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The BBC describes as a "surprise" the government's Commons defeat over the rules it intended to impose on Gurkha veterans wanting to settle in Britain. It didn't surprise me. The proposals - brought in after the High Court ruled the previous policy illegal - were cynically designed to be as exclusionary as possible. The right to settle was offered to soldiers who had served for twenty years, although the standard enlistment period is fifteen, for example.
Whether or not the government expected to lose, it's hard to see what they thought they were doing. The Gurkhas, with their near legendary status in the British army, proud history and romantic origins in the Nepalese highlands, have always been able to count on a vast reservoir of public goodwill. Once the campaign began to grant them equal rights with Commonwealth soldiers - fronted by the ever-popular Joanna Lumley - it was bound to attract widespread sympathy. Whatever points of cost or historic practice might be raised by the Home Office to keep them out were always bound to strike the average person - even allowing for the average person's general attitude towards immigration - as mean-spirited, ungrateful and cheap. I can think of few other foreign nationals wishing to settle in this country who would attract such wholehearted support from the Telegraph and the Daily Mail.
The Gurkhas, in short, are a Special Case, not just morally - they fight our wars, after all - but also politically. A wise politician knows how to choose an enemy. Margaret Thatcher had Galtieri and Scargill. Tony Blair had Slobodan Milosovic, Saddam Hussein (and Gordon Brown). Brown, meanwhile, goes into battle against a relatively small number of old soldiers who will always be far more popular than he is. He even justified the policy this lunchtime in the House of Commons, when it was clear that both Opposition parties and a fair number of his own MPs were supporting the Gurkhas. Is this not utterly insane? After his giggling YouTube performance, followed a few days later by an even more embarrassing U-turn, it certainly appeared that he had completely lost the plot. This latest fiasco proves it.
Wednesday, 29 April 2009
Fighting the Gurkhas
Posted by Heresiarch at 5:26 pm
12 comments:
- WoollyMindedLiberal said...
His political antenna does appear to be on the blink to put it mildly and I suppose this is what happens to those who think that a 'Moral Compass' is the last word in navigational devices.
- 29 April 2009 at 18:18
- Mark Reckons said...
Spot on H.
This is a victory for the Gurkhas and for natural justice. Nick Clegg has done a great job highlighting this issue and Brown is consistently now showing how tone deaf he is.
I wonder how the expenses votes will go tomorrow...
- 29 April 2009 at 19:20
- septicisle said...
It's seemed to me from the beginning that the government has decided that there is no difference between immigrants and asylum seekers; they're either all to be welcomed or all to be told to go forth. The current tendency seems to be that they should be all told to go forth, regardless of who they are, and then they're surprised when suddenly both the tabloids and the BNP decide that they'd actually not mind these particular immigrants settling down here.
- 29 April 2009 at 20:07
For a man who is supposed to lay elephant traps as a prime means of political conduct, you might have thought he could recognise one when he saw it
Blair would have got away with it somehow, so in a back-handed way I suppose that makes Brown better.
Good for Clegg though.
- 30 April 2009 at 00:24
- Edwin Moore said...
Excellent piece, H.
If you want a Manichaen image of the clash between light and dark, Joanna Lumley speaking on behalf of the Gurkhas versus Satan's Son of the Manse does it for me.
- 30 April 2009 at 09:06
- John B said...
Not quite sure why 'being a mercenary who signed up in the full knowledge they'd get a giant sack of money and no British passport' ought to put one to the top of the 'British passport' queue - but even so, given that the wider public disagrees Brown's decision was about as politically witless as it gets.
- 30 April 2009 at 13:38
- The Heresiarch said...
A giant sack of money? For decades, one of the justifications for keeping the Brigade of Gurkhas, to many in the MoD, is that they were cheaper than British-born troops. (Plus they complained less and didn't get drunk.) Of course, the money is good by Nepalese standards, but the Gurkhas are more than worth every penny. Would you risk your life for what soldiers get paid? No? Sod off then.
- 30 April 2009 at 14:07
- John B said...
Would I risk my life fighting for (say) the US for what the Gurkhas get paid? No.
Would I risk my life fighting for the US for the equivalent of Gurkha pay as a multiple of Nepalese average income, expressed as a multiple of UK average income? Hell yeah.
Nepalese GDP is $1100 per head, UK is $37,000, and an entry-level soldier gets £14k per year. And damn right I'd serve in the US army for £470,000 per year...
If you're a Gurkha and go back to Nepal, you go home to a multimillionaire lifestyle. That's not a bad deal.
- 1 May 2009 at 16:40
- The Heresiarch said...
John B: I fear I didn't word that very well. I don't see it as in any sense equitable that people doing the same job should be treated differently because of where they're from. Nor do I see why being a "mercenary" necessarily makes you any less worthy, or brave, or moral than someone fighting "for their country". How much do you actually know about Nepalese ex-Gurkhas and their "millionaire lifestyle" anyway? If it were that great, why would any of them want to swap it for an old folks home in Britain?
- 1 May 2009 at 16:45
- Lord T said...
Gordo has not lost the plot as everyone likes to say.
To lose something means you had it in the first place.
- 1 May 2009 at 19:43
A couple of misconceptions here.
i) Gurkhas do get drunk. Very very drunk. Their favourite tipple is a type of rum made in India. They tend to chew tobacco rather than smoke it though.
ii) It doesn't matter how well paid a Gurkha is. If the government is finally getting the message that annual immigration needs to be finite, I'd rather have people who've been risking their lives for us (yes, even for money), learning to speak English and saluting the Queen,
than some bearded madman who only came here to abuse our benefits system and complain about our way of life, any day of the week.
I can't imagine what sort of cunt you'd have to be not to see that this was obvious.
- 3 May 2009 at 21:57
Did anyone else feel utter nausea when Gordon ttried to justify telling these guys to piss off, cos it might be 100,000 extra people and a billion quid...
when Gordon & co have welcomed the Somalis who are terrorising the indian community to such an extent in Southall that the local Labout MP spoke out and named them (in 2004!), and that a gang fight recently lead to a killing in the A&E at Ealing Hospital that closed it for six hours?
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Text of Zionist Congress resolution:
Whereas religious and secular pluralism in Israel is a
subject of concern for Zionists in the Diaspora, the
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recognize the fact that:
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and about reinforcing its spiritual strength.
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sacrilegious acts, among them the arson burning of a
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hurtful and degrading statements, which call for the
banning of sectors of the Jewish people due to their
different interpretations of Judaism and its sources.
The Zionist movement is a pluralistic Jewish movement,
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practicality, the inclusion of the various interpretations of
Judaism and its tradition in the spirit of pluralism in
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Jewish people. [It is] a movement that maintains
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equality and mutual respect.
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spirit of this resolution, followed by the Congress
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SPRINGFIELD, Mo. -- The Northwest Arkansas Naturals (34-55/9-10) dropped the opening game a four-game series by a final of 4-1 to the Springfield Cardinals (42-27/8-11) on Wednesday, July 9 at Hammons Field. Naturals centerfielder Ethan Chapman drove in the lone run in the fifth inning for the Naturals.
Chapman came to bat with two outs and Juan Graterol at third and roped a 0-1 pitch down the right field line past the diving first baseman Jonathan Rodriguez to plate the lone tally of the contest for Northwest Arkansas ending up on third base with his first triple of the season.
Kansas City Royals prospects No. 7 Hunter Dozier and No. 14 Cheslor Cuthbert each tallied two hits in the loss. Cuthbert racked up a second inning double, his 14th of the year. Dozier now has multi-hit games in six of his first 17 games as a Natural.
Naturals starter RHP Andy Ferguson (6-7, 3.45) tossed six strong innings while striking out four; but fell victim to the long-ball as Springfield hit three home runs off of the starter in the 4-1 loss. Cody Stanley had a pair of solo home runs for the Cardinals while Rafael Ortega added a two-run home run in the three-run Springfield third.
LHP Sam Selman made his second relief appearance of his professional career - first since his professional debut on June 20, 2012 with the Rookie-Level Idaho Falls Chukars - and tossed one scoreless frame and racked up a strike out. RHP Matt Murray extended his scoreless inning streak to seven innings (three appearance) by retiring the side in order in the bottom of the eighth.
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BELLINGHAM - Western Washington University's Department of Theatre and Dance presents "An Experiment with an Air Pump," written by Shelagh Stephenson and directed by Charlotte Guyette, on Nov. 1-3 and 7-10 at 7:30 p.m. and on Nov. 4 and 11 at 2 p.m. in the PAC Mainstage Theater.
Inspired by the 1767 painting by Joseph Wright titled "An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump," Stephenson's play explores the "intoxication of discovery… the irresistible pull of light over darkness… and the power of frontiers tumbling before science's merciless deconstruction."
The action of the play is set within the same English house at the turn of two different centuries divided by a gap of 200 years (1799 and 1999). These junctures in time represent the dawn of the Industrial Age and the Age of Biotechnology, ideal moments in history for exploring the aims and ethics of science as well as the evolving role of women. A disturbing discovery beneath the kitchen's floorboards instigates a thought-provoking search into past events where human beings, art and science are beautifully intertwined. Stephenson seems to indicate, that while the machinery of science has evolved, human impulses have changed very little.
"An Experiment with an Air Pump" will show at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday through Saturday, Nov. 1-3, as well as on Wednesday through Saturday, Nov. 7-10. It will also show at 2 p.m. on Sunday, Nov. 4 and 11. Patrons are encouraged to arrive early as late seating will not be allowed due to the production's seating configuration.
Intended for mature audiences, "An Experiment with an Air Pump" contains adult language and content and will make brief use of a strobe light.
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I found this little niblett in an email as it has been spreading around the WWW. Thought I would bring it to everyones attention for kicks and giggles. He makes a lot of sense and seems to be a damn good writer. The facts involved make his gut feeling irrelevent. I think he is on to something.
So off to vegas I go to place my bet!
DIRECT FROM CAESAR'S PALACE: A Las Vegas "odds maker" gives his reasons for big win by Romney in November. Interesting analysis.Most political predictions are made by biased pollsters, pundits, or prognosticators who are either rooting for Republicans or Democrats. I am neither. I am a former Libertarian Vice Presidential nominee, and a well-known Vegas odds maker with one of the most accurate records of predicting political races.
But as an odds maker with a pretty remarkable track record of picking political races, I play no favorites. I simply use common sense to call them as I see them. Back in late December I released my New Year's Predictions. I predicted back then - before a single GOP primary had been held, with Romney trailing for months to almost every GOP competitor from Rick Perry to Herman Cain to Newt - that Romney would easily rout his competition to win the GOP nomination by a landslide. I also predicted that the Presidential race between Obama and Romney would be very close until election day. But that on election day Romney would win by a landslide similar to Reagan-Carter in 1980.
Understanding history, today I am even more convinced of a resounding Romney victory. 32 years ago at this moment in time, Reagan was losing by 9 points to Carter. Romney is right now running even in polls. So why do most pollsters give Obama the edge? First, most pollsters are missing one ingredient - common sense. Here is my gut instinct. Not one American who voted for McCain 4 years ago will switch to Obama. Not one in all the land. But many millions of people who voted for an unknown Obama 4 years ago are angry, disillusioned, turned off, or scared about the future. Voters know Obama now- and that is a bad harbinger.
Now to an analysis of the voting blocks that matter in U.S. politics:**Black voters. Obama has nowhere to go but down among this group. His endorsement of gay marriage has alienated many black church-going Christians. He may get 88% of their vote instead of the 96% he got in 2008. This is not good news for Obama.**Jewish voters. Obama has been weak in his support of Israel . Many Jewish voters and big donors are angry and disappointed. I predict Obama's Jewish support drops from 78% in 2008 to the low 60's. This is not good news for Obama.**Youth voters. Obama's biggest and most enthusiastic believers from 4 years ago have graduated into a job market from hell. Young people are disillusioned, frightened, and broke - a bad combination.
The enthusiasm is long gone. Turnout will be much lower among young voters, as will actual voting percentages. This not good news for Obama.**Catholic voters. Obama won a majority of Catholics in 2008. That won't happen again. Out of desperation to please women, Obama went to war with the Catholic Church over contraception. Now he is being sued by the Catholic Church. Majority lost. This is not good news for Obama.**
Small Business owners. Because I ran for Vice President last time around, and I'm a small businessman myself, I know literally thousands of small business owners. At least 40% of them in my circle of friends, fans and supporters voted for Obama 4 years ago to give someone different a chance. As I warned them that he would pursue a war on capitalism and demonize anyone who owned a business, that he'd support unions over the private sector in a big way, that he'd overwhelm the economy with spending and debt. My friends didn't listen. Four years later, I can't find one person in my circle of small business owner friends voting for Obama. Not one. This is not good news for Obama.
Blue collar working class whites. Do I need to say a thing? White working class voters are about as happy with Obama as Boston Red Sox fans feel about the New York Yankees. This is not good news for Obama.**Suburban moms. The issue isn't contraception, it's having a job to pay for contraception. Obama's economy frightens these moms. They are worried about putting food on the table. They fear for their children's future. This is not good news for Obama.**
Military Veterans. McCain won this group by 10 points. Romney is winning by 24 points. The more our military vets got to see of Obama, the more they disliked him. This is not good news for Obama. Add it up. Is there one major group where Obama has gained since 2008? Will anyone in America wake up on election day saying, I didn't vote for Obama 4 years ago, but he's done such a fantastic job, I can't wait to vote for him today. Does anyone feel that a vote for Obama makes their job more secure?Forget the polls. My gut instincts as a Vegas odds maker and common sense small businessman tell me this will be a historic landslide and a world-class repudiation of Obama's radical and risky socialist agenda. It's Reagan-Carter all over again.
But I'll give Obama credit for one thing- he is living proof that familiarity breeds contempt.
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This has gotten around the www. Yet no author is mentioned. But as an opinion piece it stands on it's own.
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FSU Volleyball Extends Win Streak To Five With A Win Over Clemson
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The Florida State Lady Seminoles defeated Clemson in three games tonight (30-28, 30-23, 30-14) as the Lady Seminoles extend their win streak to five matches. Florida State improves to 11-9 on the season, 7-4 in ACC play. Clemson falls to 6-14 on the season and 2-10 in conference action. The match brought a season high crowd of 831 fans to Tully Gym to cheer on the Seminoles.
Junior outside hitter Erica Bunch led the squad with 40 attacks and 16 kills. Junior Alex Sevillano had her ninth double-double of the season with 12 kills and 13 digs, as well as a team-high .579 hitting percentage. Also, Senior Norisha Campbell had 13 kills and a .571 hitting percentage in the Lady Seminoles' win. For the second straight game the Lady Seminoles out blocked their opponent nine to one.
"We have developed a stronger bond as a team lately and hope that will help us as we get closer to the ACC Tournament," Erica Bunch said.
Dawn Hough added six kills and five total blocks for the team in her first home appearance after missing nine matches due to a stress fracture. Her last home appearance was in the team's first home game of the season against South Florida.
"We have put in a lot of hard work, and we have everybody healthy again," said head coach Cecile Reynaud. "With Dawn in tonight we saw some great blocks and she was able to attack the ball pretty well. She really adds a lot to our team when she can dominate the net."
The Lady Seminoles return to ACC action Sunday, October 28 when Georgia Tech comes to Tully Gym to face the Seminoles at 1 p.m. The Yellow Jackets are ranked second in the ACC with a record of 13-5, and 8-3 in the ACC.


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BASEBALL: Beaverton is 6-1 so far and ready to make up for a disappointing 2006
BEAVERTON - So far, the Beaverton baseball team has done a very good job of putting the 2006 season in the rearview mirror.
The Beavers, picked as a playoff favorite a year ago, instead finished fifth in league play and missed the Class 4A state playoffs. Now, though they have yet to play a 2007 Metro League game, the Beavers are 6-1 and feeling very much like a contender. They took out Barlow (a team coached by former Beaverton and Jesuit head coach Craig Webster) 7-1 at Beaverton High School on Monday in their most recent non-league contest.
'From hitting, defense and pitching, it's going pretty well right now,' said senior pitcher Ryan Larson, who held Barlow to one run on two hits and two walks while striking out 10 in five innings. 'I think we could easily finish top two in the Metro. Last year was a disappointment, but this year, hopefully, we'll build off our wins and roll into the Metro.'
'I think we should do pretty well,' added senior shortstop/pitcher Austin Potter, who went 2-for-3 at the plate, scored one run and threw two innings of hitless relief against the Bruins. 'There's some tough teams out there, but we should do all right.'
The Beavers broke out in front in the bottom of the first inning against Barlow (4-3), with Calvin Nagy reaching base when he was hit by a Nick Flood pitch and scoring on a two-out single to left by Marcus Himelhoch.
Beaverton made it 2-0 in the third when Potter worked Flood for a leadoff walk, stole second, took third on an out and scored on a sacrifice fly to center field by Himelhoch. The Bruins cut the gap to 2-1 in the top of the fourth when Tyler Harding launched a one-out solo homer to center field, but Barlow got absolutely nothing else accomplished against Larson and Potter.
Larson struck out two in the first, one in the second, three in the third, two more in the fourth and two in the fifth before giving way to Potter, using his excellent control and dangerous curveball to great effect.
'I felt like I had my stuff today and I felt like I pitched pretty well,' Larson said. 'We had a great defense behind us and that really helped.'
'He's been doing that just about every time out,' Beaverton coach Corey Rooper said. 'He's got three pitches he can throw for a strike. He's a good pitcher.'
The Beavers made it 3-1 in the bottom of the fourth when Jordan Severson reached base on an error, took third on two outs and scored on a wild pitch. Beaverton then put the game out of reach with a four-run sixth when Severson and Tyler Parsons singled, Nagy forced in a run with a bases-loaded walk, two more came home on a Barlow throwing error and the final run came home on a wild pitch.
'I thought we battled, wore 'em down and got it going,' Rooper said. 'If we can have that approach at the plate every game, we're going to be successful.'
'We came out and swung the bats well and Ryan Larson did a really good job of pitching,' Potter added. 'We always have a chance to win when he's pitching.'
For the game, Potter had two hits, Matt Noyer went 2-for-4 and Severson 2-for-3 with one run scored to pace the Beavers' eight-hit attack. Barlow managed just two hits, Harding's homer and Derric Hough's leadoff single in the fifth, and also committed four errors to Beaverton's none.


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[JURIST] The ranking member of the US House Select Committee on Intelligence [official website] said Sunday that the committee would proceed with its investigation into the CIA's destruction of videotapes [JURIST report] showing the interrogation of terror suspects, despite the Justice Department's advice that the CIA not cooperate with the probe and request that the committee delay its investigation pending the Justice Department's own investigation [JURIST reports] into the circumstances surrounding the tapes' destruction. In an appearance on Fox News Sunday [transcript], Rep. Pete Hoekstra (R-MI) said that it was important to hold the intelligence community accountable:
WALLACE: On Friday, the Justice Department moved to block congressional investigations of the destruction of these CIA tapes, saying that it would jeopardize its own probe.Also appearing on the program was Rep. Jane Harman (D-CA), chair of the intelligence subcommittee of the House Committee on Homeland Security, who said that she personally advised the CIA not to destroy the videotapes and that Congress was not informed when the tapes were destroyed.
Congressman Hoekstra, does that mean your committee is going to stand down?
HOEKSTRA: No, I don't think so. I think what we're going to do is we want to hold the community accountable for what's happened with these tapes. I think we will issue subpoenas.
And once these witness appear in front of the committee, then I think we'll have to make the decision as to whether we're going to provide them with immunity or not. But our investigation should move forward.
WALLACE: So you're going to defy the letter that you got from the Justice Department.
HOEKSTRA: I think so. I mean, obviously, I need to talk with the chairman of the committee about that, but that directionally is where I would like to go, absolutely.
WALLACE: Why?
HOEKSTRA: Because I think it's important for Congress to hold this community accountable. You know, this community did not tell the CIA did not tell us about the existence of these tapes. They did not tell us that they were going to be destroyed.
There's a constitutional responsibility for them to keep Congress informed, and they have not, and we need to hold them accountable. The parts of this investigation that are being handled by justice that's a different issue.
But we need to hold them accountable because they did not respond and they did not perform the way we expected them to.
CIA Director Michael Hayden acknowledged [statement text] earlier this month that the CIA had videotaped the interrogation of two terror suspects in 2002, but said that the tapes had been destroyed in 2005 amid concerns that they could be leaked to the public and compromise the identities of the interrogators. Reuters has more.


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Fix cost estimation for indexscan filter conditions. cost_index's method for estimating per-tuple costs of evaluating filter conditions (a/k/a qpquals) was completely wrong in the presence of derived indexable conditions, such as range conditions derived from a LIKE clause. This was largely masked in common cases as a result of all simple operator clauses having about the same costs, but it could show up in a big way when dealing with functional indexes containing expensive functions, as seen for example in bug #6579 from Istvan Endredy. Rejigger the calculation to give sane answers when the indexquals aren't a subset of the baserestrictinfo list. As a side benefit, we now do the calculation properly for cases involving join clauses (ie, parameterized indexscans), which we always overestimated before. There are still cases where this is an oversimplification, such as clauses that can be dropped because they are implied by a partial index's predicate. But we've never accounted for that in cost estimates before, and I'm not convinced it's worth the cycles to try to do so. Branch ------ master Details ------- http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/732bfa2448c77bba5d98f485a387da77e1df8395 Modified Files -------------- src/backend/optimizer/path/costsize.c | 38 +++++++++++++++++--------------- 1 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)
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From cheap eats to refined dining, my bachelorette weekend was incredibly food-filled, and I wouldn't have had it any other way. After spending the day at Spa Castle, a low-key and well-priced day spa in Queens, my bridesmaids and I drove to Flushing, Queens, which is home to a wonderful array of Chinese and Korean dining options. We headed to the Golden Mall, a market of sorts, with a food court in the basement. Not minding how completely out of place we looked dressed in swimsuit cover-ups, we headed straight to Tianjin Dumpling for $3 for 12 dumplings. The dumpling casing was thin and soft and, for myself, there was a vegetarian option filled with egg, greens and onion. They have a ton of varieties, including lamb, chicken and sea bass. All in all with a side dish and some waters, four of us had an amazing lunch for just $18.
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Angry House Democrats voted today to table a proposed tax cut extension that includes the nation's wealthiest Americans, even as President Obama said his deal with Republicans has "the potential to create millions of jobs."
The House Democratic Caucus said in a statement that it rejected the proposal on a voice vote, and "the decision means the package will not be brought to the House floor for a vote this year."
This probably won't be the last word, however.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Cal. -- who also objects to extending the George W. Bush tax cuts for the nation's wealthiest Americans -- could still bring the package to the floor, and said Democrats would work to "improve" the tax cut deal "before having a floor vote."
White House spokeswoman Jen Psaki downplayed the development, saying the "House and Senate are working through the normal process of bringing a bill forward."
Psaki said White House officials "are confident that the major components of the tax framework that we fought for will remain in the final package brought to the floor and ultimately passed by Congress."
Our OnPolitics blog has more on the Democratic caucus vote.
White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said Obama shares Democratic opposition to some items in the compromise, including an easing of the estate tax, but said changing it may drive off Republican votes. Gibbs said the White House remains confident that Congress will eventually pass a package that prevents everybody's taxes from going up when the lower Bush rates expire at the end of the year.
"If everybody took out what they didn't like, we would have nothing," Gibbs said.
Earlier at the White House, Obama stressed the stimulative effects of the proposal, telling skeptical Democrats that it "would boost economic growth in the coming years."
"It will provide businesses incentives to grow, invest, and hire," Obama said at a meeting of the President's Export Board.
Obama spoke as some congressional Democrats vented their anger by tabling the proposal, saying that Obama gave up too much in agreeing to temporary extensions of the Bush tax cuts, including those for the nation's wealthiest Americans.
White House officials said they believe the package would pass if brought to the House floor, because of support from Republicans.
"If it's take it or leave it, we'll leave it," said Rep. Lloyd Doggett, D-Texas.
If the deal falls apart, congressional Republicans can bring the Bush tax cut issue back up next year when they take control of the House. But they do not have to consider some of the Obama items in the current package, including a 13-month extension of unemployment benefits and a series of middle class tax breaks.
Michael Steel, a spokesman for incoming House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, noted that the Bush tax cuts expire for all Americans at the end of the year.
"President Obama has said that failing to stop all of the job-killing tax hikes scheduled for Jan. 1 will have serious consequences for our economy," Steel said. "House Republicans agree."
For his part, Obama cast upcoming congressional votes as a choice between "whether our economy moves forward or backward.
Urging House and Senate members to sign off the package, Obama said that without it taxes would go up for all Americans and the economy would sputter: "Americans would see it in smaller paycheck; that would have the effect of fewer jobs."
The president stressed the middle class benefits in the package, calling them part of his overall economic plan, including free trade, one of the subjects of the meeting of the President's Export Board.
Obama praised the new proposed free trade agreement with South Korea, and said he is seeking other initiatives to "sell a lot of stuff all over the world."
Meanwhile, the president and his aides are trying to sell the tax cut package to critical Democrats on Capitol Hill.
House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Md., said on MSNBC today that extended tax cuts for the wealthy worsen the federal budget deficit, and he wishes Obama had fought harder against them. But Hoyer also noted that without any extension agreement, taxes would rise for all Americans when the Bush cuts expire at the end of the year; unemployment insurance would also expire.
"The president obviously made a judgment," Hoyer said. "We're going to have to determine whether we're going to make a similar judgment as to whether or not putting the economy at risk and putting millions of Americans at risk."
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News about University of Nebraska, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.
Chronology of Coverage
Apr. 6, 2016
University of Nebraska women's basketball coach Connie Yori resigns after 14 seasons amid inquiry over whether she bullied players; other college basketball news noted. MORE
Nov. 29, 2015
College Basketball Roundup; Connecticut women's basketball team defeats Nebraska, 88-46, to record its 40th consecutive win; other women's and men's scores noted. MORE
Nov. 28, 2015
College Football Top 25 Roundup; Iowa defeats Nebraska, 28-20, to complete its first 12-win season; other college football scores noted. MORE
Nov. 26, 2015
Prosecutors in Lancaster County, Neb, say evidence does not support bringing charges against Nebraska quarterback Tommy Armstrong and receiver Jordan Westerkamp after rape accusations. MORE
Nov. 18, 2015
Police investigate reported rape at home of University of Nebraska quarterback Tommy Armstrong Jr and receiver Jordan Westerkamp; other college football news noted. MORE
Nov. 8, 2015
College Football Top 25 Roundup; Nebraska hands Michigan State 39-38 loss; other college football scores noted. MORE
Apr. 10, 2015
Providence College beats University of Nebraska-Omaha, 4-1, and Boston University beats University of North Dakota, 5-3, in semifinals of NCAA ice hockey tournament. MORE
Feb. 20, 2015
University of Maryland beats University of Nebraska, 69-65; other men's and women's college basketball scores noted. MORE
Jan. 25, 2015
Nebraska running back Ameer Abdulla is named Most Valuable Player in Senior Bowl; other college football news noted. MORE
Dec. 1, 2014
Nebraska football coach Bo Pelini is dismissed after seven years; other college football news noted. MORE
Nov. 23, 2014
College Basketball Roundup; Rhode Island beats No 21 Nebraska, 66-62, in overtime; other scores noted. MORE
Nov. 15, 2014
Winner in upcoming game between Nebraska and Wisconsin will receive the 'Freedom Trophy,' one of a series of awards created to address the rivalry vacuum caused by the realignment of conferences; some college football fans have sneered at effort to manufacture rivalry. MORE
Mar. 22, 2014
Baylor beats Nebraska, 74-60, in the second round of NCAA men's basketball tournament; other NCAA tournament results noted. MORE
Feb. 19, 2014
Profile of James B Milliken, president of University of Nebraska, who is preparing to take over as chancellor of the City University of New York. MORE
Feb. 17, 2014
College Basketball Men's Roundup; Nebraska defeats Michigan State, 60-51; other men's and women's scores noted. MORE
Dec. 2, 2012
Profile of Kathy Redmond, Nebraska-Lincoln graduate who claims to have been sexually assaulted twice in 1991 by the same football player; Redmond filed Title IV suit against the university and her perpetrator Christian Peter, and upon settlement waged a national campaign against violent athletes; Redmond's marriage to former NFL running back Derek Brown, onetime teammate of Peter's, completes Redmond's liberating journey of reconciliation and renewal. MORE
Dec. 2, 2012
College Football National Roundup; Wisconsin routs Nebraska, 70-31, in the Big Ten title game to become the first team to reach the Rose Bowl with five losses; other college football scores noted. MORE
Sep. 27, 2012
Nebraska athletic director Tom Osborne will step down on Jan 1. MORE
Sep. 14, 2012
Nebraska will pay Arkansas State $1 million to host its football team at Memorial Stadium, the highest amount guaranteed to an opponent for a game at Lincoln. MORE
Apr. 3, 2012
University of Nebraska, through its nonprofit publishing wing, releases four to eight books a year for baseball fans. MORE
Feb. 2, 2012
NCAA puts Nebraska on two years of probation and agrees to its self-imposed fine of $38,000 as part of an impermissible benefits case involving textbooks and school supplies for student athletes. MORE
Nov. 13, 2011
Nebraska defeats Penn State, 17-14, in first game since sex-abuse scandal rocked Penn State's football program and led to firings of several officials, including iconic coach Joe Paterno. MORE
Oct. 2, 2011
Wisconsin defeats Nebraska, 48-17, in college football. MORE
Jun. 7, 2011
Tyler Kepner On Baseball column; after a 14-year career in the major leagues, Darin Erstad is named the baseball coach at Nebraska, his alma mater. MORE
Apr. 26, 2011
Nebraska awards football coach Bo Pelini a new five-year contract in hopes of fending off other colleges that want to hire him. MORE
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With Rigor and Mystique, Nebraska Builds a Bowling Dynasty
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April 11, 2017, Tuesday
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Nebraska's Tommy Armstrong Jr. Carted Off After Hitting Head
Armstrong, who slammed his head on the turf while being tackled by an Ohio State player, was evaluated at a hospital before returning to the stadium....
November 6, 2016, Sunday
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September 15, 2016, Thursday
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A Mission to Bring STEM Skills, and Robots, to Children in West Africa
A Nebraska professor who returns home to Senegal to start a robotics competition hopes to instill a drive in schoolchildren to improve their world....
May 29, 2016, Sunday
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Nebraska Women's Coach Resigns
Connie Yori abruptly resigned after 14 seasons, saying she was leaving for personal reasons....
April 6, 2016, Wednesday
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After Interview With Dodgers, Darin Erstad Stands by Cornhuskers
Erstad decided to pull his name from consideration for the manager job with the Los Angeles Dodgers and said he was committed to the Huskers for as long as they want to keep him....
January 31, 2016, Sunday
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Lawrence Phillips Is Dead in Suspected Suicide in Prison
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January 14, 2016, Thursday
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Nebraska Tops Texas for Title
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The background photo shows the bending test for 12-inches steel pipes in action, explains Annemiek Hilberink (MSc), who works with Heerema Marine Contractors. She used the massive set-up to study the bending effect of 80-tonnes of force on lined pipes. The bending simulates the winding of steel pipes on 16-meter diameter reels situated on the back of a ship. This method of pipe-laying for offshore oil and gas is preferred, because the critical welding of the pipes can be done onshore. However, reeling can easily damage the lined pipes, which are made of 17-millimeter thick steel outer layer, lined with 3-millimeters of stainless steel, in order to protect the pipe from corrosive acids in the transported crude. When the pipe is too thin, the inner mantle could wrinkle. Hilberink's PhD research involved both physical tests and the mathematical modeling of bending lined pipes. Her cover shows the lab, photographed by her brother in law, and a bent pipe-section with an overlay of the calculated stresses, photoshopped by her husband.
Annemiek Hilberink, 'Mechanical Behaviour of Lined Pipe', 19 December 2011, PhD-thesis supervisors Prof. Frans Bijlaard (CEGS) and Prof. Bert Sluys (CEGS).


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Gay 'Teach-Out' Fallout Tramples Constitution
BOSTON, MA - When Scott Whiteman of the Parents Rights Coalition (PRC) tape-recorded a statewide homosexual "Teach-Out" at Tufts University last March (see Education Reporter, July 2000), he couldn't have foreseen that a court-ordered blackout would suppress the tape's shocking contents. Details of the conference provoked public outrage in May when the Massachusetts News published a transcript of Whiteman's tapes. The July issue reported that, as the scandal emerged, "homosexual activists" approached state Superior Court Judge Allan van Gestel "in secret" and asked him to issue "an emergency order stopping anyone from talking about the conference or distributing a tape recording of what had happened." Invoking a state wiretap law, the judge prohibited the PRC, the news media, and the even the state legislature from disseminating or discussing the tapes.
Frustrated, the PRC began circulating copies of Whiteman's tapes. Talk radio host Jeanine Graf was so appalled by the revelations that she devoted a whole week of programming to the issue. The story soon spread to the Internet.
Whiteman and PRC founder Brian Camenker were labeled "slanderers." The Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders (GLAD) filed suit against them on behalf of students who attended the taped workshops, even though the students' voices were digitally altered before any tapes were distributed.
The gag order attracted national attention, mostly negative. Liberal stalwarts such as Harvard law professor and gay-rights supporter Alan Dershowitz and Boston civil liberties lawyer Harvey Silverglate condemned it. Local citizen-activist Lawrence Andrade, representing the Massachusetts chapter of Exodus 2000 - an organization that urges parents to withdraw their children from public schools - wrote in a published letter to the editor: "The tapes of the Tufts conference belong to the people of Massachusetts. Since when do 'secret meetings' have any place in the public school system? This [order] is a greater outrage than the depravity itself."
Major media outlets were strangely silent on the matter, though the Boston Globe reportedly published an editorial asking the judge if he "had read the Constitution."
That is precisely what Brian Camenker and his group have been claiming all along. According to the Standard, "PRC has been complaining to Massachusetts officials that radical homosexuals are introducing grossly objectionable material to children and seeking to undermine parental authority over the moral instruction of their kids."
Less than a week after issuing his injunction, Judge van Gestel held a hearing to reconsider the order. Attorneys for the fired education department employees argued that "harm or injury to all the youth on the tape" could result from its distribution. Lawyers for the Fox News Network were the only media representatives to show up demanding freedom of the press. Their request that the judge "limit the injunction to the named individuals" was subsequently granted.
The PRC remains barred from circulating the tapes. There has been no ruling on whether Whiteman actually violated the Massachusetts wiretap law.
One well-attended workshop recorded by Whiteman was entitled "What They Didn't Tell You About Queer Sex and Sexuality in Health Class: A Workshop for Youth Only, Ages 14-21." Graphic descriptions of homosexual sex acts were discussed, and teens were urged to consult their "really hip" Gay/Straight Alliance advisors for advice on how to "come on" to potential sex partners. Another popular workshop called "Putting the Sex Back Into Sexual Orientation: Classroom Strategies for Health & Sexuality Educators" was designed to teach teachers how to facilitate discussions about "queer sex" with their students. The session posed such questions as: "What does it mean to say 'being gay, lesbian and bisexual isn't about sex'?" "How can we deny that sexuality is central for all of us?"
According to Massachusetts News, those on both sides of the scandal say the conference could not have happened without the knowledge of high officials. Camenker claims the responsibility begins in Governor Paul Cellucci's office, and adds that he has "tried for years" to talk to the Governor about parents' concerns but "has always been rebuffed."
The Standard noted that the battle in Massachusetts is likely to spread to school districts across the country as "the powerful GLSEN organization, with sponsorship money from American Airlines, Dockers, and Kodak, presses its radical agenda under the innocent-sounding labels of 'safety,' 'human rights,' and 'suicide prevention.' "


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The paperwork is in place for a Jon Bon Jovi-led group from Toronto to make a bid on the Buffalo Bills.
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The Associated Press reported Friday that the group has retained a banking firm and submitted paperwork. The group includes the Rogers family and Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment, owner of the Toronto Maple Leafs and Raptors.
The forms give prospective bidders access to the Bills' financial details as they prepare their bids. More forms need to be submitted to the NFL later this month in order to gain more information.
The group's intentions aren't know, but speculation has them moving the team to Toronto – which hosted one Bills game each of the last six seasons with middling interest – to play in the Rogers Centre. That has prompted several Buffalo-area groups and radio stations to avoid playing Bon Jovi songs as a form of protest. Any move would require a buyout of the Bills' lease, which carries a $400 relocation penalty except for a brief window in 2020, when the lease reduces the penalty to $28.4 million. The lease runs through 2022.
Other confirmed bidders for the Bills include Donald Trump, former Buffalo Sabres owner Tom Golisano and current Sabres owner Terry Pegula. At least 10 sets of preliminary documents have been returned by would-be bidders.
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This is a guest post. Tom Houseman was born white, straight, male, cis, and rich. He has done a lot of work unpacking and understanding his many forms of privilege. He is far from perfect, and still says wildly ignorant and inappropriate things on occasion, but he is learning. Mostly he just sits down, shuts up, and listens. He writes film reviews and analysis for www.BoxOfficeProphets.com
The Hunger Games is a great book, and its exploration of the impact of class, wealth, and status on the world, both socially and politically, is remarkably complex and mature for a work that targets a young adult audience. The ways in which the government dominates and subjugates the districts while placating the citizens of the capitol is fairly spot on as a allegory for modern society, although in The Hunger Games the government is the sole perpetrator of these wrongs, as there are no corporations in this communist dictatorship.
Our protagonist is Katniss Everdeen, who lives squarely under the heel of the boot of the capitol. She is one of the poorest citizens in one of the poorest districts, and yet she is able to fight back against the oppressive government and help lead the rebellion. She is smart, clever, self-reliant and brave. She is, in fact, everything you could ask for in a poor person.
Several people have written about the idea of good poor people vs. bad poor people. Elizabitchez sums it up very well regarding the idea that we have about how a poor person is supposed to act to earn our sympathy and respect. This is an idea that is true of many marginalized communities, especially the overweight. One of Chris Rock's most famous standup bits perfectly articulates the idea of the good black person vs. the bad black person (Black People vs. N***as). Rich people and conservative politicians have so many ways of arguing that poor people deserve to be poor if they can't pull themselves out of poverty (without quality education or healthcare, of course), and if any poor person embodies any of these characteristics, they are written off. But Katniss manages to avoid all of these pitfalls, which is why we have no reason not to care about her and root for her. Here are some of the reasons why Katniss Everdeen is the perfect poor person.
1. She is Young and Pretty
Thereby obviously making her more worthy of our attention than a poor person who might not have been born with similar aesthetic qualities or who is too old to be worth caring about. In the movie they even make her whiter (her skin color is described as "olive" in the books) just to increase our sympathy for her.
2. She is Articulate and Well Mannered
Katniss is very well spoken, both in her dialogue and in her first-person narration in the book. I do not know if Suzanne Collins intended for Katniss to have an accent. It is never implied in the books that she does and she does not have one in either the audio recording of the book or in the movie, despite the fact that District 12 is located in the Appalachian Mountains. Certain kinds of accents (Southern, Cajun, Cockney) are often associated with people who are poor and uneducated, and these people tend to be mocked for their accents. Having a General American accent precludes Katniss from this kind of ridicule.
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Louise Gray Spring 2012
Louise Gray doesn't need to cast around for "inspiration" because she is it herself. There's no difference between the way Gray designs and the way she dresses, in a colorful mishmash of happily clashing textures, the odd vintage Chanel jacket and bag, her hair tied up in rags, and something funny and clunky on her feet. As a personage of the East End design community, she's already a well-known leader with acolytes falling at her (nuttily shod) feet and a queue of students begging for an internship. For the invitation to her spring show, she even printed her own currency: notes from the "Bank of Fun Times."
In other words, what you see on her runway is authentic London energy and creativity on the loose—but not so loose that it doesn't make sense as wearable garments. "I wanted to remind people that I also do clothes and make it more cohesive," she said. Part of the inspiration for her shapes came from an apron dress Gray tied around her own waist all summer. Then she commissioned a company in England to weave a disc-patterned jacquard shot with neon to make jackets and shorts, and set about doodling an exuberant jumble of stars, wiggly lines, and random edgings to be made into prints and bold sequined embroideries. She invented some of her techniques, like embroidering shredded chiffon onto chiffon, while she was a student at Central Saint Martins, but they are reimagined here, running exuberantly over chiffon T-shirts with cutout hearts, under which there was a flash of sequined bra.
The things she constructed went together brilliantly, from the Nasir Mazhar paper headdresses to the wedge soles of the models' patent leather sandals (Gray has help in the shoe department; she's the wife of Christopher Suarez, Nicholas Kirkwood's partner). But when she deconstructed the outfits on a rail, they made the most sense. For the first time, they break down into printed, layered slip dresses in accessible shapes, patchwork cardigans with the collar and cuffs picked out in sequins. Besides, she's a great colorist and a decorator (in an original way) colliding reds and blues, and layering up looks so that, she admits, with fabric going in every direction, you can't always understand which garment is which. What looked like short-sleeved T-shirts, for instance, turned out to be white paper decorated with photocopies of lace. Fun times, indeed.


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Operating in Gaza is extremely dangerous for Israeli troops. They come under fire from Palestinian gunmen, and in the last few days more than 10 soldiers have died when their armoured vehicles were hit by explosive devices.
Attacks on armoured vehicles are often so devastating because they are themselves carrying large amounts of explosive used in tunnel demolitions.


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Belphégor (novel)
Belphégor (English title The Mystery of the Louvre) is a 1927 crime novel by French writer Arthur Bernède, about a "phantom" which haunts the Louvre Museum, in reality a masked villain trying to steal a hidden treasure. It was simultaneously adapted as a movie serial starring René Navarre as Chantecoq, Bernède's fictional detective, and Elmire Vautier as the villainous Belphégor.
Belphégor inspired several other adaptations, including an eponymous 1965 French television series starring Juliette Greco in the title role (but without Chantecoq), a 1965 daily comic strip sequel to the TV series, a 2001 film starring Sophie Marceau, and a 2001 French-Canadian animated television series.
The 1966 film La Malédiction de Belphégor has nothing to do with Bernède's version and was made to cash in on the 1965 television series' popularity.
- 1927, J. Tallandier
- 1929, World Wide Publishing Co., Inc. (English)
- 2001, Fayard, ISBN 2-213-60909-8
- 2001, Hachette, ISBN 2-01-321875-3
- 2012, Black Coat Press, (adapted into English by Jean-Marc Lofficier & Randy Lofficier ISBN 978-1-61227-110-1)
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No doubt, Houston's Robertson Stadium has been a house of horrors for Real Salt Lake.
Winless in seven games coming into Saturday's contest, the depth of cruelty RSL had suffered at the hands of the Dynamo reached a new low.
The gut wrenching 3-2 loss, one that saw RSL blow two leads and allow the deciding goal coming literally in the final seconds of extra time, left Real coach Jason Kreis questioning his team's future and his players' security.
Kreis responded to RSL's fourth loss in fifth games with warnings of possible roster changes.
"Quite frankly, a lot of [the players given the opportunity to play] have not gotten the job done," a dejected Kreis said during his post-game radio interview. "There will be a lot of difficult decisions to make at the end of the season."
With time running out in the third minute of extra time, Houston rookie Alex Dixon took advantage of a poor defensive marking by RSL defenders to deliver a left-footed winner from outside the 18-yard box into the top corner of Salt Lake's goal.
The loss wasted a brilliant effort by Fabian Espindola, who scored RSL's first goal and assisted on the second. It also highlighted a wasted opportunity in front of a wide-open Houston net by Luis Gil.
Gil did respond and put RSL in front 2-1 in the 60th minute, but miss could have given RSL a two-goal advantage.
Instead, Bobby Boswell tied the game nine minutes later on a corner kick, heading in Brad Davis' cross.
The rest of the way, a passive RSL pinned its hopes for at least a point on goal keeper Nick Rimando.
""We were holding our own," RSL's Andy Williams said. Nick made a few great saves for us and we just let him down."
Kreis refused to blame the muggy, 93-degree heat for RSL's wilting defensive effort during the final 25 minutes. Houston, firing at will, put eight shots on goal in the second half.
"We're heartbroken, there's no doubt about it," he said. "You look around the locker room, and all of us are feeling devastated about that, because you never want to be in a position where you have two leads and walk away with nothing. We would have at least liked to get the draw, and if we're 30 seconds better there at the end, we walk away with at least a point, and we can pat ourselves on the back for all the hard work that we put into that. But to walk away with nothing, it feels very, very unfortunate."
Despite playing its third game in a week, the surging Houston Dynamo (8-7-11) are now unbeaten in their last five home games, scoring 11 goals during the run.
Meanwhile, RSL (10-7-6), which hadn't scored an away goal in more than 300 minutes, broke the streak in the 28th minute. Real took a 1-0 lead into halftime, but needed just two minutes of the second half to lose it.
Brian Ching scored the equalizer for Houston with a laser 35 yards from goal.
With RSL facing a third consecutive road game at Chivas USA next week, Kreis was left to ponder what has become of his once powerful team.
""We conceded a soft goal," Kreis said. "Once we've done that, the momentum is going against us. Rather than getting out there in the second half and getting on our front foot like we did at the beginning of the first half, we didn't get that done, and from that moment on we're reeling a bit."
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R Houston rookie Alex Dixon keeps RSL winless at Robertson Stadium with a winning goal in the waning seconds of extra time.


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Diplomatic sources reported today that "very little progress" was made during yesterday's Four Power talks and that the ambassadors are "marking time" until Joseph Sisco, Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs, returns from his Middle East "orientation trip" with an assessment of the situation there. The Big Four are scheduled to meet again on May. 5. The Big Four deputies, who held four meetings this month in an effort to draw up a memorandum, will meet again tomorrow. A spokesman for the British said today that a memorandum had been submitted by the deputies to the Four Power ambassadors in time for yesterday's meeting but that it was not a complete memorandum. He described it as nothing more than a "stock taking" document. The spokesman said it is expected that a completed memorandum will be ready for the May 5 meeting.
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Dear Dissonance,
Your latest missive jarred me from my funk of recent weeks. Thank you. I was so pleased to learn of your Patient and her husband's massive blow out at the airport and how it almost led to one of them not going on their trip.
And all because of such a simple thing: gas – or lack thereof. If they had been organized the night before and filled up the car, none of swearing and name calling and tears would have had a minute chance of domination. But they weren't. And instead of being able to just drive to the airport at 4:30 AM, coffee in hand on quiet, pre-rush hour roads, they started their 30 minute journey with the empty fuel light on, immediately triggering an anxiety attack in your Patient.
In this instance her husband always drives on empty it didn't bother him. And in his reasoning, it shouldn't bother anyone since logically he knew they had enough to get there. But she can't go anywhere with less than a quarter tank without first filling up.
She tried to take deep breaths and sip her coffee, but with each closed gas station they passed it got harder to control herself, especially after they exited the highway and drove 5 miles without finding anything even though the exit sign listed gas. When they finally found one they were late for their flight and she felt as if he enjoyed being cruel to her because he knew how she was with gas and didn't fill up the car the night before. And then the sobbing started and he blew up at her. This is totally text book.
Isn't it amazing how little things can make such a big difference in how things turn out? Tempters often forget this in their quest to become famous and focus on disrupting large life events. When a family member gets drunk and argues with relatives at a wedding it's fun for us, for example, but it does not give us a lasting edge against the Enemy. That is only possible if tempters spend the majority of their time helping their patients form bad habits. If we do not set up structural advantages our chances of success diminish greatly as each event becomes a 50-50 tug of war with the Enemy. That drunk relative noted above, for example, might just as easily have taken the opportunity of the wedding to forgive an old hurt instead of reliving it if the Enemy got their first. We do not want to allow Him any leeway to maneuver.
Both your Patient and her husband routinely do not plan ahead, which doesn't always lead to triumph on our part but gives us a distinct advantage when things don't go as expected for them. It is your job to make sure that they quickly forget about the incident and keep doing what they have always have done as if it is secondary to who they are and to their relationship. It should in no way prompt them to reflect on whether they should change their behavior. Look at what happened with a little thing like low fuel – just think of the arguments that will arise from forgetting a child's blanket or a passport or not depositing a check on time to avoid a late mortgage payment. You don't want to forgo the pleasure from the hurt arguments over those items will generate.
Nor do you want to allow the Enemy to gain a permanent structural advantage over your work. Priorities are an ugly shadow of faith itself in that they help patients see the world more clearly, like a flashlight on a dark path. Without them, it is much easier to throw lives into chaos.
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