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Yesterday evening I was interviewing Barack Obama and we were talking about effective foreign aid programs in Africa. His voice was measured and fatigued, and he was taking those little pauses candidates take when they're afraid of saying something that might hurt them later on.
Out of the blue I asked, "Have you ever read Reinhold Niebuhr?"
Obama's tone changed. "I love him. He's one of my favorite philosophers."
So I asked, What do you take away from him?
"I take away," Obama answered in a rush of words, "the compelling idea that there's serious evil in the world, and hardship and pain. And we should be humble and modest in our belief we can eliminate those things. But we shouldn't use that as an excuse for cynicism and inaction. I take away ... the sense we have to make these efforts knowing they are hard, and not swinging from naïve idealism to bitter realism."
My first impression was that for a guy who's spent the last few months fund-raising, and who was walking off the Senate floor as he spoke, that's a pretty good off-the-cuff summary of Niebuhr's "The Irony of American History." My second impression is that his campaign is an attempt to thread the Niebuhrian needle, and it's really interesting to watch.
On the one hand, Obama hates, as Niebuhr certainly would have, the grand Bushian rhetoric about ridding the world of evil and tyranny and transforming the Middle East. But he also dislikes liberal muddle-headedness on power politics. In "The Audacity of Hope," he says liberal objectives like withdrawing from Iraq, stopping AIDS and working more closely with our allies may be laudable, "but they hardly constitute a coherent national security policy."
In Chicago this week, Obama argued against the current tides of Democratic opinion. There's been a sharp rise in isolationism among Democrats, according to a recent Pew survey, so Obama argued for global engagement. Fewer Democrats believe in peace through military strength, so Obama argued for increasing the size of the military.
In other words, when Obama is confronted by what he sees as arrogant unilateral action, he argues for humility. When he is confronted by what he sees as dovish passivity, he argues for the hardheaded promotion of democracy in the spirit of John F. Kennedy.
The question is, aside from rejecting the extremes, has Obama thought through a practical foreign policy doctrine of his own — a way to apply his Niebuhrian instincts?
That question is hard to answer because he loves to have conversations about conversations. You have to ask him every question twice, the first time to allow him to talk about how he would talk about the subject, and the second time so you can pin him down to the practical issues at hand.
If you ask him about the Middle East peace process, he will wax rhapsodic about the need to get energetically engaged. He'll talk about the shared interests all have in democracy and prosperity. But then when you ask him concretely if the U.S. should sit down and talk with Hamas, he says no. "There's no point in sitting down so long as Hamas says Israel doesn't have the right to exist."
When you ask about ways to prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons, he talks grandly about marshaling a global alliance. But when you ask specifically if an Iranian bomb would be deterrable, he's says yes: "I think Iran is like North Korea. They see nuclear arms in defensive terms, as a way to prevent regime change."
In other words, he has a tendency to go big and offer himself up as Bromide Obama, filled with grand but usually evasive eloquence about bringing people together and showing respect. Then, in a blink, he can go small and concrete, and sound more like a community organizer than George F. Kennan.
Finally, more than any other major candidate, he has a tendency to see the world in post-national terms. Whereas President Bush sees the war against radical Islam as the organizing conflict of our time, Obama sees radical extremism as one problem on a checklist of many others: global poverty, nuclear proliferation, global warming. When I asked him to articulate the central doctrine of his foreign policy, he said, "The single objective of keeping America safe is best served when people in other nations are secure and feel invested."
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That whole outfit is rockin', and looks amazing together! Do you know if they changed the fit of the jeans recently (I thought I saw something about that). In the spring I tried a pair in size 0 but it was way too big. I'm about the same size as you, so I was curious when I saw that you have a size 2P.ReplyDeleteReplies
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I have a sick chicken behind me and I've spent the last few days reading up on vent gleet, which is a common term for a yeast infection in a chicken. The condition presents itself as slimy, white, disgusting goo coming out of the back end of your bird. It stinks to high heaven and dries to become a second cousin to cement. Vent gleet is usually considered a secondary condition, meaning that something made your bird ill, and the yeast (Candida) took over her system. You can treat the Candidiasis, but you also need to figure out what else is going on and treat that as well.Credit: JestMe
While researching how to deal with this I discovered that there are a variety of home cures, some of which seemed more logical than others. There are also prescriptive treatments, Nystatin, for example, but they require a veterinarian and aren't always easy to come by. To save you the trouble of doing all the research yourself, here's what I've seen on the web, and my opinion of how useful it is.
Clean the area
I agree, but this isn't always easy. This stuff is like glue and coats the feathers, making a rock-hard mass on your chicken's behind. Also, her vent is probably very tender to the touch and cleaning can cause her pain. I recommend a soak in a warm bath and trying to trim the really bad feathers. Dry her gently when done.
Betadine (or the generic version of it)
I agree with this too for several reasons. I saw (one place only) that it was recommended by a chicken expert[1] and betadine douches used to be prescribed for women with chronic yeast infections. The suggested treatment is to spray this on her backside a few times a day for several days. Instead of doing this I added betadine to my chicken-soak water. I figured it would be a gentle way of treating the area under the crusty feathers and I could reduce the amount of skin infection without hurting her.
Absolutely! You need to restore the balance of bacteria and a good quality yogurt is full of the right bacteria. Your girl may not like it, but mine was fine with the idea when I mixed a bit of yogurt in with her cooked egg.
This is another name for the good bacteria you are supplying with the yogurt. If you have some capsules, you can sprinkle a bit on her food. I wouldn't overdo it; just add a little bit for every meal. The idea is to get a steady supply going in rather than try to replace the whole lot at once.
Gentian Violet/Blu-kote
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I agree with this. Gentian Violet is sometimes used by breast-feeding moms[2] whose babies have developed thrush (a yeast infection of the mouth). From reading mom forums, some claim it's the only thing that worked while others were less than impressed. After my girl's bath I painted her bottom with this. I only did it once since it's somewhat drying and her bum looked pretty red already, but I figured it would be a simple way to put a light coating of an anti-fungal agent right near her vent.
I think this is a very good idea. People with Candidiasis are advised to cut back on sugar and starches, which feed the yeast, and increase their intake of protein. For your chicken this means no scratch, and give meal worms as a treat. I gave my girl straight eggs mixed with yogurt since she's pretty sick and in my living room.
Apple cider vinegar in the water
Sure, why not. The idea here is to lower the pH of the digestive system to make it less hospitable for the yeast to grow. It's really just a few drops of the ACV, about a tablespoon per gallon - don't overdo it. Again, vinegar is recommended to keep vaginal pH at the right level, so why not the chicken's gut?
Mixed thoughts on this one. I saw some people suggesting you feed some to your bird which I most definitely would NOT do. It is toxic at some dose[3], and I don't know what that dose is for chickens, especially sick chickens. Some people suggested cutting up the ovules (Monistat 3) and putting about a third of one into the cloaca of the bird. This might help, but it probably wouldn't be comfortable for the bird and I'd be concerned about the toxicity. Maybe do it once, but keep in mind that this is a systemic infection and you really need to treat her whole body, not just the rear end. I did put some of the cream on her butt since I figured that would do no harm and might be soothing to the really sore areas.
I dunno. Some people suggest putting a clove in the water as an anti-fungal, but it seems to be more of a topical thing. I'm not sure it would do much good as a systemic treatment although I suppose it wouldn't hurt, and it might help treat any yeast in the mouth. I gave it a pass.
Epsom salt flush
Or molasses[4]. The idea here is to induce diarrhea to flush out as much of the yeast as possible. To me, this just sounds like a horrible thing to do to something that already doesn't feel well, and at best you clear out the crud for a couple hours. The stuff just grows back and you're right back where you started, except you've subjected your poor bird to some serious discomfort. I would never do this.
Copper sulfate
I saw this on one site, but it's also fatal if overdosed. Much too scary for me. The site says to use after flushing[4], and you know how I feel about that.
That's the list of the main treatments I saw, although others may exist. I'm sticking with the least uncomfortable choices and providing supportive care to try to help her body recover itself. For me it's not just about getting rid of the ailment, but about making the whole process as least-bad as I can.


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Cities of India- Chalo Chennai
Once upon a time a little fishing village, Chennaipattinam, was gifted by an Indian king to foreign merchants. The year was 1639 AD and the royal was the last of the Vijayanagara rulers, the Raja of Chandragiri. The merchants were from the then little known East India Company and the kuppam (commune) was what we now call Chennai.
This is just a part of a long and mostly forgotten story. By 1644 the small Fort St George had been built and a George Town was beginning to come up around it in the first British settlement in India. It was also the country?s oldest municipal corporation, based on a charter issued by James II in 1688.
Like the tides that lashed its long beaches, Chennai grew and diminished with the changing fortunes of the British Empire. Though briefly occupied by the French and the Portuguese, Clive of India?s strategic military seaport went on to become the Madras Presidency, one of the four critical divisions of British Imperial India. From Chennaipattinam to Madras and then to back Chennai, life seems to have come full circle for a city that is sprinting towards the future with one foot firmly in the past. .
Madras Musings
?This place drives me crazy. It is just too formal and conservative. All ?Saars? (Sirs) and ?Madams?, dead quiet, nothing ever seems to get done here. In Bombay, if you are looking for some hired help and pass the word around, you have four guys knocking at your door before you can say ?excuse me?. Here, you?ll be lucky if you get the job done. The city seems to go to sleep at nine in the night. Try catching a bus after dinner out and you?ll know what I mean. And then there is the weather. There is too little water and too much sweat!? - Avinash Nathan, third year Engineering College student.
?When I travel up North, I find that everybody has the habit of clubbing the whole of the South as Madrasi. It used to irritate me that people cannot be bothered to find out how many different subcultures exist here. Southern simplicity is not a myth. Still waters run deep and all that. Why, I take pride in it. If we are conservative it is in our appearance and behavior, not in our thoughts and ideas. I am at home here. I can be whatever I want to be. I am not judged by the way I look or the manner in which I speak. I don?t feel the overwhelming urge to throw a great attitude or make a good impression.? - Shubha Krishna, teacher at an alternative school.
Like other Indian cities Chennai can inspire anger and affection in equal measure. You can love it or hate it ? but indifference? A visitor is either piqued or bemused by Chennai. Throw in few bottlenecks, some fascination, a lilting melody here and a little shock there, and you will have a wholesome chutney of unexpected flavors.
Vannakkam! (Welcome!)
The average Chennaite is a study in contrasts as rich as the ones you will find on her favorite Kanjeevaram or his dearly beloved maillkann veshti (dhoti with striking borders). She will dress in a salwar but remain partial to her pottu (bindi) and mallipoo (the fragrant jasmine from Madurai available at every street corner). He may be a marketing whiz but is just as adept at figuring out a Carnatic raagam the moment its first note is launched.
The Tamil month which precedes the rich harvest of Pongal has everyone feeling generous and blessed. Early in the misty mornings, walking to one of the centuries old temples which pre-date the coming of the British, you will find their stone-carved precincts steeped in the lilting melodies of the Thirukural (songs in praise of the boy-god Muruga). Stay on for some piping hot Sakkarai Pongal prasadam (the jaggery sweetened moong and rice offering to the Gods). Stop by one of the wayside canteens for a little tumbler of the real thing - genuine filter coffee topped with frothing fresh milk. Get set for the day ahead.
The temperature rises by degrees and summer is around the corner. Everybody expects this but can never really be prepared for it. The sweltering heat sweeps through the concrete city, setting it aflame without a fire in sight. The water crisis begins with the taps fizzling out. As the queues lengthen and the tankers cause more accidents, nongus (melt-in-the mouth pine nuts), tender coconuts and luscious mangoes save the blistering day. Says Radha Natarajan, a harassed mother of two, ?There are only three seasons in Chennai - hot, hotter and hottest.?
The months move on and suddenly spring is in the air. The northeasterly winds bring relief in spurts and drizzles, replenishing the depleting ground water tables and bringing joy to the growing Rain Water Harvesting movement. By December the ?season? has begun. The magic of Markazhi, the auspicious Tamil month which stretches from mid-December to mid-January, casts its spell across the city; and with it comes the annual Madras Festival of Classical Music and Dance. Music and melody become Madras. Over 2,000 concerts or kutcheris are organized by the scores of sabhas or cultural organizations, mentors to the Carnatic traditions. The best artistes in Carnatic music and dance vie for the honors in celebrations which engulf the city.
Popular as the Madras Festival is, it is the ?other? spring festival that precedes the official month long celebration of dance and music. This one is a week-long fiesta of alternative creative expression from across the world - a brainchild of dance exponent Anita Ratnam and businessman Ranvir Shah.
Chennai is also home to many low profile institutions with strong traditions. At Kalakshetra students continue to learn dance in the best gurukulam ethos with founder Rukmini Devi Arundale?s principles still governing the pioneering school. Brhaddhvani, the Music Academy?s archives and Sampradaya, on the other hand, are resource centers on music, quite like the Madras Craft Foundation is for South Indian cultural heritage. Paradoxically, Chennai?s heritage conservation movement itself has never been very active.���
If buildings in Chennai are relatively immaculate, it is only because the lack of rain keeps them so. Chennai?s Marina was once the city?s sparkling pride, and even now manages a muted glow from beneath the encroachment and littering. The second longest beach in the world, it is as much home to early bird walkers as it is to chili pepper bajjiwalas. Walk by the distinguished Fort St. George campus where early Christian and Portuguese influences still lend diverse character to the city?s topography. Mylapore, that bustling old heart of the city hosts another short event with a big heart. Over two days, scores of women turn the car street of the ancient Kapaleeshwarar Temple into the canvas for a kolam (traditional rice patterns drawn at entrances to Southern houses) competition with kummi, poi kaal kudharai and karagattam (folk dance) performances providing the backdrop.���
At last year?s naval parade, at the stroke of sunset, ships lining the beach front lit up beautifully. Silhouettes of light against a fading horizon, they sent up flares and stood still so the city could catch its breath. Like so much else about the evening, it was all about nostalgia and patriotism, motivation and fraternity. As the armed forces fight a war against falling recruitment figures and budget allocations, Chennai showed it cared.���People kept moving forward to get a closer look. They applauded, they waved and they cheered the soldiers. After all, it isn?t every day that we find real heroes to clap for.
Churlish Chennai
On the other hand, one doesn?t have to wait for April to celebrate All Fool?s Day in Chennai -- you can experience being made into one any time of the year. With all its history and culture, it is also the best place to come to for other reasons -- a crash course in developing a psychological armor. Modern survival skills require a tough exterior. The best place to learn is in Chennai, where the lessons come for free and are provided even when one doesn?t ask for them.
There are many subplots worth choosing from, for vituperative verbal abuse pours forth unprovoked at markets, amidst parking lots, on public transport, in rush hour traffic, near public utilities, by the water lines and even in places where you least expect it -- like the air-conditioned comfort of an up market store organizing a popular sale which has formidable looking women squabble over the choicest silks.
In buses you are lucky to land a seat at all -- often the presence of a handkerchief or bag or an extended limb ?reserves? a vacated slot even before your befuddled mind has the time to register the vacancy. Women carrying children or the obviously elderly get no concessions in conditions where the fittest have trouble surviving -- be it on the packed suburban locals or on the city buses. In the suburban trains, ticketless vendors who sell everything from pins to pomegranates actually demand you shift in your seat so they may park their bottoms and bags there as they conduct their business.
Not to be outdone are the amazing autowallahs. They have been variously described as rude and ridiculous as they quote astronomical amounts for indefinite distances, opting to stand idle rather than carry the janata for a fair fare. One sunny young chap who probably wasn?t a day over eighteen told this writer his ways were insignificant compared to the shenanigans of the powers-that-be who specialized in periya kollai (big robbery).
Rude repartee is a tradition successfully emulated by the vegetable vendors, flower sellers, pavement shops, household help, milkmen, contract labor, school van drivers, conductors and such other innumerable sorts whose razor sharp tongue holds you responsible for all the ills which assail their life. Come to think of it, Chennians have a very natural excuse for all this aggressive behavior -- we can always blame it on the weather.
Distrust looms large as maids are all presumed guilty and never proven innocent -- housewives hover as they clean the rooms, using the opportunity to indulge in some friendly neighborhood gossip. One branch of a self-help supermarket in my locality has a surfeit of salesgirls whose job is to linger indiscreetly and ensure I help my self in a legal fashion only. Like in chess, social moves are planned much in advance and manipulation elevated to a subtle art. Offense is easily taken and courtesy rarely returned.
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Chennai is ever expanding, a city which spreads out reluctantly into suburbia. High-rises are relatively recent as the pressure on the land pushes real estate upwards. For a long drive full of local sights, George Town and Parry?s Corner could be the right beginning. Leaving behind the wholesale markets of Flower Bazaar, the rickety old pockets of Triplicane and the ceaseless congestion of Perambur, accelerate by the plazas lining Egmore to coast down to the business district around Gemini Flyover, the city?s oldest and still most sensible bit of traffic management. Here lies ?the most expensive piece of real estate in South India? as the Nugambakkam High Road?s Ispahani Centre has often been described. Kodambakkam is nearby, centre of the film industry. It still belts out Rajni blockbusters and Rahman hits with an energy that can only come from high hopes.
Old worldly Mylapore, Alwarpet, Raja Annamalaipuram and Thyagaraya Nagar jostle to retain their centralized charms but the heritage homes have almost totally given way to the onslaught of matchbox apartments, shopping complexes, commercial centers and meager parking lots. Add to that the eclectic range of restaurants, art galleries, theater, poetry and reading circles, multiplexes, lifestyle stores, bowling alleys, discos and coffee pubs -- what isn?t on that list is probably getting added on even as this is being written.
A quiet entrant to the software bandwagon, the city is slowly being recognized as a topnotch alternative to Hyderabad and Bangalore with its Taramani IT corridor the new destination of white-collar yuppies. The old industries centered around automobiles and spare parts have continued to attract new players with Hyundai and Ford setting up their India operations here.
Chennai?s cosmopolitan side does not set its trends or demand obeisance - it just goes about its business. And what a thriving business it is. As Maya Rao, a correspondent for a newspaper puts it, 'If we started a Page 3, we wouldn?t have anything to fill it with. The celebrities and hip party crowds - and they are very much there - wear their low profile like designer second skin. That is very much Chennai - cosmopolitanism and all.' Southwards still come the beach hugging localities, much loved for their cultural consciousness and sunset sea winds. The city stretches and pulls, like a tug of war in which the pressure is never let up, only the players keep piling on.
Retailing is the hottest new trend in Chennai -- a city that is consistently defying its classically conservative categorization. The market is there. And its pitfalls and problems notwithstanding, a great many players are finding this is the perfect place to sell not just clothes or cosmetics but ideas. There are grocery chains, there are chains selling white goods and there are the newest kids in the flock, the lifestyle stores. They have invested huge sums of money on the results of sketchy market research and upbeat gut instinct.
Most of them hedge questions about money and profitability but have every intention of hanging in there . They face finicky buyers who understand VFM. As A.N.Ramesh puts it, ?I go shopping looking for the best deal -- and that includes the ambience and the price.? Does he have any brand favorites? Not really. ?Whoever gives me the best deal,? he repeats. And for a change, there are a whole lot of sellers listening.
They say Chennai is a conservative place with hardly any nightlife to speak of. They could be right. In a city which has too much to do, a nightclub or two (or three) is easily overlooked. Here is a metropolis which loves its filter coffee as much as the many popular pubs which sell the very same brew. If Chennai appears too chivalrous, Madras is entirely in the mind.
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S. Ganesh Kumar, a director of the Reserve Bank of India, seems to have put an end to debate over cryptocurrency's future in the country. Speaking on Monday, he said that virtual currencies would not be allowed for use as a means of payment or settlement in India. Although this is not an immediate ban, the outlook certainly does not look good for Bitcoin in the planet's second most populated country. Ironically-titled, local financial paper Money Control reported Kumar as saying:
Our current position on bitcoins is that we will not be using it for any payments and settlements…though the technology underlying crypto-currencies will not end.
The RBI director's words at the at the FIBAC banking conference in Mumbai on Monday seem to have dashed any hope within the relatively few participants of India's small but growing cryptocurrency community. There are only currently a small handful of companies who accept digital currencies like Bitcoin for goods and services. These are predominantly niche restaurants and sellers of various inconsequential items. The main use case is, as it is elsewhere, as a store of value or investment opportunity. However, there are those who want to see greater adoption and are seeking to make that as easy as possible. Sandeep Goenka of Zebpay, one of India's largest Bitcoin-related companies, said the following of Monday's announcement:
We will do our best to continue with our efforts to educate the government about crypto-currencies… It can be useful for India by turning the country into a fintech hub, to increase financial inclusion, and there are several other benefits of it.
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With a parade of hawkish Federal Reserve speeches putting the possibility of an interest-rate hike as early as later this month on the table, one central banker is getting particular attention because she may be in the White House next year.
Over the past few months, Fed Gov. Lael Brainard has been touted as a possible Treasury secretary if Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton wins the presidency in November, as polls currently suggest.
"Lael Brainard is on the short list for top market and economic jobs inside the Clinton administration," said Chris Krueger, of Cowen and Company's equity and credit research division.
Brainard worked in Bill Clinton's White House in the National Economic Council, eventually becoming the president's sherpa to the Group of Eight industrial nations. President Barack Obama chose Brainard to head the international division at the Treasury Department and then tapped her to move to the U.S. central bank in 2014.
Since joining the Fed, Brainard has become the leading advocate of keeping interest rates low. She has urged the Fed to pay attention to the global economic and financial market conditions and possible feedbacks of a strong dollar into the U.S. economy.
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Rather than shun the spotlight, Brainard is set to speak Monday at 1:15 p.m. at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs. That is the last day for Fed speeches before the quiet period starts Tuesday.
Fed officials will gather on Sept. 20-21 to set interest-rate policy.
Over the past few weeks, Fed officials have stressed that a rate hike would be on the table at the September meeting. Fed Chairwoman Janet Yellen said that the case for a tightening this year had strengthened.
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Odds of a rate hike did move higher over the past few weeks, but weaker-than-expected data for manufacturing and services seemed to convince economists that the Fed would remain on hold and wait for December.
On Friday, Boston Fed President Eric Rosengren, a voting member of the policy committee, said he is in favor of gradual rate hikes.
See:Fed's Rosengren backs interest-rate hike amid concerns on asset prices
On the other hand, Fed Gov. Daniel Tarullo suggested he would rather wait for more signs that inflation was moving higher.
Read: Fed's Tarullo sounds cool to idea of interest-rate hike
Michael Gapen, chief U.S. economist at Barclays, said Brainard's speech could be a major signal of the Fed's intentions in September.
While his base case is that Brainard remains dovish, there is a chance she may switch to back Yellen.
"Having one of the more dovish members of the Fed policy committee deliver the message would convey unity at the board of governors and would, in our view, increase the possibility of September hike," Gapen said.
Odds of a September rate hike rose to 24% on Thursday from 18% after news of Brainard's speech was first reported.
The Fed announced late Thursday that Gov. Daniel Tarullo, another dove, will be interviewed on CNBC on Friday at 10 a.m. Eastern.
Economists at Goldman Sachs said that the election would not stop the Fed from raising rates in September, but the central bank has shied away from surprising markets.
Brainard's speech would be one of Yellen's last opportunities to increase the market-implied probability of a rate hike, Gapen said.
Read: September rate hike would break Fed tradition during election year.
Analysts are also wondering if Brainard would dissent if the Fed decides to go ahead with a rate hike. A dissent would be notable in any case, as formal objections by Fed governors are rare. The last one came in 2005.
And might a formal objection be seen as a vote of no confidence in Fed Chairwoman Janet Yellen by the Clinton camp?
A spokesman for the Fed declined to comment for this article. An email to the Clinton campaign went unanswered.
See: Here's where every Fed official stands on interest rates after Jackson Hole
Diane Swonk, head of DS Economics, said Brainard "is in a bit of a Catch-22."
"No matter what she does it will be viewed in a political spectrum," Swonk said. "She can't take that into account. She has to make decisions on what she thinks is right."
Brainard's independence has already been questioned when federal election records revealed she donated $2,700 to the Clinton campaign.
"There will always people who will jump to that conclusion, but my sense is Brainard feels strongly about her views and they are not politically motivated," said Kathy Bostjancic, an economist at Oxford Economics USA.
See:What the jobs report will tell us about the Fed and the economy
Tom Simons, an economist at Jefferies, said he thought that Brainard might dissent.
"Regardless of how strong the data prints, I think she will resist a rate hike. If it gets down to it, I think she would dissent at the September meeting if the rest of the committee favored a hike," Simons said in an email.
Bostjancic and Swonk said they doubted Brainard would dissent from a September rate hike.
"Nothing is evident [on the global front] that says you shouldn't move," Bostjancic said.
"There are concerns about China but the economy has not collapsed. China is managing its currency without wild fluctuations and the outcome of the Brexit vote seems not as dire as some forecast," she added.
Swonk noted that Brainard did not dissent from the first rate hike last December.
"You dissent if you think it is the worst thing in the world," Swonk said. The Fed is likely to move either in September or December, so arguing about three months "would be splitting hairs," she added.
Krueger said he didn't think how Brainard voted at the September meeting would impact whether the Clinton camp tapped her for a top post.
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Don Pedro is the Prince of Aragon. He has just won a war against his illegitimate half-brother Don John. He reconciles himself to his brother, though he doesn't speak to him much and may merely be keeping him close to keep an eye on him.
Don Pedro is the Prince of Aragon. He has just won a war against his illegitimate half-brother Don John. He reconciles himself to his brother, though he doesn't speak to him much and may merely be keeping him close to keep an eye on him.
Don John is a bastard, in both the legal and ethical senses of the term. The essence of his character is that he is evil.
Claudio is a Count of Don Pedro's suite, who has distinguished himself in the recent war. He is from Florence, though he has an emotional uncle living in Messina.
Benedick is a gentleman of Padua serving in Don Pedro's army. He wears a beard at the beginning of the play. According to Beatrice, he adopts a new best friend once a month, possibly out of a concern for money; his present one is Claudio.
Leonato, the governor of Messina, is an older man, with a white beard. He has a daughter, Hero, and is the guardian of an orphaned niece, Beatrice.
Antonio is Leonato's brother. An old man, he has a tendency to wag his head in a characteristic way. He apparently has a son who provides for the music in Leonato's house.
Balthasar is an attendant of Don Pedro's and a musician. A singer, he most likely plays the lute to accompany himself.
Conrade is one of Don John's followers. He attempts to cheer Don John up and to convince him that he should be, at the least, happy that Don Pedro has taken him back, and use that favor to pursue his own ends.
Borachio is one of Don John's followers. His name tells us well enough that he is a drunkard. He also has, however, a crafty mind.
Friar Francis is in the tradition of Romeo and Juliet's Friar Laurence; both are long-winded, well-meaning, somewhat interfering gentlemen who think it is a fine idea to make people believe a young girl is dead.
Dogberry is the constable of the Watch, whose job is to patrol the streets of Messina at night and keep order. Dogberry has very few doubts about himself.
Verges is the Headborough, and Dogberry's partner as commander of the Watch. He is an old man, and seems to be completely under Dogberry's thumb.
The Sexton is in charge of examining the men detained by the Watch, and it is his misfortune that the Watch should be commanded by Dogberry.
A Boy attending on Benedick is none too bright. He fetches Benedick's book at his request.
Hero is Leonato's daughter. A sweet and obedient girl overshadowed by her cousin Beatrice, she almost never speaks in her elders' presence.
Beatrice is Leonato's orphaned niece. She appears to be somewhat taller than Hero, as well as older.
Margaret is Hero's waiting-gentlewoman. A fashion-obsessed flirt who requires good dancing abilities in her men, she is witty enough to hold her own against both Benedick and Beatrice in certain circumstances.
Ursula is one of Hero's waiting-gentlewomen.
The Messenger is sent by Don Pedro to announce his coming to Leonato.
The First Watchman suggests either Seacoal or Hugh Oatcake as leaders of the patrol, on the basis of their ability to read and write. He joins in the testimony to the Sexton.
The Second Watchman (George Seacoal) is a member of the Watch who is able to read and write, and is therefore put in charge of the nightly patrol.
The Watchmen (one of whom is Hugh Oatcake) are part of the neighbourhood watch that Dogberry commands, charged with patrolling the streets of Messina at night.
A Lord is among Claudio's and Don Pedro's suite when they visit Hero's tomb.
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Tucson Representative Randall Friese has proposed a law requiring motorcycle riders to wear helmets, with fines collected for violating the law going into a fund to help defray the medical costs of treating resulting head injuries.
The proposal includes a $500 fine for violators of the law. $300 of the fine will go into a fund that will pay for motorcycle head injury patients.
Shockingly, a similar proposed bill failed to pass last year. Arizona is a state of comparative negligence, so not only might a helmetless motorcycle rider suffer a serious head injury in a motor vehicle collision that was not their fault, but any claim against the at-fault driver would likely be reduced by the percentage that their own negligence (in not wearing a helmet) is to blame for their injuries.
Yes, motorcycle helmets may not be fashionable, but does that outweigh the safety benefits of wearing a helmet, not to mention the potential economic benefits of wearing a helmet.
Head injuries can be very costly to treat, with or without health insurance. More importantly, the residuals of a head injury can leave an individual with serious permanent cognitive deficits, such as impaired memory, speech, earning capacity, etc.
The costs associated with such permanent injuries can be devastating to the individual, their family, and potentially the government.
Of course, this all assumes the victim survives the collision and their injuries. Now is the time to put safety ahead of vanity. Please call your representatives and implore them to get behind this proposed bill.
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"Similar to racing, in the 'tech business,' when the light turns green there's no hiding, you either win, or you lose – there's nothing in between." — Peter Gillett
In this podcast session, I had the opportunity to speak with Peter Gillett, a serial entrepreneur who is currently the CEO of both Zuant, a mobile lead capture platform and Marketpoint Recall, a global recall and crisis management company.
For those who may not be familiar with Peter, he has been a pioneer in database marketing since the 1970s and created the world's first web-based CRM system funded by Lucent Technologies in the 1990s. Currently, he spends most of his time driving product development and client roll-outs of Zuant's award-winning mobile lead capture app across US corporations including Tesla, Pirelli, McLaren, Verizon and others.
With now over four decades of experience in marketing and sales, Peter is a highly sought-after thought leader on hot-button topics including mobile and GDPR. He also writes a regular monthly column series for Target Marketing Magazine called, Around the World, where he explores what's new in marketing and sales from a global perspective by doing Q&As with digital innovators making an impact on the marketing and sales industry.
Peter is passionate about motorsport racing and tech innovation that enables highly visual, cost-effective versions of the 'original databased marketing' concept to be offered to top global companies.
Here are a few highlights from our discussion:
04:25 — How a busy CEO of 2 global tech companies starts his day, manages his time, and deals with overwhelm.
08:57 — Why Peter feels its crucial that product development stay in sync with marketing and sales.
10:43 — Peter's take on the differences between the UK, European, and North American tech scene.
14:29 — Peter's experience creating the world's first web-based CRM system (pre-Salesforce) and how it led to founding Zuant.
28:00 — Why Peter feels tradeshows and events are back in fashion.
30:50 — Why Peter feels "simplicity and speed" sits at the core of scaling a tech business.
You can listen to the full podcast here
Happy Holidays!
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ISLAMABAD, Oct 2 (APP): Chief of Army Staff (COAS)
International Squash Championship 2016 concluded here on Sunday at Mushaf Squash Complex, where COAS General Raheel Sharif was chief guest.
According to Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR), Omar
Abdul Meguid, from Egypt won the championship by defeating Ivan Yuen of Malaysia in three straight games.
The COAS witnessed the match and gave away trophies and prizes to the winners.
Championship was organized by Army Sports Directorate in
collaboration with Pakistan Squash Federation.
This Championship, an annual feature on the Pakistan Squash Federation calendar has been revived this year after a suspension for 8 years in a bid to woo international sports and contribute to building a healthy society.
Besides Pakistan, world ranking players from Egypt, France,
Hong Kong, Jordan, Malaysia and USA participated in the week long championship.
The COAS Congratulated the winners and organizers of the
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This past week, a few of my colleagues and I had the good fortune to host Catherine Wong, Domo's amazing Chief Product Officer, along with several up and coming product management execs for a Product Management master class dinner. I've gotten to know Catherine really well over the past 4+ years in my work on the Domo board. Catherine joined Domo from Adobe, and she had previously worked with Domo CEO & Founder Josh James at Omniture. She's an incredible executive. Product, engineering and design all report into Catherine, and she's turned Domo's product into a powerhouse. The discussion was lively. Here are a few of the highlights:
- Use a Multi-Layer Cake Strategy to Get Customer Feedback for an Enterprise Product. It can be difficult to get deep customer feedback for enterprise products. Catherine prescribes using many different approaches. For example, (i) develop a customer advisory board (CAB) and make sure the developers and product teams get to listen in to their conversations to get the emotion of the feedback, not just the metrics, (ii) run usability tests and make sure the developers and product teams are there to observe them, (iii) listen in to support calls (even have developers take some of the support calls) and beta program feedback sessions, (iv) develop direct lines of communication with your most advanced customers AND the customers who break your product most frequently to understand why, (v) appoint a dedicated support liaison within product, and (vi) have a feedback button within your product. Catherine believes its imperative that the engineering, design and product teams viscerally feel the feedback from the market, so each of these techniques is key.
- Managing Product, Design & Engineering Together Has its Benefits. Although many companies split these three disciplines into distinct units, Catherine believes having each under her gives Domo some unique advantages. Catherine has created several pods with developers and embedded product and design folks. She seats each pod together and ensures the members identify with their pod and the features they each own. The pods develop more agility this way, getting to know their features well and allowing the pods to draw on their relationships when tension arises. With a strong leader and a healthy tension amongst the leaders of each of these groups, great things can happen.
- Manage By Influence for Maximum Success. Catherine stressed that the ability to influence is critical to succeed in the Product Leadership role. To manage inevitable conflicts with peer leaders of engineering and sales, find core company goals that everyone is agreed on and map the conflict back to the core goals. Demonstrate empathy as well – most people respond best to a human connection. Also, seek senior mentors in the organization to ensure you have the big picture context. With your team, you can never be too stingy with praise, and little things can mean a lot (such as a sticker series for new feature releases). Managing by influence with the development team can really come in handy when the inevitable tension arises when deciding between fixing "broken windows" and cleaning up technical debt in the product versus working on new, exciting features.
- The Product & Engineering Organizations Need to Focus on Sales. Although this isn't always the case in other organizations, Catherine believes in the primacy of Sales, and her organization is very focused on serving the needs of Sales as a result. While she believes in keeping an open mind with respect to re-ordering and re-prioritizing certain features to help Sales win in the field, she draws the line at fracturing the code base however. When conflicts arise, escalation to the CEO is critical. The CEO then needs to hold both Sales and Product accountable to the commitments they've made. Setting up a Product Leadership Counsel internally that includes execs from Sales as well as other functions is key. Lasty, the Product leader must also learn to line up feature announcements and be prepared to charismatically launch them at customer events to help Sales.
- Keep Your Organizational Structure Flat Wherever Possible. Catherine also preaches keeping the product, engineering and design organization as flat as possible for as long possible. The need to insert additional management layers will be apparent when new feature production slows. Embedding both graphic design and production design together is key to ensure great ideas make it to production. Matrix reporting so that product, engineering and design also report into their respective leaders as well as their pods will ensure consistency of design and feature rollout timing.
Thanks to Catherine for her amazing advice and to all who joined for participating in a great evening!


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On June 5, a housekeeper discovered the lifeless body of fashion designer and entrepreneur Kate Spade. Nearby, there was a letter written by Spade, addressed to her daughter.
Police would later rule the death a suicide by hanging, and family members would describe a woman who, despite her immense wealth and success, suffered from years of depression and anxiety.
Spade is one of 25 renowned people from the world of business the world lost in 2018. Others include the founder of the world's largest gold mining company, the creator of life-saving vaccines, a milliner whose work was coveted by members of royalty, and an outspoken proponent of company shareholder rights.
As expected, most of the individuals listed here lived long and prosperous lives – and most are men, including the oldest, beer magnate William Coors, who died at 102.
24/7 Wall St. pored through more than 130 obituaries from 2018 reported in local, national, and international media sources to identify high-profile individuals from the world of business who have died so far this year. We focused specifically on people who succeeded in their careers as business leaders, entrepreneurs, and/or founders of well-known companies.
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Global, Stallion forge UFL Cup finals clash
MANILA, Philippines—Undermanned Global stunned Loyola Meralco, 2-1, in controversial fashion Tuesday night to clinch the first finals berth in the United Football League Cup before a huge crowd at the Rizal Memorial Stadium.
Rising to the occasion, Cameroonian striker Alex Obiang and Sudanese forward Izzo El-Habbib were on target for Global, which missed nine key players due to national team commitments.
Stallion forged a finals duel with Global, the reigning league titlist and 2010 UFL Cup winner, after a thrilling 3-1 win over Green Archers United in extra time.
Ruben Doctora struck twice, but it was Lee Woon Hyung's 115th minute goal that proved decisive as Stallion finally made all the pressure it put against a stubborn Archers backline pay.
Doctora cancelled out Tating Pasilan's 55th minute strike with a close-range effort 15 minutes later, before sealing the win by firing home from inside the box in the 119th minute.
Both teams finished with 10 men in their lineup with Lawrence Ikegwuruka sent off in the 64th minute after picking up his second yellow card for violent conduct. Nam Yeol Woo was also dismissed just before regulation ended for a second yellow.
Among the players missing from the Global side were regular starters Misagh Bahadoran, Jeff Christiaens, Denis Wolf, Patrick Reichelt, Marwin Angeles and Juani Guirado.
But the remaining players, usually reserves when Global is at full strength, stepped up for Dan Palami's side as they survived a late wave from the Sparks to book a return trip to the finals.
The finals is slated Monday at 7 p.m. at the Rizal Memorial Stadium.
James Younghusband's strike four minutes from time set the stage for a thrilling finish, but there was further drama when Loyola players rushed to referee Allan Martinez as the final whistle blew in the 96th minute because they were not notified of how much time was added for stoppages in the second half.
Global took the lead in the sixth minute when skipper Yu Hoshide picked out Obiang at the right, before the Cameroonian expertly finished the ball past Sparks keeper Ref Cuaresma.
Clear-cut chances came few and far between for both teams in the opening 45 minutes for both teams. But the Sparks defense were caught napping on a couple of occasions, leading to threatening balls from Obiang and El-Habbib.
Global opened the second half on the ascendancy with El-Habbib sending a free header to Cuaresma a minute into the second half.
But the Sparks began finding their stride and a hattrick of chances went begging for Loyola. From a quick restart, Phil Younghusband released James, who, however, shoots over with only Global keeper Roland Sadia to beat in the 63rd minute.
Some fine interplay led to a Phil Younghusband chance three minutes later, but the national team striker screwed his shot wide from eight yards out.
El-Habbib scored what turned out to be the marginal goal in the 83rd minute, shrugging off Korean defenders Jang Jo-woon and Park Min-ho before coolly rounding out Cuaresma.
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Bob Cryer worked for Procter & Gamble at their corporate offices in Cincinnati, Ohio from 1963 to 1994. He managed departments that provided business analysis and management consulting services to P&G's product development, marketing, sales and finance departments. In 1994, he started up his own business, Money Management Strategies (MMS), that offered financial planning and investment advice to P&G executives. MMS had about 50 customers and over $60 million of assets under management.
Bob became a SCORE volunteer in 1999 where he taught business planning and marketing seminars and helped individuals develop business and marketing plans for micro business startups and re‑launches. In 2002, he started up a nonprofit called the Executive Coaches of Orange County which helps nonprofit managers, on a pro-bono basis, develop and implement strategies to enable their organization to do more of their good work in our community. EC of OC has 24 volunteers who are coaching 52 nonprofit managers in Orange County, California.
Bob has a B.S. and an M.S. in Electrical Engineering, and an MBA in Operations Research, all from Cornell University.
Areas of Expertise:
- Business Planning
- Nonprofit Board Development
- Product or Program Development and Marketing
- Sales, Sales Promotion & Nonprofit Fund Raising
- Strategy Development and Deployment
- Operating Principals and Processes
Bob lives in Newport Coast, CA and has two daughters and four grandchildren. He plays golf twice a week, sails once a week and enjoys gardening, dining out, the performing arts and monthly mini-vacations at resorts in Southern California.


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Wish you and family a Happy New Year.
May the peace, love, hope and joy of the season be with you and your dear ones this Christmas and right through the Year.
Wish you and family a Happy New Year.
May the peace, love, hope and joy of the season be with you and your dear ones this Christmas and right through the Year.
Varanasi,also called Benares, is one of the oldest living cities in the world and the oldest in India. Mark Twain, the famous author, said " Benares is older than history, older than tradition, older even than legend, and looks twice as old as all of them put together." I have been to the city a few times and love to go back to it again and again. I like the mysticism and spirituality that envelopes the city. Besides, I am comfortable with all the chaos of the city – two wheelers , four wheelers, man pulled rickshaws and horse pulled carriages – all vying to outdo the other on narrow roads of the city. Varanasi is also called the "spiritual capital " and "cultural capital"of India.
It is a key centre for Yoga besides a thriving city for pure silk garment industry and Zari ( brocade ) embroidery. The zari work was done with real gold and silver threads which were woven into the fabrics . Though majorly imitation zari is common now , but still one manages to get real zari fabrics provided you are willing to pay for it.
Below are examples of exquisite brocade on a silk stole along with self weaving work. The colors, feel,brocade and hand weaving is amazing.
Brocade on Silk
Fabrics : © Sonalika Agarwal Collection
Varanasi is situated on river Ganges and the river is integral part of the city. We witnessed the "Ganga Aarti" – ritual of offering prayers to the river Ganges …it was an hour long ceremony and incense and beautiful lamps were used. The "Ganga Aarti" or Ganges Ceremony takes place on the banks of river Ganges and is a truly divine experience. I feel we revere the river so much , we should keep it clean also.Pictures are below.
The Ganga Aarti @ Benares
Photos : © Sonalika Agarwal Collection
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Fantastic…my favorite magazine has focused on Multiple Intelligence theory this month! There is an insightful new interview with one of my heroes Dr. Howard Gardner.
Check out their site http://www.edutopia.org/ I strongly recommend that you sign up for Edutopia. The benefits are great, including illuminating webinars. This month, I viewed a webinar which featured Dr. Judy Willis. Dr. Willis is a middle school teacher and neurologist and authority on learning-centered brain research and classroom strategies derived from this research.
Kindly read my advice published on their Sage Advice page. Just click and scroll down.
What's your resolution for the new school year?
Sage Advice: Teaching to a Diversity of Abilities
How do you address the multiple intelligences in your classroom?
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Hello Friends,
Next Friday, I will be participating in an event at the Black Box theater at Adelphi University. I feel honored to be have been selected along with another New York teacher. If you find that your calendar is not filled in next Friday, please join me at Adelphi University where I will be sharing my journey in education with the Adelphi college students. Kindly RSVP below. This is a wonderful new program and the beginning of a great new way teachers can share their expertise with incoming teachers. My thanks to Professor Diana Fiege for her professionalism, warm spirit and positive energy!
Friday April 24th
Ruth S. Ammon School of Education Alumni
C.O.A.C.H. Inside the Teacher's Classroom
Black Box Theatre
Performing Arts Center
Garden City Campus
C.O.A.C.H. Inside the Teacher's Classroom
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Join two alumni hosts from the Ruth S. Ammon School of Education,as they take us inside the journey they have traveled to become the educators they are today.
C.O.A.C.H. hosts are currently elementary and secondary level educators.
RSVP by April 17, 2009
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In re John A. Biewer of Toledo, Inc., et al
U.S. EPA Region 5 ("Region") appeals from two nearly identical sets of decisions issued in two separate enforcement matters, each involving a single violation of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act ("RCRA") as amended, 42 U.S.C. §§ 6901 to 6992k. The alleged violation involved the failure to comply with closure requirements governing drip pads at each of two wood treatment facilities. Each matter involved the same parent company, John A. Biewer Company, Inc. ("JAB Inc."), and a closely-held subsidiary who was the owner of the respective facility: John A. Biewer of Ohio ("JAB Ohio") and John A. Biewer of Toledo ("JAB Toledo"), respectively.
In each of these matters, the Administrative Law Judge ("ALJ") issued an accelerated decision on liability, concluding that JAB Inc. was neither derivatively nor directly liable for the violations at either of the facilities. JAB Ohio and JAB Toledo each conceded liability for the violation at their respective facility, after which the ALJ ordered a hearing on the appropriateness of the penalty. The Region refused to participate in that ALJ-ordered hearing, arguing that there was no genuine issue of material fact at issue with respect to the penalty and that Respondents were not entitled to a hearing. Concluding that the Region had failed to present any evidence at the hearing on penalty, the ALJ awarded a penalty of zero in each matter.
On appeal, the Region asserts that the ALJ erred in determining that the parent company could not be held liable for the violations at each facility. The Region also asserts that the ALJ erred in awarding a zero penalty against JAB Toledo and JAB Ohio. The Respondents disagree and argue that, based on the conduct of counsel for the Region, they are entitled to an award of attorneys' fees and costs.
Held: The Board concludes that a zero penalty against JAB Toledo and JAB Ohio is appropriate as a sanction in this case due to the Region's refusal to present evidence of an appropriate penalty at the penalty hearing in violation of an ALJ order. The Consolidated Rules of Practice Governing the Assessment of Civil Penalties unquestionably provide the ALJ with the responsibility and the discretion to determine an appropriate civil penalty amount based on the evidence in the record, in accordance with any statutory penalty criteria, after taking into account applicable civil penalty guidance. The rules also provide the ALJ with the authority to conduct administrative hearings, examine witnesses, and to hear and decide questions of facts, law or discretion. The Board will not condone an Agency counsel's refusal to produce evidence at a hearing on the appropriateness of a penalty when ordered to do so by the presiding officer. To do otherwise would undermine the duly delegated authority of the ALJ, as well as call into question the fairness and impartiality of administrative enforcement proceedings of the Agency. When a Region refuses to comply with an ALJ order to present evidence at a hearing on penalty, as occurred in these matters on appeal before the Board, both the ALJ and the Board have the authority and the discretion to award a zero penalty as a sanction. Thus, under the circumstances of these matters, the Board concludes a zero penalty is appropriate based on, and as a sanction for, Regional Counsel's refusal to put on any evidence at the penalty hearing as ordered by the ALJ.


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Rusty Red Dunes of the Namib Desert, Namibia24.7S 15.2E
The Namib Desert, which appears orange and rusty red, stretches 2000 km (1200 mi) along the southwestern African coast, where a burning desert touches an icy sea. In contrast to its length, the average width of the desert is only 113 km (70 mi).
The hyper-arid Namib ecosystem is greatly affected by ocean winds and the Benguela Current. They temper the climate of the coastal desert, bringing life to the shores, and allowing for sediments deposited into the ocean to be carried back inland to form the Namib's extensive dunes, the highest in the world.
These dunes are surrounded by arid plains, which never receive enough rainfall to permit grasses and shrubs to gain a foothold and colonize them.
Although there are other coastal deserts bounded by cool ocean currents, the Namib is the only desert in the world where endemic flora and fauna have evolved in virtually vegetationless dunes.


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A regular feature on the TREMEC blog is a spotlight on the people behind the wheel of #TREMECequipped vehicles. We share stories about their vehicle and why they enjoy shifting gears for themselves and working the third pedal. This month's customer spotlight is on Bill Armstrong and his Magnum 6-speed–equipped 1966 Ford Fairlane 500.
Bill bought the Fairlane when he was 17 years old, and drove with the factory automatic transmission for about 20 years. By 2012, he was tired of the boredom and chucked the automatic onto the scrap heap, replacing it with a TREMEC TKO 600 five-speed to bring some excitement to driving.
Later, Bill replaced the TREMEC TKO 600 with a new TREMEC Magnum 6-speed. He installed a McLeod RXT streetable, 1,000-HP–capable clutch and an American Powertrain White Lightning offset shifter. Bill used the TREMEC Toolbox App to get things set up properly and to find the proper driveline angles for connecting the Magnum to the rear end.
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The new trailer has gone live for Super 8, the mysterious new sci-fi movie from director J.J. Abrams and producer Steven Spielberg; the trailer, which premiered with Iron Man 2, is on Apple.com, and the movie opens next summer.
Colin Farrell has signed to star as Jerry the vampire opposite Star Trek's Anton Yelchin in Fright Night, the upcoming remake of the 1985 horror comedy movie, Deadeline.com reported; The Hollywood Reporter's Heat Vision, meanwhile, reports that Australian actress Toni Collette has also joined Fright Night.
Former Buffy the Vampire Slayer star Nicholas Brendon, who was arrested in March, has checked into rehab, RadarOnline.com reported; Brendon, 38, has said that alcohol and the sleeping pill Sonata were to blame for his confrontation with police.
Director Michael Bay says that Skids and Mudflap, the controversial robot twins from Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, will not be back for next summer's Transformers 3 in a message on his online forum: "The Twins are not back in T3."
The CW will air reruns of Moonlight on Thursdays at 9 p.m. ET/PT, beginning June 3, following encore episodes of the first season of The Vampire Diaries.