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Happy Endings - January 2017
Hi I just thought I would drop a line to let you know how Sally is doing. We adopted her 2 years ago from you she was a little shy at first but soon came round. Shes very much a part of the family and we all love her to bits. Shes very mischievous and likes to be involved with everything.
Hi Folks
Hi all
Can't believe it's almost 2 months since Gem arrived with us! We adore her. She's so gentle and would let me tickle her tummy 24/7. She still has a lot to learn, but I had to share how proud I am of her. We took her up to the woods for the first time today where she took to her harness and lead with no fuss. She has hated leaving the garden, refusing to walk more than a few steps, but fingers crossed, that's now behind us. She's walking so well now, after 6 hydrotherapy sessions. She gets very excited at mealtimes when we hear her bark vociferously in anticipation. She still hates being picked up and won't take herself outside, but we will definitely get there. We can't imagine life without our gorgeous little Gem. Thank you both for giving us such a precious gift. Bryony and I hope to see you next month for another days volunteering.
Hi Paw's everyone.
We adopted Willow, an ex breeding bitch, in August 2013.
I have been in my new forever home nearly a year now and I seem to fit in well I think I have really settled in. I have a new friend Layla living with me who guides me through each day although she is very naughty sometimes and I have to warn my owners by barking at her so I can get there attention. I'm spoilt here I go for walks daily, I have play time and I'm spoilt with biscuits... my favourite. I love sleeping that's all I do mostly and most of all I love my cuddles on the sofa with the family... they have so much love to give me. At Christmas I had presents, treats and toys I'm so lucky. I want to stay here forever! Thanks for letting me come here. Much love Henry xxx
I collected Pinky Pie from her lovely foster mum on 17th January and she has settled in really well with my other dog Lucy who is also 7 years old. They both sleep together on my bed at night and she sleeps very well. She will eat every thing put in front of her, and loves to chase Lucy round the garden. Jessie has been out for 3 little walks up the road (it's a very quiet road) with Lucy and enjoys having a good sniff of everything. She really is a lovely loving girl and we are over the moon to have her.
Hi everyone at Many Tears, just a quick line to let you know how I am getting on. I have been with my new Mum and Dad and my older sister now for nearly a year, and I am settling in very nicely.
We had been searching for a puppy for six months and then I met somebody who told me about your organisation. Rocky was the first puppy we saw and he was fostered in Kent. Once our home check was completed we arranged in January 2016 to travel to Kent and meet rocky.
Hi, here are some photos of our lovely boy. He was adopted in September 2015. I hope you can see that he appears to be happy enough. He is a little bit spoilt!
We have recommended you to several people.
We are lucky to have him.
Kind regards
Carol Whiteway
We adopted Amy from many tears in Llanelli in September 2016 she was really nervous when we picked her up but over the last few months she has become one of the family and is enjoying life to the full with her best friend molly, thank you many tears xxx
Our happy ending started in August 16 when we rescued MT Patty now Betty, who came to us totally shut down . She has gained weight and a new lease of life and in December she gained a new brother MT Taz now George. We drove through the night from Cornwall to Manchester to fetch our new furbaby, and he was underweight and weak on his back legs. Weeks on he has gained weight and his legs are strong from playing on cornwalls sandy beaches. Couldn't be without our little trio of shihtzu or as we say in cornwall our shindig of shihtzu.
Thankyou Many Tears x
Just a short email to let you know that Olly is fine and settled himself in like he has always been here. He's had a complete makeover and is now a pampered pooch. Special thanks you to Chelsea who looked after him at her home before we adopted him, he's a little sweetheart, has lovely ways and we have no regrets, thank you to everyone at Many Tears who do a fantastic job.
Julie and Dave Mazzoni.
I was called Cafe before I left Many Tears and went to my new forever home at the end of June last year, where I now live with my family Derek and Lynne and my special Norfolk terrier friend Ziva (that's us together in the picture). My family refer to me as the "cuddle sponge" because I like nothing better than a cuddle when I'm indoors, and I take full advantage!
The village I live in is very dog friendly and I have made lots of friends. Every morning my family take me and Ziva for a long walk through the fields close to my home. We meet our friend Ray and his three dogs, and all go off and play together. I have become an expert at chasing and retrieving a ball, and love to catch it in the air, but the best fun is to chase the others when they get to the ball first and bark at them. I love to explore, but Ziva always keeps an eye on me to make sure I'm safe, especially when we all follow the trails of the squirrels and rabbits in the wood. The squirrels love to sit high in the trees and laugh at us.
At home I love to wrestle with Ziva and we play tug together, or race eachother round the garden and bark at the birds. We have lovely warm beds and lots of toys (most of which end up in my bed) and my family say I am a very bright little girl - well, you have to keep one step ahead of them don't you. Many Tears said I would become someone's "little treasure" and that's just what I have done. I am very happy here and just wanted to let you all know how I'm getting on. Thank you Many Tears for finding my new family for me.
Derek Hood
Sophie... who was Dimple.. became part of the family in early December after we sadly lost our rehomed Yorkie to congenital renal disease at only 4. A friend who had adopted from you sent me Dimples mugshot... and well... that was that!!!!!
She has a big sister Milly, a Welsh Border Collie (from a sheep farm in Wales) who is 8.
Sophie, who now lives in Devon, has had lots of new experiences so far.. country parkland.. beaches... Dartmoor in the snow... cafes and the odd dog- friendly pub...and has a bed in virtually every room!!! She comes with me when I go to my craft studio which is a complex set in 400 acres of park and woodland .. so no shortage of walks and sniffs there!
Thank you, Many Tears, for all the amazing work you do!! And to all your fosterers... and a big thank you to Mary, Sophie's foster mum in Penzance who also knits the most amazing doggie jumpers too!!!
Thought you might like to see how happy these two are! Hamish (Marcus) has been with me nearly 4 years whereas Noodle (Simmy) only joined us in June 2016. They have really bonded although totally different in character, and both have not an ounce of malice. I feel very lucky to have two just wonderful companions.
Kind regards
Jackie Cook
It is now seven months since we adopted 'The Chaps' and although at first it was a real rollercoaster and at times fraught, they eventually settled into our family and we simply can't imagine our lives without them.
We wanted a companion for our Westie Allan and browsing the Many Tears site, I fell in love with the one eyed nine year old Bichon Rupert. On contacting and arranging a visit to the Wonderful Penny List who was fostering him. When we saw him, he was a quiet almost withdrawn character who at almost 9 years old had never been a pet, he had been shown no love in his life and this is reflected in the fact that he still can't really show affection to humans HOWEVER, the love he shows for Roly is utterly beautiful, they are as close as siblings, maybe closer.
They were put together in the centre and bonded immediately, two lost but kindred souls who helped each other through the stresses of the unknown.
In Penny's foster care they became inseparable, a fact that when we saw them together, it was completely unthinkable that we would take one without the other.
New to ex breeders and adoption we couldn't have done it without the help and support of Penny who is always there with advice still and due to the nervousness of The Chaps we still drive the hour long Journey to her to have them groomed, they would probably be ok now to go to Alan's groomer but seeing Penny helps and reassures all of us she is still their 'Other Mother'.
Six days after adoption, Roly, the most highly strung dog I've ever met,( imagine Jimmy White, wide eye and frantically pacing around a snooker table and you have an idea) escaped his harness and was on the loose for nearly five hours. The details are etched in our minds and that feeling will never leave us but is a story for another day, in short, four teenagers saw him running free and chased him, caught him, called the vet and via Facebook we were reunited with him, amazingly none the worse for it.
I cannot tell you how luck we felt and to their eternal credit the boys, so modest you wouldn't believe, refused a reward and were happy to help, all I could do was inform their Head teachers of their kindness and how proud the school should be of them.
Since then, Roly really doesn't like the great outdoors, but the garden and short walks is fine, he has relaxed and amazingly turned into a cuddly, ready for a fuss dog, with my wife Debble. He is NOW super affectionate with her and now tolerates a fuss from me too, he is also a treat monster and sits in front of me every opportunity he gets, with those soulful eyes, I need all my self control to say no lol!
Rupert is still much more reserved and wary, but he is tolerant of most folk whilst Roly still fears strangers. Ruperts devotion to his friend though, is one of the sweetest things I have witnessed in my life, his one remaining eye has a cataract and his vision is poor but if anyone goes near Roly, for any reason, he will get up and come and investigate, if we are fussing Roly and he is unsure of what's happening, he will lay his body over him as if to protect him.
Rupert has a large cushion in front of the tv from where he suveys his world, he is now ten but can be as sprightly as a new lamb if he wants, his occasional low growl if either of the other two approach his treat is hysterical, since the other two rapidly back off, the relationship between the three is terrific no domination issues, they all respect each other, Roly and Alan play and play fight regular and Rupert is never threatened by this at all.
Whatever we do for these two is only what they deserve and the joy they bring us is enormous.
Older dogs, poorly sighted dogs are every bit as rewarding as puppies I urge anyone thinking of adopting a senior dog, just do it, you will not be let down
MT do an astonishing job, I don't have words to properly describe my admiration for all at the centre and all the wonderful fosterers, every dog rescue would join with me in gratitude.
I adopted Tara in November 2011, she was with one of your lovely foster mum's.
At 5 months old she was a little skinny bundle of energy. She loves everything and everybody.
Now, she is a 5 1/2 year old stocky bundle of energy! Non stop, Eveready batteries fitted. We moved house last year and she now has 3/4 acre of garden to run round in, which she does, digging, rummaging, into everything. (We have had to put up solid tall fences to keep her away from the local farm animals).
She is a pest. She is loving. She mugs you for food. She greets you as if you have been gone for years, even if you just walked out for 5 minutes. She is friendly to visitors, but warns if strangers are around. She rolls in unspeakable things. She loves her bath. She destroys her toys (except her dulux dog one that she came with). She has a smiley face toy that is The Best Ever.
We had had her for about a year when a very good friend of ours died. Colin was happy in his life, although he had very little, a lovely man who would do anything to help a friends. The only thing he worried about was his dogs (Hannah and Taz) another of his friends had Hannah - who was ok with her Indy dog and we inherited Taz, a basset beagle cross. A bit of a rocky start with them, because they both competed for james' attention, but they both settled together after about a month. Both of them come everywhere with us, we are reenactors and we are camping at least once a month, so lots of people and new places to walk.
I wouldn't be without either of them for worlds, they drive me crazy and keep me sane.
5 years ago Today my mummy and daddy went to Hampshire to see if I was suitable to be adopted.
That was the start of an amazing new life for me.
I did come with a lot of issues but with a lot of time, patience, kindness and love I am a now a very happy little lady.
I am sending you some photos which have been taken on our holidays. We go away 5/6 times a year. I have been to Norfolk, Yorkshire, Dorset, Hampshire and Brecon Beacons and looking forward to our holidays this year.
I wanted to let you know I am one very lucky lady who has found her forever hone.
Tia King
Hi everyone,
Just a quick note to say Wellington is doing brilliantly and it's like we have always had him. He's settling in brilliantly.
My husband has heightened the fence and Welly is really enjoying exploring outside with his new sister Ginger. This morning they have had a big run in a secure field that's just down the road, and are now both snoozing in front of the fire.
Happy days!
Love Lorna, Lee, Ginger and Wellington x
Shelley was named by the foster carer which we kept as she seemed to answer to her name. She has been with us for 6 months now and has settled in lovely, she has regular grooms which she is slowly getting used to but doesn't like a bath. She is no longer a frightened little girl, can be picked up and touched without her feeling scared and is growing more confident daily, she likes a cuddle on the sofa and in bed. She likes her treats and loves going for walks. She has been let off the lead at the beach and has good recall, Shelley doesn't have much road sense so is not been let off yet near roads. Shelley does not like the car much but is slowly getting use to going for drives to the beach. She loves her resident dog and they have become very good friends, Shelley is currently experiencing her puppyhood she never had and will occasionally chew things despite having toys.
Regards Gemma McManus
Dear Many Tears,
We wanted to send you an update on our dear little Bella who we adopted from you just over a year ago in October 2015. She is an ex breeding dog but has adapted to her new life wonderfully! She has been such a happy little girl and settled so quickly. Her tail is constantly wagging and as soon as you sit down she's there snuggled up to us and just loving the kisses and cuddles she gets. She loves her 2 Cavalier sisters, Lottie and Tilly as you can see. Tilly (also an ex breeding dog) was also a Many Tears dog who we adopted 2 1/2 years ago and who also has blossomed and is loving life. Lottie, we have had since a puppy and she has welcomed her 2 sisters.
Bella loves to play, thoroughly enjoys exploring the garden and is so excited each time she goes out. She especially loves toads (but doesn't hurt them)! We take them all for lovely walks every day and our lives are so blessed by all 3! They all sleep on our bed and Bella always makes sure she has the best spot between us each night!
Thank you Many Tears for bringing us together with Tilly and Bella and bringing Lottie her sisters.
Kind regards,
Karen and Kevin
Bonnie is my 3rd Cavalier that I've had from your rescue, she's absolutely adorable, and the name Bonnie fits her perfectly as she's a real smasher.
Right from the day that she arrived she fitted in straight away and never looked back, my little Izzie adores her and as you can see from the photo's they do what Cavaliers do best 'SLEEP'.
Before Bonnie came into our lives Izzie was missing our other Black and Tan Cavalier 'Katie' she was such a good beautiful girl but unfortunately she developed a big heart problem and wasn't eating or wanting to do anything so the decision was to let her go to her happy hunting ground in April 2015 and as I say Izzie was showing seperation problems and was chewing her feet, no matter what the vet prescribed she wouldn't stop and I knew if we had another Cavalier this would help her, and it certainly did the trick, since Bonnie's been her Izzie has stopped licking her paws. Although Izzie will be 11 in July of this year Bonnie has brought new life back into her. She copies Bonnie in the mornings when I get up they both run out of my bedroom into the lounge and roll around and run from room to room before going out into the garden. They shadow each other all day.
Thank you for bringing these dogs into my life, I've had many breeds over the years ie Old English Sheepdog, Great Dane, 2 German Shepherds, Staffordshire Bull Terrier, 2 Jack Russells, Patterdale, 2 Yorkshire Terriers, Miniature long haired Daschund, then the latest 3 Cavaliers.
Hope you like the photo's it's difficult to actually take a photo when they're awake and I have a camera at hand.
Wishing you all a very Happy New Year.
Much love
Sandra xx
Just wanted to share a little video with you of Millie and Milo enjoying the snow. They have been with us for 6 weeks now. We've been working on our recall and so this is one of their first few walks off the lead. They are doing really well and although still anxious about being left and follow me a lot, they are making little steps of progress every day. They have both started to enjoy playing with some of their toys now too.
We are really enjoying them and they are a great addition to our family.
I thought I'd give you an update on Ruby (was Twitch). She's such a gentle dog - a darling in every sense. Everyone loves her here. She's made quite a few doggie friends now and has enjoyed running around with greyhounds and dachshunds.
She settled in here very quickly. After the second night she's been completely quiet overnight, and gives us a very waggy greetings in the mornings. She loves chilling out in front of the Aga listening to Radio 2 but only tends to do that when we're in the kitchen ourselves.
She loves playing ball, both inside and out.
Kingsley Tart
Hi All
Just an update for Alice. She has now been with us 5 months and has settled in so well with her new family.
She had been going to obedience classes and picks things so quickly. She also goes to agility too and is a superstar at that and really loves it.
She loves meeting new doggy friends and has learnt to realise this is fun and not a frightening experience.
We are so pleased with her remarkable progress in such a short space of time. She loves playing with her sister Lola too and they are great to watch together.
This bundle of joy has really stolen a place in our hearts and we love her so much .
Wendy Orr xxx
Hi Many Tears,
Happy New Year to you all.
We adopted Nemo back in July and wanted to let you know how well has settled into our family. He is quite a character - we have to be careful not to leave our shoes out - he seems to have taken a fancy to chew on them occasionally!
He is doing really on short lead walks now and doesn't pull...his long lead walks are gradually improving but he still is attracted to the birds (as you can well imagine). We are doing more agility classes and developing his recall response - but we do still have quite a long way to go. He is beginning to enjoy playing ball in the garden and responding to a whistle call.
My daughter and I took him to an agility class and he has taken to it brilliantly. (Nemo has made it quite clear that I am the beginner!) He loves it and Josie, the trainer, really sees the potential in him. I have also attached a family photo taken at Christmas and one of my father in law and I walking Nemo together.
Best wishes to you all.
Dave, Lea, Will and Annie
PS We are so thrilled that 'we have found Nemo!'
Just a few pictures to let you know how well Annie is doing. We picked her up on October 10th from Pauline in Andover where she had been in foster care for less than a week.
She is settling in very well with us and our Spaniel Elsa, and although still nervous of lots of noises, we are sure she will over time feel completely safe and secure.
Pauline Lodge
I thought you might like an update on Finn (was Able) who I adopted in August from the lovely Vicki in Midhurst. She was right, he is a complete star! Very snuggle bug and very fun. His fursister Tilly, who I adopted from Battersea, really took to him and they play all the time. She's about 5 years older than him, so the added activity is really helping her as well. He still has messy moments indoors occasionally, more that he plays to much he forgets to take care of business... and he has become quite the toy stealer. But everyone just loves him.
I collected my lovely dog in November 2015 where she had been fostered in Nailsea. I have named her Gigi. She has dry eyes and this went untreated before she arrived at Many Tears. When I got her I was concerned about one of her front paws as there was a very misshapen toe. My vet and I felt it needed to be amputated so it didn't catch on anything and do more damage. She healed well and is fine. She has a fear of any metal sounds and jumps at any sudden noise. She does not like any dog coming up to her face. I have no idea what was done to her. My groomer said she had found two scars on her back. However, that is all the bad news. She is now settled here and she and my blind rescue dog get on well together. I thought you might like to see a photograph of her.
Regards, Xana Mason
Thanks for letting us give Henri the loving home he deserves. He was one of the poor unfortunate dogs that were rescued by you earlier this year. We asked to adopt him at the end of September and were lucky as his brothers and sister were transferred to one of your foster homes in Manchester shortly afterwards. Since arriving at his new home he has settled in really well and loves having cwtches, going for walks and bossing our three cats around until they have enough and put him in his place lol. He was neutered in December and was groomed for the first time just before Christmas, he was really good for them. We all can't wait to come home to see him and his face lights up so much. We took him on a caravan holiday with us and he loved every minute of it, especially the long walks on the beach every day. He also loved Christmas and unwrapping his present by himself. He is such a loving dog and is a big part of our loving home. Thanks again for everything you do to help these poor animals find their forever homes.
The Smith Family and Henri
Hi I just wanted to give you an update on Lilly the Bichon. We adopted her 5 yrs ago and she's 7 now. She was very timid and quiet when we got her but slowly she came out of her shell and became the dog she should have been, with the help from are other bichon. We love her to bits, she follows me everywhere and wants to be into everything you do. She knows when I'm due home from work and is waiting at the window for the car to drive up in front of the house and goes mad when she sees me.
Andrea makepeace


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American presidencies have often been riven by feuds between hard-liners at the Pentagon and diplomats at the State Department. Yet the chasm between the two under President Bush is often so wide that to outsiders it can appear they are conducting two entirely different foreign policies.
In recent back-to-back interviews, though, two of the most senior insiders involved in the policy debates discounted that widely held view. Paul D. Wolfowitz, the deputy defense secretary, dismissed it as ''sophomoric,'' and Richard L. Armitage, the deputy secretary of state, called it ''utter nonsense.''
To some extent, tensions are inevitable and healthy. The State Department emphasizes negotiations with allies and an aversion to confrontation, especially military, on trouble spots ranging from Iraq to North Korea, the Middle East and Iran. The Defense Department takes a tougher stance on these same problem areas, even if it alarms close allies.
The State and Defense departments are also squabbling over which of the two should be the primary power in the American occupation of postwar Iraq.
Because the Pentagon favors a vigorous projection of American power at a time when that power is unrivaled, and because the State Department sees most immediately the price paid for American assertiveness in terms of lost sympathy overseas, the current differences often appear unique in their acuteness. They are certainly the talk of Washington, where Secretary of State Colin L. Powell and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld are often portrayed as rival jousters in a contest where the Pentagon seems to have the upper hand.Continue reading the main story
Henry A. Kissinger, the former Secretary of State, joked recently to a group of businesspeople in New York that Secretary Powell was viewed abroad as ''a small country that occasionally does business with the United States,'' according to someone in the room.
But Mr. Armitage insisted that he had seen worse tensions. He recalled that when he served in the Reagan administration, he attended breakfast meetings between Defense Secretary Caspar W. Weinberger and Secretary of State George P. Shultz.
''Now there was a constant battle,'' he said. ''We used to sit there and cringe. I've never seen Powell or Rumsfeld be dismissive or rude to each other.''
Mr. Wolfowitz asserted that disputes are healthy, not personal, and that they should reassure rather than alarm Americans.
''At the risk of offending some people, there's a kind of sophomoric view, even among relatively sophisticated people, that every decision in Washington has to be seen as a victory of one agency or another,'' Mr. Wolfowitz said.
''What people fail to understand,'' he added, ''is that members of this administration are encouraged by the president to debate their views forcefully. When the decision gets made, we all pull together and there is enormous respect for the people you're arguing with.''
Mr. Armitage, across the Potomac River at the State Department, gave a similar view.
''It's utter nonsense,'' he said of all the talk about animosity. ''Paul and I talk every day. Look, we've been colleagues and friends for 20-odd years. Of course we have our differences, but they are not personal. We've got different bureaucracies with different missions.''
Nonetheless, when Mr. Rumsfeld dismisses France, Germany and others critical of the war in Iraq as ''old Europe,'' Mr. Powell's aides wince. When Mr. Powell extols the virtues of the United Nations, Mr. Rumsfeld's supporters say he is naive.
When President Bush spoke recently at the commencement ceremonies of the United States Coast Guard Academy, calling for a global drive against poverty, starvation and disease, an aide to Mr. Powell scored it as a victory.
''That was the Bush-Powell agenda the president was talking about,'' Mr. Armitage said. ''This administration stands for more than finding another country to go to war against.''
But since war -- against Afghanistan, Iraq and against Al Qaeda cells around the world -- has been at the core of Mr. Bush's foreign policy, many people see Mr. Powell as a marginalized figure.
Mr. Armitage said it was absurd to generalize that the Bush administration favors war as the primary means to solve problems.
He argued that the highly publicized National Security Strategy of last year devoted only one small section to ''pre-emptive'' military action -- attacking in the face of a perceived threat -- amid many other pages about diplomacy's value in dealing with threats to the country.
''What people remember is that pre-emption doctrine, instead of the umpteen chapters on the need for bilateral and multilateral cooperation,'' said Mr. Armitage. He said that diplomacy was now the focus of policy on Iran, Syria and North Korea, among other problem areas.
Mr. Wolfowitz agreed.
''Iraq lent itself much more to use of force than other problems we face,'' he said. ''On North Korea, the key is confronting them with a unified force from Russia, Japan, South Korea and to a lesser extent, China.''
Iran, Mr. Wolfowitz said, ''is more a matter of figuring out how to use the opening provided by the fact that a great many Iranian people are not happy with their government.'' But other officials have suggested that a push by the Pentagon for the administration to adopt ''regime change'' as its policy for Iran has caused tensions with the State Department.
Asian diplomats say that they have a picture of an administration divided on North Korea, at least.
Two diplomats who have dealt with Washington on the issue say they often have trouble telling which approach -- diplomacy advocated by the State Department or threats of confrontation advocated by the Pentagon -- was Mr. Bush's preference.
But Mr. Wolfowitz asserted that for many years he had advocated diplomatic pressure on the North Korean government. ''I was writing in early 1994 that the key to the North Korea problem rests on unity of approach among us and our major allies,'' Mr. Wolfowitz said.
Another longstanding point of contention within the Bush administration is the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians.
Secretary Powell is known to have favored forceful engagement in getting Israel to negotiate with the Palestinians and to make concessions to them. Israeli leaders bridle at what they consider to be pro-Arab sentiments at the State Department, and are said by European diplomats to prefer to deal with the Defense Department or Vice President Dick Cheney.
Mr. Wolfowitz, asked about this split, at first said he did not want to talk about it.
''I mean, there is an interesting point to be made here,'' he added. ''Let me just say that it is convenient for other people to claim there are splits, because that might serve their own purposes. But I know for a fact that the president is deeply committed to the Middle East peace process and believes there's a heightened need for diplomacy at this moment.''
Some of President Bush's aides say that, in the weeks following the end of the Iraq war, White House political advisers favored a kind of pause in the talk of war. The public, these aides say, is not prepared for yet another war in the months between now and the next election.
Asked if he agreed that the United States was in a season now of diplomacy, not war, Mr. Armitage replied: ''To the extent that there's a pause, the pause has been that we've been at war since 9/11, and now it appears we've got a breather from that. We're not at the same urgent fever pitch.''
But he argued that the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq have wrongly obscured the administration's diplomatic record the last two years -- not simply trying to engage North Korea, Iran, Syria and other nations, but expanding the membership of NATO and reaching arms accords with Russia.
''When people talk in shorthand about hawks and doves, unilateralists versus multilateralists, these labels really miss the point,'' he said. ''There's full agreement that this is an unparalleled moment for the United Nations, and we've got to use it for the good of the world.''
''The question is, what are the most effective tools for us to use?'' he added. ''Is it diplomacy, force or foreign assistance? Carrots or sticks? That's a useful debate to have, and it's encouraged by this president.''
Correction: June 2, 2003, Monday Because of a telephone transcription error, an article on Saturday about differences between the State and Defense Departments on security issues misstated a word in a comment from Deputy Secretary of State Richard L. Armitage. He said, ''There's full agreement that this is an unparalleled moment for the United States [not ''United Nations''], and we've got to use it for the good of the world.''Continue reading the main story


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This 2012 Presidential Election is the first time I participated in Illinois' early voting.
I have to say it was one of the most pleasant in-person voting experiences I ever had, since moving from my Southwest Side of Chicago childhood home to where I live now in the Southwest Suburbs.
I say 'in-person' because I voted by Absentee Ballot in 2010 -- or 'Naked Voting' -- as its website declares. Well, okay ... I did wear socks.
I drove to my suburb's Village Hall on a Sunday afternoon, and followed the 'Early Voting Here' signs to its second floor. There I was greeted by some of the most enthusiastic election workers I have ever met.
'Early voting? Come in!'
After checking in and verifying I was a registered voter, I was led to an available voting machine.
'Do you have any questions? Great! Just ask, if you need help!'
I took approximately 10-15 minutes to vote. I'm one of those check and recheck voters, much like when I take a test. I read through everything once, and then voted for the 'definites' first. Then the 'almost sure ofs' next. Finally, the 'I'm uncertain about and/or never heard of these people.'
And now it's your turn.
You still have Tuesday, November 6 to vote.
The Illinois polling places open at 6 AM and close at 7 PM. You can still vote early by arriving at your designated polling place at 6 AM or as soon as humanly possible.
Then you will be done.
Think of all the time you will have to do whatever must be done on Tuesday by voting early.
Think of how late you can work, since you will not have to worry about voting.
Your boss will love you!
And you will avoid all those last minute after work long lines. You can leave work, catch the 5:02 PM train home. Get a comfy seat. And be home in time to have a relaxing dinner, as you watch the local and national election results late into the evening.
As I mentioned, I lived on the Southwest Side of Chicago from the day I was born until 1996. During that time, my late Uncle Bill served as a Democratic Precinct Captain for 15 years. Voting was a natural and expected part of our lives.
The one part of the election process I recall the most is Uncle Bill's 'Dear Neighbor' letter to his precinct voters. I remember it because it always ended this way:
Always remember to exercise your precious right to vote.
Precious. Right.
These two words carry such much meaning to me.
I see images of men and women in military uniforms fighting a foreign enemy on and beyond US soil to protect me.
I see police officers and firefighters helping people walk down hundreds and hundreds of stairs within and out of the World Trade Center Towers to safety.
I see the Florida registered voters waiting for five, six, seven, even eight hours, despite that State's Governor and election personnel's attempt to suppress the voters' right to participate in early voting.
Precious. Right.
I would love to end this blog by telling who to cast your vote for President of the United States of America.
But I won't.
But I will end this blog by telling you this:
Always remember to exercise your precious right to vote ... really, really, early.
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Lorna Best never missed a Blue Jays game on TV. Or the Brier, for that matter. She loved curling.
She sent out Christmas cards every year, paid her bills, and "kept in touch with a million people," said her son, Warren.
But on Friday, the oldest living person born in Manitoba passed away 111 years and 28 days after being born in Gilbert Plains on July 4, 1903.
"She did pretty good," Warren, 78, said. "She didn't get into the hospital hardly at all. She hated the hospital."
Best suffered a stroke in June. On July 4, her 111th birthday, she was admitted into a nursing home in Victoria, where she has lived since 1981.
Back in February, Best -- then 110 years, 212 days old -- became the oldest person born in Manitoba when she surpassed Mary Ann Scoles on the longevity list. Scoles died on July 23, 2007 at the age of 110 years and 210 days.
At the time, the grandmother of six, great-grandmother of 11 and great-great grandmother of two -- apart from her own two surviving children -- was unimpressed by her longevity.
"It's nothing special," she told a Free Press reporter over the phone. "It's just another day."
Best was born in the family home in Gilbert Plains, the first of five children of Charles and Edra Warren, who had emigrated from England to pioneer a farm near Dauphin. She was married to husband, Gilbert, in 1928. Gilbert died at age 66 and is buried in Gilbert Plains. Best eventually moved to Victoria to be closer to her two children -- Warren (Merritt, B.C.) and Shirley Evans, who now resides in Black Diamond, Alta.
Warren said his mother was reluctant to celebrate a birthday, much less discuss her longevity.
"She wasn't one that was looking for a lot of notoriety," he said. "She never really talked about her age."
But Lorna Best wasn't without stories. One of her siblings, a boy, died of the Spanish flu in 1919.
In her later years, Best was a diehard Blue Jays fan who rarely missed a televised game. In fact, the major league team sent her a hat and baseball three years ago after being notified of her fandom. Being born in Manitoba, Best never shook the curling bug, either. She was a particular fan of Winnipeg's Jeff Stoughton. "She lived for curling on TV," Warren said.
There are no plans at present for a funeral, the son noted. But Warren said his mother's remains will be buried in a plot in the Gilbert Plains cemetery next to her family and husband.
"The remains will get back to Manitoba some day," he said.
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Kentucky Head Coach John Calipari
Q. Can you speak to Willie's play tonight, especially against a team that big?
John Calipari: Well, he was ridiculous today. Just so you know, at halftime he played so well, I called he and Marcus in, and I said, Marcus, you're his backup today. When he wants to come out you can come in. If he doesn't want to come out, you are not going to play a whole lot today. He's too good. And Willie said, hey, just be ready for me, but I'm going to try to go blow this out, and that's what he did. And I told my team, I'll do that with other guys, too. Somebody else is playing so well, Alex or Trey or Devin or Tyler or Andrew or Aaron, I mean, what happened today is our guards shot 4 for 27, and we won and got out-rebounded by 12 and won. What? How in the world did we -- but we were making threes, 1 out of 12. (Laughter).
What just happened?
Ricky B (Coach Barnes) was great after the game. He looked at me and said, that was a big boys' game, and it certainly was a big boys' game. They're good right now, but when they get that guard back that's out, they're legitimately -- we could be seeing them hopefully right down the last game, it's us and them. It could be that. I hope we're good enough to be that, but I see them being that kind of team.
Defensively both teams -- that was ridiculous. It's hard to get a pass -- just a rebound, and --
Q. Just to follow up on that, Ricky B said that this game was like an argument for a wider NBA lane to give everybody some room.
John Calipari: Oh, it was ridiculous. And then the bodies are so big. I mean, you had so many big people on the floor at one time. I mean, I looked at (Jonathan) Holmes before the game, because usually they'll say someone is 6'8", and then he comes in the game, how big is he? 6'6". He came out at the warm-ups, and I'm like, holy geez, he looks 6'10". So you've got him, you've got the other big, (Connor) Lammert, they're huge. And then they come off the bench with two big guys. They're big. And neither of our guards played as well as hopefully they'll play. My four guards did not. We did all right. Andrew showed the courage that I know he has, which is why I put him in at the end, and I told him, you're going to make the play, you're the veteran, make a play. He made that three in the corner that was huge that gave us some breathing room.
Q. You said yesterday the best thing that could happen to you guys is they come right out and punch you in the mouth --
John Calipari: Yeah, but what I wanted is we come out and play great defense and someone makes 10 straight shots and we're doing everything right, and we come down and we go 2 for 10 and we're getting great looks. And I want to see if you can continue to play, continue to have fun, continue to fight, and again, please don't think that I got away from platoons. I didn't. Just Willie played so well, we had some foul trouble, someone plays well you kind of slide them in on another platoon. I talked to Marcus Lee after. He said, Coach, I'm good, Willie was so good today, I accept it. I know how good he is.
Q. You may not take much out of it, but from a rankings standpoint you've beaten the two best teams in the Big 12 this year. Do you take anything out of that?
John Calipari: No. No, they're both really good teams. We've got one on a neutral site and one at home. We didn't have to play them on their court. But they're both good teams. We're a good team.
If we can figure out offensively what we had to do, and that's on me, that's not on these kids, we're still at about 50, 60 percent where we need to be offensively. So I've got to really do a better job of evaluating how we're playing, if it's the right way. I've got to look at the shots we had. When we missed these 12 threes, were they good threes that we just missed or were they bad shots? I don't know, I'll have to watch the tape.
But the greatest thing is it's December whatever it is, and we've got -- our team is not nearly what it can be. We're just not.
Q. You've had a team in the past statistically be the No. 1 defensive team in the country, another one that was ranked second statistically in the country. Is this one your best?
John Calipari: This is the longest team. What was my other one?
Q. '09 was ranked No. 1, defensive efficiency, '08 was No. 2 in the country in defensive efficiency.
John Calipari: What about 2012?
Q. Maybe top six, seven I remember.
John Calipari: Ooh. That team was really good. No, we're big, and we're long. I was happy Alex (Poythress) played well. We need Alex to really give us something, and I thought he did. I keep telling these guys, in these situations, if we're a world-class team, you have a ball. You love it. You're having fun with it. Even if you're not playing well or we're not playing well, you figure it out and you keep enjoying it. That's what I'm talking about to these guys.
Q. We've seen some games where Willie just struggled against teams like this, physical, teams like this. What's the difference now?
John Calipari: He's older, more mature. The biggest thing I'm working on him with our people, and Kenny (Payne) is, he's got to come to wide bases when he comes to a stop. When his feet are really close, he's just got no balance and he just flops around. When he comes to that wide base, he's seven-foot and he just jumps over the guy. He reaches up, literally he's shooting the ball and he's above the square (on the backboard) shooting down. The other thing is I like the fact that he made free throws today. I liked the fact that he's not afraid to shoot the ball in the middle. How about Dakari (Johnson) shooting that 15-footer? I want these guys to work on their games and then go do it in the game. We've got guys in the gym at night spending time, extra time, and again, one of the strengths of the team are our guards. Andrew and Aaron (Harrison), what they did last year, what they're doing now, and now Tyler (Ulis) and Devin (Booker), and they didn't make a shot today. 4 for 27. You think about that.
Q. I'm confused as to how you said you didn't abandon platoons. You subbed 2, 3, this guy, that guy, you played Willie 33 minutes, Marcus 4.
John Calipari: Well, what I'm doing is I'm coaching to win a game. We platoon, someone gets in foul trouble, I'm still platooning but there's a different guy in the platoon. I subbed even in the second half, I went and put Devin and Tyler and all those guys in, and I went back with the other guys, but only three of them went in because the other guys were in foul trouble. I don't know what you call that. Plateens? I don't know what you call it. (Laughter).
But I'm not abandoning -- what I'm doing is I'm making this about these guys. Now, the only guy that got left out was Marcus Lee. He got left out for a reason, which we talked about. And I told the other players, if you're watching a player that's splitting minutes with you and he's not bringing it, go sub him out. Tell him, I'm splitting minutes with you. You've got to respect that. You've got to come and play. It doesn't mean you have to be great. It doesn't mean you have to make shots. It means you're going to bring energy. Someone inside there grabbed me and said the energy that your team plays with for 40, and it's not that we're pressing.
And this guy, Rick is a terrific coach. Do you know what he did at the end of the first half? All you Basketball Bennies that were watching the game? He spread the court and did what? Just tried to beat us on the dribble. That's all he did. He said, just drive them, because we spread out too much, and that's why in the second half we backed up a little bit, so we weren't spread, going nuts 35 feet out.
But it's something that we've got to work on and think about what we're doing, but I loved our post defense. I loved that we were switching different things, that we were playing guys, driving, rotating, cracking back. We did a lot of good things. Defensively we're at about 70 percent. Offensively we're at about 50 percent, which is a good thing because I want this team to get better.
Q. When the lead was down to five and you called time within 1:37 to go and you went to Willie, I don't know if that was intentional, but what should we draw from seeking a clutch guy in a clutch situation?
John Calipari: You know, what we were doing is we were running an offense that it didn't matter who's making the play. What I like is Willie wanted to make the play. See, guys that make those clutch or game winners are not afraid to miss the game winner. Now, if I see a guy in that situation have a play that he can make and he won't make the play because he just -- well, you're out. You can't be afraid to make the play. Well, I haven't made a shot all game. Well, then you shouldn't be in that if that's how you're thinking. So you haven't made a shot all day. Just make that one to win the game, and then you walk off and they say, boy, he played great. What are you talking about? That's the only shot he made. But that's the mentality we've got to be in. Everybody is going to come after us. It's everybody's Super Bowl. The beginning of that game was vicious. Arms flying, bodies flying, hips flying, dudes driving right at people, and us too. We were all doing the same thing.
It was a dogfight, and their dogs were bigger in the first half. Let me just put it that way.
Q. Do you have any thoughts on Eastern (Kentucky), Cal?
John Calipari: I haven't watched any tape on Eastern, but I'm going to tonight or tomorrow, probably tomorrow, and I know they shoot 30 threes a game. I know they have five guys that they play Princeton, and their 5 man is like a 3. They shoot 30 three-point shots a game. They've beaten some good people. They've lost to BYU and somebody else. They're on the radar, but I have not watched any tape.
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Kentucky Student-Athletes
#15, Willie Cauley-Stein, F
On how high he jumped to catch the alley-oop …
"I've heard that people are telling me that it was really high. I will have to watch it because I heard that it was really, really high."
On if a night like tonight validates coming back for another year …
"For sure. You know, that is one of the biggest reasons that I came back is to just develop myself more as a basketball player. I feel like I am just starting to do that. It's only December. I still have three months left."
On playing in the paint against a physical team like Texas …
"It just goes back to just working on it. Keep on working on it and keep on working on it. I think I just accepted that it is my job to do that for the team."
#22, Alex Poythress, F
On if this is the best he's seen Willie Cauley-Stein play since the two have been at Kentucky …
"Yeah. He was everywhere blocking shots, rebounding, getting steals, getting in the passing lanes and playing good defense. Offensively he was catching the lobs."
On physicality of Texas …
"It felt like practice with always banging. We went against someone our own size and it was a battle. It was a war out there. If you're soft, then you can't play this game. You just have to battle out there."
On Texas being the early test on the schedule …
"It's great. We showed great poise out there and down the stretch. We're going to need that when it's tournament time. Every game is going to be close in the tournament. There's not going to be any blowouts. We need to show that we can win a close game."
On the 18-2 run coming out in the second half …
"We just wanted to bring energy. It all starts with defense. We just tried to guard them the best that we could by making shots hard and switching out on people. We just tried to do everything defensively."
On both coaches saying this was a big boys' game …
"It was a man's game out there. You just have to go in there and fight and battle and do whatever you can to help your team win."
On being outrebounded, making only one 3-pointer and still winning the game …
"We let them get about 10 offensive rebound in the first 10 minutes. We weren't really shooting well, but at the end of the day we showed that when we're not on our 'A,' 'B,' 'C,' or 'D' game that we can get the little things that we need to win. Just coming up with a stop on defense and just keep on playing out there."
#44, Dakari Johnson, C
On how loud it was out there on the court when he hit the 10-0 run in the first half …
"It was really loud and really fun. That's what Coach Cal said: You're in a dogfight, and if you can't have fun with it whether you're losing or winning you can't be out on the floor. We just really had fun as a team."
On if this was one of the more physical games he's played here …
"Yeah, if not the most physical game I have ever played here. It was good going up against someone our own size."
On what game like this this early in the season does for these guys later down the road …
"Big time. It was a close game. Everyone just fought. That was the big thing, to see if we would fight back in the second half, and we did."
Texas Coach Rick Barnes
Opening statement …
"I don't know if I have ever coached a game where the size and the strength – physicality was what it was. I'm sure if you ask the referees too, I don't think they have ever officiated a game like that. That was a big boy game. I thought both teams really competed and baskets were really hard to come by. They made that 18-2 run. Our guys knew we were going to play and fight back in it. And we didn't come out with a run to really start the second half, and that was really the difference. Defensively, again, I thought both teams really competed. And Willie Cauley-Stein was terrific. I mean, he was really the difference in the game. "
On Texas cutting it to a two possession game with a minute left in the game …
"We're good. I have told you all we are a good basketball team. And we are out of rhythm. I mean, I am not going to deny that. You guys have seen us. I mean, missing Isaiah made us a whole different team that is neither here nor there. We came in here with the attitude that we knew we could play and win. The guys are disappointed, and they should be because offensively we are better than what we played, but they had a lot to do with it. They did. There were some great things about our team. I thought Prince Ibeh was terrific. He went in battled and put fouls on them. Demarcus Holland had to do whatever was needed at the guards, posts positions. He's done that. That was a hard-fought basketball game. It was physical, and when you look at it, both teams I mean they ended up shooting 37 percent but rebounding wise we did a great job on the boards. We knew they would come out in the second half and get after that. And that hurt us too in the second half, but we really did a great job on the boards. That 10-0 run was the difference in the game, and that's when we need Javan (Felix) on the floor and he picked up that early foul. He picked up two fouls, and he can't, being a senior, he can't do, but he'll learn from that."
On what got them back into the game after UK's 10-0 run …
"We fought and defensively the zone was good. We probably played a little more zone than we wanted but we were in some serious foul trouble. I mean, we were serious foul trouble, and you look at it, I mean, Demarcus Holland out there. I thought our pressure in the backcourt – I did really think that would be a facto. We would attack it. We knew shots would be tough in there. We didn't get the ball movement that we wanted, but again, they had a lot to do with that. Bad decisions, bad 3s. We just started getting 3 happy. Myles (Turner) took one and Kendal (Yancy) took one and turned it over. We actually did that coming out of an out-of-bounds play where we didn't screen him and roll with the switch. Those areas right there, again, offensive rebounds a couple times even when they were getting that run going, we gave up some rebounds that we didn't give up in the first half."
On Willie Cauley-Stein's play…
"What I think about him is, I wish he was on my team, that's what I think about him. He really is terrific and in the zone he did some things in there. I mean, we know he's a terrific player. I thought his composure, I mean, that was a really hard physical game. … But Willie Cauley-Stein, I mean, even in the zone he was terrific. He affected the game in every way he could affect it. I mean, his steals I thought getting around him, most guys like that don't even try to get around. They are just sit back there and let you get it, try to guard you. But he does his work early and he was very impressive."
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#10, Jonathan Holmes, F
On matching UK's size …
"We competed. We knew that people were making a big deal about their size but we knew coming into this game that we go up against that type of size in practice so it wasn't going to be as different for us than it would for another team. I feel like our size and their size kind of equaled each other out."
On having to fight their way back into the game …
"We knew coming into the game, especially being on the road. I mean, they're the No. 1 team for a reason. They're not gonna stay down after the first blow. We were expecting them to make a run. We knew coming into the game that we'd have to bounce back, and we have some mature guys, older guys that have been in games like this and we tried to come back and they did a good job not letting us."
On why they dominated the boards …
"It's something we emphasize in practice every day. It's just something that's part of our culture: crashing the boards and trying to outrebound every team we play."
#2, Demarcus Holland, G
On what Texas proved in this game …
"We just proved that we'll come out and compete against anybody and we'll be a tough team. We're never gonna give up. We proved that we'll continue to grow and compete until the buzzer sounds."
On fouls effecting offensive rhythm …
"You kind of gotta adjust. They were calling fouls on both ends, so we started trying to pound it inside like they were. So there's no blame on the refs for the way the game was called. We just gotta adjust."
On how Texas feels coming out of this game …
"We feel like it was good for us and we have to grow and come out stronger in the second half at others people's home court. We proved that we're tough. Now we just have to prove that we're smart and take care of the ball more and we'll grow from here. I mean, it's a long season so we know it's not over. We have a long way to go."


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From the July 19, 2005 edition of Fox News' Hannity and Colmes (accessed from Nexis):
HANNITY: Well, let's go back to the Ruth Bader Ginsburg example, if we can, for a minute. Because I think elections mean something, and I know you do, Senator. And if a president wins an election, and he has a particular judicial philosophy -- in the case Bill Clinton picked two very left of center people for this position. Ruth Bader Ginsburg was a former general counsel with the ACLU. She was approved 96-3.
George W. Bush is conservative. So if he has somebody with more of an originalist mainstream philosophy that he picks for the court, shouldn't the Democrats go along with that nominee, based on the fact that the Republican won this election?
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Dear Secretary Moniz:
I am deeply concerned by a recent investigation conducted by the Office of the Inspector General that revealed that Department of Energy officials have not adhered to the policies that ensure public funds are spent in the best interest of American taxpayers.
The report revealed that a contractor hired by the Department attended an 8-day conference cruise at taxpayers' expense. I understand that the Department was later reimbursed for the trip after the error was discovered, but it is unacceptable that taxpayer funding was available for misuse in the first place. The Department needs to close the inexcusable gaps in contractor and conference expense oversight.
With American families struggling through a tough economy, Congress and federal agencies must hold themselves to a higher standard and act as good stewards of taxpayer funds. Ultimately, the responsibility rests with you to ensure your agency is adhering to protocols set forth to protect these funds.
I look forward to hearing from you regarding the steps you are taking to prevent this situation from happening again.
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While realism and experimental cinema are often treated as polar opposites, there's no reason this should be so. Richard Linklater's Boyhood is in most respects a traditional realist film – plainly shot, devoid of plot gimmicks, aiming to approximate life as it is actually lived.
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Richard Linklater's film experiment follows a boy called Mason (Ellar Coltrane) from the age of six to his first day of college, aged 18.
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To achieve this goal, Linklater uses one major experimental device. The film was shot over a period of 12 years: in the lead role of Mason Evans, the actor Ellar Coltrane transforms before our eyes, starting at the age of six and ending as an 18-year-old man. Naturally the other actors get older too, including Patricia Arquette as Mason's divorced mother Olivia, Lorelei Linklater (the director's daughter) as his older sister Samantha, and Ethan Hawke as his father Mason Snr, a would-be musician who drops by from time to time.
This unusual technique lends the film a paradoxical documentary quality, in some ways bringing us closer to Mason, while allowing us to contemplate the mystery of the real boy who stands in for the fictional one. The jumps in time create a feeling of fragmentation: characters turn up unannounced as seeming fixtures of Mason's life, only to vanish once more. We're made aware, too, that the events we witness are not necessarily the turning points of Mason's childhood and adolescence; seemingly vital milestones – such as his first sexual experiences – are left out altogether.
Indeed, Boyhood has no plot as such: the sense of randomness and flux is part of the point. The best scenes often involve the kinds of rants that Linklater has always been fond of, blending wisdom and dopiness in ways that are hard to disentangle: Mason Snr holding forth about the magic of the Beatles, or a military veteran (Brad Hawkins) proudly describing his experiences in Iraq.
There's a timeless element to Boyhood, but this is also a film concerned with recent history – from the September 11 attacks to the election of Barack Obama and beyond – and with the question of how the new generation might differ from its predecessors. Linklater seems alarmed by the amount of time his characters spend looking at TV or computer screens rather than relating to the physical world; when the teenage Mason discovers his vocation as a photographer, it's as if he has decided to take control of the process of mediation, leading us back to the film's own interest in how, if at all, immediate experience can be captured.
One of the film's major strengths is the performance of Arquette, as a character who registers as far stronger and more sympathetic than any of her male partners – again raising the question of just what kind of man this boy will turn out to be. While Linklater attempts to treat his conservative characters fairly, he clearly has little sympathy with the macho values that pervade the lower-middle-class Texan milieu: he's good at scenes of bullying, and at showing how boys can shame each other into displays of sexism and worse.
But Mason is given a sweet enough nature to shrug off most of this. Even when he's being morose, or smirking at his buddies' dumb jokes, we never feel he's in danger of going to the bad – which robs the film of a certain amount of tension. Whatever happens to him, the film suggests, he's protected quite simply by the fact that his whole adult life lies ahead. Yet there's a sense of foreboding in the way his growth into manhood is shadowed by his parents' descent into middle age: a process that entails both joy and sorrow, but necessarily means giving up the pure potential that belongs only to the young.
Is Boyhood a masterpiece, as some critics have claimed? The truth is that masterpieces are the last thing anyone should expect or want from a director such as Linklater; at its weakest, the film seems to strain for a big summarising statement even as it demonstrates that big statements are beside the point. "Follow your heart," one of Mason's teachers (Mona Lee Fultz) tells him upon graduation, "and don't forget to floss". It may not be profound, but it'll do for the moment.


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The NIST, Computer Security Division, Security Components and Mechanisms Group (SCMG) conducts security research focused on the development and management of foundational building-block security mechanisms and techniques that can be integrated into a wide variety of U.S. mission-critical information systems. The group's work spans a spectrum from near-term hardening and improvement to the design and analysis of next-generation, leap-ahead security capabilities.
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There are four key market motivators for smart grid build-out: improving reliability and security, improving operating efficiencies and costs, balancing power generation supply and demand, and reducing the overall electrical system's impact on climate change.
The Czech Republic is committed to increasing the amount of power from renewable resources to 13% by 2020. The growing input of electricity from renewable resources is set to further challenge the existing grid and become an increasing challenge as smart metering can mitigate the volatility of both consumption and production. The concept of smart grid/smart metering is a way for balancing unreliable and scattered renewable energy loads.
According to the European Union directive 2009/72/ES, EU countries are obliged to submit an in-depth assessment report by the end of September 2012 and develop a plan for mass introduction of smart meters so that by the end of 2020 a minimum of 80% of customers are equipped with smart meters. Two companies, _EZ Distribuce, a division of _EZ, and E.ON Distribuce, a division of E.ON, operate the country's energy distribution system. In order to better attune supply and demand to each other, both companies plan to invest USD billions into distribution networks over the next fifteen years.
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Smart meters are currently the highest-profile component of the smart grid, but they are really just a tip of the iceberg. Utilities will devote a majority of their capital budgets to grid infrastructure projects including transmission upgrades, substation automation, and distribution automation.
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Two pilot projects for testing AMM technology were launched in 2007. A project implemented by _EZ, the major Czech energy utility, comprised 2,000 metering points. The second pilot project for 4,000 points was implemented by E.ON in four selected municipalities in Southern Moravia. For over one year, both projects tested feasibility and reliability of different AMI/AMM technologies.
In 2009, the company _EZ launched a program called Future/E/Motion, which includes a pilot project called Smart Region. Under this project, _EZ will invest USD 30 million into installation and testing of smart technologies in the town Vrchlabi. By 2015, _EZ will install 4,500 smart meters in households and companies, build up the necessary infrastructure for electromobility, install monitoring sensors and local energy generators will be effectively connected to the grid. A tender for suppliers of smart technologies was won by a consortium lead by HP. The consortium is composed of Swiss Landis&Gyr, Austrian Schrack Technik, GE Energy and Czech companies ZPA Smart Energy and Transtech CZ.


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