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I don't even know if we'll be getting it in at all, but I'll let you know for sure when I find out.
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Can you get the 686 Bandito Mask in for my next order? I would love you for ever Sierra ^_^
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No disrespect but that fact that it is not clear what our forefathers meant by the 2nd Ammendment is what is clearly driving this debate.
I agree with you that they may have meant the guarding of the possibility of defending against the tyrranical threat of ever-increasing federal power. But, they could have also meant a well regulated militia in defense of the new country's borders from Great Britain, France or Spain as the newly founded military was incapable of completly safe-guarding the entire nation from invasion.
"A well-regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed." 1791
One other point. Our current military has tanks, assault vehicles, surface-to-air missles, rocket launchers, land mines, grenades, and even nuclear arms. If we have the Constitutional right to arm ourselves against tyrrany then why can't we roll down the street in an armored vehicle with a 50-calibur machine gun sticking out of the roof? If the Government wanted to completely take over do you really think that a group of civilians armed with Bushmasters would be any match against bombs launched from five miles away?
I'm not anti-gun. I hold a concealed weapons permit and "packin' heat" on a regular basis. But, I have also been to the gun range and seen my fair share of nuts who just like the power afforded them by an assault rifle. I've heard them giggle like little school girls just because they were able to decimate a paper target in less than a minute and those in their posse smile in delight and amazement before adding "I gotta get me one of those!!!". There is no need for anyone to own an assault rifle. Hunting is supposed to be a sport, us against the animals. I was taught the quarry should at least have a fighting chance against our skilled or unskilled marksmanship, not destroyed in a hail of bullet fire.
Guido, I can picture the guys at the range you mentioned. Even though they were "giggling like school girls", who are the hurting? Shouldn't they have the right to shoot up paper targets to their heart's content? While we might find them silly or annoying, they are engaging in a hobby or past time much like we are at the range, the golf course, basketball court, etc. Who cares as long as they enjoy themselves in a safe and lawful manner? If they are being unsafe at the range, or elsewhere, then we already have laws for that.
As I said to another poster, it has nothing to do with need, it has to do with a right.
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Belmont Stakes
Grade I race | |
Belmont Stakes | |
= The final and most demanding leg of the United States Triple Crown |
Location | Belmont Park Elmont, New York |
Inaugurated | 1867 |
Race type | Thoroughbred |
Website | belmontstakes.com |
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Distance | 1½ miles (12 furlongs) |
Record | 2:24, Secretariat (1973) |
Track | Dirt, Left-handed |
Qualification | 3-year-olds |
Weight | Colt/Gelding: 126 pounds (57 kg); Filly: 121 pounds (55 kg) |
Purse | US$1 million 1st: $600,000 |
The Belmont Stakes is an American grade I stakes Thoroughbred horse race held every June at Belmont Park in Elmont, New York. It is a 1.5 miles (2.4 km) horse race, open to three-year-old Thoroughbreds. Colts and geldings carry a weight of 126 pounds (57 kg); fillies carry 121 pounds (55 kg). The race is the third and final leg of the US Triple Crown, following exactly five weeks after the Kentucky Derby, and three weeks after the Preakness Stakes. Consequently, it is run on Saturday, but never before June 5, nor after June 11. It is nicknamed "The Test of the Champion".
The attendance at the Belmont Stakes ranks fourth in North America. The attendance at the Belmont Stakes typically trails only the Kentucky Derby, the Preakness Stakes and the Kentucky Oaks. For more information, see American Thoroughbred Racing top Attended Events. The 2004 Belmont Stakes drew a massive television audience of 21.9 million viewers and had the highest household viewing rate since 1977 when Seattle Slew won the Triple Crown.[1]
The 2014 Belmont Stakes will be run on Saturday, June 7, 2014.
The first Belmont Stakes was held at Jerome Park Racetrack in The Bronx, built in 1866 by stock market speculator Leonard Jerome (1817–1891) and financed by August Belmont, Sr. (1816–1890), for whom the race was named. The race continued to be held at Jerome Park until 1890, when it was moved to the nearby facility, Morris Park Racecourse. The race remained there until the May 1905 opening of the new Belmont Park, 430 acres (1.74 km2) racetrack in Elmont, New York, on Long Island just outside the New York City borough of Queens.[2]
When anti-gambling legislation was passed in New York State, Belmont Racetrack was closed, and the race was cancelled in 1911 and 1912.
The first post parade in the United States was at the 14th Belmont, in 1880. Before 1921, the race was run in the clockwise tradition of English racing. Since then, the race has been run in the American, or counter-clockwise, direction. The winner of the Belmont Stakes is presented the August Belmont Trophy, one of the most prestigious trophies in the country.
Because of its length (one lap around the enormous Belmont main track), and because it is the final race of the Triple Crown, it is called the "Test of the Champion". Most three-year-olds are unaccustomed to the distance, and lack the experience, if not the stamina, to maintain a winning speed for so long. In a long race such as the Belmont, positioning of the horse and the timing of the move to chase for the lead can be critical.
The race was held at Aqueduct Racetrack from 1963 to 1967, while the track at Belmont was restored and renovated.
Evolution of the Triple Crown series[edit]
Since 1931, the order of Triple Crown races has been the Kentucky Derby first, followed by the Preakness Stakes, and then the Belmont Stakes. Prior to 1931, eleven times the Preakness was run before the Derby. On May 12, 1917 and again on May 13, 1922, the Preakness and the Derby were run on the same day. On eleven occasions, the Belmont Stakes was run before the Preakness Stakes.[3]
The Belmont Stakes is held on the first Saturday that falls on or after June 5. The Kentucky Derby is always held on the first Saturday in May; the Preakness Stakes is held two weeks later; and the Belmont Stakes is held three weeks after the Preakness. The earliest possible date for the Derby is May 1, and the latest is May 7; the earliest possible date for the Belmont is June 5, and the latest is June 11.
The first winner of the Triple Crown was Sir Barton, in 1919. On June 9, 1973, Secretariat won the Belmont Stakes by thirty-one lengths, in a record time of 2:24, becoming a Triple Crown champion that year. His record still stands as the fastest speed for the Belmont Stakes. Count Fleet won the race by the large margin of twenty-five lengths in 1943.
Changes in distance[edit]
The Belmont Stakes was run at a mile and five furlongs from 1867 to 1873; a mile and a quarter in 1890, 1891, 1892, 1895, 1904 and 1905; a mile and a furlong in 1893 and 1894; a mile and three furlongs from 1896 to 1903 and from 1906 to 1925. The current distance of a mile and half was established in 1926.
The Belmont Stakes is traditionally called "The Test of The Champion" or "Run for the Carnations" because the winning horse is blanketed with white carnations. Through 1996, the post parade song was "Sidewalks of New York". From 1997 to 2009, the audience was invited to sing the "Theme from New York, New York" following the call to the post. In 2010, the song was changed to a solo version of Jay-Z's "Empire State of Mind"[4] before reverting to "Theme from New York, New York" for 2011[5] through the present. This tradition is similar to the singing of the state song at the post parades of the first two Triple Crown races: "My Old Kentucky Home" at the Kentucky Derby and "Maryland, My Maryland" at the Preakness Stakes.[2]
Despite the fact that the Belmont Stakes is the oldest of the Triple Crown races, its traditions have been more subject to change. The switch of theme song from "The Sidewalks of New York" to "New York, New York" was an attempt to appeal to younger fans.[6] That same year the official drink was also changed, from the "White Carnation" to the "Belmont Breeze."[7] The New York Times reviewed both cocktails unfavorably, calling the Belmont Breeze "a significant improvement over the nigh undrinkable White Carnation" despite the fact that it "tastes like a refined trashcan punch."[8]
More longstanding traditions are the trophy and blanket of flowers. The winning owner is ceremonially presented with the silver winner's trophy, designed by Paulding Farnham for Tiffany and Co. It was first presented to August Belmont, Jr. in 1896 and donated by the Belmont family for annual presentation in 1926. The winning horse is draped with a blanket of white carnations after the race, in similar fashion to the blanket of roses and black-eyed susans for the Derby and Preakness, respectively.
Broadcasting history[edit]
From 1986 until 2005, the Triple Crown television rights comprised a single package. In late 2004, the New York Racing Association withdrew from that agreement to negotiate independently.[9] As a result of this NBC, who was the rights holder for all three events, was only able to keep its broadcast rights to the Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes. ABC regained the rights to the Belmont Stakes as part of a five-year contract that expired following the 2010 race; NBC has since regained the rights to the race.
- CBS Sports 1960–1985[citation needed]
- ABC Sports 1986–2000
- NBC Sports 2001–2005, 2011–2015[10]
- ESPN on ABC 2006–2010[9]
Speed record:
- 2:24.00 – Secretariat (1973)
Record Victory Margin:
- 31 lengths – Secretariat (1973)
Most wins by a jockey:
- 6 – Jim McLaughlin, Eddie Arcaro
- 5 – Earl Sande, Bill Shoemaker
- 3 – Braulio Baeza, Pat Day, Laffit Pincay, Jr., James Stout, Gary Stevens
Most wins by a trainer:
- 8 – James G. Rowe, Sr.
- 7 – Sam Hildreth
- 6 – Jim Fitzsimmons
- 5 – Woody Stephens (all consecutive from 1982–1986)
- 4 – Max Hirsch, D. Wayne Lukas, R. Wyndham Walden
- 3 – J. Elliott Burch, John M. Gaver, Sr., Lucien Laurin, Frank McCabe, David McDaniel
Most wins by an owner:
- 6 – Belair Stud (1930, 1932, 1935, 1936, 1939, 1955)
- 6 – James R. Keene (1879, 1901, 1904, 1907, 1908, 1910)
- 5 – Dwyer Brothers Stable (1883, 1884, 1886, 1887, 1888)
- 4 – August Belmont, Jr./Blemton Stable (1896, 1902, 1916, 1917)
- 4 – Harry P. Whitney (1905, 1906, 1913, 1918)
- 4 – Glen Riddle Farm (1920, 1925, 1926, 1937)
- 4 – Greentree Stable (1931, 1942, 1949, 1968)
Other records:
- Only James G. Rowe, Sr. and George M. Odom have won the Belmont Stakes as both jockey and trainer.
- On June 5, 1993 Thoroughbred racing's all-time leading female jockey, Julie Krone, became the first woman to win a Triple Crown race when she rode to victory in the Belmont Stakes aboard Colonial Affair.
- In 1984, Sarah Lundy became the first female trainer to saddle a horse in the Belmont Stakes.
- The 2002 race had the biggest attendance in the park's history with 103,222.
- Sarava, at odds of 70–1, upset War Emblem's bid for the Triple Crown.[11]
- Braulio Baeza has the distinction of winning three Belmont Stakes over three different surfaces. He won in his Belmont Stakes debut on 65 to 1 long-shot Sherluck in 1961 at the old Belmont Park, won in 1963 on Chateaugay when the race was run at Aqueduct, and won in 1969 on Arts and Letters at the new Belmont Park.[12]
Fillies in the Belmont[edit]
Three fillies have won the Belmont in 144 races:
- 1867 – Ruthless
- 1905 – Tanya
- 2007 – Rags to Riches
Three fillies have won the Kentucky Derby in 138 races, and three fillies have won the Belmont stakes in 144 races. On average, fillies have won between 2% and 3% of the Triple Crown races, with similar numbers for geldings; while about 95% of these high-stakes races have been won by uncastrated male horses, colts or stallions. (Until 1957 geldings were not allowed to run in the Belmont Stakes and that, due to the belief that fillies could not compete against colts, they were seldom entered into races in which primarily males ran.)
Foreign-born winners[edit]
- 1874 – Saxon
- 1898 – Bowling Brook
- 1917 – Hourless
- 1918 – Johren
- 1957 – Gallant Man
- 1958 – Cavan
- 1960 – Celtic Ash
- 1990 – Go And Go
- 1998 – Victory Gallop
Belmont Stakes winners[edit]
A † designates a Triple Crown Winner.
A ‡ designates a filly.
Note: D. Wayne Lukas swept the 1995 Triple Crown with two different horses.
See also[edit]
- Triple Crown Productions
- American Thoroughbred Racing top Attended Events
- List of Belmont Stakes broadcasters
- Belmont Stakes Top three finishers
- ^ "Viewership of 2008 Belmont Stakes".
- ^ a b "Belmont Stakes Records & Traditions". New York Racing Association. Retrieved 2011-11-04.
- ^ "Preakness Stakes". Turfnsport.com. Retrieved 2010-10-07.
- ^ The Associated Press (June 4, 2010). "The Belmont Stakes singing a new tune". newsobserver.com. Retrieved June 19, 2012.
- ^ The Associated Press (June 4, 2011). "Sinatra's voice returns to Belmont Stakes". boston.com. Retrieved June 19, 2012.
- ^ "Belmont Stakes Traditions". Horseracing.about.com. 2010-06-15. Retrieved 2010-10-07.
- ^ "Belmont Stakes Traditions". Horseracing.about.com. 2010-06-15. Retrieved 2010-10-07.
- ^ Powell, Julie (June 8, 2005). "The Summer Cook; The Appetites Are Nearing the Gate". The New York Times. Retrieved 2012-06-09.
- ^ a b Scheinman, John (October 5, 2004). "ABC Will Broadcast Belmont Stakes Starting in 2006". The Washington Post.
- ^ Novy, Eben (February 22, 2011). "NBC Gets Belmont TV Rights to Complete Horse Racing's Triple Crown Package". Bloomberg. Retrieved 2012-05-08.
- ^ "Belmont Stakes Attendance, Wagering Set Records". BloodHorse.com. Retrieved 2010-10-07.
- ^ Dandrea, Phil. www.ShamHorse.com. Acanthus Publishing.
External links[edit]
- Belmont Stakes Website
- ESPN.Com Attending the Belmont Stakes (gives future race dates)
- Details of all past Belmont Stakes courtesy of the New York Racing Association
- Belmont Stakes History & Facts
- Ten Things You Should Know about the Belmont Stakes at Hello Race Fans!


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Inside the front cover of a well-worn, dog-eared, brown folder where G.T. Bynum keeps all his Tulsa City Council-related materials, there is a quote inscribed by hand in dark ink.
"If you have been given a moment here, you should not let the dust grow under you," it reads. The quote is attributed to former U.S. Sen. Paul Coverdell, a Georgia Republican who died of a brain hemorrhage in 2000 in the middle of his second term in office.
Bynum keeps the quote there, where he is sure to see it every time he opens the notebook, a constant reminder not to take for granted the opportunity -- and obligation -- he has as an elected official to make life better for his constituents.
"So anytime I'm thinking about letting my foot up off the gas pedal, I see that, and it reminds me of all the work there is to do," said the 33-year-old councilor, now serving his second term.
It's an admonition that Bynum -- his full name is George Theron Bynum IV -- probably doesn't need to see on an everyday basis, given the fact that coasting doesn't come naturally to him. The plain truth is, he loves being a city councilor and relishes the challenges that come with the job.
"I really do have a reverence for the council as a legislative body," he said, before pausing to consider that statement and laughing. "I don't think the general public does, which is a shame."
Coverdell died just a couple of weeks after Bynum began working for U.S. Sen. Don Nickles in Washington, D.C., in 2000, but the legacy he left made a strong impression on the rookie staffer.
"He had been a workhorse in the Senate," Bynum said. "The kind of guy who wasn't out giving speeches and going down to the floor and just pontificating, but really working through issues, taking on lots of work. All these senators were coming down to the floor to pay tribute to him just sobbing.
"At the time, that made an impact on me because I thought, 'What is it? These guys are all Type A personalities, they're all very competitive, that's how they got here. What is it about this guy that brings out this kind of emotion?'" he said.
Politicians from both parties delivered stirring eulogies for their late comrade, and Bynum made a point of reading all of them. The common thread, he said, was Coverdell's penchant for reaching across the aisle to get things done -- and his work ethic.
"He was what they call a senator's senator," Bynum said. "He was a workhorse, not a show horse."
He was also the kind of legislator Bynum aspires to be.
Bynum acknowledges he has a long way to go before he's compiled the kind of record of public service that Coverdell, a former director of the Peace Corps, accumulated during three decades. But with six years of experience working on Capitol Hill and another three years on the council despite being only in his early 30s, Bynum is off to a fast start.
District 1 Councilor Jack Henderson, who in many ways is Bynum's opposite on the council in philosophy, says the two have a good, respectful, working relationship even though their different approaches to governing doesn't leave them seeing eye-to-eye very often.
"All in all, I have enjoyed him on the council," said Henderson, 53, who has served on the council since 2004.
But ... Henderson says he worries that Bynum too often views issues from an idealistic perspective.
"I look at things more realistically, and he looks at things as he thinks they should be," Henderson said. "Reality doesn't always enter into his mind first. Knowing Tulsa as I do and being around this city as long as I have, I may have a different perspective of what's real and what's not. That's where we differ more than anything."
Bynum doesn't argue with the idea that he and Henderson don't have a lot of common ground. But he doesn't go along with the widely held notion that the constituents he represents don't have a lot of the same concerns as citizens in other parts of the city.
"It's a much more diverse district than I think some people associate it with being," he said of his District 9, which stretches roughly from 21st St. to 61st St. and from the middle of the Arkansas River to Yale Ave. "It's so often written off as a midtown, rich people's district. But I work with folks in that 61st and Peoria corridor, and the poverty and crime issues they face there are as real as anywhere else in the city. It's a fascinating district for somebody interested in public policy."
That phrase -- public policy -- has a real "my-eyes-glaze-over" quality for many people, but not Bynum, who freely and enthusiastically describes himself as a policy geek. His one-time boss, Nickles, agreed that phrase fits Bynum well.
"There are not too many people who like to dig into the nuts and bolts of the legislative process," said the former Republican senator from Ponca City, who retired in 2005 and now runs the Nickles Group, a government consulting firm, in Washington.
"It can be tough to dig down like that. It's not as simple as just taking constituent phone calls. Some of those can be sticky, and a lot of times there's not a clear-cut answer to how you resolve those issues."
Nickles recalled that Bynum was the kind of staff member who didn't mind working to resolve difficult conflicts -- a dispute between the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and local residents over flooding issues, for instance -- even though such issues were not always glamorous.
"He would be happy to jump into them," Nickles said. "He was more than willing to do that."
Bynum said his love of public policy comes from his grandfather, former Tulsa Mayor Robert J. LaFortune.
"I grew up hearing from people why they thought he was a great mayor -- which, if you're interested in public service, it's a valuable exercise for people to spend your whole life telling you what they think is valuable in a public servant," he said.
"No. 1 on the list from people is, he (LaFortune) listened to all sides of an issue and understood the issue thoroughly before he made up his mind," Bynum said. "I always heard that, but I viewed public policy as 'Public policy, it sounds so dull and boring.' I didn't really appreciate it as a profession until I started working for (U.S. Sen.) Tom Coburn after that, who was a huge policy wonk. That's what helped me divorce the politics-as-sport issue from politics as public policy."
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One of the best things about being a city councilor, Bynum says, is the access it provides him to those who have gone before him -- city leaders whose perspective and counsel he seeks on a regular basis.
Recently, he and former Tulsa Mayor Roger Randle -- now the director of the University of Oklahoma's Center for Studies in Democracy and Culture in Tulsa -- had lunch together, and Bynum, as he periodically does, found himself despairing at the poor regard in which many citizens hold the City Council.
Randle, also a former state Senate pro tem, was able to offer Bynum a bit of hard-earned wisdom on that subject.
"He said, 'You know, G.T., the unfortunate thing is, it's hard for legislative bodies to be lovable.' And I thought, that's true because you have so many different opinions coming together," Bynum said.
The governing process itself helps reinforce that negative perception, he said, one of an eternally squabbling group whose members are interested only in protecting, and increasing, their own turf.
"We do it all in a public forum," he said of the way the council goes about its business. "It's not like in D.C. or (at the state Capitol in) Oklahoma City where everybody gets to meet behind closed doors and hash out their arguments and then go 'Wow!' and be all 'Kumbaya.'
"Transparency can sometimes be ugly. But it is transparent. People get to see all the different viewpoints at play. It's all there live on TV. They can come down and watch it happen. It's not behind closed doors, it's out in the open."
Despite his political pedigree -- which few, if any, Tulsans can match -- Bynum didn't seem destined for a career as a lawmaker in his younger years. As a graduate of Tulsa's Cascia Hall Preparatory School and Philadelphia's Villanova University, both private Catholic schools founded by the Order of Saint Augustine, Bynum found himself prepared to pursue another calling when he finished his studies in the spring of 2000. Having spent half his life in Augustinian schools at that point, he had embraced their philosophy wholeheartedly.
"I loved the focus on service to God through community," he said, seriously considering the monastic life.
Then fate intervened.
"I was signed up to go live with the Augustinians in Chicago when I graduated from college and was interested in the priesthood, if they'd have me," he said. "About a week before graduation, Sen. Nickles called and offered me a job on his staff. I thought I could help more people working with Sen. Nickles in the Senate than working in a soup kitchen in Chicago."
The offer didn't come out of the blue. Bynum had interned in Nickles' Tulsa office while in high school before serving as an intern for then-Gov. Frank Keating in college. Keating was so impressed with Bynum, he recommended him for another internship on Nickles' staff, this time at his main office in Washington.
It was during that tour that Bynum began to feel tugged toward a career in government.
"I was clearly the dork in my intern group who was blown away by it," he said, laughing as he recalled his youthful, enthusiasm. "As I told the other people in our intern group, and I remember them laughing at me for this, I said, 'This is like getting the chance to intern in the NBA! I mean, you're here with the people who are at the top of their game in the nation.' And so to be around that, and to see the Senate at work, that, to me, was my dream job, to go back and work for him after that."
Nickles recalled Bynum as being the best of a very talented group of interns in his office during that period. The senator periodically liked to reward the best people from those groups with full-time jobs upon graduation, but the problem was, turnover on his staff was low, and not many opportunities were available.
Nevertheless, when Bynum approached graduation, Nickles found a spot for him, believing his bright-eyed and bushy-tailed approach would be an asset to his office.
"G.T. more than fit that mold," Nickles said. "G.T. was one of the young, bright stars when he came to the Hill. He rose from the ranks pretty quickly."
Bynum said he barely hesitated before he took the senator up on his offer.
"One of my heroes calling me up and offering me a job to come work for him; it wasn't real difficult to change my mind," he said.
It was a move that had all sorts of implications on Bynum's future. Not only did he quickly become committed to a career in government, he also met the woman -- a University of Oklahoma graduate named Susan Carlson who was working on the staff of U.S. Rep. Frank Lucas -- who was destined to become his wife.
"That indicates I probably wouldn't have been a very good priest," he said, smiling.
Aside from a year and a half stint back in Tulsa running Nickles' office there, Bynum would spend most of the remainder of his twenties working in the Senate, part of the legion of young people who make up congressional staffs.
"It was wonderful," he said of that period in his life. "For a young person interested in government, there are few things you can do that give you so much access and opportunity as working on Capitol Hill. I do encourage any young Oklahomans who are interested in government to do it.
"I think that's one of the great secrets about our government that a lot of people aren't aware of is Capitol Hill is largely staffed by people under 30 years of age because they're the only ones who'll work that cheap and that hard. And so you get a tremendous amount of responsibility, and you learn a tremendous amount. That experience was really formative for me."
Nickles said young staff members are often surprised at the kind of impact they can make on the Hill.
"So they really can feel a sense of accomplishment," he said. "And that often whets their appetite for more success. You can do that when you're 25-years-old but not by hanging back."
The senator recalled his young staffer as being exceptionally hard working but also as a bit of an office prankster.
"I remember him laughing a lot," Nickles said. "He did have fun, which I appreciate. But he had a fiancé in Oklahoma (to whom he was soon married), so he wanted to go to Oklahoma a lot, and he did. He wanted to move back to Oklahoma. He was having great success here, and a lot of people move here and want to stay here. He wasn't one of them."
That desire to return home was weighing stronger and stronger in Bynum's mind when Nickles retired in January 2005. The now-veteran staffer accepted an offer to go to work for Nickles' replacement, the newly elected Coburn. But as much as he enjoyed working for his new boss, he realized the appeal of life on the Hill had worn off as he approached 30. Eager to start their own family, the Bynums decided to come back to Oklahoma and settle in Tulsa.
It was Bynum's first step away from a career in government, and he figured it would be a lengthy one, perhaps permanent. But Bynum had watched Nickles closely in his six years on Capitol Hill, and the senator had left a lasting impression on him, imparting values that Bynum would adopt when he mounted his own political career just a few years later.
"Having grown up with and having spent a lifetime around politicians, I can tell you there's often a difference between their public personae and what they're like in person," he said. "With Sen. Nickles, it wasn't like that at all. He was just the real deal. The biggest lesson I got from him was the ability to disagree without being disagreeable."
That quality is increasingly rare in American politics, Bynum said, noting that he periodically falls short of that ideal himself.
"The greatest failings I've had on the City Council have been when I've lost my cool and haven't disagreed without being disagreeable," he said. "It's a hard thing to stick to because the issues you deal with in public service, kind of people who are drawn to it, in my opinion, are wanting to do the right things for their communities, their country, their state, what have you. And it's easy to get overly impassioned on an issue and make it personal. And (Nickles) always did a great job of not doing that."
New Home
Making the transition to the private sector was not difficult for Bynum, who quickly found a job in public affairs with Williams & Williams, a Tulsa-based real estate auction firm that operates throughout the United States. After nine months there, he accepted a position as communications director for the local chapter of the Red Cross, then returned to his former job at Williams & Williams six months later.
Finally, last fall, he decided to bite the bullet and start his own federal government relations firm called, appropriately enough, G.T. Bynum Consulting.
"The business I'm building is really exciting," he said. "I've brought in one other person, so I've officially created a job, which is pretty awesome. That's exciting. And just the principal behind it -- somebody in Oklahoma, a business owner or a nonprofit or somebody like that who needs to interact with the federal government but just finds it too confusing and cumbersome and needs some guidance shouldn't have to go to D.C. and hire a $10,000-a-month lobbyist to help them. They should have somebody on the ground here who can help them out."
Bynum may not have spent a lot of time at Williams & Williams, but the relationship he developed there with company chairman and CEO Dean Williams had a major impact on him, both professionally and politically.
"I learned more in a year about business working with Dean Williams than I did in six years of handling business policy in the Senate," he said. "He was a brilliant entrepreneur. He's also a guy with a libertarian policy bent to him."
That libertarian awakening soon would come to inform more and more of Bynum's political philosophy. But the more he thought about it, the more he realized he had always harbored those sentiments.
In high school, for instance, Bynum had become one of the most successful members of the debate team at Cascia Hall after formulating a libertarian-based argument that he was able to use repeatedly.
"One of the reasons I did well was that I developed an argument that I learned how to flip on both sides of issues, and I used it over and over and over again, and it happened to be that issue -- what I call the protection of legitimate individual liberty, the idea that maximizing an individual's personal freedom until it infringes on someone's else's ought to be a goal in a society," he said.
"No one could ever beat that argument in debate after debate after debate after debate. People would try to attack it, but they could just never sell the judge on that not being what our goal ought to be in that situation."
Even so, Bynum didn't really have any intention of putting that philosophy to work as an elected official. Having moved back to Tulsa, his goal was to buy a house, start a family and get involved in nonprofit board work -- anything but running for office, he said.
That didn't mean Bynum wasn't still interested in politics, however.
He campaigned for his friend Cason Carter when Carter sought the District 9 City Council seat being vacated by Susan Neal in 2006. Carter's bid was successful, and Bynum figured his friend would serve in that seat for many years.
But Carter had his eye on a bigger prize, mounting a campaign for the state Senate just two years later. That left his council seat open, and he encouraged Bynum to seek it.
Despite his intentions to stay out of the political arena for a while, Bynum couldn't help but be intrigued by the opportunity. With no incumbent in the race, he realized this was likely to be the best chance he would have to get involved in city politics for the foreseeable future.
After doing some soul searching, it didn't take him long to make up his mind. Bynum sensed the timing was right.
"My Great-Grandfather LaFortune, who moved to Tulsa and made his fortune in the oil business, he always attributed his success in life -- I think the term he used that I've read -- was having the finger of God on his shoulder, pointing him in the right direction," he said.
"I don't pretend to have any direct link to God or anything like that, but I do think his finger's been on my shoulder, and he's put me in the right place at the right time where I'm supposed to be at different times in my life. And so when decisions come up, I have a strong inner direction almost every time that tells me what I'm supposed to do."
But there were other, more worldly factors motivating him, as well. Bynum and his wife were big supporters of the 2007 Our River Yes! campaign for a sales tax increase that would have funded $282 million in improvements to the Arkansas River, and they were not happy to see it go down in defeat.
"When it failed, I was really disappointed in the response of the leaders of the city, which seemed to me to be, 'We'll wait 10 years and then try again,'" Bynum said. "Working in the Senate, I'd known that when we had a bill that was really important and it failed, we went back to the drawing board and found what things we needed to fix in order to get the votes to win. We didn't just say, 'Oh, well, it's over, we'll try again 10 years from now.' "
Bynum characterizes the river as the biggest untapped asset in the city and believes it has the capacity to become Tulsa's biggest economic driver. Earning himself a seat on the City Council, he believed, would provide him with the chance to champion that belief.
"With that in mind, and a lifelong history of interest in city government, I ran and was lucky enough to get elected," he said about his win in 2008.
That term was only for one year, so in 2009, Bynum found himself running again. He won re-election easily, outdistancing his opponent, Democract Robert Lowry, by a nearly 3-1 margin and solidifying his status as one of the city's most highly regarded young leaders.
But what most of his supporters didn't know was that Bynum had come very close, like Carter before him, to gambling that he could capture an even more powerful seat.
Ambitious, in a Patient Sort of Way
The unexpected withdrawal of then-Mayor Kathy Taylor from the race just weeks before the primary election wreaked havoc on the entire campaign. Taylor, a Democrat, was widely considered unbeatable, and few Republicans had even entertained the notion of challenging her. But when she announced she would not seek re-election, the prospect of mounting a mayoral campaign suddenly became a lot more appealing to a variety of GOP political figures.
Bynum was one of them.
Almost immediately, he said, he was approached by a variety of party supporters and encouraged to file for the seat. His immediate reaction was that he was too young to run for mayor, but Bynum did not dismiss the idea. For several days, he gave it serious thought.
Finally, feeling himself pulled in both directions, Bynum drove to his family house on Grand Lake for a weekend of quiet reflection. It was while there he was able to put his ego aside and come to the realization that he didn't know as much about the job as he needed to.
"Ultimately, I quit trying to convince myself that I should run and listened again to that inner direction and realized it wasn't the right time," he said. "We were going to have a baby and at that time our son was 2, so they're more important to me than being mayor. But it was still a difficult decision to come to."
Besides, he figured, he was already in a great position to work for Tulsa's future.
"I love being on the City Council," he said. "That was the other thing -- if I ran, I couldn't run for re-election on the City Council. And for a guy who loves public policy, being on the City Council in Tulsa is like being a kid in a candy store."
Now, nearly a year removed from that decision to reel in his ambition and concentrate on his family, consulting business and council concerns, Bynum doesn't seem to have any regrets -- even as he and the rest of the council struggle to get along with the man who claimed the mayor's office, Dewey Bartlett Jr.
Sharp differences of opinion over how to deal with a devastating budget shortfall, as well as accusations that Terry Simonson, the mayor's chief of staff, lied to councilors about a federal grant, have helped create a toxic atmosphere between the administration and the council. For Bynum, who campaigned for Bartlett and looked forward to working with him, the situation is hard to bear.
"The acrimony has gone over the top," he said. "And every time I think we've reached the bottom, the bottom falls out and we find a way to go deeper. My hope, though, is that we can sit down with the mayor, with 10 elected officials, and work something out because I've not had a single one of my constituents come up to me in the last month and say, 'Gosh, I sure hope this investigation keeps on going, and you guys draw this out.' Tulsans want it to be over, and they want us to move on and start focusing on stuff that's actually going to benefit their lives, not continue this soap opera."
Bynum was one of the leaders of an effort to use mediation as a means of resolving the various disputes between the mayor and council, a list of grievances that seemingly was mushrooming by the day by late July. On Aug. 26, the City Council voted 7-2 against a formal mediation, but the council did approve a public forum to work on city policy issues as well as to hash out issues involving the strained relationship.
One of the great ironies of the situation, he acknowledged, is that it has unified the council like never before.
"If you look back, every mayor's had problems with councilors," he said. "Mayor Taylor had problems with some councilors, Bill LaFortune did, Susan Savage did. But none of them have had unanimous problems before. I'm hopeful that the mayor'll take that as a sign that he needs to work in a more cooperative fashion with the council. And I say that as someone who worked on his campaign and grew up looking up to him."
Meanwhile, the business of trying to govern the city goes on. Bynum's biggest allies on the council are fellow Republicans Rick Westcott of District 2, the council chairman, and John Eagleton of District 7. The three are the foundation of what has seemed to evolve into the council's most powerful voting bloc in recent months, though Westcott has noted that kind of power on the council is fleeting.
"They finally saw the light. They're recognizing the wisdom of my position," he deadpanned before bursting into laughter. "Seriously, I think that's just an ephemeral thing, and it depends on the issue. It doesn't signify a change of voting blocs or alliances."
Bynum pointed to the constantly shifting nature of those alliances, adding that a year ago, he felt like he usually found himself on the opposite side of most issues from Westcott and Eagleton.
"But from a personal standpoint, I would say those are two of my very good friends, and it's great to just hang out with them," he said, noting that the three of them often get together after council meetings to discuss their families, their jobs, anything but politics.
"Doing this job, you know, it's not the most glamorous job in the whole world," he said. "You're not inundated with respect from your peers. But anyone who's been in that job knows what you're going through, knows what it's like to be casting those votes and making those decisions. And so it's nice to spend some time with former councilors, current ones, outside of that work environment and get to know them. And Westcott and Eagleton are two of the funniest guys I know, so it's great to hang out with them."
Westcott and Bynum have been working in tandem throughout the past year to promote the development of the riverfront, particularly the west bank, and are hoping to have a series of small tax increment finance districts put in place there in the future to attract developers. Westcott holds Bynum in particularly high regard, expressing admiration for his brightness and his political acumen, as well as his ability to build a consensus on certain issues.
"His willingness to cross party lines and offer assistance to another councilor who needs help with a project," Westcott said, responding a question about Bynum's strengths. "His ability to bring people together."
Putting to use the lessons he learned from Nickles, Bynum said he strives to be the kind of councilor who can work with anybody, including Henderson, who is so often the yin to Bynum's yang.
"Jack Henderson represents the most Democratic district on the City Council, and I represent the most Republican," he said. "Jack and I have had some run-ins -- I joke with him that every time we're in the paper trashing each other, both of us, our popularity ratings go up 10 percent in each of our districts -- but Jack and I have also worked together on more things than we've worked against each other. The trick is in identifying what those things are that you can work together on."
Henderson said he enjoyed working closely with Bynum to get a roads improvement package passed in the fall of 2008, with the two councilors making several joint public appearances in their two districts to drum up support. And when they don't agree on an issue, he said, they still have the civility to treat each other with respect.
Hidden Agendas?
Still, Henderson said, he gets the nagging feeling that many of the issues Bynum chooses to promote are not his own. As an example, he cited Bynum's unsuccessful attempt earlier this summer to get council approval for a package of changes to the city's election laws. Henderson was particularly mystified by a proposal that would have created a primary election for independent candidates.
"I didn't see where that had any value to anyone," he said. "And he could not demonstrate that any independent candidate wanted it. I got the impression it was an issue he was doing for someone else."
Bynum responded directly to that charge.
"It was one of those things where people were asking me, 'Well, who's really pushing this?' Me," he said. "I thought during the mayor's campaign that some people brought up fair concerns about how our election system works, and so I thought we ought to have a task force to look at how we might improve it.
"There wasn't any big constituency pushing for it, and since it was just my personal interest, I'm not going to continue to push it," he said. "If there were a ton of people out there really counting on us to get it done, I would feel more inclined to burn up political capital to try to get it done, but you've got to be a realist and focus on what you can get done."
That explanation aside, Henderson noted that more than one of his council colleagues have gone so far as to accuse Bynum of carrying water for Bartlett, though that was several months ago, before the mayor's relationship with the council had deteriorated to its current state.
Veteran local political observer Michael Bates, author of the Batesline.com blog, agrees.
"I certainly had that feeling, too," he said.
Bates worries about Bynum's role as a registered federal lobbyist for local businesses and organizations, particularly his work for the George Kaiser Family Foundation -- an organization he described as Bynum's biggest client.
Bates noted that it is difficult, if not impossible, to prove a link between Bynum's work on behalf of such clients and his stance on various issues that come before the council. But the possibility for a conflict troubles him.
"I can't really think of another example where somebody is a paid lobbyist at one level and an elected official at another," he said. "It's a strange thing -- and a little worrisome, to be honest."
The political blogger acknowledged Bynum's tenure on the council has been a disappointment to him.
"It appears some of his core decision-making principles aren't what I would have expected from a former aide to Sen. Coburn," he said.
Bates emphasized that he finds Bynum very likable and that they remain on good terms. When Bynum returned to Tulsa from Washington three years ago, he said he became a regular reader of Batesline.com, and Bates acknowledged that Bynum approached him then to talk about urban planning issues. Bates couldn't help but be impressed by Bynum's enthusiasm for public policy.
"But I've found that on many controversial issues, we wind up on opposite sides, despite our political affiliations," he said.
Bates was particularly irked by Bynum's decision to help persuade his fellow councilors to adopt a measure that would ban discrimination among city employees on the basis of sexual orientation.
"In that case, I thought he didn't really understand the issue from a conservative perspective and the path other cities in this country have undertaken when taking this step," he said.
A great many local conservatives expressed their irritation with Bynum over that issue. But the councilor defended his action as an example of his libertarian leanings.
"One thing I've tried to -- and not always been successful, but tried -- is be intellectually honest on the issues we've faced on the council," he said. "That comes from that freedom that comes from not caring about being re-elected, just focused on doing what I think is the right thing, what's best for the city. So when that issue came up, it gibed perfectly with my sense of what is right.
"Somebody should not be discriminated against in the workplace because of their sexual orientation. And that goes for a heterosexual employee with a homosexual supervisor and vice versa. It is not the business of a supervisor in the workplace, and it has nothing to do with job performance."
Bynum said fellow Councilor Maria Barnes had been working on the measure for much longer than he had, but his support for it drew much more attention because he is a Republican. Nevertheless, he said, he was happy to help shepherd the measure through the council.
"To me, if I'm going to remain intellectually honest and true to my values and beliefs, then there was never a question about working on that issue," he said.
To his surprise, Bynum's effort to get the city and county to put together a joint task force to explore areas in which they might avoid duplication of services turned out to be much more controversial -- and not nearly as successful, teaching him a valuable lesson about the makeup of the council.
"The biggest thing I've learned this year is that it doesn't matter what I care about -- in a vacuum," he said. "I can run on all these things. But ultimately, it's the body as a team, and the mayor included in that, it's the government that decides what happens and what gets done. And so what you have to do is look at the team you've got and see what you can accomplish.
"I came in this go-around pushing the city-county deal, which, with the previous council, would have been a slam dunk," he said. "I mean, that thing would have passed in December or January, and right now, we'd be incorporating the findings of the task force. It would have taken 20 minutes to pass that thing through the council, just long enough for everybody to give their speech about what a great idea it was.
"But the flip side is, there's no way I could have gotten that sexual orientation thing through the previous council," he said. "We've been able to do things on development issues that prevent runoff into neighboring homes that we probably couldn't have gotten through with the previous council. So this council's been able to do a lot of important things that we couldn't do before. But at the same time, there are things we could have done before we can't do now."
Mayor GT Bynum?
As for his political future, Bynum doesn't reveal much, indicating only that he's happy to be a councilor for now and that a job at the state Capitol doesn't appeal to him.
"You won't ever find me running for anything at the state level because I just don't find it interesting," he said.
But Bates doesn't doubt Bynum will make a run for the city's highest office and probably sooner rather than later.
"I think so," he said. "It's almost literally in his blood ... There's a lot of history there, and I think his approach, much like Cason Carter's, to controversial issues instills a sense that he's playing to somebody who he thinks is going to help him. I think that ambition is definitely there."
For his part, Bynum dismisses the notion that's building up political capital to be used for a campaign run in the future.
"A lot of people say, 'Oh, you're running for City Council, climbing up the ladder.' Well, I'm enough of a history buff to have done my research," he said. "You know how many people from the City Council have been elected to something else, anything else, directly from the City Council? Two in 20 years. Randi Miller got elected county commissioner and Robert Nelson got elected judge. Otherwise, it's kind of cursed."
Nevertheless, Henderson believes the mayor's office is well within Bynum's grasp, though he issues that proclamation with an important qualifier.
"With his family, he's in a position to line himself up as mayor of this city one of these days," Henderson said. "I think that's great. As he develops and learns more about the city as a whole, I wish him well. I just hope he doesn't try it anytime soon, because he's got a lot to learn."
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I was thinking more like a sewing needle type pin to poke the IC's feedback to check for voltage shift when you apply 100k to ground.
Oh i got it!U mena while the card is active and monitoring the voltages u touch with a grounded needle the pin in order to see if the voltage changes right?
HIS did very well by offering this card with Dirt 2. Hard to resist. Do all HD5770s have the same type of GDDR5 RAM? I havn't been able to stop thinking about how fast the RAM is on this card.
nice card for the mainstream. I become impatient to wait for the arrival of hemlock and see its performance
eh i still say not worth it till the price drops to $125-30. i've had an HD 4870 and its a very nice card but the HD 5850 is more where i want my pc to be performance wise, just gotta get a job soon n buy it lol
The 5770 don't support double precision calculation that is required for OpenCL application. However the 4770 support this calculation. That's funny
I also am interested to know this too. I will have mine tomorrow. For those interested check my machine specs. I have the 5850 and I am going to run just a few benchmarks with this card against the 5850 and see how it does. I will post some screen shots when I am done.
Unfortunately for us they had produced to much rv790 chips which still waiting pcb in this times when every cent is weight five times . I wasnt to much happy with rv790 milking cow production so the best way to get rid of these waste would be enormous sale on 150$ if they could prove that with some economic balance. Cause even poor hd5770 is way much better than just 20% better monsterous chip that wastes twice as much power. So you pay premium twice with these oldie
right so ATi released something to match the last series: 4830 - Nothing yet? (maybe some form of 5670 is upcoming) 4850 - 5750 4870 - 5770 4890 - Nothing yet? (perhaps HD 5830?) 4870x2 - 5870 just a thought
They need some time to another binning of 1280SP cards, as even simpler rv770 based hd4830 only came out 5 month later even after hd4670 was launched. Somehow we usually dont see Xmas sales long before Xmas more like few days before or even after New Year. And with new bunch of Cypress (rv870) chips with better yield i believe we'll see rv870 deliberately cut down to hd5850 just to met market demand, especially if nV doesn't came out with their g300 in next 2 month. TSMC is already above 60% yield and probably next batch wont have so muchdamages so we could saw 1280+SP or even just as 5850's 1440SPs in some lower 5830 card just with extra low clocks 550MHz to keep TDP down. Or is there something in rumor that we might saw extra performance from Cypress chips that many have damaged extra 4 SIMD clusters so that HD5890 couldnt be launched in September but will be possible in Dec/Jan 2010 and we'll newer see 5830 after all
Messing with FB/FBRTN will probably get us with this ST VoltReg or some of output mosfets release their soul, while Vsense is used for load voltage regulation feedback afaik. EDIT: All above will destroy circutry and it's not to be messed up outside testing this PWM chip for application purposes. VID1 (7) is probably hot pin while VID0 (8) is used to internally switch latches. So we require software voltage regulation. And manual power play is on R1-R3 pins (10-12) (only 4 states) and actual boost current source (where we mess up) IREF (9) ...... Internally Iref pin is fixed to 1.240V. So we need some load (resistor) between pin 9 and GND if we wanna go up for 1,35V we need add externally 1,1kOhm and for 1,50V 2,6kOhm. So probably theres 1k1 1/20W SMD resistor somwere on board soldered to Iref (9) to reach default 1,350V needed for HD5770. So with 2k2 fixed resistor (instead soldered default) and some 10k pot in parallel we could regulate voltage between 1,24V-1,46V. For higher voltages change 2k2 with some higher one 100Ohm == 0,01V Anyway this should work, it's on you're own responsibility ofc. And its poor thing that probably ATi us ST instead volterra VRM so their retailer could release SoftMod tools to HD5800 cards thru different BIOS and voltage regulation approach which wont work on budget cards like HD5770
Man this is nice info but theres already supposrt for this ST controller on msi tool 1,3!! I ll be getting my card tomorrow and see for my self!!! Just out of curiosity,what is the 2nd 2 on 2k2?its 2kOHM>>?<<
So it's possible SoftMods with MSI tool? How high voltage could be set? I'd personally love doing all mods w/o soldering on card It's quicker and simpler 2k2=2,2kOhm. But read text you need to change soldered one and connected to pin 9 (1.1kOhm guessed by 1.350V supposed default voltage someone mention for HD5770 card). So if all this have some reality I'd personally went changing SMD 1k1 with desired SMD one and adding just a pot on external wire. If you really decide to do that do not forget archive your soldering with some photos some had some real snapshots and i hope you wont decide to give to much voltage for card and i'd put pt somwhere on 1/2 turn or just slightly above (in 2k2 scenario) especially if you went nut high w/ fixed resistor (100Ohm on FR ==0,01V on VGPU !!)
Nah i wont be voltmodding the card the HARD way...Yes it it possible now to softmod the card.Anyway,the 1,35 volts ISNTthe default voltage but the maximum voltage the voltage regulator can output.I ve mentioned this earlier in this thread.Default should be 1,25ish???Somewhere there...So your calculations will probably are wrong... They only thing i d liuke to knwo is the VMEM hardmod...but i guess i ll find it when i get my card tomorrow!
You're just one of voltmod wannbees. Calculations are right if you try to read them carefully and having nothing with the card itself or cards default voltage (except that 1,35 is the default voltage for 5770 as you state you already said). And the whole thing is just because you burned down one card with wrong vmods lazzer pointed out and ... well read the original reply to Lazzer. And i dont see why you wannabe a modde when the same thing you can do with software it's ok. read the blue letters (not ST L6788A thats chips name)
Thank god i havent burned a card yet...I ve hardmodded 3 4850s and the result was success every time so i think i am past "wannabe" level... And unless i understood wrong, u were trying to calculate the needed resistance for giving the gpu 1,35volt via trimmer right?So if for the default resistance,your reference voltage was wrong then wrong would be the other calculations too right?Iwas trying to be SMART.I was trying 2 b of help here And as i said after having soft support for the vGPU i d only like vMEM hardmod cos there wont be any vmem support coming...In a couple of hours i ll be searching the pcb for grounding the vMEM chip...Will post and compare with everyone here to correct my findings if needed
Now can someone confirm that this:http://www.upi-semi.com/ProductFiles/uP7701_Datasheet.pdf is the chip that regulates the vMEM??? Its according to w1zzards photos... And if it is,should someone solder PIN7 to ground?
OK. it's just few posts back. So what i did interpret wrong you did some mod on that 5770 card that you RMAed after that. http://forums.techpowerup.com/showpost.php?p=1595834&postcount=100 ofc you did when you tried so hard to understood it wrong way. Picture is self explanatory, and i went explaining why that Lazzar mode that youdid is wrong and where you should mode and what. And thats not trimmer to get you1.350V except you just do that w/o unsolder original chip on pin that i mention. If you understood modding it's not had way to understand what you doing wrong now. I say you have to unsolder original load thatgives you that1.35V. Read my first reply to Lazzer and that second to you. and it will clear up for you. Don't look just at picture something is in the text. So 1. unsolder resistor on pin 9, 2. solder that 2k2 resistor (my hardmodder) on its place, 3. solder 10k trimmer/pot via some wires and thenyou should get 1.240V-1.460V regulation. I know i should sketch it down few times before. I suppose you werent trying to play smart but cmon you could read that two posts when you have time and pretty simply figure it out. Anyway why you even bother with hardmod you didnt answer in my reply to you when it will only void you warranty and softmod works more than fine? I'll just said that memory is much more voltage sensitive and since it's graphic card memory it has vdd/vddq regulation also. I don't see it on his photos. How many of them are on the board?
That was on purpose man,so i would get the 5770 that i have now...+30euros ofc It was in the case that someone needed MORE than 1,35 volts...Anyway i dont need the hard mod since its very nice via software Look at the bottom and see if u cand find the vdd/vddq http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/HIS/HD_5770/3.html


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Miller's Crossing |
The script is awash with Prohibition-era jargon both historically grounded and whimsically invented, a symphony of phrases and exchanges that linger and echo long after being heard. (It isn't unusual after a viewing to walk around asking friends, "What's the rumpus?", or to complain about being given "the high hat" upon being snubbed.)
The performances, as well, are individually and collectively irresistable. I defy you, in fact, to find a single film in which _any_ of the major players has ever been better. There's not a false or miscast note in the whole of the dramatis personae. There's Gabriel Byrne as the inscrutable, Machiavellian Tom Reagan, a trusted advisor to the city's Irish mob lord who falls out of favor and "defects" to the Italian camp to save his own skin...or does he? Albert Finney plays Leo, the aforementioned Irish power broker whose fists of iron, vicious survival instinct, and all-too-vulnerable heart congeal into a simply remarkable, unforgettable character. John Turturro is equal parts pathetic outcast and conniving opportunist as Bernie Birnbaum, the unscrupulous, vampirically pale bookmaker whose shady maneuvers set the whole plot into motion. Marcia Gay Harden exudes fierce intelligence and buckets of carefully-aimed sex appeal as Bernie's sister Verna, whose unflagging drive to protect her brother -- even from himself -- almost excuse her twisted machinations. J.E.
Read more ›I think the key to my love for Miller's, though, is realizing what what I believe the dream-hat meant (I'm sure this will be obvious to some, especially those that have watched a number of times, but I just want to throw this out there for folks that have seen it, but don't know what all the hubbub is about--because certainly, that's how I felt when I first saw it).
Whether people wear hats or not in the film seems to represent whether they are acting out of passion-from the heart, that is, or out of mind--thinking logically, or unemotionally.
Tom's conflict in the film is entirely between his head and his heart(Verna). He loses his hat to Verna in a poker game, and he goes back to her apartment to get it--and it is left on the sill while they fool around. And Tom says about his dream: "There's nothing more foolish than a man chasing his hat." Ultimately, Tom chooses mind over heart in the end--or does he? The final shot shows him methodically putting his hat on so low that we can't even see his eyes, so he seems to make the cold choice of pure logic--but then, as he looks after Leo leaving (Leo, who has been hatless throughout, pure emotion, has now learned something--and he is wearing a yarmulke), the camera sneaks in under the brim of Tom's hat to see his eyes. It is rare for a movie to understand its character's so well. Wonderful filmmaking


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NEW YORK ( MainStreet) The Department of Justice (DOJ) announced August 29 that it will "encourage" Swiss banks to cooperate with its tax evasion investigations. Part of the encouragement comes in the form of a joint statement with the Swiss Federal Department of Finance, stating the mountain nation - known for its clocks, neutrality and the tendency of its banks not to ask too many questions about depositor's money - will cooperate with DOJ.
Banks that aided tax evaders - and are currently not under criminal investigation - will be slammed with significant penalties, and they must make complete disclosure of their cross-border activities and provide detailed information on an account-by-account basis for accounts in which U.S. taxpayers have a direct or indirect interest.
"This program will significantly enhance the Justice Department's ongoing efforts to aggressively pursue those who attempt to evade the law by hiding their assets outside of the United States," said Attorney General Eric Holder. "In addition to strengthening our partnership with the Swiss government, the program's requirement that Swiss banks provide detailed account information will improve our ability to bring tax dollars back to the U.S. treasury from across the globe."
These banks will also be required to:
- Cooperate in treaty requests for account information
- Provide detailed information as to other banks that transferred funds into secret accounts or that accepted funds when secret accounts were closed
- Agree to close accounts of account holders who fail to come into compliance with U.S. reporting obligations
The program is sort of a get-out-jail-free card for the banks. If they do everything required they will not be prosecuted.
"The U.S. government is recognizing that there is tax evasion from such accounts," said John O. McGinnis, a professor at Northwestern University School of Law and an expert in international business transactions. "Given that tax evasion harms honest taxpayers, I think this is positive thing for the Justice Department to be doing."
This issue is coming to the forefront as more nations try to keep their tax dollars from crossing borders. The United States, along with Great Britain, France and other countries are cracking down on tax evaders.
Germany arrested soccer club president Uli Hoeness for tax code violations; Italy fined Dolce & Gabbana for tax violations. Spain, accused another soccer icon Lionel Messi for tax fraud.
After their meeting in June, the G8 announced aggressive policies of tax enforcement. They cited these objectives for tax enforcement across borders:
- Tax authorities across the world should automatically share information to fight the scourge of tax evasion.
- Countries should change rules that let companies shift their profits across borders to avoid taxes, and multinationals should report to tax authorities what tax they pay where.
- Companies should know who really owns them and tax collectors and law enforcers should be able to obtain this information easily.
- Developing countries should have the information and capacity to collect the taxes owed them and other countries have a duty to help them.
- Extractive companies should report payments to all governments and governments should publish income from such companies.
According to DOJ since 2009 they have charged more than 30 banking professionals and 68 U.S. account holders with hiding money offshore. One Swiss bank made a plea bargain and a second Swiss bank was indicted and pleaded guilty. DOJ is actively investigating the Swiss-based activities of 14 financial institutions. Other countries involved are India, Luxembourg, Israel and some Caribbean Island nations.


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Visit Rome On your Next Vacation!
If there is one thing that sums up Rome, it is going to be the beauty and the history behind it. Rome is by far one of the most beautiful places to visit and if you have never been – you are absolutely missing out on a lot. Rome has a lot of attractions available to suit any needs of any tourist. Things like churches, beaches, market places, galleries, historical sites and museums are all available for you to tour in Rome.
Rome is also houses some of the most beautiful hotels in the world too, so you will be staying in some of the best luxury hotels or even budget hotels if you wish. No matter where you stay in Rome, you are definitely going to enjoy yourself – how could you not in a beautiful place like this?
The food is another thing that you have to look forward to. Rome has some of the best restaurants in the world and if you can make it in Rome, you pretty much can make it anywhere!


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See embroidered sea creatures, floral masks, and all of the other amazing details up close.
Perilous staircase strikes Rosario Dawson, Eva Longoria.
Say au revoir to fashion month with the last round of detail shots.
The dress that could have been the Grammys' No. 1 nightmare.
In which Elie Tahari is exceedingly gracious.
Plus, Freja Beha Erichsen for MO&Co.
Metallic animal-print, Isabel Marant lace, and more highlights from the week.
Plus, Nicola Formichetti covers a new issue of L'Officiel Hommes with a butterfly on his eye.
19-year-old Kloss worked her lace-swathed bottom off this week.


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Yes, that is condensation on the fiberglass batts, both those installed correctly, and those incorrectly. This was a brand new home. The contractor sprayed the crawlspace perimeter with closed cell polyurethane foam, put fiberglass in the floor (some right, some wrong), installed a leaking duct system, left crawlspace vents open, and.....did not install a vapour barrier over the soil.
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"We have a great demand on professional Bachelors"
By Mohamed Ramdani (issue: 10/04/2013)
• B&B Forum was held at the European capital with the participation of entrepreneurs and Business managers. This event comes as a concrete step to implement the partnership initiated by the Multidisciplinary Faculty/ El Jadida and Francisco Ferrer High school of Brussels.
By Mohamed Ramdani (issue: 07/02/2013)
L'Economiste (issue 13/11/2012)
Students of the Multidisciplinary Faculty promote the export of the Moroccan cooperatives' products abroad namely at Brussels
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Vilkal on Aug 14, 2013 at 07:53:21
This is my absolute favorite T! So love it, everytime I wear it, it brings smiles on peoples faces!
aceyed on Aug 1, 2013 at 18:44:27
Had to buy it! Compliments every time I wear it!
aceyed on Jun 17, 2013 at 19:21:13
this made laugh, i love it
Darth Cheeka on Jan 22, 2013 at 18:34:20
Adorable, brilliant!
gryffinfloor on Dec 23, 2012 at 21:13:52
I wish the shirt was printed on the same color as the hoodie. I love the design on the hoodie but I can't afford that.
aicrysar on Dec 3, 2012 at 12:16:28
Great design!
The notes say to order one size down for girl's hoodie, so I ordered a small instead of a medium. It is way too small, I would say order your regular size or one size up for girl's hoodie. I think the hoodie would look better in the same red as the t-shirt.
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I love this idea :] I am a big fan of Egyptology XD and this just makes me chuckle thank you :D
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Love it
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So cute, so clever.
Stypica on Aug 16, 2012 at 15:25:22
this didn't have a name when i bought it for my wife - we just called it Ramen-hotep:)
GinaG3 on Jul 23, 2012 at 18:56:01
Please, Please, Please reprint the adult shirt on brown! Come on, i said please!
argos5 on Jun 26, 2012 at 23:36:36
Just as a note to Non-Filipinos. Jerry's design is brilliant. My little sister tipped me off to this design and I wanted to explain this.
In the Philippines, "Mami" is the tagalog term for "Chinese Noodle Soup". The pronunciation for "Mami" is very very close to "Mummy" and this combination idea lends itself to Jerry's brilliance!


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Spem in Tedium
MOPS Day, uh, 10. I am doing this one on a Sunday, when no-one is on the interwebs, because it's the prime example of me using the rule 'I will finish off all the ideas that were in my lost notebook, even if they are not strictly speaking good ideas'.
It starts from a conversation a few years ago about Tallis' brilliant 40-part motet, Spem in Alium, combined with various discussions about the dullness of the sort of choral bass line where one only sings on one note. And I happened to wonder: if there are 40 vocal parts, is the number of different pitches that they sing at fewer than the number of people? That is to say, if one were to rearrange it so that each person were singing only on one note (assuming the requisite ability to count like robot ninjas that that would need), how many singers would you need? Yes, I realise this spectacularly misses the point of both Spem and choral music in general. The fact that it's more or less a big troll is why I found it amusing, and wrote it down in the notebook. The answer, in case you were wondering, is somewhere around 33 depending on various editorial decisions.
I was able to partially automate doing this, so it's slightly less wasted effort than it looks like, honest. It's a pdf file, so I've put it up on fluffhouse here.


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If you don't want to spend top dollar for an iPad, Surface, or Nexus tablet you can try the $269 Amazon Kindle Fire HD 8.9 or the $299 Asus Memo Pad Smart 10. Walt Mossberg gives us his take on both tablets. (Photo: Amazon & ASUSTeK)
This month marks the third anniversary of Apple's iPad. Since it hit the market, it has sold over 120 million units, and tablets in general have taken off. But large-screen tablets like the 9.7-inch iPad have remained dear for many budgets. The latest iPad and Microsoft's MSFT +0.95% Microsoft Corp. U.S.: Nasdaq $38.36 +0.36 +0.95% Dec. 6, 2013 4:00 pm Volume (Delayed 15m) : 34.57M AFTER HOURS $38.46 +0.10 +0.26% Dec. 6, 2013 7:52 pm Volume (Delayed 15m): 1.88M P/E Ratio 14.21 Market Cap $320.23 Billion Dividend Yield 2.92% Rev. per Employee $810,010 12/06/13 Taking Down an Ad-Fraud 'Botne... 12/05/13 Microsoft Takes Action Against... 12/05/13 Ford Director Douses Microsoft... More quote details and news » new Surface RT start at $499. Even lower-priced, full-size tablets from name-brand companies typically cost $300 to $400. To pay significantly less, you've had to opt for a much smaller unit, in the 7-inch range.
Now, major manufacturers are lowering prices for some larger-screen tablets to at least slightly below $300. This week I've been testing two of these sub-$300 models. One is the largest Kindle Fire HD, with an 8.9-inch screen and a price that was just cut to $269 from $299. The other is a new 10.1-inch tablet from Asus, the MeMo Pad Smart 10.1, which sells for $299. The Kindle's display is smaller than the roughly 10-inch tablets, but I consider it close enough to include in the category.
Left, the Asus MeMo Pad Smart; right, the Kindle Fire HD (l-r) Asus; Amazon
What kind of large tablet do you get for under $300? Pretty good ones. While neither of the two I tested is as good as the iPad, each delivers decent value for the price.
These two tablets are quite different from each other. The new, awkwardly named, Asus is a standard Android tablet, replete with built-in apps from Google, GOOG +1.19% Google Inc. Cl A U.S.: Nasdaq $1069.87 +12.53 +1.19% Dec. 6, 2013 4:00 pm Volume (Delayed 15m) : 1.40M AFTER HOURS $1070.36 +0.49 +0.05% Dec. 6, 2013 7:59 pm Volume (Delayed 15m): 27,375 P/E Ratio 30.33 Market Cap $357.43 Billion Dividend Yield N/A Rev. per Employee $1,059,710 12/06/13 Google Squeezes Margins on Mot... 12/06/13 Google's Moto G Skating on Thi... 12/06/13 Google Glass Half-Empty for We... More quote details and news » which makes Android, and a few from Asus. It has front and rear cameras, and the standard 16 gigabytes of internal memory. And it has access to the Google Play store, which features over 700,000 apps, only a fraction of which are designed to take advantage of a large tablet screen.
The Kindle Fire HD 8.9, like its popular $199, 7-inch sibling, is technically an Android tablet. But it buries Android under Amazon's own user interface, doesn't feature Google's apps and uses its own tablet-oriented, highly curated app store, which currently has 50,000 choices. It is capable of managing email, browsing and social networking, and running popular third-party apps and games. However, the Kindle Fire HD is mainly a hardware front end to Amazon's vast collection of digital books, music and video. It also comes with 16 gigabytes of internal memory.
The Asus, available at various online stores, runs the current major release of Android, called Jelly Bean, albeit a slightly older version of that software. However, the Kindle, consistent with its general demotion of Android to mere plumbing, is running a version of Android, Ice Cream Sandwich, that's a whole generation behind. It's available at Amazon.com. AMZN +0.64% Amazon.com Inc. U.S.: Nasdaq $386.95 +2.46 +0.64% Dec. 6, 2013 4:00 pm Volume (Delayed 15m) : 1.90M AFTER HOURS $387.00 +0.05 +0.01% Dec. 6, 2013 7:57 pm Volume (Delayed 15m): 83,644 P/E Ratio 1381.96 Market Cap $177.12 Billion Dividend Yield N/A Rev. per Employee $793,371 12/08/13 High-Tech Commodity Testing Ad... 12/08/13 Before Amazon's Drones Come th... 12/08/13 Proceedings | Highlights From ... More quote details and news »
Perhaps the biggest difference between the two was in battery life. I ran my usual rigorous tablet battery test on each, turning the screen brightness to 75%, keeping Wi-Fi on to collect email in the background, and then playing videos until the units shut down for lack of power.
The Kindle Fire HD 8.9 scored 8 hours and 16 minutes in my test, nearly two hours less than the iPad, yet better than many tablets I've tested. But the Asus MeMo did quite poorly, lasting only 5 hours and 27 minutes, almost 3 hours less than Amazon's tablet.
To get the Kindle for $269, you have to put up with ads, some on the lock screen and some in the form of recommendations for buying other content on the home screen. You can turn off the latter in settings—a new feature. But to get a model without the full-screen ads, which Amazon calls "Special Offers," you have to pay $15 more, either when purchasing the device or by going to an obscure page on Amazon.com.
Other downsides of the Kindle HD 8.9 are that it lacks a rear camera and its browser, called Silk, remains in my tests a bit slower at loading Web pages than either the iPad or standard Android browsers.
On the other hand, the bigger Kindle offers a crisp, sharp screen, and can also be purchased for just $30 more with twice the memory, and for $399 with a cellular data option in addition to Wi-Fi. It's lighter and slightly thinner than the full-size iPad, and slightly thinner and lighter than the MeMo 10.1, though the latter is also lighter than the iPad. It has much higher screen resolution than the MeMo's, but less than the iPad's.
The Asus lacks a higher-memory or cellular model, though it has a memory-card slot for adding storage. It also has a nice feature that permits continuous burst shooting of up to 100 continuous photos. This photo feature worked, but some of the shots were out of focus.
With the Kindle, I never had a crash or a glitch. On the Asus, I ran into a couple of minor, but annoying, problems. An Asus app called BuddyBuzz, one of many attempts by device makers to meld your social networks in one place, crashed frequently. However, I doubt many users will rely on it. And while playing movies rented from Google, I got several messages saying the movie couldn't be authenticated. One tap fixed this, but no one wants to be interrupted like that while watching "Inception." Asus said it couldn't replicate either glitch but would investigate.
Many people may prefer smaller tablets, which typically sell for around $200 or even less. But for those who want a full-size slate at a lower price, these two sub-$300 models are good choices.
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