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The No. 4 reactor at the nuclear power plant in Fukui Prefecture shut down automatically Monday, just three days after going back online under the stricter safety regulations implemented following the 2011 Fukushima meltdowns.
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Deeming it had taken sufficient steps to prevent a similar water leak, Kansai Electric restarted the reactor on Feb. 26.
Commercial operation of the reactor will likely be pushed back to April from the initial plan to start it in late March, as the Nuclear Regulation Authority said Tuesday it will be difficult to restart the facility until further safety measures are approved.
The nuclear regulation watchdog will examine analysis of the cause of the emergency stoppage and measures to prevent a similar incident by Kansai Electric.
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The Committee proposed further refinements to the indicators to identify least developed countries (LDCs), in particular to better reflect the structural vulnerability of countries to climate change.
May 2011: The report of the 13th session of the Committee for Development Policy (CDP), which took place from 21-25 March 2011, has just been released. The report reviews the Committee's consideration of the following themes: education for all, issues related to the Least Developed Countries (including monitoring of the development progress of Equatorial Guinea and Samoa), and migration and development.
In preparation for the triennial review of the list of least developed countries (LDCs), which will be undertaken in 2012, the Committee reviewed the criteria and indicators used to identify such countries. The Committee defined LDCs as low-income countries suffering from the most severe structural impediments to sustainable development. In this regard, economic, social and environmental elements all were noted to be relevant, but the Committee found that while the social dimension has already been incorporated into the human assets index to a large extent, the environmental component has not been taken into account sufficiently.
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|Corrine L. Lowe b. 20 April 1905, d. 7 December 1996
|Emmett James Bagent b. 22 Aug 1925
|1 January 1898
|Salem Twp., Muskingum Co., OH1
|1920 Federal Census, Ohio, Muskingum County, Salem Township, ED: 108, Series: T625, Roll: 1425, Page: 231A, January 28
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24, 113, 114, Bagent, Jesse, Nephew, , , M, W, 22, M, , , , , Yes, Yes, Ohio, , Ohio, , Ohio, , Yes, Miner, Coal Mine, W,2
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Jesse James Bagent, 56, of Sonora died at 5 am, Saturday at Bethesda Hospital following an illness of nine months. He was admitted to the hospital Friday. Mr. Bagent had been employed at the Burnham Corporation for 26 years. He was born in Salem Township on 1 January, 1898, a son of James and Della Wisecarver Bagent. He spent most of his life at Sonora. He was associated with Jehovah's Witnesses. On November 29, 1921, he was married to Corinne Lowe, who survives along with a son, Emmett Bagent of Sonora; three brothers, Willard Bagent of Sonora, Willis of Adamsville Road and Ora of Roseville; a half brother Garland Bagent of Coopermill Road and two grandchildren. The body was removed to the Shirer & Son Funeral Home at Adamsville, where services will be held at 2 o'clock this afternoon. C. P. Stottler will officiate. Burial will be in St. Paul's Cemetery near Sonora.
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When we find ourselves to be irony's dupes, we experience the sudden revelation the joke thrusts upon us: we are caught in the act, or the rug is pulled out from under us, or there is a box in a box in a box, all attractively wrapped but containing at the center nothing, or the center might not be in the middle of things. Somehow we made the wrong choice or invested wholly in an incomplete idea. Thus we gain the pleasure of experiencing subsequent, perhaps inevitable rewards for our wrongheadness.
Some thinkers assert that irony surrounds us eternally and no one is immune to its effects. D. C. Muecke quotes Kierkegaard: " … as philosophers claim that no true philosophy is possible without doubt, so by the same token one may claim that no authentic human life is possible without irony (11 )." To demonstrate, Muecke delves into German philosopher Friedrich Schlegel's complicated ironic world, saying that " … for Schegel the basic metaphysical ironic situation of man is that he is a finite being striving to comprehend an infinite hence incomprehensible reality (12 )." Muecke paraphrases Schlegel:
Nature is not a being but a becoming, an 'intensely
teeming chaos', a dilectic process of continual creation
and decreation. Man, as but one of these created, soon
to be decreated, forms must acknowledge that he can
acquire no permanent intellectual or experiential leverage
over the whole. He is none the less driven, or, as we might
now say, 'programmed' to grasp the world, to reduce it to
order and coherence, but any expression of his understanding
will inevitably be limited, not only because he himself is finite
but also because thought and language are inherently
systematic and 'finitive,' while nature is inherently elusive
and Protean (13).
To anyone favoring a concept of the eternal nature of man, Schlegel's assertions may come off as distastefully cynical. Setting aside for the moment his ideas of mankind's nature and languages as being inherently finite, I would like to focus on the larger concern of irony's powerful grip upon mankind's experience of "reality." Schlegel himself points out that irony as he imagines it is not a hopeless, inescapable, eternal trick that God plays on mankind. As part of Nature, mankind is right out there with the rest of Nature as it pushes its own boundaries.Â
Specifically, Schlegel perceives the artist as thriving in this ironic universe, keeping, as he or she does, to the ever-shifting frontier of his/her growing consciousness:
Just as personified Nature might be said to play with or
ironize its created forms, seeming to promise each of them
an absoluteness and stability of being only to relativize and
destabalize them in the unending flux of creation and
decreation, so man, too, or more specifically the artist, himself
being part of nature, has both a creative and decreative energy,
both an unreflecting, enthusiastic inventiveness and a self-
conscious, ironic restlessness that cannot be satisfied with the
finiteness of achievement but must endlessly transcend even
what his imagination and inspiration has created (14).
This cycle of artistic creativity where the artist sets fire to his or her previous construct of the world calls to mind the legend of the phoenix, a creature possessing and possessed by extraordinary beauty, both of aspect and voice. A phoenix nests in a pyre which upon some signal it alone perceives it sets afire. The creature is consumed in the conflagration. After three days a phoenix identical to the one that died arises from the ashes and the cycle begins again.
The phoenix myth is very old and several variations upon its theme occur the world over. Usually, the creature reborn from the ashes is identical to the original, but in Schlegel's world view, the phoenix rising may bear resemblance to its predecessor but will not be identical. As an evolving form, its appearance and nature must in some way improve upon its previous incarnation. In fact, in Schlegel's view of the nature of the artist, the artist that does not continuously decreate his/her worldview then emerge from the ashes with a new vision of his/her being-in-the-world has lost both his/her nature and value.
The artist at ease with the eternal creation and decreation of experience may not find ironic destructions as terrifying as some, yet they will be always for him/her very serious undertakings. Muecke explains Schlegel's view of the artist further:
Artistic creation … has two contrary but complementary
phases. In the expansive phase the artist is naive,
enthusiastic, inspired, imaginate; but this thoughtless ardour
is blind and [thus] untrue. In the contractive phase he is
reflective, conscious, critical, ironic; but irony without ardour
is dull and affected. Both phases are therefore necessary if the
artist is to be urbanely enthusiastic and imaginatively critical.
The artist who can bring off this difficult balancing act, this
'wonderfully perennial alternation of enthusiasm and irony'
produces a work that includes within itself its own coming into
being … This creative surpassing of creativity is Romantic
Irony; it raises art to a higher power because it sees for art a
mode of production that is in the highest sense artificial,
because fully conscious and arbitrary, and in the highest sense
natural, because nature is similarly a dynamic process eternally
creating and eternally going through its own creation (15).
Schlegel's notion of the artist's destabalizing and self-destructive period of reimagination may seem threatening and undesireable, something one ought to avoid. Actually, it may be unavoidable. This cycle of decreation may occur in more forms than we have names for and may be in some cases so routine that we would be surprised if someone pointed out their destructive qualitites. For instance, as mentioned, we have the flicker, the trade of metaphor, as Aristotle said, "the best thing by far for poets.†There is the long corridor of the symbol, whose entrance contains simultaneously its exit. Many linguistic and rhetorical forms engage in boundary crossing. Indeed, most rhetorical figures paint in their creative energies miniature portraits of the struggles of reimagination.
With language, the struggle to "get across" begins in infancy and becomes so routine we don't think of language acquisition as the act of boundary crossing that it is, or because we don't think of boundary crossing in this case as destructive, we do not give language acquisition the reverence due to it. As a result, often language is not fluently acquired, even one's native tongue.  It is perhaps this lack of fluency that creates a perception of language as being finite and systematic and thus ultimately inadequate in rendering experience, as Muecke says Schlegel's asserts it is. At any rate, fluency in one's native tongue stimulates vitality in one's perception of and engagement with experience and in one's community's perception of and engagement in experience. However, any idea we may have of "capturing" an experience wholly perhaps ought to be given up. Ironic tension being what it is, some aspects of our experiences will always escape us, at least till we find language to help us get across to them. Â
Many aspects of Schlegel's concept of irony erase themselves like a well-marked forest trail that suddenly breaks out onto unmarked rock. One could literally wander off in any direction. As Schlegel says in one of his aphorisms, "Irony is a clear consciousness of an eternal agility, or the infinitely abundant chaos." Goethe said, "If you wish to advance into the infinite, just follow the finite in all directions." End to end, these two ideas sum up irony's challenge to the artist: engaging irony makes for quite the unbalancing act, but if you keep going and don't look down, look back, or leap to conclusions about what's ahead you'll do well for yourself and for your audience.
 Footnotes
    1. Wayne Booth, A Rhetoric of Irony  (Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Pres, 1974), p. ix.
    2. D. C. Muecke, Irony and the Ironic (London and New York: Methuen, 1982), pp. 14-18.
    3.  Ibid, p. 15.
    4. Ibid, pp. 14-16.
    5. Ibid. p. 16.
    6. Booth, op cit.
     7. Muecke, pp. 8-13.
    8. Hugh Holman, A Handbook to Literature (Indianapolis: Odyssey Press, 3rd. ed., 1976), p. 314
    9. David Richter, "The reader as Ironic Victim," Novel (Fall 1980, no. 14) pp. 135-151.
    10. Ibid, p. 143.
    11. Muecke, op. cit., p. 4.
    12. Ibid, p. 23.
    13. Ibid, pp. 23-24.
    14. Ibid.
    15. Ibid, pp. 24-25.Â


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I Need Help And Advice Extremely Bad!!
Lounge By cadgurl07 Updated 10 Dec 2010 , 1:32pm by letsgetcaking
I have always been living paycheck to paycheck with no room to breath. I don't go out (except if I visit a friends house which are all within 5mins driving), I buy the cheapest foods, havn't bought clothes in over a year. I have credit card debt from my wisdom teeth (no insurance), when gas spiked way up, and from college when they didn't allow enough $ for art supplies. I have student loans my monthly payments are almost 1/2 of what I bring home. My car completely died (transmission) and I had to get another one which made my car insurance go up. I got sick a couple times and being I don't get sick time or vacation time I took no pay. This put me bhind my bills. I really don't know where to turn. I'm behind on payments and there's NO way I can catch up. I have no savings and my bank account is very low. I still live with my parent's THANK GOD I can still do that(I'm 24). My parent's don't have a lot of money and are paycheck to paycheck as well. I don't want to do a forbarence on my loans b/c I know I won't be able to pay them afterward (they'll be a higher payment after from interest). I NEED any and all opinions on what to do. I'm stressing so much I swear it's making me sick. Is bankruptcy the only option? What will happen to my car (the only property I own)? What student loans would tat cover? ( I have a career training, consolidation and federal). help please...thank you in advance.
I'm so sorry to hear you are going through such a hard time. As for advice, you should know that you can pay a very small amount each month and then cannot be "chased" by your creditors. I suggest calling those you owe, telling them your situation and telling them what you can afford. Tell them "I can only pay you $25. a month, but I will do that every month." By facing things head on and taking matters into your hands, you won't feel so powerless.
You do have your parents and that is good. I have my 28 yr. old living with us and are happy to be able to offer that, your parents probably feel the same. Know that there are thousands of people who are out of work and going through hard times now - you are not alone.
I have always been living paycheck to paycheck with no room to breath. I don't go out (except if I visit a friends house which are all within 5mins driving), I buy the cheapest foods, havn't bought clothes in over a year. I have credit card debt from my wisdom teeth (no insurance), when gas spiked way up, and from college when they didn't allow enough $ for art supplies. I have student loans my monthly payments are almost 1/2 of what I bring home. My car completely died (transmission) and I had to get another one which made my car insurance go up. I got sick a couple times and being I don't get sick time or vacation time I took no pay. This put me bhind my bills. I really don't know where to turn. I'm behind on payments and there's NO way I can catch up. I have no savings and my bank account is very low. I still live with my parent's THANK GOD I can still do that(I'm 24). My parent's don't have a lot of money and are paycheck to paycheck as well. I don't want to do a forbarence on my loans b/c I know I won't be able to pay them afterward (they'll be a higher payment after from interest). I NEED any and all opinions on what to do. I'm stressing so much I swear it's making me sick. Is bankruptcy the only option? What will happen to my car (the only property I own)? What student loans would tat cover? ( I have a career training, consolidation and federal). help please...thank you in advance.
My husband and I are in the same situation. Call your school loan company and let them know what is going on. We did that and we have 6 months with no interest. then we call again and get another 6 months. you get I think 36 months total interest free. Have your parents call the city office and see if they can help pay for the water and electric. We did and got 7 months help. don't really know what else to tell you. take your vitamins and keep going to work. Hope this get better
First of all....take a deep breath, and know that you are not the only one in America in this position. (Not by a long shot!)
Have you talked to a non-profit credit counselor?
Have you considered talking to a lawyer? Many will do the first consultation for free, and let you know what would happen with much of your loans. Remember...filing bankruptcy is not something that prevents you from ever paying your bills, should you ever have the opportunity down the road, should you need to file.
Also, if you are worried about your credit score, I suggest letting that worry go. A good credit score is great, but it is not a measure of the kind of person you are. We heap a lot of pride and guilt into credit scores in this country, but they are fickle and never tell the WHOLE story. They also make people focus on perfection in their financial lives...a perfection that is extremely difficult to maintain and remain in today's financial reality.
There are professionals out there (the credit counselors, the attorneys) who can give you the legal advice, but I am here to tell you that it's ok to be where you are. Make a list of your debts, make a list of any assets, and go see a credit counselor or attorney. You'll be glad you did.
Not to be a Debbie Downer but bankruptcy will relieve you of student loans. They cannot be defaulted on. Maybe see if your family qualify for public assistance. My husband and I were on it (food stamps) for about a year while I was in school, working part time. It really helped.
Also, what about the job you are working right now? Can you ask for a raise? Are there any higher up positions that you could apply for? Could you be making more money someplace else? Are you where you wan to be-what can you do about it?
I lost my job last year and one way that we keep our bills low is to get rid of everything extra. We do not have cable, internet (I'm at the library), land-line phone. With all of our expenses, housing-electricity-medical-food-gas-insurance-etc, we spend $1400 a month. Start by writing down every penny you spend. You may be surprised where you can cut back.
Even though we live very modestly already, I learned a lot of tricks from "America's Cheapest Family Gets You Right On The Money" and "The Cheapskate Next Door." See what resources may be available to you for free at your local library. OH-and the cheapest food can be even cheaper-especially this time of year. Look for great coupons in the Sunday paper and match them with grocery store deals. There really is a science to this-I just bought an entire grocery cart FULL for $15 today. If that's even too much, what about local food pantries? Or Angel Food ministries? Great program.
Good luck, we are all struggling but by networking out ideas, we can get by
Have you tried to get a deferment on your student loans? If you can show financial hardship, they will either greatly reduce your payment, or defer them altogether for a while. We had to do this when my husband first got out of school because we had just had a baby and his first job did not pay well at all.
It sounds like you are a really good candidate for bankruptcy. It is NOT the end of the world and you will feel much better without the stress of so much debt on your shoulders. It is okay to have a bad credit score for a while. Trust me there are a TON of people in this same situation right now. You don't need to be embarrassed.
I think you should see an attorney about filing for bankruptcy. Most of them will do an initial 30 min cosultation for free but you are looking at about $1500 to have them take on your case and file.
Student loans will NOT be eliminated by bankruptcy but it will get rid of the credit card debt and medical bills.
Hang in there!
Thank you all for your advice. I did a bills vs. income last night. My bills with student loans, creditcards, car loan, car insurance, food, and gas (NOT including misc expenses like car registration, dr visits, and meds, which aren't every month or the same amount) I came to 1650. The MAX of my income a month is 1600...that's if I'm there 40 hours a week every week and no holidays. Since I don't get sick days or vacation and only some holidays I'm usually not getting the max. So I'm under what I need right there. The 1650 almost 1/2 of that is student loans and the one loan (have 3 different types) isn't available for deferment/forbarance. With the student loans. I'm worried that I won't be able to pay them after the deferment/forbarence b/c with the interest the monthly payments will be higher. Thanks forletting me know about the bankruptcy and my student loans...I have 3different types and the one is a private loan..but it was used for college so I'm sure about that one. The rest are career training and federal loans.
I've tried looking for an addtional job and applied to all local grocery stores, diners, and businesses that were hiring in my area (and some that didn't say they were)....I didn't even get any call backs. There's no overtime or raises in my job. I took over 1/2 of what my boss did when I got hired and he was "stuck" in this position for 15years...unable to move within the company. I'll hopefully be talking to a lawyer after the Thanksgiving holiday. Don't know what if anything can be done but at least I tried.
Thank you all for your advice and input.
It sounds like you need to look for a better job, one that pays more and has room for advancement. Don't quit the job that you have, just start trying to find a better one.
A lot of my friends have gone back to school part-time, even if it's very limited part-time, because they don't have to pay on their student loans while they're going to school, so it gives them some breathing room while they wait for the economy to improve and better jobs to be available.
Beware of non-profit credit counseling. Most of them are in cahoots with the credit card companies. You are better off calling the credit card company and seeing if they can do something, anything, to lower your monthly payments. Stress to them how seriously you CANNOT make your payment. Some of them see some payment as better than no payment and will try to help you out.
If you file for bankruptcy, it WILL NOT discharge your student loans. It is very easy to apply for a deferrment on your student loans, with no payments for 6 months to a year. Yes, the interest will keep on accruing, but it may give you enough time to get caught up on everything else. And your payments may not necessarily be highter right off the bat. Mine did a thing for me where the payments were very small for the first two years, and increased over time to help us out during difficult financial times. Even if one can't be deferred, it may help.
I'd look for a second job. Work two. Clean houses, something to bring in extra income. If you're young and healthy and without any kids, that sounds like the fastest way to dig out of your hole. I know the economy is tough for finding work right now, believe me, so good luck and Godspeed to you!
I've been there, and on top of all the other advice you've been given I would say just don't pay on your credit cards for now. If you literally don't have the money coming in to do it, then don't. They'll call you and harass you and say they're going to sue you but it will be a long time before they get around to that.
I only mean this in the short term. This is while you are doing everything you can to get your income high enough to cover your $1650 monthly expense. Then when you do raise your income you can worry about credit cards again. Right now, think survival.
I don't want anyone to think I'm saying don't pay your bills, cause I'm not. I'm just saying that right now while less is coming in than going out, prioritize, and Visa and Mastercard should be the bottom of the list.
Your credit will be ruined if you simply stop paying your credit card bill. Call them and try to work something out.
I want to thank you all again...I am submitting paper work to defer my student loans (2 of the 3 b/c one is ineligible) and will go from there. That's a hug chunk of money that will be going toward other bills...like my creditcards. We'll see within a year what the payments will be like when they come out. Gotta take things one at a time though.
Thanks again.
the man is a financial GOD!!!!!!!!!
the man is a financial GOD!!!!!!!!!
Indy you crack me up. I listen to him every day. funny how my whole life I've already lived me life how he teaches.
(Crap, missed the boat on cashing in on the 'secret' financial plan! )
filing for bankruptcy will KILL your credit score - especially at such a young age.
filing for bankruptcy will KILL your credit score - especially at such a young age.
A finance guy (not hubby) once told me "Slow pay is as bad as no pay".
My goal is to have a zero credit score. No loans; cash all the way. Go Dave Ramsey!
(I'm not making light of it. I'm really not. I know too many people who have been forced to go that route and its not easy to make that decision. More than one told me, "The bankruptcy will eventually go off of my credit report but my inability to pay off credit card debt will go on forever." Their credit actually got better after they filed ..... eventally.)
If I was you I would start by selling the car. Take the bus, even if it is a long trip. You are young, no kids, no house, etc--you can do it. You have to remember it took you a long time to get yourself into this situation, it won't be an easy fix to get out of it.
We have lived below our means for 23 years, meaning we always spent a lot less than we brought in. We raised 2 kids and bought property and a house on one small income. If we did it I know you can do it too.
There are plenty of ways to make extra money even in a bad economy. There is always someone that needs their house cleaned, their shopping done, their dog walked, their kid's babysat, etc, etc, etc. We did everything from chopping firewood to detailing people's cars. I even wrapped Christmas presents one year for a busy company that didn't have time to do it!
The age you are and the fact you are able to live at home means you can work a lot, probably more than you think you can. When your first job is finished for the day it is not unreasonable for you to be working just as many hours on something else to pay what you owe. Don't just riffle through the classifieds looking for a conventional job--think! What do people need around you? What kind of niche can you fill? What do you hear people complaining about or wanting?
Whittle your list down of what you spend even more. Go over it with a fine toothed comb. Keep track of every cent you spend, down to a pack of gum. You may be surprised at what you can eliminate and then send that money to your creditors instead.
Just an update...the paper work for my loans are done and I have an interview for a second job...it would work out perfect it's down the road from my work now and ends 1/2 hour before the other starts. The interview is on Friday so all I have to do is nail that and hopefully get back on track. Thank you all for your encouaging words and helpful tips.
that's a great start
All the best for tomorrows interview. Try to relax, be your wonderful self. I agree whole-heartedly with indebi www.daveramsey.com We took his course (you can learn it all from his website for free, though) and got out of debt, got rid of student loans, and last year paid 1/2 cash for our latest used car! We contributed to 4 of our kids weddings in 3 years and still went on a vacation. If you invest in learning dave ramsey's advice now, it will SERIOUSLY help you out for the rest of your entire life. He's wonderful, he's on tv, and on the radio, and check with your library to see if they have any of his books or cd's or dvd's so that you don't have to buy them. Good luck, let us know when you land that 2nd job! Keep smiling.
Well...I got the part time job. I'll be working at my normal day job from 8am-4:30pm (not including travel time) Monday through Friday and then 3 days a week over the weekend I'll be a baker at Panera doing the over night shift from about 9pm til 7:30am. They said I'll be given a phone call this weekend about the definately shift days and time for the following week. I'll be relaxing all this weekend b/c I'll never have another one to do so...at least until at least 1/2 my debt is gone. Both jobs are in the same town which helps alot and having weekends will hopefully help with me not getting burnted completely out during the week. I hope everything works out and I can handle it.
Hey Congratulations on landing the 2nd job!!! that's awesome news. At least THAT paycheck will help you realize in your spirit that YOU CAN DO THIS!
Sleep...what's sleep...... ...been there....done that!
Hey! Congratulations, and all the best. Take vitamins, and get as much sleep as possible during this time of your life. Just remember that it's not forever, just for a time. Way to go!
You're an amazing person, taking care of this head on! Good luck with everything!


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José Saramago begins 1995 with political meditations on super-powers:
As to the North-American dominion, I think it's an invincible fatality: we know the causes, we don't ignore the intentions, and neither has been enough to know how to resist the methodical processes of compression and cultural lamination of which we're being victims, with our historical cultures rapidly losing cohesion and vital density. In a Europe incapable of questioning itself, the most common posture today is one of resignation that has hit rock bottom. Pointless to say that no other state of spirit could so better suit a German imperial project which has stopped bothering to disguise itself: the game had barely started and we had already lost it…
With the loss of sovereignty in Ireland, Portugal, Greece and Italy, and soon Spain and France, due to the European economic crisis, and the imposition of draconian austerity measures, these words now seem prescient. I wish he were alive today to know what he'd write about these events. The European Union winning the Nobel Peace Prize wouldn't have passed him by without an ironic newspaper article. About his scepticism he says, "I'm a sceptical European who learned everything about scepticism with a teacher called Europe." He constantly expresses his belief that the 'European construction' will only destroy local cultures and tradition in the name of a super-bland culture and identity. He predicts that the European citizens will fight this destruction of the collective memory of national peoples and that this is what will doom the EU.
Although Saramago is obsessed with Germany, in his mind the source of many modern evils, he doesn't shy away from blaming other countries for their responsibilities. "The problem, today, is that no one who is small and poor wants to accept the evidence of their smallness and poverty. So the backward countries of the South won't come together nor find each other, each one living in the dream that one day they will be admitted into the house of the richer ones, even if just to open the door to the guests, whom it envies, and to serve the cognac, which then will try to drink in secret." This perfectly describes the current situation of Southern Europe, with each country pretending he's in a better situation than his neighbour, all denying the evidence of their impending collapse, pretending they're fine, blaming the others. Saramago would surely have found this lack of solidarity hilarious. It's also doubtful he even believes this solidarity is possible at all. "Man, in spite of a lot of AIDS and a lot of cancer, in spite of a lot of earthquakes and droughts, has no other enemy but man."
Of the war in the Balkans he just writes, "November 22. Peace in Bosnia. Peace in Bosnia?"
Regarding what many consider his obsession with Christianity, Saramago explains that he only writes about religion because, in spite of being an atheist, he lives in a world shaped by religion; since it's an exclusively human phenomenon, as he puts it, he sees it as his duty as a writer and citizen to address religion.
On the literary front, Miguel Torga passes away. Torga was one of the greatest Portuguese writers of the 20th century, poet, novelist, short-story teller, playwright, and diarist (sixteen volumes comprising the years between 1941 and 1994, admittedly far more than Saramago's measly five volumes). "Miguel Torga died too soon. I now understand I would have liked to know him. Too late." He meets Susan Sontag, whose novel The Volcano Lover, he presents in Spain. Saramago expresses his happiness about Jorge Amado having received the Camões Prize in the previous year. Then in November he's informed he's the recipient of the 1995 Camões Prize.
Saramago writes of himself as a writer: "I only write about what I didn't know before I wrote it. That must be why my books don't repeat themselves. I repeat myself in them, because, even so, of what little I continue to know, what I know best is this person I am."
Regarding his Voyage to Portugal, he claims he wrote it like the travel books in Europe from the 17th and 18th century, when "Europe started travelling inside Europe." I had never noticed that, but then I haven't read travel books of that time, save for William Beckford's curious trip to Portugal.
He comments a curious passage from one of Vergílio Ferreira's diaries: "The most translated authors are normally the minor authors, meaning the ones who speak to the mediocrity of the general humanity." Saramago, who is the most translated Portuguese writer in history, simply asks: "If Vergílio Ferreira had as many translations as Dostoevsky, would he have written what he wrote?" He could more easily have asked, "Who is Vergílio Ferreira outside Portugal?" But that would have been mean. Ferreira, whose books I occasionally like, is, truth be said, no one save in Portugal, which makes a pastime of believing it harbours great but unfairly unknown novelists. Like Saramago once said, it's not that Portugal lacks great writers, it's just that the government, the embassies, the publishers and the media do little to nothing to promote them outside the narrow confines of our "patch of earth edged by the sea," to quote Torga's lovely description of Portugal. Saramago, it should be noted, is considered great not because the Portuguese media say so – it in fact resisted his consecration as a great writer, envious of anyone who achieves success without their help – but because the world says so, much to the chagrin of our "great" writers who of greatness only have the evidence from their national literary circles, but beyond our borders no one has ever heard about them. Saramago, who had already broken of one the great taboos of Portuguese society – being a communist, atheist writer with an active public voice - will never be forgiven for also being the most popular Portuguese writer of all times.
Letters continue to arrive from abroad. From Italy a theatre producer wants to turn his books of newspaper articles, A Bagagem do Viajante and Deste Mundo e do Outro, into a musical play about memory and childhood, for young audiences. This person is one Francesco Di Maggio. After Azio Corghi turned two of his books into operas, another Italian is interested in adapting his work to music. What is this obsession the Italians have for Saramago? The hate mail is also decreasing.
Other events he mentions: the plight of Turkish writer Yashar Kemal, sued by his own country for allegedly advocating separatism in favour of the Kurds, to which he belongs. He travels to Manchester University to receive an honoris causa, thus becoming the first Portuguese writer to achieve such an honour. "Even though vanity is the sin that will lead me to hell, as some press theologians never tire of telling me, I was satisfied." During a lunch with Juan Goytisolo, the Spanish writer tells him that a Portuguese poet, after Goytisolo told him he had liked The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis, complained: "How is it possible that you like that book when Saramago made Ricardo Reis a heterosexual?" Although Saramago asks, Goytisolo diplomatically refuses to reveal the identity of the poet. I keep thinking informal conversations between writers must be the strangest, funniest conversations imaginable.
He continues to work on Blindness: "This time, the type of pessimism of a writer from Portugal will not manifest itself in the usual venues of a melancholy lyricism that characterises us. It will be cruel, raw, nor will style be there to smoothen the corners. In Blindness we won't cry the intimate pains of the invented characters, what we will be shouting there is this absurd and interminable pain of the world." Melancholy lyricism, now that's an accurate description of 90% of our literature. If he had added "mind-numbingly humourless" (Eça de Queiroz excepted), it would be complete and perfect. Amazing how a writer who wrote so unlike Portuguese writers understood it so well, from the inside out. He finishes Blindness on August 8 and reveals that he'd got the idea on November 6, 1991, when he was having a meal alone in a restaurant. August 18 he sends the finished book to his editor, Zeferino Coelho. He claims the despair and scepticism in the novel is different from his previous ones because it's aimed at the whole world, without the historical or topical background to dilute its intensity.
In Lanzarote things are calm. He has already adopted three dogs: Pepe is joined by Greta and Camões. His daughter, Violante, and his grandchildren visit him in Lanzarote during Christmas. "It was a good year," Saramago writes at the end of the diary.


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Waterfox 18.0.1 brings the power of Firefox 18 to 64-bit Windows
After a gap of nearly three months, Waterfox 18.0.1 has been released, bringing the Firefox variant for 64-bit versions of Windows bang up to date. Its return is welcome news considering Mozilla recently dropped its own 64-bit Windows build from the Nightly codebase, and allows
The delay in releasing Waterfox -- also available as a portable build -- has been attributed to major bugs in the Intel C++ compiler, which is used by developer Alex K to produce Waterfox from the Firefox source code.
As expected, Waterfox 18.0.1 includes all the new features, performance improvements and bug fixes introduced in versions 17 and 18 of Firefox. These include the first revision of the new Social API and support for Facebook Messenger, click-to-play blocklisting, tweaked Address bar with larger icons and various developer improvements, including a new markup panel in the Page Inspector.
Waterfox 18.0.1 also has its own platform-specific fix for JumpLists, which mean Windows 7 and 8 users now can now right-click the program's pinned application in the taskbar to access shortcuts to recently opened websites, Private Browsing mode and new tabs and windows. The fix was implemented with the help of MoonChild, developer of Firefox variant Pale Moon 15.4.
By default, Waterfox is only distributed with the US English language available, but users will eventually be able to download and implement alternative language files once they've been updated.
The update is a welcome one for Waterfox users -- the previous release, v16.0.1, was quickly superseded by Firefox 16.0.2, which included a major security patch. With the release of Waterfox 18.0.1, that security patch has now been implemented along with all subsequent security fixes.
Waterfox 18.0.1 and Waterfox Portable 18.0.1 are both available as freeware downloads for 64-bit versions of Windows XP or later.


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Baroness Bus Crash
oh darn
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Shit, that sucks. Lets hope there's no fatalities or broken limbs.
original article said punk band. was funny.
hope everyone is all right
Digging: Chelsea Wolfe - Hiss Spun
Holy fuck, hope everyone's ok
this fucking sucks.
lol @ punk band. seems like everyone will be okay
I knew something was going on, Converge and a few other bands were speaking vaguely over social media with hints of sympathy.
Shit 30ft? Hope everyone's gonna be alright
whoa brutal get well soon
Perhaps this will scare them into writing better music
"their bus falling nearly 30 feet off a viaduct"
In all seriousness, here's hoping they are alright.
jesus, glad to see there were no immediate deaths. thoughts go out to those guys.
good thing this wasn't another Cliff Burton type of incident.
let's hope no one is seriously hurt.
Baroness is so punk. Hope they're all right.
note: article doesn't mention which two people are in serious condition. may nor may not be the band but wish them the best regardless
Holy fuck, hope everyone's ok [2]
lets not have another Decapitated incident.
Was it like Inception?
Also, I hope they're okay. RIP.
Shit thats terrible, hope everyone recovers quickly
9 injured, 2 serious apparently. 1 of the serious is the driver.
Hope all will pull through this ok, its not a joke!
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RIP? No one confirmed dead yet, hopefully know more soon..
"Would you like some tea?"
Article doesn't mention who was band and who was random bystander. But 30 feet? Holy shit, i don't listen to the band or anything but hope everyone is ok.
Some of the worst news i've seen on this site in a while
holy crap i hope no one got seriously hurt D:
Here is a better article with pictures..
Hopefully everyone will be alright.
"Also, I hope they're okay. RIP."
Unless I missed something, that RIP must stand for "Recover In Peace".
Nomos you're a fucking retard. I will be sure to laugh about it when I hear about you or your friends getting injured in a serious accident
No matter if you like the band or not this could be a tragic accident. I'd hate this to happen to me and my mates at any time let alone in a different country
Tell me how u really feel
@newjunkietheoretic: Nah b.
Reminds me of Metallica...
Woah, picture of the crash is pretty wicked bad
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Wow, sending some prayers their way. That really sucks.
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30 feet, thats pretty crazy.
Jesus. Really did a number on their bus. Hope everything turns out okay.
It's because everyone else was driving on the wrong side of the road
"Wow, sending some prayers their way. That really sucks."
god hates metal, he probably caused the crash.
"Perhaps this will scare them into writing better music"
LO. Nomos may/may not be a retard but what he posted is still funny.
Why can't this happen justin bieber or katy perry
hope it wasn't too serious.
lambgoat community is stoked.
"LO. Nomos may/may not be a retard but what he posted is still funny."
not really. people say very similar things every time theres an article about something unfortunate that happened to a band. hes not clever.
Signed, HitlerIsTheBest
hes not clever.
Why can't this happen justin bieber or katy perry [2]
Never said Nomos was a genius. I just said what he posted was funny.
Hitler your nose is brown
"Never said Nomos was a genius. I just said what he posted was funny."
yeah, im aware of what you said. and thats why i basically said, its too overdone to be funny.
SH*******TT!!! It's fine if there are broken limbs and the like, I'm just praying that nobody was
deathly injured.
I didn't realize things I typed would be overanalyzed by strangers. Nor was I trying to be "funny".
Shitty, man
"Why can't this happen justin bieber or katy perry"
I can agree with bieber, but katy perry's jugs would surely be missed.
i just heard that the two "serious" injuries were fractures and no one has life-threatening injuries.
Yeah, there are so many other people I'd like to see in a bus crash. Like Nicki Minaj or Luke Sarazine
This fucking sucks. I hope all is well
Jesus, really hope all are alive (at least) and well.
That sucks :[ get well soon.
holy crap that's a big fall.
Hope everyone's alright.
Hope everyone heals and is alright. This is terrible news fan or not.
If all the people who are wishing this on other people get in horrible accidents themselves, that'd be funny
it wouldn't be haha funny just ironic funny, and before you say anything, there are different kinds of funny.
I hope these guys are alright.
"Yeah, there are so many other people I'd like to see in a bus crash. Like Nicki Minaj or Luke Sarazine"
Wait what the fuck?
Not funny potsy some asshat wants me dead.
It's quite funny.
Yeah I would devastate Katy Perry.
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Fuck that guy.
I've always liked John Mayer after that Chappelle's Show skit.
That comment just goes in circles lol.
No, but that potsy/rec exchange was quite funny tho
"No, but that potsy/rec exchange was quite funny tho"
What the hell are you talking about?
do the math
"do the math"
Suck a dick nigga.
nah that's gay. how bout i shove ur shit in instead
She's hot.
Yeah come on.
damn man that sucks. i saw these guys a month ago so for some reason i feel legitimately concerned about them.
Shit...thoughts and prayers goin' out to those guys
I was talking about the other Luke Sarazine
That sucks. Hope everyone involved is ok.
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@crazy good idea, i bet that will have an effect.
Fuck me, I was going to see them tonight.
Wish it had been someone else in a bus crash...I suggest John Mayer.
this really ain't good
holy shit that sucks. i hope they are all ok
u r redefining 2.5 as we know it lol
lol esp now that we can't troll rate, but yeah i get it dude. just kinda weird to see so much hate for an "average" record but i comprendo haha
"I was talking about the other Luke Sarazine"
Lol ohh okay sweet.
lol i mean if u put it that way probs not
anyway, carryon
ok so now i know for sure ur not black
cool. nothing wrong with the brothas. they just tend to smash indiscriminately
I can attest 30 feet is an enormous drop, considering I fell 50 and ended up a paraplegic with heaps of breaks. 30 feet is more than enough to fuck you up forever/kill you. Hope they're okay
You didn't know about that? Yeah happened a year ago. But yeah, just saying as a comparison 30 feet is still enough to kill. I met people in the spinal unit who fell only a few meters and ended up quads
i'm sorry i let everyone down. if i was there, i would have caught the bus and squated it to safety.
Oh, this is terribly unfortunate. These are good guys.
Who are all these random users that want me dead?
random? who the fuck are you? you have way too many comments, telling me you're not in the gym enough. come on bro.
Agreed where has my life gone.
Sputnik is like heroin, once you use it its kind of hard to stop.
My friend told me that this happened just around the corner from where he lives, and that he walked there the day before it happened
30 ft seems like quite a drop. Hope all is okay.
I just literally started listening to these guys yesterday. Hope they're all alright. Not to make light of the situation but I thought it said "The accident was said to have resulted in heavy rain and reduced visibilty."
phidaeux bro, this is all your fault. WHY DID YOU HAVE TO START LISTENING YESTERDAY.
Finds new band. Falls in love. Band dies. Heart broken. Sad Life.
why isn't my avatar showing
Update from Baroness yo.
"John Baizley has broken his left arm and left leg. Allen Blickle and Matt Maggioni each suffered fractured vertebrae. All three remain in the hospital as of this writing. Pete Adams has been treated and released from the hospital.
Three of the five crew members who were on the bus have also been treated and released. One member is still undergoing testing. The driver of the bus remains in critical condition."
Oh man, not Baroness. One of my favourite bands...
Really hope everyone comes back safely and as they were. World needs more John Baizley paintings.
Two fractured vertebrae? Fuck. Here's hoping they dont end up like me.
Really depends how well they're treated. I know plenty of people who only had a fracture but then were moved too jerkily or whatever and bam, everything's gone
back is so crucial. last thing I want fractured :/
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|Edward II , King of England b. 25 April 1284, d. 21 September 1327
|Princess Isabella of France b. 1296, d. 22 August 1358
|13 November 1312
|Edward III was born on 13 November 1312 at Windsor Castle, Berkshire, Eng.1
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|War broke out with France in 1324, prompting Edward to send Isabella and their son Edward (later to become Edward III ) to negotiate with her brother and French King, Charles IV. Isabella fell into an open romance with Roger Mortimer, one of the Edward's disaffected barons. The rebellious couple invaded England in 1326, capturing and imprisoning Edward on the 21st of January 1327, taking him to Berkeley Castle in Gloucestershire.2
|While In France during 1325 Queen Isabella arranged the marriage of her son, Edward, then about 12 years old to Philippa of Hainault, who was then about 11 years old.3
|circa 1327
|Initially under the tutelage of his mother and her lover, Roger Mortimer of Wigmore, Edward III bided his time. In 1330 he struck, seizing Mortimer and having him executed. With this Edward re-opened the war with Scotland and then against France having realised that the defeat of Scotland was not possible whilst they received French aid. This helped start the 100 year's war which was the major feature of the reign. War of course needed money and to this end Edward reformed the coinage and came increasingly to rely on parliament to organise the economy and deal with law and order within the realm.Edward III , King of England acceded the throne of at England on circa 1327.4,5
|In summary: . Edward assumed effective power in 1330 after imprisoning his mother and executing her lover Roger de Mortimer who had murdered his father; therafter his reign was dominated by military adventures. His victory in Scotland, especially at Haildon Hill 1333 encouraged him to plan by 1363 the union of England and Scotland. Through his mother he claimed the French throne thus starting in 1337, the Hundred years war. His son John of Gaunt dominated the government during his last years.6
|24 January 1328
|Edward III , King of England, 15 years old, married Philippa of Hainault, who was 16 years old, , daughter of Guillaume III De Avesnes of Hainault and Jeanne de Valois, 24 January 1328 in York, Minster, England.7,8,1
|In 1333 Edward III , King of England provoked by French attacks on his territories in France, declared himself king of France. This was the beginning of the "Hundred Year War".9
|Half of the population of Europe died in the Black Death, which swept through England and northern Europe from 1348-1350. The plague weakened the English military and in 1375 Edward signed the Treaty of Bruges. This treaty left Edward with only England, Calais, Bordeaux, and Bayonne. This plague also killed his daughter Joan.10
|Edward was associated with Alice Perrers though not married.4
|HYPERLINK this file: Pix/tx\C:\Books\PIX/Edward III.
|As for the illegitimate children, they are John de Southeray,Joan Skerne,Jane Northland (identifiable) and Nicholas Litlyngton (doubtful). Mother of these children is not given in this source, but could be Alice Perrers.7
|21 June 1377
Edward III died on 21 June 1377 at Richmond, at England at age 64. The King was alone with Alice Perrer when he was stricken with an apoplexy. He died of a stroke. She had been sitting on his bed, casting dice with him, and provoking him to delighted titters with her outrageous stakes. Half of his face turned to stone. Alice jumped off the bed but quickly pulled three richly jeweled rings from the kings flaccid fingers. She ran from the room yelling for a priest, ran to the river, ferried over, secured a horse and rode to safety in Bedfordshire.4,6,1
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|Philippa of Hainault b. 24 June 1311, d. 15 August 1369
|Edward The Black Prince+ b. 15 Jun 1330, d. 8 Jun 1376
|Isabella Plantagenet+ b. 16 Jun 1332, d. bt 1379 - 1382
|Joan Joanna Plantagenet b. c Feb 1335, d. 2 Sep 1348
|William Plantagenet of Hatfield b. 16 Feb 1337, d. 1337
|Lionel Duke of Clarence+ b. 29 Nov 1338, d. 17 Oct 1368
|John of Gaunt Plantagenet+ b. Mar 1340, d. 3 Feb 1399
|Edmund Plantagenet of Langley, Duke of York+ b. 5 Jun 1341, d. 1 Aug 1402
|Blanche Plantagenet b. Mar 1342, d. 1342
|Mary Plantagenet b. 10 Oct 1344, d. bt 1361 - 1362
|Margaret Plantagenet b. 20 Jul 1346, d. 1361
|Thomas b. 1347, d. c 134811
|William Plantagenet , of Windsor b. 24 Jun 1348, d. 1348
|Thomas Plantagent , of Woodstock b. 7 Jan 1354, d. Sep 1397
|Joan Plantagenet b. a 1355
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Ratchet & Clank Review | IGN
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Johannesburg - The Public Protector will probe a possible conflict of interest involving Communications Minister Dina Pule, her office said on Monday.
"Yes, the Public Protector will investigate minister Pule's role in the ICT Indaba," spokeswoman Kgalalelo Masibi said.
The indaba was a conference hosted by the department of communications in June in an attempt to put Africa on the global information and communications technology (ICT) map.
The department claimed afterwards that partnerships with the United Nation's International Telecommunication Union and various sponsors attested to the success of the event.
Questions had been raised about the financial involvement of Pule's "romantic partner" Phosane Mngqibisa.
Democratic Alliance MP Marian Shinn said: "We need to know whether the minister abused her position of authority over companies in the ICT industry to enrich a close personal friend."
The DA said the protector's probe would supplement an inquiry it instigated via Parliament's ethics and members' interests committee for a probe into Pule's outsourcing of the event.
"The fallout of how R25.7 million was raised from sponsors for the event and was seemingly withdrawn from the event's project manager Carol Bouwer's business bank account by Mr Mngqibisa has been the focus of media attention since mid-June," said Shinn.
"There are almost weekly revelations of how money has been spent lavishly on items and trips that have tenuous links to the ICT Indaba and more to do with a jet-setting lifestyle."
The protector's investigation would hopefully shed light on Pule's knowledge and influence over the organisation of the indaba, the appointment of Mngqibisa as an associate to Bouwer for the event, and any financial gain he may have made from sponsors. - Sapa


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But I'm a Cheerleader (2000) | 31 Dec 1994 // 7:03 PM
Though behaving like proper girls and boys has little effect on Megan and the other patients, they still pretend that they are actually heading down the path to heterosexuality.
But I'm a Cheerleader (2000) | 31 Dec 1994 // 7:03 PM
The cultural systems that condone more subtle forms of homophobia are left unexamined. This allows viewers to forget the important fact that homophobia and strict either-or gendering practices do prevail in today's 'civilized' cultures, liberal and tolerant as they may seem to those who don't have to worry about such things.


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Beckham's return a distinct possibility
When David Beckham sprained his right knee in the SuperLiga final on Aug. 29, not only did his first season in MLS appear to be dead, but lying next to him in the MLS morgue were the Galaxy's playoff hopes. Yet just as the autopsy was set to begin, a Monty Python-like recovery took place for both player and team alike, meaning that not only is Beckham feeling a bit better, but he just might play in some games that mean something.
Yet amid this good news, Galaxy head coach Frank Yallop has the makings of a dilemma on his hands. Beckham returned to light training last Thursday, and although he sat out Friday's session with some soreness that Yallop characterized as "normal," Beckham has progressed to the point where he could play a part in the Galaxy's remaining games, beginning with this weekend's home match against Toronto.
Last week, Beckham told the Los Angeles Times that "I think I'll play before the end of the season. Even if we lose a game and are not able to make the playoffs, I'll still try to get one or two games in. I need to get back to playing."
Of course, a better question regarding Beckham's status is "Should he play?" rather than "Could he play?" Beckham's first months in MLS were a case study in how not to rehabilitate an injury, with the Englishman limping noticeably at times on a bum left ankle. Beckham later added that the pain he felt may have played a part in his subsequent knee injury, and at that point, shutting him down for the season seemed the prudent thing to do. The lesson in caution is one that Yallop has taken to heart.
"I am not going to put any dates or times on anything anymore, because I've been burned on that before," said Yallop in a telephone interview following Sunday's victory. "We're hoping, but we've got to see how [Beckham] reacts. I expect him to try and get in some sort of training in the middle of the week. If he doesn't, then he won't be available for the [Toronto game]. We just want to see and slowly gauge how he's doing."
Still, Yallop said he liked what he saw from Beckham in training last week. The Galaxy manager noted that with an MCL injury like Beckham's, striking the ball -- whether with power or finesse -- is the hardest skill to reclaim without discomfort, and it's a test that the midfielder passed. Now the trick is increasing Beckham's fitness, and then bringing him back at a time that is optimal for both him and the Galaxy. For that reason, Yallop will continue to proceed cautiously with Beckham, especially given the Englishman's willingness to play hurt, even when he shouldn't.
"[Beckham] is not going to just come in and start," Yallop said. "But let's hope we can get him some time ... during a game."
When asked if that meant Beckham would play before the end of the regular season, Yallop said, "I'd be surprised if he didn't."
As for the Galaxy's playoff hopes, some work remains to be done. The permutations are still endless, but a season ending play-in game against the Chicago Fire is looking like a distinct possibility, and the prospect of seeing Beckham and Cuauhtemoc Blanco facing off in such a match is a marketer's dream. Running the table in the intervening games is practically a must for L.A., yet it's a task that Yallop feels is within his team's capabilities.
"I feel real good with this group at the moment," Yallop said. "They're focused, they're ready, they're hungry, and they're aggressive. That's good."
Getting a certain Englishman back healthy would be even better.
Jeff Carlisle covers MLS and the U.S. national team for ESPNsoccernet. He can be reached at email@example.com.


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How 'Cash for Clunkers' is Adding Carbon
By most accounts, the Obama administration's "Cash for Clunkers" program is a resounding success. You've heard the sound bytes: "good for consumers, good for dealers/the auto industry/the economy, good for the environment." There was some embarrassing attention focused on the program during its second week as consumer response overwhelmed everything from the dealer interface system to the rebate financing that the government initially allocated.
As the program's future hung in the balance, some dealers were left holding clunkers without a guarantee that the rebates would ever be paid, and as administration officials promised a hollow-sounding "good faith effort" to pay off all the deals already made, those dealers began to call customers to claw back the new cars or request cash payments to offset the rebate.
But, when the Senate approved an additional $2 billion before heading home for summer recess, it seemed that the narrative could revert back to praise for a program that worked. Dealership showrooms are humming again. Americans are driving snazzy new wheels and claiming as much as $4,500 in rebates for their old cars, actually worth much less. And then there are the environmental benefits of getting all of those clunkers off the road…or, are there?
Green critics have been circling the program since it began in late July, focusing mostly on concerns that 'Cash for Clunkers' does not require high enough fuel economy for the new vehicles that are eligible for the program.
Now comes Harvard economist Edward L. Glaser with a criticism from the behavioral economics camp in his weekend Boston Globe op-ed. Glaser's point? If Americans derive more pleasure from driving newer cars, they are likely to drive more. Not to mention that they will be getting better gas mileage that will make leisure drives, long road trips and the daily commute much more affordable. As a result, even if they are driving more fuel efficient vehicles, "Cash for Clunkers" might not have a net GHG-lowering impact. There goes one leg of the economy/consumer/environment stool.
Economists have been taking the hacksaw to the other two legs as well. They contend that the program is probably not stimulating automobile purchases as much as accelerating and temporally confining them. In other words, what would have been fall or winter purchases became late July buys. So much for genuine stimulative economic effect.
As for consumer benefit, some critics argue that the program takes tax dollars to subsidize the purchase of new vehicles by people who can otherwise afford them but were just waiting for the right push while doing nothing to enable the poorest Americans to buy new cars because they still cannot afford or get financing for a new car, even with the rebates.
That criticism flows back into the questionable environmental benefit of the program since those poor Americans are likely to be driving the worst of the clunkers. Further, the so-called clunkers that others are trading in may be more fuel efficient than the vehicles that these low income drivers will keep on the road, but under the program's rules, dealers have to disable those vehicles' engines.
This all dovetails with Glaser's criticism of what he calls the programs "clunky reasoning." As Glaser notes, the program's rationale seems to depend on "the mistaken view that the number of miles traveled is independent of the price or pleasure of driving." Glaser cites the increase in public transit ridership during last year's gas price spikes and proposes public transit subsidies as a better way to control GHG emissions since increased use of the subsidy (by increased ridership) does nothing to increase emissions, instead filling otherwise empty seats on already-operating buses. As we have heard from the $20 a gallon movement, Glaser makes the uncomfortable if obvious point that "a better way to reduce emissions is to make driving more, not less, expensive."
This is a recurring problem in the explosion of energy-environment policy. For example, in Texas, utility green power programs are under-subscribed, leading to the possibility of a rate hike across the board to cover the loss. Similar problems are facing policy makers across the country and across the green tech spectrum.
How do we move toward large-scale integration of plug-in EVs? By placing charging stations in highly visible public spaces. But, who will pay for the electricity required to charge the vehicles in these public installations?
There are a whole bunch of things that technology has now made doable, but that does not mean we have policy, legal and regulatory regimes in place to make those things manageable. It does not seem likely that the US will slow its headlong rush into clean energy conversion as new killer aps emerge from the green tech side daily. What we need now are some minds on the policy side – politicians, regulators, technocrats – to match the technological innovation with political will and inventiveness.
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A light jacket or a big comfortable sweater is all you need for this transitional time of year. This Fashionisto was stopped for not only this trendy eyewear but also this camel sweater. This oversized sweater works well with his outfit, as his pants are more fitted making his look retro not frumpy. If you are in the market for a cashmere sweater, check out this camel-brown sweater by Burberry Prorsum. Another option for this neutral shade is this wool sweater from Pringle of Scotland called the V-Neck Merino.
This Fashionisto finished his look with a collared polo shirt under the sweater and dark brown driving loafers to match the camel colored theme. Johnston and Murphy loafers have been seen on campus before and are similar to the ones seen above. They are prized for their customized comfort and fit making these a great slip-on shoe for class.
Hint: If you go for the oversized sweater look, stick to more tailored and slim fitting jeans to make the look more fashionable rather than sloppy.