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Waleed Elgadi plays Walid Rashid in Season Two of Tyrant, continuing tonight at 9pm on Fox.
Tyrant is an American drama television series created by director and writer Gideon Raff and developed by Howard Gordon and Craig Wright. The first season of Tyrant consisting of 10 episodes premiered on American cable network FX on June 24, 2014 and ended on August 26, 2014. FX renewed Tyrant for a second season which premiered on June 16, 2015, and ended September 1, 2015.
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Sudanese born actor Waleed Elgadi has worked extensively across Film, Television and Theatre both in the UK and internationally.
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Anthropology Lesson Plan
Water Unit
Lesson Identification:
Curriculum Area: Social Studies -Anthropology
Target Age/Grade: 3rd Grade
Group Size: 25 students
Context/Time of Day: During the afternoon Social Studies period. Time Needed: 45 minutes
Rationale: This activity allows students to broaden their cultural understanding of the world, and how that relates to the self, and the United States in particular. This activity will allow students to develop greater cultural awareness of the uses of water in the past and present.
State Goal 16 Social Science: Understand events, trends, individuals and movements shaping the history of Illinois, the United States and other nations. Learning Standard E. Understand Illinois, United States and world environmental history Benchmark: 16.E.1 (US) Describe how the local environment has changed over time.
State Goal 12 Science Concepts & Principles: Understand the fundamental concepts, principles and interconnections of the life, physical and earth/space sciences. Learning Standard E. Know and apply concepts that describe the features and processes of the Earth and its resources Benchmark: 12.E.1a Identify components and describe diverse features of the Earth's land, water and atmospheric systems.
Measurable Behavioral Objectives:
Knowledge level: After the lesson, students will define the basic concept of anthropology with 90% accuracy. Analysis level: Students will compare and contrast two different legends with 100% accuracy. Application level: After reading legends of water, students will fill out a graphic organizer with 100% accuracy.
Concept & Skill:
Anthropology represents how people view things differently and the practices of different people vary. Water is featured in peoples lives in different ways and for different reasons, such as for cleaning, drinking, washing, cooking, manufacturing and more. Today we use water for the same reasons,...
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Justin discovers an illegible note on the Verres' refrigerator. He, Nanase and Sarah all read it completely differently, but each reads it as a message pertenant to themself. Difficulties in Sarah's relationship with Elliot are foreshadowed.
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As the weather begins to warm up why not challenge yourself to a pleasant walk this spring and take on the Marlow circular!
This 13.4 mile walk has been graded as 3 out of 10 in terms of toughness by the folks over at the official walking club website and is an ideal ramble for those wishing to enjoy some pleasant scenery and an excellent lunch along the way! Starting out from Marlow, the first section of the walk will take you through some particularly lovely meadows as you follow the path of the river Thames for 5 miles.
Walkers will pass through our lovely village of Hurley along the way, where the Olde Bell is situated. Hurley was once a Benedictine Monastery mentioned in the Domesday survey of 1086 and the local Parish church of St. Mary the virgin was the original chapel of the monastery. Walkers can enjoy a lovely stroll around Hurley to take in the calm and relaxed atmosphere before joining us for a delicious pub lunch! After a hearty morning of exercise, why not sample one of our famous home made pies or a tasty risotto… Our splendid walled kitchen garden provides the majority of the fruit and vegetables that will end up on your plate so guests can be assured of the finest and freshest of ingredients. This "garden to plate" tradition is just a small part of the ethos of the Olde Bell – where we have worked hard to create the original feel of an olde ancient inn. Following a delicious lunch, why not relax in our tranquil summer garden and enjoy a refreshing drink before heading off for the second part of the Marlow Circular. If you need to stock up on refreshments for the rest of the walk then be sure to pop into the Hurley farm shop which opens between 7.30am and 8pm daily and can provide you with a variety of snacks and drinks.
Upon arrival in Henley, having taken on a few gentle woodland hills, a variety of delightful eateries can be found. We particularly recommend the Chocolate Theatre Cafe which is light and airy with some pretty river views. If staying in Henley for a late lunch or early dinner, why not try out Orwells which has been named restaurant of year by the Good Food Guide. Alternatively, the Baskerville in lower Shiplake is also a firm favourite with locals as well as tourists in Henley.
If you are looking to enhance your walk with an overnight stay then treat yourself to a night at the Olde Bell, which is only 3.9 miles from Marlow via the A404. With an enticing selection of luxe rooms, some of which feature traditional roll top baths, guest can be assured of a great night's sleep in the comfort of one of our huge hand made beds. Expect pure cotton sheets, luxury Noble Isle toiletries and pure wool Jacob's blankets which all come as standard– just bliss after a long walk!
The following morning, why not take on another local stroll to admire the beauty of the Thames. Hurley Lock is a unique point of interest as this where the river Thames splits into a number of channels. The ford that crosses the river at this point was the origin of Hurley and mentioned in the Saxon Chronicles!
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The Power Hour: Interview with Field McConnell
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NOTE: Fly-by-wire, and "main partner Boeing" Sukhoi is bound by patent law as is Boeing, and Boeing owns the patents: (US20030163232) Airliner irreversible-control anti-hijack system (granted Jan 2005)http://patentscope.wipo.int/search/en/detail.jsf?docId=US40263925 "...Support-system options include SmartCard®-interfacing, and automatic is engagement of AIRCIA™-system in event of natural-cause pilot-incapacitation, and ATI(automatic/tranquil-Infusion) which introduces tranquilizing-gas into the airliner's entire interior." NOW THAT IS SCARY - DO PILOTS KNOW THE WHOLE PLANE COULD BE REMOTELY TRANQUILIZED? (US20060032978) Method and system for controlling a hijacked aircraft (granted Nov 2011) http://patentscope.wipo.int/search/en/detail.jsf?docId=US41415239 (WO2012060942) AUTOMATIC CONTROL OF AN AIRCRAFT IN THE EVENT OF FLIGHT CREW INCAPACITY (published May 2012) http://patentscope.wipo.int/search/en/detail.jsf?docId=WO2012060942 US20130246574) Onboard Electronic Distribution System (pub Sept 2013 but there will be predecessors if you look) http://patentscope.wipo.int/search/en/detail.jsf?docId=US91087038 (US08589020) Updating identity information in aircraft network data processing systems http://patentscope.wipo.int/search/en/detail.jsf?docId=US95638706 (Allows remote software upload and reprogramming of systems, such as transponder information, aircraft identifiers etc) (US6675076) System, autopilot supplement assembly and method for increasing autopilot control authorityhttp://patentscope.wipo.int/search/en/detail.jsf?docId=US40599614 Reading the detail and claims section of these patents is chilling in light of MH370 and keep in mind that on 14 March, 2014 ALPA President Lee Moak received this information, AND MORE, from Captain Field McConnell, Plaintiff of Civil Case 1:08-1600 (RMC). Having just scratched the surface with these and knowing that many years of testing leads to these patents, flight hasn't been "safe" for a very long time...according to Captain McConnell at least as early as 1995. Captain McConnell has suggested ALPA's Lee Moak promulgate this safety sensitive information to the WORLD'S AIRLINE LEADERS meeting this week in ( redacted ), see press release below and let's see if Lee Moak does the right thing. McConnell has set a deadline of 13 April, 2014 for ALPA to MEET HIS DEMAND.http://www.alpa.org/Portals/Alpa/PressRoom/PressReleases/2014/GPS2014_3-28-14.htm
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Yesterday, I wrote a blog post about me being a "cool dude" … and guess what? It turns out that I was right after all. I am a cool dude. And to prove it, I'm going to talk about our "Kodiak" quad today. Even though I like this quad a lot, you probably won't see me riding on it anytime soon.
I'd like to show you a picture of our quad now.
This morning, I was able to sit on our quad for a few seconds at a time.
I was trying to be a funny person while I was sitting on the quad.
I also wore my leather jacket while I was sitting on the quad this morning. I was trying to be cool and serious while I was sitting on the quad also.


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This week kinda went off in blur. I had to go through fixing my last salary, new freelance clients, an interview, a job offer and an exam. I haven't been this busy since Cricket.
After 9 weeks (3 weeks of which, I was living in almost poverty), I suddenly found myself with 2 month worth of CCM salary. Thanks TP for finally releasing the back pay. It took them 2 months and a quite a bit of incompetencies… but am not complaining now. I have a new resolve not to say anything that might be deemed nasty against my lovely former company. Much less, I will be an advocate of encouraging people who are still there to stick it out — until they have another job offer. hehehe.
As much as I enjoyed being a bum, it was a living hell not having anything stable. My eternal thanks to my mother who offered to pay for everything while I didn't have anything. I was silent while she talked through the deal, good thing I didn't run out of money before the back pay came. All good but my mom is simply the best, ain't she?
Luckily too, I got the job that I wanted last Thursday. The first thing I said when the managing director quoted my salary was "Really?" in an unbelieving but terribly excited tone. Company policy states that I cannot reveal how much it is to colleagues so just in case anyone from the office gets to reading my blog or anyone of my friends know my current officemates, I will leave only clues — the offer was me a little less than the CCM salary but a little bit more than the ACCM's. (Kermitt should be able to guess…)
Not bad for someone who was expecting to be offered something around an agent rate.
And oh… Ola is also working for the same company. We had the same job offer day. It was a nice? surprise.
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Lisa Levy: Conceptual Art
This is an overview of my work broken down into 4 categories:
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Hung on a Wall
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Kids, are you excited to spend your family day out surrounded by over 35 historic aircraft and a host of indoor exhibits all relating to aviation history? Great, because we're at the family-friendly Pacific Coast Air Museum, and they have 5 acres of aviation exploration for you!
Founded in 1989, the Pacific Coast Air Museum is dedicated to the restoration and display of historical aircraft, as well as honors heroic aviators who have contributed so much to the growth and defense of our way of life
The Pacific Coast Air Museum is a "hands-on" museum, so it's great for kids. Kids can learn what it was like to fly in the plans on display, and learn all about the men and women who actually flew them! In most cases they can walk right up to the airplanes, helicopters and equipment, touch them, look inside them, and see what makes them tick
Even with the historic aircraft on display, kids can crawl under them, look inside the wheel wells, and peer into cockpits
The permanent and semi-permanent exhibits features an impressive collection of rare photos, cutaway jet engines showing inner workings, WWII era artifacts, and items from the "Golden Era of Flight"
There is even an exhibit on the F-15A "First Responder, which was the first fighter jet on the scene over New York City the morning of September 11, 2001 - yes the ACTUAL aircraft!
So let's all FLY into the next family day out with a trip to the Pacific Coast Air Museum - kids, YOU are in the pilot seat now!


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As the title suggests, my Lenovo h50-55 may have a possible PSU/Motherboard issue. Because upon turning it on the screen is basically black but the tower will still come on and all the fans will spin still. I have tried taking the ram out and swapping it around, taking the graphics card out and using the monitor ports on the motherboard (VGA) and nothing works. It also doesn't beep or anything upon turning it on and the HDD light is very dim. I orignally thought it was a HDD problem but i managed to install windows 7 on it and it worked perfectly. The monitor works fine too, as i plugged a games console into it and it's fine. Yesterday a family member took it to a PC repair shop and i wrote everything down that i had attempted on it the tower, but he claimed the power supply was "16" and it couldn't be tested to see if it was broken. As modern machines have "20-24" regarding PSU, but i have zero clue what he is talking about and i'll have to call him today and ask lol. I really like the machine too and i don't want to replace it after only having it for two years, so any help would be great. Thank you.
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I cannot be sure without seeing it, but when you turn the machine, the first thing that happens is that the power is tested. If everything is good, a +5v signal comes back on the power-good lead. At that time everything starts up. Usually, if the fan and drives spin up, the power supply is ok.
So it could be the motherboard that's broken then? Because i haven't changed a single component inside the machine since i have owned it, mainly because i haven't needed to lol. My very first computer had a broken motherboard/power supply and it didn't come on at all, but when it happened on my Lenovo machine i thought it could be the board and not the power supply. Unless the fans still spin etc with a broken power supply, if it can get enough power that is. unless that's wrong?
I've also been told it could be the chip because AMD chips can burn out, but i have also been told that can be a very rare occurrence in machines. It's main usage is for old PC games from 2008/2008 and they don't even put a dent in the peformance while they run on the highest settings. I'll also use it for music and watching videos, so nothing major is being done in order to make it burn out rapidly. One final thing, i have had to reset it A LOT via the tower, mainly because Windows 10 went mad and i had %100 disk usage, so could that have caused it? Or do you think everything just crashed at once? Because W10 definitely did crash lol.
Could be motherboard. Could even be memory. If you have 2 DIMMs, try them one at a time. That is free to try.
I have tried putting different RAM back in the two varying slots and i get nothing from doing that either. The machine doesn't beep or do anything, the fans just spin and the HDD light is dim and the power supply light comes on. I've been told the parts in the h50-55 are exclusively only to that machine and they'll cost a lot to order and replace.
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Hi Miguel.
Maybe I can recommend you to call the Lenovo Support or local Lenovo partner to check your machine.
Lenovo machines have the "Hardware Maintenance Manual" and the "FRU" list when you can find out each part and ask to the local deal the price of the part.
- Lenovo H50 Series Hardware Maintenance Manual
...chapter 9 list all the FRUs (Part numbers)
Check with the Lenovo support if it will be expensive or not to fix it.
Visit https://support.lenovo.com/us/en/ and open a ticket and see if it works out.
Thanks for the help. I'm going to take it back to the shop where i got it from originally, as they will supposedly tell me what the problem is for free. Also, i have been told twice now that Lenovo parts cost a fortune, but i'll have to see what the shop says and then i'll call Lenovo. Because i do not believe it should have broken so rapidly after not being worked very hard lol.
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What type of person am I?
When it comes to 'people types', we've all read and possibly participated in various online personality tests.
We've all read the LinkedIN or Facebook posts about 'what makes an x, y or z' type person.
I'm sure all of the above have been tested on animals, scientifically proven and all that technical bullshit and I really don't want to say this but…
I'm This Type Of Person!
So having myself been a 'person' for almost 40 years and after realizing that even David Tennant, when becoming the 10th Doctor, struggled with what type of person he was before eventually coming to the same conclusion as I just have, in that…
In fact we are all brilliant in our own way. Everyone single one of us are unique, right?
But, what makes us unique? Here are 31 things that make me, Steve McSteveface – unique.
I am the type of person that:
1. Would rather sit in the back of a taxi and not have to engage with the driver other than when I get in the car and only again when I leave at my destination.
Note to all taxi drivers – if I sit in the fucking back of your cab I don't want to talk to you, okay?
2. Eats squid rings thinking that they are onion rings – on three separate occasions until my mistake was hilariously pointed out to me. Especially hilarious as I have always proclaimed my hatred of seafood!
3. Doesn't cry at sad new but cries at stupid shit like when the animals died on Animal Hospital.
SIDENOTE: Rolf Harris – how could you do that to us 80s kids? You have ruined our fucking childhood memories!
4. Can NEVER spell definitely or necessarily despite knowing how easy it would be to actually just fucking learn it once and for all…but that's what spellchecks are for, right?
5. Just knows when not to say certain things out loud.
6. Used to imagine myself in different make-believe situations when trying to fall asleep (before discovering Netflix).
7. When realising I'm walking the wrong way down a street, will walk into a shop or cross the road rather than simply turn around on the spot and walk the opposite direction.
8. Used to think that tuna fishes were the same size as the little tin can that they sometimes come in.
9. Feels awkward shouting out someone's name in public.
10. Can stand up on front of a large audience and talk for hours but can't do idol chit-chat or small talk.
11. Can drink a bottle of wine and not feel drunk (this does not make me an alcoholic okay we shall call it 'tolerance', yeah?).
12. Gets paranoid I've got a 'bat in the cave' if someone starts touching their nose when they are speaking to me. I mean if I've got a fucking bogey hanging out my nose just shout 'bogies' at me and I will get my hanky!
13. Hates when people use the word 'little' to refer to something that's neither little or even remotely quantifiable by size!
14. Feels the need to laugh when getting bad news and then focuses too much on trying not to laugh rather that consume the news.
15. Will never judge anyone based on someone else's opinion.
16. Can't understand how some people have time to do all sorts of multiple indoor or outdoor leisure activities…or even just activities…that don't involve sitting, lying down, sofas, beds, laptops or tablets!
17. Would walk an extra ten minutes to save one pound (and now that I can drive – well, drive an extra 5 minutes).
18. Always wear socks to bed when I'm staying somewhere that isn't home.
19. Doesn't trust people who drink tea during the day or change their shoes when they get into work. If you know people that do both…
20. Used to worry about stupid shit but now couldn't give a flying fuck about the less important stuff or the things I simply can't change!
21. Could quite easily (and happily) have a 10 minute conversation using only animated GIFs and Abhishek Singh– if you are reading this please build a Peeqo for me!
22. Has worried constantly about nuclear war since I was little. These days, thanks to the Holy Fucking Shitity of The Donald, The Putin and The Kim Jong Un – my worries are now more justified than ever so thanks for that you country leading pricks!
23. Would much rather take a pee in a cubicle than at a urinal – for lots of reasons, just ask me to tell you for why!
But what if it was this toilet below – would I use the cubicle then or wee at the urinal? Neither – I'd piss my fucking pants and tell everybody I done it to keep warm!
24. Thinks every car on the road is driven by a man and is out to get me when I'm driving.
25. Repeats myself clearly twice but the third time I say it with a hint of anger at having been asked to repeat myself again – you are now taking the absolute piss or you need to go and get your fucking ears cleared out!
26. Would rather go in a huff than argue – it's much more annoying to the other people involved and saves me energy by not having to talk for a few hours or days!
27. Puts my boxers shorts on before my socks – always!
28. Hates getting shuttle buses to the airport after getting off a plane – fucking drive up to the stand mr airplane pilot, please!
29. Is smart enough to figure out when people are talking about me via Instant Messenger while we are all in the same room. Trust me, it's not that difficult…neither is entering the room and realising that the real-life conversation taking place before I opened the door was actually about me! I'm flattered that I'm so conversation worthy but COME ON if you have something to say then say it to my face!
30. Has to sleep with the duvet wrapped tightly up around my neck, even when it is hot. I also pick my nose in my sleep apparently!
31. Lives & breathes music and can think of a song for every situation so let's finish on that note with these…
What about you?
What makes you unique?
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The OT Omen: Elders crushes winning goal in quarterfinals
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Updated 2:04pm Nov. 12 — Katie Elders smacked and broke a red ball clear in half in warm-ups.
"Everyone was saying it was good luck," said Elders, moments after the omen was made real, early in overtime, when the junior fired from the right side on the fly to score the deciding goal in a 2-1 Class L quarterfinals victory over Norwalk at Testa Field on Friday night.
Going into overtime, I knew we had it.
— Kendall Wisinski
"We came out confident, we moved the ball well," said Darien coach Mo Minicus. "We kind of were patient in how we were going to attack them."
KiKi Tropsa put the Wave up 1-0 from right in front in the first half, but Norwalk came back to tie it in the second on a breakaway.
"I thought we got a little tentative in the second half," Minicus said. "We weren't moving the ball as quickly and crisply as we needed to, and that set up a breakaway."
Erica Blaze (nine saves) came out, sprawled and made the initial stop, in what was still her best save of the playoffs. But the rebound was snared and put into the net.
"Erica did everything she could, she made a great save," said Minicus. "But the Norwalk girl got the rebound."
In overtime Darien knocked hard on the door before Elders ripped it off its hinges.
"I know, like five times," said Sydney Schrenker of the Wave's chances in the short extra stanza. "And then Katie was able to put it in the back of the net — it was just awesome."
The Wave, improving to 15-2-1, plays No. 1 Enfield (18-0) in the semifinals at Cheshire 5pm Tuesday.
"We definitely have some great competition coming our way," added Schrenker. "But we're ready to take them on."
Sophomore Molly Hellman, indeed making like Hades down the wing often, took a pass from Bridget Mahoney from deep midfield on the right side and got by a player on the rush.
She fed to Elders on her left with the entire attack in motion.
Elders lined up a sweep-shot, that if it did not break the ball in two a second time, broke overtime all to victory smithereens.
Tropsa's 1-0 goal with 8:07 to go in the first-half was scored off her own corner feed to Mahoney, on to Elders, with Elders letting go across the front of the net from the right side, 10 yards out.
Planted in front, Shea van den Broek deflected the shot, steering it onto Tropsa's outstretched stick.
Tropsa finished leaning low to one-time it in just inside the left post that she hugged.
Kendall Wisinski, nursing a hamstring injury, played early on to test it out, like in the game prior.
"I went in for the first five minutes, felt a little tightness pull," she said. "Then I had to come out. It was better safe than sorry."
She had a little twinge about overtime too.
"Watching the game from the sideline, going into overtime, I knew we had it," Wisinski said.
Some were numb
With wind chills — in the low 20s? — this could have been among the 10 most inhospitable weather conditions a state tournament field hockey game's ever had to contend with.
"Oh my gosh, we are wearing so many layers, I didn't think we could be cold," said Tropsa. "But we are."
"I mean, they were just so tough," said Minicus. "Molly Hellman couldn't even feel her hands in the second half. The poor thing, she's like, 'I can't even feel my hands.' And yet, she played so incredibly well. She was unreal."
She wasn't the only one.
"I can't feel my hands," Lindsey Wallach gleefully declared amidst much glee in the celebration gaggle following Elders's goal.
What they all could feel, was good. Real good.


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Aaron Dingle starts taking drugs in a bid to ease the pain and torment he's being subjected to in prison. His sister Liv realises something isn't right and warns Aaron not to jeopardise his appeal.
In prison, Aaron Dingle is having a terrible, terrible time. He's been beaten black and blue and has become a target for prison bully Jason, who's found out Aaron is gay and the son of a paedophile. When his cellmate Ethan offers him a joint to ease his pain, Aaron refuses. But, later, after another beating from Jason and co, Aaron caves and decides smoking 'Spice' is a good idea.
But, to get a hit, Aaron has to approach Jason. Is Aaron getting himself into even more trouble? When his half-sister Liv later pays a visit, she soon realises Aaron is behaving strangely and confronts him. Will she suss that he's high?
When Liv visits Aaron in prison, she realises her brother is behaving strangely.
Having been beaten black and blue by prison bully Jason, Aaron is in agony.
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People in my line of work try to answer certain questions. Why did Hillary surge after misting up in New Hampshire? Why have primary victories produced no momentum for the victors? Why did John McCain win among Republicans who oppose the Iraq war in both New Hampshire and Michigan, but lose among voters who support it?
The truth is that many of the theories we come up with are bogus. They are based on the assumption that voters make cold, rational decisions about who to vote for and can tell us why they decided as they did. This is false.
In reality, we voters all of us make emotional, intuitive decisions about who we prefer, and then come up with post-hoc rationalizations to explain the choices that were already made beneath conscious awareness. "People often act without knowing why they do what they do," Daniel Kahneman, a Nobel Prize winner, noted in an e-mail message to me this week. "The fashion of political writing this year is to suggest that people choose their candidate by their stand on the issues, but this strikes me as highly implausible."
Nobody really knows how voters think, especially during primary seasons when the policy differences are minute, but it wouldn't be surprising if the cognitive chain went something like this:
After seeing a candidate for 100 milliseconds, voters make certain sorts of judgments based on expressiveness, facial structure, carriage and attitude. Alexander Todorov of Princeton has found that he can predict 70 percent of political races just by measuring peoples' snap judgments of candidates' faces.
Then, having formed an impression from these thin-slice appraisals, voters rack their memory banks. Decades ago, Kahneman and Amos Tversky argued that human judgment is less a matter of calculating probabilities and more a matter of trying to fit new things into familiar patterns. Maybe John Edwards reminds one voter of the sort of person he disliked in high school. Maybe Barack Obama evokes the elevated feeling another voter felt watching John F. Kennedy.
It is no accident that the major candidates in the Republican field are a pastor, a businessman and a war hero. These are the three most evocative Republican leadership models. Nor is it an accident that the Democratic race is a clash between a daughter of the feminist movement, a beneficiary of the civil rights movement and a self-styled proletarian. These are powerful Democratic categories.
In making these associations, voters are trying to perform trait inference. They are trying to divine inner abilities from outward signs.
At the same time, voters embark on an emotional journey with candidates. Antonio Damasio and Joseph LeDoux have shown that emotion isn't the opposite of reason. We use emotion to assign value to things, thus making decision-making possible.
As the campaign drags on, voters see candidates at different events. Maybe at one event Mitt Romney smiled without dipping the outer edge of his eyebrows. This is a cue that the smile is fake, and produces distrust. On the other hand, maybe he vowed to bring all the manufacturing jobs back to Michigan. A voter might have known this was impossible, but appreciated the concern nonetheless.
As the months go on, emotions oscillate and voter preferences do, too. Voters listen to policy proposals and infer character traits. A social contagion like Obamamania might sweep the country. A global shock might set off a wave of fear, producing a powerful intellectual cascade.
Social tribes rally for and against certain candidates. Rush Limbaugh is currently going bananas because Mike Huckabee threatens to disrupt the community of conservative dittoheads he has spent decades cohering. Work by researchers at Stanford's Business School suggests that the voting environment itself in say a church or a school can influence choices.
Each of us has an unconscious but consistent way of construing the world. Some of us light up when we see a candidate being intelligent, others when we see a candidate being friendly or sentimental. This is the mode we use every day to make sense of the world.
My own intuition is that this unconscious cognition is pretty effective. People are skilled at judging character. And through reading, thinking and close observation, they can educate their unconscious to make smarter and finer distinctions.
But if there is one lesson from this wacky primary season, it is that we analysts should be careful about imposing a false order on voter decision-making. We can do our best to discern how certain politicians are making connections with certain voters, but in that process we have as much to learn from William James as from political scientists and pollsters.
Correction: I got my own synapses crossed on Tuesday. I wrote that Ward Churchill was a critic of affirmative action, when I meant Ward Connerly.


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As Afghan people continue to go through an open-ended tragedy, the United Nations Security Council has removed the names of fourteen Taliban members from its black list. The UN said in a statement that the names had been removed to prepare the ground for successful peace talks with the Taliban. This happens while on Thursday, July 14, 2011, the UN Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) said that the first half of this year was the deadliest six months for civilians in the country since the decade-old war began.
The casualties come with surge in Taliban's terrorist activities while Afghan government and its authorized High Peace Council have been trying to reconcile with Taliban and bring them to the negotiation table. The government has tried to convince the UN to remove the Taliban leaders from its blacklist, which subjects the militants to asset freezes and travel bans.
The UN's report of civilian deaths shows a 15 percent increase compared to the first half of 2010, due to roadside and suicide bombings, increased ground fighting and more deaths from air strikes. It also says that Taliban militants are responsible for 80 percent of the deaths. The Taliban insurgents have set withdrawal of foreign forces as precondition to negotiate an end to the conflict. But according to the UN report, "Violence rose as (insurgents) sought to demonstrate that Afghan security forces could not manage security on their own."
If the presence of international forces provides a justification for the hard-liners to kill and injure people, they have to decrease their destructive activities when foreign forces begin to withdraw from the country. The pattern shows that they only have not reduced their deadly activities but also have increased them. Unfortunately, on one side the suffering of Afghan people continues to increase and on the other side the Taliban militants that are responsible for this suffering are receiving gradual impunity.
It means the fundamentalists are intent upon taking over the country and establishing their own idealistic government based on their totalitarian interpretation of Islam. Taliban's this approach will definitely run counter to Afghan people's efforts to preserve the democratic gains made over the last ten years.
Afghan people wish to continue to build a pluralistic and multi-ethnic Afghanistan with tolerant Islam, which is the true essence of the conspicuous faith of Islam.


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Hardware Managers¶
What is a HardwareManager?¶
Hardware managers are how IPA supports multiple different hardware platforms in the same agent. Any action performed on hardware can be overridden by deploying your own hardware manager.
How are methods executed on HardwareManagers?¶
Methods that modify hardware are dispatched to each hardware manager in priority order. When a method is dispatched, if a hardware manager does not have a method by that name or raises IncompatibleHardwareMethodError, IPA continues on to the next hardware manager. Any hardware manager that returns a result from the method call is considered a success and its return value passed on to whatever dispatched the method. If the method is unable to run successfully on any hardware managers, HardwareManagerMethodNotFound is raised.
Does IPA ship with a HardwareManager?¶
IPA ships with GenericHardwareManager, which implements basic cleaning and deployment methods compatible with most hardware.
Why build a custom HardwareManager?¶
Custom hardware managers allow you to include hardware-specific tools, files and cleaning steps in the Ironic Python Agent. For example, you could include a BIOS flashing utility and BIOS file in a custom ramdisk. Your custom hardware manager could expose a cleaning step that calls the flashing utility and flashes the packaged BIOS version (or even download it from a tested web server).
How can I build a custom HardwareManager?¶
Custom HardwareManagers should subclass hardware.HardwareManager or hardware.GenericHardwareManager. The only required method is evaluate_hardware_support(), which should return one of the enums in hardware.HardwareSupport. Hardware support determines which hardware manager is executed first for a given function (see: "How are methods executed on HardwareManagers?" for more info). Common methods you may want to implement are list_hardware_info(), to add additional hardware the GenericHardwareManager is unable to identify and erase_devices(), to erase devices in ways other than ATA secure erase or shredding.
Custom HardwareManagers and Cleaning¶
One of the reasons to build a custom hardware manager is to expose extra steps in Ironic Cleaning 1. A node will perform a set of cleaning steps any time the node is deleted by a tenant or moved from MANAGEABLE state to AVAILABLE state. If the node is using an agent_* driver, Ironic will query IPA for a list of clean steps that should be executed on the node. IPA will dispatch a call to get_clean_steps() on all available hardware managers and then return the combined list to Ironic.
To expose extra clean steps, the custom hardware manager should have a function named get_clean_steps() which returns a list of dictionaries. The dictionaries should be in the form:
// A function on the custom hardware manager
'step': 'upgrade_firmware',
// An integer priority. Largest priorities are executed first
'priority': 10,
// Should always be the deploy interface
'interface': 'deploy',
// Request the node to be rebooted out of band by Ironic when the
// step completes successfully
'reboot_requested': False
Then, you should create functions which match each of the step keys in the clean steps you return. The functions will take two parameters: node, a dictionary representation of the Ironic node, and ports, a list of dictionary representations of the Ironic ports attached to node.
When a clean step is executed in IPA, the step key will be sent to the hardware managers in hardware support order, using hardware.dispatch_to_managers(). For each hardware manager, if the manager has a function matching the step key, it will be executed. If the function returns a value (including None), that value is returned to Ironic and no further managers are called. If the function raises IncompatibleHardwareMethodError, the next manager will be called. If the function raises any other exception, the command will be considered failed, the command result's error message will be set to the exception's error message, and no further managers will be called. An example step:
def upgrade_firmware(self, node, ports):
if self._device_exists():
# Do the upgrade
return 'upgraded firmware'
raise errors.IncompatibleHardwareMethodError()
If two managers return steps with the same step key, the priority will be set to whichever manager has a higher hardware support level and then use the higher priority in the case of a tie.
Each hardware manager has a name and a version. This version is used during cleaning to ensure the same version of the agent is used to on a node through the entire process. If the version changes, cleaning is restarted from the beginning to ensure consistent cleaning operations and to make updating the agent in production simpler.
You can set the version of your hardware manager by creating a class variable named 'HARDWARE_MANAGER_VERSION', which should be a string. The default value is '1.0'. You should change this version string any time you update your hardware manager. You can also change the name your hardware manager presents by creating a class variable called HARDWARE_MANAGER_NAME, which is a string. The name defaults to the class name. Currently IPA only compares version as a string; any version change whatsoever will induce cleaning to restart.
A hardware manager has a single overall priority, which should be based on how well it supports a given piece of hardware. At load time, IPA executes evaluate_hardware_support() on each hardware manager. This method should return an int representing hardware manager priority, based on what it detects about the platform it's running on. Suggested values are included in the HardwareSupport class. Returning a value of 0 aka HardwareSupport.NONE, will prevent the hardware manager from being used. IPA will never ship a hardware manager with a priority higher than 3, aka HardwareSupport.SERVICE_PROVIDER.
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Tuesday, February 3, 2009
It's the old double standard we have in this country for Democrats and Republicans. The press didn't seem to bother too much with the vetting of Bush Junior's appointees, which is why his administration had more members who had arrest records than any in the history of the country. But you know that "liberal" press, always picking on the rightwing Republicans (as in how many can we get onto our news shows to repeat the rightwing talking point of the day). So, hiring felons, A-okay if it's Bush Junior doing the hiring (or basing your hiring on whether you are a fundementalist Christian etc.). But hiring someone who messed up on their taxes (have you ever done that? hired someone to clean your house and not filed income taxes on them, or missed including a freebie you got from someone you work for, or had someone else do your taxes and they messed up?), if it's a Democrat doing the hiring: uh-oh.
But a lot of this is on the Obama team for not handling their own press better. I'm not sure about this guy Gibbs, and Emmanuel so far isn't as slick as Rove was with the party discipline on the daily party line, though that may be impossible given that the Democratic Party actually allows for differing opinions in its ranks (I know Jim, the Republican Party does too, as long as you genuflect to Rush and repeat the daily line verbatim etc.).
[I wrote the above before Daschle withdrew. And now a man who was beautifully qualified to really make some difference on the whole issue of health care has been forced out by Republican opposition and the media play-along with his rightwing critics. Even Trent Lott just now on MSNBC (a conservative Republican who was forced to fall on his sword for the Bush Junior gang), a very partisan player in his Senate years, said it's gotten to the point where it's no longer about defeating your opponent or even opposing them, but destroying them, he called Daschle's withdrawal "another pelt to hang on the pole" of rightwing Republican vindictiveness. As for the party line Jim, I don't even have to consult the news anymore to find out what it is, I just read your comments, which, like today's, ironically gave the party line while saying you didn't even know what it is!]
13 comments:
- Unknown said...
I think the difference is that the Democrats know that there has to be some give-and-take to advance policy. Their problem is that they advanced Bush's policies without any oversight. The Republicans, on the other hand, are going to the other extreme. With two wars on, and with an economic crisis, Mitch McConnell has signalled that the Republicans are going to filibuster every single bill that the Democrats try to advance, whether it be economic rescue, war, support for the troops.
The Republicans had a stupid ad campaign in the runup to the election in which they called Obama "Dr. No" for shooting down every idea the Republicans offered (i.e. drill baby drill, and tax cuts for the wealthy). It turns out that McConnell and the Republicans in the Senate are ready to say "No" to every bill the Democrats offer up, even before they read them. It just tells me they have listened to party boss Rush Limbaugh when he said he wanted the President to fail.
I only wish that the Senate's level of seriousness towards the economy were a guage of how serious the problem actually is. Unfortunately, I know better. There are people actually losing their jobs. There are people who can't afford healthcare, or to heat their homes. There are businesses going bankrupt. Congress is still playing games.
- February 3, 2009 at 12:44:00 PM EST
- JIm said...
Hi Mike,
I do not genuflect very well now that I have had knee replacements and I am unaware of the Republican party line. Maybe you can enlighten me.
I have lost count on the number of tax dodgers who can not make it through confirmation. Does Daschle make three or is he number four? It is amusing to watch liberals who want to tax us all more, but find paying personal income taxes inconvient.
- February 3, 2009 at 1:26:00 PM EST
Michael Lally says . . .
. . . a man [Daschle] who was beautifully qualified to really make some difference on the whole issue of health care has been forced out by Republican opposition and the media play-along with his rightwing critics.
Bob Dole says . . .
I've known Tom Daschle for nearly 30 years. I worked with him in the Senate until I left in 1996 and since then on such issues as farm legislation, energy, health care and many others. For the past four years we have worked together at the Alston & Bird law firm in Washington, DC.
The one thing I feel certain about is Senator Daschle's honesty and integrity.
Matt Taibbi, in Rolling Stone, says . . .
When Obama picked Tom Daschle to be the HHS Secretary, I nearly shit my pants. In Washington there are whores and there are whores, and then there is Tom Daschle. Tom Daschle would suck off a corpse for a cheeseburger. True, he is probably only the second-biggest whore for the health care industry in American politics — the biggest being doctor/cat-torturer Bill Frist, whose visit to South Dakota on behalf of John Thune in 2004 was one of the factors in ending Daschle's tenure in the Senate.
But in picking Daschle — who as an adviser to the K Street law firm Alston and Bird has spent the last four years burning up the sheets with the nation's fattest insurance and pharmaceutical interests — Obama is essentially announcing that he has no intention of seriously reforming the health care industry.
This whole brouhaha clearly illustrates the pickle Democrats are in. Do they use their critical faculties, moral sense, whatever you want to call it, and oppose their party and its leadership when they're wrong? Or do they defend, excuse and prevaricate in the name of party unity? And the lamest defense of all is "oh yea, but they're worse, stop picking on us."
- February 3, 2009 at 8:48:00 PM EST
- Lally said...
Well, I guess the fact "Matt Taibbi, in Rolling Stone" says Daschle is worse than even the worst "whores" in DC means that he is, and that he would be some kind of shill for the healthcare titans that have kept prices rising and all of us in debt to them and helped ruin the economy, and that therefore Obama is full of it about wanting health care reform and Democrats who supported Daschle's appointment are all in cahoots and if only the Republicans were running things we'd all have health care and there'd be no economic crisis. Oh wait, we tried that. Oh yeah, and Democrats tried to get health care reformed before, but wait a minute, the rightwing Republicans successfully stopped them, with the help of a compliant media then too.
Dear Butch, Daschle had the experience and the knowledge to work the politics of the Congress and the board rooms of the healthcare world to maybe actually get some health care reforms through. To dismiss him as the worst kind of DC "whore" is not just petty jive that totally distorts his record and his commitment, but a perfect rightwing media coup. If he's a shill for the health care industry than why would he write a book proposing basically universal healthcare with one of the more practical (not just economically but politically) plans for doing it. And why would he give speeches to healthcare corporate audiences pushing it. Critics of the Democrats can never seem to get their stories straight. If Carter leaves the presidency and does nothing but good works, he's ineffective. If Clinton leaves the presidency and does good works but makes money too, he's not to be trusted. If Daschle serves in the military, helps pass all kinds of progressive legislation in his years in the Congress and then goes to work in a Washington law firm, he's the worst "whore" Washington DC has ever seen, except for Bill Frist who owns a company, owns a company, did you get that Butch, owns a "healthcare" company that he did everything he could while in the Senate to make his family's company more profitable and less liable (and who also diagnosed that woman in the coma from a few seconds of videotape) etc.
If you don't think that Democrats oppose their party when it's wrong Butch, then you haven't read a paper or watched the news on TV or read a Democratic blog. Democrats turned on LBJ and forced him to give up running for a second term because of the mistakes he made in Viet Nam despite all he had done on other issues dear to Democrats at the time. Democrats have always felt free to criticize their leaders, as opposed to Republicans, especially since Gingrich made his fellow party members pay dearly for it, and the Bush Junior administration made them pay even more (the whole dismissing of the Republican loyalist Federal attorneys who resisted prosecuting Democratic candidates for non-existent violations of voting laws to discredit their candidacies etc.). Democrats have been criticizing Obama and his administration since the day after the inauguration Butch. If you think Obama can find someone as good or better than Daschle, who not only deeply understands the workings of Congress as well as the healthcare industry and who has enough ties to both to have access and relationships that will help persuade each side to compromise and can successfully maneuver a bill through congress and the opposition the Republicans and all their rightwing allies will bring to bear (anyone remember those ads the last times the Democrats tried?), and the media will do its usual play-along bit with well, name them.
- February 3, 2009 at 9:42:00 PM EST
Well, I guess the fact "Matt Taibbi, in Rolling Stone" says Daschle is worse than even the worst "whores" in DC means that he is . . .
I guess if Bob Dole says Daschle is a man of honesty and integrity, he is.
Now that the playground stuff is out of the way, here's the real issue: Is there enough of a difference between the two wings of the political elite to make a difference, in this case to make a difference in health care policy?
You believe that Tom Daschle, who made a couple of million dollars over the last 2 years lobbying for the health care industry, will push for and implement fundament change in health care.
I believe that fundamental change will mean that insurance and health care companies will see a drop in their obscene profits. I believe Daschle will oppose fundamental change.
Your need to defend Daschle leads you to make arguments that don't stand up. Come on, you equate getting opening night tickets comp'ed - "missed including a freebie you got from someone you work for" - with being given the use of a limo and driver for over 2 years. Taxes owed: over $125,000! Would you excuse this kind of behavior from a Republican?
Butch. If you think Obama can find someone as good or better than Daschle . . name them.
Howard Dean, MD. Not the best, but better.
By the way, you should know better. The Democrats did not get rid of LBJ. There is no evidence that he would not have been renominated in '68 if he chose to run. The Democrats nominated Humphrey, his Vice President, who campaigned on Johnson's policies, including the war.
- February 3, 2009 at 10:44:00 PM EST
- Lally said...
Oh yeah, and the comment that saying the Republicans are worse is a "lame" excuse. That's a cop out too. It's so easy to sit on the sidelines and criticize others (I do it too, obviously, but I have also run for office worked on many campaigns and done pretty much everything in every field I make criticisms of people in on this blog and elsewhere). But to compare the mistakes of Democrats (say sexual indiscretion between consenting adults) with those of rightwing Republicans (attempting to dismantle the Bill of Rights, starting an unnecessary war in which hundreds of thousands die, not to mention the rest of the destruction including bankrupting an economy, etc.) is facile and phony. LBJ made the worst mistakes of any Democratic president in my lifetime with the war in Viet Nam, but his Republican successor, Nixon, not only managed to up the ante and kill even more people as he continued that war and escalated it (after promising to end it) but to almost destroy the Constitution in order to stay in power and destroy his "enemies" which meant anyone who not only opposed him and his policies but even anyone who questioned them. This has been the case at least since then. In an ideal world there might be a political party that makes no mistakes and perfectly fulfills every promise it makes. But until we find that ideal world, I'll take the party that makes mistakes that might inconvenience a few people or make some money for a few than the one that causes the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people and destroys not only our economy but the rest of the world's along with it. As obviously the voters decided they would too now. But you wouldn't know it from the media or the Republicans, or some of the comments on this blog.
- February 3, 2009 at 10:53:00 PM EST
- Lally said...
PS: Howard Dean was a governor of Vermont, one of our smallest and least populated states. He has no experience with working with Congress to get laws passed, nor with the healthcare industry, etc. He's not even very well liked in his own party, let alone among Republicans. Daschle was. And if you believe there is someone in this country, let alone in politics or healthcare, who has filed their taxes perfectly throughout their lives and has never taken money for anything or from anyone that involved anything that might profit some profit seeking, even greedy, corporate interest, name them (seen Dylan's latest ad?). Including Howard Dean, yourself, myself, and Matt whoever. There's no one who is without sin. And if you don't think Democrats turned on Johnson AND Humphrey (for not breaking with LBJ's policies) then you know nothing of the history of the 1968 election. There were multiple, MULTIPLE, Democratic party candidates for the presidency who were against the war and totally undercut any chance Johnson or Humphrey may have had. Look Butch, if everyone had their way and the government did exactly what each of us thinks they should do, there'd be total chaos, it would make the dysfunctions of the Congress look like heavenly perfection. Because everyone has their own idea of what needs to be done. That's why we get together in groups, sometimes called parties, and agree on some policies and plans to implement them. And once these groups, or parties, get some experience in what it takes to get those policies implemented, those who are best at making that happen rise to the top in their group and use their experience and understanding of those ways to move their group's plans forward. Daschle was one of those guys. Frist, who your Rolling Stone quotee compares to Daschle, spent most of his life making money for the family healthcare corporation and a few years working in the Senate to forward the family goals of more profit and less accountability. Daschle spent close to his entire life making very little working in the service of his country and as a Senator to get his party's goals achieved which were often the goals closest to what I believe in—peace, prosperity that is shared and not just for the elite few, etc. and then four years of his life using that experience to make some money working for various healthcare industry interests, but at the same time advising them that solving the universal health care problem was paramount not just to his party's ideals but in the best interest of all of us, including even the healthcare industry's interests. And yes, he took a free car and driver and didn't pay taxes on that. I worked in Hollywood for almost twenty years and was often flown around first class and sometimes given a car and driver or worked for someone who was given that luxury and I enjoyed it too as their employee. I had no idea that was taxable. Dasshle may have. But he's a pretty smart guy and very experienced. I doubt he does his own taxes. I never did and I never made much money either except for a few rare years. I was audited when Reagan got elected, as was every other low and mid-level worker in Hollywood, interestingly. None of the stars I knew were. And who knew? It turned out that they wanted me to show a record of every audition I ever had (in those days it may have been five a day or more) or meeting (when I was writing screenplays for hire, which also could be pretty frequent) and how much gas I used to get there and back and how long they lasted and who was there. Gee, who knew? Otherwise I could not deduct my travel time or gas money as part of my work expenditures, even though, living in L.A. that is always your highest expense, especially as casting directors and studio sound stages etc. began moving further and further outside L. A. to save money, in every direction, so that sometimes it would mean an hour's drive or more to make it from one to another, etc. etc. etc. And that was just one item they questioned and because I couldn't show records for all of them (they wanted notarized letters from every casting director or producer etc. for every audition or meeting I'd had for the year). I felt pretty oppressed by this, and I think rightfully. But of course I paid up. The only thing that kept it from being too expensive was that the local IRS office lost most of the records I did give them, so we ended up compromising and reducing my fine and back taxes for something I was completely unaware of and which I thought was also completely jive. I believe, maybe naively—but I don't consider myself naive, nor a cynic either—that Daschle and Geithner and the woman whose withdrawal of her nomination this morning started all this, deliberately tried to cheat the IRS. I think these were mistakes by their accountants or just stuff that was overlooked unintentionally.
- February 3, 2009 at 11:24:00 PM EST
- Lally said...
PPS: A perfect example of the mistakes people make is me saying toward the end of my last comment that "I believe" when I obviously intended to say "I don't believe" (..."that Daschle" etc.). But that mistaken quote could easily be used to portray me as believing the exact opposite of what I really believe. And I have been misquoted and misinterpreted and falsely accused and incorrectly described and had all kinds of things written about me over the years that were not true. Which is why I make every attempt to read as many sources as I can on subjects I'm interested in or write about, though at times I rely on what I think is a pretty good memory only to sometimes find out it isn't as good as I thought.
- February 3, 2009 at 11:33:00 PM EST
From what you write I gather you believe there are two things that make a good "public servant".
Firstly, the more your ideal government official is tied into the Beltway business-as-usual, bipartisan, shovel-the-money-to-the-corporations political elite, the better. Here you part company with the average citizen. Polls have shown for quite awhile that Congress has a lower approval rating (under both Democratic and Republican leadership) than even GWB! Something stinks in Washington.
Secondly they need to be a Democrat. Honestly, what would you say that if a Republican had Daschle's significant tax problems? I am guessing you would say it is an indication of either incredible incompetency or incredible corruption, and I would agree with you.
- February 4, 2009 at 6:32:00 AM EST
- Unknown said...
If I may interject. The bottom line is in my opinion, President Obama admitted to making a mistake. He is taking responsibility for his choices and saying "I screwed up". When did Bush ever do that? That speaks volumes in my view. There are no perfect people for these positions, but to be able to cop to human failings is an enormous breath of fresh air to me.
- February 4, 2009 at 8:01:00 AM EST
- Unknown said...
If I may interject. The bottom line is in my opinion, President Obama admitted to making a mistake. He is taking responsibility for his choices and saying "I screwed up". When did Bush ever do that? That speaks volumes in my view. There are no perfect people for these positions, but to be able to cop to human failings is an enormous breath of fresh air to me.
- February 4, 2009 at 8:02:00 AM EST
- Lally said...
Great comment Cait. The difference between the Republicans in a situation like this and the Democrats is obvious, from both the actions they take and the reactions. If you listen to the news at all, you know what the Republicans object to in the stimulus package and you even know the changes they are proposing to that plan (more tax cuts, more infrastructure spending—though what they really mean by that is more spending on projects they're for and less on ones the Democrats are for, but the news doesn't report that part of it—and as of this morning, very politically smart they're suggesting a 4% mortgage rate), even though they were overwhelmingly defeated in the past election and Obama and the Democrats were elected to carry out their plan. But, also if you listen to the news, I bet you have no idea what the bulk of the plan proposes, the main things the president and his party are calling for in the stimulus package. That's because the Republicans are great at showing a united front and parroting the party line on a daily basis, and because every news outlet I pay attention to (including the supposedly most liberal of the liberal, like NPR this morning) dutifully reports the Republican line because it is very simple, very confrontational (which makes for better news than the dreary details of most of the package etc.) and because the president's plans are much more complicated and sophisticated and detailed etc. and that doesn't make for the kind of news story that can be summarized in a few minutes. As for Butch's idea that I'd hold Republicans accountable and not Democrats, like most on the left I've criticized and held Democrats even more accountable most of my life, and what it got me and the rest of us, were several Republican administrations that bankrupted our country, disregarded our Constitution, dismembered the government of competent public servants and replaced them with party loyalists and in the last administration with religious loyalists as well. The old trick of the Republicans, at least since Nixon was disgraced and they had no way of defending his actions, is to convince the public that there isn't any difference between the parties and their representatives in Washington, because as a minority of voters, they know that Republicans can only win if Democrats don't vote or get so discouraged they actually vote for the guy who convinces them he'd be the one they'd like to have a beer with (like billionaire Bush Junior from one of the wealthiest families in the history of the country and one that has held enormous power in our governments for generations, just a regular guy). And tarring every public servant who works in the federal government either as an elected official or an appointed one as somehow beholden to lobbyists and corporate interests and not committed to helping regular people and changing government for the better is surrendering to that Republican ploy and just as bad as tarring everyone in the military as some sort of war criminal etc. and just as much of a lie. There are plenty of well-intentioned public servants, some of whom make compromises in their lives to achieve goals they believe in. Maybe Butch never made a compromise in his, if so, why aren't you running for office on your impeccable credentials Butch? I believe Daschle is a good man whose goals for the most part are progressive and in the interests of working people like my family and most of us. I don't believe he's a saint. And throughout most of my life there have been Republicans I admired and believed were sincerely working for the betterment of this country and its people. Unfortunately, they have been mostly run out of their party or at least out of positions of power or opportunities to run by ideologues who care only about power and enforcing an agenda that benefits the few and harms the many, as they have proven over the past eight years.
- February 4, 2009 at 8:31:00 AM EST
- JIm said...
Obama and the Democrats must have really messed up if you felt you needed to spew all that blather to mount a twisted defense.
Daschle ssid it best. He knew it was time to leave when the left wing NYT editorial page came out against him.
As for the pork laden so called stimulus bill, Democrats can pass it if they want, since they have the votes. The only hold up is that some of them, including Obama, realized that they will be hung with it, if history is any predictor on the probability of govenments saving an economy.
- February 4, 2009 at 11:07:00 AM EST


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Orionids Meteor Shower 2014
If, like me, you've always wanted to watch a meteor shower - then you're in for a treat!
The Orionids Meteor Shower will be visible in Australia between 21-22 October 2014. For those that plan to wake up in the wee hours of the morning to experience this, we have a few observing tips for you:
- Avoid city lights where possible - if you're in the city area, head to a park or somewhere with wide open space without buildings obstructing your view.
- Bring a friend or two or three or ...
- Rug up! Wear thick clothing or bring a blanket with you. Trust us, it's going to be cold at 3am in the morning, regardless of which city you're in.
- Pack a hot drink in your thermos or flask.
- Bring a chair, stool or a rug to sit on while you're waiting for the meteor shower.
- Let your eyes adjust to the dark - if you're watching from home, make sure you don't switch on any bright lights while waiting for the meteor shower. It will take approximately 5 minutes before your eyes will fully adjust to the darkness.
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Happy sighting!
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Vegan No Bake Fudge Recipe
This Easy Vegan No Bake Fudge Recipe is a five-star simple chocolate fudge recipe that's luscious, and silky smooth. You may think a vegetarian fudge recipe is more time-consuming, but it's not! Make this dairy free fudge today and share it with family, friends, and coworkers! This microwave fudge is perfect for holiday baking or a sweet treat any time of the year!
I thought my fudge-making days were over when we went vegan. Because fudge, it's made with cream. right? Well, that's how I grew up making it.
And let me tell you something else. This easy Fudge recipe is something you need to make when you've got people around to share it with. Or a husband with a metabolism of a horse. 🐴
Actually, I think horses eat hay, which I can't imagine is very caloric. So, maybe I've been saying that all these years and it's not entirely accurate. But you get my point.
What I'm trying to say is I don't trust myself around this easy vegan fudge. It's too delicious. Just look at that chocolate fudge oozing into the dish. OMG!
Can vegans eat fudge?
Most fudge recipes are made with dairy and are therefore not vegan. However, if you find a good vegan fudge recipe you can make your own. Or you can find specific brands that make their fudge without dairy. Otherwise, vegans should avoid most fudge.
It's easy to make fudge without milk, especially these days when there are so many more dairy-free products in the world! This dairy-free fudge recipe includes vegan sweetened condensed milk.
You can either buy that at the store (I can find it at Sprouts) or make your own!
Vegan Fudge Ingredients
Here's all you need for this simple fudge recipe. Are you ready? Do you have your pen handy?
- Dairy-free chocolate chips
- Vegan sweetened condensed milk
- Chopped Nuts
- Vanilla
That's it! Only four ingredients.
How do you Make Vegan Fudge?
The way I look at it, there are a couple of ways to make vegan chocolate fudge recipes. I can follow the instructions from my mom's cookbook which requires a candy thermometer (ugh), or I can use this simple, easy recipe for fudge that uses sweetened condensed milk.
Both make a delicious non dairy fudge, but I just happen to prefer to make fudge easier, so I use sweetened condensed milk.
Step One: Prepare the Pan
Line a square baking dish with waxed paper.
Step Two: Melt the Chocolate
This is basically microwave fudge, which is why this recipe is so easy to make! To make it, add the chocolate chips to a microwave safe bowl and pour the coconut sweetened condensed milk over the top.
Stir these together to make sure the chocolate chips are coated. Then heat for one minute. Remove from the microwave and cover with a plate to trap in the heat.
Allow the chocolate to sit covered for 1 – 2 two minutes, then remove the plate and stir. The chocolate chips should be melted, but if not, return to the microwave for 30 seconds.
Add the nuts and vanilla and stir to distribute it equally throughout the fudge.
Step Three: Pour, Set, and Slice
Pour the fudge batter into the prepared pan and use a spatula to spread it evenly across the plan, leaving swirls of chocolate on the top. Cover and place in the fridge until set, about 2 hours. Remove from the fridge and cut into squares.
Expert Tips:
Use these tips and tricks to make this chocolate fudge perfect every time:
- The trick is using dairy-free sweetened condensed milk.
- This fudge will last longer if stored properly, by keeping it covered.
- For taller chocolate fudge, use a smaller pan and allow more time for the chocolate to set.
- You can used waxed paper or a greased pan for this fudge recipe.
Is There Dairy In Fudge?
The simple answer is yes. Most fudge recipes call for dairy. But my super easy Vegan Fudge recipe is made with dairy-free sweetened condensed milk and dairy-free dark chocolate chips.
Now, I found coconut milk condensed milk at Sprouts, but if you don't have that handy, you can always make your own. I have a recipe for Coconut Sweetened Condensed Milk that I go to regularly!
This means you can make your coconut milk fudge in the microwave by combining the Coconut Sweetened Condensed Milk with the chocolate chips. Heat them up together for a bit minutes and then cover it, to allow the heat to melt all the chocolate. Once the happens, then add the chopped nuts and vanilla and stir everything together.
I place sheets of waxed paper to the dish I'm going to pour the fudge into. Why? Because I want to be able to easily remove the fudge after it sets. In fact, I place the dish in the fridge to speed up the setting time for my easy vegan fudge and it may be the hardest part of the entire process… waiting! 😁
Is this gluten free fudge?
Yes, this is mostly a gluten-free fudge recipe. I say mostly because some products may not be certified gluten free. For people with severe allergies, they should always buy products that are certified gluten free.
Finally, we hope you love this recipe for Easy Vegan Chocolate Fudge! If you make a batch of your own, be sure to snap a photo and share it with #namelymarly on Instagram. We love seeing your creations!
Easy Vegan Chocolate Fudge
- 3 cup dairy-free chocolate chips
- 14 oz vegan sweetened condensed milk *
- 3/4 cup chopped nuts
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- Line an 8: square or rectangle baking dish with waxed paper, allowing the paper to extend beyond two opposite ends.
- Place chocolate chips in a microwave safe bowl. Add the vegan sweetened condensed milk. Stir to make sure the chocolate chips are coated. Heat for one minute in the microwave. Remove from the microwave and place a lid over the bowl for one minute, to allow the chocolate to melt. Stir until creamy.
- Add the chopped nuts and vanilla and stir to combine.
- Pour the fudge batter into the prepared baking dish. Cover and chill for 1 – 2 hours until the chocolate is set.
- Once set, lift the fudge by the waxed paper out of the dish. Remove the waxed paper from the chocolate and cut into square pieces.
The nutrition information shown is an estimate provided by an online nutrition calculator and should not be considered a substitute for a professional nutritionist's advice.
Check out more of my delicious Vegan Chocolate Recipes:
- Vegan Chocolate Covered Peanut Butter Balls
- Vegan Molasses Peanut Butter Cups
- Chocolate Chip Energy Bites
- Thin Mint Cookies
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8 Responses to Vegan No Bake Fudge Recipe
I'm making this weekend! Yum!!
This recipe is HEAVEN 🙂 Thank you for sharing
I made this last night….amazing. Thank you for sharing!
Wow! So many compliments on this. I am a clutz in the kitchen and this was easy peasy. Thank you. Will be making again-vegans and carnivores loved it.
what a sweet and easy recipe! Do you think a can of coconut milk would be an okay sub for the condensed milk?


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A Drone Hovers Over Your Property: What Would You Do? [We Ask You]
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So, what would you do? Would you immediately get your gun and shoot that drone out of the sky? After all, the airspace above your property surely belongs to you. Would you call the police and report the drone and its operator as a nuisance which is disturbing the peace? After all, these things don't exactly run silent.
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Am I bummed all by myself? Are we all just pawns in some enormous political game without boundaries? Does my vote ever count? Or is it a sop to convince me I have any say in the quality of my country, the part we think we play in our future, or the phases of the moon?
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I hope you are right Barbie…what scares me are those .those Washington worms who know how to wiggle out of everything….like chance meeting on the tarmac at the airport….really…and the FBI who happen too be there telling reporters no photos…if it was innocent.let 'em take pics! Sorry, I am stuck on Benghazi….as well as a fearless leader's comments on the relationships which caused the deaths of the Policemen last night….who is he kidding? lots of people!!! and I really do not like to pay for his use of Air Force One to support miss hillary's campaigning!!!!
How do we stop this machine???


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By Alena Mae S. Flores – August 03, 2018 at 08:25 pm
from manilastandard.net
Energy Regulatory Commission chairperson Agnes Devanadera said the agency cannot act on the pending power supply agreements of Manila Electric Co. due to the legal cases filed against the commissioners.
"We are not acting on the seven PSAs (of Meralco) because there's a case although you can always say… there's no TRO," Devanadera said.
"But out of deference, both Congress and to the Supreme Court, we have not acted on them," she said.
The Office of the Ombudsman suspended four commissioners of the ERC for allegedly giving Meralco an undue advantage when it extended the submission of the company's PSA applications.
The Ombudsman, acting on the complaint of several groups, imposed a one-year suspension on all four commissioners of the ERC―Josefina Patricia Asirit, Alfredo Non,Geronimo Sta. Ana and Gloria Yap-Taruc—in December.
The commissioners appealed the case to the Court of Appeals and obtained a temporary restraining order against the suspension. A new suspension on a different case, however, was imposed by the Ombudsman.
Two out of the four commissioners, namely Non and Yap-Taruc, have since retired, but Malacanang has not announced a replacement yet.
"We have not acted on any because of… we're anticipating the action of Congress and we're also anticipating the action of the Supreme Court. If there is none yet, we cannot resolve. Right now, the practical reason is I am the only one in the commission," Devadandera said.


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Thanks to Greg Ponder — my wife's brother-in-law, my Spring Training ticket supplier and one of the biggest baseball fans I know — for sending me this Slate.com slideshow of sports stadiums that never got built. The featured designs are testaments to the issues involved with getting stadiums from the conceptual phase to construction, from securing funding and public buy-in to making unusual ideas work.
My absolute favorite design is the floating, retractable-roof stadium that was proposed for Seattle in the early 1960s to attract pro baseball and football teams to the city. According to the Seattle Municipal Archives, the stadium would have floated on Elliott Bay, blocks from the site of the 1962 World's Fair — "if a way could be found to keep the playing field level." For some strange reason, a funding referendum got shot down in 1966, partly over "questions about the project's feasibility."
That stadium would have been a spectacular home-field advantage for a baseball team (especially one named the Mariners). Hitting a 99 mph Randy Johnson fastball in the Kingdome in the 1990s was already tough enough. Could you imagine visiting hitters flailing at that pitch while trying to get their sea legs under them?
A couple of other unbuilt stadiums in the slide show that are definitely worth checking out are a proposed replacement for the Rays' Tropicana Field and Edmonton's Omniplex, which would have featured a football field suspended in midair over a hockey rink.
Meanwhile, for some coming attractions, check out Qatar's planned stadiums for the 2022 World Cup. If these stadiums turn out as well as they look in the artist renderings, they might at least somewhat make up for FIFA denying the U.S. the right to host the Cup in a suspect bidding process.