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Friday 29 June 2012
Mary Dejevsky: Wrong size, wrong place, wrong memorial
This recognition of Bomber Command can only perpetuate a controversy that was retreating, rightly, to its historical context
If any open space anywhere in the country is sacrosanct, you might assume that London's Royal Parks would top the list. Yet for many months, a substantial chunk of Green Park has been a building site, first anonymous, then revealed on hoardings to be the site of a new memorial in the making. Yesterday, the last of the wraps came off, as the Queen unveiled an imposing neo-classical edifice dedicated to the memory of Bomber Command.
In that summary, I have tried not to sound negative. The sight of very elderly war veterans and their families on parade, as they were in the bright summer sunshine yesterday, cannot but tug at the heartstrings or, at very least, inspire respect. And this memorial – their memorial – crowns a long campaign to right what they saw as an even longer wrong.
Between 1939 and 1945, Bomber Command suffered casualties out of all proportion to any other arm of the services – more than 55,000 died, a fatality rate of almost one in two. Air Marshal Sir Arthur Harris was the only major commander not to be rewarded with a peerage; he received a modest memorial only in 1992 and even that was fiercely contested. The proliferation of new monuments in prominent positions in recent years, to the Women of World War II (in Whitehall in 2005) and even Animals of War (on Park Lane in 2004), can only have exacerbated the sense of injustice felt by the veterans of Bomber Command.
There is also an argument to be made (still) that the controversy which has raged about the carpet bombing of German cities is ahistorical, representing the inhibitions of our age, rather than the exigencies of a conflict in which Britain's very survival as a free country was at stake. And it follows from this that new ways of conducting war invariably raise questions.
Today's equivalent might be the use of drones against specific groups and individuals – which is sharply condemned in some quarters for turning the life and death gravity of war into a computer game for the powerful, even as it is welcomed by others for sparing servicemen's lives. Consider cyberwarfare, too, with its potential, at relatively little cost, for the enemy to identify and disable civilian infrastructure.
The truth is that war in any period, with any technology, is by definition ruthless and inhumane and the innovations of the Second World War were no different. Today, some believe that the destruction of Dresden, in particular, was a war crime; others believe Germany could not have been defeated without it. Whatever position you take, though, it is surely unjust to blame those who flew the raids and their families for a strategy that became integral to Britain's total war against Nazi Germany.
That is the argument for this memorial. Without the interest of a number of benefactors and celebrities, however, including the late Bee Gee, Robin Gibb, the questions – to put it mildly – about Bomber Command would probably have ensured that the memorial unveiled yesterday would never have seen the light of day. As someone who will pass it regularly, I must admit that I am sorry it has. It is the wrong memorial, in the wrong place, at the wrong time.
It is the wrong memorial because it can only perpetuate a controversy that was gradually retreating, rightly, to its historical context. It is in the wrong place, because in position and size it eclipses most other Second World War memorials. Like so much of what is built in the capital today, it is too big for its surroundings. Its neo-classicism is ponderous. Its temple plan looks like something that would be more at home among the grand monuments of Washington DC. And it is the wrong time because it has taken the best part of the past 70 years for Britain's relations with Germany to reach the still sometimes uneasy equilibrium that prevails today. Another war memorial offers another excuse for just the sort of nostalgic wallowing in our glory days that today's Britain most emphatically does not need.
Yes, this memorial has saving graces. It was raised, as so many of London's much earlier memorials, by public subscription and gifts; it has not cost the taxpayer a penny. The campaign even had to fund yesterday's opening ceremony – though maybe the Palace could be persuaded to help out. The image of the sculpture is not triumphal, but raw. And the inscription – as ahistorical as the controversy – acknowledges not only the crews, but their victims, something that drew appreciation from the Mayor of Dresden and immense sighs of relief, I suspect, from diplomats in London and Berlin.
One consolation might be that, now Bomber Command finally has its memorial, it will settle into a general monumental landscape that is increasingly ignored. Another is that it should be the last of the major Second World War memorials. But will it be? I hope so, although there could yet be pressure for another.
One of my uncles was a padre who accompanied the first Allied troops into Belsen; another was an army surgeon; another was shot down at Arnhem. They all received public recognition. But my late father served as a code-breaker at Bletchley. And it was less the oath of secrecy that rankled with him, than the fact that code-breakers received no medals.
A national memorial was completed at Bletchley Park last year, and there may now be pressure for more. But, personally, I would resist any move to add either a London monument or to award belated medals. Almost seven decades after the war, the enduring reputation of the code-breakers is tribute enough.
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An average of 59.2 million viewers watched the third and final presidential debate between President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney on Monday, according to Nielsen.
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ABC News, Univision to launch first English news channel for Hispanics
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ABC News, Univision to launch first English news channel for Hispanics
MUMBAI: ABC News and Univision News have entered into a multiplatform joint venture to launch an English news network targeted at the Hispanics in that country. The currently unnamed television channel is expected to launch in 2013. A website, mobile and social media content are expected to debut this summer. A management team will be announced this summer. The network will have anchors and correspondents in major cities across the U.S.Additionally, ABC News and Univision News will share newsgathering and production resources. The transaction is subject to the completion of definitive agreements. The landmark agreement. would capitalise on Univision's news leadership and expertise in reaching U.S. Hispanics and ABC's global news leadership to serve over 50 million Hispanics, the youngest and fastest-growing demographic in the U.S. The new 24/7 network will include America's first English-language channel for English-dominant and bilingual Hispanics as well as integrated digital and social platforms. It will deliver news content focused on issues, lifestyle interests and culture of importance to Hispanics and will feature the trusted, award-winning journalists of ABC News and Univision News. "This exciting joint venture represents the latest example of our long-term strategy to broaden the reach of ABC. Our powerful premier news brand, combined with the world's leading Hispanic media company, will create the nation's first news and lifestyle channel targeted to this quickly expanding and important community," said Disney Media Networks and president, Disney/ABC Television Group.co-chair Anne Sweeney. Currently, Hispanics represent 16 per cent of the total population in the United States, a number that is projected to double to 30 per cent by 2050. Hispanics are the fastest growing segment of the population, wield considerable spending power of over $1 trillion, and have an increasing impact on social, economic and political trends. "For more than five decades Univision has been the leader in serving Hispanics in the U.S. and this joint venture is an extension of our vision to deliver the most relevant news and information, regardless of language, to all Hispanics," Univision Networks president Cesar Conde. "This alliance combines the expertise and brand strength of Univision News with ABC News' leadership and is another example of Univision's commitment to serving and empowering Hispanic America while connecting all audiences to Latino issues." The new channel will not compete against general news service providers like Fox News. It will target the Hispanics specifically and, besides news, will have lifestyle and wellness content. itv |
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Thursday morning, members of the United States Marshals Violent Offenders Task Force along with Louisiana State Probation and Parole and the Bossier City Police Department captured Eldrick Dontrail Carter, 28, of Monroe on warrants charging him with one count of 2nd degree murder and two counts of attempted 2nd degree murder.
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Nelly wins baseball bet with Arsenio Hall
October 23rd, 2013 3:11am EDT
Rapper Nelly made sure Arsenio Hall honoured a baseball bet the pair made earlier this month (Oct13) by taking charge of the comedian's U.S. chat show on Monday night (21Oct13) and introducing the host as a rapper.
The two friends bet each other their team would move on to baseball's World Series with Hall offering to perform Nelly's Country Grammar on his show if his beloved Los Angeles Dodgers were beaten in the National League Division Series by the rapper's St. Louis Cardinals.
The Cardinals clinched their place in the finals on Friday night (18Oct13) and Nelly returned to the show on Monday to make sure Hall came through on the bet.
Nelly said, "Ladies and gentlemen, because I won and he lost... Performing the hit classic, a song by all American traditions should be one of the biggest in your hearts, not only in your minds, here to perform the hit smash Country Grammar, please welcome your loser, Arsenio Hall."
Hall stepped out wearing an Ozzie Smith Cardinals shirt and performed a segment from the hit.
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BY Alexander Cho
April 10 2008 11:00 PM ET
As the afternoon
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blankets on the grass, wander over to the
shed-turned-makeshift staging area, mingle with
friends, or scarf down a Vietnamese sandwich from a
makeshift Bánh mì stand. Spontaneous, ambisexual
make-out sessions erupt. Puzzled neighbors peer down
the driveway.
And because it
doesn't really matter how you identify here, there is
a sizable number of female lesbians, male gay men --
even some straight people.
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queer," says femme-lesbian-identifying Sarah
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When maestro Peter Bay was truly conducting, electricity charged this dance he inspired
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Solo Symphony, a music and movement work for Austin Symphony maestro Peter Bay by Forklift Danceworks Artistic Director Allison Orr, proved an important thing about music and dance: Symbiosis is everything. When Bay was really conducting the 13-member chamber ensemble onstage – in direct conversation with the individual musicians and the orchestral whole – he was vibrant, witty, and enthralling. When he was performing the movement sequences that Orr developed from some of Bay's conducting gestures, he was still charming and interesting, but you could tell the difference.
Following an introduction by composer Graham Reynolds' atmospheric piano, which said very clearly, "Here comes something special – pay attention," the lights went up on a flipped orchestra: Bay faced the audience before the musicians, whose backs were to us. No one comes closer to playing god than an orchestra conductor, and Bay's governance was a benevolent, amiable one. He often evinced a sly, knowing smile as he drew out a phrase; other times, he did a quick sideways bend, jerking his elbow as if delivering the punch line of a joke.
Between Bay's conducting and some candid, autobiographical audio clips, he moved and listened. Some of the choreographed gestures, performed in silence and to Reynolds' sound design, were memorable, especially as lit by Stephen Pruitt. Palms turned outward before him, Bay seemed to hold the surface of a large globe, and he twisted one hand held out from the waist like a sword in an enemy's gut. A simple pointing upward was reminiscent of "I swear" in ballet mime. But in sections where Bay's hand chopped the air, bladelike, Reynolds' loud, electronic drum – perhaps meant to evoke empathy with the tormented audience of that notorious first performance of Stravinsky's Rite of Spring – manhandled the show's dynamic.
After a final audio clip in which Bay described, in simple but passionate terms, his sheer love of music, he conducted an orchestral arrangement of Bach's lilting "Sheep May Safely Graze." After a few minutes, he stepped down from the podium for the first time. Hands clasped, smiling, he rocked to the gentle music and meandered through the orchestra, admiring the musicians, immersing himself in their sound. He emerged upstage, back-to-back with the players, and began his conducting movements again, facing the audience. His countenance remained kind, but his exuberance had gone. Unlike the musicians who usually sit before him, we, the audience, only sat in silence, and I was overcome by a terrible sense of failure; no matter how earnestly he sought to draw out sound, we were at a loss to make his music play. While I heard sniffles in the audience throughout the piece, the ending was what brought a lump to my own throat.
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Donation to Fire Science Technology Program at Joliet Junior College Arrives in Time for Fall Semester
ORLAND PARK, Ill., Sept. 6, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Students in the Fire Science Technology program at Joliet Junior College (JJC) now will be able to see how a fire sprinkler system works thanks to the new arrival of a fire sprinkler valve display for the fall semester.
The valve donation was coordinated by the nonprofit Northern Illinois Fire Sprinkler Advisory Board (NIFSAB) and involved a fire sprinkler valve donation from Tyco and the labor to install it on a display pedestal donated by Sprinkler Fitters Local 281.
"The vast majority of the students in our program are visual learners, so the actual physical presence of a functioning fire sprinkler valve that they can touch and see will be highly beneficial in the classroom. It's a big difference from the videos and photographs of valves that we showed in the past," says Duane Stonich, coordinator for JJC's Fire Science Technology program. "It's a neat, new learning aid that will complement our new facility that we have only been in since January."
NIFSAB Executive Director Tom Lia presented the donation at the JJC campus before the start of the fall semester.
"The valve will prove itself as a valuable learning tool for current and future students. It's important for them to be able to have equipment that they can actually handle and manipulate, rather than simply reading about it," notes Lia.
***Photography of fire sprinkler donation available at: www.firesprinklerassocnewsletters.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/joliet-junior-college-sprinkler-valve-2.png.
-Photo caption: Duane Stonich (left), coordinator for the Fire Science Technology program at JJC, accepts a fire sprinkler valve, which was a donation coordinated by Tom Lia (right), executive director of the nonprofit NIFSAB.
About the Northern Illinois Fire Sprinkler Advisory Board (NIFSAB)
NIFSAB is a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting progressive legislation, raising public awareness, and educating code officials and governmental policy makers by demonstrating the proven performance of fire sprinklers in saving both lives and property. For more info, visit www.firesprinklerassoc.org.
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Cracked.com: 4 'Geek Humor' Books by Authors Who Understand Neither: The Permanently Confused
That's it exactly. I can't read his stuff because of that.
Totally. He's extremely overblown. Well, I also skip everything of Gladstone's, but that's another matter.
I think that's Seanbaby's schtick, ever since he got his own website and all that.
I've been reading less and less cracked as of late. I don't know why, I just have. This one was legitimately funny though.
Pac-Man with bad breath looks a bit more like Pac-Man after a violent gang shootout.
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I generally don't like Seanbaby, but he's spot on with those books.
Keep in mind, 3 of those books are from the early 80's, which is not long after Pac-Man craze started in the US, so it's basically how fast can you crank out joke books. Mr. Byrnes decided to see how many bad puns you could get from "Nintendo".
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It was pretty funny, but at the same time, Seanbaby's style starts to grate on me after awhile.
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Pac-Man given an enema. Seriously, what the fuck is that shit and who even allowed it to be published? The Big Bang Theory is truly funny compared to that.
"I threw a red-dot sight on it and now it's so tacticool that I don't think I would be allowed to keep it in the state of California."
There's only one Cracked article I've ever dislike, this one, by way of misconceptions, petty assumptions, and a hint of ridiculous typecasting. Simply put the reasons are bad.
This one I don't mind, but I don't feel the subject is that warranting of a list about it. Like I said, these are kids books, not general humor book. Corny jokes that aren't funny are the medium. It really should've been named "4 'Kids Joke Books' By Authors With No Sense Of Humor (also about Videogames and Computers)"
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I also enjoyed "Pac-Man Imitating a Shark" and "Pac-Man Being Fed Intravenously".
I got a serious laugh from the former. That's rare.
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...on Kotaku, there was once a post about Pac-Man taking a shit.
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During a relegation battle, some home defeats can feel like a setback.
Then there are defeats like the one Queen's Park Rangers endured yesterday, in which even to describe them as having gone out with a whimper might be to ascribe rather too much resilience to the first half performance.
Within ten minutes they were reeling from Luis Suarez's first goal. Within 16 minutes they had flatlined as the Liverpool striker scored the second. When Daniel Agger made it 3-0 in the 28th minute, a QPR fan removed his club jacket and threw it in the direction of the pitch. In keeping with the calamitous nature of his team's day, it blew back towards him.
On the touchline, Harry Redknapp frowned and shook his head. He has said in the past that he does not want the owners of the club to have to invest in the team again next month but really, who is he kidding? Both sides must realise they have no alternative although there can be no guarantees about the success of the remedy.
There are 18 games left to play for a team that is bottom of the table and eight points adrift of safety. In the previous 20 seasons of the Premier League only three teams who were bottom on New Year's Day have survived in the division. For the first half at least, QPR had the death rattle about them.
It was a performance that was shockingly bereft of anything that might be described as character or purpose, made worse by the fact that Suarez was on the kind of form that makes him hard to stop even for defences that are not manned by Clint Hill, 34, and Ryan Nelsen, 35.
Suarez was electrifying, sending Hill the wrong way with a shift of his body and accelerating from a standing start to poke the ball past the goalkeeper Julio Cesar for his first goal. By the time Agger scored, Redknapp said he was worried it could end up an eight or nine goal defeat and said he replaced Djibril Cisse with Shaun Derry at half-time for "damage-limitation".
Redknapp did not explode with anger after the game, although at times you got the impression he would have liked to. Instead he bemoaned what he regarded as the sheer gulf in quality between the two sides and the improbability of anything being able to breach it. "What can you do?" he said. "It's hard. It can happen, being smashed by Liverpool. It can happen on their day."
Highlighting his players' shortcomings might be what Redknapp would like to do, but he recognises that will only compound a very bad situation. "I know what the problems are, but I don't want to say them publically" was as close as he got. Although he did not spare Jose Bosingwa, the player he fined for refusing to be a substitute whom he said pointedly had been "injured ever since the day he wasn't on the bench".
Redknapp's key point was that bad though QPR were in the first half yesterday, it was the first time in his seven games in charge that his side had, in his words, "a doing". He added: "I still think we'll stay up. You'll think we're mad, but I think we will." But how could he say anything else?
As for Tony Fernandes – QPR's prolific tweeting chairman who was absent when Mark Hughes was sacked – he had made his feelings known on Twitter even before Redknapp had arrived at his post-match press conference. "No excuse. Lost for words. Back to the drawing board. Woeful performance."
A quick journey through the QPR team tells its own sorry story. Shaun Wright-Phillips was anonymous. Armand Traore strolled back towards goal when Suarez scored his second and Cisse scarcely had a shot worthy of the name. QPR got it together in the second half but only by sitting Derry in front of what looked like a five-man defence and relying upon Liverpool losing interest.
Liverpool are ninth at New Year, after only their third away win of the season. They won yesterday without their manager Brendan Rodgers on the touchline, a victim, like goalkeeper Brad Jones, of a stomach virus. It meant that Colin Pascoe, his assistant, was in charge for the day and now has a better win percentage in charge of the club than Bill Shankly.
Nevertheless, Pascoe, also ill, was advised by his medical team not to go into the dressing room for the half-time team talk in case he passed on the bug. Mike Marsh took care of that, although by then Liverpool were three up. Suarez scored his second after his cross to Raheem Sterling was blocked. Agger headed the third in from Steven Gerrard's cross. The only worry was Jose Enrique's hamstring tear.
For once, this was not about Liverpool's struggles to reinvent themselves under Rodgers. It was about how much worse QPR could get. Next up on Wednesday: Chelsea at Stamford Bridge, with Tottenham and Manchester City to come in the same month. On yesterday's evidence, it looks hopeless.
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KWAME HOLMAN: For more than 20 years, the Washington Redskins football organization was the crown jewel of a family-owned empire. But when owner Jack Kent Cook died three years ago, he left the to Redskins not to his son, John, but to a tax exempt charitable foundation. By doing so, Cook reduced dramatically the amount of taxes his estate to have to pay. However, it left son John in a bidding war to try to buy the team back and keep it in the family. Cook lost. REP. DENNIS HASTERT: This is not a political issue this doesn't go along political lines, this crosses across all types of lines. Anybody who wants to build something to pass on to the children it affects. KWAME HOLMAN: Although it's commonly referred to as the estate or inheritance tax, Congressional Republicans, intent on repealing it, now call it the death tax. And yesterday they recruited the grim reaper, and the owner that of a small business to help illustrate their arguments. MARK SINCAVAGE, Small Business Owner: 1989, when my father passed away, we paid our first round of death taxes. Then in 1998, my mother died. After spending $80,000 on attorneys, accountants, and appraisers to prepare to file the death tax return, my brothers and sisters and I realize we were we facing a tax bill of over $600,000. This is on a modest business that employs just four people and whose assets are not in cash but in land and equipment. KWAME HOLMAN: Currently, the estate tax is levied a escalating rates at up to 55% on estates valued at more than $650,000. It generates about $30 billion a year in federal tax revenue. This morning, House Republicans made repeal of the estate tax the main business of a rare Friday session. REP. SUE MYRICK, (R) North Carolina: Taxes oil, taxes notes, taxes cash. If he hollers, tax him more. Tax him until he's good and sore. Tax his coffin, tax his grave, put these words upon his tomb: Taxes drove me to my doom. After he's gone, he can't relax, they'll still go after death tax. KWAME HOLMAN: Republicans complained estate taxes are decimating all segments of society. REP. DON MANZULLO, (R) Illinois: Mr. Speaker, I was there when the auctioneer's gavel fell and sold half the family farm of a couple that I represented in Ogle County, Illinois as the kids sat there and wept. Let's not talk about the Bill Gates and the Steve Forbes. Lets talk about those people. Farm people, losing their farms because government wants more money to spend on more programs. REP. LINDSEY GRAHAM, (R) South Carolina: You lose family farms in my district in droves because people are land rich on paper and cash poor; you lose the small business that can't go to the next generation to get less than 2%, the monkey with the money up here. Philanthropy is lost. The human spirit is suppressed. Most people want a legacy; they want to give something back, a library, a hospital wing, a donation to their church. This is a form of socialism that must go. KWAME HOLMAN: Most Democrats, however, argued that only the richest 2% of estates even pay the tax REP. BARNEY FRANK, (D) Massachusetts: I think if we were giving advice for the single-worst idea to come forward from a group that's been rife with them, it would be this: The idea is this: Let's make the tax code of America better for very rich people; let's give substantial tax relief to the richest people we can find. Forget about the person making $40,000 a year and paying Social Security payroll tax. Forget about all those other people paying income tax; we're here to give tax relief to the richest 2% of America. REP. SANDER LEVIN, (D) Michigan: I have no hesitation to go back to my district and to talk about what the impact of this repeal would mean for 98% of my constituents -- 98%. I'll talk about your coming here yesterday and not being able to fund Head Start, your not being able to fund training, and you're going to give, ten years from now, a $50 billion tax cut to the very wealthy in this country? I'll take that battle on anytime. REP. CHARLES RANGEL, (D) New York: Do you really say that the answer to this problem-- and it is a problem-- is to repeal, to repeal the estate tax completely? KWAME HOLMAN: Democrats instead proposed reducing estate tax rates by 20% and raising the tax-free inheritance threshold to $4 million. REP. CHARLES RANGEL: Under the Democratic alternative, the Republicans would be hard put to see whether any rancher, any farmer, any small business will be lost as a result of the $4 million exemption. I say "exemption," which means that they don't even have to think about the reduced rate of taxes. Every estate planner knows that we have a better alternative; they know we take care of the problem, but we don't take care of the multibillion dollars at stake. That's what we don't take care of. KWAME HOLMAN: Nonetheless, this afternoon the House defeated the Democratic plan to reduce estate taxes, and then, with the support of 65 Democrats, it approved overwhelmingly the Republican plan to repeal the tax, but the vote fell 11 votes short of the number needed to override a promised veto by President Clinton. The estate tax repeal now awaits action in the Senate. JIM LEHRER: Now, Shields and Gigot with analysis of this and other things political. That's syndicated columnist Mark Shields, and "Wall Street Journal" columnist Paul Gigot. Paul, who's got the best side of the argument on this estate tax? PAUL GIGOT: This is an easy one, Jim. I think the tax-cutters do, and 65, 65 House Democrats, one-third of the Democrats in the House, seem to agree. Some of the wisest American political analysts, some of them even at this table, have said that tax-cutting isn't popular. It seems to be popular in the House. When you can identify a specific tax that people don't like, and this is one that was designed for the Rockefellers, for the Carnegies in 1916, to fund World War I, but now it's beginning to hit small business people, real estate holders, a lot of people well down the income scale who just spent a life building assets. Suddenly they get hit with a 40%, 50% tax rate. And this is why a lot of the Democrats - they're hearing this in their districts. JIM LEHRER: And you think there is public support for eliminating it altogether? PAUL GIGOT: I believe there is. I talked to Neil Abercrombie, a Democrat from Hawaii, who's nobody's conservative, let me tell you. I mean, he goes right down with labor and all things. He calls himself a labor Democrat. He said, "look, this is an issue which I hear more about than any other. We've got a lot of landowners and a lot of small business people in Hawaii. They want this cut." JIM LEHRER: Mark, how do you read it? MARK SHIELDS: Jim, forgive me while I pause to wipe a tear away for the case that Paul has made. JIM LEHRER: Come on. Pull yourself together. MARK SHIELDS: 1.9% of all estates-- that's all deceased people in the United States and what they leave behind-- are eligible for taxation. We are not talking about mom and pop. JIM LEHRER: Because they don't make enough money. MARK SHIELDS: They don't make enough money. They do not leave enough. We're not talking about... We're talking one out of 25 farms. I mean, to listen to this, you think it was everybody in overalls coming in from the west 40 on the tractor, and the IRS was there to take everything away. JIM LEHRER: That's because the exemptions... MARK SHIELDS: The exemptions for farmers, the exemptions cover them, and frankly, they don't qualify. Usually when a case is made for a tax cut, it says-- and Paul makes the case very well-- "this is going to be an incentive, it's going to reward certain activity, it's going to lead to great economic stimulus." This is just the opposite of it. I mean, what it's basically saying now is "Steve Forbes, erstwhile presidential candidate, my goodness gracious, Steve should be able to take the whole kit and caboodle." I don't know what's going to make him a better person. I don't know where you're going to get $50 million. PAUL GIGOT: I admire Mark on the insight for human incentives. Some people do actually work to spend something other than to spend all the money on themselves-- maybe a little bit for the kids and grandkids, or leave a little bit to somebody else. MARK SHIELDS: And, quite frankly, and I think Paul would acknowledge this, if, in fact, this is adopted, then charitable giving, which is considerable at the time of departure in the estates that are capable of doing so, will be cut dramatically. JIM LEHRER: That's because they'll leave it to their families rather than to... MARK SHIELDS: And it's exempt. JIM LEHRER: Which they do now because they can't give so much of it. PAUL GIGOT: He's assuming all these people are somehow horribly greedy, that they don't want to give it. Individuals do give money away, too. JIM LEHRER: How do you count the votes on this? This was a pretty good vote. Is there enough out there to override a veto? MARK SHIELDS: I think obviously if George Bush wins, it will become reality. JIM LEHRER: In other words, it will just keep coming back. MARK SHIELDS: But I do think the President has enough votes right now. Let's be quite fair to the advocates. They have come up with a great phrase. It's like "right to work"-- "the death tax." JIM LEHRER: Death tax. PAUL GIGOT: Very close to veto strength in the House. In the Senate, there are eight Democrats who are on the Kyle bill to cut this, but I think Tom Daschle is going to bottle it up, if he can, to make sure it never gets to the President's desk. JIM LEHRER: Patient bill of rights, Mark: That hasn't gone anywhere. What happened? I thought that had been --I thought the political momentum out in the country was for that. MARK SHIELDS: I think what we're seeing, Jim, is two things. First of all, the issues agenda for this election is totally in the Democrats' favor. I mean, patients' bill of rights, Medicare, health care, Social Security, education: Historically, traditionally strong Democratic issues, where voters have turned to the Democrats as the party better qualified, better suited to address those problems. 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John McCain introduced a bill yesterday with no knowledge of Common Cause, any of the groups supporting it, anybody in the Senate, introduced a bill, out-maneuvered both Mitch McConnell and Trent Lott, and went to a vote, and to a vote that got the support... This is these 527-- it's a tax loophole-- millions of dollars given. We don't know where it comes from, as John McCain said in Kwame's excerpt, we don't know where it goes, we don't know how it's being spent, anything of the sort. JIM LEHRER: And this would close it. 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Improvement. That's the name of the game in the offseason, and it comes in all shapes and sizes. Teams can get better in a variety of ways -- through holdover players raising their games, through trimming deadwood from the previous season's roster, or by adding talent through the draft, trades or free agency. And sometimes, it doesn't even take any of that -- it just takes a different general on the sidelines pulling it all together.
But one thing remains constant: Standing pat is a formula for failure. In a business in which careers tend to be brief, it's imperative to constantly bring in new blood. Just ask the Miami Heat, who were so giddy about winning a championship in 2006 that they brought back the same roster last season -- and watched their aging crew fail to win a single playoff game in one of the weaker title defenses in league history.
Fortunately, half of the league's teams have made additions to their rosters that should prove quite helpful in the coming season, and that's the group I'll be discussing today. While not all of these moves were in the teams' best long-term interests ($24 million for Jason Kapono!?!?!?), what I want to do today is focus on how those maneuvers affect each team for this coming season in particular.
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The book is more of a template for `generic health researching' than anything specific to rosacea. The information is of such a generic level that a sourcebook on the next medical topic is just a search and replace away.
I thought that I might get to see some new information, but alas I was disappointed. On Page 4 we read
"All too often, patients diagnosed with acne rosacea will log on the the Internet, type words into a search engine, and receive several Web site listings which are mostly irrelevant or redundant"
Sadly this is the opposite of what you find. The National Rosacea Society comes up as a PageRank of 1 on Google. As much as we chastise the NRS, they do provide a very good starting point. If people were to start their search at the #1 rosacea web site then they will be on the right track. I'm not sure the same can be said for this book.
Later they promise "a chapter dedicated to helping you find your peer groups". They end up only mentioning a prescription drug page at rosacea-control.com, CureZone and MedHelp (of which CureZone didn't mention rosacea at all, and MedHelp timed out). Again they never mention the NRS or the Rosacea Support Group. I could keep going - the section on books doesn't mention the best text we have, the pages of links doesn't mention the Open Directory Project Categories ...
The Guidelines chapter is too short to contain anything useful. They talk about "another type of rosacea called vascular rosacea" this statement left me wondering if they had any idea what they were saying. Surely just paraphrasing the standard classification for rosacea would have been ideal introduction, especially when you are unsure of the topic you are addressing.
The whole aim of the series of books seems to be to give you information that you can't find on the well known `rosacea internet'. I have to say from my reading of this book there are scant new resources worth noting.
In the end the authors would have done better to embrace what they knocked in the first few pages. A trip to google.com, drop the `acne' bit at from `acne rosacea' and surf the first few sites you find. After that you will be in front of this book, and have something else to do with your $USD 25.


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Robertson to coach LHS boys basketball
SPORTS EDITOR BLOG — Lafayette defensive coordinator Eric Robertson just got the opportunity to add a new title to add to his resume as he accepted the open position of boys basketball coach today. (more…) (April 14, 2010)
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West Point upsets Chargers
SPORTS EDITOR BLOG — A four-run seventh inning broke a 4-4 tie and ultimately propelled the West Point Green Wave to an 8-4 win over the Oxford Chargers Friday night at Edwin Moak Field.
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