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The story of a young man's outrageous adventures in China and his search for identity in the most unexpected of places.
Mitch Moxley came to Beijing in the spring of 2007 to take a job as a writer and editor for China Daily, the country's only English-language national newspaper. The Chinese economy was booming, the Olympics were on the horizon, and Beijing was being transformed into a world-class city overnight. Moxley planned to stay only through the Olympics and then head back to Canada.
But that was six years ago. In that time, Moxley fed a goat to a lion, watched a lingerie-wearing bear ride a bicycle, and crisscrossed the country writing stories. He also appeared as one of Cosmopolitan's one hundred most eligible bachelors in China, acted in a state-funded Chinese movie, and was paid to pose as a fake businessman.
During Moxley's journey of self-exploration, his comic adventures and misadventures in China gave way to the creation of his alter ego—Mi Gao, or Tall Rice. A funny and honest look at expat life, Apologies to My Censor also depicts the ways a country can touch and inspire you.
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I'm traveling for the rest of the week, so postings will be light or non-existent. But not quite yet. This is an expanded version of my latest Sunday print column:
Perhaps you've long believed that extremist Islamic terrorism poses the greatest danger to America. Well, the Republicans wish to disabuse you of that notion.
House leader John Boehner declared the other day that health care reform is actually "the greatest threat to freedom that I've seen in the 19 years I've been in Washington" - an enlightening assertion, since I'd foolishly assumed that al Qaeda scored higher on the fright meter than the prospect of Americans getting the same health protections that are common everywhere else in the democratized world.
Worse yet, real health reform hinges on a proposal that Republicans call "a stunning assault on liberty." They're incensed about the so-called "individual mandate," the idea that virtually all Americans should be required to carry health insurance. Republicans see this mandate as an unconstitutional curb on personal freedom, arguing in essence that Americans have the inalienable right to be uninsured; in the words of Senator Charles Grassley, "Individuals should maintain their freedom to choose heath care coverage, or not."
Republicans often have been quite successful in political disputes when they invoke words like freedom and liberty, which pack an emotional wallop. But there is also something called the social compact, the notion that the American community is strengthened if everybody pitches in. That's where the health care mandate comes in.
It's simple, really: An effective, affordable insurance program spreads the risks. If only sick and high-risk people sign up for health insurance, coverage will be too costly for many purchasers. But if virtually all healthy people are compelled to sign up, premiums will be cheaper across the board and there will be more money in the till for the sick folks who truly need costly care.
What's ironic is that many Republicans in the past have agreed with this inescapable logic. They were for the mandate before they were against it.
Earlier this year, Grassley told Fox News that there wasn't "anything wrong" with a mandate. Just as motorists are required to carry auto insurance, he said, "the principle then ought to lie the same way for health insurance." At least seven other Republican senators have spoken favorably of such a requirement (South Dakota's John Thune: "There are good arguments on behalf of getting everybody into the pool"), and 2012 presidential candidate Mitt Romney made it a centerpiece of his health insurance overhaul in Massachussetts (the ex-Bay State governor wrote in Newsweek that when the uninsured show up for treatment at hospitals, "require them to either pay for their own care, or buy insurance").
But Republicans, mindful of the need to placate the tea-baggers and right-wingers who equate health reform with various forms of totalitarianism, can ill afford to echo their previous statements. Nor they can afford to agree with their former Senate leader, Dr. Bill Frist, who has endorsed the mandate concept, arguing recently on the Fox Business Network that it's "about the only way" to achieve reform, that Americans "should be responsible to paying for it" - and face federal penalties if they don't.
The Democrats continue to tweak the proposed penalties, much to Boehner's chagrin. Last weekend, shortly before the House passed a health reform plan (thus becoming the first chamber to do so in the 60 years since Harry Truman put it on the agenda), the GOP leader delivered this statement on the floor:
"We have an individual mandate in this bill in front of us, that says every American is going to buy health insurance – whether you want to or not. And if you don't want it, you're going to pay a tax….Now, this is the most unconstitutional thing I've ever seen in my life!"
Translation: Even if President Obama ultimately signs a health reform law, the fight may well continue. The opposition could hire lawyers and ask the courts to throw it out.
Whether they would succeed is highly debatable. It's true that the Congressional Research Service has looked at the constitutionality of a mandate and come up empty, saying only that "it is a novel issue whether Congress may…require an individual to purchase a good or service," and calling it a "challenging question." But Supreme Court rulings since the 1930s put the reformers on fairly solid ground.
When Boehner declared the mandate to be the most unconstitutional thing in his whole life, he was presumably referring to the Constitution's commerce clause, which says that Congress has the power "to regulate commerce…among the several states" – in other words, economic issues – but certainly says nothing about requiring Americans to buy health insurance or any other product.
The problem for Republicans, however, is that the high court has long given the commerce clause an expansive reading, and allowed the feds to regulate all kinds of behavior.
To cite the most famous example, the landmark '64 Civil Rights Act invoked the commerce clause in order to bar whites from discriminating against blacks, even though the core issue was not economic. The court was fine with that. The court has overturned only two commerce-clause laws since 1935, as even mandate opponents grudgingly acknowledge, which is why Obama spokesman Robert Gibbs was correct on Oct. 28 when he said, "I don't believe there's a lot of case law that would demonstrate the veracity" of the GOP's position. (The high court nixed a federal law that curbed gun possession near schools, and a federal law making it easier for women to file gender-related claims. The court said that neither law had the remotest connection to national economic issues covered by the commerce clause.)
Health care, by contrast, is indisputably an economic issue. It would be tough for the Republicans' lawyers to argue in court that an insurance mandate falls outside the commerce clause – given the reality that health care costs have a major impact on economic commerce. In fact, the Republicans themselves have repeatedly made that link, by complaining about how the Democrats are seeking to restructure "one sixth of the economy."
The Republicans have also asserted that the proposed federal non-compliance penalty, which would target anybody who refuses to buy health insurance, is tantamount to a brand new tax. Maybe that's a good political argument – a new Associated Press poll reports that 64 percent of Americans oppose an insurance mandate if a non-compliance penalty is attached – but it's a lousy constitutional argument, because the high court has repeatedly upheld Congress' broad taxing powers.
Nevertheless, this is potentially fertile rhetorical turf for the Republicans. If health reform is enacted and signed, they can stoke conservative base turnout for the '10 congressional races by inveighing against the Democrats' "unconstitutional" attempt to require health insurance and thus infringe on freedom and liberty. And even if reform fails, they can recount how the Democrats tried to pull an unconstitutional fast one. The mandate is hardly a threat akin to al Qaeda, and I doubt that even the tea-baggers think so. But there's ample red meat in the argument that Americans resent being told what to do. Social compact notwithstanding.


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- Durata: 13 ore e 7 min
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- Data di pubblicazione: 10 12 2004
- Lingua: Inglese
- Editore: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
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With Fallout, James W. Huston scores big with his most riveting and thought-provoking thriller yet. The plot twists and turns with excitement until the startling conclusion.
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- Lori
- 18 12 2004
Definitely worth the listen
The story was very compelling. I found myself looking forward to my commute so I could listen to more of the story. It was exciting and absorbed my interest, making the drive fly by.
Having said that, I think there was a lot of military and governmental security stuff that maybe didn't have enough explanation for my knowledge base. For example, why was it a good thing to have a private military fighter school in existence? I had issues with the believability of the story. I can't say it couldn't happen for sure, I just like to believe such a cluster-something couldn't happen.
The other thing is the narrator. He was okay, but was mostly just reading the story. I had trouble transitioning from what one character was saying to the next character. But I was totally spoiled by the narrative team in the Ender Saga, and the narrator of the Da Vinci Code, so this guy has some stiff competition in my mind.
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- SoCal Anonymous
- 19 11 2009
mediocre book, poor choice of reader
The story was only mediocre, which could have been disguised with a really great reader. This reader sounded like an English college student and was a poor choice for this book. It often sounded like the characters, in a moment of high drama, were discussing which pub to go to for lunch rather than whether someone was a threat to national security!
It was often difficult to distinguish one character from the other also--the voices were pretty much the same. There were also many pauses in the reading that were extraneous to what was going on and detracted from the current action.
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- 23 08 2005
Not worth the Journey
Similar to watching a bad movie just wanting to get to the ending to see how the characters you have invested time in turn out, but you just cant make yourself do it. I had to buy the book and listen to it in my own voice as the narrator completely destroyed the story.
An english accent does not do an american fighter pilot justice no matter how talented one's voice could be. However, in this case, there is no talent as the narrator simply reads the story as he was in the third grade.
Sorry, I would pass on the audio. Buy the book.
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- J. Bavousett
- 27 08 2016
Great book, horrible reader.
The guy reading the story is no good. He tries too hard to separate words, making it sound horribly unnatural.
- 31 08 2015
Sorry it was done
Wish there was a sequel. Maybe give a little credit to a superior being when the miracles happened.
- Michael
- 30 03 2014
Definitely Worth Reading!
I found this book very interesting and often did not want to get out of my car but rather sat in the driveway listening to see what would happen next before shutting off the engine. The military story line is thought out and develops well through the book. There were a few loose ends that remained unfinished, but overall a good book.
The deeper story line here is showing yet another example of how American's feel safe in a world that is not so safe. Even though the story is fiction, it leads one to think about what other opportunities are out there for terrorists to attack within US borders that we do not realize.
- KC Kumar
- 13 11 2007
Great story, interesting to keep you on the edge of your seat... Clear, The reader was one of the best. Story line was easy to follow and a story I could easily imagine happening in reality. I enjoyed this book very much.
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- Mr
- 29 05 2018
Awful narrator, decent book
Worse narration I've ever heard on an audiobook. Monotone and dull. Very little attempt at making characters sound different and no emotion or excitement added.
Story seemed ok and I did listen to the end but narrator just made it seem dull and a bit difficult to follow.


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Eight Ways to Confront Extremism on 9/11
How to further tolerance and healing on this September 11th, an especially important time to speak up.
Sticking Together in Tough Times
With more workers facing long-term joblessness, the unemployed are working together for change.
2010 a Tipping Point for Renewable Energy
100 days into the BP disaster, it's time to quit claiming that an economy based on fossil fuels is our only option.
France (Not) to Repay Debt to Haiti
A prank website is bringing France's colonial crimes into the spotlight.
People Without Homes, Homes Without People
In New York City, low-income people fighting for affordable housing are taking on the developers of vacant condo projects.
Detroit's Renewal: Can It Inspire the Social Forum?
Detroit is known for its decay, violence, and gas-guzzling cars. With thousands of activists coming to town, will it also become known as a source of hope?
Haitian Farmers: So All Can Eat, Produce It Here
Haitians are working to make food sovereignty a key part of post-earthquake rebuilding.
Haitian Farmers Refuse Monsanto Hybrid Seeds
A coalition of peasant farmers is standing up for food sovereignty.
Jobs, Not Handouts
David Korten: Wall Street's plunge shows what's wrong with phantom wealth. Why support that system when we could be creating jobs in the real economy?
Cochabamba's Message: Let the People Speak
The World People's Summit broke new ground by allowing those most affected by a changing climate the chance to speak out about their ideas for just solutions.
A Climate Summit for the Rest of Us
Video: The Cochabamba climate summit was designed to respect the power and knowledge of world social movements and indigenous peoples.
Yard for Share: My Hyperlocavore Garden
When the internet connects gardeners with available land, surprising things can happen.
Haitian Women Mourn the Dead, Recommit to the Living
In Haiti, International Women's Day is a reminder of what women have done and are still doing to keep hope alive.
Homegrown Aid in Haiti
Many displaced Haitians are turning to neighbors, family, and peasant organizations in the countryside for help.
The Work that Reconnects
As residents plan Transition Albany, they're turning to Joanna Macy for guidance in building resilient communities.
Cancel Haiti's Debt
There's a growing movement to cancel Haiti's foreign debt as a way to return to the Haitian people the authority to rebuild their lives and their country.
What You Can Do to Help Haiti
The best options for helping the Haitian people recover from the devastating January 12 earthquake.
Nine Ways Our World Changed During the '00s
Corporations get still more powerful. A middle-class living slips away from millions. Climate change becomes deadly. War, and more war. Looking back on the '00s (uh ohs) and the nine trends that changed our world.
Climate Deal: Not Done Yet
Leading climate justice groups are signaling that the extraordinary global climate movement that came together in Copenhangen is just the beginning.
Tens of Thousands March in Copenhagen
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Keystone XL is still a questionable pipeline
Besides repealing "Obamacare," Mitt Romney has said he would issue a permit for the Keystone XL pipeline on his very first day as president. That's an interesting statement from a candidate who, when it comes to other issues, portrays himself as a standard-bearer for states' rights. In this case, he seems to be saying that as soon as oil crosses an international border, local concerns go out the window. Of course, on other occasions –- as when immigrants cross international borders –– local concerns count for a whole lot more.
Keystone XL would originate in the Canadian province of Alberta, pumping the heavy, tar-like substance called bitumen, then picking up oil from the Bakken shale while slicing through Montana and South Dakota. It's when the pipeline crosses into Nebraska that it runs into political trouble.
Protests were few when TransCanada, the pipeline company, laid the pipeline that was called Keystone I across Nebraska. But then, right after the route selection, there came the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, a giant spill of bitumen crude in Michigan's Kalamazoo River, and a ruptured pipe in the Yellowstone River. All raised questions about oil safety. The Kalamazoo spill particularly sharpened concerns over whether bitumen, because of its corrosive and acidic qualities, poses special hazards in pipeline transport.
Pipeline safety is a federal responsibility. Whether federal standards are up to snuff for bitumen is an open question, though. Congress has directed further study, a task delegated to the National Academy of Sciences, with a report due in 2013 –– probably an after-the-fact event if Romney gets elected.
Pipeline routing, by contrast, is normally a state responsibility. In this case, the U.S. State Department must approve the pipeline because it would cross the international border from Canada. Routing across the individual states is basically a state and local matter. In Nebraska, routing is subject to environmental review, now under way in a partnership between the State Department and the Nebraska Department of Environmental Quality.
Last fall, Republicans in Congress put President Barack Obama on the spot by demanding a decision. Sidestepping, he denied the permit in January but invited TransCanada to apply with a new route. In April, TransCanada did just that. This new route gives a wider berth to the Sand Hills as they are defined by the Environmental Protection Agency. But it avoids neither sand nor high water tables.
In early May, while doing research for a story, I visited a ranch along the Niobrara River that would be crossed by this new proposed route of Keystone XL. It's in the Midwest, east of the 100th meridian, but the setting has a wilder, more untamed feel to it. On the ranch of Karl Connell, I dug into the ground and found it to be sandy and wet, like what you'd put in a bowl for a pet turtle. The water table was just a few feet below ground. In other words, at least a portion of this new route looks very much like the old route. Nebraska Gov. Dave Heineman supports the pipeline, but Nebraskans remain divided.
John K. Hansen, president of the Nebraska Farmers Union, one of the organizations fighting the pipeline, sees Romney's support for quickly building the pipeline as rife with hypocrisy.
"Here is a guy who on one hand is railing against the excesses of the heavy-handed federal government," he said. "Yet they don't bat an eye when they're getting ready to ram an international pipeline down the throats of landowners and the state, without any regard for siting authority or the use of eminent domain."
The suggestion that the bitumen will make the United States more energy independent also seems fanciful. Some critics think it would end up as diesel and be exported to world markets. TransCanada's promise of 20,000 jobs has also been questioned; at any rate, after construction is completed, just a few dozen lasting jobs will remain.
In Nebraska, the cattle ranchers I met took a long view. Many who have lived on the land for four generations say they want better assurances that hasty decisions won't imperil their land and water. "If you don't take care of your land, it won't take care of you," a rancher told me. "You don't take care of your water, you don't have anything."
None of this, of course, can be boiled down into a 30-second campaign ad promising a quick fix.
Allen Best is a contributor to Writers on the Range, a service of High Country News (hcn.org). He writes about natural resource issues from the Denver area.
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KENNEBUNKPORT, Maine —
Real Maine Weddings magazine has announced the winners of the 2013 Real Maine Wedding of the Year contest have withdrawn.
Last month, the magazine announced Jenna Eagleton and Caroline Currie had won. They were the first same-sex couple to win the contest.
According to a post on the magazine's website, the couple decided to withdraw because Caroline's father, who has lukemia, has "taken a turn for the worst," and the couple wants to "spend time focusing on family."
Real Maine Weddings announced a couple from Kennebunk, Tiffany Vasquez and Patrick Jones have been chosen as the winners of the 2013 contest.
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Sinfield ignores past demons
Kevin Sinfield insists there will be no looking back when he enters Wembley on Friday afternoon for the first time since England's heartbreaking World Cup semi-final defeat there last November.
England were 20 seconds away from securing a place in the final when Sinfield shot out of the defensive line and missed a crucial tackle that enabled New Zealand half-back Shaun Johnson to score the match-winning try.
It was the latest in a series of agonising defeats the Leeds and England captain has suffered with club and country at the national stadium.
Kevin Sinfield's only focus when he takes the field at Wembley will be winning the Challenge Cup
He was in the England team that went down 36-20 to Australia in the 2011 Four Nations Series and was on the losing side in three consecutive Challenge Cup finals at Wembley from 2010-12.
Leeds were also beaten finalists at Murrayfield in 2000 and in Cardiff in 2003 and 2005 and will be looking to halt the dismal sequence when they take on local rivals Castleford at Wembley on Saturday.
Before then Sinfield, whose only cup winners' medal came courtesy of a brief quarter-final appearance during Leeds' successful 1999 campaign, will lead his team out for the traditional eve-of-final walkabout on Friday afternoon and insists he will have a spring in his step.
"There won't be flashbacks," he said. "I look forward to it and am excited by getting another chance as I'm not getting any younger and don't know if I'll get another shot. I'd like to think I would but we'll see.
"The chance of playing in a packed Wembley Stadium again whether we've lost in the past - which we have - doesn't put me off.
"I'm certainly not going to start dipping my toe in. I'm going to jump straight in like everyone else and try to get the most out of the game that I can and help my team as much as I can."
Oldham-born Sinfield is delighted to see Castleford make it an all-Yorkshire final but admits a Rhinos victory may leave him with mixed feelings.
It was Castleford coach Daryl Powell who appointed Sinfield captain of Leeds during his three-year spell in charge at Headingley and the two have remained close friends ever since.
Sinfield reckons Powell is a certainty to be named Super League coach of the year after transforming the fortunes of the Tigers in his first full season but is hoping to disappoint him in the final.
"It's remarkable what he has done, revitalising the whole town to get the best out of the players they've got," Sinfield said. "He's coach of the year definitely.
"They've got some fantastic players, don't get me wrong, but they're playing nine out of 10 every week and for a coach to be able to do that is superb.
"I like him a lot. I played with him, have been coached by him and, of course, he made me captain.
"I'm glad he's gone there and done well. He's a nice man and a very good coach, as we've seen.
"Hopefully we can be good enough on Saturday to get the result we want. It's just a shame it's against Daryl."
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Fifteen months ago, Dan Duquette was still outside looking in, trying to get back into major league baseball after nearly a decade away.
Now, after a whirlwind stretch in which he was the surprise hire for the Orioles' top executive post and then put together a patchwork roster that made the playoffs for the first time in 15 years, Duquette is near the top of the fraternity that had shut him out.
On Thursday morning at a news conference at Camden Yards, Duquette, the Orioles' executive vice president of baseball operations, and his manager, Buck Showalter, discussed their contract extensions that will take them through the 2018 season and give them more security, theoretically, than any other manager-general manager tandem in all of baseball.
"My personal journey was really to put everything I had into the job. These jobs don't come along very often," said Duquette, whose last big league executive post before being hired by the Orioles in November 2011 was as Boston Red Sox general manager in 2002. "When you get an opportunity to participate with a major league team and help turn it around, that's a special opportunity. So my interest was really in putting all my energies into the team and helping the team."
Based on available information, Duquette, who was signed through 2014, now has the second-longest contract in all of major league baseball for general managers, behind only Oakland's Billy Beane, who is contracted with the A's through 2019.
Showalter, whose original deal would have expired at the end of the upcoming season, now joins the Los Angeles Angels' Mike Scioscia as the only managers reportedly signed through 2018.
"It doesn't change anything as far as my job description," said Showalter, who has 1,078 wins in his 14 years as a big league manager and is 196-185 since taking over the Orioles in August 2010. "I've always lived under a day-to-day mentality. You look at everything like it is your last job."
For Duquette, the extension means he has time to implement the program that he thinks can bring sustained winning to an organization that had become one of the most fallow in the sport.
"We have to build our farm system so we can be competitive. And when you have some stability, you can put some programs into place that should be able to become routine so that your process gets better," said Duquette, who was the architect of winning clubs in Montreal and Boston. "So that you are more efficient developing players, so that [prospects] get here a little bit quicker, so that your scouting is a little bit more defined, so people understand exactly what you are looking for. And that's what the time gives you, an opportunity to build the organization from the ground up."
Despite nearly nine years away from big league baseball — time spent, among other ways, operating a sports academy in his native Massachusetts, developing a baseball league in Israel and running a summer collegiate team — Duquette got hired by the Orioles because of his plan to rebuild the organization through player development and scouting.
In one year, with deft management by Showalter, the Orioles won 24 more games than the previous season and demonstrated that they, at the least, had a solid core to build around. Duquette was integral in bringing in several unheralded players who contributed to the postseason run, including Miguel Gonzalez, Wei-Yin Chen, Jason Hammel, Joe Saunders and Nate McLouth.
But more so than the acquisitions, it was the way Showalter's and Duquette's strengths and styles complemented each other that led ownership to offer such lengthy extensions.
"I think it's just a testament to their working relationship, because there was never really much concern," said Louis Angelos, who represented ownership and his father, managing partner Peter Angelos, at Thursday's conference. "You can start with a standard three-year deal, but then it becomes, 'Let's go further than that. Let's make this about building a sustained, winning, competitive team.' And we got two guys who are really, I think, an unmatched team."
Duquette said he knew he and Showalter could work together well when he called him on Christmas Day 2011 to talk about signing Chen, and Showalter was engaged in the discussion.
"I said this is a man after my own heart. He wants to have a winning team," Duquette said. "I know that may not play well at home, but I knew that this was a passionate man that wanted to do everything he could to win a game."
Showalter joked back, "I think my wife understands how those presents got under the tree."
Although their personalities and backgrounds differ — Showalter's an outgoing, small-town Southerner and Duquette's a New Englander who on the surface is more cautious and guarded — both have built successful baseball teams only to be fired before those clubs reached the World Series.
Now, assuming they can continue to make it work, they are set to be together for the next six seasons, chasing a collective dream.
"Any good team that I've ever been around since Little League has stability at the top, they have clear direction and good players. And we have all of that here in Baltimore today," Duquette said. "And our aim is to build a perennial contending team that we can all follow closely and we can all be proud of."


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Guy M. (Buddy) Turner, 90, passed away on March 31, 2013. He was born on May 22, 1922 and graduated from McGehee High School in McGehee, Arkansas. Guy was a World War II veteran, serving in the 101st Airborne and the 224th Airborne Medical Company as a medic and glider pilot. Guy was preceded in death by his parents, his wife, Mildred F. Turner, and his sister, Martha Jo Turner Brown. Guy had no children of his own but is survived by two nephews, one niece, and numerous great nephews, nieces, and in-laws. Services will be at Woodland Memorial Park, Hwy. 16, Fairfield Bay, AR. Arrangements are by Olmstead Funeral Home. www.olmstead.cc


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WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is launching television and radio ads against Democratic Sen. Bob Casey in a Pennsylvania race that Republicans insist has become competitive.
The television commercial calls Casey the deciding vote for President Barack Obama's health care overhaul law, although he was one of 60 who backed the measure. It also criticizes the first-term senator on energy.
"Sen. Casey. Washington has changed him, and he's let us down," says the ad.
Rob Engstrom, national political director for the chamber, declined to discuss the amount of the ad buy. The chamber's move comes just days after the National Republican Senatorial Committee invested $500,000 in the race as polls show a closer contest between Casey and Republican Tom Smith, a wealthy tea party candidate who has spent more than $16 million on his bid.
"Pennsylvania absolutely is in play," Engstrom said.
The GOP investment in the Senate race also comes as Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney made plans to hold a rally in the state on Sunday.
Democrats insist that Casey has the advantage in the state and argue that polls showed him with a lead.
"The late timing of the buy is curious given how saturated the airwaves have become," said Larry Smar, Casey's campaign manager. "It isn't, however, new that Tom Smith is being backed by Washington, D.C., special interests and Tea Party groups."
Smar said Casey has a record of promoting energy jobs.
Casey is bidding for a second term against a Republican who didn't have the backing of the state's Republican governor but scored a surprise win in the primary. A political newcomer, Smith made a fortune in coal mining and has been on course to outspend Casey by 2-to-1 since July 1.
Last week, the Majority PAC, a Democratic political action committee, began running TV ads in Pittsburgh to help Casey. The commercial criticizes Smith for his plans to eliminate the federal Education Department, arguing that it would mean less money in classrooms and less aid for college students.
The Smith campaign said he has not ruled out keeping some Education Department functions, such as Pell grants.
Casey, a moderate Democrat, is the son of a former governor, a veteran of several statewide races and popular with labor unions in a strong labor state. Although Republicans are investing in the race, strong Democratic turnout in Philadelphia, especially in a presidential election year, often dashes GOP hopes.


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Emily Blunt to Sing Better in Into the Woods Than She Did in That Karaoke Video
"I hope people will not give me a hard time about it when [Into the Woods] comes out."
As far as drunk celebrity videos go, Emily Blunt singing "Total Eclipse of the Heart" with Alison Brie is pretty fantastic. But is it any indication of how Blunt will fare as the Baker's Wife in the movie version of Into the Woods? Of course not; it was karaoke, people. "It's horrible!" Blunt told us at a gala hosted by the American Institute for Stuttering this week. "People are like, 'Well, if you want to hear her sing, this is how she sounds.' And I'm just going, 'Yikes!' I hope people will not give me a hard time about it when the film comes out. I'm not the greatest singer in the room by any means, but I'll have fun trying." Blunt stars alongside Jake Gyllenhaal, Johnny Depp, and, of course, Meryl Streep. "I can't believe I'm playing in two movies with Meryl where she's playing someone who's horrible to me," Blunt says. "I'm so excited." Us, too! Now let's rewatch her "Total Eclipse" performance.


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In a game devoid of star power, Derek Anderson completed 10 of 15 passes for 220 yards, including TD strikes of 87 and 35 yards to Ginn, who's looking to find a home after being run out of Miami and San Francisco.
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At most Mississippi colleges and universities, fewer than half the first-time students graduate within six years.
The University of Mississippi and Mississippi State University are among exceptions to the graduation rates found in the College Scorecards recently released by the U.S. Department of Education.
Antonelli College-Jackson, Millsaps College and Mississippi College also have graduation rates above 50 percent. Mountain College's rate is right at 50 percent.
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Back in 2008, the term "cloud computing" was barely a glint in the eye of most technology companies. Perhaps they used SalesForce.com and Gmail, but tossing around the "cloud" terminology wasn't really de rigueur.
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In 2009, Esri hitched its geo-wagon to Amazon Web Services (AWS) as our primary cloud provider. But the general consumer audience was much more familiar with shopping experiences through Amazon.com rather than cloud hosted services off of AWS. Fast forward less than three years, and things certainly have changed. AWS has established itself as separate and different from Amazon.com, with a brand synonymous with "cloud" as a globally-known public cloud infrastructure service provider. And in 2010, Esri announced the availability of ArcGIS Online, initially supported by AWS infrastructure under-the-hood, to bring the ubiquity of a public cloud platform to the geospatial community.


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WHAT: Help!, a Beatles tribute band, in concert
WHERE: Castle Hill on the Crane Estate, 290 Argilla Road
WHEN: Thursday, Aug. 14, 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. Gates open at 5 p.m. for picnicking. Caution: Arrive early. This concert usually sells out.
TICKETS: $30/car or $20/car for members of The Trustees of Reservations. Motorcycles and walk-ins, $10. Admission at the gate only.
ABOUT THE CONCERT: Since 1990 Help!, in one incarnation or another, has been covering every phase of the Beatles� career from the Cavern Club, to the group�s great interpretations of American rock �n� roll standards such as Twist and Shout and Long Tall Sally and all the way down Abby Road. The group plays vintage instruments to capture the driving, simultaneously discordant and harmonious Beatles sound. Members often provide a little background and historic tidbits before launching into a song, but never actually pretend to be the Beatles, as some groups do.
Help! plays both the Beatles� biggest hits and its lesser-known covers such as Misery and their extensive catalog includes enough of both so no show is exactly the same.
"From the start, our goal has been to emphasize the authenticity of the performance, capturing the sound, look, energy and spirit of the great Beatles catalog with as much accuracy as possible," writes the group on its website, cornmuffin.com
ABOUT THE VENUE: Ipswich Ale Brewery and Mill River Winery will sell beer and wine at the Beer and Wine Garden. Patrons may not bring their own alcohol, but are welcome to bring their own picnic suppers. Ice cream, pizza, salads, sodas, sweets, and other products will be for sale.
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Loyola press release - September 4, 2012
The Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies at Loyola University New Orleans will present leading scholar the Rev. Carlos Man Ging Villanueva, S.J., Ph.D., in the lecture, "Ignatian Spirituality in Latin America: The Practice of Spiritual Accompaniment," on Wednesday, Sept. 19 at 7 p.m. in the Audubon Room on the second floor of the Danna Student Center. The lecture is free and open to the public.
Man Ging Villanueva, the vice president of Academic Research at the Pontificia Universidad Católica of Ecuador, will explore the contributions that Jesuit universities in Latin America are making in the area of Ignatian spirituality. The event is co-sponsored by the Women's Resource Center and the Jesuit Center.
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Dining Out for Life to benefit AIDS fight
Restaurants will contribute at least 25 percent of the day's food sale receipts to Evergreen Health Services (formerly AIDS Community Services of Western New York), an organization dedicated to stopping the spread of HIV/AIDS in Western New York and providing vital services to those living with the disease. Some 8,000 families in Western New York have a family member living with or at high risk of HIV/AIDS.
Dining Out for Life was founded in 1991 in Philadelphia. This year marks the 11th year the project has been held in Western New York. Last year, 20,000 Western New Yorkers dined out for the event, raising $93,000. All funds raised here remain here.
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Robert Edwin House is the self-styled President, CEO, and sole proprietor of the New Vegas Strip in the Mojave Wasteland in the year 2281. House is foremost responsible for the founding of RobCo Industries and civilizing the New Vegas casino tribes.
Born on June 25, 2020 (261 years old) to a wealthy Nevada tool magnate, Robert Edwin House was orphaned at an early age when his parents died in a freak accident involving an autogyro and a lightning strike. Cheated out of his inheritance by his half-brother, Anthony, he nevertheless attended the Commonwealth Institute of Technology, and later went on to found RobCo Industries in his hometown of Las Vegas at the age of 22. It would soon become one of the most profitable corporations in the world, owing mostly to House's considerable technical genius and business acumen. He used the wealth and power to gain controlling interests in myriad other businesses. These included REPCONN Aerospace, the Lucky 38 Hotel & Casino on Las Vegas Boulevard, and perhaps, most personally, the H&H Tool Company - the family business usurped by his greedy half-brother (although curiously, the factory on the outskirts of Vegas was still under his brother's control in 2077).
A staunch pragmatist by nature, Mr. House would regularly design and run mathematical simulations based on global political and socio-economic conditions in an effort to predict future events. By 2065, these projections led him to the inexorable conclusion that the world would be engulfed in a nuclear war within fifteen years. Worse still, his contacts within the military informed him that seventy-seven Chinese warheads were aimed at his beloved Las Vegas. Armed with this knowledge and his projections, House went to work on a secret plan to ensure the city would survive this apocalypse and that he would live to see the world after the war. He programmed multiple mainframes with satellite links meant to disable the vast majority of the Chinese missiles while in flight, then designed an array of high powered laser cannons, which he had installed on the roof of the Lucky 38, to deal with any missile his program had missed. To preserve himself, he took equally drastic steps: his body was permanently connected to an extremely sophisticated life support device named a "hibernation chamber"[1]to take care of his physiological needs, while his brain was wired directly into his vast information network via an enormous supercomputer. Essentially, he became a one-of-a-kind humanoid brain bot, with the Lucky 38 and an army of securitrons serving as his "body".
An integral element of his plan was the platinum chip, which in reality was a combination access card and high capacity data storage device, containing a massive OS upgrade for his Securitrons and the laser defense network. The chip was to be delivered in the afternoon of October 23, 2077. Unfortunately, about 20 hours before delivery, the Great War began. The chip was lost and was rediscovered over 200 years later in Sunnyvale by some of the multiple scavengers hired by House. Forced to work with an inferior version of the OS, he has suffered numerous system crashes and was even forced into a coma by one of the failures before being able to reboot an earlier, stable version.
House regained consciousness in 2138.[2] Biding his time, he entered the world stage once again in 2274, when Securitrons under his command emerged from the Lucky 38. This action was prompted by the arrival of New California Republic scouts at Hoover Dam. In order to establish his rule, he enlisted the help of tribes living in New Vegas (later known as the Three Families) and rebuilt the city just in time to welcome the arrival of the New California Republic Army's advance forces. In exchange for help with Hoover Dam and permission to use the McCarran Airport as its headquarters, House signed the New Vegas treaty, ensuring cooperation from NCR and, for a time, protecting the Strip from annexation.
Post-war statusEdit
House lives in the Lucky 38 and is in charge of the securitrons that roam New Vegas. At some point after emerging from stasis, House won the leadership of Vault 21 in a bet, stripped it of all useful technology, and then planned to permanently seal the Vault away by filling it with cement. At the pleadings of Sarah Weintraub he left the top section of Vault 21 as it used to be, and she converted it into a hotel (all the casino equipment was already there from the vault experiment).
Mr. House is also extremely interested in the collectible snow globes and he will pay handsomely for each. The snow globes can be given to Jane in exchange for 2000 caps each. Snow globes found in Sierra Madre (Dead Money), Big MT (Old World Blues), Zion National Park (Honest Hearts) and the Divide (Lonesome Road) will automatically be removed from the player's inventory and replaced with 2000 caps (except for snow globe - Sierra Madre Casino, it adds 2000 Sierra Madre chips.) Once the Courier has sold a snow globe to Jane it is placed on display (on a mantle) in the Lucky 38 presidential suite. However, if you kill Mr. House the snow globes will stay in your inventory and Jane will disappear.
Mr. House is extremely physically decrepit and can only live inside a self-contained life support unit. The Courier has the opportunity to break through his security and see his true form. However, opening his isolation chamber, even for a second, means that Mr. House will not live more than a year due to exposure to outside contaminants.[3]
Interactions with the player characterEdit
Interactions overviewEdit
- The House Always Wins: Mr. House gives the player the quest, which leads to one of the final quests, All or Nothing. In this case, player communicates with House only through the computer terminal in his office.
- For the Republic, Part 2, Wild Card: Change in Management, Render Unto Caesar: However, if the player decides to side with NCR, Caesar, or fight for an independent New Vegas, Mr. House has to be killed or disabled.
- The Moon Comes Over the Tower: Emily Ortal asks the player to bug one of House's terminals for important medical information.
Other interactionsEdit
- Mr. House plays a major role in the game. The Courier hears a lot about him while traveling, but upon reaching New Vegas they are invited by House, himself, to visit him in the Lucky 38. There, House gives the Courier vital information about Benny and the platinum chip. Also, he allows the Courier and their companions to use the Lucky 38's presidential suite as a safehouse.
Narrated by Ron Perlman
|Voice-over narration
|In-game condition
|Mr. House's Securitron army took control of Hoover Dam and the Strip, pushing both the Legion and the exhausted NCR out of New Vegas. Mr. House continued to run New Vegas his way, a despotic vision of pre-War glory. The streets were orderly, efficient, cold. New Vegas continued to be the sole place in the wasteland where fortunes were won and lost in the blink of an eye.
|Complete The House Always Wins for Mr. House.
- On the shores of Lake Mead, due east of New Vegas, sits the grandiose pre-War House Resort & Country Club, the current site of the NCR's Camp Golf. Due to its name, its obvious past opulence, and the presence of a large portrait of Robert Edwin House, standing in front of a large bipedal robot in its main dining hall, it may be surmised that Mr. House was a chief financier and patron of the club before the bombs fell. This portrait is reminiscent of a famous painting of Howard Hughes, who was also an avid golfer.
- If Mr. House is disintegrated by an energy weapon, the stasis chamber disintegrates with him. The same event occurs when using a plasma weapon and its signature goo.
- From information contained on the terminals in the H&H Tools Factory, it is gleaned that Robert House's half-brother, Anthony, used underhanded means to wrest his inherited share of the family business from him after the death of their father. It is strongly implied that Robert's later, methodical hostile takeover, coupled with McCarthyist paranoia regarding the Communist Chinese, drove Anthony House completely mad.
- Mr. House is given the nickname "Not-At-Home" by the Omertas for his tendency to remain ostensibly neutral in Strip affairs.
- Upon his death, the quest The House Has Gone Bust! will simultaneously trigger and fail, and the note A Tragedy Has Befallen All Mankind will appear in the player's inventory.
- If you take Mr. House out of his stasis chamber, he will ask you why you have ruined his plans and he will react differently depending on what you tell him. If you say you did it in the name of the NCR, he will belittle them and call you a "sad, misguided whore." If you tell him you are acting on behalf of Caesar, he will be horrified that slavery is humanity's future. If you say you did it for Yes Man, he will tell you your "vanity project" is doomed for failure. If you say it was "just business", he will retort by saying that you should have worked for him for personal gain. Finally, if you say you did it just because you didn't like him, he will call you a fool for letting your feelings about him jeopardize humanity's future.
- Robert Edwin House is one of the characters that the player character must eat in order to earn the Meat of Champions perk.
- In the G.E.C.K. there is a version of Mr. House as a human before the war, although he has no mustache and his hair is gray, rather than black as it looks on his computer.
- House cannot be targeted in V.A.T.S.
- Due to his age and method of staying alive, Mr. House actually counts as an abomination for the Abominable challenge. Because he is considered an abomination, shooting him with the flare gun results in the "The abomination panics and flees!" message, but nothing else happens.
- The Courier can also attempt to pickpocket Mr. House but he does not yield any items.
- If you kill him using the Ranger Takedown with any kind of displacer glove, Mr. House and the stasis chamber will flip over, causing a lag or freeze.
- Another portrait of Robert House, similar to the one in the House Resort, is found in Higgs Village in the add-on Old World Blues. It was punctured by several knives, most likely by Doctor 0, who has an intense hatred for House, long before the events of Old World Blues.
- When killed, the player loses Karma, despite House's Neutral Karma.
- When talking to him, if you look at the top left and the top area of the monitor, you will notice two giant fingerprints. The exact same fingerprints are present on the Pipboy's screen. The screen's texture might just be the same for both, but bigger on House's screen.
- If you speak to Ulysses after the end of Lonesome Road, you can tell him if you have killed House. At first he is indifferent and wonders what will happen to Vegas and the Three Families now that House is gone, but soon after he states that it's for the best.
- In Fallout 4, approaching Deezer in Covenant while having Deacon as a companion will trigger a dialogue in which Deacon says "Command override. Vocal audio House, Robert. Access core programming". Deacon claims that this is House's personal security override code, and that he won it in a poker game.
Notable quotesEdit
- "Sorry to deny you a moment of primate triumph, but you'll have to go elsewhere to sound your barbaric yawp."
- "You see that you and I are of a different stripe, don't you? We don't have to dream that we're important. We are."
- "Success depends on forethought, dispassionate calculation of probabilities, accounting for every stray variable."
- "Nothing to impede progress. If you want to see the fate of democracies, look out the windows."
- "I like to think you have enough sense to do the right thing. The rewards for doing so are immense... as are the punishments for not doing so."
- "To your untrained eyes, it may look as though mankind is making a comeback. In the NCR, you have something that resembles a nation state. Savage as it is, in Caesar's Legion, you have an organized society. But neither of these offer a future. They're regurgitations of the past."
- "From what I hear, I'd want to eat at the Gourmand every night... if I were ambulatory."
- "But autocracy? Firm control in the hands of a technological and economic visionary? Yes, that Vegas shall have."
- "I offer many benefits, but vacation time isn't one of them."
- "You don't see them raiding hospitals to cart away Auto-Docs or armfuls of prosthetic organs. No, they greatly prefer the sort of technology that puts people in hospitals. Or graves, rather, since hospitals went the way of the Dodo."
- "We're talking about a coterie of bulging-eyed fanatics who think all Pre-War technology belongs to them."
- "Because they're ridiculous! Because they galavant around the Mojave pretending to be Knights of Yore. The world has no use for emotionally unstable techno-fetishists. Just wipe them out, will you?"
- "Ideological purity and shiny power armor don't count for much when you're outnumbered 15:1."
- "Goodbye? Is that some kind of joke? You barely understand what I want you to accomplish down there."
- "I can't reach through this monitor and compel you to follow instructions, but know this - if you disappoint me, you will pay for it."
- "Are you a child? The Platinum Chip was taken from you, obviously."
- "You laid the foundation for my victory, so fine - I'll permit some latitude in how you schedule your work."
- "Absolutely not! Caesar is of great use to me. I don't want you harming a hair on that man's head - assuming you can find one."
- "I much prefer working with robots..."
- "What of it? I enjoy them. There's something about a little diorama set inside a glass dome that I... find pleasing."
- "Until you do this, consider yourself suspended... without pay."
- "Marvelous work ethic, bravo."
- "Kimball may be a grandstanding boor, but I want him protected."
- "An opinion you expressed with supreme subtlety and finesse. Moving on..."
- "Do you have any idea how prodigious is the opportunity you're casting aside here?"
- "Why would I want to go to war against the NCR? They're my best customers."
- "Not interested? Not interested? You have an interest in this even if you're too stupid to know it. If you have an interest in breathing, you have an interest in this."
- "I haven't shown my hand - I've shown one card. I've given my enemies a single, provocative datum upon which to fixate. They have no idea what other cards I'm holding. It's a strong hand, believe me - I dealt it to myself."
- "Consequently, I have to "wait and see" what happens. It's... grotesque."
- "You're making me question your usefulness, you realize."
- "Had I used an armed caravan to transport the Chip, I might as well have been announcing to the world "this is important. Attack this!""
- "You are the first person to step foot inside the Lucky 38 in over 200 years. It was not an invitation I made lightly."
- "I'm not offering you an incentive as crude as money - though there'll be plenty of that. What I'm offering you is a ground-floor opportunity in the most important enterprise on Earth. What I'm offering is a future - for you, and for what remains of the human race."
- "If you find Caesar's Legion so frightening at this remove, imagine them rampaging across the Strip. We have a chance to see them destroyed, to see New Vegas become the harbinger of a new age."
- "Don't let the video screens and computer terminals fool you. I'm flesh and blood, not silicon."
- "You needn't be afraid of me. It's my Securitrons that are going to kill you."
- "By the time I was 30 years old, I was a billionaire 30 times over. I founded and ran a vast economic empire. Do you really think I'm going to let an upstart come into my home and ransom my property to me? I spent two centuries searching for the Platinum Chip. It's my invention, my property - mine. Now be a good courier and deliver it!"
- "I invite you to think carefully about what you do next... standing alone before me, surrounded by my heavily-armed Securitron guards."
- "I'm sure the assassins will wait for you to show up."
- "New Vegas is more than a city - it's the remedy to mankind's derailment."
Robert House appears only in Fallout: New Vegas and is mentioned in Fallout 4.
Behind the scenesEdit
- Mr. House was written by John Gonzalez.
- The challenge "A Slave Obeys" requires the player to kill Mr. House with the 9 Iron or Nephi's Golf Driver. This is a reference to the game BioShock, in which the player beats the game's main antagonist, Andrew Ryan, to death with a 9 iron while he repeats the words "A man chooses, a slave obeys." Both characters were based in part on Howard Hughes.
- In casino parlance, "the house" refers generally to the gambler's opponent, the casino itself, as in the idiom, "The house always wins."
- Mr. House's personality is based on that of Howard Hughes. His obsession with snow globes is a reference to another work of fiction, Orson Welles' Citizen Kane, itself based on the life of William Randolph Hearst. A snow globe falls from the hands of the dying 'Hearst' in the beginning of the film as he utters the famously cryptic line "Rosebud".
- Jane, House's securitron companion, is an allusion to the filmstar Jane Russell, who was under contract to Howard Hughes and also his lover for a time.
|The following is based on Fallout: New Vegas cut content and has not been confirmed by canon sources.
- Mr. House had another female programmed securitron named Marilyn (based on Marilyn Monroe) that was cut. However, she appears alongside with Jane in a card from the deck of cards of the collector version, the texture file for her "face" is still in the game's files and there's a reference to her in the G.E.C.K. Also, after meeting Mr. House, Veronica will say she's "surprised he only had the two robot sex slaves." This was likely meant to reference Jane and the absent Marilyn, but the line was never removed or changed.
|End of information based on Fallout: New Vegas cut content.
- pc ps3 xbox360 A medicine check of 35, gaining XP each time, can be accessed as many times as you want. [verified]
- pc Activating Mr. House fails to start dialogue, rendering him useless (the mainframe). This might be the result of resetting ally status of Securitrons when they are hostile due to a faction error with vault 11 robots. To fix this, enter the following commands into the console: setally 1267AB 0001B2A4, resetquest 00147885, setstage 00147885 5, setobjectivedisplayed 00147885 1, prid 001264c5, setdestroyed 0. [verified]
- xbox360 The dialogue ending "at Fortification Hill" may cause a crash once he's finished talking. [verified]
- xbox360 The stasis version of Mr. House will sometimes break, turning invisible. [verified]
- ↑ Elijah: "Big Empty's a treasure box, a scientific graveyard of Old World misery. Like the Sierra Madre... there's treasures there, sleeping. Some, awake. The Holorifle, the Saturnite alloy... the hologram technology, hibernation chambers, Securitrons, the collars... even the suits attached to those things stalking the Villa... that's only the surface of what's there."
- ↑ Fallout: New Vegas Official Game Guide collector's edition
- ↑ House: "No... ruined everything... exposed... germs... a year of... life, if... at most..." (if the Courier offers to put him back in his chamber after opening it)


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