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The Complete Idiot's Guide To Iran And The Bomb, Or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Facts
Source: whowhatwhy.com
As our Nobel laureate President ascended to the podium on September 25 at the United Nations for his last international speech before the election, we again were the recipients of fine oratory and rhetorical flourish about America's problems in the world. Focusing on the Middle East, Central Asia, and North Africa—what's often misleadingly termed, "the Muslim world"—Obama singled out Iran's treaty-entitled uranium enrichment activities, saying "make no mistake: a nuclear-armed Iran is not a challenge that can be contained."
Obama's remarks were dutifully transcribed by our stenographer class, as can be expected, despite intelligence-community conclusions to the contrary and the historical precedent of containment as Cold War policy. This follows the latest media scare concerning Iran's nuclear capabilities, and the recent tiff between the U.S. and Israel over it. Like Obama's speech (and because of similarly unchallenged statements by politicians), many media reports are awash in misleading narratives, incomplete histories, and outright fiction about Iran and its nuclear program.
Given how easily the American public and media were manipulated into believing that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction, this moment should give us some pause. The disastrous effects of that $3 Trillion Dollar War are still being felt across the world. For those not interested in seeing a much-bloodier, costlier sequel, I offer this introductory course in intellectual self-defense. The only way to rebuff and dismantle propaganda is to be aware of the truth on which it claims to comment.
Lesson #1: Iran is not building nuclear weapons
National Intelligence Estimate: "We judge with high confidence that in fall 2003, Tehran halted its nuclear weapons program." (2007 National Intelligence Estimate Iran: Nuclear Intentions and Capabilities; November 2007)
"Several senior Israeli officials who spoke in recent days to The Associated Press said Israel has come around to the U.S. view that no final decision to build a bomb has been made by Iran." (Associated Press, "Israel shifts views on Iran"; March 18, 2012)
The 2011 National Intelligence Estimate (NIE), a synthesized compilation of data evaluated by America's 17 intelligence agencies, declared that there were no serious revisions to the controversial (for war hawks) 2007 NIE—which stated Iran stopped its nuclear weapons program in 2003. While the 2011 estimate did include updated progress on Iran's civilian nuclear program, such as an increased number of operative centrifuges, it still could not muster any evidence to indicate the program was being weaponized.
These findings echo reports from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), which has also concluded that Iran is not building nuclear weapons. The IAEA accounts are typically pored over for the slightest hint of ambiguity or malevolence, which are then promulgated as the most important takeaways in Western news summaries.
A recent example of such deliberate obfuscation was the IAEA report on Iran from August 30, 2012. Typical American media accounts highlighted the increase in Iran's nuclear infrastructure (underground centrifuge production, etc.), while failing to mention that their stockpile of 20%-enriched uranium—the only material capable of being enriched further to 85% or weapons grade—had actually diminished as a result of conversion to fuel plates for use in the Tehran Research Reactor, which produces medical isotopes. Thus nuclear development is highlighted, under the false premise that that equals progress toward a weapon, while exculpatory evidence is discarded: a case study in how news and propaganda function.
A civilian nuclear program is not easily converted into a weapons program. Before a country can begin the latter, it must break the IAEA monitoring seals on its uranium stockpile, which is also under constant camera detection. It must also kick out international inspectors, who currently have unfettered access to all of Iran's nuclear sites. Completing those very public steps would be the first true warning indicators that Iran was building nuclear weapons.
As a signatory to the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty (NPT), Iran is entitled to enrich uranium to low levels for domestic power consumption and medical treatment, such as radiation therapy for cancer patients.
Lesson #2: Iran is not a threat to the US
The United States military is the largest, most sophisticated machine of force and violence the world has ever seen. After factoring in foreign military aid and nuclear weapons maintenance, the U.S. spends over an estimated $1 trillion (that's >$1,000 billion) on defense annually.
By contrast, Iran spends somewhere between $10-12 billion on defense annually, after factoring in foreign and domestic paramilitary units such as the Revolutionary Guards and Basij—Iran's domestic volunteer militia. This is "less than the United Arab Emirates, and only between 25% to 33% of Saudi defense spending," notes Anthony Cordesman of the Center for Strategic and International Studies. It spends approximately 1/5 of the amount allocated by the six sheikdoms of the Gulf Cooperation Council—America's staunchest regional allies (save for Israel) and the guardians of Western access to crude.
Lesson #3: Iran is not an existential threat to Israel
Ehud Barak, Israeli Defense Minister: "Iran does not constitute an existential threat against Israel." (Reuters, Report: Barak says Iran is not existential threat to Israel; September 17, 2009)
Dan Halutz, former Chief of Staff of the Israel Defense Forces and Commander of the Israeli Air Force: "Iran poses a serious threat, but not an existential one. The use of this terminology is misleading. If it is intended to encourage a strike on Iran, it's a mistake. Force should be exerted only as a last resort." (YNet, Former IDF Chief: Iran doesn't pose an existential threat; February 2, 2012)
Tamir Pardo, Director of the Mossad: "Does Iran pose a threat to Israel? Absolutely. But if one said a nuclear bomb in Iranian hands was an existential threat, that would mean that we would have to close up shop and go home. That's not the situation. The term existential threat is used too freely." (Haaretz, Mossad Chief: Nuclear Iran not necessarily existential threat to Israel; December 29, 2011)
Israel maintains a competitive advantage in total amount spent on munitions and assets, as well as a massive edge in terms of technological sophistication. Israel spends almost twice as much as Iran on defense appropriations and is able to buy the world's most advanced weaponry from the United States (mostly with U.S. taxpayer money, laundered through foreign aid). Iran, by contrast, is heavily dependent on the dated munitions it received under the Shah and acquires rudimentary missile technology from China and North Korea with its own money.
Even if Iran were pursuing nuclear weapons, Israel's own stockpile—estimated at a several hundred high-yield warheads—ensures that Tehran would not engage in a first-strike. Those familiar with the Cold War doctrine of Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD) know that when confronted with the possibility of your own annihilation, so the theory goes, you're incentivized to refrain from launching a first strike. Israel's stationing of nukes on German-made Dolphin class submarines in the Mediterranean assures that even if a first strike were to be carried out on the Jewish state, the perpetrator would still be subject to a retaliatory strike.
However, much as America acts as Israel's patron, so too Iran spends a good deal arming and supporting proxy armies in southern Lebanon and the Gaza Strip—Hezbollah and Hamas, respectively. While these forces present a serious challenge to Israeli military incursions into said areas, their ability to project force within Israel's borders is limited to indiscriminate rocket fire. While dangerous and psychologically terrifying for civilians, such tactics cannot be considered more than a nuisance when comparing capacities for state violence.
Israel is not a signatory to the NPT and repeatedly refuses propositions for a Middle East Nuclear Weapons-Free Zone (MENWFZ) to be established as a means of ending the stand-off with Tehran, despite majority support from the Israeli public.
Lesson #4: Iran's leadership is not fanatical or suicidal
General Martin Dempsey, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff: "We are of the opinion that the Iranian regime is a rational actor." (Global Public Square, Martin Dempsey on Syria, Iran and China; February 17, 2012)
Israel Defense Forces Chief of General Staff, Maj. Gen. Benny Gantz: "I think the Iranian leadership is composed of very rational people." (CS Monitor, Israeli Army Chief says he doubts Iran will build a nuclear weapon; April 25, 2012)
Intellectual orthodoxy holds that even the most tepid criticism of Israeli and American policy vis-à-vis Iran requires a disclaimer by all "serious people" that Iran is a vicious theocratic regime which oppresses its own people. While Iran's governmental structure is religiously based and peaceful protests have been met with repression, such traits are hardly unique. Saudi Arabia, America's most solid regional ally, enforces religious doctrine as viciously if not more so than Iran does (such as executing many for practicing freedom of speech and religion as "witches" or "blasphemers"). And, of course, violent government responses to non-violent demonstrations aimed at political change are hardly unknown in free societies (see: Occupy Wall Street).
Moreover, there's little correlation between the internal repression of a society and its external behavior. The United States, one of the freer societies on the planet, routinely engages in aggression and the use of brute force to accomplish geopolitical objectives. Conversely, Iran pummels domestic dissent while historically limiting its military involvement outside its borders. The only record of Iranian aggression since the 18th century was when the U.S.-backed Shah invaded and conquered a series of Arab islands in the early 1970's.
Despite contentions from the likes of Benjamin Netanyahu that Iran's leadership is capable of pulling the temple down on their heads in a show of Samsonian martyrdom, Tehran's track record and statements indicate otherwise. The more judicious pundits at least acknowledge as much.
Lesson #5: Politicians and media stenographers have been claiming Iran is on the verge of developing nuclear weapons since the mid-1980's
House Republican Research Committee in 1992: "98 percent certainty that Iran already had all (or virtually all) of the components required for two or three operational nuclear weapons." (Christian Science Monitor, Imminent Iran nuclear threat? A timeline of warnings since 1979; November 8, 2011)
Iran began its nuclear program with help from the United States during the 1950's when it was run by Washington's puppet-dictator Shah Reza Pahlavi, who was installed after the U.S. overthrew the democratically elected government in a 1953 CIA coup known as Operation Ajax. Following the 1979 Islamic revolution, Ayatollah Khomeini condemned all nuclear and chemical weapons as "un-Islamic," stopping the nascent nuclear program in its tracks. Supreme Leader Ali Khamanei reiterated his predecessor's religious edict some 20 years later.
The 1980's saw complex American-Iranian and Israeli-Iranian relations, whereby discreet deals were made among the antagonistic powers in an effort to accomplish other foreign policy goals. Yet by the early 1990's Iran's growing military prowess and the near-destruction of the major Arab military presence to Israel's east (Iraq) put Iran back on Tel Aviv's agenda as a strategic competitor. In 1992, then-member of parliament Benjamin Netanyahu told the Knesset that Iran was 3 to 5 years from having a nuclear weapon—and that the threat had to be "uprooted by an international front headed by the U.S." Sound familiar?
American policymakers began to echo Israeli claims during the 1990's, largely in public and without evidence to back them up. These assertions continued in a steady drumbeat of increasingly hostile rhetoric ("The Axis of Evil") all the way until 2007, when a declassified NIE was released disputing the fact that Iran continued its weapons program in any way beyond 2003. Despite the conclusions, as mentioned in lesson #1, hawks on the left and right continue to peddle demonstrably false claims to this very day.
Lesson #6: The American and Israeli security establishments are against it
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton: "We're watching very carefully about what [Iran] do[es], because it's always been more about their actions than their words…We're not setting red lines." (Haaretz, Clinton rejects Netanyahu's call for 'red lines' over Iran nuclear program; September 10, 2012)
Former Internal Security Chief Yuval Diskin: "…attacking Iran will encourage them to develop a bomb all the faster." (Think Progress, Diskin says he has 'no faith' in current leadership, April 27, 2012)
Former Mossad Chief Meir Dagan: a future Israeli Air Force strike on Iranian nuclear facilities is "the stupidest thing I have ever heard." (Haaretz, Former Mossad chief: Israel air strike on Iran 'stupidest thing I have ever heard', May 7, 2011)
Although the idea of nuclear weapons in the hands of an avowedly hostile regime is as upsetting to Washington as it is to Tel Aviv, the Pentagon brass is opposed to an attack, not because they suddenly favor the regime in Tehran, but because their own strike simulations predict a great deal of injurious blowback in exchange for, at most, a brief setback in Iran's nuclear capability.
And despite war hysteria in Israel, fanned by political rhetoric, and legitimate conventional security concerns for the Jewish state, Israeli security and military officials recognize that they don't have anywhere near the overwhelming force required to take care of the problem. The only way to ensure that Iran doesn't develop a nuclear weapons capability would be to install a friendly puppet regime in Tehran, a task far beyond the capability of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) or the U.S. military at this point.
In lieu of direct military conflict, the U.S. and Israel have adopted a harsh policy of economic sanctions, cyberwarfare, and covert operations—declarations of war, by American standards—in an effort to delay Iran's nuclear progress. But the consensus among knowledgeable players is that any resort to force will have far worse repercussions than benefits.
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M. Hammergren, T. Quinn (Univ. of Washington)
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) is a project to create a 10,000 deg digital photometric and spectroscopic survey over the north Galactic cap, along with a much deeper survey involving multiple scans in the southern Galactic hemisphere covering 225 deg . During this survey, an unprecedented number of small Solar System bodies will be detected by their apparent motion.
The photometric survey will detect objects to a limiting magnitude (5:1 signal-to-noise) of g' = 23.3, and provide better than 10% photometry in five bands for objects brighter than z' = 20.0. Astrometric positions will be produced that will be accurate to the order of 50 milliarcseconds for objects brighter than 20.5.
We expect to observe tens of thousands of main-belt asteroids, hundreds of near-Earth asteroids and Kuiper Belt objects, and dozens of comets. Most of these observations will be discoveries, but a significant fraction of the known asteroids will also be observed.
The area and depth of the survey will increase the numbers of many
classes of objects by more than an order of magnitude, and the size
and accuracy of the multi-color sample will permit the common
taxonomic classification of the various minor planet and comet
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Well, it's that special time of year kiddies, when real kiddies get to go door to door yelling "trick or treat!" and collecting candy, most of which their grandmothers will warn, "esta envenenado" ("it's poisoned"). Meanwhile, grownup kiddies get to dress like strippers and dipshits (I managed both at once two years ago with "guy out of the shower", donning only a towel and shower cap) and get drunk while reveling and celebrating the birth of Candy Corn. It's all good wholesome fun, truly. And if you don't believe me, then why did they make an awesome Peanut's special for it?
Giving you one more reason to love it while simultaneously providing a damned good place for drunken revelry and celebration of the birth of Candy Corn, Spam Allstars and Hoy Como Ayer. This Halloween, come party in true Miami style down on la Calle Ocho at Vampiros en La Habana, named for a Cuban animated film. Fanged cubaneo, yeah! As you already know, Spam, quite simply, are the kings of Afro-Caribbean Latin funk hybrid descarga in Miami and abroad. And Hoy Como Ayer is offering ladies in free and two-for-one boozers 'til 11 p.m. So do it up. Don your loincloth or your way-short Judy Jetson garb. And save me a tiny Snickers, if you nab one. I friggin' love those things!
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The Pacific Northwest provides our region with a diverse palette
of native plants. Imagine if you will, bringing a bit of the coast,
temperate forest, mountain ranges, and dry inland basin to your
plants are gaining popularity as people discover their aesthetic
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Few ornamental plants provide the elements necessary for wildlife:
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NURSING DIAGNOSIS: Altered urinary elimination: incontinence
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increased reflex activity of the bladder and loss of voluntary control of urinary elimination associated with upper motor neuron involvement if it has occurred;
decreased ability to control urination associated with decreased level of consciousness or inability to recognize sensation of bladder fullness;
inability to get to bedside commode or bathroom in a timely manner associated with:
delay in obtaining assistance resulting from inability to communicate the urge to urinate
impaired physical mobility.
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The client will experience urinary continence.
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Assess client's pattern of fluid intake and urination (e.g. times and amounts of fluid intake, types of fluids consumed, times and amounts of voluntary and involuntary voiding, reports of sensation of need to void, activities preceding incontinence).
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At a presentation by a financial planning group last week to its mostly do-it-yourself super clients a guest speaker, a financial commentator, severely bagged listed property trusts as potential investments.
They were investments that should be avoided at all times, he argued, supporting this with global financial crisis tales of woe that many DIY investors who owned property trusts might recall – stories of unlisted funds freezing the right to cash-in investments and listed funds issuing units at deeply discounted prices in order to refinance their debts.
But whether such criticism is still justified is being questioned by a growing band of investors and advisers who are suggesting the time has come for personal investors and DIY super funds to reconsider.
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While many commentators are still focusing on the negatives, Murphy says positives, such as money being committed by mainly institutional investors to new property developments in the commercial areas, will have a future pay off that investors will benefit from.
For the past six years, he says, managed property has been held back because there hasn't been much capital available for refurbishments or replacement of commercial property where property funds operate.
Recovery taking shape
The stock of property has been ageing because there has been little replacement activity. But things are changing, he believes, in not just the commercial office sector but also such property assets as medical buildings, warehouse facilities and other kinds of industrial property. These areas are seeing some interesting specialist managers emerging that will enhance the traditional managed property market where giants such as Westfield dominate.
Also positive about managed property is Morningstar research analyst
While there has been a growing level of interest in managed property from institutional investors, retail investors have mostly shut the door on the sector because of its recent history. They are not aware yet of the recovery that has been taking shape. Laidlaw says the message his latest study contains is the Australian listed property sector as a whole is set to distribute annual income of around 5 per cent to 6 per cent with a reasonable prospect of enhancing this with around 2 per cent in capital growth without any undue risk.
From discussions with the managers, Laidlaw says they expect to generate high single digit returns in the current investment environment.
While this is now being overshadowed by the high double-digit performance of global and local share funds that will attract considerable attention when the June 30 results are available next week, what managed property is offering is income yield higher than most equities and asset classes preferred over property in recent times.
Furthermore this is being achieved by the funds going back to their traditional role of owning property from which they gather rents they then distribute. The challenge for retail investors such as DIY funds, says Laidlaw, is in being able to forgive managers for the past and judge them on what they are doing right now. He says this it is always a test for investors who have been badly burnt by assets that are remembered as delivering lingering pain.
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This has made it easy for investors to consider alternatives such as share income funds that have done well over the last couple of years with many share investments, especially the big banks, paying growing dividends enhanced by franking credits.
Also suggesting investors and DIY funds think about the diversification appeal of managed property is Melbourne financial planner
Once they do, they will deliver worthwhile returns. This makes them a potential investment for a contrarian investor. Dahn sees the property sector being helped by low interest rates. A number of property investments look comfortable, she says, when you analyse current prices compared to the value of their assets. Property trusts also look attractive for more conservative investors who wish to invest in the broad sector through exchange traded or index funds. Over the past year the $400 million SPDR S&P/ASX200 listed property fund has generated a nearly 13 per cent return, including dividends, for holders of this low cost ETF.
Murphy regards property index funds as a viable option for many small investors, especially anyone considering investing in the bigger listed funds as most of them deliver very close to index returns.
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U.S. Rep. Ron Barber today issued a statement after the House voted 234-to-195 to reject the Farm Bill.
Barber was one of 24 Democrats who joined 171 Republicans in an effort to pass legislation that would have set the course for U.S. agriculture and food policy for the next five years.
Barber's statement:
"Today I voted for the Farm Bill. It's a far-from-perfect bill, but it would have moved this process forward and toward a compromise. It would have extended national agricultural and nutrition programs for the next five years. These programs are important to Southern Arizona and my constituents.
"This is unfortunately another example of how Congress is broken. We must come together to pass a bipartisan Farm Bill. We need to give certainty to American farmers and consumers by ensuring steady, dependable prices at the grocery store, relief for drought-stricken farms and critical investments in food assistance programs for those most in need.
"I strongly oppose the proposed cuts to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program and voted to restore those cuts. In Arizona, more than 1.1 million people -- 1 of every 6 -- receive aid through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. More than 75 percent of those recipients are in families with children and nearly half are in working families.
"I call on leadership in Congress to work together and bring a bipartisan Farm Bill to the floor that can pass the House and Senate and be signed into law for the betterment of the American people and southern Arizona. The American people are calling on us to get something done. We need to take action now."
Source: http://barber.house.gov/press-release/statement-us-rep-ron-barber-house-rejection-farm-bill


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If we ever want to make menu items fieldable (per menu), moving them between menus is going to be a huge pain. Read more at http://drupal.org/node/1966298#comment-7458390
Remove this feature as per suggestion from @effulgentsia and @catch.
Followup to #1966298: Introduce menu link bundles per menus.
Comment #2Berdir CreditAttribution: Berdir commented
Not sure that's viable.
Especially the automatically created menu links from modules are sometimes not re-creatable manually. E.g. in Private message, I have a menu link that displays the number of unread messages using a title callback. That link is by default in the user menu, which makes a lot of sense for the default theme but most themes don't really use that, so users frequently move that to other menus.
Preventing this would break that. If we internally delete and re-create menu links when you do that, possibly with a confirmation that says you will loose (some?) of your field content, then that would be different, but completely removing this option seems like a feature regression?
Comment #4andypost CreditAttribution: andypost commented
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Bundles are in so back to active.
Also now we can solve #1882218: Remove static menu link creation for menus in menu_enable() and elsewhere
Comment #5catch CreditAttribution: catch commented
I'm not sure I suggested this in the other issue... Default menu items from modules makes this more or less unworkable as berdir points out.
Comment #7effulgentsia CreditAttribution: effulgentsia commented
I think we should remove this from core despite #2. There can be a contrib module that provides this functionality. And there can be a contrib module that makes menu links fieldable. And then a site can choose which of these contrib modules to use. Or, people can work out a solution in contrib that allows for both to coexist cleanly.
But, if we retain this functionality in core, then we're effectively requiring a contrib module that wants to make menu links fieldable to deal with the (difficult) bundle change problem, rather than allowing sites to choose which feature they want more (moving menu links between menus or having them be fieldable).
Comment #8effulgentsia CreditAttribution: effulgentsia commented
Especially the automatically created menu links from modules are sometimes not re-creatable manually. E.g. in Private message, I have a menu link that displays the number of unread messages using a title callback.
The presence of 'title callback' does not make the menu link impossible to recreate manually. 'title callback' is stored in {menu_router}, not in {menu_links}. There is code in _menu_item_localize() to call the title callback whenever the static link title matches the static route title. So, you can delete (or not delete) the original menu link, and then create a new one in the menu you want, and if you give it the same static title as the original one, then when the menu is rendered, the title callback will be used. I just confirmed this locally by enabling menu_test.module, and adding a link to my footer menu with the title "Example title" and the path "menu-title-test/case3". In the footer menu, it got rendered as "Example title - Case 3". If I give it a custom title though, (e.g., "Foo"), then that gets used instead of the title callback.
Comment #9amateescu CreditAttribution: amateescu commented
... deal with the (difficult) bundle change problem ...
The implementation is actually really easy (or at least was in D7), the hard part is deciding what to do with stale field data :)
Comment #10das-peter CreditAttribution: das-peter commented
the hard part is deciding what to do with stale field data :)
We don't want or better don't have the time to write the code, but the scenarios are already in our heads because that was definitely an important topic during the discussion about menu bundles.
Maybe we should document the problems with the stale data and provide theoretical solution(s).
Like a guideline "What to do with stale data if my module changes entity bundles" :D
Comment #11amateescu CreditAttribution: amateescu commented
We don't want or better don't have the time to write the code ...
Yes we do! Didn't you hear that Dev Days is just around the corner with a full week sprint? :P
So, the question is simple: when an entity is saved and its bundle was changed, what to do with field data that is (potentially) not relevant for the new bundle? The answer: we don't (and can't) know for sure, so we ask the user :)
I imagine something like this:
- we add a new key to the entity info definition, 'allow_bundle_switching', defaulting to FALSE
- based on that key, we provide an extra field in the manage fields page
- after the Field UI cleanup from #2014821: Introduce form modes UI and their configuration entity, we can probably add settings form and settings summary capabilites to extra fields, so we present the question above as a field setting
Did I miss anything?
Comment #13amateescu CreditAttribution: amateescu commented
I don't see what you mean. We ask that question to the user and we act based on its answer: either keep the stale field data or delete it.
Comment #15amateescu CreditAttribution: amateescu commented
Yep, that's what I propose :) The user might change his mind later and return an entity to its initial bundle, so the option to have the data still available seems like a valid use case.
Edit: moar grammar..
Comment #16catch CreditAttribution: catch commented
Hmm thinking about that, what about cloning and discarding any data, then unpublishing the original entity instead of deleting.
So you end up with two copies, if you really want to get rid of the old one, you can just delete it. That way you end up with 'stale' data but only conceptually, nothing actually gets orphaned.
Comment #17amateescu CreditAttribution: amateescu commented
That means the entity type has to be revisionable or we need to create a reference between them. Not sure about either option..
Comment #19amateescu CreditAttribution: amateescu commented
I think I have another alternative for cleaning up field data.. it's probably too much for core at this point, but we can definitely create a contrib module that finds all this stale data and offer the option to remove it (in a batch operation, of course). And it can alter the settings form/summary for that "bundle swtich" extra field to add a link to its UI.
Comment #20das-peter CreditAttribution: das-peter commented
But what happens if you decide to keep the data when switching the bundle,
then you create a new revision of the entity, later you decide to switch back to the original bundle?
Is the revisioning an issue, what happens when you access a revision that had another bundle?
Further what happens with the stale data if you delete the entity? Will the delete handler recognize the stale data and remove them too? I don't think the current delete handler checks every possible field of the entity type for stale data to delete.
We should collect all this scenarios and try to find conceptual answers, document them and then see what we can / need to realize in core.
Comment #21andypost CreditAttribution: andypost commented
As I mentioned in #4 about #1882218: Remove static menu link creation for menus in menu_enable() and elsewhere we should drop parent menu items (auto created for each menu) first
then we can have clean menu_item entities with
MenuLink::moveTo($menu_name, MenuLink $parent = NULL)
Comment #22catch CreditAttribution: catch commented
@Gabor, we could only offer the 'retain' option for entities with a status. I don't think that's an unreasonable thing to add to taxonomy terms fwiw.
@das-peter keeping an unpublished entity around side-steps this a bit. The two entities are going to be immediately detached, but it gives a return option at least and doesn't require any additional data handling.
Comment #23effulgentsia CreditAttribution: effulgentsia commented
I still think we should remove the UI for moving menu items across menus from core. We don't have a UI for changing the type of a node. We don't have a UI for moving a taxonomy term to a different vocabulary. #8 answers #2. At this point in the D8 cycle, I think the ideas discussed from #10 on are more likely to be successful in contrib than in core. I won't obstruct it going in if it's what people really want to do, but I guess I just want to raise a warning that I think it's risky.
Comment #24amateescu CreditAttribution: amateescu commented
The thing is that contrib already has it :) https://drupal.org/project/bundleswitcher
What I proposed on top of that is just the UI to let users (actually, site builders) choose what happens with their field data.


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text: Was it just me or did it feel like having the Narrator live and the buildings explode in the movie give a different 'feel' (I'm sorry, I don't know how to word this. Hopefully you get my drift.) to the movie than the book? Anybody kind of get what I'm saying?


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Miss Universe Australia Renae Ayris thinks she's more hindrance than help to her younger sister Rachel Ayris, who has made it into the Miss Universe WA top 24.
Ayris placed fourth in the international beauty pageant last year and now her 19-year-old sister is following suit, with the added pressure of being constantly compared to her older sibling.
"If anything, I think it might be a disadvantage because people will say she's only getting through because she's my sister," Renae Ayris said.
"But that isn't true.
"I think Rachel's a pretty strong person so she's not going to listen to those negative things."
As a first-time competitor in the Miss Universe search, Rachel Ayris said her confidence had already skyrocketed and didn't let the comparisons with her sister bother her.
"I know people do [compare us] but I don't feel the pressure from it," she said.
"I don't mind the comparisons.
"I just see it as something I'm just doing for myself."
Far from firing up any sibling rivalry, Ayris said her older sister, who now flies between Perth, Melbourne and Sydney for modelling jobs and appearances, had encouraged her to apply.
"Renae supported it 100 per cent, because she knows how great it is for your confidence and I was lacking confidence," she said.
"I have gotten out of it what I wanted, I'm so happy that I'm even in the state final, I've achieved everything I wanted so, whatever happens, happens."
While she didn't believe being related to the current Miss Universe Australia gave her "anything up on the other contestants" in the judges eyes, Ayris was thankful for having seen her sister compete.
"Because I was there supporting her I'd seen how it works and that gave me a bit of an advantage," she said.
Renae Ayris said there wasn't much advice she could pass on to her younger sister because she had already attended both the state final in WA and the international final in Las Vegas as a spectator.
"She went through it all with me so she's already been through it all," she said.
"You can't really say too much it's just 'be yourself'."
But the blonde beauty did say she'd been somewhat surprised by her younger sister's participation.
"I could never imagine my sister getting up on stage, I thought she'd chicken out," Ayris said.
"I was so upset I couldn't be there, but I'm so proud."
The Chadwick's model was driving in the Grand Prix's celebrity race when her younger sister made the top 24, but was quick to pass on her congratulations.
"My mum told Renae straight away and she said 'Congratulations, I'm so proud' and 'You deserve it'," the 19-year-old said.
Ayris, who's taken a year's break from studying primary teaching, said she was looking forward to her sister returning home to Perth and seeing her in the state final, where the top 24 will be reduced to six national finalists.
"She is my best friend, we do absolutely everything together," she said.
"Our social life is constantly together. At home she's my sister but when we're out she's just another one of my friends.
"The state final is on April 5, I went and watched Renae in it last year so I'm really excited to be in it this year."


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CLEVELAND American Greetings has appointed Jeffrey Dunn to its board of directors where he'll fill a vacancy for a term set to expire in 2008. Dunn most recently served as president of Nickelodeon Film Enterprises and as chief operating officer of Nickelodeon Networks Group.
"We are delighted to have Jeff join us," said chief executive officer Zev Weiss. "American Greetings will benefit from his business acumen and expertise, particularly with regard to digital content and licensing." Dunn graduated from Harvard and went on to earn an MBA from Harvard Business School.


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Fans of The Apprentice are gearing up for tonight's final with Lord Sugar set to pick his winner.
Leah Totton and Luisa Zissman will be slugging it out over their beauty and cake-making businesses in a return of the final task, bringing back the candidates fired earlier in the series and Mirror Online will be live blogging throughout.
In past times I would have been desperately trying to avoid finding out in advance who won (an occupational hazard of working in a newsroom) but this year I have no fear of accidentally finding out who won – because I don't care any more.
A dedicated follower for seven series, this one lost me half-way through week five.
Here's why…
1) The female candidates have got glossier over recent series – but they've also increasingly made me want to put my head in my hands.
The women may be primped and preened but they turn into a bunch of sour-faced harridans shrieking at each other as soon as the early tasks start.
The ones with good business credentials do come through in the later rounds to show what they can do, but those early weeks are torture.
We may have an all-female final this year, but all too often the way women come across on the show does little for our reputation in business.
And the way Luisa and Leah have been pneumaticked up for their promotional shots ahead of the final is not exactly appealing either.
2) We've seen it all before
Too much of the action has been all too familiar. From the knowing set up by the producers, leading you down a false trail to think team X absolutely must have failed, only for them to pull out a win, to the interview 'shock', the series has a very familiar feel to it.
Sometimes that can be a good thing – but in this case it feels somewhat stale.
I quit halfway through the Dubai task because it felt like I'd seen it all before. We'd already had the misfit – someone so bookish or so unbookish they're there largely as a laughing stock (sorry Jason Leech) – the manufacturing maths cock-up (for beer read Yasmina's expensive sandalwood soap mistake, which she somehow got away with) and picking the wrong stock to sell in the wrong place. Now we had being undone by boasts you know somewhere really well. Take a bow, and a taxi, Zeeshaan Shah.
Watching Why I Fired Them I was reassured to see some more old favourites:
- getting the dimensions wrong (Kurt Wilson, thanks for ticking that box)
- running out of time (that's you again Jason)
- shopping retail not wholesale (Evolve)
- selling a single big ticket item to run away with a task (Jason – you can be happy about this one)
3) If you don't watch it live, what's the point?
Watching the show with Twitter adds to the entertainment as internet wits cut the candidates down to size.
But it also means you have to commit to watching the show live each week.
With Strictly Come Dancing, X Factor and the like there is at least a grace period before the results show to let you catch up on the main action if you could not be sitting on your sofa at the appointed time.
Twitter and Facebook have become more deeply embedded in our lives since the series first hit our screens in 2005.
And while it was always tricky in the newsroom to avoid finding out who had been fired as the pages of the following day's paper were prepared with the information embargoed, now everybody is at risk of accidentally coming across a spoiler.
Knowing who will be on the receiving end of Lord Sugar's firing finger removes all the drama.
4) Where are the characters?
The Apprentice archives contain many classics of the reality TV cast list: The Badger, Stuart Baggs' field of ponies, Simon Ambrose's yellow socks, Pants Man, Lee McQueen the reverse pterodactyl, eye-candy (and obviously very able businessman) Alex Wotherspoon and that Katie Hopkins.
But I can barely remember anyone from last year's show. In truth I'd forgotten it had even happened. Can you name the winner?
5) The format doesn't work any more
The BBC really could have skipped the 11 weeks of pointless tasks in the run-up to tonight's final as it is no longer a genuine search for an apprentice but an extended interview for a ready-made business partner.
Under the old rules Lord Sugar, or Sralan as he was back then, could pick a candidate who was still a bit rough around the edges because he saw something in them: a spark, some potential, a little bit of him when he was younger.
Now, there is no space for a promising rising star, as Neil Clough in this series knows to his cost (I still read the reviews, it's quicker than watching the show), just a business plan's money-making potential.
Helen Milligan was outstanding two years ago and would have been a shoo-in under the old format, but lost out to curvy tweezer inventer Tom Pellereau.
So what is the point of watching all the way through when we all know the one with the best business plan will win in the end?
This time it'll be Leah. She's got a beauty business and Sugar's been keen to get into that market for ages, often commenting enthusiastically about its popularity and margins. I can smell what sells.
So who is responsible for the failure of this task?
Who should take the blame? It has to be the project manager. That's you Lord Sugar. It's time for a new tycoon to take over the show, bring some new task ideas and some new values. But they also need to take it back to what made it so brilliant in the first place: the search for an Apprentice.


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I remember attending some event in the 1970s, and of course, the Ron's Journal tape was played. It had Hubby Dub playing a wurlitzer organ, to a very cheap "beat box". It was a pitiful version of the 2001 theme.
I almost laughed and cried at the same time.
Ron the adventurer, Ron the musician, Ron the artist, Ron the photographer, ad nauseum. These publications, being such an obvious extreme exaggeration of reality, were large Red Flags for me, because he wasn't those things, and without all of the organizationally created and heavily pushed PR about LRH, NOBODY would ever "naturally" think that about him. It was ALL CONTRIVED. It was all so PHONY. It was the manipulative use of ARC to alter feelings, beliefs and attitudes, in this case about Hubby Dub.
There are a few the LRH PRO departments forgot to publish:
Ron the self-obsessed ego-maniac
Ron the manipulator
Ron the Arrogant
Ron the Delusional
Ron the Paranoid
(the last three sort of like "Alexander the Great" wording)
I am sure that I missed some. Anyone want to chime in and help?


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Here we are again! The fourth quarter GDP numbers came in down and in January we got a massive tax increase. Doesn't this sound dysfunctional? The Republicans thought that refusing to increase the debt ceiling would give them great leverage to cut government spending and instead it led to a tax increase. American households and businesses don't know what to expect next so they restrain from spending and the economy limps along; lower tax receipts guarantee more and more deficits and a bigger national debt while Washington dithers.
The problem is that politicians and policy makers have confused two separate issues in fashioning fiscal policy and the net result is a sluggish economy and a ballooning national debt. Let's step back and look at those two issues.
The first issue is whether and to what extent deficit spending should be used to stimulate a sluggish economy. I thought that this issue had been settled a long time ago when I heard statements like "We are all Keynesians now" and "Deficits don't matter" coming from the Republican ranks. I think that there may be some legitimate debate about this issue but the evidence from around the world seems to confirm what we really knew all along - deficit spending, especially when the increased debt is monetized, tends to increase employment, reduce the danger of deflation and produce an overall increase in the GDP when inadequate demand is holding the economy back.
Notice that I have used the phrase "deficit spending"; an increase in spending paid for with higher taxes does not have this beneficial effect. It is the very "deficit" nature of the spending (the federal government spending more than it takes out of the pockets of its citizens) that has the stimulative effect on the economy. Simple mathematics reveals that you can create a deficit at least three ways: 1. spend more on government programs, 2. cut taxes, or 3. increase transfer payments. I tend to favor the latter two and will return to this theme later, but bear in mind that advocacy of deficit spending does not necessarily equate to advocacy of a "bigger" federal government.
Now let me turn to the second issue which is often confused with the first. The second issue is the question of exactly what we want the federal government to do and exactly what percentage of the economy we want the federal government to occupy. As noted above, this is very different from the first question and is more of a long-term policy question. You can have deficit spending without having a bigger government (if the deficit is created with tax cuts and transfer payments) and you can have a bigger government without deficit spending (if the increased government spending is paid for with tax increases).
The problem with the second issue is that it is almost always easy to come up with some argument for expanding the role of the federal government and it is very easy to find an interest group that will benefit from the expansion. Lobbyists, Congressmen, and interest groups form "iron triangles" in support of federal programs and the programs become eternal. This results in an inexorable increase in the size of the government as old programs are never abandoned and new programs are constantly added. It is not hard to find all kinds of wasteful and dysfunctional spending in the federal government; those of us who live in Washington can generate Kafkaesque stories about the flow of funds through the federal government which make visitors from around the country furious at tax time.
So the question becomes - what mechanism is available to prevent the Washington insiders from simply walking over to the Treasury with hefty bags and walking out with the bags stuffed with $50 bills? There is a very "common sense" answer to this question but unfortunately it is wrong. The common sense answer is that Congress should be required to balance the budget; if it wants to spend more money, it should be required to raise taxes and face the wrath of voters at the next election. After all, the rest of us have to balance our budgets; why shouldn't the federal government? And - in a very real sense - isn't the need to raise taxes the only real check on out of control spending in the federal government? Unfortunately this is the line of thinking which led to fights over the "debt ceiling" which, after generating much angst and a credit de-rating, finally resulted in a large tax increase just as the economy was going negative. As a result, we will probably stagger along for several more quarters and rack up bigger deficits than necessary because of the delay in an economic recovery.
So what can we do? How can we put some limit on the size of the federal government without relying on the bogeyman of national debt and deficits in a way which undercuts our ability to get out of a recession? I would divide the budget process into two parts - the "core" budget and the cyclical adjustment budget. The core budget would encompass most elements of federal spending and it would be limited to a certain percentage of normalized (full employment) GDP. An independent authority would select the GDP number each year and Congress would be required to keep federal spending below a certain percentage of that number. If Congress could not agree on a budget within the number, the President would have discretionary authority to cut spending in order to hit the target.
The cyclical adjustment budget would be completely separate and would be a program of short-term deficit spending to stimulate the economy. It would consist primarily of tax cuts (aimed at the middle class), transfer payments (such as the extension of unemployment benefits) and revenue sharing (direct payments to state governments). The revenue sharing would be based on a simple formula derived from the population in the most recent census with no strings attached. It would be designed to obviate state tax increases and the layoff of state and local government employees. These programs would phase out as the economy recovered.
Let me explain how this would work with an example. An argument could be made to turn over the production, repair and distribution of footwear to the federal government. Although it seems absurd, Washington lobbyists would not find it hard to marshall arguments in favor of this program: 1. better shoes would reduce a number of health problems and cut down on Medicare expenditures, 2. shoe soles could be designed to permit better identification of shoe prints in criminal investigations, and 3. inner city youth spend too much money on shoes. I think I know how most of us would feel about having the federal government do this, but here is the most important point I am trying to make: The decision about whether or not to have a federal footwear program should not depend upon whether the economy is in a recession and needs a stimulus at the time the decision is made.
The Republicans have made hay with the debt/deficit issue, but it has resulted in significant tax increases at the worst possible time. The Democrats have been allowed to expand the federal government - probably permanently - because the Republicans have been unable to separate the two issues described above. It is time to tell the American public the truth and to work together on a sensible fiscal policy which will get the economy out of the ditch and be functional in the long term.
Needless to say, I am not optimistic that we will get there. Instead, we will likely lurch along from debt ceiling debate, to sequestration deadline, to budget fix and the economy will move slowly up in fits and starts. What this means is that, in the absence of sensible fiscal policy, monetary policy will bear the full burden of engineering an economic recovery. This means that the Federal Reserve will have to maintain its expansive policy for a considerable time - likely stretching out until 2017. Pouring liquidity onto this mess will gradually lead to recovery because of increased spending due to the "wealth effect" and increased investment due to lower borrowing costs. But it will continue to take a great deal of liquidity and the assurance of very low interest rates for a very long time to have these effects. Low interest rates and increased liquidity are blunt instruments in the effort to achieve full employment, but they may be all we have.
We all might be better off if fiscal policy were rationalized but, until it is, we must realistically analyze the investment landscape as it is, not as we might like it to be. Low interest rates tend to drive up the price of financial instruments generating yield. With continuing low rates, investors will be desperate for yield and the rally in yield instruments will continue. Certain stocks are likely to benefit and these include business development companies (BDCS), electric utilities, real estate investment trusts (REITs), master limited partnerships (MLPS) and dividend-paying stocks in general. BDCs generally provide dividends of 8-12% with a modest potential for appreciation. Mortgage REITs provide even higher yields and equity REITs have substantial potential for appreciation, although they generally pay lower yields. Regulated electric utilities have had a great record of steady and slowly increasing dividends. Many dividend stocks - including Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) - which now yields 2.3% (more than 10 year Treasuries) - will be perceived as better yield vehicles than bonds. Some companies in these categories will also benefit from low borrowing costs. Thus, a prolonged period of ultra low interest rates virtually guarantees a continued investor migration into these stocks. Investors will come out ahead even if the prices of some of these stocks decline somewhat because the added yield will provide offsetting benefits. The recent tax changes in response to the potential "fiscal cliff" will lock in the tax advantages of dividends over interest payments and this will add impetus to the investor migration into these stocks (investors should note that BDC and REIT dividends are generally taxed as ordinary income).
Some names I like here are Two Harbors Investment (NYSE:TWO) (yield -17.6%; a hybrid mortgage REIT), Horizon Technology Finance (NASDAQ:HRZN) (yield -9.0%; a BDC), Seagate Technology (NASDAQ:STX) (yield - 4.1%; a dividend stock) and Arbor Realty Trust (NYSE:ABR) (yield - 6.2%; a non-agency mortgage REIT). As time passes and rates stay low, the cost of staying out of these investments will become prohibitive. There is considerable room on the upside for these investments as long as the current policy mess persists in Washington.
Disclosure: I am long AAPL, HRZN, TWO, ABR, STX. I wrote this article myself, and it expresses my own opinions. I am not receiving compensation for it (other than from Seeking Alpha). I have no business relationship with any company whose stock is mentioned in this article.


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I reckon it's about time that we can start counting the days til my favourite festival EVER takes place. Why am I such an avid fan of Body & Soul you might ask? Well as opposed to listing off the many, many attributes that it has, I thought I might share with you all the things it DOESN'T have that it make it so deadly.
~ MARAUDING GANGS OF TEENAGE SCROTES INTENT ON WREAKING HAVOC & DRAWING BLOOD The last time I went to Oxygen, the devastation in the car park alone was a mash up of a certain Hieronymus Bosch painting and a post modern Lord of The Flies. There was plenty of this lot knockin' round. Enough of them to give anyone over the age of 20 a proper dose of The Fear.
~ BRAINDEAD, DIPPED IN IODINE BIMBOS AND CREATINE ADDICTED GEEMALES WHO COLLECTIVELY LOOK LIKE GEORDIE SHORE/TALLAFORNIA WANNABES Basically,anyone who goes to The Wright Venue.
~ ASPIRING MODELS AND THEIR BRAINDEAD YET AFFLUENT BOYFRIENDS All those twatbags that you see doing photocalls on Stephen's Green dressed as Fyffe's Bananas with their legs spread all over a Mini Cooper. They'll do absolutely anything to be a quick piece of camera fodder and only keep boyfriends who wear pink shirts. There's always a geansai load of them around the VIP area of Electric Picnic trying to emulate Kate Moss by wearing brightly coloured wellies.
~ SHITE MUSIC & SHITE FOOD Should you really be in the market for a clapped out band on the downward spiral of a reunion tour while you chomp down on a burger that's rougher than a badger's arse, then just don't go to Body & Soul.
The daycent atin' & drinkin' began at the Leccie Piccie. It completely changed two of the essentials at local festivals. Many of the foodstalls you see at EP also make appearances at Ballinlough. But you have the added bonus of not having to queue so long as you do in Stradbally, as it's a far more intimate gathering. Although, I am still convinced that there is a specific Irish Festival goer who craves the perverse sado masochistic pleasure of queuing for an hour to eat a pie or use the jacks.
I'm sure you're all more than aware of the outstanding line up acts on offer this year. Just yesterday, the amazing Lee Fields & The Expressions was added on to the bill (his sell out show in The Sugar Club was epic) as well as WhoMadeWho. But this is where we get to wax lyrical about all the wicked food that will be available. For the next 3 weeks leading up to the big weekend, I'll be picking out culinary highlights of what yez can wolf down on. Starting with….
These are the types of foodstalls that make vegetarians seriously question their core beliefs. A gigantic, circular grill swinging on top of a charcoal grill covered in really tasty, perfectly barbecued sausages. For me, I'm at my happiest when I can smell meat infused smoke and can hear fat falling on hot coals.
The two unique selling points that make Fire and Food work so well is the rotating grill that evenly cooks the meat and the fact that that they only use properly organic charcoal.
Check 'em out for a late breakfast or all day dinner. Or when you just want to gloat in front of a veggie mate. You'll definitely see me there, a lot.
So before all the self righteous salad junkies start moaning, I'll show some respect for one of the all time finest, meat free dishes – the humble falafel. Chick peas that are mashed up and then seasoned and rolled into balls to be deep fried. They're thrown into a flatbread that's smothered in hummus and dressed with tomatoes and lettuce.
Here's the interesting part. In my opinion, The Lebanese Kitchen do the best falafel in Dublin, not just because they use great fresh ingredients but more importantly, they're the only ones who offer you the particularly spicy green chilies to pimp out your meal. Lash 2 or 3 of these bad boys into your falafel and you'll know all about it. If you need something sweet afterwards to dull the pain, try some of their wicked baklava.
Falafel is another all day any time kinda meal. And definitely one to serve carnivores who think they can't be properly satisfied with a flesh free dish.
If you prefer your Mediterranean cuisine to have a more Iberian or Italian touch, then you'll need to find Dux & Co. Here you'll find brand new dishes like home made meatballs in vodka and herb sauce along with some of their classics such as chorizo and butter beans.
Owners Leah & John have been heavily influenced by some time they spent in Spain and this is reflected in their menu, which includes a tapas plate and the all important festival staple – patatas bravas. These are fried spuds that are richly flavoured in tomato and paprika sauce. Seeing as you're going to be spending 48 hours away consuming vast quantities of gargoyle, chips are going to have to play a starring role at some point, so you may as well have a more exotic version of them. And if you fancy giving a them a go yourself, they were kind enough to give us an auld recipe for them that's right below.
I'll be back next week with a recipe from one of the main acts playing as well as more from the food stalls – stay tuned!
Bravas Sauce:
Fry a white onion in olive oil.
Add a clove garlic and fry a bit more.
Add a dash of paprika, a bay leaf, a pinch of chili flakes, a tablespoon tomato paste, sea salt and freshly ground black pepper.
Cook into a paste.
Add some tinned chopped tomatoes (and a bit of sugar if its too acidic).
Simmer for a bit.
Garlic Mayo (Aioli):
Roast 6 garlic cloves
Puree and add to a jar of Hellman's Mayo
Potatoes (we like to use Roosters):
Cut into large cubes.
Deep fried until crisp.
Lightly Season.
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Hines is working to take Gaenslen all the way
In July I met the whirlwind of excitement and energy that is Nancy Martinez, who recently took over as principal at MPS' Kagel pre-K through fifth grade school in Walker's Point.
In August, I visited her friend and colleague Tamara Hines, who hopes to provide some stability at Gaenslen School, a pre-K through eighth grade school in Riverwest, where she started as principal on July 1.
Gaenslen, which is a school unlike most any other in the city, has had a couple principals in recent years, says Hines, who hopes she can keep the ship on course.
Ninety percent of kids at Gaenslen, which had an enrollment of 673 students last year, qualify for free and reduced lunch. That's code for nine out of every 10 kids in the school lives in poverty. But, sadly, that's not rare in the district.
But at Gaenslen nearly one out of every two students is classified as special education and the school has a large population of students with disabilities. That explains the ramp into the warm-water physical therapy pool that the Milwaukee Recreation Dept. uses on evenings and weekends for public swim classes.
Visiting in summer I expected Gaenslen to look a lot like Kagel, which was empty except for Martinez, her building engineer and her secretary who was working on a volunteer basis in the summer.
But no, school is almost never out at Gaenslen. Just when the traditional school year ends in June, the Extended School Year program kicks in and so do summer school and a Milwaukee Rec Dept. summer Community Learning Center program, too.
When I stopped in ... Let me clarify. The first time I stopped in, Hines was being pulled in three directions at once and I told her I'd happily return and we made a new appointment. When I visited the second time, she dealt with a few issues and managed to find a few minutes to show me around.
While other principals might be enjoying their summer with their families, Hines has been working all day every day since her July 1 start.
"This school is kind of like a lighthouse school," says Hines. "There are so many activities going on outside of Gaenslen (program itself). A lot of Milwaukee Rec programs and stuff. This is a community building."
Gaenslen also has a public Alice Bertschy Kadish Weaving Center that attracts a large group of community weavers, fiber artists and basket makers into the building on a regular basis.
And, unlike most schools, Gaenslen has things like a vision center, elevators for handicapped students and classrooms for cognitively disabled students, too.
So, it might come as a surprise that Hines not only did not come from the Gaenslen community but has no background in special education.
"The first time it was posted I did not apply," Hines recalls, "because they were talking that it was a special ed. school so I thought they were looking for a certain kind of person. When it got re-posted I talked to my friend who is a principal and he said to research the school to find out more about it. Once I found out more about it, they don't consider themselves a special ed. school. This is just a regular school.
"They were looking for a person who can teach all kids. So when I did some research and found out the type of person they were looking for I thought, 'that's me.' I love kids; it doesn't matter if they're special ed. kids or regular ed. kids, they're just kids.
"That's the philosophy here, that all kids are created equal and with respect. This is a real world here. We have some people who are in wheelchairs and that's what happens when they go outside the walls and the doors and they see that in real life. So I am excited to be here."
Hines has varied experience in education. She was principal at the Parklawn Assemblies of God K-5 school and was also a principal at a voucher school, a job she says she decided was not the job for her. She then landed at UW-Milwaukee, but later applied to the national non-profit New Leaders for New Schools principal training program, which had been established in Milwaukee in 2007.
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Relationships are not easy. Fact is: Men and women are different. I'm slowing learning that there will always be ups and downs in every relationship because no two people are the same. When you do have a fight you are bound to do it in an emotional manner .i.e. shout, scream or heaven forbid, cry. He in turn goes silent. But this isn't always the case; sometimes the roles can be reversed.
Our sex expert, Elna McIntosh says that, "learning to fight constructively is an important part of maintaining a loving and functional relationship. Keep your perspective when things are at their worst, and you and your partner will make it through to happier times". Read her advice here.
So when you're about to fly off the handle be careful of what you say because "sorry" can't take back those destructive words.
Guys don't have many secrets, but when they're harbouring a juicy one watch out. Look at Joost van der Westhuizen and the sex tape saga, for example (turns out he was guilty as charged after all).
What would you do if he gave you shocking news, like; he slept with your best friend when you first started dating? Here's how to deal with his shocking news without breaking your favourite vase…


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Comparative literature is the study of literature and other cultural expressions across linguistic and cultural boundaries. At Brown, the Department of Comparative Literature is distinct in its conviction that literary research and instruction must be international in character, and its undergraduate and graduate programs are considered among the finest in the country. Undergraduate students study a generous range of literary works – from Western cultures, both ancient and modern, to Chinese, Japanese, and Arabic – to develop a focused critical understanding of how cultures differ from one another.
The graduate program is a vigorous and comprehensive study of literature and culture, utilizing a range of materials from several literatures to foster an understanding of individual authors, influences, literary movements, forms, and genres in a comparative critical context. The program is flexible enough to accommodate a wide range of individual emphases in literature and culture, periods, genres, history, criticism, and theory.
- For information about applying to our doctoral program, please see here.
- To what careers can a concentration in Comparative Literature lead? Check out our Career Forum.
Spring 2017 Guest Speakers and Events
February 22, 2017, Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellow Cullen Goldblatt
April 4, 2017, The Kuhn Lecture by Professor Sianne Ngai (Stanford)
April 27, 2017, Professor Evelyne Ender (Johns Hopkins)
May 3, 2017, Graduate Student Lecture Series, Professor Naminata Diabate (Cornell)
Fall 2016 Guest Speakers and Events
September 20, 2016, Professor Emily Apter (NYU)
September 26, 2016, Peter Szendy (U. of Nanterre, Paris)
Canceled-October 18, 2016, Poet Emmanuel Moses
November 10, 2016, Film Screenings with Director Joshua Oppenheimer
November 14, 2016, Dean Susanne Wofford (NYU)
Professor Dore Levy featured in Brown News
Professor Levy's career-long work studying "The Story of the Stone," a 120-chapter classic of Chinese literature, and her effort to make Chinese literature more accessible to modern readers and students has been featured in Brown News.
Elias Muhanna awarded Whiting Fellowship
The Whiting Foundation has named Professor Elias Muhanna a Public Engagement Fellow. Muhanna's project will focus on "the ways in which the rise of mass literacy in the 20th century and the onset of the digital age in the 21st are transforming the relationship between written and spoken Arabic, and, by extension, the cultural and political landscape of the modern Middle East." Professor Muhanna's award was featured in the April 19 issue of the Brown Daily Herald.
Elias Muhanna's translation of The Ultimate Ambition in the Arts of Erudition among "Best Books of 2016"
Both The Guardian and National Public Radio named Professor Elias Muhanna's translation of Shihab al-Din al-Nuwayri's 14th century work as one of the best books of 2016. NPR calls The Ultimate Ambition in the Arts of Erudition "a celebration of knowledge for its own sake."
National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington
Professor Karen Newman featured as part of an exhibit currently at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington: an "interpretation of the Paris studio alcove" of Simone de Beauvoir (see https://nmwa.org/learn/library-archives/library-exhibitions). Above her desk, de Beauvoir had a bulletin board with pictures, quotations, etc.; this has been "reconstructed" with pictures and quotations from critics and theorists who work on her today.
Hannah Freed-Thall named winner of MLA's Scaglione Prize for French and Francophone Studies
New York, NY – 6 December 2016 – The Modern Language Association of America today announced it is awarding its twenty-fourth annual Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for French and Francophone Studies to Hannah Freed-Thall, of Brown University, for her book Spoiled Distinctions: Aesthetics and the Ordinary in French Modernism, published by Oxford University Press. The prize is awarded annually for an outstanding scholarly work in its field—a literary or linguistic study, a critical edition of an important work, or a critical biography—written by a member of the association.
Natalie Adler to speak at Pembroke Hall
On December 2nd from 5:30-7:00pm, join the Brown University Psychoanalytic Society in Pembroke Hall Room 202 for "The Ego in Love," a discussion on narcissism. Natalie Adler, professor of Comparative Literature, will discuss and rethink narcissism, its psychical mechanisms, and the desire for a coherent self.
Elias Muhanna Op-Ed in The New York Times
"A Lesson in Emotional Geography" appears in The New York Times' November
19, 2016, issue.
Dore Levy New York University Gazette Interview
NYU Gazette article and interview with Professor Dore Levy who is at the NYU Shanghai campus in fall 2016.
Elias Muhanna in the New York Times Book Review
The NYT Book Review on Professor Elias Muhanna's translation and edition of Shihab al-Din al-Nuwayri's The Ultimate Ambition in the Arts of Erudition.
Workshop and Book Reading/Lecture with Professor Elias Muhanna
Elias Muhanna, Manning Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature, hosts a talk and book launch for "Translating a Classical Arabic Encyclopedia" on October 5th, 2016 at 1pm. On October 21st, 2016 at 10am, the Digital Islamic Humanities Project, a signature initiative of Middle East Studies at Brown University, is pleased to announce its annual scholarly gathering, a workshop on the topic of print culture in the early modern and modern Middle East. The event is organized by Professor Muhanna in partnership with Gale Publishers, which will present its new digital text archive entitled "Early Arabic Printed Books from the British Library".
Welcome Emily Drumsta, Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature
Emily Drumsta received her AB from Brown University in comparative literature and her PhD from UC Berkeley in comparative literature (Arabic, French, English). She also holds a certificate from the Center for Arabic Studies Abroad in Cairo (2011). Her research and teaching interests include modern Arabic literature and culture, Maghrebi literature and culture, translation studies, and critical theory. She is co-founder and co-managing editor of Tahrir Documents, a searchable, online archive of pamphlets, broadsides, and newspapers collected in Cairo's Tahrir Square during the 2011 uprisings and published alongside English translations.
Mellon Graduate Fellowship
Ph.D. Students Geoffrey Wildanger (Comparative Literature) and Ian Sampson (English) were awarded a Mellon Fellowship for a year-long graduate workshop on Research Poetics / Poetics of Research to be held at Brown during the 2016-2017 academic year.
Dissertation Prize
Natalie Adler's Ph.D. Dissertation, "Beyond the Poetic Principle: Psychoanalysis and the Lyric" is the winner of the 2016 Marie J. Langlois Prize which is awarded annually by the Pembroke Center for an outstanding dissertation in an area of feminist studies.
Phi Beta Kappa Awards
Four Comparative Literature undergraduate concentrators were elected to Phi Beta Kappa in 2016. We congratulate Layla Ehsan, Kutay Onaly, Nina Perrotta, and Elizabeth Stanfield!
Excellence in Teaching
Ph.D. student Natalie Lozinski-Veach will receive the Presidential Award for Excellence in Teaching at the University Awards Ceremony on May 2, 2016 at 5:00pm in Pembroke Hall.
Book Prize
Professor Tamara Chin was awarded The Association for Asian Studies' Joseph Levenson Book Prize (Pre-1900 China) Honorable Mention for Savage Exchange: Han Imperialism, Chinese Literary Style, and the Economic Imagination, Harvard University Press (2014).
Deans' Faculty Fellowship
Ph.D. student Natalie Lozinski-Veach is named a Deans' Faculty Fellow for 2016-2017. Read more here.
Presidential Masters Prize
Ph.D. student Elizabeth Gray wins the 2016 ACLA Presidential Masters Prize for "Dulcinéia Catadora: Cardboard Corporeality and Collective Art in Brazil."
Harry Levin Prize
Professor Tamara Chin won the 2016 American Comparative Literature Association's Harry Levin Prize for Savage Exchange: Han Imperialism, Chinese Literary Style, and the Economic Imagination, Harvard University Press (2014).
Panel on Marc Redfield's new book
Professor Marc Redfield participates in an event at NYU on February 23, 2016 to discuss his new book, Theory at Yale: The Strange Case of Deconstruction in America, Fordham University Press (2016). Watch the video here.
Deans' Faculty Fellowship
Ph.D. student Natalie Adler was named a Deans' Faculty Fellow for 2015-2016.


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Garrison Keillor's "A Prairie Home Companion" delighted a Physical Education Center crowd on February 19, 2011, as did featured guests the Morris Concert Choir, under the direction of Associate Professor of Music Ken Hodgson, and interviewee Matt Privratsky '11, Walker. The broadcast is archived online for your listening pleasure. Enjoy the photos.
"A Prairie Home Companion" is heard by more than 4 million listeners each week on 590 public radio stations and abroad on America One and the American Forces Networks in Europe and the Far East. "A Prairie Home Companion" is produced by Prairie Home Productions and distributed nationwide by American Public Media.