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I trust you have a friend like this, too, a friendship anchored by decades of history and shared experience, one you needed to lean on in recent weeks because of recent events.
If the horrors of Sandy didn't visit you directly — if you were among the fortunate, as I was, losing only power and cable for a few days, not anything irretrievable or irreplaceable — then you surely knew someone who was, someone in Staten Island, or Long Beach, or Moonachie, or Point Pleasant, or any of a hundred different datelines.
Surely you have a friend like my friend Hammer, who's been a part of the Breezy Point community his whole life, who has been kind enough across the decades to allow me to visit, and come to know, that wonderful haven on the other side of the Gil Hodges Bridge. Who watched so much of that life disappear in a matter of hours a few weeks ago, who suffered some terrible losses, then walked among the segments of his neighborhood where the losses were beyond terrible.
And who said this to me last week:
"I know whenever something like this happens, you always hear people say, 'We'll build it stronger, we'll build it better, we'll be back.' But here … they aren't just words. I know these people, we know each other, and it's a real spirit, a real feeling, a real belief. We will be back. I've never believed in anything more."
So this is what I'm most thankful for this Thanksgiving, for the resolve and the determination and the stubborn resilience of my friend Hammer, and your friends on Long Island, and your cousins down the Jersey Shore, and your parents in the Rockaways, and your neighbors who, luck of the draw, had the tree fall in their yard and not yours.
I'm thankful that, despite some poking and some prodding, sports assumed its proper place in the days and weeks after the skies opened and the seas grew with fury. I'm thankful for the legions of runners who redirected their energies from a Marathon never run and helped feed and clothe victims still in the darkest hours of helplessness, who have raised money through their own personal 26.2-mile treks, who would have made Fred Lebow proud the way they have stood up for a city that he loved, that all of us love.
I'm thankful the first Nets-Knicks game of the inter-borough era will be Monday now, and not that awful first Thursday, when nobody was ready for games and fanfare, thankful that Barclays Center will play host to two of the sport's best teams, featuring players who have tried to lend their own healing hands to the suffering, both figuratively — by playing so well — and literally, by rolling up their sleeves and helping, without being asked.
I'm thankful the Giants — who seemed to carry the burden of so many of their neighbors that first Sunday After, when they lost to the Steelers — look and sound the way so many of us look and sound now, like survivors, determined to get back to the business of our lives. Which, for them, means throwing themselves back into the teeth of their season, starting Sunday against the Packers. And I'm thankful the Jets have embraced a more sober, more businesslike approach to their season, too. The clamor around them can be a lot of fun; just not right now.
I'm thankful for the reminders that sports solve nothing but can salve so much; and I understand why many thought that even the respectful few days of darkness was too little time, that we should have waited a week to resume, maybe longer. Maybe they were right. But I was also there on the Friday night when the Knicks hosted the Heat, and it said so much about who we are as a city, as an area: somehow, the place was packed. Somehow, the atmosphere was electric.
Somehow, we all escaped our troubles for a couple of hours, watched the Knicks begin what has become a splendid, improbable journey. Which really is the point.
On those summer days when I've visited my friend Hammer, I was always struck by the large sign that greets everyone at the entrance to that seaside utopia:
God Bless America
God Bless New York
God Bless Breezy Point
In spite of Sandy — and in an odd way, perhaps, because of her — that sentiment has never felt stronger, no matter which city fills in the third line of that mantra for you. Happy Thanksgiving.


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Justin Cook's World Cup Diary - Day 5
I arrived in Manaus: flying in over the canopy of the Amazon really was quite beautiful and managing to grab a blissful three hours sleep on the plane from Brasilia made my landing soft and dreamy but really alert too, due to the new aesthetic I was experiencing.
I got my luggage and was met by Daniel, the guy I booked with for my stay and he seemed a solid guy so all smooth on the arrival in Manaus.
As soon as you left the cool air of the terminal it hit you like a steam train - the unbelievable heat of the Amazon. It's not a piercing heat, but a slow cook deep heat. It is just coming into the summer months in the Amazon and I would imagine you would get the same level of heat standing next to a blast furnace in the old days in Sheffield.
My host Daniel is a wonderful guy and along with sister Rebeca run a lovely spacious four-bedroom house in the canter of Manaus. I checked in and sorted myself out. I met Rebeca and her partner Lieutenant Franco who was in the CIGS regiment of the army numbering over five thousand strong which were based in the area of where the guest house was situated.
The Lieutenant was a lovely bloke and the army in Brazil are like the guardians of the people and with such a corrupt police force here they are always there in the background in Brazil and interestingly enough are handling all of the sec He was a gentle likeable guy and we talked about life, politics and football for a while. He suggested I came down to the base and checked the zoo out. "The zoo?" I asked.
Back to that later; I want to talk about the CIGS's regiment a bit more as they are a pretty spectacular lot.
The CIGS are the crack jungle warfare unit based here in Manaus. These guys are no joke and are trained to sleep and feed themselves in the Amazon whilst conducting military exercises.
They have to run 10-15kms through the jungle in one go before a break, SWAT and the SAS are trained by these guys too.
I met a lovely man called Eraldo Cruz who had been enrolled for 27 years and was the main instructor there. He was trying to convince me to go on an exercise with him and promised that if I was bitten by a snake it would be ok because he could save me.
Priceless although I must say that if I did have to enter the jungle for any reason he would be the guy I would want watching my back as he was born in the Amazon basin in a small village and probably knew how to survive in the jungle before his thirteenth birthday at least.
Now back to the zoo. The facility is run alongside the CIGS regiment and has a collection of animals from ranging from five different types of eagles, jaguars, anacondas, cougars and monkeys (three different kinds). My favourite monkey was from the prego species. They have a similar character to a Jack Russell: cheeky.
The ethos of the zoo is to look after animals that are found injured on patrol or rescued from poachers and so too tame to release again.
It's a difficult call as the enclosures for the monkeys are really excellent and the wild cats are in fair-sized enclosures perhaps each one the size of half a football field but just seeing them caged made me sad, however I could see the positive side on the rescue front.
For instance the Gaviao Real Eagle was trafficked by poachers and the Federal police after busting them gave the Eagle to the zoo.
The CIGS soldiers are responsible for maintaining the zoo and have veterinary surgeons who look after the animals. The Eagles are kept in cages which is sad but the condition of the animals was excellent and if you are going to have a zoo the best place is probably the amazon for climate and diet conditioning requirements.
The bond between CIGS and the animals in time means poaching could be eradicated and with a the large component of native Indian conscripts who are within the CIGS I think poachers would have to be pretty stupid to take on these guys on their own turf with the skills and knowledge they possess.
In the second half of the day I watched the Holland game on TV and quite frankly Dutch attacking football is back and has smashed the Tika-taka into little pieces and how much fun were Holland having with each other and Van Hal.
I sensed a complete togetherness within the team and VP is back in a big way so next season at the theatre of dreams looks like a beautiful story unfolding.
The pressure on Rooney is massive now as VP is Van Hal's favourite, so Rooney not only has to deliver for us England fans but for his club future too. Stakes have never been higher.
Chile were lucky to have the win in the end as the Ozzies could of been alright if the second attempt straight after their first goal had gone in things might have been different, but in the end sadly I think they were outclassed and beaten up a bit by Chile.
The level of football Holland have set raises the bar high for England in terms of competing at the tournament and they will either fight of flight.
No point with Hodgson being too cautious as I think it's all about goal difference if the scoring continues like it, is so no draws or 1-0 will suffice this time. England have to score more goals than their opposition do, plain and simple, especially as our defence is not water tight yet by a long way.
And finally, before I go, at the end of my CIGS zoo trip I was sitting under shade with Daniel and we heard a big thump. Twenty meters away there was a bright Amazon green iguana laying on the ground who had fallen about three meters down onto the ground, I went over and had a chat and decided to call him Harry.
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Rumours that Apple will launch an "iPad mini" at its unveiling event tomorrow intensified today after more pictures of cases leaked online and retailers started advertising screen protectors for a 7in slab.
Mobile accessories manufacturer TeckNet has already touted packs of display protection sleeves that are supposedly "only suitable for the new iPad Mini".
The ultimate value packs - which come with 6 units - sell for £3.99 on Amazon. The web retailer emailed customers last night to promote the product, so while the slip could be a genuine gaffe on Amazon's part, many see it as a deliberate attempt by the Kindle Fire maker to derail the launch of Apple's rival slab.
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Bill, my firm recently told me I'm on the short list to be the next managing partner. While I know a lot about practicing law, I don't have real management experience. I feel like I need to get an education in firm leadership if I'm going to take the job. Any suggestions?
To begin, let me note that you'll be far from alone if you assume your firm's reins without prior management experience or training. When it comes to selecting a new managing partner, far too many law firms simply find a good lawyer who's willing to take on the job and, unfortunately, that person finds himself or herself holding the firm's reins without any training in how to do it right. And often, the reason prior management experience isn't a prerequisite is because nobody in the pool of available partners has any. So, the firms try to identify candidates who have demonstrated business or people skills. If you are on the short list, it is likely because you are a good lawyer and your partners think you can handle the business and people sides of the practice.
That said, there is so much involved in leading a firm that it's tough to master it all through "on the job" training. So it is a sign of your good judgment that you are thinking about your lack of management education even before you take on the job. To give you an idea of what you might do, I turned to a friend and colleague, Jeff Eberhard, who's the managing partner of Smith Freed & Eberhard, a litigation firm in Portland, Oregon. What he did might be instructive for you and other lawyers wanting to move into management—and for those who are already in the job.
Learning a New Kind of Curriculum: A Two-Phase Education
Jeff's firm was founded in 1987 by partners Bob Smith and Denny Freed, and he came on the next year as the firm's first associate. By the time he became managing partner in 1999, there were 15 lawyers on board. While 15 lawyers might not seem like a lot, it represented a big change for a firm that had started so small. Add to that the increasing number of support staff, the task of managing the office's physical requirements, the need to keep up with technology advances and the finances of a growing operation, and the job that Jeff faced must have looked daunting.
As you might guess, he quickly realized that managing a law firm is different from practicing law. And, ultimately, as the firm continued to grow in the next years, he recognized that he needed some additional training if he was going to succeed in meeting all the challenges involved.
So in 2003 he enrolled in a two-week course at Columbia University called "Essentials of Management." The course was a snapshot of the Columbia MBA program and, Jeff recalls, it was a "life-changing experience." Interestingly, he says the most important things he learned in those two weeks were about himself—and, specifically, how he worked with his people.
Before the Columbia course, he was "hard charging," he says, and "unreasonably demanding of myself and the people around me." But the program "softened him up" through a self-evaluation process. Moreover, during the program, the people who worked with him were asked to complete an anonymous questionnaire in which they were asked what they liked and disliked about his management style. "It was eye-opening," he recalls.
Jeff implemented a lot of what he learned at Columbia on both the business end and the people side. However, there are always new opportunities to improve, as he realized when the firm went through even more growth—expanding to 30 lawyers—over the next few years. At that point, in his seventh year as managing partner, he decided he needed some new "energy and focus" if he was going to keep up with the expanding tasks of managing the firm.
In 2006, Jeff embarked on what he calls "phase two" of his education, which entailed earning a Master's Degree in Law Firm Management through a program developed by The George Washington University and Hildebrandt Institute. Particularly attractive to Jeff was that the program combined distance learning with four on-campus sessions over two years. The program was broken into two parts—law firm management and leadership—and was very much, he says, "like going back to school, with assignments and projects and due dates." He also emphasizes this aspect: "They work you, but the assignments are focused on applying their methods to your firm, so it is very exciting and rewarding."
Where the Learning Pays Off Most
So, what key differences has Jeff's targeted training made at Smith Freed & Eberhard? While he learned much that enhanced his understanding of how to run a growing firm, the take-home message he offers is this: "It's about the people in your firm because they will continue the firm long after you leave." So, simply put, while you have to keep the firm's clients satisfied as a matter of course, your number one job as managing partner is "to take care of your people."
"If you don't have the soul, the culture, you become a factory," he adds.
That realization led him to rethink the way he managed his people. It also led him to realize that while too little money can breed dissatisfaction, money alone is not a satisfier. "If you give your folks opportunities to do interesting work and opportunities to move up the ladder," that's when they will be happy.
With regards to wages, he points out that the firm intends to be fair and competitive with the market—but with respect to everything else, "we intend to be superior." This includes a generous benefits package, with several innovative elements, the components of which the firm proudly lists on its Web site. Moreover, Jeff says, "we are now more open to more telecommuting and we've improved our maternity leave policy" to appeal to a broader demographic of potential employees.
There is also a distinct emphasis on a culture of teamwork at Smith Freed & Eberhard, with in-house training programs and numerous firm-sponsored events that encourage collegiality. In furtherance of that, Jeff also came to realize that the kind of lawyers they wanted at the firm were "humble, hardworking " ones, to help maintain a team-oriented and cooperative workplace. As a result, they are constantly looking for and interviewing lawyers who will fit in with the firm's culture, instead of simply waiting to interview when the firm's workload demands it.
He has also learned to be much more strategic in hiring new lawyers in other respects. "We don't hire people right out of law school anymore. We want people who have practiced law and have worked in a law office environment."
Importantly, the firm's management model also frees the lawyers to do what they do best—-practice law—because they "don't have to attend endless meetings to discuss what the firm Web site is going to look like," he says. "We hold partner meetings, but I am responsible for making the day-to-day decisions."
Jeff credits his time at both Columbia and George Washington for changing the way that he approaches his job, enabling him to manage such decisions in the best way possible. But he also credits the programs for providing advice and counsel to him on a personal level. He adds that "as managing partner your job is to lead and counsel people" but you need someone to "do that for you," too, which he obtained through the management programs. They opened his eyes by exposing him "to different schools of thought," as he puts it—leading to end results that were unquestionably worth the time away from the office. Jeff's firm now has 61 lawyers and he is beginning his 12th year as managing partner.
K. William Gibson is a personal injury lawyer and arbitrator in Clackamas, OR. He is President of the College of Law Practice Management and a Past Chair of the ABA Law Practice Management Section.


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The Lost Art of Pickpocketing
The venerable crime has all but disappeared in the United States. What happened, and should we miss it?
The mark strolls along a city sidewalk, fresh out of the bank, his wallet in his back pocket, blithely unaware that he's stumbled into the clutches of a practiced jug troupe. Someone shouts, "Look out for pickpockets," and when the mark hears it, he feels for his wallet. It's still there. A steer positioned across the street sees this and wipes his brow, signaling to an attractive stall walking toward the mark. She bumps into him, and while the startled mark apologizes for his clumsiness, the hook sweeps noiselessly past with a balletic grace and makes the dip, slipping out the wallet, dropping it into a newspaper and passing it to a second stall, who pulls out anything of value and drops the wallet in the trash. All four troupers promptly disappear into the crowd. It might be an hour before the mark knows what happened, and even then he may never be sure whether it was a pickpocket, or plain carelessness, that cost him his money.
Pickpocketing in America was once a proud criminal tradition, rich with drama, celebrated in the culture, singular enough that its practitioners developed a whole lexicon to describe its intricacies. Those days appear to be over. "Pickpocketing is more or less dead in this country," says Harvard economist Edward Glaeser, whose new book Triumph of the City, deals at length with urban crime trends. "I think these skills have been tragically lost. You've got to respect the skill of some pickpocket relative to some thug coming up to you with a knife. A knife takes no skill whatsoever. But to lift someone's wallet without them knowing …"
Marcus Felson, a criminologist at Texas State University who has spent decades studying low-level crime, calls pickpocketing a "lost art." Last year, a New York City subway detective told the Daily News that the only pickpockets left working the trains anymore were middle-aged or older, and even those are few and far between. "You don't find young picks anymore," the cop told the paper. "It's going to die out." A transit detective in the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority, which operates the Boston area's bus, commuter rail, and subway system, concurred via e-mail. "Pickpockets are a dying breed," he wrote. "The only known pickpockets we encounter are older, middle-aged men; however, they are rarely seen on the system anymore."
The decline of dipping on the rails is extraordinary. Subways were always the happiest hunting grounds for pickpockets, who would work alone or in teams. There were classic skilled canons—organized pickpocket gangs—at the top, targeting wealthier riders, then "bag workers" who went for purses, and "lush workers" who disreputably targeted unconscious drunks. Richard Sinnott, who worked as a New York City transit cop in the 1970s and '80s, also admiringly recalls "fob workers," a subspecies of pickpocket who worked their way through train cars using just their index and middle fingers to extract coins and pieces of paper money—a quarter here, a buck there—from riders' pockets. "They weren't greedy, and they never got caught," says Sinnott. Bit by bit, fob workers could make up to $400 on a single subway trip; then they'd go to Florida in the winter to work the racetracks. Many of the city's pickpockets trained elsewhere, "and if they were any good, they came to New York," Sinnot says, with a touch of pride. "In the subways, we had the best there were." Pickpocketing remained fairly rampant for years. Glenn Cunningham, who was part of an elite NYPD anti-pickpocketing task force in the 1980s and '90s (he currently handles security for Robert De Niro's hotel and film festival), says that pickpocketing in spots like Times Square was "out of control" at that time. "I made tons of arrests with those guys. We were like cowboys."
That was then. In a 2001 story, the New York Times reported that there were 23,068 reported pickpocketing incidents in the city in 1990, amounting to nearly $10 million in losses. Five years later, the number of reported incidents had fallen by half, and by the turn of the millennium, there were less than 5,000. Today, the NYPD doesn't even maintain individual numbers on pickpocketing. "It's hardly a problem anymore," says a department spokesperson. The FBI's definition of the crime is more inclusive than what we would consider a classic pick—the bureau defines it as "the theft of articles from a person by stealth where the victim usually does not become immediately aware of the theft," according to a spokesman—but even broadly defined, that category of larceny-theft has been falling sharply for years.
Experts offer a few explanations for the gradual disappearance of pickpockets in the United States. Crime nationwide—from pickpocketing to homicide—has been dropping since the mid-1990s. People carry less cash today, and thanks to enhanced security features, it's harder for thieves to use stolen credit or debit cards than it was in the past. And perhaps most important, the centuries-old apprenticeship system underpinning organized pickpocketing has been disrupted. Pickpocketing has always perpetuated itself by having older hooks—nicknamed "Fagins," after the crime boss in Oliver Twist—teach younger ones the art, and then absorbing them into canons. But due to ratcheted-up law enforcement measures, including heftier sentences (in some states, a pick, defined as theft from the body of another person and charged as a felony regardless of the amount taken) and better surveillance of hot spots and known pickpockets, that system has been dismantled.
This is not the case in Europe, where pickpocketing has been less of a priority for law enforcement and where professionals from countries like Bulgaria and Romania, each with storied traditions of pickpocketing, are able to travel more freely since their acceptance into the European Union in 2007, developing their organizations and plying their trade in tourist hot spots like Barcelona, Rome, and Prague. "The good thieves in Europe are generally 22 to 35," says Bob Arno, a criminologist and consultant who travels the world posing as a victim to stay atop the latest pickpocketing techniques and works with law enforcement agencies to help them battle the crime. "In America they are dying off, or they had been apprehended so many times that it's easier for law enforcement to track them and catch them."
But even if Fagins abounded in the United States, it's unclear whether today's shrinking pool of criminally minded American kids would be willing to put in the time to properly develop the skill. "Pickpocketing is a subtle theft," says Jay Albenese, a criminologist at Virginia Commonwealth University. "It requires a certain amount of skill, finesse, cleverness, and planning, and the patience to do all that isn't there" among American young people. This is "a reflection of what's going on in the wider culture," Albenese says. If you're not averse to confrontation, it's much easier to get a gun in the United States than it is in Europe (though the penalties for armed robbery are stiffer). Those who have no stomach for violence can eke out a living snatching cell phones on the subway, which are much easier to convert to cash than stolen credit cards, or get into the more lucrative fields of credit card fraud or identity theft, which require highly refined skills that people find neither charming nor admirable in the least. Being outwitted mano a mano by a pickpocket in a crowded subway car is one thing; being relieved of your savings by an anonymous hacker is quite another.
Is it wrong to be nostalgic for pickpocketing? Perhaps, but it's understandable. Pickpockets have long been admired, even celebrated, in American culture, invoked as a sort of shorthand for the honorable thief, a figure of great skill, panache, and even good old-fashioned American enterprise. In Timothy Gilfoyle's book, A Pickpocket's Tale, 19th-century pickpocket and con man George Appo is known as a "good fellow," who unlike other predators in New York's savage Five Corners neighborhood, "avoided violence, employing wit and wile to make a living." The Professional Thief, an influential 1937 tome written by an actual crook and edited and annotated by criminologist Edward Hardin Sutherand, brought the inner workings of pickpocket canons to the public. A breathless 1960 Popular Science article did Sutherland and company one better, breaking down the crime and likening the hook to "the matador, the star of the show, stepping in only for the kill."
Nowhere is this matador more favorably represented than in film, where aspiring wires are often shown practicing their hand on dummies whose coats are adorned with bells or alarms. In 1946's Heartbeat, a piece of treacle in which a 35-year-old Ginger Rogers inexplicably plays a teenaged French street urchin, the Fagin is a refined gentleman who insists on everyone in his class using proper English. The brutish pickpocket in 1953's Pickup on South Street, by Samuel Fuller, shows his heart of gold by aiding the fight against communist agents. More recently, in Ocean's Eleven, Steven Soderbergh establishes both Matt Damon's Linus Caldwell and George Clooney's Danny Ocean as nonviolent good fellows by having the former expertly pick a pocket on the CTA, only to be himself picked by Ocean immediately after.
Examples are many, but it's 1973's Harry in Your Pocket that perfectly embodies both the sex appeal of classic pickpocketing and the whiff of nostalgia that clings to it. Harry, a suave master wire played by James Coburn, himself trained by a Fagin from the unspecified "old country," recruits two young people to his canon. Inside his swank penthouse in Seattle, he explains the deal: "No whoring, no strong-arm. I have rules! Lots of rules!" His stalls act fastidiously, dress impeccably, travel in style, and stay in only the finest hotels. But there are hard times ahead. Society is changing. Harry's aging partner Casey is losing his edge, misty with nostalgia for the old days. "There's no sense of craft anymore," he tells a promising young stall. "Nowadays youngsters haven't got it, no patience, no discipline, they don't want to spend the time to learn. So they … hit some poor old lady over the head and grab her purse. … It shouldn't be allowed!" But there's something even more troubling afoot. "Credit cards are not going to go away," Harry tells Casey. "Like anything, money will disappear."
"Do away with money?" cries Casey. "That's ridiculous!"
"It'll happen."
"Communism! It's criminal!"
The movie was right on both counts, even if its timing was off. Pickpocketing continued to flourish for two decades after Harry's day, but extinctions take a long time. Even earlier, in 1960, Popular Science had older hooks already grousing that the next generation will be the one that finally casts the vaunted skill into disuse for good: "The old ones die off," the writer explained, "and the newer generations lack the gumption and application it takes to learn the business."
There are still a handful of pickpockets working cities, and some old-fashioned troupes on the road, according to Bob Arno, hitting big sporting events and smaller towns with "lax judicial environments" and police less adept at spotting dippers. They'll do it a while longer, if they don't make the jump into fraud or catch a felony rap. But by the looks of it, the day may not be far off when the fabled American hook of yore, stooped and trembling of hand, walks that subway platform one last time, pausing for just a brief instant to drop your empty wallet in the trash before calling it a day.
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The limited value of recent history
I've seen several pieces in recent days, some from writers whose work I often enjoy, making the same argument: President Obama has to "defy history" to win re-election because the economy is in such rough shape.
Here, for example, is Jeff Greenfield:
[I]t's with that skepticism in mind that I offer, not a prediction, but a flat pre-election assessment: If President Barack Obama is to win, he is going to have to overcome a set of numbers that no incumbent President, or incumbent party, has ever managed to surmount.
The jobless rate has been stuck at just above 8 per cent for months; you have to go back to 1936 to find a President re-elected with a higher unemployment rate.
Chris Cillizza made a similar point:
Mitt Romney should win the presidential election this November. While that may seem, on its face, like a somewhat controversial idea, consider the following:
The unemployment rate has been over eight percent for 42 straight months, a streak unparalleled in American history. No post-World War II president has ever been reelected with unemployment over 7.2 percent – meaning that if President Obama wins, he will be making history.
Derek Thompson published several charts from a variety of sources, all of which measure American economic performance under Obama against other presidential administrations dating back to Truman. Not surprisingly, Obama doesn't fare well under the comparisons.
There's nothing factually wrong with any of these analyses, or the others like them that have been published recently. In recent generations, incumbent presidents who run for re-election and won have invariably enjoyed more favorable economic conditions than Obama. Indeed, nearly every recent piece I've seen about Obama needing to "defy history" references the presidents "since Franklin Delano Roosevelt."
The problem with these analyses is appreciating what separates Obama from his modern predecessors, or more to the point, what Obama and FDR have in common.
In 1936, Roosevelt sought re-election despite 17% unemployment. One can imagine Mitt Romney, Karl Rove, and the Koch brothers running attack ads, reminding Americans that unemployment has been "above 17% for 48 consecutive months" as incontrovertible proof that the New Deal was a "failure."
But on Election Day, FDR won 46 out of 48 states. How could an incumbent president win re-election with an unemployment rate at 17%? Because voters realized the Great Depression wasn't Roosevelt's fault, and the economy was getting better, not worse.
Seventy six years later, President Obama is in a tough fight because unemployment is stuck at 8.25%. Is this high for a modern incumbent president? Obviously it is. But here's the detail I think much of the political establishment fails to appreciate: the Great Recession was a catastrophic economic crisis, unlike anything Americans have seen since the Great Depression.
When pundits compare Obama's economic record against every president since Truman, they're making a fundamental mistake – no administration was forced to confront a crash of this magnitude since FDR. Comparing Obama to the last 11 presidents is, at its root, deeply misguided.
Indeed, I don't think the political world has fully come to grips with the severity of the crisis in late 2008. This wasn't just another recession. It wasn't just a cyclical downturn. It wasn't a slowdown caused by interest rates or a dot-com bubble. It was an international breakdown of the global financial system – and it not only takes longer to recover from such a crash, the effects of the catastrophe linger.
The nation is still burdened by high unemployment four years after the disaster? Of course the nation is still burdened by high unemployment four years after the disaster. This recovery isn't as robust as other modern recoveries? Of course this recovery isn't as robust – other modern recoveries didn't have as far to go to make up ground. (They also didn't have mass public-sector layoffs undermining growth, along with the worst Congress ever.)
As I explained a while back, no president since FDR has won with an unemployment rate this high because no president since FDR has had to govern at a time of a global economic crisis like the Great Depression or the Great Recession.
To draw comparisons without this context is to take an incomplete look at the facts.


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The dark Knight rises.
RE: The dark Knight rises.
(24-07-2012 12:34 PM)ghostexorcist Wrote:(23-07-2012 11:42 PM)Filox Wrote: BLASPHEMER!!!
Just use spoiler tags.
RE: The dark Knight rises.
(24-07-2012 12:53 PM)kingschosen Wrote: Just use spoiler tags.
Here are my objections to the film (in no certain order):
1. Batman was only in the film for like 30 minutes.
2. The fight choreography was horrible. They telegraphed their movements way too much. The scenes with Ann Hathaway were the worst.
3. The Cat Woman character was hollow. If they had deleted her scenes, I doubt the film would have changed drastically.
4. You couldn't understand what Bane said because of the mask (don't get me started on the "Batman voice").
5. They didn't satisfactorily explain why Bane is so powerful. In the comic books, his super strength comes from the venom that pumps through his body. However, the movie just says he lived in a prison. Living in such a place is not going to give you the ability to punch holes in concrete support beams, even if you were trained in martial arts by a bad guy like Ra's al Ghul.
6. Bane was killed off way too easily. There should have been a final showdown between him and Batman. But instead, he was shot with a grenade or something by Cat Woman.
7. THE BIGGIE - The fact that Bruce Wayne overcame a serious spinal injury in just a few months. He literally had a vertebrae sticking out of his back. Normally, it would take someone years in a clean medical facility to get over such an injury. Yet, some guy with dirty hands fixed the problem by literally "punching" the vertebrae back inside. Then all Bruce had to do was some pushups and situps to get better. This movie is supposed to be set in the real world, so I can't suspend my disbelief that much. Hell, even the comics replaced him with a different person.
8. The girl who played Ra's al Ghul's daughter had such a miniscule part until the end. She was little more than an extra until she stabbed ol' Batsy and revealed her true identity. The twist at the end would have been more powerful if she had more of a presence to begin with.
9. Parts of it were like watching paint dry.
10. They should have mentioned the nuclear fusion machine in one of the earlier films. It just came out of nowhere in the third one.
11. A minor quibble - Dr. Crane (a.k.a. The Scare Crow) seemed to have his wits about him. How did he survive being exposed to his own medicine? Bruce Wayne almost died from a normal dose, but Lucius Fox saved his life. Rachel Dawes was given a concentrated dose and almost died within a few minutes. So Crane should have been dead.
12. They killed off Bruce Wayne. I realized the story hinted at Bruce wanting his own life, but he could have lived his own life by saving Gotham and retiring his Batman persona. Knowing that he survived made Alfred's tears pointless. Another thing that bothered me was the way he turned his back on the company that his dead father started. He runs it into the ground between the second and third movies, and then it is liquidated at the end. The ending regarding his death was predictable as well. I easily guessed that he had fixed the auto pilot.
13. Batman didn't actually die. This took the emotional power away from Gotham's tribute to him. There is a reason why real martyrs are so well respected. Sure, Gotham doesn't know that he didn't die, but the viewers do.
14. This one is connected to the end of the second one. I thought it was stupid how Batman took credit for Harvey Dent's murders. They could have just blamed it all on the Joker. This plot line was then carried over into the third one.
These are just the ones that come to mind. I'm sure I had other objections. Remember, these are simply my opinions of the film. There is no reason to get bent out of shape over them.
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yeah the back thing annoyed me more than bains voice. I think the movie took place Over the course of a year, even then It's unlikely his back would heal in that time. The punch to the back would have done more damage. If somehow he had his hands on some kind of back support type thing made by fox, it would have made alot more sense. I think this film would have made a better middle film, with the dark knight being the final one of the trillogy it would have been a better way to finish it off.
Behold the power of the force!
30-07-2012, 02:29 AM (This post was last modified: 30-07-2012 02:40 AM by Filox.)
RE: The dark Knight rises.
I watched the last Batman. A good movie, but it did somehow lack the action... Too little Batman, too much everyone else. And what was with Bane and his mask, where was the Venom and the explanation for his great strength? They didn't do these details as they should have...
I have to ask you about the end of the movie, most of you said the the Bat dies at the end, so I guess you had an alternative ending.
What was the last scene in the movie?
Because my last two scenes were:
1)Lucius Fox comes to his employees that are working on the Batcopter, probably the second prototype and asks them something about autopilot, at which they reply that it was fixed, that there was a software patch and the ID was Bruce Wayne.
2) In this last scene we see Alfred in his coffee bar in Florence, as he sits down and takes the newspapers, he sees Bruce on the other table. They just smile to each other and the movie is over.
So, how could you people speculate did he die or survive? He clearly survived and he clearly updated his autopilot.
The main thing here is what Bat actually did. He killed Bruce Wayne, this way he has let go of his private life and he can now dedicate himself to only Batman. Bruce Wayne was in a way all the time, now he is free to be who he really is and no one can find out his true identity now, since he is only Batman and Bruce is dead.
I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.
-Hunter S. Thompson
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Batman relies on Wayne Tech, he needs Bruce to be able to get such technology. killing Bruce just to focus on Batman is silly to me.
Credit goes to UndercoverAtheist.
RE: The dark Knight rises.
Yes, I thought about that as well, but if we follow The Bat and his "superpower", we must realise that he plans everything in advance. This is his primary weapon, planing and readiness. So I am sure that he has made preparations for the event of not having Bruce Wayne and his money around. Also, there is the problem of stealing his equipment, just as Bane did in the movie. In the new comics I didn't see Bruce anywhere, Batman lives in his new headquarters in space, where the Justice League is situated. And, you could clearly see how the persona of Bruce Wayne is influencing the decisions of Batman, whether it is to protect someone Bruce cares about, or to hide his identity, or to protect those who he loves. By eliminating the Bruce feature, he is now able to fully devote himself to unscrupulous Batman morality and actions. He has quite a strange morality as Batman, there are limits to his actions, but he also breaks all sorts of "normal moral values" to protect the Gotham and to achieve the greater good. He has proven that in the Tower of Babel comic and he could do something like that only if Bruce is no more.
I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.
-Hunter S. Thompson
RE: The dark Knight rises.
I liked it, even though there were numerous problems.
Bury me with my guns on, so when I reach the other side - I can show him what it feels like to die.
Bury me with my guns on, so when I'm cast out of the sky, I can shoot the devil right between the eyes.
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I liked it even with its flaws. I don't think that they could have topped the second one. Not just because of the joker, but the pacing and direction of the movie was better. The choice of Bane as the main antagonist is questionable.
No Gods Or Kings. Only Man.
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(11-08-2012 05:49 AM)BioRichtofen Wrote: I liked it even with its flaws. I don't think that they could have topped the second one. Not just because of the joker, but the pacing and direction of the movie was better. The choice of Bane as the main antagonist is questionable.
Oh yes the Dark Knight was the best of the trilogy. Bane wasn't that great of a villain, they did Bane I think to combine Knight Fall with No Mans Land, however the plot of the movie and pacing wasn't that great for it.
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Washington: Secretary of State John Kerry says Iraq must do more to stop weapons from flowing into and out of Syria for use against Iraqi citizens.
Kerry met on Thursday with Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari. Kerry said that since he visited Baghdad in March, some progress has been made to stop Iraq from being a transit zone for weapons. But he says "very significant" progress has yet to be made.
So-called overflights have been a source of contention. Iraq and Iran claim the flights carry humanitarian goods. But American officials believe the planes are being used to arm the regime of embattled Syrian President Bashar Assad.
Kerry also raised concern about rising sectarian violence in Iraq nearly two years after the US withdrawal.


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NEW YORK (AP) — Stock futures are rising on strong quarterly earnings from U.S. corporations and optimism that a deal to avoid the so-called fiscal cliff can be reached before Jan. 1.
Dow Jones industrial futures are up 57 points to 12,627. The broader S&P futures have added 7.2 points to 1,367. Nasdaq futures are up 15.5 points to 2,548.50.
Home improvement company Lowe's said Monday that its third-quarter profit surged 76 percent. That follows a quarterly report from Home Depot last week, which raised its outlook for the year.
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The Republic of Ireland international missed Sunday's 2-1 home defeat by Chelsea and afterwards manager David Moyes said he expected the player to be out for a while.
On Monday Moyes was able to put a more specific timescale on Gibson's absence, saying: "I think he's going to be out for about four weeks."
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Steven N. Blair, PED, is a professor at the Arnold School of
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MINNEAPOLIS (Reuters) - Representative Michele Bachmann, known for her outspoken opposition to gay rights and abortion and a bid for the Republican presidential nomination, was confirmed on Wednesday as the winner in a congressional district redrawn in her favor.
The champion of the Tea Party movement edged out businessman Jim Graves by just 4,207 votes, or a little over 1 percent of the 357,035 votes cast in the Minnesota 6th Congressional District, according to the final unofficial results from the Secretary of State.
On Wednesday morning, Graves conceded the race and congratulated Bachmann on her victory. His campaign confirmed it would not ask for a recount.
A campaigner for smaller government and opposed to abortion and gay rights, Bachmann was running in what has been regarded as the most conservative-leaning district in Minnesota.
Her bid for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination raised her name recognition nationally, but left her vulnerable in her race for a fourth term to accusations by Graves that she was not representing district interests.
Some of her remarks, including an insistence on a link between an aide to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and the Muslim Brotherhood, were denounced by some in her own party.
Bachmann, a former Minnesota state senator, had never won more than 53 percent of the vote in the district and won by only 3 percentage points in the presidential election year of 2008.
The redrawing of districts after the 2010 census put Bachmann, who lives in Stillwater near Minnesota's border with Wisconsin, outside of the sprawling district that takes in suburbs to the east, north and west of Minneapolis and St Paul and stretches northwest to include farms and smaller cities.
It was the nation's most expensive House race in terms of both money raised and spent by the candidates as of mid October, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. The candidates had raised a total of $22.7 million and spent $20.8 million, the center reported, but Bachmann outspent Graves by more than 12 to 1.
Bachmann sought to tag Graves, founder of the AmericInn hotel chain and now the head of Graves Hospitality, as a supporter of President Barack Obama's health reform law in television ads early in the campaign.
Graves criticized Bachmann as ineffective in Congress. Bachmann responded by running commercials that portrayed the herself as focused on the needs of district residents and able to work across party lines to reach goals.
(Reporting by David Bailey; Editing by Leslie Gevirtz and David Brunnstrom)


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I found a hard, fixed lump under the skin on Coda's rear left leg today. It's about the size of half a small grape and not moveable. The skin moves over it, it seems attached to the tissues under neath. It's just above her knee joint. Our old guy had many lumps and bumps as he aged that we had aspirated, that never turned out to be anything significant. This doesn't resemble any of them
She'll be 7 in March and I just said to my DF the other day that she's seemed a little melancholy lately and that we should get her in for a senior wellness check soon. She's kind of been our 'problem' child since day one (BYB puppy) with health problems, allergies, etc. She's been a very expensive girl to keep up with, to say the least! So my gut kind of tells me we're in for another round of something not so easy. I really, really hope I'm wrong.
I don't know too much about lumps or our options (outside of aspirating them). We'll be taking her to the vet next weekend - if aspirating shows we need to do something more what's the best route to go? Complete removal? Biopsy? Can all lumps be aspirated or does it depend on the consistency?
Sigh. I hope it turns out to be nothing major!
Mass under our beagle's skin
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My Classic Striped Renfrew Top
Added Jun 23, 2013
Heidelberg, Germany
This is my first version of the Renfrew Top. I cut a size 12 in the top part and graded to a 14 from the waist down. I wanted it to fit a bit toghter around the Bust, than the finished garment meassurements sugested. But now the shoulders are a little bit too narrow. So next time I'm gonna cut a strait 14 (or maybe grade from a 14 in the shoulders to a 12 around the bust and back to a 14 again).
Cutting the striped fabric was a pain in the *ss, but so worth it! I used Tasia's tips on cutting striped knit fabric. I'm so glad I didn't choose the long sleeves, for it would have meant a lot more stripes to match.
Sewing it together was a breeze! I thought I would have to redo the side seams several times for the stripes to match, but they did match perfectly the first time. I used lots and lots of pins and my walking foot, wich I think did the trick.
I used a twin needle for the neckline and sleeve cuffs wich resulted in an absolutely beautiful and professional looking finish. I love it!
I really love this pattern! I'm already dreaming up lots of variations i want to try (like sewing the cowl neck version in a sweater knit or lengthening the hem to make a dress).
See some more details in German here
Material Notes
Cotton Jersey
- For
- Women
- Garment Type
- Tops
- Style
- Casual
- Material
- Cotton, Knits/Jersey
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Jun 25, 2013, 11.23 AMby freakusbzzz
Finishing is wonderful, especially around the neck line.
Jun 24, 2013, 01.55 AMby mamaBsewin
Really nice job. It looks store-bought, but a little nicer with the stripes lining up.
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Jun 24, 2013, 06.51 PMby Schneewittchen91
thanks :)
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