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WASHINGTON (AP) _ President Barack Obama tried to defuse a trio of controversies Thursday, pledging to work with Congress to ensure the IRS doesn't abuse its power, urging legislators to provide more money to strengthen security at U.S. diplomatic outposts and promising to seek "a balance" between national security and a need to protect freedom of the press.
"I think we're going to be able to fix it," Obama said, speaking in particular of the IRS' targeting of conservative groups for special scrutiny. He vowed to make sure the agency is "doing its job scrupulously and without even a hint of bias."
Trying to steer clear of Republican criticism of the administration's response to the terror attacks that killed four Americans last year in Benghazi, Libya, the president called on Congress to work with the White House to provide more money to strengthen U.S. diplomatic missions' security.
"We need to come together and truly honor the sacrifice of those four courageous Americans and better secure our diplomatic posts around the world," Obama said. "That's how we learn the lessons of Benghazi. That's how we keep faith with the men and women who we send overseas to represent America."
Obama also was asked about the government's seizure of telephone records of reporters and editors of The Associated Press in an investigation of news leaks. The president said he would not comment on that specific case but said that "leaks related to national security can put people at risk." At the same time, he said, the government has an obligation to be open. He said the challenge was to find an appropriate balance between secrecy and the right to know.
Obama said he makes no apologies for trying to protect classified information, but he also said the AP case shows the importance of striking a proper balance between safeguarding classified information and ensuring freedom of the press.
"That's a worthy conversation to have," Obama said in his first public comments on the AP matter.
Obama said it was a good time to take another look at proposed legislation to protect journalists from having to reveal information, including the identity of sources who have been promised confidentiality. The bill contains exceptions in instances of national security.
Noting the presence of U.S. troops and intelligence officers in risky situations around the world, Obama said, "Part of my job is to make sure that we're protecting what they do while still accommodating for the need for the public to be informed and to be able to hold my office accountable."
The president is trying to shake off a growing perception that he has been passive in responding to a series of developments that threaten to derail his second-term agenda and ensnarl his White House in GOP-led congressional investigations.
Hoping to regain momentum, already this week Obama has released a trove of documents related to the Benghazi terror attacks amid pressure from Republicans, asked Congress to revive action on the shield law, and forced the resignation of the top IRS official. The president is expected to nominate a new acting IRS commissioner this week to replace Steven Miller, who resigned Wednesday.
The president spoke at a rainy Rose Garden news conference with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan. As drizzles gave way to a steady rain, Obama summoned Marine guards to provide umbrellas for Erdogan and himself, joking, "I've got a change of suits but I don't know about our prime minister."
Obama's initial response to the three controversies was cautious. That, combined with his earlier lack of awareness about controversies brewing within his administration, opened him to criticism from his Republican foes.
"If Obama really learned about the latest IRS and AP secret subpoena scandals in the news, who exactly is running the ship at the White House?" Republican National Committee spokeswoman Kirsten Kukowski said.
And, in a worrisome sign for the White House, some Democrats also criticized the president for not being more aggressive in responding to trouble within the government.
Robert Gibbs, Obama's former White House press secretary, said the president should have appointed a bipartisan commission of former IRS officials to look into the issue of targeting political organizations. And Gibbs gently chided his former boss for using passive language when he first addressed the political targeting during a White House news conference Monday.
"I think they would have a much better way of talking about this story rather than simply kind of landing on the, `Well, if this happened, then we'll look at it'," Gibbs said on MSNBC.
The fresh pair of controversies coincided with a resurgence in the GOP-led investigation into the Sept. 11, 2012, attacks on a U.S. compound in Benghazi that killed the U.S. ambassador and three other Americans.
Congressional Republicans launched another round of hearings on the attacks last week. And on Friday, a congressional official disclosed details of emails among administration officials that resulted in talking points, used to publicly discuss the deadly incident, being revised to downplay the prospect that the attacks were an act of terror.
Obama aides insisted the emails were either taken out of context or provided no new information, but they resisted pressure to make the emails public for five days before finally disclosing them to reporters Wednesday. The emails revealed that then-CIA Director David Petraeus disagreed with the final talking points, despite the White House's insistence that the intelligence agency had final say over the statements.
The White House has publicly defended its handling of the controversies. Obama spokesman Jay Carney has insisted it would be "wholly inappropriate" for the president, in the case of the Justice Department matter, to weigh in on an active investigation, and in the case of the IRS controversy, to insert himself in the actions of an independent agency.
However, legal scholar Jonathan Turley disputed those assertions, saying there is no legal reason a president would be precluded from learning about the investigations before the public did or from commenting on them, at least broadly.
"These comments treat the president like he's the bubble boy," said Turley, a law professor at George Washington University.
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On the final morning of its three-day health care law extravaganza, the U.S. Supreme Court wrestled with the question of whether parts of the 2010 federal statute can survive if the justices strike down its central tenet: the individual insurance requirement.
In other words, if the nine justices find the insurance mandate unconstitutional when they rule by June, would that mean that the entire law also fails the constitutionality test?
Wednesday's morning arguments were as spirited — and divided along ideological lines — as they were during Tuesday's session on the individual mandate.
The Cast: Arguing in favor of having the court strike down the entire law was Paul Clement, the former solicitor general, who also argued Tuesday's case against the individual mandate. Edwin Kneedler, the deputy solicitor general, argued in favor of preserving parts of the law, as did H. Bartow Farr III, a veteran Supreme Court advocate.
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Scalia lived up to his reputation for being one of the court's most voluble and humorous members. He tore into the government's arguments with relish, and joined his conservative colleagues in fretting openly about how a surviving law would affect insurance companies' bottom line.
Scalia even mused about the politics of the U.S. Senate. His comments, at times biting, at times drawing laughter from the packed chamber, provide perhaps the best window into the arguments — and what the court's conservative majority might be thinking.
Here, then, are our top five Scalia moments from Wednesday morning's arguments:
Supreme Torture: On Kneedler's suggestion that justices pick parts of the bill that could survive, Scalia invoked the Eighth Amendment — the one prohibiting cruel and unusual punishment.
Scalia: Mr. Kneedler, what happened to the Eighth Amendment? You really want us to go through these 2,700 pages? (Laughter.) And do you really expect the court to do that? Or do you expect us to give this function to our law clerks? Is this not totally unrealistic? That we are going to go through this enormous bill item by item and decide each one?
Speaking His Language: Scalia challenged Farr's argument that when Congress said the insurance mandate was "essential" to the law, it meant "useful."
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Scalia: And there is nothing about federal support that is unsustainable, right? That is infinite.
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Scalia: You can't repeal the rest of the act because you're not going to get 60 votes in the Senate to repeal the rest. It's not a matter of enacting a new act. So you're just put to the choice of I guess bankrupting insurance companies and the whole system comes tumbling down, or else enacting a federal subsidy program to the insurance companies, which is what the insurance companies would like, I'm sure.
Heart Of The Matter: Scalia wasn't shy about sharing his thoughts on whether parts of the law can survive without the mandate.
Scalia: If you take the heart out of the statute, the statute's gone. That enables Congress do what it wants in the usual fashion. And it doesn't inject us into the process of saying, "This is good, this is bad, this is good, this is bad."
Update 4:34 p.m. Wednesday afternoon's arguments on Medicaid also yielded musings from Scalia about whether the government was making states "an offer you can't refuse" and whether "your life or your wife's" was a good example. "I could refuse that one," Scalia noted. Chief Justice John Roberts did not sound amused.
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Humans have been measuring water depths for many centuries, using many different techniques. The oldest are still very common, even irreplaceable, like the tide staff. The instrumentation has naturally evolved from the simple tide staff, which still serves as a reference for modern technologies such as radar tide gauges, float type tide gauges, pressure gauges and ultrasonic tide gauges. Each measurement system is detailed in the following pages.
The Nilometer: the ancestor of the tide staff
The Nilometer is a way to measure changes in water level of the Nile. First used in Egypt in the 4th century BC, the Nilometer consists of a graduated scale used to quantify the flood levels of the Nile. The taxation of grains depended on the quality of the flood: the better the peak level (not too high or too low), the more silt enriched soil was deposited, so taxes were raised in anticipation of expected good harvests.
We do not know how the Egyptians determined the zeros for Nilometers, but the tide gauges used in France in the early 18th century were generally referenced to the base of the raft foundations of dry docks. This was true in Brest, where routine measurements began in 1711.
Float tide gauge and stilling well
A stilling well is needed for permanent tide stations near a coast. Most permanent gauges are located in port areas or along navigable estuaries. The use of float type tide gauges is decreasing, because of the analogue chart records, and especially because of systematic errors caused by the mechanical parts (friction of the float in the stilling well, mechanical wear, etc.). These mechanical gauges are being replaced by automatic digital data logging systems.
Digital tide gauges: radar tide gauge, pressure tide gauge, ultrasonic tide gauge
There are few disciplines in the field of physics that offer such a wide choice of measurement systems, many of which have been developed and used for tide gauging.
The configuration of the installation site is an important factor. The sensors and recorders are not the same for coastal sites, where tide stations can be set up (ports, estuaries, shallow areas), and offshore sites.
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With the developments in data processing, the Global Navigation Satellite System, better known by its acronym GNSS, can now determine the ellipsoidal height of a point, in this case an autonomous oceanographic buoy, with high accuracy. The GNSS receiver on the buoy can measure the water depth at all times.
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There are numerous manufacturers specialized in hydrography or industrial instrumentation that offer off-the-shelf radar sensors suitable for sea level measurement. Sensors are chosen according to the site on which they are to be installed (tidal range, sensor in open air, type of stilling well), financial aspects and the quality of measurement required.
To find out more:
- Simon B. (2007). La Marée - La marée océanique et côtière. Edition Institut océanographique, 434pp.
- Pouvreau N. (2008). Trois cents ans de mesures marégraphiques en France : outils, méthodes et tendances des composantes du niveau de la mer au port de Brest. Thèse de doctorat de l'Université de La Rochelle, soutenue le 26 septembre 2008, 466 pp.
- Holgate S., T. Aarup (2003). Workshop on new technical developments in sea and land level observing systems. COI, Workshop Report N°193, 196pp.
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North Korea agreed, last month, to freeze uranium enrichment and missile tests in exchange for large amounts of food aid from the United States. American officials thought they had an understanding, but then last week North Korea announced it would be launching a satellite using a long-range missile. As NPR's Mike Shuster reports from Seoul, all this is now threatening to overshadow next week's global nuclear security summit in Seoul, which President Obama is planning to attend.
MIKE SHUSTER, BYLINE: For years, the U.S. has been trying to persuade North Korea to stop its production of nuclear weapons and the missiles that could carry warheads. On February 29, it looked like North Korea was willing to take a step in that direction. Pyongyang announced it would freeze uranium enrichment and its long-range missile tests. The U.S., for its part, said it would deliver some 240,000 metric tons of food aid.
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SHUSTER: Resolutions of the U.N. Security Council expressly prohibit the Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea, or North Korea, from launching missiles or rockets. The North Koreans claim a rocket launch is not the same as a missile test. Not a persuasive argument, says Evans Revere, a former State Department official who has regular contact with North Korean diplomats.
EVANS REVERE: A missile freeze includes missiles in the broadest sense of the word, including those used to launch satellites. So there's no doubt in my mind that the North Koreans were aware of that.
SHUSTER: But the North Koreans told Revere well before the February 29th agreement that they planned a rocket launch. They also told U.S. officials who were negotiating the deal. Everyone on the American side urged them not to do it. In December, Kim Jong Il died and his son Kim Jong Un took over. Evans Revere said that based on recent meetings with the North Koreans, he was convinced the new leadership in Pyongyang intended to retain some nuclear weapons.
REVERE: It was very clear to me, and I think it was very clear to every other U.S. interlocutor who was present in that room, that the DPRK intended to retain a certain level of nuclear weapons capability for a long time to come.
SHUSTER: The February 29th agreement would also allow inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency back to monitor a former secret uranium enrichment facility. The North Koreans claim it will make low enriched uranium for a reactor, not highly enriched uranium for bombs. Inspections would be a benefit, for the North Koreans as well as the U.S., says Daniel Sneider, from Stanford University's Asia-Pacific Research Center.
DANIEL SNEIDER: They have every reason in some sense to want to certify all this in front of the IAEA, because they want to get acceptance of this as a legitimate program.
SHUSTER: There has been a good deal of debate about whether the U.S. should have entered into these negotiations given Pyongyang's propensity for violating agreements it makes. But says Sneider, it was worth it to test the intentions of the new leadership in Pyongyang.
SNEIDER: It's useful from an American point-of-view to have tested the new government to see whether there was a shift in policy. And I think there isn't one.
SHUSTER: This new trouble with North Korea comes just as President Obama is getting ready to fly here to Seoul for a global summit on nuclear security. Inevitably, the talks will turn to North Korea, although it is not explicitly on the agenda.
Just two days ago, Pyongyang announced if the gathering adopts any statement criticizing the North that would be seen as a declaration of war. North Korea routinely issues bellicose statements like this. But it is not the kind of atmosphere the U.S. and others would prefer as the opening of the summit approaches.
Mike Shuster, NPR News, Seoul.
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Thirteen local children got the thrill of their summer when a North Hudson social services agency arranged a trip for them to Field Station: Dinosaurs in Secaucus.
Palisades Emergency Residence Corporation (PERC) runs a homeless shelter based in Union City and also gets minimal funding for a Summer Activities Program and a Kids Homework Club to help children in area low-income families have a summer camp-like experience during summer and get help with schoolwork in the fall. For these families, the programs are free.
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"They really enjoyed walking through the park. They stopped at every exhibit," said Irimia. "They were happy just to be there."
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The trip was made possible by Field Station: Dinosaur. The tickets were donated by Guy Gsell, Field Station creator, president, and executive producer; and Jayme Powers, the vice president and chief operating officer. Union City Mayor Brian Stack provided the transportation.
The children sent thank you cards to the Field Station officials and to Mayor Stack.
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The six-year-old Summer Activities Program teaches literacy, math, science, and recreation. Its attendees are granted program entry based on financial eligibility.
The Summer Program was in jeopardy this year due to federal budget cuts, with nearly two thirds of money going to Hudson County community programs slashed, Belenski said. PERC's budget was itself was cut by more than a third.
This year's Summer Program was saved thanks to last-minute funding from Public Service Electric & Gas and private donations.
The PERC Homework Club operates 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. from Monday through Thursday, in donated space at Grove Reformed Church on 46th Street in North Bergen. It assists children with a language barrier with their studies, giving them the capability to complete their out-of-school assignments.
It is PERC's "desire to give our children the support they need now so they can succeed in life, rather than needing PERC's food or shelter services as adults," Belenski said. Her organization is therefore seeking any additional donations it can receive for the Homework Club.
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In 2012, PERC provided nearly 20,000 nights of shelter to men, women, and families; more than 80,000 meals through their soup kitchen, and groceries for 12,000 people through its weekly food pantry.
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration won't take any regulatory action over a vending machine at a Pennsylvania college that dispenses the morning-after pill.
FDA spokeswoman Erica Jefferson said Friday that officials looked at publicly available information about the Shippensburg University vending program, spoke with university and campus health officials, and decided no action was necessary.
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If you are the proud owner of a Ford F-100, it is clear that you not only have a sense of history, but also a desire to hit the trail from time to time. Though the classic pickup has been out of production for over 30 years, the F-100 still maintains a large fan base to this day, and the truck itself is still a fully-capable off-roading machine.
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Data representation
There exist two different kinds of data objects in the CHICKEN system: immediate and non-immediate objects.
Immediate objects
Immediate objects are represented by a single machine word, 32 or 64 bits depending on the architecture. They come in four different flavors:
fixnums, that is, small exact integers, where the lowest order bit is set to 1. This gives fixnums a range of 31 bits for the actual numeric value (63 bits on 64-bit architectures).
characters, where the four lowest-order bits are equal to C_CHARACTER_BITS, currently 1010. The Unicode code point of the character is encoded in the next 24 bits.
booleans, where the four lowest-order bits are equal to C_BOOLEAN_BITS, currently 0110. The next bit is one for #t and zero for #f.
other values: the empty list, the value of unbound identifiers, the undefined value (void), and end-of-file. The four lowest-order bits are equal to C_SPECIAL_BITS, currently 1110. The next four bits contain an identifying number for this type of object, one of: C_SCHEME_END_OF_LIST, currently 0000; C_SCHEME_UNDEFINED, currently 0001; C_SCHEME_UNBOUND, currently 0010; or C_SCHEME_END_OF_FILE, currently 0011.
Non-immediate objects
Collectively, the two lowest-order bits are known as the immediate mark bits. When the lowest bit is set, the object is a fixnum, as described above, and the next bit is part of its value. When the lowest bit is clear but the next bit is set, it is an immediate object other than a fixnum. If neither bit is set, the object is non-immediate, as described below.
Non-immediate objects are blocks of data represented by a pointer into the heap. The pointer's immediate mark bits must be zero to indicate the object is non-immediate; this guarantees the data block is aligned on a 4-byte boundary, at minimum. Alignment of data words is required on modern architectures anyway, so we get the ability to distinguish between immediate and non-immediate objects for free.
The first word of the data block contains a header, which gives information about the type of the object. The header is a single machine word.
The 24 (56 on 64-bit systems) lowest-order bits contain the length of the data object, which is either the number of bytes in a string or byte-vector, or the number of elements for a vector or record type. This allows a maximum size for string or byte-vectors of 2^24 bytes, or approximately 16 MB, on 32-bit systems, and 2^56 bytes, or approximately 72 PB, on 64-bit systems.
The remaining bits are placed in the high-order end of the header. The four highest-order bits are used for garbage collection or internal data type dispatching.
- Flag used for forwarding garbage collected object pointers.
- Flag that specifies whether this data object contains raw bytes (a string or blob) or pointers to other data objects.
- Flag that specifies whether this object contains a special non-object pointer value in its first slot. An example for this kind of objects are closures, which are a vector-type object with the code-pointer as the first item.
- Flag that specifies whether the data area of this block should be aligned on an 8-byte boundary (floating-point numbers, for example).
After these four bits comes a 4-bit type code representing one of the following types:
vectors: vector objects with type bits C_VECTOR_TYPE, currently 0000.
symbols: vector objects with type bits C_SYMBOL_TYPE, currently 0001. The three slots contain the toplevel variable value, the print-name (a string), and the property list of the symbol.
strings: byte-vector objects with type bits C_STRING_TYPE, currently 0010.
pairs: vector-like object with type bits C_PAIR_TYPE, currently 0011. The car and the cdr are contained in the first and second slots, respectively.
closures: special vector objects with type bits C_CLOSURE_TYPE, currently 0100. The first slot contains a pointer to a compiled C function. Any extra slots contain the free variables (since a flat closure representation is used).
flonums: byte-vector objects with type bits C_FLONUM_BITS, currently 0101. Slots one and two (or a single slot on 64 bit architectures) contain a 64-bit floating-point number, in the representation used by the host system's C compiler.
ports: special vector objects with type bits C_PORT_TYPE, currently 0111. The first slot contains a pointer to a file- stream, if this is a file-pointer, or NULL if not. The other slots contain housekeeping data used for this port.
structures: vector objects with type bits C_STRUCTURE_TYPE, currently 1000. The first slot contains a symbol that specifies the kind of structure this record is an instance of. The other slots contain the actual record items.
blob: a raw sequence of bytes with type bits C_BYTEVECTOR_TYPE.
pointer-vectors: vector objects of native pointers - these are actually structures where the first slot holds a blob containing the 32- or 64-bit pointer values.
locatives: special vector objects with type bits C_LOCATIVE_TYPE, currently 1010. A locative object holds 4 slots: a raw pointer to the location inside the object referred to by the locative, the offset in bytes from the start of the object referred to, the type of the location (whether it refers to an unboxed numeric value or a normal object slot that holds a pointer to Scheme data) and a flag indicating whether this locative is "weak". If the locative is non-weak, slot #4 holds a pointer to the object referred to.
pointers: special vector objects with type bits C_POINTER_TYPE, currently 1001. The single slot contains a machine pointer.
tagged pointers: special vector objects with type bits C_TAGGED_POINTER_TYPE, currently 1011, Tagged pointers are similar to pointers, but the object contains an additional slot with a tag (an arbitrary data object) that identifies the type of the pointer.
lambda infos: byte-vector objects with type-bits C_LAMBDA_INFO_TYPE, currently 1101.
buckets: vector objects with type-bits C_BUCKET_TYPE, currently 1111. These are only used internally for the implementation of symbol tables.
The actual data follows immediately after the header. Note that block addresses are always aligned to the native machine-word boundary.
Data objects may be allocated outside of the garbage collected heap, as long as their layout follows the above mentioned scheme. But care has to be taken not to mutate these objects with heap-data (i.e. non-immediate objects), because this will confuse the garbage collector.
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This is WEEKEND EDITION from NPR News. I'm Rachel Martin. The French have begun voting in their presidential election. Today, on the first round of a two-round ballot, voters will choose among 10 candidates. The top two vote-getters will face each other in a runoff two weeks from now on May 6th. A deeply unpopular president, Nicolas Sarkozy, has been fighting for his political life. Polls show him consistently behind his socialist rival, Francois Hollande. NPR's Eleanor Beardsley has been following the campaign, and she joins us now from Paris. Eleanor, from this side of the Atlantic, Sarkozy seemed like this energetic, great international statesman who kind of placed France at the forefront of the international scene. Is that not how he's been perceived in France?
ELEANOR BEARDSLEY, BYLINE: Yeah, that's right, Rachel. It's kind of even difficult to explain to foreigners. You know, the man who came in and fixed the Georgia crisis with Russia in 2008, who saved the Libyan people from being slaughtered by doing this intervention with NATO, you know, who was with Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, who was the main motivator behind, you know, getting this European debt crisis under control, people seem to have forgotten that, or they don't care. He's being judged on the economy. And never mind the fact that it was a global financial crisis; he's just taking the blame for it. You know, there's not any more jobs than there were five years ago when he took power, you know, French industry is outsourcing. So people are really angry. And you add that to his irksome personal style and that's made him very unpopular. People think he has been, you know, he's seen as an aggressive man, hyperactive, all over the place. He's seen as divisive, dividing the French. And there's so much animosity towards him personally that it's just built up and now he's just a very unpopular candidate.
MARTIN: OK. So, who's his main rival, Francois Hollande? The polls are predicting that he's going to win this.
BEARDSLEY: That's right. He's kind of unremarkable. He's never held a national office, he's not known internationally. He's a congressman from a rural district. He ran the Socialist Party for 10 years, so he's even sort of a party apparatchik. He's jokingly called flamby or flanby, which is a French pudding wobbly dessert. But I guess his biggest asset is that he's running against Sarkozy. He calls himself Mr. Normal. And so people are ready for just a presidential president; somebody who's normal, somebody who's not running all over the place. This being said, he's not a dummy. I mean, he's a very intelligent person, very witty, he went to all the French top schools - so he's no idiot. But I think his biggest asset right now is that he's not Sarkozy and he's just a normal man.
MARTIN: Lastly, Eleanor, can you give us a sense of what the campaign has been like and who some of the other candidates are?
BEARDSLEY: Like the French have woken up and discovered that their country is linked to global financial markets, and there's a lot of animosity about that. People are wondering, you know, all of the sudden, the AAA, everybody knew what it was. And, you know, they were saying we don't want ratings agencies to tell us, you know, what we do. So, there's been a big backlash against capitalism. So, actually, a lot of the other candidates - there's 10 candidates running today - many of them have anti-capitalist programs, and actually two candidates on the far left or the far right who were very much against the global economy and protecting France, they're vying for third place right now. So, they're saying that depending on who gets that third place, that could influence the second round.
MARTIN: NPR's Eleanor Beardsley reporting from Paris. Thanks so much, Eleanor.
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"Side Effects," the latest work from the seemingly inexhaustible Steven Soderbergh, starts off telling one story only to abruptly shift gears in order to tell a completely different one. The trouble is that the first story is by far the more interesting while the second just becomes more implausible with each passing scene. The result is a film that is watchable enough but never quite lives up to the promise of its intriguing opening.
As the film opens, Emily Taylor (Rooney Mara, divested of her "Dragon Tattoo" accoutrements) is anxiously awaiting the return of husband Martin (Channing Tatum) after a four-year prison stretch for insider trading. The two still love each other and Martin is making a sincere effort to get them back to where they were before his incarceration. But with the pressure of his return, unemployment and money woes, Emily's struggles with anxiety and depression land her in the hospital.
There, she is treated by psychiatrist Dr. Jonathan Banks (Jude Law), who prescribes a wide variety of the usual pharmaceutical suspects — Zoloft, Effexor, Wellbutrin — to control her symptoms. But while she experiences many of the common side effects (sleepwalking, altered sex drive), none of these medications help her. Banks consults Emily's former therapist, Dr. Victoria Siebert (Catherine Zeta-Jones), and she suggests trying a new drug on the market called Ablixa (not to be confused with the antidepressants Abilify or Celexa).
It is at this point that the story takes its big unanticipated twist, though viewers who recognize the source of the film's opening shot may guess what's coming. Suffice it to say, Emily's use of Ablixa has unanticipated side effects not only for her but for Martin and Banks, and the story becomes a puzzle in which nothing is quite as it seems. In other words, if you want to see this movie and know someone who loves to blurt out spoilers, stay away from them until you have seen it for yourself.
The early scenes of "Side Effects" are fairly spellbinding as Soderbergh quietly but effectively puts viewers into the anxious, jagged mindset off someone who feels out of sync with the world around her and helpless to do anything about it. At the same time, he and screenwriter Scott Z. Burns (who previously collaborated on "The Informant!," and "Contagion") offer a cuttingly satirical glimpse at an overmedicated world in which doctors serve as paid mouthpieces for pharmaceutical companies and everyone has a recommendation for some pill or another that will presumably smooth over pesky traces of everyday existence.
This stuff is all great but it all gets shoved to the side once the focus of the story shifts. Without going into too much detail, it's as though Burns took all the melodramatic plot developments he smartly left out of his screenplay for "Contagion" (another film with a dim view of the pharmaceutical industry) and stuffed them into "Side Effects" instead. The initially fascinating characters soon find themselves prisoners of a narrative that gets more unlikely with each passing scene until the movie devolves into something virtually indistinguishable from a episode of one of the lesser "Law & Order" spinoffs.
And yet, even though "Side Effects" largely lacks the distinctive personal touch that Soderbergh has brought even to such nakedly commercial propositions as "Ocean's Twelve," "Haywire" and "Magic Mike," he keeps things humming along in a reasonably smooth and efficient manner. Serving once again as his own cinematographer (under the pseudonym Peter Andrews), Soderbergh has an arresting visual style and gets good performances from his lead actors. If nothing else, the film offers Channing Tatum another chance to prove that there is a strong and capable actor lurking beneath the hunky heartthrob exterior. This may not go down as one of Soderbergh's better films by a long shot but his efforts make it far more watchable than it might have been in lesser hands.
"Side Effects" has enough good things going for it to keep it from being dismissed, but its blaws are enough to prevent a wholehearted recommendation. Soderbergh, who has been averaging 1-2 movies a year for the last few years, has hinted that he will be retiring from feature filmmaking (or at least taking a long hiatus) in order to explore options like cable television (where his next effort, a Liberace biopic starring Michael Douglas and Matt Damon, will be premiering this spring) that would allow him to do projects that fall outside of the Hollywood blockbuster mentality.
I have no doubt of Soderbergh's sincerity, but I suspect his "retirement" will last about as long as Frank Sinatra's did. If nothing else, I find it difficult to believe that a filmmaker whose career has featured as many high points as anyone else working today would want to pull a Gene Hackman and go out with something that is nowhere near his best work, as the actor did by apparently bowing out with the aggressively mediocre "Welcome to Mooseport." My guess is that Soderbergh will take a break from filmmaking for a couple of years, let the batteries recharge and then return anew with the kind of complex and intelligent entertainments that he is capable of delivering, while "Side Effects" will be thought of as a minor side effect to an otherwise sterling career.
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WASHINGTON, D.C. (AP) — Republicans' hopes to reclaim the White House in the 2016 elections hinge on whether they support — or sabotage — the immigration overhaul being debated in the Senate, two lawmakers who helped write the proposal warn.
Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., on June 17 told conservatives who are trying to block the measure that they will doom the party and all but guarantee a Democrat will remain in the White House after 2016's election. Sen. Robert Menendez, D-N.J., went a step further and predicted "there'll never be a road to the White House for the Republican Party" if immigration overhaul fails to pass.
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"After eight years of President Obama's economic policies, and, quite frankly, foreign policy, people are going to be looking around," Graham said. "But if we don't pass immigration reform, if we don't get it off the table in a reasonable, practical way, it doesn't matter who you run in 2016. We're in a demographic death spiral as a party and the only way we can get back in good graces with the Hispanic community, in my view, is pass comprehensive immigration reform. If you don't do that, it really doesn't matter who we run."
In 2012, Obama won re-election with the backing of 71 percent of Hispanic voters and 73 percent of Asian voters. A thwarted immigration overhaul could again send those voting blocs to Democrats' side. That has led some Republican lawmakers to support immigration reform, but the party's conservative base still opposes any legislation that would create a pathway to citizenship for immigrants living here illegally.
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By now most people have probably heard the dire predictions about how much the growing prevalence of diabetes will cost the U.S. health system in the coming years and decades.
But a new study from researchers at Yale suggests that the disease, which currently affects nearly 8 percent of the U.S. population, could have significant nonmedical costs to society as well.
The study, which appears in the January issue of the policy journal Health Affairs, suggests that young people diagnosed with the disease are more likely to drop out of high school and to forgo or fail to finish college. As a result, they're likely to earn less than those without diabetes.
"These differences are pretty large," said Jason Fletcher, an associate professor at the Yale School of Public Health and lead author of the study. The differences, for example, are larger than differences between males and females and between whites and African-Americans.
The study, which used data from a national survey that followed the same group of 15,000 high school students from 1994 to 2008, found a rate of diabetes in line with other studies of similar age groups.
Researchers found that even after adjusting the data for family background, obesity and other illnesses, those with diabetes were 5 to 7 percentage points more likely to drop out of high school. They were also 8 to 13 percentage points less likely to attend college or to complete a degree than those without the illness.
As they aged, young people with diabetes lagged their high school classmates in employment by 8 to 11 percentage points, and were 8 to 13 percentage points more likely to receive aid from social programs.
The estimated 30,000 additional high school dropouts cost society an estimated $7 billion to $11 billion over those dropouts' lifetimes, the authors estimate. Those with diabetes went on to get jobs experience reduced annual earnings of between $1,500 and $6,000.
Over 40 years in the workforce, that could reduce earnings by of more than $160,000, the authors estimate.
Fletcher acknowledges that the study's results aren't "bulletproof," because they are self-reported. Still, the data do come from a population that was in similar circumstances — they all attended high school together. Following the same population over a long period of time is also considered an advantage in research like this.
When it comes to diabetes, "most people look at the medical costs," said Fletcher. With this study, people may have to begin to acknowledge that "there are some pretty large nonmedical costs" associated with the disease, and they start early.
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Just realized that month of October left few more days to go. I have made few other type of kuihs, need to quickly post before Aspiring Baker#12: Traditional Kueh end. I have seen so many blogger friends did this Ondeh-Ondeh, this small ball with palm sugar seem is everyone's favourite. This is also one of my favourite kueh too.
You can add sweet potato to the dough, but this time i just add pandan (screwpine) juice to make the dough.
Ondeh-Ondeh (glutinous rice ball with palm sugar)
(recipe source: by Sonia aka Nasi Lemak Lover)
250 g glutinous rice flour
30g tapioca flour
235 ml Pandan Juice (blend 20pcs of pandan with 250ml water)
100 g gula Melaka (Palm Sugar), finely chopped
100 g grated fresh coconut
1/4tsp fine salt
1. Combine the glutinous rice flour and tapioca flour in a mixing bowl, slowly add in pandan juice and knead till smooth.
2. Steam grated coconut with salt for about 3mins, set aside to cool.
3. Bring a pot of water to boil. Pinch a small piece of dough (10g each) and flatten lightly. Fill in palm sugar in the center and seal it and lightly roll them into a ball.
4. Cook the balls in the boiling water, when the rice balls float to the surface, continue to cook for another 1-2mins.
5. Remove them and coat with grated coconut.
Frankly, i still prefer to buy this from outside Malay stall, cheap and yummy, too much of time and effort to make this little balls at home.
I am submitting this post to Aspiring Bakers #12: Traditional Kueh (October 2011) hosted by SSB of Small Small Baker.


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Quelling War - Ceasing Aggression
February 5, 2024
Those leaders who have followed the Dao will not deploy armed forces unless it is absolutely necessary. 5 Min. Read
Yin-Yang Theory of Movement and Stillness in Taijiquan
January 22, 2024
If you are able to understand the theory of calmness, then you can comprehend the applications of Jìng (i.e., martial power).
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Good Retribution of a Kind Heart
November 20, 2023
It's easy to talk about righteousness. Living it is difficult.
Reaching Enlightenment
November 6, 2023
When you practice Tàijíquán skills to a high level and have reached the state of "fight of no fight" (i.e., regulating without regulating), then every action is ultimately natural, comfortable, skillful, and effective. This is the stage of "fighting with enlightenment."
You Are Bioelectric
October 23, 2023
Your body's matrix of fluid-filled tissue is a system capable of absorbing and donating electrons (qì) wherever they are needed, from the surface of our skin all the way into our DNA.
Immune Boost Qigong Breathing
January 4, 2021
Qigong means "energy skill," and it is a gradual process of becoming familiar with the subtle energy circulating within your body on a cellular level, and how it is changing every day, every hour, second by second. This energy, or qi, is bioelectricity; you are a living bioelectromagnetic field. With continued practice and observation, a qigong practitioner becomes more sensitive and aware of how the body's energy is fluctuating on a daily basis and why. Repeated qigong practice leads one to gradually feel healthier, and ultimately reach a point of feeling that it is "difficult to get sick."
Theory of Taiji Pushing Hands
December 14, 2020
When discussing the concept of pushing hands we often envision two individuals engaging in an exercise where one is attempting to find the other's center of gravity (i.e., physical center) and push them off balance. In some cases, the tendencies of aggressive behavior evolve into a competitive interaction between the two individuals, and unfortunately the essence of taiji pushing hands becomes lost with one person winning the match through use of force. Pushing hands practice involves the application of taijiquan theory and basic movements into matching actions with a partner.
Taiji Ball Qigong
November 30, 2020
Traditionally, taiji ball qigong training was a very important training for many external and internal styles. The reason it is so effective is because taiji ball qigong, using wood (internal styles) or rock (external styles) balls in the hands, helps focus the training in round movements. Consequently, this training is able to increase the endurance, strength, mobility, and flexibility of the practitioner's physical body, especially the torso.
Cultivating Observation—Caring for Others
November 23, 2020
"The great learning of the Dao is to pursue comprehension of the bright De (i.e., the manifestation of the Dao) and to influence other people until the ultimate goodness can be reached. Once you know, then your mind is steady without doubts. When the mind is steady, then you are able to acquire calmness. When you are calm, then you find peace. When you are at peace, then you are able to ponder. When you are able to ponder, then you gain. All objects have their initiation and ending and all matters have a beginning and expiration. If one knows the beginning and the end, then one is closer to the Dao."
Tai Chi Jing Practice
October 26, 2020
Often jing has been considered a secret transmission in Chinese martial arts society. This is so not only because it was not revealed to most students, but also because it cannot be passed down with words alone. Jing must be experienced. It is said that the master "passes down jing." Once you feel jing done by your master, you know what is meant and can work on it by yourself.
Introducing New YMAA Author Marisa Cranfill
August 3, 2020
Marisa discovered Qigong as a student at Zhejiang University, China in 1999 through a local taiji chuan master. Since she has studied with many of the world's top Qigong masters, some well-known and others off the grid. Marisa formally trained and is certified to teach with blessings from masters of two lineages of Qigong: Universal Healing Tao with Master Mantak Chia and Master Robert Peng.
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April 28, 2020
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The Scientific Foundation of the Ancient Chinese Secret of Youth
April 11, 2020
The most essential keys to longevity and anti-aging are rooted in your body's ability to maintain a strong energetic center, which directly aids in the natural production of your body's hormones. This center is comprised of two important energetic points—the brain and the gut—and they are connected by the spinal cord. It is imperative that you have a strong, uninhibited flow and quantity of Qì throughout this core energy system to maintain your health. To gain a more comprehensive understanding of the underlying theory, I will first give a brief background of traditional methods and findings, tie them into more modern scientific research, and then finally close with a look at practice techniques that I recommend for your regular training today.
The Coronavirus Crisis – A Time for Us to Awaken
April 6, 2020
The human body was made to move and to exercise. It is the reason we have so many different muscles and joints. At the most basic level, movement and exercise will help your blood move, facilitating nourishment, repair, and energy circulation (Qì) in all of your body's cells. The body functions most efficiently when this circulation is happening, and it is the foundation for a strong immune system.
Practice Dao—Value Dao, The Treasure of the World
March 16, 2020
The Dao conceals myriad objects.' This is just like the ancient saying: 'The Great Dao in this universe is shapeless, and (in a state of) quietness and solitude. It can be the master of myriad objects and does not wither with the four seasons.' It transcends this universe, independent, and goes beyond time and exists alone.
Dispensing Utilization-Returning to the Root
January 27, 2020
Nothingness is the origin of having. Nothingness and having are two, but one. They cannot exist without the other. The Dao is the one who initiates myriad objects from nothingness and also the one who returns myriad objects to their root, to nothingness.
Limiting the Use of War—Ways of Treating People, Translated and Interpreted
December 23, 2019
As a leader, your mind must be confident and firm and your spirit must be strong. However, you must also be humble enough to take counsel from others before your final decision. Advisors around a leader are crucially important. Often a wise leader is successful due to his humility and willingness to listen. A stubborn leader will usually fail.
How Can Qigong Cure Back Pain?
November 18, 2019
In Chinese medicine, the concept of qi is used both in diagnosis and treatment. A basic principle of Chinese medicine is that you have to rebalance the qi before you can cure the root of a disease. Only then can you also repair the physical damage and rebuild your physical strength and health.
Representations of the Mystery-Following the Laws, Translated and Interpreted
November 4, 2019
The Great Nature has countless cyclic patterns. Some of the patterns are near us and we can see or even experience them; for example, yearly, monthly, and daily cyclic changes due to the positions of the sun, earth, and the moon. All these changes are near us and immediately influence our body's energy and activities. All these are considered as the De, the manifestation of the Dao. Then, what is the Dao? Is the Dao the spirit or God of nature? Since we don't know too much about the Dao, it is still a huge mystery for us.
Moderating Desire—Self-Satisfaction Translated and Interpreted
September 9, 2019
When the world is ruled according to the Dao, then there is peace, calmness, and harmony. Then even the best horses are useless for battle and instead are used for carrying the dirt and manure on the farms. However, if the ruling of the world does not follow the Dao, even pregnant horses have to give birth on the battlefield.
Before Practicing Meridian Qigong Exercises
July 29, 2019
Before you begin practicing, there are a few points you should understand. These exercises are designed to be done in bed, and ideally, you'll be able to memorize them so you can practice without the book or DVD. But at first, you'll need the book or the video by your side. Before we start exercising, let me explain the benefits and the best time to practice.
YMAA Tai Chi and Internal Arts Curriculum
April 22, 2019
At YMAA, students learn qigong (energy cultivation) as part of their taiji or kung fu classes. In ancient times, Shaolin monks trained the cultivation of qi (energy), and realized muscular power could be enhanced to a tremendous level, making martial techniques more powerful and effective. This was the beginning of internal cultivation in Chinese martial arts, starting around 550 AD /CE. In internal styles, YMAA focuses mainly on traditional Yang-style taijiquan which originated from Yang, Ban-Hou (楊班候).
A Fight of No Fight (無爭之爭) as told by Dr. Yang, Jwing-Ming
April 15, 2019
The best way to win a fight is without fighting. Often you can win a fight with wisdom, and this is better than physically beating someone up. Instead of aggression, use patience and endurance to succeed. Big successes always come from many little efforts.
Fables from the Dao in Action
March 25, 2019
There were two young friends who decided to leave their village and go to the city to make their fortune. They worked hard for thirty years and each friend successfully earned a good amount of money. They decided to return to their village to enjoy their earnings and the rest of their lives.
Theories of Yin-Yang and Kan-Li 陰陽、坎離之理論
March 4, 2019
To practice qigong accurately, you must not only understand the theory but also the correct methods of practice. Knowing the theory correctly places a clear and accurate map in your hands leading you to your goal in the shortest time. Without this map, you may take many years to find the correct path.