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At 63, legendary Kiss guitarist Ace Frehley is clean, sober, engaged to a pretty blond and enjoying life—much to the chagrin of some of his former bandmates. In the following interview, he speaks openly about his healthy attitude, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame debacle and his upcoming solo album, Space Invader.
This year started off innocently enough for Ace Frehley. Just one week prior to Christmas 2013, the former Kiss lead guitarist learned that he and his comrades in the original Kiss lineup—Gene Simmons, Paul Stanley and Peter Criss—were finally being inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame after 15 years of eligibility (and 15 years of outcry from the Kiss Army).
A cause for celebration, no doubt—and a golden opportunity for the four founding members of the legendary rock band to perform onstage together again for the first time since October 7, 2000, the final North American date of their Farewell Tour.
And then, somehow, it all imploded. In the weeks preceding the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony on April 10 in Brooklyn, New York, Kiss became the primary focus of every public and private discussion surrounding the event after they announced that there would be no Kiss performance—let alone a Kiss reunion—that night.
To make matters worse, the band members seized every opportunity to lambast one another in the press on a seemingly daily basis, effectively rendering what was supposed to be a triumphant reunion performance loaded with all the blood-spitting, fire-breathing, makeup-running pageantry that fans had been clamoring for all these years into a pitiful non-event.
"I was like, Jesus Christ, after 40 years of support you can't give the fans 10 minutes?" says a still worked-up Frehley over a cup of black tea at Guitar World headquarters in New York. "The fans wanted it, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame wanted it. But Gene and Paul didn't. It's sad. They definitely lost some fans because of this decision.
"I think the reason they didn't want to get together with the original members was because they're afraid of history repeating itself. When we did Unpluggedin 1995, you saw what happened: because the fans were so excited about me and Peter playing with those guys, they had to scrap their last record [with then-current members Bruce Kulick and Eric Singer] and do a reunion tour [with Frehley and Criss in 1996]. Although at this point I don't think Peter could do a two-hour show and a full tour. But I still got the chops. I definitely blow [current Kiss guitarist] Tommy Thayer off the stage."
It's obvious that Frehley is fired up, and with good reason. With the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame fiasco behind him, the clean-and-sober Spaceman is able to focus on the things in life that make him happy, like living in San Diego with his pretty blond 47-year-old fiancé Rachael Gordon, writing books, working with Gibson on various signature guitars and recording new music. Space Invader, his first record since 2009's top-notch Anomaly, is due out in a few weeks, and Ace couldn't be more excited.
"I haven't had a drink in more than seven and a half years, and I feel great now," says the 63-year-old guitarist. "I'm writing great songs and I'm singing great, and I'm super excited about this new album. It's gonna be even better than Anomaly. I played some tracks for a couple of guys I was considering using for mixing, and the first thing out of their mouths was, 'God, your voice sounds like it did on your 1978 solo record.' Unlike some other people, whose voices aren't maybe what they used to be. Not to name names, or anything."
Your love affair with alcohol during Kiss' heyday—and, well, all through the Eighties and Nineties—is well documented. Do you miss it? Are there days when you want a drink?
No. I haven't had the urge to drink in a long time. And I don't miss the hangovers, I don't miss the smells, the late nights at the bars, or the people. I was hanging out with some pretty shady people in my heavy-drinking-and-coke years. I was in some situations that really could have gone sideways. I was just lucky. And you have to realize that my fans used to emulate my behavior when I was a crazy man—"Ace is a party animal, let's go get loaded!" Then they'd go crash their car, and I'd feel terrible.
Now it's turned around. And when someone comes up to me and says that they haven't had a drink in six months and that they're doing well because I am, that makes my day. Maybe that's one reason why God has kept me alive. By all rights I should have died a half dozen times already, so every day above ground I'm thrilled.
Did you think Kiss would ever be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame?
I knew that [the Hall] had to buckle to popular opinion. It was only a matter of time. We were first eligible 15 years ago, so I knew it would happen eventually. I mean, how can you exclude Kiss, one of the biggest American rock groups in history? Even though we didn't perform, I'm still thrilled to be in it.
Where were you when you found out that you were being inducted?
I was at home in San Diego and got a call from my manager. Then, about a week later, I got the "congratulatory" call from Paul and Gene. And I could tell that there was some hesitancy on their part about the whole thing. I was asking them if we were gonna play, and Gene avoided the question by saying, "Well, we're just looking forward to getting the four of us up there together and celebrating…whatever." It was a noncommittal congratulatory call.
Then, about a week later, I was told that the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame absolutely wants the four original members to reunite, and I said, "Great, I'll do it." And there was silence from Gene and Paul. And finally it was shot down. The next thing I heard is that Paul and Gene wanted to perform with the current Kiss lineup [with Tommy Thayer and Eric Singer]. And I said, Well, that's kind of a slap in the face. I mean, they're not even being inducted. I have to sit through a Kiss cover band when I'm receiving an award? I don't think so.
I also heard at one point that they wanted me to perform in makeup with Tommy at the same time. I really didn't want to be onstage with Tommy, but I said I would do it, as long as I got to play the bulk of the songs and that I could wear the Destroyer costume. Then a few days later [it was], "No, we're not gonna play at all." It was almost like they were trying to bait me, so that if I said no to anything they would just blame me for there being no performance. I was almost going to boycott the whole thing.
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ROBERTS You learned stuff from writing TV scripts that transferred into book writing?
MLODINOW Yes, I think you do. It's odd because there's in many ways very little similarity. Pacing, for instance, is very different on a TV show and when you're reading something but you do get a feeling for it and its importance. All those years of comedy writing certainly I think translate to having a real sense of humor, so there are certain things that do translate.
ROBERTS I think there's one remarkable thing that makes your books different from other books. Your books give the impression that they want to be entertaining–the author, you, is trying to meet the reader halfway. When you're writing a TV show, it's got to be entertaining because otherwise people won't want to watch it. They're not required to watch it to get a job or to get a good grade in their class; they're watching it because they enjoy it. So you've got to make it enjoyable. Whereas a lot of books written by professors seem to be saying, "Well, I'm so important and you're going to read my book because this is an important book to read, so I'm not going to even try to make it interesting; I'm just going to do whatever I want." Your books are more reader-friendly in that sense.
MLODINOW I think that's true. A lot of people who are very serious about their topic have a hard time seeing why you need to make it interesting or knowing how to make it interesting for people who aren't automatically interested in that topic. To me that's one of the joys of writing. One of the satisfactions is when I go, 'Wow, I made that really funny' or 'I made that really interesting,' and then I get excited by that.
ROBERTS That talent–it really helped you to have written for TV because it's kind of a fresh voice.
MLODINOW I think it helped to develop my voice, too, especially the comedy part, you know? And what my credits show is obviously a small part of what I write. For example at one point I was thinking that maybe I wanted to get on Leno or one of those late night comedy shows and we never really went that far with it, but I did spend some days writing stand up lines and pure joke writing to try to get some material together for my agent to show around. Probably very few other science writers have gone through an exercise such as that. That all, I think, contributes to being able to write with a sense of humor. Of course, you have to have a personality that gravitates in that direction in the first place.

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Red Bird Sings: The Story of Zitkala-Sa, Native American Author, Musician, and Activist
by Gina Capaldi and Q.L. Pearce
2011. Carolrhoda Books.
Zitkala-Sa (1876-1938) was a Sioux writer, activist, and violinist.
The text of this book features slightly edited versions of monthly first-person articles Zitkala-Sa wrote for the Atlantic Monthly during the early 1900s.
About the Illustrations
Some of the pictures are better than others. Faces convey much of the story, and the illustrations are kid-friendly, as they fill the page with color. The book is not as much about music as the cover image suggests, and worse, on pages where Zitkala-Sa is shown playing a musical instrument, Capaldi depicts her holding it incorrectly, or leaves entire pieces of the instrument out of the picture. (As the wife of a former music teacher, I have learned that most picture books get these details wrong. Illustrators need to do better.)
Author's Note
The "Author's Note" is placed at the start of this book, where it provides all the necessary context to help readers understand Zitkala-Sa's life story. It includes references to well-known events such as Little Big Horn, as well as to situations readers may not know about, like American Tribal Indians' rights being ignored and children being taken from families to assimilate into the Anglo world. The "Afterword" at the end of the book includes photos of Zitkala-Sa, and talks about her work in the 1920s, and the circumstances of her death. "A Note on the Uses of Sources and Materials" justifies what was already explained in the Author's Note about changing some of Zitkala-Sa's words to suit the format of the book and explains how additional biographical details not explicitly states in the Atlantic Monthly articles was added to provide context. Finally, "Selected Bibliography," "Partial List of Zitkala-Sa's Writings" and "Further Reading" sections provide lots of resources for deeper research.
Additional Comments
This book is very text-heavy for a picture book. I would say it's definitely geared toward middle grade audiences, and will probably get the most use by classroom teachers who are focusing on American history.


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Colourful decorations flutter along Trang Tien Bridge on the eve of the Hue Festival
Under the theme 'A Rendezvous of Historical Cities', the impressive international festival features hundreds of cultural and sports programmes showcasing the unique characteristics of the attending countries.
The 2012 National Tourism Year highlighting the north central coastal region will include a series of activities on the theme of 'Heritage Tourism' to promote the tangible and intangible cultural heritage of Thua Thien Hue province and all of Vietnam, with a focus on the 2012 Hue Festival. This year's Hue Festival is special because it also promotes the theme of the 2012 National Tourism Year. The success of the festival will contribute significantly to the success of the Tourism Year and vice versa," said Director of the Hue Festival Centre, Nguyen Duy Hien.
The festival will bring together 40 art troupes from 26 countries around the world. The Smooth band from France, which has toured 16 countries in Europe and America, will delight audiences with their simple, poetic melodies and perfect sound mixing that blends pop, soul, jazz-funk, hiphop and electronic music styles.
The 'Millennium Sound, Millennium Movement' programme by the Namwon National Guagak Centre will bring to the stage a variety of cultural performances from the Republic of Korea. The Piatnisky Music and Dance Ensemble from Russia, an Indian art troupe and an art troupe from Okinawa that specialises in traditional Japanese dances are also scheduled to perform during the festival.
This year's festival will include a royal stage performance entitled 'Thien Ha Thai Binh' (Peace for the Country), a harmonic composition of 'Nha Nhac' (royal court music), and traditional dances and poetry recitals on a floating stage in the Huong (Perfume) River, as well as a festival of drums and percussion instruments entitled 'Am Vang Hao Khi Viet' (Resounding of the Vietnamese Spirit) at Nghinh Luong Dinh square.
A performance recalling the 'Ha Gia' ritual (traditional princess wedding) recreating the ceremonies and costumes will also be held at the event.
The festival will also see other events such as A 'Royal Night', an 'Ao Dai' (Vietnamese traditional long dress) show, and an Oriental Night will also take place and there will be a rural market, a programme about royal cuisine and an exhibition of ornamental plants.
Artists from East Asian and Latin American countries will liven up the city of Hue with exciting street carnivals every evening during the eight-day festival. For the first time, the artists will also give performances for labourers, soldiers at armed forces units and patients at central hospitals in the city.
Tourists will enjoy the arts performances and experience the festive atmosphere while exploring the poetic natural beauty of Hue on visits to cultural and historical sites as well as boat tours on the Huong River and Tam Giang Lagoon.
According to Vice Chairman of Thua Thien-Hue provincial People's Committee and head of the festival's organising board, Ngo Hoa, hosting the 2012 National Tourism Year in conjunction with a major tourism event such as the 2012 Hue Festival will help Thua Thien – Hue province promote its tangible and intangible cultural heritage as well as its unique cultural and natural environment to domestic and international visitors. It will also contribute to making Hue a centrally-run city and a centre for culture and tourism that also features advanced science, technology, education, training and medical services.
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Swansea manager Michael Laudrup is confident of completing the club-record signing of South Korea midfielder Ki Sung-Yeung from Celtic on Friday.
Laudrup's club have agreed a fee of around £6 million with the Scottish champions for Ki, who helped his country win a bronze medal at the London Olympics.
The 23-year-old, who has yet to return to Celtic this season as he tries to secure a move, will travel to south Wales for a medical and contract talks on Friday and Laudrup expects the deal to be done before the weekend.
Former Barcelona and Real Madrid star Laudrup, whose side won 5-0 at QPR on the opening weekend of the Premier League season, believes Ki is a vital addition to Swansea's squad after the loss of Wales international Joe Allen to Liverpool
"The contract is not signed yet. I would like to wait before everything is signed and sealed but the deal should go through, he is an important player for us to have in the midfield," Laudrup said.
"We have lost Joe Allen so it is important for the strength of the squad to have a player like that, if we sign him then we'll all be happy.
"He's a very dynamic player and, like the players we have signed and those we will sign, he can fit into our style.
"He has already played a couple of seasons in British football, which is important.
"The players we have brought in from abroad have made a great start, but to have experience of the British style of football is important."
Laudrup also remains interested in signing Valencia winger Pablo Hernandez as a potential replacement for Scott Sinclair, who is wanted by Manchester City and has told the Swansea boss he will not sign a new contract.
City have made a bid of around £5 million for Sinclair and Laudrup conceded the former Chelsea player could leave before the transfer window closes on August 31.
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Since I have term break this week, I had contemplated flying to Beijing to meet friends there, but my indecisiveness, full flights, and long queues at the embassy resulted in going to Munich only. The thesis I want to write was the reason for my flying to Munich because one of my thesis mentors lives there. We decided to meet and discuss some initial aspects of the work. Moreover, flying to Munich is a lot cheaper than flying to Beijing, and because I am such a cheap guy, I never take the CAT because it is outrageously expensive and doesn't offer me any additional value. Thus, I always take the S-Bahn. Yup, that's where you can find me, and a lot of other clever passengers, too. The train was on time and I experienced the "Wiesel" (which is the name of this particular type of car) for the first time.
Vienna – Munich
For about half a year it has been impossible to use the self check-in kiosks in Vienna with a non-rev ticket. It had worked before, and I don't understand why OS does not fix this. Logic would suggest that a non-rev passenger with only hand luggage doesn't have to clog up the revenue passenger line. Well, it's OS, thus, logic is a term unheard of. However, there was not a lot of action going on at 08:00 AM, and a cheerful, attractive check-in agent soon took care of my needs. She seemed to be new on the job because she mumbled the various steps of how to issue me a boarding pass. I know, it's chauvinistic, but had she been an old or ugly person, I would have rolled my eyes in dismay. In this case, I found it cute. All right, I found her cute.
After getting my preliminary boarding pass, I went to the transit area and invaded Starbucks. My feelings about Starbucks are mixed. On the hand, I think they sell mediocre coffee at a premium price and are just over hyped; on the other hand, they are the only coffee house in Vienna that is a smoke free environment. Moreover, Vienna airport is generally short on comfortable places to wait and Starbucks is nicely located in a corner at Pier West. However, it appears Starbucks is charging an airport surcharge. At Starbucks downtown, my "coffee of the week, short" costs EUR 1.50; at the airport, it's EUR 1.60. WTF! Well, I got my coffee and sat down to kill some time. Then I overheard a disciplinary talk between the Starbucks site manager and an employee. Apparently, this girl had come late to work repetitively and here are two excuses she gave. First, she supposedly had stomach pain and didn't want to use the employee toilet but rather her own toilet at home. Next, the day before a friend promised to drive her to the airport but had a car problem. I was close to yelling over that she should just say sorry for being late rather than offering such lame excuses. If her stories were true, then why did she have this smirk on her face? Time flies when you are having fun brings it to the point, and I got up to besiege the gate agent for a seat.
May 17, 2006
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off-block: 09:14
take-off: 09:23 (rwy. 29)
touch-down: 10:04 (rwy. 08R)
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I knew that the flight was rather full but should have a few open spots. When no more revenue passengers required the agent's attention, I went over and asked her if she had a seat for me. She typed away at her keyboard and handed me a boarding pass without saying anything. I took it and saw that I had a seat in Business Class. Therefore, I thanked her and went to the security check. Since I was the last passenger, the security people were cracking jokes about this and that. Maybe they knew I was staff, but I still think that maintaining a professional behavior is important.
Down I went the jet-way, and my first impression when entering the plane was that the crew was typical German, i.e., correct, but rather die before an additional smile. During take-off, I decided that I don't like the B737. The engines are whiny and the looks of the airplane are unfavorable. I know that this a subjective statement, but that's like comparing the A343's engines to hairdryers. Service on this short flight consisted of a snack tray, which had bread with cold cut, a croissant, and yoghurt. Nothing to write home about but not bad either. Why people actually pay to fly Business Class on such a short flight is something I contemplated about during my flight. I don't have an answer, but I assume it is good that people still pay for Business Class. After landing in MUC, the purser made a farewell announcement thanking people for flying LH "knowing that [they] have the choice." I found this a nice touch, but there is no choice on VIE – MUC (not counting the train). Both AB and JP gave up flying to MUC; hence, only OS and LH operate this route. This is not my understanding of choice, but his effort counts.
We had an outside parking position and were driven to the terminal by bus. One person was a HON member and a fancy car waited by the airplane to pick her up. Big deal! My personal driver to Munich was going to be the S-Bahn, and I found out that between March and May, the ticket price had increased by 6%! I had a good lunch, Weißwürste, and enjoyed a nice after-lunch snoozing in Hofgarten. The weather was fine, and I watched the clouds go by. From adjacent Theatinerplatz the sounds of a demonstration echoed over to Hofgarten and all of a sudden, three sky divers glided down and landed over there. What a spectacle and all for free.
The meeting was productive, and it was soon time for me to go back to the airport. I knew that all of the late afternoon/evening flights to Vienna were full. Thus, I planned on trying my luck with OS 116 first and subsequent flights later. For the worst-case scenario of not making it on any flight, I had made provisions to stay overnight. Unlike in Vienna, the self check-in kiosks in Munich work just fine with stand-by tickets. Next, I made my way to security where one of the screeners made a naughty gesture to his colleague regarding a woman with big breasts. I found this very inappropriate. Yes, we are men and our brain might be located further 'south', but still …
Munich – Vienna
OS 116 was my first choice because it didn't show as overbooked in the forecast the day before. I arrived at gate G20 when boarding was in full swing. Once the masses had cleared, it became apparent that five non-revenue passengers and ten revenue passengers were on the waiting list. The gate manager handled things very professionally (I told him that later), calmed everybody down, and cleared all the revenue passengers but for two. Two non-rev passengers also made it on the flight, a captain and an FA, who were both LH staff and wearing uniform although I don't think they were dead-heads. There were two OS staff, one on duty travel, who were outraged about not having received priority over the LH staff. Not sure, what went wrong there. Once the remaining two revenue passengers, who hadn't made it on OS 116 were rebooked onto LH 3560, the stand-bys were put on waiting list for LH3560. A new game, a new chance.
May 17, 2006
Avro 8 / D-AVRM
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off-block: 19:56
take-off: 20:15 (rwy. 26L9)
touch-down: 20:58 (rwy. 34)
on-block: 21:04
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Shortly after the cattle call was made, everything came to a halt because the aircraft scheduled to do this flight had a technical issue and a replacement aircraft had to be found. Everybody was ordered to sit down and wait. Meanwhile, the three non-rev passengers were given proper seat assignments. Only the OS staff on duty travel, who was dressed casual elegantly, and I, wearing khaki slacks and a sports jacket, got upgraded to Business Class; the other OS staff, who looked like he had gotten out of the party zone just an hour before, got coach. This is the first time I saw the dress code enforced on LH. While I waited, I saw LH 722 bound for Beijing being pushed back.
Eventually, a replacement aircraft was found, and we were bused to our Avro. Both in Vienna and in Munich this bad habit of bringing carry-on the size of full-grown suitcases on board was curbed. At the gate, passengers were told either to check their oversized bags in or to not get on the flight. Thank you! Finally! The flight to Vienna was uneventful. We had a nice crew but not super friendly. Business as usual. I don't mean this derogatory, but most LH crews are professional but not extra friendly. We got a snack tray with a cheese sandwich , a seafood salad, and a tart. Not too shabby! Oh, and a little chocolate was given out at the end. After landing in Vienna, we taxied to the Pier West, and I saw an OS A342 taking-off, as well as a B737 all in T-Mobile livery. Does T-Mobile have its own B737?
This concludes my report of a usually boring flight, but since this one was a bit different and because I am an all new and improved Beowulf, I decided to write it up. I am now an ebullient person, at least for as long as my medication lasts. All right, boys and girls, you know the drill.
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Copenhagen schools may offer Arabic language classes
By offering Arabic on the curriculum, the idea is to give children from immigrant families a better chance at succeeding in those tests.
Copenhagen -- School pupils in Copenhagen may soon be able to study Arabic as a second language under a new proposal that seeks to give a boost to children from immigrant families, city officials said Monday.
"It is very important that we give students a choice of languages that includes Arabic, as there is a need to give a helping hand to young people from the Arab-speaking countries to reinforce their education and integration into Danish society," Bo Asmus Kjeldgaard, the city's vice-mayor in charge of youth policy, told AFP.
It would be offered alongside other foreign languages already taught in Denmark such as English, French and German.
All four languages would be offered as options for the entrance exams that pupils have to sit at 15 to get into high school.
By offering Arabic on the curriculum, the idea is to give children from immigrant families a better chance at succeeding in those tests.
Copenhagen has asked Denmark's education ministry, which must agree to the proposals, to start teaching Arabic when students return to school in August from their summer holidays.
Some 10 percent of Copenhagen's 31,000 secondary school pupils speak the language as their mother tongue, city authorities said.
Despite counting just six percent non-citizens among its 5.5 million inhabitants, Denmark has long struggled to integrate its immigrant population amid widespread skepticism of foreigners, especially those who are Muslim.
Kjeldgaard said it would also be a huge advantage in the future for Danish companies doing business with Arab countries.


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With declining enrollment and deficit spending, the Stillwater Area School District plans to take a hard look at its financial situation. For the next five months, a financial study group will meet to analyze the district's budget and create future financial recommendations for the school board.
"School finance is an incredibly complex thing," said Kristen Hoheisel, director of finance. "The study group will provide a detailed understanding and analysis of the district's budget."
The group is comprised of school board members, district staff, teachers and community members.
"The people in the study group all ready have an understanding of business finances or school finance," Hoheisel said. "This is a group that already has a level of understanding that will be able to know what they are looking at."
Hoheisel developed the study group to broaden the approach her financial team of accountants and administrators already takes.
"When I first came to Stillwater, I sat on a financial advisory group that was organized by Dr. Ray Queener," Hoheisel said.
Queener, who served as assistant superintendent before becoming superintendant in the Cambridge-Isanti School District last year, last had a financial advisory group in Stillwater in 2012.
"This group will be different than the groups Dr. Queener formed — the finance advisory group and the budget group — but this is not the first time Stillwater has formed a financial study group," Hoheisel said.
Some of the goals of the group will be to analyze trends in the district's expenditures, compare Stillwater's expenditures to those of comparably sized districts, compare fund balance policies with other district, and make recommendations to the school board about current and future expenditure decisions.
"A goal of the group is to improve the level of public understanding and trust in the district's financial status and projections," Hoheisel said. "We also what to provide stability for the district's education programs."
The study group will start meeting in August and September, and make recommendations to the school board in December.
Public information meeting on school finance set for Aug. 19
For members of the public interested in knowing more about school finance, Stillwater Area Public Schools' Karen Hoheisel will lead a special "School Finance 101" session 7 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 19 at Central Services, 1875 South Greeley St., Stillwater. Hoheisel will give an overview of how school districts are funded, as well as share some details specific to Stillwater Area Public Schools. There will also be time for questions and answers.
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WASHINGTON, D.C. – The United States Chamber of Commerce called on its grassroots bench strength to lobby Congress in favor of swift action to cut marginal rates by $958 billion over the next 10 years and reduce the number of tax brackets from five to four – the centerpiece of President Bush's $1.6 trillion tax cut package.
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The Chamber's Grassroots Action Information Network – or GAIN – motivates tens of thousands of businesses across the country to phone, write or lobby their senators and representative. Chamber federation members and non-member supporters have also been contacted and urged to support Bush's tax proposal – effectively doubling the size of our grassroots network.
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"Americans pay more of their incomes to the federal government today then they did at any time since 1944, a time of great national emergency," said Josten. "Cutting income taxes will help lighten the burden for millions of small businesses that file individually and help the uncertain economy by putting more money in the hands of consumers."
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My version of my Mom's Pineapple Squares — almost no bake dessert that's perfect for Spring or Easter! Light and fluffy and full of crushed pineapple!
So today we're celebrating the babes of some good blogger friends: Natalie (and baby Josh!) of Tastes Lovely, Jessica of Flying on Jess Fuel, and Izzy of She Likes Food! Personally I don't think there's any better way to celebrate, well, pretty much anything than good food, so we've gathered a bunch of tasty bites and you can find them all in the links below the recipes.
When I was trying to think of something I wanted to make, since I knew we were planning for the end of February, I wanted something light and Springy. By the end of February, I am way (WAY) over it being winter and just want some warmth, but often it doesn't really come until May!
My mind went straight to my Mom's Pineapple Squares — I had this crazy obsession with them when my Mom would make them when we were younger. I don't even know if I ever really told her how much I liked them (though I'm sure it showed!), but I remember just loving that overly sweet filling and slight tang from the pineapple.
So I went to find my the recipe I scrawled down from my Mom a long time ago, and when I went to make it I noticed it called for raw eggs. Now, I know a few desserts like this that have completely raw eggs, and I personally know that eating raw eggs is actually totally fine as long as they are pasteurized. But I didn't want to get anyone all worked up about the raw eggs in the recipe and have to justify their use, so I thought maybe it was better if I didn't make them.
Except I couldn't get them off my mind. I looked at the recipe and figured I could just as easily make them without. And so I did, and although I didn't make the original version to compare, I think these are pretty darn good.
A warning: the powdered sugar filling is sweet. There is a very small layer of it, and I love the way the tangy pineapple complements it. But I just don't want you to make this dessert (that should be a hint right there, but sometimes it's not enough), and then complain to me that it's sweet. Yes, it is sweet. Okay? Cut into small pieces and thoroughly enjoy 🙂
Mom's (Almost) No Bake Pineapple Squares
My version of my Mom's Pineapple Squares -- almost no bake dessert that's perfect for Spring or Easter! Light and fluffy and full of crushed pineapple!
- 1/4 cup + 1/4 cup butter, divided
- 1 1/4 cups graham cracker crumbs
- 1 cup + 2 tablespoons powdered icing sugar, divided
- 1-2 tablespoons reserved pineapple juice
- 1 cup heavy whipping cream (35%)
- 3/4 cup crushed pineapple, completely drained of juice
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees and line an 8x8" pan with tin foil. Spray with non stick spray.
- In a small bowl, melt ¼ cup butter. Stir in graham crumbs. Spread into prepared pan and bake for 8-10 minutes or until dry on top. Remove from the oven and cool completely.
- Beat remaining ¼ cup butter and 1 cup powdered sugar with an electric mixer. Add 1-2 tablespoons pineapple juice until it comes together and is smooth (you don't want it too wet!). Spread onto cooled crust.
- Beat cream with an electric mixer on high until soft peaks form. Add 2 tablespoons sugar and continue beating until stiff peaks form. Fold in crushed pineapple and spread onto filling in the crust.
- Refrigerate for 3-4 hours until chilled and set. Cut into 12-16 bars.
Recipe Notes
Other recipes that will have you dreaming of Spring!
Strawberry Pineapple Lemonade Squares
Caprese Cups – Pumpkin 'N Spice
Almost No Bake Pineapple Squares – The Recipe Rebel
Key Lime Cheesecake Bars with Coconut Macadamia Crust – Flavor the Moments
Lemon Macarons – Life Made Sweeter
Lemon Lime Bars – Bake. Eat. Repeat.
Chocolate and Salted Caramel Swirled Meringues – Floating Kitchen
Prosciutto-Wrapped Avocado Crostini with Balsamic Glaze – My Sequined Life
Mediterranean Stuffed Mini Peppers – Kristine's Kitchen
Mini Chocolate Bundt Cakes – My Kitchen Craze
Pepper Jack and Bacon Stuffed Cherry Tomatoes – A Latte Food
No Bake Baileys Smores Mousse Cups – With Salt and Wit
Strawberry Shortcake Bread – Maebells
Banana Cream Pie Dessert Nachos – Whole and Heavenly Oven
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ipod read/write on FC5 w/ gtkpod
Recently bought an ipod and I am having problems reading / writing to the ipod. I have done a lot of research on this issue, and here is what I know (at least think is correct):
First, I believe my ipod has a HFS+ (hfsplus) formatted disk. When I type in "dmesg" I receive the following info:
Vender: Apple Model: iPod Rev: 1.62
Type: Direct-Access-RBC ANSI SCSI revision: 00
sda: Spnning up disk.......ready
SCSI device sda: 39063024 512-byte hdwr sectors (20000 MB)
sda: Write Protect is off
sda: Mode Sense: 00 08 00 00
SCSI device sda: drive cache: write through
SCSI device sda: 39063024 512-byte hdwr sectors (20000 MB)
sda: Write Protect is off
sda: Mode Sense: 00 08 00 00
SCSI device sda: drive cache: write through
sda: [mac] sda1 sda2 sda3
sd 5:0:0:0: Attached scsi removable disk sda
sd 5:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 14
hfs: write access to a journaled filesystem is not supported, use the force option at your own risk, mounting read-only.
SELinux: initialized (dev sda3, type hfsplus), uses genfs_contexts
metacity[7873]: segfault at 0000000000000008 rip 00000000004542f9 rsp 00007fffffc017a0 error 4
metacity[8493]: segfault at 0000000000000008 rip 00000000004542f9 rsp 00007ffffffbe620 error 4
When I hook up the ipod via firewire, FC5 recognizes it. I can then right click and "Mount Volume". I have full access to view the file system. I am unable to copy any music directly to the drive. As I understand I am unable to do this anyway.
I successfully installed gtkpod. Additionally, Rhythmbox Music Player also automatically recognizes the ipod. Of course, if I click on the ipod in Rythmbox, no music is displayed.
When using gtkpod, I can add files to the "iPod" folder . . . and after I click the "Sync" button, nothing really happens (I think the iTunesDB on the desktop is updated, but no files are transferred to the ipod).
As I understand, I may need to turn off or "disable journaling" on the ipod? Several forums have suggested using a mac based code to disable journaling. I don't have a mac, nor do I have access to one.
#1 - is there a way to turn off journaling through either Linux (FC5) or Windows XP Pro?
#2 - if I am unable to turn off journaling, how can I get my ipod working through linux?
Also, I am running Fedora Core 5 x64 on an AMD Athlon 64.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated as I'm sure others are having similar poblems.
Your post says the device is mounted "read-only" so you cannot copy any data to it ("Sync") before you mount it read-write. For this you might turn off journalling, if that's what other iPod users say. I myself have a FAT-version of iPod Shuffle, and it works perfectly. Theoretically you could re-format your iPod to use FAT system, but that's out of my hands; I'd ask Apple about that. Though Linux should be able to use hfs too..
Now after you've managed to get read-write access (possibly by turning off the journalling, if it's possible), gtkpod (and other apps using libgtkpod or other working means) should be able to "Sync" the data. You can copy music directly to the iPod, but you cannot play it; this is because what gtkpod does in addition to copying the music files, it edits the iPod database. So everything you "just copy" to iPod is recognized as "data", so you can't play it. That's why you use gtkpod and not Nautilus/Konqueror/command line/your favourite file copying program. Oh, and rhytmbox can't probably add music to your iPod yet; last time I checked, they were able to read but not write.
So basically what your problem/worry is, is to get the write access. Study the journalling-system a bit to see how you could disable journalling, or if you could use FAT filesystem on your iPod instead. You can actually, if it's a certain kind of iPod, install a Linux operating system on it (that works for the hfs system!) so that could be an answer too; then you would be able to play .ogg files too, for example, but your warranty would be void then.
So..search for hfs, disabling journalling, reformatting your iPod (voids varranty) and possibly installing Linux operating system on it (voids warranty), if it's the right kind of iPod (check out "iPod for Linux").
All ipod shuffles are fat formatted.
I have the same problem.
I have been able to write to it, but not anymore, it all seems pretty random. It didn't work at all in windows, itunes said "can't read or write...".
The store exchanged my first one which had the same issues.
If it works flawlessly for you, could you post your mtab when it's mounted.
Are you able to chmod files. (I just tried it out of curiosity - I thought it was peculiar that all the files were owned by root. - It gives me "operation not permitted" - Yes I was looged in as root.)
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I went into surgery two times already to fix my left breast. It is now hard again and one breast size smaller than my perfect right side. Im now taking singulair 10mg once a day for 3 month with daily massaging of an hour a day. nothing seems to be working. Am I more prone to getting this capsular contracture and should I go into surgery again to try and fix it?
Repeated Capsular Contracture
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Options for treating recurrent capsular contracture
Without knowing the details issues to consider in one last procedure include: a new implant, a neopectoral pocket, use of acellular dermal matrix, and possibly Accolate versus Singulair therapy. Of course implant removal and replacement with fat grafting is another option.
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Recurrent capsular contracture
If you are a 3 time loser to capsular contracture you may need to face the fact that you and implants don't seem to mix well. Last resorts like Strattice are possible if both implant pockets below and above the muscle have been tried.
Capsular contacture
You may be one of those patients that get persistent capsular contractures. The history is a bit unclear, but all variables need to be considered. You may want to consider removing the implant and starting over in the future, or even consider alloderm to help with the contracture.
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Breast implants
Unfortunately, it is a difficult problem to resolve. One option may be to remove the implant and capsule and wait a while for the body to heal and in a few months do it again. A capsulectomy is a definite must, in my opinion.
Treatment of Capsular Contracture
Recurrent capsular contracture is a difficult problem to overcome. Singular has been shown to sometimes be of benefit. The best treatment involves removal of the implants and capsule with replacement of the implants into a new pocket. If the implants are subglandular, I would move them to a submuscular location and would exchange saline for silicone implants.
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Mr. FILNER. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself as much time as I may consume.
Mr. Speaker, we all urge passage of H.R. 1284, the so-called Veterans' Compensation, COLA, Cost-of-Living Adjustment Act. It would direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to increase, effective December 1 of this year, the rates of veterans' compensation to keep pace with the rising cost of living in our Nation. The rate adjustment is equal to that provided on an annual basis to Social Security recipients and is based on the Bureau of Labor Statistics' Consumer Price Index.
Regardless, Mr. Speaker, of where any of us are on the current war in Iraq, we all believe that our returning young men and women who have served this Nation so courageously get all the attention, care, respect and love that we can give as a Nation. Nothing bothers any of us more than to see returning troops, whether it be at Walter Reed or any of our VA hospitals, have to face the bureaucracy that seems indifferent, and does not provide the services they need.
The cost of serving these veterans, which includes this annual COLA, is a continuing cost of war. We will have from Iraq and Afghanistan an increase in injuries and disabilities that will yield an increase in claims for compensation. Over 1.5 million servicemembers have been deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan without any end, it looks like, in sight, and the President calls for more troops. Therefore, the Veterans Administration, as well as the military hospitals, can expect a significant increase in the number of new claims for compensation and new demands on the health care system. I think that recent events have shown that neither system is adequately prepared for that onslaught, and, in fact, the systems are stretched to the breaking point.
We as a Congress, we as a Nation, have got to give our veterans all the care that they need, all the resources they need, and we as Congress have to provide accountability for the spending of those resources.
Let me say that certainly we on the Democratic side, and I am sure supported on the Republican side, have made major increases in the resources to our veterans care that is now demanded from our Nation. I am told that the budget resolution will have an additional $6.6 billion over what we appropriated last year for the Veterans Administration.
You know that we appropriated an additional $3.6 billion for fiscal year 2007, the year that we are in now, in the so-called continuing resolution, the biggest increase of any department in that continuing resolution.
The supplemental that we will be considering at the end of this week has $3.5 billion for military and veterans health care: we say if you are going to deal with the cost of war, deal with the costs of the warrior.
So just in 60 days, Mr. Speaker, the new majority in the Congress has provided an additional $13.5 billion for the care of our Nation's veterans, and that is a bigger increase than was totaled in the last 5 years combined.
So I think we are responding to the Walter Reed scandal. We are responding to the tragic suicides that came from indifference from the bureaucracy. We are responding to the needs of traumatic brain injury that have so increased in this war. We are responding to the needs of those who have post-traumatic stress disorder. We are responding to the needs of a Veterans Administration that is backlogged 600,000 disability claims.
So we are going to respond with the dollars. We also need to make sure we have accountability, and we will have more to say on that in the future.
Congress regularly enacts an annual cost-of-living adjustment for veterans compensation to make sure that inflation does not erode the purchasing power of veterans and their families who depend upon this income to meet their daily needs. This bill before us, in fact, will benefit all veterans from the World War I era through the current conflicts.
So I hope that we will have support for this. I would like to add my thanks for the increases that I talked about just a second ago in this budget for 2008 and the continuing resolution for 2007 and the supplemental that we will be considering to our Speaker, Nancy Pelosi, who insisted that we care for our Nation's veterans; also, the chairman of the Appropriations Committee, Mr. Obey of Wisconsin; to his chairman of the subcommittee that looks at veterans affairs, Mr. Edwards from Texas; and the chairman of our Budget Committee, Mr. Spratt, all of whom said we are not going to fail this test that America is faced with today, the test of whether we are going to make sure that our veterans get the care they need
Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
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JEFFREY BROWN: Ever since Congress passed its financial rescue package last month, fears have grown that the twin problems of decreasing home prices and increasing foreclosures had not been adequately addressed.
Amid growing calls to help distressed homeowners, more direct responses now appear to be in the works.
According to recent data, foreclosure filings in the third quarter were up 71 percent from a year ago, with some regions hit particularly hard. And the average price of a home dropped by 9 percent in the last year. Again, some areas saw much greater drops.
In recent weeks, candidates, lawmakers, and academics have put forward a variety of proposals to address the problem. And now the Bush administration appears ready to make its next move.
On Thursday, officials appearing at a Senate hearing said they're working on details of a plan in which the government would provide a partial guarantee on troubled home loans. Sheila Bair is the head of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.
SHEILA BAIR, Chairman, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation: The FDIC is working closely and creatively with Treasury on ways to use the recent financial rescue law to create a clear framework and economic incentives for systematically modifying loans. The aim is for loan servicers to offer homeowners more affordable and sustainable mortgages.
JEFFREY BROWN: The new plan, which could be announced in the next week or two, is estimated to cost some $40 billion.
And now a look at several ideas on the table. Bruce Marks is the chief executive of the Neighborhood Assistance Corporation of America, a not-for-profit advocacy group for homeowners.
Dan Alpert is founder and managing director of Westwood Capital, a small investment bank.
And Neil Irwin is a financial reporter who's been covering the housing and banking crisis for the Washington Post.
Bruce Marks, let's first define the problem. Beyond the numbers, what's happening out there? What do you see?
BRUCE MARKS, Neighborhood Assistance Corporation of America: Sure, I mean, what is out there, Jeff, is that it's the foreclosures, stupid. That's what we have to say to Congress and we have to say to the administration, because all the solutions out there, the refinances, all those solutions are not working, and that there are millions of homeowners at risk of foreclosure because they can't afford their mortgage payments.
So what we have to do is we have to restructure these mortgages to make them affordable. That's not being done, not being done by the servicers or by the investors. All the solutions out there are failing, Jeff.
JEFFREY BROWN: So in simple terms, explain what you think should be done. What are the general principles for any plan?
BRUCE MARKS: Right, well, the real general principles is to go back to what lending used to be. It's saying, "Let's determine what a homeowner can afford."
So what we say is, what is someone's income, their required monthly liabilities, their card expenses? And then you come up with a mortgage payment and you say, "This is what I can afford." And that's how you do it.
Now you have to restructure the mortgage. Let's not do a new loan, a refinance. Stay with the existing lender, servicer, investor, and say, "Reduce the interest rate to get to a mortgage payment that the homeowner can afford."
It's basic lending. It's going back to the fundamentals. This is what the homeowner can afford. Restructure the mortgage. And that's good, Jeff, for everybody.
It's good for the homeowners. That's good for the servicers who are overwhelmed. Good for the investors. Good for the communities. And you can do that without one dollar of taxpayer money.
Prices dwarfed actual value
JEFFREY BROWN: Now, Dan Alpert, before I ask you about what you'd propose, I'd just note, you know, in our news summary today, we said that home sales were actually up a bit in September, still down a lot from last year, but up surprisingly.
Does that suggest at all to you that the market may have, I don't know, settled, figured this out a bit?
DAN ALPERT, Westwood Capital: Well, I'm looking more at home prices. And if you look at home prices, they continue to decline.
The issue that really faces us is that so much of the value increment that was created during this lax lending and low-interest-rate period throughout the decade really never truly existed.
The cost of housing completely disconnected from alternatives of rental. They completely disconnected from personal income. And we ended up at a point where we believe housing values are going to nationally plummet by about 30 percent peak to trough.
That generates many, many losses. We went from $5.4 trillion in outstanding mortgage debt in 2000 to $11 trillion at the end of 2006. That more than doubled the amount of housing debt outstanding.
Theoretically, we had some $20 trillion worth of housing stock. But, unfortunately, a 30 percent drop from that takes you down to $14 trillion. And here's the zinger: About a third of all homes have no mortgages on them at all.
So you have less than $11 trillion worth of collateral supporting $11 trillion worth of loans. That's going to create mortgage losses. It's obviously creating a huge negative wealth effect amongst people who own housing. And that, of course, is translating into a mammoth recession.
JEFFREY BROWN: Neil Irwin, let me bring you in. You've been covering this in Washington. Why was there reluctance early on in the administration to tackle this problem head on?
NEIL IRWIN, The Washington Post: Well, the simple fact is it's great to talk about finding ways to prevent foreclosures to help people afford their mortgages, but it's really hard to do that in a way that doesn't, you know, disrupt private contracts that is actually practical.
You know, the reality is there are these existing mortgages. People signed up for them voluntarily. The banks entered deals with both the mortgagee and with whoever ultimately owns that mortgage.
And, you know, anything you do to try to help people afford a mortgage or renegotiate, you kind of need buy-in by all those parties, unless you're, you know, running the risk of a lawsuit.
So the basic situation is, it's a lot -- it's a great thing to talk about. It's a much harder thing to execute in practice.
JEFFREY BROWN: And we mentioned this potential new plan by Treasury and the FDIC that Sheila Bair has been touting. Details to come, clearly, on this, but what do we know so far?
NEIL IRWIN: The rough outlines are that a mortgage company, a lender, a bank would agree to lower the value of a mortgage or what's owed on it to what a person can actually afford in exchange for the government being willing to protect the bank or the lender against any future losses.
So the idea is the government steps in and says, "All right, if you renegotiate this mortgage so it's, say, the person only has to pay 32 percent of their income, something that's affordable, we'll bolster it and protect you against further losses."
Again, the level of detail you have to get into to actually make something like that work is truly daunting.
JEFFREY BROWN: Bruce Marks, what about something like that?
BRUCE MARKS: Well, you know, it's not that complicated. I mean, I think, you know, people make it far more complicated than what it is.
What we know doesn't work is we know that refinancing, getting a new loan, doesn't work because the value is not there. People's credit scores are not there. That doesn't work.
So what we have to focus on is with the existing servicer and the investor. And it's very simple. You determine what the homeowner can afford and you reduce the interest rate. At NACA, we're able to do this for tens of thousands of homeowners with the major servicers.
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JEFFREY BROWN: But who -- but let me interrupt -- let me interrupt you. Who takes the hit in that point? Is it the lender, the servicer, or the government? Who's taking the hit?
BRUCE MARKS: Well, it is the investor that won't get their 9 percent or 10 percent interest rate, that might get their 4 percent or 3 percent interest rate, but they won't incur the foreclosure cost, because what you're focusing on is not what the value of the property is. You're focusing on what the mortgage payment is.
And you're locking that in for the remaining term of the loan. So you have a fully amortized loan so it doesn't -- so even if the loan is underwater, even if you owe more than what it's worth, then, as long as you have a full amortizing loan with every payment, you're paying off a bit of the principal, with no taxpayer dollars.
But you know what the biggest problem is, Jeff? And that is Fannie Mae. Fannie Mae, which sets the standard for this country, is the investor. So, in essence, because they're refusing to do this, that's what's causing the massive numbers of foreclosures in this country. We change Fannie Mae's policy, we change it for the industry.
JEFFREY BROWN: All right, Daniel Alpert, you can respond to that. I want to let you -- you have a whole other idea for how to do this.
DAN ALPERT: Well, first of all, I'm more with Neil. And, unfortunately, we have the sanctity of contracts in this country. And it's very, very difficult. We've seen already how difficult it is to jawbone lenders, which is what the Hope programs were trying to do, into making these alterations to their mortgages.
Think about the private securitizations, which account for trillions of outstanding mortgages. And those folks are, you know, servicers and trustees that are beholden to bondholders who own little pieces of these mortgages.
They're not going to risk their entire credibility and they're entire balance sheet by somehow voluntarily making changes to these mortgages that are going to impair the folks that own them.
So unless something happens that's of a more mandatory nature, I'm afraid we're going to have a big problem. That's what our plan calls for.
We have come up with a plan basically to allow mortgagees, mortgage -- sorry, borrowers who are underwater or who have very high loan-to-value loans who can't make the payments to effectively do what they're supposed to do under their mortgage, which is surrender their collateral, surrender their deed.
Right now, the cost of collection of mortgages is running something like 30 percent of mortgage balances when it goes through foreclosure. In good times, it was 19 percent. So you're talking about a huge additional cost. If deeds are surrendered voluntarily, you save that cost.
Now, who would do that in their right mind? No one. So what we're proposing is that lenders be required on a mandatory basis to lease the properties back to the homeowners for a period of time. We've suggested four to six years, during which time homeowners will have a chance to get their financial houses in order and be able to buy back the home -- theoretically at a price lower than they paid for it originally -- at fair market value in four to five years.
Look, if you believe that this crisis is created by some sort of a cyclical downturn, this was a bubble. This was not an oversupply of housing or anything like that. It was a pure bubble.
Housing prices are going to recalibrate down to where they match off against rents, where they match off against personal incomes.
New practices, not cash will help
JEFFREY BROWN: All right, let me bring Neil Irwin back in here, because this discussion -- I assume this kind of discussion is going on in Washington about how to -- you know, early on, there were concerns about what's called moral hazard and sending the wrong incentives to people, how to limit any kind of program. What kind of discussion or worries do you get on the Hill and in Treasury right now?
NEIL IRWIN: Well, think about it this way. If you create a program where you say, "If you can't afford your mortgage or it's hard to afford your mortgage, you can renegotiate it with some government help," that can almost create incentives.
People who are kind of scratching by, and really stretching, and maybe working a second job to try and keep up with their mortgage payments, they might have an incentive then to just default, to just stop paying their mortgage, and then they could be subject and benefit from some kind of government program along these lines.
You know, there's a lot of perverse incentives that can come along, and that's what a lot of Republicans especially are worried about.
You know, the truth is, the FDIC, under Sheila Bair, they took over -- they're kind of doing an experiment on this right now. They ended up taking over the failed bank IndyMac back in August, and they said, you know, we're going to move aggressively to try and renegotiate mortgages to help people out.
They had 60,000 people either in some stage of the foreclosure process, 60,000 mortgages. As of last week, only 3,500 of those had successfully been renegotiated. We're talking about massive, massive numbers of mortgages, and dealing with individual homeowners, thousands of people all over the country. It's a very big challenge.
JEFFREY BROWN: All right, Bruce Marks, I know you wanted to jump back in. Go ahead.
BRUCE MARKS: Yes, please. Look, let's talk about the reality of what's going on, on the ground. There are solutions that are working now.
When you talk about -- you've got Secretary Paulson. He controls Fannie and Freddie. They have 50 percent of all the mortgages in this country.
Now, Fannie says that you have to be four months late before they will restructure the mortgage. Fannie says that they will not reduce the interest rate less than the market value, less than the market rate. They will never reduce their principal.
They're the biggest problem. So, in essence, the American taxpayer, who owns Fannie Mae, is foreclosing on themselves. And so if we want to do a dramatic solution, something that's going to help virtually the whole industry, every homeowner at risk of foreclosure, we change the practices of Fannie Mae, because it's not just for the 30 percent of the mortgages that they own or that they guarantee or Freddie, the 20 percent that they own or guarantee, but whatever they do become the accepted solution for the industry.
And then let's take the Sheila Bair standard. When Sheila Bair took over IndyMac, what did she do? First thing, a moratorium on foreclosures. Second thing, stop the interest rate increases. Third thing, restructure the mortgages based on what the homeowner can afford.
Well, if Sheila Bair can do that as head of the FDIC and she owns IndyMac, and if NACA can do it as a nonprofit mortgage broker, why can't we have Secretary Paulson, who owns Fannie and Freddie, and they can set the industry standard?
We don't have to go through the gymnastics of giving the deed back and re-renting it, or refinances, or using the taxpayer money. We can do it the right way, with the solutions that are already there staring in our face.
JEFFREY BROWN: All right. I think we're going to have to leave it there, but we'll come back to this no doubt in the coming days or weeks as the plan develops. Bruce Marks, Daniel Alpert, and Neil Irwin, thanks all very much.


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i had slackware 13.0 on my dell vostro 1320 and it was all good, but since the upgrade to 13.1 i cannot change the screen brightness with ctrl+up and ctrl+down keys...
i'm not even sure how to start with this problem. from what i understand these keys 'call' a bios function...? so that would mean that some kernel module is not being loaded?
or has the desktop environment lost the key mappings and that is causing my trouble?
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I don't have slackware but there are problems with KDE & plasma-powerdevil application. If powerdevil is installed, uninstall it and go from there(find another ap to control battery and screen ...).
Dell (Vostro and some others) seem to be the ones popping up with this issue. I suspect it is Dell proprietary firmware interference with newer KDE &|R powerdevil ...
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5 bedroom town house for saleThe Homend, Ledbury, Herefordshire
Offers in Region of £250,000
Property Description
Key features
- Five bedroom town house
- Former Bed & Breakfast
- Ample scope for development
- Four storey building
- Central town location
- Close to town amenities
Full description
A grand five bedroom town house with versatile living accommodation over four floors and 2,000 square feet. Due to its close proximity to the town centre this property could be converted to a dual use property subject to obtaining the necessary planning consent. In recent times a business and a bed and breakfast has been run from the premise. The accommodation briefly comprises of:
Stone steps lead up to a large solid timber door
Entrance Porch
Tiled floor, radiator, stairs to FIRST FLOOR
17'7 x 15'7 (5.36m x 4.75m)
Spiral staircase to LOWER GROUND FLOOR, window to road, radiator
10'8 x 9'8 (3.25m x 2.95m)
Tiled floor, part tiled walls, built in shelves, external door to rear, radiator
White suite comprising W.C., hand basin, radiator
Lower Ground Floor
14'7 x 12'1 (4.45m x 3.68m)
Stairs to GROUND FLOOR, radiator
13'1 x 12'1 (3.99m x 3.68m)
Shower cubicle, external door to rear, radiator
Tiled floor, stairs to GROUND FLOOR
Split Landing
White suite comprising W.C., hand basin, trap door to SECOND FLOOR, radiator
First Floor
Dining Room
12'1 x 7'9 (3.68m x 2.36m)
Living Room
13'4 x 12'8 (4.06m x 3.86m)
Open fire place with surround, two radiators
12'1 x 10'8 (3.68m x 3.25m)
Fitted wall and base units incorporating sink with drainer, space and plumbing for appliances, external door, radiator
Bath with shower attachment, hand basin, part tiled walls and floors, space and plumbing for appliances, radiator
Second Floor
Gallery Landing
Sky light, access to loft
14'7 x 12'5 (4.45m x 3.78m)
Built in wardrobes, sky light, radiator
White suite comprising shower cubicle, hand basin, W.C., sky light, part tiled walls, radiator
12'5 x 11'5 (3.78m x 3.48m)
Built in wardrobes, radiator
12'1 x 11'5 (3.68m x 3.48m)
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BAND D. Rates £1,529.41 (2011)
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