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Spain: "F" Is For Franco Not Fascism And Republicans Are Turning Anti-War…Sorta? Plus I Am Bradley Manning.
This is a classic "small d" democratic moment. The economy is in deep trouble -- immediate and long term. Washington is oblivious, compromised by moneyed interests, knotted by ideological divides. It will take an angry and aroused citizens' movement to demand the debate worthy of a great nation in deep trouble.
The dismal jobs numbers only punctuate the reality of an economy that isn't producing sufficient jobs. The crisis is both immediate and long-term. The so-called recovery hasn't begun to recover the jobs lost in the Great Recession. 25 million people are in need of full time work. Home values continue to fall. 25 percent of 17- to 25-year-old high school graduates not in college are out of work. Much of a generation is at risk.
The immediate is only an expression of more profound problems. The middle class was losing ground before the Great Recession. Good jobs are being shipped abroad. Wages aren't keeping up with the costs of basics.
The broad middle class that made America exceptional is disappearing.
The American dream seems ever more like a nostalgic memory. The nation continues to run unsustainable trade deficits, and must dig out of a mountain of debt -- both public and private. For the first time, an increasing majority of Americans fear their kids won't fare as well as they have.
We need action to put people to work. But short term fixes aren't enough. Americans are looking for a serious strategy that will get us out of the mess we are in.
The Beltway Bloviating
But inside the beltway, Washington is clueless. It's the only major city in the country where housing prices are going up. A flood of corporate lobby money insures that the tables are full at the high end restaurants.
Entrenched corporate interests buy a lot more than lunches with their dough. They block vital reforms on health care, energy, trade, Wall Street.
They feed off taxpayers, protecting their subsidies and tax dodges, avoiding taxes, while deficits rise and essential programs like nutrition for infants get cut.
The politicians prefer posturing to bold action, "message" and "spin" to leadership.
Republicans even with the majority in the House are focused on obstruction. They vote for more tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations, paid for by ending Medicare and Medicaid, hiking costs for those least able to pay -- seniors, the disabled, the dying.
They vow to blow up the economy if they can't get a deal on trillions in domestic spending cuts, accompanied by more tax breaks for the wealthy. They're lining their campaign coffers carrying water for the big banks against even minimal reforms.
The adult Republican presidential candidates like Mitch Romney claim they can get the economy going and create jobs. But they only recycle old and failed nostrums. More tax cuts for corporations who are already sitting on over a trillion in cash waiting for customers.
More tax cuts for the wealthiest, who already have the most concentrated income and wealth since the eve of the Great Depression.
More corporate trade deals that ship goods jobs abroad, undermine wages at home, and force up to borrow over a billion a day from abroad to balance the deficits. Less regulation when we haven't recovered from the catastrophe caused by the excesses of deregulated Wall Street.
They pretend they can balance the budget and put people to work by cutting domestic spending, cutting taxes, increasing spending on the military, and not dismantling basic promises like Medicare and Social Security. They and everyone else knows that is a lie.
The White House offers no clear way out.
The president wants to hail the successes of an economy that isn't working for most people. Yes, his policies saved us from free fall -- thanks, but we're worried about what we face, not where we've been. He sensibly calls for "winning the future" -- making investments in areas like education, innovation and infrastructure. But he's locked himself into austerity, focused on cuts, and offering no big vision of how we move forward.
He's more sensible than the tea party zealots, but remains unwilling to tell Americans what needs to be done and that fight for it.
The Democrats in the Senate are a babble, too divided to deliver a message. The House Democrats are cowed by the losses in 2010, too worried about being accused of being "big spenders" to lay out a course to get the economy going and put people to work.
And few seem ready to put out a strategy that necessarily will take on the interests that are strangling the dream. A national trade strategy that isn't controlled by multinationals. Affordable health care not catering to private insurance and drug companies. Fair taxes that shut down the tax havens, the dodges, the obscene subsidies that drain our resources. An investment strategy that generates vital public and private investment, not more Wall Street speculation, or CEO incentives for laying off workers and plundering their own companies.
It will take a popular uprising to get Washington even to begin to focus seriously on jobs and the economy. We've seen this before. There was a bipartisan consensus on the Iraq War until a growing movement forced first Democrats and then the Bush White House to face reality.
The Washington establishment was drunk on slashing Social Security and Medicare to address deficits, and Republicans embraced gutting Medicare, until popular disapproval expressed both in the polls and in the special election in upstate New York sobered them up a bit. The anger expressed by the Tea Party minority still has Republicans in Washington reeling.
Now we need the people to speak again. This time for the American majority. We aren't buying the old conservative elixirs. The New Dem-Republican lite embrace of half measures and conservative cross dressing isn't acceptable.
Washington has to hear a clear message. We elected you to get this economy going, not gut Medicare. We want to know how you will create jobs. We don't want to be served the old tired babble. We know we can't simply cut our way to prosperity. We know we need a major change in our global strategy. We know we've got to make investments vital to the future -- in education and in innovation. We know this economy needs major reforms. Anyone not willing to challenge the corporate interests that are strangling change isn't serious.
We know it is hard to focus on creating jobs when deficits are this high. We know we'll have to sacrifice, but we're not broke -- we don't have to break promises to our kids or our parents. And don't ask the victims of this economy to sacrifice when those making out like bandits are given a pass.
We know once the economy is moving, taxes have to go up and spending has to be brought under control. So stop the nonsense of no tax hikes.
Tell us what you will cut and why. Don't pretend choices don't have to be made.
So lay it out. How do you put people to work, change our economic strategy so we begin once more to make things in America and create good jobs, not poverty wage jobs? How does that relate to getting our books in order and our priorities straight? Give us a debate worthy of a great nation in deep trouble.
In August, after Washington reaches an inevitable deal on lifting the debt limit after weeks of posturing and bluster, of an idiotic debate focused on what to cut rather than how to get the economy going, legislators will return home for recess.
They need to hear from us.
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F Is For Franco But Not For Fascist, Apparently
The New Spanish Dictionary Of Biography's Historical Revisions Tell Us More About What's Wrong With Spain Now Than In The Past
Did you know that General Franco was not a dictator, just a bit too "authoritarian"? What about the people who opposed him? Ever felt the temptation to call them democrats or anti-fascists? Wrong. According to Spain's Royal Academy of History, the right term should be either "bandits" or "terrorists".
At least that is what the academy says in its recently released Spanish Dictionary of Biography, a mammoth 50-volume endeavour to put everyone in their place in terms of national history – the "Spain's got talent" of historical revisionism. And if you're already thinking that this Royal Academy must be some shadowy Francoist webpage with a phoney name you're wrong again: it is the real thing, the royal thing, the actual academy founded in the 18th century to bring the Enlightenment to Spain, and apparently still failing to do so 300 years later.
The fact that the dictionary has been presented under the patronage of the king himself and handsomely paid with taxpayers' money to the tune of €6.5m is doing very little to lessen the scandal many specialists and ordinary Spaniards feel at this body of work which, among other things, routinely refers to the republican side in the civil war as "the enemy" while Franco's troops are described as "the national army".
Or, for example, when it praises the "pacification" of several regions, by which it means the execution of thousands of democrats, socialists, teachers and passersby in general. It's a pity that people cannot overcome their outrage, because some of it is quite hilarious. There are wonderful unintended punchlines, such as when, in a frenzy of praise for the Generalissimo, we learn that Franco had personally warned Lyndon B Johnson not to enter the Vietnam war (if he only had listened!). Franco, the incorrigible pacifist …
But surely history is about different opinions, isn't it? Shouldn't we respect this view as valid as any other? Didn't the postmodernists teach us that history is anybody's guess?
No, I'm afraid. History is based on the free discussion of different points of view, but once a reasonable consensus is reached on a topic, those who insist, for example, that Napoleon was a humble man who hated violence are not taken seriously and never make it into a mainstream reference work.
The consensus about the Spanish republic is that it was a legitimate and democratically elected regime, whatever its flaws; and the consensus about Franco's regime is that it was a dictatorship, whatever its (alleged) merits. Even Franco saw himself as a dictator; in this he was more honest than his biographer. We can argue endlessly about specifics, but nothing changes those facts, in the same way that considering (like we should) the horrors of Hiroshima or Dresden doesn't turn Nazism or Japanese imperialism into better alternatives to V-Day.
So, how is this anomaly possible in Spain? That's the problem with this dictionary. It's not what it says about our past. Whatever you think about the past, at least it has the advantage that is gone for ever. The problem is what this dictionary tells us about our present.
It tells us of a Spanish right wing that has been able to embrace democracy but still rejects its memory, preferring that of a fascist regime responsible for a horrible war and years of repression. In some cases it's the need to justify the family history; but in others it's a prejudice so strong in the present that it projects itself back into the past.
Whatever the reasons, José María Aznar's eight years as prime minister between 1996 and 2004 were a great opportunity for his Popular party (PP) to distance itself from its slightly Francoist origins. But the opposite happened: it chose to legitimise Francoism instead. A whole school ofrevisionist historians was promoted to great success, endlessly recycling the old Francoist myths.
It would have been just ridiculous were it not that at the same time the government was denying thousands of citizens the right to unearth their loved ones from the archipelago of mass graveswhich still covers the whole country.
It was Aznar, in fact, who commissioned the Spanish Dictionary of Biography from the Royal Academy of History. Like a sleeping dragon it has made it through eight years of socialist rule, just in time to wake up for the next PP government, if the polls are correct. As they say: You never know what past awaits you in the future.
The United States has budgeted $7 trillion for defense since 9/11, devoting another $636 billion to homeland security, Chris Hellman sums up for NPP's Budget Matters. "Al Qaeda spends at most $300 million a year on terror — probably much less. In other words, the enemy's terrorism budget is 0.003 percent of what the United States pays to secure the realm," Antiwar.com's Peter Casey comments. "Osama bin Laden really did a number on all of us," The New York Times' Thomas Friedman relatedly concludes.
Homies: "DHS would get no funding to continue building its new headquarters if an appropriations bill being considered in the House becomes law," Federal Times' Andy Medici leads — as Jena Baker McNeil predicts in a Heritage WebMemo a "dramatic decrease in funding" for the Office of Policy, and The Hill's Pete Kasperowicz hears House homelander Peter T. King, R-N.Y., terming GOP-proposed DHS cuts "an invitation to an attack." Two Iraqi refugees accused of supporting efforts to kill American troops in Iraq survived the USCIS vetting process that allowed them asylum in the United States, The Bowling Green (Ky.) Daily News' Deborah Highland analyzes.
Feds: Rep. Cliff Stearns, R-Fla., demands a probe of cybersecurity issues raised by a twittered BVD bulge shot attributed to Anthony Weiner, D-N.Y., terming it vital to "ensure our national security," The Daily Caller's Matthew Boyle mentions. Athink-tank report says the FBI baited four men convicted of plotting synagogue bombings, The Riverdale (N.Y.) Press' Nikki Dowling notes. "Being waterboarded is better than being killed by a drone," Bush-era Pentagon chief Donald Rumsfeld tellsMetro International's Elisabeth Braw — while AllGov ponders how "Abu Zubaydah lost his left eye while in the custody of the CIA." When senators warn that the Patriot Act is secretly being repressively interpreted, civil libertarians can only speculate what they mean, The Los Angeles Times' Ken Dilanian updates.
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Over there: "Across the country, many Pakistanis remain unconvinced that bin Laden was killed in a raid," the L.A. Times spotlights. "How big a threat is Anwar al-Awlaki and how central a place should he have in U.S. counterterrorism strategy?" The New York Times asks five experts. NATO has captured a senior former Osama bin Laden associate in northern Afghanistan, USA Today relays — while Agence France Presse sees al Qaeda making use of sleeper cells in West Africancountries. Quebec is denying a Montreal man child-assistance benefits because his name appears on a U.N. terror watchlist, The Canadian Press reports — while The Canada Free Press terms it "extremely concerning" that Ottawa's National Art Centre "has agreed to host an event organized by the Islamic Regime Embassy [sic]."
Kultur Kanyon: In the first issue of "Superputin," Sergei Kalenik's Internet comic strip, "Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, clad in a kimono, rushes to rescue a bus threatened by an al Qaeda bomb," Radio Free Europe reports. Russell Proctor's "Days of Iron" (CreateSpace) "takes readers 400 years into the future . . . through a story that discusses the world through the eyes of a terrorist," MMD Newswire relays. After a hard day's forced labor, an ex-Chinese prison camp denizen tells The Guardian, detainees were forced to make virtual money in online games like "World of Warcraft" (Blizzard Entertainment) to benefit of prison guards. "Video games let us be heroes . . . They could let us be anyone, though. Terrorists, for example," Stephen Totilo opens in Kotaku — while USA Today spotlights the popularity of "first-person shoot 'em up games" such as "Call of Duty: Black Ops" (Activision) among soldiers serving in Afghanistan.
Screening Room: "If you're keeping tabs on the recent cinematic reconsideration of 1960s and '70s left-wing terrorism, 'United Red Army' [Lorber Films], Koji Wakamatsu's devastating chronicle of the ultra-violent fringe of Japanese student radicalism, is a must-see," Salon suggests. Rick Remender's graphic novel "The Last Days of American Crime" (Radical Publishing), set in a United States where a second major terrorist strike has inspired technology eliminating the criminal impulse, is to become a film directed by F. Gary Gray, Screen Rant reports. "Wish You Waziristan," a $50,000 animated short designed by Britain's Foreign Office to dissuade teens from turning terrorist, has been slammed as a waste of money,Sky News notes. Among other woman-directed entries in this year's Silverdocs Festival, Katie Galloway's "Better This World" (Loteria) "sets in high relief the impact the war on terror has on civil liberties and political activism in a post-9/11 world,"indieWIRE informs.
Non compis mentally ill: "A federal judge has ruled that Jared Loughner, accused of killing six people in an attempt to assassinate Rep. Gabrielle Giffords in January, is not competent to stand trial," an Onion Infographic informs. "Here are some of the factors that played a role in Loughner's medical evaluation: During sessions, did not once break eye contact with the interviewer's crotch; All of the swastikas scrawled in his notebooks had five spokes; Said the Rorschach card that's clearly a crab was a scorpion; Still using iPhone from, like, four models ago; Purchased the Glock 9mm used in the shooting from Sportsman's Warehouse rather than from the far more reasonably priced Cabela's; Quoted Ron Paul's economic platform verbatim; Neighbors described him as a quiet man who kept to himself; and Kept referring to his rights under the Constitution as if that meant anything in Arizona." See, as well, an Onion commentary: "Let's Just Go Ahead And Assume We've Learned The Lessons Of The Gabrielle Giffords Shooting."
In the immortal words of the vice president, this could be a big $%^ing deal: House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, is throwing what one Republican calls "a legal and political hot potato at the President."
In a resolution to be voted on in the House tomorrow, Boehner is giving the president two weeks – until the Pentagon Appropriations bill comes up – to either:
Ask for authorization for the military intervention in Libya, or
Figure out how to disengage the US from the NATO operation in Libya.
The resolution states: "The President has not sought, and Congress has not provided, authorization for the introduction or continued involvement of the United States Armed Forces in Libya. Congress has the constitutional prerogative to withhold funding for any unauthorized use of the United States Armed Forces, including for unauthorized activities regarding Libya."
Boehner is explicitly and formally stating that the president did not check the box on the War Powers Act before sending the US military to intervene in Libya.
The White House had no immediate comment, though earlier today White House press secretary Jay Carney said "we believe that the policy is working, we believe that the goal the president has is shared by a vast majority of members of Congress, and we have consulted with Congress every step of the way since we have initiated this policy." Carney went on to reiterate that "our involvement militarily is limited, as the president promised, and will continue to be so, and he has made very clear, for example, that we will not be sending ground troops to Libya; that is off the table."
Last week we noted that two bipartisan actions in the House of Representatives related to Libya seemed to bode ill for congressional support for the U.S. role in military intervention there. Last month in a letter to congressional leaders, the president suggested that the US mission in Libya is now so limited he didn't think congressional authorization necessary,
House Republican leaders believe that if the resolution being offered by Rep. Dennis Kucinich, D-Ohio -- requiring the president to withdraw U.S. Armed Forces from participation in the NATO mission in Libya within 15 days – had come up yesterday it would have passed.
Instead the Kucinich bill comes up tomorrow. With the Boehner bill an alternative.
According to a House Republican aide, in the House GOP conference this afternoon, Speaker Boehner said: "The Kucinich measure will express our constituents' angst, but it will also have long-term consequences I believe are unacceptable. If Kucinich passes, it will have an impact on Afghanistan. From a NATO perspective, we're trying to hold the alliance together and advance a common agenda in Afghanistan. We will have turned our backs against our NATO partners who have stuck by us for the last 10 years."
Boehner then quoted from a Heritage Foundation paper on the possibility of congressional action on Libya: "'Any action by Congress must have due regard for U.S. responsibilities to its allies. It would be completely irresponsible of the U.S. to presumptively withdraw support from allies that are in harm's way. Many NATO nations stood, fought, and died with American soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan. Nothing should be done to suggest that America would precipitously abandon its allies.'"
Boehner used the attached PowerPoint slide to make his case against the Kucinich resolution (click for larger version):
President Obama's intervention in Libya—pardon me, "NATO's" intervention in Libya—has become a moment of reflection for conservatives. Whereas the Right gave the last Republican president carte blanche on foreign policy despite cries from the Left about abuse of power, many conservatives now mimic those complaints by demanding that our current Democratic president follow the rule of law.
The Libyan intervention Obama promised would last only "days, not weeks" has now lasted over two months—a direct violation of the War Powers Resolution which requires the President to get Congressional authority for such action after 60 days.
Writes conservative columnist George Will: "The U.S. intervention in Libya's civil war, intervention that began with a surplus of confusion about capabilities and a shortage of candor about objectives, is now taking a toll on the rule of law."
Will isn't alone in his concern. While the establishment centrists of both the Democratic and Republican leadership continue to shield Obama from the rule of law, some of the loudest demands that this war president be held accountable continue to come from the Right.
In the Senate, some of that body's most conservative members—Rand Paul, Jim DeMint, Mike Lee, Ron Johnson, Tom Coburn and John Cornyn—were co-signers of a May 18 letter to Obama insisting that the President respect the War Powers Resolution and rule of law.
Needless to say, Democratic Senate Majority leader Harry Reid and "maverick" Republican John McCain vocally disagree with these conservative senators.
In the Republican-controlled House, Speaker John Boehner and the rest of the moderate GOP establishment predictably had the President's back. Likewise, Democratic Rep. Dennis Kucinich—one of the few antiwar liberals who did not sell out with the election of Obama—predictably launched a full-frontal assault on this war president.
Kucinich introduced what the Washington Post called a "drastic" proposal that demands Obama withdraw forces from Libya within 15 days.
Kucinich's co-sponsor was Republican Rep. Dan Burton of Indiana. Indeed, some of Kucinich's loudest champions concerning this legislation were conservative Republicans. Reports the Post: "Now, a Democratic president has asked the country to support a new military action and missed a legal deadline that required him to get Congress's authorization. In response, an antiwar movement has appeared in an unlikely place: a House dominated by the Republican right."
Co-sponsor Burton noted "I think, in the House, there's probably enough votes to pass this," and he must've been right—after closed door meetings with fellow Republicans the GOP leadership tabled the measure. Said Boehner spokesman Kevin Smith, "His intention is not to undermine the commander in chief, at a time when we have troops in harm's way."
Never mind that the Founding Fathers' intended for Congress—especially the "people's house" in the House of Representatives—to be the governing body that determines what justified putting "troops in harm's way." True to his characteristic Bush Republican form, Speaker Boehner obviously believes this important decision should lie entirely with the President in defiance of the Constitution's explicit instructions that Congress must declare war.
Make no mistake—a majority of Republicans in both the Senate and House still retain the same doltish mindset as Boehner. But then again, a majority of Republicans have never been conservative. This is nothing new. What is new is that the minority of Republicans who are beginning to rethink American foreign policy are almost exclusively conservatives. Kucinich bill supporter, Republican Rep. Jeff Flake perhaps had the greatest insight this week: "There's been disquiet for a long time. Republicans have been too eager to support some military ventures abroad. And this, (getting out of Libya) I think, is perhaps a little more consistent with traditional conservatism."
Flake is right. Perhaps more than he realizes.
Known as "Mr. Republican," in the mid-twentieth century, Sen. Robert Taft led the conservative charge against the prevailing Democratic belief that it was America's mission to "make the world safe for democracy," as defined by Woodrow Wilson and promoted by Franklin Roosevelt. In 1946, Taft said that the US went to war to "maintain the freedom of our own people… Certainly, we did not go to war to reform the world." In 1957, author Russell Kirk would write in his "Ten Canons of Conservative Thought:" "In the affairs of nations, the American conservative feels that his country ought to set an example to the world, but ought not to try to remake the world in its image." Despite neoconservative assertions to the contrary, many historians have noted Ronald Reagan's distaste for prolonged military conflict and that he had the least interventionist policy of any president in the last 50 years.
Wrote Pat Buchanan of his former boss: "Reagan did not harbor some Wilsonian compulsion to remake the world in the image of Vermont."
At the end of his life, National Review founder William F. Buckley called the Iraq War a mistake and suggested that Bush should be impeached. So did Dennis Kucinich.
It is no mistake that many of the GOP's most conservative members now more closely align themselves with what some might consider liberal antiwar positions, precisely because prudence in foreign affairs has always been the traditionally conservative position. This might become easier to see the more conservatives realize that Bush was this generation's Wilson and Obama is now the new FDR—promoting big government at home and abroad with utopian rhetoric and reckless abandon.
Concerning foreign policy, traditional conservatives have always been concerned first with America's interest, caution and restraint, and the rule of law—something Taft and Kirk always knew, Reagan and Buckley were old enough to remember and too many conservatives today have all but forgotten.
This week, more than a few Republicans proved that genuine American conservatism isn't entirely dead yet—as a Democratic war president unintentionally jogs the Right's historical memory and helps to revive conservatism's traditionalist heart.
From The Hill:
By Russell Berman
One Democrat called it the "sign of the apocalypse."
An anti-war resolution authored by Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio), who spent years trying to impeach the last Republican president for prosecuting an illegal war, won more support from Republicans than Democrats on the House floor.
That was the case Friday as the House debated how to respond, belatedly, to President Obama's military intervention in Libya. Kucinich's resolution, which would mandate an immediate withdrawal of U.S. forces absent congressional authorization, failed by a wide margin, 265-148, but it garnered votes from more than one-third of the Republican conference. Eighty-seven Republicans voted for the measure compared to 61 Democrats.
Minutes earlier, a strong majority of the House, including all but 10 Republicans, endorsed a milder rebuke of the president in the form of a non-binding resolution offered by Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio). The Speaker's bill chastised Obama for having "failed to provide a compelling rationale" for the Libya mission, and it demanded that the president report back to Congress within 14 days with information on the operation's costs, goals, timeline and other matters.
At the heart of the debate over both measures was a desire by members in both parties, but especially Republicans, to express their dismay at Obama for not seeking congressional authorization for the military deployment or, in the opinion of many, consulting Congress at all.
"This resolution puts the president on notice," Boehner said in a floor speech arguing for his bill over Kucinich's proposal. "He has a chance to get this right. If he doesn't, Congress will exercise its constitutional authority and make it right."
Boehner and the Republican leadership had to scramble this week to head off Kucinich's resolution after they learned it might win enough votes to pass. Believing that an immediate withdrawal measure would go "too far" and undermine U.S. allies in NATO, Boehner drafted his own proposal aimed at siphoning GOP votes from Kucinich's bill.
In the end, Boehner won all but 10 Republican votes and 45 from Democrats. But the most striking development was the stronger-than-expected Republican support for the Kucinich proposal. After drawing national recognition as one of President George W. Bush's most aggressive liberal critics, Kucinich has arguably won as much floor time in a Republican majority as he did when his own party ruled the House. The Libya resolution marks the second time in the last three months that he has forced a vote on withdrawing American troops from a theater abroad.
On Friday his measure earned votes not only from traditional intervention skeptics like Reps. Ron Paul (Tex.) and Walter Jones (N.C.), but it also won over conservative hard-liner Rep. Michele Bachmann (Minn.) and the chairman of the Ways and Means Committee, Rep. Dave Camp (Mich.). Dozens of freshman Republicans supported Kucinich, including class president Rep. Austin Scott (Ga.) and two representatives on the leadership team, Reps. Kristi Noem (S.D.) and Tim Scott (S.C.).
Kucinich said he thought he won over Republicans by focusing more on the need for Congress to assert its Constitutional prerogative to declare war than on the wisdom of the mission itself. "Nowhere in this debate did I get into the merits or demerits of our involvement in Libya," Kucinich told reporters after the vote. "I didn't address this in a partisan way, and I still won't address it in a partisan way."
"I think the victory is in forcing the debate," Kucinich added. "Because there wasn't going to be a debate except for this resolution."
Many of the freshman Republicans in particular had campaigned on a promise of strict adherence to constitutional principles, and Kucinich may have tapped into that sentiment. "The members that I talked to were concerned about the constitutional implications," he said.
The Ohio Democrat also said he thought the Democratic vote was depressed because of "strong appeals from the White House and the Democratic leadership." While the White House criticized his resolution and Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) spoke out against it, House Democrats did not whip against the bill on the floor. Two members of the Democratic leadership, caucus chairman Rep. John Larson (Conn.) and vice chairman Xavier Becerra (Calif.), voted yes.
Yet Democratic supporters of the president's policy said GOP support for Kucinich was more about anger and opposition to Obama. The ranking Democrat on the Foreign Affairs Committee, Rep. Howard Berman (Calif.), surmised that the GOP would not have been so sympathetic to Kucinich's proposal "if its own party was in control of the executive branch."
If nothing else, the votes on Friday represented a case of strange bedfellows and found one of the House's most liberal members speaking in praise of the Republican Speaker.
"I think the Speaker has taken a stand for the institution," Kucinich said, "and he may not have been ready to come as far as I wanted to go today, but we certainly took a step in the direction of accountability."
Sarah Palin, if you haven't heard, is taking some of her family around the country, visiting historical U.S. landmarks, and talking to the media along the way.
Thursday her "One Nation" traveling road show stopped in Boston, where the former Alaska governor, her parents, her husband, and little Piper visited Paul Revere's house, the Old North Church, and Bunker Hill. Palin posted photos of that leg of her trip on the SarahPAC blog.
One moment that you won't find posted on the blog is Palin's response to reporters when they asked her who Paul Revere was. Instead of saying, "Come on, everyone knows who Paul Revere, the silversmith and patriot is," she stammered while saying this:
"He who warned, uh, the British that they weren't gonna be takin' away our arms, uh, by ringing those bells, and um, makin' sure as he's riding his horse through town to send those warning shots and bells that we were going to be sure and we were going to be free, and we were going to be armed."
Needless to say, the lamestream media are having a field day with that gaffe.
Politico: Palin makes Bachmann look like Longfellow
Forbes: This certainly gives us an entirely new point of view to consider when examining our nation's founding.
Mediaite: Palin's version wasn't exactly the official History Channel rendition of the tale...
ABC: Perhaps this week's lesson in the annals of American history was necessary for Sarah Palin.
Fox News has the video up leading their site, but no text or commentary. Perhaps they're speechless.
All of this reminds me of a fortune cookie I once received that said, "We teach what we most need to learn." In which case, ride on, "One Nation," ride on.


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Papers (1861-1868) including correspondence, information on defense, wartime letters written to his future wife, assorted incidents.
Collection (1860-1862) including diary, news reports, notes on troop movements, personal experiences relating to friend.
Papers (1894-1901, 1958-1974, 2009, undated) of a U. S. naval officer (Rear Admiral), graduate of the U. S. Naval Academy, 1872, who served as commander of the European Squadron, 1895, and Mare Island Navy Yard, 1898, and consisting of correspondence, newspaper clippings, genealogical tables, a poem, photographs, and miscellaneous.
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Logbook, (1862 -1863) of H.M.S.
Desperate headquartered in Bermuda.
Letterbooks (1864-1866, 1868) including correspondence, letterbooks of handwritten copies of letters, one speech, one cash book, one invoice book, one monthly statement book, one order book, two poems.
Correspondence (1868-1869), written from Japan by fellow U.S. naval officers Samuel P. Carter and Earl English.
Papers (1862-1863) consisting of correspondence, commentaries, letters, shipping, etc.
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For more information and to help protect chimpanzees like Wounda please visit JaneGoodall.ca
This video documents the story of Wounda, one of the more than 160 chimpanzees living at the Jane Goodall Institute's Tchimpounga Chimpanzee Rehabilitation Center in the Republic of Congo.
Thanks to the expert care provided at Tchimpounga, Wounda overcame significant adversity and illness and was recently relocated to Tchindzoulou Island, one of three islands that are part of the newly expanded sanctuary. Dr. Jane Goodall was on hand to witness Wounda's emotional release, and now you can too.
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Kerala's organ donation programme sees first transplant
Thiruvananthapuram/Kochi: The Kerala government's organ donation programme yesterday ensured its first transplant with the heart from a patient who passed away in the morning in Thiruvananthapuram being taken to Kochi where a recipient was waiting, officials said.
The heart was airlifted to Kochi with the help of the Indian Navy, the chief minister's Office told IANS.
"The chief minister sought the services of the navy and got an aircraft which brought in doctors from Kochi. In a few hours, the heart was taken out from the patient and was taken to Kochi, where another patient was waiting for it," said an official in chief minister Oommen Chandy's office.
The district authorities in Thiruvananthapuram and Kochi made elaborate arrangements for the speedy transfer to and from the airport as traffic was brought to a standstill for the time the heart was transported.
"The chief minister took up this case as part of the 'Mrithasanjeevani' programme that facilitates organ transplant," said the official.


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• Easy-to-use visual editor to change the properties of your game and create your own levels without knowing how to program.
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• Optimized for mobile: the UI scales across different (portrait) resolutions, game objects are pooled to keep the amount of garbage generated at runtime to a minimum and sprite atlas are used extensively in order to reduce the number of draw calls.
• 30+ unique levels included that you can use as a starting point for your own game.
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• Complete set of unique graphics, animations and effects designed by ricimi.
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This asset requires importing the free DOTween asset (license here). See Third-PartyNotices.txt file in package for details.
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Culture-Bases Biochips for Detecting Nocardioforms in Environmental SamplesProceedings of the IEEE Annual Northeast Bioengineering Conference, NEBEC (2002, Philadelphia, PA)
In this paper, we describe a biochip for monitoring nocardioforms in environmental samples in an improved, timesaving, and cost-efficient manner. The biochips are able to rapidly detect microorganisms in sewage samples from a wastewater treatment plant.
Meeting Name28th IEEE Annual Northeast Bioengineering Conference, NEBC 2002 (2002: Apr. 20-21, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA)
Department(s)Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering
Keywords and Phrases
- Animals,
- Bioassay,
- Biochips,
- Microarrays,
- Microbiology,
- Microscopic examination,
- Sewage,
- Cost-efficient,
- Environmental sample,
- Wastewater treatment plants,
- Computerized monitoring,
- Fluorescence,
- Glass,
- Marine animals,
- Microorganisms,
- Microscopy,
- Organisms,
- Pathogens,
- Surface treatment,
- Wastewater treatment
International Standard Book Number (ISBN)0780374193
Document TypeArticle - Conference proceedings
Document VersionCitation
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Rights© 2002 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. (IEEE) , All rights reserved.
Publication Date4-1-2002
Citation InformationHima B. Eluru, Amy L. Polaczyk, Rajeev Chhabra, Brian K. Kinkle, et al.. "Culture-Bases Biochips for Detecting Nocardioforms in Environmental Samples" Proceedings of the IEEE Annual Northeast Bioengineering Conference, NEBEC (2002, Philadelphia, PA) Vol. 2002-January (2002) p. 131 - 132 ISSN: 1071-121X
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/daniel_oerther/40/


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TOKYO — Striking a conciliatory tone on an issue that has divided Japan and the United States, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates said Thursday that the Obama administration would follow Tokyo's lead in working to relocate an American air base on Okinawa.
During talks with Japanese leaders in Tokyo, Mr. Gates said he also discussed a sophisticated new antimissile system that the United States is jointly developing with the Japanese, and the two nations' response to North Korea's recent military provocations against the South.
But a top item on the agenda was the relocation of the United States Marine Corps Air Station Futenma, an emotional issue here that drove an uncharacteristic wedge between the allies last year when the prime minister at the time, Yukio Hatoyama, wavered on whether to keep the base on Okinawa.
While the two nations finally agreed in May to relocate the noisy helicopter base to a less populated part of Okinawa by 2014, local resistance has made that time frame look increasingly unrealistic.
On Thursday, Mr. Gates said the administration did not want the Futenma issue to overshadow the countries' overall security alliance, which last year reached its 50th anniversary. He signaled that the United States was willing to be flexible in allowing Tokyo to resolve the domestic political resistance to the relocation plan.Continue reading the main story
"We do understand that it is politically a complex matter in Japan," he said after meeting Defense Minister Toshimi Kitazawa. "And we intend to follow the lead of the Japanese government in working with the people of Okinawa to take their interests and their concerns into account."
The softer tone is a departure from Mr. Gates's visit to Tokyo in October 2009, when he pushed Mr. Hatoyama's fledgling government to honor an earlier deal to relocate the base on Okinawa. Those pressure tactics backfired, creating resentment in the government that the United States was trying to bully it.
Mr. Hatoyama eventually stepped down amid criticism that he had mishandled the alliance. His successor, Prime Minister Naoto Kan, has worked to strengthen security ties with Tokyo's traditional protector.
At Keio University in Tokyo on Friday, Mr. Gates said the rising tensions in the region, including North Korea's pursuit of nuclear weapons and China's expanding military, made it essential to fortify the security alliance between the United States and Japan. "Our alliance is more necessary, more relevant and more important than ever," he said.
He said it was essential for American military forces to remain in Japan, particularly as a deterrent against North Korean aggression and the ever-bolder Chinese armed forces. Without the American presence, he said, "North Korea's military provocations could be even more dangerous or worse." China, he said, "might behave more assertively towards its neighbors."
On Thursday, Mr. Gates and Mr. Kitazawa discussed one of the nations' largest joint projects, the development of the antimissile system, which will be fired from ships to intercept larger ballistic missiles in midflight.
Washington wants to be able to sell the system, known as the SM-3, to other nations, including possibly South Korea. But that would require Japan to rewrite its tight restrictions on weapons exports, a pillar of the nation's post-World War II pacifism.
While Mr. Gates said Washington hoped to defray development costs by exporting the system, he was aware that this was a delicate matter in Japan. "It makes economic sense to make it available to others," he said of the new interceptor. "But we understand there are certain processes that have to be gone through here."
Prime Minister Kan has called for a public debate on revising the restrictions, a step that many Japanese see as necessary for closer security cooperation with the United States in responding to China and North Korea.
Mr. Gates, whose next stop is South Korea, said he had asked Japan for help in pressuring the North not to strike South Korea again. He has said he is worried that South Korea might feel forced to make a strong retaliation after already suffering North Korean attacks last year on an island and a warship. Pyongyang has denied involvement in the sinking of the warship.
"It's a longstanding principle that every country has the right to protect itself and defend itself against an unprovoked attack," Mr. Gates said. "The objective that we all have in common is, how do we prevent another provocation from taking place?"Continue reading the main story


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School summer holidays in Vietnam are traditionally the most competitive times for English language schools to communicate and connect with their target audiences. The newly created sub-brand 'Apollo English Junior', briefed the red team to create an advertising campaign to both break through the clutter of the competition while portraying the brand as 'the most effective way to study English with confidence' through the school's unique, proprietary L.E.T.S™ English Summer program.
The red team created a fun, charming advertising campaign and supporting website that appealed to different target audience age groups by illustrating how the students would learn English through subjects such as math, science and arts.
red's Creative Director Lennart Schaberg commented, "Working within a tight budget, the red team hand modeled plasticine to bring learning-elements to life from a real classroom in the advertising campaign. This helped us to break through the normal competitive clutter and create a more emotional appeal amongst the audience. Trying to create a similar effect using 3D modeling just wouldn't have had the same, authentic connection with the audience. Hats off to a great client for giving us the chance."
The advertising campaign was supported by mico-website design to provide customers with deeper product information, sale-promotion details and the chance to register for a free demonstration class.
Take a look here at the Apollo English Junior Summer Campaign website.
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I am Andy Reynolds, a long-term practitioner of low-impact living, smallholder, author, forester, teacher, carpenter, builder. I've been working with Lowimpact.org since the early noughties, and I'd like to share my philosophy on self-reliance with you.
I've had a keen interest in self-reliance from an early age, realising that given a large enough lump of self-interest, a lot of people will dump you right in it, so to speak, with no more than a second thought. This is especially true in an age of global business, seeking ever-expanding profit, with investors only looking at the bottom line, thinking "To hell with the ethics I'll be dead when the bill from the environment comes in". If you add to that the fact that governments pander to whoever has the most cash to spend on their campaigns and who can tell the biggest lies, then relying on them is not a fantastic option.
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The "Tea Vs Coffee" debate is an ever interesting one with people from southern part of India strongly backing coffee with out which their day does not start! In contrast those from the north, pitch for tea, not because it is better health-wise but for its characteristic flavor. No doubt both Tea and Coffee contain the stimulant Caffeine which makes one more alert and relaxing. That said, the distinction between tea and coffee is getting blurred day by day as India is progressively becoming a national village without any restraining state borders. Efforts of Indian Coffee Board years ago to popularize coffee in the north were some what futile as even to day tea continues to be the dominant beverage in most of the northern states. One of the reasons could be that the taste and flavor of brewed coffee are widely varying, depending on the variety of seed, seed processing method, roasting practice, particle size of the ground coffee and method of brewing. This makes coffee making an extremely adventurous task. As coffee drinking was prevalent in the south for centuries, the art of making good coffee got transferred from generation to generation. In spite of this situation, surprisingly tea gained a firm foot hold in the south during the last 5 decades with many people opting for tea as a change from the coffee drinking routine.
Tea is a historical beverage with its origin attributed to China. There seems to be evidence that tea was a popular drink in both China and India almost 5000 years ago, though its discovery was attributed to Chinese royalty. It was an accidental contamination of hot water with tea leaves and the finding that the tea leaves soaked water was flavorful to the King, led to popularity of tea in China. Its origin in India is shrouded in mystery. Interestingly Chinese discovered that the tea leaves soaked hot water was not only refreshing but also health protective which helped tea to be propagated all over the world. As fresh tea leaves were some what perishable, drying was resorted to reduce moisture and extend its life for some time. Again the observation that bruised tea leaves tended to darken with time and produced aromatic flavors, led to the modern CTD tea technology widely used in the manufacture of black tea. Coincidentally most of the world liked black tea in preference to green tea which led to a thriving tea industry that produces about 2.5 million tons of tea world wide out of which green tea constitutes roughly 20%.
One of the influencing factors that made Chinese population healthier than others might be that they consume green tea regularly in their daily lives and therefore it can be probably considered as their national drink. If that is so what does green tea contain which is not present in black tea? A look back at the massive scientific literature available to day, dwelling on various aspects of tea, will reveal that tea the leaves are a rich source of poly phenols, accounting for about 8-12% of its solid content. These include a number of flavonoids like catechin, epicatechin, epicatechin gallate, epigallocatechin gallate (better known as EGCG) and proanthocyanidinsmost of them with high antioxidant properties. As antioxidants play a vital role in neutralizing oxyradicals in the human body that is considered one of the causative factors in cancer development, tea with its rich antioxidant content is the darling of the health purists world over.
One of the most startling discoveries during the last few years of research on tea poly phenols was that all of them are not equal in conferring health benefits on human beings and the most important component that makes the difference is EGCG which was found to have a significant but specific influence on boosting many enzymes involved in neutralizing oxyradicals at the cellular level and prevent on set of cancers of various types. Unfortunately during the extreme processing conditions involved in converting green tea leaves into black tea, EGCG is converted to theaflavins and thearubigins with no therapeutic properties. Logically therefore green tea beverage will have to be consumed if the benefit of EGCG is desired. The bud and the first leaves of the tea plant contain highest concentration of EGCG and are therefore plucked for making green tea products.
Green tea poly phenols in general were found to increase the biological activity of several enzymes involved in neutralizing the activity of oxyradicals and detoxification and EGCG is the most potent one. The enzyme found to be positively influenced include glutathione reductase, glutathione peroxidase, glutathione S transferase, catalase and quinine reductase in small intestine, liver and lungs. EGCG is considered to have excellent therapeutical significance in preventing and treating a host of disease that include HIV, cancers affecting prostaglandin, brain, cervix and bladder, besides neurodegeneration. Drinking about two cups of green tea a day can confer most of the benefits attributed to EGCG, while consuming 4-6 cups a day is considered a therapeutic dose.
The health supplement industry seems to have got into the EGCG band wagon by putting in the market many products containing this phytochemical though most of them are non-standard ones containing very little or no EGCG at all! In the absence of a regulatory environment these fly by night operators are able to catch the attention of gullible consumers, laughing all the way to their banks! The most blatant use ( or misuse?) of green tea credentials is by the weight reduction products industry which is offering green tea solids containing health supplements based on some studies that a combination of EGCG and caffeine, when consumed, produces thermogenesis in the body leading to depletion of fat, causing some weight reduction. However there is no standardization of these products and the claims are not substantiated by real time studies involving human subjects.
One of the most surprising off shoots of studies using green tea and the EGCG is the finding that sugar spikes that occur after carbohydrate ingestion by diabetic patients can be reduced significantly by consumption of green tea, provided they are consumed together. The scientific logic is that EGCG has an inhibitory effect on starch degrading enzyme alpha amylase which in turn slow down break down of starch into maltose and glucose in vitro. As the ptylin enzyme present in the saliva has also starch digesting ability, the starch hydrolysis which starts immediately after ingestion in the oral cavity itself is retarded. Further exposure in the small intestine to alpha amylase as the food is swallowed and as it travels down the digestive tract, glucose generation is significantly retarded in presence of EGCG. According to recent findings if Egcg and a starchy food are consumed without any gap of time, glucose spike can be slowed down by almost 50% which by itself is remarkable. This finding confers additional benefits on those consuming green tea regularly include insurance against a host of modern day diseases affecting almost all organs in the body. Probably the health food industry will latch on to this discovery and it is a question of time before health supplements containing EGCG or green tea solids are marketed both for targeted consumer groups as well as general population.


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Postural Assessment Print CE Course
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Postural Assessment text
- Study guide
- Continuing education exam
After completing this course, you will be able to do the following:
- Define the term posture and provide examples of factors that affect posture.
- Give two reasons for carrying out a postural assessment and provide examples of the kinds of clients for whom postural assessment is not appropriate.
- List some of the equipment that may be helpful to have when carrying out a postural assessment and describe how a plumb line is used.
- Give examples of what to look for when assessing a client from standing posterior, lateral, and anterior views as well as for a client in a seated position. State the possible consequences of your observations with respect to muscles and joints.
Postural Assessment Print CE Course breaks down the complex and holistic process of assessing posture into easy-to-assimilate sections. Learners will find discussion of the ideal posture and the factors affecting posture as well as how to provide the correct environment for postural assessment, necessary equipment, and the importance of documenting assessment findings. Then, learners will discover procedures for executing postural assessments from standing posterior, lateral, and anterior views as well as with the patient or client in a seated position.
Information in the accompanying course text is enhanced with detailed illustrations that offer visual cues to learning postural assessment and identifying anatomical relationships. Line drawings illustrate bony landmarks used in the assessments, and numerous photos show both obvious and subtle postural variations. Reproducible illustrated postural assessment charts in the appendix of the text provide space for recording observations during each step of the assessment.
The course study guide contains course instructions, a syllabus, learning objectives, end-of-chapter review questions, and a referenced answer key to prepare learners for the exam at the conclusion of the course. The final exam consists of 75 multiple-choice questions that address concepts throughout the course materials. Upon passing the exam, individuals may print out and submit a certificate for continuing education credits.
Postural Assessment Print CE Course can assist practitioners in learning what posture reveals about the relationships among various body parts and in determining whether such relationships cause or contribute to pain or discomfort. As a resource for novices, Postural Assessment Print CE Course offers guidance in observing and identifying common postural forms and interpreting those observations.
Skills Active / REPs pre requisites can be found here:
A comprehensive continuing education course for massage therapists, physical therapists, physiotherapists, sports medicine physicians, and osteopaths in conducting detailed postural assessments; also valuable for professionals in athletic training or fitness professions.
Table of Contents
- Course Syllabus
- Course Materials
- Course Instructions
- Learning Objectives
- Course Instructions
- Learning With the Postural Assessment Book
- Chapter 1: Introduction
- Chapter 2: Posterior Postural Assessment: Upper Body
- Chapter 3: Posterior Postural Assessment: Lower Body
- Chapter 4: Lateral Postural Assessment: Upper Body
- Chapter 5: Lateral Postural Assessment: Lower Body
- Chapter 6: Anterior Postural Assessment: Upper Body
- Chapter 7: Anterior Postural Assessment: Lower Body
- Chapter 8 Seated Posture
- Chapter 2: Posterior Postural Assessment: Upper Body
- Exam and Evaluation
- Exam Answer Sheet
- Exam
- Course Evaluation
- Certificate Information
- Exam


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Blu-ray Disc is a trademark. Note Owner's Record This television includes a QAM demodulator "BRAVIA" and , S-Force, x The model and serial numbers are located which should allow you to receive Motionflow, BRAVIA Sync, , DMe and unscrambled digital cable television "x.v. Color" are trademarks or registered at the rear of the TV. Record these programming via subscription service to a marks of Sony Corporation. numbers in the spaces provided below. cable service provider. Availability of di
Contents Welcome to the World of BRAVIA® Exploring Fun Features The Four Steps to a Full HD Experience: Favorites ............................................................24 Set, Sound, Source, and Setup ....................4 Displaying Favorites .....................................24 Navigating Favorites.....................................24 Picture Quality and Aspect Ratio.......................4 Adding to Favorites ......................................24 TV Home Menu: XMB (XrossMediaBar
Welcome to the World of BRAVIA® Thank you for purchasing this Sony BRAVIA® high-definition television. The quality of the image you see on your BRAVIA TV is only as good as the quality of the signal it receives. To experience the stunning detail of your new BRAVIA TV, you need access to HD programming. Your BRAVIA TV can receive and display HD programming from: � Over-the-air broadcasting via HD-quality antenna � HD cable subscription � HD satellite subscription � Blu-ray Disc™ player or othe
TV Home Menu: XMB (XrossMediaBar) ™ The XMB is an easy way to access the TV settings for customizing, making adjustments, ™ viewing the available TV channels and selecting the connected equipment. Press the HOME button on your remote control to display the XMB . ™ Product Suppo r t Clo c k/Timers Media Settings Category Bar Sound Screen Channel TV Category Object Bar From the horizontal Media Category Bar you can control: � Settings: timer, picture, sound, screen and other options (se
Getting Started 1. Installing the TV Preparation for Table-Top Stand This TV can be mounted on a wall using a Wall- Follow the assembling steps required to place on a Mount Bracket or placed on a TV stand (each sold TV stand (except models: KDL-52V4100 and separately). This section will explain: KDL-52W4100). � How to carry the TV � Preparation for a Table-Top stand 1 Remove the Table-Top Stand and screws from � Preparation for a Wall-Mount Bracket the carton. The screws can be found in the
Getting Started 4 Use the supplied screws to attach the TV unit � Models KDL-32/37XBR6, KDL-40V4150, to the Table-Top Stand. Shown here with a KDL-40/42/46V4100, KDL-40/46W4100 and three screw model; other models may require KDL-46W4150 can be wall-mounted as screwing four screws (refer to the "Attaching packaged. If you decided to use the TV with the the Table-Top Stand" flyer). TV stand and later want to wall-mount the TV, follow the steps provided on this page to remove If an electri
� When moving the TV from a cold area to a When Installing the TV Against a Wall warm area, a sudden room temperature change or Enclosed Area may cause the TV's picture to blur or show poor color due to moisture condensation. Make sure that your TV has adequate air Should this occur, please wait a few hours to circulation. Allow enough space around the TV as allow the moisture to evaporate before shown below. Avoid operating the TV at powering on the TV. temperatures below 41 °F (5 °C)
Getting Started � Rope or chain (strong enough to support the Securing the TV weight of the TV). Make sure that there is no excess slack in the rope or chain. Sony strongly recommends taking measures to prevent the TV from toppling An alternative way to secure the TV is with an over. Unsecured TVs may topple and optional Sony Support Belt Kit. result in property damage, serious bodily injury or even death. Anchor bolt Prevent the TV from Toppling Over s Secure the TV to a wall and/or sta
RL 2. Locating Inputs and Outputs Rear of TV VIDEO IN COMPONENT IN PC IN IN DIGITAL AUDIO 1 3 1 2 1 OUT (OPTICAL) 5 Y 1 RGB S VIDEO x DMe / 3 PB SERVICE 6 VIDEO PR 4 AUDIO OUT L (MONO) L L AUDIO AUDIO AUDIO AUDIO AUDIO 7 R R R (1080p/1080i/720p/480p/480i) (VAR/FIX) 2 3 4 8 CABLE / ANTENNA Side Panel IN KDL-32XBR6/KDL-37XBR6/ KDL-42V4100 4 2 9 VIDEO IN 2 KDL-40V4150/KDL-40V4100/ VIDEO KDL-46V4100/KDL-52V4100/ KDL-40W4100/KDL-46W4100/ KDL-52W4100/KDL-46W4150 L (MONO) 1 AUDIO AC IN 9 R ~ � This T
Getting Started Item Description 1 VIDEO IN 1 Connects to the S VIDEO output jack of video equipment. If both composite video and S VIDEO S VIDEO are connected, S VIDEO signal has priority. VIDEO IN 2/3 Connects to the composite video and audio output jacks on your A/V equipment. VIDEO/L(MONO)- ~ AUDIO-R � If you have mono equipment, connect its audio output jack to the TV's L (MONO) audio input jack. 2 COMPONENT IN Connects to your equipment's component video (YPBPR) and audio (L/R) jacks. 1/
3. Connecting the TV HD Cable Box/HD Satellite Box You can enjoy high-definition programming by Cable System or VHF/UHF Antenna subscribing to a high-definition cable service or a System high-definition satellite service. For the best possible picture, make sure you connect this You can enjoy high-definition and standard- equipment to your TV via the HDMI or definition digital programming (if available in component video (with audio) input on the back of your area) along with standard-de
Getting Started Shown with DVI Connection CATV/Satellite antenna cable DVI-to-HDMI cable Rear of TV DIGITAL VIDEO IN COMPONENT IN PC IN IN AUDIO 1 3 1 2 1 OUT (OPTICAL) HD cable box/ Y RGB HD satellite box 3 S VIDEO PB VIDEO 4 PR AUDIO OUT L L L (MONO) RL AUDIO AUDIO AUDIO AUDIO AUDIO R R R (1080p/1080i/720p/480p/480i) (VAR/FIX) AUDIO-R (red) AUDIO-L (white) Audio cable ~ � If the equipment has a DVI jack and not an HDMI jack, connect the DVI jack to the HDMI IN 4 (with DVI-to-HDMI cable or
PC Use the TV as a monitor for your PC by connecting a HD15 to HD15 cable as shown below. This TV can also be connected to a PC with a DVI or HDMI output. (Refer to the separate Quick Setup Guide.) Rear of TV DIGITAL VIDEO IN COMPONENT IN PC IN IN AUDIO 1 3 1 2 1 OUT (OPTICAL) Y RGB 3 S VIDEO PB VIDEO 4 PR AUDIO OUT L (MONO) L L AUDIO AUDIORL AUDIO AUDIO AUDIO R R R (1080p/1080i/720p/480p/480i) (VAR/FIX) HD15-HD15 cable (analog Audio cable (stereo mini plugs) RGB) ~ � If the PC is connected
Getting Started Other Equipment Digital Blu-ray Audio DVD Personal satellite Digital Disc Player/ system player computer receiver cable box "PS3" IN 2 VIDEO IN 2 VIDEO L (MONO) A U DI O Rear of TV R VIDEO IN COMPONENT IN PC IN IN DIGITAL AUDIO 1 3 1 2 1 OUT (OPTICAL) Y RGB 3 S VIDEO PB VIDEO 4 PR A U DIO OUT L (MONO) L L R L A U DI O A UDIO A U DI O A U DI O AU DI O R R R (1080p/1080i/720p/480p/480i) (V AR/FIX) CABLE / ANTENNA CABLE/ANTENNA VCR Digital Camcorder Analog
� If the language that you have selected in the 4. Setting Up the Channel List Language setting is available from the broadcaster as – Initial Setup Alternate Audio language, your TV will automatically switch to the matching language with The Initial Setup screen appears when you turn the Alternate Audio feature. The Alternate Audio on the TV for the first time. option may be accessed by pressing OPTIONS on the remote control when an alternate audio stream is Initial Setup Step 1 of 6 a
Getting Started s To Run Initial Setup Again or Auto Program at a Later Time Select the Initial Setup feature from the XMB ™ or perform the steps described in the Initial Setup section on page 42. To run Auto Program, see page 37. HDMI Settings General Setup Settings Initial Setup TV s To Add Digital Channels Use the Add Digital Channels feature as described on page 37. (Useful for antenna installations.) ~ � If you accidentally turn off the TV during the Initial Setup process, the Initia
Operating the TV Inserting Batteries into the Remote Control Insert two size AA batteries (supplied) by matching e and E on the batteries to the diagram inside the battery compartment of the remote control. Push to open When Using the Remote Control Follow the guidelines below � Point your remote control directly at the IR sensor located on your TV. � Make sure that no objects are blocking the path between the remote control and the IR sensor on your TV. � Fluorescent lamps can interfere wi
Operating the TV Remote Control Button Description Button Description 1 DISPLAY Press once to display the banner with channel/program information you are watching. The banner will time out in a few seconds or press again to exit. You can select the banner size based on the amount of information. See Info 1 Banner on page 42. 2 2 SLEEP Press repeatedly until the TV displays the time in minutes (Off, 15 min, 30 min, 45 min, 60 min, 90 min or 3 120 min) that you want the TV to remain on befor
Button Description 7 RETURN Press to go back to the previous screen or exit from the screen when displaying menu items and settings. 8 HOME Press to display the TV Home Menu/XMB to access the ™ TV Home Menu items such as the TV Settings, TV channels and External Inputs list (see pages 5 and 29). Product Support qf Clock/Timers Settings S So ouund nd Screen Channel TV qg x 9 DMe Press to access features in the optional BRAVIA external qh module (e.g. DMX-NV1). See your dealer or www.sony.com
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Yannis Ritsos
I'm not listening to you—he says—
I find the hill beautiful
the tree beautiful
the shadow of birds on the grass
and myself
beautiful—he says—
in the water or in the mirror
whatever you say
my part isn't diminished
in the river
or in a rose.
Athens—May 14, 1980
from The Shadows of Birds (1980) [Collected Poems: IDelta ---pg 361]
Postings of poems by the Greek poet Yannis Ritsos in English translation. This blog, launched in 2009 to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the poet's birth, continues now after a two year break. All translations (and mistranslations) are by Scott King unless otherwise noted.
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
The Shadows of Birds:41
Posted by Scott King at 9:01 PM
Labels: The Shadows of Birds (1980)
1 comment:
- Issa's Untidy Hut said...
This one is a real beauty. I've sent you an email about it.
Don @ Lilliput
- May 25, 2008 at 4:53 AM
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DIY Hair Elastic / Bracelet/
The lovely Grace over at Stripes & Sequins did a great post the other day about stuff she loved for February. Amongst my fav things on the list was a reversible hairband/bracelet from Bloom Black Ties.
Since I couldn't get a hold of some here in Norway I decided to make some of my own. You will need a neutral color hair elastic (the once that doesn't have the metal snag your hair part) three links of a thick metal chain and some waxed string.
Cut your hair elastic, link it through the metal and attach with the waxed string, repeat on the other side and you have yourself a super nice hair elastic/bracelet!
There you go, now you can go out in the world looking pretty (new bracelet and all) and still be prepared for the time of day (we all know its coming) where your hair is frizzy and you just want to pull it away from your face!