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Yes HE's in the news again.
No, not because of stupid Jimmy Kimmel show and hiscancelling an appearance because of "Duck Dynasty"
But rather because of this teriffic interview
A few choice bits:
If more men were homosexual, there would be no wars, because homosexual men would never kill other men, whereas heterosexual men love killing other men. They even get medals for it. Women don't go to war to kill other women. Wars and armies and nuclear weapons are essentially heterosexual hobbies
Well maybe. But that doesn't explain Sparta. Still. . .
The arts have diminished, because we are now living through a time when we are encouraged not to think. No one making music wants to waste time struggling with art. A group like the Sex Pistols would never again be allowed to slip through, and there is no such thing in 2013 as a popular artist who sets their own terms for success. Whether it be Beyoncé or Justin Bieber, we see singers who have absolutely nothing to offer anyone as they walk offstage clutching three Grammys in each hand.
Exchange Mahler and Mozart for The Sex Pistols and I'm with ya Moz.
Everyone is, in fact, alone. Being contractually tied to another person—in marriage, for example—accentuates the loneliness, because you have effectively allowed the state to determine your obligations to someone, as if you can't trust and manage your own feelings by yourself.
Quite true. Marriage is the surrender of the status quo to the fact of same-sexuality by making it as one with the status quo. This is why Patient Less Than Zero (seen here with hubster in tow)
was so hot for it, and constantly declaring its arrival would signal the end of the gay rights movement — which he has always loathed with every fiber of his pathetic being.
Elsewhere in the real world,
Bill Reed and I have been together for 41 years. What we have is not a marriage. It's better than that. It's a lot like Eugene and Howard
(That's Howard behind Eugene in the above)
It's something else. Something "other." Which to me has always been the entire point of gayness, and why marriage (as I have recently pointed out) , is such a dubious proposition
Moz isn't "Marriage material." He's too utterly singular (and therefore free) for something like that.
Derek Jarman first explored Mozness here–
But leave us not forget William E. Jones
and his superb film about Latino Moz cultists Is It Really So Strange?
And keep in mind there's a new book just out about about The Smiths
Their light will never go out
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Editor's note: Donna Brazile, a CNN contributor and a Democratic strategist, is vice chairwoman for voter registration and participation at the Democratic National Committee. She is a nationally syndicated columnist, an adjunct professor at Georgetown University and author of "Cooking With Grease: Stirring the Pots in America." She was manager for the Gore-Lieberman presidential campaign in 2000. The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of the author.
(CNN) -- CNN on Thursday continues its series "The Sixties," which explores the decade of historically significant social movements, people and events. The new episode -- "A Long March to Freedom" -- focuses on the Freedom Summer of 1964 for a very notable reason.
This week marks the 50th anniversary of Freedom Summer -- the tumultuous period in our history when three young workers were kidnapped and murdered in Mississippi while attempting to register people to vote. James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner shall never be forgotten.
The three youths were civil rights workers in Mississippi who had taken their summer to help eligible citizens to register to vote, a right that state and so many others down South had denied for more than one hundred years.
As the men drove through Philadelphia, Mississippi, they got a flat tire. The town's deputy sheriff put on his patrol car's red light and pulled them over. He called for two highway patrolmen. Forty-four days later, the FBI found their bodies in an earthen dam.
Goodman and Schwerner, white students from the North, were shot through the chest. Chaney, an African-American student from Mississippi, was beaten to death. Though 18 men were indicted on federal conspiracy charges and were likely present at the killings, seven were convicted. The longest sentence served was just six years.
Those three men knew the risks they were taking, one reason why they were making haste through Mississippi's countryside and small towns. They had no desire to be martyrs. Yet, they were killed by racists who sought to stop their campaign to secure each Mississippian the right to vote.
It was their deaths, along with hundreds of actions by courageous civil rights workers during the Freedom Summer of 1964, that mobilized the Congress to end the filibuster and approve the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and gave much needed momentum to pass the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
Many of those Freedom Fighters are gone, and others are too old to still organize and mobilize citizens to vote. However, they all serve as reminders that in our long march for freedom, justice and equality for all, we will never end our pursuit to secure a more perfect union.
One of the people the youth recruited into local leadership in 1964 was Fannie Lou Hamer, then 44. "They treated us like we were special and we loved 'em," she said. "We trusted 'em." She became a lifelong civil rights worker.
Hamer understood that we must make government our business, and our business justice.
The right to vote, the right to an education, the right to "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness," the right to opportunity, go hand-in-hand, one to the other. Economic liberty and social justice and civil rights -- we cannot have one without the others.
If it weren't for Freedom Summer, I wouldn't be here. If it weren't for events like Freedom Summer and for the thousands of people who participated in that and so many other events, I wouldn't be here.
Throughout my years in politics and public service, I have carried with me one of the sayings of Fannie Lou Hamer. She said, "Nobody's free until everybody's free." That's true, no matter what kind of freedom we're talking about.
We have a long way to go.
The reactionary forces never give up, never cease, and neither can we. President Barack Obama campaigned with a message of hope to all: "Yes, we can!" He didn't say, "It will be a walk in the park."
Mississippi today has come a long way. But, it still ranks near the bottom of the 50 states in poverty, unemployment, median household income and health care. There's work to do.
We have to win back legislation to enforce not just civil rights, but also strengthen and protect the rights of all Americans to vote. Sadly, that right is under constant attack or simply being undermined by some lawmakers who insist there is widespread evidence of voter fraud when the evidence clearly shows that it's not true.
Truly, we have come far in 50 years. No one disputes this fact. But now is the time to create a new Freedom Summer, but a very different one than what we experienced 50 years ago.
This summer, we have an opportunity, if we have the courage, to struggle together — together, regardless of differences, to create a summer of economic freedom, and a new birth of secured voting rights.
But it's time we try to simply power forward together.
What is "power forward?" It's the term for a basketball position I played during high school.
Power Forward means welcoming obstacles as opportunities.
Power Forward means taking risks, accepting responsibility and sharing the profits and prestige.
Power Forward means being conscientious, courageous and confident.
Power Forward means being independent and interdependent. It means networking, sharing -- you can't do it on your own.
It means following your own path but not ignoring the advice of those that have 'been there, done that.'
It means being true to your vision and enabling the vision of others.
Power Forward means staying ethical, doing it right and legally and honestly, especially when it's easy not to, when it seems no one else is.
Power Forward means being humble and ambitious. Power forward means moving the ball farther down the court in our pursuit of equal justice under the law.
Together we can commemorate a great milestone and power forward to a better and brighter future for all Americans.
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With Japan's economy still suffering from woes ranging from deflation to lack of growth, Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda has announced that he will dissolve the Diet, Japan's parliament, on Friday. The move will necessitate an election that has been set for Dec. 16.
Bloomberg reported Thursday that the Democratic Party of Japan, which has been in power for only three years after unseating the Liberal Democratic Party–a group that has ruled for about 50 years–looks set to suffer a crushing defeat in the election. Originally due in August, the elections were moved ahead after LDP leader Shinzo Abe agreed to end a standoff over budget financing and to lend his support to a plan to cut the number of Diet seats.
When Noda's party came to power, it had promised to attack everything from deflation to social spending to a stagnating economy. However, it has failed to deliver on those promises, with three prime ministers in three years, and has seen its approval rating plunge to below 20%.
"The likely result is a bloodbath for the DPJ," said Jeff Kingston in the report. Kingston, professor of Japanese politics at Temple University's Tokyo campus, continued, "The economy is definitely the major issue facing Japan and because a lot of those economic and fiscal problems are intractable, that creates a temptation for leaders to dabble in other issues that aren't so difficult."
The upcoming Japanese election will mean that three of Asia's four largest economies–Japan, China and South Korea–will have new leaders in 2013. South Korea will elect its new president on Dec. 19, and the winner will take office in February. And China officially replaced Hu Jintao as head of the Chinese Communist Party on Thursday, with his successor Xi Jinping set to become president in March.
A new government in Japan will affect not only the country's stand on world affairs–Abe, who could succeed Noda, takes a harder line on Japan's relations with China–but also the policies of its central bank, with the Bank of Japan's leadership set to change in March and April.
If the LDP is victorious, Abe "will then aim for higher inflation and increase pressure for the BOJ to ease further," said Masafumi Yamamoto in the report. Yamamoto, chief foreign exchange strategist in Tokyo at Barclays, added, "That speculation has triggered a sell-off in the yen."


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With the cost of providing health care to the county's poor and uninsured rising and a fund set up to cover those expenses running out, county leaders are considering a plan intended to provide quality care for those who cannot afford it and keep people out of emergency rooms.
The plan calls for a one-half percentage point increase in the sales tax to pay for a variety of health care services, ranging from primary care to addiction treatment. The tax increase must be approved by voters, and county commissioners today are expected to agree to put such a referendum on a June ballot.
Supporters of the tax increase say it is a crucial part of a larger plan to cut property taxes while also funding health care for the county's needy.
The tax would cover health care costs for a county that has relied on property taxes and diminishing funds generated from the 1984 sale of the then-public Manatee Memorial Hospital to cover $23 million of annual expenses.
Commissioners voted 5-2 in late February to consider the referendum, which County Administrator Ed Hunzeker said is an effort to shift health care costs away from county property owners and address a potential shortfall when hospital sale funds dry up in 2015.
"It's a unique opportunity to set the direction for who pays for this government for the next 20 years," Hunzeker said. "Everybody pays a little, including the people who are the recipients of the health care."
The plan, developed by the Manatee County Health Care Alliance, would prevent expensive emergency room visits by helping local medical services provide preventative and follow-up care for those without health care coverage.
Formed in the wake of a 2008 county health care survey, the Manatee Health Care Alliance was tasked with finding innovative and cost-effective ways to relieve overburdened emergency rooms and emphasize primary and mental health care.
The sales tax, which applies to all items under $5,000, will only support those deemed medically poor and indigent by the county.
The measure also is key to a three-part plan to reduce property taxes, a move Hunzeker said would make Manatee County more competitive for those that want to start businesses in the area.
If all three components come together, then a person owning $150,000 of taxable property in one of Manatee County's cities would see a property tax reduction of $245, county spokesman Nick Azzara said.
Those living in unincorporated areas would save $135.
'A perfect storm'
The plan also involves shifting patrol costs from the Sheriff's Office, which mostly responds to unincorporated areas, away from city residents and instituting franchise and storm-water fees.
Bringing the sales tax to voters has not had unanimous support.
Commissioners Vanessa Baugh and Betsy Benac voted against the referendum last month.
Baugh said she had yet to see a plan that clearly outlined how money would be used.
Benac questioned the decision to implement the sales tax before components of President Barack Obama's Affordable Care Act are implemented in 2014.
"It's somewhat of a perfect storm because we have this unknown with Obamacare," Benac said at a February meeting. "We don't know how that's going to impact us. I like the idea of local control and getting things done, but we have a huge federal issue that we are going to be dealing with."
Others said the uncertainty of federal plans is exactly why the county should move to make their own.
The county takes $9 million annually from the hospital sale fund, which is certain to run dry by 2015.
"We've been hearing that this is a rush job, especially in light of the federal health care act that is coming up," Azzara said. "But we know we have a $9 million hole coming up in 2015. To not address that is irresponsible."
Hunzeker said it is likely the government will not follow through on funding promises or state officials will refuse to implement certain measures of the Affordable Care Act, such as expanding Medicaid.
"We are looking at property tax relief," Hunzeker said. "Let's shift the payers and if the federal government comes along and takes care of some of the cost, then we will reduce the sales tax."
If the sales tax referendum is approved today, commissioners will consider adding another referendum -- tax breaks for new and expanding businesses -- to the June special election ballot.
Sales tax proposed to finance health care
With the cost of providing health care to the county's poor and uninsured rising and a fund set up to cover those expenses running out, county leaders are considering a plan intended to provide quality care for those who cannot afford it and keep people out of emergency rooms.


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The Cloud and Distributed Systems Lab (CLOUDLAB) merges a multidisciplinar team which tackles key research lines of distributed systems. We have experience in scalable systems (cloud computing, serverless architectures, distributed storage, peer-to-peer) and web-based infrastructures. In this field the group is very active and has participated in european and national research projects.
The Cloud and Distributed Systems Lab (CLOUDLAB) concentrates on the modeling, the design, the implementation, and the analysis of parallel and distributed systems and algorithms (P2P, Cloud, MANETs, etc.). Our research includes building prototypes of systems to demonstrate the quality of the proposed solutions.
The URV (Tarragona, Spain) was created in 1991 by the Parliament of Catalonia from the already existing university faculties and schools. From the very first day its aim has been to place knowledge at the service of society so as to contribute to the social and economic development of its environment, which has gradually transformed over time.
The main objective of the H2020 CloudButton project is to create a serverless data analytics platform.
The main objective is to create IOStack: a Software-defined Storage toolkit for Big Data on top of the OpenStack platform.
Gil Vernik (IBM Research Haifa) and our PhD student Josep Sampé adapted PyWren both to run over IBM Cloud Functions and use IBM Cloud Object Storage. This allows to process large data sets at massive scale with PyWren over IBM Cloud Functions. Check out their blog post in IBM Cloud Blog.
We are very proud to announce that StackSync has received a couple of awards from the local institutions.
First, we were awarded with the third prize at the X Premis ReusEmpresa, with the goal of rewarding the top three business ideas from entrepreneurs in the province of Tarragona and encourage them to create a company in 2013. For more information about these awards, please, click here.
We also received a recognition prize at the first edition of the Premis Emprèn offered by the Diputació de Tarragona in the category Emprèn i Sorpren, focused with innovative business projects, which offer a ideas from different points of view that the existing, being creative, resourceful and pioneer in the region. For more information about these awards, please, click here.
And more recently, we were notified that we were awarded with the R2B - Valorització del coneixement 2013. These awards are focused on helping research groups from the Universitat Rovira i Virgili to achieve concrete and specific actions that would boost commercialization and knowledge and technology transference. For more information about these awards, please, click here.
The AST group participates in a European research network that recently received funding from the European commission. It is I2CT COST Action IC 1404 entitled "Multi-paradigm Modelling for Cyber-Physical Systems".
We are happy to announce that Stacksync has finally has reached its Beta phase!
We have created a website for users willing to try StackSync for free. At this moment, we have desktop clients for Windows 7 and Linux, as well as a mobile client for Android. We are working hard to release clients for the rest of operating systems.
We would be very proud if you decided to give it a try and let us know your experience.
We had a great opportunity to assit to the OpenStack Summit 2014 for presenting StackSync to the community. Here you can watch the presentation :)
We are happy to announce that we provide a freely available dataset to the research community. The dataset consists of an active measurement of three major Personal Clouds (Box, DropBox and SugarSync) during more than two months. All the measurement details as well as the files can be found at: http://ast-deim.urv.cat/trac/pc_measurement/. You may also find interesting the analysis entitled "Actively Measuring Personal Cloud Storage" published at IEEE Cloud'13. Enjoy!! :)
We are happy to announce that the Architecture and Telematric Services Research group has obtained a new research project from the Spanish Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación. The project is entitled "Servicios Cloud y Redes Comunitarias" (Cloud Services and Community Networks) with identifier TIN2013-47245-C2-2-R.
The FP7 CloudSpaces project has recently received the attention of regional newspapers and TV stations. The last week Pedro García granted a couple of interviews that we will publish here as soon as possible.
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Bill Gross is making some moves. After tweeting Tuesday that the U.S. was "getting closer" to QE3, Gross, who runs the world's biggest bond fund, cut his holdings of emerging-market debt to a two-year low. He based the sales on areas in which the International Monetary Fund says growth will slow.
Bloomberg reports Gross reduced the securities to 7% of assets in that fund, PIMCO's Total Return Fund, in April from 10% in March, citing the Newport Beach, Calif.-based company's website. He trimmed investment-grade bonds to 13% from 14%. Treasuries were 31% of holdings, versus 32% in March.
The news service cited an April IMF forecast that growth in emerging economies will slow to 5.7% in 2012 from 6.2% in 2011. "Tumbling Treasury yields have led investors to look for more attractive rates, spurring a 9% gain this year for a Bank of America Merrill Lynch index of emerging-market sovereign and company bonds," the report said, adding that Gross said the economy needed more Federal Reserve stimulus for the rally in "risk" assets to continue.
"Risk markets need more ammo if they are to stay up," Gross said Tuesday on Twitter.
Treasuries have returned 0.6% this year, according to Bank of America Merrill Lynch data.
Gross kept mortgage securities as his biggest holding at 53% of assets, according to the report posted Wednesday on the PIMCO website. The Fed will probably shift its focus to mortgage securities in its next round of purchases to keep borrowing rates low, Gross said in March.
Bloomberg reports that Gross increased the $258.7 billion Total Return Fund's net cash-and-equivalent position to negative 18% from negative 23%. The fund can have a so-called negative position by using derivatives, futures or by shorting.
The Total Return Fund (PTTRX) has handed a 4.9% gain to investors this year, beating 99% of its peers, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. It is up 6.1% over the past 12 months, better than 66% of its competitors.


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Why Is It So Hard to Sell Stocks?
Since hitting a recession-driven low in March 2009, the Dow has doubled in value. But many ordinary investors remain too fearful to join in the gains. Jonathan Cheng reports on Markets Hub. Photo: AP.
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Raders of the Lost Ark is coming to IMAX. You know what? I'll take it.
For starters, at least it's not a South Park doomsday scenario where Lucas has decided to add a bunch of CGI bullcrap to the film. It'll just be higher-res, and I bet that boulder will look great on a huge screen.
This was one of my very favorite movies growing up, for a ton of reasons—it was scary but never too scary (except for the face-melting part at the end, of course). It was violent and exciting and thrilling but I could track what was going on, even when I was young. Man, check out that trailer up top.
Trailers. Trailers have changed.
Was Raiders your favorite Indiana Jones movie? Did you, like me, opt to just never watch the new one, and indeed to pretend it doesn't exist? Don't you with they'd make a good Uncharted-like Indy game? Or is Fate of Atlantis enough for you? (It may be for me.)
Feel free to get your Indy fever on, or talk about anything else, here or over in the Talk Amongst Yourselves forum. Have good discussions, and always remember to hang on to your hat.


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Mississauga Thyroid Workshop (Hypothyroidism and Hashimoto's)
The Living Proof Institute
Saturday, 1 March 2014 from 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM (EST)
Event Details
This event is an incredible 3 hour information session for those suffering from Hypothyroidism and Hashimoto's Thyroiditis. We will be presenting the latest evidence based information in simple and highly actionable way. Leave with lots of great information and tips on how to improve your current approach.
The information presented will be life changing and empowering. You will be given an immediate action plan to regain your health and vitality. You can use this approach to complement your medication or to help you uncover some of the underlying mechanisms that are causing your thyroid problems.
We will be covering topics such as:
1. How lifestyle affects thyroid function and hormone metabolism.
2. What nutrients the thyroid needs to work properly.
3. How digestion impacts the thyroid and how to correct it.
4. How stress impacts the thyroid and what you can do about it.
5. The best type of exercise for thyroid patients.
6. Thyroid based shopping list, meal plan, and recipes.
7. Much, much, more information.
Information will be presented by
Dr Sachin Patel, B.Kin, DC, CFMP
Founder of Thyroid Bootcamp, Functional Medicine Provider, Author and Speaker
When & Where
Living Proof Institute
77 City Centre Dr
Suite 501 (Intelligent Office)
Saturday, 1 March 2014 from 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM (EST)
Add to my calendar


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DWTS 15 All-Stars: The Great "Previous Dance Experience" Debate – Kelly Monaco Edition
Ok, so for a NORMAL season, this is the time where I'd usually cull videos from YouTube that show our new crop of celebrities doing dance-related things in their past that may or may not help their performance on DWTS, and then Heidi, Vogue, & I would point & laugh and generally have a grand ol' time offering our commentary 🙂 But obviously, this season is not following that pattern – there's not much point in looking at videos of Kirstie dancing around in the kitchen scene of Look Who's Talking or Drew Lachey gyrating onstage with 98 Degrees when we already have footage of them dancing on DWTS…so why not take a look at some of their best & worst performances from their original seasons, and see how they stack up? In addition, I'll try to add videos of any dancing the celebs have done SINCE their season, that may or may not help them this time around.
Today we'll start with the ladies, and we'll start at the very beginning: season 1, which Kelly Monaco won. For her best dance, I picked her freestyle:
And for her worst, I chose the waltz:
Ok, first thing that jumps out at me here: the bar has definitely been raised quite a bit since season 1 – the level of the dancing is much higher now than it was in Kelly's season, which could pose some big problems for her. I'm always a bit reluctant to pick someone's freestyle as their "best dance" (because I think freestyles are usually pretty universally-pleasing, since the couples can do whatever they want), but in this case, I feel like it actually had quite a bit of ballroom content and thus was more on-par with what she was capable of in a regular dance. With that being said – it's still a pretty weak freestyle, when you look at the freestyles we've seen since season 1. Kelly's getting off-time, missing steps, and generally looking pretty wobbly on her feet – it may have gotten a 30 back in season 1, but I'd be surprised if it would have gotten anything more than a 23 in a more current season…and I think she'd be lucky to even break into the 20's during the all-star season, if it's going to be as competitive as I think it is. As for her waltz – it was during the first week of the first season, so there was undoubtedly some major nerves at work and I think she just ended up very stiff & scared. And did I just see some pretty blatant lifts in there??? I don't necessarily think it was bad…it just wasn't very interesting to watch. But there isn't going to be any room for nerves on this season, so Kelly's going to have to overcome those pretty quickly if she wants to stick around.
So has Kelly been doing any dancing since season 1 wrapped that might help her this time around? Well…yes and no. She did a brief stint in the burlesque revue Peepshow in Vegas back in '09, along with Mel B (WARNING: It's slightly racy…avert your eyes if you're offended by pole dancing, lingerie, and gyrations):
Ok, so it looks like Kelly didn't do a TON of real dancing in Peepshow…seems like just a lot of gyrating suggestively and being a sexpot. So while it might not necessarily help her with her actual dancing, I do think it might help her stage presence in that it will help her evoke a more confident, sexy, smoldering character for dances like the rumba & Argentine tango.
Court's verdict: All things considered, I think Kelly's unfortunately one of the weaker contestants this season, and has got a lot of hard work ahead of her if she expects to stick around – the fact that there are several non-winners (Joey, Kirstie, Melissa, even Pam) on this season that are quite a bit better than Kelly in terms of dance skill tells me she's got some tough competition. However, she's also still young and in good shape, which could give her an edge over some of the older contestants.
What do you guys think? Does Kelly have the juice to go all the way, or will she flame out early?


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(Pocket-lint) - Hot on the heals of its special Union Jack edition, Pure has further expanded its Evoke Mio DAB and FM radio range by introducing six new colour schemes. Already available in noir (black), teal, grape and cherry, the quality device will also soon be come in pepper, mustard, paprika, sage, rose and seagrass too.
Subtle and elegant, the colours have been chosen because they are "on-trend". Designers have already complimented the company for its choices. And Pocket-lint was particularly fond of the mustard version, which sported a biege/yellow front and back, when we got up close to it in a gorgeous coffee shop just off London's trendy Carnaby Street.
In terms of the technology inside, these new editions are identical to the others we've reviewed in the past. They will tune into and play all digital and FM radio stations, feature an auxilarary input for an MP3 player, iPod, iPhone or the like, and have a an alarm and kitchen timer mode.
The display is an auto-dimming OLED panel, and the radio can be programmed with up to 30 presets.
Out of the box, the Pure Evoke Mio comes with a power pack, plug and cable, but an optional ChargePAK is available for an extra £34.99.
Each of the new collection will be available from June for £129.99 a pop.
What do you think of the new colours? Let us know in the comments below...


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The Byrdcliffe Arts and Crafts Colony
In 1901 Ralph Radcliffe Whitehead purchased about 1,000 acres of land near Woodstock, New York, in order to establish an artists colony. He named it "Byrdcliffe," combining his wife's middle name with a portion of his own middle name. During the winter of 1902, Whitehead initiated the construction of buildings, including housing for residents and studios and workshops for their use. One year later, Byrdcliffe had facilities for metal- and woodworking, a pottery, an art studio, a dairy, and a library. There were also dwellings; Whitehead called his place, the main house, "White Pines."
Whitehead grew up in Saddleworth, Yorkshire, England. His father owned a financially rewarding business that manufactured felt used in pianos. It still exists today, though not as a Whitehead family enterprise. Young Ralph received his early education at Harrow. He then attended Balliol College, Oxford, where he studied under John Ruskin, acknowledged to be "the philosophical fountainhead of the arts and crafts movement." Whitehead finished his education at Oxford in 1880 with a master of arts degree.
In 1892 Whitehead married Jane Byrd McCall of Philadelphia. They had met some years earlier in Europe. As a socialite in Europe, Jane had taken instruction in drawing from Ruskin, studied art at the Académie Julian in Paris, and was presented to Queen Victoria in 1886. By the time Byrdcliffe had been established, the Whiteheads had two children, Ralph Jr. and Peter.
Individuals of note synonymous with the arts and crafts movement peopled Byrdcliffe during its early years, and they produced furniture, pottery, textiles, paintings, and artistic photographs. By choice, cabinetmaking was the predominant craft. In 1904, the busiest year for furniture production, about 50 pieces were made, including tables, chairs, lamp stands, shelves and bookcases, sideboards, and chiffonniers. Craftspeople mostly used local poplar and oak; a few pieces were of cherry or mahogany. Observers have remarked about the simplicity of Byrdcliffe furniture and its lack of refined proportions.
Ultimately, Byrdcliffe failed as a community of artists. Whitehead experienced difficulty relating to his residents, and after a time they left, never to return to the colony. In addition, it was hard to transport the furniture produced there to markets in New York. As time passed, Byrdcliffe simply became a place for the Whiteheads to raise their two children and to entertain family and friends. In 1917 Jane wrote to her son Ralph Jr., "now let us realize that it has had its day--its raison d'etre has passed by." Even so, because Byrdcliffe had acted as a magnet for arts and crafts practitioners, Woodstock, New York, lost its identity as a rural farming village and became a haven for other communities of artists.
Byrdcliffe has remained in family hands for nearly a century. Whitehead died in 1929, only 25 years after Byrdcliffe had experienced its busiest times and just a few months after his eldest son had been killed at sea. Jane lived until the mid 1950s, and Ralph and Jane's youngest son died at "White Pines" in 1976. Today, different portions of the property that once made up Byrdcliffe are owned by a Whitehead nephew, the Woodstock Guild, and private individuals.
In 1991 the Joseph Downs Collection welcomed its first donation of records from Byrdcliffe; six years later the transfer of materials was complete. In the Byrdcliffe archives are family letters, including those to and from Jane and Ralph Whitehead beginning in the 1890s; photographs; drawings and paintings; magazines; scrapbooks; the Byrdcliffe library card catalogue; trade catalogues of products used at Byrdcliffe; publications written by Jane and Ralph Whitehead; land surveys; and legal documents. This modest exhibition highlights a collection of far greater size and depth.
Much of the information in this introduction and quotations are from "The Utopias of Ralph Radcliffe Whitehead," by Robert Edwards, The Magazine Antiques, January 1985, pp. 260-76.


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Archive for Parenting
Terrific Parenting Answers To Common Parenting QuestionsPosted by: | Comments
1. My son, age three, cries over everything. One could clearly label him a "cry baby". Is this something he will grow out of or can we teach him to not cry over the drop of a hat. I'm worried once he starts school, his peers will make fun of him.
Answer: The 'sensitive child' is often seen upset or crying over small things in life. We can talk to them, reassure them, or even punish them and none of this will help. But let's be clear, and not dance around this behavior pattern. It does not tend to just go away. And, this will never serve them! Never! It will only make them vulnerable to the normal challenges of life.
Instead, we have to teach them how to get stronger, by believing that they are stronger! The good news is that this requires a simple solution. At these early ages, such tendencies are continued primarily because we keep responding to them. We keep giving it attention!
Remember: Their energy flows where your attention consistently goes!
In this situation, if your attention repeatedly flows into their crying, then this is where their energy goes. They become upset over the smallest of issues, and the more you keep trying to calm and fix-it, the more drama you see unfolding as they get older!
So, in short, just stop responding. You must trust your own instinct about whether the situation deserves your efforts to console and calm. Most do not.
Thus, just ignore and walk away. Will they get more upset? YES! They will. And, you must not respond to this.
Now, once the drama stops, return to normal. No discussion or efforts to explain. Just re-engage as if nothing had happened. Very shortly, you will witness more resilience and strength emerge, after a few days of very serious drama and tears. Just be prepared for it!
2. What is the best way to teach young girls (8) to be assertive, stick up for yourself and still remain kind? My daughter is always afraid she'll hurt someone's feelings, even if they are clearly picking on her.
This is a great question, and a situation often worked with in my coaching practice. There are several ways we can address this. However, this is a lesson that takes a bit of time. Unlike the situation above, this is not resolved in days or weeks. We have to be patient, and let the lessons and methods unfold over time.
Answer: First, we must look at the primary role model your daughter is watching: mom. What are your tendencies, and proclivities? Do you tend to model the behavior you are asking of your daughters? Are you strong, assertive and clear with others, or are you a 'people pleaser' who tends to soften and give-in when you should stay strong?
If the answer is 'people pleaser' then this is the most important place to start. For some, this may be true. For others, this is not relevant. However, please just know that it is very difficult to escape the model you set for your child. All the coaching and tools won't help if we fighting against the tide of our own parenting actions!
Next, we want your daughter to develop a clear sense of their own internal voice, so that they can 'know' what they really want. For such children, they often experience a weak internal voice, so then they really don't know what to say or what they really want. We can easily help with this by making sure that we are not constantly over-riding their opinions, or in essence…devaluing their voice. Also, we can make sure we offer them choices, but not too many. Give two or three options, and wait for them to choice. This sets up the really important part, where we get to support their choice. "Sweetheart that will be great for you!"
Finally, when it comes to social situations, nothing works better than role playing. Talk is cheap, when it comes to changing social behavior. Instead, engage your daughter in role playing situations, where she can 'practice' staying strong and trusting her internal voice!
By role play, let me be clear. These are situations where you go to the playground, for example, when no one is there. You get on your knees, and 'pretend' to be a pesky peer. Then, perhaps dad or grandparent, or friend, then coaches your daughter in how to respond. Then, practice a few similar situations.
You can do the same thing at home, but the closer you get to the real environment, the better. You daughter will learn the lessons more completely.
In a week or so, do another practice session where you practice in the back yard, as if friends were over. Repeat this every week or so, with less and less direct coaching…and more of just allowing your daughter to voice her opinion respectfully and clearly.
This is real magic, and yet few take the time to invest in this life changing process!
Final note: Your goal here is to have your daughter learn to honor her own voice! While doing these practice sessions, every time your daughter is strong and clear…just remind her gently, "Sweetheart, see! You can trust your own voice!" In this way, we can build her confidence in her wishes and views on life.
Both of these brief answers are pointers that will get you on the right path. If you have more questions, please feel free to email me at email@example.com.
Summer Essentials: Rules vs. WishesPosted by: | Comments
As we are moving into summer, many parents find that they need to 'tighten' up the rules at home. Perhaps…the house is getting sloppy, the kids are sleeping in till noon and Mom is working harder and harder, while kids seems to show less respect and do not help out at all
Often new household rules grow out of frustration and exhaustion, as Mom or Dad see the momentum of things heading down the wrong path.
Depending on your family, you may decide you need a rule about picking up your stuff, or a rule about not playing ball in the house. Perhaps it's a rule about bedtime or getting up in the morning. Hopefully, there are rules about doing a few chores, and staying engaged in some reading and math during the summer.
Rules Establish Structure and Kids Need This
A well implemented set of simple rules establishes a structure and rhythm at home, that actually helps reduce anxiety and calm children. Children need to a have a clear sense that someone is in charge, who knows what to do.
Do they like rules? Do they ask for rules? Of course not!
Most will argue and fight about your rules. That's their job! When you understand this, then you expect them to complain and argue about your new rules. Ignore this. Do not engage or justify your choices, when it comes to rules about the home.
Simply understand this: Your children cannot know what is good for them. If you let them choose, they will eat pizza every night, never touch a veggie and watch TV or play video games till they fall asleep.
Do not be deceived. Your child's wishes are a barometer for what they WANT, not what they NEED. Repeatedly following our impulsive wants (i.e., the tendency of most children) will only make us overweight, lazy and, in the end, unhappy.
Most Rules Are Just Wishes: Avoid This Mistake!
The biggest mistake made in setting rules at home is quite common. You get frustrated, decide to change things, and sit the kids down to explain the 'new rules.' And then, you expect them to follow the rules.
Your rules are not really rules. This is simply a 'wish list.' Why?
Because rules are only wishes, unless they have a consequence attached. In other words, your rules typically mean very little unless you attach consequences WHEN there is a violation of the rule. This is how most children learn new rules, when mom or dad starts to change things at home.
The rule is useless, unless this formula is followed. The truth is that most rules actually make things worse because it causes more bickering and fighting between parents and children. So the bottom line is this: Only set new rules if you are willing to stick consistently to a consequence when the rule is broken! Then, you will see that your children are capable of learning quickly.
Often, I have parents expressing something like this, "My kids should just listen, and follow the rules. What's wrong with them?" My response is usually along these lines:
Children should not just listen. Instead, get with
reality. Children must be taught to listen and follow the
rules! That's our job as parents…to learn how to teach effectively!
This is the false thinking that is harming our children, and undermining their future. We cannot just follow the moment of society, and the direction that video games, media forces and fast food are taking us. If we do, our kids will continue to argue and fight for the most convenient, most immediate rewards. These are rarely the most valuable. These rarely teach discipline. They never work our muscles or our minds in productive ways.
Our children need a few rules. Not too many, but the important ones are ESSENTIAL. I cover these in my programs, but for now…please accept the need to teach rules with consequences. And expect the drama and whining and complaints. It's normal. Just ignore, and carry on!
Start Summer Weak…Life Gets Harder. Start Summer Strong…Life Gets Easier.Posted by: | Comments
Okay. Summer is officially on… and the kids are on summer-time schedule. And yes, it's been a rush! Hectic and crazy at times. Everyone is ready for a breather.
Here's the dangerous and often tempting thought process: "Oh, the kids had a tough year. They need a break. We will just take it easy…no chores…go to bed late…get up when they want. No big deal."
Start Weak…Life Gets Harder!
If you decide to start summer with no structure, and abandon most limits, everything is smooth and sweet. The kids love it. It seems easier and everyone is happy.
At least for a few days! However, as time goes on, weaker limits simply get pushed harder. The kids will want to stay up later and later. They will want more and more video time. They will fight responsibilities more and more. Their disrespect or talking back increases the moment you start to ask them to help out a bit.
This is the nature of things.
Children and adults thrive on structure and limits. Oh yes, we fight it. Kids fight it. But the proof is overwhelming. When we abandon this in favor of weak limits and little structure, life simply gets harder to manage.
Start Strong…Life Gets Easier!
The secret is to go against the tide. Instead of starting off the summer weak, start strong. In the long run, you will have more joy, more fun and more easeful times this summer.
How do you start strong? I's not too complex. Let's go over the basics.
• Set clear limits on bedtime (not more than an hour later than school year times)
• Get the kids up at a standard time, regardless of their whining.
• Serve breakfast at a regular time, and don't adjust.
• Require a few morning chores before video, phone, TV, pool, friends or computer.
These are just the basics, but it gets you started. Remember this: your strength as a parent stems from how you manage yourself and how you manage the home (particularly the goodies in your home!).
If you manage your emotions poorly (i.e., are reactive and easily upset), you will lose the respect of your children over time. You will see your authority erode, despite your desire to show strength. The critical solution is to keep your calm and have a game plan, rather than believing that yelling or getting upset should get them to listen.
Secondly, the game plan comes in the way that you manage your home, and the goodies the kids really care about. During the summer, there are goodies everywhere: the pool, baseball, soccer, playground, biking, camping, TV, friends, phones, computers, day trips…and the list goes on.
These 'goodies' represent leverage. It is critical to manage this leverage every single day! I am often reminding my clients, "Never give up your leverage! It's your key to sanity." |
That's why the day begins with the some structure and chores, before the children can get to their goodies. If they get up, start to play a game, turn on the TV and then you discuss breakfast, you can see it all turns ugly. They are eating in front of a video game, and you can't get them to pick up their room. This is weak approach, and the summer will get harder!
So instead, start strong and watch the summer eat easier! Keep routines in place, and don't argue or negotiate about that. And NEVER give up your leverage!
How To Teach Kids About Money: Part 1Posted by: | Comments
When it comes to money and children, here are common concerns.
• How can you teach your children to handle money responsibly?
• What are the strategies that help adolescents to value the effort behind money?
• Do you pay kids for doing their chores?
• Should you threaten to take away allowances if they are acting poorly?
While perhaps one formula does not meet all needs, the strategies I have outlined below will help guide your children to a responsible attitude toward money.
1.) Responsible Understanding of Money Is Not An Accident. It Must Be Taught.
Too often, we hope that our children will get the message. We talk and talk about money and how important it is to value what we give them, but this is often quite useless. Instead, we need a strategy. We must approach these lessons seriously.
2.) Don't Purchase Behavior With Money.
Using allowances as a tool to "purchase behavior," will end up with you TRYING to purchase their compliance and cooperation with fundamental chores and household responsibilities. Bad plan. I do not recommend that you pay children for completing basic tasks around the house. If you pay or give an allowance for basic chores done in the house, you will only be buying the appearance of responsible behavior. Manage daily chores with a better parenting plan, not with money! This is the key to getting on the right path.
3.) Commit To A Regular Allowance Instead Of Giving Out Money When Asked.
Give the kids an allowance that does not depend on their behavior or chores. They should know that they get an allowance because you love them and you want them to learn to take care of their own money.
Let them know that it's their money to manage each week, and watch them learn from their choices. Begin early on, to allow children to experience the consequence of good judgment, as well as poor judgment in their use of their money.
Come up with a reasonable amount of spending money for your children, and include monies for treats that you might typically buy them. For example, if you normally buy the kids some juice when you are getting gas, include that portion in their allowance. As they get older, include their lunch money in their allowance.
With age and maturity, include some extra spending money, for the small "stuff" they often want and that you pick up for them. Then, when you go to the movies, for example, you have already explained that they need to buy their popcorn (if they want it) because it was included in their allowance.
The key here is to incrementally add to the allowance, as your children age and become more capable of managing the money. Let them experience wasting it all, and then having to go without the extra treats for a few days. This is valuable learning early on.
Psychologist Secrets To The Truly Spoiled and IndulgedPosted by: | Comments
Are you in the race for the most spoiled and indulged? The true brat of all spoiled brats? In this obvious satirical article, I thought it might be helpful to provide some coaching for those parents who are in the race for the most spoiled and entitled child on the block.
During the school year, there are practical limits to how much one can pamper a child.However, the summer opens the door to new levels of indulgence. By the end of the summer, we would set some high goals. For example, you must raisefirst graders who expect to play while others read, 2nd graders who show up 90" late each day while carrying a supersized iced coffee to class and by 5th grade, a true superstar brat will demand to carry their cell phones to class and text their mom about how mean the teachers are being.
Three Key Lessons to Raise the Most Entitled, Spoiled Child
Here are my top three
mistakes, oh… I mean lessons… that will help your child to master the art of entitlement.
Lesson #1: Allow your child toknow more than you do about parenting.
The truly spoiled are raised in a home where the child is viewed as the ultimate authority. Lessons you may have learned from your parents, books you may have read, advice from psychologists, as well as your "common sense" must be thrown out the window when faced with a child who is objecting to your wisdom, your consequences, or your limit setting.
Remember: Assume they know more. When it comes to what's healthy, of course…they should choose fast food. When it comes to mature video games, like Call of Duty, of course they should own it. When it comes to bedtime, unquestionably your kids know better what is good for them.
This is a great start…but really, it's only the beginning…
Lesson #2: Work harder at your children's happiness; work harder at your children's success and work harder at your children's lives than they do.
This lesson is one of those "insider secrets" that must be considered carefully when in the race for the GOLD. If your child is given homework, made sure that you prod, push, negotiate… and ultimately work harder at solving their homework problems than they do. For any serious projects, you must stay up late while they go to bed. If your child is unhappy, negative, and asking you to 'fix-it' so they can be happy, then you must go ahead and fix-it. Do this repeatedly!
Work harder at solving their problems. Work harder at everything in their life.
Brat building lesson #3: Never set limits, and teach them that reality will always conform to their whining, demanding and complaining.
This is really an ultimate brat building secret…a true foundation of the spoiled and entitled. In the real world, effort is related to results. This is reality.
However, the truly entitled child must be protected from these rules of reality. If exposed, they might begin to realize that effort is required, and that consequences come with choices. At all costs, if we want a child who is fully indoctrinated in the ways of entitlement, we must give them what they want when they whine or complain. Please, never insist on real effort or contribution!
The best of the entitled are raised to presume that the limits that apply to others do not apply to them. They shouldn't have to follow the rules, and if they break the rules, mom and dad MUST rescue them from the consequences.
They shouldn't have to work when something is difficult. They should have no chores. They should get paid for taking their plate to the dishwasher, or picking up their room. And when disrespectful, just surrender and given them what they want.
Those are my three key lessons to raising the spoiled and super indulged. However, if brat building does not appeal to you, then simply do the opposite! And smile…as you do so!


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Don't enshrine a bad system
Sometimes the fear of change is so strong it clouds the mind. So it seems with Ronald Bailey writing about healthcare intervention [January 20 cover story: "A call for healthcare intervention from an unlikely source: Charlottesville's top libertarian"].
The call for change is so widespread that even conservatives think they have to do something. What most politicians are doing, however, is avoiding a fundamental fact: for many Americans, our healthcare system is broken, and this failure threatens the system for all of us.
Bailey confuses the delivery of healthcare with the system of paying for it. Simply, the government pays for the Medicare seniors enjoy, and a range of public and private healthcare professionals deliver that care. Both elements are working well.
Bailey outlines the inefficiencies in for-profit payment systems (we call it "insurance"), where overheads are often in the 20 percent range, and the administration of private plans alone costs over $300 billion annually. He also notes that even though we pay on average twice per capita what the rest of the industrialized world pays, our outcomes are abysmal.
Still, Bailey asserts, our system, even with its notorious faults, provides state-of-the-art care. For some. He fails to note that most medical research and innovation is financed by the taxpayers through the NIH, and not through HMO profits.
So, what is Bailey's solution? Force all Americans to buy into the health payment system that is so brutally inefficient that over half of the personal bankruptcies for health-related debt are filed by people with health insurance. What sort of intrusive system to enforce this massive transfer of wealth to for-profit companies (even using taxes if people are too poor to participate) does Libertarian Bailey envision?
The Hook would do us all a service to have an article on the Conyers Bill, now backed by over 40 members of Congress.
Al Weed
Chairman, Public Policy Virginia


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The Youth Orchestras of San Antonio (YOSA) continue their Great Tour of China. This is a photo of them playing at the EXPO 2010 on Wednesday. Below the photo is John Clare's latest report.
"Good morning!
It's been a very busy time – from Beijing to Shanghai to Hangzhou – and today we're off to Shenzhen! Wednesday YOSA played at EXPO 2010 and they loved it! Two mini concerts at the Americas Square were well received and the kids were treated like VIPs wherever they went with their performer badges! Over 400,000 people visited EXPO on Wednesday and explored the theme "Better City, Better Life" in their own way.
Yesterday (Thursday) the kids heard a school wind orchestra in Hangzhou, from the city's only music school. They then rehearsed and played their own concert – which was another huge hit, the entire Hangzhou Shangmao Vacation School was in attendance and ran to the stage at intermission to talk with the kids, and afterwards got autographs and pictures with YOSA musicians!
This morning, Friday we'll take a lake cruise and fly further south tot the next leg of our trip, it'll be another experience, the first time on Chinese airlines, wish us luck!"
John Clare
Host, KPAC, Texas Public Radio
The Arts at Coker Presents: Patriotic Pops Concert & Ice Cream Social
Thursday, July 1 at 7:30 pm at the Coker United Methodist Sanctuary
231 East North Loop Road, San Antonio, Texas 78216
Jack Fishman
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The SLL era begins October 2!


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With the election settled, everyone is asking the obvious question—now what?
TD Ameritrade Institutional attempted to answer on Wednesday, at least in the legislative and regulatory realm as it applies to advisors, by hosting a web seminar titled "What now? Post-election, what can we expect from Washington as it pertains to investors and financial advisors?"
Moderated by Skip Schweiss, president of TD Ameritrade Trust Co. and managing director of the custodian's advisor advocacy efforts, the panel included Joel Oswald and Christopher Hatcher, principals with Williams and Jensen, a government affairs law firm based in Washington, as well as Brian Graff, executive director of the American Society of Pension Professional and Actuaries. The webcast reviewed the election results in the context of the impact to RIAs and their clients, specifically focusing on:
– Deficits, taxes, spending
– Advisor regulation
– Retirement plan regulation
"Now that the election is over, we'll see changes in leadership on the House Financial Services Committee with the likely focus being on oversight of the implementation and regulation of the Dodd-Frank Financial Reform Act," Oswald said. "They'll also look to reform government-sponsored enterprises."
The Senate Banking Committee will also see changes, with new ranking members and speculation that Elizabeth Warren, who defeated Scott Brown for Massachusetts' junior Senate seat, will join.
As to the Securities Exchange Commission and what the future holds for Chairman Mary Schapiro, Oswald said, "There's been speculation that Schapiro will resign, but she's downplayed that somewhat, saying she doesn't have a departure date. If she does stay, her term will end in 2014, which is a very long time to run the SEC. Only four others have lasted that long."
Now that President Obama has won, Oswald also said the Department of Labor will re-propose and move forward with a fiduciary rule under ERISA.
Graff (right) then took over to discuss what's expected with tax reform, as well as incentives for retirement saving and investing.
"Boehner said in his news conference on Thursday that he would be open to tax increases, but only if they were in the context of larger tax reforms," Graff said, referring to the current Speaker of the House, Rep. John Boehner.
Graff noted that contribution limits under 1986 tax reform legislation were slashed for 401(k)s and IRAs by as much as 70%, something he warned could happen again.
"The last time this happened, it devastated the IRA industry, and rather than encouraging people to participate in 401(k) plans, many sponsors were trying to shut them down," Graff said. "Tax incentives and deductions cost the government a lot. They become targets at times like this, as they were in 1986."
He pointed to what he describes as a grassroots effort started by ASPPA, called "Save My 401(k): Protect My Piggy," to protect the tax-preferred status of retirement plans.
"There are 70 million Americans participating in 401(k) plans, and we want to have them call their representatives and tell them to protect the current tax structure within the plans," Graff concluded.
View complete election coverage on AdvisorOne's Election Impact 2012 home page.
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OTTAWA - Martin Cauchon officially became the ninth — and last — candidate in the Liberal leadership race Tuesday, touting his credentials as the only contender with experience running the machinery of federal government.
The former Chretien-era cabinet minister, who filed his nomination papers just hours before Sunday's midnight deadline, said he took his time deciding whether to take the plunge because he knows that seeking to eventually run the country is a huge commitment, not a "popularity contest."
"It's never too late to take the right decision," the 50-year-old told The Canadian Press.
"One of the advantages I have is experience," he added, noting that he led the party's Quebec wing before becoming an MP in 1993 and eventually a cabinet minister and Quebec lieutenant for then-prime minister Jean Chretien.
"I've been there 10 years (in government) ... so I know pretty well government machinery. I know that leading the party and leading the country, it's not a popularity contest. Sometimes you have to take strong decisions and take strong stance.
"And I know what it means. I've been there, done that."
The reference to what's at stake being more than a popularity contest appears aimed at presumed front-runner Justin Trudeau, eldest son of Liberal icon Pierre Trudeau and the party's undisputed celebrity. Opinion polls have put the high-profile 41-year-old Montreal MP miles ahead of all competitors in terms of public visibility and popularity and have suggested he could vault the third-place party back into contention for power.
Justin Trudeau launched his campaign in early October; the other seven officially confirmed contenders have been stumping the country since at least November.
Cauchon, whose candidacy was approved by the party Tuesday, said the Liberals' new supporter category — allowing anyone who professes support for the party's principles to vote for the next leader, not just card-carrying party members — makes the leadership contest a "discussion with Canadians as a whole." And there's still plenty of time to make his mark before the new leader is chosen on April 14.
He said he already has some support among caucus members and other high profile Liberals — including rumoured backing by Chretien's daughter, France Desmarais — but said their names will be announced in due course.
Cauchon retired from politics in 2004, but a 2011 comeback attempt in his old Montreal riding of Outremont was thwarted by Tom Mulcair, now NDP leader, as an unprecedented tidal wave of support for New Democrats swept Quebec and vaulted the NDP into official Opposition status for the first time in its 50-year history.
Cauchon dismissed suggestions his failure to beat Mulcair will be a liability among Liberals looking for a leader who can overtake the NDP and take on the ruling Conservatives.
"To tell you that the last election was a storm is probably an understatement. You know, when an NDP member could win the riding without going in his riding and spending two weeks in the (United) States during the campaign, it tells you that wasn't something normal," he said.
It was even harder to buck the Quebec tide in Outremont because Mulcair was already the incumbent MP, he added.
"I knew it would be tough before getting into that campaign. But I did it because I wanted to show people I was a real Liberal and I can roll up my sleeves when it's tough."
Others, including late Quebec premier Robert Bourassa, have led their parties despite personal defeat in their ridings, he observed. Indeed, Cauchon himself lost in his first election attempt in 1988, when he ran against Conservative Prime Minister Brian Mulroney, in the eastern Quebec riding of Charlevoix, before going on to win in Outremont in 1993.
"To lose the battle is not to lose the war ... It means nothing," he maintained.
Should he win the leadership, Cauchon said he'd likely take a few months to travel the country and engage Canadians before seeking a seat in the House of Commons by asking an incumbent Liberal to step aside temporarily — much as Chretien did after winning the party's leadership in 1990.
However, in the next election, Cauchon said he'd probably run again in Charlevoix, where he was born. The riding is currently held by the NDP.
"Two leaders are not going to run in the same riding, obviously," he said, ruling out a re-match with Mulcair in Outremont.
"I believe one of the challenges we have as a party is to go back in Quebec. That is key," he added.
Cauchon is the third Quebec candidate in the race, along with Trudeau and Montreal MP Marc Garneau, Canada's first man in space.
He is entering a race which has taken on a pronounced right-wing tilt, with Trudeau calling for greater openness to foreign investment by state-owned enterprises in Canada's oil sands, Garneau pitching wide-open competition in telecommunications and former Toronto MP Martha Hall Findlay calling for an end to supply management in the dairy industry.
Billing himself as "fiscally responsible and socially progressive," Cauchon said both the left and right wings of the party are now represented in the leadership contest and that's a good thing.
"The Liberals are more pragmatic (than the Tories and NDP) and we have two wings, the right and the left, and when the two talk together, this is when we're very strong."
Among other things, his campaign will focus on restoring Canada's place in the world as a respected middle-power and honest broker, targeting investments in economic development and supporting regional development and the arts.
As Chretien's justice minister, Cauchon gained a reputation as a progressive by spearheading moves to decriminalize marijuana and legalize same-sex marriage. The latter was eventually implemented by Chretien's successor, Paul Martin, but the former was scotched by Prime Minister Stephen Harper's government.
However, Cauchon isn't prepared to move as fast or as far on marijuana as rank and file Liberals, who endorsed full legalization, regulation and taxation of pot at their last convention a year ago. A number of Cauchon's rival candidates, including Vancouver MP Joyce Murray, Hall Findlay and Toronto technology lawyer George Takach have similarly endorsed that position.
Cauchon said Canada is signatory to international conventions on marijuana that must be respected. Moreover, while decriminalization is a good first step, he suggested Canadians aren't ready to go further than that.
"It's a question of the evolution of society. I believe society is ready for my (decriminalization) bill today. Maybe 10 years ago I was 10 years ahead of my time."
On another issue that is proving contentious in the contest, Cauchon said he supports construction of a pipeline to carry raw bitumen from Alberta to ports in British Columbia. But he said it can only be done by respecting both the environment and the rights of First Nations, through whose land a pipeline would have to be routed.
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NEW YORK (AP) — The low-tech musical "Once," based on the love story of a Czech flower seller and an Irish street musician in Dublin, got a leading 11 Tony Award nominations Tuesday, proving sentiment can sway nominators just as much as special effects.
Two other musicals — "The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess" and "Nice Work If You Can Get It" — each got 10 nominations as the Tony committee spread the wealth. Unlike last year's "The Book of Mormon," no monster single hit dominated the nominations.
"Peter and the Starcatcher," a play about the origins of Peter Pan, earned nine nominations and the now-closed revival of "Follies" and the new Disney musical "Newsies" got eight nods each.
Joe DiPietro earned a Tony nomination for writing the book to "Nice Work If You Can Get It," which stars Matthew Broderick and Kelli O'Hara, who also got a nomination as a leading actress in a musical. The frothy musical smarty integrates classic Gershwin songs such as "Sweet and Lowdown," ''Let's Call the Whole Thing Off," ''S'Wonderful," ''Someone to Watch Over Me," ''They All Laughed" and "Fascinating Rhythm."
The musical is the first since DiPietro won two Tonys for writing the still-running "Memphis" but he's not jaded.
"The Tonys are always a big deal," he said. "I wrote for a long time and no one seemed to care and then I suddenly started getting produced. When I won my Tonys, it was childhood dream time coming true."
"Other Desert Cities," a play by Jon Robin Baitz that moved to Broadway after critical acclaim at Lincoln Center Theater, earned five nominations, including best play. Stockard Channing and Judith Light both earned acting nominations.
"My psychology is such that I can't jump up and down. I suppose that makes me Jewish and of the theater," he joked after the announcement.
"Once," with songs by Marketa Irglova and Glen Hansard, was originally a low-budget movie made for about $150,000. The film earned $20 million, thanks in part to an original score that included the sublime, 2007 Oscar-winning song, "Falling Slowly."
The musical captured the film's spirit and earned Steve Kazee and Cristin Milioti best actor in a musical nominations. It also earned nods for best scenic design, best book of a musical and Elizabeth A. Davis got a nomination for an actress in a featured role.
The Tony Awards will be broadcast on CBS from the Beacon Theatre on June 10. Neil Patrick Harris, the star of "How I Met Your Mother," will be the host.
Broadway's most expensive show, the $75 million "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark," got only two nominations, for best scenic design and costume.
The best new play category includes "Clybourne Park" by Bruce Norris, "Other Desert Cities," ''Peter and the Starcatcher" by Rick Elice, and David Ives' "Venus in Fur." Plays that didn't make the cut included Katori Hall's "The Mountaintop," Nicky Silver's "The Lyons," David Auburn's "The Columnist" and Theresa Rebeck's "Seminar."
In the musical revival category, "Follies" and "The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess" will compete against two Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice works: "Jesus Christ Superstar" and "Evita."
The best leading actor in a play Tony will pit James Corden from the British import "One Man, Two Guvnors," Philip Seymour Hoffman from Arthur Miller's "Death of a Salesman," James Earl Jones from "Gore Vidal's The Best Man," Frank Langella from "Man and Boy" and John Lithgow of "The Columnist."
The battle in the female leading actress play category will be fierce, with competitors including Nina Arianda of "Venus in Fur," Tracie Bennett of "End of the Rainbow," Linda Lavin of "The Lyons," Cynthia Nixon in "Wit" and Channing.
In addition to O'Hara and Milioti, the nominations for best leading actress in musical include Jan Maxwell of "Follies," Audra McDonald for "The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess," and Laura Osnes of the now-closed "Bonnie & Clyde."


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DALLAS >> Garrett Gilbert threw four touchdown passes to help SMU hold off UConn 38-21 Saturday.
The national leader in total offense at 409.4 yards per game before Saturday passed for 353 yards and ran for 23 against the Huskies.
SMU (4-5, 3-2 American Athletic Conference) improved its chance of becoming bowl eligible. The Mustangs must win two of their final three games.
UConn (0-9, 0-5) stayed within a touchdown of SMU until 3:50 remained in the game.
At that point, SMU's Chase Hover kicked a 27-yard field goal, set up by Connecticut's 14-yard punt.
Three plays after that, UConn committed its first turnover. Under pressure, quarterback Casey Cochran threw an interception that SMU's Stephon Sanders returned 35 yards for a touchdown.
Gilbert passed for two touchdowns each to Jeremy Johnson and Keenan Holman. Johnson finished with 12 catches for 71 yards. Holman had 8 for 88 yards, and teammate Der'rikk Thompson caught 5 for 113.
For UConn, Cochran passed for two scores, and Max DeLorenzo ran for a touchdown. Lyle McCombs led the Huskies with 103 rushing yards in 17 carries.
SMU scored first with 3:35 remaining in the first quarter on Gilbert's 1-yard pass to Holman. He made a leaping catch at the back of the end zone and came down with one foot in bounds.
On the previous play, Gilbert had appeared to score on a run from 24 yards out. A review showed that he stepped out of bounds a yard short. His 25-yard pass to Jeremiah Gaines plus a UConn personal foul had started the 75-yard drive.
The first quarter ended with the Mustangs leading 7-0.
They extended the lead to 14-0 on Gilbert's 4-yard pass to Johnson. It capped a 12-play, 80-yard drive.
The Huskies answered with a 75-yard drive that ended with DeLorenzo's 2-yard touchdown run. Penalties on SMU for a horse collar tackle and pass interference in the end zone helped UConn move into position to score.
In hurry-up mode, Gilbert drove the Mustangs 70 yards in 10 plays and 2:10. A 5-yard TD pass to Johnson produced a 21-7 lead 18 seconds before halftime.
Gilbert finished the half 25 for 37 for 237 yards and 3 scores. Johnson caught 10 passes for 56 yards and two touchdowns.
UConn stopped the Mustangs on their first possession of the second half. Redshirt freshman Cochran, making his first start, then led a 62-yard drive. He threw a 1-yard touchdown pass on fourth down to tight end Sean McQuillan.
The Huskies had another chance to score in the quarter, but a fourth-down pass was tipped and fell incomplete.
That gave SMU the ball on its 26 yard line. Two short passes, with two missed tackles turning the plays into long gains increased the Mustangs' lead to 28-14.
Thompson slipped a tackle for a 54-yard gain to Connecticut's 20. On the next play, Holman broke a tackle for his second touchdown of the game.
UConn's offense wasn't bothered by the two-TD deficit. The Huskies scored on a 26-yard pass from Cochran to team receiving leader Geremy Davis.


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Jason L. Simpson, 41, of Dallas, Texas, formerly of Stroud Township, passed peacefully in San Francisco, Calif., on Tuesday, Dec. 18, 2012. He was born on Nov. 14, 1971, in New York, N.Y., and was the beloved son of Neal and Joyce Simpson of Bartonsville.
Jason was a 1989 honors graduate of Stroudsburg High School. He graduated with honors from the University of California at Berkeley in 1993, with a major in mass communications. Upon graduation, he worked with young people through the East Bay Conservation Corps. He then moved to Los Angeles, Calif., in 1995 and enrolled in graduate school at the University of Southern California, where he received a master's degree in business administration.
Jason was employed as the assistant vice president for sponsorships at AT&T in Dallas, Texas. His position as assistant VP allowed him to collaborate with many national organizations, including the USA Swimming and Diving Association, Formula One and NASCAR, USA Olympic Team, Masters at Augusta, U.S. Open at Pebble Beach, USA Gymnastics, Major League Baseball, National Basketball Association, National Football League, Major League Soccer and many others.
Jason participated in the sports marketing program at Baylor University in Texas, the Association of National Advertisers and the National Sports Marketing Network in Dallas, Texas.
Jason's favorite pastimes were traveling, camping, snorkeling, video gaming, watching sporting events and attending the theatre. He was an avid reader and enjoyed book collecting. His work responsibilities required traveling to many parts of the world. Most recently, he went to London, England, for the 2012 Olympic Games. He also attended the Olympic Games held in Beijing, China; Sydney, Australia; and Torino, Italy. He traveled to many countries such as France, Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore and the Philippines. Jason enjoyed traveling throughout the United States.
Surviving family are his wife, Sylvia Tong of Dallas, Texas; his father and mother, Neal and Joyce Simpson of Bartonsville; his parents-in-law, Sharon and Shou-yu Tong of San Diego, Calif.; his brother-in-law, Michael Tong of San Jose, Calif.; his aunts: Sandra Bell of Harrisburg, Barbara Webster of Gaithersburg, Md. and Anita Hunt of Easton; his uncles; Dave Brownbill of New York, N.Y. and Ken Morrison (Brenda) of Mays Landing, N.J.; his cousins, Jarvis Walwyn (La Shawn) of Southington, Conn. and Chris (Nichelle) Hunt of Bethlehem; and many other relatives and friends.
A memorial service will be held at 11:30 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 19, at Lester G. Abeloff Convocation Center at East Stroudsburg University, College Circle, East Stroudsburg.
In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to: Jason Simpson Memorial Fund for Civicorps (formerly known as East Bay Conservation Corps) with Wells Fargo Bank or the Jason Simpson Memorial Fund for Cal Alumni, also with Wells Fargo Bank.
Jason L. Simpson
Jason L. Simpson, 41, of Dallas, Texas, formerly of Stroud Township, passed peacefully in San Francisco, Calif., on Tuesday, Dec. 18, 2012. He was born on Nov. 14, 1971, in New York, N.Y., and was the beloved son of Neal and Joyce Simpson of Bartonsville.


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Investors Cashing Out After Post-Fed Rally
The stock market's surge is pushing some investors to cash in a few of their chips. Their reasons: after such a strong run, the rally may be losing steam and the Fed will soon begin withdrawing the stimulus it has been injecting into the economy. Steven Russolillo reports. Photo: Getty.
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