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DOS is not dead
...like punk is not dead
Yeah, the famous ''distros'' are ''dead'' (MS-DOS,PC-DOS...), but some are still ''alive''.
I started this topic because saw that one member suprised with how anyone today use DOS
Today DOS is cheap system to someone who has small private bussines (as doctor, dentist...) and why he/she for one program which use to buy expensive licence for multitasks OS?
DOS has long history, so you can find very big collection of software for it.
Currently ''distros'' are:
-DR-DOS 7.03 by DR DOS Inc.
-ROM-DOS 7.1 by Datalight
-PTS-DOS 32 by PhysTech Software
-ZDOS by Zebor Technology
and there are some open-source ''distros'' which are theoretically immortal:
-FreeDOS (I think version 1.1)
-RTXDOS 2000 (derivate of RXDOS)
and smaller, not so famous ''distros''...
DOS available and for other architectures as MSX,PDP-11...and almost those ''distros'' are dead...
Personally, I wouldn't be so risky to base a business on DOS. While a quick Google search did reveal that some word processors are still available, I question how long drivers will remain current. Equally problematic, a large part of business is based upon sharing documents, & when a potential partner or customer wants you to write up a proposal & it isn't written in a Word-compatible form, you may have killed the deal.
DOS proper was also limited to 640KB of memory. Yes, there was DPMI, but do all third-party applications support it?
The problem in advocating that DOS is not dead is that anyone seriously using it will be entirely on their own -- meaning all support, configuration, & troubleshooting. While there may be someone who has the technical acumen to fix everything that breaks or needs to be enhanced, how much time will they be dedicating to the effort? Will the core business suffer from lack of attention?
While it might be a romantic notion that DOS can be made viable today, the rest of the world most likely doesn't share in the nostalgia.
Absolutelly, for longtime distance future is guaranted for BSDs' & Linuxes' distros as sure.Proprietary OSes will available as their publishers. DOSes are almost proprietary OSes, and only one open source version is still active, but its development is so, so, so slow (my opinion)...DOS is good as I said for small bussines if customer use one or two programs and have no time to learn other OSes.And they are the best as you said for nostalgia, as ZX Spectrum emulator and nowday free or public domain games for it
Also there are so many fakes maybe more than any other OS, and in the most cases they are from Russia newer (and they are absolutely illegal) and older from East bloc (in some cases their legality is unknown because they are so good clones of Western famous DOSes).
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I use FreeDOS for a LiveUSB/CD I make. It includ~1 some basic utiliti~1 such as hard disk testing tools etc. we use at work.
Don't worry, it also includes a FreeBSD part
The main reason I use FreeDOS by the way is because our techni~1 are used to the various tools. But it also comes in handy when flashing mainbo~1, even some fairly recent ones only support flashing the BIOS from DOS.
In general, however, I believe DOS is a piece of junk, and most contem~1 OS's fared better on almost every single point at least since the late 80's...
UNIX was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because that would also stop you from doing clever things.
I laughed, cried, then threw up all over my monitor.
Well played.
Yeah, I would like to see in near future reborned but as free, open source OS which will be similar as Windows 9x/Me (easier to say DOS-based daemonly-good GUI )...
Dos can never be dead .
With FreeDOS well on it's way, DOS can never truly be dead.
FreeDOS is shipped by a good deal of manufacters on various live distributions.
Interested by the picture for PTS-DOS, http://www.phystechsoft.com/ptsdos.
I wonder how many nuclear power plants still use DOS. I guess it would be a much safer bet than Windows XP+ and the online activation ensuring it will die off (and thus ensuring nuclear meltdown).
I heard OS/2 was a popular option with power stations.
My first "love" was in an office I worked at; a DEC Rainbow 100 running CP/M.
I learned about PC's on DOS 2.1; it was on a PCjr. Don't laugh! It was all I could afford; the Compaq Portable was $2,500 and the IBM PC was over $3,000- this is 1980 prices.
Batch menus, QEMM memory manager, PC File, Central Point's PC-Tools, dBase III....ah, the good old days.
Yet - I can see that DOS had some beauty in its simplicity. And, for apps that were well debugged, the reliability was quite high (as per the nuke quote). The next time you're in a shop, take a peek around the clerk to the POS. You'll be surprised at how many shops still use good ol DOS POS software.
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The last time i used it was when i've done a firmware and BIOS update on my LSI RAID Controller...
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UNION, N.J. (AP) — An emaciated child found inside an apartment where his mother had been dead for days was released from a hospital Thursday and placed in temporary foster care.
The 4-year-old boy, whose name has not been released, was discovered malnourished and naked in an overheated apartment Tuesday. Maintenance workers had reported a foul odor emanating from the chain-locked apartment in Union Township in northern New Jersey.
Police forced the front door open and found the child weak but alert and alive. They discovered the body of the child's mother in a back bedroom. Police believe she may have been dead for several days, and they discovered the child had been eating from a bag of sugar. The child told police he knew there was food in the refrigerator, but he wasn't strong enough to open the door.
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Ireland Archives and Libraries
Archives collect and preserve public records and historical documents. Libraries collect mostly published sources, such as books, maps, and microfilm. This section describes the archives, libraries, and other centers that serve as Ireland's major repositories of genealogical and historical sources.
Many resources for Irish research are available on the Internet. Other sources are available only in archives and libraries in the United Kingdom and Ireland. A Web page on the Genealogy of the United Kingdom and Ireland (GenUKI) at www.genuki.org.uk/big/irl/#Archives summarizes national and local collections.
Contact information, including links to individual Web sites, for archives, libraries and specialized places are found on the Archon directory at www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/archon/. Some of the Web sites may have online catalogs.
If you plan to visit one of the repositories discussed, write and ask about its collections, hours, services, and fees a few months in advance. Also ask if a reader's ticket (a paper indicating you are a responsible researcher) is required to view the records, and ask how to obtain one.
Remember the Family History Library may have printed or microfilmed copies of the records you need, so check its holdings before you go abroad.
English Repositories
Because England ruled Ireland for much of its history, many records pertaining to the Irish are found in English repositories. The major English archives that have Irish records are:
The National Archives
Ruskin Avenue, Kew
Richmond, Surrey TW9 4DU
Internet: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/
British Library,
Department of Western Manuscripts
Great Russell Street
London WCIB 3DG
Internet: http://www.bl.uk/collections/manuscripts.html
British Library,
India Office Library and Records
197 Blackfriars Road
London SEI 8NG
Internet: http://dsal.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/oioc.py
British Library, Newspaper Library
Colindale Avenue
London NW9 5HE
Internet: http://www.bl.uk/collections/newspapers.html
Records dealing with the Irish may be found in other English archives as well.
Irish Repositories
Ireland has five major types of repositories that contain genealogical information:
- National archives and libraries
- Public libraries and museums
- Religious archives
- Heritage or genealogical centres
- Other archives
National Archives and Libraries
The National Archives and the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland. Both the National Archives and the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland collect records for all of Ireland. Neither staff does major research for patrons, but both may conduct brief searches if you supply them with sufficient information.
The National Archives contains records previously held by the Public Record Office at Four Courts, Dublin and by the State Paper Office in Dublin (neither of which exists today). Records at the National Archives include Church of Ireland parish records, gravestone inscriptions, census returns, probate records, deeds, Tithe Applotment books, rebellion and outrage papers, convict reference files, and other historical and genealogical sources. The address is:
National Archives
Bishop Street
Dublin 8
Internet: http://www.nationalarchives.ie/
The Public Record Office of Northern Ireland has a fairly complete collection of church records (all denominations) for all of Northern Ireland as well as some records for the counties of Donegal, Cavan, and Monaghan. The office's holdings also include estate papers, gravestone inscriptions, census records, Tithe Applotment books, valuation lists, and other historical and genealogical sources. The address is:
Public Record Office of Northern Ireland
66 Balmoral Avenue
Belfast BT9 6NY
Internet: http://www.proni.gov.uk/
National Library of Ireland. The National Library is Ireland's main repository of filmed Catholic parish registers. Other records on deposit at the National Library include newspapers, city and regional directories, estate records, the Householders Index, and Griffith's Primary Valuation. The library's staff does not do commissioned searches. The address is:
National Library of Ireland
Kildare Street
Dublin 2
Internet: http://www.nli.ie/
Genealogical Office. The records of the Genealogical Office deal mainly with heraldry. The office's holdings include information extracted from records that were destroyed when the Public Record Office burned.
The records of the Genealogical Office are not available to the public. Some of the records, however, have been microfilmed and these films may be available at other repositories. The office does not do commissioned research. The office does provide a consultation service that gives detailed guidance, for a fee, to people who are doing research on their own families. For more information on the Genealogical Office, see the chapter by that name in:
Grenham, John. Tracing Your Irish Ancestors: The Complete Guide. Dublin, Ireland: Gill and Macmillan, 1992. (FHL book Ref 941.5 D27gj.)
The address is:
Genealogical Office
2 Kildare Street
Dublin 2
Internet: http://www.nli.ie/h_genoff.htm
Public Libraries and Museums
Each county and most major cities in Ireland have a main library. Many of these libraries have a local and family history collection. These collections may include estate records, newspapers, gravestone inscriptions, minute books of various local and county government agencies, poor law records, family pedigrees, and histories. Some libraries have indexed parts of their collections.
County or specialty museums may also contain genealogical records, including estate, military, tax, church, and business or employment records. For addresses of Irish libraries and museums, see Helferty, Seamus, and Raymond Refausse, eds. Directory of Irish Archives. 2nd ed. Blackrock, Ireland: Irish Academic Press, 1993, (FHL book Ref 941.5 A34h, 1993.)
Religious Archives
Religious archives contain records of a particular denomination. Several Irish religious archives and their addresses are listed in the "Church Records" section of this outline.
Heritage or Genealogical Centres
Local heritage centres, sometimes called genealogical centres, are a recent development in Ireland. These centres are currently indexing church records, mainly Catholic parish registers. Some centres are also indexing Tithe Applotment books, Griffith's Primary Valuation, the 1901 census, and gravestone inscriptions. The centres are computerizing their indexes.
Centre records are not open to the public. Centre staff, however, will search their indexes and supply information for a fee. For more information about the heritage centres, see:
Directory of Parish Registers Indexed in Ireland.Naas, Ireland: Irish Family History Society, 1992. (FHL book Ref 941.5 K23d.) This work provides a county by county list of centres, including addresses, phone numbers, and descriptions of the records each centre has indexed.
Other Archives
Other archives also contain information of genealogical value. Three such archives are described below. Others are discussed in the books listed under General Guides below.
Linen Hall Library. The Linen Hall Library has an extensive collection of genealogical and heraldic material. Some of its holdings are duplicated in other repositories such as the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland, the National Library of Ireland, and the National Archives. Others of its holdings, such as its printed family histories, are unique. The address is:
Linen Hall Library
17 Donegall Square North
Belfast BT1 5GD
Internet: http://www.linenhall.com/
Trinity College Library. Among other genealogical and historical records, the Manuscripts Department of Trinity College Library has a collection of medieval manuscripts, the 1798 rebellion papers, and some Church of Ireland parish records for Dublin. The address is:
Trinity College Library
College Street
Dublin 2
Internet: http://www.tcd.ie/Library/
Valuation Office. The Valuation Office holds the Griffith's Primary Valuation records and accompanying maps (see the "Taxation" section of this outline). The office's post-1868 valuation records and maps are of the Republic of Ireland only. The address is:
'Valuation Office
6 Ely Place
Dublin 2
Internet: http://www.valoff.ie/
General Guides
Guides to archives and libraries in Ireland and Northern Ireland include:
Foster, Janet, and Julia Sheppard.British Archives: A Guide to Archive Resources in the United Kingdom. 3rd ed. New York, New York: Macmillan Publishers, 1995. (FHL book Ref 942 J54f 1995; microfilm number 763911.) This guide lists the addresses, major records, and publications of several repositories in Northern Ireland. The guide is indexed by county and by type of collection.
Grenham, John. "Research Services, Societies and Repositories." In Tracing Your Irish Ancestors: The Complete Guide. This chapter lists the names, addresses, phone numbers, and hours of various repositories in both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland.
Helferty, Seamus, and Raymond Refausse, eds. Directory of Irish Archives. 2nd ed. Blackrock, Ireland: Irish Academic Press, 1993, (FHL book Ref 941.5 A34h, 1993.) This book alphabetically lists for both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland each repository, its address, its major record holdings, and any guides to its collections. The book is indexed by county and by record subject.
Inventories, Registers, Catalogs
Many archives have inventories, registers, catalogs, guides, directories, or periodicals that describe the archive's records and how to use them. If possible, study these guides before visiting an archive so that you can use your time there more effectively.
Some indexes to holdings in Irish archives are:
Hayes, Richard J. Manuscript Sources for the History of Irish Civilisation. 11 vols. Boston, Massachusetts: G. K. Hall & Co., 1965. (FHL book Ref Q 941.5 A5h; film 1,440,939-43.)
Hayes, Richard J.Sources for the History of Irish Civilisation: Articles in Irish Periodicals. 9 vols. Boston, Massachusetts: G. K. Hall and Co., 1970. (FHL book Ref Q 941.5 A5ha; film 973,222-30.)
Hayes, Richard J. Manuscript Sources for the History of Irish Civilisation: First Supplement, 1965-1975. 3 vols. Boston, Massachusetts: G. K. Hall & Co., 1979. (FHL book Ref Q 941.5 A5h 1st supp.)
These volumes index manuscripts, periodicals, and major collections of Irish interest deposited at the National Library before 1975. They also index many records in other repositories, public and private, in Ireland, Britain, and elsewhere. The indexes are arranged by person, subject, place, date, and manuscript. Throughout the rest of this outline, these volumes will be referred to as Hayes's Sources.
A growing microfiche collection of guides and finding aids (including many unpublished finding aids) for various Irish archives, libraries, and museums is:
National Inventory of Documentary Sources in the United Kingdom and Ireland. Cambridge, England: Chadwyck-Healey, 1986-87. This inventory gives a description and the exact reference numbers of the collections in many repositories throughout Ireland. The inventory can thus help in locating documents that pertain to your research. The Family History Library's copy of the inventory is listed in the Author/Title Search of the microfiche catalog under NATIONAL INVENTORY OF DOCUMENTARY SOURCES IN THE UNITED KINGDOM AND IRELAND.
A name and subject index to the National Inventory is on microfiche (London, England: Chadwyck-Healey, 1995-; FHL fiche 6341118). This index includes a list of finding aids and an alphabetical list of repositories.
Additional archive and library inventories, guides, catalogs, and other finding aids available at the Family History Library are listed in the Place Search of the catalog under the following headings:
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Have you found that seeing a new moon for the first time on a Monday will bring you good luck? Or how about breaking a mirror? Does that bring seven years of bad luck?
As gardeners, we want a cheat sheet. We want to believe in companion planting, even if we don't believe in old wives' tales.
Companion planting observations collected by Richard Gregg were first shared in his 1943 leaflet Companion Plants and How to Use Them.
Then Helen Philbrick took a second look at Gregg's information and "updated" the book with her own observations in 1966. And that's it. No new research.
"Is that like planting marigolds around the garden?" asked my husband, a non-gardener. Yes!
Marigolds (Tagetes patula) exude toxins from their roots that deter rootknot nematodes.
But if you've never had these nematodes, why worry about planting marigolds? And what happens if marigolds kill beneficial nematodes? These little soil guys are mostly good: they eat protozoa that eat bacteria — the result is piles of nitrogen added to our gardens from dead and defecating microbes.
Good nematodes also kill soil-borne pest larvae. The amazing dance between microbes and plants and soils is definitely worth more study.
Instead of research, information about companion planting on the Internet relies on old lists and observations recycled into new lists. In essence, these lists tell us every plant grown beside beans will benefit.
This is true, because special bacteria in the soil attach to peas, beans and other legumes. Like savings in the bank, the nitrogen held by beans makes all plants grow better, but not because they are companions.
Bean-released bacteria boosts all growth. Eggplants love peas. Beans love, or are loved by, potatoes. It's nothing personal — it's all about the nitrogen, an essential part of the DNA in all living things.
Other observed companions are common sense combinations: shade-loving, shallow-rooted lettuce grows well with deep-rooted sun-loving carrots. Surprise!
Any shallow-rooted, fast-growing shade-lover will thrive with a deep-rooted taller sun-lover. Parsnips, for instance, grow well with spinach because it is up and out of the ground before parsnips have even germinated. Are they companions? Not officially or according to Gregg and Philbrick, but it works for me.
Radishes also work with carrots because they are picked first, leaving more room for carrots to fill in.
Gregg's theory of planting asters or almost any flower to deter insects is sort of true, but not because they scare away insects as Gregg presumed.
Heavy bloomers attract and feed beneficial or parasitic insects. These good bugs feed on pollen and nectar and then in turn eat or parasitize problem insects on our garden plants.
A ladybug, for instance, could starve to death in early spring if there weren't for so many dandelions and pussy willows providing pollen and nectar early in the season. Later, they love alyssum and all kinds of daisies with their big platform flowers.
If you want to have seven years good luck in the veggie garden, plant flowers. I especially like asters, alyssum, cosmos, heliotrope, and other fast-growing, multi-flowered annuals and herbs.
I also like to rotate or interplant nitrogen producers such as beans and peas, and combine plants with different growing needs.
But most of all I improve soil with compost and water plants well — I don't want the crops or the microbes to dry out and stall during our short season.
Will I continue to read my horoscope, browse through Gregg's book and make random observations in the garden? Sure.
But I won't be walking under any ladders or worrying about strictly prescribed plant combinations.
Instead I'll keep a few notes and think about why something works when I am contemplating life in the dormant season.
Donna Balzer is co-author of No Guff Vegetable Gardening and a regular guest on CBC Radio. Check out her blog at donnabalzer.blogspot.com.


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2 bunches (about 2 pounds) red Swiss chard
3 tablespoons olive oil
1 medium onion, thinly sliced
2 ounces pancetta, diced (optional)
1⁄4 cup golden raisins
1⁄4 cup chicken stock, reduced-sodium broth, or water
Salt and freshly ground black pepper
Separate the chard leaves from the stems. Rinse the stems and chop them into ½-inch pieces; set aside. Tear the leaves into large pieces, wash them thoroughly, and spin or pat dry; set aside.
Heat the olive oil in a large skillet over medium heat. Add the onion and pancetta and cook, stirring frequently, until the onion is quite soft and slightly browned, about 7 minutes. Add the chard stems and cook for 2 to 3 minutes. Stir in the raisins and cook for another 2 to 3 minutes. Add the chicken stock, cover the skillet, and simmer until the stems have softened, 5 to 7 minutes. Add the chard leaves, season lightly with salt and pepper, and stir to combine.
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Despite this, I don't think hand-tool woodworking gets enough respect in today's world. For the record, sure, I use machinery in my woodworking. Yes, the machines are high quality, well-tuned, take plenty of skill to use and I wouldn't be without them. Yet when I discuss the joys of our craft with folks not therein immersed, I am invariably asked which major power tools inhabit my shop. This is especially true of techies, but the same question comes from many woodworking beginners. I don't seem to earn credibility as a serious woodworker until I've cataloged my cabinet saw, 16″ band saw, jointer and so forth. Otherwise, I sense I'm regarded as a dilettante who toys with the sort of quaint tools people used before there was indoor plumbing. Who could produce serious work with those things?
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Skip to comments.New Mental Health Mandate Will Make Obamacare More Expensive, Increase Fraud And Canceled Policies
Posted on 11/11/2013 10:03:55 AM PST by tobyhill
ven as stories pour in of Americans facing steeply higher health insurance premiums and canceled coverage, Team TISI +0.13% Obama just imposed new regulations that will make those problems worse. Its almost like they cant help themselves.
On Friday, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced new regulations mandating health insurers cover mental and behavioral health to the same extent they cover physical health care.
A mental health parity mandate was passed by Congress in 2008, but Obama officials claim health insurers arent fully complying. (Youll just have to overlook the irony of the Obama administration, which has postponed several provisions of Obamacare without any legal authority to do so, complaining that others arent complying with some law.)
The more likely explanation is the administration is desperately trying to redirect peoples attention from the Obamacare rollout that has become a non-stop string of stories about failed websites, higher premiums and canceled policies.
President Obamas latest effort to divert public attention ignores a fundamental problem: its much easier to know when a broken bone has healed than a broken mind. That ambiguity opens the door to overtreatment and fraud.
(Excerpt) Read more at forbes.com ...
It will help them send troublemakers to the camps, so it's worth it..
When the value of health expenditures equals the annual gross domestic product of the United States, the libs will STILL think that we are not doing enough.
All Tea Party members will be labeled as psychologically unstable or a 'threat' and will be deprived of their 2nd Amendment rights.
When the value of health expenditures equals the annual gross domestic product of the United States, the libs will STILL think that we are not doing enough.
I am actually going to be paying less for the same group plan this year (not sure how that happened but hopefully this requirement won't ruin it ;)).
The stress of earning a living is driving me nuts. I need to be hospitalized or I may hurt myself or others.
>>The stress of earning a living is driving me nuts. I need to be hospitalized or I may hurt myself or others.
Be careful. That's exactly what they want to hear.
It's a fine line between dissent and traitor.
Also a fine line between expressing yourself via a rant and being committed to protect yourself and others.
Guess who determines the line?
Ooooh, more Republican scare tactics! /s
That's what they want.
The reason ZeroCare keeps jacking "standards" is to raise the price of insurance such that people choose to pay the penalty. Then Medicaid becomes the default single-payer system, with middle class Americans getting the same "coverage" or worse than illegal aliens.
Think of it: Medicaid is already in place as administered by the States as a default single-payer system. All we're talking about then is scaling an existing system.
Consider that scenario to the next level: Once most everybody goes on to Medicaid, then FedGov can stipulate the services States must provide to get Federal funding, and what do you know but those will be services Democrats demand: mental health (because they don't go to church), AIDS treatment and abortions (ditto), transgender surgery and infertility treatment (Ibid), etc. Services Republicans demand will be curtailed.
It's easy to do. The States will cry foul, but they will be sued into compliance in Federal court. At that point, the bureaucracy in Washington has taken over State government, and you have lost ALL representation at the State and local level. Federalism will then be totally dead.
This is what needs to be explained as to how ZeroCare was ALWAYS meant to work. The longer they stall for time, the more effective it will be against the States. Just watch. See tag line.
Repeal the Beast! Free markets, tort reform!
This latest version of h/care is that we're all unstable loonies-—he consider himself the only sane one in the room.
Another glaring example of Ohoho's elitist unmitigateed contempt for all Americans.
There's a cattlecar waiting for you.
Since you publicly stated that the liberal media will be trying to find out your identity so they can parade you as an Obamacare success.
Pelosi alone will cost us in the trillions....
*All Tea Party members will be labeled as psychologically unstable or a threat and will be deprived of their 2nd Amendment rights.*
Same old same old.
Just like in the Soviet Days
The American Psychological Association was in on this nobamacare fiasco full bore. Does anyone have an opinion generally of psychologists?
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David Sabean graduated from Houghton College and studied cultural and intellectual history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison under George Mosse during the early 60s, interpellating a year at Brandeis University in the History of Ideas program. During those years, discussions among his generation of graduate students turned his interests to the new field of social history. He went off to Tübingen in 1995-6 to write a dissertation on the German Peasant War of 1525, eventually published as Landbesitz und Gesellschaft am Vorabend des Bauernkriegs (Stuttgart, 1972). From 1966 to 1970, he was a Lecturer at the University of East Anglia, Norwich, England. There, while rewriting his dissertation, he entered into discussions with social anthropologists and read widely in Anglo-Marxist historiography and Annales school history. From 1970 to 1976, Sabean taught at the University of Pittsburgh, where a remarkable group of young social historians had gathered. He joined the editorial board of the newly founded Historical Methods Newsletter (later Historical Methods) and founded and edited the journal Peasant Studies Newsletter (later Peasant Studies). During that period, he developed a large data base based on the records from a single South German village and spent a year as a post-doctoral student at Cambridge, studying social anthropology, with a concentration on kinship studies, with Jack Goody. From 1976 to 1983, Sabean joined a research group of social historians at the Max-Planck-Institut für Geschichte in Göttingen, who were studying the process of protoindustrialization. With Hans Medick, Alf Lüdtke, Robert Berdahl and others, he founded an interdisciplinary group of historians and anthropologists, which met in a series of round tables in Göttingen, Paris, Bad Homburg, and Bellagio. Several volumes of papers were published from those meetings, among which were Klassen und Kultur and Interest and Emotion. During that period, he began to explore the territory of popular culture and wrote Power in the Blood: Popular Culture and Village Discourse in Early Modern Germany (Cambridge, 1984; Ger: .Das zweischneidige Schwert (Berlin, 1986; Frankfurt, 1990)). Sabean returned to the United States in 1983 as a professor at UCLA, where he finished the first volume of his village study: Property, Production and Family in Neckarhausen, 1700-1870 (Cambridge, 1990). Tired of freeway driving, he left for Cornell University after five years, but nostalgia and a lively graduate program drove him back again five years later. He now holds the Henry J. Bruman Endowed Chair in German History. He published the second volume of his village study, Kinship in Neckarhausen, 1700-1870 (Cambridge, 1998), which attempts to rethink the categories of an earlier generation of social historians through more recent notions from cultural studies. He argues for the analytical usefulness of "kinship" and "class" for European history and suggests that rethinking both in terms of gender refits them for fresh ways of seeing historical issues. Sabean is now currently working on three projects: a study of narrativity in bureaucratic writing, collective research into the long-term history of kinship in Europe, and a comparative analysis of incest discourse in Europe since the sixteenth century. He has been a Guggenheim Fellow, a Fellow of the Wissenschaftskolleg in Berlin, the recipient of a research prize from the Alexander J. Humboldt Foundation and the Berlin Prize from the American Academy in Berlin. He has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
While in England from 1965-70, Sabean created a number of courses in social history (European peasantry, Aristocracy and Bureaucracy) and made them a central part of the curriculum. He also worked together with a group of sociologists and anthropologists in interdisciplinary courses on the history of the family. At Pittsburgh, he was part of an interdisciplinary group working on the comparative studies of peasantry. There he also worked together with anthropologists on the history of the family and taught lecture courses and seminars on historical demography. During the years in Göttingen, Sabean participated in a series of workshops on the history of the family and in interdisciplinary round tables (in anthropology and history) on work, kinship, Herrschaft, and memory. During the first years at UCLA (1983-88), he began to explore issues that have to do with the historicity of the self in his graduate research seminars--on the History of Individualism and the History of the Body. He also taught graduate courses on anthropology and history. Gradually his interests became more centered on the nineteenth century, although he continued to teach and still teaches and does research on problems from the sixteenth century onwards. He believes that graduate students should be trained broadly in European history and in comparative and multi-disciplinary approaches. At Cornell University (1988-93), Sabean continued to explore issues of selfhood but also became interested in new approaches to the social and cultural history of law. Back at UCLA, Sabean has alternated his graduate courses between German and comparative history. He has held seminars on the cultural history of German law and religion and on "identity and subjectivity," "ego-documents," "on reading Oedipus," "production of the self in the West," "conversion in European history and beyond," "the history of emotions," and "spaces of the self." Recently his research seminar dealt with "international families." His undergraduate lectures explore German history from the Baroque to World War I. An undergraduate seminar on "master/slave narratives" considered texts by Hegel, Frederick Douglass, Toni Morrison, W.E.B. Dubois, Frantz Fanon, and Simone de Beauvoir. Another on "popular culture in European history" examined historical approaches to the subject by Carlo Ginzburg and Natalie Davis.
During the past several years, Sabean has worked with a number of scholars engaged in rethinking the history of kinship in Europe from the Middle Ages to the present. With Simon Teuscher and Jon Mathieu, he edited a volume, Kinship in Europe: Approaches to the Long-Term Development (1300-1900) (New York and Oxford, 2007). At the International Congress of Historians in Oslo and at the past four meetings of the European Social Science History Conference, he helped develop sessions on sibling relations, international families, and kinship and blood and is co-editing collections of papers on each of these subjects. During the academic year 2007-8, he has organized five conferences with Malina Stefanovska on "places of the self" and will co-edit a volume of selected papers from the conferences. Since 2003, Sabean has been active organizing sessions for the German Studies Association annual meetings: "modernity and the Baroque," "the radical Enlightenment in Germany," "the Holy Roman Empire" (with a volume of edited papers in production), and "conversions in German history."


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Opened the season with Class-A Charlotte and appeared in 22 games with the Stone Crabs before a 9-game stint with Triple-A Durham…finished the remainder of the season with Montgomery where he hit .264 (24-for-91)…combined for a career-high 9 HR and .484 SLG in only 61 games total…threw out 34 of 76 attempted base stealers (44.7 percent) on the season.2011 Was designated for assignment on March 29, cleared waivers and was outrighted to Buffalo (AAA) of the International League on April 7 ... Had his contract selected by the Mets on June 3 and remained with the club for the remainder of the season. ... Recorded career-highs in wins, saves and strikeouts ... His 47.0 innings pitched was the second-highest total of his career. ... Tossed 53.0 innings in 2008 with Atlanta. ... Had a 2.31 ERA (six earned runs/23.1 innings) vs. NL East opponents in 2011. ... Over his two years with the Mets, has constructed a 1.82 ERA (10 earned runs/49.1 innings) against NL East opponents. ... Posted a 2.31 ERA (nine earned runs/35.0 innings) after the All-Star break. ... Had a 6.75 ERA (nine earned runs/12.0 innings) prior to the break. ... Held opponents to a .179 (5-28) batting average with runners in scoring position and two outs. ... Went 2- 0 wit h t wo saves and a 2.49 ERA ( six earned runs/21.2 innings) on the road and 2-1 with two saves and a 4.26 ERA (12 earned runs/25.1 innings) at Citi Field. ... Was unscored upon in 29 of his last 37 games, posting a 2.04 ERA (nine earned runs/39.2 innings). ... In a 29-game stretch from June 28-September 7, he had a 1.21 ERA (four earned runs/29.2 innings), while going 2-1. ... Saved both ends of a doubleheader (2-1 and 6-3) on September 24 vs. Philadelphia. ... Became the first Mets reliever since Armando Benitez on August 15, 2000 vs. Colorado to achieve that feat. ... Earned wins on August 15 at San Diego, August 31 vs. Florida, September 9 vs. Chicago (NL) and September 22 at St. Louis. ... 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Allowed only two of his first 14 inherited runners to score prior to allowing two to score on 9/18 vs. PHI...At Gwinnett (AAA), appeared in 18 games (all in relief) and went 1-3 with a 2.63 ERA. Had 25 strikeouts and allowed 13 walks while posting a .210 opponents batting average in 27.1 IP...Was recalled from Gwinnett for the first time on 5/22 until 8/27 and then again on 9/6...His best month was June, when he had a 2.70 ERA in seven appearances...Was 1-0 with a 2.51 ERA in 26 night games, but was 0-1 with a 10.38 ERA in 10 day games...Had a 3.32 ERA in 17 games (19.0 IP/7 ER) before the All-Star break and was 1-1 with a 5.40 ERA in 19 games (18.1 IP/11 ER) after the break...Stranded the bases loaded in the ninth inning on 9/30 vs. FLA...Lost for the first time since 6/12/08 at CHI on 10/3 vs. WSH when he allowed a two-run homer in the 11th...Picked up his first win of the season on 7/16 vs. NYM, and first since 5/26/08 vs. ARI...Pitched a season-high 2.0 IP on 6/8 vs. PIT with scoreless 11th and 12th innings. 2008 Was second among NL rookies with three saves. ...Made 34 appearances of 1.0 IP or more and was 2-2 with a 1.93 ERA (46.2 IP/10 ER) with three saves in those contests. In his 12 appearances that were under 1.0 IP, he was 1-3 with a 15.63 ERA (6.1 IP/11 ER). ...Had a 3.00 ERA in 28 games at home (33.0 IP) and a 4.50 ERA in 18 games on the road (20.0 IP). ...Had just a 2.27 ERA in 27 night games, but a 5.48 ERA in 19 day games. ...In May, went 3-1 with one save and 1.80 ERA (3 ER/15.0 IP) in 15 games. ...Finished the year with eight scoreless outings (7/1-9/27) which spanned 12.2 IP. ...Returned from DL on 8/23 after missing 39 games with a strained left hamstring suffered on 7/6 vs. HOU and made his first appearance back with two scoreless innings on 8/24 at STL (2 H, 2 BB, 1 K, 1 WP). ...Made four injury rehab appearances at Richmond (AAA) and allowed no runs (two hits) in 3.2 IP. ...Allowed a career-high five runs on 6/10 at CHI (one earned). ...Was charged with first blown save on 6/2 vs. FLA and another on 6/5 vs. FLA. ...Entered in the seventh inning on 5/29 at MIL and retired all four batters he faced via strikeout. ...Posted his third win on 5/26 vs. ARI with 2.0 perfect innings in relief. ...Saved his third game in the second game of 5/20 doubleheader vs. NYM (1.1 IP, 3 H). ...Had 10 consecutive scoreless outings (11.0 IP) before his 4/30 loss at WSH. ...Suffered first loss of the season 4/30 at WSH, pitching 2+ innings in the Braves' 3-2 extra-inning defeat. ...Notched his second career save with 2.0 scoreless frames vs. FLA on 4/24. ...Earned first MLB save 4/19 vs. LAD. 2007 Was recalled 8/10 from Richmond (AAA), where he was 9-3 with 12 saves and a 2.26 ERA (15 ER/59.2 IP) in 40 relief appearances. Led Richmond in wins and saves and did not allow a homer. Named the Richmond Pitcher of the Year by the Braves organization. Tied for fourth in the system with 12 saves and nine wins. Was Richmond's April Pitcher of the Month, going 3-1 with two saves and a 0.66 ERA (1 ER/13.2 IP). Was the only Richmond player selected to the Triple-A All-Star Game. Made his Major League debut 8/12 at PHI and retired the side on just seven pitches (one strikeout, two groundouts). Aaron Rowand was his first batter faced and his first career strikeout victim. Picked up his first Major League win on 9/23 with a scoreless inning of relief vs. MIL. Earned his first career hold at FLA on 8/29 with a scoreless 7th inning. Did not allow a run over his first seven appearances (8.2 IP, 4 H, 4 BB, 10 K). Went a season-high 2.0 innings three times, including getting out of a no outs/runners-on-the-corners jam on 8/22 at CIN. He did not walk a batter in any of his 2.0-inning appearances. 2006 Led all Braves' minor leaguers with 51 appearances and finished second in the organization with a combined 21 saves between Mississippi (AA) and Richmond (AAA)...Was promoted to Richmond on 5/12, had a .137 opponents' batting average at Mississippi...Named Richmond's July Pitcher of the Month (0-2, 6 SV, 3.86 ERA)...Picked up the win during a season-high 3.0 IP at DUR on 5/25...Allowed two or more runs in just four of 38 appearances at AAA...Over August and September (14 games), he had eight saves and 2.45 ERA (4 ER/14.2 IP)...Went 0-1 with a 5.06 ERA for Panama in the World Baseball Classic in March...Went 2-2 with a 5.30 ERA in 18 games (18.2 IP) with the Cardenales of the Venezuelan Winter League. 2005 Ranked sixth among Braves minor leaguers with seven saves...Earned a win and four saves in 8.2 IP of relief in July...Fanned six hitters in 3.0 IP of relief on 7/7. 2004 Went 2-0 with a 1.86 ERA in May (2 ER/9.2 IP) with Myrtle Beach (A)...Discounting the five earned runs in 1.2 IP on 4/21 vs. W-S, he had a 2.49 ERA in his other 10 games with the Pelicans. 2003 Went 2-0 with 10 K and a save, his first since 1998, with Myrtle Beach in August after signing with the Braves on 7/29...Was released on 7/24 by NYY.


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Groupon is Effectively Insolvent
Investors beware -- the company owes $230 million more than it has, appears to be burning through $100 million or more a quarter, and is using money raised from later investors to pay back early investors.
We'll start by looking at the balance sheet, which is typically a waste of time for hypergrowth companies. However, for Groupon there are all kinds of red flags. They have $290 million in current assets ($208 million in cash) and $520 million in current liabilities -- current assets minus current liabilities puts them $230 million in the hole. This wouldn't be a problem except for the fact that they're wildly unprofitable, which we'll get to in a moment. Another concerning part of their current liabilities is that $290 million of it is "accrued merchant payables" -- in the US they take up to 60 days to repay merchants. So that $290 million is merchants who have rendered services waiting to get repaid by Groupon. Not exactly the best merchant experience. Oh, and by comparison, LinkedIn (LNKD) has current assets well in excess of current liabilities, and isn't losing money.
SEE ALSO: Groupon is Overstating Revenue by 140%, Should Voluntarily Postpone IPO
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The income statement is even worse. In Q1 of last year they had net income of $8.5 million on $44.2 million in revenue, for a profit margin of nearly 20%. Not bad! At some point around that time, they decided to abandon a profitable growth strategy and went for the hypergrowth revenue strategy. For the remainder of the year they had $669 million in revenue (simply staggering), but had a net loss attributable to Groupon of $398 million. This year, Q1 results showed revenue growth continuing to soar, with revenues of $644 million, but a net loss attributable to Groupon of $102 million.
They lost $49 million in Q3, $313 million in Q4, and $102 million in Q1, with revenue leaping from $185 million to $396 million to $644 million, so it's incredibly difficult to have any idea what Q2 will look like let alone what the business will look like 6-12 months from now. That being said, the most likely reason why they're going public now is because they desperately need the cash, plain and simple.
There are all kinds of questions about the business. How can they possibly sustain this kind of revenue growth? Can they get costs under control? What about merchant and customer fatigue? How about deep-pocketed and savvy competition, either doing exactly what they're doing (LivingSocial) or coming to the table with a ton of customer data, i.e., Facebook and Google (GOOG)? The Daily Deal I got offered today was for a restaurant 30 miles away: how does that make sense either for the customer or merchant? How can you possible build a sustainable business by going from 0 to 8,000 employees in two years? Why did the COO and CTO both leave the company in late March, barely two months ago? How do you value a business that could do $3 billion in revenue this year but might not be able to keep the lights on in 12 months?
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Most concerning of all, however, might be how their most recent capital raises have been handled. Their Series F and G capital raises, which occurred in April and December of 2010, raised a combined $1.08 billion. Of that $1.08 billion, $150 million went to the company for working capital purposes. The other $930 million? Paid back to founders and early backers by buying their shares from them.
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So a company that owes $230 million more than it has, and appears to be burning through $100 million or more a quarter, is using money raised from later investors to pay back early investors? Sounds vaguely familiar. I'm not accusing Groupon of doing anything illegal or unethical. Ponzi, Enron, and Madoff all swindled their investors by misleading them about the financial health of their enterprises. As Minyanville's Todd Harrison likes to say, "The only difference between intervention and manipulation is communication." Groupon is telling you exactly what they are in their filing forms and by their actions. Invest at your own risk.
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In September 2006, just days before Felipe Calderón was declared president of Mexico in a disputed election fraught with fraud and corruption, the US Embassy sent a secret report to Washington titled "Strengthening Calderon's weak hand." Mexico's new president would have "virtually no 'honeymoon,'" the cable stated, so "we will begin vigorous transition planning across the board with the Calderón team." Without aggressive involvement, US diplomats warned that "we risk stagnation on our highest-profile issues unless we can send a strong signal of support, prompt the Calderón team into a vigorous transition, and reinforce Calderón's agenda and leadership."
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The cables struck Mexico like a windstorm, blowing back the curtains of diplomacy and exposing what had not been intended for public view. Through the 3,000 leaked records—some secret, a few ultrasecret, but the majority simply indiscreet, harsh and rude—readers of Mexican newspapers learned the hidden details of our political, military and economic relations with the United States. For the first time, Mexicans could read the US Embassy's critical judgments of the proud Mexican generals who never open themselves up to public scrutiny, as well as Washington's candid assessment of its erstwhile ally, President Calderón, who is depicted as weak and condescending, lacking in legitimacy from the start of his tenure.
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For over forty years, Henry Luce commanded what may well have been the most important publishing empire of the middle twentieth century. His magazines -- Time, Fortune, Life, and Sports Illustrated -- were the most popular and profitable periodicals in America. His March of Time newsreels created a sensation and won an Academy Award.
But for Luce, professional and financial success were not his most important goals. His life was shaped as much by a sense of purpose as it was by conventional ambition. The son of a missionary, he sought throughout his life to pursue missions of his own -- to use his power to shape the character of the nation. He believed that beneath the diversity of American life, there was a shared national culture, and he believed that his magazines could help reveal and strengthen it. This was both the great achievement of his media empire, and also its most controversial feature.
The remarkable popularity of his magazines -- with its vast readerships (Life alone attracted over 20 million readers) -- did little to silence the many critics who accused him of turning journalism into crude propaganda. Luce largely ignored his critics, whose attacks did little to dampen the success of his company, but he privately bridled at what he considered their unfairness.
In the end, what set him apart from other powerful publishers and editors was his determination to shape the content of his magazines -- to make his opinions and his beliefs the basis of what his editors and reporters printed. He was often thwarted in that effort, but he never abandoned it.
"The Gamble of Our Lives"
Henry R. Luce (called Harry by family and friends) was born in Tengchow, China in 1898, the son of a Protestant missionary. For the first ten years of his life, he lived in the missionary compound, surrounded by other westerners, before enrolling in a British boarding school on the coast of Hunan province. Harry hated the school, but flourished academically; and at age 14, he set off on his own to enroll at the Hotchkiss School in Connecticut. That was where he met his classmate Briton Hadden, the man who -- with the exception of his own father -- became the most important person in his life. Friends, rivals, and indispensable partners, they worked together and competed with one another through both prep school and Yale. And only two years after they graduated from college, they launched Time magazine -- which Luce called "the gamble of our lives on which everything depends" -- and shepherded it from an obscure magazine to one of the most important sources of news in mid-century America.
Time was not to everyone's taste, with its idiosyncratic language and its many gratuitous opinions. But for its hundreds of thousands (and eventually millions) of readers -- most of whom had in the past received news only from provincial local papers -- Time was among the first publications that made the news of the world available to people in all parts of the nation. Time became a kind of glue, providing professional and other (mostly middle class) people a common, reliable, and concise guide to information that was now more important to them than ever before.
Hadden, a brilliant but hard-living editor, died in 1929 of a strep infection, leaving Luce to rule alone. Luce wasted no time in expanding his company's reach. He launched Fortune in 1930 -- a spectacularly beautiful magazine that was also an important innovation in business journalism, which for a time attracted some of the nation's best writers. Not long after, Time Inc. created "The March of Time" newsreels. And in 1936, Luce published the first issues of Life, the most popular magazine in American history and, for a time, by far the most lucrative. Derived from some of the early picture magazines of Europe, Luce and his colleagues created what came to be known as "The Great American Magazine." It was distinctive both for the quality of its photographs and for its optimistic, consensual tone. Above all, it provided a visual image of its time and revealed (as Luce wrote in his famous prospectus) "the faces of the poor and the gestures of the proud . . . strange things -- machines, armies, multitudes, shadow in the jungle and on the moon . . . things hidden behind walls and within rooms; things dangerous to come to." Years later, in 1954, Luce launched the first serious sports magazine -- Sports Illustrated. Like Fortune, it relied on good writers (among them William Faulkner, A. J. Liebling, Wallace Stegner, Budd Schulberg, and John Steinbeck). Luce insisted that it should elevate the world of sports from being "just a game" to being a metaphor for the human condition.
The Time Inc. publications were extraordinarily expensive to publish and distribute, but Luce resisted economizing and believed that spending more money to create greater quality was the best strategy for success. As one of his associates put it, they moved ahead without compromising in "an atmosphere of complete and serene confidence" to grasp "the chance of a lifetime."
"Luces the Magnificent"
By the mid-1930s, Luce's ambitions were moving beyond his publishing empire. He sought, and achieved, great personal fame and significant influence. He divorced his devoted, but conventionally social, first wife to marry one of the most famous women in America - Clare Boothe Luce. She was not only a socialite and a woman of fashion, but also a prominent magazine editor. Their marriage cooled quickly, but it raised both their public profiles. They were, Luce once said, the "Luces the Magnificent" --as exemplified by their great wealth, their lavish homes, their social prominence, and their presumed power.
Through turbulence, misery, and tragedy, they stayed together throughout their lives as both their careers soared. Clare became a successful playwright and journalist, then a member of Congress and an important figure in the Republican party. In the 1950s, she became ambassador to Italy. Harry not only ran his company, but began to play a role in shaping American policy. He too flirted at times with running for public office, and privately (but hopelessly) wanted to be named secretary of state under Eisenhower. But instead, he used the power of his magazines to try to shape the character of the nation and the world. Beginning in 1939, he became a prominent internationalist. He helped persuade Roosevelt to provide military support to Britain before Pearl Harbor. He was an early promoter of American intervention into World War II -- perhaps most visibly through the publication of his famous essay "The American Century," in which he wrote that "we are the inheritors of all the great principles of Western Civilization...It now becomes our time to be the powerhouse from which [American] ideals spread throughout the world."
At the same time, he became a strong supporter of the Republican party and was a strong and influential supporter of Wendell Willkie, the 1940 Republican presidential candidate. Luce's political infatuation with Willkie was only the beginning of his fascination with people he considered great men: Chiang Kai-shek, Winston Churchill, Dwight D. Eisenhower, even (toward the end of his life) John F. Kennedy. Absent from this list was Franklin Roosevelt, whom Luce came to despise (a sentiment reciprocated by the president) -- largely because of Luce's contempt for Roosevelt's evasiveness and, he believed, mendacity. ("It is my duty to go on hating him," he said after FDR's death.)
Losing China
One of Luce's most fervent hopes was to see a modernized (and Christianized) China, the country of his birth. He believed that China could join the company of great nations and could become are part of the industrialized (and westernized) world. Chiang-kai Shek, the president of China, was a corrupt and inept leader, who struggled through both a war with Japan and a civil war with the Chinese Communists. Luce dismissed the stories of Chiang's weaknesses and dismissed reporters (among them Theodore H. White) who did not share his optimism. He struggled to ensure the future of Chiang's China -- through World War II, and during the four years after as the Nationalist government crumbled and the communists triumphed. Above all, he used his magazines to promote Chiang and his government, to the chagrin of many of his journalist colleagues who had no faith in the Nationalist regime and who bridled at Luce's shaping of the news to fit his own hopes.
He never reconciled himself to China's "fall," and spent much of the rest of his life searching for ways to overturn the communist regime. He joined the growing chorus of denunciation of the Truman State Department for what he considered its weakness in combating communism and defending China. When America entered the Korean War, Luce proposed "unleashing Chiang Kai-shek" and expanding the conflict into China. In 1954, when the French abandoned Vietnam to the communists, Luce again hoped that American intervention would not only drive the communists out of Vietnam, but also out of China. Even in the last year of his life, he continued to berate the government's failure to "save" China.
The Complexity of Luce
It was easy to characterize Luce as a conservative polemicist preoccupied by his obsessions with China and other unpopular causes. But there was another side to Luce that reveals a more complicated man than his public image often revealed. He called himself a liberal - by which he meant, in part, a belief in progress and change. But he also embraced some of the new postwar liberal ideas. He was a longstanding supporter of racial equality, beginning in the 1920s and continuing through his life. He believed in labor unions. He supported Willkie not just because he was a Republican, but because he was a moderately liberal Republican committed to internationalism. He attacked Joseph McCarthy (and described him on Time's cover as a "demagogue") long before most other news organizations did. Once, when asked what he would do if given a choice between fascism and communism, he replied that he would choose communism, because at least it tried to help the masses. In 1960, although he tepidly endorsed Nixon, he showed great respect toward John Kennedy. And in 1964, although he never confirmed it, he seems likely to have voted for Lyndon Johnson over Barry Goldwater.
Throughout the 1950s, Luce crusaded for ideas and people he believed in. He was a loyal supporter of Eisenhower and took great pleasure out of his close relationship with him. He helped launch a quixotic movement to promote the "rule of law" in the world (which he and others believed could help undermine communism.) He was a leader of an effort to create a National Presbyterian Church in Washington. He organized a committee to study the idea of a "national purpose," and he helped publish a series of essays by prominent thinkers that, for a time, attracted significant attention.
His private life remained much less successful than his public one. Both he and Clare had frequent extramarital affairs, and they spent little time together. Twice, Harry tried to divorce her and remarry, but Clare fought tenaciously and successfully to thwart him -- in part by threatening to weaken his control of his company. But their relationship was not entirely combative. There remained a residue of real companionship, and perhaps even love, that emerged periodically out of the rubble of their lives -- sometimes in unusual ways. Clare, a champion of LSD as a source of serenity and enlightenment, persuaded Harry to join her in trying the drug at their home in Phoenix. He disliked the experience, but shared her interest in its powers. And after his retirement from his company in 1964, he spent much of his time with Clare and traveled frequently with her until his sudden death by a heart attack in 1967.
Henry Luce was one of the most influential figures of his time, and yet many of the legacies that he hoped to leave behind him were not the ones that have endured. He wanted to be known as a powerful force in shaping American foreign policy, but there is nothing to suggest that his views had any real impact. He wanted to see the Republican party the dominant political force in America, and he wanted to play an important role in shaping its future. But he failed to elect the man he most wanted to see as President, Wendell Willkie; and despite his warm (and much coveted) friendship with Eisenhower, he did not have much influence over the President's policies. He hoped to use his power to present a picture of a united nation and a consensual culture, only to live long enough to see the unraveling of what he thought was a nationally shared set of principles and beliefs.
But Luce did leave an important legacy, nevertheless. It was his success in creating new forms of information and communications at a moment in history when media were rapidly changing and expanding. His magazines - and the model of innovation they represented -- were always his most important achievements.


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Beatrice ENSE, a resident of M'Chigeeng, passed away at her residence on Wednesday, December 3, 2003 at the age of 71 years.
She was born in West Bay, daughter of the late Alexi and Sadie CORBIERE) DEBASSIGE. Beatrice had many interests and hobbies, which included quilting and knitting, playing bingo, cooking, going to casinos, and she loved to fish and to sing. Her greatest joy and pleasure was her family and spending time with them. A loving and loved sister, mother and friend, she will be sadly missed, but many memories will be cherished. Predeceased by her husband Harold, son Floyd, brother Norman, sister Eliza, grand_son Brian and great grandchild Courtney. Surviving are one sister Gina and sister-in-law Elizabeth, and children, Martin, wife Justeen, Sadie, husband Eldridge, daughter-in-law Janette, Gerald, wife Debbie, Geraldine, husband Bill, Ron, Ken, Abby, Norma, Elsie and Jay, wife Missy. Survived also by Raymond and Ruth ACE. Proud grandmother of Elvis, Kyle, Beatrice, Nancy, Randolf, Matha, Ramona, Jeremy, Robin, Darryl, Whitney, Floyd, Phoenix, Jeff, Celina, Daphne, Darren Jr., Gerard, Shane, Jared, and 14 great grandchildren. Also survived by many nieces and nephews.
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