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Sochi's a Disaster. Does It Matter?
In Transparency International's corruption perceptions index, Russia clocks in at number 127: tied with Pakistan but more corrupt than Egypt and Belarus. It comes in at 148 on Reporters Without Borders's press freedom rankings. The decision, then, to hold the Winter Olympics in Russia was always going to be something of a gamble, making the question as to whether the site would be ready on time anyone's guess.
Because of the secrecy, there was no telling what athletes, reporters, and guests would find when they finally arrived in Sochi for the games, which begin this weekend. But it's doubtful they expected the disaster Sochi has become. Every day brings new stories, some bizarre and some quite serious, all of them likely to give Vladimir Putin and the heads of the International Olympic Committee indigestion.
Incidentally, they can try to calm that indigestion with yogurt, but Russia is currently banning the popular Chobani Greek yogurt from the games, prompting the intervention of Senator Chuck Schumer, who had to appeal to Russia's Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Surveillance, declaring, "There is simply no time to waste in getting our Olympic athletes a nutritious and delicious food."
None of this, amazingly enough, is a joke. And neither are the reports of wild dogs greeting hotel guests or of reporters being told not to ingest the toxic (and almost fluorescent) tap water. Concerns and complaints about one of the event's courses caused American snowboarding star Shaun White to withdraw from one of the events. Reading that story on CBS News's website, I couldn't help noticing another nearby headline from its Sochi coverage: "Sochi Olympics: Ground zero for avalanches?"
No speculation, apparently, is beyond the realm of possibility: let your imagination roam free like the hotel dogs. In Sochi, anything can happen. The question looming over all this is: does it matter that the Sochi Olympics have been a comedy of errors thus far?
The answer has to do with one aspect of the games, and it's not yogurt. At one point late this afternoon the top two headlines in the New York Times's World section were "An Olympics in the Shadow of a War Zone" and, next to it, "Terrorism and Tension for Sochi, Not Sports and Joy."
And here we get to the serious part. The latter story, by Juliet Macur, was particularly bleak. After asking whether one of the tense issues related to the games had reached its boiling point, Macur wrote:
We'll find out soon. At the same time, athletes will be winning medals. But will anyone notice?
Never before has the pre-Olympic chatter been less about the athletes or the sports. And never before has the conversation leading to the Games been so grim: suicide bombers have struck Volgograd, about 400 miles north of Sochi, three times since the fall — including strikes in December that killed at least 34 people.
Global security experts have called this the most dangerous Games ever, based on the location of the competitions, the seriousness of the threats (including one from the head of a terrorist organization who last summer lifted a moratorium on civilian targets), and the capability of terrorist groups to carry out their plans (several in that region already have).
Macur followed that with the kind of rebuke to the IOC that other authoritarian-hosted Olympics don't usually earn:
"It was a very, very risky decision for the Olympic committee" to hold the Olympics in Sochi, said Andrew C. Kuchins, the director and senior fellow of the Russia and Eurasia Program at the Center for Strategic & International Studies, a security think tank in Washington. He basically said what is on the minds of many people headed to the Games, and the many people — including athletes' families and friends — who were too scared to attend.
What was the International Olympic Committee thinking?
In the end, few will remember whether the yogurt got to American athletes in time (though I'm sure Chuck Schumer will remind us), and most of the tap water does not, in fact, glow in the dark. As embarrassing as those are, they won't be the metric by which these games will be judged, because the larger worry is whether the Russians can keep the athletes and spectators safe.
On CNN this evening, Wolf Blitzer asked Mitt Romney about granting the Olympics to Sochi: "Was that a mistake that the International Olympic Committee made?" It's both too late and too early to answer that question. But the frequency with which it's being asked on the eve of the games is an indication that a great many in the international community already think the answer is yes.
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Voters in the Age of Affect
Is it Trump's posture, or is it simpler than that?
Though it enjoys a level of political dominance unseen since the 1920s, the Republican Party's agenda is stalled. Yet, despite their failure to repeal and replace ObamaCare, Republicans are damned like Sisyphus to keep trying. Republican office holders must now administer health care's taxes and subsidies, and the rest of the GOP agenda cannot advance without freeing up the revenue dedicated to the administration of ObamaCare. A dysfunctional, one-party Congress led by an unpopular neophyte in the Oval Office should precipitate a backlash among voters. But that outcome is far from certain. Ubiquitous surveys and studies dedicated to uncovering the mystery that is the curious and contradictory Trump voter suggests that this may indeed be a new political epoch.
Nationally, Trump's job-approval rating hovers around 40 percent. By contrast, a recent Wall Street Journal/NBC News survey of adults in "Trump country" (e.g. the counties that voted for Donald Trump) found the president enjoying a 50 percent job approval rating. Reflecting on these numbers, WSJ columnist Jason Riley observed that the political world may still be operating on a set of assumptions that do not apply to Trump; critically, that voters are transactional and that their support for politicians is contingent upon delivery.
"I think there's a lot of evidence to support the idea that Trump's main appeal was validating the fears and concerns of a certain segment of Americans who felt they were being ignored by elites in the media, elites in politics, elite Republicans," Cato Institute scholar and pollster Emily Ekins told Riley. That assertion is supported by the findings of another survey. A Washington Post/ABC News poll taking the temperature of the potential midterm electorate found that registered voters prefer a Democrat-led Congress over Republicans by a staggering 14 points. Democrats shouldn't celebrate too soon, however. The survey also showed that those who "strongly support" Trump are more motivated to vote in 2018 than are those who strongly disapprove of the president, and by a whopping 11-point margin.
This should not be. Voters should be discouraged by legislative failure, internecine feuding, and sprawling legal investigations into a nascent presidency. Voters should be repulsed by a party that sends to Congress members who physically assault journalists. They should be disgusted by a president who describes people on television he dislikes as "psycho" and "bleeding badly from a facelift." They should be unnerved by the fact that this president spent months spinning an erroneous exculpatory tale about his campaign's links to Russian-affiliated operatives only to pivot to defending those links when the lie was exposed for what it was. But they're not.
This is politics in the age of affect. As Riley observed, the voters who have received disproportionate scrutiny from the press demonstrate time and again that their support for the president is not contingent upon his achievements but his posture. He speaks to their concerns, even if he is ineffectual in his attempts to address them. His speech is not overburdened with pompous language. He does not moralize; he does not lecture; he clings to his character flaws like a security blanket. He eats poorly and his physique reflects it. Trump is no Olympian figure; he gets down into the mud even when he shouldn't.
Republican political professionals are starting to build an identity for their party around Trump's effective affectation. If Republican voters no longer care about the policies that allegedly so vexed them in the Obama years, then they will have to run on the cultural anxiety that Donald Trump so effectively marshals. There may be no better way to accomplish that than to use the political press as a foil.
A striking McClatchy report in June indicated that Republican strategists are preparing to rely heavily on media-bashing to retain control of Congress in 2018. "The press is held with disgust and contempt," said Tobe Berkovitz, an advertising expert who advises state-and district-level campaigns. "Battling the press isn't a bad strategy."
It is, however, possible that political reporters and analysts are reading more into this moment than it deserves. Perhaps Trump's voters are as transactional as anyone, but we're reading the receipts wrong. Maybe Trump's prickly demeanor and bull-headedness is part of his appeal, but not all of it.
The polling suggests that something simpler may be at work here. Only 40 percent approved of Donald Trump's job performance in the latest Bloomberg survey released on Monday, but it also found that 58 percent of respondents reported feeling closer to realizing their career and financial goals (a record high since the question was introduced in early 2013). On the economy and "creating jobs," Donald Trump dramatically outperforms his overall job-approval numbers (46 and 47 percent approval, respectively). The Washington Post/ABC News poll confirmed Bloomberg's findings. Despite his abysmal 36 percent job approval rating in that survey, 43 to 41 percent reported approving of Trump's handling of the economy.
Surely some of this is perceptional; the Trump administration's handling of the economy is six months old and characterized not by substantive reforms but by aesthetics and gestures. It is also aspirational. After eight years of recession and a sluggish recovery, Trump-country voters are exhausted by insecurity. The benefits of the Trump years are tangible for Trump voters, even if political journalists see them as illusory. Maybe political analysts are poring over the Trump voter to their own detriment. Maybe it's still the economy, stupid.
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Iran's Newest Hostage is Different
An escalation.
On July 16, 2017, Iranian Judiciary spokesman Gholamhosein Mohseni Ejehi announced that Iran had sentenced an American to ten years in prison for alleged espionage. An Iranian judiciary website subsequently identified the American as 37-year-old, China-born Xiyue Wang, a Princeton University Ph.D. student in history.
Hostage-taking is nothing new for the Islamic Republic. Indeed, since revolutionary students acting on behalf of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini first seized the U.S. Embassy on November 4, 1979, hostage-taking has become a central pillar of Iranian policy. For authorities in Tehran, the reason for hostage-taking is simple: It's a strategy which has repeatedly paid off. The Carter administration rewarded Iran with millions of dollars and diplomatic concessions. Ronald Reagan, for all his tough rhetoric as a campaigner, did likewise with the arms-for-hostages policy, a scheme that backfired when Iran seized even more hostages once it had received the last delivery of weaponry and spare parts.
President Obama likewise rewarded Iranian hostage-taking by paying Iran over $1 billion for the release of imprisoned Americans, although he inexplicably left Robert Levinson, the longest-held American hostage, behind. No sooner had the U.S. government transferred the ransom in cash to a waiting Iranian plane (controlled by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps), then Iranian security forces seized several more Iranian Americans and permanent residents, most prominently Iranian American businessman and political activist Siamak Namazi and his father, Baquer.
What makes Wang's arrest and imprisonment different is that Wang presumably had an Iranian visa. Americans must get a visa in advance and, on the off-chance Wang was traveling on a Chinese passport, he would likely also have required a visa, although there is some wiggle-room for Chinese citizens with confirmed bookings in five-star hotels.
Other Americans who were arrested in Iran in the years since the Embassy seizure were traveling on Iranian passports: Iran does not recognize dual citizenship for Iranians and requires Iranian-Americans to travel on Iranian documents. Renouncing Iranian citizenship takes an act of Iran's parliament, and so it is beyond the means for pretty much every Iranian-American. The Iranian government has no desire to ease that restriction for both ideological reasons—it's hard to demonize "the Great Satan" when so many Iranian citizens want to live in the United States—and because the requirement for Iranian-Americans to register births and keep passports current is a cash cow for the Iranian foreign ministry. When Iran has seized Americans, there, it has operated under the legal fiction that those arrested were simply Iranian citizens. Often, Iranian diplomats tell State Department and the Swiss diplomats who look out for American citizen interests in Iran to buzz off.
Levinson was a slightly different case: He traveled without a visa to Kish Island, an Iranian free trade zone which is visa-free (but which is dominated by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps' business interests). Regardless, the fact remains: previous Americans seized in Iran were not traveling on U.S. passports with Iranian visas.
Wang's arrest hits home for me as I went to Iran—with proper Iranian visas in my passport—for a total of seven months while I was working on my history Ph.D. Since I received my doctorate and since I won't self-censor what I think or write about the Iranian regime in order to gain access, I have since been unable to get the Iranian visa, even when I have been invited for academic conferences in my field. There's never an outright rejection—just an endless series of "maybe tomorrow"—until the conference has come and gone. For academics and other Americans, however, there was always an understanding, that if the Iranian foreign ministry (and behind-the-scenes, the Iranian intelligence ministry) issued a visa and the visa-holder behaved him or herself, there would be no serious problems.
So what does Wang's arrest mean? First, he represents the human cost of the Obama administration's willingness to pay ransom. Second, that the security forces and judiciary targeted him suggests both that they have augmented and consolidated control despite all the Western self-deception about Iranian moderation and also that they wish to humiliate the United States. Wang's arrest is also a signal by those who control Iran that Americans should think twice about traveling to the country. The New York Times may profit handsomely from its Iran tours, but Iran may profit more if they refuse to allow one or more of those tourists to depart.
No hostage-taking is acceptable, and the fact that any Western diplomat would trust, let alone tolerate, their Iranian counterparts absent an Iranian renunciation of the practice past and present reflects poorly on both the United States and Europe. The fact that Iran targeted an Iranian visa holder rather than an "Iranian citizen" suggests the Islamic Republic is crossing lines even they have long avoided.
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Trump's Naïveté on Display in Syria
The hen house is secured.
Eric Edelman–a former undersecretary of defense in the Bush administration, an aide to Vice President Cheney, and one of the most respected foreign policy hands in Washington–wrote that the July 7 meeting in Hamburg between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin was the most disastrous superpower summit since John F. Kennedy met Nikita Khrushchev in 1961. That Cold War-era summit emboldened the Soviets to put up the Berlin Wall and send missiles to Cuba, thus bringing the world to the brink of nuclear war. It's a harsh judgment, but its essential accuracy is being confirmed by what we have learned since July 7.
Trump appears proud of the fact that he actually raised with Putin the issue of Russian meddling in the U.S. election. But the way he did so engenders no confidence. According to Edelman, "Tillerson is reported to have told associates privately that he was stunned that the president opened the discussion by saying 'I'm going to get this out of the way,' in effect signaling his lack of seriousness about the issue."
Trump's own account is hardly more reassuring. On July 12, on his way back to Europe, Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One: "I said to [Putin], were you involved with the meddling in the election? He said, absolutely not. I was not involved. He was very strong on it. I then said to him again, in a totally different way, were you involved with the meddling. He said, I was not–absolutely not." Having failed to extract a confession from Putin, Trump then moved on to talking about Syria. What else can you do, he told reporters—"end up in a fist fight"?
What Trump should have done—what any other president would have done—was not ask Putin whether he did something that the U.S. intelligence community knows he did. The president should have said, "We know you did this—and here are the consequences." Only Trump himself won't publicly accept that Russia was the sole hacker, and he's not interested in meting out any consequences. Indeed, his administration is lobbying to water down in the House a Russia-sanctions bill approved by the Senate.
One of the summit achievements that Trump trumpeted initially was an agreement to form with Russia an "impenetrable Cyber Security unit so that election hacking, [and] many other negative things, will be guarded and safe." This fox-guarding-the-hen-house proposal was met with such universal derision that within hours Trump disowned the idea, shortly after his Treasury secretary Steve Mnuchin had loyally praised it on TV.
But Trump is still standing by the other summit take away, which was the announcement of a limited ceasefire in southwestern Syria. "We negotiated a ceasefire in parts of Syria which will save lives," Trump tweeted. "Now it is time to move forward in working constructively with Russia!"
In point of fact, the agreement between the U.S. and Russia did nothing more than ratify a unilateral truce announced the previous week by the Syrian government in this area so that Bashar Assad could focus his hard-pressed forces on other parts of the country. The truce is unlikely to hold for long, but it is already being met with considerable concern in Israel, since the territory in question borders the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights and the land of Israel's ally, Jordan.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke out in stark terms against the ceasefire on Sunday, breaking with Trump to do so, because the Israeli security establishment is worried that the ceasefire will allow Iran and its Hezbollah proxies to consolidate their control of this strategically important land.
This development highlights the tension between Trump's anti-Iran policy (his national security adviser at the time, Mike Flynn, put Iran "on notice" in February) and his more accommodating stance toward Iran's ally, Russia. Contrary to what Rex Tillerson naively says, Russia does not have the same interests in Syria as the U.S. does. Russia is in Syria to consolidate Bashar Assad's rule—not to fight ISIS or other Sunni terrorist groups, except insofar as they pose a danger to Assad's rule.
To achieve its aims in Syria, Russia is working hand-in-glove with Iran, which remains Assad's most important sponsor. Iran's goal is to create a new Iranian sphere of influence stretching from Tehran to Beirut, and it is well on its way toward achieving that objective. The expansion of Iranian power is a mortal threat to Israel and a serious danger for other U.S. allies in the region.
Given the way that Moscow is collaborating with Tehran, Trump cannot be anti-Iran and pro-Russia. It's a package deal—choose one or the other. The worry is that at Hamburg Trump may have chosen Russia.
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The 'Intersectionality' Trap
No more Sister Souljah moments.
Republicans didn't always scoff dismissively at the self-destructive, reactionary, fractious collection of malcontents who call themselves The Resistance. The hundreds of thousands who marched in the streets following Donald Trump's election once honestly unnerved the GOP. This grassroots energy culminated in January's Women's March, a multi-day event in which nearly two million people mobilized peacefully and, most importantly, sympathetically in opposition to the president. It was the perfect antidote to the violent anti-Trump demonstrations that typified Inauguration Day, and it might have formed the nucleus of a politically potent movement. The fall of the Women's March exposes the blight weakening the left and crippling the Democratic Party.
The fever sapping Trump's opposition was evident in microcosm on Monday in the meltdown of the Women's March's social-media presence on Twitter. "Happy birthday to the revolutionary #AssataShakur," the organization wrote, dedicating the day's resistance-related activities in her "honor." Shakur is perhaps better known as Joanne Chesimard, the name that appeared on the court documents in connection with her being tried and convicted of eight felonies, including the execution-style murder of a New Jersey State Trooper. She currently resides in communist Cuba, a fugitive from American justice.
The outrage that followed the Women's March's endorsement of a cop-killer, exile, and unrepentant black nationalist was such that the organization was compelled to explain itself. "[T]his is not to say that #AssataShakur has never committed a crime, and not to endorse all of her actions," the group flailed. "We say this to demonstrate the ongoing history of government [and] right-wing attempts to criminalize and discredit political activists." This fanatical display of befuddlement perfectly encapsulates the logic of "intersectionality." It demonstrates why this vogue ideology shackles its devotees to doomed causes and sinking ships.
"Intersectionality," the beast born in liberal hothouses on college campuses, slouches now toward the halls of power. It is a Marxist notion that all discrimination is linked because it is rooted in the unjust power structures that facilitate inequality. Therefore, there are no distinct struggles against prejudice. Class, race, gender, sexual identity; these and other signifiers are bound together by the fact that oppression is institutional and systemic. The problem with this ideology is it compels its adherents to abandon discretion. To sacrifice anyone with a claim to oppression is to forsake every victim of prejudice. So, sure, Assata Shakur robbed, assaulted, incited violence, and killed a cop. But she also hates capitalism and white supremacy. Therefore, she's one of us.
It is this logic that has rendered the "Sister Souljah moment" a relic of the past, and The Resistance is drowning in Sister Souljahs.
One of the March organizers, Linda Sarsour, has enjoyed newfound popularity and legitimacy in the age of Trump. She is a self-styled organizer for civil rights and the Muslim-American community of which she is a part, and she's been acclaimed by organizations like the ACLU and Demos. Democratic Senator Kirsten Gillibrand described Sarsour and her colleagues as "the suffragists of our time." In return for this lavish praise, Sarsour has only forced her defenders into awkward positions.
Sarsour has praised Saudi Arabia's social welfare state as appropriate compensation for stripping women of privileges such as driving a car. "I wish I could take their vaginas away," she wrote of women like the Somali-born Dutch-American activist and genital-mutilation victim Ayaan Hirsi Ali. "You'll know when you're living under Sharia Law if suddenly all your loans [and] credit cards become interest-free. Sound nice, doesn't it?" she asked. While delivering the keynote address to a Muslim-American conference, Sarsour advocated "jihad" against Donald Trump, defining the term to mean only speaking truth to power. Rather than admonish their political ally for this obvious indiscretion, the American left went to the mattresses to explain that only they understand the true meaning of the word "jihad."
For some on the left, advocating violence is not only justified but fashionable. Misanthropic so-called "anti-Fascist" activists like Shanta Driver and Yvette Felarca have become a ubiquitous presence in pro-Resistance mythology. People like Driver advocate for "militant actions" while Felarca appears at the head of armed mobs "resisting" the white supremacist alt-right "by any means necessary" (which happens to be the name of the organization to which she belongs). For this "activism," these and other "anti-fa" organizers are feted by left-wing magazines like Mother Jones and The Huffington Post.
Amid the celebration of left-wing political violence, a man who had been radicalized by liberal politics attempted the mass assassination of Republican members of Congress. Far from dwelling on this potentially generation-defining attack, the event passed through the national consciousness like an apparition. We don't talk about that now. Perhaps we don't want to think about what it might portend.
None of these individuals have roots in Democratic politics so deep that they cannot be deracinated relatively painlessly. Indeed, their counterproductive behavior would compel any competent political operation to make an example or two—particularly an operation struggling to demonstrate that it can be trusted again to govern seriously and effectively. Yet the Democratic Party and the liberals who animate it have come under the spell of a philosophy that explicitly forbids the exorcism of its demons.
Republicans have their devils, too. The excision of which may not seem a terribly urgent project today, given the GOP's political dominance. They will confront that crisis soon enough. In the interim, Democrats should be remaking themselves to appeal to the existing electorate; the one that delivered to the GOP near total control of state and federal government over just six years. Instead, Democrats are voluntarily yoking themselves to their most radical elements even as the number of Americans who describe the party as "too extreme" continues to climb.
Republicans may have their troubles, but a competent opposition is not among them.
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Apparently, There Is an Academic Medievalist Far Left
Even "Game of Thrones" has not quite rescued medieval studies from its reputation for stodginess. Yet the organizers of this year's International Medieval Congress must have thought their fellow scholars would think them a teensy bit cool for selecting the theme "otherness."
There were plenty of panels on gender, gendering, ungendering, and various gendered things. There was one devoted to "Hagiography Beyond Gender Essentialism: Trans and Genderqueer Sanctity: Rethinking the Status Quo." There was plenty on ethnicity, a bit on race, and, for those who like their politics unsauced, a panel entitled "The Historical Is Political: Understanding the Backlash against the Study of Race, Gender, and Representation in Medievalism."
I note these titles not to bash the conference, whose program contains many interesting things, or to suggest that medieval studies can cast no light on contemporary problems. I am saying only that the 2,400 scholars from 56 countries who descended on England's University of Leeds earlier this month may have thought they'd gone some way toward appeasing the academic left.
Nope. Some of their fellow medievalists are accusing them of abetting white supremacy.
This remarkable charge, though related to longstanding discontent about the field of medieval studies, is at the moment tied to a panel entitled "The Medieval Concept of Otherness." For the sake of focus, invited panelists were all historians of the early Middle Ages. The idea behind the panel was that whatever the medieval understanding of "us" and "them" or "self" and "other" was, it is was quite different from what ours is today. So the Leeds International Medieval Conference had a white supremacy problem because—no, really—this one panel consisted of "white Europeans" who were not steeped in critical race and postcolonial theory. You cannot have a discussion of how people in the early Middle Ages thought of "the other" without panelists of color versed in highly politicized contemporary theories of oppression.
Don't believe me? Here is one "rant" on the subject by Dorothy Kim, an assistant professor of English at Vassar College. Her politics may be guessed at by her apparently approving retweet of birthday wishes for the convicted (but left-wing, so hurray!) murderer, Assata Shakur and her decision to defend the academic boycott of Israel. Kim begins by being outraged that although the panel in question is about otherness, "the entire panel is filled w/ white Europeans."
She goes on to complain about scholars who are skeptical about the value of explicitly left-wing critical race and postcolonial theory for the study of the Middle Ages. The "other" under discussion in the panel has little to do with the scholars or tradition of scholarship captured under the "critical race theory" umbrella. But never mind. Kim informs us that it's "racist" to neglect critical race theory when you discuss "the other" in the early Middle Ages. And if you are among those who think that critical race theory is too political, Professor Kim has news for you. "The public sees medieval studies as political. It is political."
So there are only two choices for the scholar of the Middle Ages. "Decide if u want to uphold white supremacy or fight it." This ridiculous theme–that the public is somehow aware of medieval studies, that white supremacists sometimes appeal to the Middle Ages, and so the whole field now needs to be reconstituted to reject this appeal–is picked up with great earnestness by the Chronicle of Higher Education here.
Fortunately, for professors who undermine the reputation of academics by recklessly charging others with racism, the public is, I would venture to guess, completely unaware of what scholars of the Middle Ages are up to. If they were aware of it, they might be irritated by Kim's reference to the "free emotional/affective labor" academics like her are compelled to undertake to persuade others, who strangely are surprised and even upset when they are groundlessly charged with serious moral crimes. They might be appalled by Kim's contemptuous dismissal of such others—isn't she supposed to be some kind of expert on "others"—who should quit "having their white feelings."
This is evidently the new thing. Indeed, in the one nuanced piece I read on this subject, Rachel Stone, a medievalist who actually was on and knew something about the panel, made the mistake of quoting Kim's characterization of her own comments as a "rant." In response to those who then accused her of belittling Kim by, you know, reporting exactly what she said, Professor Stone removed the offending word. This was not enough for lily white male medievalist Karl Steel, who complained that Stone's post "still comes off as white fragility." This sounds like "mansplaining" to me, but I admit I am not conversant in these newfangled ways of settling arguments.
In any case, I am glad that Professor Stone spared herself the emotional labor of responding to Steel. If the persistent attempts of Ph.Ds to make themselves look foolish proves one thing, it is that some people never learn.
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Securing a Wireless Network With EAP-TLS: Perception and Realities of its Implementation
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Conference Proceeding
Security Research Centre, School of Computer and Security Science, Edith Cowan University,
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Perth, Western Australia
Computing, Health and Science
Computer and Information Science, Centre for Security Research
Originally published in the Proceedings of the 6th Australian Information Security Management Conference, Edith Cowan University, Perth, Western Australia, 1st to 3rd December 2006.
In the arena of wireless security, EAP-TLS is considered one of the most secure protocols. However since its inception the uptake has been poor and the investigation into the reasons for this are sparse. There is an industry perception that EAP-TLS is complex as well as difficult to configure and manage. One of the major barriers is in the use of public key infrastructure and the perceived difficulties in its application. The paper discusses why it is seemingly difficult to implement and how this may differ from the reality of its implementation. This premise is investigated using Windows Server 2003 to provide an argument that is in contradiction to the perception. This paper demonstrates that the processes with which the technology can now be applied have significantly improved through automation of public key infrastructure configuration and deployment.

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The 66mm is a heavy anti-tank round used by the M72 LAW rocket launcher in Counter-Strike: Condition Zero Deleted Scenes.
The 66mm rocket is a powerful rocket and can take out most armored vehicles when stationary. It is difficult to hit aircraft while using the rocket launcher as it takes several hits for it to be shot down. Victims that are not hit directly by a LAW user will be stunned while a direct hit will result in gibs or instant death.
Ammunition management
- The amount of rockets available is one. Once used, the LAW will be discarded, so select a target wisely.
- Aim properly as there is no reserve ammunition.
- Use this if enemies in a large group as it does higher damage than grenades.
Building Recon
Two M72 LAW sites are discovered in this mission. First, five LAWs are ready for the player to destroy a tank. Second, a LAW is discovered on a roof of a building and can be used later in the fighting.
Motorcade Assault
The LAW is used by a GSG-9 operative and the player in this mission.
Most missions have the Terrorists using the LAW than the Counter-Terrorists. They carry unlimited ammo and are serious threats if friendly vehicles are around or when the player is at low health.
- The icon for ammunition can be seen in sprite 7.
- This is the only exclusive ammunition for Deleted Scenes.
- Also, this cartridge is the most powerful ammo in Deleted Scenes.
- This weapon is counted as equipment (5th slot).
- Along with RC Bombs, this is another caliber exclusive to the equipment category.


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Cold Love Lyrics
Artist: Donna Summer
I'm walking the line
I'm walking the line
treading thin ice
time after time
I go for the best, end up with much less
I need the real thing
forget all the rest
started out good
working out bad
all the sweet love turner
sour and sad
a face and name
it's always the same
so tired of playing love's foolish games
tell me why
love passes me by
Cold love, cold love
another shot of rock'n'roll love
cold love, cold love
whatever happened to that
good old love
tell me why, tell me why, tell me why
tell me why, tell me why
Hope in the dark, love in the light
I'll keep on looking for someone
who's right
I'm out for the best
can you stand the test
I need the real thing
no more and no less
tell me why
love passes me by
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A flood warning for the River Cole, from A419 and A420 roads in Swindon to above Upper Inglesham, is no longer in force, the Environment Agency says.No further flooding is expected. The weather prospects for Friday should be a mostly dry day with further rainfall forecast for Saturday and Sunday.
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Hi Everyone......Happy Holidays!!
I don't know if anyone mentioned, but as I was "scrolling" through my tivo menu search... I found the show...it's back on the tube... the Bake Decorate Celebrate show... Nancy is still there as Melanie is not, I think she's on new bundle of joy leave.
Over here in CA, it's on channel 24.
I'm happy.......
PS. Anyone know if Amazing Wedding Cakes is coming back?, and the same for Ace of Cakes? I heard he was moving out here in Hollywood, oooooo....that would be great if he did, give those Cake Divas girls a run...
Happy Baking.....
i just looked and they don't air the show where i live
i'm still waiting to find out about amazing wedding cakes. i absolutely loved that show and i really hope they put another season, preferably with more episodes!
oh btw i just saw a commercial for ace of cakes, the new season starts January 15th!!!! Yayyy, so excited i cant wait to see some new episodes!
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"What I like about heading back to work after the summer is the chance for a fresh start. I've always had a soft spot for resolutions, they do the mind good. I don't always keep them obviously, but some are worth it!
This year I want to find time to do more cooking with real dishes that require some prep time as my man is generally the one in front of the stove. I travel quite a lot, so when I'm in Paris, my social life revolves around being at home with family and inviting friends over for dinner. I'd like to be a little more easy-going too, I've been working on this for a few years now. I'm getting better, but I have more to do. I'm a perfectionist, so I can become quite bossy and I don't like that about myself. I'd like to do more for women's causes and give more of my time for critical human rights that need to be respected.
Physically, I'm going to continue eating less gluten and meat as well as doing more exercise as I've found that it boosts my mood. I'm also starting to use the Energie de Vie face treatment with Liquid Care. It's super-light, but just as hydrating as a moisturizing cream and equally as concentrated as a serum, all without being greasy. Then when I feel like I need an energy boost I add the Masque de Nuit."
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does it count if you fapped because you know you was about to get some later on and wanted to make sure you wont nut early?
Fapping is fapping, regardless of the reason. But it seems like most people are allowing themselves one do over, so just start over.


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The body, a retooled version that existed in previous administrations, was supposed to be an example of Bush's brand of "big tent" Republicanism. The board, according to the executive order, was charged with giving Bush advice "regarding the needs" of black institutions of higher education. It's also supposed to issue an annual report on the participation of these schools in federal programs.
But now it seems that the place Bush gave this body in his administration, and the black schools it represents, is akin to the back of a segregated bus.
Seven months after it was created in February 2002, the black-college panel produced its first report, a 32-page document that has yet to see the light of day. In a cover letter, Tuskegee University President Benjamin Payton, the board's chairman, told Bush the panel had three major recommendations.
Panel members unanimously said federal agencies and departments should establish "dedicated" programs to strengthen the nation's black colleges and universities; they asked the president to back several bills in Congress that would aid the "capacity-building" function within these schools and urged Bush to agree to a long-term goal of giving black schools 10% of the money the federal government sends to all institutions of higher education.
Report languishes
These suggestions must have made Bush very uncomfortable. After all, this is a guy who believes that constitutionally permissible diversity goals are actually unconstitutional quotas. Not surprisingly, the report has languished in a bureaucratic black hole for months.
"Our legal counsel is reviewing the process by which the report was written and distributed," Dan Langan, an Education Department spokesman, told me Friday.
Whatever decision the department's lawyers render, Payton won't be around when it comes. He quit the panel May 8. While his resignation letter gave no hint of discord between him and Bush, the timing of it offers a hint. On that same day, the Bush administration issued a little-noticed "Statement of Administration Policy" (SAP) that laid out Bush's position on a Senate energy bill. Several provisions of that legislation provided special assistance to black colleges of the kind the advisory board recommended. The administration, according to the SAP, wants that language stripped from the bill.
Critics fire back
The president's position drew fire from a Democratic presidential candidate and a civil-rights organization. "It is difficult to understand how your administration can be 'committed to enhancing equal opportunity and strengthening the capacity of these institutions to provide excellence in education' when the SAP objects to these institutions being assured participation in federal programs," Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., wrote Bush. Wade Henderson, executive director of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, fired off a letter to the president in which he said criticism of the bill's proposals "is unwarranted."
But don't expect Bush to do an about-face. He switched into re-election mode weeks ago and is shedding his moderate cloak. That was the signal he sent when he waited until the Jan. 15 birthday of Martin Luther King Jr. to announce his opposition to the affirmative-action programs at the University of Michigan's undergraduate and law schools. And it is the message that he sends by suppressing the recommendations of his own black-college advisory board.
Never mind that the executive order to create this panel said its purpose is to "strengthen the capacity of historically black colleges." Bush is marching to a different drumbeat now. He's replacing Payton with Louis Sullivan, the secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services during his father's presidency.
But while Bush's new appointment might silence the panel, his doublespeak on the issue of federal aid to black colleges should come back to haunt him when black voters go to the polls in 2004.
DeWayne Wickham is a scholar in residence at Delaware State University, a historically black higher-education institution. He writes weekly for USA TODAY.


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BeerandBlues2 (1020) Escondido, California | January 28, 2013
A nice, small BBQ joint and brewery. The beers were good, and our server particularly interested in beer. I will have to come back for the BBQ, as it smelled quite good.
DiarmaidBHK (863) Lewisburg, Pennsylvania | August 12, 2012| Updated August 24, 2012
Located in downtown Manheim in what looks to be a former hotel building. Parking is available in the back. They had 9-10 things on draft. The beers were solid but none was spectacular. The barbecue was decent. There was some smokiness to the meat but the sauces were not very good especially the Carolina style which seemed like pure vinegar. The prices were insanely high. Ten bucks for a pork sandwich and fries seems about 25-40% higher than what you'd pay down south. The servers seemed nice enough, but I can't say they had a passion for beer.
Lubiere (561) Ottawa, Ontario | April 26, 2011
This is a great BBQ joint cum- nanobrewery, situated in an old turn of the century house. They offer great Carolina style BBQ (mixed platter was a great deal at 18$, huge portions which fed me 2 days). The beers are decent, the lighter ones being good quaffers, a decent IPA, but some others a tad unbalanced. 5 X 4 on. sampler for 9$. If you like BBQ, go there.
italianjohn (208) Penndel, Pennsylvania | October 2, 2011
It's only 5 miles down the road from the renaissance faire ... nice pub feel long bar as you walk in with the owner/brewer behind there taking care of you ... in the back rooms you have one eating area with tables booths and a tv (we watched the phils kick butt in game 1 of the nlds) the other eating area is more family oriented with just tables and a restaurant feel .... the service was prompt and the food was excellent southern style bbq (owners from North Carolina) just the chips and salsa were disappointing for 6 bucks get the nachos for 2 bucks more .... Value was average but worth it the brews (8 on tap and unfiltered) German Wheat and IPA were great, the rest average but decent 15-18 bucks for a growler fill. The owner brews once or twice on a small 15 gallon system and he keeps the website updated which is great. All in all if your in the area definitely check this place out.
sonnycheeba (176) Federal Hill, Baltimore, Maryland | January 28, 2013
Narrow brewpub located on what seemed to be the main strip through the city. Long bar with plenty of seats along with tables and booths filling out the rest of the space. Pretty typical decor. House beers were all solid with 1 or 2 standouts. Bartender was very friendly and spent most of her time talking beer with us. Didn't eat here, but the pulled pork barbecue definitely smelled good when we walked in.
orangesol (159) Pennsylvania | December 4, 2011
Stopped into JoBoy's on my way to the Sutter's Fall Cask Ale Festival to get some lunch. The road it is on, Main Street, is currently under construction so getting there was pretty fun. Finally got to the rear parking lot and walked through the ridiculously tiny walk way to arrive at the front door. Upon entering I realized that this place is much bigger than I thought it was. A small seating area at the front of the place, the bar area, and a few dining rooms make up the space. I sat at the bar and was greeted by a very nice bartender. I ordered a 10mo. RIS and it was pretty good. I noticed a few other things on the tap list that I would have liked to try but I had to save room for the festival. I took a look at the menu and I decided on the brisket platter with mac n cheese, baked beans, and corn bread. I thug the BBQ was excellent, as were the beans, but the mac n cheese was good and I didn't much care for the corn bread. Prices were a little high for my liking. I thought the food was about right but the beer prices were a little high. Overall I really enjoyed my trip to JoBoy's and I will definitely return the next time I am in the area.
DocLock (156) Lower Pottsgrove, Pennsylvania | August 23, 2010| Updated August 28, 2011
Went here with the family weekend of 8/19/10. Place has a front room with a few tables and a bigger area in back. Decent decor, nothing to write home about but quaint and pleasant, with a 10 seater or so bar and wood interior. The beer menu had 5 selections, and the red was off, then on again, so it seemed our waitress was a bit confused about the beer lineup and the sampler criteria. I had the patriot pale, IPA, stout, red, and Belgian dubbel. The beeres were all unfiltered, all decent but not world beaters. The food was the standout. Great BBQ chicken, ribs, pork, and my wife got a delicious slider trio. The fries were home cut and perfectly salted, and the corn bread, cole slaw, beans, and hot dogs were great. The chips and salsa were a big rip off; a small container of Herr's round tostilla chips with fresh salsa. An OK place, but expensive, and the server was very nice and fairly quick. Added 28-Aug-2011. Went here again and they had 7 beers on tap, the service was excellent, and the food was as delicious as the first time. The porter was a standout, and the IPA continued to wow me. Worth a trip.
fata2683 (131) Tucson, Arizona | July 16, 2010
stopped in to see his small opperation in work. We were greated by Jeff, the man behind almost everything here. He does all of the brewing himself on a 15 gallon Sabco setup in the back. The BBQ is all his recipe as well. He greeted us, answered all of our questions and showed us around. The place is small I would say 30 tables or so with a nice sized bar. 6 house beers on tap when I was there, the Darkside is an always changing recipe so for us was an 7.5 percent stout. The stout and IPA were very well done, tons of flavor. The others were true to style, just not out of this world. We enjoyed the BBQ sliders with their 2 homeade sauces and loved them. I think for the beer sampler and food my total was around 17 dollars. Very reasonable and a nice stop in a great lanscape north of Lancaster.
machfive55 (45) Columbia, Pennsylvania | May 25, 2010
If you like southern bbq, this is the place to get it. The food is HOT! but good. The ambiance is typical pubbish. Service was good although it was not busy, very friendly. Selection is pretty much bbq and they only had 4 brews on tap. The food was good, but very HOT! ABT's were great and the ribs were fall off the bone, sides were delicious. Value was OK for this type of place. Overall, I enjoyed it, I would go back and would recommend to a bbq lover.
TheCaptain (39) Lancaster, Pennsylvania | April 19, 2010
Local new small micro brewery in Manheim. Had the Imperial Stout which was good, would have liked to try the other offerings but all out, this probably due to the small output. The service and brew availability I chalked up to being the new kid on the block, but they need to bring their "A" game soon and get the beer flowing! Food was tasty and the selections of BBQ decent. If you are a vegetarian good luck, sit quietly and drink soda. Hopefully when we are back they will have stepped up the beer output.


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Food Industry Views the Thrifty Bean With New Admiration
By EBEN SHAPIRO
Published: September 2, 1992
Long a key part of most ethnic cuisines and increasingly gaining favor among the nation's chefs, beans are moving squarely into the mainstream of the American diet.
Bean consumption rose to 7.5 pounds a person last year, up from 6 pounds in 1990 and 5.5 pounds in 1989, according to the United States Department of Agriculture. Some 3.2 billion pounds of beans, a record high, were harvested last year, according to the department.
Food experts say beans are following a well-worn path, traveled in recent years by yogurt, granola and pasta.
"Beans are like a lot of foods that started out being considered for health-food nuts," said Ann McBeth, vice president of marketing for W. J. Clark & Company of Chicago, which makes bean soups. "Five years ago, beans were considered a strange, vegetarian kind of food."
The main reason for the growing interest is that beans are healthful. They are high in fiber and low in fat, are a rich source of protein and vitamins and contain no cholesterol. Some studies indicate that beans may even lower cholesterol levels.
The interest in ethnic foods has further prompted the increase in bean consumption. Beans are basic ingredients in recipes from Mexico, the Southwest and the Caribbean, among others.
For Hispanic people, "beans have been a part of the diet for years," said Conrad Colon, vice president of marketing for Goya Foods Inc., in Secaucus, N.J., adding, "We are going more and more into the Anglo market."
Giorgio DeLuca, an owner of Dean & DeLuca, the specialty food store in the SoHo section of Manhattan, said, "Beans definitely are moving more and more to center stage."
While beans have yet to reach the cult status of chilies -- no rock groups named after beans come to mind and no bean T-shirts or Christmas tree lights have been spotted -- signs of their growing appeal are everywhere. Bean dishes are on the menu at many fashionable restaurants. Zoe, a SoHo restaurant, puts a white-bean spread on each table instead of butter. "Beans always show up on the menu," said Thalia Loffredo, an owner. "We've even done a pizza with beans on it that was very popular."
Several cookbooks focusing on beans have been published this year, including "The Boutique Bean Pot" by Kathleen Mayes and Sandra Gottfried (Woodbridge Press, $12.95) and "The Versatile Grain and the Elegant Bean," by Sheryl and Mel London (Simon & Schuster, $27.50).
"There have been a lot of new product introductions in the bean category," said Robert L. Tuckis, president of the grocery group at Pet Inc., maker of Progresso products. Progresso is about to introduce a canned black bean soup, and sales of the company's bean products are up significantly as "a bean craze sweeps the nation," Mr. Tuckis added.
Conagra Inc., one of the nation's largest food companies and the biggest producer of dried beans, is considering introducing a packaged bean dish. And a host of small companies, quicker to respond to changing tastes than are the corporate giants, are looking for ways to package beans that would allow them to charge higher prices than they would for a simple bag of dried beans.
Other companies are out to create the bean equivalent of packaged macaroni and cheese. One such product is Bean Cuisine, a brightly packaged line of dry bean soups from W. J. Clark that come with a package of spices. And one fast-food chain, Popeye's, sells mounds of red beans and rice along with its fried chicken.
Part of the appeal of beans for consumers as well as for restaurants is that they are cheap. A one-pound bag of dried black beans costs 80 cents at retail. Beans are a good, cheap alternative to meat.
Bean marketers are working hard to make it easier to prepare beans, which many cooks avoid because of the inconvenience of having to soak beans overnight and then having to cook them for hours. Companies are selling dried beans that require less soaking, and there are more high-quality canned beans available, like those from Eden Foods, which recently introduced a line of canned organically grown beans.
But people are still a little bit unsure what to do with beans. Unlike tomato sauce, which everyone knows to spoon onto pasta, there is no one easy way to prepare beans.
"Americans are still somewhat intimidated about how to cook them," Mr. DeLuca said. But he and others are out to change that.
Two years ago, Dean & DeLuca began selling a line of bean entrees called Select Preparations, which provide most of the ingredients needed to make a meal with beans. One box, Black Bean Chile, comes with black beans, two kinds of chilies, Basmati rice and spices. It costs $3.40 for a nine-ounce box.
Bean Cuisine also adds a package of spices. One soup mix, a 13-bean bouillabaisse, even comes with a tiny jar of Tabasco.
The addition of spice packages and attractive packaging makes for what manufacturers call a "value-added" product, one that can command a far higher price than a simple bag of beans. That ability to charge more draws the attention of the big food companies. "As the price point goes up, it becomes more interesting for them," Mr. DeLuca said.
Another way to charge more for beans is to offer unusual and exotic varieties, like Jacob's Cattle, European Soldiers, Steuben Yellow Eyes, calypso beans, Christmas lentils, China yellows, cranberry beans and rattlesnake beans, all sold at Dean & DeLuca. The main difference among these beans is their appearance, not their taste.
Berger & Company, a unit of Conagra Inc., has steadily increased its presence in the dry-bean business in recent years. In 1985, the company acquired the Jack Rabbit brand, one of the largest bean producers. This year, it bought Arrow Industries, another large bean company. At present, Berger sells its beans in plain plastic bags, but it is carefully evaluating the market for more expensive bean dishes.
"It's something that we are constantly monitoring," said H. S. (Bud) Miller, vice president and general manager of the grocery products division of Berger. "We're not going to let any potential new market escape us."
Beans must still overcome some image problems, however.
"If ever there was a staple food in need of a good public relations campaign, it's the hapless bean," wrote Sheryl and Mel London, authors of "The Versatile Grain and the Elegant Bean." But the image of beans has improved greatly of late, many say. Mr. Colon of Goya said beans "used to be a poor man's food; now everybody eats beans."
There may be one final barrier to a mass embrace of beans -- the fact that beans and other high-fiber foods can create intestinal gas. But one company, AkPharma Inc. in Pleasantville, N.J., offers a solution -- Beano drops, which it claims improves the digestibility of beans. A few drops of Beano added to a dish of beans help break down the sugars that are the cause of excess gas.
The company's sales have increased along with the rising sales of beans, said Patricia Van Horn, marketing manager of Beano. Changing the water frequently while soaking beans also makes beans easier to digest, she said.
Ms. Van Horn said Beano would like to run advertisements in conjunction with bean makers but has yet to find a company willing to be directly linked to a somewhat negative aspect of bean consumption.
Still, Beano found a willing partner in the California Dry Bean Advisory Board. Beano and the trade group recently placed an advertisement in magazines that offered the board's cookbook along with a coupon for Beano. The advertisement read: "84 ways to make beans exciting. One way to control the excitement."


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What damage does the assembly process do to a pcb? (part 2)Friday, August 19th, 2011
In part 1 of this blog post I commented upon the affect the assembly process has upon a printed circuit board. The assembly temperatures applied do in fact burn away the epoxy of the FR-4 composite material. The higher the temperature the faster the rate of burn. I touched upon the relation ship between the glass transition temperature (Tg), decomposition temperature (Td) and the Maximum continuous Operating Temperature (MOT). There is another gauge that can be used to help a designer or contract assembler understand this point and that is the Time to delamination test. These are referred to as either the T260 or T288 tests.
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Your above-ground pool doesn't have to stick out like a sore thumb from your yard. You can incorporate several deck ideas to help your above-ground pool blend into your yard and lifestyle. Creating a deck around your above-ground pool can help your pool act more like a built-in pool.
Surround Deck
Build a deck to surround your above-ground pool. Create a deck that is round or square, that essentially has a hole in the middle of it that is big enough for the pool to fit. Build a deck that is at the same height as the top edges of the pool, so that the pool appears to be built into the deck itself. You can build a staircase that goes up to this deck too. Be sure to leave one end of the deck open and accessible so that you can get to your pool if necessary.
One Side Deck
Place your above-ground pool between your home and the edge of your yard. Then, build a deck that reaches from your home to the pool. If your home has one- and-a-half stories, the best height to build the deck would be at the 1.5 level. Install a sliding glass door into one of the rooms on that level, and then create a deck that goes from there to the above ground pool. If the level of your home does not meet the top end of the pool exactly, you can level the deck in a place by having a few steps up or down, so that when the deck meets the pool, it is flush with the top of it. One side of your above-ground pool will be exposed to your yard, and the second side will be surrounded by a deck.
Low Deck Around Pool
Build a low deck around your above-ground pool. This deck can be a few inches off of the grass. Build it out of wood, and have all of the traditional deck pieces. Have the deck go the entire way around your pool, so that it is a circular deck with a hole in the middle for the pool. The purpose of this deck would be to let people get in and out of the water without being in the grass.
Leveled Deck
Create a low deck that is on the ground around your pool. Then, build a leveled deck in stages from your pool leading up to your house. You can have two or three stages before the deck meets up with your home, and preferably, a sliding glass door or back door to enter your home.
Treat all of the wood used for above-ground pool decks so that the wood is not damaged by water. Keep in mind that wet wood can be slippery, so post signs that discourage children and adults from running on the deck or from rough-housing near the pool.


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Best way to get it all done quickly
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Jun 20, 2012 at 11:34 UTC
Hmm, didn't attach, let's try it again.
Jun 20, 2012 at 11:41 UTC
Very nice.
I wish I could get a huge can of compressed air and just blow out my house once a week!!!!
Jun 20, 2012 at 11:41 UTC
It is like the Troll Science memes... love it.
Jun 20, 2012 at 11:43 UTC
Thanks, this works! Also using it for Ex's, bills, in-laws and dentist appointments.
Jun 20, 2012 at 11:45 UTC
mental magic
Jun 20, 2012 at 11:50 UTC
In an episode of "Home Improvement" they had a self-cleaning house.
Also a bathroom
Jun 20, 2012 at 11:53 UTC
I don't have a Recycle Bin on my desktop. I renamed it "IT Requests"
Jun 20, 2012 at 12:27 UTC
I wish it were that easy.
Jun 20, 2012 at 1:50 UTC
Good work Kyle!!!
Jun 20, 2012 at 4:56 UTC
If only it would work for NextGen upgrades... this week would have been so much better
Aug 18, 2015 at 11:40 UTC
Ideally the computer will actually do it for you!
Aug 18, 2015 at 12:17 UTC
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