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Dear Carolyn: I've been divorced one year after a four-year marriage. We shouldn't have gotten married. I knew that at the time, and I accept that I made a huge mistake when I full well knew better. I'm intent on not repeating that mistake.
I've recently attempted dating again. The issue is that if a guy says anything my ex-husband could have, would have, or did ever say — opinions about life, relationships, politics, family, etc. — then I completely lose interest. They could be otherwise amazing and share just one unacceptable view with my ex, but as soon as the words come out of their mouths, I'm done.
Am I being too hard on myself and everyone else, looking for someone who has absolutely nothing in common with my ex? Or is any flag a flag, even if it's more pink than bright red?
Color Blind in Tennessee
Dear Color Blind: There are two possible origins to such reflexive rejections: Either these men are revealing key similarities to your ex-husband and therefore you're right to stop seeing them — or you're overreacting to perfectly innocent statements because you're still not fully healed.
Two possibilities, but they point to only one piece of advice: Trust this reflex; don't try to override it. Why? Because if it's a red flag about the guy you're dating, then the reason not to override it is obvious.
And if the red flag is about you, then it might be tempting to try to "fix" it, to talk yourself into being more rational about and fair to the men you date, before you're ready for that. Any effort to fix it would involve forcing yourself to proceed with dating while tuning out your "No!" voice — and doing so while knowing you can't trust your own reactions to people. That's like diving into the deep end without knowing if you can swim.
I realize I advise this to the point of self-parody, but please find you before you go looking for someone else.
Dear Carolyn: I'm 17 and I need help with how to respond to my father. He does not deal well with unexpected noises. I've learned to warn him if I'm going to do things like turn on the vacuum, hair dryer, blender, etc. But help me if I accidentally drop something and it makes a loud noise or I maybe clank two plates together loudly! It will definitely result in a critical comment.
Even if I apologize, he'll still say something clearly conveying he was disturbed. I'd like to let him know that I don't need to be chastised for something I did not intentionally do and for which I apologized, but I also don't want to come off as disrespectful. When this kind of thing happens again, would it be disrespectful or sarcastic to just say, "I don't need to be chastised for something that was accidental"?
Just Trying to Get Along
Dear Trying: Talk to your dad at a calm and quiet time, in a calm and quiet way: "I understand you're sensitive to loud noises. I'm human, though, and sometimes I drop things. When you then criticize me for that, I feel angry/resentful/frustrated." If he still snaps? Then see this as a lesson on difficult people: You can't make anyone join you on the high road, but you can remain there yourself.
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Between the Vines is a biweekly column on wine and wine making in the Livermore Valley region. This information was contributed by Michael Princevalle, of Coastal Viticultural Consultants. A member of the Livermore Valley Winegrowers Association, CVC manages several local vineyards, including vines at Ravenswood Historical Site in Livermore.
What's happening in Livermore Valley's vineyards this month?
At this time in the Livermore Valley, things seem to be quiet in the vineyards. Since nature has given us a dry winter, most, if not all, the vineyards in the valley are pruned, and mowing of weeds and cover crop and mulching of prunings have begun. Now, with the advent of warm temperatures and longer days, the vines in the valley are beginning to experience "bud-break;" shoots will emerge soon after. So, ready or not, the 2013 growing season is springing forward.
Once bud break occurs, vineyard managers will commence their vigil. This time of year, and through the next month, the buds and young shoots of the vines are very vulnerable to pests and weather. For example, cut worms can emerge from the soil, crawl up to the buds and damage them. Voles and other critters also can attack the buds and emerging shoots and cause enough damage to affect yield. Regardless of the nature of the pest, damage to buds or young shoots can have a significant impact on a year's yield. Though the occurrence and damage by these pests are commonly not significant, if they occur in your vineyard, it's significant. A local pest control adviser can most likely offer remedies for these pests if they occur.
Weather conditions are also worrisome to vineyard managers. Frost can have a devastating impact on buds and young shoots, and therefore, a significant impact on a year's yield. Frost damage is not a typical or widespread problem in Livermore Valley, but it can strike certain areas of the valley and specific areas within a vineyard.
Most vineyards in our valley do not have the wind machines or overhead sprinklers that are used in other grape growing regions to prevent frost damage. To mitigate the potential for frost damage, grape growers in Livermore Valley work hard to ensure that ground cover or weeds in the vineyards are sufficiently mowed (or tilled) to allow maximum sunlight to reach the soil. This allows the soil to warm during the day and radiate heat into the vineyard at night. Nighttime radiant heat from the soil can make a difference of a degree or two in the vineyard, which can be just enough to avert frost damage of tender buds and shoots. Also, since cold air tends to flow like a stream and low to the ground, keeping weeds or cover crop mowed short allows the cold air to more readily flow out of the vineyard and not stack up against tall weeds, where it can reach tender portions of the vines.
So, though it seems serene in the vineyard this time of year, there are plenty of things ready to spring out and attack a vineyard!
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AIGA's executive director opens the 2013 "Head, Heart, Hand: AIGA Design Conference," discussing the future of AIGA and why design strategy, social impact and craft are vital to great design.
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Richard Grefé is the CEO of AIGA, the professional association for design. He is generally involved in all of AIGA's activities, although his major contributions are in strategy, formulating new initiatives to enhance the competitive success of designers and advocating the value of design. He earned a B.A. from Dartmouth College, crafted books at Stinehour Press, spent several years in intelligence work in Asia, reported from the Bronx County Courthouse for AP, wrote for Time magazine on business and the economy and then earned an M.B.A. from Stanford Graduate School of Business. Following a career in urban design and public policy consulting, Grefé managed the association responsible for strategic planning and legislative advocacy for public television and led a think tank on the future of public television and radio. He has been at AIGA since 1995, developing programs that reinforce the relevance of design as an extraordinary creative gift and a critical element of business strategy.


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text: In the roughly 20 hours weve played so far, weve seen a mountain fortress, a small village, crypts, sewers, a swamp and the trade quarter of the city of Vizima - the range of environments looks to be diverse. Physically, The Witcher gameworld is divided into some 45 or so locations (see the nearby screenshot of a local map for an example), which each offer a moderately sized chunk to explore. Internal locations buildings, caves, sewers all require loading. The loading times can be annoying but hopefully further optimisation before shipping will see improvements and at least the stylish, painted loading screens are nice. Given the convincing environments youll get to explore, its sometimes frustrating to be constrained by a low fence or uneven terrain that requires Geralt stick to the path.


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As I hopped in the car with Solua Middleton to gather some vox pops about daylight saving, our local ABC Open Gold Coast producer told me about her horrific morning, where she found a dead bird in her backyard.
So, I believe that's how it started; with a dead bird, on an otherwise normal morning.
But the day that started with a dead bird, continued with a faulty seatbelt that didn't want to work and torrential rain.
Solua and I, despite the rain and the seatbelt and the bird, were determined to get to the bottom of the controversial issue and ask locals about their opinions about daylight savings.
But then the rain started.
Solua and I decided that it would be perfect timing to grab some lunch while having a chat about the equipment and techniques we would be using for the vox pops.
But then, we couldn't find any parking.
After driving around for 10 minutes – hooray! – we found a parking space, and in the process of getting lunch and coffee, we also found Chase.
Solua had previously taken a picture of Chase for the 'Portrait of a Stranger' project and was happy to bump into him again.
The rain had momentarily stopped and we were hopeful. Solua and I walked towards the border between NSW and QLD, armed with coffee and sushi.
But then, the quasi-storm started, combined with howling winds and pouring rain.
But, Solua and I found a nice shelter to keep us safe from all the elements, and Solua taught me how to use the audio-visual equipment.
But then, the bus-load of tourists arrived and decided to claim our undercover shelter as their own, discretely indicating that Solua and I should vacate as an elderly women began to clean the bench I was sitting on.
But then, somehow our luck started to change.
The sky cleared up, we had our vox pops underway and locals were enthusiastically sharing their views about daylight savings.
Solua and I conducted extensive interviews with members of the Marine Rescue at Point Danger and learned about the difficulties of incorporating daylight savings into keeping people safe.
Somewhere along the way, Solua and I learned a few lessons: namely that one should always have a wet weather contingency plan, one should always be flexible and adapt to surprising situations and one should always strive to tell a fair and balanced story despite the obstacles that may occur.
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LITTLE VALLEY – State Route 98, also known as Salamanca Sugartown Road, in the Cattaraugus County Town of Franklinville was reduced to one lane starting Friday in the vicinity of Bennett Road, the state Department of Transportation announced. The lane closure will remain in effect until further notice.
Traffic will alternate using one lane, controlled by temporary traffic signals that have been installed.
The DOT reminds motorists that speeding in a work zone results in fines being doubled and two or more speeding violations in a work zone could result in suspension of a driver's license. Real-time travel information can be obtained by calling 511 or visiting www.511ny.org.


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I am stuck at level 9....anyone?
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The best way I find is use defense then surround it with arrows and bombers, upgrade the arrows to fast woodland shooters and these will hit both gargoyles and on foot soldiers.
I RELY HEAVLY ON Artillery , SOMETIME WORK, SOME TIME NOT
Fantastic,,i've done this game,,and done all achievements,,but i really" confuse about how to free the sasquatch,,can anyone help me to fulfill my achievements please??
ah nevermind,,i just done free the sasquatch achievemnt,,its really simple,,i think it was really hard,,thanks for the attention all..
this game is realy hard
Hard but really fun
Awesome game, but extremely easy if you just spam Big Berthas around barracks. Upgrade that missile launcher asap and the game becomes easyyyy.
3 stars on every level first try using this method.
Hey, I'm kinda needing help on Twin River Heroic. I can do Iron, but not Heroic! Even easy is good for me. I'm looking for stars, not pride :P
@stowle07: And how do you do the challenges where Artillery is not allowed? btw, Big Bertha is the most expensive tower in the field. Wondering how you survived the first few rounds when demon spawns kill your infantry and the flying enemies simply don't care how many artillery-towers you hav since they don't shoot them down. So, I wouldn't say this is a perfect tactic at all
Rivercrab01: Twin-River in Heroic is one of the most difficult ones. In general, what you need to try to do is to block the enemies with infantry right at the beginning and kill them with artillery.
I start the level with an artillery tower upgraded to the max at the center point. Well, upgraded to the max means upgraded twice. Also, a barracks tower to its right. Change the rally point to the point where both roads split up. As soon as you have the gold, upgrade the barracks to their maximum too. Together with the meteor and the reinforcements this needs to be enough until the start of the fifth wave. If not, you are lost. You should be able to kill the first ogre in wave five with this set up as well.
After that, I expand with a mage tower on the lower right side, expand it to its maximum. To the opposite another barrack, upgrading it once.
With wave six, the left side gets an expansion as well. A barrack to the left and a second mage tower to the right. Change the rally point to the bridge, so that your artillery tower can support you against the ogres and shamans. This barracks tower again gets only one upgrade, the mage tower upgraded to the maximum.
This should do it usually. If not, add another mage tower at your convenience. I sometimes need a second one on the right side, especially in normal.
Hope, I could help.
i just finished getting all the acheivements, its kinda tedious getting the ones on page 3, but it was such a good game i though i might as well
anyone have any tips on beating t.j.
build artillary in middleso he can hitboth sodes, rangers hidout beside mine shaft a couple golems and lvl1/2 melee units, oh and dont use the sunray, its awful
Stupid last level!And yes,you DO need more than three or four barracks,and a lot of arcane wizard towers.The arcane wizards do massive damage,necessary to turn the evil guy who's name escapes me into the dragon thing quick,which is very important.Then,the reason you need barracks is that when the evil guy is in giant monster form,his fire breath can't instantly kill paladins or legionaries,which can help to hold him back while the towers fire at him.It's not guaranteed to work,but it really helps.
Developers, I don't know if I'm the only one, but I think that the unit and tower voices are epic. Could you please add an extras segment where you can hear the voices and the in game music?
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SCOTT JAGOW: Wall Street's been on a two-day skid, and the downturn could go on for a while, if you believe Morgan Stanley. The brokerage is telling its clients to sell. We turn now to Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, a business reporter with the Daily Telegraph. Ambrose, why is Morgan Stanley telling people to get out?
AMBROSE EVANS-PRITCHARD: Well they have this very sophisticated model with a number of indicators in it and for the first time since the dot-com bust, the three key indicators are all flashing sell signals at the same time. This "full house" sell signal has only happened five times since 1980 and on each occasion the stock market's dropped 15.2 percent over the next six months.
JAGOW: And how much of a drop is Morgan Stanley predicting now and for how long?
EVANS-PRITCHARD: Well they're being a little cautious about it, but their model suggests a 14 percent correction. Although they're concerned that it could be more serious. Now they're using a six-month kind of time frame. They think that there'll be a shakeout and just to be quite clear about this, they're not predicting a recession or a blood bath or anything like this, they're just saying, you know, cut your exposure, particularly on all the smaller stocks and maybe keep some of the bigger companies because those are not as overpriced.
JAGOW: OK Ambrose Evans-Pritchard from London, thank you.
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Not too long ago, the idea of someone putting out a press release about Newsweek would have seemed foolish. Or at least, a press release that does not transition at some point to words like: "And so, it is with deep regret…"
But there it is. This morning, IBT Media's proud declaration of what can be found by some 400,000 tablet subscribers in the first edition of its brand-name acquisition:
"We are extremely excited about the launch of this first issue," said editor-in-chief Jim Impoco. "We've assembled an extraordinarily talented group of journalists who are committed to maintaining the quality and editorial integrity of the franchise and who will help lead Newsweek into its new era."
The cover story, "The Phantom Menace: Exploding Iran's Nuclear Threat Myth," attempts to gauge the actual level of Iran's nuclear threat. Other articles include a look at parents who tout their kids' accomplishments on social media ("Facebook Moms") and a sensational love triangle ("Supreme Court Takes On the 'Toxic Avenger'").
IBT has also renamed some familiar Newsweek sections. "Culture" becomes "Life/Style"; "Newsmakers" is now "Downloads"; and "Better World" has given way to "New World". It is indeed a new Newsweek world, a wholly unexpected one that IBT chief content officer Johnathan Davis adds id is being thoroughly modernized. Various articles from each issue are also being made available at newsweek.com.
The press release includes the fullest list yet of journalists hired for this enterprise by IBT Media. An exciting day for an age-old brand.


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Singer/guitarist Junior Brown doesn't like to be pigeonholed, musically or otherwise. "Whenever [people] think they've got me pegged, I pull something out that's a little different," explains Austin's latest musical discovery. "I like to keep it interesting."
"Interesting" hardly begins to describe Brown's spicy, Texas-tinged country masterpieces. On a good night, the 41-year-old producer, songwriter and guitar virtuoso manages to squeeze everything from flashy rockabilly riffs to Hawaiian guitar licks into his C&W repertoire. In fact, Brown, a onetime guitar instructor for the Hank Thompson School of Country Music, draws from so many musical traditions that it's all but impossible to keep track of them. Nonetheless, Brown insists that he's a simple cowboy singer at heart. "[Country music] is where my feeling comes from," he notes. "You have to have something that forms a common thread through all of your music. However much you experiment on top of that is fine, as long as it doesn't take you away from who you are and what you're trying to say. [Country music] is what I feel. It's what I love."
In spite of some stylistic detours, Guit With It, Brown's latest release on Nashville's Curb label, is dominated by his love of country music. "Guit-Steel Blues," for example, is a soulful southern scorcher in the Johnny Winter mode, but the eleven-minute number exudes a twangy backwoods mood all its own thanks to Brown's sleepy steel-guitar playing and lazy baritone drawl. Likewise, "Highway Patrol" would sound right at home on Johnny Cash's set list despite its revved-up boogie-woogie tone, and honky-tonkers such as "My Wife Thinks You're Dead" and "Party Lights" make it readily apparent where the guitarist's true loyalties lie.
Brown's influences are scattered, but he cites country legend Ernest Tubb as his primary muse. According to Brown, his admiration for the Opry legend dates back to his childhood. "The sound and the feeling--and the sincerity--that comes out of his music just gets me inside," he says. "It always has. He always stuck to his style all the way to the end, and he never compromised. You always knew where Ernest Tubb was coming from."
Brown also has drawn his fair share of comparisons to Jimi Hendrix, but he dismisses any similarities he may have with the Experienced One. "People sort of lay that Hendrix thing on me," he says, laughing. "But I don't really try to perpetuate that too much. He had some really good ideas, and he was probably the best rock guitar player I can think of. But I wouldn't say that he was one of my main influences. I think when critics compare me to Hendrix, they're thinking more about my wild, improvisational guitar approach and not so much that I'm imitating him."
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If Brown's style doesn't resemble Hendrix's, neither does it recall the run-of-the-mill six-string pickers normally associated with country music. On the contrary, his playing is often more innovative and courageous than that exhibited by most rock musicians. The native Austinite has even invented his own guitar. Called a "guit-steel," Brown says the double-necked contraption--which looks like a cross between a conventional double-neck Gibson and an interstellar prop from The X-Files--enables him to switch between the pedal steel and electric with a minimum of fuss. "I needed to sing and play both the steel guitar and the electric guitar in the same song," he contends. "But it was always hard, because I had to unplug one so I could plug into the other. They were always banging into one another. The guit-steel makes playing much easier."
Brown's invention has seen a lot of mileage in recent months. The singer has just finished his first European tour and is currently in the midst of an extensive U.S. jaunt. He also has finished several tracks for a forthcoming album, which should hit record stores sometime in 1995. Brown promises that his new material will be every bit as unpredictable as his previous ventures. The record may even feature a surf medley that's become a staple at his live performances. "The surf sound is very close to a country guitar sound," he enthuses. "They both have that twang and that reverb."
Still, Brown promises that his focus will remain on rootsy country material. While that puts him at odds with many of today's country-pop performers, Brown is hesitant to judge his less-inspired colleagues. As he puts it: "Most of today's country music is just radio stuff, just like it's always been. Some of what's on the radio is good, and some of it's not so good. You always want to turn the clock back to something that was better, but I really wouldn't know where to turn the clock back to. There's been flaws all through history. I just think it's great that there's an opportunity for somebody like me to come along and make a little splash."
Junior Brown. 9 p.m. Tuesday, September 13, Fox Theatre, 1135 13th Street, Boulder, $8.40 in advance/$10.50 day of show, 447-0095.


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Two men arrested on Monday by police investigating serious disorder in Larne on March 30 have been released unconditionally.
The pair, aged 31 and 36, had been detained for questioning over the attack on several houses and police by a mob of up to 100 men.
Police said the south east Antrim brigade of the UDA were responsible.
A number of homes in the Ferris Avenue and Knockdhu Park areas were attacked during the incident.
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Nosy Questions From Nosy Friends
Dear Sugar
I've got a friend who always asks me the nosiest questions such as: How much money do you make? What was your bonus last year? What kinds of fights do your parents have? How much do you weigh? Why does your little brother take those red and white pills? Is your boyfriend good in bed?
It drives me crazy that she has no tact. I always try to sidestep my way around them and nicely change the subject, but sometimes she's relentless and I find that I am disclosing personal information that is really none of her business. How can I handle tough questions that I think are nosy and make me feel uncomfortable? Fed Up Felicia
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Dear Fed Up Felicia
Good questions spark conversation, but nosy, personal questions make people uncomfortable. We all know somebody like this and they are really quite frustrating to be around. They are ill mannered, pushy and worst of all...relentless.
They make you feel irritable and their questions are often embarrassing. You must set up boundaries with these types of people in order to have them in your life. But we aren't always prepared for them, are we? Here's what to say when some tenacious Nosy Nelly throws you a fast curve ball of a question:
"I'm sorry but I'm not comfortable answering your question."
Now, here's the challenge; keep repeating this phrase over and over again. Make it your mantra when you are confronted with your pushy pal. This is called The Broken Record Technique.
Believe me it works. Although you feel silly repeating yourself when a series of questions are fired your way, it sends the message that you aren't going to answer them. You are setting up boundaries between what you feel is acceptable to answer and what you feel is too personal and none of their business. They will get the hint very quickly!


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At this moment, all we know about Lt. Gov. Jennifer Carroll's involvement in the developing story about a corrupt Internet gambling and so-called charity operation is that her P.R. firm once represented it.
Federal agents questioned her about the matter yesterday. I'm not going to go so far as to say, "Where there's smoke, there's fire," but pols in her position don't usually step down just because they've been questioned about something. I emphasize that so far, there are no accusations of wrongdoing on her part.
As my cartoon illustrates, this development is more about Rick Scott's qualifications to lead a state like Florida than it is about Jennifer Carroll. She's just another local politico with feet of clay. Like many of her Tallahassee colleagues, she was using her clout to score a little extra folding jack on the side (as a legislator, she introduced a bill favorable to the outfit in question, and later withdrew it when she was exposed). This little business venture happened to blow up in her face.
We could hope for better judgment from our governor in picking a person whose sole purpose is to take over in case misfortune strikes, but that would be to attribute to Gov. Scott knowledge and experience that he never had. He was a corporate CEO who spent his own money to get elected. If you want to blame somebody for a flawed individual like Jennifer Carroll, then blame clueless voters who succumbed to Scott's incessant campaign ads.
Gov. Scott's office is saying that the governor has no immediate plans to replace Ms. Carroll. Maybe he should leave it that way. The next person in the line of succession is the Senate President, Don Gaetz. I've met him, and he seems like a reasonable, ethical gent—for a legislator.
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Thousands of people lined the streets as the Queen's Baton Relay arrived in the Stewartry.
The baton is touring Scotland on the final leg of its journey around the Commonwealth ahead of next month's games in Glasgow.
And it was the turn of Castle Douglas and Kirkcudbright to host the party.
Pupils at schools across the region have been taking part in special projects and events to mark the occasion.
The youngsters at Gelston Primary made special flags to wave while they cheer on the batonbearers, while Castle Douglas Primary held a special opening ceremony ahead of their own sports day on Monday.
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WASHINGTON, June 2 (UPI) -- President Barack Obama said Saturday Congress should "get to work" on a jobs bill he proposed in 2011 "full of bipartisan ideas" to put Americans back to work.
In his weekly radio and Internet address, recorded Friday during his visit to Honeywell International Inc.'s Golden Valley, Minn., manufacturing facility, the president said his proposal for a Veterans Job Corps -- intended to promote hiring of returning U.S. military veterans -- is "another part of our effort to make sure that no American who fights for this country abroad has to fight for a job when they come home."
Following Friday's disappointing Labor Department report on hiring, Obama said the U.S. economy "is growing again, but it's not growing fast enough."
"Our businesses have created almost 4.3 million new jobs over the last 27 months, but as we learned in this week's jobs report, we're not creating them fast enough," he said.
The president said the economy "faces some serious headwinds" -- including a spike this year in gasoline prices and the European economic crisis.
The president said America may not be able to "control everything that happens in other parts of the world," but there are "plenty of steps we can take right now to help create jobs and grow this economy."
"I sent Congress a jobs bill last September full of the kinds of bipartisan ideas that would have put our fellow Americans back to work and helped reinforce our economy against those outside shocks," he said. "I sent them a plan that would have reduced the deficit by $4 trillion in a way that's balanced -- that pays for the job-creating investments we need by cutting unnecessary spending and asking the wealthiest Americans to pay a little more in taxes."
Obama said Congress has passed parts of the bill but hasn't "acted on enough of the other ideas in that bill that would make a difference and help create jobs right now. And there's no excuse for that.
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Issue 7 is out shortly and they have their anniversary part this week. I have been playing a year and have gotten as far as Egypt … so for me this game is great. A lot depends on how much time you have to play and your approach. I don't do dungeons but I heard they also added night mare mode.
They do seem to release a lot of new content - faster than I can keep up with it but granted I also have played very little in between Skyrim. I decided to make a fresh character, Templar this time, and starting to play again.
I suspect if I ever did get caught up I would just take a break for awhile like I did with Skyrim. But then I don't think I could ever play an MMO again like I did when I was younger. I mainly treat them like a more social SRPG game these days. Something to play for a while until something else comes around.
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BRANAS kitchen trash can
Materials: (1) BRANAS rattan laundry basket, (2) BUMERANG skirt hangers, (1) 11 gallon trash bag
Description: I wanted an aesthetically pleasing trash can for our kitchen; the BRANAS rattan laundry basket turned out to be quite perfect.
Step 1: I setup up the BRANAS rattan laundry basket as specified (including the cloth liner which prevents the plastic garbage bag from snagging on the rattan material.
Step 2: Then I used two BUMERANG skirt hangers to clip the 11 gallon trash bag on either side. This trick holds the bag completely open, and to change the bag just lift both hangers out!
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Great idea! To all who doubted this hack: The liner is washable in cold water and hang to dry.
Looks nice, but I'm not crazy about the gap between the trash bag and the cloth liner either. Too easy for stray bits to fall onto the cloth deep in the bin. I guess if it gets washed every week, that could make it even cleaner than most trash cans that get hosed out less frequently. If not, ew.
Nice hack but I agree with the 2 previous comments. Let's see in 6 months how things have evolved then…
My first thought, Clawed, was the same. I'd replace the fabric with black at the very least. This would not be appropriate in a house with kids, but may work with careful adults.
The other commenter, I believe, knew there was a plastic bag, however the cloth is exposed. That makes for a bit of a cleaning challege potentially. If you compost all food scraps and wash/recycle messy food wrappers, this may actually stay a bit cleaner…
In a kitchen trash? I can only imagine what that cloth liner is going to smell like after a week or two!
…there is a plastic bag inside, Clawd. geeze
The plastic bag doesn't cover the cloth liner, so anything that goes in the trash can has a potential for smearing onto the fabric liner on its way to the bag. That is going to turn into a petri dish in no time at all.
Suggestion: I'd use a 13 gallon bag, omit the pants hangers, and fold the top of the bag over the top lip of the hamper. Of course, I don't like a "two handed" trash can, so this setup wouldn't work for me anyway.


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Chennai, June 22 (IANS) Popular Kannada producer Rockline Venkatesh, who has co-produced forthcoming Hindi action-drama "Bajrangi Bhaijaan" with Salman Khan, says he plans to venture into more films in the language.
Venkatesh has joined hands with Salman Khan Films and Eros International for "Bajrangi Bhaijaan".
"I'd like to produce more films in Hindi, provided I get good scripts. It was filmmaker Vijayendra Prasad's script that bowled over director Kabir Khan, who eventually approached Salman for this project," Venkatesh told IANS.
On collaborating with Salman, the producer said that the actor is the most grounded person he has ever come across in his life.
Venkatesh is keen to work with other Bollywood stars as well.
"You need good scripts to approach stars. I'd love to work with all the popular heroes," he said, and added that he is teaming up next with filmmaker Rohit Shetty.
Shetty has been signed on to direct the Hindi remake of Tamil hit "Soodhu Kavvum".
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PALGRAVE -- It was a daughter's day to shine yesterday after Amy Millar won the second stage in the $150,000 John Deere Canada Cup of Show Jumping competition in the Tournament of Champions at the Caledon Equestrian Park.
Riding Costa Rica Z, Millar beat her Olympic silver- medallist father, Ian Millar, to advance to today's final with a faultless performance completing the course in 43.735 seconds.
Ian, who has just returned from the Beijing Summer Games after leading Canada's show-jumping team to second place, was as happy as if he had won himself.
"I am so proud of her," he said. "She and (her brother) Jonathon have improved so much in the past several seasons."
Jonathon Millar, 33, finished fifth yesterday riding Fahrenheit, while Ian, 61, placed an uncharacteristic 14th on In Style.
All three, however, advance to today's jump-off.
Amy was asked if yesterday was her first win in top level competition against her dad and she smiled a huge smile, and said: "Actually, I've beaten him a few times."
She said that whatever success she has had, however, is a direct result of what her father brought to the table.
"He's been both a tremendous teacher and inspiration," Amy said. "Both Jonathon and I have benefitted beyond belief from what he has taught us."
But Amy, a 31-year-old native of Perth, Ont., also heaped a huge chunk of credit on her nine-year-old Belgian-bred mare.
"I've had (Costa Rica Z) for four years now," she said. "And she's such a wonderful horse. She just went out there (yesterday) and attacked the course straight on."
With both Amy and Jonathon now coming into their own in championship equestrian events, there was much speculation about the future of the Millar clan with regards to the London Olympics in 2012.
The joke around the paddock yesterday was that Canada's London equestrian entry could well be named Team Millar.
"Well, you know, both Amy and Jonathon and their horses are just the right age to be at their best in 2012," Ian said.
And what of his own future?
"Well, I guess we'll just have to wait and see," he said.
Amy led a sweep for the women of the first four places with Erynn Ballard on Robin Van Roosendael second, Lauren Hunkin aboard Larry 0146 third and Beth Underhill on Top Gun in fourth.
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Thank for the suggestion. I did install PDANET just now, installation went okay. Tablet is connected to pc using PDANET. But still fastboot stays waiting for the device. So, this isn't the solution also. Any other suggestions?
Is the problem the fastboot modus at the folio or the connection to your pc?
Hi Stefan,
The problem is fastboot modus at the folio. PC-side is working fine.
what happens (on the display of the folio) when you make 3x Power and then 1x Vol+?
Still no progress at all. I've contacted Toshiba support. It will be sent to service.
I can't to use fastboot because I can't install ADB drivers under Windows 7
Can we help me?
The problem is that, Windows doesnt recognize the drivers. I connect the Folio 100 with USB debug mode.....and doesnt work
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An emblem of the success of London/UK or a total waste of money?
Pretty boring and ugly if you ask me and totally uneccesary as I understand a lot of offices are still empty.
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The Shard.
An emblem of the success of London/UK or a total waste of money?
Huge ego trip for someone in my opinion; also seems an odd place to site it as well. But what do I know eh??
I like it and think it adds something to the skyline
Waste of money"? - is it not letting well? Private money, no?
I think it looks great, why criticise it?
Built with just 40-odd car park spaces, most of which are for disabled use, apparently to "encourage green transport options".
I wonder how many bike parking spaces it has...
also seems an odd place to site it as wellwhat by a major rail station, yeh really odd
Btw, don't do what a guy at work did and google shart instead of shard, messy.
I think it looks great, why criticise it?
I think you're wrong, why not?
*runs to Google*
*wishes he hadn't*
Agreed, why not criticise it? Subjective surely, aesthetically speaking.
Prince Charles will probably have something to say about it, I hope it gets on his ridiculous tits.
DS you query it as a waste of money - only the investor will know the answer. He thought it was a better investment than refurbing empty office space.
Anyway he's got a great hairdo:
But with much of it not yet let or sold my question is more about the need for such a spectacular building.
During this period austerity, that we're in together, is the private money just showing off or is it a sustainable investment.
From a building point of view it seems to be quite a spectacular feat.
As a thing of beauty, it's gopping.
Well it started to be planed and built before the financial problems
The issue I have with the shard is mostly down to its size- not especially its height but the huge footprint at ground level and the fact that it's being used as a progenitor to a series of massive, TBH not very good tall buildings which are either just finished, in construction or planned.
Oh, and the not terribly shard of glass nature of it - it's a pretty bloody solid lump, not really like the visualisations at all.
I'm just waiting till next year when hopefully there'll be som PR beanos at the top. Yes, double standards
It's still a lump though.
Wasn't it built with a deal done for renting out most of the floor space already done, then they got greedy and bought out the contract believing they could make more.
But now find they are unable to let out space, which makes it a pretty impressive monument to greed.
An emblem of the success of London/UK
You do realise it was funded with Middle-East (Qatar) money, don't you?
I wonder how many bike parking spaces it has...
Apparently 250 were planned, not sure how many went in.
You do realise it was funded with Middle-East (Qatar) money, don't you?
Was it? OK I might have to rethink my opinion.
...and planned around 2000, 8 years before the recession?
and it's OK if it's a waste of eastern money, not UK?
I think its brill
The London skyline has been evolving over hundreds of years and it takes this kind of private investment to continue this evolution. Love it or hate it us plebs will never have much of a say.
But if you were rich/powerful enough to make such an impact on a major city would you? I would, it would be awesome! The Eiffel tower was hated when it was built.
I think the worse thing about the building is that it costs a family of four £90 to get to the viewing platform.
Edit....The Seavers tower.....nice.
As a building, I quite like it. Does it fit in that part of the city? Hell no!!
I've just landed the contract to wash the windows.
You are going to need a bigger mop.
You've no idea how big my mop is?
Ha ha...yeah silly me. Anyone who lands that kind of contract must have a whopping mop.
I quite like it, remember being on the top and couldn't wait to get back down out of the cold/sleet; shame they never probed as deeply as they could have into the King William Street tube tunnel. We had a good bash at it, but getting enough gear onto site to do it undetected was an impossible task.
Oh, and the not terribly shard of glass nature of it - it's a pretty bloody solid lump, not really like the visualisations at all.
What, like Canary Wharf? It's completely covered in glass, so it reflects the surrounding sky, and it tapers to a point, totally unlike virtually all earlier tall buildings, like the Sears Tower, Empire State, Twin Trade Towers...
If you stand on the Millenium Bridge it hardly dominates the skyline, unlike the untidy jumble of buildings on the North side of the river.
I don't like the look of it as much as the Gherkin but its probably a more usable building internally.
I can see it out of my office window, about 100 metres away and it looks ok, nice clean lines and so on.
I also like its profile when seen from M11 beyond the M25, Hog Hill Cycle Circuit, the A2 and even from Easyjet when coming into land at Gatwick.
As for an earlier comment about being unlet I think a lot if is already let to a hotelier and a lot more is flats so its not too screwed by the general weakness in office market.
Well none of those other buildings pretended that they'd be mostly transparent. The shard was sold on being a semi translucent building.
It is a lump, it's nowhere near transparent, the top is clever but the rest isn't.
At ground level it obliterates the surrounding area, the son of shard is a huge lumpen building, and the issues during construction damn it for me. It's not even slightly witty like GLA building or Swiss Re (even though they show SFNPs inability to get buildings to hit the ground successfully).
Looks bloody impressive at sunset when on the westerly runways at Heathrow.
The architect has no imagination ... Ugly slim pyramid IMO.
Oh look I can design one too ... yes, it's a rectangle building.
I really like it.
When I get up and set off on my bicycle on a morning I can see it from the top of the hill I live on and I think, right, that's where I'm going this morning. From 7 miles away, on a sunny day, it looks like an ice sculpture straigth outta Krypton. Then when I get to work and look out the window it's standing there majestically, ominously.
Yes, it's an ego-falice and is an expression of wealth and greed - it's therefore found its rightful home in that London.
Pretty impressive in real life. Dead cool standing underneath and looking up. Views from the top must be stunning
Wonder if it's been BASEd yet?
I think it stands out too much. Probably the whole point of sky scraper willy-waving.
I love it, up close or from 15 miles away on a hazy Sunday morning in Richmond park it is domineering like nothing before in the central London skyline.
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U.S. President George W. Bush bolstered his Israel-Palestine peace treaty plan this past week and called on the leaders of the two countries to make "painful concessions" during his two-day Holy Land tour.
The "painful" concessions will mean dismantling "terrorist infrastructure" and ending Israel's occupation of Palestinian territories, he said.
Bush marked the beginning of his eight-day tour to the Middle East with the renewed push for an Israeli-Palestinian peace pact - an accord he said whose "time has come."
During his two-day visit to Israel and West Bank, Bush engaged in formal talks with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, saying that the two sides needed to get serious talks started immediately.
"There should be an end to the occupation that began in 1967," Bush told reporters in Jerusalem on Thursday. "The agreement must establish a Palestine as a homeland for the Palestinian people, just as Israel is a homeland for the Jewish people."
Bush also called on Palestinians to confront terrorists and dismantle "terrorist infrastructure."
"Security is fundamental," the president said. "No agreement and no Palestinian state will be born of terror."
Bush also appealed for "Arab countries to reach out to Israel."
"In order for there to be lasting peace... Abbas and Prime Minister [Ehud] Olmert have to come together and make tough choices and Im convinced they will," he said in Ramallah.
"I believe it's going to happen, that there's going to be a signed peace treaty by the time I leave office."
However, Bush also reiterated that the U.S. cannot dictate the terms of peace nor the terms of what a state will look like.
"But we'll help, and we want to help," he added.
Both Abbas and Olmert agreed to work toward such an agreement at the Nov. 27 U.S.-sponsored peace summit in Annapolis, Md.
After two days immersed in Mideast peacemaking, Bush toured Christian holy sites in northern Israel on Friday, listening as robed clerics read him biblical passages about Jesus' days of ministry there centuries ago.
Bush visited Capernaum, a site where Jesus performed miracles, and gazed across the Sea of Galilee, where Jesus walked on water. The president toured the site of an ancient synagogue and held hands with nuns outside the Church of the Beatitudes, where many believe Jesus delivered his famed "Sermon on the Mount."
When asked how it felt to walk in Jesus' footsteps, Bush called it an "amazing experience."
During the visit, Bush was given a crystal statue inscribed with the words "Blessed are those who are peacemakers for they will be called children of God," from the sermon recounted in the fifth chapter of the book of Matthew.
Archbishop Elias Shakur, the Greek Catholic clergyman who showed Bush around the site, said he asked him, "Did you come as a politician, as a leader of state, or as a pilgrim?"
"I came as a pilgrim," Bush said, according to Shakur.
Bush also toured Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem, which he called a "sobering reminder that evil exists and a call that when we find evil we must resist it."
The peace effort was the centerpiece of Bush's eight-day tour, which ends Wednesday.
But Bush – only the second U.S. head of state to visit the Palestinian territories – faces the difficult task of winning over the hearts and minds of Palestinians, who are deeply skeptical about his ability to be an even-handed peace broker as Israel`s closest ally.
"I don't believe he (Bush) will do anything for the Palestinians," said Mohammad Khaldi, a 64-year-old Ramallah resident, according to AFP. "If he wanted to really do something, he had six years for that and he didn`t do a single thing."
On his way to Kuwait, to visit Sunni Arab allies, Bush said he'd would ask them to reach out to the Jewish state.
From Kuwait he was then scheduled to head to Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia and Egypt, where he is expected to discuss with U.S. allies in the region various issues including Iraq's security, the role of Iran in the region and others. Bush returns to Washington on Wednesday.


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How to approach business writing
Pre-writing consists of three key elements; analyzing, anticipating, and adapting *1. While in business writing the main goal is to express rather than to impress, the important first step in pre-writing is to identify the true purpose of the message, as well as to determine whether the aim is to inform or to persuade. The next step would be to focus on the reader's perspective and to consider the clarity and the succinctness of the message. Once these two steps are considered you need to set up an appropriate channel in order to efficiently communicate and deliver the content. This can be done through email, letter, oral contact, etc...
There are certain factors that are important when choosing a communication channel. This depends on the importance of the message, the required urgency of the response, the necessity of a permanent record, the cost, and the degree of formality.
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More than halfway to a 20-goal season, Niklas Hagman could perform a rare feat by an imported Leaf. Of the 50 players who'd had at least 20 goals when Toronto acquired them as free agents or in trades since 1990, Hagman would be just the 13th to get 20 as a Leaf. Hagman had a career high 27 with Dallas last season.
The others to make it are Mike Gartner, Doug Gilmour, Joe Nieuwendyk, Derek King, Alex Mogilny, Glenn Anderson, Dave Andreychuk, Kirk Muller, Jeff O'Neill, Gary Roberts, Igor Korolev and Darcy Tucker.
Those who didn't, to name a few, were Jason Allison, Bates Battaglia, Shayne Corson, Sylvain Cote, John Cullen, Mariusz Czerkawski, Dave Ellett, Mike Foligno, Ron Francis, Dave Gagner, Travis Green, Brian Leetch, Dmitry Khristich, Eric Lindros, Larry Murphy, Owen Nolan, Mike Peca, Matheiu Schneider, Dixon Ward, Terry Yake, Peter Zezel, and so far, Jason Blake, Lee Stempniak and Mark Bell.
Home cooking
The next four games will have a lot to say about the Leafs' playoff chances, four games at home against teams in its general vicinity in the standings.
"We're not a team that can look at anyone and say: 'They're beatable,' " centre Dominic Moore said. "Any team in this league is good, you have to be prepared for, especially when you're a team like us, that has to work for its victories.
"We're not focused on the playoffs, just trying to get better every game. We're still in the thick of it, but focused on improvement. We'll see where that takes us."
Defenceman Jeff Finger is not taking the next few days lightly.
"These are the dog days where the playoff races are usually won and lost," Finger said. "It would be nice to string a few together here where we have some comfort and we'll be home for a week and a half."
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Anton Stralman has an ankle injury that had kept him out of the past couple of games for the Toronto Marlies. But even with that setback, the demoted defenceman had no points in six games before last night.


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The defense attorney for Casey Anthony, Jose Baez, will be giving his first and only post-release interview to Fox News Channel's Geraldo Rivera tonight.
Baez has spoken out since his client was fount not guilty, but this will be the first interview since Anthony was released from jail late Saturday. His first post-trial interview went to Rivera as well, when the FNC anchor caught him at a restaurant near the courthouse.
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Next Time You Miss A Deadline, Why Not Change the Law?
Apparently, for well-connected law firms in Connecticut, there's a far more potent tool than pedestrian legal malpractice insurance for addressing legal malpractice claims: personal legislation. As this opinion piece describes, a Sylvia Kuehl retained a prominent Connecticut law firm to represent her interests in a wrongful death action after her husband was killed in a car accident. The firm failed to advise Kuehl that she could file for workers compensation and by the time she realized it, the deadline for filing has passed. So she retained another firm to sue the first one for legal malpractice. But before the case could go to trial, the first firm enlisted the aid of political connections in the legislature who sponsored a bill extending the deadline for filing claims just for Kuehl and moots her suit against the firm.
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Actor Idris Elba is thinking about the legacy he'll leave behind and hopes people will remember him for his varied career and the challenges he took on.
The British star is loved for his parts in TV shows The Wire and Luther but has also impressed on the big screen as Nelson Mandela in Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom and soon as the voice of panther Shere Khan in the live-action remake of Disney classic The Jungle Book.
"It hasn't quite set in yet. It's monumental and I'm so proud of it and I can't wait to show people," he gushed to Good Morning Britain when asked about The Jungle Book. "If my legacy was anything, it's that I've had a varied career and I've challenged myself and challenged my audience to come with me. So if anything, that's what I'd like my legacy to be. Moving forward, I'd like anything that pushes and challenges me further."
Now Idris can also add a Netflix Original film to the list: Beasts of No Nation. Shot in Ghana, it tells the horrific story of child soldiers forced to fight a brutal war. Despite the heavy subject matter and his evil alter-ego Commandant, Idris was drawn in.
"On the page he's a despicable character, but there were qualities about him," he mused. "So my character, you get drips and drabs of him, and when you first meet him you're like: 'Eugh!' But you can see how (young boy) Agu (played by Abraham Attah) is taken by him immediately.
"I can't watch a movie where a kid is being hurt, it brings me to tears, so it was tough in places."
Netflix subscribers can watch Beasts of No Nation now and it also hits cinemas in October (15).
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Dissident attack 'has united the community'
Dissident republicans who planted a bomb in Londonderry's city centre have only strengthened the resolve for peace and prosperity, according to city leaders.
City centre manager Jim Roddy and the mayor of Derry Colum Eastwood told the Telegraph that the 110lb bomb had succeeded only in jeopardising investment which could result in desperately needed jobs.
The two public figures were speaking as businesses reopened yesterday following the mass evacuation of people from the upper city centre on Sunday night.
The remaining cordons were lifted on Monday evening once forensic work was completed at the car park behind the Masonic Hall on Bishop Street, where the bomb had been abandoned in a beer keg inside a stolen car.
Mr Roddy said the viable device had cost some local businesses a day's trading.
He said: "It is up to all of us now to make sure this incident does not damage the city."
He said the people of the city had shown great resilience.
"The more these people try and stop us the more people will come together in partnership, forming bonds and partnerships from across all sectors, and indeed from all communities."
Mr Eastwood said: "The only way to beat these people is to build an economy that has hope and a future for local people.
"That is what we need to be offering our young people. Those responsible cannot offer anything."
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An Israeli settler who infiltrated the settlement of Morag in the Gaza Strip stabbed a female Israeli soldier as she tried to evacuate settlers on Wednesday. The stabbing took place outside of a synagugue in the settlement. The settler was arrested while the soldier reportedly suffered light wounds, according to Haaretz daily.
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon responded to the incident and to other clashes between soldiers and settlers on Wednesday by calling on settlers to refarin from attacking the soldiers. "I want to truly appeal to everyone, not to attack the police, the women and men soldiers and police. Don't blame them. Don't make it hard on them. Don't hurt them, hurt me."
"I am responsible for this", Sharon said. "Hurt me. Blame me. Don't hurt the soldiers and police who are in any case in a state of distress."
Israeli President Moshe Katzav told reporters that Sharon meant that the settlers should criticise him, not "hurt" him.
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Neel Kashkari Wants to Be a New Kind of Republican
Neel Kashkari, 40, Republican candidate for governor of California, sits in the front passenger seat of a rented Nissan Versa, head tilted forward, eyes on his BlackBerry, squinting from the morning sun that streams through the windshield. He's cocooned, windows rolled up, awaiting word from his press secretary, Jessica Hsiang Ng, that the students, teachers, and administrators of the Central City Value High School, a Los Angeles charter school, are ready for him. When the time comes to start campaigning, he'll do his best to listen, empathize, and connect as a politician on the campaign trail must. Until then he'll remain isolated, in his bubble. He's calculated there's very little to be gained from unscripted interaction.
At 10 a.m., Kashkari emerges, blue shirt tucked into khakis, brown shoes, his shaved, bullet-shaped head rising on a thin neck from a starched collar. He crosses the parking lot, enters the school, and then his smile appears. The corners of his mouth turn up, and he's delighted to meet with the awaiting students and teachers. Karen, a senior, plans to attend California State University at Northridge. Brittany, a sophomore, shows him an art classroom. At every turn, he looks completely engrossed.
Kashkari is here because he says he believes charter schools are among the solutions to the state's education problems. He has crunched the data, run the numbers, and concluded there are two issues Californians care most about: jobs and education. While Kashkari walks the halls, the president and interim chief executive officer of Value Schools (there are two, both in L.A.), Gerry Jacoby, quietly says, "All these politicians think charter schools are this magic solution. They have no idea how hard it is to actually start one up. I want to tell him." She never gets the chance. That isn't part of the plan. After his walkthrough, he's gone, back into the Nissan.
Kashkari, an engineer by training, earned an MBA at the Wharton School and went on to become the Treasury Department's assistant secretary for financial stability. He's trying to problem-solve his way to the Republican nomination for governor of California. On a spreadsheet, he's a formidable candidate: young, ethnic, liberal on social policies, and fiscally conservative. Yet the one thing that doesn't chart is the ability to connect with voters. "He's not that hyperbolic, emotional candidate. He's kind of the opposite of that," says Aaron McLear, chief strategist for the campaign. "But I do think that he has passion."
Before launching his run, Kashkari says, he saw "three risks in running for governor: No. 1 was a famous fellow Republican entering the race. No. 2 would be conservatives rejecting me because I am not conservative enough. And No. 3 is a failure to connect with voters." Now he says, "I believe I have reduced those risks." As well, he perceived an opportunity to help redefine his party as more inclusive and less ideologically extreme. "When [Mitt] Romney lost," Kashkari says, "the Republican Party had been cast as the party of no, the party that hates women, the party of the rich. I saw this giant need. Maybe I can show the country there is a different kind of Republican." His goal is to make the party appeal to younger voters by focusing on fiscal issues and downplaying abortion and gay marriage, both of which the majority of Californian voters—and Kashkari—believe should remain legal.
The governor's race, or at least the Republican side of it, is a microcosm of what the national party will probably go through in 2016 as moderate Republicans battle with Tea Partiers to nominate a presidential candidate. The Southern strategy through which the Republican Party has succeeded nationally has resulted in demographics that skew older and whiter, even in California. "Over the past 20 years," says Mike Madrid, a Republican consultant, "certain ethnic groups, a lot of women, have abandoned the Republican Party, so that even in California you may end up with a candidate who would be conservative by Deep South standards. That sets back the party nationally." If a moderate Republican can defy the odds and become governor or even run within 8 percentage points or so of Democratic Governor Jerry Brown, he or she will immediately become a national figure. First though, he has to win over enough of the base to finish first or second in the open primary on June 3.
High-profile national Republicans, among them Romney, Jeb Bush, and Condoleezza Rice, have endorsed Kashkari. Karl Rove said at an April dinner held by the National Federation of Independent Business that Republicans would be "stupid" not to vote for him, citing the damage one of his opponents, State Assemblyman Tim Donnelly, could do to the party's standing among Latinos. (Donnelly, a Tea Party favorite, is best known for the Minutemen Project, a citizen patrol he co-founded to confront illegal immigrants on the U.S.-Mexico border.) On Hugh Hewitt's radio show, Rove went further, saying a Kashkari loss would be "problematic for the GOP." The candidate has assembled a team of veteran Republican operatives. He has spent $2 million of his own money so far; the campaign's most recent filings show it has $1.4 million on hand. "If Kashkari beats the point spread," says John Pitney, a former national GOP official and a professor of government at Claremont McKenna College, "he's got a great political future."
Kashkari is not prone to sentimentality, yet he sounds wistful about the three years he spent in Washington working closely with Secretary of the Treasury Henry Paulson. While there, he implemented various financial relief programs known by their acronyms: TSLF (Term Securities Lending Facility), PDCF (Primary Dealer Credit Facility), and, of course, TARP (Troubled Asset Relief Program). He has no doubt these staved off another Great Depression. "I realized I'm not motivated by money," he says of that period. "We showered in the office, we were sleeping in our offices, we worked 20 hours a day, we were totally focused … The three years I spent in Washington were the most rewarding time of my life. We did really important work for the American people."
The son of first-generation immigrants from Kashmir, the disputed territory between Pakistan and India, Kashkari grew up in Stow, Ohio, a suburb of Akron. His father was an engineer, his mother a doctor, and childhood friends recall his knack for building, designing, and tinkering. He attended the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he also earned his master's degree in engineering and led an 80-person team that designed a prize-winning solar car for a race across America. While in Champaign he met Minal Jayswal, his future wife. (The couple divorced amicably in 2011 and have no children.)
He went to work at TRW in Los Angeles, designing satellites for NASA. "I absolutely loved it," he says. "And my managers were encouraging me to go get a Ph.D. But I thought, 'If I get a Ph.D., I'll be in R&D for the rest of my life.' So I went to business school instead." He interned at Goldman Sachs between his first and second years at Wharton and joined the firm as an investment banker in Silicon Valley after graduating. In 2006, while at Goldman, Kashkari applied for a White House fellowship and asked for a recommendation from then-Goldman CEO Paulson, who made a few calls looking into the worthiness of the young banker before signing off on a letter. (Kashkari didn't get the fellowship.) When Paulson was appointed Treasury secretary a few months later, Kashkari cold-called him. Paulson's secretary called back the next day and said Paulson would like to speak with him.
"Where is he?" Kashkari asked.
"He's in Washington," the secretary replied.
"Tell him I'm going to be in Washington tomorrow." Kashkari had no plans to be in Washington.
"He doesn't want to meet you. He just wants to talk to you."
"But I'll be in Washington."
"No, you're in California."
"No, I'm going to be in Washington. Tell him that."
A few minutes later, the secretary called and said Paulson would meet in person the next day. Kashkari caught the red-eye. Later, when Paulson hired him, Kashkari excitedly called his wife, who asked how much he would be making. He had no idea. (His starting salary at the Department of the Treasury was $140,000.)
The collapse of Lehman Brothers, the bailout of American International Group, the struggle to get the TARP legislation passed, and the subsequent congressional testimony would make Kashkari a national figure, a CNBC regular, and the lone bureaucrat to appear in People's 2008 "Sexiest Men Alive" issue. In accounts of that traumatic period, such as Andrew Ross Sorkin's Too Big to Fail and Paulson's memoir, On the Brink, Kashkari comes across as a cool hand whom the secretary relied upon to make sure, as Kashkari puts it, "the banks weren't jamming us with all this garbage."
Designed to facilitate the orderly dispersal of some of that garbage, TARP was conceived by Kashkari, and he's proud of his ownership. "I don't just say I worked on TARP. I designed it, I negotiated it, I ran it for two presidents. I own it."
He served three months under Barack Obama, whom Kashkari, a lifelong Republican, voted for after they met during the financial crisis. He came back to California in 2009 to work for Bill Gross at Pimco, starting that company's first equity funds. "I'm not a stockpicker," he says of his role building the business. "I hired the stockpickers." The funds were not stellar performers. He left in early 2013 after a meeting with George W. Bush in Texas, where he asked the former president if he should run for governor. "He could have told me, 'Neel, this is stupid.' But he didn't."
Brown is running unopposed on the Democratic side of the primary and will likely win reelection. He has presided over an economic recovery and has a 59 percent approval rating. No Republican holds statewide office, and Democrats enjoy large majorities in both houses of the state legislature. "If anyone tells you the Republican Party in California is in good shape, they are lying," says Reed Galen, a GOP strategist and political consultant. At 29 percent statewide registration, the party is increasingly in the hands of far-right activists. At the moment, the moderate Kashkari is trailing Donnelly and, in some recent polls, a registered sex offender named Glenn Champ. "I don't think I'm the most likable person in the world," Kashkari concedes. "But I'm fine. I think I'm offering a vision."
"This is a first pass. This is a getting-to-know-you contest," says Larry Gerston, a political science professor at San Jose State University and author of Not Too Golden After All: The Rise and Fall of California. "I don't think he expects to win. He knows he won't win the general, but Jerry Brown is out in 2018, and Kashkari will have this dry run, get to become a better speaker, figure out how to connect with people, make his case. As an engineer, he's thinking downstream."
Donnelly, the Republican front-runner, is channeling the resentment so many California Republicans feel after six years of Obama and three terms of Brown, and particularly their anger about the governor's plan to build a costly, high-speed rail link between the Bay Area and Southern California. Donnelly sits in a restaurant in Hollywood, dipping French fries into blue cheese sauce. With his receding hairline, goatee, red face, and rapid-fire diction, he's a cross between the motivational speaker from Chris Farley's famous Saturday Night Live sketch and firebrand Texas Representative Louie Gohmert. He rides around in a bus named the Liberty Express and calls his 17-year-old son, Daniel, his campaign manager. The former owner of Donnelly Plastic Equipment, he claims he was driven out of business by excessive government regulation. The Minutemen co-founder gave a speech in 2006 in which he compared rooting out illegal immigrants to the war in Iraq. He was arrested in 2012 for carrying a loaded firearm into an airport. When asked during an interview if he was packing, he cackled and said he no longer discusses his personal security.
A veritable Tea Party sound bite machine, Donnelly uses words such as freedom, liberty, and justice as a form of punctuation, as in this answer to a question about his platform: "Rather than bring a message about issues, I have to tie it to the human experience. Republicans haven't been able to. Justice. I believe our platform, well, freedom—freedom is the antidote to injustice." He fervently opposes any path to citizenship for undocumented residents, wants to eliminate all business and environmental regulations, and doesn't want the government "to dictate our lives," he says.
That message plays well with what remains of the Republican Party in California, and watching him address a room of conservatives after Kashkari has given his measured self-introduction is like watching someone feed gazelle entrails to hungry lions. Donnelly's story, of driving to California from Michigan with $300 in his pocket, building a business, marrying his Filipino American wife, and raising five children—with steady doses of how the California dream has been ruined by liberals, illegal immigrants, drug cartels, Jerry Brown, Barack Obama, and Obamacare—makes him the embodiment of California's angry Republican id. "The moderate appeal doesn't energize voters in a primary," Claremont McKenna's Pitney says. "The base doesn't get excited about moderation."
Kashkari, who lives in a $10 million house in Laguna Beach, likes to walk his dogs along the Pacific in the early evening. The two slobbering Newfoundlands are named Newsome and Winslow, after two Cleveland Browns tight ends. It's safe to say Newsome and Winslow have no idea of the critical role they play in their owner's campaign. While Donnelly excites the base with his promise to bring "more country into the country club," Kashkari and his consultants deploy the hounds when they want to present the candidate's nonwonky side.
On a recent walk, he describes himself as Hindu, though not practicing, and says his libertarian views stem from that faith's many representations of God: "Hinduism believes there are many paths to God. I'm not here to tell you your path is wrong." Kashkari is surprisingly disconnected from pop culture and current events. He'd never heard of actress Mindy Kaling, who coined the phrase "culturally Hindu" to describe the outlook of second-generation South Asian Americans such as herself and Kashkari. He says he's not surprised at how the race has shaped up, that he anticipated a battle between the moderate and far-right elements in the party. It's just that he imagined he'd be winning the battle. "It's been hard, because so many Republicans have given up hope," he says.
If Kashkari doesn't win the primary, he says, he can't run a perpetual campaign. He'll have to go back to the private sector. "I'm not Mitt Romney. I can't run for office continuously. I need to work." A losing race for governor could even help him find a job back in public service. An incoming Republican administration in Washington in 2016 would certainly take a long look at him. By then Kashkari will be 42, and there's another governor's race in 2018.
Back at home, Kashkari discusses his longer-term prospects. Newsome laps water from a bowl next to a fountain. The dog finishes, swipes his huge tongue over his face, and sits, panting. Kashkari studies the massive amounts of slobber descending from the dog's mouth, wraps the leash around the fountain stanchion, and goes digging around in a palm tree planter. He emerges with a short twig he uses to spool up Newsome's drool as if reeling in a fish. Kashkari tosses the twig into a trash can and checks his work. One more problem solved.


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Issue No. 06 - June (1978 vol. 27)
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R. Nair , Coordinated Science Laboratory, University of Illinois
A fault model which views faults in semiconductor random-access memories at a functional level instead of at a basic gate level is presented. An efficient 0(n) algorithm to detect all faults in the fault model is described. The fault model is then extended to incorporate more complex faults. An 0(n ? log2 n) algorithm is presented for one such extended fault model.
test complexity, Coupling, fault models, memories, testing algorithm
S.M. Thatte, J.A. Abraham, R. Nair, "Efficient Algorithms for Testing Semiconductor Random-Access Memories", IEEE Transactions on Computers, vol. 27, no. , pp. 572-576, June 1978, doi:10.1109/TC.1978.1675150


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The Sin Bin
Robin Hood, Las Vegas and Waratahs bashing
ESPN Staff
July 27, 2012
Jamie Roberts takes in the sights and sounds of Las Vegas © @cheriesalazar
Welcome to the latest edition of The Sin Bin - our regular feature offering you some of the quirkier stories to emanate from the game we love.
There's not a ruck we will not delve into or a hospital pass we will avoid in a bid to bring you some of the more bizarre, humorous and downright daft stories, videos, pictures and soundbites from around the rugby globe.
Everything I Do...
It's one of the finest films of all time, and now - finally - it has a place in rugby. Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves - Kevin Costner's mullet-showcasing, geography-mangling early-90s take on the myth - inspired Northampton and England fullback Ben Foden to such a degree that its soundtrack, Bryan Adams' Everything I Do, was his first dance with wife Una Healy.
"When I was a kid and the film came out on video I used to sit and watch it on repeat three times a day for months on end," he told OK!. "I remember when I was seven I sat on my mum and dad's windowsill and sung it for everybody at a barbeque."
Vegas, baby!
Wales centre Jamie Roberts is continuing his rehab from knee surgery and recently took in some sights in Las Vegas before heading to South Africa for pre-season work with Cardiff Blues. Have a look at the picture above if you fancy a reminder of how boring your life is.
Fatty treats
Former Bath prop David Flatman weighed in on the Olympic debate this week and raised one of the more salient points about the upcoming London extravaganza. Where are fans supposed to get their Hog Roasts from? For his money, it's got to be Harlequins lock Ollie Kohn and his Jolly Hog boys.
Hey, good lookin'
He played a starring role in a shaky Worcester side at Thursday night's JP Morgan 7s Series event at Kingsholm and, according to his team-mates, Errie Claassens is also much, much better looking than you. The ESPN cameras were on hand to show all the action and the commentary team were also more than happy to discuss Claasens' nickname at the Warriors - The Armani Model. Jealousy isn't becoming, gentlemen.
Waratahs use the farce
The good folk over at The Sydney Morning Herald aren't enamoured with the Waratahs after another miserable campaign. Stodgy footy, poor crowds and promises of better have all come and gone, with New South Wales ending up a dismal 23 points behind the Reds and Brumbies in the Australian conference.
They were so bad, in fact, that they've become the latest group immortalised in a spoof video of Hitler's meltdown in the film Downfall. Blame the injuries.
Leg day
South Africa No.8 Pierre Spies took a moment out on Friday to offer further encouragement to his team-mates via Twitter. We're so afraid of the concept of 'leg day' with Pierre Spies that we've gone into hiding. While there, we will mainly be hyperventilating in a darkened room, waiting for Jolly Hog to arrive and save us.
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