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Gustavo Dudamel: I am not a politician…
September 29, 2015 by norman lebrecht
The Los Angeles Philharmonic music director is frequently under pressure over his perceived alignment with the radical regime in his native Venezuela.
In an article for the Los Angeles Times today (click here), he declares both his patriotism and his political neutrality: As a Venezuelan and a public person, I often end up in the center of such political theater. Because I have been reluctant to speak out on events in my home country, I have been much criticized. Many have tried to define me and my political beliefs, or to tell me what I ought to believe. Now I wish to speak for myself.
I am neither a politician nor an activist. Although I am aware that even something as benign as conducting an orchestra may have deep political ramifications, I will not publicly take a political position or align myself with one point of view or one party in Venezuela or in the United States.
Venezuelan media, meanwhile, have made great play of a picture of Dudamel conducting the Bolivar Youth Orchestra at the United Nations this week, overshadowed by a huge portrait of the country's former president, Hugo Chavez.
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There is a difference between being politically neutral and refusing to show your hand. Serving as a musical ambassador for the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela is not a politically neutral role, and saying "I don't believe in anything" does't make it so.
Is Thielemann an ambassador for Germany or an artistic director for an orchestra?
Does he go on stage wearing a German flag jacket? Does he perform under a large image of Angela Merkel? Does the German secretary of state or equivalent declare "Thielemann is a standard bearer for the Federal Republic of Germany"? If so, then yes, he's an ambassador for Germany.
Seems a little disingenuous. Venezuela is a developing country. There is often more florid rhetoric emanating from such places than from the First World. Not that we would not long to hear our politicians take pride in our artists a little more, but we are all too cool to take pride in our people who make it abroad — we all feel we ARE the pinnacle.
Seems a little patronising.
He doesn't have control over whose pictures he plays under or who touts his prowess as a conductor. You are giving super powers like Batman. He's a musician,
Do you have to have super powers like Batman to have a political position? Are musicians too feebleminded to have opinions on anything? Being a musician doesn't give you a carte blanche to wash your hands of everything.
I recall a lot of opinion-flinging over how Riccardo Muti and other big-name baton swingers should be given total control over what happens on stage at every opera they deign to conduct. If conductors control the staging, then conductors control the staging, period.
Meanwhile here is Renee Fleming singing for the inauguration of the Guantanamo Prison Camp Kommendant, Barack Obama
Americans love standards so much, they have two for every occasion…
Hey, we learned it from Europe.
Can't be. In Europe we have at least three.
Again this nonsense of mixing politics and music. "Evil" Venezuelans, Russians, Americans, Chinese, Cubans, Germans, Hungarians, Israelis, Arabs…Should we check before every single concert artist's political opinion, maybe with an online pool, in order to decide should we listen him or her? Already seeing a new generation of music critics emerging, without any musical education, but instead profound knowledge of judging artistry on the basis of daily political trends.
"It's complicated."
–Harry Potter
You can't be non political in a political environment. Dudamel is a coward, nothing else.
You can't be non-political in a non-political environment either. Because there is no such thing as a non-political environment. But sure do plutocratic systems like their masses to be sedated and brainwashed…
…and Dudamel never claimed to be non political anyway. He said he tries to stay neutral and not to comment publicly on his political views.
Decisive difference.
He knows on what side the bread is buttered , he is "not a politician nor an activist" but an Opportunist …. a product of the system .. nothing new here except the baloney .
Chavez nationalized Venezuela's oil industry, previously owned mostly by US investors, who were changing the country short. Enough said. The rest is propaganda.
Do you seriously believe this is ALL Chavez has done?
Of course not, but it is necessary to understand the causalities in the timeline and interests of the players at the table.
Well, Chavez's national oil industry hasn't exactly done a bang-up job at making sure that the whole country benefits from it if the murder rate is so spectacular and the vast majority of Venezuelans can't even manage to buy toilet paper, now has it? How competent or caring of its people can a government be if it's sitting on a vast floating pool of shared wealth yet it can't even empower its people to wipe their own asses?
Is that so? Apparently not.
You need to go there and live there for a while, if you are not kidnapped or killed, of course.
Maybe Gabriela Montero should actually go there and get first hand experience as well.
You write below that Montero should go there and have first hand experience, personally and through her friends and family. I can see that you are planted here and are probably paid by someone to insert supposedly "learned historical" positions. She is Venezuelan and she knows what it is like. You are posturing.
Nonsense. She left Venezuela for the US for good in 1979, she was nine years old. Since then she has not lived there. Keep your paranoid ad hominem attacks for yourself.
The Dude clearly has a whole head full of hairs to split. Perhaps he should check in with von Dohnanyi 's opinions on Strauss and Furtwangler on what happens when artists lose a spine in the face of a tyranny.
Cheap talk by people who never had to do the walk. Armchair-moralists. The armchair built in slave labor sweat shops in the third world usually.
Batman doesn't have super powers
I can see how a composer could easily be drawn in to political sides due to how a piece of music could be construed eg Beethoven's eroica, tchaik's 1812, Shostakovich,s anti communist film music etc but a conductor simply interprets what is on the paper and should not be unfairly questioned on how they feel politically about how their or any other country is managed or on which invitations they accept. Questioning conductors on their political views is exactly the same as dictators challenging their national composers on what they are composing. I completely sympathise with Dudamel on this. I'm afraid Barenboim and Gergiev have set the hare running on this unfortunately and now they all get questioned on this stuff but I would never decide not go to one of their concerts because they shake the hands of Arafat or Putin.
One might give a passing thought to 8000 dead in the
ukraine …Dudamel can play this out however it suits him and his handlers
he even tries to preempt any protests that might come about by hinting there may be
protests . It seems Dudamel is using Beethoven " for Latino pride , presence history & power", and here all along I thought it was" benign " music making. Poor
Ludwig seemingly a shill for Mr. Dudamel and his "benign"music making , I do wonder
how Beethoven fits in with" Latino pride ", perhaps Dudamel could enlighten us.
He IS political… I attended the season opener last night here in Los Angeles and he had a clear ridiculous jab at conservative immigration policy.
Conservative immigration policy IS ridiculous. Most of American conservatism is ridiculous. We are still trying to explain evolution to those people.
Dudamel released a statement because he has been bombarded with justifiable vitriol for playing at the UN beneath a still image of Chavez, who bankrupted Venezuela, oversaw its descent into unfettered criminality, dismantled the independent branches of government, anointed Nicholas Maduro his successor via a fraudulent "election", who in turn has driven the bus over the cliff, locking up Leopoldo Lopez, the opposition leader whose crime was to protest the barbarism under which every Venezuelan now lives, as Dudamel well knows because two of his bodyguards have now been killed, as well as members of El Sistema.
How can he dare to insult the intelligence of his reader by claiming political neutrality, when his very orchestra system is a wing of the Venezuelan government, funded to the tune of millions by the very people whose ideology has destroyed the nation? How can he dare to insult the intelligence of the musical community by claiming political neutrality while Deutsche Grammophon parades the "revolutionary" 8-starred flag of Chavismo on the backs of every musician adorning its atrociously insensitively entitled album "fiesta!", while 25,000 citizens a year are being murdered in a society of 95% impunity, a society whose failure can be attributed to the very ideology of that rebranded flag? Not only is Dudamel NOT politically neutral, he is overtly Chavista, as the endless parading of political symbols at every concert suggests. He is absolutely entitled to his political affiliations, and to keeping them secret if he wishes, but he chooses to manifest them wherever he goes! Have the readers of this colum looked at the photograph attached to this article? Not only is it an image of Chavez, but a still image form Chavez's famous "sulphur" speech at the UN! A more political statement from a musician you could not find!
On what planet of cognitive dissonance does he live? He can not simultaneously claim to work for social change and civil unity while publicly worshipping at the altar of the very man who systematically destroyed every possible virtue of civility in the nation at large, and whose only manifest social change has been a downward spiral into a Dantesque inferno of state failure, despite the 1000% increase in funding to El Sistema. Music has manifestly NOT saved Venezuela or brought about social change and it never will – which is not an argument against the public funding of music, but against the outrageous claims to social enhancement of Abreu and Dudamel in order to continuously justify being in bed with a dictatorship – and the more outrageous the number he claims to be involved in music the more he proves the point! Does he not see the inconvenient statistical relationship between the number of musicians claimed to be in El Sistema and the exponential decrease in quality of life? Music is indeed a most vital and precious gift to us all, but it will only bring about positive change in Venezuela when it is used as a tool of protest, and when all Venezuelan musicians rise up and refuse to extol and legitimize their dictators before the outside world.
Everybody can speak his opinion. Now for the facts, a completely different matter.
To quote the last line of the article you cited: "What can you do with this data?".
Poverty and illiteracy improve but crime and inflation increase explosively? Someone is lying.
It's always a humorous irony and demonstration of a narcissistic lack of modesty, to hear such self-indulgent words from naive armchair moralists, who by pure chance were born into free western societies, and never had to arrange their daily lives, feed a family and protect their loved ones in a totalitarian system.
Are you implying that the Maduro regime is a totalitarian system?
By not denouncing the Venezuelan government, Dudamel is actually being very political. Hence all the teeth gnashing here by Slippedisc's Fox News crowd.
Of course, William, it logically follows that if one is opposed to an off-the-grid so-called "left", corrupt, incompetent, abusive dictatorship, and artisists who glorify it because they profit handsomely from it, that one must, by extension belong to the wing nut gang from the tea party! It couldn't just be that we might belong to the social democratic center left of reasonableness, fairness, transparency and decency. It couldn't possibly be that we are great admirers of Scandinavian, humanist societies that practice what they preach and deliver on their promise, as opposed to despotic dictators who shout and scream their empty revolutionary credo all day on stolen tv stations and line their own pockets while bankrupting the country and flying their private jets to spend their stolen state assets in Miami, with their band of merry musicians trumpeting the vacuous message of peace, love and unity. No, in the world of Wiliam Osbourne, if you are pro human rights, transparency, decency, security, democracy, rule of law, separation of powers and all the other elements of a first-world, functioning society, you belong de facto to an imperialist, fascist, racist, right-wing, capitalist conspiracy to rule the world… For a smart man, William, you seem incapable of entertaining two ideas at the same time: that to oppose the abject and manifest failure of the revolutionary left is not to denounce the ethics of fairness and inclusion. I'm only interested in results, not bombast and empty rhetoric.
As for the results, the "facts" supplied by Holger above, please bare in mind that the Venezuelan government dictates the narrative and issues whatever statistics it pleases. The few independent watchdogs in Venezuela have been shut down, or operate in a climate of such extreme deception that it is impossible to measure the real extent of either progress or disintegration. Only the Venzuelan people can attest to what life is like in Venezuela today, after 17 years of Chavismo, and I struggle to find any who hold it up as a model of success. Most will tell you about the hours they stand in line to buy whatever happens to be on the shelves that day; that inflation is so rampant it is unmeasurable, lying anywhere between 68% and several hundred percent, depending on which economist you listen to; that 25,000 citizens are being murdered every year in a climate of extreme criminality and lawlessness; that opposition politicians are imprisoned and sentenced to absurd jail terms in closed-door trials; that the very people running the country are in fact running a narco-kleptocracy, considered to be among the world's most corrupt by Transparency International? Where do I end?
My hope is that Venezuelans themselves will provide the testimony. I'm just married to one, and have gone through the process of exiling family members who have been threatened at gunpoint and endured mock executions, whose children were developing serious anxiety at the prospect of even leaving the house, such was the extent of the threat to life on a daily basis. But what do I know of facts?
To any readers in Los Angeles, please find a little Venezuelan cafe in Pasadena called Cafe Amara. You will be served coffee and churros by two Venezuelan exiles. When you sit and hear their story, you will realize you were served by an orthopedic surgeon and a chemical engineer, who fled the country after the last of many kidnappings, and after Alex's young assistant was shot seven times while taking her saving from the bank so she could buy her mother a mattress.
Go ask Alex and Amara the facts. Or any other exile. Or any of the families of the 25,000 annual murder victims. After all, this a human crisis, not a statistical tug-of-war…
You have to let go of the naive idea, that the concept intended to explain a complex world to small children, the simplifying duality of evil vs good, that that bears any truth as far as the real complex world is concerned.
There are no good or bad guys in this conflict.
Those interested in the "social democratic center left of reasonableness, fairness, transparency and decency" would not single out Venezuela but also look at the larger picture US abuses in Latin America which include overthrowing democratically elected governments, severe economic exploitation, immoral embargoes, death squads, and mass murder. Sadly, this history strongly colors the US view of the Chavistas. Widen your perspectives and you'll improve your arguments.
The truth is in the results. You can argue anything you will, but the results cannot be hidden. If you want to be of the left, be of the left and prove it by social advancement and well-being for all. In the Chavez regime they can label themselves whatever they want, but corruption and murder persist like the the time of the worst right-wing dictators. Those who deny it are being paid by the Chavez regime or are blind by choice.
No, no, no! You didn't, William! You just sank to the bottom of 5th grade logic class, and with such a thud.
The "not as bad as" argument, also known as the fallacy of relative privation, is – as anyone who attended school ought to know – a form of the moral equivalence fallacy that takes note of the existence of things that are worse than what is actually under discussion.
The fallacy of relative privation is popular with people who know perfectly well they're backing a bad egg, but they feel compelled to attempt to justify it, rather than changing their mind in the face of compelling evidence, and do so by pointing to other comparable or arguably worse actions.
The point is that we are talking about Venezuela.
Not the US. Not Russia. Not ISIS. Not the Black Death. Not the boil on my dog's bottom. This thread is about a conductor who denies he is political, despite always showing up to play for his dictator paymasters dressed in their branded garb.
It is NOT a broad discussion about the history of US interference in South America, though you constantly turn it into one so as to avoid the current tragedy in question. If anything, it concerns itself with the one historical period – the last 17 years – during which the Venezuela government has enjoyed – even boasted about – maximum autonomy (except from Cuban influence, of course) and unimaginably bountiful resources, yet managed to destroy the nation in spectacular fashion! So spectacular, in fact, that one can only conclude the failure was engineered, as per the Marxist-Leninist-Castrist modus.
Why are you so happy to call out the murderous vices of others – rightly so, in another thread – but not the vices of the current, abusive, incompetent, narco-kleptocratic regime for whom Dudamel is an omnipresent and willing puppet? Does murder by another ideology smell more sweet?
And I am the one who needs to improve my arguments?
Thank you!
Only opportunists as I wrote earlier .


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JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (Dec. 10, 2009) - After wrapping up fall play at the end of October, ETSU's softball team has been busy giving back to the community.
Over the past month the Lady Bucs have spent their time volunteering at numerous locations -
including with Special Olympics, Salvation Army, Coalition for Kids and at the Ivory Hall Nursing Home in Elizabethton.
Participating in community service projects is something head ETSU softball coach Andrea Mangrum, her team and ETSU Athletics take great pride in during the year.
Following their efforts within the community, coach Mangrum believes it was a great learning experience for her Lady Buccaneer squad.
"The Christmas season always brings out the best in everyone when it comes to giving, but I want to teach our players that giving year round is important," Mangrum said. "We have been so blessed and sometimes we take a lot of things for granted. I believe the team has developed a new appreciation for those in need and have a caring heart to help them."
ETSU's community service participation began the last weekend in October, when the Lady Bucs made weekly visits to the Ivory Hall Nursing Home. Each week members of the team spent an hour and a half interacting with the elderly. During the time there, the Lady Bucs played games, sang songs, read or shared stories with those in need.
Visiting the nursing home and interacting with the members was something senior shortstop Cheneice Cason (
"Being able to visit with the people at the nursing home was a great learning experience," said Cason. "Not only was it a very fun and gratifying experience, but I was able to learn about life from a different perspective."
Meanwhile, when the Lady Bucs were not visiting the nursing home, they were busy helping out with Special Olympics and shopping with Coalition for Kids.
For over three hours on November 5, the Lady Bucs spent the morning bowling at a Special Olympics function. The team helped the children bowl and keep score during the fun-filled day. Then, this past weekend on Dec. 4, the Lady Bucs paired up with children from Coalition for Kids to take them shopping at Wal-Mart. Local kids in the area, who qualify for financial assistance, were paired up with Lady Buccaneer players and given $100 to shop that evening at Wal-Mart.
The Lady Bucs wrapped up their volunteer efforts at the Salvation Army Angel Tree Warehouse. ETSU spent Monday, Dec. 7 and Wednesday, Dec. 9, putting presents together for local families in the area. In addition, the Lady Bucs also adopted a child from the tree and purchased gifts for the individual.
After performing 15-plus hours of community service efforts, the Lady Bucs had a new view on life.
"Overall I believe the community service efforts were a great learning tool for the team and me," added freshman local standout Whitley Hensley (
"I think community service is very important, because you are helping those in need and giving back to the community," added Cason. "I feel what we continue to do is very important. Seeing the children have fun makes me feel excited about the simple things in life. Overall these efforts were very fun and gratifying."
The ETSU Department of Intercollegiate Athletics takes pride in its community service activities and strives for 100 percent participation from its student-athletes, coaches and administrators throughout the year.
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Drawboring Demystified
This ancient mortise-and-tenon joinery technique needs no glue, no clamps.
by Jennie Alexander & Peter Follansbee
Pages 53-57
Simply put, drawboring is an intentional misalignment of the holes bored in the mortises and tenons.
These holes are bored through each component separately, and they are offset so that a tapered pin driven into them will pull the tenoned rail up tight against the mortised stile.
We know this is a period practice because we have seen it in surviving works, sometimes in disassembled pieces, or in those worn down by misuse. The photo at left shows clearly the kink in the pin resulting from snaking its way through the offset holes. In addition to this sort of evidence, we have a documentary record for drawboring as well. Joseph Moxon describes it in his section on joinery in "Mechanick Exercises:"
Then with the Piercer pierce two holes through the Sides, or Cheeks of the Mortess, about half an Inch off either end one. Then knock the Tennant stiff into the Mortess, and set it upright, by applying the Angle of the outer Square, to the Angle the two Quarters make, and with your Pricker, prick round about the insides of the Pierced holes upon the Tennant. Then take the Tennant out again, and Pierce two holes with the same Bit, about the thickness of a shilling above the pricked holes on the Tennant, that is, nearer the shoulder of the Tennant, that the Pins you are to drive in, may draw the Shoulder of the Tennant the closer to the flat side of the Quarter the Mortess is made in. Then with the Paring-chissel make two Pins somewhat Tapering, full big enough, and setting the two Quarters again square, as before, drive the Pins stiff into the Pierced holes.
We're using the joint stool shown in the book from which this is excerpted as the example – but the following applies to any drawbored mortise-and-tenon joint. At this point, the holes through the mortises have already been bored, two per mortise, approximately a mortise chisel's width back
from the edge of the workpiece.
With the test-fitted frames on the bench, mark the tenons for the pins that will secure these joints for the next few centuries. The faces of rails and stiles must be in the same plane. The rails' outer shoulders should be a tight fit against the stiles' arrises. The inside corners should not touch the stiles. Check that the apron's upper edge lines up properly with the marks on the stiles that define the top of the stool. At the stretcher level, be sure there's no gap in the mortise above the stretcher, where it will be visible in the finished stool. If there is a gap, bump the stretcher upward, shifting the space beneath the stretcher. You might need to check that the ends of the mortise are cut square to the edge, so they don't interfere with the tenon's fit.
In Our Store: "Make a Joint Stool from a Tree," by Jennie Alexander & Peter Follansbee
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Now this is amazing. Some early demo tapes of The Smiths, noted by Slicing Up Eyeballs, have just popped up on YouTube. They are called "The Pablo Cuckoo Tape" run for forty minutes and feature work in progress versions of songs that would eventually grace the band's first album and early singles.
The track to listen to first is Reel Around The Fountain which has a fuzz guitar sound in places that didn't make the cut for the version that appeared on Hatful of Hollow (and The Smiths). Accept Yourself sounds great, while These Things Take Time is a bit of pain in the ear with Morrissey struggling to hit the high notes.
The quality of the cassette is rough bit it is fascinating nevertheless.
It has caught the attention of Smiths' drummer Mike Joyce who tweeted today, "A fan of The Smiths? An early recording you've probably never heard before. An early recording you've probably never heard before."
The uploader's explanation of the tape's origins:
In May 1983 (exact date unknown), while preparing to record their debut album, The band ran through & recorded a selection of songs at a rehearsal in band manager Joe Moss' jeans warehouse (Crazy Face). The cassette tape was recorded for Troy Tate in order to give him something to work with before going into the studio. It's pretty rough, but considering it was recorded on cassette with a stereo Mic pointing into the room, the quality isn't too bad. Morrissey's vocals are a bit distorted – maybe singing too close to the mic or maybe the cassette Mic was too close to the PA but everything else is surprisingly clear. There is some tape flutter at various points. I was lent the master cassette by a source close to the band who made the recording, let's call him Pablo Cuckoo, in 1997 with a view of trying to put it out as a semi-official release. As it was recorded before the band had signed to Rough Trade, technically he had the rights to the recording. But a combination of poor sound quality & threats from Warner Bros. meant that the idea was shelved.


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In a compromise, a regulatory panel approves a 20 percent cut in the annual harvest of the menhaden, a vital fish in the mid-Atlantic food chain. [The Baltimore Sun]
A bill approved by a legislative committee in Wyoming calls for state officials and representatives of the energy industry to develop course work focusing on energy and natural resources for the state's schools. "The curriculum would ensure a balanced approach to energy and natural resource development," the bill states. [The Star-Tribune]
More than 2,000 people turn out in Seattle for a final public meeting on a plan to export coal through a proposed terminal in northwestern Washington State. Over all, the proposal calls for five terminals in Washington that would ship coal transported from Montana and Wyoming to power plants in Asia. [Associated Press]
The San Francisco Bay suburb of Newark hopes to turn vacant industrial land near salt marshes and a derelict rail bridge into a mostly car-less development with 2,500 new homes — mostly townhouses and apartments — built within walking distance of stores and schools and connected by a new train to jobs across the bay. [Reuters]
A new, efficient ceiling fan that uses just 35 watts of electricity is introduced in India, where some 350 million fans hang from the ceiling and rolling blackouts constantly cut off power. [Forbes]


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As a local on the New York Mercantile Exchange (Nymex), Dan Dicker traded thousands of contracts a day. He loved the pit, loved the action. He left the floor when Nymex had its IPO and, like other members, walked out a multi-millionaire. But his trading — and global viewpoint — changed and he's often asked to provide his opinion and analysis across the airwaves, from TheStreet.com to OilPrice.com. But it's his writing that is most provocative and he doesn't hold back. We asked him to give us his viewpoint of the brave new energy world.
Futures Magazine: Let's start by how you got into trading. How did you become a trader? How did you get your start on the Nymex floor?
Dan Dicker: It's the kind of story that everyone tells ….no one is so focused and decides they want to become an energy trader. I was pre-med at Stony Brook, which is part of the New York State University system and [decided] in my second or third year that I really didn't want to be a doctor.
My roommate at the time, who has been a longtime friend — and is my business partner now in MercBloc — was Mark Burnett, went down to where his cousin was [working], which was trading at the brand new New York Mercantile Exchange, which had just introduced heating oil. My father actually suggested I go and take a look at this thing because it was new, and though I was good with numbers, I wasn't patient about long-term things, and this was kind of quick and exciting. [Mark] and a partner of his at the firm he was working [for] got me a job as a clerk for two locals. I worked for them about nine-10 months before I decided to borrow, I think it was $11,000 from my father to open an account. In those days you could lease a seat for $450 a month.
FM: You traded in unleaded gasoline?
DD: That's where I spent the lion's share of my career. I always had positions and intermarket spreads on — like heating oil and gas, cracks and so forth. And I spent a full year in the crude oil options pit when they first introduced those, and those were a lot of fun. But most of my career I was a pit trader in unleaded gasoline —that's where I spent most of my time.
FM: How did you prep for trading on the floor?
DD: I would be lying if I said I got a sense of the macro side of energy in the early part of my trading years. I was like everyone else and we were consumed with trying to get a sense of where paper was coming and how fiercely it was coming and what the sentiment was of those who were pushing the heavy volume. That was far more important to me than having any macro sense of what was going on in energy in general in a bullish or bearish trend. We did over the course of days tend to deal with biases as the markets moved; that was something you naturally did but I'd be lying to you if I said I'd spent three hours in the morning doing all sorts of research — I did not. What I did is I saw that there were a whole bunch of guys serious about getting long the market, and the market was going up, and there was a certain macro trend we noticed, that you were better off buying dips than selling rallies, and that went with what the flow sounded like, and how serious they were. At times the best information was knowing who you could ignore.


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This is a brainstorm to control the music playback with the camera key of the n900
Control music playback with the camera key
Posted on 2010-01-11 16:41 UTC by Pierre Abadie. Status: Under consideration, Categories: Media.
Solutions for this brainstorm
Solution #1: Use half and full press of the button
Posted on 2010-01-11 16:42 UTC by Pierre Abadie.
- half press button: play/pause
- full press button: next
Solution #2: Use camera and volume keys
Posted on 2010-01-11 16:47 UTC by Pierre Abadie.
- half or full press of camera button: play/pause
- long press volume up: next
- long press volume down: previous
Solution #3: Use volume keys and presence of headphones
Posted on 2010-01-13 03:29 UTC by Ian Cullinan.
While media player is open:
- Short press on volume up/down -> changes volume
- Long press on volume up/down -> next/prev track
- Headphones unplugged -> pause
- Headphones re-connected -> play
All of this should work regardless of whether the phone is locked.
Edit: This is essentially how my old Sony Ericsson phone (k800) worked. I never had any problems with accidental volume changes; the k800 had fairly stiff volume keys and the N900's are pretty stiff too. They're certainly not going to get accidentally pressed in your pocket. Even if you do suffer from the occasional accidental press, changing the volume by one notch isn't exactly catastrophic - you probably wouldn't even notice.
Solution #4: Music controls on screen when de device is locked
Posted on 2010-01-14 17:57 UTC by Pelau Vadim.
Not as bad as it sounds!
When pressing the power button, besides slide to unlock, play/pause, bk/fwd and a progress bar, should appear, quickly allowing you to scroll through the track. Even a tiny playlist could be implemented
However the shown options/details should be ultimately considered by the developers that approach this solution, to not excessively burden the screen area.
Here is the thread discussing this solution: http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=40755
There is another brainstorm for "an enhanced lock screen" here: http://maemo.org/community/brainstorm/view/enhance_lock_screen/
Solution #5: Use all keys and detect headphones
Posted on 2010-01-20 10:17 UTC by Patrick Moslley.
I like the solution #3 its a good solution my only qualm is I think having any "short press" activation triggers for a function makes it too easy for an accidental activation of that function just by having it move about in your pocket or bag.
For that reason I think we should have all activations be done by press & hold on the buttons to reduce that risk or atleast add that option to the configuration of the application that adds these new functions.
I feel its best to then just use the other buttons solution #3 is not using and have it configured to work like this:
Press & Hold Volume up key will raise the volume
Press & Hold Volume Down key will lower the volume
Press & Hold the Camera key half way down to go to the previous track.
Press & Hold the Camera key all the way down to go to next track.
Unplug headhones = Pause
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Adam Scott Options Chuck Klosterman Novel
Seems right.
If you're going to launch a production company, what better way than with a goofy, self-effacing spectacle such as "The Greatest Television Event in History"? Adam Scott and his wife's newly minted production company — Gettin' Rad Prodcutions, because of course — came out of the gate strong with that absurd heap of delights, but now it's moving on to more traditional fare. The company has optioned Chuck Klosterman's novel Downtown Owl, THR reports. The novel is set in a small town in North Dakota, and Scott calls it "lovely and moving and funny." Chuck Klosterman and Adam Scott: appropriate pairing or most-appropriate pairing?


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I dropped my laptop at a job interview yesterday!
The only damage was to the catch release for the battery. It has two parts. One that is on the outside bottom of the case and another that is inside the case and holds the battery.
It is lost. Does anyone have an old Dell laptop chassis lying around? I would gladly purchase or trade for it. Maybe someone has an even better suggestion. I have already been to Dell's website. The want to sell the whole chassis for a 50 cent part. ( I would pay 10$ for the right one)
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Last week, the Federal Reserve decided not to taper the monetary stimulus it started several years ago as the whole world awaited the decision. The Fed, headed by Ben Bernanke, is one of the most powerful entities of the world. It is natural to analyze the causes and consequences of such power.
A century ago, the idea of governments intervening to remove cyclical unemployment was absent. The dominant economic view was that an economy is capable of maintaining full employment.
The Great Depression changed that and the federal government began to undertake active programs to create jobs and help the economy. Economist John Maynard Keynes gave theoretical support to that idea. Most significantly it legitimatized budget deficits during cyclical unemployment. The assumption was that budget surpluses during better years would restore fiscal balance.
Keynesian economics was a dream come true for politicians. They immediately embraced the idea that federal spending can remove unemployment. The Employment Act of 1946 was created to legitimatize budget deficits during periods of high unemployment. Congress, however, failed to mandate an offsetting budget surplus during recession-free years. Consequently, the U.S. economy experienced more deficits and few surpluses during the next 60 years. Since 1958, the U.S. national debt has increased every year except for a negligible drop in 1969.
This fiscal irresponsibility undermined the fundamental strength of the U.S. economy and the economic crisis of 2007 emerged. Since then, the federal government took a series of wrong moves and our economic vulnerability increased.
The first mistake was calling it a recession. The recession Keynes identified was a situation caused by a drop in demand. But economic downturns can also be created by weakness in the production sector, often referred as supply side economics to distinguish it from the demand-focused analysis of Keynes. All macroeconomic textbooks state that the Keynesian strategy will fail when the economy is faced with supply side problems.
The second mistake was the failure to make a proper analysis of the crisis. Instead, the government blindly applied Keynesian tools that were politically expedient. Congressmen and the president are not qualified economists. They will not unilaterally spend money to build a rocket destined for the moon; they will engage NASA. But in this case, they entertained countless questionable spending programs. One such program was "Cash for Clunkers." I questioned its value in this newspaper in 2009. Several new studies have indicated that the program achieved very little, as reported this week by The Washington Post. The advice of politically neutral economists are sadly absent from post-2007 responses.
The third mistake was engaging the Fed for help. The focus of the Fed has been diverted with dual mandates from the specialized job of maintaining monetary stability to a vague and larger task of stabilizing the whole economy. In essence, federal government officials have turned to the Federal Reserve for help when their own policies have proven ineffective.
The fourth mistake is really a series of mistakes which I have discussed before in this newspaper. It appears that the Fed is completely clueless. This is demonstrated by the wide range of strategies on interest rate and monetary supply it has adopted, and by its constant wavering on deadlines. Anytime unfavorable economic data arrives, the Fed changes its time frame.
Despite six years of massive fiscal and monetary stimulus, the net result is not very impressive. This is evident because supporters are afraid to cut back their programs, fearing re-emergence of the crisis. In other words, the policies have not worked and they would rather keep the economy on life-support for an indefinite period of time.
Continually weak employment data corroborates the failure. The unemployment rate has gone down mainly because many people dropped out of labor market. The unemployment rate known as U6 counts these workers and part-time workers to give a more accurate picture. That rate was around 8 percent in 2005-07. It averaged 10.5 percent in 2008 but jumped beyond 16 percent for 2009 and 2010. In October 2013 it was still 13.2 percent.
Also, the percentage of people working was greater than 63 percent in 2006-08. It fell to 58.9 percent in 2009 and was just 58.3 percent according to employment data released this week.
It is often said that Bernanke was a student of the Great Depression and he learned that failure of the Federal Reserve to increase money supply aggravated the problem. But he may also consider that perhaps it was because the Fed was conservative at that time the economy maintained its internal strength to withstand the excesses of the federal government and the Fed for the next 75 years.
Maybe Bernanke's initial actions were necessary, but their endless continuation is worrisome. Today's economy, punctuated by too much interference and support from Washington, may be unable to show the resilience it's shown in the past.
Ahsan Habib is a professor and Economics Department chair at Adrian College.
Ahsan Habib: Rethink macroeconomic policies
Last week, the Federal Reserve decided not to taper the monetary stimulus it started several years ago as the whole world awaited the decision. The Fed, headed by Ben Bernanke, is one of the most powerful entities of the world. It is natural to analyze the causes and consequences of such power.


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WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker John Boehner says he was "flabbergasted" when Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner (GYT'-nur) pitched the White House plan to save the nation from the "fiscal cliff."
Boehner tells "Fox News Sunday" that after Geithner briefed him privately on Thursday, he looked at Geithner and said, "You can't be serious." Boehner called it "silliness" that the White House was, among other things, asking Congress to give up its power to set the nation's debt limit.
President Barack Obama's plan calls for $1.6 trillion in higher taxes over the next decade. Boehner, R-Ohio, says he's willing to rethink tax deductions for the wealthiest Americans, but declined to provide further specifics. The White House says the GOP tax proposals so far wouldn't pull in as much revenue as they claim.


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Shailene Woodley Picks Her Descendants Follow-Up
She'll star in a movie written by the <em>(500) Days of Summer</em> guys.
Though she narrowly missed out on an Oscar nomination for her work in The Descendants, Shailene Woodley has been a hot property in Hollywood since making the movie, and we've heard her name mentioned for projects like Carrie and Akira. Still, the 20-year-old has taken her time selecting a follow-up, and now that she's got a free window coming up in her schedule (she's got that day job on ABC Family's The Secret Life of the American Teenager, after all), Variety reports that Woodley has finally settled on The Spectacular Now, directed by James Ponsoldt (Smashed) and written by Scott Neustadter and Michael Weber, the (500) Days of Summer scribes. In the movie, adapted from the novel by Tim Tharp, Woodley will play a teenager at odds with an alcoholic high-school senior who lives only for the moment. You might even say that the two go toe-to-toe.


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Super Rugby round seven
Queensland finally win in deep south
March 29, 2013
Quade Cooper was influential for the Reds
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Quade Cooper Elliot Dixon Hosea Gear Will Genia Liam Gill James Hanson James Horwill Chris King Ma'a Nonu Jake Schatz Colin Slade Brad Thorn Tony Woodcock
Queensland Reds have claimed their maiden Super Rugby victory in the far south of New Zealand, but they endured a nervy final 10 minutes after seeming likely to run away with victory.
The Reds led by 15 points when Quade Cooper converted Will Genia's try 13 minutes into the second half, the scrum-half sniping through a chasm in the hosts' defence from an attacking scrum, but the Highlanders then found pace and power that had been lacking in their performance.
Highlanders fans entered this season full of hope after signing big names such as Tony Woodcock, Ma'a Nonu and Brad Thorn in the off-season, but those experienced IRB Rugby World Cup-winning All Blacks are each in the twilight of their career and the Dunedin-based hosts seemed to be slipping further off the pace each week.
The Highlanders seemed inspired by the thought they had nothing but pride to play for as their season disappeared from view just seven rounds into the campaign, and they improved collectively in the final quarter. They scored tries through Hosea Gear, one of their few shining lights this season, and Nonu to set Queensland nerves jangling, but the Reds withstood the surge to claim their history-making victory.
The Reds now have five wins from seven games while the hapless Highlanders have only a bonus point to their name after their fifth consecutive loss - and their positions on the ladder are a fair reflection of their current standing in the game.
Queensland Reds showed great spirit to resist the charging Highlanders (video available only in Australia)
The Highlanders kicked off buoyed by the knowledge they had won nine of 16 games against the Reds in Super Rugby, and knowing that Queensland had not won in Dunedin since defeating Otago in 1981.
But the Reds made the better start, hooker James Hanson stretching out to score after five minutes following a break by Cooper, who converted to make it 7-0. The Reds were dominant with the ball - Ben Tapuai, in particular, making easy metres - but the Highlanders soon led 13-7 through the accurate kicking of Colin Slade and a try by the posts from Elliot Dixon, the No. 8 barging over from a quick tap penalty after a mazy run from Buxton Popoali'i.
Andrew Hore's time in the sin-bin proved costly for the Highlanders © Getty Images
The Reds regained the lead after 25 minutes, Liam Gill scoring a converted try from a five-metre lineout, and they extended it after Highlanders captain Andrew Hore was sin-binned for slowing the ball down after 28 minutes; No. 8 Jake Schatz crashed over under the posts, Cooper converted, and the Reds led 21-13.
Centre Jason Emery made a fine run for the Highlanders htat would have yielded a try but for a desperate tackle by tight-head prop James Slipper, but Slade kicked his third penalty on the stroke of half-time to make it 21-16.
The second spell started with the Reds backs and forwards claiming Highlanders' territory, and Cooper kicked a penalty to extend the lead to 24-16 before Genia scored the visitors' bonus-point try.
The Highlanders struck back after Ben Smith made an incision, Popoali'i beating two tackles and offloading for Gear to score in the corner. Lima Sopoaga converted, and the Highlanders had hope of an amazing comeback win when Ma'a Nonu crashed through poor defence on an cutback angle to score under the posts from a scrum move.
Sopoaga converted, and the reds led by just one point, 31-30, but the Reds gained the breathing space they needed when Cooper kicked a penalty from almost 40 metres to extend the lead 10 minutes from full-time. Sopoaga kicked a 47-metre penalty three minutes later, but the Highlanders could not get back into scoring position and the reds held on.
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In the eighth episode of the BECOME ONE documentary series, Hines Ward reunites with his teammates in Lawrence, Kansas to take on their biggest challenge to date: IRONMAN 70.3 Kansas. This is a major step on the team's journey to each become an IRONMAN. And it's a major test for Hines to see if his training is on track for his big race.


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Bachelor of Arts degree with a major in Politics.
The Department of Politics and International Relations provides an exceptional learning environment that prepares students for meaningful personal lives, professional accomplishments, and responsible global citizenship. With the liberal arts focus of the program, students will develop a foundation both for citizenship in a democratic society and for successful training in a career, in a graduate school or in a professional school. Majors will be prepared for entrance into state, local and federal government service, business careers, social work, journalism, teaching and politics; approximately half of Drake's politics and international relations majors go to law school or graduate study.
Drake's location allows students to supplement classes with experiences in government and politics. Des Moines is both the state capitol and the largest city in the state, making it a center of both government and politics. Students can find internship/volunteer experiences in both government (for example, the state legislature, Governor's office, various state agencies and nonprofit organizations that work with government) and politics (the political parties, offices of U.S. Senators, interest groups and other political organizations). And once every four years, it is the center of the Iowa caucuses, providing unparalleled opportunities for political activity.
Students entering beginning fall 2008:
1. Majors must complete a minimum of 33 credits of politics coursework to be distributed as follows:
a. Required courses (21 credits):
b. The remaining 12 credit hours or more of coursework in politics are departmental electives that students may select in any subfield, in consultation with their adviser regarding their interests and career plans.
2. Nine credit hours (in 100-level courses) in a single related field – history, sociology, philosophy or economics. Students can meet the related fields requirement in other appropriate disciplines or with a group of classes that combine disciplines after discussion with, and approval from, their adviser.
Students entering prior to fall 2008:
1. Majors must complete a minimum of 30 hours in politics in the following manner:
a. As the distribution core of the 30 hours in politics, majors must complete the following 5 required courses for a total of 15 credit hours:
b. The remaining 15 credit hours or more of coursework in politics are departmental electives that students may select in any subfield, in consultation with their adviser regarding their interests and career plans.
2. Majors must also complete 12 hours of 100-level courses, to be chosen with the approval of their politics adviser, in the related fields of economics, history, philosophy, and sociology, as follows:
The minor in politics provides a broad overview of the breadth of topics examined in the field and the opportunity to delve more deeply into a specific area of political science.
Eighteen credit hours of politics coursework distributed as follows:
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Jeffery Kragh, 48 - March 05, 2013Jeffery "Jeff" Ray Kragh, 48, of Krum, TX, passed away, Tuesday, March 5, 2013, at his residence after a courageous battle with cancer.
A memorial service will be conducted on Saturday, March 9, at 2 p.m. at the Chapel of DeBerry Funeral Directors in Denton, TX.
Kragh was born June 7, 1964, at Ada, OK, to Jim and Gwen Rowe Kragh. He graduated from Chickasha High School and attended Oklahoma State University.
On June 5, 1993, he was united in marriage to Jennifer Ostendorf at Gothenburg. The couple traveled the United States and made numerous friends.
He was the owner of Kragh's Welding.
Survivors include: his wife, Jennifer Kragh of Krum; his son, Justin Kragh; parents, Jim and Gwen Kragh; sisters—Amber (Chris) Dunlevy of Norman, OK, and Crystal (Doug) Krey of Rush Springs, OK; father- and mother- in-law, Richard and Janet Ostendorf of Gothenburg; brother-in-law, Matt Ostendorf of Gothenburg; nieces—Shaila, Micki and Savannah Ostendorf and Raygan Krey; nephews—Nick and Nate Dunlevy.
In lieu of flowers, memorials are suggested to the Justin Kragh College Fund, c/o Northstar Bank, Attn: Chris Farmer, P.O. Box 1108, Krum, TX 76249.
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* G20 countries worry about weak growth
* Concerns about possible U.S. tax hikes and spending cuts
* IMF says austerity commitments have evolved
* Talks on new targets to continue in early 2013
MEXICO CITY, Nov 5 (Reuters) - The world's leading economies gave themselves a bit more wiggle room on Monday to meet targets for cutting budget deficits rather than risk worsening a slowdown in many countries, chief among them the United States.
Meeting a day before the U.S. presidential election, which is being disputed largely on tax and spending issues, the Group of 20 countries worried that previous commitments to cut in half the budget shortfalls of advanced economies by the end of next year might hurt the struggling global economy.
``In light of the weak pace of global growth, they will ensure that the pace of fiscal consolidation is appropriate to support the recovery,'' G20 policymakers said in a communique after a two-day meeting in Mexico.
The target for cutting deficits was agreed at a summit in Toronto in 2010, when the global economy seemed to have gotten past the devastating financial crisis of the previous two years.
It now looks out of reach for some economies, including the United States, as growth has slowed.
``The objective is for 2013 and there is a slight tendency to overshoot,'' said Christine Lagarde, the International Monetary Fund's managing director. She noted the language on fiscal issues ``has evolved'' and took account of situations in different countries.
While the United States needs to bring its deficits under control -- its budget gap surpassed $1 trillion for the fourth year in a row in fiscal 2012 -- many G20 countries are more worried about a barrage of tax hikes and spending cuts due to take effect from Jan. 1.
They were penciled in last year to show Washington could tackle its deep budget problems. But the so-called ``fiscal cliff'' could tip the U.S. economy back into recession next year, and hurt world output, unless Congress cuts a deal quickly after the presidential and congressional elections on Tuesday.
Chile's finance minister, Felipe Larrain, said there was an assumption a U.S. deal would be done. ``If we're not able to resolve the cliff, that could be the tipping point for a much more complicated scenario in the world economy,'' he told Reuters.
The G20 communique said the United States ``will carefully calibrate the pace of fiscal tightening to ensure that public finances are placed on a sustainable long-run path while avoiding a sharp fiscal contraction in 2013.''
In a bid to show their commitment to controlling their finances over the long term, advanced G20 countries will come up with ``credible and ambitious'' debt targets for beyond 2016, the existing target for them to stabilize their debt. Those new targets will be discussed by G20 leaders next year.
Alan Ruskin, global head of G10 FX strategy at Deutsche Bank in New York, said the policymakers seemed to want to show they were serious about their long-term fiscal rigor while easing off a bit on austerity for now.
``The U.S. is putting out a message that it wants to be credible in the long term but in the short term it believes growth will do more good,'' he said.
One idea discussed in Mexico City was to focus more on the so-called structural deficits of countries with budget problems that could exclude the costs of recession, such as higher unemployment and welfare costs and lower tax revenues.
The IMF's Lagarde said budget tightening should be ``structurally targeted rather than fixated on nominal targets.''
Germany maintained its insistence that austerity is the best way to restore confidence and underpin long-term growth.
``A reduction of excessive public debt is unavoidable for sustained growth,'' German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble said, noting Germany was hitting its deficit targets. ``With all due modesty, we would urge others to meet their own obligations.''
The G20's consensus of four years ago, which helped stave off the risk of a new depression, has given way to persistent differences over issues such as spending to boost growth and the right pace of belt-tightening to tackle high debt levels.
The global economy still faces ``elevated'' risks, including Europe's debt crisis - centered on Spain and Greece - and potential problems in Japan, the communique said.
``Global growth remains modest and downside risks are still elevated,'' the communique said, pointing also to possible delays in implementing policy announcements in Europe, securing funding for this year's budget in Japan, and weaker growth in some emerging markets.
The wording on Europe referred to differences within the euro zone over how to build a banking union to bolster its shaky financial system, during 2013.
The G20 also recommitted to implementing tough new bank capital rules on time. The rules, known as Basel III, are the world's response to the financial crisis and are set to be phased in starting in January.
Regulators in the United States and Europe, home to many of the world's largest banks, have not yet finalized their versions of the rules. That had prompted speculation that the timetable could be pushed forward.
Few expected major agreements in Mexico with heavyweights such as U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, European Central Bank chief Mario Draghi and top Chinese officials all skipping the meeting. Geithner is expected to stand down after the U.S. election, even if President Barack Obama is re-elected.


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Life doesn't always take you in the direction that you expect. Just ask Jerry Buckleaw.
Jerry started out earning his degree in computer programming at Buffalo State College, but he was soon drawn to networking. He found its application of logic and conclusive answers satisfying.
"I liked the logic and clear black-and-white answers," Jerry said. "You end up building things and, if done properly, it works."
Jerry was working for a local bank, monitoring their ATM network, when he heard of a job opening for a network engineer at UB. Twenty years later, he's UB's Senior Network Engineer, responsible for the design of UB's entire Wi-Fi network.
With the UB community relying on the Internet for so much, including keeping our personal information safe, network security is a top priority for Jerry. "We're all about access and authentication: making sure people that don't have access don't get it and that that those who do are secured." Jerry will have one eye fixed firmly on network security as he helps grow the next generation of Wi-Fi infrastructure for students, faculty and staff.
In his free time, Jerry enjoys a popular activity known as "geocaching." "It's hide and seek, but high tech," Jerry explained. "Someone goes out and hides a 'cache,' which is a little canister. They put the GPS coordinates online and your goal is to find it [with your GPS device]. When you find a canister, you sign the log inside it. I dropped one out west and now I'm watching it work its way back east."
More than any individual accomplishment, Jerry appreciates the variety of roles he has held at UB, and the perspective it has given him on all of those positions. "I started as a network engineer, one of the lower level people, worked my way up to a lead engineer and eventually took on a managerial role. I oversaw all the departmental aspects, then I morphed again from the manager role to a senior architect role. Professionally, I've touched on a lot of aspects of the spectrum at UB."
"On the personal side," Jerry continued, "I've worked with a lot of good people, and I've made plenty of friendships and bonds. We've all grown together. [NCS engineer] Joe Pautler actually worked under me as a student and I've had the chance to see him grow into the role he fills now as a network architect."


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There's a special significance to the words herein used, which I will request Joey to explain (identify!) in the comments below. The idea for this speech came from another wedding party member, John, but he felt he lacked the required knowledge to pull it off. I thought his idea was too good to go to waste, and thus started writing this:
I have been accused with putting people to sleep with far too many stories, so I'll keep this brief. Strange is not a sufficient adjective to describe the experience of being here. When I met Joey in high school, I did not expect to one be a groomsman at his wedding. He was just another guy in one of my classes, until one day I sat at the cafeteria table next to him because I knew John. The fact that I am here now is simply yet another example of how our actions have random results.
We became stronger friends with time. I found him to be a man with strong ethics, and I believe that it is by how one follows a code of honor that we are able to determine the measure of a man. I consider him and others present here to be my brothers. But as great as our time together was before you met Erica, it seems in retrospect that you lived only half a life back then, Joey. Missing was the inner light that is now apparent within you whenever you are together. Now you stand ready to begin a new family. My recommendation to you is to proceed full speed ahead, as I see nothing but happiness in your path.
That said, there is one very important problem that must be addressed. I'm not going to tap-dance around the issue, they don't do a lot of tap-dancing at weddings. The truth is that although you have found the perfect mate, unfortunately I've been less than successful. I know the first duty of a groomsman at a time like this is to feel happy for his friend. Well, I protest. I am not a merry man. We look for things such as love in this world, but not all of us find it. Where is the justice? Now that I think of it...Joey, you may experience the emptiness with me, if you wish. Hear me out: we will start with the assumption that I am not crazy. If I am, it won't matter one way or the other. They tell me marriage is a form of symbiosis. That's true in theory, but I think of it more as a conspiracy. To the rest of us, those lonely among us, your marriage and everyone else's serves as a reminder of time's arrow, a reminder we are getting older by the minute. To me, that's a disaster. All a matter of perspective, I suppose. Are you sure you want to go through with this? Think of it, we could all go back to a life of hollow pursuits!
No, on second thought, upon due consideration of the problem and careful examination of all possible options, my original recommendation stands. You've made your choices, sir, and they've been good ones. From the very beginning there were clues that your destiny and that of Erica's were attached. Your unification, part I, happened long ago, this marriage is merely unification, part II. The friendship we shared will never be the same again now that you take on the life of a married man, and that's ok, because all relationships are constantly changing. But we'll still be friends, maybe better friends. In fact, no one here can deny that Erica has found herself a dear place in our group of friends. It seems that you can have your marriage, and we can all strengthen our friendship as well. Truly, the best of both worlds.


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The Administrative duties of the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court are extensive. Adjuncts of the Court are the Board of Law Examiners, the Disciplinary Commission, the Commission on Judicial Qualifications, the Indiana Judicial Center, the Indiana Commission for Continuing Legal Education, the Supreme Court Administrator and the Executive Director of State Court Administration, and the State Public Defender. In addition, the Supreme Court oversees the Office of the Clerk of the Supreme Court, Court of Appeals, and Tax Court, and the Supreme Court Administrator also serves as the Clerk.
It is through the Board of Law Examiners that the Supreme Court determines the qualifications of law school graduates seeking admission to the practice of law in Indiana. The Disciplinary Commission and its full-time staff investigates complaints of lawyer misconduct, and recommends to the Supreme Court disciplinary action ranging from disbarment or suspension to public or private censure. Membership of the Judicial Nominating Commission and the Commission on Judicial Qualifications is identical and in the latter role the Commissioners oversee the conduct of judges with authority to recommend to the Supreme Court retirement or removal for various causes, including disability. Annual meetings of all judges in the state are conducted by the Indiana Judicial Center for purposes including the exchange of experience and suggestions regarding the operation of Indiana's judicial system. The Indiana Commission for Continuing Legal Education administers the program established by the Court, which requires attendance of attorneys at continuing legal education classes.
Extensive study is also required by the Supreme Court Justices when the Court considers the adoption of rules controlling procedure involving both the civil and criminal business of the State's courts. While the General Assembly may adopt a code covering such procedures, the ultimate authority rests with the Supreme Court in placing such procedures into effect as enacted or with revisions.


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My kids have been really into movies lately. And as much as I love Cars and Finding Nemo (I do! I really, really do!), I can't watch them 87 times a week.
Thankfully, they're getting old enough to be able to sit through "real" movies. So, I've been trying to figure out what movies we can watch that we can all enjoy. I started thinking about what movies I liked to watch as a kid, and have been putting together a list.
Some of the movies on my list are somewhat obvious, and some of them are a bit more obscure, but each of them bring back fond memories from my childhood. I hope that my kids love them as much as I do. If the fact that we're on screening number two of Harry and the Hendersons is any indication, I think I'm on the right track.
Check out my recommended classic kid's movies after the jump. And then tell me, what movies would you add to the list?
Harry and the Hendersons 1 of 20This touching tale, about a family who finds "Big Foot" and tries to return him to the wild before he's discovered, will entertain your kids and show them that family comes in all shapes and sizes.
Annie 2 of 20This is a classic, sweet tale about an orphan who finds a forever family in the unlikeliest of places. With songs to sing along to, Annie will entertain the entire family and reinforce the idea that love, not money, is what will make you happy in life.
Baby – The Secret of the Lost Legend 3 of 20In this story, a scientist tries to save a baby Brontosaurus (now called apatosaurus) from greedy poachers. Your kids will learn that preservation is more important than exploiting animals, and resources, for money.
Benji 4 of 20An adorable, lovable mutt goes on the search for his favorite children, who have been kidnapped. Benji enlists the help of the townspeople who love him, and through a series of adventures, finds the children and solidifies his place in his forever home.
ET: The Extra Terrestrial 5 of 20An obvious classic. A touching tale about an alien and a human whose friendship blooms even with all the odds against them. In the end, love and friendship know no boundaries if you keep them alive in your heart.
Explorers 6 of 20In this story, the dreams of a group of young friends come true when they build a spaceship and travel to a distant galaxy in search of aliens. They end up learning the important lesson that things aren't always as different as they seem.
Flight of the Navigator 7 of 20The whole family will be on the edge of their seats while watching this tale about a boy's adventures with time travel. David will do anything to get home, but will it be enough?
Honey, I Shrunk the Kids 8 of 20Everyone will laugh at this goofy Scientist dad who accidentally shrinks his kids and their friends. But can he find them and undo his mistake before it's too late?
The NeverEnding Story 9 of 20To escape bullies, a boy travels to a fantasy world through the pages of a book. There, Bastian learns that believing in his hopes and dreams, and himself, is the key to living a fulfilled and happy life.
Pete's Dragon 10 of 20This sweet musical follows the story of an orphan boy and his magical dragon. Fast friends, Elliott the Dragon watches over Pete and, once Pete is happy and safe, leaves him to find other children who need his help. A touching story about love and friendship, it teaches kids that sometimes you have to let go, even if you don't want to.
Pollyanna 11 of 20It is hard to not fall in love with Pollyanna, a young orphan who teaches her newly adopted town about love and friendship. But will the lessons stick when Pollyanna faces a medical crisis and needs them more than ever?
Swiss Family Robinson 12 of 20This swashbuckling story about a shipwrecked family marooned on a tropical island has something for everyone. Adventure, wild animals, Pirates, a love story...the entire family will find something to love.
The Great Outdoors 13 of 20Funny movie about a family's adventure while on a...rustic vacation. You may not always like your family, but you have to put up with them anyway. Or is it, you might not always like them, but you will always love them. Yeah, that's it.
Who Framed Roger Rabbit 14 of 20Half live action, half animated, this movie tells the story of a cartoon rabbit who is framed for murder and the toon hating human detective who is his only hope at proving his innocence. Kids will love the silly, fast paced story and adults will appreciate the deeper murder mystery.
Willow 15 of 20A small magician and a swordsman partner up to save a baby, and their world, from an evil Queen. In a story filled with magic and suspense, they must battle monsters in order to get the baby back to her people. In the end, Willow loves the baby enough to give her up and return her to where she really belongs.
Bridge to Terabithia 16 of 20This touching, and heartbreaking, movie (which was based on a book and was originally a made for TV movie), will teach your kids a valuable lesson about friendship and loss. Grab a box of tissues and be prepared to answer some serious, very important questions about life, death and the value of friendship.
The Princess Bride 17 of 20Action, adventure, princesses, an evil prince, sword fights, giants, R.O.U.Ss...it has something for everyone. In this story, love really does conquer all.
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory 18 of 20Every kid should see the original of this classic. Set amidst an incredible world of chocolate, candy, songs and imagination, it teaches important lessons about honesty and integrity.
Wizard of Oz 19 of 20An obvious suggestion. A fantastical world of scary witches, friendly witches, flying monkeys, songs, dancing and unlikely allies teach kids to believe in themselves and always remember that "There's no place like home."
Elf 20 of 20Okay, so this isn't really a "classic." But it will be one day, so start watching it with your kids now. The whole family will laugh at how silly it is, but will walk away with the reminder that being different is okay, and that your family, both biological and adopted, will always have your back.


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Daily Links: Wed., Sept. 21: What happens when you mix REM, godparents, and class warfare?
It's deadline day here at U.S. Catholic, which means we're busy putting the final touches on the November issue. It's not even October, and yet we'll get started on our December issue next week! Two nights ago, while trying to get to sleep I started planning my Thanksgiving menu. Working here will do that to you.
Today, a beloved band, especially by those of us in our 30s around the office, announced they're calling it quits. R.E.M. formed when I was just a baby, but their songs were anthems to my adolescent and teen years. We're sad. (But honestly, I haven't bought an R.E.M. record since the 90s…). I'm sure there's a riveting forthcoming article by someone being written right now about the important things R.E.M. had to say about the human condition, being vulnerable, and religion and all that.
Catholic school kids in Philly are back in the classroom today (their take on R.E.M.'s break up: I learned about that in human biology) thanks to yesterday's contract agreement between the archdiocese and teachers. "Parents will be receiving a letter from us today notifying them that there will be five days that the students will be in class that were not previously scheduled," said Mary E. Rochford, superintendent of schools.
The Christian Century's Steve Thorngate asks, What's a godparent? And our own Liz Lefebvre's blog post about so-called "class warfare" continues to draw much comment.
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In cooperation with The California Digital Library (CDL) and the California State Library LSTA Grants Program (CSL), Infopeople presents a three course, full-day digitization workshop series for representatives from libraries that received a FY2005/2006 LSTA 6-LHDRP grant. (A fourth course in the series is to be offered in 2006.)
Attendance at sessions at either Northern or Southern California locations is mandatory for at least one digitization project manager/lead from each library that will be overseeing projects: a second, technical services lead staff member is also encouraged to attend.
This project is supported in whole or in part by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian.
Workshop Descriptions:
- Digitization Project Management
Workshop Instructor: Geri Bunker Ingram
- This workshop will provide a general overview of all aspects of managing a digitization project, addressing issues that managers face as they implement their first digitization project. Topics covered include planning and policies, resource and staffing considerations, selecting projects and materials, process and workflow, digitization strategies (in-house or vendor), project sustainability, and marketing. Note: Participants are encouraged to bring any local strategic planning documents and grant descriptions that are appropriate.
- Digital Image Scanning
Workshop Instructor: Geri Bunker Ingram
- This workshop, designed for non-technical project staff, provides an overview of the digitization process with special emphasis on techniques and standards that must be employed when reformatting cultural heritage collections. Students will be introduced to the California Digital Library's imaging guidelines as a baseline standard for implementation. Topics covered include: the scanning process, metadata and imaging standards, system architecture and integration, hardware and software selection, interface design, quality control, and project assessment. Note: though this is not a hands-on scanning session, participants may choose to bring a small selection of materials for discussion, and handheld calculators to use for in-class exercises.
- Copyright Issues for Digitization Projects
Workshop Instructor: Mary Minow
- This workshop will introduce general issues pertaining to the selection of materials for digitization, and copyright issues. Topics covered: introduction to basic copyright law and the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, including "fair use" and "public domain" issues; methods for assessing copyright status of materials; print/analog materials vs. digital materials; risk tolerance and management; capturing rights information in digital object metadata; and developing an institutional policy and rights management framework.


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LONDON (AP) — British spies hunted in vain for the creator of a fake recording of an alleged spat between British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and U.S. President Ronald Reagan, declassified documents revealed Friday.
Soviet spies, Argentine agents and British leftists were considered as possible pranksters, but an anarchist punk band later claimed responsibility.
The tape, sent anonymously to Dutch newspapers in 1983, purported to capture the two leaders sparring during the 1982 Falklands War between Britain and Argentina. A transcript shows Reagan urging Thatcher "to control yourself" and the British leader responding: "We have to use violence" to "punish" Argentina.
British authorities quickly identified the recording as a forgery, compiled from clips of the two leaders speaking in earlier interviews.
Thatcher's press secretary, Bernard Ingham, wrote to another aide that the Reagan section was "far too fluent and articulate for the man in ordinary animated conversation."
The hunt for the perpetrator appears to have been inconclusive.
A letter to Thatcher from a Foreign Office adviser said the MI6 intelligence agency had considered Soviet spies, Argentine intelligence agencies and left-wing groups as possible culprits.
But he said KGB involvement was considered unlikely, and an intelligence official concluded that "there is no information to indicate that any subversive group or individual in this country was involved in making this tape."
The British punk band Crass later said it had created the hoax in a bid to sway opinion against Thatcher during Britain's 1983 election. Thatcher won the vote in a landslide.
The papers were released Friday by Britain's National Archives under a policy that declassifies many government papers after 30 years.


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GREELEY, Colo. (AP) — South Korea has cut off beef imports from a Colorado meat-packing plant after finding a controversial growth enhancer in the meat.
The beef came from a 22-ton shipment from Greeley, Colo.-based JBS USA, KUNC reported this week (http://bit.ly/GP6PP0). Korean food inspectors found traces of Zilmax, a supplement designed to bulk up cattle before slaughter.
Many European and Asian countries, including South Korea, have banned the use of feed additives like Zilmax. Some say the supplement may be causing the animals lameness or difficulty in moving.
Meatpackers Tyson and Cargill have stopped buying cattle that were fed Zilmax. A few days ago the Chicago Mercantile Exchange put in a place a similar policy.
"We are working with our partners at the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the South Korean government to resolve the issue concerning one of our U.S. facilities. Given the current situation in Washington, D.C., and the lack of official notification from South Korea, we do not have definitive information at this time," JBS officials wrote in a statement.
Merck, the pharmaceutical company that makes Zilmax, has suspended sales while further research is done to see if there is a connection between Zilmax and lameness in cattle.
A professor in Colorado State University's Center for Meat Safety and Quality said global markets can be tricky to navigate because standards vary.
"What ends up happening in international markets is that you have different countries with a lack of harmonized policies. It's the next great artificial trade barrier, for any country," professor Keith Belk said.


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