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(SportsNetwork.com) – The New York Rangers stayed alive in Game 4 of the Stanley Cup Finals thanks to a brilliant performance from Henrik Lundqvist. However, the Los Angeles Kings will get another shot at winning their second championship in three years when the clubs meet Friday at Staples Center.
The Rangers lost the first three tests of this best-of-seven set, but finally broke through with a 2-1 victory Wednesday in New York.
Lundqvist was the clear star for the Blueshirts, stopping 40 shots, including all 15 in a frantic third period to keep Los Angeles from mounting another comeback win in this series. Martin St. Louis netted the deciding goal early in the second to help the Rangers push the series to tonight's Game 5 battle in the City of Angels.
Faced with the prospect of being the first team to be swept out of the Stanley Cup Finals since Detroit beat the Washington Capitals in 1998, Lundqvist and his club improved to 11-2 in their last 13 elimination games and 5-0 during these playoffs.
"We didn't want that Cup out on our home ice. The thought of it makes me sick," Lundqvist admitted. "It's about competing, you have to be extremely focused, one mistake and the season's over. Exciting. Tough, but fun."
The 32-year-old Swedish starter now owns an 8-0 record, 0.99 GAA, a .968 save percentage and two shutouts in his last eight games when facing elimination at home.
Benoit Pouliot recorded a first-period tally for the Rangers, who hung on despite posting only one shot in the game's final 20 minutes. Pouliot's goal ended Kings goaltender Jonathan Quick's shutout streak at 123 minutes, 1 second.
Dustin Brown scored and Quick made 17 saves for the Kings, who have a chance to celebrate winning their second Cup on home ice since 2012. L.A. beat New Jersey in six games for the crown in 2012. The Kings also opened a 3-0 lead in that series, but lost two straight before lifting the Cup at the Staples Center in Game 6.
"It doesn't mean a whole lot. We wanted to close it out tonight, and we didn't do it," said Kings forward Anze Kopitar of being unable to sweep the Rangers. "But now we're going home, and we're going to try to close it there."
In addition to a superb performance from their star goaltender, the Rangers also received the benefit of some "puck luck" in posting the franchise's first Cup Finals victory on home ice since the clinching Game 7 of the 1994 Finals against Vancouver. Their second one led to the game winner.
During an odd-man rush, Derek Stepan attempted a dish to Chris Kreider in the slot, but his stick shattered and the puck slid off a Kings defender before snaking under a needlessly-sliding Quick. St. Louis wisely stayed in position on the left wing and tapped the puck in from the near-side post at the 6:27 mark of the second period to give the hosts a 2-0 advantage.
Brown halved the Kings' deficit with 8:46 played on a breakaway, moving past Rangers defenseman Dan Girardi — whose stick shattered at the right point — and beating Lundqvist after several dekes from atop the crease. The score came two seconds after a Tyler Toffoli slashing minor expired.
Los Angeles' offense seemed to kick into another gear at that point, but Lundqvist stayed calm under the onslaught to prevent the Kings from claiming another win after falling behind 2-0 in a game. The Rangers blew two-goal leads en route to losing both Games 1 and 2 at L.A. beyond regulation, but were able to survive Game 4 with the win.
On two occasions in Wednesday's game, the puck sat on the goal line behind Lundqvist and went no further thanks to a little help from his teammates.
Midway through the first period, Jeff Carter had a prime chance to knot the score at 1-1 when a puck trickled between Lundqvist's pads and headed for goal. Carter, however, failed to connect on his first chance and Rangers defenseman Anton Stralman was able to clear the disc out of harms way before the Kings forward could get a second crack at it.
With time winding down in the third period, the situation repeated itself. Only this time, a bit of snow on the ice and the glove hand of New York's Derek Stepan saved the day. The puck found its way between Lundqvist's pads again and slowed down just before the goal line when Stepan swept it out of danger with his fingertips.
"It's not easy. The stress level is a little high obviously when the puck is laying there on the goal line," said St. Louis. "We had a little 'puck luck' tonight. And you take those."
The Rangers have won an NHL record eight straight home playoff games when their season was on the line, since Game 4 of the 2008 Eastern Conference semifinals vs. Pittsburgh. Detroit (1949-55) and the Montreal Canadiens (1934-40) previously shared the top spot with seven in a row. New York will need to extend that NHL record to win this series, but first it has to survive tonight's elimination game on the road.
Only four teams in NHL history have come back from down 3-0 to win a best-of- seven set, and only the 1942 Toronto Maple Leafs pulled it off in the Stanley Cup Finals when they beat Detroit.
The Kings, of course, became the fourth NHL team to come back from down 3-0 when they rallied to beat San Jose in the first round of this postseason.
If the Rangers can stave off elimination again, the clubs will meet Monday in New York for Game 6.


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The The MagazineInterview with Colin Winnette in The The
Brian Chappell
(Author Colin Winnette, whose novel, Revelation, was put out by Mutable last Fall, is interviewed below by The The's Brian Chappell.)
Brian: What authors and styles have shaped you?
Colin: Influence is a tricky thing to talk about. I can say that Ben Marcus's work was extremely important to me. It still is, but at one point it totally saved me. Or, reinvigorated me. I was finishing up undergrad and I was in love with writers like Beckett, Proust, Chekhov, Joyce, Kafka, these iconic figures who did what they were doing so masterfully that there seemed nowhere to go at all after that. That was also the result of my age at the time and what being in school can do to you. I didn't realize it then, but I had a pretty narrow vision of what it meant to be a writer and what one could do with fiction. But then I picked up Age of Wire and String and Notable American Women and I was just totally blown away. It was an entirely different approach to working with and examining language than I had ever encountered before. Those books led me to Gertrude Stein and William Gaddis and all of these authors who were breaking language apart, yes, but also reclaiming it, making it do new and fascinating things. And, I mean, they had been doing this for a long time and in different ways, and here was Ben Marcus doing it still in his own way and just killing it. So I suddenly felt very free again. It's interesting the difference between grad school and undergrad. In undergrad I was constantly being told what good writing looked like. It looks like Carver. It looks like Chekhov. It looks like Pynchon (and indeed it does!). It looks like Austen. Etc. Workshops were little help because they were often the same kind of thing: I think you should do this, or I think this should happen, etc. Initially I lacked the confidence to assert myself. Then, when I gained a little confidence, I asserted myself by just ignoring pretty much everybody and only listening to the 2% I thought made sense or seemed to come from a good place. I started to tune a lot out. So I left undergrad fed-up, but with a lot of energy. I wrote and worked and traveled and didn't write and two years later I went to grad school with a much different attitude. I used that time to write as much as possible. I listened to people and read as much as I could, but took the whole thing less…personally, I guess…than before. I took it seriously, but I knew the conversations we were having in class were often selfish in that we were all interested in enhancing our work by discussing the work of others. Helping one another wasn't exactly the point, although we certainly did help one another from time to time. And I should say I think all that's great. The two most important things grad school gave me were time and a sense of purpose. I felt encouraged to work and I had the hours in the day to do it. Or if I didn't have them, I made them because I knew my time was limited. I taught myself how to make time to write. I was writing a lot on the train and in bed my first year. I wouldn't let myself sleep until I had done a certain amount of work. I'm not sure I would have had that kind of discipline at first if I weren't in a program. Now, it comes much more naturally. I had to learn how to kick my own ass.
Brian: I found that the discipline angle served as a wheat/chaff scenario in my own fiction writing classroom. The students who wrote well were the ones who put the time in. Is that level of focus and concentration waning in the generations that come after us? Is it something that can be taught?
Colin: Obviously practices vary. The kind of disciplined work ethic that worked for me in the past just wouldn't work for everyone. It's very personal, I think, and the method I described is one that fits with the way I am, in general, about many things. I can be rigid and extremely hard on myself, especially when I'm working on something I care about very much. And it doesn't even work for me all of the time. In fact, being too disciplined or too hard on oneself can often be a hindrance, and can drive one to resent something that should ultimately be pleasurable and thrilling. So another thing I had to learn was to not be so hard on myself all the time. It's a balance, I'd say, something I'll be perpetually tweaking. But can discipline be taught? I think yes and no. You can't make anyone do anything, really. Or, who would want to? But you can give them (and I assume we're talking about students here) ideas about what to do. In a classroom setting, I think it's important to emphasize the variety of ways that people have worked and will work. I think it's important for young writers to write often, even if it's bad. Especially if it's bad, maybe. Just write it all out and use up all your clichés and lazy sentences. For me it was like I just poured all of this garbage out onto the floor, but in it were these little pieces of rubbish that I actually kind of liked. These nuggets I could polish and be proud of. Seeing it all messed together like that, it was easy to start understanding the difference between something I thought was good or attractive or effective and something that wasn't. There's a process of learning to identify what interests you and what you're trying to do and what helps you do it. But that's just how I do things, you know? As a kid, I was the one who poured all the Legos onto the floor then went digging for the pieces I wanted. I needed to see it all at once. But I had a lot of friends who were much cleaner and more deliberate in their selection. And we both eventually built whatever it was we were building. There's no right way to do it. You just have to do it.
Brian: Ben Marcus and Adam Levin speak highly of Revelation. How do mentors shape your work?
Colin: I've always had relationships with other writers and artists. For me, it's essential. I've also been blessed enough to attend schools with curriculums that involve one on one meetings with faculty, so a lot of my education occurred in that intimate kind of setting. I learn a lot from other people. Or, really, I learn everything from other people. And I love people very much, so it's always a pleasure to get together with someone whose work I admire or who is really insightful and engaged and talk through things and get to know one another better. Having Ben Marcus respond to the book was really one of the most thrilling things that ever happened to me. He's a champion and I owe him a lot. Adam Levin teaches at SAIC, where I earned my MFA, so I had the opportunity to work with him both in class and as an advisor. He has an incredibly active mind and cares very much about fiction, so our conversations were often incredibly invigorating.
Brian: Do you have any interest in teaching your craft?
Colin: I love talking about fiction. And I love talking about fiction with people to whom it really matters. People who have a personal connection to writing. Often, but certainly not exclusively, you meet those people in an academic setting. You meet people who are trying to figure things out for themselves, trying to better understand their work, trying to improve, and so it can be a wonderfully open and productive environment. It can also be a hostile and competitive environment. It's a mixed bag just about everywhere, I think. But I'm optimistic. I'm happy for the good when it comes. I've had a number of teachers who really inspired and encouraged me. The bad experiences tend to melt away and the good ones still drive me years later. One of the best gifts a writing teacher can give, I think, is the sense that the work of a young writing student is as important as the work they themselves are doing. It sounds obvious, but I think it's much more difficult than most people realize. I've had a number of teachers who did this, but one of the first was Brian Morton, whom I worked with at Sarah Lawrence College. While our opinions about fiction were occasionally at odds, I always felt that he approached the conversation as earnestly and attentively as I did. He was studying, his mind was always working, and he was kind and generous and honest. He was an early guide, but also an attentive friend. It was a gift. My interest in teaching writing would come from a desire to give other young writers something like this, because it meant so much to me. And still does.
Brian: You manage the imagery from the book of Revelation so gorgeously and subtly in your novel. How did this idea occur to you?
Colin: It was really very sudden and intuitive. Honestly, I was first attracted to the idea primarily as a constraint. I had no idea why, but it just occurred to me to write a book that was seven chapters long, each chapter of which would be invoked by the sounding of one of the seven trumpets of the Apocalypse. And I knew each chapter would jump forward radically in time, so that the book covered the entire span of a character's life. It wasn't until I had written the first draft of the book and was beginning revisions that I really started to understand what was interesting to me about using this structure/content, other than the fact that it gave me the push to begin the work as well as a set of loose guidelines to move the project forward. It's something I say all the time about the book, that it was a sort of exorcism of certain narrative modes I was steeped in as a kid growing up in a small Texas town, as well as the models of "great writing" I was beaten over the head with as a young writer.
Brian: How important are constraints for anything that you work on? This is, to me, the delightful irony of experimentation. You exhibit freedom and limitlessness through the very limits you impose on yourself.
Colin: I was extremely interested in working with constraints at one point for many reasons, one of which was exactly the reason you detail here. I followed and studied the Oulipo, and other artists working with constraints, like 60s/70s performance artists or musicians, and many working today. I'm interested in the idea that we are always working with constraints, only some are more apparent than others. When I sit down to write a work of "fiction" on my MacBook, in Microsoft Word, a vast number of decisions are made for me before I even begin. One's limited knowledge of the tradition in which they're working can also be viewed as a series of constraints guiding all of one's production. Making the conscious decision to impose constraints is a way of acknowledging and engaging with the constraints that are already in place. There's a quote from one of the more famous Oulipians, Raymond Queneau, in which he says, "…inspiration, which consists in blind obedience to every impulse is in reality a sort of slavery. The classical playwright who writes his tragedy observing a certain number of familiar rules is freer than the poet who writes that which comes into his head and who is the slave of other rules of which he is ignorant." It is also a way of knowing more about what you are doing before you do it. For me, it is also a way of incorporating one's limitations into the work itself. And, as you and Queneau point out, the marvelous thing is the way in which engaging with limitations or constraints, be they self-imposed or otherwise, can actually be liberating.
Brian: Most other narratives of this type depict a man-made apocalypse and thus morph into social commentary. Some would argue that even the end-of-days apocalypse is man-made, due to sin, etc. What causes the events in Revelation?
Colin: Yes. Exactly. It's funny no one's thought to ask this so directly before. The quick and easy answer would be to say there is no answer. Or, we don't get to know. This is something the characters in the book are struggling with, or trying to ignore, or successfully ignoring. I'm much more interested in the ways we come to understand, deal with, or not deal with traumatic events in our lives, rather than tracing any kind of causal relationship, casting blame, etc. I'm interested in the stories we tell ourselves. I think examining those stories brings us closer to an understanding of what it means to be an actively living/seeing/perceiving thing.
Brian: This is a good point. Your answer clearly applies to Marcus. We don't get to see the ups and downs (mostly downs?) of his life actually happen to him. We're always, at the beginning of a section, thrown into some sort of aftermath, or dénouement, of another major life change. You have a taste for, as you say, the way we re-present these moments to ourselves, after the fact. I find it would make for a very interesting film. Have you thought of this book cinematically? Does thinking cinematically help you?
Colin: I think it's hard not to think cinematically at this point, at least when writing a book with such clear scenes and imagery. I certainly pictured every scene I wrote in my head as I was writing it. And movies have dramatically impacted the way I imagine things. This is true of other work I've done as well, that the work relies so heavily on the concreteness of a certain image or gesture that I have to really picture it before I can write it. I have to see it and look all around it and check it for weak spots. I've been so effectively trained by movies and television as to how one looks at and around a thing, that my imaginative eye often examines an imagined thing in these camera-like sweeps and zooms. I am a slave to the machine. But I think you're also talking about the narrative itself here, and I would have to say that in constructing the story I wasn't thinking at all cinematically. I also would be interested in seeing a film that moves in this way (I'm sure they're out there. In fact, I'm sure I've seen a couple without realizing it). I think most movies emphasize the moments that this book tends to leave out. We are attracted to stories with high-drama and with rising tension that moves toward a rewarding climax because it makes the events of our lives seem meaningful. I am not belittling this method of storytelling. I love it, in fact. And I'm interested in it. I'm interested in the ways we construct meaning. And I think we always draft the narrative of meaning after the fact. There is a quote, though I cannot remember who said it, that thought occurs in the wake of experience. This idea has been stated in one way or another by many, I'm sure. And I like that. If it's something that's been said over and over in myriad ways and contexts, that seems right.
[This interview was originally published in The The. To read the second half of it go here.]

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After Fee had poured everyone a cup of tea Reebok Runtone from her giant pot, they stayed talking, drinking or reading for an hour or more, Paddy puffing on his pipe with his head in a library book, Fee continuously refilling cups, Bob immersed in another library book, while the younger children made plans for the morrow. School had dispersed for the long summer Reebok Sneakers vacation; the boys were on the loose and eager to commence their allotted chores around the house and garden. Bob had to touch up the exterior paintwork Reebok Pumps where it was necessary, Jack and Hughie dealt with the woodheap, outbuildings and milking, Stuart tended the vegetables; play compared to the horrors of school. From time to time Paddy lifted his head from his book to add another job to the list, but Fee said nothing, and Frank sat slumped tiredly, sipping Reebok Shoes cup after cup of tea.
Finally Fee beckoned Meggie to Reebok ZigTech sit on a high stool, and did up her hair in its nightly rags before packing her off to bed with Stu and Hughie; Jack and Bob begged to Reebok EasyTone be excused and went outside to feed the Reebok dogs; Frank took Meggie's doll to the worktable and began to glue its hair on again. Stretching, Padraic closed his book and put ZigTech his pipe into the huge iridescent paua shell which served him as an ashtray.
"Well, Mother, I'm off to bed."
"Good night, Paddy."


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President Harry Truman signs the bill creating the National Institute of Dental Research. Walter E. Brehm is second from the left.
It took a single, random incident to provide the impetus for the end of Walter Ellsworth Brehm's career in the House of Representatives: an old woman breaking her arm a thousand miles away. From this mishap and its aftermath, political columnist Drew Pearson was able to piece together enough evidence to implicate Brehm in a kickback scheme.
Brehm was born in Somerset, Ohio in May of 1892. After completing high school, he earned money through jobs in steel mills, rubber factories, and oil fields. He was also a member of Company D, Seventh Regiment, of the Ohio Infantry from 1908 to 1913. He attended Boston University and Ohio Wesleyan University, graduating from the Ohio State University Dental School in 1917. He began a dental practice in Logan, Ohio in 1921.
After about 15 years in this field, Brehm started dabbling in politics. Between 1936 and 1938, he was treasurer of the Republican executive committee of Hocking County and also served on the city council of Logan. He served in the state house of representatives from 1938 to 1942 before moving on to its federal counterpart after the election of 1942. He was returned in the next three elections and maintained a rather unassuming presence in Washington. His profession did influence his work there to some degree. His most notable action was the introduction of a bill to establish the National Institute of Dental Research. President Harry Truman signed it into law after it passed both chambers.
Brehm received a major test just a few months before the regular election of 1950. In September and October, Pearson wrote in his "Washington Merry-Go-Round" column that Brehm had accepted kickbacks from a woman who formerly worked as a clerk for him. Clara Soliday, a 75-year-old widow, worked for Brehm between January of 1945 and January of 1948. Pearson accused Brehm of taking $100, about half of Soliday's paycheck, each month and increasing the amount with each pay raise until it hit $240 a month. Though Brehm told Soliday that the money was going to a committee in Ohio for campaign work, Pearson asserted that this was illegal under the Corrupt Practices Act since Soliday's pay was provided by taxpayer dollars and was not to be used for political purposes.
Pearson seemed more concerned with ethical issues. He clearly didn't think much of a man who was routinely taking money from an elderly woman. Pearson said Soliday worked for the Treasury before taking the job with Brehm, since it was a slightly better salary even with the kickbacks and she didn't know those payments were illegal. He said Soliday was fired after she broke her arm late in 1947 while visiting her sister in Cleveland. Soliday got her X-rays in Washington, D.C. and cashed her paycheck with the Sergeant-at-Arms in the House. She told her daughter that she could get an additional $240 from her pocketbook, and the woman was surprised to find that it was in an envelope addressed to Brehm. Her son, Ray Soliday, delivered the money in person but asked that she be allowed to keep it to address her doctor's bills. Brehm refused, but eventually allowed Soliday to keep $100 of the allotted money. Perhaps seeing the writing on the wall, Brehm fired Soliday not long after and replaced her with his son, James F. Brehm. All told, Pearson said, Brehm pocketed some $7,300.
Brehm denounced the columnist as a liar, but Pearson was unfazed; he'd received a similar response from J. Parnell Thomas and Andrew May, he noted, and both of them had gone to jail on charges of receiving illegal income. He added that Brehm was apparently trying to keep Ray quiet, accusing the congressmen of telling Ray not to talk to Pearson. Pearson also said that Brehm was pressuring Ray to tell FBI investigators that the kickbacks only amounted to $1,200. Then in late October, Soliday sued Brehm to recover the approximately $7,300 with another $10,000 in punitive damages. Brehm said the charges were "so fantastic" that "I just do not have anything to say." He later responded with a countering lawsuit accusing her of a political attack, asking for dismissal and $5,000 in damages. The quarrel and Pearson's accusations became an issue in the 1950 election, but Brehm still triumphed over Democratic rival Mell G. Underwood, Jr.
A federal grand jury didn't find Soliday's charges to be fantastic. In December of 1950, it indicted Brehm on six violations of the Corrupt Practices Act in 1947 and 1948. Whether or not Pearson's charge that Brehm was tampering with Ray was accurate, the amount of pilfered money was much lower than the columnist's count and quite close to the tally Brehm was allegedly trying to get Ray to agree to: $1,380. In addition to Soliday, Brehm was accused of taking chunks out of the paycheck of another clerk named Emma Craven. Brehm accepted the news with aplomb, saying, "Now maybe we can get the facts on the record. This is the only way I know to clear the good name of all concerned. I have never at any time or any place or under any circumstances committed a criminal act."
The trial started in April of 1951. Both clerks testified that they had given up half of their salaries, mailing the money to Brehm when he was in Ohio and delivering it in person when he was in Washington. Midway through the trial, Brehm's attorney argued for acquittal on the argument that the prosecution didn't have a solid enough case. The judge refused, and Brehm took the stand to say that he was unaware of the existence of the Corrupt Practices Act and that none of the money went to personal use.
After four hours and 20 minutes of deliberation in May, the jury found Brehm guilty of five of the counts, charging that he received $1,000 from Craven. The next month, he was given a suspended jail sentence of five to 15 months and a $5,000 fine. The Supreme Court upheld the conviction in October of 1952. Brehm retired from Congress not long after, having decided against running for a sixth term.
Brehm returned to dental work, eventually retiring from private practice and joining a dental supply company. He died in Columbus in August of 1971.
Sources: The Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, "Washington Merry-Go-Round" in the Tuscaloosa News on Sep. 26 1950, "Washington Merry-Go-Round" in the Southeast Missourian on Oct. 2 1950, "Washington Merry-Go-Round" in the Lewiston Daily Sun on Oct. 9 1950, "Solon Of Ohio Faces Suit For Kickback" in the Deseret News on Oct. 25 1950, "Rep. Brehm, Of Ohio, Is Indicted On Illegal Contributions Charge" in the Lewiston Daily Sun on Dec. 21 1950, "Legislator Loses Acquittal Plea" in the Pittsburgh Press on Apr. 24 1951, "Congressman's Trial Near End" in the Pittsburgh Press on Apr. 30 1951, "Brehm Is Guilty On Five Counts" in the Spokane Daily Chronicle on May 1 1951, "Rep. Brehm Gets Suspended Sentence" in the Miami News on Jun. 11 1951, "Refuses To Review Rep. Brehm Case" in the St. Petersburg Times on Oct. 14 1952, Dental Science in a New Age: The History of the National Institute of Dental Research by Ruth Roy Harris, Biographical Directory of the United States Congress 1774-2005 by Andrew R. Dodge


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Things I do not like with Android, and what I would expect instead.
The EMail-App
This is about the normal EMail App on a stock Android 3.1, not about GMail. The connection is via IMAP.
- By default the most recent EMail is on top. If I switch to oldest-first order, the oldest EMail is shown when entering a folder. I want to see the most recent one. If I let the most-recent order, I see directly the newest messages, but when I read the oldest unread message and delete it, the more old message is displayed, instead of the more recent one. KMail is doing this better (it is able to go "up" instead of only "down" to go to the more recent message when the most recent mail is sorted on top), but in KMail I can not select multiple messages as easy as with the normal EMail App (it seems I have to long-tap on a mail and then tell to select the EMail, and just then I can just quickly tab on the very small area on the left of the subject to select more EMails).
- Selecting messages could also be improved. When I select several messages, and then – by accident – enter a message and want to go back, the first "go back" unselects all messages and the second "go back" goes back to the folder-view. I would like to go back directly to the folder-view, instead of unselecting all messages.
- The folder-view itself is also not nice. I have a lot of folders. IMAP subfolders are separated by a dot, e.g. FreeBSD.arch and FreeBSD.multimedia are the subfolders arch and multimedia in the folder FreeBSD. Each desktop EMail program I used so far was intelligent enough to create a folder-hierarchy out of this, with the possibility to collapse the display of all subfolders of FreeBSD (I have a lot there, not only those 2) into one entry. If I want to field something in my hierarchical folder structure, I have to scroll a long list of folders, instead of just (auto-)opening (during drag&drop) the correct hierarchy.
- I do not find an option to tell that the App shall have a look at more than the default inbox to look for new messages. If I want to know if there is a new message in one of the other folders, I must have a look into the folder(s).
- It looks like I can only produce TOFU-replies, I have not found a way to do a proper interleaved-style reply.
- The error messages when setting up an outgoing (and I assume incoming) server are too brief for my taste. As a default it is OK, but there should be an option to enable more verbose/technical error messages for those which are able to understand them.
- It does not optionally save send mails to a specific (configurable) folder.
- It does not allow to cryptocally sign messages (at the moment I do not really care if it is via S/MIME or via PGP).
- I also would like to tab with two fingers, and the text in-between is selected (not only in the EMail-App).


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Yesterday's post featuring Michael Wilbon enjoying the alluring top shelf of Girl Next Door Kendra and L.A. Times' J.A. Adande workin' it with some women(?) who earn a livin' doing dirty things on camera, gave PTI co-host Tony Kornheiser much to work with during yesterday's show.
It's nice to know that some people aren't above being self-deprecating and do not feel it necessary to be humorless angry rhinos all the time. Cheers to you, PTI crew, and especially to Awful Announcing for being the best at what he does.
Now, J.A. Adande, we still have some questions for you...
The PTI Guys Have A Little Fun With Wilbon's Night Out [Awful Announcing]
J.A. Adande: Journalism's Master of Landing Tail? [Busted Coverage]


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Eric Jaffe
Eric Jaffe is the former New York bureau chief for CityLab. He is the author of A Curious Madness and The King's Best Highway.
Nothing about the man's appearance suggested what he would do next. He wore a charcoal pinstripe suit and glossy burgundy shoes and might have been a salesman or a lawyer, but was probably a salesman. What stopped him from being a lawyer was the haircut. Not too many lawyers in New York enter the salon and ask for the Lloyd Christmas.
We sat across from each other on the uptown 1 train from Times Square. I take this train regularly after a day at the New York Public Library but rarely before 7:30 or 8 to avoid the evening rush. To further slip the crowds I enter from the south side of 40th Street, which provides the secondary benefit of being deposited toward the back end of the platform, where fewer people board. Sanity on the New York City subway, over the long term, requires strict adherence to a personal system of insane transit customs.
He took out something to read and I pretended to do the same while, in fact, trying to deduce whether he was a salesman or a lawyer. I decided on salesman — the haircut simply didn't inspire enough confidence to attract a profitable clientele; at best he was a public defender — when suddenly this consideration lost every ounce of importance, as the man raised up his hand, and without so much as a glance around to see who might be seeing, plunged a finger into his nose.
The verb pick is typically associated with nostril penetration but in this particular case it fails to describe the sheer depth of the infraction. This was less a pick than a lobotomy. I would not have been entirely out of line to ask if he did his neurological training under Walter Freeman. Forget about seeing nail; I could hardly see metacarpal. Then, before the full shock of the event had set in, he removed the digit and — with the M.T.A. in-car advertising panels as my witness — redirected it posthaste into his mouth.
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In his essay "Here Is New York," E.B. White famously wrote that the city bestows on its inhabitants the gifts of loneliness and privacy. New York feels at times like a breeding ground for solitude, but what I think this contention misses is the charm of being alone together. New York City residents do all the things all other Americans do by themselves — ride to work, listen to music, pick their noses — but do them while sharing intensely close quarters with perfect strangers.
This sort of independent coexistence, as it might be called, seems like a defining quality of any functional democracy. The pressure of one's own convictions and quirks, pushing outward against those of the rest, looping back into an honest reassessment of the self. Nowhere in America is this delicate balance more apparent than on the New York City subway, where mayor and citizen, rich and poor, wise and weird, late and lazy, picker and proper alike all share, for a short time each day, the earnest desire for a seat or at the very least a sliver of standing room. The car and the highway have come to represent American freedom, but it's the subway train that truly reflects its egalitarian spirit.
White hints at this recognition later in his essay when he writes that New York "compresses all life, all races and breeds, into a small island." That makes the city like a poem, he contends, which also compresses a great flood of humanity into a teacup of space. If you accept White's metaphor of the poem then I submit the subway system must be its refrain: the familiar lines that help otherwise stranded words feel like part of the same group.
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My own subway verse tracks Broadway on the 1 line, often connecting to the PATH into Jersey and occasionally stretching toward Gramercy on the N-R-Q. I've been joined in my solitude, of late, by an evangelical beggar whose only wish, evidently, was not for money but to express, stop after stop, his love for his Maker. And the middle-aged woman who didn't leave the PATH train when it reached 33rd Street, the end of the line, because maybe she got on going the wrong way, or was supremely bored, or was a huge fan of the "yo-yo" riding concept in Thomas Pynchon's V.
And then there was, a bit farther back, the sheepish young man who finally worked up the courage to ask out his travel companion right before an unexpected mid-tunnel stoppage made for the most awkward silence since the Big Bang. And, much more recently, the young couple who had not quite conquered the kissing phase, and were determined to do so in a less than G-rated fashion, despite the G-rated age of the girl beside them.
And the adorable young boy, no more than eight, who spent the whole ride reciting the digits of pi as far out as he could, enduring with each pause the wrath of his uptight mother, who will no doubt be a joy come SAT time. And the adolescent who cuddled cheek-to-metal with the pole right in front of her own mother, whose general look of exhaustion implied that on the list of battles to fight, this one was inconsequentially low.
And some reoccurring characters, of course. The trio of Mexican guitar players whose cowboy hats double as a change bin. The a cappella soul singers with their surprisingly harmonious rendition of "Stand By Me." The possibly homeless man who is always sorry to bother me.
And the most disruptive rider I've seen in recent times, who insisted in loud four-letter words that the tall person beside him better not brush his shoulder again. It was an unusually crowded PATH train, and the general jostling of the trip was bound to violate this request (demand, really) through no fault of the tall rider's own. When a second encroachment did inevitably occur, the new round of anger abated only when the tall rider stepped off the train, at what I suspect may not have been his stop.
Those are just a few I can remember off hand. Each day, if not each leg, brings a new debut.
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I have a hunch the PATH rider's head wasn't on right — I'm not a doctor, but I've taken the subway with plenty of them — still in general I try to attribute cantankerous ridership to the bad day or the bad luck that New York can impose on even the most capable of subway specimen. This sympathy dates back to my very first week in New York, when I for a moment was the object of observation and judgment.
I was returning from an overzealous trip to the Strand, one of the few New York institutions known to me at the time, when I equivocated a bit too long on an uptown platform between the local and express trains, which both had arrived. At the last moment I hopped into the local, just in time for my body to make it inside, but not the hand clutching my oversized bag of books. The train couldn't move with the door ajar, but the only alternative to wedging my hand between the doors was to abandon a full shopping outing.
After about fifteen seconds, the other passengers, who could only see my hand but not the bag, began to berate me for holding them up, then the conductor came onto the intercom and did the same on behalf of the entire train. Finally he realized the situation and opened the doors just enough for me to pull the bag inside. The palpable rush of disappointment that coursed through the car was not directed inward at their doubts of me, but outward at my inability to handle the city.
Sometimes you're alone together with everyone in New York, and sometimes New York is alone together with you.
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I saw the salesman once more, just a few weeks after I was introduced to his world. Obviously I wasn't over what I'd seen — Exhibit A: I'm still not — but there is a comfort in old faces that made me sort of happy to see him. I wasn't about to shake his hand or anything; he could scrub that spot with a Brillo Pad like he's Lady MacBeth and it wouldn't be enough. Still my number of unknowns in New York had been reduced by one, and I can't say it surprised me in the least, when, after a couple of stops, I saw his hand reach up toward his face. It was just so like the salesman to think he was alone.
Starting Monday, Eric Jaffe is on hiatus for a research fellowship until mid-May.
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The Post-Christian Atheist
by William Hopper,
author of The Heathen's Guide to World Religions
The Church's edict condemning Galileo's model of the solar system is often quoted to show the folly of the Roman Catholic Church. What most atheists fail to quote, though, is the explanation for this edict, offered Cardinal Roberto Bellarmino (1542 –1621):
"If there were a real proof… we should proceed with great circumspection in explaining passages of Scripture which appear to teach the contrary, and we should say that we did not understand them. But I do not think there is any such proof. "
Herein lies the history of the Church. The dogma and canon are not born of serene moments of purity and insight, but from a long history of committees that react poorly to challenge. But it is also a history of a few calm voices— like that of Cardinal Bellarimo— that have firmly but quietly offered sensible, measured opinions. The problem is that the frenetic voices of the fanatics is always louder than common sense. This was true at the Nicene Council in 325, it was true with Galileo in 1616, and it is equally true today. Historically, the great doctrines of Catholicism were not born of divine guidance, but wrought from angry debate, cruel accusations, and summary execution.
For a very long time the laity were only told the dogma and canon that came out of these debates. Few, if any, were privy to how the institution they had sworn their lives to was formed. It is only in the last century that many dusty tomes that no one had paid attention to have been cracked open, and their contents finally proliferated. For the first time average people are now able to see and read the real reasons for the laws that have governed them, and the darker history that contributed to the creation of The Holy Roman Catholic Church.
For the faithful, it is a tale of how the Word of God endured centuries of scandal and sheer stupidity, remaining intact despite the fallible and corrupt hands to which it was entrusted. For many, though, the real tale of what has been created from the simple origins of Christianity is more than just a dark spot. It calls into question the heart and soul of the faith, and the motivations of those who still control it.
For many years atheists have been portrayed as angry rebels out to destroy authority. But this is a new era. A new time. Those who have always had doubts about the veracity of religious claims now have very real, very solid reasons for asking what the truth really is. Instead of screaming "There is no God!", the modern atheist is now asking "What's real?" How much of what we have been spoon-fed from on high has been actual Gospel and how much is politically-motivated subterfuge?
These are questions that each person must answer on their own. But before they can do so, they have to know the full story of the faiths they hope to understand. Not just the clean, holy versions of history that they teach in catechism classes and synagogues. This is why I wrote The Heathen's Guide to World Religions. Regardless of how devout a person is, they need to know the real history of a faith before they can say they believe it. They need to know about the human greed, avarice, lust, and insanity that have contributed to the creation of all religions. From there, they can take the facts they find and ask their priest, rabbi, or imam to justify or explain it all.
For those with blind faith, I have no doubt that they will find something in the words of a cleric to allay the worries that history introduces. For others, the questions will remain. But at least they will be informed.


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José Merla Laguna-Ioolot-Easy Going Pants For Easy Dressing-Incontinence
At Design Interviews
Interview with José Merla Laguna : Frank Scott: What is the main principle, idea and inspiration behind your design?. José Merla Laguna : To help people with mobility problems, to perform easily daily tasks, without being noticed. .Frank Scott: What has been your main focus in designing this work? Especially what did you want to achieve?. José Merla Laguna : The make the elderly and disable people life a little bit easier while performing everyday activities. .Frank Scott: What are your future plans for this award winning design?. José Merla Laguna : To expand with this solution the model options (ie. Jeans, dressing pants, etc..) .Frank Scott: How long did it take you to design this particular concept?. José Merla Laguna : To grow the idea 2 months, to develop the product, make the production, start a brand and create a family of related products around 1.5 years. .Frank Scott: Why did you design this particular concept? Was this design commissioned or did you decide to pursuit an inspiration?. José Merla Laguna : As many people in the world I was very attached to my grandfather, in his elderly years he had many health problems and difficulties. Since I spend lots of time with him I started to realize the need for better products and improved solutions to make his life easier. I develop a line of products and solutions in apparel for different problematic. People with different types of disability or in their elderly period now have an option to make their life easier. These pants let you go easily to the bathroom without any hassle that it's common in normal zip pants. .Frank Scott: Is your design being produced or used by another company, or do you plan to sell or lease the production rights or do you intent to produce your work yourself?. José Merla Laguna : We have a line of products www.ioolot.com where we provide these solutions directly to the consumer, we are open to lease the production rights, so more people can benefit from this solution. .Frank Scott: What made you design this particular type of work?. José Merla Laguna : To understand the difficulty in performing daily task by people with mobility problems, and knowing that design can provide solutions. .Frank Scott: Where there any other designs and/or designers that helped the influence the design of your work?. José Merla Laguna : Ideas come from neuronal connections, I can't remember if there was an specific designer where I got inspired from but I can say that I get illustrated everyday by reading all type of information from science, anthropology, fashion, architecture, product design, and any type of relevant information that I can found; by these I "feed" my brain and stimulate to innovate. .Frank Scott: Who is the target customer for his design?. José Merla Laguna : Indeed the pants can be used by anyone, but mainly its developed for people with problems of mobility. .Frank Scott: What sets this design apart from other similar or resembling concepts?. José Merla Laguna : The main difference is that this design hides completely the solution, so you are not aware about the difference. It's very important the emotional side of a person with difficult dressing, nobody wants to have a "sign" that says that you have dressing problems. .Frank Scott: How did you come up with the name for this design? What does it mean?. José Merla Laguna : "easy-going" just describes the solution provided by the pants .Frank Scott: Which design tools did you use when you were working on this project?. José Merla Laguna : Corel Draw, fabrics, pencils and sewing machines .Frank Scott: What is the most unique aspect of your design?. José Merla Laguna : That you don't realize about it, and that indeed it's very easy to go to the bathroom. .Frank Scott: Who did you collaborate with for this design? Did you work with people with technical / specialized skills?. José Merla Laguna : For the development I work together with the partner of the company www.ioolot.com, Alejandro Nuñez and with special pattern model technicians. .Frank Scott: What is the role of technology in this particular design?. José Merla Laguna : Here technology it's used to go into massive production and to offer extra comfort like non-iron / water- repellent fabrics. .Frank Scott: Is your design influenced by data or analytical research in any way? What kind of research did you conduct for making this design?. José Merla Laguna : Mainly the amount of people getting old in the world, and there to understand how many of them have incontinence problems and how many have dressing problems. Then we knew that we needed to develop a product to help this type of problematic in the design side. .Frank Scott: What are some of the challenges you faced during the design/realization of your concept?. José Merla Laguna : To change technicians and producers conceptions of the common used pants, and involve them in the development of a new way of thinking to help people with difficult dressing. Basically producers were stubborn and difficult to implement the new ideas. .Frank Scott: How did you decide to submit your design to an international design competition?. José Merla Laguna : A-Design Award offers the service of design proof and also makes a statement to accept the new idea. .Frank Scott: What did you learn or how did you improve yourself during the designing of this work?. José Merla Laguna : Some product development can be reached faster with in-house model makers. So they can concentrate and focus on the solution until its solved. .
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It's the dawning of the age of aquarium or at least that's what it feels like after what feels like 5 straight days of continuous rain. The rain today didn't seem to be so much falling vertically as hovering at about face height, allowing me to ride directly into it in order to assure maximum discomfiture (and discomfort). "Getting" to ride in the rain in the morning is considerably less fun than "getting" to ride in the rain on the way home. Frankly, I'm "getting" tired of "getting" to ride in it at all.
Bike seemed sluggish, but maybe that we just me. I ought to clean the drivetrain, but it's hard to "get" motivated to do that when I know that the next time will just bring more dirt and grime and invite me to do it all again. Maybe this weekend, but doubtful.
I think that one of the things I've learned throughout my time bike commuting is that my commute takes however long it's going to take and there's not much I can about that. Sometimes lights are green, sometimes not. Sometimes I have to go slow because there are cars in my path or because a trail is flooded or because I get a flat tire or because I just don't feel like going faster. So, I'm resigned to the fact that my commute takes somewhere between 35 and 45 minutes (lately closer to 45) and this approximation is good enough for me. Maybe this attitude towards time has been shaped by my 'learned fatalism" (not a real psychological thing), brought about from a cognizance that the roads aren't really set up for my rapid movement, nor are the other actors (not real actors) on the roadway overly concerned with my best interest and safety. Given that set of circumstances, I figure the best attitude is one of exceedingly low expectations for others and detached indifference towards the daily slights and indignities.Forget self-respect and focus on low-key self-preservation is my mantra.
I saw a car with no fewer than 8 college stickers on the back windshield. That seems like a lot. I think you should only get to have one per person. If you want to advertise law school, you should have to scrape off the undergrad institution. But I'm a sticker minimalist, so take my opinions with a grain of Goo Gone.
Anyone who tells you that drivers with kids in the car drive safer is either ignorant or a liar. You can trust me- I bike by a lot of schools. This is why I support mandatory helmet laws for all minivan passengers.


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BeagleBone Black Start Qt App on boot
First of all, I am very glad to write this page and many thanks to @jkridner you help me a lot , let me learn lots of things.
uh, I bought beagle bone on 22/09/2013, it has demo system of angstrom in eMMC, it's kenerl 3.8.13. so lots of web sit about auto login beaglebone on boot with change file /etc/inittab will can't be used. because there's no /etc/inittable file in beaglebone.
if you want to cross compile QT you can look at :
if everything is all right, you get the QT work with beagle bone. but you can not write GUI application work with beagle bone while you beagle bone log in the graphic user interface, need stop gdm and remove gdm service from beagle bone in terminal:
update-rc.d -f gdm remove systemctl disable gdm.service
exec the above two commands, reboot, the beaglebone will login to console. now if you want to use root automatic login on boot need edit:
file add
-a root to the end of the ExecStart line
then reboot. you will find beagle bone start automatically login with root.


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Renewable energy reached a big milestone in 2011, surging to a record $257 billion in global investments, the U.N. Environment Program announced Monday. That marks a 17 percent jump from 2010, and a six-fold increase over the past seven years. It also marks a breakthrough for the solar power industry, which drew nearly twice as much investment as wind energy last year, according to two new reports by UNEP and the Renewable Energy Policy Network for the 21st Century (REN21).
Total solar investments grew 52 percent to $147 billion in 2011, the reports reveal, ranging from an explosion of rooftop panels in Italy and Germany to big endowments for large-scale concentrated solar thermal projects in the U.S. and Spain. And while China has led the world in renewables investments for three years, it increasingly faces competition from all over the globe — especially from the United States.
Chinese renewables investments rose 17 percent to $52 billion in 2011, followed closely by America's 57 percent surge that pushed U.S. investments to $51 billion. The U.K., Spain and Italy also enjoyed investment booms, with respective growth rates of 59, 45 and 43 percent, although their totals remain relatively small. The most extreme change came in India, whose 62 percent rise to $12 billion represents "the fastest investment expansion of any large renewables market in the world," UNEP reports.
This is mostly good news for the renewables industry, particularly solar, but the UNEP and REN21 reports have some dark spots, too. While $257 billion is a new record for global investments in renewables, the 17 percent increase is down substantially from the 37 percent growth recorded in 2010. Some countries also saw their renewables investments decline, including Germany (-12 percent) and much of the Middle East and Africa (-18 percent). "Policy uncertainty created by the Arab Spring delayed some projects," UNEP notes, "but a number of important initiatives did still progress."
There were also economic setbacks, even in countries like the U.S. and U.K. that saw overall growth in their investments. Austerity measures and falling prices led some governments to cut subsidies and tax breaks for renewable energy, helping trigger a series of company failures and factory closures, including five major solar firms in the U.S. and Germany. One of the highest-profile of these collapses was California-based Solyndra, which had received $535 million in federal aid but still succumbed to price reductions courtesy of China's prolific solar-panel production.
But according to Udo Steffens, president of the Frankfurt School of Finance & Management and a collaborator on the two reports, such failures are merely the growing pains of a maturing industry. "Renewables are starting to have a very consequential impact on energy supply, but we're also witnessing many classic symptoms of rapid sectoral growth — big successes, painful bankruptcies, international trade disputes and more," Steffens says in a statement. "This is an important moment for strategic policymaking as winners in the new economy form and solidify."
There is also a precedent for this kind of halting progress, adds Michael Liebreich, CEO of Bloomberg New Energy Finance. "In 1903, the United States had over 500 car companies, most of which quickly fell by the wayside even as the automobile sector grew into an industrial juggernaut," he says. "[W]riting off the auto industry based on the failures of weaker firms would have been foolish. Today, the renewable energy sector is experiencing similar growing pains as the sector consolidates."
World leaders will be looking for ways to speed up this growth at next week's Rio+20 Earth Summit in Brazil, and UNEP executive director Achim Steiner says they should resist the temptation to curb assistance for the up-and-coming renewables sector too quickly. "It is essential to continue government policies that support and nurture the sector's growth, and to de-escalate damaging trade disputes," he says. "Otherwise, the low-carbon transition could weaken just at the point when exciting cost reductions are starting to transform the economics."
Here are a few more highlights from the UNEP and REN21 reports:
- Renewable sources have grown to supply 16.7 percent of global energy consumption. Of that, the share from traditional biomass has declined slightly while the share from modern renewable technologies has risen.
- Renewable power, excluding large hydroelectric, accounted for 44 percent of all new generating capacity added worldwide in 2011 (up from 34 percent in 2010).
- Gross investment in fossil-fuel capacity in 2011 was $302 billion, compared to $237 billion for that in renewable energy capacity excluding large hydro.
- In the power sector, renewables accounted for almost half of the estimated 208 gigawatts of electric capacity added globally during 2011.
- At least 118 countries, more than half of which are developing countries, had renewable energy targets in place by early 2012, up from 96 one year before.
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Actively pursuing to put an end to online sales of retail and wholesale replica Chanel handbags or any other replica products remains to be a top priority at CHANEL.
Internet pages, both commerce and non-commerce, are being regularly monitored for replica handbag purchase and sale signals, enabling CHANEL to act on any online retail, wholesale, outlet and auction websites attempting to sell replica merchandise. The discovery of replica sales, in effect, triggers legal action to commence. It can be expected that a lawsuit will be filed immediately and law enforcement could be alerted when necessary and appropriate.
To those of you who would never consider purchasing a fake Chanel bag, you are making the right choice, and actually helping to keep your personal and financial information, and your money safe. To those of you who ever considered purchasing a replica designer bag, it is best to take precautions while shopping at online replica outlets. Chances are that access to sensitive information by replica traffickers may endanger your security, as they are often entrenched in a wide range of criminal dealings. For the same reason, it is urged that everyone avoid replicas and buy only the authentic.
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Jean Rolles establishes $500,000 professorship at UH Manoa Shidler College of Business
Gift will enable the college to attract and retain top business facultyUniversity of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
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Margot Schrire, (808) 956-6774
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"Hawaii's economic and social future is very important to me," said Jean Rolles, Vice President of Community Relations for Outrigger Enterprises, Inc. "It is vital to bring top business professors into the classroom to share their knowledge and experience on global business and expose our students to realbusiness issues."
"Jean has been a tremendous supporter of the College," said V. Vance Roley, Dean of the Shidler College of Business. She has been involved with the College at every level, as a member of the College's advisory council, financial supporter of our strategic planning process, and most recently as a donor to fund an endowed professorship at the College."
Newly appointed UH Mānoa Chancellor Virginia Hinshaw noted: "Jean's highly distinguished career in business, her involvement in the community and support of educational programs are an impressive testament to her passion for education and her affection for Hawaiʻi and its people — she truly is an individual who makes a difference. I applaud her for establishing the Jean E. Rolles Distinguished Professorship — her gift truly does increase the positive impact that the Shidler College of Business provides for the future of our community and state."
Rolles, born in Honolulu and a graduate of Punahou School, received her Bachelor of Science degree from the School of Hotel Administration at Cornell University and Master of Science in Japanese Business Studies from Chaminade University.
Before joining Outrigger Hotels, Jean helped established the original Chuck's Steak House restaurant in 1959 and worked 25 years for the company, which developed into a chain of 50 restaurants throughout the United States. Jean joined Outrigger Hotels Hawaiʻi in 1982 as property manager for five hotels andeventually expanded to all of the commercial space, which encompassed 300 leases in 21 hotels. In 1998, she was promoted to Vice President of Community Relations at Outrigger Enterprises, Inc.
Rolles currently serves on 13 boards including the American Red Cross, Nature Conservancy of Hawaii, East-West Center Board of Governors, Pacific Asian Affairs Council, Honolulu Academy of Arts, and Chaminade Board of Regents. In addition, she devotes much of her time to community affairs, including the Advisory Council for the Shidler College of Business, Ahahui Koa Anuenue Executive Committee, and Kennedy Center-U.S. President's Committee on the Arts. She has served as an Iolani Palace docentfor over 30 years.
About the Shidler College of Business at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Established in 1949 as the College of Business Administration, the College was named in 2006 after alumnus Jay H. Shidler, founder and managing partner of The Shidler Group. The Shidler College of Business is renowned for its expertise in international management education and is consistently rankedamong the nation's top 25 graduate schools for international business by U.S. News & World Report. Long recognized for its Asia-Pacific focus, the College is a professional school, offering a wide variety of degree, certificate and executive programs. The College places a strong emphasis on the development of management skills, entrepreneurship and the management of business information technology. The UH Shidler College of Business is the only graduate program in the State of Hawaiʻi accredited by AACSB International. For more information, visit www.shidler.hawaii.edu.
About the University of Hawaiʻi Foundation
The University of Hawaiʻi Foundation is an independent, university-related, nonprofit organization whose purpose is to raise private funds according to priorities determined by the academic leadership of the University of Hawaiʻi and approved by the Board of Regents. Founded in 1955, the Foundation providesa full range of fund raising and alumni relations services for all 10 UH campuses. For more information on the Foundation, visit www.uhf.hawaii.edu.
For more information, visit: http://www.shidler.hawaii.edu


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Hours after simpleton Middleton and doubly-crowned Prince William wed today, a horse named Royal Wedding won the 5.30 steeplechase at Fontwell, Sussex by three lengths. If this was fixed, it was at a great cost: bookies are predicting a multi-million pound payout, because everyone the world over believes in the power of love and Royal Weddings, even when it is an arbitrary name for a horse.
"Madame Fate has given us one hell of a kick in the crown jewels," said David Williams from Ladbrokes. "Royal Wedding backers are over the moon."
I love love and weddings, too. But I'm really glad there are only about three hours left in London today.
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To mitigate or not mitigate?
That might have been a question one could've asked prior to this summer's Weber Fire, which started June 22 and burned until July 1.
But for residents who toured the East Canyon on Saturday, the question had likely already been answered.
Montezuma County's Firewise Coordinator Rebecca Samulski facilitated the tour, which included 19 people. She received quite a bit of help from East Canyon homeowner Philip Walters. The East Canyon area is located near the top of Mancos Hill.
Walters, who serves as a Firewise ambassador for his neighborhood, narrated the tour.
Several stops were planned in the Elk Stream and Elk Spring subdivisions where attendees could see the effect of fire mitigation around homes.
Walters stressed that one shouldn't just protect the home, but expand the mitigation area to protect trees around the home too.
Protecting one's home by removing brush, trees and other incendiary material located close to the home is good. However, by removing brush from underneath trees farther out and doing some tree thinning, the remaining trees can likely be saved during a fire, Samulski said. Firefighters can start any necessary backburns outside of the extended mitigation area, she noted.
No homes were lost during the Weber Fire, but quite a bit of the vegetation was burned in both the East and West canyons, including piñon juniper, gambel oak and ponderosa pine. The cost of the Weber Fire was estimated at more than $3.2 million.
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That's a wrap. ICYMI, here are the highlights from Tuesday's State of the Union
Thanks so much for joining us tonight for our coverage of President Donald Trump's first State of the Union address.
If you're just catching up to it this morning, here's what you missed…
- In his speech, Trump shared a vision for a "new American moment" that featured a subdued tone but highlighted several of his more polarizing policy plans.
- Throughout his approximately 80-minute address — the third-longest State of the Union — Trump boasted about the tax cuts he enacted at the close of last year and pointed what's next on his agenda. (You can read his full prepared remarks here.)
- But Trump didn't get everything right, our fact-checker found, and critical points he made regarding immigration, the economy, and even his own tax cuts were not correct. And while Republicans praised the speech, the anti-Trump Twitterverse exploded with criticism, especially after viewers noticed that the president was repeatedly clapping for himself.
- Afterward, in the official Democratic rebuttal, Joe Kennedy III, D-Mass., accused Trump of dividing the country, exclaiming that while, "Bullies may land a punch … they have never, not once, in the history of our United States, managed to match the strength and spirit of a people united in defense of their future."
- Trump was overheard guaranteeing a GOP congressman that he would release a classified memo believed to show the FBI abused its surveillance program, despite the White House saying earlier no decision had been made. So, stay tuned.


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Commonly, apologists for evolution put up a bold front and try to deny that the tree of evolution is full of holes (or, more accurately, is mostly holes with just twigs at the end). It is therefore instructive whenever an article appears that is written by evolutionists who candidly acknowledged the major discontinuities in (alleged) evolutionary sequences.
The panda's 'odd' forelimb arrangement has an enlarged wristbone 'digit' commonly called the panda's 'thumb'.
A century ago, Lord Kelvin calculated an upper limit for the age of the Earth.
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"The team of inspectors
coming from the Commission, the ECB and the IMF ... will get a taste of
the dynamic reaction of the Greek workers to the huge pressures from
Brussels," centre-left Eleftherotypia
newspaper wrote in an editorial.
Under the scrutiny of EU
policymakers and markets, the government has so far refused to give in
to protesters' demands.
Minister George Papaconstantinou
said on Tuesday the cabinet may decide
on more measures to cut the deficit after talks with the visiting EU
first joint walkout by the two major labor federations was the biggest
test to the government's resolve since it won October elections.
... Government officials said only about 16 percent of public sector
walked off the job, but public sector union ADEDY put participation at
90 percent.
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Of course, if any one knows to be wary of the MSM slant, it is me. So
let's travel around the world to get various perspectives.
From Al Jazeera , the last entity to take a Anglocentric/Eurocentirc slant on things:
Government officials said only about 16 percent of public sector
walked off the job, but public sector union ADEDY put participation at
90 percent...
European unrest
The action comes as fears over wages and job security grows among
European workers, sparking protests in a number of other countries in
the past week.
In France on Wednesday air traffic controllers continued to strike
after action began on Tuesday, causing massive delays and cancellations
at Paris' two main airports.
The action was called to protest planned reforms that workers fear
will lead to losses of jobs and civil servant benefits.
It came as Lufthansa pilots ended a strike in Germany and British
Airways cabin crews voted to launch one of their own.
Spanish workers unhappy about plans to raise the retirement age
marched on Tuesday but the main protest in Madrid seemed relatively
small, in a sign that the country's unions may be weakening.
Portugal's second largest union warned on Monday it would call more
strikes if the government extended a public sector wage freeze beyond
this year.
Transportation labour unions in the Czech Republic decided on Tuesday
to also hold a strike in the capital Prague next Monday in protest
against a new value-added tax on their workers' benefits.
The walkouts are the latest signs of a broader unease about jobs and
benefits, and what the future holds for a continent struggling to stay
competitive on a global scale.
Look at what's happening in Spain:
Spanish trade unions plan
massive strikes | Spanish News
Trade unions in Spain have announced plans to protest against Spanish
Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez
Zapatero's failed attempts to save the dwindling Spanish economy that
has led to one in five Spaniards being out of a job.
The economy remains in recession after almost two years and with
unemployment at 4 million and over one million Spanish households with
no bread-winners, the future for Spain looks grim.
Protests are planned for Madrid, Barcelona and Valencia. The strikes
were sparked as a result of Zapatero's proposal to increase the
retirement age from 65 to 67, which Spaniards see as an unfair shifted
responsability for the
country's financial woes onto the aging and
working people.
"They are making a grave error. Raising the retirement age goes
against workers' rights," said Mr Mendez, leader of the General
Union (UGT).
Many forecasts predict that the economy in Spain will continue to
shrink and unemployment could rise to 22 per cent. The rising budget
deficit in Spain has recently prompted bond markets to worry about a
similar crisis as the one currently unfodling in Greec
The Italian perspective on Spain from Circolo Luce Del Sud:
Tens of thousands protest across Spain at Zapatero's pension
Graham Keeley — –
Tens of thousands of protesters took to the streets across Spain last
night in the biggest test of the country's Socialist Government, which
is under pressure.
With a general strike threatened in the summer, the two biggest
Spanish unions staged protests in Madrid, Barcelona, Valencia and
The Union General de Trabajadores (UGT) and the Confederación
Sindical de Comisiones Obreras (CCOO), are planning to
stage 57 protests
in other parts of the country until next week.
Unions are angry about the Government's proposed pensions reforms
which would extend the legal retirement age from 65 to 67. José Luis
Rodríguez Zapatero, the Spanish Prime
Minister who recently came under
pressure from financial markets to introduce measures to bring the
country out of recession, now finds himself threatened by his political
allies in the unions.
The protests are the first time that Mr Zapatero has faced street
unrest since he came to power in 2004. Leading members of the Prime
Minister's party took part in the protests, a sign that his popularity
is dwindling.
Union anger has been mounting because Mr Zapatero changed tack in an
effort to convince financial markets that his Socialist Government was
serious in its efforts to recover from the worst recession in decades.
Spain's rising debt has led to concerns that it could follow in the
footsteps of Greece, whose budget crisis prompted the European Union to
place it under scrutiny.
Don't underestimate the extent of the Spanish strikes. There are a LOT
of people involved. I've never seen a US strike of this magnitude...
Hey, the French AND the Germans are striking due to the ramifications of
a "united" Euroland:
PARIS, France - Disgruntled would-be passengers complained about
hundreds of cancelled flights and long airport waits as air traffic
controllers began a four-day strike across France on Tuesday.
France's civil aviation agency ordered airlines to cut back half of the
flights in and out of Paris' Orly airport and one in four at Charles de
Gaulle amid staffing
shortages caused by the walkout.
Five unions representing the controllers called the strike to protest
plans to integrate European air traffic control, which workers fear
lead to losses of jobs and civil servant benefits.
Fears about future job prospects prompted another strike across the
border in Germany this week that disrupted cross-border air traffic.
Thousands of pilots at Lufthansa returned to work Tuesday after
suspending a strike over concerns that cheaper crews from the German
carrier's smaller airlines in other countries could eventually replace
Lufthansa warned, however, that the normal flight schedule wasn't
to resume until Friday. Pilots and management agreed to suspend the
strike until March 9 and resume talks.
French union leaders hope the strike in France - coinciding with a
seasonal school holiday - will pressure President Nicolas Sarkozy's
governing conservatives before next month's regional elections.
And in Portgual, Portugal Strike
Poses Threat - WSJ.com
LISBON -- Unions representing Portugal's public-sector workers are
preparing a national strike to challenge a wage freeze that is key to
government efforts to cut a towering budget deficit. But will the unions
The March 4 strike highlights political challenges faced by the
government of Socialist Prime Minister Jose Socrates. In seeking to
close a budget gap worth 9.3% of gross domestic product in 2009 - more
than three times the European Union's 3% limit – the government is
running headlong into union culture.
Europe's weaker financial are groaning under the weight of
their vast budget deficits. Greece admitted late last year that its
deficit was four times larger than previously thought. Spain and Ireland
also face financing problems.
This year's labor action comes after an earlier effort in 2005 and
2006, including wage freezes and pension reforms, also generated a
strong backlash from unions. But that action had little effect on the
government, which was able to force through its program because it held a
majority in parliament until last year.
This time, the government appears to be moving slowly, even though
has the tacit support of the opposition.
The March 4 national strike was called
by Frente Comum, a coalition
of unions that together represents about 350,000 of Portugal's roughly
500,000 public-sector workers, out of a total population of 10.6
"We're losing purchasing power. We're
losing our labor rights," said
Ana Avoila, Frente Comum's leader, adding that
government workers have
seen their purchasing power eroded by nearly 8% in the past decade. The
union is calling for a wage hike of 4.5% this year.
Under the budget plan presented on Jan.
26, government workers,
including teachers and healthcare
professionals, will have their
salaries frozen. The wage freeze is one of several measures to reduce
the deficit in 2010, including lower subsidies for purchasing new cars
and changes to pension rules to penalize early retirement among
public-sector employees. A new tax on executive bonuses in the financial
sector was one of the few changes to boost revenue.
Before the 2010 plan was presented,
debt-ratings agencies had been
calling for a big reduction this year in order to meet the EU's demand
that the spending gap be under the 3% limit by 2013. Instead, the
proposed budget contained a reduction of only 1 percentage point this
year and investors responded with a sharp sell-off of Portuguese
government bonds.
As I have stated in my previous posts,
social unrest will either weaken governments or cause some governments
to appear weak. If they don't forcefully respond the markets will
consider them incapable of enacting the "recommended" budget cuts. If
they do act forcefully, social and civil unrest becomes amplified. There
is a very, very slim chance of the Eurozone
getting out of this both intact and unscathed. My next post on the
topic will trace the correlations and inter-connectedness of the various
sovereigns throughout the whole world, and predict who is the most
vulnerable and who is subject to the most damage when (not if) the first
domino falls.
For more on the Pan-European Sovereign Debt Crisis series, see:
- Can
China Control the "Side-Effects" of its Stimulus-Led Growth? Let's Look
at the Facts - Explains the potential fallout of the excessive
fiscal stimulus in China. While not European, it is quite likely to kick
off the daisy chain effect.
- The
Coming Pan-European Sovereign Debt Crisis - introduces the crisis
and identified it as a pan-European problem, not a localized one.
- What
Country is Next in the Coming Pan-European Sovereign Debt Crisis? -
illustrates the potential for the domino effect
- The
Pan-European Sovereign Debt Crisis: If I Were to Short Any Country,
What Country Would That Be.. - attempts to illustrate the highly
interdependent weaknesses in Europe's sovereign nations can effect even
the perceived "stronger" nations.
- The Coming
Pan-European Soverign Debt
Crisis, Pt 4: The Spread to Western European
Depression is Already Here for Some Members of Europe, and It Just
Might Be Contagious!
Beginning of the Endgame is Coming???


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