going this year.
On Friday, you can catch the 42-year-old funny lady in theaters in her new comedy with Jason Bateman called "Identity Thief."


text: Game of Thrones is getting too gory and gruesome There's no respite from the violence in series four. But I'm not ready for another Red Wedding, says Ellie Walker-Arnott Comments Written By Ellie Walker-Arnott 3:00 AM, 07 April 2014 Did anyone else flinch, grimace or hide their eyes with increasing fervour as the third series of Game of Thrones edged towards its climax? Well, we might only be one episode in, but it seems that was nothing compared to what they've got in store for us in season four. And it all feels a little premature. I still feel scarred by Red Wedding. I can still see Talisa Stark's bloodied and pregnant stomach, Catelyn's pained expression, Robb's slow and painful demise. The episode itself made me wonder whether I'm watching the wrong show. (Maybe it's time I bailed on Westeros and started watching repeats of Lark Rise to Candleford instead.) But I've persisted. Of course I understand that death and destruction come part and parcel with HBO's glossy and addictive adaptation of George RR Martin's novels. The very first episode when Jaime Lannister pushed little Bran Stark out of the window was something of a clue. But as the story progresses, the blood and guts are taking up more and more screen time. And as we move into the much-anticipated fourth series it seems as though Game of Thrones isn't allowing us any respite. Instead of one hugely gory and bloodthirsty episode – traditionally number nine – we are being promised that there will be numerous episodes as big and bold as that gruesome wedding breakfast. "Things really get going much more quickly," the show's creators have said. "It's not building towards one specific climatic event. There are more climatic events in season four than there have ever been before." But if that means no let up on the violence, and incessant shots of slit throats, butchered prostitutes and characters choking on their own blood, then I'm not entirely sure that's good news. I need the build up. I know it's been almost a year in real-time, but I'm still not ready for another Red Wedding. I need a few opening episodes that meander along. I need to balance the darkness with some light relief. Some of Tyrion's quick wit. More of Daenerys Targaryen shamelessly flirting with Daario Naharis. A couple of pints with Bronn. A few Hodors. And less bloodied eye sockets, please. Game of Throne series 4 is on Mondays at 9:00pm on Sky Atlantic. Follow @RadioTimes Like this? Share it. Facebook Twitter Google Tumblr Pinterest Blogger Reddit VKontakt Print Email


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Quinoa & Smoked Tofu Salad
We took the tangy fresh flavors of tabbouleh and paired them with smoky tofu and quinoa to create a main-dish salad that's perfect served on a bed of greens. This salad is jam-packed with heart-healthy ingredients—whole grains (quinoa), legumes (soy-based tofu) and plenty of vegetables.
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Dorothea Berry Donnelly, daughter of a pioneer Pecos Valley farming and ranching family, died on Saturday, March 12, 2011, in Roswell, after a brief illness. Born on Dec. 26, 1915, [auth] she was the daughter of O.B. Berry and Winone Berry, of Dexter. She graduated with a B.A. from the University of New Mexico and a master's degree from New Mexico Highlands University, taught school in Carlsbad, and was appointed by former Gov. Edwin L. Mechem, to the Board of Regents of the New Mexico Boy's School in Springer.
A lifelong New Mexican, she was active in the DAR, the Roswell Presbyterian Church, the Genealogical Society, and Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority. A wideranging reader, she had a lifelong interest in economics, history, genealogy, gardening and politics. Prior to her illness, she traveled extensively throughout the world. She was preceded in death by her husband Dr. Thomas C. Donnelly, former president of New Mexico Highlands University.
She was also preceded in death by her brother H.C. Berry and his wife Betty Berry, of Dexter; her halfbrothers, Wesley Berry and his wife Willa, of Vallejo, Calif.; and Ewell Berry and his wife Thelma, of Austin, Texas. She is survived by her stepson Thomas A. Donnelly and daughter -in-law Paula S. Donnelly, of Santa Fe; and numerous loving nephews and nieces, including Tom Berry and wife Bonnie, of Roswell, John Berry and wife Trisha, of Dexter, Jim Berry and wife Lori, of Dexter, Barbara Ross and husband Mike, of Dallas, Dr. Bill Berry and wife Cora, of Las Vegas, Nev., Betty Barry Graig, Suzanne Van Aken, and her husband Mark, of Henderson, Nev., and George Wesley Berry and wife Susan Berry, as well as many others of her extended family.
Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m., Wednesday, March 16, 2011, at First Presbyterian Church. The Rev. Bob Williams will officiate. In lieu of flowers the family requests that memorial contributions be made to Roswell Public Library, 301 N. Pennsylvania Ave., Roswell, NM 88201, or Humane Society, 703 E. McGaffey St., Roswell, NM 88203. Arrangements have been entrusted to Ballard Funeral Home and Crematory. An online registry can be accessed at ballardfuneralhome. com
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First, kids help Dora and Boots save Mermaid Kingdom from an octopus with too much garbage. In the second feature, they'll follow Dora and Diego to a lost island to help Giant Tortoise Lonely Louie find a friend. Free. Ages 2 to 7.
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(CNSNews.com) - Russian president Vladimir Putin took a few moments during his visit to Cuba to congratulate President-elect George W. Bush on Thursday, but no words of congratulation have come from Cuban leader Fidel Castro.
Putin wished Bush "success in this important and responsible post," and said he looked forward to "an intensive and constructive dialogue with you and your administration."
After saying that, Putin joined Castro in signing a declaration that criticized U.S. sanctions against Cuba. The declaration also stressed the need to oppose what Cuba and Russia see as U.S. efforts to dominate the world, and - in a reference to the NATO air war in Yugoslavia - the declaration warned of the "fruitlessness" of "humanitarian interventions."
After meeting with Castro, Putin told reporters, "We decided we will build a relationship between our countries based upon the warm feelings and high-level relations that already exist." Putin is the first Russian leader to visit Cuba since the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991.
President-elect Bush has said he envisions no change in America's hard-line policy toward Cuba unless the communist nation holds free elections and frees political prisoners.
Although Cuban Leader Fidel Castro hasn't commented officially on George W. Bush's presidential win, one Cuban communist group is expressing concern about the influence that Miami's Cuban exile group might have on the incoming Bush administration.
In its newspaper, the Cuban Union of Young Communists asked, "How much power will he [Bush] give the mafia in Miami? What will happen to foreign policy?" The article in Juventud Rebelde was titled "Gore Surrendered," and it was accompanied by a cartoon showing a sad-looking Al Gore holding up a white flag.
In recent interviews, Castro said he wouldn't expect any great changes in American policy from either Bush or Gore, but he said he did consider Gore was the lesser of two evils. Cuba has been under a U.S. trade embargo for nearly 40 years.
The foreign policy group Inter-American Dialogue made a recommendation in Washington on Thursday that the United States should reject its "uncompromising approach" to Cuba and push for an eventual democratic transition and an end to "repression" in Cuba.
"It is time for the United States to shift to a policy of engagement to press the Cuban government to end its repressive practices, restore the rule of law and stop human rights abuses, even if, realistically, dramatic improvements in these areas are unlikely," the group's recommendation said.
The group also suggested a "redesign" of U.S. policy toward Cuba to increase the prospect that once Castro leaves office, "Cuba will have a peaceful and successful transition toward democratic politics and market-driven economics."
Signing the group's recommendation were former President Jimmy Carter and former Argentinian President Raul Alfonsin, former Costa Rican President Oscar Arias, former Nicaraguan President Violetta Chamorro, former Panamanian President Nicolas Ardito Barletta, former Ecuadorian President Osvaldo Hurtado and former Bolivian President Gonzalo Sanchez de Losada.


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Q&A: Stipe, R.E.M. take rougher-edged approach
By Jessica Letkemann
NEW YORK (Billboard) - Think fast. R.E.M. has banished the quiet, dream-like mood of their last two records and is about to unleash the hard, sharp-eyed "Accelerate," their first album in four years.
As Michael Stipe, Peter Buck and Mike Mills follow the first single's edit-it-yourself video with the album's launch on iLike and a worldwide tour, frontman Stipe spoke to Billboard.com about the set's "really fast, really raw" take on politics, teenage geekdom and the media; and how he and his bandmates "worked really hard to try to upset the things we had gotten bogged down in."
Q: Your decision to premiere "Accelerate" on iLike follows neatly from the decision to pretty much open-source the video for "Supernatural Superserious."
Michael Stipe: Good term there. I think that was my idea but it was based on stuff that (director) Vincent Moon had done that I really admired. I thought, "Well, we can take this and expand on the idea and offer something that's a little bit of fun," which I think is in keeping not only with the footage that he was able to get of the band kind of stumbling around New York, but with the song itself, which has a little bit of a sense of humor.
Q: A sense of humor, and a fun guitar riff. You've said the song was about teenage humiliation and the kinds of things that follow you through your life. I thought that was interesting because I wondered what inspired you to write that now, long after adolescence?
Stipe: We all have our geek moments that we kind of carry with us or that have some impact on us throughout our lives (laughs). I hate to use the term 'geek anthem' but it's a little bit, for me, like that. I have friends -- who are adults -- who move with such grace and poise through life and in fact completely embrace the incredibly stupid aspects of growing up and the humiliating teenage moments. They can totally laugh about and make fun of themselves and allow themselves to be, I think, more of a complete adult because of it. So that was really kind of the inspiration for the song.
Q: I think we have all harbored things like that years and decades later, and then we think, "Why am I thinking about this now?"
Stipe: Yeah, it's like that one horrifying school picture where you either knew or didn't know that that was the day they were taking the school picture. Okay, so now anyone in the world can now pull that up online if they want to look at you when you were in sixth grade and had, whatever, really stupid glasses. But the song inhabits an almost more internal humiliation, something that happens to all of us because we were all kids and we all have insecurities on some level or the other. This one, I kind of particularly wrote it around a seance gone horribly wrong at a summer camp that then manifested itself later in life as kind of a sexual deviance, but a fun one. Continued...


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Home Ownership: The Myth Of The American Dream
A recent Fannie Mae housing survey shows that Americans think now is a good time to buy a house. Turns out, Americans always think that. Host Guy Raz speaks with Reuters columnist Felix Salmon about whether owning a home really is a dream come true.
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The debate over how to regulate Wall Street might not have come up now had it not been for the housing crisis.
For much of the past decade, Americans rushed out to buy homes, in many cases with little or no money down. Now, home ownership has been promoted by both Democratic and Republican administrations.
President George W. Bush made it a pillar of his domestic agenda. Here's a clip from a speech he gave back in May 2002 on the American dream.
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President GEORGE W. BUSH: Owning a home is a part of that dream, it just is. Right here in America, if you own your own home, you're realizing the American dream.
RAZ: Well, if you read financial writer Felix Salmon's blog at Reuters.com, you'll find his argument for why the American dream is actually more of a nightmare.
Fannie Mae recently put out a huge survey on how consumers view home ownership. Felix Salmon read all 117 pages, and he joins me from New York. Welcome to the program.
Mr. FELIX SALMON (Columnist, Reuters): Thank you very much.
RAZ: So, how do most Americans, based on these survey results, view the institution of home ownership?
Mr. SALMON: They love it. They aspire to it. If they're renters, they want to own. If they're owners, they're happy owning. Even when they're underwater on their mortgages and they've lost tens of thousands of dollars, they still think that home ownership is where they want to be and what they want to do.
RAZ: I mean, huge majorities of Americans believe in the institution of home ownership. It doesn't seem surprising and it doesn't seem particularly off base.
Mr. SALMON: It doesn't because home ownership has enormous psychological benefits. You feel like you're in control of your own destiny, that you're not being controlled by a land lord who can throw you out any minute. So there are lots of reasons why people like to own homes, and they're good reason.
The problem is that they kid themselves about the reasons that they're buying and they tell themselves what they're doing is they're investing in a home and that what they're doing is they're making a good investment. And this is just something not true.
RAZ: Buying a home is not a safe investment?
Mr. SALMON: Well, for one thing, it's the most leverage thing that actually anyone will ever do in their lifetimes. If you put 10 percent down on a house, that means you're levered 10 times.
And any investment, no matter how nominally safe it might be, is going to turn unsafe if you levered up 10 times.
RAZ: That's still better odds than AIG, though.
Mr. SALMON: Not much, no.
RAZ: I mean, at the height of the sort of the craziness on Wall Street, some companies are leveraging, what, 30 to one, was that right?
Mr. SALMON: Right. And at the height of the craziness on Wall Street, people were buying houses with no money down at all, (unintelligible) leverage.
RAZ: Which is 100 in one. Yeah. Felix Salmon, explain something to me. My entire life and presumably your entire life living in the United States, we have been told that the American dream is homeownership, and that homeownership, in the long run, benefits the national economy. It is good for Americans to own a home. So, is that just wrong? Is it a blatant lie?
Mr. SALMON: Yes. It's entirely wrong and it is a blatant lie, especially now that we live in a world where economies have become very localized. That you can have small vibrant sectors with the economy in places like Silicon Valley, say, while other areas in the rust belt around Detroit are suffering very, very hard.
And the way that any economy reacts to that is through labor mobility. You need people to be able to move to where the activity is, to move to where the jobs are, to move to where the wealth is. And if you own your home, it's very hard to move, especially if you're on the (unintelligible) on your mortgage.
RAZ: And what about the psychological factors though? I mean, the idea that, you know, your mortgage is going into something that you own, that you're living in something that you are slowly buying rather than just sort of paying rent on a property that belongs to somebody else?
Mr. SALMON: There's this weird fallacy that somehow, paying rent is throwing money away, whereas paying a mortgage isn't. But one of the commenters on my blog put it very well when they said that if you buy a house, you're still renting; you're just renting the money to buy the house rather than renting the house itself.
And all of those mortgage interest payments, even if they're tax deductible, they're still going to the bank rather than the landlord. And maybe you think that Bank of America is a more worthy place to send your money than your landlord but that's not necessarily the case.
RAZ: One final question for you, Felix: do you own or rent?
Mr. SALMON: I own. I bought it very near the top of the market in 2005. I never intend to sell so I don't watch the market.
RAZ: That's Felix Salmon. He blogs about finance at reuters.com.
Felix, thank you so much.
Mr. SALMON: Thank you.
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