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Ready for Whatever Congress Wants Me to Do: Rahul
Published: 14th January 2014 12:31 PM | Last Updated: 14th January 2014 01:45 PM | A+A A-
Ahead of the AICC meeting on Friday when he is expected to be named the Congress prime ministerial candidate, Rahul Gandhi appeared ready to take up the responsibility.
"I am a sepoy of Congress.I will obey whatever order is given to me. I will do whatever Congress wants me to do... Decisions are taken in our party by senior leaders," he told Hindi daily 'Dainik Bhaskar' in an interview.
"Earlier also some decisions were taken...Power is poison ....does not mean that I am not keen to take responsibility. There is no word of reluctance in my life...Congress has never been specific. Whatever task the Congress wanted me to accomplish, I have done that," Gandhi said when asked whether he was ready to take up the post of Prime Minister and about perceptions of him being reluctant.
Gandhi's remarks at the party's Chintan Shivir in Jaipur in January last year that his mother Sonia Gandhi had told him that power is poison had led to speculation as well Opposition attack that the Congress vice president was not willing to take up responsibility.
Explaining his remarks, he said, "Power is poison is an observation that when power comes, one should know how to deal with the associated dangers that come with it. This is it. Power is poison means use power for the welfare of people and do not use it to make oneself bigger or more powerful".
To a direct question on whether he will accept any such responsibility, Gandhi said, "None of my family members ever worked for the sake of power. Neither my father nor my grandmother."
"We are a democratic organisation. We have faith in democracy. The people of India will decide through their elected representatives, who will be the Prime Minister of the country. It is necessary for Congress to come to power in the interests of the nation and for that whatever responsibility the organisation has given me or will give me, I will carry out that with full dedication," he said.
Slamming the BJP for its "Congress-free India" pitch, he said, "BJP today wants a personality-oriented rule, which is not in the interests of the country. The country should not be governed according to thinking of a particular person and his ways. The future of 120 crore people can be shaped up and improved only by taking everybody along."
Maintaining that "Congress is in the DNA of this country," Gandhi said, "BJP is talking of a Congress-free India. It does not understand that Congress alone is the political power, which has kept people of this country united."
His response was also in reply to a question about Narendra Modi's popularity.
Gandhi also sought to make it clear that his sister and friend Priyanka Gandhi will not have any electoral role and that she, as an active member of Congress, is helping him.
"Priyanka is my sister and friend. Besides she is an active member of Congress and that is why she is lending a helping hand to strengthen me and the organisation.I do not think she will have any electoral role," he said scotching speculation of a larger, direct political role for Priyanka.
Maintaining that the Congress is always assessed poorly like it was done in 2004 and 2009 Lok Sabha polls, Gandhi said, "Yes, the upcoming elections are exciting and I have full confidence that we will do good in the polls."
While answering questions regarding the future role for him in the party, Gandhi also expressed dismay at too much focus on one personality.
"My question is that why all arguments come to halt on one post? Why this is debated at the national level? Why a particular person or post is discussed. Why nobody talks about reform in politics? Why nobody is ready to change the system? The talk should centre around how we change the political system," he said.
Gandhi, who had earlier said that his party would "learn" from the Aam Admi Party, also flagged his "differences" with Arvind Kerjiwal's party on some issues.
"Congress is a strong and active party. Congress has changed the shape of politics in the country earlier also and will do so in future as well. We have been raising these issues since I came in politics. Some of these things have been implemented by AAP. But our ways are different.I am not in agreement with many of their ways.
"Our decisions should be keeping in mind the secure future of people rather than their short term gains," the Congress vice president said.
At the same time, Gandhi said that he never claimed that everything was fine in Congress. "There are certain things, which need to be rectified.I have placed all these things before the party," he said.
Though he rejected a contention that Congress leaders have lost touch with the grassroot and its MPs and MLAs do not go to the field, he nevertheless agreed, "There is a need to connect the party with the youth. We have worked in this regard in last many years. We will do it in future as well."
Gandhi also disagreed with a contention that allies are leaving Congress.
"It's not that allies are leaving us. We have allies in Jammu and Kashmir, in Maharashtra. There is no alliance in Bihar but talks are going on," he said but declined to be categorical when asked whether Congress will ally with Lalu Prasad's RJD in the Hindi state.
"Talks are continuing. These decisions are taken by the alliance committee (headed by A K Antony) and their decisions will be acceptable to me," he merely said when asked about the tie up with RJD.
During the interview, the Congress Vice President also quoted Mahatma Gandhi. "As far as power is concerned, I want to remind you of the words of Mahatma Gandhi. He had said that think about the last man whenever you think about power. We forget the last man the moment we get power. The danger is that."
He also highlighted the recent initiative of Congress to open up its manifesto making exercise to people ahead of the next Lok Sabha polls.
"Congress wants to take democracy to grassroot. We are bringing common people in the party in the organization...we have opened up to people our manifesto exercise. First time this process was followed...I want that even common man can say I want this thing in the manifesto," Gandhi said.
Listing the initiatives like the Right to Eduction, Right to Food, Right to Information, Right to Forest and other such legislations brought by the government, Gandhi said the UPA will go down in the history as a government that gave rights and took many "landmark" decisions like MNREGA and land reforms.
"We have made a huge framework for manufacturing so that people can get employment...we want to change the country in a way that it benefits all sections," he said.
He said that along with education, health and employment, it is also necessary to increase growth rate something that the party will explain it in the manifesto.
"A major strength of India is its education system but this will have to be opened up. The system does not look like one, which can fulfill the needs of 125 crore people.
"In last ten years, the biggest effort of Congress has been to ensure that maximum number of children go to schools and they receive education. For this our next major step will be how do we empower our teachers and strengthen them," he said.
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Louis Dembitz Brandeis had at least four "careers." As a lawyer in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, he pioneered how modern law is practiced. He, and others, developed the modern law firm, in which specialists manage different areas of the law. He was the author of the right to privacy; led the way in creating the role of the lawyer as counselor; and pioneered the idea of pro bono publico work by attorneys. As late as 1916, when Brandeis was nominated to the Supreme Court, the idea of pro bono service still struck many old-time attorneys as somewhat radical.
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We see Brandeis, who came from a family of reformers and intellectuals who fled Europe and settled in Louisville. Brandeis the young man coming of age, who presented himself at Harvard Law School and convinced the school to admit him even though he was underage. Brandeis the lawyer and reformer, who in 1908 agreed to defend an Oregon law establishing maximum hours for women workers, and in so doing created an entirely new form of appellate brief that had only a few pages of legal citation and consisted mostly of factual references.
Urofsky writes how Brandeis witnessed and suffered from the anti-Semitism rampant in the early twentieth century and, though not an observant Jew, with the outbreak of the Great War in 1914, became at age fifty-eight head of the American Zionist movement. During the next seven years, Brandeis transformed it from a marginal activity into a powerful force in American Jewish affairs.
We see the brutal six-month confirmation battle after Wilson named the fifty-nine-year-old Brandeis to the court in 1916; the bitter fight between progressives and conservative leaders of the bar, finance, and manufacturing, who, while never directly attacking him as a Jew, described Brandeis as "a striver," "self-advertiser," "a disturbing element in any gentleman's club." Even the president of Harvard, A. Lawrence Lowell, signed a petition accusing Brandeis of lacking "judicial temperament." And we see, finally, how, during his twenty-three years on the court, this giant of a man and an intellect developed the modern jurisprudence of free speech, the doctrine of a constitutionally protected right to privacy, and suggested what became known as the doctrine of incorporation, by which the Bill of Rights came to apply to the states.
Brandeis took his seat when the old classical jurisprudence still held sway, and he tried to teach both his colleagues and the public– especially the law schools–that the law had to change to keep up with the economy and society. Brandeis often said, "My faith in time is great." Eventually the Supreme Court adopted every one of his dissents as the correct constitutional interpretation.
A huge and galvanizing biography, a revelation of one man's effect on American society and jurisprudence, and the electrifying story of his time.

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STAR tax exemption deadline looming
While many are turning their attention to completing Christmas shopping in time, there's another December deadline that looms that has the potential to affect many Riverhead homeowners.
A new law requires homeowners re-register for the Basic School Tax Relief exemption by December 31.
Of the town's eligible residents, 79 percent have re-registered, according to state statistics. But 1,401 homes have yet to apply, the records show.
The easiest way to re-register for a Basic STAR exemption is to file on the Tax Department's website.
You will need your STAR code to re-register (check your mail from weeks back). If you don't have the code, you can get it online or by calling the Tax Department at 518-457-2036. You may also call that number to re-register if you prefer not to do so online.
In re-registering, you should have Social Security numbers available for all owners and spouse
The state Department of Taxation and Finance won't be notifying local assessors about those who have failed to re-register until February 2014, meaning it will be too late to get the exemption for next year.
The reason for the re-filings is a new state law aimed at eliminating fraud, state officials have said. Whether purposely or accidentally, people throughout New York who own multiple homes had registered for multiple STAR exemptions.
But that's not allowed under the law. A homeowner has to prove primary residence by such documents as vehicle and voter registrations, and it's up to the local assessor to make a judgment on eligibility.
To be eligible for the Basic STAR exemption, a household must have earned $500,000 or less.
There is no age requirement.
If you have never filed for a STAR exemption and believe you are eligible, you won't be affected by the re-registration process, but you will need to file a Form RP-425, also available online.
Those 65 or older who receive Enhanced STAR exemptions aren't required to re-register. Their eligibility is based on age and an annual income of $81,900 or less.
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The 22-year-old left wing was a major factor in the Houston Aeros' run to the Calder Cup Finals this spring. He tied the team lead with seven playoff goals and ranked third on the club with 12 points (7-5=12) in 24 playoff games. The 6-4, 208-pound winger posted 26 points (11-15=26) and 82 penalty minutes in 64 regular season games with the Aeros in 2010-11.
Gillies also played seven games with the Wild, scoring one goal, a tally in the Wild's 5-3 win over Dallas in the season finale. For the first time in his Wild career, he has not been asked to skate in this July's Wild Development Camp for prospects. Gillies will come into this fall's training camp looking to stay with the big club, having previously skated 45 games with the Wild in the 2008-09 season, recording seven points (2-5=7). The native of White Rock, B.C., was Minnesota's first-round pick (No. 16 overall) in the 2007 NHL Entry Draft.


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4,478 clicks: Two days producing 26 photographs at the Olympic Games
Krasnaya Polyana, Russia — Photographing the Olympics is the easiest and hardest of assignments. Sometimes the very best photo spots were scouted out months ago, and photographers are escorted there via a red carpet. Other times, access is restricted, routes are blocked and plans are changed.
Covering the men's and women's parallel slalom events Wednesday at the Rosa Khutor Extreme Park in Krasnaya Polyana, Russia, I took 2,497 photos on two cameras and using three lenses. I flagged 115, processed 32 in Photoshop and posted 13 to an online gallery with the Steamboat Pilot & Today.
By the numbers
6,321 miles traveled to write 39,305 words in 73 stories.
41,506 photos taken, which were filed into 15 galleries that had a total of 164 photos.
7,328 photos were taken Feb. 15, the highest-volume day for photos.
They included:
3,391 taken with a Nikon D4 with a 70-200mm f/2.8 lens at the U.S. versus Russia men's hockey game;
1,016 taken with a D800 with a 24-70mm f/2.8 lens, and 2,921 taken with a D4, mostly with a 400mm f/2.8 lens at short-track speed skating.
A day later, covering the final Nordic combined event, I used three cameras and three lenses to take 1,981 photos that resulted in another 13-photo gallery.
Larger news organizations come with teams of photographers, Ethernet cables strung to every possible photo position so photographers can plug in, transmit thousands of photos in a few seconds and a team of editors can quickly process them.
It's an entirely different world for one person to do the job for a small Colorado publication.
Here's the story, throughout two days and 4,478 clicks, of photographing the Olympics.
It's all about the celebration
It isn't difficult to get a great shot at the Olympics. It's easy, thanks to the mapped-out photo positions that define a photographer's existence at every venue.
What's difficult to get at the Olympics, though, is an original great shot.
That's the task I faced Wednesday at the men's and women's snowboard parallel giant slalom event at the Rosa Khutor Extreme Park.
The great shots — the easy ones, anyway — awaited at the bottom of the course. Event staff set aside a small box for photographers right in the middle of the finish corral. But those spots almost exclusively are reserved for the big-dog media organizations such as The Associated Press, Reuters or Getty Images. There's another spot off to the side for the riffraff (the Steamboat Pilot & Today) that generally yields similar photographs.
The whole goal of setting up at the finish line is the reaction shot, and that reaction shot almost always is worth the wait.
Consider the women's moguls competition we covered on the first day of the Olympics. Justine Dufour-Lapointe won that event, and once her gold medal was secure, she ran into the middle of the finish zone, whipping her skis around and screaming for all to see.
I was at the finish, off to the side, and I got the photo. A picture of her celebrating was more valuable that night than any of the 1,000 pictures of her actually skiing. The world's best moguls skiing photo doesn't mean anything next to a photo of her celebrating.
Olympics photographers are well aware of this, so they pack into the tiny boxes at the bottom, each loaded with about $30,000 of the newest camera equipment available, and they confine themselves to a 6-by-3-foot box at the bottom of the run.
That's photographing the Olympics.
Thinking outside the box
My first decision Wednesday was to avoid that box, at least initially. Probably 80 percent of the venue's photographers that day were at the finish line, and of the 20 who strayed, a dozen stood packed in another small group for another shot that makes all the sense in the world.
The PGS course was bordered by an 8-foot-tall blue fence. Coaches, course workers, light poles, radio antennas, TV cameras and cellphone towers lined the sides of the course, adding hugely distracting clutter.
There was exactly one spot where you could see over the fence and to an area that had a clean background, and that's where almost all the non-finish line photographers were stationed.
It did make for good pictures, like the one we ran as the lead photo with the story — a photo of American/Russian Vic Wild riding his gold medal-winning run.
Even if I understood why they were standing in that particular place, I decided not to. I took a few steps to the side — literally about 8 feet — and found a view that wasn't so much better as it was different, with a nice mountain backdrop but also with some of that clutter.
I photographed several racers, then moved on.
Access is different at every venue we visit. Some have incredibly strict rules about where you can be and when you can be there. Others are pretty wide open, but it's difficult to take advantage. The moguls course, for instance, was too steep and the snow too rotten to access without full-on crampons.
The PGS course, however, was much more accessible. Once you were away from the finish line, you could go anywhere you wanted. I put that theory to the test when I decided I wanted to try to get a wide-angle shot of racers coming down underneath the dramatic, snow-capped Caucasus mountains.
I poked my head in an area with a shorter fence to facilitate TV. I hung my camera on the fence, and I even flopped on my belly and stuck my camera under the fence. I was definitely expecting to get told to stop, but that never happened.
The results were good, though I'd have needed to be closer for them to be great.
Compensating for oops
As the parallel giant slalom event wore on, it became more obvious Vic Wild was on the verge of a big day. I needed a good photo of him, and my chance at being on the finish line had come and gone.
I saddled up next to the group of photographers with the one truly clean background and made the most of it. (Actually, in checking out my competitors' photos from the day, they don't even appear to have been as interested in the clutter-free skyline as I was. I can't explain what they were doing there.)
Getting away from the finish line does have its advantages. Earlier in the Games, at the men's snowboard half-pipe, I got a very unique photo of Iouri Podladtchikov celebrating his win with a dejected Shaun White in the foreground. No one else had the shot because I alone still was up on the half-pipe.
In an example from Wednesday, I had an entirely different view of Russian Alena Zavarzina's finish-line celebration after she scored bronze. I loved how she lifted her board in front of a sea of Russian flags.
You can see all the other photographers there, snapping away. Was my shot better than theirs, a shot right in her face with her board raised? I don't know, but either way, there were dozens of people who got that shot and only me with mine, so that's worth something.
Not being at the finish is a gamble, for sure, and one I've lost while here. During the men's snowboard half-pipe semifinals, I hiked up the side of the pipe, hoping to get a great shot with a wide-angle lens of Taylor Gold arcing over me on a jump.
The shot that I needed, however, was at the bottom of the run, where Gold lost his feet on his last trick. He put his hands on his head in disbelief that he would not make the finals, that his Olympics was over. I was 200 yards up the course, utterly out of position.
Adding insult to injury, Taylor, who flew exactly where I was hoping he would, was out of focus in most of my frames.
We ran a photo of him on a clean jump from an earlier run, a nice shot but not "the shot."
Wednesday was not quite the same. Vic didn't give me that great moment his wife, Zavarzina, did when he crossed the finish line, saluting the crowd. But he didn't give those waiting in the photo box much either. He simply threw up a a single fist when he crossed the finish line.
"The shot" that day was of Wild and his bronze medalist wife wrapping a Russian flag around themselves and smiling at each other. I could have been in that position if I'd sat at the finish line all day, but it still wasn't a big "oops."
The husband-wife storyline was big for most of the writers, but there's no real connection between Zavarzina and Steamboat, and Luke Graham went a different direction.
He wrote about the friendship between Wild and Steamboat Springs rider Justin Reiter. I never saw those two together Wednesday, so while one would have been perfect, I didn't "miss" it.
Hitting blackjack
Sometimes the gamble pays off.
It paid off Thursday at the Nordic combined team competition, no question.
Like everywhere else, the premier position at Nordic combined is right at the finish line, where the jumpers skid to a stop directly in front of you, and the cross-country skiers rush toward and cross the finish line directly in front of you.
There are other options. You can stand at the bottom of the jump, or, as I did for the final two events, climb the jump hill — 400 brutal steps that get you closer to the jumpers in the air and can offer a cool shot of them flying above the stadium.
On Thursday, I got a shot from up there that I loved, tight on Billy Demong, who was wearing reflective goggles that showed the entire stadium.
As for the ski racing, you could set up in the stands looking down at the finish line, a similar vantage point to those precious few spots looking straight at it, albeit from a higher angle. You could set up beside the finish line, and there are two spots out on the course, though they offer no guarantee of making it back for the finish.
On Thursday, we had a new option. Event staff promised to lead me under the jumps to an area where we could get a straight-on shot of the relay hand-offs. That seemed like it could be a nice shot with plenty of Steamboat imagery — "Lodwick hands off the baton" type of stuff — so I opted in.
Then they changed the rules. Apparently we possibly would have been in a TV shot, and since the TV broadcast rights are what pays the bills, the plan was nixed.
Still, it worked out.
I stood still near the base of one of the jumps, looking back into the stadium, basically looking the wrong way through the finish line.
That's where I got one of my favorite shots of the Olympics.
Todd Lodwick, Steamboat's retiring six-time Olympian, finished his leg of the relay and, as all the racers do, he collapsed to his hands and knees. I was a long ways away, on the complete catty-corner side of the stadium, but I had a 400mm lens, so I was able to get OK photos.
I took a few and stopped.
Then he got up and began to walk away. End of shot, I thought. But I noticed he was walking in front of the Olympic rings, his back to me.
It's fairly easy to get the rings in shots. They are plastered on everything, almost ensuring you'll frame your photo with them whether you want to or not. It, of course, makes a great stamp for a photo, adding to the story in a big way, so I take advantage.
It worked out here. Lodwick was walking away from his final Olympic competition, his shoulders slumped, and the rings were right there.
It said everything about the moment without a word. He was finished. It wasn't his best day at the Olympics, but it was his final day at the Olympics.
I hammered away, taking about 50 frames of the moment — really just a few clicks with the D4 camera I was using on loan from Nikon. None of the 20 other photographers who had been stranded in that corner with me fired once. It was a powerful and meaningful shot for my readers, and it was mine alone.
The Denver Post ran a nice story about Lodwick's final event with a wire photo of him jumping. It was a nice photo, but the exact same shot we'd taken 1,000 times before the Olympics and that I'd taken 10 times in the past two weeks.
All the photographers waiting at the finish line, with the prime spots, didn't have an angle for the "walking away" moment and couldn't have gotten it.
It isn't a perfect photo. There's two goofballs with their heads in there, ruining the nice red wall and the leading lines. And maybe there would have been a better way to frame it, perhaps with his face. But there wasn't time to worry about that.
It was a great photo, and it was unique. At the Olympics, it's not hard to get one or the other.
"Great" and "unique" photos are available in abundance. Getting both together, however, is a very rare thing.
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TOWN OF WALLKILL — Preliminary construction of roadways has begun to make way for nearly 200 town houses on 104 acres of fields and woods off Schutt Road and Genung Street.
TOWN OF WALLKILL — Preliminary construction of roadways has begun to make way for nearly 200 town houses on 104 acres of fields and woods off Schutt Road and Genung Street.
Baker Residential advertises Maple Fields, the project off of Genung and Schutt, as a luxury town-house community priced in the mid- to high $200,000s. Amenities are to include a swimming pool, clubhouse, playground and a half-basketball court, said Brett Tinney, vice president for sales.
Attached two-car garages, breakfast nooks, and formal dining rooms are among the construction features.
Town of Wallkill records show that Baker initially wanted to build as many as 256 units, but that was whittled down by the Planning Board to 196 units on 104 acres, much of which was fallow farm land. There will be entrances from Schutt and Genung, according to the plans, with bus shelters at both locations.
The project will be the second in the town by Baker Residential, which in 2007-08 built Woodside Knolls off of Cottage Street, a mix of single-family houses and town houses totaling more than 250 units. The company also is approaching completion of The Grove in New Winsdor, a near-200-unit town-house development that stalled under a previous developer. Baker lowered prices to the mid-$200,000s from the $300,000s charged by the previous builder.
Adjacent to the Maple Fields site lies a 65-acre wetlands that will go undeveloped.
The project will generate about $245,000 of parkland fees from the builder that will go toward the town's capital recreation projects such as the recreation center being built at Circleville Park, Supervisor Dan Depew said.
Traffic flow was a key concern of the town, Depew said. That led the Planning Board to hinge approval of the project on the builder's construction of a roundabout at Genung and Schutt, a rare roadway feature in the region. The intersection, which also includes Airport Road, now has four-way stop signs.
"I think it will deal with what's already a congested area without a traffic light," Depew said of the roundabout.
Tinney, the Baker sales executive, said more than 200 people have registered for an informational meeting about the project. The builder expects to have a model unit ready by early next year for what's expected to be a three-year project.


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A billboard in San Diego County, surprisingly, or not, out here in the boondocks:
There are five points that I can identify on my journey from religion to atheism, which some say is a religion in and of itself.
The first was a period of seven years attending St. Gertrude's Catholic Church in Kingsville, Texas, with my wise old grandmother. After church, little groups of people—cliques—would gather and catch up—gossip—on all the news about anyone and anything from the past week. I think I was fortunate that my wise old grandmother was not a member of any of those cliques. I only heard things as we walked from the church to our car. I thought it the height of hypocrisy to be gossiping in the church parking lot after church….
The second was as a freshman at Texas A&M University. I was living Puryear Hall, a ramp-style dorm. Each weekend, a group of us, led by a guy from Nigeria, would visit a different church—Jew, Catholic, Mormon, Lutheran, Methodist, Unitarian, Church of Christ…. No religion was out of bounds. That was when I realized that each of these religions could not each be the true religion….
The third was a couple of years after I graduated from Texas A&M University. I was living in Houston, and the woman I was dating, a senior at Texas A&M, was from Houston. She was a Catholic, so I had no problems saying "Yes" when she asked me if I wanted to go to church with her one weekend when she as home. Her parents lived about ten miles from me but the church was just a couple of blocks away from me, so she offered to pick me up. Mass started at 11:00 a.m., but she didn't arrive until 11:30. We got to the church in five minutes but she spent ten minutes driving around looking for a parking spot, and when she found one, she backed into it. I asked her why she was backing in since it takes longer to park that way, and she said she could leave faster when church was over. Whatever….
The fourth was when I was dating a woman in College Station, Texas, in 1987. She had a personal relationship with her God, so personal that he was telling her when to call in to work sick, when to take vacation, when to eat, when to come see me. One Saturday she was at my place where I had my home office. I was working in the living room and she was back in my bedroom on the bed, with my two dogs Penney & Sugar, studying her Bible lesson for the next day. At 11:00 p.m. I decided to take a break. I went to my bedroom and asked her if she wanted to take the dogs for a walk with me. She rolled over, looked at me ever so sweetly, and said, "No. The Lord has not told me to take the dogs for a walk with you." I broke up with her a couple of days later.
The fifth was a period from April 27, 1993, to February 15, 1994. I arrived in San Diego on April 15, 1993, and spent two weeks orienting myself before deciding to study the world's great, and not-so-great, religions to determine if there was a religion that was fully accepting of an openly gay man. Only the Metropolitan Community Church came close, but it was based waaaaaaay too much on the traditions and tenets of the Roman Catholic Church. Thus, it didn't really bring anything new the table, all things considered….
Those 10½ months of intense studying convinced me that I had everything I needed to lead a productive life, to be a viable, contributing member of society. Perhaps I got everything from my upbringing in the Mormon and Catholic churches, but whether or not I did, I do believe I would have learned everything I needed without religion.
Some might say that the people around me, brought up in their own religions, influence me, and that quite likely is true. Thus, as I like to tell people, I have no problems with you practicing your religion if doing so helps prevent you from raping, murdering, and stealing.
For me, at this point in my life, I have a personal relationship with reality and don't need any religion.


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With Sen. McCain having ripped into Hagel (see post below), Sen. Nelson of Florida tries to give Hagel a breather by asking him about his service in Vietnam. But Hagel, clearly stung by the exchange with McCain, wants to talk about the Iraq surge (the issue he ducked when McCain asked about it).
So Hagel uses the Vietnam question to return to the surge. His view of the surge, Hagel says, was informed by the suffering he observed when fighting in Vietnam, during which he was wounded (in ways he declines to specify). In other words, Hagel essentially admits that his experience in Vietnam scarred him to the point that it caused him to oppose the surge. He isn't consumed by his Vietnam experience, Hagel insists, but "it's part of me."
He's rambling here and repeating himself. And he still hasn't answered McCain's question as to whether Hagel was right about the surge.
Now, Jeff Sessions is pressing Hagel on a report he helped produce (for an outfit called Global Zero) calling for major cutbacks in the U.S. nuclear arsenal — eliminating all tactical nuclear weapons, for example. This would be a huge change in our nuclear posture, Sessions rightly notes. He also points out that key leaders of our military disagree strongly with Hagel's report.
Hagel tries to wiggle out of this by saying that his report didn't "propose" anything — it was just "illustrative." He tries to invoke Reagan, who proposed huge cuts in nukes, and insists that the cuts he's talking about would be bilateral.
Sessions nails Hagel here, showing his response to have been misleading at best. He quotes from Hagel's report, which says that, although bilateral cuts in nukes would be preferable, the U.S. should consider making the cuts unilaterally.
This isn't Ronald Reagan; more like Neville Chamberlain.


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Archer is 2 months old! Where has the time gone!?
WeightWe will get your weight on Friday, but I think you are around 14 lbs already! That means you are about 1/2 your sister's weight!
LengthWe will find out your length on Friday, too. But by my measurement you are about 25" long! TALL BOY!
ClothesYou are now wearing 3-6 and some 6-9 month clothing and size 2 diapers! I don't think it will be long before we have to move up to size three diapers. I think we might go ahead and do that at night, since you are starting to sleep longer at night (KNOCK ON WOOD)!
NicknamesArch, Bub, Bubs, Bubba, Brother, Chubs, Chunky Monkey
Fun Stuff- some are the same from month 1!
* You are starting to bat at things and love to stare at yourself in the mirror and look at lights and fans!
* You HATE your carseat until the car is moving, then you usually fall asleep.
* You surprisingly enjoy bathtime and it seems to calm you down.
* You have stopped screaming during clothes changes, and you still love to be naked! You just smile and smile when you are stripped down!
* You like to be rocked, bounced, swung- anything movement puts you to sleep. Or at least calms you down for a bit.
* You are only fussy in the evenings now, and those times seem to be getting shorter and shorter!
* You love to sit up in my lap, look around, and especially look at our faces and the cross wall!
* You hold your head up so well and are very strong.
* You love to have your back patted and I can usually get you to sleep that way.
* You have started taking a paci some, although you don't keep it for long, it will settle you down.


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Sick of Being a Crazy Eater? Eating Well Tips For Busy People
When I was around 14 I went to a palm reader. The woman, a grandmother-ish type, told me that I should eat better. If I did, she said. I'd live longer.
Though I've never forgotten her advice I have a lame record of putting it into practice.
I recall being—at the time of that palm reading—on a pretty strict gummy bear and veggie burger diet. It was the summer and parental supervision was not at a high ebb due to a bunch of reasons that no longer matter.
Point is this: Up to recently I've eaten erratically, and in an unbalanced way. Sucking on iced coffee until about 4 pm, then eating a bowl of spaghetti. Or like, two slices of greasy pizza and a big bubbly soda. Bad. Mmm. Just bad.
I've changed my ways, and in a here-to-stay way. If you, too, are an erratic or consistent under-eater, and wish to begin a path of reform, first tip is this: It takes more than a desire to eat differently. It takes, as they say, a strategy.
Here are a few guidelines that you may find helpful in your quest to begin eating well.
Just Eat More
I can count on two hands the number of times that, as an adult, I've eaten three meals a day. That just seemed like crazy talk to me. Who can eat that much food?
Nowadays, I eat around four. But they're not meals in the sense of heaping plates of hot stuff that takes five years to finish off. They're meals in the sense of a hard-boiled egg and a handful of almonds. Or a plate of fabulous garlicky Brussels sprouts and some brown rice.
Pizza? Yes. Only not so often.
Mind Your Ratios
You may be a person who doesn't eat a lot, but isn't necessary skinny. Me too. Weight management in the past was dealt with via exercise. As in: Want to lose weight? Okay: Jog more. Or do the stairs. Or buy another 10-pack of yoga classes. And so on.
If someone mentioned diet, I'd whine something along the lines of, "But I don't eat a lot. That's not really the problem."
An informed friend told me about the food ratio concept about 10 times before I finally perked up and listened. In a nutshell it's this: You might be eating good things, but you might be consuming a totally whacked-out proportion of fats, carbohydrates and protein.
In other words, you might be eating too much of one category, and not enough of the others.
When I started keeping tabs on the situation, I discovered that I was consuming an extreme amount of carbohydrates, but nearly nill in terms of protein. [To read more about this concept, and dial in your ratios, visit dotFIT.]
Adjusting ratios has been the golden ticket for me. I eat more and have trimmed up noticeably, without bumping up the exercise.
Market Your Food…To You
If you are a person who does not eat consistently, you may be a sort of unconscious eater. The type who doesn't think about food until your starving. Then you scarf down whatever's within grasp.
My advice: Get into (nice, nutritious) food. There's never been a time where there's more of it around. Even if you live in a one-horse town.
"Health food" has come a long, long way. My mother used to buy me carob bars from the health food store in lieu of the real, chocolate deal. Let's just say that cardboard might have been an upgrade. I recently tried a modern carob bar and found it quite luscious.
- To put good food on your dining radar, it needs to be visible and desirable.
To do this: Grocery shop in a more conscious way, and with a list. Type one up, and print out a bunch of copies that you keep in a handy kitchen drawer.
Before shopping, check off the items you need, and off you go.
When you get home. Arrange your healthy, wonderful food items in a visually pleasing way that encourages you to eat it.
Example: Let's say you want to eat more fruit. Find the refrigerator shelf that is eye-level to your height.
Clear the shelf and arrange fruits so they are the first things you see when you open the door.
Make sure the fruit is washed, sticker-free and stored it in appealing containers.
You know how there's ready to wear fashion? Make your kitchen full of ready to eat food.
On a related note. When you dine at home, make a special effort to dress your food with nice seasonings. Serve it on nice plates and sit at the table to eat, even if you only have two minutes. Squeeze fresh lime or lemon in your water.
These things make dining more of a ritual. They make eating more conscious, which means you become more aware of what you are eating. Standing at the counter over a bag of cold cuts and a jug of iced tea? Not so much.
In other words, do little things to make eating more of a special ritual. Consider growing some fresh herbs. A pot of fresh basil or mint doesn't take up a lot of room, and is low maintenance. Fresh herbs are transformative when it comes to cooking, serving and garnishing food.
Don't Get Too Hangry, My Friend
When you get hungry, you probably get angry. Light headed. You make bad decisions. You want to beat someone's head in for no good reason.
Hangry is when you find yourself screeching out of the Taco Bell drive-through with a pile of 7 Layer Burritos and a super-sized vat of Cherry Slushy.
If you're stoned and 16, that might be fun. Not so much if you're an adult in a suit. For starters, that wily packet of hot sauce will probably end up squirting all over that nice white shirt of yours. The shirt you have to bring to the dry cleaners every time you look at it.
Having those those little handfuls of almonds I spoke about earlier on hand means there's less chance of such things happening. Not the hot sauce part—the part about getting hangry. "Hangry" being a not-desirable mix of being Hungry and Angry.
And the term hangry? Not mine. It's Kaitlyn's, a trainer for Venus Lasers who manages to eat incredibly healthy despite having to drive from one end of LA to another on a daily basis.
Tip: To not get hangry, she rolls up slices of turkey and eats them in her car. She also recommends slicing an apple laterally, heaping it with almond butter and stacking another apple slice on top. Pack a few of these and keep them with you if, when hangry, you become tempted to eat an entire chocolate cake while driving home from wherever.
You Can Take It With You
To create the habit of eating well, you may have to pencil in short food breaks at first. You are doing this to consciously embed better eating behaviors into your life.
Also: start toting nice edibles around with you. Before visions of a clunky Thermos or Starsky & Hutch lunch box start dancing in your head, realize that food containers have come a long, sexy way.
I use a skinny, padded wine bag, which is perfect for toting around assorted bags of cherries, almonds and other things, and slips right into my briefcase/purse. There are more high-performance options out there. Ice Mules are soft bags that come in totable sizes, and claim to keep ice intact for 24 hours.
I recently taught a 4-1/2 hour class. That is not so unusual for me, but instead of my usual dining habits—drinking a huge cup of coffee while lecturing, then stuffing my face with a Subway sandwich and chips when it's over—I ate periodically during breaks.
Peeled a juice tangerine. Ate an apple. Drank water. The results were much better. I had more energy. The steady, clear-headed kind.
Healthy Eating as Gratitude
Your body is the most spectacular machine you will ever own.
It is extraordinary, and a good way to honor and show gratitude for it is by treating it nicely. At least as nicely as your car. Starving it, or making it pull out the stops to keep you going because you're under-nourishing it or treating it erratically, is not a way to show how much you care.
In other words: Scratch your back nutritionally, and it will scratch yours for a good long time. Or: Don't be a spoiled brat to your body.
Love it. Be nice to it and feed it steady stores of edible wonderfulness, which we are so insanely and incredibly lucky to have at our fingertips.
It's never too late to change your eating habits. Once you start eating well—intaking nutritious food consistently and in balanced ratios of protein, fat and carbohydrates—you will feel better, look more beautiful, and, as that palm reader said, live longer.
My Q&A with Michael Volkin, who Busts 5 Weight Loss Myths
My 5 Top Rewards of a Meat-Free Month
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Peaceful Eating: My Q&A with Stacey Morris
Why Finding An Unidentifiable Hair In Your Food Is The Best Diet On Earth
2 Responses to "Sick of Being a Crazy Eater? Eating Well Tips For Busy People"
Thank You!! How right you are about shopping with strategy! Now, I take the same list of 8-20 delicious super-foods to the store with me each time. As long as I have most of these healthy staples in the house I won't make outrageous mistakes food-wise…such as exotic 'grub-hub' orders that have topped 60$ for 1-2. I just sent a pic of the list to my boyfriends phone!! Thanks for the tips & info… makes life easier!!
I'm really glad – you're right, waiting until your 'hangry' can result in some expensive choices.


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(Pocket-lint) - Cult photography brand Lomography has introduced the Sprocket Rocket - the very first camera dedicated to sprocket hole photography. Here at Pocket-lint, we were lucky enough to be able to get our mitts on one of the new cameras seconds after it was officially announced.
Using conventional 35mm film, the camera has an extra-wide angle lens which means that you can capture panoramic shots. You'll get even more onto each shot, as the camera uses the full-size of the film, including the sprocket holes and numbering at the edge. The Sprocket Rocket is unique in that you can wind the film backwards as well as forwards, between frames to get some really interesting effects. If you use each frame at full size, without rewinding in between, then you should get around 17 shots from one film. To do this you simply need to keep an eye on the indicator window, and stop winding forward when the white dot appears. Standard image size is 72 x 35mm.
There's also a top-mounted hot shoe so you'll be able to attach a conventional flash for indoor and night-time photography. You'll also have the option of taking snaps without the sprocket holes appearing, just like a normal camera, but with the added bonus of a reverse gear. Yours for 79 euros.
First impressions
The camera feels much sturdier than some of the brand's other models, such as the Diana, and the winding mechanism is extremely smooth, making it very easy to use. Replacing the film is also an idiot-proof affair. As with the Lomography Spinner 360, there's no counter, due to the nature of the camera there's no set number of pictures to a film, as it all depends on you. That shouldn't bother most Lomo fans, who'll probably have a spare film on them at all times anyway. Stay tuned for a full review.


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Eastern Diamondback Rattlesnake, Diamondback, Rattlesnake, Rattler
Scientific name: Crotalus adamanteus (PALISOT DE BEAUVOIS 1799)
* Currently accepted name
* scientific names used through time
- Crotalus adamanteus – PALISOT DE BEAUVOIS 1799
- Crotalus durissus – BOULENGER 1896
Description: Average adult size is 36-72 inches (91-183 cm), record is 96 inches (244 cm). A large, heavy-bodied snake with a row of large dark diamonds with brown centers and cream borders down its back. The ground color of the body is brownish. The tail is usually a different shade, brownish or gray, and toward the end of the tail the diamonds fade out or break into bands. The tail ends in a rattle. The scales are keeled. The large and thick head has a light bordered dark stripe running diagonally through the eye and there are vertical light stripes on the snout. The pupil is vertical (cat-like) and there is a deep facial pit between the nostril and the eye.
The young are similar to the adults in color pattern. The tip of the tail of new born Eastern Diamondback Rattlesnake ends in a "button," which is the first segment of the future rattle.
A. Top of the head (notice, except for the scales over the eyes, there are no large scales on the top of the head)
B. Underside of the head (chin and throat)
C. Keeled scales
D. Side of the head (notice the facial pit between the eye and the nostril)
E. Front (face view) of the head
Range: Eastern Diamondback Rattlesnakes are found throughout the state of Florida, including several barrier islands and the Florida Keys. Outside of Florida, they range north along the coastal plain to southeastern North Carolina and west to southern Mississippi and eastern Louisiana.
Habitat: Eastern Diamondback Rattlesnakes are often found in pine flatwoods, longleaf pine and turkey oak, sand pine scrub areas, and coastal barrier islands. These habitats contain palmetto thickets and Gopher Tortoise burrows in which the Diamondback Rattlesnake may seek refuge. Humans have invaded many of Florida's pine flatwoods and scrub areas which now contain farms, homes and shopping plazas. As a result, the displaced Eastern Diamondback Rattlesnakes may be turn up in backyards, golf courses, and even parking lots.
Comments: VENOMOUS. The Eastern Diamondback Rattlesnake is a large, impressive, and potentially dangerous snake. It can strike up to 2/3 its body length; a 6-foot (183 cm) individual may strike 4 feet (122 cm). These factors, as well as others, make this a snake that should be simply left alone and not bothered. Some people wrongly believe the Eastern Diamondback Rattlesnake must rattle before striking, but this is not true. It can lay silent and motionless, and then strike without the usual nervous buzz from its rattle. In fact, Eastern Diamondback Rattlesnakes that rattle are more apt to be heard, seen and killed, and those that remain silent are more apt to go undiscovered.
The Eastern Diamondback Rattlesnake is extremely beneficial to man because it preys on rats, mice, rabbits, and other warm blooded prey, many of which are considered pests. Nevertheless, the general public in Florida feels so threatened by this and other snakes that many are killed without consideration. This indiscriminate killing, combined with the widespread loss of Rattlesnake habitat to agricultural development and urban sprawl and commercial hunting for Rattlesnake skins, has caused a severe decline in most Eastern Diamondback Rattlesnake populations.
Comparison with other species:
The only other Rattlesnake it might be confused with is the Timber Rattlesnake (Crotalus horridus) which has black chevron-like crossbands, a reddish stripe down the middle of its back, and a black tail.


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Which is why all five borough presidents gathered at Junior's restaurant in Brooklyn a few weeks ago. Not so that they would have a reason for an extravagant, tax-funded, cheesecake-capped lunch, but because they wanted to get together and share stories about the extravagant, tax-funded lunches that they eat every day with other politicians who enjoy that perk…and also to eat cheesecake.
But looking at the photo printed next to these very words, with all five of our borough leaders, the best and brightest that each segment of New York City has to offer, we can only wonder what it is they actually discussed.
Just like the wonderful businessmen on Wall Street, Pol Position would like to take a few minutes to speculate wildly, and with that we present to you our version of that fateful borough president meal. (Unfortunately, we're only a bi-borough newspaper, and are only familiar with the borough presidents from Brooklyn and Queens. For the sake of hilarity, we have arbitrarily assigned Bronx BP Adolfo Carrion, Jr. the demeanor of a pirate, Manhattan BP Scott Stringer the personality of a black bear, and Staten Island BP James Molinaro is recast as a typical Staten Islander. Enjoy!)
Marty Markowitz: Wow, this cheesecake! This is really something! Best in the city!
Helen Marshall: Yes, I absolutely adore cheesesteaks. Especially when the taxpayer is footing the bill. It makes it all the more delicious.
Adolfo Carrion Jr: Aye, but 'tis no gold, which be the only thing that brightens me soul.
Scott Stringer: Rrrowrr! (Pulls fish out of a nearby river.)
James Molinaro: Hey, taxpayers! Up your nose with a rubber hose!
Markowitz: So I understand that people don't like borough presidents anymore! Why would they say that? We're the best politicians around! The best! I am confident in our success!
Marshall: Yes. Without us, I don't know who would cut ribbons at banks, be the public face of our borough's charitable acts, or push unrealistic and extravagant development projects into neighborhoods that don't want them.
Carrion: We be the best ones to plunder these neighborhoods I say. Aye, 'tis good to care little for the laws of the landlubbers, and pledge allegiance only to the trade winds.
Stringer: Rrrrrrr. Rrrrrrr. Rrrrrr.
Molinaro: Do you know what they call Quarter Pounders in France? They have the metric system there. They call them a LeRoyale with Cheese.
Markowitz: We serve an integral purpose in our boroughs! What do you think would happen if all this money taxpayers spent used for something worthwhile instead of epic lunches? The system! It would be all out of whack!
(Everybody laughs. Helen Marshall snorts milkshake out her nose.)
Marshall: Sorry boys. I've got some milkshake on my nose.
Markowitz: Here! Use this handkerchief! I bought it at Brooklyn's own Handsome Haberdashery! Best hanky in the city!
Carrion: Arrr, mateys! I've been so much happier since I stopped looking for that mythical x-marked spot and realized the treasure really found in cushy government jobs. I do miss the cannon fire, though.
Stringer: Rwwoawr! (Gets hand stuck in a beehive.)
Molinaro: Wait. You're telling me you want to take my face off? My face. Off?


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It will be a few weeks before I'll be down there to see for myself, but the Pirates put together a promo video about the new renovations to McKechnie Field.
Not a big fan of the new beige exterior instead of what used to be a clean white finish, but that's a minor detail. The big news is the new flip-down seats, which will be a godsend to anyone that spent any time in the old molded plastic ones. It will be great to walk around the entire park as well.
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Equity futures were pushed higher last night, once again returning to near the top of its range where resistance is found. Below is the overnight action in the DOW and S&P futures:
The dollar wandered higher, then lower, and now higher again, back above the 76 level. This is a disconnect from equities as the last few times the dollar was at this level, stocks were lower. The long bond continued lower after clearly breaking down yesterday on the last and worst performing 30 year bond auction of 2009. This is a clear break, charts later. Oil is up slightly overnight, gold was up quite a bit but has returned closer to where it closed yesterday.
Retail sales for November came out higher than expected. These are month over month numbers and November's increase was less than October's yet Econoday calls it a spike at 1.3%. It did turn positive year over year and thus means that sales are not deteriorating below last year's disasterous levels for now. Keep in mind that other indicators I follow, such as Tax receipts, have not risen, credit transactions are still falling in the background:
The consumer decided to come off the sidelines and jump back into the economy, boosting November retail sales-and beyond just autos and gasoline. Overall retail sales in November posted a 1.3 percent spike after a revised 1.4 percent gain in October. November's increase was well above the consensus estimate for a 0.9 percent increase. Excluding autos, sales gained 1.2 percent in the latest month after no change in October. The market consensus had expected a 0.5 percent gain in ex autos. Even excluding both autos and gasoline, November sales were up a healthy 0.6 percent, following a 0.1 percent uptick the month before.
The November increase in overall sales was led by a 6.0 percent jump in gasoline sales with notable strength also seen in electronics & appliance stores, up 2.8 percent, and in auto dealers, up 2.0 percent. Also rising were building materials & garden equipment, food & beverage stores, health & personal care, sporting goods & hobby stores, general merchandise, nonstore retailers, and food services & drinking places.
Declines were seen furniture & home furnishings, clothing & accessories, and miscellaneous store retailers.
Overall retail sales on a year-ago basis in November improved to up 1.9 percent, from down 2.0 percent in October. Excluding motor vehicles, the year-on-year rate increased to up 1.3 percent in November from down 2.8 percent the previous month.
Today's release indicates the consumer has more strength than previously believed. The remaining question is whether consumers can continue the pace through December. The strong November sales numbers will add to estimates for fourth quarter GDP growth.
Import and Export prices strengthened in November, mainly on the back of a falling dollar. As Econoday points out, the dollar has now turned up – so, it's become perfectly obvious that the only way they can generate positive numbers is to destroy the currency, not what I'd call a picture of health, let's see what happens when the dollar strengthens:
The dollar's steep drop in November drove prices for imported goods sharply higher. Import prices rose 1.7 percent vs. a steep 0.8 percent gain in October and a 1.5 percent gain back in August. It was back in July that the dollar began a steep descent, down 6 percent on the dollar index out to the end of November. Import inflation swept across November's non-finished goods: industrial supplies up 4.8 percent compared to October, fuels & lubricants up 7.3 percent, crude up 5.0 percent, foods & feeds up 0.5 percent. Excluding petroleum, prices rose 0.7 in November vs. a 0.6 percent rise in October. Excluding all fuels, and in this case a 30.0 percent spike in what are still depressed natural gas prices, import prices rose 0.4 percent to extend a building four-month trend of palpable increases.
What isn't increasing yet are prices for imported finished goods. Capital goods imports did rise 0.2 percent in the month, which is a comparatively strong rise for the category and double the 0.1 percent increase in October, but the gain is offset by a 0.1 percent decline in prices of imported consumer goods. Several months of price inflation for inputs have yet to appear in outputs.
Export prices also show significant pressure, up 0.8 percent in the month. The gain reflects month-to-month pressure across most input components with an outsized 0.3 percent rise for capital goods and a large 0.2 percent rise for consumer goods. Here the gains hint at pricing power for U.S. exporters who, because of the weak dollar, are perhaps raising their dollar prices a bit for their foreign customers.
But the scene is changing for December as the dollar has taken a turn higher, up 2 percent so far this month. The gain in the dollar will limit foreign demand for U.S. goods. Nevertheless, today's report points to trouble for Tuesday's producer price report for November.
Consumer sentiment comes out at 9:55 Eastern time.
Reader, Joe, posted some very telling revenue figures for the state of California yesterday:
Compared to this date in November 2008, revenues were down $2.33 billion (-7.4%). This was primarily driven by personal income taxes, which came in $2.63 billion below (-15.8%) last year's figures, and corporate taxes, which were $293 million under (-11.8%) the same point in 2008.
The State started the fiscal year with an $11.9 billion cash deficit in the General Fund, which grew to $24.4 billion by November 30. Those deficits are being covered with a combination of $15.6 billion of internal borrowing from special funds and $8.8 billion in short-term revenue anticipation notes.
Total and complete disaster. Note the use of accounting gimmicks. This actually only works to worsen the situation for there will come a day very shortly where such gimmicks will no longer work.
The dollar, by the way, is spiking as I type... Watch out equities, this is very interesting as the long bond is still falling. This is not a good condition, to say the least. After yesterday's bad 30 year auction, prices broke below key support. Below is a 9 month chart of USB, the 30 year bond fund. That large flag, now broken, has a downside target that is substantially lower, meaning substantially higher interest rates:
Here is the Point & Figure diagram, you can see that it has a target of 94, that's a long way down:
To those who think higher rates in this condition are good, I have a news flash for you… it's not good when your entire society is saturated with debt and your government and everyone else is borrowing short. If you look at the history of the Great Depression, there was the initial stock market collapse in 1929, there was a 50% retrace, and just about this time in the sequence of events the bond market began to collapse. No, it wasn't an earth shattering collapse, most historians don't even acknowledge it. But to their then society that was full of debt, it brought about harder times and thus was born their 'C' leg down, a drawn out grinding affair that bankrupted thousands of companies, millions of individuals. Guess what? Our inflation adjusted per capita debt is over TWICE what theirs was. It's interesting to me that this break in bonds occurred exactly on our spiral Fibonacci date that emanated from this exact same era that I'm discussing. Pay attention here to the sequence of events that follow.
By the way, many "events" that receive a lot of attention in the media are simply SYMPTOMS of this debt problem. Take the "Dust Bowl" of the Great Depression era, for example. The drying up of credit preceded the drying up and availability of water and farmers were left helpless as they watched their fields literally blow away.
Below is the P&F chart for gold, new target is $1,010:
Below is the P&F for oil, target is $65:
This action looks very unstable again this morning, the dollar is headed straight up, currently at 76.43… Short term stochastics are overbought, this could get interesting.
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Feature Name (see definition): Adie Inlet
Feature Class (see definition): Stream
Country Code (see definition): AQ (Antarctica)
Feature ID (see definition): 85
Primary Latitude in degrees, minutes, and seconds (see definition): 66° 25' 00" S
Primary Longitude in degrees, minutes, and seconds (see definition): 062° 20' 00" W
Primary Latitude in decimal degrees (see definition): -66.4166667
Primary Longitude in decimal degrees (see definition): -62.3333333
Elevation (see definition): No data
Decision Year (see definition): 01/01/1952
Description (see definition): Ice-filled inlet, 25 mi long in a NW-SE direction, lying E of Churchill Peninsula along the E coast of Graham Land. Charted by the Falklands Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) and photographed from the air by the Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition (RARE) during 1947. Named by the Falklands Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) for R.J. Adie, South African geologist with Falklands Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS), 1947-49.
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Weigh in day! 216….for a lovely -2lbs this week! I am quite pleased with it. This brings my total loss to -109lbs. My goal is to see 199 by my triathlon (May 19th, 2012) and then 175 by early September (Labor Day) and 150 by my Christmas. I found a picture of myself sprawled out on […]
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You readers have filled me with so much freakin' holiday cheer that I may, MAY, not protest the holidays with my ritualistic murder of a tree. Here are the 107 entrants in this week's Shooting Challenge. UPDATE: Wallpaper versions HERE.
Second Runner Up
This is actually a picture of my Christmas tree. I shot this with my Canon XS using a 4 second exposure at f-8, and an iso of 100. I started with the lens unfocused and zoomed in at 55m. During the 4 second exposure I zoomed out to 18mm.
-John Chapman
First Runner Up
Sony A230 Body; Tamron 17-50mm f2.8 lens; ISO 800; 1/500 sec @ f2.8; No Flash
-Nick Marquis
Nikon D5000; Nikkor 18-200 VR; Exposure: 12.2 seconds; Aperture: f/9.0; Focal Length: Multiple; ISO: 200; White Balance: Cool White Fluorescent. This was taken in bulb mode on a tripod. I exposed the tree and surrounding scene at 18mm for about 9 seconds, then slowly zoomed to 200mm closing the shutter right before hitting 200. More here.
-Dan DeChiaro
Dan, please contact me to claim your Joby SLR-ZOOM Gorillapod and Ballhead.
As always, thanks to everyone for participating, and enjoy all of the awesome entries in the gallery below. Picking winners is my favorite worst job to do of the week. Oh, and for those of you wanting wallpaper-sized images, we'll be popping those in a separate post soon.
By the way, more of you sent in shots of soul-sucking winter than pretty, happy Christmas lights. What's that say about us all?
Images coordinated by Kyle VanHemert.
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Charles Rennie Mackintosh
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Charles Rennie Mackintosh, (1868–1928), Scottish architect and designer who was prominent in the Arts and Crafts Movement in Great Britain.
He was apprenticed to a local architect, John Hutchinson, and attended evening classes at the Glasgow School of Art. In 1889 he joined the firm of Honeyman and Keppie, becoming a partner in 1904.
In collaboration with three other students, one of whom, Margaret Macdonald, became his wife in 1900, Mackintosh achieved an international reputation in the 1890s as a designer of unorthodox posters, craftwork, and furniture. In contrast to contemporary fashion his work was light, elegant, and original, as exemplified by four remarkable tearooms he designed in Glasgow (1896–1904) and other domestic interiors of the early 1900s.
Mackintosh's chief architectural projects were the Glasgow School of Art (1896–1909), considered the first original example of Art Nouveau architecture in Great Britain; two unrealized projects—the 1901 International exhibition, Glasgow (1898), and "Haus eines Kunstfreundes" (1901); Windyhill, Kilmacolm (1899–1901), and Hill House, Helensburgh (1902); the Willow Tea Rooms, Glasgow (1904); and Scotland Street School (1904–06). Although all have some traditional characteristics, they reveal a mind of exceptional inventiveness and aesthetic perception. By 1914 he had virtually ceased to practice and thereafter devoted himself to watercolour painting.
Although Mackintosh was nearly forgotten for several decades, the late 20th century saw a revival of interest in his work. The stark simplicity of his furniture designs, in particular, appealed to contemporary taste, and reproductions of Mackintosh chairs and settees began to be manufactured. The Mackintosh House in Glasgow was reconstructed and opened to the public as a museum in the late 1970s. —Britannica
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Like many states caught in a financial vice, Oklahoma is looking for ways to cut unnecessary costs. The state's chief information officer did not have to look especially far: Duplicative IT systems and staff have been burning a hole in the state's budget.
In the last two years, the state has saved nearly $40 million from consolidating technology projects and systems in 120 different agencies, the Daily Oklahoman reported.
In one example, CIO Alex Petit cited the state's $4.3 million annual expenditure to access the Internet via commercial services even though the state already owns 940 miles of its own fiber. "We're paying everyone else for their own networks," Petit told the Oklahoman. "That's just flat nuts."
By eliminating technology offices from individual state agencies and establishing a single statewide office, the state was also able to cut 128 IT positions. The state is now looking at other areas to target, including its network of decentralized agency financial systems.
Petit said technology consolidation is self-funded, with the money coming from reduction in staff and other savings. At the current rate of savings, it will take another seven years to finish the IT consolidation project, Petit told the Oklahoman.
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MLB 2K13 Perfect Game Challenge tots up 892 successful entries
892 perfect games have already been pitched since 2K opened its MLB 2K13 Perfect Game Challenge for its first week. IGN reports 300,000 gamers tackled this week's match up, and of the successful attempts so far, many are duplicates, with just 617 unique players. This year's competition offers 30 $25,000 cash prizes, based on a […]
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Gloom with a view: Cold Cave at the Guggenheim
The synth-heavy sound of the band Cold Cave has just the right sort of darkness to pair well with John Chamberlain's bright metallic sculptures.
Chamberlain's assemblages, which shared space with Cold Cave Friday night at the second installment of The Guggenheim Museum's Divine Ricochet series, are all crunchy color, but it's hard to see car parts tangled up and not imagine a kind of violence. And Cold Cave's Wesley Eisold—deemed "the world's least likely critical darling" by New York magazine—has transmuted his background in hardcore music into moody experimental pop that combines danceable melodies with a sense of drama and that hint of violence. The band owes a debt to darkwave, '80s minimal electronic music, and post-punk alike, crafted, like Chamberlain's sculpture, from elements of the past.
An hour-and-a-half-long after-hours private viewing of the Chamberlain exhibition, Choices, precedes each of the series' 10 p.m. shows, so concertgoers have plenty of time to consider the art and get in the mood for poetic fusion. Chamberlain's sculptures are arranged in chronological ascent up the Guggenheim's spiral, evolving in their materials (foam, aluminum foil) and scale (cherry picker, paperweight) but hewing closely to a signature technique that Chamberlain called "articulate wadding"—abstract crumples, typically of metal salvaged from old cars, shaped with a haphazard approach he compares to the handling of toilet paper, yet "articulate" in their ability to convey tone, emotion, and action.
One deviation from this method took the form of a fabric-draped foam couch. Visitors were invited to take a seat, provided they removed their shoes, but Friday night few chose to do so. Many wore shoes too impressive to remove, and besides, it seemed that many felt it shrewder to stay close to bottom of the spiral; some had already staked out floor space near the stage or near the bar.
Cold Cave took the stage almost stealthily. Eisold, Cold Cave's founder, was joined onstage by Dominick Fernow of Prurient, one of several collaborators he's worked with since starting the band. Both wore black leather jackets, and both kept their heads bowed over their control panels as they launched into an extended period of wordless, abstract noise. As they began in earnest to play the material from their newest release, last year's Cherish the Light Years, their divergent stage personas emerged. Eisold—tall, lanky, possessed of only one hand—sang mostly solemnly. His hair, shaved around the sides, suggested a monk-like aspect. Fernow was more animated, pointing and making truculent faces while pacing the stage, whipping his forelock while twisting knobs, looking as though he was spoiling for a fight.
The crowd, for the most part, was composed, quiet, even demure: they were on museum behavior, but they were also taking cues from Eisold's brooding detachment. But when Eisold and Fernow began to play "Confetti," it was possible from the upper level to see the people on the floor start, irresistibly, to bounce.
The stage, tucked up against the ramp leading to the museum's upper levels (built over top of a small fountain), was an island amid the crowd with audience members out front as well as behind, on the ramp. At one point Eisold leaned his head close to those on the ramp so that they were all clustered together to sing into the microphone.
For the most part, though, he was a reticent presence. His first words to the crowd came only before the final song of the set.
"Thanks," he said to the audience. He then expanded slightly: "Thank you for being here." The crowd cheered. Eisold and Fernow slipped from the stage, but the audience kept yelling, and the duo returned quickly for an encore. More from Eisold: "Thanks."
After a couple more tunes the two players disappeared for good—Eisold headed to Bemelman's bar at the Carlisle, as one fan documented with an Instagram photo. Most of the crowd, however, made for the subways to ditch the Upper East Side, leaving behind a museum floor sprinkled with crumpled plastic cups and wadded napkins (articulate and otherwise).


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Red Sox weigh in on Biogenesis suspensions
HOUSTON -- The Boston Red Sox, in general, applauded Major League Baseball's suspension Monday of 13 players for using performance-enhancing drugs.
"It's a sad day in baseball, but you're talking about less than one percent of the players," said outfielder Johnny Gomes. "That's a real selfish act. With the suspensions coming down, I think it's a good day in baseball. It shows [the system] is working. It should be a good day in baseball to applaud the clean guys in the game."
MLB on Monday suspended 13 players as a result of the league's Biogenesis investigation. Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez received the stiffest penalty - a 211-game ban without pay through the end of the 2014 regular season. Rodriguez, 38, has appealed the suspension, which is to begin Thursday. His case will be heard by arbitrator Fredric Horowitz. Rodriguez's discipline, MLB said in its written announcement, is based on his use and possession of numerous forms of prohibited performance-enhancing substances, including testosterone and human growth hormone, over the course of multiple years. Rodriguez's discipline under the basic agreement is for attempting to cover up his violations of the program by engaging in a course of conduct intended to "obstruct and frustrate" the investigation.
The other players who were handed 50-game suspensions include Rangers outfielder Nelson Cruz, Tigers shortstop Jhonny Peralta, Mariners catcher Jesus Montero, Padres shortstop Everth Cabrera, Yankees catcher Francisco Cervelli, Phillies reliever Antonio Bastardo and recently demoted Mets utilityman Jordany Valdespin. Minor Leaguers Fernando Martinez, Jordan Norberto, Fautino de los Santos, Cesar Puello and Sergio Escalona were also suspended.
The feeling among the Red Sox is that Major League Baseball is going the right way by issuing the substantial suspensions.
"I think everybody sees the positives and understands even though it's a tough day, and tough national news, the game is being held to a higher standard of being clean," right-hander Jake Peavy said. "I love that we keep taking steps in the right direction."
Peavy, without naming anyone, said he felt victimized when he had to pitch against known drug users.
"I've given up my share of hits and runs to numerous people on that list," Peavy said. "If it didn't bother you, I don't know who you would be. One hundred percent knowing now, if you give up a home run or a run to someone who had some artificial help that you didn't, there's nothing we can do about it now. Just knowing the game is being held to a higher standard, I feel good about that."
Right-hander Ryan Dempster said he would not allow it to bother him.
"I just look at it as I'm trying to do my job," Dempster said. "I don't look at what other guys do, whether they're taking steroids or a growth hormone. I'm just trying to go out there and compete. I'm just focused on us as a team."
Dempster did believe that baseball is going in the right direction.
"I think we're making progress," he said. "It just shows how serious Major League Baseball is. They want this game to be as clean and pure as possible, and they're taking steps in that direction.
"It's easier said than done. They're trying to do the best they can to clean it up. The sad part is we have to talk about it, for who knows how long, and you guys have to cover it, for who knows how long. All the good things that are happening, and we have to spend time focusing on a negative part of the game."
Despite the suspensions, performance-enhancing drugs can still have an effect on this season.
"Jhonny Peralta is on that list and he hit a walk-off home run against us," Gomes said. "That's a game. Us and the Rays are a game apart. Every game counts."
The Red Sox are scheduled to face the Yankees again Aug. 16-18 at Fenway. Will Rodriguez being playing for New York then?
"I can't imagine being the pitcher, knowing this guy is on or has been on steroids," Gomes said. "It's not an equal battle. It doesn't make much sense that he's still playing. I hope our [union] dues don't go to his lawyer."
Manager John Farrell hinted that he wouldn't be happy if Rodriguez played against his Red Sox, but there wasn't much he could do about it.
"That's something completely out of our control," Farrell said. "It seems that everyone else involved accepted the penalties and took the suspensions. He's got an appeal process he can use."
Farrell took pride in the fact there was no one from the Boston organization included in the suspensions.
So did Dempster.
"It's a nice feeling," Dempster said. "It's nice for our fans and our organization and our front office to know our players aren't associated with it. We have a lot of guys here who are trying to do things the right way."
How much will the suspensions help to solve the problem?
"People are still going to say, 'Are there others out there?' Who knows?" outfielder Shane Victorino said.
"I don't care what the penalties are," Gomes added. "If it's first-time-caught, lifetime-ban, it doesn't affect me. I'm not using steroids. I do think the penalties [should be] steeper than they are."