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If you've seen our live show, you know that video has always been our 'front man'. Since Windish convinced us to start touring we knew we needed some kind of foil to keep attention moving around the stage so we could focus on the task at hand without feeling like an ant under a magnifying glass. Since then it's turned into this strange hybrid form of entertainment, somewhere between a concert and a film. We shoot for a kind of synesthesia between the image and the sound by very tightly syncing them tonaly and rhythmically. I don't mean synesthesia in the clinical sense, of course, but more in the metaphorical or cognitive sense, like once information from the senses is translated into the cortex, sight and sound can become more than the sum of their parts through creative synthesis. Oliver Sacks is one of my favorite authors and has written extensively about the subject.
Since we have an ever growing collection of video in parallel with the sound libraries, we are finding connections between the two much earlier on in the process, and often the videos are created simultaneously with the music. This feels like something new… it's not a soundtrack where the imagery came first and it's not a music video where the music came first, it's something else that is much more sensually integrated. It's like a chicken- or-egg type feeling where the two are symbiotic to the extent that they can't be separated without destroying them both.
In this case, it was a collaboration with our good friend Rich Remsberg from North Adams, MA. Rich is an image researcher and has worked on countless books, films and documentaries, and his area of expertise ranges from the beginning of film and photography through to the inception of video in the 70's, which made film largely obsolete. That's where our collection picks up so we have fairly complimentary interests. Rich often spends long days at NARA looking for useful film for his assignments. But he often finds stuff that is unexpectedly beautiful for it's own sake and tucks it away in his personal archive for use in his artwork. In this case he had put together a folder of all of his "saddest" material which he called "Sad America". Although, sad is not exactly descriptive of the collection, I think of it more as American pathos.
He gave me the folder of unedited fragments and I wrote the lyrics based on the imagery, and recorded the song. Then I gave the song back to Rich and he edited the video to move along with it. You can watch it here.
The unifying theme became freedom as signified by the Liberty Bell, so there are a lot of allusions to this object in the song. In my conversations with Rich it became clear that freedom's just another word for being able to screw things up in spectacular ways without thinking through the consequences. But the "Responsibility Bell" doesn't have the same ring to it. There is also a bit of a return to using Judeo-Christian imagery as in Beautiful People, while substituting scientific terms for religious ones wherever possible.
This song is a bit of a black sheep and we considered dropping it from the record on multiple occasions. But when I would listen through the record without it, it seemed to be missing it's dark heart, and the title of the record meant less without it. I think the ultimate and most fully realized meaning of "The Way Out" is captured in this track, so I fought for it's inclusion. Maybe it's the kind of track that you all just skip over in favor of the more upbeat stuff, but for me it provides a resting place for my soul that would otherwise be lacking… a bit of a depression in an otherwise manic record which allows for a greater upswing through the rest of the record. Finding the right track order was a key to making it work, and the Gandhi interlude helped solve the ordering problem.
The chords where created using the same clavinet feedback recordings that I described in IDKT, and I used the stratocaster with the tremolo arm to tie the vocals into the chords and keep the song moving. I love the way the tremelo arm detunes chords unevenly on a strat. It creates unexpected dissonance that can quickly pop into a consonant chord when you voice the strings in the slack position and release to neutral. The vocals were recorded in two takes and overlayed to create the chorused effect, and understated harmonies are introduced during the choruses.
The drums were created using my son's toy banjo:
I closely mic'd the instrument while changing the tension on the rubber head to get each strike to sound different. I then took several copies of the recording and pitched them down by a fifth, an octave, an octave+a fifth, and two octaves to create the low rumbly polyrhythm that carries the tempo of the track. It's amazing how repitching a sound can change it's apparent size. To me it sounds like an ancient native instrument, but not quite, which is key to maintaining a slightly tweaked and off-kilter feeling, while avoiding complete cheese.
We couldn't come up with a title for the piece for a long time and it began to get frustrating, so one night in Philly at a show I blurted out from the stage "100 bucks to anyone who can come up with a usable title for this track". The challenge elicited many more responses than we would have predicted. The winner, hands down, came from Andrew Chalfen who emailed us a few days later with "We Bought the Flood". I remember reading it for the first time in the green room of the Wexner Center and being overwhelmed by the aptness of it. So, thanks Andrew, we're curious what did you do with the money…
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F&M in Paris 2014
Saturday, November 8, 2014
Youth Soccer à la Français
Parisian kids do activities just like children in the U.S. School only runs for a half-day on Wednesdays and just since last year; before the big reform, there was no school on Wednesdays. That explains why most activities are scheduled on Wednesday afternoons, including soccer practice for Maria Mitchell's daughter, Lucie, who invited the F&M in Paris students to her Saturday morning game. The biggest differences between her soccer team in the U.S. and Paris? Only one other girl! Her parents take her on the Métro instead of driving her. And she plays in the shadow of the Eiffel Tower. She also plays in relative quiet since Parisian parents don't cheer, although Lucie got some big shout-outs on Saturday!
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9/11 competency hearing puts focus on Guantánamo's secret prison
Lawyers and the alleged Sept. 11 conspirators return to the war court Monday for first-ever testimony about life inside Guantánamo's most secretive lockup, in a U.S. government bid to establish that one accused plotter is fit for trial.
At the last hearings, in December, the Army judge ejected alleged 9/11 deputy Ramzi bin al Shibh four times for shouting that guards were keeping him awake at night in his cell through noises and vibration. Prosecutors now argue he is delusional but mentally competent for trial and want the judge to rule him fit without benefit of a mental-health exam.
To bolster their argument, defense attorneys said Sunday night, the prosecution will take testimony from three military psychiatrists who treated bin al Shibh since 2006 as well as the commander of the clandestine lockup called Camp 7.
The conditions of confinement question is the latest to bedevil the proposed death-penalty trial of bin al Shibh and four other men accused of conspiring in the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people in New York, Pennsylvania and at the Pentagon.
It's unclear how much information will be made public. Defense lawyers for some of the other four men said Sunday night they may not be allowed to question the commander or psychiatrists about what defense attorney Jay Connell described as "a place that imposes extreme isolation in the people who are held there."
And all four are expected to testify anonymously or with fake names.
Moreover, bin al Shibh has refused to participate in a court-ordered mental-health exam. His civilian lawyer, Jim Harrington, says the 41-year-old Yemeni was tortured during four years in the CIA's secret prison network but agrees he's mentally competent for trial.
The main issue in court Monday will be whether bin al Shibh has imagined or truly experienced noises and vibrations that disrupt his sleep at the prison. Harrington said Sunday night his client is particularly sensitive as a result of an injury he suffered after his capture in Pakistan on Sept. 11, 2002, and before the CIA turned him over to the U.S. military in 2006.
Harrington would not elaborate, saying the injuries are "reportedly classified." He also said that the noises "have been minimized considerably" since the judge agreed in December to subject bin al Shibh to a mental-health exam.
Bin al Shibh allegedly aspired to become one of the 9/11 suicide hijackers. But he couldn't obtain a U.S. visa so instead is accused of helping Khalid Sheik Mohammed organize the attacks from Hamburg, Germany.
The prosecutor, Army Brig. Gen. Mark Martins, proposes to execute the men if convicted. He wants to start choosing a military jury in January.
"The government will not be presenting any witnesses who will opine on whether Mr. bin al Shibh is presently competent to stand trial as no one has had a recent face-to-face forensic interview to make such a determination," prosecutors wrote the judge March 27, according to a recipient of the memo.
So instead, the goal of this week's hearing is to "establish a record that JTF-GTMO [the prison bureaucracy] is not intentionally producing noises, odors or vibrations to intentionally interfere with Mr. bin al Shibh's confinement."
Camp 7, by far one of Guantánamo's most guarded secrets, is where the military segregates captives who were subjected to the CIA's "enhanced interrogation" program of waterboarding for some and sleep deprivation for many from the rest of the detention center's 154 prisoners.
Members of Congress have been allowed to inspect it but journalists brought on regular prison tours that boast "safe, humane, legal, transparent" detention have never been allowed inside it. The Pentagon won't say who built it, when or for how much.
The admiral in charge of the prison camps said in an interview last month that Camp 7 suffers structural problems — cracking floors and walls, doors that don't open and close properly. No problems, according to Rear Adm. Richard Butler, are serious enough in his opinion to jeopardize a 2009 Pentagon finding of compliance with the Geneva Conventions that govern how nations treat war prisoners.
Lawyers for three ex-CIA prisoners said at a briefing for reporters Sunday that they consider Camp 7's conditions to be "cruel and unusual" because captives there are mostly isolated, cut off from others and contact with the outside world.
It was unclear what other business might get done in the four-day session to set the stage for the trial by military commission. The judge, Army Col. James L. Pohl, agreed to recess until June on Thursday after attorneys sought time to leave the base and celebrate the Easter holiday.
This week's session coincides with the Jewish holiday of Passover and also, based on leaked secret U.S. documents, the 49th birthday of Mohammed, the alleged architect of the Sept. 11 attacks.
His attorneys declined to say how he would be celebrating but one noted that pious Muslims see birthdays as a reason for thoughtful reflection rather than a party.
Mohammed, who's spent a fifth of his life in CIA or U.S. military custody, will likely be on the sidelines of this week's hearings. The judge ruled in December that he would not hear other legal arguments until the competency issue is resolved.
Author Terry McDermott, who co-wrote a book about Mohammed, The Hunt for KSM, said the birthday does mark a milestone of sorts.
It illustrates "how huge a percentage of his adult life he devoted to terrorism or the consequences of same," he said, dating the accused mastermind's devotion to the cause to 1989 as the Afghan jihad was ending and his brother got killed.
"That's my best guess as to when he first began, anyhow," McDermott said. "So that's coming up on 25 years now."


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Sampaguita Lounge is one decent and reasonable priced lounge to relax and avoid the hustle and bustle of NAIA 1 departure waiting area.
Located at the 4th floor, this used to be the Mabuhay Lounge when PAL used to be assigned in NAIA 1. Lounge is accessible via the elevator (right side before going through gates).
They serve the yummiest rice congee (definitely a must try!), a variety of sandwiches, biscuits/cookies, noodles and other finger foods. Also included in are choice of soda drinks, tea or coffee (brewed or sachet). Unless marked otherwise, all are served 'unlimited'/buffet for you to enjoy.
Seats are comfy, with ample height your arm as you sitback and relax. During the morning, one can see the runway and view the airplanes parked on the terminal.
There are several power sockets available you can charge up. Oh, let's not forget the FREE WIFI!
The lounge have cheerful and accommodating staff ready to assist you, not just with the lounge facilities and amenities, but also they are there to remind you when you're flight is ready to board.
Lounge fee is about $10 dollars for adults, which already includes the use of the lounge, buffet food and drinks, and free WIFI.
I really enjoyed my stay at the Sampaguita Lounge. Relaxed, recharged (including my gadgets), reloaded (food)!
Operator/management of Sampaguita Lounge is MicroAsia catering. They also serve to several flights that flyouts of NAIA.
Oh, the staff mentioned that they are about to undergo some renovation in a couple of months. Looking forward to this redesign!;)
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Balance, Dawson named in England's squad for Lord's Test
London [UK], July 1 : Left-handed batsman Gary Ballance and left-arm spinner Liam Dawson have been included in the 12-man England squad for the first Test of the four-match series against South Africa beginning July 6 at Lord's. Ballance could bat at number three while Dawson, the Hampshire spinner, has a chance to retain his place after making his debut on England's tour of India in December. Middlesex seamer Toby Roland-Jones, who made his ODI debut in June at Lord's against Ireland, is the only uncapped player in the squad and is in contention to make his England Test debut on his home ground having taken 22 wickets in the Specsavers County Championship during this campaign. Young Lancashire opener Haseeb Hameed, who impressed everyone during England's disastrous tour to India, has been overlooked following a struggle for runs in the County Championship this season. His absence means that Keaton Jennings will once open alongside Alastair Cook. Jake Ball (right knee) and Chris Woakes (side strain) were not available for selection due to injury. Joe Root, who was appointed England's Test captain in February, will lead the team out for the first time on Thursday. England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) chairman of Selectors James Whitaker said, "There is great excitement around the first Test of the summer and with the start of a new era under the captaincy of Joe Root this is an exciting time for English cricket." "On behalf of the selectors, I would like to wish Joe Root, Trevor Bayliss and all the squad the very best for what will be a competitive series against South Africa," he added. England squad: Joe Root (capt), Alastair Cook, Keaton Jennings, Gary Ballance, Jonny Bairstow, Ben Stokes, Moeen Ali, Liam Dawson, Toby Roland-Jones, Stuart Broad, Mark Wood, Jimmy Anderson. The Lord's Tests will be followed by games at Trent Bridge (July 14-18), Kennington Oval (July 27-31) and Old Trafford (August 4-8). (ANI)
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In preparation for solstice,for winter celebrations, for the impending start of a new year, and for a new place to call home, I thought I would take some time this upcoming year to focus on working with the colors I find in the seasons and landscapes I've been lucky to explore.
All of my yarn has safely arrived in Minnesota except for these pretties that I couldn't part from…They are the colors I've chosen to focus on for the winter season. They reference the colors I've been seeing these days.
…mostly black and grays with faint yet vibrant blues, reds, yellows and white. My challenge for the upcoming year will be to work on de-stashing the array of yarns I've collected while in Alaska, but also focus on using colors that represent the colors of each season. This year I want to remember to celebrate where I am and do so with color.


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What's your problem?November 9th, 2010 by Katie & Carmen | Filed under Sketching, Teaching.
In last week's class we focused on future thinking and the dissection of big ideas. We wanted to encourage the students to think bigger than themselves and tackle tough problems that at first appear too big to solve.
As usual, we started the class by asking them to share their sketchbooks. We had a few excellent drawings this week!
Class Activity: Problems & Solutions
We jumped into the lesson talking about transportation. There are many issues and complex systems involved in running a citywide transportation system that could seem daunting to a group of high school students. On the other hand, we decided that this would be an interesting area to look at as we all are customers of the MTA. Like most New Yorkers, our students had no problem coming up with issues that they experienced during their daily commutes. Asking students about the problems they noticed or experienced, they shouted out everything from not knowing when train service was disrupted or changed, to crowded buses, to the boredom that comes with waiting for the subway or bus to arrive.
Since class is so short, we decided we would all focus on one problem – creating solutions to tackle boredom while waiting. As a class, we worked together to create a problem statement that would be a catalyst for designing solutions to solve it.
New Yorkers don't have anything do it, and there's not enough seating while they're waiting for the train or bus.
After we defined our problem as a group we asked them to spend 2 minutes sketching a lot of ideas on post-it notes. Some of their solutions were simple: just add more chairs to solve the seating problem. Some of them were more complex, like introducing a pop-up chair that would hover around the platform until someone needs it, when it would pop into action as a full-sized support.
We held a quick critique of the ideas they came up with. We asked them to each talk about an idea that wasn't their own. They had a hard time with that task, and wanted to mostly describe their own work. With a little nudging they did just fine at talking about each others' work.
As a group we chose 7 ideas to work on. In small groups the students were assigned an idea created by one of their peers and were asked to make a poster about it. They were a little confused by this direction, asking if we were telling them to make an ad. We responded a concrete example:
If a teacher walked into the room right now and asked you to tell her about the idea you're thinking about, how would you describe it? What do you need to communicate through your poster so she will 'get' your idea without you having to explain it?
They came up with a ton of great artifacts!
At the end of class we asked them to stand up in front and present their posters and concepts to us. We told them to pretend like they were presenting it to someone they'd never met before, instead of just their after-school teachers and classmates. They did an excellent job of refining their thoughts and presenting the ideas in a clear, concise way.
No Buttons for the Rowdy…
Despite the great ideas that came out at the end of class, this week's class was pretty hard to teach. It was practically impossible to get the girls to quiet down, and most of our lectures and discussions were overrun by side conversations and gossip. It was totally out of the ordinary for our students, who are usually so well behaved. We left class feeling ever so slightly defeated.
After talking to some other teachers last week we discovered that all students everywhere are notoriously misbehaved during the week following Halloween. In one teacher's theory, they're all hopped up on sugar. Another teacher told me, "I don't know what it is about the 7th or 8th week of school… but high school students seem to forget every single thing you've taught them. They regress through about 4 years of maturity overnight."
Thanks for the support from our fellow teachers. We're feeling much better about not being able to control the class last week, though we will be starting this week's lesson by reviewing our behavior expectations. Hopefully they'll be better and earn their reward button this week!


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Coming up with visual concepts for a gourmet cake shop in a presentation-obsessed gastronomic culture such as Hong Kong was an exciting design challenge for This is Ikon. Ms.B's Cakery, which opened with great fanfare recently, is a bespoke bakery offering cakes that look as amazing as they taste. Ikon was invited to create the branding for Ms.B's Cakery by its founder Bonnie Gokson, an icon of the Asian fashion and food scene. We had previously worked with Bonnie on the visual concepts for her hit Hong Kong restaurant, SEVVA.
Ikon's branding, which extends from the MS.B's Cakery interior, signage, boxes and bags to delivery trucks, had to look stunning and complement the sweet offerings, yet could not upstage the star attractions: the cakes. In design terms, it was a fine line to tread. The colour palette was inspired by nature, specifically butterflies and beetles, which morphed into abstract, exotic hues, from jewel-like to day-glo. A rich charcoal was chosen as a base to make these gorgeous colours pop.
An interesting experience involving colour and light occurred when developing the colour palette; hues that 'sang' in the antipodean summer light looked almost dull in the South-east Asian light. Ikon had to send Pantone swatches to the client to ensure the colours would work as beautifully in the Hong Kong cakery as they did in Ikon's Sydney studio.
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Sunday, 29 May 2011
Thursday, 26 May 2011
This is: Voyeuristic
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Monday, 23 May 2011
Sunday, 22 May 2011
In the running
Category: Friends
Friday, 20 May 2011
Theatre of Memory
Wednesday, 18 May 2011
This is: On the move
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Tuesday, 17 May 2011
Head out for Head On
Monday, 16 May 2011
Wiggin' Out: Crazy Mac Screen
The happy accident has always been a fun and inspiring side of the creative process so we're drawing attention to it in our new entry, "Wiggin' Out!" Here's a snap taken from a computer screen malfunctioning, those are definitely happy pixels.
Category: Wiggin Out
Sunday, 15 May 2011
Cat power
Saturday, 14 May 2011
Wednesday, 11 May 2011
Sate: One of our locals
Category: Sate
Tuesday, 10 May 2011
Coming & Going
agIdeas International Design Week wrapped recently in Melbourne with a sell out program of inspiring speakers including Michael Lugmayr from the Netherlands and his studio Toko. We quite liked agIdeas downloadable program with its repeated use of a simple profile image transformed only by pattern and colour. And while we missed the boat in Melbourne, Semi-Permanent rolls in to Sydney this week with a stellar program for design enthusiasts. Typographers, animators, illustrators and photographers are just some of the creatives taking part. In our view Corey Arnold's Alaskan fisherman are well worth hooking! Click here for more information.
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Monday, 9 May 2011
Thursday, 5 May 2011
Fontificate: Yes! Yes! Font us up
The sixth chapter of the alphabetically accented Go Font UR Self was hosted by Roller in Surry Hills last week. Sydney's font afficcionados came out of the woodwork to make opening night a buzzy affair with contributions from both local and international fontographers. Roller's garage-like space was transformed into a hip setting providing the perfect vibe for cutting edge poster design and illustration from the likes of Siggi Eggertsson and Hedof. As we generally have a preference for fun, Parra's simple Yes design (pictured) gets our vote.
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How to use your household notebook or home managment binder? Get inspired! These household notebook tours, hosted by bloggers on the Web, show how to create and use a household planner in your organized home.
Household Notebook Tours
Posted by Cynthia Ewer on December 4, 2008
Petite and Portable: Frilly, Frugal Home Management Binder
With The Fruit Of Her Hands' Household Notebook
Samara's Home Management Book
Creative Solution: Bahama Blessing's Homemaking Journal
Friends and Futures: A Double Household Notebook Tour
Posted by Cynthia Ewer on August 27, 2007
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Mini-cut goal reached; FTP/kg 4.00; Tough ride yesterday.
Thursday, August 28, 2014 by John Stone
Filed under Daily Blog
My scale weight this morning was 160.2 pounds (72.67 kg), which was my post-vacation mini-cut goal. While I certainly would not mind dropping down to just under 70 kilograms (about 154 pounds), I'm not specifically pursuing that goal, at least for right now. What I'd like to do now is continue to train hard with cycling power output improvement as the primary goal. If my weight happens to drop a little more, then great–I'll take it. A little later in the year I'll probably focus on slowly dropping my weight down below 70 kilograms (more on that below).
With my scale weight goal reached, I'll be discontinuing the daily food logs on MyFitnessPal (I only log my meals when actively cutting or bulking). Of course I'll still be keeping close tabs on my weight, body fat, soft tape measurements and so on, and those weekly maintenance reports will be posted, as always, every Sunday.
My freshly established FTP of 291 watts along with this morning's scale weight of 72.6655 kilograms (160.2 pounds) puts my FTP/kg at 4.00. This is the first time I've breached the 4.00 FTP/kg mark, and so it's a fairly noteworthy milestone for me.
Before the end of the year I'd like to have my FTP up to at least 300 watts, and my scale weight down to 69.80 kilograms. That would would put my FTP/kg at 4.30, which is firmly into cat 2 racing territory.
Yesterday's ride was a tough one. I did a metric century (100 kilometers) at the very flat and very straight Van Fleet trail. I wanted to get a few hours of hard tempo (Zone 3) riding in, and Van Fleet is a great place to do that. I set a few new personal records for time, and also set a 9-minute power output PR of 317 watts (my current power output and watts/kg PRs are here).
Even though I set a few new PRs on yesterday's ride, I was having a bit of an off day. It was very hot–especially the second half of the ride–and the heat was really affecting me. I was also fighting a stiff headwind for the final 50 kilometers, and that wind started to take its toll on me. I finished the solo ride with an average speed of 21.3 mi/h (34.28 km/h), which was a couple ticks lower than I was striving for. My average speed for the first half of the ride was 22.1 mi/h (35.57 km/h), but the wind and heat really beat me up on the return trip. I drank plenty of fluids and took in lots of electrolytes, but when I got home and weighed myself I was down to a crazy 156.8 pounds (71.12 kilograms)! I'm sooooooooo ready for fall, this heat really sucks.
Here's the complete ride with all data on Strava (you'll need to be logged into Strava to see most of the data).


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Writing cross-browser CSS is a complicated and difficult process. While modern browsers behave in similar, standards-compliant ways, older browsers don't. That means, at some point, you're probably going have to resort to some hacks. We've outlines some possible solutions — like using a CSS "reset" file, but there are plenty of cases where that isn't enough.
CSS Browser Select is the brainchild of Rafael Lima, who was inspired by an idea on the 37 Signals blog. The result is CSS Browser Select which works by adding a browser-specific class name to your HTML elements. You then have ability to write specific CSS code for each operating system and each browser. And all that comes with only a 1k overhead.
Using CSS Browser Select works like this:
.mac.opera #my-header { margin: 1em; }
This rule would tell the Mac OS version of Opera to set the margin of my-header to 1 em. All other browsers would ignore the rule.
Still, for those cases where you need to do something rather unusual across a number of browsers, CSS Browser Select is one of the best solutions we've seen.
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Keaton Henson
Às vezes eu sinto que estaria disposto a trocar meus cinco livros de poemas apenas para poder escrever e cantar algo com esta delicadeza. Eu ia escrever um poema agora, mas Keaton Henson já diz o que eu gostaria de poder dizer neste momento. Então eu o tomo e o agradeço.
You Don't Know How Lucky You Are
Keaton Henson
Does he know who you are?
Does he laugh, just to know
what he has?
Does he know not to talk
about your dad?
Does he know when you're sad?
You don't like to be touched,
Let alone kissed.
Does he know where your lips begin?
Do you know who you are?
Do you laugh, just to think
what I lack?
Do you know your lip shakes
when you're mad?
And do you notice when you're sad?
You don't like to be touched,
Let alone kissed.
Does his love make your head spin?


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Figures on weekly jobless claims rose slightly in the latest week.
U.S. stocks tumbled Thursday, with the S&P 500 and Dow industrials logging their worst one-day declines since May as the technology sector resumed its selloff, overshadowing advances in financials.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, +0.29% fell 167.58 points, or 0.8%, to 21,287.03, its biggest percentage decline since May 17. The S&P 500 indexSPX, +0.15% declined 20.99 points, or 0.9%, to 2,419.70, also its worst selloff in more than a month. The Nasdaq Composite Index COMP, -0.06% tumbled 90 points, or 1.4% to 6,144.35.
The Nasdaq has registered its third straight session with a move of 1%, including a slump of 1.6% on Tuesday and Wednesday's 1.4% rally—its biggest one-day rise since Nov. 7.
The outsize moves in all three sessions came on volatility in the technology sectorXLK, -0.09% which fell 1.8%. Among the biggest decliners in the sector were Microsoft Corp. MSFT, +0.64% Google-parent Alphabet Inc. GOOGL, -0.87% and Apple AAPL, +0.24%
The losses in tech were so severe on Thursday that all but one of its components, DXC Technology Co DXC, -2.32% ended in negative territory. Tech shares have struggled in recent weeks, with the sector down 2.5% thus far this month amid concerns the group's rally may be running out of steam at a time when valuations are stretched by many metrics.
"If you were to pick one particular point influencing trading right now, it would be that people think the large-cap tech stocks are overvalued right now," said Wayne Kaufman, chief market analyst at Phoenix Financial Services. "I'm bullish on tech, especially semiconductor stocks, but there are concerns that it is an overcrowded trade, and that they'd be vulnerable if the economy slowed."
On the upside, financial shares XLF, -0.08% rose 0.7% after the 34 biggest U.S. banks passed the Federal Reserve's stress test and received a green light for plans to return capital to shareholders. The Fed determined the country's biggest banks have "strong" levels of capital and would be able to keep lending even during a severe recession.
Goldman Sachs GS, -1.12% rose 0.5% while J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. JPM, +0.27%added 1.5%. Citigroup Inc. C, -0.15% advanced 2.8%.
"We've had some major players in the financial sector be overly impacted in a negative way for a long time. They've been beaten down, but news like this could help them become one of the leading sectors in the second half of the year," said Kevin Miller, chief executive officer of E-Valuator Funds, which have about $150 million in assets.
Meanwhile, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin told reporters at a White House news conference that the financial markets shouldn't be worried about the debt ceiling. The U.S. government's borrowing limit will have to be raised soon to stave off default. Mnuchin also announced a series of new sanction against North Korea in a bid to discourage and punish the country for its nuclear weapons program.
Bonds shadow central banks: Financial shares have also been tracking a rise in long-term Treasury yields TMUBMUSD10Y, +2.22% A selloff in U.S. and European bonds on Thursday sent yields higher as investors maneuvered around potential moves by the Federal Reserve, the European Central Bank and the Bank of England. Bond prices and yields move inversely.
"Comments from central bankers in recent days suggest that perhaps it will not be too long before the Fed is joined by other central banks in tightening monetary policy," said Richard Perry, market analyst at Hantec Markets.
"In recent days, there have been hawkish indications from the ECB's Draghi, the Bank of England's Carney and Bank of Canada's Poloz, all of which have signaled a potential end to their easing programs could be close," he noted.
Buck under pressure: The ICE Dollar Index DXY, +0.24% which measures the U.S. dollar against a basket of six currencies, was down less than 0.1% to 95.57, but has fallen 1.8% so far this week.
"Playing currencies is a game of relatives, and with traders questioning the Fed's ability to tighten in light of subdued inflation, the dollar is under pressure," said Perry.
Both the euro EURUSD, -0.2713% and the pound GBPUSD, -0.1229% have marched higher against the greenback, he noted.
The weaker dollar was seen as giving a boost to some dollar-denominated commodities, such as oil and copper, on Thursday. Those moves could aid resource-related stocks on Wall Street.
Economic docket: In the latest economic data, the latest revision to first-quarter GDP was raised to 1.4%, up from the previous estimate of 1.2% and double the initial 0.7% read.
Separately, jobless claims rose by 2,000 in the latest week, although they remain at levels that are extremely low from a historical standpoint.
See: MarketWatch's economic calendar.
On the Fed front, St. Louis Fed President James Bullard said the current level of interest rates is appropriate for the low-growth, tepid inflation environment and the central bank doesn't need to act in response to future developments. Bullard isn't on the Fed's current rate-setting board. His comments capped a busy week of central-bank speakers.
Stocks in focus: Rite Aid Corp. RAD, +2.08% tumbled 26.5% after Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc. WBA, -0.08% canceled its merger agreement with Rite Aid. Instead, Walgreens is buying 2,186 Rite Aid stores and related assets, sending Walgreens shares up 1.7%. In a related move, shares of Fred's Inc. FRED, -2.94% plunged 23% after a deal to buy some Rite Aid stores was terminated.
Blue Apron Holdings Inc. APRN, -6.60% ended at its offering price of $10 dollars in its debut as a publicly listed company, valuing the meal-kit delivery company at $1.9 billion.
Read: Why Blue Apron's valuation just got slashed
Pier 1 Imports Inc. PIR, +5.27% tumbled 8.4% after it reported first-quarter revenue that missed expectations.
Other markets: Gold GCQ7, -0.59% ended lower while oil prices CLQ7, +0.70% rose for a sixth straight day, with the dollar slump and a sizable weekly decline in U.S. crude production seen as factors.
Stock markets in Asia NIK, +0.11% HSI, +0.00% rose, but European benchmarksSXXP, +0.79% were feeling the weight of a rising euro.["Source-marketwatch"]


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President Obama's Inaugural Speechby Representative Keith Ellison
Posted on 2013-01-22
ELLISON. Mr. Speaker, thank you for allotting the time. I
appreciate it very much.
My name is Keith Ellison. I'm here today to reflect on what I believe was a historic speech for the ages yesterday. President Obama met the historic challenge, met the historic moment; and I just want to talk about my feelings about how important that speech really, really was. President Obama, you should understand, was called upon to make his second inaugural address. And inaugural addresses, historically, are speeches that people don't always remember, but there are some that we will never forget because of how important they are.
His first speech 4 years ago was a speech during which, over the course of 18 minutes, he talked about trying to reach out diplomatically. He talked about the importance of trying to come together to solve common problems. And I think the basic attitude of the first speech was conciliation in an effort to try to work out problems both foreign and domestic.
In this speech, however, President Obama set forth what I believe was a clear, concise agenda based on values that he owns. I was so proud to hear President Obama talk about the need [[Page H203]] to address climate change. He reminded us that you can believe in climate change or you can disbelieve in climate change, but the fact is our storms are harder, the drier weather we are seeing is causing forest fires, and we are seeing climatic catastrophes associated with climate change. We're seeing the consequences of it. So if we ignore the cause, we cannot ignore the consequence. I was so proud to hear him say that.
He also spoke out boldly for equality, human rights and civil rights for all Americans. I remember that he said, and you may recall, too, Mr. Speaker, he said, we will never forget Stonewall, Seneca Falls, and Selma. These are three iconic moments in civil rights history when he talked about the women's rights movement, the gay rights movement, and the African American movement for civil rights; but they all added up to one thing, which is that an American is an American is an American. It doesn't matter what your color is, what your sex is, or who you love and want to be with. What matters is that you are an American and entitled to the full protection of the law in these United States.
I think it was very important for him to do so. It represented an evolutionary moment in American history that a President being inaugurated into his second term would stand up for the first time and say ``civil and human rights for all people.'' I thought it was a great moment, and I found myself cheering even though I hadn't planned on doing so.
But he didn't stop there. He specifically said we need to stand here and protect Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid, three critical programs this Nation depends on, three critical programs that seniors depend upon. But not only do seniors depend on them. Also we know that seniors and people live on survivors benefits. When their loved one who gets Social Security dies, children are entitled to get survivors benefits. And these survivors benefits are literally putting food on the tables for millions of families all across this country.
But not only that. People with disabilities get Medicare and Social Security. And he stood up for these programs, reminding us that this richest country in the history of the world--the richest country in the history of the world--does not need to throw its poor, its vulnerable, and its aged under the bus. We are not too broke to make sure that our senior citizens, our children who are on survivors benefits, and people who are vulnerable economically, we're not too poor to make sure that there's something for them and that they have a livelihood and a way to make it forward.
Imagine the richest country in the history of the world saying, I'm sorry, Grandma, but we got to cut your benefits because we can't make it. The reality is that when he gave that speech and he specifically identified those three programs as central to the American Dream, the American promise, I was proud. And I said, that's right. And I tell you, I was so happy to hear him say that.
But he didn't even stop there. He talked about the need for immigration reform and the fact that for so many people around the world, America is still the land of opportunity and that we cannot sit by as 12 million people live in our country in the shadows with no pathway toward citizenship. The President specifically called on us to do something about it.
Now, the President knows that guns are a volatile issue. He didn't smack the issue of gun violence prevention right on the head, but he did mention the victims of Sandy Hook; and he did tell us that children have a right to be safe at school, thereby signaling that, you know, yeah, we are going to do some things about the proliferation of guns, high-capacity clips, and background checks, things that make sense, not taking away the right to own a gun, but to do commonsense gun violence prevention measures that I think will make everybody safer. In fact, if you're looking at the news right now, you know that there was another shooting today in Texas--today--today.
So the bottom line is that the President laid out a vision, an inclusive vision, for America. The President got up in front of the world stage, all the Members of Congress, Ambassadors, Senators, the Supreme Court, and everybody assembled and said, This is the direction that we're going in. We're going to say Americans, whatever their background, are included within the promise of America. We're going to address income inequality. We're going to protect the social safety net.
Now, some pundits--you can always count on the punditry to throw salt around--they said, well, it didn't reach out to the Republicans. Well, I think that Republicans are on Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid; and they probably, or at least their parents, appreciate protection of that program. Republicans live on this planet in which we see the temperature rising and the consequences of global climate change hurting more and more people. Some Republicans are black, some Republicans are Latino, and some Republicans are gay. And when they heard that they are included in Obama's vision of America, they must have felt good about that.
So I don't agree that this speech didn't reach out to the full range of the political spectrum, left and right. I think that if you're in the category that he mentioned, that no matter what your political ideology may be, that you would feel that, yes, this includes me.
Now, I think the President's speech was also great because it was courageous. No President has ever mentioned before the gay community in the United States; and most people like myself and most people are what we call straight or heterosexual.
{time} 1510 But all of us know that there is prejudice against the gay community. There's no denying this. There's no sense in denying it. We all know that these folks are our neighbors, they're our coworkers, they're our friends, and we know that they have suffered because of prejudice against them. For a President to stand up and say this isn't right and that everybody is included in the American Dream, I thought was a great moment. It was a first. It was historic. I think that President Obama seized the historical mantle and said, I'm not going to sit up here and use a bunch of flowery, vague language. I'm going to get up here and talk about what I really believe in. I was so proud of Obama yesterday. I admired how he handled himself and what he said.
I think over the past 4 years, President Obama has, in my opinion, bent over backwards to reach out to the Republican Conference. He has really accommodated them in a whole number of ways, and yet their conference--and the record is clear--has come forward and said that their goal over the course of the last 4 years was to make him a one- term President. Well, they failed. He's a two-term President. So the question is: Are we now going to come together? Is the caucus of ``no'' now going to say there are some things we're willing to work with? I hope so.
Let me tell you. My dad was a Republican for many years. Of course, I love my dad and loved him when he was a Republican. He was what I would call a ``sensible Republican.'' He believed in watching the money. He believed in getting the most out of every dollar. He believed that the government had a limited role and shouldn't get in everyone's business. Today, we have folks who are not in the realm of even negotiation. They're willing to shut the government down, allow our country to go over the fiscal cliff and default on America's debt just to get their way. That's an extremist position. This is an extremist ideology. It's not a reasonable thing to say.
Now, some of them will come up here and talk about how big the debt and the deficit is. Wait a minute. When we say that we want to cut oil subsidies to Big Oil companies, they don't want to do that. When we want to raise some taxes on the wealthy so we can use that money to lower the deficit, they don't want to do that. I doubt anyone who says they're outraged by the debt and the deficit, and we give credible solutions on how to lower it and they say ``no''--I begin to doubt that that's really what they're concerned about.
The speech yesterday that the President gave, I believe, is a good starting point. The President is not negotiating with himself. He's declaring his position. The other side in the political divide can declare their position, and then we can come together and negotiate. I'm a huge supporter of the [[Page H204]] President, but I kind of believe that what he used to do, he used to state his values, then he used to anticipate what the other side would want, then he used to try to come together, bring both sides together, and then he would go to the table and negotiate. So we would end up not with a liberal position, but with sort of a centrist position, and we would start out right there, and then anywhere we would go from there would be further to the right. So if we're lucky, we end up with a center-right position.
Now I think we start with, as we are proud to be the progressive liberals that we are, we start out with what we believe in, then they say what they believe in, and then we negotiate, and maybe we'll end up in the middle. But I don't want to end up in the center right anymore. I want to end up with some reasonable compromise that protects Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid; that protects civil rights for all Americans; that addresses this massive income inequality; that addresses climate change; that moves us toward a green economy; that allows people who are immigrants to have a pathway into the respectability of life in American society. The President did not disappoint last night. I believe in those things. Clearly he does, too. And I was so proud to see the President stand and deliver for these important values.
Over the next several weeks, Mr. Speaker, we're going to be in a huge debate. We just finished the whole debate on the so-called fiscal cliff. It really wasn't a fiscal cliff. That was just the name the press loved to call it, but the reality is it was a set of budgetary deadlines and tax deadlines. We were able to come up with a deal, but the worst part of the deal is what wasn't in it. That's why I voted for it. I wasn't thrilled with the deal, but the thing I didn't like about it was the stuff mostly that was not included. Because even though I was happy to extend unemployment for a year, that was good. Even though I was happy to raise taxes on the richest Americans, because I believe it's their patriotic duty to help their country out, that was good too. I believe those were good things.
I thought the fact that we did not deal with the debt ceiling, the sequester, and the continuing resolution really just put us in a position where a few months later our Republican friends would say: You're going to cut vital programs for Americans who need them, or we're going to shut down the government. You're going to cut Head Start, you're going to cut food stamps, you're going to cut Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid, or we're going to default on America's debt. This is the hardcore bargaining position they've been trying to ram down our throat.
I'll never forget Speaker Boehner, who said, ``Look, if they don't take these cuts in one loaf, we'll feed it to them a slice at a time.'' That's a quote.
And so I was concerned that this deal we just did, this so-called fiscal cliff deal, the New Year's Eve deal, even though there were things in it that I thought were good, I was concerned, Mr. Speaker, because of what wasn't in it. I believe the American people and our markets, our business people, deserve to have this budgetary issue resolved in a way so they can actually plan.
My Republican friends correctly point out that there is uncertainty when Congress doesn't solve problems, but they're the ones causing the uncertainty. In fact, they are guilty of creating the problem that they criticize the most. They say that we shouldn't kick the can down the road. They say we should have some finality. But they're the ones who are not agreeing to some finality. They say that we need to make sure that we get some real job creation, but they're the ones cutting into the public sector, causing us layoffs from the Federal Government, and therefore State governments. And of course, people who have government jobs spend money too, which leads people who they do business with to have jobs. If you work for the EPA and you go to a local grocery store, you spend money there, which allows the cashiers and the stock people to have jobs.
Everything they say they don't want it seems like that's what they're for. They don't want job cuts, they don't want job losses, but they create them. They don't want uncertainty, but they create it. They want finality, but they avoid it. It doesn't make any sense. They say they want to reduce the deficit, but they enlarge it. So my point is: What's really going on here? I think President Obama has just kind of had enough and has said rather than trying to figure out how to do a deal with these folks who keep moving the goalpost, I'm just going to say what I'm about, I'm going to declare what my values are, and they can come to the table and represent their own point of view, and we'll find a way, hopefully, to get to a point where we can agree and go forward. Even if we hate the deal, even if we don't like it, at least maybe we can move forward so Americans can at least be able to plan for their future.
Mr. Speaker, I think that Presidential inauguration speeches are important. They do lay out an important path. I was reviewing, Mr. Speaker, the inaugural speeches of President Abraham Lincoln. I'm a huge fan of Abraham Lincoln. I wouldn't call myself an expert or scholar of Lincoln, but I'm sort of an amateur reader of everything about Lincoln.
In Lincoln's first speech, he was conciliatory. You will recall, Mr. Speaker, Abraham Lincoln, when he was elected, as soon as he was elected, Southern States began to secede even before he was inaugurated. South Carolina, Mississippi, the other States, they started seceding each before he was inaugurated. As soon as he was elected, some of them said, We are out of here.
So when he came to his inaugural speech, the first one, he was trying to keep the Southern States in and trying to keep the border States from leaving. So he said some things that were so conciliatory, that even the abolitionists of the time thought that he wasn't what they were hoping for. He wasn't really against slavery. He said he was, but they thought that he didn't prove it. They thought he was halting, they thought he was too cautious, and they criticized him for this.
But after the Civil War broke out and so much blood was spilled and so much harm was done to our Nation--620,000 people died in the Civil War--President Lincoln came back 4 years later. On that speech, his second inaugural speech, it was a bold defense of the union cause and an argument that slavery must go.
{time} 1520 He didn't pull any punches on the second one. Now, he was not bodacious, and he was not offensive--he was trying to be as conciliatory as he could be--but he made very clear that America was going to be, one, whole and not divided and, two, that it would be slave free. He didn't water it down, as some pundits think that Obama should water his position down. The second time around, after we went through all the big fights, President Lincoln stood firm and spoke firmly and clearly but also in a conciliatory way about what he believed in. I don't know. Maybe there were some people back in 1865 who might have said, Well, Lincoln ought to be a little more sympathetic to the South, and he ought to try to work with them more.
Look, I'm not trying to compare this budgetary fight to the horror of slavery. There is no comparison, not at all. I'm not trying to say that our Republican colleagues are in any way sympathetic to slavery. They're not. That's not true. I'm simply trying to make the point that when you start out trying to work with somebody and you can't get anywhere, and when you go through all the travails and difficulties of trying to get somewhere and you can't, then at the end of the fight, if you win, you're probably going to say, Look, I tried to work with you and you wouldn't work with me. I ended up coming out on top on this thing, so now I'm going to bargain for my position.
This is not to say the President is not going to negotiate. This is not to say the Democrats aren't going to negotiate. We are going to negotiate. We believe that the democratic process requires an eye toward compromise, but I also believe that we went to our constituents in 435 districts around this country and that we told them what we believed in and we told them what we stood for, so they deserve for us to at least articulate that position. If we have to make a compromise on some [[Page H205]] things for the sake of the Union, for the sake of the Nation, we should do that, but we should never act like we don't believe in what we do, in fact, believe in, which is Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid; which is confronting income inequality; which is equality for all Americans regardless of race, color, sexual preference; and all that kind of stuff. We should say what we believe in. We should say that we believe that a woman should earn every penny that a man makes. We should say these things. We should not be afraid to be who we are and articulate our vision of the world. Then when we go to the negotiating table, there might be some things we have to give up, and there might be some things we get, but we should never make any mistake about what we're all about.
So I'm really proud of the President tonight. I feel the President did a fine job for America yesterday, and I wish the President well. I do know that the President, in being a man of reason, will listen to Republican arguments as to what they would like to see happen, but I also believe, based on what he said yesterday, that he is going to fight for what he believes in, too. He warned us against dogmatism, and he also said Look, don't confuse absolutism with principle. So that's sort of a warning to our side a little bit in his saying, look, I am going to have to negotiate some things. But when he sits around that table, we know where he's starting from, and that makes me feel good.
I wish all the best for this Presidency and this Congress because I think that, if the Republicans are successful and if the Democrats are successful and if the President is successful, then America will be successful. So I'm here to say that I hope we do negotiate, but there are some things that, quite frankly, I'm not willing to cave in on-- Social Security, Medicaid, Medicare beneficiary cuts. They're asking for cuts from the people who have already been cut.
Do you know, Mr. Speaker, that 20 percent of widowed women on Social Security have nothing but Social Security to live on, and yet we want to reduce their benefits? Do you know that a full third of widowed women on Social Security depend upon Social Security to the degree of 90 percent of their incomes? We're talking about people who are making somewhere between $17,000 and $24,000 a year to begin with. You cannot go to people who already have so little and say give me back even more.
This is at a time, because of our housing foreclosure crisis, when rents in nearly every city have gone up, and this is at a time when we have limited vitally important programs that help ease the pain of poverty for Americans. So there are some things that we are going to protect in this and that we are going to call upon the masses of Americans to protect.
Let me just say, Mr. Speaker, that today I don't have the ability to be here for the whole hour--duty calls--but I did want to offer a few reflections on the speech that was given. I also want to say a few other things as it relates to the next period coming up.
In the next few weeks, we're going to face a debt ceiling increase. In fact, we have a debt ceiling vote tomorrow. We're not voting to raise the debt ceiling; we're voting to suspend it. I think this is bad policy because markets, businesspeople, and everybody else need to know that the Congress is going to stand by the credit rating and the debts of the American people. We're not going to default, and we shouldn't threaten that we are. It's bad. It's not a good thing to do. It's important for the American people to know that, when we talk about raising the debt ceiling, Congress is not approving new spending. We're not borrowing. We're saying that we're going to pay the bills on debts we already acquired.
It's kind of like this: If you have a family and if somehow you're already obligated to pay a mortgage, if you don't have the money for your mortgage, you may have to go to your cousin or your brother or your uncle and say, I need you to help me until next week so I can pay the mortgage. So you now have borrowed money to pay an obligation that you already owe, an obligation that, if you don't pay, you will default on. You can also have a situation in which somebody doesn't have enough money but goes into a local electronics store and says, I'm going to buy that big screen television right there on my credit card.
Those are two different scenarios--borrowing to meet obligations you've already acquired and borrowing to buy stuff you really cannot afford. Raising the debt ceiling is the first one, Mr. Speaker. It's borrowing to meet obligations we already have. It's not borrowing for new expenditures. So, when we appropriate money and when we have had appropriated expenditures in the past, we might raise the debt ceiling to meet those obligations, which we should do, because to do otherwise is to say that America is going to default on its debts, which we cannot do, not just for our own sakes, but this would cause international harm to the world economy.
People are confused about this whole debt ceiling debate, and I don't believe that it's right for Republicans to just suspend the debt ceiling and then to put a bunch of stuff in there about the Senate and all that kind of stuff, some provisions that are blatantly unconstitutional, too, by the way. So I'm disappointed in this thing that's coming up, but people need to know that this debt ceiling vote is coming up.
They should also know that the sequester is coming up. With the New Year's Eve deal, we delayed the sequester 2 months. These are massive cuts to the tune of, I think, around $89 billion that are going to be put on the Pentagon and domestic spending. They're dumb cuts. We're not looking at specific programs and evaluating their worth and eliminating some and keeping others. We're just, like, ``chop.'' This is no way to budget for a Nation, and I hope we can delay the sequester, but it's coming up soon. Republicans have vowed that they want even more cuts, maybe even in addition to the sequester, to negotiate. I think we should remind everybody that we've already had $1.7 trillion in cuts and that we just did $600 billion in new revenue. That's about $2.3 trillion. How much more cutting do we need to do, particularly when we're talking about vital programs for Americans? So, Mr. Speaker, if we're going to make cuts, we should cut things that we really don't need. For example, Medicare part D, which passed in 2003, prohibits Medicare from negotiating drug prices with the pharmaceutical companies. Now, the Veterans Administration does negotiate for drug prices all the time, but Medicare is prohibited from doing so. Basically, if the pharmaceutical company says this drug costs this, the government has to pay, and we can't use our large buying power to lower a price.
{time} 1530 We should change that. We should introduce competitive bidding. That would save us a quite a bit of money, Mr. Speaker. That's a way we could save money.
Here's another thing we should do. We should eliminate oil subsidies, coal subsidies, and natural gas subsidies. The fossil fuel industry, a highly profitable industry, making a lot of money, a profitable industry, there's no reason in a free market economy we should be subsidizing a profitable company. It doesn't make sense. Even if you are a free market person, you have a hard case to make that we should be handing Exxon, Chevron, and Mobil money. We shouldn't do it. We should end it, and any real conservative would agree with me on that. Now, if somebody is just trying to get money to friends, that's another story. But if you're really about reducing the deficit, that's one way to do it.
You know, there are a number of things we could cut. There's a lot of Cold War weapons systems that could be eliminated. Our nuclear arsenal could be reduced without threatening our national security, and we could save money in doing it.
There are ways to reduce the budget. There are ways to do it, and we probably should. But let's do it in a way where we keep Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, food stamps, aid for college students, money for investing in medical research, and groundbreaking research to give life to brand-new industries. You know, a lot of people don't know, Mr. Speaker, this thing we call the Internet was started with a government program--something called DARPA. A government grant helped fund the Internet. Yes, it [[Page H206]] did. I don't know about Al Gore, but I do know that the government, a government grant, put the money into the form that we now know as the Internet. The government did that.
The government funded the project for mapping the human genome. The government. The government's not always bad.
So we should keep some programs. We should lower others, but we've got to think about this thing in a different way than we are.
All I want to say, Mr. Speaker, as I begin to wrap up is that it is an honor and a privilege to be able to serve in this, the greatest deliberative body in the world. And even though we have big fights with our Republican colleagues, it's an honor to serve with them, too. We're both here, sent here by the 435 districts that we represent to argue our positions and try to come to some kind of solution. I believe that we can have solutions if everyone has an eye toward compromise, but that depends upon everybody starting out carrying out the vision of the district they represent.
My district wants me to stand up for Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid, stand up for civil and equal rights for everybody, including gay people. My district wants me to find a pathway to citizenship for immigrants who are here. My district wants me to do something about climate change and move our economy toward a green economy. Now, I'm going to start there, and then we can negotiate with our colleagues on where we end up, but I'm proud that the President stood up for our values. I think his speech was groundbreaking, historic, and gave real energy to people who share his value system.
With that, Mr. Speaker, I have to curtail my hour, and I yield back the balance of my time.


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Kicking off Season 5 of Sonic Tales are the four incredibly diverse and wonderfully bizarre monologues which make up For Men Only by Frank Gauntlett. Listen below to hear the first of the four, Twirler, and hear from the playwright as he discusses the origins of For Men Only with Gill Falson and Tegan Nicholls.
Twirler by Frank Gauntlett
Performed by Nicholas Gledhill
Sound Design by Robbie Armfield


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Duke the full-grown Flat Coat and Meg the Flat Coat puppy, both have liver-colored coats
This is Scout (Fieldancers Argus Scout) an adult black Flat-Coated Retriever. Photo courtesy of Scout
Scout retrieving a stick in the water, photo courtesy of Scout
This is Ch. Athercroft Vieux Dieux aka Lamont, breeders/owners: Charlie & John Fippin and Dee Turkelson.
Jayda and Riker are proud parents of a new litter of puppies at Inglis Kennels.
The litter of puppies are one week old in this photo.


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Our 'Film of the Year' 😉 and for good reason.
Yup, It's New Year's Day and we have already made the trip to see one of the newest 'Big Hitters': those biopics that target one person's strength and battle against adversity with everybody leaving the cinema saying "wasn't [insert lead] brilliant and didn't he act just like [insert real person]" with us all expectant to see the highlights cut together for a slot at the [insert relevant film award].
The latest film to fit into my naïve pre-categorisation being The Theory of Everything the biopic of Stephen Hawking, Directed by James Marsh. Yes, rather ignorantly, it does fit there but has also transformed the genre for me with its sheer fantastic construction and demands explanation as to why.
Firstly, and most importantly, he is an entirely interesting human being. A character profile that most feel acquainted to, but like most of these profiles, we don't really know them, do we? The Theory of Everything introduces the audience to the brilliant man Professor Hawking is and always has been, rather than ask you to join him as the cliché young man in pursuit of 'self-discovery'.
You share his experiences and learn about Professor Hawking's character with Eddie Redmayne playing the part hypnotically. What starts, as any good film can, gradually becomes a performance of very considered looks and facial expression with Eddie's portrayal as the lead. We see a man's condition deteriorate without losing sight of the man he continues to be, it is a marvel to watch and truly believable. Both performance and the Direction allow you to share in the humour and stoicism of a man and his pursuits, rather than spending the majority of the film dealing with those heroic 'crisis' scenes. You know, where the hero has a very literal 'emotional crash' on-screen before experiencing an epiphany just in time for the picture to wrap.
I felt the writing of the story was brilliant with the right tone throughout. The right amount of time was spent on the disease and the deterioration that Professor Hawkins experiences on a day-by-day basis. But chiefly, this doesn't become the backbone of the film itself. Felicitiy Jones as Mrs. Hawkins has some lovely moments within the film and is as much the protagonist as the Professor. The importance and influence she clearly had is a big deal, and the moments the film portrays are considered and delicate. Beside every great man is a woman reminding them they are just a man. I have most definitely got this analogy wrong, but it certainly works for the purpose of this review.
Ultimately, the challenges that this cruel disease poses becomes engrained in the daily routine and obstacles for the couple to overcome; this is of course, consequential and visually evident but isn't necessary to constantly stress. The character of the man and his contributions to the world of Science are testament enough to this; the film is right to celebrate his achievements without placing motor-neurones disease, the damage it does, front and centre.
For me, the importance of cinema should have at heart humanity and relationships, it is always a pleasure to see a film that does so within the complexities of reality and a lifetimes experience so well. If I had to give this film a mark out of ten, I would say:
Watch it; take tissues for the tears and value from the messages put forward.
Thanks for reading!


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Oh man. It's been about a month since I did one of these. But hello! I'm here. How are you all doing? It's been a busy few weeks so far — friends visiting, lots of work changes, James finally got a small break from school, the weather is nice — you know the drill. Basically the books keep piling up and I haven't shared them with you. Well, well, well. Today is your lucky day. Hope you find something in these piles that catches your eye!
Oh hey, it's the first day of summer! Do something fun! And go wish Anna of Anna Reads a happy birthday!
Let's get started:
From Jamie (Perpetual Page Turner) ♥
Say What You Will by Cammie McGovern (I read this + loved it.)
Falling Into Place by Amy Zhang (September 2014)
Kiss of Broken Glass by Madeleine Kuderick (September 2014) — verse book!
From Elena (Novel Sounds) ♥
Some Girls Are by Courtney Summers
Starstruck by Rachel Shukert
The Comeback Season by Jennifer E. Smith (The original cover!)
Beauty Queens by Libba Bray (prepared to give this a second try)
From Maggie (Just a Couple More Pages) ♥
Boomerang by Noelle August (July 8 release)
From Bloomsbury (Thanks Courtney!)
My Best Friend, Maybe by Caela Carter (A favorite of 2014 for me.)
When Mr. Dog Bites by Brian Conaghan
From Harlequin (Thanks!)
The Fragile World by Paula Treick DeBoard (October 2014)
Behind the Scenes by Dahla Adler (out 6/24; I really enjoyed it!); thanks Rachel!
Searching for Sky by Jillian Cantor; thanks Lauren!
Since Last Summer by Johanna Philbin
Catching Jordan by Miranda Kenneally (My original copy got rained on.)
Racing Savannah by Miranda Kenneally
Triangles by Ellen Hopkins ($1 at my used bookstore) * verse + grown up book *
Cracked Up to Be by Courtney Summers ($1 at my used bookstore)
(For my Nook)
Fever (A Songbird Novel) by Melissa Pearl
Ten Tiny Breaths by K.A. Tucker
Just One Night by Gayle Forman
The Longest Ride by Nicholas Sparks
Another Little Piece by Kate Karyus Quinn
In Deep by Terra McVoy (Out Jul8 8; read it this week + omg, can't get enough)
Make It Real by Sabrina Elkins (eBook out July 1)
Big thanks to those who contributed to my book collection in the past couple of weeks! xoxo
Actually, I've done pretty well on the "not buying as much" thing. Really! This is been a month of progress.
What's been in your shopping bag lately? 🙂
Psst. Thanks for stopping in… we'll be back tomorrow with a long overdue NAILED IT! 🙂


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"Swept away into a court of magic and beauty, she discovers she is Tania, the lost princess of Faerie: the youngest daughter of Oberon and Titania. Since Tania's mysterious disappearance on the eve of her wedding five hundred years before, Faerie has been sunk in darkness and gloom. The courtly Lord Gabriel Drake, who Tania was once to marry, has found her and brought her back. With Tania's return, Faerie comes alive again as a land of winged children, glittering balls, and fantastic delights. But Tania can't forget Anita's world, or the boy she loved there. Torn between two loves and between two worlds, Tania slowly comes to discover why she disappeared so long ago. She possesses a singular magical ability and she must use it to stop a sinister plan that threatens the entire world of Faerie." -GoodReads
I'd say that I enjoyed this book, although I was a little confused about what was going on in the beginning, which I guess is what we're suppose to feel. Anita (Tania) is drifting between two worlds, that of the "mortal world" and the other "faerie world." At first she thinks she is dreaming and simply decides to go along for the ride. Soon she realizes that it is not a dream and wants to figure out a way to return home, only she doesn't know which realm is her true home. I enjoyed the story, although I had a sense for what was going to happen early on. It was still a pleasant read and I plan on reading the other books in the series. The romance left a bit to be desired, I didn't really feel anything for either Gabriel or for Edric. There needs to be a little more tension, chemistry or something in the next books. We're told that Tania is in love, but I don't really feel it. Other than that it was an entertaining read and I think others would enjoy it as well.
Book One: The Faerie Path
Book Two: The Lost Queen
Book Three: The Sorcerer King
Book Four: The Immortal Realm
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we're coming up on the halfway mark! have you had a slip up yet? don't worry, i have too.
i realized last week that easter and theodore's birthday were fast approaching and i hadn't planned anything. cue major freakout and browsing etsy for the perfect gifts. after the confirmation emails started dropping in to my inbox *thank you for your purchase*, i started to feel incredibly guilty. like i was a huge failure. like i failed myself and my husband and my readers.
it would have been easy to wallow in self-pity (and then scrap the whole thing and go buy those pants i've been eyeing), but here's what i did instead.
tally up all the spending i've done this month that wasn't supposed to happen. anything non-sanctioned by the freeze:
1. easter basket goodies for the kids: $125
2. birthday gifts for theodore: $55
3. a binder and dividers: $13
4. treats for the kids to keep them quiet while i browsed target for the aforementioned binder: $6
TOTAL SPENDING: $199 ouch.
step two is to figure out where that money can come out of your budget (the $ you've allowed yourself to spend this month):
for me that means to cut down on groceries (get creative with leftovers, check the back of the pantry for forgotten canned items, toss anything on some lettuce and call it a salad)
step three is to make more money:
sell a few gently loved clothing items on a site like thredup
if you have a blog, put together a quick guide for your readers covering something you're an expert in and sell it
if you're an artist, sell a few more paintings
if you're a business owner, put on your hustle hat and get those sales up!
have a garage sale, instagram sale, bring unused kids toys/clothing to a consignment shop
while that $199 looks like a lot now, i'm determined to get it back to zero by cutting a little from the grocery budget and making a little more money than expected this month. the biggest thing to remember when you fall off the fund freeze wagon is not to give up. hop back on and keep riding. even if you don't make up everything you accidentally spent, you'll feel better when april 30th rolls around and you have all that extra savings in your bank account.
if you need a little refresher or missed the last fund freeze post click on an image below!


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12,650 Journey Girl Travel Trunks Recalled Due To Laceration Hazard
Tos R Us has issued a recall for 12,650 of their Journey Girl Travel Trunks. These units were used to carry 18-inch-tall toy dolls. The 21-inch tall curved top trunks are purple with a blue pattern and a blue metal handle.
The trunks were sold with three clothes hangers and two pull out drawers for storage. Travel trunks included in the recall have UPC # 4897027965070 and model number 5F5F79E. The model number is printed on the bottom of the travel trunk next to the UPC code.
So far Toys R Us has received 6 reports of incidents involving the handle on the trunk, including one report of a consumer who received stitches as a result of a laceration.
It is recommended that customers should immediately stop using the travel trunk, put it out of reach of children and return it to a Toys R Us store for a full refund or store credit.
The trunks were sold in Toys R Us stores nationwide and online at www.toysrus.com from October 2012 through February 2013 for about $30.


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News > Press > 3 Potato 4 Space Station now open on South Broad
3 Potato 4 Space Station now open on South Broad
8 Oct 2013
New Orleans' 3 Potato 4 Space Station (2727 S. Broad St., Suite 102, 504-298-7761; www.facebook.com/3p4neworleans), an organic, vegan, gluten-free restaurant specializing in baked potato wedges with homemade sauces and sea salts, is now open. Patrons order fries from the 1950s sci-fi-themed eatery cafeteria-style, choosing a potato variety (russet, redskin or sweet), a size (snack, hungry or share), a sauce (there are more than 20 sauces including curry ketchup, chipotle mayo and Thai chili sauce) and an extra (vegan bacon bits, malt vinegar, Sriracha sauce or Kryto Ketchup).
3 Potato 4 also offers Aztec chili, chipotle-sweet potato soup, frozen vegan chocolate-dipped bananas called Banana Rockets, Zevia sodas, coconut water, kombucha and other vegan drinks. The Salem, Mass.-based franchise uses only biodegradable or recyclable packaging. According to the company's website, the goal of 3 Potato 4 is to "reintroduce the potato for its merits as an antioxidant, a mega-doser of vitamin A, [with] more potassium than a banana and 37 percent of your daily vitamin C."