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CNN chief political correspondent Candy Crowley talks about moderating the second presidential debate between President Barack Obama and Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney. A highlight from the first portion of Candy's conversation on CNN is after the jump.Transcript
WOLF BLITZER, CNN ANCHOR: I want to go to Soledad O'Brien, she's standing by right with a very special guest. Our own Candy Crowley.
Before you say a word, I want to say, Candy, job well done.
SOLEDAD O'BRIEN, CNN ANCHOR: Absolutely. I'll second that. You know, it's interesting, we're waiting to hear what the polls have to say about who won or who lost this debate.
But, Candy, I'm curious from your perspective, it felt from here very contentious, not just between the two men who are on the stage, but also sometimes they were turning on you, and trying to over-talk you, and at one point, I think it was Governor Romney who said no, when you - you made some point.
And how did it feel from your vantage point?
CANDY CROWLEY, CNN CHIEF POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT: I actually didn't. I knew the - there is so much at stake, there's so little time. I expected them actually to come at me when I tried to kind of rein them in, and also you don't want to be - when they're going, I don't want to have some, you know, sort of - here's an artificial, you all need to be quiet right now, so there's this kind of balance you're trying to strike, and they just want to get in everything that they've ever known that even possibly has to do with the subject.
So I didn't take it personally or anything, I just took it - and I don't think they even meant it personally, but when they first started and it was an energy question, who knew? I thought they -
O'BRIEN: Right.
CROWLEY: I thought maybe tax - just something, but boy, and I just thought, you know - and we were so over by the - I mean over time, but they were so good sort of being in each other's face, and saying no, that's not true. And I thought, well, that's a debate. So here we go. So it didn't - I didn't take it personally at all, and I thought the first part of it especially was fun to watch, and hopefully enlightening to people.
O'BRIEN: Very, very interesting, I though. You told everybody at the beginning there's no clapping, turn off your BlackBerrys, turn off your cell phones. There was a moment when people clapped. Actually sort of two moments under the same question, which is about Libya. They were just talking about it, Wolf and Anderson, just a moment ago. And it was when the president said that he stood in the Rose Garden and said this was an act of terror, and the actually quote that he said on that day, the day after the act was, "no acts of terror will ever shake the resolve of this great nation," and went on from there.
In a way you had to fact-check on both sides.
CROWLEY: Right. Well, I knew that the president has said act of terror, because this has kind of come up before, and also I heard him that day. And what Mitt Romney was going for, and I think where he tripped himself up was that he picked that one wrong fact. The president did call it or refer to it in some ways an act of terror, and so it felt as though - and the president kept looking at me going, you know, and I thought, well, I did know then, I said, you know, he did call it an act of terror. That's what caused the applause.
O'BRIEN: But then this side over here -
CROWLEY: Right. On this side over here, which is clearly the -
O'BRIEN: Then you fact-checked again.
CROWLEY: And then I said, but you are correct that they didn't know for a couple of weeks that it wasn't related to the tape and there was no riot outside the consulate, so - and that side of the room clapped.
CROWLEY: I wasn't trying to get them to clap, I was trying to sort of - you know, bring some kind of clarity to the conversation.
O'BRIEN: We should mention, behind us, they are beginning to clear the stage back here a little bit.
CROWLEY: Yes.
O'BRIEN: You know, uncommitted voters and politicians.
CROWLEY: Yes.
O'BRIEN: You can barely pry them apart obviously because they would love to have every of those - every one of those. So Wolf wants to jump and ask a question, Candy.
BLITZER: Yes, Candy, what was your - the biggest surprise for you during the course of this debate?
CROWLEY: Probably how easily you could go - you know, on the Sunday show, I like having a little time. And I said, 7 1/2 minutes to discuss immigration, that seemed like an OK amount of time, but we wanted to get to guns, and we wanted to get to, you know, so many things we didn't have a chance to get to.
But it goes so quickly, even when they're kind of within their time constraints. So - and somebody told me before I went in, this will be over before you know it. And it just was amazing to me how I looked up and I thought I've got five things I want to ask all of them. So you have to make that choice, do I ask them that or do we try to get in all of these questions? You know, and I tried to opt mostly for getting in all these questions. So I just think that the time flies thing really did take me by surprise.
O'BRIEN: I know Anderson has a question as well for you, Candy.
COOPER: Yes, Candy, just as a moderator, you often catch things that, you know, the cameras are trained on both these men the full time, the kind of the electricity of being on the stage. The level of personal animosity, was it palpable? Did it - did it feel like there was personal animosity between these two?
CROWLEY: You know, I know it - as you know, the camera kind of enlarges things, but I have to say, sitting on that stage, I didn't feel like it was personal animosity. I felt like the calendar was closing in on these guys. Remember the next debate is all about foreign policy, so they knew this was their last kind of chance to do it. So I thought they were both incredibly intense, they both came to play, but I didn't totally get this kind of "we hate each other" vibe from them at all. I just got an urgency vibe from the both of them.
DANA BASH, CNN SENIOR CONGRESSIONAL CORRESPONDENT: And, you know, Candy, I know normally when you are not moderating a debate, you're watching the social media feeds, you're watching Twitter. And I will tell what was going on, particularly on the Libya question is conservatives were saying Libya, Libya, Libya, please, because they thought that was the best moment, possible moment for Romney to really take a whack at the president.
And he didn't seem to. He really seemed to - it really seemed to be one of those moments that conservatives were disappointed in Mitt Romney. But that sort of leads me to my question, which is, you called through all of these questions that this - undeclared voters brought in this morning. I know that this was such a big concern of yours. How do you decide which ones to choose?
CROWLEY: It's funny, because it was not one thing that decided everything. It was kind of a multitude of things. We wanted to cover subjects that may be folks hadn't heard about but still were interested in and I think -
O'BRIEN: Immigration, gun control, and women's issues.
CROWLEY: Gun control and immigration and women's issues were the three big ones. Climate change, I had that question. All you climate change people. We just - you know, again, we knew that the economy was still the main thing, so you knew you kind of wanted to go with the economy, maybe the gas prices again was something that hadn't come up. So - that was part of it. Part of it was kind of a variety of questions that were important but had not yet been kind of fully aired at least in this large of a forum.
The next question, you know, was to make sure that we had some variety in, we didn't want all white guys or all white women, or - you know, we tried to get some kind of - with what we were given, some kind of variety in the questions. And we also were, you know, thinking of where are they going to go with this that's new.


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(Meeting with the editorial board of the Associated Press.)
Rumsfeld: All right, I don't have anything to say by way of opening, except hello. Welcome to the Pentagon. We're glad to see you.
Q: I've noticed that you've been on sort of a anti-bumper slogan campaign lately, but I think I detected one in your testimony the other day, on Wednesday --
Rumsfeld: Oh, Lord. I didn't mean to say anything quotable. (Laughter)
Q: Turning waste into weapons.
Rumsfeld: Ah.
Q: How about something on that?
Rumsfeld: Sure.
Q: You also mentioned that you were going to roll out some ideas here shortly on specific ways to actually save money in the Pentagon, which is quite an accomplishment, based on past history. But I was hoping you'd give us a couple of examples of what you're going to do in that area.
Rumsfeld: What I did when I came in is I asked the folks that were here about that subject matter, and it became pretty clear that it falls into two categories. One is the thing you can do on your own, internally if you will, just through decisionmaking in the Pentagon. Then there is another basket and that is the things that it takes somebody else to help you do, and it may be OMB, it may be the Office of Personnel Management, it may be an executive branch activity, or it could be the Congress.
Q: It was the former that I had in mind.
Rumsfeld: And we are, as people came on board I assigned that task to them and they have been working it through and we have developed a package of things that I've not seen in its totality at this point. But it involves a host of things.
For example, combining some military and civilian staffs in the services in some instances. The Army is interested in doing something like that, as I believe Secretary White may have already mentioned, although I doubt it.
Q: I don't think so.
Rumsfeld: He has not. Okay. He's working that through.
Another is the question of layering. Are there ways that we can reduce some layers? This is something that's been done in the private sector with considerable success, partly because over time things tend to get layered and worse. Just inevitably you always have to keep working at things.
The other reason that companies have been able to do it successfully, de-layer, is because of the changes in technologies. And the fact that people simply don't need... With all the advantages that technologies can bring, people are able to reduce some layers.
A third area is in the acquisition area. Pete Aldridge has a cluster of things he has packaged for this effort.
Another category is the kind of mindless, crude things that every institution does from time to time. Just across the board cuts of some percentage. In the case of the Pentagon you've got to be a bit careful about it. You have to try to do it in a way that reduces the tail and not the teeth. So you do it to headquarters staffs and things like that.
A second thing you have to be careful about is the fact that...
How am I looking Hillary? Pretty good?
Hillary: You're looking great. (Laughter)
Rumsfeld: Don't you take my bad side. (Laughter) It's both. (Laughter) You have to get me from behind.
The other thing you have to watch is this problem of civilian control, and you don't want to simply blindly reduce numbers in an organization where you have a thin veneer of civilian leadership in an institution and have it adversely affect that.
Another thing you have to be a bit careful about when you do it is there has been historically a certain centrifugal force in the department where the services tend to pull away if left to their own devices, and of course there's been a lot of effort, successfully, over the years to try to create a greater degree of [closeness] and you don't want to do something that contributes to that centrifugal force. So it's not an easy thing to do.
Most private organizations do it two ways. They do it crudely, when they're in duress. Necessity focuses the mind. And I would characterize us as being in duress. That is to say we have enormous needs for funds that are not being met that have been areas that have been neglected over the decade. And we need to find ways to move funds into those kinds of activities.
The other thing we have is a need to make sure that we earn the right to get additional funds from the American people and the Congress and you do that by demonstrating that you're trying to be respectful of the taxpayers' dollars.
Q: When you say you're looking at combining civilian and military staffs, are you looking at trying to reduce some duplication of effort that you see?
Rumsfeld: Sure. Absolutely.
Q: Can you give us some ideas of where that might be in evidence? Back to Secretary Aspen and others, they've stepped up and saluted and said yeah, the services need to cut and they've done that, and the civilian work force needs to be cut back too.
Rumsfeld: Absolutely. We're talking about civilians.
Q: But the numbers didn't match. What I'm saying is there have been severe cuts in uniformed versus not so many in the civilian.
Rumsfeld: That was years ago.
Q: Right.
Rumsfeld: There were big drawdowns, and now it's been level for some time.
Q: That's right. So you're looking at --
Rumsfeld: That issue's a totally different issue. The force structure issue.
Q: Right.
Rumsfeld: I'm not talking about that. I'm just talking about staff.
Q: You're talking about staff.
Rumsfeld: Yeah.
Q: Management or -- If you could elucidate.
Q: Your staff?
Rumsfeld: A lot of dead wood floating around here. (Laughter) -- on the radio... (Laughter)
Q: -- track marks. (Laughter)
Rumsfeld: The instance that I cited is one where the new secretary of the Army has, I believe, for two reasons decided that he wants to go through a process and he's doing it carefully. It's not some crude number crunch. He's working directly with the uniformed and civilian sides of the Office of the Secretary of the Army and attempting to determine in what ways they can make their total activity more effective and smaller.
The advantages of smaller, being smaller, are two-fold. One is to save some money. The second is to improve the efficiency of the place. To that extent you've got too many people touching too many pieces of paper. Everything is delayed, everything takes more time, frustration grows, and things tend to -- There's less opportunity for accountability. Everything's touching everything.
Here I am talking to a not-for-profit organization like -- (Laughter)
I hope it doesn't ruin the deal you've got. You don't have a bottom line, do you? You have a budget. That's all.
Q: Do you have any goals for people, a percentage type? Or any type of shrinkage, downsizing? What are you going to tell people how to correct their --
Rumsfeld: What you have to do, when you don't have time or the staff or the need to do it by a very carefully drawn out, over a long period of time analysis of responsibilities and tasks and all of that, and then if you're faced with the problem that even if you did that, you couldn't do it because we don't control our civilian force. It's controlled by the Office of Personnel Management.
You have various rules and requirements and specifications as to what you can do. Therefore about the only way you can do it is to be crude, and that's very likely what we'll do is come up with some percentage number for certain categories of activities.
Q: Can you --
Rumsfeld: We'll do it sometime next week.
Q: Can you give us an idea what you're looking at? With your business background you must be able to say all right, five percent --
Rumsfeld: Like you go into a dark alley and -- (Laughter)
Q: Crude.
Rumsfeld: No, what you do, and I don't want to announce this, and don't put it on the radio.
Q: We'd like you to announce it. (Laughter)
Rumsfeld: The way you do it is not complicated. You announce a cut, and then if somebody rolls back at you and makes a case that that raw number, percentage, doesn't fit their entity, your percentage is in the aggregate, not particularized to every single entity, and there may be some entities that have to grow.
But what it does is it forces people to do the examination that they otherwise would not do because they don't need to do it. Because money's free if you're in the government. There's no bottom line. You're not going to go broke.
Q: Single digits, double digits?
Rumsfeld: It's going to be a surprise.
Q: She doesn't like surprises.
Q: Every day when people open their newspaper, we want them to say, "What a surprise". (Laughter)
Q: -- strictly civilian, sir? Or mostly?
Rumsfeld: To the extent an office that combined both were cut, the leadership in the office would have to make a calculation as to what way that would fall. To what extent it would be military, to what extent it would be civilian. The military would go back to their business. The civilians would go somewhere else. If there were some other activity in the institution that was growing and they needed them, they would go there. Otherwise, they might go out.
Q: What kind of savings are you talking about?
Rumsfeld: Well --
Q: -- goal of savings?
Rumsfeld: I've got a goal. But you know you lay it up there and then everyone shoots at it. Guys like Burns, they ask you in the meeting, "Where do you stand on your goal of X billion dollars?" Every time I go down there. "Okay, Mr. Rumsfeld, where are you on your goals? Show me the $5 billion. Show me the -- "
Q: Accountability.
Rumsfeld: Yeah, accountability. What the heck, the First Amendment makes it tough. (Laughter)
Q: I didn't hear a number.
Q: If you don't want to give us a number, how about characterize it, like a way, really big cut. (Laughter)
Rumsfeld: The problems we've got here, if you were in a private institution, one would think that a trained aide could end up saving something like 10 percent. I don't know if that's possible in this case.
First of all, you've got an untrained aide. (Laughter) Second, the difficulty is many times to do it here because of the fact that you don't control your workforce, you don't control the rules and requirements, the restrictions imposed by the Congress are just enormous numbers, and you can't just do something in an institution like that. So it obviously have to be something less than ten percent. And I'm not talking people, I'm talking dollars.
Q: There were some other reports in terms of the military services that you might ask them to cut 15 percent beginning in 2003. Is that part of the same process?
Rumsfeld: I was asked that yesterday or whenever I last went down to the press, and they said it was some percent in 2007, was the phraseology.
That came up while I was on vacation, and I have seen it in a piece of paper, and I have not addressed it. I suspect it would -- If it happens, it would be part of the Quadrennial Defense Review conclusion that would be part of the '03 budget build. And second, if it ends up being part of that, it very likely will be not because we would be telling them that, but because they would feel they needed to do that because of the fiscal constraints that we've put them under, and the Defense Planning Guidance we've put them under, that they need to do certain things. Then they go about and build their budget number. Therefore, if they want to do additional things, they'd better impose some savings on themselves.
Q: In addition to what you've already talked about, telling us about, right?
Rumsfeld: Yeah. What I'm talking about is something different, yeah.
Q: Okay.
Rumsfeld: Now wait a second. It's not really.
The thing I'll talk about next week will include some of those things that they're doing. My answer to the question about a number was different. That was a gross comment that overall, if you look at an institution in the private sector you'd say to yourself probably, unless it's had a terrific group of managers recently, you could probably get 10 percent out and the place would work better. In government that's not true. You could get it out and it would work better, but you can't get it out. (Laughter) That's because of the restrictions and the requirements and all the things that every time you turn around you're required to do this, that, and the other, and we've got something like 21,000 to 24,000 auditors. We've got five or six inspector generals. We've got five or six, three or four surgeon generals.
Q: -- how much money you spend.
Rumsfeld: Right. And we've got financial systems that aren't designed for financial information, but it's financial reporting to the Congress. So just to find out what you have and track it is enormously difficult.
Q: So what you're talking about is taking a good wash at telling the services -- I just want to be clear here. Each of the military services, take a look at your management structure, look for duplication, look at your civilian work force, and let's pare down. Is OSD in the same line there?
Rumsfeld: Oh, absolutely. All the components. OSD, all the defense agencies, every piece of this place ought to be doing that, will be doing that. Already is doing it.
Q: So you're not directing yourself strictly at the military services. You're talking about the whole ball of wax.
Rumsfeld: Oh, absolutely. No, no. You could not do that. What's good for the goose is good for the gander.
Q: Well the reason I brought this up in the first place is I think you've made it pretty clear recently that no defense budget in the near future is going to provide enough money to meet all the needs of the military, and that gap has to be closed on that, and the only thing you've got left to do to achieve that is to find some savings which prior secretaries have tried too.
Rumsfeld: Yep. And they've done it.
Q: Well, but you're talking about something bigger.
Rumsfeld: Some of them have done a darn good job at it. It is an endless responsibility of managers, of leaders, to keep working systems that inevitably have a tendency to try to become fat and slower and more layered. There isn't anything about big institutions that say that they are inherently efficient. They aren't. They tend to get less efficient over time. They keep adding new things they need to do, but there is no incentive whatsoever to stop doing things that you were doing previously that because you need to do new things are therefore less important than the things you're now starting.
In for-profit institutions you must do that. You simply cannot do it any other way. And in government -- The reason the private sector has to do that is that there's a penalty if you don't. You die. It ends. It's over. That really focuses the mind. That doesn't exist here. Therefore, there isn't anything that focuses the mind. Therefore it's a job that's never over. And there have been some very good things that have been done.
But take privatization of housing. There are some places where they've done a darn good job, and if you wanted to characterize that as a fraction, it's a small minority of the total, a small fraction of the total. That means we've got to do a lot better job for the remainder. And to the extent we do it, the effect of it inevitably means that we use far less of the taxpayers' dollars because you're using private sector dollars and leveraging them, and you're getting many multiples of the number of units you need.
Now there are one or two examples around where that's been done well. We need to see that we get it more broadly, in which case we free up dollars. We start working off that 192-year recapitalization rate with the fact that some enormous fraction of all of our houses -- 62 percent of our housing is substandard. It's just terrible.
Q: What about base closings? Can you realistically expect any savings long term from base closings? I know the administration has called for Congress to authorize another round, but there's just so much political opposition. Is that a battle that's really worth fighting at this point?
Rumsfeld: Well, you know, that is exactly what the press has been reporting. A, that there is a lot of opposition; and B, that there is no savings. That of course is what the opponents say.
The truth is that we just carried a vote in the Senate committee yesterday of 17-10 in favor of our base closing proposal.
Q: But that particular committee has always been sort of biased in favor of what the Pentagon wants and they supported it once before, too. Once you get beyond that committee, do you see that kind of support?
Rumsfeld: I would not be that dismissive of that vote. There are a number of those people who voted against it last time who voted for it this time -- including Senator Warner.
Q: He first announced that. He said, someone asked you, it may even have been me, whether you had any confidence that you could achieve this, and you said no, you have absolutely no confidence. Are you gaining confidence based on what you're hearing from the Hill that this could actually happen this time?
Rumsfeld: Let me answer the part about savings. The savings do not come in the first two or three or four years. There is no question about that. There is also no question that the savings do come.
If you can knock out 25 percent or 20 percent of your infrastructure and all the utility costs and all the people costs that are related to it, the operating costs, the repair costs, and all of that stuff, and you can consolidate your activities where you don't need 15 locations where you have these spare parts, you can do it with 12, the savings are substantial.
Can I prove what it is? No. But everyone who you talk to says that these previous base closings are currently saving something like $3 billion per round. There have been a number that have been successful, and I don't know what the total number is. But if we do this, it will certainly not benefit President Bush. He'll be gone. He'll take all the pain and all the political difficulty, and why would he do it? Well, he and I are doing it because it's the right thing to do. Do I know we'll be successful? No. Would I much prefer not to do it? Yes. I think it's a terrible way to spend your day.
Q: With the economy contracting, doesn't that make it even harder to sell closing bases which is the lifeblood of many communities?
Rumsfeld: Life's hard. Yeah. It might. But first of all, the economy's still growing. It's not in the dumps. And second, national security's darn important. We wouldn't have an economy if we didn't have peace and stability in the world. It is the armed forces of the United States and the contribution this country makes that underpins the world economy and that enables people that have jobs to get up and go about their days doing what they want to do. And we need those dollars for the security of the United States of America and I'm going to go after and try and get them. And I can't tell anyone, I'm not a genius, I can't tell you if I'm going to get it, whether we'll be successful. And I can't precisely tell you what the amount of money is. But I wouldn't feel like I --
Why the hell would I leave Illinois and Taos, New Mexico and come down here simply to sit around with my finger in my ear and not do what I think is in the best interest of the country. It seems to me that's the right thing to do. And the fact that there are people fussing about it in various spots around the world, it doesn't surprise me. They always have and they always will, and if I lived there I probably would too. Heck, President Bush fought against the base closing when he was governor of Texas.
Q: I guess the point of my question was though, that given the political resistance to base closing that's always out there and possibly more with the slow economy, since you have so many other battles to fight to get every dime, as you say, is it really worth the political capital to fight the base closings when you have so much else on your platter?
Rumsfeld: Well, there's no question but that that's a fair question, and there was a very thoughtful defense supporter in here the other day who made that case, and he writes about it periodically. And that's a calculation or a calibration someone has to make. I've made it. I wouldn't feel responsible by not trying to do it. And every single chief and the services want us to do it, believe it's the right thing to do. We need the money. The men and women who are living in 60 percent of the substandard housing need the money. I think that we've got some non-trivial probability of getting it. Possibility of getting it.
Q: Do you foresee the need to move into -- even potentially -- mothballing some bases?
Q: That's a great phrase.
Rumsfeld: We're going to look at everything. The cost of the environmental cleanup at a base is humongous frequently, as we're finding. From centuries ago, Civil War deposits still pop up from time to time.
We are anxious to get the Congress' cooperation to let us pickle some or close some, as they say.
Q: So you're talking about leaving the gates up.
Rumsfeld: We could. We could keep the property and not turn it over to anyone else and not have to clean it up and have it in reserve in the event you ultimately needed it and still save a bucket of money.
There are lots of things. Let me run the spectrum, if this is of interest.
Q: It is. That's not in your proposal though, is it, that you sent up to the Hill?
Rumsfeld: I think -- I have briefed that within the four corners of our proposal the following possibilities. A base closure where you turn it over to someone else; a base closure where you keep it and pickle it, just leave it there; a partial base closure where you turn partially over to someone else; a partial where you pickle part. (Laughter)
Q: Peter Piper.
Rumsfeld: It's late in the afternoon -- (Laughter)
Next is, you keep a base and take people out of high rent places like Crystal City and move them into those bases. Next you keep a base and lease part of the base, as opposed to selling it.
Q: Like the Brooks thing in Texas.
Rumsfeld: What we need to do is to say by golly, the taxpayers deserve to have us be respectful of their dollars. Why don't you all go out there, persuade the Congress to go along with you, and do it in a totally non-political way so that no one can take arguments, and that's what killed us the last time, it was politicized, I'm told, and that's why a lot of people voted against it, I mean argued against it that time. They felt that it had been politicized. We're not going to do that. And see if you can take a range of ways of doing it that are thoughtful and end up being successful, and try to do it in a way that is, with minimal travel on the community. Get into it, get it over with, and don't try to cut the dog's tail off one inch at a time hoping it hurts less.
Q: I was going to ask you about the political winds on the Hill, as far as whether this is going to come about...
Q: That was a non-trivial --
Q: Can we talk about missile defense for a minute?
Rumsfeld: Sure.
Q: I was hoping you could describe what you see coming first at Fort Greely, how soon that would come, what will first make the Russians most nervous?
Rumsfeld: I don't think the Russians are even slightly nervous about what we're doing. We've briefed them extensively. They know what we're doing is research and development and testing. And I don't want to quote them or speak for them, they speak with many voices like most governments. Well, let me put it this way. If you were looking for something that was giving them concern across a range of issues, I doubt that it would be research, development and testing of missile defense.
The issue is when do you bump up against the treaty. That is of more concern to us than it is to anyone else. I don't want to be in a position where this country breaks a treaty or violates a treaty or is legitimately accused of violating a treaty. Therefore what we're doing is, when we came in we said look, no research and development and testing had really been done on things that would violate the treaty, because the prior administration liked the treaty. We like missile defense, and therefore a treaty that opposes missile defense is unhelpful to us, and we said we need to set it aside and get a new framework and put it behind us.
The things we're doing now, unfortunately the treaty's phraseology, or the language is such that there are some aspects of testing that can be a violation. Therefore, at some point coming along, one of our research and development and testing efforts is going to press against it, and we're going to have to stop it if we have not gotten out of the treaty and established some new arrangement.
Which one of those tests it will be, I don't know. It's not knowable because you don't know how successful they'll be. There are a couple of things next year that look like they could be problematic if we kept going with them and we had not gotten a new arrangement, or given notice on the treaty.
But some of the people in the Senate want us to assure them that we -- I think the language in the, the Senator Levin language is something like, in the event that we withdraw from the treaty and don't have a new arrangement, and anything we might do that would have violated the treaty were the treaty still in effect, that they would want us to go back and get the affirmative approval of the House and Senate. I think that's what the language says. I haven't read it, but something like that.
Needless to say, that's notably unhelpful to the president who's trying to make an arrangement with President Putin, and that kind of language in effect puts the advantage in the hands of the people we're dealing with, which is unfortunate. We certainly will try to defeat that language.
Q: Where do you think you'll be in this regard by the time President Putin comes to visit with President Bush in Texas?
Rumsfeld: Boy, that's tough to know. One of the Russian leaders the other day, I think he was a deputy something, maybe national security advisor, made the comment that it would take years to negotiate a new treaty or something like that. Of course it does if you're going to negotiate a new treaty. A long time.
That's not what we have in mind. We have in mind some sort of a new set of understandings where we would mutually withdraw and establish a new framework relationship between us, rather than a Cold War type treaty that required years of negotiation between two hostile states. It's something that would be more the kind of thing you'd do with a country that is not your enemy and establish a new relationship that's political, economic, and security.
So while his statement is not wrong, it is certainly -- It's right, if that's what you're trying to do, but certainly something other than that could be done between now and November. Whether or not it will be done --
Q: Like what?
Rumsfeld: Some joint statement or statement of principles or agreed framework or agreed understandings, an interim arrangement between two countries that they mutually agree this, that and the other thing. These lawyers have 50 million ways they can do those things.
Q: Isn't that part of the problem, though? They're talking one thing and you're talking something else. They're talking negotiations and a deal, and you're talking something else.
Rumsfeld: That's right. They basically are talking a new arrangement that's a continuum of the old, and we're talking about something that is probably distinct from a continuum from the old, and we've had lots of discussions and they've been good discussions. Secretary Powell had some good talks, and the president had some excellent talks with President Putin, and I've met with my counterpart a couple of times now. I guess I'm going to have another go at that.
Q: I was just going to ask you, do you know when?
Rumsfeld: I think I'm supposed to go to Naples sometime --
Voice: End of this month. 24th, 25th.
Rumsfeld: Somewhere in Europe they're going to have a mini-NATO ministerial meeting and we were going to talk at the margin on that again. Secretary Powell's going to have some meetings. I think Under Secretary Feith is going over today or tomorrow.
So there's all kinds of things going on, and after each meeting we all come out having a feeling that well, we've got a little better understanding of what the other person's perspective is.
But one of the things they're anxious to hear and keep saying they haven't heard is what's the number. And that is the nuclear posture --
Q: See, that's it.
Rumsfeld: I must be slow, but trying to sort through all this while I'm doing 85 million other things, it's taking me a little time. It's not a simple equation.
What we've got to do in the nuclear -- It's due the end of the year but we're going to certainly have enough we can talk about well before that. But what it requires is looking at our offensive nuclear weapons. In my view, both strategic as well as theater weapons. The totality of the nuclear force. And asking yourself the question, given the circumstances in the world, what is the lowest number that seems to make sense for the United States? And you have to take into consideration the fact that we don't test. We're observing the moratorium. That we need to have safety and reliability, therefore we have to be willing to invest in the capabilities to know that these terribly powerful and terribly dangerous weapons are in fact safe and reliable. The worst nightmare is to have the phone ring and have someone say gee, Mr. Secretary, this whole category of our nuclear forces are no longer safe or no longer reliable because they're old and tired and things like that happen when things are old and tired.
You have to look out and ask yourself about how other countries are getting arranged individually. How many, given the state of play with proliferation, how many countries conceivably are going to have these weapons looking out 5, 10, 15, 20 years?
You have to ask yourself what kinds of combinations of countries might you be dealing with? In every instance it's not a single country. You have to look at the issue of numbers of targets, conceivable targets that you might have to cope with. You have to look at the fact that an awful lot of people are tunneling all over the world now, and conventional capabilities are difficult unless you've got deep penetrators.
There's all kinds of problems that come up. So it isn't something that someone just says thumb in the pie, and pulls out a plus.
Q: Do you think you'll have it by the time you see Ivanov this month?
Rumsfeld: No.
Q: Next month?
Rumsfeld: I see him next week, I think.
Q: (inaudible)
Rumsfeld: Oh is he? Good. (Laughter) I'm still not going to have it.
Q: He has a number, 1500.
Rumsfeld: Well, yeah. You've heard them talk about 1500 or 2000. The problem is proliferation. We're not helping other countries develop nuclear capabilities. Other countries are helping other countries develop nuclear capabilities. So you've got to make some assumptions as to what is the likely relationship between your country and the countries that are likely to have nuclear weapons prospectively?
Q: Can I ask you a question about transformation which --
Voice: One or two more.
Q: I don't want to get too deeply in this, but it's something I'm interested in.
When the president nominated you he said that one of your principal charges was to develop a transformation plan. A blueprint for a new military. We've been going through all these months of you thinking about this and working this through, and so far we haven't got it that I've seen.
What's taking so long? People are asking that question in town.
Rumsfeld: Well, I guess the president of the United States decided he wanted a lot of things when he asked me to come in. He wanted a review of defense strategy. He wanted to address certain immediate problems of morale and quality of life and pay and housing, which we've done. He wanted us to look at the force-sizing construct. He wanted us to look at a nuclear posture review. He wanted us to address the question of modernization, and as you properly point out, of transformation.
This is one of the largest institutions on the face of the earth. It is a complex one. And it is an enormously important one. You don't simply walk in and divine that everything was wrong and here's how you make everything right.
What you do is you show a proper respect for the importance of it and the fact that you want to get it right, and that it takes some time to do that, and you set about doing it.
The first thing you have to do to do it if you have a proper respect for your own limitations is you try to find people who can help you do it. And given the current situation, it takes months and months and months to get people on board.
We now have 33 people on board. The administration is well along in its first year. We had several months with no one on board. We now have the nucleus of a good team that's been working those problems very hard.
The second thing I'd say is that the meaning of the word transformation I think is interesting. Some people mean by that a new platform that's transformational, like a satellite was for the first time. Other people understand that that's one aspect of it, but it's the wrong way to look at it. The way you ought to look at it is effect and outcome, not what causes it.
It may very well be an entirely new platform like a satellite, or it may be simply five existing platforms that are suddenly linked together in a way that is novel that causes a transformational effect or outcome.
It is a lot easier to make a speech about transformation than it is to achieve it. We are in the process of achieving it. In some instances it's classified. It is in some instances research and development -- maybe 70 percent of which won't pay off. I used to be in the R&D; business in the pharmaceutical field, and boy you were sure happy as the dickens if you ended up getting one product out of hundreds of millions of dollars of expenditures over years and years and years and years.
What you have to do is try things that haven't been tried before. That's how you -- You know what you're looking for and you end up developing a capability. Then you have to say what do I do with that capability? How can I use that capability in a way that's transformational, that increases lethality or capability in some way?
That is what we're doing, and it will be done.
Q: Are you frustrated at all by the slowness or the pace of it?
Rumsfeld: No. Goodness no.
Q: Also, Bush is going to be pushing next week on education with all of the Cabinet secretaries speaking out about [a crisis]. I just wonder if you feel like the White House may be leaving you with this hot potato and not giving you --
Rumsfeld: No, no, no, no, no. I am due to do a welcoming ceremony for some fine new people. Thank the good Lord. At 3:45 I'm supposed to see them. I'll be in in one minute, two minutes.
Voice: They are in your dining room, so if you'd like to go around and come in --
Q: We can do the interview while you're walking down the hall.
Rumsfeld: Not at all. I am a realist. I've been around a long time. And I recognize that this is one of the toughest jobs that exists, and I'm delighted to be here. It is important to do. We are making terrific progress.
The accomplishments that we've got going, done in some cases, going in others, have the prospect, I would submit, that in two, three, four, five years can have a significant effect on this institution.
Q: Have the services made the case to you that they can stay within the force structure numbers that they have --
Rumsfeld: I'm starting those meetings...
Q: -- and yet maybe, as you say, transform, reorganize, perhaps...
Rumsfeld: I'm having those meeting starting Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday where we do the first round with the services. They take the fiscal guidance, defense planning guidance, they take a quick, dirty look, come back up and say whoa, you're trying to put 15 pounds into a 10 pound sack, it ain't going to work, we'd like some relief on some of your guidance, and here's how we'd like to...
Q: But now that this war game that was discussed a little bit by you yesterday has taken place, has that alleviated your worries that you need to make deep force structure cuts?
Rumsfeld: No. What it does do is it -- First of all it was a first go. It will require a series of go's to test the variety of sensitivities. But what it did do was reassure everyone, and we all sat in this room, the military and civilian leadership hour after hour, day after day, week after week, in fashioning the defense strategy, in fashioning the defense planning guidance, and in fashioning the new force sizing construct. And when you do that, you know that you don't tear down what is unless you've got something better. Unless you're not very quick. We're respectful of what we had and knew what it did and knew what it didn't do, and it had big shortfalls. Serious shortfalls. Risks to what existed.
What we came up with is, now I believe one can say with a degree of assurance, clearly better.
Q: (inaudible)
Rumsfeld: It will require some additional sensitivity. But it does not necessarily flow that there aren't going to be some difficulties in getting everything -- In balancing the four risks that I've cited. The risk of the force and not taking care of the people, the risk of not modernizing and seeing that you've got the ability to deal with the near term threat, the risk of not transforming and not being able to deal with the longer term threats which are very real and growing. And always the things that are given up first, or you want to give up first, you want to deal with today. It's an awful lot easier to keep what you've got, take care of what you've got and do it, and not worry about tomorrow. That's a perfectly immature behavior pattern, and we all know that, right? Anyone have children here? (Laughter)
Q: Thank you very much.
Rumsfeld: You bet.
Q: (inaudible)
Rumsfeld: That's right. But by golly, that's how you get into the pickle we're in when we didn't deal with the infrastructure and we didn't modernize and let the airplanes age and let this happen. You just can't keep going on with that, and someone's got to clean it up. That's the hand we were dealt, and we're hard at it. Having a pretty good time.
Q: Thank you.
Rumsfeld: All right, folks. Good to see you all.


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The global wealth boom produced an appetite for luxury products across all upper-income levels that went unchecked until the economy began slumping in 2008. Although stocks like Louis Vuitton, Hermes and Gucci showed healthy profits the first quarter of the year, the market as a whole is far from its pre-recession levels. Even the companies reporting strong sales are cautious in their forecasts. Hermes, which enjoyed 17 percent growth in Europe in the first quarter, has lowered its overall expectations for the year to 11 percent.
The luxury companies that weathered the recession best kept their products exclusive and expensive, appealing to the wealthiest and most discerning buyers. Those companies catering to the less wealthy, or those who aspired to look wealthy, suffered from a pullback in spending in the U.S.
Europeans, who traditionally made up a solid faction of luxury buyers, are grappling with their own economic woes. Sales growth has been strong in Asia, but buyers there have become more fickle, seeking to spend their dollars on items that are harder to obtain and therefore more expensive. Louis Vuitton and Gucci are out, Chanel is in.
As the wealthy get wealthier, their particular tastes will rule the luxury market. Further complicating matters for the luxury-product companies, the ultrarich are diverting some of their spending money toward high-priced adventure, according to a report from the Boston Consulting Group.
With a shifting and shrinking market, producers of luxury products are dreaming up new ways to capture the small segment of buyers who still seek status items. One strategy, according to CNBC, has companies joining together to mine each other's customer marketing lists -- Mercedes and men's clothing brand Brioni, for example. They're also opening fewer stores, raising prices and trying to create an urgency to own.
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Kids are Funny Last night I had to drive to work to drop off something. Well of coarse the kids wanted to go. I promiced marie that if she behaved I would buy her a ice cream when I was done doing what I had to. On the way up there she dozed off in the back seat. When she woke up she asked me If she had already eaten her Ice cream . Her sister told her yes She started to pout because she didn't't remember eating it and then asked me in her mad at the world tone "mommy did I at least say it was Good" LOL
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This article was published 7/7/2013 (1506 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
LOS ANGELES -- The wails of an infant haunt much of the 13-minute YouTube clip.
On the Internet's dominant video site, laughing babies, talking twin babies, roller-skating babies long have made for amusing, sure-fire click bait. This case of a crying newborn represents something entirely different: It's an attempt at groundbreaking original programming from the site.
Susanna is a 12-part series starring True Blood's Anna Paquin as a new mother who develops acute postpartum depression and struggles in caring for her child. The web series, which saw the last of its videos posted on June 21, is the latest commission from female-centric WIGS, the top channel for scripted drama on YouTube.
"This whole platform for female-driven narratives and storytelling is just really exciting," Paquin said. "As a woman, it's sometimes a little hard to find material that's challenging or interesting, where you're not playing a wife or a girlfriend. I'm lucky enough to be on a TV show where I get to play a ballsy tough chick. That also is a rarity. This fits into that category. That's why I wanted to be a part of it."
Launched a year ago by Jon Avnet, the writer, director and producer best known for Black Swan and Fried Green Tomatoes, and Rodrigo Garcia, director of Albert Nobbs and the HBO series In Treatment, WIGS has constructed a roster of fan favourites, such as Blue, starring Julia Stiles as a single mom who moonlights as a prostitute; and Lauren, a drama about sexual misconduct in the military.
Its marquee talent, which includes Jennifer Garner, Alfred Molina and Virginia Madsen, and carefully crafted stories have attracted about 46 million views -- a modest performance by YouTube standards, where a South Korean pop star doing a horsy dance can capture 1.7 billion clicks.
But Avnet and Garcia say they are in it for the long haul, thanks to backing from a big-name advertiser, American Express, and a television network, Fox, which views the channel as a way to inexpensively test dramatic concepts that could reach the television screen. Avnet, Garcia and their Hollywood collaborators are eager to learn the nuances of storytelling in a medium that rewards brevity, rapid pacing and near-immediate plot reveals -- and do so without creating second-class, tiny-screen entertainment.
"We're old fuddy-duddies as far as the Internet's concerned, but... you don't have to read the crystal ball to know that the Internet is here to stay," Garcia said. "But storytelling is not going to go anywhere."
WIGS also represents a programming experiment by YouTube, which financed 100 channels of original content more than a year ago in hopes of broadening its audience and changing the perceptions of Madison Avenue ad buyers. The experiment yielded mixed results -- not unlike the world of broadcast TV, where 65 per cent of new network shows can fail in the first season.
Avnet and Garcia received a $5-million initial advance to create 100 episodes of original scripted programming for and about women. WIGS fit with YouTube's efforts to migrate new audiences to the youthful platform. The creative duo were eager to figure out how to exploit a site that reaches one billion users each month at a time when digital distribution, through services such as Netflix and Hulu, plays an increasingly important role in delivering programming to viewers.
"Could it be we could be creating the sort of watercooler experience for the iPad generation?" Avnet said.
Robert Kyncl, YouTube's global head of content and business operations, described Avnet and Garcia as the ideal YouTube students who search for fresh insights and information to attract and retain audiences. They pay attention to YouTube's scientific analysis and travel frequently to its headquarters in San Bruno, Calif.
"One of the reasons they've succeeded is they have an incredible creative core. Because of that, they're able to attract amazing talent," Kyncl said. "Most important, Jon and Rodrigo have embraced this platform model incredibly well."
The little-discussed issue of postpartum depression allowed for an evocative yarn. Avnet had been mulling the idea since an actress in London years ago confided details of her severe depression after the birth of her child.
He wrote several episodes of Susanna, in which a new mother, Katie, develops acute depression and is hospitalized, leaving her and her baby in the care of a career-focused younger sister, Susanna, played by Maggie Grace. The little sister struggles to close a big business deal while accepting that Katie won't be recovering soon -- thrusting a resentful and unprepared Susanna into the role of nurturing the infant April, with whom she falls in love.
Blue and Lauren have established a fan base, and both returned for second seasons. A more high-profile breakthrough could help define WIGS as an entertainment destination, just as Mad Men elevated the AMC cable network or The Sopranos made HBO appointment viewing.
"Every single network that has been created, post the three (original broadcasters), has had one hit that put them on the map," Avnet said. "That's what our business is, it's a one-hit business. If we did that today, on our platform, it would be a tectonic shift."
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PARIS — Makeup artist Tom Pecheux called the look for Elie Saab's show "50 shades of gray."
"All over the eyelid, and especially under the eyes, it's all a degradé of gray," he explained.
Working with MAC Cosmetics, Pecheux applied to models' faces foundation, concealer and a touch of contour. A black liner was applied to the inside of their peepers and black mascara to top and bottom lashes.
Hairstylist Eugene Souleiman said the models were meant to look rich, but not vulgar.
Using "tons of hairspray" Souleiman crafted a slicked-back style crowned with a gold-colored, metallic headband that disappeared into strips of hair drawn back from each side of models' heads.


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Formerly of Mt Iron, MN
Passed away on November 16, 2013. Preceded in death by parents, Tom and Ruth and son, Timothy. Survived by wife of 51 years, Mary; children, Tom (Jaime). Colleen (Ron) Click, Patrick (Gena), Kelly (Kevin) McGauley; 10 grandchildren; 1 great-granddaughter; siblings, Michael (Dawn) and Joan Myers and many relatives and very special friends. John served in the US Army from 1957-1960 and worked at US Steel Minntac in Mt Iron for 24 years. A very special thank you to Lakeview Hospice and Jan for their care. A celebration of Johns life will be held on Saturday, November 23, 2013 from 1-5 PM with a prayer service starting at 4 PM at BRADSHAW CELEBRATION OF LIFE CENTER, 2800 Curve Crest Blvd (NW corner of Hwy 36 & Co Rd 5), Stillwater. Interment at Fort Snelling National Cemetery.
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About the Book
From the introduction... In a seemingly far off place, literally 'The Ends of the Earth' as the name of the rugged mountain range which they call home depicts, live the Mibu people of Papua New Guinea. Sharing this mountain range with at least 100 other language groups, theMibu people, who speak a language called 'Ma' find themselves nestled in the midst of at least four of these other language groups with whom their web of social interaction connects. To give an idea, one can easily find themselves in a changing dialect after hiking for only a half hour. A day of hiking in any direction would put one in either total isolation of the uninhabited rainforest which is the Mibu people's backyard or in one of these other languages.
While remote and isolated from much, it could hardly be said that the Mibu people are forsaken by God. Indeed God has clearly purposed something special among them. In early 2006 the message of His wonderful grace overcame the cultural, linguistic and spiritual boundaries that had thus far kept it far from the ears of their souls. Being presented in their mother tongue and clearly understood for the first time, many could not help but put their trust and hope in the Faithful Originator of that message, their lives being forever transposed into His kingdom. Now as the flame of God's love is kindled in their hearts, effecting their lives, one can't help but wonder just how greatly God will use the Mibu people in the midst of so many others who have not yet heard.
These are the Mibu people. I don't expect that a book of photographs could even begin to give full account of the lives of these or any people. But my hope is that these images may afford the viewer at least a small glimpse of the precious lives and faces of Mibu... Vestiges.
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LESSONS will be learnt- that was the message from a drop-in session held to hear Weymouth residents' views following weeks of severe storms.
Scores of people from the Preston Beach area attended the three-hour event to find out more about sea defence repairs.
Part of the beach has been closed will emergency repair work is carried out.
It comes after weeks of unprecedented rainfall, gale-force winds and strong tides which battered the Dorset coastline.
Several flood warnings were issued for the Preston Beach area and Preston Beach Road was closed a number of times between Christmas Eve and February 14.
The Dorset Coast Forum organised the event at The Spyglass Inn to provide an opportunity for those living in the area to speak to local experts.
Representatives from The Environment Agency, Weymouth and Portland borough council, local geologists, sea defence engineers and emergency planners attended.
Maps, images and advice leaflets were available with people also invited to give their views on flood warning systems in the area.
Bridget Betts, of Dorset Coast Forum, said: "It was important to hear about the events from the people who experienced it.
"Lessons will be learnt- you can't control the weather and we want to be able to have a system in place for the future where everything goes as smoothly as possible.
"We were really interested to get feedback on how the road closures affected residents as well as beach management."
She added: "Many people were concerned about the beach closure and wanted to know more about what repairs are going on there."
Nick Reed, Environment agency flood resilience officer, shared information at the session about how flood alerts are calculated and what takes place before one is issued.
He said: "There is quite a bit to learn from this session and it is important to hear what residents have to say about the current local system."
Many attended to ask about their concerns for the weakened sea defences along Preston Beach.
Resident Geoff Greenstreet said: "The Beach Road was closed and flooded and it is the first time I've known this since the new promenade was built."
He added: "We really wanted to see what impact this weather has had on the beach.
"They've put boulders on the beach to strengthen the sea defence and we've seen many changes to it over the past 40-years."
Chris Dursley said: "The beach is being eroded away and underpinning the wall and if that goes it will all go. I just wanted to find out more about what they were doing down there."
The Dorset Coast Forum (DCF) is an independent strategic multi-sector partnership working with stakeholders to promote a sustainable approach to the planning, management, use of and development of the Dorset coast.
Another similar event will soon be held in Chiswell, Portland.
For further information about the event, please contact the Dorset Coast Forum on 01305 224833.
EMERGENCY repair work costing hundreds of thousands of pounds is being carried out to strengthen Dorset's sea defences.
The Environment Agency is working to protect the sea defences at Preston Beach and Chesil Beach on Portland.
Work at Preston Beach involves a 'rock armour' addition costing £300,000 and is scheduled to be complete in the next 10 days.


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LONDON (Dec. 3)
A Soviet Jew who, as a General of the Army, reportedly was the highest ranking Jewish military figure in the Soviet Union, died last Saturday at the age of 64, according to the Soviet Defense Ministry. The Ministry did not indicate the cause of Gen. Yaakov G. Kreizer's death. He served as a commander on the Soviet's western front in World War II.
His promotion in 1962 coincided with growing charges that the Soviet Union was suppressing Jewish religious and cultural life. Nikita Khrushchev, then Soviet Premier, cited Gen. Kreizer's top military ranking as proof that Soviet Jews were not targets of discrimination. At the start of the Nazi invasion of Russia in 1941, he was one of the first militiamen to become a Hero of the Soviet Union. He received many other decorations including five orders of Lenin. Rising through the ranks before the start of World War II, he was named commander of the First Moscow Motorized Infantry and led an effort to slow down the Nazi blitzkrieg. He had been a deputy to the Russian Republic's Supreme Soviet and to the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union.


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|Hazy Forest
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|Quest Prerequisite(s):
|Quest Reward(s):
|Ability to fight Lost Dragon, Passage to Bifrost Field 02
- While in a Party, speak with the Laphine Soldier at (bif_fild01 158, 340) and tell him you wish to Venture into the Hazy Forest.
- After the dungeon is created, speak to the Log Tunnel (bif_fild01 161, 355) just to the north to enter the dungeon.
- Note: A window will appear showing pertinent time limits for the dungeon. If it is closed, it can be opened again with with the shortcut Alt+B.
- Note 2: There is a 2 hour time limit for completing the quest before the instance is destroyed.
- In each section
- kill the guardian labeled with a blue star
- chop down the tree labeled with a yellow star
- In section 12, kill all 13 guardians.
- Chop down the tree, exit out the portal.
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Yellow islands have a chance to spawn of Lost Dragon.
Green islands where there are souls.
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I live in Los Angeles, where there is a large Persian population. In my experience, they have all been snobby and rude. I'm sure that there are some who are nice, but I have yet to meet them.
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Can't love? Can't give? Can't hear Him anymore? Ginny Kochis offers five simple prayers for when you just can't.
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Durban - Animal intestines which blocked a neighbour's sewerage system has left a Durban North couple with an expensive and smelly headache.
Ian and Anette Barnard of Ranleigh Crescent returned home after Tuesday evening's storm to find their entire backyard, pool and outbuilding flooded with sewage.
The downpour flooded stormwater drains and spilt over into sewers, forcing up manhole covers and releasing sewage that gushed onto the property, said Bongani Shabane, head of the municipality's clean-up team.
"We got home on Tuesday evening and were left shocked when we found the entire backyard and outbuilding covered with foul-smelling sewage water. There was a stream of dirty water pouring through from the neighbour's yard," said Anette.
"It was really disgusting – the pool, my garden and the entire landscaping area were damaged. There was the disgusting sight of faeces and toilet paper floating around. The smell was awful," she said.
The Barnards contacted the municipality's health department, which dispatched a clean-up team.
Shabane said the team were surprised at what they found.
"One of the cleaners noticed a huge amount of cow intestines that had blocked the neighbour's drain.
"He cleared it up, and we then drained all the sewage and started removing the dirt. This was followed by the washing-up process, which included disinfecting the entire area," said Shabane.
Ian estimated the damage to be in the region of R40 000.
"A lot of equipment kept in the outbuilding got damaged. This included microwaves, heaters and camping equipment, valued at about R18 000. The pool also looks like it has been damaged, which could be a further R20 000," he said.
The neighbours were away on holiday at the time of the flooding and have yet to return.
It is not clear how the intestines came to be in the drain, but a city health department official has reminded the public that a "special permit is required for ritual sacrifices, be it for religious purposes or a wedding".
Superintendent Aubrey Ndlela of the municipality's wastewater department said the city was considering flushing drains more regularly to prevent blockages.
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Have you ever read the reviews for a game or checked its average on a site like Metacritic or GameRankings, and wondered if you played the same game that everyone else did?
I had that familiar sense of bafflement recently when I checked the Metacritic scores for Remember Me, the stylish action thriller from Japanese publisher Capcom and French studio Dontnod. While I don't do numerical scores, this is a game that feels like a solid 8/10 for me, and yet its Metascore is as low as 67 for the PC version.
It's a very disappointing result for a studio debut. Dontnod clearly would have preferred to have made a more positive impression with their first title, especially considering they were dropped by their first publisher and were rescued by Capcom.
Remember Me is far from a perfect game. Its combat system is too simple and repetitive, its environmental traversal lacks meaning or challenge so just feels like filler, and its tightly linear world is just crying out to be more open and explorable.
Even so, there is a lot to love in Remember Me, mostly in its presentation and storytelling. Anyone who loves Paris will adore the futuristic overlay placed over the familiar city. Landmarks like the Eiffel Tower and Sacre Coeur Cathedral stand among gleaming glass skyscrapers, and on ground level you walk through beautifully recreated Parisian galleries, all polished marble and wrought iron fencing, indistinguishable from the real thing if not for the holographic displays and service robots.
More than just a pretty world, though, Remember Me presents fascinating ideas about identity and memory and shape them into a compelling narrative. Through the adventures of heroine Nilin, we are asked to consider how much our memories make us who we are. If our memories are lost, is our identity likewise lost? If somebody changes our memories, do they change us? Or is there something essential about ourselves that no amount of memory manipulation can change?
All of this is fashioned into a story of amnesia, betrayal, revenge, moral failure, and personal redemption. It's not the most original story ever penned, but it features vivid, likeable characters, genuinely interesting villains, and supposed heroes whose actions are often far from heroic. All of this is set against a richly-realised future history, in which future events such as technological advancements, politics, disasters, and wars have all been mapped out in fine detail.
There is also one genuinely interesting and unique gameplay mechanic: memory remixing. At a few key points in the plot, Nilin can hack into someone's mind and make changes to their memory of a single event. Sweeping back and forth through the memory sequence, Nilin can make small changes in the world, which in turn create different outcomes.
If the right sequence can be found, the person will remember a different outcome, which could in turn create a profound change in their outlook on life, or even their entire personality. It's a great idea, though sadly there are less than half a dozen of these events dotted through the game, and the rest of the playing time is taken up with brawling and climbing.
Many criticisms have been levelled at the fighting and exploration gameplay, and with good reason, but even they have their charms. The combat is too simple, with only a handful of combos used over and over, but even then it is not always easy, and can take careful timing to get right. Pulling off a flawless ten-move combo amid a crowd of enemies is extremely satisfying, and Nilin's one-off super-powers such as bombs and frenzies spice things up nicely.
It's really only the exploration that is completely indefensible. Every climbing section follows a set path, with no chance to go an alternative route, and the next handhold or point to jump to is always highlighted, meaning there is no sense of discovery. The only time it gets interesting is when Nilin is triggering recorded memories and attempting to match someone else's earlier actions.
I suspect that Dontnod's only real mistake was taking on such a challenging project for their video game debut. A game that ties together combo-based brawling, climbing and exploration, memory remixing, not to mention an extremely rich world, complex script, and full performance-capture for all the major characters must have been a massive undertaking.
Overall, Remember has some design problems, but still contains a lot to love. Games are so rarely this stylish, and a vivid future world rarely feels so much like its own character in the story. Bioshock Infinite also featured a vivid world and strong story let down by very old-fashioned gameplay, and yet it managed a host of perfect 10s. Strange that a game with similar flaws was treated so much more unkindly by critics.
Hopefully Capcom or another publisher will see the potential in this flawed gem and give Dontnod a second chance.
- James "DexX" Dominguez
DexX is on Twitter: @jamesjdominguez


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3 bedroom semi-detached house for saleChaloners Road, Dringhouses, YORK
Sold STC £139,995
Property Description
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With a fantastic 86ft paved & lawned garden to the rear of the property this 3 bedroom semi deatched house is set on a larger than average plot in dringhouses and must be viewed to be fully appreciated. The property also offers 2 reception rooms, 3 bedrooms and off street parking.
Entrance Hall
Double glazed entrance door, double glazed window to front elevation, staircase to first floor and radiator.
12' 4" max x 13' 7" (3.76m x 4.14m) Double glazed window to front elevation, fireplace, inset & hearth, living flame gas fire and radiator.
Dining Room
9' 10" x 9' 5" (3.00m x 2.87m) Double glazed window to rear elevation and radiator.
10' 2" x 10' 1" (3.10m x 3.07m) Fitted wall & base units, work surfaces, sink unit, extractor hood, space for washing machine, double glazed window to rear elevation, double glazed door to side elevation, gas cooker point and pantry with double glazed window to side elevation.
Bedroom 1
10' 11" x 10' 8" (3.33m x 3.25m) Double glazed window to front elevation and radiator.
Bedroom 2
9' 10" x 13' 7" (3.00m x 4.14m) Double glazed window to rear elevation, radiator and cupboard.
Bedroom 3
7' 8" max x 9' 1"max (2.34m x 2.77m) Double glazed window to front elevation and radiator.
Coloured three piece suite comprising panelled bath, pedestal wash hand basin, low level W.C, heated towel rail and double glazed window to rear elevation.
Double glazed window to side elevation.
Front Garden
Laid mainly to lawn, planted borders, half wall boundaries and off street parking.
Rear Garden
86ft long rear garden laid mainly to lawn, gravelled area, paved area, hedged boundaries, planted borders, fenced boundaries, gated access, cold water supply and brick built out house.
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Weltempfang – Centre for Politics, Literature and Translation The "Weltempfang" in Hall 3.1 is a place well known for its panel discussions, talks and readings with international authors, intellectuals and translators. This year, the Weltempfang is dedicated to the topic "Europe".
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Find last weeks top reads about Social Media and how changes and innovations can help or affect your business. We look forward to your comments and feedback
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2) Email and Social Media, Why Marketers Need Both
Why it matters: The connection between Social Media and Email, how they support each other and help business step forward in the online world. DJ Waldow, co-author of The Rebel's Guide to Email Marketing discussed and gave number of useful tips in this article
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Yoga instructor Katie walks out of the show because she feels uncomfortable, and Desiree gets punked during a one-on-one date with Sean Lowe.
When "The Bachelor" returned with the second episode of season 17, Sean Lowe began the dates with the girls. Sarah was the lucky one who got the first one-on-one date with the hunky guy.
They were whisked away by a helicopter and landed on a rooftop. Sean told the 26-year-old ad executive that they were going to free fall 300 feet. Once they arrived on the ground, they celebrated it with a toast.
Sean and Sarah later met for a dinner. She said that she was upset that she couldn't go zip-lining because of her disability, and said it meant a lot that Sean had "faith" in her to do the free-falling. Sean then gave her a rose and they sealed it with a kiss.
Next, Sean had a group date with Kristy, Amanda, Brooke, Lesley M., Daniella, Catherine, Robyn, Katie, Selma, Diana, Taryn, Kacie B. and Tierra. They met at a mansion for a photo shoot, and a girl who had the best chemistry with Sean would land a three-book cover deal with Harlequin.
The girls dressed in different costumes, including a cowboy look for Lesley and a vampire makeover for Jackie. During the photo shoot, the girls complained about Tierra who showed different attitudes when she was around the other girls than she did when she's with Sean.
Meanwhile, Katie opened up, "I feel excessively uncomfortable here. I'm not going to compete. I'm going to retreat." She shared her feelings to Sean and the bachelor walked her out. At the end of the date, Kacie B. got a rose, prompting Tierra to say, "I wanted to punch her." However, it was Kristy, a model from Wisconsin, who won the cover book deal.
Desiree got the last date card in the episode, not knowing that she was going to be a victim of a prank. Sean took her to a fake art gallery exhibit and left her alone in a room. Suddenly, a million-dollar artwork fell down and broke into pieces.
"I didn't touch it," Desiree said, trying to convince a fake artist who was cursing at her. Sean then came out and revealed it was a joke.
Desiree later got a sweet treat from Sean who invited her to enjoy a home cooked meal at his pad. They later got into a hot tub and talked about love and marriage. Sean gave her a rose and they kissed.
At a cocktail party, Amanda was being secluded, but got cheered up once Sean talked to her. The insurance agent also assured Robyn that he didn't go for a certain type of girl and he had no problem dating girls from various ethnicities. His last girlfriend was, in fact, black.
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