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ST AUGUSTINE, Florida (AFP) - Colin Montgomerie and Fred Couples were inducted to the World Golf Hall of Fame, highlights of a stellar 2013 class that also included veteran and lifetime achievement inductees.
Last year, Sandy Lyle became the first living Scot to be inducted into the Hall of Fame. He was joined by two others this year, Montgomerie and Ken Schofield.
"Thank you all for coming here this evening to celebrate what I think is the greatest game of them all, and I'm sure you all agree, a game that I started playing at the grand old age of five in Troon, Scotland," Montgomerie said late on Monday.
"Mind you, in Troon, Scotland, that's about all you do," he joked.
Ken Venturi, Schofield and Willie Park were also inducted in this year's class. Venturi and Schofield were inducted via the Lifetime Achievement Category. Park was chosen via the Veterans Committee.
Former Masters winner Couples will captain his third straight American Presidents Cup team this fall. Couples was a 15-time winner on the Tour and captured The Masters in 1992.
He was also an assistant captain to Davis Love at the 2012 Ryder Cup.
Couples won two Players Championships, was the PGA Tour Player of the Year twice and was the first United States player to reach the world number one spot in the world golf rankings.


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Science, Copyright, and Free Inquiry
We primarily talk about copyright policy in the context of things like music and movies, but it also has an important impact on learning and scholarship. That's the subject of this great Lawrence Lessig presentation:
The Architecture of Access to Scientific Knowledge from lessig on Vimeo.
As he observes, the extent to which bad intellectual property policy stymies inquiry and science can be easily obscured to members of the faculty of an American university. These universities generally pay for subscriptions to JSTOR and all the rest on behalf of their professors. But there are lots of people in the world who might like to know things—and might even contribute to the world's stockpile of useful knowledge—and who aren't in a position to benefit from these institutional memberships. One of the perks of having over 20,000 Twitter followers is that if I ever want to read something that's behind an academic paywall somewhere, I can normally just tweet that I want to read it and someone will email me a copy. But that's illegal, even though enforcing the law more rigorously would generate nothing but deadweight loss.


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How to Stop Being an Attention Seeker
Seeking attention is not always a good idea, therefore, it's a great aspect that you are trying to overcome this annoying habit. Many people tend to do all kinds of ridiculous things just to seek other people's attention and that usually leads to one's lack of self confidence and esteem. Quitting this habit doesn't require much besides you trusting yourself and focusing on your intention.
1Who are you? This question is the first and most important step. The first thing you should do is to know who you truly are because it's only then when you get to know your real and original abilities that make you unique. Once you get to know those you also know how much attention can be given to you without you even trying or bothering.
2Why are you trying hard to obtain attention? After you have found an answer to your previous question ask yourself this one. Why are you starving for attention? Many people give others attention but without them noticing, either because the person doesn't want to show the other that he/she is giving him/her attention or because they fail to do it. However, most of the time a person is already given attention but without him/her realizing it. Still, bear in mind that everyone is a simple human and whether they give you attention or not, it will not change much in your life or make it so much better, instead, sometimes it might cause problems.
3How can attention affect your life negatively? Since you are the type of person who wants attention then think of it this way: Can people's attention affect your life negatively? Everything has its bad sides; and "attention" must have once made this statement true. When people pay you attention (doesn't matter whether it's only some or too much) they start noticing things about you that you wouldn't want them to realize. In a way it is kind of like knowing you (even if they do already) and getting to see your imperfections. So why would you even want people to notice things you unconsciously want to hide? This thought should already discourage you. Also, think of how many people hurt themselves with their own hands just to gain others' attention...and was it worth it?
4Why do you think that people are not giving you enough or no attention? Usually when one is "dying" for something he/she can't see that they already have either it or at least some of it. Also, when people are so thirsty for something other people easily notice it and purposely prevent them from having it, thinking that in that way the "thirsty people's" attitude would change; so you might as well just show others that you don't care or want what is called "their attention".
5Say NO to seeking attention. If you're already trying hard to end this habit then you should know that you can if you want to. Think of the causes and consequences and show yourself and everyone that you have control over what you want. Once you deeply believe in something or want something you immediately succeed.
Community Q&A
- Behave normally and talk when you are supposed to. That is how you will see how much attention is given to you without you doing something absurd.
- Stay for about an hour without making any effort to seek attention and after the hour passes see how you feel about yourself.
- Know that attention isn't very helpful anyway.
- Take a look at the number of people acting strangely just to grab attention from someone.
- Think of someone who tried or tries grabbing your attention and how worthless it felt.
- Don't waste time thinking of attention; just get yourself busy.
- Don't try to even talk to those who ignore you.
- Do not hang with people who make you feel left out.
- Do not look around you searching whether or not someone is paying you attention.
- Do not allow the thought of seeking attention to force itself on you.
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Español: dejar de llamar la atención, Italiano: Smettere di Ricercare Sempre l'Attenzione degli Altri, Português: Parar de Querer Chamar a Atenção, Русский: перестать искать внимание окружающих, Français: arrêter de vouloir attirer de l'attention
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"I view plants as things that change ... You can't rely on every plant to last for 20 years."
A WELL-KNOWN designer once told me that the way to have a really great garden is to move every seven years. Then you never have to deal with the more dire results of overplanting.
Urban garden designer Phoebe Fine proves it's possible to cultivate a garden for decades without it closing in around you. Fine bought a brick Tudor in Ballard after she graduated from the University of Washington with a landscape-architecture degree and has been gardening the 50-by-100-foot property ever since.
Coming from a vegetable-gardening background, Fine looked out at her blank slate of a new garden 22 years ago and realized she had never actually planted a tree. She paid $125 for a bare stick of a silk tree (it was winter) and launched her new garden.
Remarkably, Fine has managed to keep the space open and bright while dividing it into tidy little rooms. She's a realist when it comes to flora: "I view plants as things that change … You can't rely on every plant to last for 20 years."
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An organic gardener, she has put energy into enriching the soil to give every plant the best chance possible.
"I've always loved foliage, and have come to love flowers," says Fine, taking the opposite route most gardeners travel in their plant tastes. She keeps her garden interesting over time and through the seasons by planting both deciduous and evergreen trees and shrubs, and not relying on plants for everything. The shade garden on the side of the house is centered with a little pond and stone fountain to attract birds.
Tall urns planted with pheasant's tail grass (Anemanthele lessoniana) and impatiens flank the front porch. Around back, trellising, arbors and a patio define spaces. There's a hammock, carried home from a trip to Mexico, draped enticingly between trees in a back corner. The surprise of a formal chandelier swings above the raspberry patch. An open-air dining room in the back garden lures family and friends outside.
Fine has even shoehorned edibles into the mix, and says that many of her clients with young families are asking to have vegetables integrated into existing ornamental gardens. Fine's herb garden near the kitchen door holds peppermint, parsley, oregano and sage. Tomatoes and beans grow along a warm south wall of the house, and she recently carved out a more separate vegetable plot toward the back of the garden.
Despite Fine's preference for foliage plants, flowers and vegetables seem to be taking over the back garden. She allows self-seeders like nasturtiums, poppies, cosmos and amaranth to settle in for summer color. "Self-seeders make my job easier," she says.
One back border is devoted to flowers for cutting, including crocosmia, astrantia, salvia, asters, daisies and rudbeckia.
Fine used to work for the design/build firm Kemper Iversen Ltd., where she helped create a display garden for the Northwest Flower & Garden Show. Now she works from home, and most of her clients have small, urban properties.
Fine incorporates lessons learned in her home garden in every garden she designs. She makes sure there's plenty of structure, and emphasizes symmetry and plant repetition. She designs in evergreens for year-round presence.
"I like plants that perform well … I don't like to fuss," concludes this most pragmatic of gardeners, who has found satisfaction in staying put.
Valerie Easton is a Seattle freelance writer and author of "petal & twig." Check out her blog at www.valeaston.com. Mike Siegel is a Seattle Times staff photographer.


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Step away from the straightening irons as it's plaits we should be wearing next season, according to The X Factor hairdresser.
Jamie Stevens says plaits are a quick and easy way to jazz up a simple hairstyle and the trend is set to be huge in SS13.
"There is no getting away from plaiting and braiding this season as it emerged as a key trend on the A/W'12 catwalk at shows including Pucci, Fendi and Mulberry," Jamie Stevens of Jamie Stevens Hair told Yahoo! Lifestyle.
"They're great as it's an easy way to jazz up a hairstyle and they're so versatile with so many different types of textures and placement that can look young, edgy, classic or romantic."
It's all about how to do the plait and where you place it that makes the difference, according to Jamie, who demonstrated his plaiting technique on The X Factor's Ella Henderson throughout the live shows.
A plait can be worn on its own or added to another hairstyle to create a one-of-a-kind look.
"You can incorporate plaits into a whole other style like into a topknot to create a different texture and you can even plait within your plaits, for example plaiting each strand of a 3 strand plait, before plaiting them together!" suggested Jamie.
"The best thing is that plaiting now is all about looking undone, so you don't have to worry about making it look too perfect and are an easy way to change up your style from day to evening".
Inspired by plaits? Check out our gallery of the top 10 celebrity plaits.
Let us know what you think of the beauty trend on Twitter with the #YLifePlaits.


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Inter-campus Loan (ICL) Program
Selected works from the permanent collection are available through the Inter-campus Loan Program. Currently over 400 works are on view throughout VCU's Monroe Park and Health System campuses. Participation in the program is dependent upon inventory and there is an administration and installation fee per piece borrowed.
Please note: the ICL program is temporarily suspended and new loans are not being issued at this time.
If your department currently has work through the ICL program, and you need assistance, please call the Gallery's main line, 804-828-1522.
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Past Exhibit:
On display in the Special Collections Department, Norlin Library Room N345:
Wanderlust: British Travel Narratives of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
Department Hours: Wed., Thu. and Friday, 1 to 5 p.m.
Free and open to the public.
Call 303-492-6144 for more information.
The Americas
"Travels in the United States, Etc.," by Lady Emmeline Stuart Wortley. 1851.
Lady Wortley travelled widely throughout her life. In this book, she describes the sights, experiences, and most determininedly her opinion of the inhabitants of the United States, Mexico, and Jamaica.
"Peru: Incidents of Travel and Exploration in the Land of the Incas," by E. George Squier. 1878.
Squier intended this book primarily as a reference work for archaeologists, but the writing and quality of the illustrations won it popular attention, as well.
The South Seas
"A Voyage Round the World: In the Years MDCCXL, I. II. III. IV.," by George Anson. 1748.
George Anson was in command of squadron charged with harrassing the Spanish in the Pacific Ocean.
"A Voyage to the South Seas, in the Years 1740-1," by John Bulkeley and John Cummins. 1757.
The authors served as gunner and carpenter on the Wager, a ship in Anson's fleet, which was wrecked off the coast of Chile. The Captain of the ship went north with twenty crewmen, while Bulkeley and Cummins led a mutiny, seizing the ship's longboat, barge, and cutter, and leading the remainder of the crew around Cape Horn.
"Polynesian Researches, During a Residence of Nearly Six Years in the South Sea Islands; Including Mythology, Traditions, Government, Arts, Manners, and Customs of the Inhabitants," by William Ellis. 1829.
William Ellis was a missionary who wrote several books about his experiences living among different peoples, but this title remained his most well-known throughout his life. He worked through the non-denominational London Missionary Society. Later missions were less successful than this one; it took him four tries to get permission to enter Madagascar. After his final return to England, he became a popular lecturer throughout the country.
"A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean; For Making Discoveries in the Northern Hemisphere," by James Cook. 1796.
James Cook rose from an origin much more humble than that of most commanders in the Royal Navy. After time spent working on a farm and in a shop, he became apprenticed to a family in the coal trade and he began to learn the skills needed for sailing. A skilled surveyor, Cook was commissioned by the Royal Society to explore and map coastlines in the Pacific.
"Letters Concerning the Spanish Nation: Written at Madrid during the Years 1760 and 1761," by Edward Clarke. 1763.
Reverend Clarke was educated at Cambridge, and became rector of Pepperharrow, in Surrey, in 1758. He served two years as chaplain to the British Ambassador in Madrid, where he wrote heavily, recording his experiences and observations for his friends and family.
"Russia," by G. Dobson, H. M. Grove, and H. Stewart. Illustrated by F. de Haenen. 1913.
After an earlier book on St. Petersburg, Dobson and de Haenen were joined by two more authors to complete this comprehensive book on Russia from a British viewpoint.
"Rambles Beyond Railways; Or, Notes in Cornwall Taken A-Foot," by Wilkie Collins. 1851.
Collins' second book, after Antonina, was based on a walking trip made with his friend Henry Blanding. Because the railway had not yet reached Cornwall, this part of England was foreign to many English, and Collins' work provides a beautifully written description of "one of the prettiest and most primitive places in England."
The Middle East
"Through Persia by Caravan," by Arthur Arnold. 1877.
Following an unsuccessful campaign to become MP for Huntingdon, Sir Arthur Arnold resigned his position as editor of Echo, and spent the next two year travelling through Russia and Persia. This book is thought to contain the first outside reports of a change in the faith of the Bábís in Iran, signalling the development of the Bahá'í faith.
"Journey Through Persia, Armenia, and Asia Minor, to Constantinope in the Years 1808 and 1809," by James Morier, Esq.
The son of a merchant, Morier attended private school in England, then returned to his family home in İzmir, Turkey, to work in his father's business. His first visit to Persia, recorded in this book, was made as the secretary to Harford Jones, a special envey of the Shah.


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The woman who falsely accused Duke University lacrosse players of rape has been taken back to jail, accused of violating a release agreement.
Multiple media outlets reported Thursday that Crystal Gail Mangum was taken into custody after court officials accused her of violating visitation hours with her children.
Mangum is charged with arson, contributing to the delinquency of a minor and resisting police for a domestic violence call at the home she shared with her then-boyfriend in Durham in February.
In 2006, Mangum told police she was attacked at a Duke lacrosse team party where she was hired to perform as a stripper. The state attorney general's office later concluded there was no credible evidence an attack ever occurred.


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Making Rain
Help your kindergarten science maven explore the water cycle without getting everything wet.
How Clouds Form
Do you know how clouds form? Get the basic idea of how moisture in the air can become a cloud.
Water Cycle Chart
The water cycle plays a big role in weather patterns. Color this water cycle chart and get familiar with this cycle at work.
Water Works
Looking for a fourth grade worksheet to help your kid with science? This printable will test his knowledge of the water cycle.
Water Cycle Diagram
How do clouds form? Why does it rain? Help your student answer some of these questions by completing this water cycle worksheet.
Water Cycle Matching
This water cycle worksheet is great for 5th grade scientists. Try this water cycle worksheet with your child as a review for test preparation.
Make Your Own Cloud!
Clouds are formed when warm and cold air meet. Here's a way for kids to see it all up close!
Puddle Science: Watch Evaporation in Action
Help your child understand the scientific concept of evaporation with this fun outdoor science activity.


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The LightFire is the newest patio heater from Alpina and just as efficient as Falo designer patio heater. An open flame heater, LightFire features 12 kW burner and electronic ignition with remote control.
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Organizers were forced to cancel the fifth round of the AMA East Hare Scrambles National Championship Series set for April 27-28 in Plainview, Ill., because of flooding.
The round was to feature amateur and youth competition and would have been a double youth round.
The round will be rescheduled. For more information, go to www.wfopromotions.com.


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Know of a great site we should include here? Or want a new category? E-mail Christina, the Teen Librarian at Feedback or on MySpace.
"Welcome to BitTorrent @ AnimeSuki.com! This site tries to provide a complete and convenient overview of links to all unlicensed English anime fansubs available through the P2P file warming application BitTorrent." Site authored by Bram Cohen. There are dozens of anime discussion forums to choose from. Downloads available and a helpful search box.
GhibliWiki is a fan's website about Hayao Miyazaki, one of Japan's foremost animation writer/directors, as well as his studio Ghibli and colleagues.
An anime and manga convention of the Midwest, held in Illinois.
Ikasucon: Cosplay contest, game shows, karaoke, dance, AMV contest, panels and workshops, and gaming. Check the website later in the year to find out about this convention.
The Midwest's Premiere Fantasy & Science Fiction Convention
A 3 day event held annually in Columbus OH that focuses on the art, culture and community surrounding Japanese Animation. There are Panels, Workshops, Screenings, Special Live Events, Concerts, Community groups, and Round Table discussions.
Tekkoshocon: The Steel City's Anime and Japanese Culture Convention. tek.KO.sho noun: Steel Mill, steel industry. tek.KO.sho.con noun: A Japanese Animation Convention based in Pittsburgh,PA
Anime Cubed: anime pictures and anime wallpaper, films, music videos, reviews, and more. Read about manga artists, genres, notable works, the "large eyes" style, and examine the terminologies.
Anime lyrics search by series, song name, lyric keywords, or Japanese romaji
Nice RSS feeds to other anime sites
Shonen Jump is a great place to search for the issues missing from your manga collection. "The most popular manga magazine in Japan is Weekly Shonen Jump. VIZ has brought SHONEN JUMP to the U.S., featuring the most popular comics from the original Japanese edition. Each digital issue of SHONEN JUMP contains over 300 pages of manga, plus artist interviews, card games, videogames, toys and anime information." This website includes news, contests, reader surveys, and downloads. Downloads include games, wallpaper, greeting cards, and actual online manga where you can the flip pages and read right to left!
An online manga site to read new issues of VIZ titles.
VIZ Media is a packed site. Learn about all the different products VIZ carries from manga to anime including links to the popular magazine Shonen Jump. The store allows you to browse products by title, brand, type, imprint, and genre. There's even a special apps section for reading manga on your iPad, iPhone, or iPod Touch.
"A Capsule History of Anime" by Fred Patten, a current writer for Animation Magazine."The first three Japanese cartoons were one-reelers of one to five minutes each, in 1917." Patten walks through American-Style Studios and into Osamu Tezuka who started Mushi Productions in Japan. Patten describes Giant Robot and Outer Space Adventures, Miyazaki and Takahata, Original Anime Video, and on up through today.
The Asahi Shimbun: Japan's leading national English edition newspaper is joined by the International Herald Tribune of The New York Times on this website.The articles are in English and cover the daily news in Japan and overseas.
Anime News Network: the Internet's most trusted anime news source presents articles, conventions, jobs, recent press releases, chat, search, forum, polls, contests, releases, reviews of DVDs and interactive games, and so much more. Lots to see.
"Life, death, anime in between." This site has news about new websites, releases, sequels, dubbing, and more. There are two dozen discussion forums and plenty of merchandise to buy including edibles. Ramune soft drinks and Pocky choices are waiting to be consumed.
Protoculture includes a magazine, eZine, eCatolog for subscriptions and products, anime guides showing full color covers, links of anime releasers and manga publishers, essays, editorials, conventions, Japanese culture, Japanese newspaper links, a blog about manga read in Quebec, and more.


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This is a special fishing treat for kids age 12 and under. Fish where no one else gets to: off the marina! Join park staff and try your luck with the cane pole. We will provide the cane pole and bait, you bring your luck.
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The Seven Last Words of Christ on Classical 91.5 FM
The annual presentation of The Seven Last Words of Christ from Rockefeller Memorial Chapel.
Franz Josef Haydn's, The Seven Last Words of Christ was first presented on Good Friday in 1787 in Cadiz, Spain. Regardless of their musical knowledge or religious background, Haydn wanted the piece to be accessible to all listeners.
The annual presentation of The Seven Last Words of Christ airing Friday, April 2 at 12 p.m. on Classical 91.5/FM-HD91.5-1, takes place in Rockefeller Memorial Chapel. It brings together spiritual leaders from a diverse set of backgrounds and beliefs.
The seven words will be read by: Dr. Jean Bethke Elshtain, Dr. Martin Marty, Dr. Seth Perry, Rev. Dr. Alice Hunt, Rev. Gregory Dell, Rev. Elizabeth Davenport and Alton Logan. Gregory Dell, Rev. Elizabeth Davenport, and Alton Logan, who spent more than 26 years in prison for a murder he did not commit – and the conviction was overturned last year. He reads, "Father, onto your hands I commend my spirit." The string quartet for this performance includes violinists Rachel Barton Pine and Mathias Tacke, violist Richard Young, and cellist Wendy Warner.


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Hi, my name is Andrea and I will do my best to help, but need a bit more information, if you do not mind,
1. For what purpose would this be given to the employer ?
2. Did the employer ask you to record another employee,
Thank you,
I am not doing the recording.
I was worried that an off the record conversation i had with someone was secretly recorded. Nothing "illegal" was said or anything just voicing a dislike for a boss.
I worry it could be used to get me in trouble in the work place. I wonder if it is legally permissible to record what someone says (about coworkers) in a casual off the record setting.
Thank you for your additional information,
Singapore does not have any Statute which would make it illegal to record the conversation of another individual without his or her consent. But, Singapore follows UK Law on matters which it has no Statute. Under UK law it is only illegal to record another individual's conversation, if it is later used for commercial gain. Therefore, Singapore also holds that anyone can record anyone else without any fear of criminal prosecution. It is only illegal to record a person, if the recording is later used for commercial gain. Therefore, if someone was recording your conversation, they did not commit a criminal act under Singapore law. If that individual gives the recording to your employer, that could be interpreted as "using the recording for commercial gain", and this would make the act of recording you illegal,
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Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs
Thank you. I am delighted to join you here at the Principal Financial Group Center for Global Citizenship.
Thank you, President David Maxwell, for hosting me and for being such a wonderful friend, colleague, and former professor at Tufts.
As you've just heard, I am the Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs. In that role, I work to promote our policy objectives by increasing understanding between the United States and other nations. That includes giving people around the world incentives and opportunities to build better futures for themselves.
Now, what is public diplomacy, exactly? Well, it's many things. But I would like to underscore this: It's about joining the global conversation and making sure America is relevant, connected, and active.
A big part of that is our academic exchange programs, such as the Fulbright Program, which operates in more than 155 countries worldwide.
To date, the Fulbright Program has provided approximately 310, 000 participants the opportunity to study, teach and conduct research, and exchange ideas in each others' countries.
And I understand that Drake University has three former Fulbright Scholars: Dr. Chip Miller, Dr. Darcie Vandegrift and Dr. Karl Schaefer.
There are many other exchanges we do. Through our own Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, we run 120 programs that bring international participants to the United States and that send Americans around the world. Those programs include professional, private sector, academic, cultural, youth, and sports exchanges.
But I'll focus for the most part on the educational part of the picture.
I mention this to answer some timely questions: When Americans are struggling to find jobs and support their families, why are we spending money on educational and cultural exchange programs abroad? Can we afford to be so nice any more?
That's what I want to talk to you about today.
On one level, yes, we sponsor educational exchanges to benefit our fellow global citizens. That's part of what makes us Americans. The world knows us for that. But we also do it to be strategic.
Let me explain why.
We also live in a century which trades increasingly in strategic partnerships. Social media is connecting us faster and closer. Our global economy is increasingly interdependent – with transactions whizzing around the world at hyperspeed. In this highly connected, globalized world, geographic borders are no longer relevant.
The truth is, we cannot afford not to be connected.
There is another factor. Approximately 60 percent of the world's population is under 30. It is important that we build strong, positive relationships with these young, diverse populations. Why? Because they are the future leaders and citizens of the global community.
Again, we can't afford not to be connected. We must continue to find ways to create, sustain, and strengthen our connections.
Our exchanges are one of the best ways we can do that. Study abroad for American students puts our own young people into direct and meaningful contact with those populations. It allows them to form lifelong ties and form enduring networks. That vibrant flow of exchange students creates a bridge – between our country and other nations.
That is the essence of people to people diplomacy.
Why is that beneficial – to you?
Because it enhances your ability to build global skills – an essential tool for the interconnected 21st century. It helps you become more competitive – an important attribute for your own futures.
And it helps our country: The more competitive you are, the more competitive America is.
International students coming to the U.S. help us too. Regardless of the country of origin, students are fascinating and fascinated with learning about one another's lives and cultures. So, for those American students who cannot go abroad, having international students on our campuses enriches our classrooms, campuses, and our communities with new perspectives.
There are other reasons to build relationships through our exchanges. When we have formative experiences with our counterparts abroad, we are more likely to pursue investment projects in each other's countries – creating mutual prosperity.
More likely to create sports partnerships that foster greater cultural understanding.
More likely to collaborate on scientific projects that cure illnesses or solve social problems… or work for peace, tolerance, and democratic freedoms.
Exchanges have national security implications too – in a holistic, preventive way.
When we help international students learn the skills to achieve prosperity and security, and build their own personal connections with Americans, that influences them deeply, as political leaders, entrepreneurs, scientists, artists, and athletes.
Thanks in part to American programs or exchanges, they go on to lead positive, productive lives. They can support their families. They can build their own communities and economies. As stakeholders in their freedoms and security, they are more likely to become our global partners. That makes our citizens safer.
These – and other – reasons are why we can say, without reservation, educational exchanges more than earn their investment. They're not just the right thing to do. They're the smart thing to do.
The proof of those programs can be seen in the former exchange students who are now leaders in their field.
More than 350 alumni have become heads of state, including Dilma Rousseff of Brazil, Abdullah Gul of Turkey, Julia Gillard of Australia, and Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan. Others have gone on to win Nobel and Pulitzer Prizes, start businesses, and more.
We saw the impact of educational exchanges in Japan last year. Tonight, I'll be talking before the U.S.-Japan Conference about the earthquake last year – and the powerful response that came from Americans and people around the world. Global citizens from all walks of life – scientists, engineers, and students alike – came forward to help the people of Japan.
A great many of them had personal links to Japan because of educational exchanges. Our Fulbright program in Japan, for example, has brought American and Japanese students into close contact with our cultures for 60 years.
Now here is some news about the U.S.-Japan relationship that is both encouraging and also a bit concerning.
New polls show that an overwhelming majority of Japanese – 86 percent – favor the security alliance with the United States—close to a record high. And a record high number—nine out of 10—Japanese have a favorable opinion of the U.S.
That makes me proud. But what concerns me are that, over the past decade, we have seen a decline in the numbers of Japanese students coming to the U.S.
According to the Institute for International Education, in the year 2010-2011, 21,290 Japanese students studied in the U.S., compared with 47,073 a decade ago. They have declined by half in 12 years. Yet the studies show that there remains very high interest in Japan in studying abroad and coming to the U.S.
So what holds people back? Sometimes it is the cost of study abroad. Sometimes it is a lack of sufficient English language skills. Or sometimes it is just lack of awareness of all the programs that exist.
So that is work that I hope to do—to ensure that language training is robust around the world, and the accessibility and availability of international education remain high.
That's why, in the wake of the Arab Spring, we are working hard to create educational opportunities for young people. The response has been powerful.
Last fall in Libya, when Secretary Clinton announced the reinstatement of Libya's Fulbright Program, 1,700 Libyans applied within the space of a month. That was ten times the amount of applications as before!
In Tunisia, we reinstated the Tunisian Fulbright Program. And we established university partnerships to help Tunisian schools connect with their American counterparts. We've also doubled the number of Tunisians participating in the Kennedy-Lugar Youth Exchange and Study or YES program. And, in 2013, we'll send American high school students to Tunisia for the first time.
Now, you might be thinking: this is all very well. But how does Iowa fit into the big picture of international exchanges?
The answer is: Iowa is deeply connected.
Chet Culver, who got his MA in teaching here at Drake, and who was Governor of Iowa from 2007-2011, participated in one of our programs: The American Council of Young Political Leaders delegation to Australia in 1999.
There are Fulbright foreign students and other exchange students all over Iowa – from Muscatine to Cedar Rapids to Ames to Iowa City. They are in state colleges and community colleges. In the academic year 2010 – 2011, international students contributed more than $280 million into the Iowa economy.
In that same time period, 187 Iowans participated in our academic, professional, and cultural exchange programs in foreign countries. And more than 350 citizens of foreign countries came to Iowa to do the same.
Educational exchanges are not only about students. About 755 people from Iowa opened their doors to those foreign students, scholars, and visitors.
My point is this: Iowa is as much a part of the educational exchange universe as Cairo or Tripoli.
We are all connected. Educational – and other – exchanges bring benefits in all directions. Not just for the students but the communities and economies around them.
Education exchanges matter – not only to young emerging leaders around the world but to our own country.
That's why I encourage you not only to participate in educational programs abroad, but to find out more about what's happening around the world. To become involved as global citizens – the way they did in Japan.
Not only will you expand your own cultural horizons, you'll increase your chances of employment in the global market. And you will become part of our nation's ongoing narrative: to pursue our own paths of happiness and prosperity – and to send a message around the world for others to do the same.
Thank you.
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RBI is to be blamed for infant mortality of CDS market. Unless CDS on loans are allowed, the market will remain non-starter
In a bid to restart the credit default swap (CDS) market, RBI last week allowed CDS on unlisted rated corporate bonds in addition to the listed ones. A CDS is a financial swap agreement that the seller of the CDS will compensate the buyer in the event of a bond default. The buyer of the CDS makes a series of payments called the CDS fee or spread to the seller and, in exchange, receives a payoff if the bond defaults. The initial guidelines issued by RBI allowed CDS on only listed corporate bonds and did not allow for unwinding of CDS bought positions. It also did not permit CDS on securities with original maturity up to one year like commercial papers, certificates of deposit and non-convertible debentures. All those restrictions have now been relaxed.
However, the change of regulation is a bit too little and a bit too late. It is like trying to press the ignition button of a vehicle that does not have any fuel in the first place. RBI was ultra-conservative when it kick-started the CDS market in India and now it has realised its mistake. RBI brought out the CDS guidelines after a long wait of four years on May 23, 2011. The operational guidelines were announced on November 30, 2011. Post this, in the nine-month period till August 2012, there had been only three CDS transactions for a total transaction volume of just R15 crore. A lot of the blame for the infant mortality of the CDS market should lie on the doorsteps of RBI. They stifled the growth of the market, even before it could start to develop.
The 2011 guidelines proved to be a non-starter for several reasons. First, RBI started with the premise that a self-sufficient market can exist with predominantly hedgers. Any market participant worth his experience will tell you that it takes both hedgers and speculators to make a market. Even for hedgers, RBI limited CDS only for bonds. Most international CDS contracts are referenced to loans or bonds, not merely to bonds. Even then, one can understand the rationale for the guidelines if the bond markets were highly developed. In India, we have a corporate bond market that is largely limited to AAA and AA ratings. Most hedgers dont have


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Another reason I've been stepping away from the politics posts – the estimable Charlie Pierce has this beat covered. Here he eviscerates the Politico-Industrial complex's continued infatuation with gasbag Newt Gingrich. "Not to stick up for Karl Rove but, Jesus H. Christ on a special episode of Blossom, there is no serious comparison to be made." Naturally, CNN — home of Serious People™ like David Gergen — has recently picked him up as a political correspondent.
Still, the Republicans' recent intemperate rhetoric aside, one could argue we're seeing the slow-motion devolution of a movement that began over a half-century ago, with Goldwater in 1964. Since then, Nixon notwithstanding, the Republicans have moved continually to the right, engaging in putsch after putsch to retain the purity of their conservatism (to say nothing of the precious bodily fluids.) Even the much-beloved Ronald Reagan, pretty far right for his day, would be considered a pinko by the standards of the contemporary Tea Partier, as would, in many corners, the Muslim-coddling Dubya.
And so, here we are at the end of the rainbow. The snake is eating itself. Not for nothing is Newt Gingrich, once the Robespierre of this particular Revolution, now frantically swimming right to save his own head — He doesn't want to end up like Rove. (Speaking of which, Presidents Collins and Snowe, take note: There is no room for you at this table anymore.)
As for the evening's big winner, well, obviously I think O'Donnell is frighteningly wrong on just about everything, from creationism to onanism, and she'd be an absolute disaster in the Senate. (Good thing she seems unelectable.) Still, however much we disagree, I have to confess a soft spot for anyone who takes their Tolkien seriously.
I don't mean to be too harsh — There's nothing terribly wrong with this edutainment-y attempt to explain de-Baathification, highly dubious detainee procedures, and most notably the faked WMD casus belli to disinterested laypersons by way of action-thriller. And, in a way, I sorta admire the gutsiness of the the attempt. But, if you were already well aware of these grim developments, and I assume most GitM readers are, then it's hard to escape the sensation that one is mainly just being talked down to for two hours. Wait, there were no WMD in Iraq? You're kidding me, right? And, while I'm a great fan of Greengrass' previous output — I said over and over again in this space that I wish he had stuck with Watchmen, and on the Top 100 films of last decade list, Bloody Sunday was #84, his two Bournes were at #49, and the exemplary United 93 was at #6 — The Green Zone feels quite a bit more leaden than usual.
As with the political edutainment project Greengrass aspired to here, I like the idea of fusing his highly visceral action work (the Bournes) with his fly-on-the-wall discursions into recent history (Sunday, '93)…on paper. But The Green Zone gets lost somewhere in the interstice, and lacks the gripping power of either of these previous Greengrass grooves. Instead, Zone ends up mostly being two grainy hours of watching Matt Damon run around at night, as he tries to uncover an insidious government plot that our nation has been fully aware of for years…and has chosen to greet with a yawn.
More on that depressing problem in a bit, but, first, to bring y'all up to speed: Loosely based on Rajiv Chandrasekaran's Imperial Life in the Emerald City, a non-fiction examination of Dubyaite imbecility and excess in post-war Baghdad, Green Zone begins with a brief sequence set amid the original Shock-and-Awe period of the war, followed by, a few weeks later, a tense raid on a possible WMD storehouse by American soldiers. Led by Chief Warrant Officer Roy Miller (Damon), this crack MW2-ish assault ends up finding, well, bupkis, just like the time before and the time before that.
To Chief Miller, the problem here is obvious — the intel must be rotten. But, when he brings this up at the next briefing for high-level military muckety-mucks, he is basically told to shut up and do his job. Nonetheless, events soon conspire to introduce Miller to the "Jack of Clubs" in the Dubya deck, a Baathist general (Yigal Naor) with a still-clearly extant power base in Baghdad. And, when our hero digs deeper to figure out how this Jack might know "Magellan," the top-secret source of all this lousy intel, he soon finds himself trapped — along with a very Judith Miller-y reporter (Amy Ryan) — in a power play between a slimy executive branch bureaucrat (Greg Kinnear, stuck no more) and a grizzled CIA hand (Brendan Gleeson), one that might just end up getting Miller fragged by the creepy Special Forces guy (Jason Isaacs, with great accent) who keeps popping up…
Along the way, there's a digression into a detainee facility with all the makings of an Abu Ghraib waiting to happen, the tearful homecoming of the administration's hand-picked Iraqi stooge (re: Ahmed Chalabi), some rather pained attempts to make the decision to de-Baathify an action beat…In other words, Green Zone is basically an attempt to dramatize the Iraq war for people who, for whatever reason, weren't paying much attention the first time 'round. And, to be fair, it's done with solid acting all around (including several folks recognizable from United 93), quality production values, and a reasonable degree of versimilitude throughout. (Note also the brief Paul Rieckhoff cameo, which should nip any IAVA whining about dramatic license right in the bud.)
But, for all its edutainmenty truths to tell, Green Zone still ends up feeling rather fake and film-ish to me, perhaps in part because — unlike Greengrass' other recent histories — it seems to subscribe to a very movie-like All the President's Men view of things, where, once word of misdeed gets out, justice will be done tho' the heavens fall. Not to get all Debbie Downer up in here, but that's not really the way the world works anymore, is it? One of the saddest and scariest moments in the recent and very worthwhile Daniel Ellsberg: The Most Dangerous Man in America is when Ellsberg explains how he thought everything would change once the Pentagon Papers got out…and then he finds that, in the face of clear and irrefutable evidence of government wrongdoing, most people just shrugged.
This is the uncomfortable horror that Green Zone almost seems willfully designed not to recognize. The whole premise of the movie seems to be that, if We the People knew what really went down in Iraq (or could just be taught via action-movie), we would be totally livid about the corruption involved. But, is the problem really that the American people don't know what happened in the build-up to Iraq? Or is it that we know pretty well what happened and don't much seem to care?
Just as with our indefensible dabbling in torture and indefinite detention in recent years, we have known about the lies and incompetence that fueled the Iraq fiasco for awhile now. And, alas, nothing ever happened. Dick Cheney, Karl Rove, and the whole awful, lying lot are still deemed Serious People with Serious Opinions by the nation's domesticated media watchdogs, who, by the way, have also been studiously ignoring the Blair hearings overseas. Our current president, elected with the largest mandate for change in a generation, has deemed all of this just the sins of the past and refused to "look backward" (or worse, made himself complicit in these Dubya-era crimes.) And life continues, much as it has this past age, with no sense of reckoning whatsoever for the Big Lies that were told.
One of the main reasons Bloody Sunday and United 93 work so well is that they offer complex, nuanced portraits of complicated times. But, as Green Zone moves along, it just ended up feeling more and more like a cartoon to me, and one predicated mainly on wishful thinking. Like I said, I guess I admire what Paul Greengrass & co. were trying do here, but Green Zone as an action film feels flat and mostly uninvolving. And Green Zone as a political enterprise — Iraq War: The Movie!, basically — often seems at best condescending and at worst dangerously naive.
"That Rove and so much of the Punditburo refuse to acknowledge this reality and instead forward this fantastical story about today's elections being a pro-Republican 'bellweather' is to be expected. More and more of the political prognostication industry has been taken over by biased shills who are wielding a partisan axe. But the objective truth is clear: Democrats certainly have some weaknesses and problems, but the fact that Democrats are even competing in these supposedly "key" races suggests Republicans have their own – and arguably far bigger – weaknesses and problems as well."
Happy Election Day everyone, particularly those of you in Virginia (Deeds), New Jersey (Corzine), NY-23 (Owens), and Maine (No on 1.) Looks like we Dems will have a bad night of it, all in all, but as Open Left's David Sirota notes above, let's keep things in perspective. Given the still-woeful state of the economy and particularly the job markets, it's an anti-incumbent mood out there right now, and sitting GOP governors like Schwarzenegger or Charlie Crist would be in a world of hurt if they were on the ballot today as well.
Plus, as Frank Rich pointed out over the weekend, the weird wild fight in NY-23, which saw the GOP candidate drop out and endorse the Dem, signifies a party in full self-immolation mode: "The battle for upstate New York confirms just how swiftly the right has devolved into a wacky, paranoid cult that is as eager to eat its own as it is to destroy Obama…Who exactly is the third-party maverick arousing such ardor? Hoffman doesn't even live in the district." Burn, baby, burn.
Update: "All worried that ACORN was going to show up in the district, or even at the Biden event — a paranoia that led to some minor awkwardness when an African-American Hoffman worker walked by. 'This guy's with ACORN,' said Dewitt. 'Definitely, not from around here,' said businessman Erik Dunk." The Washington Independent's Dave Weigel reports in from the ground on NY-23.
Following in the footsteps of Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill and Press Secretary Scott McClellan, former Department of Homeland Security head Tom Ridge becomes the latest ex-Bushie to pen a troubling tell-all: The Test of Our Times: America Under Siege…and How We Can Be Safe Again.
According to US News: "Ridge was never invited to sit in on National Security Council meetings; was 'blindsided' by the FBI in morning Oval Office meetings because the agency withheld critical information from him; found his urgings to block Michael Brown from being named head of the emergency agency blamed for the Hurricane Katrina disaster ignored; and was pushed to raise the security alert on the eve of President Bush's re-election, something he saw as politically motivated and worth resigning over." Good of you to bring this all up years down the pike, Gov. Ridge — truly a profile in courage.
So…are political firings and lying to Congress still against the law these days, or is the plan to treat these particular criminal offenses like we do torture? In the meantime, I'd expect Rove is on the phone right this very moment, imploring his good friends at FreedomWorks and the like to dial up the crazies for the next few news cycles.
Update: More comes to light on Harriet Miers' involvement as well.
As many readers here well know, I've spent a good bit of time over the past decade studying US history. (In fact, over the past few years, I've occasionally helped my advisor keep a textbook up to date that recently drew the ire of right-wing blowhard Bill O'Reilly. Apparently, those damn pesky facts were somehow mitigating O'Reilly's ability to spew forth the usual idiotic blather.)
Anyway, over that period of time, I believe I have in fact learned me a few things. So, as a public service of sorts, and because, after this morning's revelations, I've reached the limit of craven and/or patently stupid falsehoods that I can feasibly ingest over so short a time, some "U.S. History for Dummies." I expect most everyone who comes by this site with any frequency knows all this, but ya never know. Apologies for the didacticism in advance — if this were this a Coors Light commercial, this would be where i vent. (And thanks to Lia for the timely visual tax lesson, above.)
At any rate, as most people remember from high school, the original 1773 Tea Party was not a protest against high taxes or high prices at all. (In fact, legally imported tea — i.e. that of the East India Company, which was both suffering serious setbacks over in India and losing market share to smuggled Dutch tea at the time — was actually cheaper in the colonies after the Tea Act, since it was now exempt from the usual obligations.)
In small part a reaction of the East India's commercial rivals to this sweetheart deal, the Boston Tea Party was mainly held to uphold the principle of No taxation without representation. Which I don't think I need to explain. So, with the minor exception of DC-area conservatives who attended the tea gathering in Washington (without crossing over from Virginia or Maryland), the, uh, "teabaggers" don't really have a leg to stand on here. This is particularly true after you consider that both ruthless gerrymandering and the vagaries of the Electoral College (I'm looking at you, Wyoming) actually tend to lead to over-representation of conservative Republicans in our halls of governance, even despite heavy losses for the "Grand Old Party" in 2006 and 2008.
Well, in fact, no state in the Union has any legal right to secede. (Not even Texas.) The existence of such a right was posited and debated quite often in the early years of the republic: by Jefferson and Madison in the Virginia and Kentucky resolutions, by the members of the Hartford Convention, by South Carolina's philosopher-politician John C. Calhoun, and countless others.
But the illegality of secession was eventually confirmed — in blood — when eleven states attempted to pull out of the Union in 1861, due mainly to differing opinions on the institution of slavery and its expansion into the western territories. As a result of this insurrection by the southern states, a violent conflict broke out, which we call the Civil War. It lasted four years, and it was kind of a big deal.
Prior to the war, the states of the Confederacy believed secession to be their natural right, while those remaining in the Union believed it to be tantamount to an act of treason. With the Union victory in that conflict, and the subsequent readmittance of southern states in such a manner that reaffirmed that no right of secession exists, the question was settled. So it remains to this day.
Another argument we've heard lately — today Sen. McCain made it with his usual comrades-in-arms, Sens. Lieberman and Graham, while trying to protect Dubya's lawyers — is that the CIA officials who actually conducted these recent acts of torture should be exempt from prosecution, because they were following the legal dictates of those higher-up in the administration. (To follow the reasoning around the circle, the torturers should be exempt because they were listening to the lawyers, and the lawyers should be exempt because they didn't do the actual torturing. Cute.)
Anyway, whatever you think of the merits of this argument, this is usually referred to as the Nuremberg defense, and it is in fact no defense at all. Argues Principle IV of the Nuremberg Principles, devised by the Allies after WWII to determine what constituted a war crime: "The fact that a person acted pursuant to order of his Government or of a superior does not relieve him from responsibility under international law, provided a moral choice was in fact possible to him." Insert "CIA interrogator" for person in that last sentence and you can pretty much see the problem.
America is not a Christian nation. This will be patently obvious to anyone who's ever heard the phrase "separation of church and state." Unlike, say, England, America does not have and has never had an official, established church. This is very much by design. For proof of this not-very-radical claim, see the very first clause of the very first amendment to the Constitution: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof."
If that doesn't do it for you, see George Washington's famous 1790 letter to the Jewish residents of Newport, Rhode Island. "May the Children of the Stock of Abraham, who dwell in this land, continue to merit and enjoy the good will of the other Inhabitants; while every one shall sit under his own vine and fig tree, and there shall be none to make him afraid."
Or consider that Thomas Jefferson skipped his presidency on his tombstone to make room for his authorship of the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom: "Be it enacted by the General Assembly, That no man shall be compelled to frequent or support any religious worship, place, or ministry whatsoever, nor shall be enforced, restrained, molested, or burdened in his body or goods, nor shall otherwise suffer on account of his religious opinions or belief; but that all men shall be free to profess, and by argument to maintain, their opinion in matters of religion, and that the same shall in no wise diminish enlarge, or affect their civil capacities." (We could also make mention of the Jefferson Bible, but let's start slow.)
Is the reasoning here too circuitous for Rove, Gingrich, et al to follow? Ok, then, here's the cheat sheet: the 1797 Treaty of Tripoli, passed by a Congress of our Founders without declaim and signed into law by President John Adams. It begins: "As the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion…" Did y'all catch it this time? Good, let's move on.
After the picture was taken, conservatives went predictably livid, with Matt Drudge headlining the offending photograph with the usual red text, Dick Cheney deeming Obama "a weak president" on FOX News, and Gingrich arguing that it made Obama look "weak like Carter." "We didn't rush over, smile and greet Russian dictators," said Newt, and he wasn't the only potential 2012'er aghast at Obama's behavior. Sen. John Ensign of Nevada called the president "irresponsible" and the consistently shameless Mitt Romney painted Obama a "timid advocate for freedom".
Um, ok. Well, let's see here…
I could go on. With regards to that last one — Reagan yukking it up with Mikhail Gorbachev, then of "the evil Empire" — it didn't take long before (surprise) Newt was caught in a contradiction. Apparently, Gingrich had previously argued on his website that Ronald Reagan's good humor with Gorby was a sign of strength, not weakness.
Speaking of which, as Lawrence O'Donnell noted on MSNBC the other day, saintly old Ronald Reagan didn't just smile and shake hands with America's enemies. His administration sold them weapons under the table. So, please, assorted puddin'-heads of the GOP talkocracy, spare me your warmed-over tripe about poor diplomacy and weak leadership. As with everything else above, I've swallowed enough of your swill over the past few weeks to last me a lifetime.
"[Obama] should have, right from the beginning, been more forthcoming." Uh…what? Former White House consigliere Karl Rove, he of the missing e-mails and the congressional contempt citation, takes it upon himself to lecture the incoming Obama administration on issues of transparency vis a vis the Blagojevich situation, which is a bit like listening to Dirty Harry tsk-tsk someone for not following standard police procedure. I'm sorry, Karl, but you don't have much credibility when it comes to the "forthcoming" department. Not. at. all.
The larger story here, of course, is the Republican attempt to ascribe nefarious deeds to the Obama team when it's patently clear, from the transcripts and otherwise, that the incoming administration's hands are clean in the Blagojevich matter. We've seen this movie several times before during the Clinton era, when conservatives, abetted by the lazy groupthink tendencies of certain scandal-hungry media outlets, conspired to create full-blown, prolonged investigations out of Whitewater and the like. Let's hope we're all a little bit wiser to the origins of such manufactured controversies nowadays.
As with his underrated take on Nixon, Stone mainly seems to want to understand, and thus humanize, Dubya here — Don't judge a man until you've walked a mile in his boots, etc. etc. And yet, while I found both the sentiment and the attempt laudable, I also think Stone may have missed the mark a bit here. In making Dubya so congenial (partly the fault of Josh Brolin, I guess, who's both great and thoroughly likable in the role), and in putting so much emphasis on his daddy issues (more on that in a bit), Stone seems to absolve 43 of more than he should in the end. However oppressive the psychological burden of being a Bush, Dubya was ultimately his own man and his own president, and, lordy, was he a terrible one. However, generous Stone's impulse in trying to understand Dubya, you can't just pin all of the incompetence and misdeeds of the past eight years on a lousy, poor-little-rich-boy upbringing.
If you've ever read anything about Bush 43, the story goes as you might expect: After a brief intro in Rangers Stadium, we meet President George W. Bush (Brolin) and various advisors in the Oval Office, as they mull over the decision to go to war to Iraq in 2003. (Speaking of which, Cheney seems a bit too Dreyfussian to me, Jeffrey Wright's Powell is far too heroic, and Toby Jones is too lithe and elfin — and not nearly porcine enough — to capture Karl Rove, but Thandie Newton's nerdy, scroonchy-faced Condi Rice is both kinda cruel and scarily dead-on.) In any case, soon thereafter we flip back to Junior's days at Yale, where the young dauphin spends his time drinking, frat-ernizing, and generally upholding the unyoked humor of his idleness. Basically, Dubya — crafty and streetwise, but too often convinced in the infallibility of his "gut" — is a good-natured screw-up of the first order, and he'd be the first to admit it, as he does time and time again to the long-suffering, emotionally reticent if otherwise indulgent "Poppy" (James Cromwell).
Yet, despite failure after failure, this good-timin' man evenually manages to muster up one great success in his life by wooing a good-hearted woman, the lovely librarian Laura (Elizabeth Banks). And, after a literal come-to-Jesus moment at the age of 40 (that's right, the bottle let him down), Dubya decides he will follow in Poppy's footsteps and enter the family business of politics. But, will his parents ever take this prodigal son seriously, particularly as compared to the family's one great hope, Jeb? And, even if they do, what lengths will Dubya go to alleviate his long-standing psychological issues with his father at this point? Would he, for example, start a war he thinks 41 didn't finish?
Now, from Charlie Sheen choosing between his working-class hero pa and Gordon Gekko in Wall Street, to Mickey and Mallory Knox inflicting the consequences of their childhood/sexual abuse on unsuspecting bystanders in Natural Born Killers, psychologically overdetermined characterization due to daddy issues is usually as omnipresent as mystical shamans in Oliver Stone films. (Or, for the other side of the coin, consider Mother Mary Steenburgen as the Ghost of Quaker Past in Nixon, or Angelina Jolie hissing with snakes in Alexander.) And, by itself, the Poppy-Dubya emphasis doesn't bother me all that much — Stone is at his best when he's painting on a broad canvas and laying it on thick, and just as the "cancer on the presidency" that was Watergate lent itself well to the gothic, Fall of the House of Usher look of Nixon, the story of 41 and 43 is an easy target for Henry IV/Henry V-type overtones.
All that being said, can all the colossal mistakes and errors in judgment that have characterized the past eight years really just be attributed to the Dubya family dynamic? Stone tries to mitigate this notion some, I guess, by giving us an imaginary disquisition in the War Room on the World According to Dick Cheney. (It involves oil, Iran, and the embrace of empire.) Still, one mostly gets the sense here that Dubya is a regular, friendly fellow who's just bitten off more than he can chew in an attempt to please his pop. Such a reading, I think, underplays Dubya's own arrogance, his close-minded conviction in his own sense of the right, his Ivy League legacy-kid air of entitlement, his sniveling weasliness when caught in a pickle, and his habitual intellectual dishonesty. Put another way, I get the sense the real Dubya is much more of an unlikable jackass than Stone and Brolin make him out to be here, and you can't just pin all that and Dubya's constant sucking as president on Pop. I mean, c'mon now, dads don't get much worse than Darth Vader, but Luke turned out ok (if a bit whiny like the old man.) Eventually, the man must stand — and fall — on his own.
Still, for all its wallowing in Freudian father issues, W does end on an enjoyably bizarre note, with Dubya writhing on the horns of existential crisis. (No wonder he started reading The Stranger.) Has the prodigal son succeeded beyond his father's wildest dreams in Iraq, or has he forever shrouded the Bush name in ignominy? And how does one handle a situation like the one in Iraq anyway, where, unlike baseball (and bowling), there are no rules? For Dubya, it seems, the story ends at is has for him in most other situations — with him walking away with a smile, not looking back, and leaving someone else to clean up the godawful mess he's left behind.
You already know the story by now. Still, at the risk of further wallowing in (highly dangerous pre-election) schadenfreude, here's another timely obit for the conservative movement, by Salon's Gary Kamiya. Now I know that, no matter how good the polls look, linking these sorts of pieces before the returns are in (one week to go!) is a highly dubious proposition, karmically speaking. As Norman Wilson rightly warned Mayor Carcetti of Clay Davis, "You don't dance on Clay's grave until you're sure the motherf**ker's dead."
Still, given that the McCain, Palin, and Dubya camps are now all openly shivving each other for spots on the lifeboats — Team McCain has now taken to calling the governor a "diva" and a "whack job," Palin herself is now apparently eyeing 2012 (ooh, please run!), and everybody is naturally running from Dubya — the Titanic metaphor, however hoary a cliche, seems a safe bet regardless.
Oliver Stone's W finally gets its Cheney: Richard Dreyfuss. He joins Josh Brolin (Dubya), Elizabeth Banks (Laura), James Cromwell (41), Ellen Burstyn (Barbara), Jeffrey Wright (Powell), Thandie Newton (Rice), Ioan Gruffudd (Blair), and Scott Glenn (Rummy).
Update: I missed this last week: The role of Karl Rove goes to Toby Jones, a.k.a. the other Capote.
Another column update, as per yesterday:
TNR's Jonathan Chait examines the "vast left-wing conspiracy" emerging against the Clintons. "Something strange happened the other day. All these different people — friends, co-workers, relatives, people on a liberal e-mail list I read — kept saying the same thing: They've suddenly developed a disdain for Bill and Hillary Clinton. Maybe this is just a coincidence, but I think we've reached an irrevocable turning point in liberal opinion of the Clintons…Going into the campaign, most of us liked Hillary Clinton just fine, but the fact that tens of millions of Americans are seized with irrational loathing for her suggested that she might not be a good Democratic nominee. But now that loathing seems a lot less irrational."
The American Prospect's Paul Waldman agrees with the assessment that the Clintons are running a thoroughly Rovian primary campaign: "Three weeks ago, I wrote that Clinton was working to make voters uneasy, utilizing just enough fear to encourage them to stick with the known quantity in the race. But in the time since, her campaign has begun to appear more and more as though it's being run by Karl Rove or Lee Atwater. Pick your tired metaphor — take-no-prisoners, brass knuckles, no-holds-barred, playing for keeps — however you describe it, the Clinton campaign is not only not going easy on Obama, they're doing so in awfully familiar ways. So many of the ingredients of a typical GOP campaign are there, in addition to fear. We have the efforts to make it harder for the opponent's voters to get to the polls (the Nevada lawsuit seeking to shut down at-large caucus sites in Las Vegas, to which the Clinton campaign gave its tacit support). We have, depending on how you interpret the events of the last couple of weeks, the exploitation of racial divisions and suspicions (including multiple Clinton surrogates criticizing Obama for his admitted teenage drug use). And most of all, we have an utterly shameless dishonesty.""
Vanity Fair's Bruce Feirstein has had just about enough of Bill Clinton: "Clinton's response offered an unusual lens into the powder-keg that is our former commander-in-chief: Starting with an almost jocular dismissal of the accusation, he then proceeded to wind himself up into a finger-pointing fury, attacking Barack Obama, painting himself as the victim, and generally blaming the press for everything, before walking away with the taunt, 'Shame on you.' It was not, well, presidential."
"The hardball tactics of Rove have defined American political life for a long time. The Clintons have now shown they have learnt from the master. The question for the Democrats is whether they want a candidate who can play the Rove game as cynically and as brutally as the Republicans. Or whether they want a new start and a new politics. That's what is at stake now in the Democratic race. And one side has shown its true colours." Reviewing the Democratic primary campaign so far, Andrew Sullivan also sees the Clintons using the Karl Rove playbook. "Ever since the Clintons' near-death experience in the Iowa vote, their campaign has been playing a very Rovian game. The use of the politics of fear is just the start. In fact classic Rovian tactics are now at the heart of the Clinton campaign."


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November 29, 2013-Emporia State used a 16-0 run in the second half to open up a close game in an 81-66 victory over Southeastern Oklahoma on the first night of the St. Mary's Thanksgiving Classic in San Antonio, Texas. Terrence Moore and Jevon Taylor led four Hornets in double figures with 15 points each.
The first half was tight with two ties and five lead changes as Emporia State took a 36-32 lead into the break. After the Savage Storm cut the lead to 36-35 the Hornets went on an 8-0 run that would eventually go to 24-2 as Emporia State took control. The lead would eventually reach 28 points at 66-38 with 11:10 left in the game.
Taylor was five of seven from the three point line for his 15 points while Moore was four of eight from the field and a perfect seven of seven from the line for his 15 on the night. Kaleb Wright had 14 points and Paul Bunch added then for the Hornets. Daniel Shaw led Emporia State with four rebounds while Moore dished five assists.
Emporia State is back in action on Saturday night when they take on the host Rattlers. Tip-off from St. Mary's Bill Greehey Arena in San Antonio is set for 7:30 p.m.


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Counting breast cancer cells in the blood may help predict a woman's survival chances and aid targeted treatment, a study has shown.
Patients with at least five circulating tumour cells (CTCs) detected straight after surgery had a four-fold increased risk of cancer recurrence, scientists found.
They were also three times more likely to die from their disease than women without CTCs.
But doctors believe it is not all bad news for women with circulating tumour cells. Identifying the cancer cells could make it possible to spot early disease changes and provide the most effective targeted treatment.
Circulating tumour cells are rare and difficult to detect. In cancer patients, one millilitre of blood contains an estimated 7.5 tumour cells compared with a few million white blood cells and a billion red blood cells.
The German scientists conducting the new study used advanced automated technology to find CTCs in blood samples. The blood test is much less invasive than the alternative way of detecting CTCs in bone marrow.
Researchers tested the blood of more than 2,000 patients all of whom had undergone surgery before starting chemotherapy treatment.
CTCs were detected in 21.5% of the blood samples, a much lower rate than that usually seen in advanced and spreading breast cancer.
Study leader Dr Bernadette Jager, from Ludwig Maximilian University Hospital in Munich, said: "Although there is currently no direct advantage to the patient of knowing her CTC status, this is already a step forward, and in future we believe that the presence of CTCs could be used as a marker for monitoring the efficacy of treatment.
"If this proves to be the case, it will also help us determine the best chemotherapy regime for each patient."
Dr Jager presented the findings at the European Breast Cancer Conference (EBCC) in Vienna.
CTC detection could be combined with routine blood tests and carried out frequently, she said.
The trial patients are having their CTC counts re-assessed after chemotherapy and then at intervals of two and five years.
The German team has also started a new study aimed at seeing if CTC detection can aid treatment.
Breast tumours that over-produce the protein Her-2 can be especially aggressive. But sometime a cancer can change its Her-2 status from negative to positive without this being immediately apparent.
The new study will look for Her-2 positive circulating tumour cells in women whose original Her-2 status was negative.
"When we find CTCs with a different Her-2 status from that of the primary tumour or the metastasis (cancer spread), we will evaluate the advantage of changing the therapy regimen," said Dr Jager.
"Therefore we are now investigating the benefit of a Her-2 targeted therapy in patients with Her-2 positive CTCs but a Her-2 negative primary tumour or metastasis; if the therapy is successful we can be sure that we are attacking the cancer in the right way and in the right place.
"If CTCs can be used as a direct treatment target, this will be a promising development and a further step on the road to enabling us to tailor treatment appropriately for individual patients."
Professor Michael Gnant from the Medical University of Vienna and Chair of the EBCC organising committee said: "Accurately identifying circulating tumour cells is an important step forward in our two decade-long quest to decipher these cells and the impact on treatment response and prognosis of early breast cancer patients."
For other incredible medical breakthroughs, take a look at HuffPost Lifestyle's round-up of life-changing scientific studies.
A twice-daily skin cancer drug almost doubles the survival times of advanced cancer patients, American scientists have discovered. Researchers from the Jonsson Cancer Center at the University of California, found that advanced melanoma cancer sufferers lived on average of 16 months after receiving the vemurafenib drug. Read the full story here. Read the full story here
Scientists have discovered five new genes that cause heart attacks and strokes and hope these findings will enable them to pinpoint when the attacks will strike. The researchers, from Queen Mary University of London, identified five generic variants that trigger heart attacks and strokes after investigating blood pressure measurements of 25,000 participants. The aim of the study was to look into the role that genes play in hypertension and high blood pressure. Read the full story here.
American scientists have discovered a potential new drug that could help fight against Alzheimer's disease. Neuroscientists from the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine discovered that a skin cancer drug called bexarotene appears to reverse cognitive and memory deficits associated with Alzheimer's when tested on lab mice. Read the full story here.
A "personalised" pill for advanced skin cancer that can extend life has been approved for use in the UK. The drug, vemurafenib, only works for patients with a specific variant of the BRAF gene. Read the full story here.
The genetic code of the most common form of hereditary breast cancer has been mapped for the first time, offering hope for diagnosis and treatment of the disease in the future. Researchers say they have "fully sequenced" the DNA of two breast cancers caused by a faulty BRCA1 gene, which is responsible for aggressive and highly drug-resistant tumours. Read the full story here.
Scientists from the Northwestern University in Chicago have come one step closer to developing a potential cure for peanut allergies, by creating an immune system tolerant to peanuts. The researchers found that they can switch off potentially deadly peanut allergy attacks by tricking the immune system into tolerating nut proteins, and not seeing them as a threat to the body. Read the full story here.
A breakthrough lung cancer detection test is set to be trialled on smokers for the first time in Scotland. If successful, cancers could be identified five years earlier than by current detection methods. Read the full story here.
Sleepless nights could soon be a thing of the past as scientists discover a key chemical trigger that suppresses sleep and wakes people up. Researchers from Boston University found that when the body has too little of the calcium kinase enzyme, it causes the brain to nod off to sleep. Read the full story here.
A new treatment for breast cancer has been discovered after scientists found that breast tumours can be killed in minutes - by boiling them. The latest treatment, known as Preferential Radio-Frequency Ablation, uses a targeted electrical current that heats, or 'boils' the tumour to 70 to 90c (160 to 190f). Read the full story here.
British scientists have developed a revolutionary breast-screening system that uses anti-landmine technology to detect cancer in seconds. The radio-wave scanner is safer, cheaper and less painful than traditional mammogram X-rays, and unlike the current system, can be used on women of all ages. Read the full story here.
Breakthrough research involving a brain transplant of stem cells could offer hope for the treatment of both autism and Parkinson's disease. The study, from Harvard University, has already proven successful with mice. Scientists transferred healthy stem cells from mouse embryos into the brains of adult mice who were unable to use leptin, a hormone that tells the body when to stop eating. Read the full story here.
A stomach implant that can trick the brain into thinking the stomach is full is the latest hi-tech gadget that experts hope will help fight the flab and beat obesity. The Abiliti, or 'Gastric Pacemaker', is a credit card-sized implant, inserted using keyhole surgery, which detects when food has been eaten and sends signals to the brain to create the feeling of fullness. Read the full story here.
Scientists from the Imperial College London have discovered a 'fertility switch' that could help treat infertility and miscarriage in the future. The study, published in the Nature Medicine journal, discovered an enzyme in the body that determines infertility and the chances of miscarriage, as it acts like a 'switch'. Read the full story here.
Eviplera, a new once-daily pill for the treatment of HIV has been made available in 27 countries of the European Union following approval by the European Medicines Agency. The new drug, from Gilead Sciences, combines three antiretroviral treatments in a single tablet so HIV patients only need to take one tablet a day to treat their condition. Read the full story here.
Scientists believe that a potent Alzheimer's vaccine jab could be the secret to preventing the disease developing from its early stages. Researchers from Georgetown University Medical Center in Washington found that an antibody for Alzheimer's disease is more likely to trigger inflammation in the brain the later it is given and that it could potentially be prevented, as long as the vaccine is taken during the very early stages of the disease. Read the full story here.


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2. Assume I can use current aero bars, taking off the brake levers and shifters.
3. Assume the BB height will be adequate for a kilo or pursuit on a 33 degree, 333m track.
4. Should I swap out crankset with a track crankset? Currently have 170mm cranks, 53/42 rings. Or, with the right cog, can I use the current crankset with a standard road chain?
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"Jesus said, 'Marriage is a major preoccupation here, but not there. Those who are included in the resurrection of the dead will no longer be concerned with marriage or, of course, with death. They will have better things to think about, if you can believe it. All ecstasies and intimacies then will be with God.'" Luke 20:34-36 (The Message).
Wrong perspective again! Would they never learn?
The Sadducees' preoccupation was political rather than religious and they had no axe to grind with Jesus. However, they were prompted to get in on the act with their religious counterparts, the Pharisees, not realising that no-one could outsmart Jesus, least of all them with their superficial knowledge of the Scriptures.
So they came at Him with a question prompted by their ignorance, and received a profound response that gives us a chink of light into the life of the believer in the hereafter. It amazes me how much of Jesus' teaching on the deepest truths about God and the relationship He has called us into, came out of conflict with His opponents.
The current concept and experience of marriage, both in the world and in the church, is a mess because we have failed to grasp God's original intention, hence the soaring divorce rate, dysfunctional families and all the unhappiness that causes, and all the other deviations from this holy institution; sexual promiscuity, 'shacking up' and so-called 'sexual orientation'. Although our way does not work, we have not yet learned that God's way is the truth.
What is God's way?
On one occasion the Pharisees were questioning Jesus about the legality of divorce. He swept aside their rationalising in one single statement, "'Moses permitted you to divorce your wives because your hearts were hard, but it was not this way from the beginning.'" Matthew 19:8 (NIV).
God expressly stated that His intention was to create man in His own image. Israel's statement of faith in Deuteronomy 6:4 gives us the essence of what that means: "Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one." God's oneness implies unity in diversity, unity of essence and nature but diversity in function.
The entire universe reflects God's image in its interdependence and interaction. Nothing in the universe functions independently. The universe is one, unity in diversity. The pinnacle of the expression of that oneness is in man. God made man to be like Him in the unity of our being - body, soul and spirit functioning as one, and in our capacity to be spiritually one with Him.
After creating man and woman, His first action was to bring them together for one purpose: "The man said, 'This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called 'woman', for she was taken out of man.' For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh." Genesis 2:23-24 (NIV).
Jesus made it clear that marriage was only for this life because, when a husband and wife learn to live together in unity, they will have a foretaste of the ecstasies and intimacies of unity with God in the life to come. Marriage is a picture of the real thing and will fall away when the real thing happens.
Selfishness and the power struggle that often happens between husband and wife ruin that picture. It can only become reality if they both understand what marriage is about and learn to live with each other in mutual submission (Ephesians 5:21), and self-sacrificing love. Jesus is our perfect role model. He gave His life for His bride, the church. The purpose of marriage is to be a mirror to the world of what Jesus did for His bride, so that the world may see what God is like and return to Him.


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Chantell Buckner died January 2005 after being hit by a drunk driver while walking in the roadway on Saginaw Highway. Many said she was walking in the road because the unconnected sidewalk next to it was not plowed.
This year, the city of Lansing pledges to "work harder." They say they have a tentative deadline of 24 hours from the time the snow stops falling. They have 13 miles of sidewalk to clear. Everything else is the responsibility of the nearest homeowner or business owner.
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AtheroGenics' candidate to treat atherosclerosis failed to meet its endpoint in Phase III evaluation. The company reports, however, that certain predefined endpoints were attained.
The company's shares fell 61% to open trading at $3.04.
The ARISE study did not show a difference from placebo in its composite primary endpoint. However, the AtheroGenics says, there was a reduction in the composite of hard atherosclerotic clinical endpoints, composed of cardiovascular death, myocardial infarction, and stroke, as well as an improvement in several key diabetes parameters.
After completion of the final analysis, AstraZeneca, who is collaborating with AtheroGenics on this compound, has 45 days to decide whether or not to continue with the collaboration.
The Phase III, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial was conducted in over 6,100 patients with a recent acute coronary syndrome. The trial was conducted in 259 cardiac centers in the U.S., U.K., Canada, and South Africa.
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Japanese car companies are hoping 2012 brings better results after the March tsunami delayed global production and sluggish consumer spending crimped sales.
Carlos Gomes, Senior Economist and Auto Specialist at Scotia Economics, tells BNN 2012 looks bright for car sales -- with growth economies leading the way.
"We're expecting record high [auto sales] next year driven by improving volumes in emerging markets," Gomes says.
Gomes also says part of any 2012 recovery will come from the recovery of the Japanese auto sector, where sales declined approximately 20 percent after the tsunami.


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Early Tuesday morning, two unknown men were caught on tape at the Valley Green Inn in Wissahickon Park forcing open a second floor office window, police said, and stealing laptops, loose change and a check book.
Police are looking for both suspects, both described as white, with stocky builds, wearing dark-colored zipped up jackets. One suspect has a dark ski mask and gloves on. The second suspect had gloves and a dark backpack with reflective stripes.
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