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Actor Kelsey Grammer has defended his decision to take his 3-month-old baby girl to a Halloween party at the Playboy Mansion in Los Angeles over the weekend, saying he and his wife don't have a "trusted" babysitter.
The "Boss" star and his wife, Kayte Walsh, were spotted partying at Hugh Hefner's annual bash while their baby Faith slept nearby, prompting an onslaught of criticism.
And now Grammer is speaking out, telling TMZ.com – the website which obtained the footage of his night out with baby, "Kayte is breastfeeding and we do not have a nanny or a trusted babysitter at this time, so Faith goes everywhere with us.
"The baby slept as her ears were covered the entire time and we left shortly after midnight."

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Harvest Fair
This past Sunday, September 25, was the Annual Harvest Fair over at Johnson Farm on Bainbridge Island. Every year the Friends of the Farms work hard to organize this fabulous family friendly event.
Each year, my husband is honored to be one of the Pie Judges, and the girls and I come along to enjoy the fair!
This time, when we awakened on Sunday morning to see the rain teaming down, we were a little disappointed. We all bundled up in rain gear and trudged out to the grounds. When we got there, the rain stopped and we saw this:
It turned out to be one of the nicest Fall days complete with sun and a rainbow.
There were, also, animals…
Beautiful Strawberries grown by Sol Farm.
And then there were the pies. Oh the pies!
Add some spectacular music and the whole experience was complete!
Cat Loves Crow was one of the many bands that played and created a lively fair atmosphere.
So if you haven't ever had the chance to attend this wonderful community event, I highly recommend marking your calendars for next year!
In the meantime, you can check out more photos of this day over at Falafel and the Bee.
~Michelle is a mom of 2 who loves to sew, create, thrift~ and to be a Mom. You can read more about Michelle at her blog Falafel and The Bee (formally Noggin' Toppers), where she has been blogging and creating since 2008.
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METRO VANCOUVER -- At least two tenants are planning to move out of a Burnaby apartment building saying they no longer feel safe after dynamite and homemade explosives along with guns and drugs were discovered in a suite.
"The building is turning into trash," said Michael Saguri, who has lived on the 29th floor for seven months. He said he's seen "weird people going in and out and in and out."
The Internet marketer and software developer works from home, and from his vantage point, "I see everything," he said.
Whether he would be relocating because of the recent police drama, Saguri responded: "Oh yeah, I'm out of here in two days."
Saguri was one of many residents who were evacuated Monday night after RCMP officers executing a search warrant for drugs entered an empty condo unit on the 11th floor of the 39-storey building and found large amounts of cocaine, guns and money, as well as 10 sticks of dynamite and several small bombs.
The RCMP believe the unit was being used as a cocaine packaging and distribution centre, and on Tuesday, police were still searching for the man who lived in the unit.
"We haven't located him yet," Staff Sgt. Robert Marks said. "We don't know if he was the owner of the apartment or if he was renting, but we're continuing to investigate."
The dynamite sticks were crystallized and deemed an explosion risk, so officers evacuated the highrise apartment complex in the 4200-block of Grange Street around 8 p.m. as the RCMP's regional bomb unit dealt with the dynamite by burning it safely in Central Park.
Some residents were taken by bus to a nearby community centre, and others rented hotel rooms or stayed with family. They were permitted to re-enter their units around 11 p.m.
Vivian Shi, a student who has lived on the 11th floor for six months, said she had never actually seen anything unusual with her neighbours, but last winter an incident made her uneasy.
After midnight one night in November, she heard a loud bang and opened her apartment door to a smoke-filled hallway. The fire alarm went off, and she and other residents went down to the first-floor lobby. The fire department arrived, she said, but did not see police and never learned what had happened.
"It was a little strange," she said, adding she had just spoken with the building manager about moving out by the end of March. "It's not scary, when something happens like this, but I don't feel good. That's two times strange things."


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Joe Guzman of Anaheim, California, is a longtime member of the Orange County chapter of Klique Car Club. A perfect match for Klique's notoriously high standards, Joe recently unveiled this clean green '62 Impala Super Sport, appropriately nicknamed "Mystic." Having been in the scene for several years, Joe considers the '62 Impala model year a personal favorite, and he certainly put his foot into this one. From top to bottom, inside and out, this ride is nothing less than a show-stopping, eye-popping, low cruising machine! Even the engine and undercarriage sport chrome luster, thanks to the work of car club president, Pete Tapia, of Anaheim Plating & Polishing.Joe caught the attention of Lowrider Magazine while out on a short cruise in the six-deuce to Riverside, California, with friend and club vice president, Sergio Avila. Little did he know that this fateful trip would quickly become more than he bargained for, as Joe soon found himself in the right place at the right time. Jazmin Siguenza, the El Salvadorian bombshell who goes by the stage name "La Flora Venenosa," was visiting from the Sacramento area of California, promoting her debut album, "The Poisonous Flower." Joe's '62 immediately caught her eye, and she approached him with the idea of doing one big photo shoot on the spot. Combining Jazmin's amazing beauty and "Mystic's" big-body charm was a no-brainer, and Joe quickly green-lighted the idea. Hey, who could resist an opportunity like that?
Jazmin is one tough cookie, and a woman who wears many hats. Not only is she a hip-hop artist, she is also three-time national boxing champion, an actress and a model. On top of all that, she is a big fan of custom cars, especially lowriders! It was the perfect marriage, as Joe's '62 is as clean as they come, and the city of Riverside provided the perfect old-school backdrops for this amazing shoot. Looking through the lens at Jazmin and the Impala in some classic-looking alleyways, it almost felt like we were time travelling and revisiting the glorious early days of the Lowrider movement. Doing the shoot for this feature proved to be more difficult than we originally thought, as passers-by were breaking their necks and slowing down to try and catch a glimpse of Joe's ride, and the beautiful-but-deadly Flora Venenosa! Traffic may have become a little congested for a while, but the shoot rolled on, and the crew captured some amazing raw urban images, once everything was all said and done. Joe didn't mind at all, in fact, he's used to the attention his pristine Impala receives. With a humble sense of pride, Joe takes it all in, appreciating the many compliments his '62 constantly receives from all walks of life.
Joe gives big thanks to his fellow club members for their help and support with the buildup of "Mystic." He says that he would like to add a continental kit to it soon, but he also has his eyes on a new '62 buildup, this time, a convertible. LRM readers will be looking forward to Joe's topless ride, but in the meantime, this hardtop will certainly provide enough eye candy.
Owner: Joe Guzman
Vehicle: 1962 Chevrolet Impala SS
City/State: Anaheim, CA
Club: Klique Car Club (Orange County Chapter)
Engine: Completely chromed-out engine compartment, 350-c.i.d. V8 engine, 350-turbo tranny (four speed), and Flowmaster headers; built by Andy Guzman of Guzman's Auto Shop in Garden Grove, CA
Interior: Light and dark green tweed and leather by Daniel Sanchez, of Westminster, CA
Body: Bodywork by Tony at Fine Cars Auto Body in Santa Ana, CA; unique metallic mystic emerald green sprayed by Chino at Chino's Paint Shop in Garden Grove, CA; pinstriping by Bob Iverson of Fountain Valley, CA; mural by local Anaheim muralist, "Earl"
System: Eclipse head unit, two JBL 6×9″ midrange speakers and two JBL 15-inch woofer speakers installed by Sean Fernandez of Garden Grove
Setup: Whammy tank setup by Richard, Temptations Car Club member, Santa Ana, CA; A-arms were extended one inch, two-ton springs, and four deep-cycle marine batteries
Wheels:100-spoke chrome Goldstar
Tires: Champion 155/80/13 whitewall


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Any member with dots has put an old dot graphic into their avatar. There are one or two members who do have actual 'dots'; this is because they annoyed me about the dots enough that I decided to annoy them in return. Do not ask for dots.
Which members have the dots?
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text: Friday, April 13, 2012 Self-referral Study Finds Higher Costs, No Improvement in Cancer Detection A new study that links urologists' self-referral to increased use of tests to detect prostate cancer without better outcomes is being hailed by the Alliance for Integrity in Medicare (AIM) because it provides independent, peer-reviewed evidence that self-referral is a serious problem that drives up costs with no benefit to patients. AIM is a broad coalition that includes APTA and other medical specialty, laboratory, radiation oncology, and medical imaging groups. The study, published this month in Health Affairs, found that urologists involved in self-referral arrangements bill Medicare for 72% more specimen evaluations for patients with suspected prostate cancer than urologists who send specimens to independent providers of pathology services. Despite the increased billing, the study found that self-referring urologists usually detect cancer at a much lower rate than do urologists who do not self-refer. The per-patient cancer detection rate for self-referring urologists in 2007, according to the study, was 12 percentage points lower than that for non-self-referring urologists. AIM is urging Congress to revise the physician self-referral law's in-office ancillary services exception that allows urologists to self-refer patients to pathology labs they own directly or in which they have an ownership interest. "Other medical services, including advanced diagnostic imaging, physical therapy, and radiation oncology, are also prone to significant abuse through this exception," says AIM. AIM's press release has been featured in The Wall St Journal and Politico. Comments This is a group that deserves the backing of the apta and private practice section Posted by Mike on 4/15/2012 8:45 AM Nearly every surgeon and podiatrist I speak with admit that referring patients for PT has multiplied by double digits in his/her practice once a financial incentive was introduced. I simply offer best practice and I stand out like a sore thumb. Will this study change anything? Perhaps in 10 years or so. Posted by Abraham on 4/15/2012 10:38 AM Dreams of a novice: 10 or so years ago, a similar study with orthopedists revealed a (as I remember)27% increase in referrals following taking PT "in house". Starke came and got chipped away. Now, when the subject comes up, our congressmen have said, yes it is a terrible problem, these rises in medical costs... let's put more regulations on...on... the...uh... TANNING SALONS!!!!! Yeah, that's it!,they don't have the lobbists to protest. Recently, the auto insurance companies (read: trial lawyers goaded by the chiropractors) have decided that PTs can only do what is specifically prescribed by the physician, not develop a plan authorized by the physician. The chiropractors, however, can "diagnose" that a "subluxation" is the reason for a person having diabetes, cancer or asthma; and treat the patient accordingly...you guessed it...with manipulation, the only tool in the box...for every problem. Why are they a "physician"? They can diagnose "disease". Without that, they diagnose impairments, like PT's, who happen to have a better medical education than they. For this reason, the "law of the nerve" that gives them the ability to say a pinched nerve is the reason for their poor health; be it a pain, cancer, infertility or asthma, makes them a "physician", not a simple doctor of cult medicine. We can accept this "squeeze play" or stand up for who we are... the best primary care provider for primary care orthopedic injuries, with research studies to prove it! Posted by Don on 4/16/2012 8:08 PM Self-referral is exactly what it means. SELF!! It is about greed and power to keep as much money as possible, for MRI, orthotics, lab, and now Physical therapy services. Stark was a good start to stop this disease, and it finally got beaten down to nothing. When MD's say they would not do anything illegal, it dosen't mean do anything immoral. Can't one make enough money doing surgery? Posted by Dr Stephen Dolan, DPT.ATC on 4/22/2012 2:31 PM Self-referral is a critical issue when it comes to health care cost. What has been done in the case of the Stark laws to support POPST is a perfect example of the disregard for the knowledge and skills a Physical Therapists provides. Here is another example of how we are being undermined as a professional body: Upon review of CMS Medicare definition of Personnel Authorized to provide Outpatient Therapy Services there are listed "physician; non-physician practioner(NPP)(physician assistants, nurse practioners, clinical nurse specialists); qualified physical and occupational therapist and assistants working under the supervision of a qualified therapist; qualified personnel, WITH OR WITHOUT A LICENSE TO PRACTICE THERAPY UNDER DIRECT SUPERVISION INCIDENT TO A PHYSICIAN OR NPP. Now PT services are being offered in a family practioners office just as chemo therapy clinics are developing in oncologists offices. Does anyone else see a problem with this? Posted by Laura M. Stevens, PT, MA on 4/30/2012 1:36 PM


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Air fares are up, right: The short answer is yes - 22 fare increases this year, but fares in some cities are flat or even down, as fierce competition keeps airlines from charging as much as they would like.
MINNEAPOLIS - Air fares are up, right? The short answer is yes - 22 fare increases this year. But fares in some cities are flat or even down, as fierce competition keeps airlines from charging as much as they would like.
Business fares in early September were down 5 percent in Phoenix and 4 percent in New York compared to the same week last year, according to research by Bob Harrell of Harrell Associates, who tracks airfares. In many other cities ticket prices were up only marginally - 1 percent in Orlando, 3 percent in Atlanta, 4 percent in Denver and Las Vegas.
The good news in those cities doesn't change the bad news for everyone else: Overall, fares are up - 11 percent for leisure travel, 6 percent for business fares, according to Harrell. Many individual cities are worse. He found year-over-year increases of 26 percent in Philadelphia, 17 percent in Minneapolis, 15 percent in Newark, N.J., 12 percent in Dallas.
Yet fares in Denver are up only 4 percent over the past year. The reason? Southwest Airlines has been adding flights as United Airlines and Frontier Airlines pull back. By Nov. 2 Southwest plans to have 115 daily flights out of Denver, a nine-fold increase from mid-2007.
Expedia's Travel Trendwatch newsletter says low-fare competition has caused fall fares to decline 32 percent between Denver and San Francisco, and 30 percent from Denver to San Diego. It also noted declines from Indianapolis to Las Vegas.
"In the markets where there's less supply, the airlines will definitely try to raise prices, and the customers in those markets will face higher prices," said Greg Schulze, Expedia's vice president of air accounts.
Overseas routes are another area where pricing pressure is working against higher fares. Schulze said that with fewer airline seats flying in the U.S., the number to Europe has actually increased. "They're going to have some seats to fill," he said.
Aaron Thomas, 25, has noticed that the competition seems to be keeping Denver fares in check compared with other cities.
"It hasn't been nearly as bad. I just moved from California, and the price from there has definitely skyrocketed," Thomas said, 25, said after arriving at the Minneapolis airport on a flight from Denver.
His girlfriend, Melissa Walter, a 25-year-old certified public accountant, said she flies from Denver frequently, and had just booked a flight from Denver to Chicago for $280," which is pretty amazing."
Farecast, a travel search site owned by Microsoft, shows that air fares in San Antonio dropped 12 percent this summer from the summer of 2007. Thank AirTran, which entered that market this year. In Austin fares are up 5 percent, but they dropped to Dallas, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, and Phoenix, according to Farecast. JetBlue has expanded in those markets.
Fares are staying lowest in cities with the most discount competition, said Mike Fridgen, Director of Product Management for Farecast. He says that if you don't live in a market with competition from a discount carrier, you're probably seeing fares rise.
And Farecast says fares for Thanksgiving travel are up 35 percent from last year, while Christmas and New Year's fares are 31 percent higher.
The overall increases are "as dramatic as I've seen it in all the years that we've been tracking it," especially leisure fares, Harrell said. Usually leisure fares could be expected to drop in the fall, but airlines "believe that they can keep these fares at summertime peak levels," he said.
The across-the-board increases were concentrated in the first half of this year. Of 22 fare increases attempted by airlines, the last successful one (meaning other carriers matched it) was July 2, according to faretracking Web site FareCompare.com.
For business travelers outside of those fortunate cities where fares aren't rising, some of the old tricks for getting cheaper fares become even more important. Advisers at business travel agency Carlson Wagonlit Travel are telling fliers to be more creative about using alternate airports, said Dale Eastlund, a senior director of corporate travel at CWT's Solutions Group.
He said fares from Minneapolis to Newark used to run in the $300 to $400 range. Now it is more like $1,600 - but flights to nearby John F. Kennedy International Airport are still around $300.
"There are alternatives," he said. "It's a matter of educating travelers what those alternatives are to save money."
Sherry Kragler, an associate professor of education at the University of South Florida who had just flown from Orlando, Fla., to Minneapolis, said she flies several times a year and fares have stayed nearly flat.
Fees like the $15 she paid to check her bag add up, but it's still "nothing too exorbitant, to where I'd cancel a trip," she said.


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Contact: Denise Germann, 406 888-5838
WEST GLACIER, MONT. - Glacier National Park snow plowing crews continue to clear the Going-to-the-Sun Road after recent spring storms brought a minimum of 16 new inches of snow, lots of rain, wind and fog in the past week. Plowing was slowed, and in some cases stopped last week, due to inclement weather including blowing snow and low visibility. Crews did work Saturday, but encountered rain and fog, limiting their work activities. A strong storm system with excessive rainfall is predicted this week which may create additional hazards and delays.
Several new snow slides, ranging from 8 to 15 feet deep, on the west side of Logan Pass created additional work to replow the areas, and additional safety concerns for the crews. Two avalanches slid across the road at the end of a work day last week, one at Triple Arches and one in the Slopes, creating a challenging situation to clear the area for the crew to return to park headquarters.
The east-side crew is working toward the Big Drift, encountering 25 to 30 feet deep snow. They will continue to plow through the drift this week, eventually meeting the west-side crew as they pioneer the Big Drift from the west. The west-side crew reached the Logan Pass Parking Lot late last week, finding 6-8 foot drifts and building eaves covered in snow.
Crews continue working hard to clear snow and debris along the road. There is additional debris, rocks and trees, with the snow slides and rain. Work to clean snow on the entire width of the road needs to be completed, as well as installation of guard rails once snow is removed and ice is melted. At the Logan Pass Visitor Center snow will be plowed and moved in the parking lot, and then snow from around the building needs to be cleared and moved. Much of the final work will be completed with hand shovels.
The projected date for vehicle access to Logan Pass remains mid-June, but with recent delays prompted by inclement weather, access may be later. Weekend and overtime work is taking place to support the projected date. Currently, 29 miles of the road are open to vehicle travel. Visitors can drive 15.5 miles from the West Entrance to Avalanche on the west side, and 13.5 miles from the St. Mary Entrance to Jackson Glacier Overlook on the east side. Hiker/biker access on the Going-to-the-Sun Road may change day to day dependent on snow removal and road rehabilitation work. Visitors are encouraged to check the park website at https://home.nps.gov/applications/glac/roadstatus/roadstatus.cfm. Hikers and bikers should always be on alert for construction hazards and avalanche danger.
For photos and plowing status, as well as information on all park road conditions, visit the park's webpage. Information on the webpage is updated as conditions change. Visitors may also visit the park's Facebook page or call park headquarters at 406-888-7800 for current road and weather conditions.
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Nexus 5 images and video leaked, match older info
The Nexus 5 has been an elusive device, but people have managed to get a bit of information on it. The first real photo of the LG device showed up in the Kit Kat statue unveiling video made by Google itself. Someone was holding it, showing the back of the phone with a large camera ring.
Next, we saw the device pass through the FCC. Though there were no photos, it did show an image with a similarly shaped camera. It was all lining up for us; all we needed were some good (bad) shots by someone who managed to get some alone time with the device. That day has come.
These new photos of the Nexus 5 seem to line up perfectly with older information, but they also go beyond that and show the device turning on. There are also two short videos of the Nexus 5 in action, though we don't see any noticeable changes in software.
The story behind it is said to be a Googler left this device unattended at a bar while charging, when some employee of the bar managed to snag these shots and videos. This would explain why the person taking the video didn't know the password. Hopefully it wasn't taken. What do you think of the device? Are you happy that the back isn't made of glass? Leave a comment!


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NFL Round-up: Luck, Martin latest rookies to impress
In what is turning into a memorable year for rookies, Andrew Luck and Doug Martin took the excellence to a record level.
Luck broke the NFL's single-game rookie record by throwing for 433 yards in leading Indianapolis over Miami 23-20. He was 30 of 48 with two TDs and broke Cam Newton's mark of 432 yards set last season. And it came on the day coach Chuck Pagano returned to Lucas Oil Stadium for the first time since being diagnosed with leukemia.
"His presence is felt every day in the facility," Luck said. "But to see him in the flesh, in the locker room, to hear him speak I think gave all the guys a boost."
Luck, the first overall draft pick, showed it the most as Indianapolis (5-3) won its third straight after winning only twice a year ago. He has four 300-yard passing games, tied with Peyton Manning (1998) for the most by a rookie in a season.
"The kid, he continues to amaze," Reggie Wayne said after catching seven passes for 78 yards. "Hopefully I can help, you know, add on to his legacy that he's about to build."
Martin could be doing the same for Tampa Bay (4-4). The Buccaneers' first-round pick rushed for a franchise-record 251 yards and four touchdowns in a 42-32 victory at Oakland - his hometown. He scored on runs of 1, 45, 67 and 70 yards in the second half as he gashed what had been an improved run defense for the Raiders (3-5).
Martin, the 31st pick in April out of Boise State, became the first back since at least 1940 to score on three TD runs of at least 45 yards in one game, according to STATS LLC.
About 60 friends and family members witnessed Martin's magic.
"Everybody was there. It was awesome," he said. "It's surreal right now. I'm just doing my job out there. I'm honored."
He finished 45 yards shy of tying Adrian Peterson's single game record of 296 set in his rookie season in 2007 and joined Denver's Mike Anderson as the only backs with at least 250 yards rushing and four TDs in a single game.
"He's turned into a heck of a player here these last two weeks," Bucs veteran safety Ronde Barber said. "He's really jumped onto the scene, just the way he's handled the pressure that he's had to be the main guy here in our offense these past couple of weeks. It's impressive, man."
In other games, it was Atlanta 19, Dallas 13 as the Falcons remained the league's only unbeaten team; Chicago 51, Tennessee 20; Houston 21, Buffalo 9; Green Bay 31, Arizona 17; Denver 31, Cincinnati 23; Pittsburgh 24, the New York Giants 20; Baltimore 25, Cleveland 15; Seattle 30, Minnesota 20; Carolina 21, Washington 13; and Detroit 31, Jacksonville 14.
On Thursday night, it was San Diego 31, Kansas City 13.
Monday night's game has Philadelphia (3-4) at New Orleans (2-5).
Off this week were New England (5-3), San Francisco (6-2), St. Louis (3-5) and the New York Jets (3-5).
At Atlanta, Matt Bryant made four field goals and Michael Turner had a tiebreaking 3-yard touchdown run in the fourth quarter. Turner had 20 carries for 102 yards and Matt Ryan had a season-high 342 yards passing for the Falcons (8-0).
Tony Romo completed all six passes for 78 yards, including a 21-yard scoring pass to Kevin Ogletree, on the Cowboys' touchdown drive in the fourth period, but Atlanta used up 5 minutes, 4 seconds, leaving only 17 seconds left after Bryant's 32-yard field goal.
The Falcons have never been undefeated halfway through a season.
At Nashville, Chicago's defense was dominant once more.
Brian Urlacher returned an interception for a touchdown, while cornerback Charles Tillman forced four fumbles and Chicago created five turnovers while winning its sixth in a row.
The Bears (7-1) scored a franchise-record 28 points in the first quarter. They took control by forcing three turnovers in the first 13 minutes and turning them into 14 points. Urlacher went 46 yards for his score.
Jay Cutler threw three TD passes to Brandon Marshall.
The Titans (3-6) had only Chris Johnson's 80-yard run as a highlight.
At Houston, Matt Schaub threw two touchdown passes, Arian Foster ran for 111 yards against Buffalo's NFL-worst rushing defense, and Andre Johnson caught eight passes for 118 yards. Foster scored for the fifth straight game for Houston (7-1), which has the AFC's best record.
Mario Williams had a sack and five tackles in his return to Reliant Stadium after signing with the Bills (3-5) in the offseason. The Texans made Williams the No. 1 pick in the 2006 draft and he's still Houston's career sacks leader (53).
"I was at least going to get one," Williams said. "I couldn't just come in here and not. I had to at least somehow, some way get one. I wish it would have been more. I definitely had some more opportunities."
At Green Bay, Tom Crabtree's 72-yard touchdown was the Packers' longest of the season, and Randall Cobb added two TD catches. The Packers (6-3) also found a running game with a season-high 176 yards on 39 carries.
Green Bay goes into its bye week with a four-game winning streak. The break comes at a good time for the Packers, who lost star linebacker Clay Matthews, WR Jordy Nelson and tackle Bryan Bulaga to injuries.
Arizona (4-5) is going the other way with five straight losses.
At Cincinnati, Peyton Manning overcame a pair of interceptions by throwing three touchdown passes, and Trindon Holliday returned a kickoff a Broncos-record 105 yards for a touchdown.
Manning improved to 8-0 against Cincinnati (3-5), which has lost four in a row for the first time in two years. But the four-time MVP threw a pair of interceptions - one in the end zone - that led to 10 points and a 20-17 Cincinnati lead early in the fourth quarter.
Then Manning threw a 1-yard touchdown to Joel Dreessen that put Denver (5-3) back ahead. After Andy Dalton was picked off by Champ Bailey, Manning put it away with a 4-yard pass to Eric Decker.
It marked Manning's 48th winning drive in the fourth quarter or overtime, passing Hall of Famer Dan Marino (47) for the most in the NFL since 1970.
The Steelers arrived in New Jersey hours before the game because of logistical issues stemming from the superstorm. That might have accounted for their carelessness. They had the fewest giveaways in the NFL entering the game, but were careless with the ball and in pass coverage; cornerback Keenan Lewis had 87 yards on two pass interference penalties, and they wasted some great kick returns, too.
Still, Isaac Redman ran for 147 yards, and scored the winning touchdown from a yard out with 4:02 remaining. The Steelers (5-3) snapped New York's four-game winning streak.
Temporary relief from the destruction of Superstorm Sandy was what New York's fans sought, and the Giants (6-3) provided it for a while. Just not long enough.
"My thoughts and prayers go out to everyone else who are going through so much," said Ben Roethlisberger, who threw for two TDs. "There were so many emotions going on, I didn't know what to expect from it. But maybe we were able to take their minds off their problems just a little."
At Cleveland, the Ravens (6-2) kept up their dominance within the division. Joe Flacco threw a 19-yard touchdown pass to Torrey Smith with 4:26 remaining as Baltimore won its 11th straight game inside the AFC North.
"Whew," coach John Harbaugh said. "That was a fight. That's a really good football team. They are well coached, tough and physical. They are building something here. They are an up-and-coming AFC North-style team. That was an AFC North battle."
The Ravens beat the Browns (2-7) for the 10th consecutive time. It was also Baltimore's 15th straight win following a loss.
Phil Dawson kicked five field goals for the Browns.
At Seattle, Marshawn Lynch ran for 124 yards and a touchdown, rookie QB Russell Wilson threw three first-half touchdowns, and Seattle overcame 182 yards rushing by Adrian Peterson in a matchup between the top two rushers in the NFL.
Lynch ran for a 3-yard TD in the third quarter, while Wilson threw TD passes of 11 yards to Sidney Rice, and TDs of 6 and 11 yards to Golden Tate for the Seahawks (5-4).
Peterson and the Vikings (5-4) had 197 yards on the ground in the first half, but only had 46 yards rushing in the second half.
Cam Newton passed for 201 yards with a touchdown and ran eight times for 37 yards and a score as Carolina snapped a five-game losing streak. The visiting Panthers (2-6) were in desperate need of a win after a series of close defeats that had players questioning the team's leadership.
Referee Carl Cheffers admitted there was an inadvertent whistle by the line judge on a first-quarter play when Panthers running back DeAngelo Williams scored on a 30-yard run.
According to a pool report, Cheffers said the touchdown stood after the officials discussed the play because, "We just felt when the whistle blew, that the player would have already scored."
Robert Griffin III was 23 for 39 for 215 yards, ran 11 times for 53 yards and was sacked four times as the Redskins (3-6) lost their third straight.
At Jacksonville, Mikel Leshoure ran for touchdowns of 7, 1 and 8 yards, becoming the first player in franchise history - including Hall of Famer Barry Sanders - to run for three touchdowns in the first half.
Leshoure finished with 70 yards rushing as Detroit improved to 4-4, and Calvin Johnson had five receptions for 99 yards before the Jaguars (1-7) even managed first down. He finished with seven catches for 129 yards despite playing through a knee injury.


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The players were taken out of first half of the Super 14 to prepare for this. 2 SA teams competed in the final. A banner day for SA rugby and not exactly showing NZ rugby in a brilliant state.
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A professor in Southern California sparked outrage by revealing his sexual plans and exploits on Twitter, claiming to have slept with porn stars, having developed porn events for class, and using sex to hide his lack of credentials. Christian scholars say his actions and public image show a "Neo-Pagan" trend to sexuality in our culture, which threatens freedom and the Church.
Patrick Fagan, a researcher on pornography and director of the Marriage and Religion Research Institute (MARRI) at the Family Research Council, told The Christian Post on Tuesday that the actions of Hugo Schwyzer, gender studies professor at Pasadena City College, demonstrate "the collapse of civilization and the abrogation of reason."
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Schlueter mentioned Anthony Weiner's recent scandals, the State of California's new law defending "equal protection" for trans-gender people, and a pornographic event in a Northwestern University classroom as evidence of "a complete deconstruction of sexual ethics predicated upon sexual diversity." Instead of teaching sexuality in a way that fulfills the human person and honors God, universities teach "that there is no teaching," no right or wrong, he said.
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Schlueter cited Genesis 3, when Adam and Eve see that they are naked and without shame. "They saw each other – they saw the full beauty of the body in human sexuality," he said. In the Christian view, sexuality is wound up with the person, an essential part of human dignity. In the cultural, "Neo-Pagan" view, it is merely a tool for personal pleasure.
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The SSD Relapse: Understanding and Choosing the Best SSDby Anand Lal Shimpi on August 30, 2009 12:00 AM EST
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All Indilinx Drives Are Built Alike
G.Skill, OCZ, Super Talent and Patriot all sent their Indilinx MLC drives in for review. If you take the drives apart you see that most are the very same on the inside, despite differences externally:
From Left to Right: OCZ Vertex Turbo, OCZ Agility, Patriot Torqx, G.Skill Falcon and Super Talent UltraDrive GX. Only the Super Talent drive uses a different PCB design.
Even the packaging doesn't appear to vary much between manufacturers; that part I don't really understand. All that seems to change is the artwork on the outside.
There are some minor differences between drives. Patriot ships its Torqx with a 2.5" to 3.5" drive bay adapter, a nice addition. The Torqx also comes with a 10 year warranty, the longest of any Indilinx based manufacturer. OCZ is next with a 3 year warranty, followed by Super Talent and G.Skill at 2 years.
Indilinx is still a very small company so it relies on its customers to help with validation, testing and even provide feedback for firmware development. As far as I can tell, every single Indilinx customer gets the same firmware revisions. Some vendors choose to rename the firmware revisions, while others do not. OCZ calls its latest stable firmware 1.30, while G.Skill, Super Talent and Patriot call it 1571.
The Indilinx Barefoot controller (right), powered by an ARM core.
Of all the Indilinxites, OCZ and Super Talent work closest with the controller manufacturer. In exchange for their help in manufacturing and validation, OCZ and Super Talent also get access to the latest firmwares earlier than the rest of the manufacturers. Ultimately all manufacturers will get access to the same firmware, it just takes longer if you're not OCZ or Super Talent.
You no longer need to use a jumper to upgrade your firmware, provided that you're already running fw revision 1275 or later. If you have a previous version you're pretty much out of luck as you need to upgrade to 1275 first before upgrading to anything else, and none of the manufacturers make it easy to do. Some don't even offer links to the necessary firmware you'd need to jump to 1275. Thankfully pretty much anything you buy today should come nearly up to date, so this mostly impacts the original customers of the drive.
Performance, as you'd expect, is the same regardless of manufacturer:
There's normal variance between drives depending on the flash/controller, that's why the OCZ Vertex is slower than the Patriot Torqx here but faster than the Super Talent UltraDrive GX. The manufacturer and size of the flash has more to do with determining performance. Samsung is used on all of these drives but the larger the drive, the better the performance. The 256GB model here will always be faster than a 128GB drive, which will always be faster than a 64GB, etc...
All of the drives here use the same firmware (1571) except for one of the Super Talent drives. That drive is using the beta 1711 firmware with TRIM support that was pulled.
When it comes to the best overall package, I'd say Patriot's Torqx is the nicest for a desktop customer. You get a 3.5" adapter bracket and a 10 year warranty (although it's difficult to predict what Patriot's replacement strategy will be in 10 years).
The Patriot Torqx bundle, complete with a 2.5" to 3.5" adapter.
Prices vary a bit between manufacturers, although most of the more expensive drives here have a $30 rebate to bring their prices in line:
|Price for 128GB
|Corsair Extreme Series
|OCZ Agility
|OCZ Vertex
|OCZ Vertex Turbo
|Patriot Torqx
OCZ does do some unique things that the other manufacturers don't such as deliver an overclocked drive (Turbo) and a drive with slower flash (Agility). There's a Mac Edition of the Vertex, unfortunately it's no different than the regular drive - it just has a different sticker on it and a higher pricetag.
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Wwhat - Sunday, September 6, 2009 - linkIf you read the first part of the article alone you would see how important a good controller is in a SSD and you would no ask his question probably, plus SSD's use the flash in parallel where a bunch of USB drives would not, the parallel thing is also mentioned in the article.
And USB has a lot of overhead actually on the system, both in CPU cycles as well as in IO interrupts.
There are plug in PCI(e) cards to stick SD cards in though, to get a similar setup, but it's a bit of a hack and with the overhead and the management and controllers used and the price to buy many SD cards it's not competitive in the end and you are better of with a real SSD I'm told. Reply
Transisto - Sunday, September 6, 2009 - linkYou are right, the controller is very important.
I think caching about 4-8 gig of most often accessed program files has the best price/performance ratio, for improving application load time. It it also very easily scalable.
One of the problem I see is integrating this ssd cache in the OS or before booting so it act where it matter the most.
I think there could be a near x25-m speedup from optimized caching and good controller no matter what SSD form factor it rely on. SD, CF, usb , pci or onboard.
Why it seams nobody talk about eboostr type of caching AND ,,, on other news ,,, Intel's Braidwood flash memory module could kill SSD market.
I am quite of a performance seeker.
But I don't think I need 80gig of SSD in my desktop,just some 8gb of good caching. Mabe a 60gb ssd on a laptop.
Well... I'm gonna pay for that controller once, not twice (160gb?) Reply
Wwhat - Saturday, September 5, 2009 - linkNot that it's not a good article, although it does seem like 2 articles in one, but what I miss is getting to brass tacks regarding the filesystem used, and why there isn't a SSD-specific file system made, and what choices can be made during formatting in regards to blocksize, obviously if you select large blocks on filesystem level a would impact he performance of the garbage collection right? It actually seem the author never delved very deeply into filesystems from reading this.
The thing is that even with large blocks on filesystem level the system might still use small segments for the actuall keepin track, and if it needs to write small bits to keep track of large blocks you'd still have issues, that's why I say a specific SSD filesystem migh be good, but only if there isn't a new form of SSD in the near future that makes the effort poinless, and if a filesystem for SSD was made then the firmware should not try to compensate for exising filesystem issues with SSD's.
I read that the SD people selected exFAT as filesystem for their next generation, and that also makes me wonder, is that just to do with licensing costs or is NTFS bad for flash based devices?
Point being at the filesystem needs to be highlighted more I think,
Bolas - Friday, September 4, 2009 - linkWould someone please hit Dell with the clue-board and convince them to offer the Intel SSD's in their Alienware systems? The Samsung SSD's are all that is stopping me from buying an Alienware laptop at the moment. Reply
EatTheMeat - Friday, September 4, 2009 - linkCongratulations on another fab masterclass. This is easily the best educational material on the internet regarding SSDs, and contrary to some comments, I think you've pitched your recommendations just right. I can also appreciate why you approached this article with some trepidation. Bravo.
I have a RAID question for Anand (or anyone else who feels qualified :-))
I'm thinking of setting up 2 160GB x25-m G2 drives in RAID-0 for Win 7. I'd simply use the ICH10R controller for it. It's not so much to increase performance but rather to increase capacity and make sure each drive wears equally. After considering it further I'm wondering if SSD RAID is wise. First there's the eternal question of stripe size and write amplification. It makes sense to me to set the stripe size to be the same as, or a fraction of, the block size of the SSD. If you choose the wrong stripe size does it influence write amplification?
I'm aware that performance should increase with larger spripes, but I'm more concerned about what's healthy for the SSD.
Do you think I should just let SSD RAID wait until RAID drivers are optimised for SSDs?
I know you're planning a RAID article for SSDs - I for one look forward to it greatly. I've read all your other SSD articles like four times! Reply
Bolas - Friday, September 4, 2009 - linkIf SSD's in RAID lose the benefit of the TRIM command, then you're shooting yourself in the foot if you set them up in RAID. If you need more capacity, wait for the Intel 320GB SSD drives next year. Or better yet, use a 160 GB for your boot drive, then set up some traditional hard disk drives in RAID for your storage requirements. Reply
EatTheMeat - Friday, September 4, 2009 - linkThanks for reply. I definitely hear you about the TRIM functionality as I doubt RAID drivers will pass this through before 2010. Still though, it doesn't look like the G2s drop much in performance with use anyway from Anand's graphs. With regard to waiting for 320 GB drives - I can't. These things are just too enticing, and you could always say that technology will be better / faster / cheaper next year. I've decided to take the plunge now as I'm fed up with an i7 965 booting and loading apps / games like a snail even from a RAID drive.
I just don't want to bugger the SSDs up with loads of write amplification / fragmentation due to RAID-0. ie, is RAID-0 bad for the health of SSDs like defragmentation / prefetch is? I wonder if anyone knows the answer to this question yet. Reply
jagreenm - Saturday, September 5, 2009 - linkWhat about just using Windows drive spanning for 2 160's? Reply
EatTheMeat - Saturday, September 5, 2009 - linkAs far as I know drive spanning doesn't even the wear between the discs. It just fills up first one and then the other. That's important with SSDs because RAID can really help reduce drive wear by spreading all reads and writes across 2 drives. In fact, it should more than half drive wear as both drives will have large scratch portions. Not so with spanning as far as I know.
Does anyone know if I'm talking sh1t here? :-) Reply
pepito - Monday, November 16, 2009 - linkIf you are not sure, then why do you assert such things?
I don't know about Windows, but at least in Linux when using LVM2 or RAID0 the writes spread evenly against all block devices.
That means you get twice the speed and better drive wear.
I would like to think that microsoft's implementation works more or less the same way, as this is completely logical (but then again, its microsoft, so who can really know?). Reply


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Starting at about $850, this mainstream thin-and-light ditches the plastic chassis of past lower-end Inspirons for an aluminum shell and a slimmer build. With that you get upscale features like a 1080p touch screen covered with Gorilla Glass and a backlit keyboard. Compared with Dell's other 14-inch Inspiron, the 14R, the key components -- processor, memory, hard drive, and graphics -- are nearly the same as the 14 7000 Series.
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Maybe it's just that we've seen a fair share of Dell's more budget-focused laptops over the years, but the Inspiron 14 7000 certainly looks the part of an upper midrange mainstream laptop. There's no plastic lid with too much flex or polycarbonate bottom with multiple access panels. It's all aluminum save for its plastic hinges and it feels sturdy enough to stand up to a daily commute.
The laptop is thin at 0.6 inch and measures 13.6 inches wide by 9.4 inches deep, making it small and thin enough to quickly slip into a shoulder bag. However, while it's not exactly heavy, at 4.1 pounds (4.7 pounds with its power adapter), you won't exactly forget you have it with you, either.
Lift the lid and you'll see a backlit chiclet-style keyboard and a reasonably large clickpad. With the laptop being so thin, there's minimal key travel, so if you tend to hammer hard on your keys, you might find typing uncomfortable. Also, while the keys aren't overly small, there's so much room on the keyboard deck both above and to the sides of the keyboard that it seems like the keys could be larger, or at least moved up some to allow for a bigger clickpad. It does, however, keep it looking simple and clean.
Media controls as well as screen and keyboard brightness are mapped to the function keys and are set to work without the Fn key being held down. The keyboard has two levels of brightness or can be shut off entirely. The top left of my keyboard was a bit brighter than the rest of the keyboard; certainly not the end of the world and if you have to cut corners, I'd rather have some backlighting than none at all.
The clickpad is responsive and has a subtle texture to it that adds just enough drag. There is support for multitouch gestures, however gestures for three and four fingers are shut off by default. I also didn't experience any cursor jumpiness from dragging palms across it while typing, but you can always raise the palm-check setting if you do.
The 14-inch, 1,920x1,080-pixel-resolution screen is overall nice, but doesn't get terribly bright. If you need something that's easily visible in bright office lighting or daylight outside, you might struggle with the Inspiron 14 7000. Also, the Gorilla Glass might be nice for extra screen durability, but it doesn't do you any favors when it comes to glare. On the upside, off-angle viewing is good, with just some loss in brightness off to the sides and none of the inverted colors I've seen on other similarly priced laptops.
The side-firing stereo speakers sound thin for both movies and music. They can get quite loud without distortion, but you'll probably want to hook up a pair of speakers or headphones for more enjoyable listening.
Ports and configurations
The 14 7000 Series is more about portability than being a desktop replacement. The port assortment is lean with just two USB 3.0 ports and not much else. If you need things like Ethernet or more USB ports, you'll have to move up to larger-screen Inspiron 15 or 17 7000 Series models, or step down to the Inspiron 14R.
Worth mentioning, too, is that the memory card slot only allows you to put a card in half way. That means traveling with a card in the slot will likely result in breaking or losing your card.
There is no option for a built-in optical drive on the Inspiron 14 7000 Series; you'll have to go up to the 17 7000 Series to get one or, again, switch to the Inspiron 14R if you want to stick with a 14-inch screen size.
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There are currently only two configurations available for the 14 7000 Series. Reviewed here is the $849.99 base model, which includes a fourth-gen Intel Core i5 processor, 6GB of RAM, a 500GB, 5,400rpm hard drive, and Intel HD Graphics 4400. For $1,099.99 you can bump the processor up to a Core i7-4500U processor and get 8GB of memory, but everything else stays the same.


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DailyDirt: Popular Wedding Photos
from the urls-we-dig-up deptSummer is here, and with it, comes some of the most popular months for weddings. (June, August, September and October are apparently the most popular wedding months.) If you've ever been involved in a wedding, you know that photography is a significant part of the event -- with standard family poses and slightly goofier "everybody jump!" shots. Until recently, couples were satisfied with simple photoshop airbrushing to eliminate facial blemishes, but now... there are some slightly more advanced techniques for a young couple's wedding album. Here are just a few examples.
- In case you haven't seen the being-chased-by-a-dinosaur meme, check out this wedding party being chased by a T-Rex. Remember groomsmen, you don't have to outrun a dinosaur, you just have to outrun the bridesmaid you're paired up with. [url]
- Inspired by that T-Rex wedding photo, another photographer created a squadron of Imperial AT-AT walkers to chase a recently married couple and their closest friends. Star Wars themed weddings should be performed every May 4th (but watch out for your C&D from Disney). [url]
- This "being chased" photoshop trend is going to jump the shark pretty soon. But it'll probably be replaced with full green-screen videography -- so that you, too, can have your wedding set in a hobbit village (unless you have a few million to actually construct dwellings in a real redwood forest). [url]
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May 15, 2001
I have entitled this piece "A Short History," because a full history of warmongering at National Review magazine would be long indeed. James J. Martin wrote two volumes in the early 1960s on the turn of The New Republic and The Nation from a critical view of US foreign policy to full-throttle interventionism in the period 1919-1939. Fortunately, there is little change with which to deal where National Review (hereafter: NR) is concerned, and while our time span (1955-2001) is longer than Martin's, a light sampling of NR's warlike moments will suffice to make the point.
In August 1954, as NR waited in the wings, young William F. Buckley, Jr. wrote that foreign policy had divided the American right wing into two camps, that of the non-interventionists and that of more realistic persons like himself who understood the Communist Menace in its horrible Totality. Given such an unprecedented and cosmic threat, victory would require Americans to "think in terms of institutionalizing native despotism"1: better a near-totalitarian central state run by our fellow Americans than Soviet takeover.
At its birth, the next year, NR boasted that it stood "athwart the path of history, yelling Stop!" Given the editors' willingness to create a bureaucratic despotism on our shores, it would have been more truthful to say that they stood in the path of the total federal state, yelling Come On Down! Such an admission would, of course, have been bad for their self-image as defenders of the free market and the two or three liberties whose suspension might not be demanded by the great emergency.
Of course the whole point of NR was to heal the division on the right by driving the non-interventionists out of respectable society. The right, no longer "divided," could now serve in the forefront of the new crusade. Through the fifties and into the sixties, there was hardly a war or intervention about which NR showed any skepticism or reluctance.2 There were, indeed, a number of wars or interventions on the editors' wish list, which we did not, thankfully, get.
Over time, the magazine's initial enthusiasm for European colonialism became more muted, but its enthusiasm for extensions of US power anywhere and everywhere grew and grew. NR went all out for Barry Goldwater in 1964 and when that adventure went sour, committed itself to apologizing for LBJ and the war in Indochina. The only complaint from NR was that more bombs, more troops, and more money might be needed to win the war, "contain" China, stop communism, and so on.
As for atrocities lately popular again because of claims about Senator Kerrey's wartime activities NR laid down the law in no uncertain terms. Deriding Time's coverage of Songmy (the Mylai Massacre), the editors wrote: "During the American Civil War atrocity was not an aberration, the act of bewildered or temporarily unbalanced men, but a matter of settled military policy. 'Until we can repopulate Georgia,' said General Sherman, 'it is useless for us to occupy it; but the utter destruction of its roads, houses and people will cripple their military resources.' Does Time conclude that the Union, therefore, should have been permitted to disintegrate?"3
I don't know what Time might have replied to that, but I do wonder exactly how NR expected Southerners to react to that little sally.
Unhappy about the release of the Pentagon Papers, NR published its own "secret documents," which were quickly exposed as faked. To this, the magazine replied that such documents should exist and therefore NR's papers were merely "technically fictitious" not "substantively fictitious."4 Cornered by popular revulsion against the war, NR defiantly began praising the notion of "American empire."5
And so it went. The heroic cause in Vietnam ran aground, somehow, leaving NR to grumble that more firepower, atrocities, defoliation, whatever, would have led to victory, but the weak liberals had not been up to it. If NR had been running the war, it might still be going on today; that, or the place would be a flat plain of radioactive ruin. I'm afraid they never made the case, though, that the deaths of 50,000 Americans and a couple million Vietnamese had much to do with the actual defense of the liberties and property of the American people.
Deprived of their war, NR whooped it up for invasion and occupation of Libya in 1973, but to no avail. Meanwhile, Nixon had come and gone, and the poor editors had to endure the Carter years. They and their new allies, the Neo-Conservatives, stirred up a crisis atmosphere about the renewed Soviet threat "the Present Danger" and then got all the dandy new weapons systems they wanted during the long and profligate reign of Ronald Reagan and Bush I.
Then, with improper stealth and suddenness, the Evil Empire imploded. The intelligence agencies with their large and unaccountable budgets had somehow failed to see it coming. One might think NR would have no reason to go on. But No, NR cast about for new enemies. Having signed on for "native despotism," it would never do for them to let their guard down now.
This famously led to a renewed "division" on the right, as some conservatives acknowledged what many libertarians had said all along, namely, that under cover of waging the Cold War the United States had been transformed from a republic into an empire. The Gulf War and the humanitarian aggression against Serbia helped sort out the real commitments of members of the right.
The recent China incident may have been another defining moment for the right. The unrestrained warmongering from NR was wondrous to behold. John Derbyshire distinguished himself in the struggle.
In "America Grovels," NR online, April 11, 2001, he set everyone straight on the evils of China. China, it seems, is Communist and Leninist. But, wait, that's not quite right either; China is "anti-democratic" and committed to "racial superiority." Therefore China is HITLER. This "fascist" China brings to mind Mussolini, not to mention Imperial Japan.
Now we come to the bottom line: "Early 20th-century Japan was not bent on world conquest, only a Greater East Asia Co-prosperity Sphere precisely what China wishes to construct in Central Asia and the West Pacific."
Shocking, what? I'd sure go to war to prevent that.
Actually, it was a mistake for the US to get on a collision course with Japan over that nation's attempt to create an economic sphere of influence for itself. The Japanese pointed out in the twenties and thirties that all they wanted was an arrangement similar to that which the US enjoyed in relation to Latin America. High-minded US spokesmen could see no similarity whatsoever. Myopia in high places is nothing unusual.
But why repeat the exercise of the 1940s? Any fool could see that, in the nature of things, China will be an influential power in East Asia. Carl Oglesby, of SDS fame, theorized that the war in Vietnam was really about preventing an inevitable economic relationship between China and Japan, a relationship which US neo-mercantilists opposed as too competitive with their interests.6 One would have to be very cynical to believe that ..
Short of beating China back into the sorry shape it was in around 1900, I think one has to accept that China will play a role in the future of East Asia. We can trade with China and this is the hard part for many Americans mind our own business as regards China's form of government and internal affairs. That would tend to promote peace.
There are those so enamored of "the joys and sorrows" of being a Pacific Power that the appearance of any rival seems a casus belli. Mr. Derbyshire is polishing his pith helmet, even now, and dusting off his manuals on "Wog-Caning" and "Surviving on the Bamboo Shoot Diet While Securing the Sea Lanes to India." He has already announced that war with China is inevitable.
India is gone; the old reflexes live on. It seems somehow fitting that NR should recruit fresh warmongers from the Old Country to stiffen the soft Americans' resolve (not to mention those upper lips). They did it for so much longer. It worked so well. I shall not even raise the Irish Question, or Questions. The original empire was so wonderful and so beneficial for all concerned that I'm surprised that our ancestors fought to secede from it, or that those terrible Boers suffered 26,000 civilian casualties before giving into such good government.
The British imperial connection is indeed fitting. Young Mr. Buckley consciously named his new magazine after the original National Review.
The British NR had existed for several decades when Leopold James Maxse, the son of an admiral and a committed imperialist, took over it in the late 1880s. Under Maxse, the magazine proclaimed the "inevitability" of war between Britain and Imperial Germany.7
The Colonel Blimps and Social Reformers were already going into coalition when Leopold Maxse took over the National Review. Here, truly, was a school of National Greatness, efficiency, and cold showers. The original NR did not have to wait for Neo-Cons to come on board. Beyond that, the two magazines seem rather similar.
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