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Vanessa Bruno Spring 2013
Vanessa Bruno Spring 2013
There are some shows that feel so effortless, so on point, and so simple, you leave feeling light and happy and wishing you had the biggest closet in the world. That was the feeling after leaving Vanessa Bruno's light-as-air and totally pretty Spring 2013 show. Having ended up with a stroke of luck that put me in the front row, I got to witness the soft silk dresses that floated on the models, the way Bruno's sharply tailored jackets were cut to make everyone look 10 times better, and the hugely covetable leather strappy ankle booties that had a fresh gladiator vibe. Vanessa Bruno dances the delicate line between bohemian and polished, and the clothes here always felt put together (I saw at least 10 outfits I would love for my work wardrobe) but with a loose, bohemian spirit. The dresses were gorgeous — particularly the ones with embroidery and eyelet. If I could tell you to invest in anything next season, it would be one of Bruno's fabulous blazers and one of these soft dresses. Some shows are inspiring because they're so innovative, but this one was so inspiring because it was simply so pretty.

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|2007-07-15, 11:40
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Location: In line to confess his sins.
Age: 31
I'd say the Ninja Scroll series was pretty bad. It's definitely the worst anime I've actually watched through.
The storyline was dull, the drawings sub-par and the music gave me headaches.
On top of that, I watched a poorly subbed version which featured lines like: "Hey you guy, stopped!"
|2007-07-16, 08:15
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Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: Hell
Age: 33
Musashi Gundoh is the perfect candidate that its DVDs to use as frisbees and firing target for my shooting practice.So horrible even many folks make fun on it at Youtube.
Not in my hate list but a worth to Avoid:
Princess Princess: WTH! I rather watch Soul Link for 10000th times than seeing this anime once in my lifetime.
Ouran High School Host Club: Better leave it to the hands of fangirls alone.
Fruits Basket: Just like Ouran but worse.I never believe men will like this even I forced to.
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|2007-07-16, 22:13
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Location: Texas
Age: 26
I strongly agree.
|2007-07-17, 21:41
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|2007-07-17, 23:07
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Join Date: Dec 2005
The only show listed in the last little while that truly seems to deserve being "honored" in this thread is Musashi Gundoh - and it's likely that the creators were trying to make it as bad as possible.
|2007-07-18, 00:15
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I watched the first half of Gilgamesh, and I lost interest in it because it's not really to my taste. However, it's still far better than something like Okusama wa Joushi Kousei. In fact, there are quite a few people who watched Gilgamesh to the end and really liked it - AoD is probably the best English anime review site, and they gave it an excellent rating.
|2007-07-18, 06:09
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Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: somewhere in Asia........
Meiaminkbell.... okay, my bad..... when someone writes like that it does'nt mean that my english suck and i did't get the name right because i did not care to remember ok? well.... its just that i'm kind of busy... thats why i got a warning once for not putting on spoilers(check it yourself... if you don't belive me...) but then, Meiaminkbell now here's the question, did you or did you not like that crap(which i threw out the window)? Oh, could you give me a summary of that junk(or did you like it instead?) put in under spoilers....... now back 2 my bsy handwritin... thanks 4 the compliment thou, i gotta stat changin, if i have the time... Then gain its kinda nice 2 know that someone else knew bout it....
|2007-07-18, 07:49
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|2007-07-18, 08:15
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Lover of Elfen Ears
I've never seen Misaki Chronicles, but I have seen the first part of Divergence Eve and I have to say that I was interested in it. it had a very dark, recurring theme and wish I had the money to finish it. One of those examples of shows where large chests aren't the only thing that matter.
I'll pick up Misaki Chronicles after I finish the regular show.
|2007-07-18, 22:51
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Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: Hell
Age: 33
Craps that should meet Mr. Bullet, Mr. Fire and Mr. Hammer:
Hamtaro: Hey hamsters,Mr. Hammer wants to meet you.
Musashi Gundoh: Anime about gunfighting and they should meet Mr. Bullet at the end.
Gakuen Heaven: Mr. Fire's favorite anime.Once he get it,he will keep it forever.
Not on Craps list but still bad:
Fruits Basket: Anime that produce strange aura that make me to go to sleep,play PS2 or PC,go out to the mall,do house chores and turn off the TV.But this strange aura doesn't work on teenage girls.
Princess Princess: Everybody knows their real gender but most teenage girls are just too stupid to change their taste.
Ouran High School Host Club: Funny as sh*t,as a forumer told me before.I hope he/she was right.
|2007-07-18, 23:10
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Join Date: May 2004
4tran did bring up a good point about dislikes revolving around personal taste, so I'll have to dig deep for something I don't think anyone could like. Not unless they're into masochism. You want indisputably bad? Here goes:
So bad that two things will happen simultaneously: 1) I will not describe it and 2) anyone who has seen it will nod.
If you have not seen it, I am doing you a service by not describing it.
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Josh Cribbs has found his way back into the NFL.
NFL Media Insider Ian Rapoport reported Tuesday that the New York Jets planned to sign Cribbs, according to a source who had spoken to the receiver. The team later confirmed the move.
Cribbs will fill the special teams void left by Clyde Gates, who was moved to injured reserve with a shoulder injury Tuesday. The Jets also signed wide receiver Greg Salas off the Philadelphia Eagles' practice squad.
The Jets were one of four teams Cribbs worked out for in May as he attempted to come back from arthroscopic surgery on his left knee. Jets general manager John Idzik told reporters at the time that Cribbs' knee wasn't "quite there yet."
Cribbs eventually signed with the Oakland Raiders, who cut him during training camp. Now he gets another shot with the Jets, who could use some of that dynamic play Cribbs was capable of during his Cleveland Browns heyday.
We don't know if Cribbs is that same guy, or even a close facsimile at this point. Still, the Jets don't have many options, making the veteran worth a flier.
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The ancient Babylonian kings had the habit to put clay cylinders in the foundations of their temples, as a message from a king to posterity. The most famous of these is the Cyrus Cylinder; the youngest is a cylinder by king Antiochus I Soter, the son of Seleucus I Nicator. It dates to 268 BCE, and illustrates that the Macedonian tried to present himself as a Babylonian.
Antiochus tells how he personally moulded the first bricks in Syria, brought them to Babylonia, and rebuilt the temple of Nabû in Borsippa (the Ezida). The text continues with a prayer to the gods, which is pretty stereotypical, but also contains a likely reference to the First Syrian War: Antiochus asks for support in his fight against Ptolemaic Egypt. In the last lines, he asks for a long life for his wife Stratonice and his son Seleucus – somewhat ironically, because within two years, he had the boy killed.


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From high-end servers to desktops and laptops, multicore processors are increasingly replacing single-core processors. At the same time, however, application developers are confronted with new challenges when creating software that efficiently uses these multicore processors.
The specific challenge I examine in this article is the situation in which multiple CPU-bound multithreaded applications create "oversubscription" on a server and/or desktop system. The problem occurs when individual applications create as many threads as the number of cores available, and when each of these threads performs CPU-intensive tasks. Consequently, oversubscription occurs, negatively impacting overall performance. In other words, without knowing the actual system load and other applications running on the system, each multithreaded application competes with each other for system resources.
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The current generation of nonreal-time operating systems provide some type of fair resource (processor/core) allocation or scheduling; thus, the overall performance is impacted negatively when multiple multithreaded applications execute in parallel. Of course, there have been proposalsstatic mapping (done before applications are started) and dynamic mapping (calculated at runtime), for instanceabout how operating systems can provide some level of quality of service (QoS) and how application QoS values can be mapped to processor capacity.
The concept I propose here involves neither solving the oversubscription problem, nor providing a QoS service. Instead, my proposal involves a lightweight thread usage balancing framework that can be implemented without any changes to operating systems or runtime environments. (However, getting this functionality implemented in operating systems would make this mechanism available to all the applications on demand.) "Thread usage balancing" in this context refers to adjusting the number of threads each application uses, based on the utilization of the cores/processors. If not already using the maximum number of threads allowed (normally the number of physical cores available on the system), the applications only increase their thread count to the maximum allowed during their runtime.
As Figure 1 illustrates, there are two fundamental parts to the dynamic load-balancing framework:
- A stateless load governor running in the background, which monitors the utilization of the cores periodically. "Stateless" in this context means that the governor doesn't retain any information on how many threads each application uses.
- The library that applications use to communicate to the governor and adjust their thread count accordingly. The communication takes place via sockets over TCP/IP. All applications set the number of threads to use for parallel regions (in the OpenMP sense), based on the feedback received from the governor, rather than setting the number of threads as the number of processors physically available or as they wish.
Also, applications only increase their thread count, but can't set it more than the physical number of cores. This makes the initial thread count with which the application starts worth mentioning.


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Don't get Dolly Parton started about end-of-the-world prognosticators. The Country Music Hall of Fame member was raised and remains devoutly religious, as she demonstrated so artfully in her biblically rooted classic song "Coat of Many Colors." But the firebrand singer, songwriter and businesswoman isn't remotely interested in giving an ounce of credence to doomsday scenarios espoused by mere mortals like Bay Area radio preacher Harold Camping.
On her new album, "Better Day," Parton sounds in the first song, "In the Meantime," like she's been writing straight off the headlines Camping generated with his widely disseminated prediction that Judgment Day would come on May 21.
Yet she wrote the bouncy song, which urges listeners to make the most of whatever time the human race has left rather than fretting about its obliteration, long before Camping's name was rolling off the tips of newscasters' tongues. "I started writing it years ago," Parton said from her desk in the Nashville office where she conducts her many business affairs. It's also close to the rehearsal space where she's been readying her "Better Day" U.S. tour that starts Sunday night in Knoxville, Tenn., and brings her to the Hollywood Bowl on Friday and Saturday. "I wrote it when some other crazy looney-tune was saying the world was coming to an end."
In one verse, she sings:
Well, nobody knows when the end is coming
But some people tell you they do
It might be today, it might be tomorrow
Or in a million years or two
In the meantime, in the between time
Let us take time to make it right
And let us not fear what is not clear
Faith should be your guide
Faith -- in God, and in her own instincts -- is what keeps Parton, who turned 65 in January, a fount of creative energy and what leaves her unafraid of skewering anyone she thinks is full of hot air. Her barbs, however, are usually delivered with a twinkle in her eye and that wry half smile that's one of the many signature facets of her effervescent public persona.
"God knows when the end of time will come," she said, "not some fanatic.... The world will end someday, but the end of the world and the end of time are two different things. Anyway, we're more apt to blow the world up than something else happening."
Parton clearly would rather people "pay a little more attention to what we do in the meantime.... I believe in that old saying, 'If I knew the world would end tomorrow, I would plant an apple tree today.' I'm going to write my songs today, and if the world ends tomorrow, well, we have hope and there's a lot of good stuff going on now."
The good stuff includes the new album, which extends her return to the country-pop mainstream sound she resurrected with her 2008 album, "Backwoods Barbie." That came after a string of rootsy recordings that mined the bluegrass influences she grew up with in the Great Smoky Mountains of Tennessee.
"Better Day" for the most part successfully bridges her more pop-flavored but sometimes fluffy '80s albums with her more consistently inspired recent bluegrass collections.
It has been favorably received by many critics, scoring an aggregate critical response of 80 out of a possible 100 points at Metacritic .com. It includes vintage material she's revisited for a new generation, including the first single, "Together You and I," which she had recorded in the '70s as a duet with the man who launched her career in the mid-'60s, the late country traditionalist Porter Wagoner. It was her professional split with Wagoner that led her to write her best-known song, "I Will Always Love You," which Whitney Houston transformed into a pop-R&B; anthem with her 1992 recording.
It's certain Parton will give "I Will Always Love You" a central role in shows she's doing at the Bowl, her first full-fledged concerts at the venerable venue, for which she'll be backed by much the same versatile country-rock band that's accompanied her in recent years.
Parton is one of a relatively few country acts to have played at the Bowl over its 90-year history, a record that's a bit of a mystery given that so many rock, pop, R&B; and jazz acts that normally play much smaller venues while on tour often find themselves facing capacity crowds at the 19,000-seat music and picnicking institution.
Patti Page, a country-pop darling in the 1950s, appeared at the Bowl in 1988, and superstar Garth Brooks made his only U.S. concert appearance of 1994 there, as a benefit for a Southland organization helping the needy. Country-pop crossover divas Shania Twain and Faith Hill have landed Bowl performances, in 1999 and 2009, respectively.
"I'm proud to be there," Parton said, but noted it's not an unprecedented event for her. "I've walked out and sung a few songs with different people there, and I've been to shows there myself, which is why I know how fun it is to be there. I'll be doing four or five songs from the new CD and added some bluegrass things I didn't do on the last tour."
She has launched her own record label, Dolly Records, for the new album as much out of necessity as desire in the face of a country music business that has focused largely on performers 40 and younger.
It's a luxury many of her contemporaries and several still-active country veterans who are her seniors don't have.
"I know that times do have to roll on," she said. "But if I was ever any good, I'm as good now as I ever was. It's the same with Merle [Haggard] and so many others. A lot of people don't realize how good they still are -- they just look at you as old people. It does hurt.
"But we're still serious about our music and we've got to have an outlet for it. So I started my own label. I can make my music, and if I have to sell it out of the trunk of my car, I will," she said without a hint of braggadocio or self-pity. "That's what true artists have always done."
She's afforded it with a combination of publishing and other royalties from a deep catalog of country hits that started in 1967 with "Dumb Blonde," the solo single that established a public image she's exploited and fought in different arenas for almost half a century. As recently as 2005, she returned to the No. 1 slot on the Billboard Country Singles chart with her featured appearance on Brad Paisley's "When I Get Where I'm Going" single.
She's been directly involved in the expansion of her 1980 hit song "9 to 5" into both a hit film (which costarred Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin) and stage musical. She's also expanded her Dollywood country music-themed park in Pigeon Forge, Tenn., outside Knoxville, into a raft of sibling parks and restaurants. She's also the impetus behind Dolly Parton's Imagination Library, her program that provides free books to preschool children in an expanding group of communities across North America and England.
Early next year she'll be back on the big screen with another of country music's most respected songwriters, Kris Kristofferson, and Queen Latifah in "Joyful Noise," a comedy about two women jockeying for control of their church choir after Kristofferson's character, the church's pastor and Parton's character's husband, dies. In real life, she's been married for 45 years to Carl Dean, who never gives interviews.
She makes her career choices largely by intuition. "I just go by my feelings," Parton says with the Tennessee drawl that's always been as central to her character as the big hair, bigger bust and even bigger personality. "I'm in this for my own enjoyment, and I hope by being myself I can convey to my fans what I'm feeling.
"I try not to just do things just because everybody else is doing it. I write songs for one reason only: I have to, they come out of me. I am a skilled writer, and I can to do that too, when I have commissioned projects like '9 to 5,' " she said, referring to the songs she composed to flesh out the stage musical. "I can work well, and work fast, but I prefer to let the spirit lead me, wherever I am in my life, or whatever I decide I'm willing to handle.
"I don't wear myself out trying to find a certain producer just because everybody else is using him or because that's what's hot on country radio. Sure, I'd love to be able to get my songs played on the radio. But it's more important to be true to me."


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Don't crash into my hot tub!
A Prescott Valley woman, Atrina Sprague, is in custody for allegedly driving her car into a hot tub outside a northern Arizona home.
Police said Tuesday that Sprague, 32, remains in the Yavapai County Jail. She's being held on suspicion of DUI, reckless driving, criminal damage and endangerment.
Police say a breath test showed Sprague had a blood-alcohol level of .23 percent – well above the 0.08 percent legal limit to operate a vehicle in Arizona.
Residents of the Prescott Valley home told police they were woken up by a loud noise just after 2 a.m. Saturday, and discovered a car stuck in their spa. (Yes, they hate it when that happens)
They say the driver, Sprague, was apparently trying to leave, but couldn't get the car off a hill.
I'm sure they will need a new Spa Cover.
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Emma is one of my favorite characters on Glee, so I was very excited to make her cupcake this weekend. On the outside, Emma is a reserved, polished, sweetheart of a guidance counselor with a little spunk to go along with her firery red hair. Inside, she wrestles with more complex issues - a battle with OCD and a longing to be loved by the one man who stole her heart.
I knew from the start that her cake would be carrot cake, but with her recent proclamation of Gingerhood, a little kick from some ground ginger was definitely in order! The ginger also helps add a level of complexity to the flavor of the cake, to play off Emma's internal struggles. In keeping with Emma's polished exterior, I topped the cake with a tribute to her signature bow blouses and throwback hairstyle - a white fondant bow with curled tails.
Emma's cupcake combines gingered carrot cake with a delicate cream cheese frosting, topped with a signature bow!
Gingered Bow Cupcakes
Source: Slightly adapted from Baking Illustrated
Yield: about 24 cupcakes
Total time: 45 minutes
- 2 1/2 cups whole wheat pastry flour (12 1/2 ounces)
- 1 1/4 teaspoons baking powder
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 1/4 teaspoons ground cinnamon
- 1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg
- 1/8 teaspoon ground cloves
- 2 teaspoons ground ginger
- 1/2 teaspoons table salt
- 1 pound medium carrots (6 to 7), peeled
- 1 1/2 cups evaporated cane juice (10 1/2 ounces)
- 1/2 cup packed light brown sugar (3 1/2 ounces)
- 4 eggs (large)
- 1 1/2 cups safflower oil
- 8 ounces cream cheese, softened but still cool
- 5 tablespoons unsalted butter, softened but still cool
- 1 tablespoon orange juice
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 1/4 cups powdered sugar (4 1/2 ounces)
- fondant, for decorations
- Wash all bowls, pans, utensils, and equipment in hot, soapy water. Dry thoroughly.
- Wash all carrots thoroughly to ensure they are free of pesticides.
- Day dream about Will Schuester.
- Adjust oven rack to middle position; heat oven to 350 degrees. Line 2 muffin pans with sterilized cupcake wrappers.
- Whisk together flour, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves, ginger, and salt in medium bowl; set aside.
- In food processor fitted with large shredding disk, shred carrots (you should have about 3 cups); transfer carrots to bowl and set aside. Wash food processor components thoroughly with hot, soapy water, then dry pieces and fit bowl with metal blade. Process granulated and brown sugars and eggs until frothy and thoroughly combined, about 20 seconds. With machine running, add oil through feed tube in steady stream. Process until mixture is light in color and well emulsified, about 20 seconds longer. Scrape mixture into large bowl.
- Realize you are alone and break down in tears, singing "All By Myself."
- Pull yourself together.
- Stir in carrots and dry ingredients until incorporated and no streaks of flour remain. Full cupcake wrappers 2/3 of the way and until toothpick or skewer inserted into center comes out clean, about 16-20 minutes, rotating pan halfway through baking time.
- Cool cupcakes to room temperature in pan on wire rack. When ready to frost, prepare icing. Try not to pass out while working with cream cheese and butter. Process cream cheese, butter, orange juice, and vanilla in clean food processor workbowl until combined, about 10 seconds, scraping down bowl with rubber spatula as needed. Add powdered sugar and process until smooth, about 10 seconds. Frost cupcakes and top with fondant bow. Have a cupcake to make yourself feel better.
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ATTENTION, RESIDENTS OF EARTH SIMULATION NUMBER 55-150 61-410. I regret to inform you that your planet has failed an apotheosis of Standardized Intelligence Test 184.108.40.206.0. The Elucubration Authority's traditional mourning period of two native lunar months has lapsed, and the...
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I stand corrected about Copenhagen, but proving reality was local would still screw up transactional, so hopefully my point is understood. ;) Every observable outcome would be identical, unless of course someone screwed up their math and its just garbage. Either I'm confused, or you missed something I said. My point was that the interpretations are indeed mathematically identical, so you can't test them. (The ones that aren't mathematically identical are usually rapidly disproven.) However, they _do_ make statements about reality, not about quantum outcomes, but about the actual composition of reality, and those statements can, in theory, be disproved...
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Wait, why should I care if I'm simulated after I die?...
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Because the simulation is so perfect, so exact, that it actually is you. Yeah, I know, this involves measuring you here and now at atomic accuracy, to a level that not only breaks the Heisenberg Uncertainty principle but that drives a coach and horses over the fragments and then gathers the splinters up and uses them as tinder for building a bonfire. But ignoring those petty practicalities, it's going to happen because, well, because someone could imagine it happening and therefore it must be inevitable....
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I'd say that this imagining tells us more about the imaginer's lack of understanding of Quantum Mechanics than about how much we should or shouldn't care about it happening....
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Ahh, we are essentially in agreement then. I don't see though how locality would affect any exact interpretation in so much as locality can at all be inferred (sounds like an attempt to prove absence). If there was a non local interaction, it would knock the support from under everything that's motivated by locality, though. The way I see it, any new physics necessitates different laws of physics from what we know, with different set of interpretations, some of which can resemble current interpretations of QM; and some of current interpretations of QM may end up having no interpretations of...
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Interview with American social justice activist and writer Mark Vorpahl
Mark Vorpahl is an American social justice activist, union steward and anti-war writer. He mostly writes for the Workers Compass but his writings have also appeared on a number of international journals and news websites such as Common Dreams, Global Research, CounterPunch and Counter Currents. He is opposed to U.S. military expeditions around the world and believes that the United States is not in a position to tell Iran to abandon its nuclear program.
With regards to the emergence of the Occupy Wall Street movement he opines, "The Occupy Wall Street Movement was a damning critique of the policies of President Obama. It would not have come into existence if it weren't for his continuation of the same policies that led to the crisis and his choice to further bail out the banks while letting working people suffer high unemployment, the loss of their homes and healthcare, and so on."
Vorpahl took part in an exclusive interview with me and responded to a number of questions regarding the breakout of financial crisis in the United States, the emergence of Occupy Wall Street movement, the anti-Iranian policies of the United States government and standoff over Iran's nuclear program.
Q: What are the major causes of the current economic recession in the United States? It's said that poverty and unemployment are rising in the United States. Is that true? What factors mostly contributed to the emergence of 2007-2012 global financial crisis which encompassed the United States and Europe?
A: While there are many complex answers to what caused the current economic recession in my country, the answer boils down to a simple point. Workers, that is the vast majority of people in the US, were being paid far too little for their labor to continue to buy the goods that were being sold. Their wages, when indexed to the cost of living, had not increased in thirty years, and in fact were declining. That is a long time to go without a real raise.
During the housing boom, many were able to refinance their houses on terms that enabled them to have a little more cash to spend. However, in the months before the crash, their level of savings had dropped to record lows.
Tellingly, more wealth became concentrated into fewer hands. Inequality reached record levels. This is what happened before the "Great Depression" in the 1930s. The pattern was repeated in the build up to the "Great Recession."
The wealthy buy luxury goods, which account for a small percentage of what is sold. Most poor and working class people buy the things they need to survive and, in good times, a little extra. It is these kinds of goods that account for the majority of what is sold. Since 70 percent of our economy is fueled by domestic consumption, when wealth becomes so concentrated in a few hands at the expense of the vast majority, it's going to have a disastrous effect.
If people can't afford to buy, demand drops. If demand drops, production stalls and layoffs result.
Magnifying this problem, the Wall Street high rollers attempted to get around the problem of declining demand through financial speculation, using such instruments as what came to be known as toxic assets. The effect of these schemes, involving trillions of dollars, was to extend the "boom" economy past its natural breaking point. However, it also created a series of giant bubbles that were destined to pop with catastrophic consequences.
In regards to unemployment, it is important to understand that the way the official statistics are calculated in the US greatly underestimate its actual level. They do not include "discouraged workers" or those who are no longer collecting employment compensation or those who are working part-time but want full-time jobs. More objective figures estimate that there are 24 million unemployed and underemployed workers in the US. This puts more pressure on those who have full-time work, leaving them stuck in jobs that demand more labor for less wages and benefits than before the "Great Recession".
While every month we hear a figure about the number of jobs that have been created. Unless that number surpasses 125,000, we are falling behind. This is because there are 125,000 new people that enter into the labor market each month. Most often, the figure of newly created jobs per month falls well below this number.
Of course all this increases the level of poverty. According to the US Census Bureau, the poverty rate rose to 15.1 percent (46.2 million) in 2010. I am confident that the number has risen since then.
In terms of what factors contributed to the 2007 – 2012 global financial crisis, they are, broadly speaking, the same factors that I have discussed for the US economy. That is a growing concentration of wealth in fewer hands, leaving the vast majority unable to purchase the goods their collective labor has created, combined with financial speculation on the part of the banks and corporations that greatly magnified the problem. It is clear from events in Europe and the continuing effects of the Great Recession on workers in the US that we are still in the throes of this crisis. There is no light at the end of the tunnel.
Q: How did the Occupy Wall Street movement take shape? In one of your articles, you had talked of the role the unions played in giving rise to the movement. How do you analyze this movement and the role unions played in it? Was it the economic policies of President Obama that led to the formation of OWS?
A: The Occupy Wall Street Movement (OWS) was a damning critique of the policies of President Obama. It would not have come into existence if it weren't for his continuation of the same policies that led to the crisis and his choice to further bail out the banks while letting working people suffer high unemployment, the loss of their homes and healthcare, and so on. Rather than raising taxes on the corporations and wealthy to create a jobs program, he maintained that it is the business of the private sector to create jobs.
Where has this left us? With continuing high unemployment, growing poverty, an unstable economy, and the corporations hoarding trillions rather than creating jobs. This is a highly combustible combination – thus, the development of OWS out of what appeared to be nowhere.
The unions did not give rise to the OWS. However, when they began to organize in support of OWS, it brought out tens of thousands on numerous occasions across the nation. This helped to transform OWS from a fringe action to a Main Street movement. The political dialog was forced to shift from talking about deficits to at least acknowledging the great inequality in this country and that the 1 percent are not being held accountable for the economic crisis they created. Most importantly, the political discussions between workers on the job began to change as they recognized themselves as part of the 99 percent.
Q: Let's turn to foreign policy. During his campaign leading to the 2008 presidential elections, President Obama had promised that he would be following a path of reconciliation and détente with Iran and other Muslim countries. But what we saw in practice was the continuation of animosities with Iran, intensification of drone attacks on Afghanistan, Pakistan, Somalia and Yemen. What's your idea? Why did Mr. Obama retreat from his promises?
A: The vast majority of the Democratic and Republican Party's' funding comes from big business. Our foreign policy is determined according to the interests of US big business. Regardless of what candidate Obama had to say, once he became president it was inevitable he would fall into line with what his party's big contributors wanted.
Behind the continuing animosities with Iran, the drone attacks, as well as US military involvement in Libya and likely Syria, are cold-blooded geo-political considerations in how to secure the maximum control and the most profitable arrangements for US corporations. Humanitarian ideals or respect for democracy have nothing to do with our foreign policy – except for fooling US citizens.
Q: Many critics of the U.S. foreign policy contest that they are the poor taxpayers who should pay the price for America's waging wars and igniting the flames of military expeditions around the world. What's your take on that? What's the justification for the United States' wars of aggression? In what ways are the American citizens affected by the wars the U.S. wages?
A: Since the end of World War II, US taxpayers have been forced to pay more for the military than for all the roads, bridges, hospitals, and schools combined. Especially in a time when we need jobs, need to repair our decaying infrastructure, desperately need to fundamentally transform our health care system, and education is being cut back, the continuing cost of maintaining our massive military budget is untenable. It is an attack against working people's interests in the US as well as a weapon used against the interests of working people worldwide.
The vast majority of our veterans joined the military because of a lack of opportunities for good jobs and a good education. They were promised pie in the sky by the military recruiters. Few ever see these promises fulfilled. In a 2011 Veterans' Administration study it was reported that a veteran commits suicide every 80 minutes. That number has likely gone up since then. This is the tip of the iceberg for the mental and physical difficulties they are facing as well as their families. They need health care, education, and good jobs. Yet they are being denied this by the economic priorities of a political system that puts corporate profits over people.
Q: Do you see any differences between the foreign policy of President Obama and that of his predecessor? In my view, both of them have pursued a hawkish foreign policy, predicated on murdering, killing and assassinating. The only subtle difference lies in Obama's eloquence; something which Bush lacked and was scoffed at for. Do you agree?
A: I agree that Obama is a hawk. The aims of his foreign policy are guided by the same goals that I have discussed above, as Bush. There are some minor differences in their tactical approach. In my opinion, Bush's foreign policies were more influenced by a wing of our economic oligarchy that were more flush with confidence and willing to take bigger chances such as committing huge resources to invading Iraq and believing that they would be able to accomplish their mission in a relatively brief time. That did not work out as hoped.
Consequently, those in the more cautious wing of our ruling class have Obama's ear. They would, for instance, rather use drones than commit ground troops to accomplish their aims, at least for now. It is easier for them to contain the reaction within the US and across the globe. Therefore, they will be better prepared to take on more aggressive military missions when the time comes.
This does not make the Obama Administration less hawkish than Bush's, just more strategic.
Q: What do the American people, academicians and journalists think about the possibility of a war against Iran? There are many Israeli-affiliated journalists who are trumpeting for a military strike on Iran. But I want to know that what the general perception of the American people is about their country waging a new war in the region. Can you elaborate on this for us?
A: My impression is that a potential war against Iran is not on most US citizens' radar at this time. Their heads are still spinning from the blow the Great Recession hit them with and that is what is most immediately affecting them. The corporate media takes advantage of every opportunity to vilify Iran as a mad power intent on developing nuclear weapons. However, there is no clear crescendo towards war that most US workers are hearing. No event has occurred that the hawks can use to co-opt public opinion.
This will be a very difficult task to pull off if the US policy makers decide they want a full-scale military attack against Iran using US soldiers. If the drum beats towards war with Iran do become louder, I am confident that many, if not most, will not be marching in line.
Before a single shot was fired in the build up to the Iraq invasion, millions hit the streets in opposition, even though it was in the dead of winter. This is something unprecedented in US history. The war makers have always taken it for granted that they could get the populace behind them to start a war. That is no longer a given.
One of the main demands against the Iraq invasion was "Money for jobs, not war." This was during the economic boom. During the present time of high unemployment and cuts against our social safety net, the power of such a demand is exponentially increased in terms of those who would respond to it in the build up of a war against Iran.
If the US chooses another tactic such as supporting an Israeli attack against Iran, I suspect that it will be more difficult to rally US citizens in such large numbers against it initially. This is because most are pre-occupied with just getting by and they do not yet understand how such actions affect them and, most importantly, do not believe that they can do anything about it. Yet the effects of such a military attack, using Israel as a proxy army, are not likely to be easily contained. Therefore, it is possible that the results could produce massive uniting actions of US workers against our government's war making policies.
Q: What efforts can be done in order to prevent the U.S. or Israel from coming to war with Iran? It seems that there are hawkish leaders in both countries which see no resolve to Iran's nuclear crisis other than a military option. Should Iran abandon its nuclear program in order to preclude a war?
A: First off, I want to be absolutely clear, the US has no business whatsoever telling Iran to abandon its nuclear program. Such a demand coming from one of the world's largest nuclear powers, and the only nation to use these weapons against civilian populations is monstrous. The word "hypocrisy" does not even begin to cover the scale of what is wrong with this line.
In addition, the US is Israel's biggest supporter. Everyone knows that Israel has nuclear weapons and that they are quick to viciously attack their neighbors. Based on their actions, they are a much bigger threat to peace in the region than Iran. Why hasn't the US demanded that Israel get rid of its nuclear weapons? The reason is that Iran isn't to falling into line with US interests. On the other hand, Israel is our partner. The vilifying of Iran's nuclear power program is convenient propaganda tool to distract US citizens from the real reasons for our government's hostility towards Iran.
US workers need to be educated about why they should actively fight against any military actions against Iran. The best way to educate them is through the process of building a massive social movement that addresses their immediate needs and creates a space for such discussions as US relations with Iran.
Q: And finally, may you give me an overview of the operations and activities of anti-war and pro-peace organizations in the United States? Does the government pay attention to their calls for ending military expeditions around the world? Can these groups influence the decision-makings and policies of the government, Senate or the Congress?
A: Currently the anti-war movement is in remission. There is still a strong nucleus of this movement but they are unable to find the mass active support they once had. This is partly because most of the soldiers have been pulled out of Iraq. More importantly, however, it is because US workers' attention is more focused on the effects of the Great Recession which continue to have a devastating impact.
The government likes to look as if it does not pay much attention to the anti-war movement but they are wary of its potential to suddenly explode. During the 1960s and 1970s the US Anti-war movement played a role in ending the US war in Vietnam.
Aside from huge mass demonstrations, the government also responds to the power of wealth. It is this power that big business has in abundance and it is in their interests that US foreign policy is made.
The only way to counter this is with the power of unity among massive numbers of workers and unemployed, demonstrating this with huge actions in the streets and work places. To build such an independent social movement it is necessary to organize around the issues that are of the most immediate importance to the vast majority. Today, in the US, that would be calling for a jobs program and the expansion of our social safety net, rather than cuts, as well as taxing the rich to pay for this.
Workers learn rapidly through mass experience. By joining in such a social movement, based on their own needs, they would learn of their own political power. This would encourage them to take on organizing around other issues such as opposing US war policy.
Occupy Wall Street was a harbinger of such a movement. As I participated in some of the mass OWS actions, I could not help but think that I was witnessing the birth of one of the greatest most powerful anti-war movements this nation has ever seen. It wasn't that anyone was carrying anti-war banners. Rather it was the inspirational power that rose from the unity of these actions and how they directly confronted the economic elite who profit from war.
The youth in my country have grown up in a time where they have known nothing else but war and economic crisis. That is why so many became active in OWS and are continuing their efforts and their education today. It is only a matter of time before the promise of OWS, no matter what it is called, matures and realizes its potential. When that happens it will result in the beginning of a fundamental political shift in this country that will create an immense obstacle for the economic elite's war plans.


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Three care workers at Lancashire home care have been found guilty of abusing elderly residents.
The female staff members at Hillcroft nursing home in Slyne-with-Hest near Lancaster mocked, bullied and assaulted residents, Preston Crown Court heard.
A fourth male staff member earlier pleaded guilty to ill-treating the elderly residents.
The defendants told other staff they were bored and were doing it for entertainment, prosecutors said.
Carol Moore, 54, was the team leader of Ripon Avenue, Beaumont, Lancaster, she abused six residents including slapping one.
Tipped out of wheelchair, the abuse went this far, Gemma Pearson, 28, of Hill Street, Carnforth, tipped a resident out of a wheelchair.
Four residents were abused by Katie Cairns, 27, of Riverview Court, Westgate, Morecambe. She stamps on the foot of one, mocks others by throwing bean bags at them and touching them.
Darren Smith, 34, of Howgill Avenue, Lancaster, had previously pleaded guilty to ill-treating eight residents and the court heard he was seen in bed with a distressed resident.
Det Insp Andy Hulme said the staff members "showed a total disregard for their wellbeing, displaying contemptible behaviour that should never be tolerated".
Their actions "caused considerable distress to the victims, and it has been very distressing for their families to hear about it", the Crown Prosecution Service said.
Every one was charged under the Mental Capacity Act 2005 with ill-treatment and willful neglect of a person with lack of capacity.
The court heard that they had previously been suspended from the home following abuse allegations made by a receptionist and a cleaner in September 2011.
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However they went back to work subsequent to being handed warnings as an effect of an internal investigation and the matter was not referred to the police or social services.
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) was sent anonymous emails about the standard of care inside the home, the court heard that in December 2011.
In May 2012, the CQC forwarded the matter to the local authority's protection team who informed police.
In a statement, relatives of the victims criticized "failings" of managers at Hillcroft, Lancashire County Council, NHS North Lancashire and the CQC.
They also praised the courage of whistleblowers.
They said: "To work in a challenging behaviour unit must be incredibly difficult, requiring patience and understanding, not to mention training and professionalism, but the difficulty of the job does not excuse mistreatment on any level."
The home's owner said all those involved have now left and it is under new management.
The former staffs are due to be sentenced in January.


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- 1 egg
- 1 tablespoon water
- 4 sheets puff pastry, thawed (recommended: Pepperidge Farm)
- Flour, for dusting
- 8 large (21 to 25) shrimp, shelled and deveined
- 1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 2 tablespoons unsalted butter
- 1 small carrot, diced
- 1 celery stalk, diced
- 6 mushrooms, sliced thin
- 2 sprigs fresh thyme
- 1/2 cup white wine
- 2 cups heavy cream
- Salt and freshly ground white pepper
- Special equipment: 3 and 4-inch metal ring
Preheat oven to 400 degrees F.
In a small bowl, whisk egg and water until well blended. Lightly dust work surface with flour. Unfold puff pastry and dock dough with a fork. Using a 4-inch ring, cut 16 circles. Set 4 circles on a nonstick baking sheet. These are the base of the pot pies. Discard scraps. Using a 3-inch metal ring, cut circles in the center of the 12 remaining circles. Remove 4 of the 3-inch circles to the prepared baking sheet. These are the tops. Brush the outer edge of the 4-inch circles with the egg wash. Lay 1 of the 12 rings on top. Brush egg wash on that ring and place another ring on top. Repeat 1 more time until you have 3 rings stacked on top of each other. Repeat with remaining circles until you have 4 assembled. Brush the edges and tops with egg wash and bake in the middle of the oven until golden, about 20 minutes.
Meanwhile, season the shrimp with cayenne pepper, salt and black pepper. In a medium saucepan over medium-high heat, add oil and 1 tablespoon butter. Saute the shrimp, 1 minute per side. Remove shrimp and set aside. Add remaining butter to the pan and saute carrots, celery, mushrooms, and thyme, until softened about 10 minutes. Add wine, bring to a simmer and cook until most of the wine has evaporated. Add the cream and bring back to a simmer until the sauce thickens to a gravy consistency, about 12 to 15 minutes. Place the shrimp back into the sauce to coat. Remove thyme and season with salt and white pepper. Ladle the shrimp mixture into the pastry puff bowls and top with the smaller puff circles.