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Editor: Mr. Mahn, would you tell our readers about your professional experience?
Mahn: My educational background is in engineering, which is consistent with most of the attorneys at Fish & Richardson. I have spent my career specializing in two regulatory areas: Federal Communications Commission and the Food and Drug Administration. My practice is focused on the close interplay between the firm's IP-based technology platform and these two regulatory fields.
Editor: How did you come to Fish & Richardson? What were the things that attracted you to the firm?
Mahn: For many years clients would come to me with patent work that I would refer to patent law firms in Washington, including Fish & Richardson. Eventually, we determined that it might make sense to develop a technology-based regulatory practice within Fish & Richardson. Fifteen years ago I joined the firm as the first attorney who was not strictly an IP practitioner.
Editor: Please tell us how your practice has evolved over the course of your career?
Mahn: As I mentioned, I have focused my practice in a couple of specialty areas where I can add substantial value for firm clients. My practice has evolved along the regulatory trajectories that are dictated by changes in technology. For example, the recent FCC regulatory dynamic has involved a more sophisticated government regulation of the spectrum and with that, a lot of challenging equipment compliance issues. From this, I have developed a specialty in representing manufacturers of spectrum using equipment.
My practice before the FDA has focused on the interface between patents and drug regulation. Here, I have developed a niche specialty to serve the firm's large base of pharmaceuticals and biotech clients who are constantly seeking new ways to employ IP to protect their market share. This is what I refer to as my Hatch-Waxman Act practice.
Editor: What about your work with technology companies trying to develop industry standards using patents and technology?
Mahn: This is another facet of my practice that is focused on the firm's technology client base. I work with many companies as both technical and legal consultant on a variety of industry standards committees. These companies are concerned about IP being incorporated into industry standards which can help or hurt their competitive positions.
Editor: As head of the firm's Regulatory and Government Affairs Group, you are engaged in a highly specialized, cutting-edge practice. Would you give us an overview of the group and its work?
Mahn: We have about a dozen attorneys engaged in the regulatory practice, all of whom have their own base of business. The group also provides a high level support function for firm clients who come to us from the patent prosecution and patent litigation side of the business, which is substantial. These are clients who encounter government regulatory issues involving their products or technology and they expect Fish & Richardson, with its science and engineering expertise, to assist them in navigating these issues.
In addition to our specialized FCC and FDA practices, we also do export licensing work, another area of government technology regulation, which involves representation before the Departments of State, Commerce Department, and Treasury. Government contracting is yet another specialty field and here our attorneys concentrate on issues between government and the private sector when public funds are used to develop patented technology.
Editor: Is there a full-time cadre of attorneys?
Mahn: Yes, although our structure and culture are somewhat different from what you would expect to find in most general practice firms in Washington. At Fish, we tend to emphasize the technology-based subspecialties of our attorneys. Working off a large IP platform of technology clients, our group focuses on regulatory issues that are unique to this client base. This is in contrast to the traditional regulatory firms in Washington which provide a much broader, less technically focused practice.
Editor: I gather there is a political dimension to the work of the group.
Mahn: Yes, although we do not possess in-house lobbying or legislative expertise. We will engage political consultants when needed. Our appearances on the Hill and in the political arena tend to be as regulatory experts providing an analysis of the technology at issue and the government's regulation of the same.
Editor: Who are the clients? Is there a focus on particular industry sectors?
Mahn: We have a broad range of technology clients. For example, we do work for Lockheed Martin and PanAm Sat on space issues; Microsoft, Intel, LG, Honeywell and XM Satellite on FCC regulatory issues; and we represent Novartis, Astra-Zeneca and many biotech companies on drug regulatory matters, just to name a few. We also have a telemarketing and advertising practice built on technology platform and represent clients such as MGM, News America, and Fox. In general, our regulatory attorneys serve a broad range of clients primarily in electronics and health sciences fields which is the strength of the firms IP practice.
Editor: Would you tell us something about the services that the group provides the firm's high-tech clients?
Mahn: We represent and advise clients on product compliance issues, typically assisting them through the vast federal maze of technology regulation. We consult on regulatory policy; work to amend regulations on the books; seek regulatory waivers for leading edge technologies; and represent clients on various enforcement issues. In short, we work to ensure that our clients' products make it onto the market and then stay there in the face of what sometimes seems to be an onslaught of federal regulations.
Editor: How do your technology backgrounds help in relating to clients?
Mahn: In a firm like Fish, clients come to us expecting to be served by attorneys who speak their language and understand their technologies. These clients often require a multidisciplinary approach to their legal problems whether it be in the fields of engineering, life sciences or economics. The regulatory practice at Fish mirrors this approach by offering a blend of legal and technical expertise. I think this is the differentiating aspect of our regulatory practice.
Editor: Do you find yourselves engaged in the international arena?
Mahn: Regularly. Most of our clients operate globally and therefore, face the same regulatory and market access issues in foreign jurisdictions that they face in the U.S. Over the years we have done regulatory work for clients in some 70 foreign countries. You have to be skilled in the international arena to succeed in this kind of practice today.
Editor: Can you provide an example of the kinds of service the practice handles?
Mahn: Recently, a major satellite client ran into a problem with some products that were not FCC compliant. Because the issues were highly technical, the client's regular FCC counsel hired Fish to assist them. We worked with the client's engineers and the FCC technical and the regulatory staff to develop novel testing procedures to assure FCC compliance. This work involved several skills that we have refined: a clear understanding of FCC rules and equipment regulations; a technical understanding of the spectrum and interference issues involved; familiarity with various testing standards for equipment compliance; and, finally, access to and credibility with senior people at the FCC. In the end, we were able to shepherd the client through the regulatory thicket and get their products to market with a minimum of disruption to their business. There are numerous other examples that I could also cite in the areas of exporting licensing and FDA practice.
Editor: Are there particular trends in your practice?
Mahn: On the FCC side, the trend seems to be toward a new regulatory regime that will allow for much greater spectrum sharing and the authorization of new spectrum compatible technologies. On the FDA side, it is the constant battle between pioneer and generic drug manufacturers with patents being a pivotal factor for protecting market share. Recently, we have witnessed new approaches being taken by owners of drug patents that the FDA never dreamed of when the Hatch-Waxman regulations were first developed.
Editor: What about the future? Where would you like this practice to be in, say, five years?
Mahn: I would say to our clients that we strive to provide solutions to the regulatory challenges that impact their technology products and services. The more difficult the challenge, the more likely it fits into one of our regulatory specialties. We believe that we possess the requisite legal and technical skills to evolve with the regulatory challenges that confront the high tech clients on which this firm is built. | http://metrocorpcounsel.com/articles/7355/leveraging-patents-and-high-technology-practice-navigates-only-toughest-issues | 2013-05-18T10:12:16 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Negotiations for Wright to start at $100m, Mets don’t want more than 2 years for Dickey
“The Mets are expected to open negotiations with an offer for somewhere in the neighborhood of $100 million for star third baseman David Wright, people familiar with the team’s thinking said,” according to Jon Heyman of CBS Sports.
Heyman believes the Mets intend to work to keep Wright, giving him “at least most of October” before considering.
Wright just completed the final year of a six-year, $55 million contract he signed with the Mets during the 2006 season. The Mets hold a $16 million option on him for 2013 with a $1 million buyout, after which he can become a free agent.
As for R.A. Dickey, Heyman says that – due to his ability to throw his knuckleball in excess of 80 mph – the Mets are worried about what kind of impact that might have on his arm, and so they are concerned about giving Dickey more than a two-year contract unless it’s for a substantial bargain.
However, a rival GM told Heyman he believes Dickey’s value to be around $15 million per season.:On the one hand, it’s exciting to learn the Mets are seemingly being proactive in trying to get these deals done. It tells me they have both the ability and desire to retain their stars, especially Wright who is important to the club on so many levels, both on and off the field.
On the other hand, it does take two to tango in these deals. In the case of Wright and the Mets, both have expressed a public interest in getting a deal done, and while that’s encouraging, I probably won’t take any comfort in the situation until the deal is signed, and Wright is standing on the podium at Citi Field discussing his future with the club.
Dickey is a little different, however. I really would like to see him back for the long-term, but I can understand why the Mets are weary of going overboard on a new deal. Dickey has always expressed an interest in being one of baseball’s biggest bargains – he has undoubtedly been that for the better part of three seasons. But it would be hard to feel comfortable about the a possible deal on the level Heyman suggests for Dickey. Extending Dickey and giving him any kind of raise would impact the Mets’ ability to invest in the Major League roster during the seasons of his contract – at $15 million a year? Yikes… Under that scenario, I could see the Mets pick Dickey’s 2013 option up and then look to deal him for other parts now. That wouldn’t be a popular move (and something I would not be happy about myself), especially since he’s on the cusp of winning a Cy Young Award and has made such a connection with the fans. | http://metsblog.com/metsblog/mets-expected-to-offer-about-100m-to-start-for-david-wright/?like=1&_wpnonce=9501e873bf | 2013-05-18T10:12:39 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
a drop of gasoline with every meal. Who hasn’t gotten their hands dirty at the gas station and grabbed a potato chip before washing?
You know it’s happened before
I was asked by our political director Alexis to write an article covering the current media hooplah about a simple hydrocarbon called hexane.
Article:
As a by-product of every petroleum refinery on earth, there is a lot of cheap hexane out there and when you consider how efficient this alkane can be, the idea of just dumping it off the shores of Somalia seems so wasteful. For a while we used hexane as a cleaning agent for removing grease in the printing industry as well as a solvent for rubber cement, but since print media is dead and I’m a little too old to still be sniffing glue, hexane needs another gig. Free showers for the homeless? Clean our bullets for a second go? Glue the streets of Detroit to prevent emigration? | http://mfwblog.com/2009/07/23/move-away-from-soy/ | 2013-05-18T10:21:00 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Top chefs soften the blow of eurozone chaos
They are the top chefs from the kitchens of the world's leaders who gather in Paris this week to swap recipes and tips on dinner-party diplomacy. (AFP)
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A handful of people in the world know that German Chancellor Angela Merkel loves popping over to Paris because of her penchant for French cuisine, while it's best to avoid serving artichokes to French President François Hollande.
They are the top chefs from the kitchens of the world's leaders who gather in Paris this week to swap recipes and tips on dinner-party diplomacy.
If Winston Churchill was right when he said a century ago that "the stomach governs the world", then this club of 27 culinary maestros have an unseen influence on leaders' moods as they seal decisions on everything from the crisis in Syria to the eurozone's debt woes.
"Presidents come and go, but chefs stay," said Gilles Bragard, the French businessman who started the club of chefs to the world's presidents and monarchs in 1977.
"I often say that if politics divides, then the table brings people together," he told a news conference in Paris at their latest annual get-together.
In a wink at the cooks' importance, the club's name - "Le Club des Chefs des Chefs" - plays on the fact the French word for chef and leader is the same. It could translate as "The Club of Chefs of the Chiefs" or "The Club of Chiefs of the Chiefs".
"I think what I cook can really make a difference to how discussions happen," Daryl Schembeck, head chef from the kitchens of the UN who recently cooked for a party of 200 world leaders, said.
"If it's easy to eat and people are enjoying it, it's something they can talk about and that can start another conversation. I think I can impact that," he said.
Attending the gathering from the White House kitchen is Cristeta Comerford, chef to Presidents Bill Clinton, George W Bush and now Barack Obama. From Paris comes veteran Bernard Vaussion, chef to French leaders for nearly 40 years.
The chefs, from as far afield as China, Sri Lanka and Israel, met in Berlin last week as part of a week-long annual get-together. They arrived in Paris on Monday for a three-day tour of the French capital, to sample ingredients and share recipes.
Chefs throughout history have played a vital, behind-the-scenes role in diplomacy, helping to ease fraught relations and smooth the way for talks.
As Bragard recounts, the great French strategist Talleyrand, credited with the rise of the diplomatic banquet, once told Napoleon Bonaparte: "Give me a good chef and I shall give you good treaties."
Keen to smooth tensions over the eurozone crisis when Hollande and Merkel met this month to mark 50 years of Franco-German reconciliation, French chefs chose to reproduce the famous meal of filet of beef and raspberry macarons prepared in 1962 for post-war leaders Charles de Gaulle and Konrad Adenauer when they signed their friendship treaty.
On the day of Hollande's inauguration in mid-May, Merkel treated him to a feast of veal schnitzel and asparagus in Berlin, washed down with a fine red French wine.
The chefs, some of the few people who have daily access to the world's power-brokers, have the utmost trust of their employers.
Only the Kremlin still has an official taster on hand to sample the Russian president's food and make sure it hasn't been tampered with. Other world leaders put their stomachs entirely in the hands of their cooks.
The chefs are firmly discreet regarding any secrets they pick up from the world of diplomacy - though they spill the beans more freely on former leaders, relating anecdotes that can give insight into presidents' and prime ministers' characters.
London-based Anton Mosimann, a visiting chef to 10 Downing Street who has cooked for a string of British prime ministers, recounts how Margaret Thatcher once asked for a lavish meal to entertain the then French President Francois Mitterrand.
He complied with a copious dish of veal steak with delicate morille mushrooms. During a conversation several years later, the famously frugal Thatcher congratulated him on the meal but added with a frown: "It was very expensive." - Reuters
"That was Mrs. Thatcher, she never missed a thing," Mosimann said.
A current taboo at French diplomatic meals for American guests is foie gras, recently banned in California due to the force-feeding of geese used to produce it, even if White House chef Comerford said she had no qualms about serving up American-produced goose liver.
"Our aim, of course, is always to avoid shocking our guests," Elysee chef Vaussion told Reuters. (Additional reporting by Johnny Cotton; Editing by Catherine Bremer and Pravin Char) Reuters | http://mg.co.za/article/2012-07-24-top-chefs-worlds-leaders-paris | 2013-05-18T10:42:40 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [
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Jonathan Chait wrote a column for The Wolverine. He explains why he doesn't think Ezeh is cut out for linebacker and then suggests that he should move to DE or Quick. FWIW, he also mentions that this probably won't happen.
It's too late for Ezeh to move. He's too small for DE and he would be overwhelmed by offensive linemen. And we already have a good player at Quick in Craig Roh. On top of that, removing him from the middle linebacker competition would leave us with Fitzgerald, Demens, Bell, and Leach to cover those two positions. In other words, one decent player, a former walk-on, a converted safety, and Demens, who's been unable to earn playing time the past couple years, despite the poor ILB play.
This would weaken us at one position (MLB) and wouldn't help at any other position because he'd be a second-stringer at best. It's a lose-lose situation. Just keep him at MLB and hope everything clicks.
Thats TWO converted safeties! | http://mgoblog.com/mgoboard/jon-chait-says-ezeh-should-move-de | 2013-05-18T11:05:32 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Home > Career Resources > Students > Career Preparation > CRC Programs > Workshops > Advanced Interviewing
A job interview is a critical stage of the hiring process. Preparing for a variety of interview situations and knowing what to expect is essential to success. Practice advanced interviewing skills and learn to communicate your qualifications and experience effectively. Whether you have limited work experience or are an experienced candidate, it is important to fine tune your skills. (Note: you will get more out of the session if you bring your resume to the session the CRC’s Interview Guide.)
Friday, September 14, 1 - 2 p.m.
Friday, September 21, 11 a.m. - noon
Tuesday, September 25, 5 - 6 p.m.
Monday, October 8, noon - 1 p.m.
Monday, October 15, 5 - 6:30 p.m.
Friday, October 19, 9 - 10 a.m.
Friday, October 26, 4 - 5 p.m.
Location: 205 Alfiero
Sign up for this workshop through the BizLink system by going to Events and then clicking Workshops. Space is limited. (Incoming students will gain access to BizLink during the second week of the semester.)
(Required for all full-time MBA and MS students) | http://mgt.buffalo.edu/career/students/prep/registration/workshops/interviewing | 2013-05-18T11:02:44 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
DETROIT -- For all the pageantry, the fireworks, the numerous national anthems and the stars on and off the field, it appeared to be just another day at the office for Mariners All-Star Ichiro Suzuki.He stretched, he jogged, and he sprinted just like he normally does before games. And once the All-Star Game started, he hit. As usual. "You don't have that much time here," Ichiro said after he made a key contribution to the American League's 7-5 victory. "Before team stretch, I went to find the time to keep my mind and body moving." The mind, the body, and the skill all worked together on Tuesday at Comerica Park. Ichiro entered in the top of the fourth to play center field and faced Nationals right-hander Livan Hernandez in the bottom of the frame. He worked the count to 3-0, then fouled one off before singling to right field to score Boston's Jason Varitek and Baltimore's Brian Roberts to give the AL a 5-0 lead. He finished 1-for-2. "You don't want to come to the All-Star Game and walk," Ichiro said. "On that 3-0 pitch, I was going to swing at it if it was above my toes. You just want to come here and hit." He moved to right field in the ninth inning. "I had not played center field in a while," Ichiro said. "You are out there playing the game in different angles so it's really fun to be out there. ... If [the Mariners] want me there I will do it." Ichiro's performance on Tuesday did not come as a surprise. He has impressed fans and peers alike since he first arrived in the AL in 2001. Last season, he set the record for base hits in a season with 262. "He's one of those guys who can foul a ball off on purpose, one of the rare guys in the game who can do that," Boston pitcher Matt Clement said. "The worst thing you can do against him is walk him, because you don't want that speed on the bases. Then again, he gets 200 or something hits every year so he gets on base anyway. I just give him my best stuff. If he beats me with my best stuff, I can almost live with that." One of the most respected hitters in both leagues, Ichiro's foes in the AL West have come to know him well. That's not necessarily a good thing. Just ask Oakland reliever Justin Duchscherer.
"You kind of just throw and hope," Duchscherer said. "If he gets out, he gets out. You give him your best and hope that is enough to get him out."Pitchers are not the only ones who admire the All-Star outfielder. White Sox outfielder Scott Podsednik, for one, has come to appreciate one of Japan's greatest exports for his defense as much as his offense. "He's probably one of the most exciting players in the game," Podsednik said. "Every time he gets in the box, you know he is going to do something. He's a lot of fun to watch and be on the same team with."
Jesse Sanchez is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs. | http://miami.marlins.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20050712&content_id=1129278&vkey=allstar2005&fext=.jsp&c_id=mlb | 2013-05-18T11:03:13 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [
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So much to my delight, I’ve become a Wii person again.
I had one a few years ago and loved it, especially the Wii Fit game and the Wii Grand Slam Tennis, but it was one of the things that didn’t come with me in the divorce.
Happily, my Dad and stepmom bought us one for our birthdays this week, and so I am happily looking forward to diving back into the routine.
First, though, the Wii Fit game decided to humiliate me. To start your new Wii Fit routine, you have to take a “fitness and balance test,” of sorts. Basically the game asks you how tall you are, and then does a quick body mass calculation, as well as giving you a few balance tests.
Then, it spits out your “Wii Fit age.” This Friday I turn 37 years old. My Wii Fit age? 48.
Forty-eight! I was mad. I was angry at the little man inside the game who told me my age.
Then I realized it was a stupid little game, went out for a run, and feel more inspired than ever to drop the 10 pounds I’ve gained this year.
Hey, you get inspiration from wherever you can.
**Two dog videos that I think you will like on this “dog day” of August, where it’s steaming hot most everywhere in America.
The first (above) is a sweet story of a man named John Unger and his arthritic dog Shep, and the gesture John makes all the time: He floats with his 18-year-old pooch on his shoulder in Lake Superior, to ease the dog’s suffering. Truly special to watch.
The second video is a little different: A man filmed 58 dogs in four minutes at a boarding kennel, capturing all their expressions. Very eye-catching, and hard to forget after watching.
**Sometimes, you wonder if certain people should be allowed to vote, and drive cars.
A man in Weymouth, England decided to dry his underwear, and his socks, the other day using a method not really recommended by any clothing manufacturer: He put them in a microwave oven.
To his astonishment, said articles of clothing caught fire, the microwave caught fire, and firefighters had to be called to extinguish the blaze, but not before smoke damaged the apartment.
Man, would I have loved to have heard that 911 call.
Course, this reminds me of a famous story in my family, when my father washed my Cabbage Patch Doll, then left him in front of a space heater to dry.
He then went about his day, forgetting about Cassius Frankie (that was his name, and I loved him), only to smell smoke and come running.
Poor Frankie’s foot was singed! And when I got home I noticed, suspiciously, that the doll had a large Band-Aid over his right heel.
Ah, family memories. | http://michaeljlewis.wordpress.com/tag/wii-fit-plus/ | 2013-05-18T10:21:39 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Will U.S. Tactical Nuclear Weapons Be Positioned In South Korea?
from War News Updates by Bookyards
U.S. soldiers take part in a joint military drill with South Korean soldiers north of Seoul in early June. KIM JIN-TAE / AFP / Getty
Calls For Nuclear Weapons In South Korea -- UPI
SEOUL, Oct. 21 (UPI) -- With the U.S. defense chief in Seoul for security talks, a group of scholars and retired military officials have called for a redeployment of tactical nuclear weapons in South Korea to counter North Korea's nuclear drive.
They also urged the United States to delay the planned transfer of wartime control of South Korean troops to Seoul beyond 2012, citing lingering threats from the North.
Read more .... | http://michelekearneynuclearwire.blogspot.com/2009/10/will-us-tactical-nuclear-weapons-be.html | 2013-05-18T10:41:28 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Campus Ministry would like to invite all students to a
leadership retreat at The National Shrine to Our Lady of Mount
Carmel in Middletown, NY, on Saturday, February 9, from 2 to 7 pm.
The retreat will be led by Fr. Hugh Macsherry, OFM and will focus
on what it means to be a leader in your own life and beyond.
Using spirituality, scripture, and reflection, we will look at
how we are called to be leaders, and what it means to be leaders.
By looking at these issues in detail together, we will build
relationships between leaders and strengthed the community that
exists between leaders on campus.
Transportation will be provided and if you attend, utilizing the
transportation will be mandatory. The bus will depart campus
(behind Hudson Hall) at 1:15 pm, and the bus will bring everyone
back at the conclusion of the event. Food will be provided and the
event is free.
If you are interested, please either e-mail alexander.lapoint@msmc.edu
or stop in the Campus Ministry office in Hudson Hall to sign
up.
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11:01 am
Wed October 20, 2010
Crafting a career out of woven rugs (slideshow)
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"If you would've asked me a year ago if I'd was going to have a loom and weave rugs, I would have thought you were crazy," says Petrie..
That's exactly what the folks behind the Rug Works were banking on. Their mission was to teach unemployed and underemployed locals a trade, like weaving, in the hopes that they'd then use that trade to create goods and earn a living. The Rug Works also paid for the artisans to take classes at the local college and earn a certificate in textiles.
But in the end, it didn't work out. The Rug Works closed after being open for little over a year.
I wasn't able to get a straight answer:
"We were so anxious to put people to work, but perhaps we should have done the fundraising first."
Once the folks behind Rug Works knew it was closing, they sold the looms to any of the artisans that wanted them at drastically reduced prices in the hopes that the artisans could continue to try and earn a living through rug making.
Someone donated Jasmine Petrie the loom of her dreams, and today she's busy churning out new rugs. She even helped create a Weavers Guild with other former Rug Workers.
"Rug Works ended too quickly, I think," says Petrie, "but they really succeeded in inspiring a lot of people to continue with this."
And perhaps that's not all she got out of Rug Works. Petrie is taking an art business class this semester to come up with a marketing plan for her new career in the arts. The Rug Works may not have planned for its future well, but Petrie is trying to. | http://michiganradio.org/post/crafting-career-out-woven-rugs-slideshow | 2013-05-18T11:04:24 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [
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Detroit is the laboratory for state school reform effort.
You had to have a media badge or be on the guest list to attend the press conference at Renaissance High School Monday. That didn’t sit well with more than a few people, some of whom exchanged words with security guards and frazzled gatekeepers who blocked a main stairway.
As the confrontation went on downstairs, Governor Snyder was upstairs outlining his vision for the state’s failing schools to a polite group of politicians, businesspeople, and other invitees: “It’s a new way of doing things, in terms of creating a new authority to work with schools that are failing. And it’s to focus on those failing schools, those bottom 5% of our schools.”
That “authority” Snyder is talking about is officially known as the Education Achievement System. It’s basically a statewide school district—established through an agreement between the state and Eastern Michigan University—for the state’s 200 lowest-performing schools. 39 of those schools are in Detroit.
The idea is to make those schools more like charter schools, with more autonomy for school staff. State education officials say that strategy has yielded good results in other cities. They say the authority will also have a leaner central office, more focused on supporting teachers and getting resources to the classroom.
Snyder says he’s empowering the Detroit Public Schools’ current emergency manager, Roy Roberts, to start the process with failing Detroit schools by September 2012--with an eye toward gradual expansion.
“We’ll look at moving schools into this Educational Achievement System-- starting as a pilot here in Detroit, to incubate that success system,” Snyder said.
The announcement answered big questions about the state’s basic strategy for dealing with failing schools—and how it will tackle failing Detroit schools in particular. But it also raised a lot of big questions that didn’t get answered. When a member of the elected Detroit school board asked Roberts how the new system would affect the existing district’s finances, Roberts tried to downplay the question.
“I’m not gonna let people around here get me confused with all this side stuff,” Roberts answered. “I’m gonna concentrate on educating kids in the city of Detroit.”
But it’s those kinds of big, unanswered questions that have many in Detroit—teachers, parents, and elected leaders--worried that “the devil is in the details.” And there’s also the sense they’ve been here before. A “state reform board” ran the Detroit schools for a good part of the last decade, and Roberts is the second emergency manager since 2009. Detroit State Representative Thomas Stallworth sees a lot to like in the state’s reform “concept”--but he’s also cautious.
“We’ve had a string of charismatic leaders who’ve come with highly visible plans,” Stallworth said. “And time after time what we’ve experienced is each one that succeeds the other says the system is worse, it’s more broken than before.”
And then there’s what might be the biggest concern for most Detroiters—what happens to the schools that stay regular Detroit Public Schools? Snyder and Roberts say changes are coming—both in terms of more charter-style autonomy for those schools, and a smaller central office. But in a district where every teacher right now has a pink slip, there’s still pressing concern about the its remaining $327 million deficit.
David Arsen, Professor of Educational Administration at Michigan State University, says there’s legitimate concern that moving students out means losing state money--but keeping all the old financial liabilities.
“That means that unless accommodations are made in the district’s debt burden, it will become an even larger share of the budget for the district’s remaining schools,” Arsen says.
Arsen believes that with so many unanswered questions, it’s just too soon to tell how this will all play out Detroit schools. But as this dramatic reform effort takes shape, people across the state—especially those involved with schools on a certain Michigan Department of Education list--will be watching very, very closely.
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Nurses say understaffing at two Michigan hospitals puts patients at risk
A federal complaint has been filed against two Lenawee County hospitals.
Nurses at Bixby Hospital in Adrian and Herrick Hospital in Tecumseh say chronic understaffing is putting patients at risk. The nurses are asking the National Labor Relations Board to intervene. Dawn Kettinger is with the Michigan Nurses Association.
She says nurses often have to care for six or seven patients at a time, and are mandated to work 16-hour shifts.
"All the research tells us all of these practices translate to medical errors, more infections, even patient death," Kettinger says. "If you or a loved one needs to use the services of these hospitals, we'll do the absolute best we can, but it's getting tougher and tougher to give you safe care."
Kettinger says staffing levels vary by units, but says on a medical surgical floor, one nurse should not have to take care of more than four patients.
"Medical surgical floors are particular vulnerable, because that's when people can pick up infections or respiratory diseases that can really knock them out and cause re-admissions," Kettinger says.
She says in intensive care units, the generally accepted practice is a one-to-one ratio.
The nurses are in contract negotiations with Pro-Medica, the non-profit organization which owns the hospitals.
"The sticking point is this patient safety issue," Kettinger says. "Nurses are advocates for patients. The first thing on the table is safe staffing. It's a chronic problem."
The nurses also allege the hospitals use retaliation, coercion and intimidation against those who raise concerns about problems.
ProMedica would provide only a written statement. It said safety is the cornerstone of its mission and that it will continue to negotiate in good faith.
The nurses rejected what ProMedica called its final contract offer last month. | http://michiganradio.org/post/nurses-say-understaffing-two-michigan-hospitals-puts-patients-risk | 2013-05-18T10:24:36 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [
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No pressure, kid.
Can he at least have a few minutes to figure out where the restroom is?
"I can't really say that I'm going to be the savior, but I'm going to put my best foot forward to help the situation," said Perry, the No. 28 overall pick out of USC.
As the new Packers players met the media on Friday before hitting the practice field a few hours later for the team's rookie minicamp, the same hope could be placed upon several other Packers draftees.
Looking to patch some holes in one of the league's leakiest defenses, Packers general manager Ted Thompson used his first six picks in last month's NFL draft on defensive players.
Second-round pick Jerel Worthy, a defensive lineman out of Michigan State, is well aware of the expectations.
"Definitely," Worthy said. "Because you've got to understand, the veterans on this defense didn't do as well as they wanted to last year, so they have a chip on their shoulder. So when you come in, you have to go with the flow of them, you have to work just as hard as them and you have to be able to pick up on the defense just as fast as they do. You've got to have that same attitude, that same hunger that the veterans have."
But Worthy did say it was somewhat surreal to be asked about possibly making major contributions to a potential Super Bowl contender before he even hit the practice field.
"Man, it's a little different," Worthy said. "But you've just got to get acclimated to it. It's a big stage, one of the greatest organizations in professional sports and you've got to take it all in. Sometimes it can get a little overwhelming, but I'm just trying to stay within myself and stay humble and stay hungry and just get after it."
At least some business issues already are out of the way.
Thanks to a new collective bargaining agreement that leaves relatively little leeway for negotiating rookie contracts, the Packers had signed all eight of their eight draft picks by Friday afternoon.
The team announced that it has signed Perry,.
Although it will be difficult for coaches to make meaningful evaluations of new players until training camp starts, three rookies could be in line for immediate opportunities to make significant contributions: Perry, Worthy and McMillian.
The Packers have struggled to find a consistently productive outside linebacker to play opposite Clay Matthews the past few seasons, and their pass rush sagged significantly last year. Perry's combination of size and speed he weighs 270 and runs a 4.55-second 40-yard dash could fill a glaring need. Assuming he can make the transition to 3-4 outside linebacker, that is.
"Right now, I know that we need help, obviously, on defense," Perry said. "But I'm just excited the opportunity is here, and I just want to take advantage of it any way I can."
Worthy could figure in right away at defensive end, where the Packers never really found a replacement for departed free agent Cullen Jenkins last season. The oft-injured Mike Neal will miss the first four games of the 2012 season because of a suspension for performance-enhancing drugs, and free agent signee Anthony Hargrove received an eight-game suspension for his role in the New Orleans Saints bounty controversy.
"If I end up starting, that's a good thing," Worthy said. "But at the same time, I just want to hold it down while those guys are away, so when they come back, it makes our defense even (better)."
McMillian, meanwhile, could get a shot at safety for a team that released Pro Bowl player Nick Collins amid concerns about his ability to safely return from a season-ending neck injury. That would be a big leap for a player from Maine, but he's ready to take it on.
"Sometimes you've just got to be willing to make that next step in life, and I think I'm ready to do that," McMillian said.
Follow Associated Press writer Chris Jenkins on Twitter at twitter.com/ByChrisJenkins.
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So, I must be on a quest to eat at every Taco Bell in Lansing or something. I got out of work around 9:00 and headed to my hotel. When I stay in Lansing, I almost always stay at the Red Roof Inn on Dunkel Road. The closest restaurant is either Taco Bell or Subway. Both are right down the street as part of the Sunoco gas station just off I-494. I wanted something warm, so I chose Taco Bell.
Even though it was only 9:00, the counter was already closed. If I wanted tacos, I would have to go through the drive thru. In order to do that, you have to go all the way around the building. I’ve documented many times why I hate drive thrus and this expereience was no difference.
I pulled up to the speaker and waited. The girl working started talking before she clicked the button, so I only heard half of what she said. I just wanted tacos, so I clearly belted out my order of five crunchy tacos. What I heard back was, “Nachos supreme?” No, five crunchy tacos. The second time, she got it and told me to pull around. Read the rest of this entry »
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The Peterson Principle 3/24/10
Written by tpeterson on March 24, 2010 — Leave a Comment
Jeff Jordan, son of some guy named Michael, is at Illinois
There were a lot of upsets this weekend – Northern Iowa beat Kansas, St. Mary’s knocked off Villanova, Washington surprised New Mexico and the Democrats stunned the Republicans on a late three pointer by Barry Obama to put Healthcare U over the top.
While I don’t [...]
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Justice and Public Safety Cabinet
Hewell Promoted to Supervisor in P&P District 13
Frankfort, KY – Kentucky Department of Corrections’ Director of the Division of Probation and Parole Lelia VanHoose today announced the promotion of Bruce Hewell to District 13 Supervisor. The district encompasses nine counties in western Kentucky.
“Bruce Hewell has the experience and expertise in all facets of Probation and Parole,” said VanHoose. “These attributes in combination with his outstanding leadership capabilities make him an excellent choice to join our management team. I am anxious to work more closely with him as we continue to improve the quality of service delivered by this Division.”
Hewell graduated from Murray State University in 1990. He started his career in Corrections in 1990 as a Classification and Treatment Officer at Kentucky State Penitentiary (KSP). In October 1991, he transferred to Institutional Parole Officer at KSP and Western Kentucky Correctional Complex. He was promoted to Assistant District Supervisor for District 2 in Hopkinsville in July 2003. He is a member of Kentucky Council on Crime and Delinquency, Fraternal Order of Police and the Kentucky State Parole Officers’ Association, of which he is a former president. He and his wife, Sherry, reside in Hopkins County. | http://migration.kentucky.gov/Newsroom/justice/pr1011b.htm | 2013-05-18T10:52:36 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Abraham Archer and Helen Perkins
Posted by mikegen48 on March 21, 2011
Abraham Archer was born in 1775 in Virginia. He died in 1852 in Marshall County, Virginia.
Abraham married Helen Perkins on 12 Jan 1799 in Virginia. Helen was born in 1776 in Virginia. She died in 1861 in Marshall County, Virginia.
They had the following children:
Jesse Archer was born in 1800 in Virginia. He died about 1839 in Pennsylvania.
Betty Archer was born in 1803 in Virginia. She died circa 1868 in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania.
Nathan Archer was born during 1806 in Northumberland County, Virginia. He died about 1858 in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania.
Josephine Archer was born in 1809 in Northumberland County, Virginia. She died in 1809 in Northumberland County, Virginia.
Rose Archer was born in 1812 in Virginia. She died circa 1887 in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania.
Ellen Archer was born in 1816 in Virginia. She died about 1905 in Pennsylvania.
Peter Archer was born in 1818 in Virginia. He died during 1866 in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania.
Sarah Archer was born circa 1821 in Marshall County, Virginia. She died on 2 Apr 1880 in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania.
Mary Archer was born in 1821 in Virginia. She died in 1891 in Pennsylvania.
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The aims of our ministry are eternal and spiritual. They are not shared by any of the professions. It is precisely by the failure to see this that we are dying..
Humble us, O God, under Your mighty hand, and let us rise, not as professionals, but as witnesses and partakers of the sufferings of Christ. In His awesome name. Amen..
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Wonderful post! “When we are WEAK, then we are strong”. It’s all GOD and not of US. Oh, that people would see that today.
Thank You!
Great articles – I have sensed and felt this for such a long time. Good post!
Very well put. What a blessing to my soul! Praise God for pastors who know well enough to stay away from professionalising the pulpit. | http://mikeratliff.wordpress.com/2007/05/14/brothers-we-are-not-professionals/ | 2013-05-18T11:01:42 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Friday, April 22, 2011
Back to the studio
There are some really beautiful sunrises from my sister's condo. Since they shine directly into the room where I have been sleeping, I am up to get photos of them. I returned to Bremerton on Wednesday night. Yesterday, I played bridge with three wonderful women. This is my sister's bridge group, and I am fortunate enough to be invited to play whenever I can get over here. It is always great fun.
After bridge, I walked into town in search of the post office. I wanted to mail my package of fabric to Rhonda at Quilter in the Gap. She is my partner for the Hands 2 Help quilting project. I sent her a small stack of batiks in cuts from fat eights to fat quarters. We were supposed to send 2 yards total. I hope she likes what I sent. She posted a photo of the fabrics she is sending me. They are reds, whites, and blues. I will have fun designing a quilt to use these fun fabrics as soon as I get them.
After eating breakfast and watching some Fons and Porter on QNN, I went into my sister's studio to start sewing the units I need for the ribbon quilt. My working name for this quilt is En Vino Veritas, which means "in wine there is truth" in Latin. This came from the Zinfandel name of this Bali pop pack. We will see if this name sticks. Anyway, I am still amazed at how long things take in quilting. I always go into the studio with grandiose ideas about how much I will accomplish. Today, I imagined I would get at least half of the blocks finished. Instead, I only got 96 A units completed. I still have 96 B units to do before I can start making the blocks. And this was with already cut and marked pieces.
It seems like such a small stack to have taken five hours. I don't know what I am doing wrong. I sewed 192 of the green half squares on with the flip and fold method, and chain piecing. Of course, I had to sew two seams on each piece because I am too intimidated by sewing small triangles together and I don't want to waste. I guess that means I actually got 192 2 1/2" block units and 192 HST units. I then paired and sewed these units to make 96 A units. Each of the A units is 4 1/2" square. Of course, there was a lot of pressing. I even saved the small HSTs for later. Tomorrow, I will try and get all the B units made. On Sunday morning, I head back home and will start sewing the blocks together and putting them on the design wall.
I am trying to keep track of all the time I spend on this quilt, as well as the money. I am going to put up a display at our quilt show in July to show how much time and money it takes to make a twin sized quilt. Hopefully, it will help those who have a hard time understanding why quilters charge what they do for their quilts. If any of you have insights or ideas on what I might include in this display, please feel free to share. I would also love to hear any of your stories about people gasping in disbelief at your quilt prices. My display will be up for the full month of July in the front display case of our downtown library. I would like it to be educational.
Thanks, everyone, for stopping by. I would love to hear from you.
Joyful quilting, everyone.
Labels: building blocks, en vino veritas, H2H
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Just so that your creative juices are heading in the right direction, the fabrics you are receiving are red, white and black (not blue). I wasn't going to say anything and let you be surprised but decided if you were on a fabric hunt you would need proper information. Apparently my picture taking is not so good LOL. Sorry about the confusion. It sounds like you are having a grand time at your sisters. I am a little jealous hehehe
Keeping track is a great idea - I hope it doesn't scare off beginner quilters!
So far I've only made quilts for self/family, but do aim to have a couple for sale by the end of the year. I start out a project meaning to track time, then lose track partway in. I will price my quilts at what I want to sell them for, and it won't be cheap. | http://mikisquilts.blogspot.com/2011/04/back-to-studio.html | 2013-05-18T10:52:39 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Case in point: Episode VII: Revenge of the Writers
In the article, the SF writers complain that Lucas's saga isn't really SF, at least certainly not representative of the science-fiction being turned out in print today.
Money quotes:.
"That's the past of science fiction you're talking about," said Richard K. Morgan, the British cyberpunk-noir writer whose most recent novel is "Market Forces."
That kind of cute, sunny woodsiness [eg, Ewoks]."
I once complained that it was mistake when DC Comics assigned Keith Giffen, a self-proclaimed technophobe who didn't even own a computer, to write and draw the previously sunny future of The Legion of Super-Heroes. He promptly turned the United Planets of the 30th Century into a political and ecological disaster zone. No surprise.
Over the past quarter-century, prose SF writers have done the same with the once attractive futures envisioned by Isaac Asimov, Robert Heinlein, and others. And they wonder why the general public prefers George Lucas's vision?
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Speaker: W. Averell Harriman
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During Kennedy?s administration, served as his chief diplomatic negotiator, helping to formulate the 1962 Laos Accords on neutrality and the 1963 test ban treaty with the Soviet Union. Late served as Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs (1963-1965). As Ambassador at Large (1965-1968), Harriman was charged principally with handling Southeast Asian affairs and traveled around the world seeking support for the U.S. effort in Vietnam. After Johnson?s decision to de-escalate in 1968, Harriman served as the Chief U.S. Representative to the Paris Peace Talks (1968-1969). | http://millercenter.org/scripps/archive/oralhistories/detail/2552 | 2013-05-18T10:22:22 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
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With more than 36,000 locations in 98 countries throughout the world, the Subway sandwich chain is as ubiquitous as it gets.
But here in Marin, the is more than a mere blip on the ever-growing chain’s tally. A Subway franchisee’s application to open one in downtown Mill Valley , as its after some neighbors asked to city to get the applicant to produce data on the amount of traffic the 900-square-foot restaurant would generate.
But let’s put the politics aside for now and look at the nutritional and health aspects of Subway.
Subway's slogan, “Eat Fresh,” refers to the service of freshly prepared sandwiches, not the food itself. Deli sandwiches are made mostly of processed meat products heavily laden with preservatives. We preserve meats in this way so they can last many months. They are certainly not fresh. Vegetable toppings like lettuce, tomato and peppers do offer some nutritional redemption but don't stack up to locally sourced organic vegetable fare offered at other local eateries. Subway's breads are baked fresh daily, but the ingredients can be many months old, and with the latest trend of not eating bread, Subway may have a difficult time in Mill Valley. So don't be fooled by the slogan. A commenter on a about Subway posted this link.
The nutritional content of the sandwiches looks reasonable at first, with some choices lower in fat, calories and sodium. But published nutritional content focuses on the 6-inch sandwich, without the optional cheese, while all of their marketing is for the (sing it with me) "$5 foot-long." With our propensity for large portions, the foot long is their most popular sandwich. Consuming foot-long sandwiches on a regular basis is sure to cause an increase in the waist line. Calories for a foot-long range from 460 for the Veggie Delight (without cheese) to 1,140 for the Turkey Bacon Ranch Melt (never mind the 1,300 Mega Omelet breakfast sandwich). Add a bag of Dorrito's and a can of soda and you end up with a 1,550 calorie lunch.
Can you lose weight, as their famous spokesperson Jared did, eating at Subway every day? Of course you could. There are several 6" sandwiches which contain around 300 calories, and if you add the optional apple slices (35 calories) and drink water, instead of chips and soda, you are well within any weight loss calorie target. They also have salads with even fewer calories. The interesting dichotomy is that their new marketing campaign features star athletes who are trying to fuel up by packing on the calories (not that they say it quite that way). They want you to think of them for both low calorie and high calorie options.
Regardless of what the Planning Commission decides about Subway, Mill Valley residents will vote with their dollars and Subway will either thrive or . In the mean time, be prepared to work off some of those 1,500 calorie meals. | http://millvalley.patch.com/groups/opinion/p/subway-and-nutrition | 2013-05-18T10:12:54 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
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A's celebrate 2002's record winning streak."
Anderson's return to A's appears imminent
OAKLAND -- Left-hander Brett Anderson's long, arduous journey back to the A's after Tommy John surgery is nearing the finish line.Anderson threw a 40-pitch bullpen session Saturday, and A's manager Bob Melvin said it won't be long before he finds a place for him in the rotation. "He's really got good stuff," Melvin said. "We'll probably have a decision here at some point soon, and we will find a way to get him in there somehow. He is that good, and so we just have to find the right timing for it." Anderson has made five rehab starts for Triple-A Sacramento. In his most recent start, he threw 96 pitches and allowed three runs on eight hits with seven strikeouts and one walk. Melvin said there's a chance Anderson could make one more start for Sacramento, but Anderson is counting the days until he takes the mound for the A's for the first time since June 5, 2011. "I'm very eager," Anderson said. "No exaggeration, there were 350 people at my last start in New Orleans after the rain delay. It's tough. Obviously you want to pitch good and you want to win, but there's a little bit more at stake here and a little bit more adrenaline going when you're facing a big league team in a big league park. I'm very eager to get back and pitch for this team." Anderson said he feel 100 percent ready to return and has hit as high as 94 mph with his fastball, although he hasn't thrown that fast consistently. "I'm sure my [velocity's] not where it was in parts of '09 and 2010, but that's' going to come the more I build up my arm strength. But I like where my other pitches are. My slider was good in my last start. I built up my pitch count pretty high." Anderson said he hasn't made any mechanical adjustments to take pressure off his elbow but will probably throw fewer breaking pitches than in the past. His slider, however, is still his best pitch, and he likes the way it looked in his last start with the River Cats. He said he used it to record five or six of his seven strikeouts. "It's getting back to where I like it," Anderson said.
Worth noting
Third baseman Brandon Inge said he's "way ahead of schedule" in his rehab from a sprained right shoulder and fully expects to be ready to come off the disable list when he's eligible on Aug. 27.
"I'll be fine," Inge said. "I'll be ready in no time."According to Melvin, Inge, who plans to resume throwing on Monday. has already started taking some swings off a tee.
"I don't put anything past him," Melvin said. "He is a guy with a high threshold of pain tolerance."Inge said he'll have to deal with "a little" pain "but nothing you can't play though, nothing that will hinder me." Outfielder Seth Smith was eligible to come off the disabled list Saturday, but he's still recovering from his strained left hamstring. He took batting practice and ran the bases for the second straight day, and Melvin said Smith is getting closer to being ready for a rehab assignment in the Minor Leagues.
"Still getting there," Smith said before taking batting practice. "Slowly but surely. You don't want to rush it, but it's definitely headed in the right direction."
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I don't recall where I saw the link. I had it bookmarked from some point in the past few months from my random trawling of the internet, and figured it was time to pay it a real visit.Sybillus 22:42, 17 August 2009 (UTC)
So on the sidebar, a typo in the characters section cause one of the links to lead to Minami-ke "Charaters" rather than the appropriate. I don't have the power to fix it, so far as I can tell. Sybillus 23:33, 28 August 2009 (UTC)
Is there some sort of "group" category? Like for example, a page for the "Other Minami Family" that would have a description of who they were and links to all the members. That way, I could refer to them and then just link instead of having it look awkward.
Ryouta SatouEdit
I'm pretty sure the accepted spelling of Ryouta's name involves "ou" and not "oo". Is this a typo?Sybillus 08:04, September 8, 2009 (UTC)
In that case, half the internet is wrong about Ryoota, though romanizing names is a matter of convention more than anything. As long as it was intended.Sybillus 22:59, September 8, 2009 (UTC)
Various Notes Re: Minami-keEdit
Fujioka (bear) needs to be moved to Fujioka (Bear) and the links fixed. Nitpicky but...
Image:Minami-ke_S1_E11_18m_53s.png
Image:Minami-ke_S1_E11_16m_49s.png
These two files need to be renamed. I had a brainfart and labeled them with the wrong episode (they're really episode 01)
Finally, feel free to delete pictures I ended up not using, but be careful: Some of them I'm linking to in-line and not by thumbnail, and when you do that, it doesn't show up on the bottom of the page. For example, Image:Minami-ke_S1_E01_21m_29s.png's file page says nothing links to it, but if you actually click "what links here", it shows the pages that link to it (it should be two now, including this message). So don't delete the wrong thing. If it doesn't really matter, then might as well leave pictures lying around. Might be useful someday... Sybillus 10:59, October 21, 2009 (UTC)
Really? Because I keep trying the "what links here" button on linked pictures and they do show up. They just don't show up at the bottom of the file page. Maybe I'm crazy...Sybillus 18:51, October 21, 2009 (UTC)Edit
While adaption is technically a word and correctly used, wouldn't most people instead expect to see "adaptation" in the sidebar instead? I know I double-taked the first time I saw it. Or is there something special about the usage of the word "adaption" that I don't know?Sybillus 07:47, November 14, 2009 (UTC)
- I don't know what most people would expect, it depends on their background, to me adaptation is a more biological term. Of course the definition for the word adaption is adaptation, just the short form.--Sxerks 20:40, November 15, 2009 (UTC)
Uchida Yuka vs. Yuka UchidaEdit
I'm switching the two pages around, since Yuka is her surname, and following the familiar/family (i.e. Chiaki Minami) convention, it needs to be reversed.—Preceding unsigned comment added by Sybillus (talk • contribs)
- I don't know why I created it with the reverse name. Also, when changing page names it is better to do a page move instead of copying the content, as it preserves the page history.--Sxerks 20:40, November 15, 2009 (UTC)
- Wow, I'm blind. I typically stay logged in, so somehow I've looked at that bar 30 times without seeing it.
2010Edit
Moving images...Edit
If I'm wrong again about not being able to rename it, tell me, but: File:Minami-ke_S3_E11_09m_43s.png should be S1E3.Sybillus 06:35, January 16, 2010 (UTC)
- Fixed. Pages can be moved by anyone logged in, moving images can only be done by admins.--Sxerks 15:30, January 16, 2010 (UTC)
And this image: File:Minami-ke S2 E13 16m 56s Stitch.png should be 19m 08s. Somehow I read the timestamp wrong...Sybillus 19:58, April 25, 2010 (UTC)
And this one: File:S2 E03 21m 24s.png which should have the word Minami-ke built in. Also fix the link here (which would be broken) if you feel inclined: File:Minami-ke S2 E03 21m 19s stitch.png. Also, in some of my recent images, I've been capitalizing "Stitch" accidentally. Do you think it matters? Sybillus 04:51, May 8, 2010 (UTC)
And I typoed this: File:Mianmi-ke S1 E01 05m 37s Stitch Crop.png Sybillus 00:41, May 23, 2010 (UTC)
Hayami and the Volleyball ClubEdit
Her article currents states that she is a member but acts a lot as the leader, while Hosaka is the true captain, but I've always understood it as they are the two co-captains of the female and male team, respectively. That makes a lot more sense. Do you know of any evidence otherwisee?
- Probably co-captains of each team, like other clubs president and vice-president.--Sxerks 16:59, April 24,:10, June 2, 2010 (UTC)
Another Helper, Another HeadEdit
im interested in Helping out on this minami-ke wikia as much as i can. is there any other way to contact with the others editing this?—Preceding unsigned comment added by XSpark (talk • contribs)
MangaEdit
Hi, i would like to ask you a favor, in the minami-ke manga chapters im doing all summaries, also im trying to translate the latest chapters
so i can get a better summarize since im going to start from there, i was wondering if you have those latest chapters so i could translate it. that would be such
a great help ^^ . i have the chapters till the end of volume 6
PS Sybillus >>>>>. the manga heading of the sidebar for the site should start listing vol. 7 as well, now that it's been published <<< Sybillus
my email would be remove_in_case_of_spam. thanks in advance im starting the translations and summarizing saturday. thanks for the tips.
2011Edit
Anime TwitterEdit
Hey,
I know you're the admin for a lot of anime wikis so I was wondering how you felt about putting the Twitterfeed up for Minami-ke Wiki?
Thanks! Kate.moon 22:44, April 5, 2011 (UTC)
Volume 8 Release DateEdit
Looking at it more carefully, Amazon lists the limited edition release date as 3/1, while the regular edition is listed as 3/4. Not sure why they would do that this time, but there it is.
Link at the top the Okaeri and Betsubara is broken.Edit
That is all. Sybillus 05:22, December 19, 2011 (UTC)
- in the navigation dropdowns? they seems to work for me.--Sxerks 06:03, December 19, 2011 (UTC)
2012Edit
SorryEdit
Dear user Sxerks, I'm truly sorry for what I've done, well at that time I'm just still a new wikia user, I don't know what is the meaning of 'block' in wikia. And that's right, I am user zazieshrine... Well, I'm truly sorry... I will try to be a good wikia user starting from now on ! Thanks ! Sanbagarasu 17:23, May 9, 2012 (UTC)
That Future is a LieEdit
Just wondering, besides sharing the author, is there some obscure way this is linked to the Minami-ke universe? I think I remember class 5-2 having vague references or something. +Yc 09:01, October 10, 2012 (UTC)
- Ah okay so characters on the show both watch the same TV program? That's a link if I saw one. Links like this are interesting in how they unify anime universes. Like for example in Okami-san how they cameo some toradora chars and I think chars from 2 other series. Even if as a joke, it then allows us to perceive the series as occuring in the same continuity, even if characters might otherwise not interact. If there could be some kinda grand unified version of a Tommy Westphall universe for the majority of anime that would be amazing. +Yc 18:04, October 11, 2012 (UTC) | http://minami-ke.wikia.com/wiki/User_talk:Sxerks | 2013-05-18T10:52:30 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
1. There's a sequel only its not a sequel more of an expanded version. Monster's Den:Book of Dread actually includes the Monsters Den campaign plus two more campaigns. It also has an updated interface so you may want to skip the original Monster's Den altogether. I didn't -I am still only half way through the first game so anything I have to say is only guaranteed to work in Monster's Den itself.
2. If you don't want it, throw it away. There is very little reason to keep stuff once you have a better item. You can lose one item per character if you get killed but that won't happen after you have read these helpful hints, will it? NB NB This does not apply in Book of Dread apparently they have a shop where you sell unwanted loot. Personally I love the simplicity of just throwing stuff out.
3. You can swap your ranger for a rogue or vice versa. At the start of the game at the character select screen press the little "x" to delete the character and then press the resulting blank space. You may need to do this a few times to get the character you want.
Edit: Thanks to anonymous commenter for pointing out that: " Regarding number 3: you can change your party composition by clicking on the class icons at character creation, you don't need to delete/add and hope to get the one you want." I haven't tried this myself yet but it makes more sense than the hit or miss approach I was using.
4. Enemies with names in parentheses are named bosses. Save these until the end of a level when you have got some decent gear. Also make sure your health and power bars are completely full before tackling a boss fight.
5. Always clear every level before moving on. Not only will the loot come in useful but if you completely clear a level before moving on you get a one time option to come back up and rest replenishing your health and energy bars.
6. Ways to replenish health and energy out of combat:
Perhaps the most puzzling aspect of the game is figuring out how to replenish health and energy between fights. The supply of potions (which can only be used of of combat) is very limited. For quite a while I was a power miser, afraid to use many skills and trying to stretch out battles to give my power bars time to recharge before moving on. While it is still a good idea to finish a battle with as much power and health remaining as possible there are other ways of recharging out of combat.
- Potions can only be used out of combat. Simply drag a potion onto the appropriate character from the inventory screen. Potions are very limited though you should probably keep them for the tougher fights later in the game.
- Most levels have one or two magical pools where allow you to replenish your health and energy one time each. I recommend using one of these before every boss fight.
- If you fully clear a level before moving on you can go back to it once from the next level to replenish health and energy. Just press the backwards green arrow below the map screen to use it.
- You also regenerate a bit of health and energy every time you explore a new area. It took me a while to figure this out. Because of this I don't recommend exploring new areas when your health and energy bars are full. Go fight something and then explore in order to recharge.
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Regarding number 3: you can change your party composition by clicking on the class icons at character creation, you don't need to delete/add and hope to get the one you want.
Oops, my mistake. It did feel a bit silly to have to delete a character and hope for the best.
Help! I can't use potions! Every time I try it says X character can't use X potion at this time. Do I need my party to be in a certain space on the map? I'm very frustrated by this!
Hi Jim
Its been a while since I played but did you seen the note above about using potions: You can't use them at all in combat. Out of combat you drag them onto a character portrait in the inventory screen to use them. | http://mindbendingpuzzles.blogspot.com/2008/09/six-things-you-should-know-about.html | 2013-05-18T10:53:04 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
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Okay, now when you're thinking about work, sometimes you want to think about the amount of work required to actually pull things that are hard to pull. For example, let's think about a spring. So you have a spring and you want to pull it. Well you know, gosh, it's sometimes hard to really pull. And then the further out - in fact, have you ever tried to take a spring that's really, really tightly wound - sometimes that's how I feel - and you just keep pulling it out. The more you pull it, the harder it actually is to pull, because it's stretching and it doesn't want to do it. It wants just to go back and go right back in.
Well, how would you actually figure out the force required in order to stretch out a spring? It seems intuitive that somehow, as you stretch out the spring, the force required to stretch more should increase. That is, when you have a spring stretched out, to stretch it out even more, it's even harder than if it's very, very close in. If it's close in, it's easy to move it. If it's stretched out, it's really hard to move it. So can you take that intuition and turn it into actually a physical fact? And it turns out you can, and in fact, this is exactly what Hooke did, and this is known as Hooke's law.
So Hooke's law for the force exerted in order to stretch a spring is just the following: the force to stretch a spring x units - and by the way, let me just show you the set up here. This is sort of mildly important. What I'm assuming here is that I put the spring down, and sometimes a spring has sort of a natural - you know, just how it sits naturally. I'm gong to assume that it's sitting so that this point right here is x = 0. So it's sort of sitting in the negative land and the right edge just touches that x = 0. And now what I'm going to do is I'm going to start to stretch it. And if I start to stretch it, the question is now I'm moving out x units - how much force is required in order to pull it out that far? And it turns out that Hooke's law says, that amount of force is just proportional to the length that you travel. So, in particular, it's just some constant times x. That's Hooke's law.
So let's actually look at an application of this in figuring out what work is. So suppose that I have a spring and in its natural resting position - so when it's just resting - it's 2 inches. And if you measure that, you can see that it's two inches. And I hope maybe you can't see it, which is good, because I'm faking it. So it's two inches in the resting position. From here to here is two inches. Okay, that's resting.
Now, I am told - or I actually computed this - that if I stretch the string out 10 inches from where I started - so that's right around here - the amount of force required for me to do that turns out to be 5 pounds. So a 5-pound force is required in order for me to stretch this particular spring the length 10 inches. So what that means is we're given that a 5-pound force is required in order for me to stretch the thing 10 inches.
My question now is, how much work have I done in order to stretch the spring 12 inches? So if I want to stretch it now 12 inches, how much work has really been done? Well, we know how to figure out work. We just integrate and we just integrate the force function. Unfortunately, I don't know what that constant is. But this particular piece of data will allow me to find that constant. For if I plug in, I see 5 = k x 10. That means that k actually equals . And so my force function actually equals times x.
Now that I have my force function, using Hooke's law, I can now actually figure out the work. And I'm asking now for the work that is required in order to stretch it out 12 inches. So I'm going to start by looking at an integral. I go from zero to 12 - starting position out to position 12. And then what's the force function? Well, it's given to be x - we figured that out - dx. So all I have to do is integrate that. That's not too bad. That's just going to be evaluated from zero to 12. And when I plug in 12, I have to square it, so I get , when I plugged in zero. And what does that equal? Well, that equals , which equals around 36. And what's the units? The units here - let's be very careful on the units. I was given these units in pounds. This is 5 pounds, was required, of force. So this is pounds inch. So 36 pound inches is the work that was required in order for me to stretch this spring 12 inches.
So Hooke's law actually allows us to figure out the work involved in stretching a spring. I'll see you at the next lecture.
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I love this craft and I so love your website.
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I like the fact that it becomes a take home activity that lets parents/guardians know what was taught, but also even the kids themselves can be the teacher and tell the story.
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I am right in the middle of your creation lesson, and the kids are really loving it. Thanks so much for helping the childrens ministry. As we the leaders/teachers are in a battle of sorts with kids technology..i.e video games we need fun and very hands on things for our kids to do. And this just what I needed in my class. Thanks again and GOD BLESS!
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I thank God for ideas, and your creation idea was so good. My kindy class kids will so enjoy this activity and i’m sure it will be a lasting memory for them.
I have encouraged them to talk to Jesus when ever they can and one child has made the coment that Jesus won’t come down from heaven to answer her. She is 4 years old so how do i explain His way of answering more clearly. Any ideas???????????
You can tell her that, God can hear her and is always with her (them, us) He’s never gone and He’ll always be by our side. Even when we cant see Him. He’s still with us.
I would have probably told the little girl that Jesus is in her heart and when she talks to him He can hear her, but if she needs an answer she needs to be very still and very quiet and she will feel the answer inside, if he doesn’t answer right away keep praying about it and then sit quietly and wait, he will answer, but it may take some time.
At least that is what I do ;)
This saved me today! We’ve been talking about creation in Sunday School lately and I needed to come up with an activity/craft for this morning–perfect! Thank you. | http://ministry-to-children.com/god-created-craft/ | 2013-05-18T10:13:05 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
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MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – Mother Nature is looking at throwing Minnesota another weather punch to end 2010.
WCCO-TV meteorologist Ron Trenda said big storm is forming in the western United States and is taking aim at Minnesota for Thursday and Friday.
Right now, the track of the storm brings freezing rain, rain and snow to the Twin Cities. Trenda said it’s a little early to know the exact track of the storm, because it is still forming.
However, if current models hold, residents of the Twin Cities metro area could see freezing rain start to fall as early as late Wednesday evening — and people in southern Minnesota could see that earlier in the day.
Trenda said the freezing rain will likely change over to all rain in the metro during the day on Thursday, before changing to snow on Friday.
In western Minnesota, the precipitation will start as a mix, but will change over to snow earlier than in the Twin Cities, Trenda said. Several inches of snow are likely there.
Northwestern Minnesota
The National Weather Service has issued a winter storm watch for far northwestern Minnesota for Wednesday night through Thursday night. Heavy snow and some freezing rain is expected in that area. A second storm is expected to hit that area on Friday and could bring near blizzard conditions to the area, including wind chills near 35 below.
Tuesday And Wednesday
Today, the sun will be out and it will be warm, relatively speaking, with highs near 30 in the metro. Wednesday will start sunny before the freezing rain moves in late Wednesday evening.
Peeking Ahead
Got New Year’s Day plans? Right now, Saturday looks dry, but cold, with highs in the low teens.
Why So Hard To Know Right Now?
Right now, the storm that is going to bring the bulk of the precipitation to Minnesota hasn’t reached the West Coast yet, so there’s not as much information about the system yet, Trenda explained.
As the storm gets closer, the track will be easier to predict — which is going to be critical with a storm like this where the line between freezing rain and snow will be so definitive. If the storm track moves 50 miles one way or the other — the Twin Cities could potentially see all snow — or just rain.
Stay with WCCO.COM as we continue to track the storm.
And A Little Weather Trivia
In a typical winter, the Twin Cities sees snowfalls greater than six inches twice a year. This year so far, we have had three such snowfalls.
WCCO-TV’s Ron Trenda Reports | http://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2010/12/28/2010-encore-snow-freezing-rain-and-rain/ | 2013-05-18T10:53:35 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [
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MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – What some are drinking on a Minnesota college campus is creating controversy and it has nothing to do with alcohol.
Nine campuses across the nation and two in Minnesota have banned the sale of plastic water bottles.
Macalester and St. Benedict College both banned plastic water bottles from being sold.
While students can still bring bottles onto campus, they’re encouraged to use reusable ones. The schools say it saves money and the environment, while some students say it limits their choices.
Bottles of water were handed out at the College of St. Benedict on Tuesday, not necessarily to quench students’ thirst, but to swallow a group’s message.
Student republicans are unhappy with the school’s choice to ban the sale of plastic water bottles.
“A little bit goes along the line of free choice. For us, that’s a big principle, in College Republicans is that you can’t really delegate to students what they can and cannot do in their own free will,” said Caitlyn Spence, chair of the St. Benedict Republicans.
Other students aren’t taking it quite the same way.
“I think it’s kinda silly,” Senior Kate Ulrich said. “I just tried to avoid them because I didn’t want a bottled water. I have my own bottled water.”
It’s not that the school doesn’t want students to have access to water. They’ve actually installed 31 hydration stations across campus allowing everyone to refill whatever bottle they have.
“The policy does not say that students can’t have bottled water. We’re not going to sell it in the bookstore or dining facilities here and we’re not going to use college funds to purchase bottled watered, but we’re not saying to students, they can’t drink bottled water, it’s their right,” Judy Purman, director of sustainability, said.
A choice students in favor of plastic water bottles say many visitors to campus may not know about.
“Parents come to visit, we have a big family weekend, Johnny games, everybody is on campus, it’s crawling with visitors all the time and it’s like, there’s no water for them,” Spence said. “So it’s like they didn’t bring anything up, they don’t have anything to drink and there isn’t water available to them.”
St. Ben’s said getting the message out to visitors was initially a problem, but it’s trying to be very vocal about the policy during admissions. Pitchers of water are also passed out at sporting events.
Each station has a counter that’s used to count how many plastic bottles would be used to fill up these bottles. Students that use them say they definitely see savings. | http://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2011/09/13/colleges-ban-sale-of-water-bottles-create-controversy/ | 2013-05-18T10:22:55 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [
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MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — New technology is changing the way parents can stay connected with their young children. Now they can know exactly how their kid is doing, even when they’re at work, thanks to a $5 app.
At Kinderberry Hill in Roseville, parents can stay connected with their little ones, while they are at work.
It’s called Baby Connect. The teachers keep track of how the kids are feeling, when they sleep, and when they eat.
The parents have access to this information instantly on their phone or computer.
Kevin Ronnenberg uses Baby Connect to check in on his two girls.
“They just updated it. Isabelle ate all her breakfast,” he said. “That’s a good thing.”
The app is a two-way street. Parents can also update Baby Connect to give teachers important information.
“If the parent is rushed they can tell us the child woke up at 2 in the morning and they might be kind of cranky,” said Kinderberry Hill toddler teacher Brooke O’Neill. “And if they forget that, that’s information that’d we’d like to know.”
And when the work day is dragging on, it helps to get a nice surprise. Baby Connect also shares pictures.
“Who doesn’t think they’re kids are the most adorable? And to see that, it takes your mind off of work, it’s pretty incredible,” said Ronnenberg. | http://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2012/03/21/new-baby-connect-app-helps-parents-keep-tabs/ | 2013-05-18T11:03:40 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
On the ground in Pakistan after devastating floods
St. Paul, Minn. — The death toll in Pakistan is rising even as more rain is on the way to the flooded regions of the country. More than 1,400 people are dead and 3 million have been forced from their homes as a historically strong monsoon season wiped out towns and villages in many parts of the country.
The Minneapolis-based American Refugee Committee operates refugee camps in Pakistan. Their staff there is now working with this new humanitarian crisis.
Jill McGrath Jones is the ARC's Senior Program Coordinator in Pakistan. She joined All Things Consider on the phone from Islamabad.
Broadcast Dates
- All Things Considered, 08/03/2010, 4:44 p.m. | http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2010/08/03/pakistan-flooding | 2013-05-18T10:43:20 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
As Mexico pushes forward with its offensive against the drug cartels, violence has spread and the country has been rocked recently by a wave of high-profile kidnappings.
One of the most powerful political figures in the country, Diego Fernandez de Cevallos, known as "El Jefe Diego," is currently being held for ransom.
Last week the mayor of a small city outside Monterrey was abducted, tortured and eventually killed. Over the weekend Olegario Guzman Orquiz, a prominent construction magnate in Chihuahua state and close friend of the governor-elect, was grabbed from his country club.
Official statistics on reported kidnappings in Mexico show a 15 percent increase in the crime this year, but security analysts say official figures grossly undercount abductions. Most victims never report what happened to the authorities.
Kidnapping in Mexico doesn't only affect the wealthy. People from all levels of society -- farmers, street vendors, small-business owners, professionals -- get kidnapped.
Julian Hakim, a medical student, was abducted by two men in a shopping center parking garage in Mexico City. They jammed pistols into his ribs and forced him into the passenger seat. "I told them, 'You guys can take the car, just let me get out,' " Hakim says. " 'I don’t know why you need me. Take the car, take my wallet.' "
The gunmen took Hakim to an ATM and ordered him to withdraw the daily limit from his credit cards. Then they ordered him to get back into his aging VW Passat.
So-called express kidnappings are the most common in Mexico. They tend to be for the least amount of money but can still be terrifying for the victim.
Hakim says his captors struck him repeatedly with their guns. "Anything I said, I'd get hit. I'd get hit in the ribs. Or I'd get hit in face. Anything. They'd be like, 'Why you talking back?' Boom! And they'd hit me."
The most high-profile kidnapping case currently in Mexico is the politician Fernandez, 69, who was snatched from his Hummer in May. Fernandez is a leader of President Felipe Calderon's political party, the PAN. He also was the runner-up in the 1994 presidential election.
In June, his captors released photos of the man, shirtless, gaunt and blindfolded. The local press reports that the ransom demand for Fernandez started at $50 million.
Carlos Seoane, vice president of Pinkerton Consulting & Investigations in Mexico, says kidnapping in Mexico is a business. The sophistication of the kidnappers varies, he says, but it's always an organized crime.
Seoane says kidnapping has to be done by a group. "You have to take care of the victim. You have to capture the victim. You have to go out on the streets and make negotiations. And from there go pick up the money. And then release the victim. It's [much more] difficult than to, say, grab a car and get the hell out of there," he says.
Pinkerton doesn't negotiate directly with kidnappers, Seoane says, but it provides crisis management mainly for corporate clients during hostage situations. Pinkerton employees guide the victim's family through the process of swapping money for their relative.
"That process could be pretty messy, or pretty violent or pretty long or pretty expensive," Seoane says. "So we focus a lot on reducing the time and protecting the family’s assets."
Seoane says that one of the difficulties in Mexico is that the drug cartels have now gotten into kidnapping to supplement their income. He says some of these gangs don't understand the complexity of ransom negotiations and they also tend to be much more violent. Seoane says there used to be a criminal code of conduct in Mexico, but not any longer.
"There are no codes. There are no boundaries. There are no limits. There is a high degree of impunity," he says. "That's the big worry of all of us that live in Mexico. There were limits in the past; now there are no limits."
Politicians have been calling for increased prison terms, and the government has offered million-dollar rewards for some of Mexico's most notorious kidnappers. Yet according to official statistics the number of reported abductions continues to rise.
Hakim was lucky. His kidnapping in October 2008 lasted only about six hours. He was held in his passenger seat at gunpoint as his captors cruised aimlessly, it seemed to him, around the capital.
Eventually they drove him out of Mexico City, heading north toward Queretaro. He says they were hitting him repeatedly.
"It got to a point where it was very painful, but mentally I was torn into pieces. I was just so scared for my life," he says. "I didn't care if they left the biggest bruise in the world; I just didn't want them to kill me. The mental scars they left on me were the worst."
Finally they dumped Hakim by the side of the road and sped off with his car.
Despite his captors telling him they would kill him if he went to the authorities, he filed a police report.
As is the norm in so many of these cases in Mexico, nothing ever came of it. | http://minnesota.publicradio.org/features/npr.php?id=129426547 | 2013-05-18T10:35:15 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Over the past two days, police in Baghdad have found the bodies of more than 70 men -- some shot, some strangled, most with their hands bound -- raising fears that Shiite militias are running death squads to avenge Sunday's bombing in the capital's main Shiite district. The wave of reprisal killings is seen as the latest show of strength by Shiite militias. | http://minnesota.publicradio.org/features/npr.php?id=5280911 | 2013-05-18T10:33:13 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
It was just before 2:28 in the afternoon — exactly one week ago — that I sat down for an interview with Pastor Richard Cai of the Thanksgiving Christian Church at a seminary in Chengdu, the provincial capital of Sichuan province. I wanted to talk to him about the growth of faith in China.
As he was telling me about his role of helping to grow his church, the building started to shake violently. We ran out to the street.
The red cross on the roof of the church waved wildly with the tremors as debris rained down.
Needless to say, we never finished that interview.
Worship Continues
But I found Pastor Cai again — at a Sunday afternoon service, nearly a week after the quake.
The worshippers couldn't meet in their regular space because it is too badly damaged.
Instead, about three dozen congregants gather on blue plastic chairs in the offices of a Christian social services group.
The reading is from Genesis 18.
It seems no coincidence that the chosen verses speak of the intended destruction of a city — in this case, the city of Sodom.
Abraham intercedes, asking the Lord, "Will you indeed sweep away the righteous with the wicked?" Sodom is spared.
Xie Chunmei, 25, delivers the sermon.
"The worst earthquake ever to hit Sichuan happened on May 12, and at that moment, it seemed that time stood still," Xie says.
"We need to keep praying," she tells the worshippers as she presses her hand to her heart. "Especially now with so many aftershocks, we need to put everything in the hand of God."
She asks God to bless the volunteers, doctors and soldiers who are struggling to save lives.
'Our Mission will Not Be Shaken'
This Protestant church is what's known as an "official" church — one sanctioned by the authorities in this officially atheist country.
By some estimates, there are 50 million Christians in China. And the number is growing. congregation is urged not to linger because aftershocks are still frequent.
Quake Prompts Questioning of Faith
Afterward, back in his office, Pastor Cai recalls those first moments after the earthquake hit.
"A lot of the seminary students were stunned and frightened," he says. "A lot of people started to cry. And I was trying to figure out how to comfort them and keep them safe. I started praying to God, asking him to make the earth calm down."
In the aftermath of the disaster, Pastor Cai says several people have come to him, questioning their faith and how God, if he exists, would allow such a thing to happen.
He says he turns to the Bible to encourage his followers and "to try to help them understand that what we've experienced is a part of our faith."
"The Bible tells us ... we will experience all sorts of difficulties and setbacks. These are unavoidable. But we are fortunate that throughout, God is always with us," Pastor Cai says.
Guo Cunwu is a member of the Thanksgiving Christian Church and a full-time pastor himself. He says the earthquake poses a test.
"If I tell people that God is merciful, they ask then why did so many people die. In my heart, I don't know how to answer that question. But I believe God will give me the answer," Guo say.
Christian Charity Still Strong
The Thanksgiving Christian Church in Chengdu collected 17,000 yuan Sunday from the 30 or so parishioners at the service. That amounts to about $80 a person — a staggering amount for those in China.
The church plans to use the money to buy medicine and medical instruments to send to the earthquake zone. They already have boxes of plaster for casts and 20 wheelchairs ready to go. | http://minnesota.publicradio.org/features/npr.php?id=90597828 | 2013-05-18T10:22:46 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
The memorial service for Boone Knox at the Sacred Heart Cultural Center was one for the ages. Attending this grand service with my wife, Stevi, and my daughter, Elizabeth, has led me to fondly reminisce about Boone.
Each and every time I saw him, Boone seemed genuinely glad to see me. Boone beamed with delight each time I told him that my mom remembered him as a sweet young boy whom she had taught in Sunday school. From his knack for making you feel as if you were important, to his sharp wit, especially his one-line "Boone-isms" which he would effortlessly reel off with a twinkle in his eyes, Boone was simply a joy to be around. Although we sometimes did not agree on certain issues, I admired his gusto and true joie de vivre.
While he possessed remarkable business acumen exemplified by his amazing transformation of the Bank of Thomson into a major player, Boone seemed to enjoy giving away money even more than he did making it. There is no question that Boone was a generous person.
One evening while I was at his home, he gave me a book and a chair and even promised me a painting (which he later did indeed give to me)! I decided that I really should leave before he gave me his whole house!
Boone literally enriched many of us directly and many more indirectly. Boone contributed more than anyone else ever has to the Central Savannah River Land Trust and to numerous other nonprofit organizations in our area and beyond.
Would not our world be a much better place if more of us would strive to emulate Boone's magnanimity so that generosity becomes a quotidian occurrence?
Thank you, Boone, for your friendship and for your stellar example of generosity!
Sincerely,
William Dunn Wansley
Thomson | http://mirror.augusta.com/stories/2011/01/27/opi_603563.shtml | 2013-05-18T10:21:14 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
The European Miracle
[This essay originally appeared as "The Theory of Economic Development and the European Miracle" in The Collapse of Development Planning, edited by Peter J. Boettke.]
Among writers on economic development, P.T. Bauer is noted both for the depth of his historical knowledge, and for his insistence on the indispensability of historical studies in understanding the phenomenon of growth (Walters 1989, 60; see also Dorn 1987). In canvassing the work of other theorists, Bauer has complained of their manifest "amputation of the time dimension":
The historical background is essential for a worthwhile discussion of economic development, which is an integral part of the historical progress of society. But many of the most widely publicized writings on development effectively disregard both the historical background and the nature of development as a process. (Bauer 1972, 324–25)
Too many writers in the field have succumbed to professional overspecialization combined with a positivist obsession with data that happen to be amenable to mathematical techniques. The result has been models of development with little connection to reality:
Abilities and attitudes, mores and institutions, cannot generally be quantified in an illuminating fashion.… Yet they are plainly much more important and relevant to development than such influences as the terms of trade, foreign exchange reserves, capital output ratios, or external economies, topics which fill the pages of the consensus literature. (Ibid., 326)
Even when a writer appears to approach the subject historically, concentration on quantifiable data to the neglect of underlying institutional and social-psychological factors tends to foreshorten the chronological perspective and thus vitiate the result:
It is misleading to refer to the situation in eighteenth -and nineteenth-century Europe as representing initial conditions in development. By then the west was pervaded by the attitudes and institutions appropriate to an exchange economy and a technical age to a far greater extent than south Asia today. These attitudes and institutions had emerged gradually over a period of eight centuries. (Ibid., 219–20)[1]
At the root of the approach criticized by Bauer there appears to be a methodological holism that prefers to manipulate aggregates while ignoring individual human actors and the institutions their actions generate. Yet, "differences in people's capacities and attitudes and in their institutions are far-reaching and deepseated and largely explain differences in economic performance and in levels and rates of material progress" (Ibid., 313–14; emphasis added).
Bauer's critique thus draws attention to the need to study both the centuries of European history antedating the Industrial Revolution and "the interrelationships between social, political, and legal institutions" in that period (Ibid., 277).[2] Here his assessment links up with an impressive body of scholarship that has emerged in recent years emphasizing precisely these points.
The "European Miracle"
While it would be wrong to suggest the existence of any monolithic analysis,.[3]?
One possible answer, which has long enjoyed powerful support in intellectual circles in the West and among officials in underdeveloped countries, was heavily influenced by socialist and even Marxist tenets.[4] It accounted for Europe's extraordinary growth largely by the more or less spontaneous advance of science, combined with a "primitive accumulation" of capital — through imperialism, slavery and the slave trade, the expropriation of small farmers, and the exploitation of the domestic working class. The conclusion was clear. The extraordinary growth of Europe was at the expense of untold millions of the enslaved and downtrodden, and the European experience should serve decision makers in underdeveloped countries more as a cautionary tale than an exemplar.
The contributors to the newer model, however, reject this venerable legend. Concerned as they are with comparative economic history, they have sought for the origins of European development in what has tended to set Europe apart from other great civilizations, particularly those of China, India, and Islam. To one degree or another, their answer to the question, why Europe? has been: Because Europe enjoyed a relative lack of political constraint. As Jean Baechler, in a pioneering work, pointedly expressed it:
The first condition for the maximization of economic efficiency is the liberation of civil society with respect to the state…The expansion of capitalism owes its origins and raison d'être to political anarchy. (Baechler 1975, 77, 113; emphasis in original)
The Uniqueness of Europe
John Hicks partially adumbrated this approach in the late 1960s (Hicks 1969).[5] In A Theory of Economic History, Hicks laid out the "chief needs" of the expanding, mercantile phase of economic development — the protection of property and the enforcement of contracts — and stated:
The Mercantile Economy, in its First Phase, was an escape from political authority — except in so far as it made its own political authority. Then, in the Middle Phase, when it came formally back under the traditional political authority, that authority was not strong enough to control it. (Ibid., 33, 100)
Hicks's account, however, proved to be much too schematic, besides limiting itself to economic analysis and deliberately ignoring political, religious, scientific, and other factors (see Bauer 1971). Around the same time as Hicks, David Landes was sketching the essentials of the newer outlook. In seeking to answer the question why the industrial breakthrough occurred first in western Europe, he highlighted two factors "that set Europe apart from the rest of the world … the scope and effectiveness of private enterprise, and the high value placed on the rational manipulation of the human and material environment" (Landes 1970, 14–15). "The role of private enterprise in the West," in Landes's view, "is perhaps unique: more than any other factor, it made the modern world" (Ibid., 15).
But what was it that permitted private enterprise to flourish? Landes pinpointed the circumstance that would be vital to the new interpretation — Europe's radical decentralization:
Because of this crucial role as midwife and instrument of power in a context of multiple, competing polities (the contrast is with the all-encompassing empires of the Orient or the Ancient World), private enterprise in the West possessed a social and political vitality without precedent or counterpart. (Ibid.; emphasis in original)
Damaging incursions by government did occur, and the situation in some parts of Europe conditioned a social preference for military values; "on balance, however, the place of private enterprise was secure and improving with time; and this is apparent in the institutional arrangements that governed the getting and spending of wealth" (Ibid.).
A precondition of economic expansion was the definition and defense of property rights against the political authority. This occurred early on in Europe. Landes contrasts the European method of regular taxation (supervised by assemblies representative of the tax-bearing classes) with the system of "extortion" prevalent" (Ibid., 16–17).[6]
Landes's insights, briefly sketched in a few pages of introduction to his Prometheus Unbound, have been vastly elaborated upon by the new school. The upshot is an overall interpretation of Western history that may be stated as follows:
Although geographical factors played a role, the key to western development is to be found in the fact that, while Europe constituted a single civilization — Latin Christendom — it was at the same time radically decentralized.[7] "every political power tends to reduce everything that is external to it, and powerful objective obstacles are needed to prevent it from succeeding" (Baechler 1975, 79). In Europe, the "objective obstacles" were provided first of all by the competing political authorities. Instead of experiencing the hegemony of a universal empire, Europe developed into a mosaic of kingdoms, principalities, city-states, ecclesiastical domains, and other political entities.
Within this system, it was highly imprudent for any prince to attempt to infringe property rights in the manner customary elsewhere in the world. In constant rivalry with one another, princes found that outright expropriations, confiscatory taxation, and the blocking of trade did not go unpunished. The punishment was to be compelled to witness the relative economic progress of one's rivals, often through the movement of capital, and capitalists, to neighboring realms. The possibility of "exit," facilitated by geographical compactness and, especially, by cultural affinity, acted to transform the state into a "constrained predator" (Anderson 1991, 58).
Decentralization of power also came to mark the domestic arrangements of the various European polities. Here feudalism — which produced a nobility rooted in feudal right rather than in state-service — is thought by a number of scholars to have played an essential role (see, e.g., Baechler 1975, 78). Through the struggle for power within the realms, representative bodies came into being, and princes often found their hands tied by the charters of rights (Magna Carta, for instance) which they were forced to grant their subjects. In the end, even within the relatively small states of Europe, power was dispersed among estates, orders, chartered towns, religious communities, corps, universities, etc., each with its own guaranteed liberties. The rule of law came to be established throughout much of the Continent.
Thus, there is general agreement that crucial to laying the foundations for the European miracle were, in Jones's words, the "curtailment of predatory government tax behavior" and "the limits to arbitrariness set by a competitive political arena" (Jones 1987, xix, xxi). Over time, property rights — including rights in one's own person — came to be more sharply defined, permitting owners to capture more of the benefits of investment and improvement (North 1981). With the freer disposition of private property came the possibility of ongoing innovations, tested in the market. Here, too, the rivalrous state system was highly favorable. The nations of Europe functioned "as a set of joint-stock corporations with implicit prospectuses listing resources and freedoms" in such a way as to insure "against the suppression of novelty and unorthodoxy in the system as a whole" (Jones 1987, 119). A new social class arose, consisting of merchants, capitalists, and manufacturers "with immunity from interference by the formidable social forces opposed to change, growth, and innovation" (Rosenberg and Birdzell 1986, 24).
Eventually, the economy achieved a degree of autonomy unknown elsewhere in the world except for brief periods. As Jones puts it:
Economic development in its European form required above all freedom from arbitrary political acts concerning private property. Goods and factors of production had to be free to be traded. Prices had to be set by unconditional exchange if they were to be undistorted signals of what goods and services really were in demand, where and in what quantities. (Jones 1987, 85)
The system protecting the ownership and deployment of private property evolved in Europe by slow degrees — over at least "the eight centuries" mentioned by Bauer. Quite logically, therefore, the economic historians concerned with "how the West grew rich" have directed a great deal of their attention to the medieval period.
The Importance of the Middle Ages
The stereotype of the Middle Ages as "the Dark Ages" fostered by Renaissance humanists and Enlightenment philosophes has, of course, long since been abandoned by scholars. Still, the "consensus" writers on economic development whom Bauer faults have by and large ignored the importance of the Middle Ages for European growth — something that makes as much sense as beginning the explanation of the economic and cultural successes of European Jewry with the eighteenth century. Economic historians, however, following in the footsteps of the great Belgian historian Henri Pirenne (Pirenne 1937), have had a quite different estimation of the medieval period. Carlo M. Cipolla asserts that "the origins of the Industrial Revolution go back to that profound change in ideas, social structures, and value systems that accompanied the rise of the urban communes in the eleventh and thirteenth centuries" (Cipolla 1981, 298).
Of Europe from the late tenth to the fourteenth centuries, Robert S. Lopez states:
Here, for the first time in history, an underdeveloped society succeeded in developing itself, mostly by its own efforts … it created the indispensable material and moral conditions for a thousand years of virtually uninterrupted growth; and, in more than one way, it is still with us. (Lopez 1971, vii)
Lopez contrasts the European evolution with that of a neighboring civilization, Islam, where political pressures smothered the potential for an economic upsurge:
The early centuries of Islamic expansion opened large vistas to merchants and tradesmen. But they failed to bring to towns the freedom and power that was indispensable for their progress. Under the tightening grip of military and landed aristocracies the revolution that in the tenth century had been just around the corner lost momentum and failed. (Ibid., 57)
In Europe, as trade and industry expanded, people discovered that "commerce thrives on freedom and runs away from constriction; normally the most prosperous cities were those that adopted the most liberal policies" (Ibid., 90). The "demonstration effect" that has been a constant element in European progress — and which could exist precisely because Europe was a decentralized system of competing jurisdictions — helped spread the liberal policies that brought prosperity to the towns that first ventured to experiment with them.
Scholars like Cipolla and Lopez, attempting to understand European development in the Middle Ages, make constant reference to ideas, value systems, moral conditions, and similar cultural elements.[8] As Bauer has emphasized, this is a part of the distinctive European evolution that cannot be divorced from its institutional history. In regard to the Middle Ages, prime importance, in the view of many writers, attaches to Christianity. Harold J. Berman (Berman 1974)[9] has stressed that with the fall of Rome and the eventual conversion of the Germans, Slavs, Magyars, and so forth, Christian ideas and values suffused the whole blossoming culture of Europe. Christian contributions range from the mitigation of slavery and a greater equality within the family to the concepts of natural law, including the legitimacy of resistance to unjust rulers. The Church's canon law exercised a decisive influence on Western legal systems: "it was the church that first taught Western man what a modern legal system was like" (Ibid., 59).
Berman, moreover, focuses attention on a critical development that began in the eleventh century: the creation by Pope Gregory VII and his successors of a powerful "corporate, hierarchical church … independent of emperors, kings, and feudal lords," and thus capable of foiling the power-seeking of temporal authority (Ibid., 56).[10] In this way, Berman bolsters Lord Acton's analysis of the central role of the Catholic church in generating Western liberty by forestalling any concentration of power such as marked the other great cultures, and thus creating the Europe of divided and conflicting jurisdictions.[11]
In a major synthesis, Law and Revolution, Berman has highlighted the legal facets of the development whose economic, political, and ideological aspects other scholars have examined (Berman 1983): "Perhaps the most distinctive characteristic of the Western legal tradition is the coexistence and competition within the same community of diverse legal systems. It is this plurality of jurisdictions and legal systems that makes the supremacy of law both necessary and possible" (Ibid., 10)[12]
Berman's work is in the tradition of the great English scholar, A.J. Carlyle, who, at the conclusion of his monumental study of political thought in the Middle Ages, summarized the basic principles of medieval politics: that all — including the king — are bound by law; that a lawless ruler is not a legitimate king, but a tyrant; that where there is no justice there is no commonwealth; that a contract exists between the ruler and his subjects (Carlyle and Carlyle 1950, 503–26).
Other recent scholarship has supported these conclusions. In his last, posthumous work, the distinguished historian of economic thought, Jacob Viner, noted that the references to taxation by St. Thomas Aquinas "treat it as a more or less extraordinary act of a ruler which is as likely as not to be morally illicit" (Viner 1978, 68–69). Viner pointed to the medieval papal bull, In Coena Domini — evidently republished each year into the late eighteenth century — which threatened to excommunicate any ruler "who levied new taxes or increased old ones, except for cases supported by law, or by an express permission from the pope" (Ibid., 69). Throughout the Western world, the Middle Ages gave rise to parliaments, diets, estates-generals, Cortes, etc., which served to limit the powers of the monarch. [13] A.R. Myers notes:
Almost everywhere in Latin Christendom the principle was, at one time or another, accepted by the rulers that, apart from the normal revenues of the prince, no taxes could be imposed without the consent of parliament … By using their power of the purse [the parliaments] often influenced the rulers policies, especially restraining him from military adventures. (Myers 1975 29–30)
In a recent synthesis of modern medievalist scholarship, Norman F. Cantor has summarized the heritage of the European Middle Ages in terms strikingly similar to those employed by the current institutional historians:
In the model of civil society, most good and important things take place below the universal level of the state: the family, the arts, learning, and science; business enterprise and technological process.. (Cantor 1991, 416)
One highly important factor in the advance of the West, possibly linked to Christianity, has not, however, been dealt with by the newer economic historians. It is the relative lack of institutionalized envy in Western culture. In a work endorsed by Bauer, the sociologist Helmut Schoeck has drawn attention to the omnipresence of envy in human societies (Schoeck [1969] 1987). Perceived as a grave threat by those at whom it is directed, it typically results in elaborate envy-avoidance behavior: the attempt to ward off the dangers of malicious envy by denying, disguising, or suppressing whatever traits provoked it. The antieconomic consequences of socially permitted — or even encouraged — envy and reactive envy-avoidance scarcely lend themselves to quantification. Nonetheless, they may clearly be highly damaging. Drawing on anthropological studies, Schoeck stresses the harm that institutionalized envy can inflict on the process of economic and technical growth (Ibid., 73). Western culture, according to Schoeck, has somehow been able to inhibit envy to a remarkable degree. Why this is so is less clear. Schoeck links this fact to the Christian faith: "It must have been one of Christianity's most important, if unintentional, achievements in preparing men for, and rendering them capable of, innovative actions when it provided man for the first time with supernatural beings who, he knew, could neither envy nor ridicule him" (Ibid., 79). Yet the evident variation in socially permitted envy in different Christian societies (e.g., Russia as against western Europe) suggests that the presence of Christian faith alone is not an adequate explanation.
Case Studies of Development
Obviously, all of Europe did not progress at the same rate. In particular, in the modern period the Netherlands and then England became the pacesetters of economic growth, while other countries declined. These facts can also be accounted for by the model.
The Low Countries had long benefited from the legal system inherited from the dukes of Burgundy. These rulers, who governed in collaboration with an active estates-general,[14] had promoted an open commercial and industrial system, based on protection of property rights. In the rise of the "northern Netherlands" (the United Provinces, or "Holland") we have a near-perfect example of the European miracle in operation. First, the area had been a major participant in European economic, political, social, and cultural developments for centuries. As Cipolla has observed, "The country that in the second half of the sixteenth century rebelled against Spanish imperialism and then rose to the role of Europe's economically most dynamic nation, was anything but an underdeveloped country from the outset" (Cipolla 1981, 263). Owing its independence to the decentralized state system of Europe, it emerged itself as a decentralized polity, without a king and court — a "headless commonwealth" that combined secure property rights, the rule of law, religious toleration, and intellectual freedom with a degree of prosperity that amounted to an early modern Wirtschaftswunder. It is not surprising that Holland exerted a powerful demonstration effect. As K.W. Swart states:
both foreigners and Dutchmen were apt to believe that the Dutch Republic was unique in permitting an unprecedented degree of freedom in the fields of religion, trade, and politics…. In the eyes of contemporaries it was this combination of freedom and economic predominance that constituted the true miracle of the Dutch Republic. (Swart 1969, 20)
The success of the Dutch experiment was noted with great interest, especially in England, whose soil was already well prepared to accept the idea that prosperity is a reward of freedom. The deep roots of economic individualism, and hence of development, in English medieval history have been emphasized by Alan Macfarlane (Macfarlane 1978 and 1987).[15] In the early modern period, the common law, which had evolved over many centuries, acted as a guarantor of the sanctity of property and free entry to industry and trade against the policies of the early Stuart kings. In the face of authoritarian usurpations, Sir Edward Coke and his fellow jurists acted, in the words of North and Thomas, "to place the creation of property rights beyond the royal whim; to embed existing property rights in a body of impersonal law guarded by the courts" (North and Thomas 1973, 148). Crucial in the case of both the Netherlands and England was the preservation, against attempted royal encroachments, of traditional representative assemblies determined to deny the ruler the right to tax at will. Here the antiauthoritarian side exploited — and further developed — the inherited discourse whose key concepts included "liberties," "rights," "the law of nature," and "constitution."
The decline of Spain, on the other hand, is also taken into account in the model. Confiscation of the property of Jews and Moors by the Spanish crown was, according to North and Thomas:
only symptomatic of the insecurity of all property rights . . seizure, confiscation, or the unilateral alteration of contracts were recurrent phenomena which ultimately affected every group engaged in commerce or industry as well as agriculture…. As no property was secure, economic retardation was the inevitable consequence. (Ibid., 131)
The economic decay of Spain, in turn, provided a negative demonstration effect that played a potent role in the policy choices of other countries.
The theme of the autonomy of the market and the inhibition of the predator-state as major factors in economic growth is pursued in the examination of non-European cultures. Baechler, for instance, states that "each time China was politically divided, capitalism flourished," and maintains that Japanese history manifests conditions approximating those of Europe (Baechler 1975, 82–86). Anderson, after surveying economic growth in the history of Sung China and Tokugawa Japan, as well as the Netherlands and England, concludes that the common element is that "they occurred when governmental constraints on economic activity were relaxed" (Anderson 1991, 73–74)[16]
While, needless to say, much more research requires to be done on economic development in the history of non-European civilizations, the evidence so far suggests strong support for the basic thrust of the institutional approach.
Contrast of Europe with Russia
The meaning of the European miracle can be better seen if European developments are contrasted with those in Russia. Colin White lists, as the determining factors of Russian backwardness "a poor resource and hostile risk environment … an unpropitious political tradition and institutional inheritance, ethnic diversity, and the weakness of such key groups limiting state power as the church and landed oligarchy." (White 1987, 136) After the destruction of Kievan Rus by the Tatars and the rise of Muscovy, Russia was characterized for centuries by the virtual absence of the rule of law, including security for persons and property.
The lawlessness — as well as the poverty — of Muscovite Russia was notorious. When the emissary of Elizabeth I inquired of Ivan the Great the status of his subjects, he was told: "All are slaves" (Besançon, in Baechler, Hall, and Mann 1988, 161). Ivan IV, the Terrible, annihilated the flourishing commercial republics of Novgorod and Pskov, and loosed his Oprichnina (Ivan's praetorian guard) on the kingdom for a frenzy of butchery that came to stand for what was permissible in the Muscovite state. Alain Besançon remarks dryly, "Of the three legends (Romanian, German, and Russian) that depict, in the guise of Dracula, the reign of Vlad the Impaler, the Russian alone sings the praises of the prince" (Ibid.).
The nobility in Russia was a state-service nobility, lacking any independent base. As White observes: "Russia was never truly feudal in the west European sense of the term" (White 1987, 10). In contrast to Europe and America, the towns, as well, were "simply another arm of the state" (Ibid., 137–38). The differences between Russia and the West can be seen in their respective ideas of "absolutism." Ivan IV's concept is well known. It may be compared with that of a political writer in the West who is famous as a defender of royal absolutism, Jean Bodin. Alexander Yanov has pointed out that, for all his faith in absolutism:
Bodin regarded the property of the citizens as their inalienable possession, in the disposition of which they were no less sovereign than was the monarch in ruling his people. To tax citizens of a part of their inalienable property without their voluntary consent was, from Bodin's point of view, ordinary robbery. (Yanov 1981, 44–45)[17]
In this connection, Yanov reports a telling anecdote. A French diplomat in a conversation with an English colleague affirmed his belief in the principle enunciated by Louis XIV, that the king was ultimate owner of all the property within his kingdom (a principle which even the Sun-King never dared to act upon). The Englishmen retorted: "Did you study public law in Turkey?" (Ibid., 44 n. 17)
The fact that Russia received Christianity from Byzantium rather than Rome shaped the entire course of Russia's history (Pipes 1974, 221–43). In the words of Richard Pipes, the Orthodox church in Russia became, like every other institution, "the servant of the state." Pipes concludes, regarding the "relations between state and society in pre-1900 Russia":
None of the economic or social groups of the old regime was either able or willing to stand up to the crown and challenge its monopoly of political power. They were not able to do so because, by enforcing the patrimonial principle, i.e., by effectively asserting its claim to all the territory of the realm as property and all its inhabitants as servants, the crown prevented the formation of pockets of independent wealth or power. (Ibid., 249)
What ideas of liberalism came to Russia came perforce from the West. It was from listening to the lectures on natural law at the University of Leipzig that Alexander Radishchev first learned that limits may be put to the power of the tsar (Clardy 1964, 37–38). The beginnings of the shift to a more market-oriented economic policy before the First World War are traced by Besancon to the fact that the Russian ministers read the liberal economists (Besancon, in Baechler, Hall, and Mann 1988, 166).
The Downfall of Marxist Historiography
The Marxist philosophy of history is filled with manifold, often strategic, contradictions and ambiguities. Yet, if "historical materialism" has any significant content at all it is as a technological interpretation of history (Mises 1957, 106–12; Bober 1962, 3 — -). Although Nathan Rosenberg has denied that Marx held that "technological factors are, so to speak, the independent variable in generating social change, which constitutes the dependent variable" (Rosenberg 1982, 36; see also 34–51),[18] the weight of evidence is heavily against him (Cohen 1978, 134–0).
According to Marx, Engels, and the theoreticians of the "Golden Age" of the Second International, history proceeds basically via changes in the "material productive forces" (the technological base), which render obsolete the existing "mode of production" (the property system). Because of technological changes, the mode of production is compelled to change; with it, everything else — the whole legal, political, and ideological "superstructure" of society — is transformed, as well (Marx [1859] 1969b, 8-). As Marx put it aphoristically: "The wind mill yields a society with feudal lords, the steam mill a society with industrial capitalists" (Marx [1847] 1969a, 130).
Marxism has, of course, been subjected for generations to withering rebuttal on many different fronts, not least in regard to its philosophy of history. The newer understanding of European history is particularly destructive of its fundamental claims, however, in that it directs attention to the peculiar shallowness of "historical materialism." This newer understanding insists that the colossal growth of technology in the Western world in the past millennium must itself be explained, and the explanation it provides is in terms of the institutional and moral matrix that emerged in Europe over many centuries.[19] New and more productive machines did not spring forth mysteriously and spontaneously, nor was the spectacular expansion of technical and scientific knowledge somehow inevitable. As Anderson has summed up the evidence, "the scientific and technical stasis that followed the remarkable achievements of the Song dynasty, or of the flowering of early Islam, indicates that scientific inquiry and technology do not necessarily possess in themselves the dynamism suggested by the European experience" (Anderson 1991, 46). On the contrary, technology and science emerged out of an interrelated set of political, legal, philosophical, religious, and moral elements in what orthodox Marxism has traditionally disparaged as the "superstructure" of society.
Conclusion
According to the Indian development economist R.M. Sundrum, if we are to understand how development can be promoted in the poorer countries today, we must understand the historical process which transformed developed countries in the past, and why this process failed to take place elsewhere (cited in Arndt 1987, 177). This is the position that P.T. Bauer, too, has insisted upon. Rejecting the "timeless approach" to economic development, Bauer has accentuated the many centuries required for economic growth in the Western world, and the interplay of various cultural factors that were its precondition. Most important, in Bauer's view, is that in the Western world institutions and values evolved that favored private property and the market, set limits to state arbitrariness and predation, and encouraged innovation and the sense that human beings are capable of improving their lot through their actions on the market.
Because Europe enjoyed a relative lack of political constraint."
Recently, W.W. Rostow, in a summary of Bauer's career, chided him for failing "to take adequately into account the extremely large and inescapable role of the state in early phases of development" (Rostow 1990, 386).[20] Such a criticism is not surprising, coming from one of the leaders of what Bauer has for years assailed as the "spurious consensus." Yet it finds little support in the work of the historians dealt with here. (For some reason, Rostow ignores this whole body of scholarship in his very lengthy history of theories of economic growth; Ibid., passim). While some of these authors would stipulate a significant role for the state in certain areas — particularly in defining and enforcing property rights — this is consistent with Bauer's viewpoint. Moreover, the overall thrust of their work — which stresses the importance of limits on state action in the development of the West — tends to corroborate Bauer's position rather than Rostow's. Peter Burke, for instance, writing on one of the earliest examples of European development — the merchant-states of northern Italy and the Netherlands — describes them as "pro-enterprise cultures in which governments did relatively little to frustrate the designs of merchants or hinder economic growth, a negative characteristic which all the same gave those countries an important advantage over their competitors" (Burke in Baechler, Hall, and Mann 1988, 230). William H. McNeill notes that "within Europe itself, those states that gave the most scope to private capital and entrepreneurship prospered the most, whereas better governed societies in which welfare on the one hand or warfare on the other commanded a larger proportion of available resources tended to lag behind." As the growth leaders McNeill cites "such conspicuously undergoverned lands as Holland and England" (McNeill 1980, 65). And F.L. Jones takes as a guiding principle in the explanation of growth a famous passage from Adam Smith: "Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism, but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice; all the rest being brought about by the natural course of things" (Jones 1987, 234–35, cited in Stewart [1793] 1966, 68).
The new paradigm generated by the work of these and other scholars has already helped produce further major works of research and synthesis.[21] It goes without saying that a great deal more study is required. Yet it is likely that further research will provide additional substantiation of the viewpoint steadfastly represented by Professor Bauer. As Anderson observes: "The emphasis on release from constraints points to a fruitful direction of research into why some societies experienced economic development and others didn't" (Anderson 1991, 73–74). In any case, the subject will continue to be of very great theoretical interest to scholars — and to many millions in the underdeveloped world, a matter of life and death.
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Notes
[1] Cf. Roberts (1985, 75), who writes of "the general liberation of the economy," which was well on the way to autonomy everywhere in western Europe by 1500, if autonomy means regulation by prices providing undistorted signals of demand and a substantial degree of security for property against arbitrary confiscation by king, lord, or robber."
[2] Cf. Rosenberg (1976, 286), who raises the question why Western European civilization was able to evolve a uniquely powerful combination of cultural values, incentive systems, and organizational capabilities, and remarks: "Interesting answers to this question are unlikely to come from any single social science discipline."
[3] Major works in the field include North and Thomas (1973); Baechler (1975); North (1981); Rosenberg and Birdzell (1986); Jones (1987); Baechler, Hall, and Mann (1988), especially the essays by Michael Mann, John A. Hall, Alain Besançon, Karl Ferdinand Werner, and Peter Burke; and Jones (1988). Summaries of some of the scholarship are provided by Anderson (1991); and Weede (1988) and (1990, 40–59). See also Osterfeld (1992, 43–46). The essay by McNeill (1980) makes creative use of the fundamental concepts of the approach.
[4] F.A. Hayek in the 1950s referred to "a socialist interpretation of history which has governed political thinking for the last two or three generations and which consists mainly of a particular view of economic history." See Hayek (1954, 7).
[5] The idea of a strong connection between the relative freedom of European society and its economic success can, of course, be traced back to much earlier authors, including those in the Whig historical tradition. Here it is being considered in the context of recent, mainly economic, historiography.
[6] A secondary theme (Landes 1970, 21–22) is the character of the European Weltanschauung. Landes points to the emphasis on rationality in European culture, relative to others, fostered by elements in Christianity that ultimately may be traced to Judaism's disparagement of magic and superstition.
[7] Cf. Baechler (1975, 74): Europe was "a society based upon the same moral and material civilization that never ended up in political unity, in short, in an Empire."
[8] Cf. Douglass C. North, "Ideology and the Free Rider Problem," in North (1981, 45–58).
[9] I am grateful to Leonard P. Liggio for calling my attention to this essay.
[10] Cf. Roberts (1985, 67–9), on the Hildebrandine reform, and his comment, 68–69: "The preservation of an idea of liberty and its transmission to the future thus owes an incalculable amount to the quarrels of church and state."
[11] See Lord Acton's great essay, "The History of Freedom in Christianity (Acton 1956): To that conflict of four hundred years [between the Church and the temporal rulers] we owe the rise of civil liberty…" (86–87).
[12] Cf. Chirot (1986, 23): "The main reason for the legal rationalization of the West, then, was the long, indecisive, multisided political struggle between king, nobles, the church, and the towns."
[13] See A.R. Myers (1975, 24), who states of these parliamentary bodies: "they flourished at one time or another in every realm of Latin Christendom. They first emerge clearly towards the end of the twelfth century in the Spanish kingdom of Leon, in the thirteenth century in Castile, Aragon (and also Catalonia and Valencia), Portugal, Sicily, the Empire and some of the constituent states such as Brandenburg and Austria, and in England and Ireland. In the fourteenth century … in France … the Netherlands, Scotland, more of the German and Italian states, and Hungary; in the fifteenth century … in Denmark, Sweden, and Poland."
[14] Cf. Chirot (1986, 18): "a Burgundian states-general met 160 times from 1464 to 1567, exercising great fiscal powers and defending the rights of towns and merchants."
[15] Cf. Baechler (1975, 79): "If the general political structure of the West was favorable to economic expansion, it would be the most marked in that country where political power was most limited and tolerated the greatest autonomy of civil society." That country, according to Baechler, was England.
[16] See also the chapters on Sung China and Japan in Jones 1988.
[17] Compare Carlyle and Carlyle (1950, 512): "And most remarkable is it that Budé, who set out the doctrine of the absolute monarchy in France in the most extravagant terms, should have at the same time felt compelled to draw attention to the fact that the French Kings submitted to the judgment of the Parliament of Paris; and that Bodin should have contended that the judges should be permanent and irremovable, except by process of law, because the kingdom should be governed by laws and not by the mere will of the prince."
[18] Rosenberg states that the technological interpretation of the Marxist philosophy of history relies upon a few "aphoristic assertions, often tossed out in the heat of debate" (1982, 36). Nowhere in his essay, however, does he allude to the locus classicus of the subject, Marx's Preface to A Contribution to a Critique of Political Economy (Marx [1859] 1969b).
[19] Anderson (1991, 41) rejects technical change as an independent variable explaining economic growth: "Technology is more appropriately seen as dependent on the institutional structure and the availability of capital, including 'human capital' expressed as an educated, skilled, and healthy workforce. The availability of capital is in turn dependent on a favorable set of institutions."
[20] Rostow's dismissive tone in his treatment of Bauer may well have been affected by Bauer's devastating review of Rostow's magnum opus, The Stages of Economic Growth. See Bauer (1972: 477–89).
[21] See, for instance, Roberts (1985): Chirot (1986); and Kennedy (1987, 19–20), where the author of this celebrated book writes of the "decentralized, largely unsupervised growth of commerce and merchants and ports and markets [in Europe]… there was no way in which such economic developments could be fully suppressed … there existed no uniform authority in Europe which could effectively halt this or that commercial development; no central government whose change in priorities could cause the rise or fall of a particular industry; no systematic and universal plundering of businessmen and entrepreneurs by tax gatherers, which so retarded the economy of Moghul India." | http://mises.org/daily/2404 | 2013-05-18T10:14:11 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
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Back Door to War: The Roosevelt Foreign Policy 1933-1941
Charles Callan Tansill
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Preface
Table of Contents
Historical Introduction
a. The Rise of Anglo-American Friendship
b. Japan Is Given a Green Light to Expand in Manchuria
c. Sir Edward Grey Scores a Diplomatic Success
d. The Department of State Strikes a False Note
e. The Allies Violate the Pre-Armistice Contract
f. Reparations and Rascality
g. The Colonial Question
h. The Problem of Poland: Danzig—The Polish Corridor—Upper Silesia
(1) Danzig
(2) The Polish Corridor
(3) Upper Silesia
i. The Occupation of the Rhineland
j. The Starvation Blockade
k. German Reaction to the Treaty of Versailles
I: American Relations with the WeimarRepublic
a. America Rejects Trials of War Criminals
b. The Allies Balk at the Payment of American Army of Occupation
c. France Moves into the Ruhr
d. President Hoover Suggests a Moratorium on Reparations
e. Chancellor Brüning Is Compelled to Resign
f. The Disarmament Problem Remains a Challenge
g. American Press Opinion of Hitler in 1933
h. American Diplomats Regard Germany with Misgivings
i. President Roosevelt “Torpedoes” the World Economic Conference
j. The Four Power Pact Proves a Failure
k. William E. Dodd Goes to Germany as U.S. Ambassador
l. The President Tells a Spurious Story
II: The Far East in Ferment
a. A Triple Offensive Is Launched against Japan
b. Sun Yat-sen Gives the Chinese Revolution a Red Tinge
c. Senator Borah Attacks Foreign Imperialism in China
d. Causes of the Antiforeign Movement in China
e. The Kuomintang Demands Tariff Autonomy
f. American Missionaries Help to Mold United States Policy
g. Evolution of U.S. Policy towards Nationalist China
h. The Kuomintang Armies Employ Red Advisers
i. Peking and Canton Demand Revision of Existing Treaties
j. Britain Challenges American Leadership in China
k. Congress Supports a Policy of Treaty Revision
l. The Nanking Incident and Its Repercussions
m. Secretary Kellogg Is Indifferent to Red Menace in China
III: Continued Friction with Japan Points towards Inevitable War
a. Congress Enacts an Exclusion Law Which Angers Japan
b. Japan Invites United States Capital to Invest in Manchuria
c. Chinese Soldiers Provoke the Tsinan Incident
d. Russia Teaches the War Lord of Manchuria a Lesson
e. Background of the Manchurian Incident
(1) Japan is Worried Over the Spread of Communism in China
(2) Difficulties Concerning the Railways in Manchuria
(3) Frictrion With Reference to the Nishihara Loans
(4) Anti-Japanese Educational Programs in China
(5) The Legality of the Treaties of May 25, 1915
(6) The Murder of Captain Nakamura
f. Secretary Stimson Prepares a Path to War
IV: Secretary Stimson Produces a Pattern of War
a. American Press Opinion of the Stimson Doctrine
b. Stimson Helps to Push Japan out of the League
c. Matsuoka Marches Out of the League
d. President Roosevelt Regards with a Friendly Eye the Principle of Collective Security
V: Secretary Hull Spurns a Japanese Olive Branch
a. America Makes a Friendly Bow to League of Nations
b. Japan Earmarks Jehol as a Part of Manchukuo
c. Secretary Hull Rejects Idea of Japanese Good-will Mission
d. Friction in Far East Points to Eventual Russo-Japanese War
e. Japanese Gestures of Friendship are Rebuffed by the U.S.
f. Japan Proclaims a Monroe Doctrine for the Far East
g. The State Department Frowns upon an Understanding with Japan
h. Closing the Open Door in Manchuria?
VI: Moscow Molds the Political Pattern in the Far East
a. Secretary Hull Overlooks a Diplomatic Opportunity
b. Japan Denounces the Washington Naval Treaty
c. Japan Promotes Autonomy Movement in North China
d. America and Britain Protest against Japanese Policy
e. American Purchases of Silver Adversely Affect China
f. Japan Again Asks for Naval Parity
g. President Roosevelt Delivers a Lecture to Wicked Dictators
h. Chinese Nationalism Makes a Common Cause with Communism
i. Japan Draws Closer to Germany
j. Japan Seeks an Accommodation with China
k. Chiang Kai-shek Welcomes Communist Help against Japan
l. Japan Tries to Conciliate China
m. Soviet Russia Promotes a War between China and Japan
VII: Mussolini Looks upon Ethiopia with Acquisitive Eyes
a. Britain Recognizes Italian Aspirations in Northeast Africa
b. Italy Deserts the Triple Alliance
c. Britain Moves to Conciliate Mussolini
d. Italy’s Alleged Need for Colonial Outlets
e. The Walwal Incident Points in the Direction of War
f. Secretary Stimson Enjoys Friendly Relations with Mussolini
g. General Johnson Creates Tension in Italian-American Relations
h. Beginnings of the Rome-Berlin Axis
i. Anthony Eden Whispers a Few Confidences to Hugh Wilson
j. The Walwal Arbitration Encounters a Delay
k. Mussolini Rejects a Proposal of Anthony Eden
l. The Emperor of Ethiopia Seeks American Intervention
m. Italy Is Anxious to Assume the White Man’s Burden in Africa
n. President Roosevelt Urges Mussolini to Accept Arbitration
o. The White House Denounces Dollar Diplomacy
VIII: Britain and France Fear to Provoke War over the Issue of Ethiopia
a. France Vainly Seeks Promises of Aid from Britain
b. The Walwal Arbitral Commission Dodges the Issue
c. Laval Wishes to Conciliate Mussolini
d. Secretary Hull Rejects the Role of Mediator
e. Britain and France Seek to Solve the Ethiopian Problem
f. Ambassador Long Favors Giving Mussolini a Slice of Ethiopia
g. Laval Makes a Bow towards Britain
h. Britain Wishes the U.S. to Accept Important Responsibilities
i. Anthony Eden Expresses Suspicions of Russia
j. Ambassador Long Advises against Sanctions
k. Secretary Hull Defines the Position of the United States
l. The Committee of Five Makes a Futile Suggestion
m. The Department of State Ponders the Problem of Sanctions
n. Italy Rejects the Proposal of the Committee of Five
o. Mussolini Offers a Formula of Peace
p. Britain Bids for American Support
q. Mussolini Moves in the Direction of War
r. Secretary Hull Offers “Moral Support” to Ethiopia
s. Britain Engages in a Bit of Diplomatic Double Talk
IX: America Anticipates the League in Exerting Economic Pressure upon Italy
a. Senator Nye Flusters Foreign Diplomats
b. The Offensive against American Neutrality
c. The President Accepts a Congressional Program of Neutrality
d. American Reaction to the Italo-Ethiopian War
e. The League Names Italy as an Aggressor Nation
f. Secretary Hull Insists upon an Independent Policy
g. Britain Limits Italian Freedom of Speech
h. America Refuses to Follow a Parallel Policy with Britain
i. Italy Hopes to Preserve American Friendship
j. The Department of State Exerts Pressure upon Italy
X: Mussolini Makes a Mockery out of Collective Security
a. Secretary Hull Defends American Policy
b. The Hoare-Laval Agreement
c. President Roosevelt Chides Italy
d. Josef Beck Loses Confidence in the League
e. Implications of the Maffey Report
f. Britain Wishes Oil to Be on List of Sanctions
g. Mussolini Makes a Peaceful Gesture
h. Britain Becomes More Friendly with Hitler
i. The League Attempts to End the Italo-Ethiopian War
j. Britain Continues to Court Hitler
k. America Refuses to Adopt a Realistic Policy
l. Eden Recommends that Sanctions Be Lifted
m. The Principle of Nonrecognition Is Invoked by the United States
XI: Ambassador Dodd Finds Berlin an Unpleasant Spot for a Wilsonian Democrat
a. Nazi Germany Makes a Friendly Gesture towards America
b. Dodd Declines to Attend the Nürnberg Party Congress
c. American Citizens Are Roughly Handled by Storm Troopers
d. Professor Coar Tries to Improve German-American Relations
e. George Sylvester Viereck Offers to Assist the President
f. Mr. Kaltenborn Receives a Lesson in Incivility
g. Germany Withdraws from the League of Nations
h. The Debt Problem Embarrasses German-American Relations
i. New York City Stages a Mock Trial of Hitler
j. The Nazi Regime Is Placed upon an Uneasy Defensive
XII: America Views the Hitler Regime with Increasing Dislike
a. Similarities between Nazi and American fiscal Policies
b. General Johnson Denounces the Nazi Party Purge
c. The Assassination of Chancellor Dollfuss
d. The Death of President Hindenburg
e. American Opinion of the Saar Plebiscite
f. The Anglo-French Declaration Looks towards Collective Security
g. Hitler Breaks Another Link in the Chain of Versailles
h. Apparent Agreement at Stresa
i. France Makes an Important Agreement with Russia
j. Britain and Germany Negotiate a Naval Treaty
k. Secretary Hull Is Fearful of the Role of Moral Leadership
l. The Bremen Incident
m. American Hostility towards the Hitler Regime
XIII: Europe Fails to Find a Substitute for Locarno
a. Hitler Liquidates the Locarno Pact
b. American Press Opinion Relative to the Rhineland
c. Europe Views the Hitler Coup with Alarm
d. Hitler Offers a New Formula for Peace
e. Eden Turns with Each New Diplomatic Breeze
f. Hitler and Mussolini Reach an Important Accord
g. Versailles Undergoes Another Attack
h. Germany and Italy Recognize Franco
i. The German-Japanese Anti-Comintern Pact, November 25, 1936
j. Europe Tries to Replace Locarno
k. Hitler’s Soft Answers Stir New Hope in Europe
l. France Is Hopeful of American Support
XIV: The Shadow of Dictatorship Begins to Darken the American Landscape
a. European Statesmen Fumble for a Peace Formula
b. Belgium Breaks Her Bonds with Britain and France
c. Mayor La Guardia Hurls a Verbal Bomb at Hitler
d. Secretary Hull Regrets the Action of La Guardia
e. Cardinal Mundelein Creates Tension between the Vatican and Germany
f. The American Press Is Critical of the Bombardment of Almeria
g. Points of Friction along the Economic Front
h. The Department of State Authorizes Attendance at Nazi Parteitag
i. Secretary Hull Is Critical of Ambassador Dodd
j. The President Advocates a Quarantine of Aggressors
k. American Opinion of the Quarantine Speech
l. The Nazi Regime Is Placed upon an Uneasy Defensive
m. Mussolini Pays a Momentous Visit to Berlin
XV: Britain Blocks an Effort of Roosevelt to Find a Path to Peace
a. Secretary Ickes Widens the Breach between the United States and Germany
b. Hitler Repudiates the German-American Bund
c. Austrian Independence Hangs in the Balance
d. Ambassador Bullitt Has Some Important Conversations
e. Hitler Plays Host to Lord Halifax
f. Britain Blocks a Presidential Program for Peace
XVI: Hitler Takes over Austria as a Long-Delayed Step towards Anschluss
a. The Viennese Waltz Takes on Macabre Overtones
b. Schuschnigg Pays a Visit to Berchtesgaden
c. Lord Halifax Learns the Price of Appeasement
d. British Appeasement of Italy Is Too Little and Too Late
e. Hitler Marches into Vienna
f. American Reaction to Anschluss
XVII: President Beneš Postpones Too Long a Policy of Appeasement
a. Czechoslovakia Precipitates the May Crisis
b. The Sudeten Germans Formulate Demands Which They Know Cannot Be Fulfilled
c. Chamberlain Says Britain Will Not Fight for Czechoslovakia
d. Tension in Czechoslovakia
e. Germany Prepares a List of Political Imperatives
f. Konrad Henlein Asks for Provocative Concessions
g. Lord Runciman Calls Czechoslovakia an “Accursed Land”
h. Sir Nevile Henderson Loses Patience with Beneš
i. Kennedy Predicts U.S. Intervention in World War II
j. Chamberlain Decides to Visit Berchtesgaden
k. British Appeasement Saves Hitler
XVIII: Munich: Prelude to Prague
a. President Roosevelt Extends Monroe Doctrine
b. Chamberlain Pays a Visit to Berchtesgaden
c. Beneš Accepts the Anglo-French Proposals
d. Hitler Formulates New Demands
e. Chamberlain Makes a New Appeal to Hitler
f. Roosevelt Supports Chamberlain’s Plea for Peace
g. Britain Makes Further Efforts to Preserve Peace
h. Roosevelt Exerts Further Pressure upon the Dictators
i. Chamberlain Prepares the Basis for the Munich Accord
j. Capitulation at Munich
k. American Opinion of Munich
l. Diplomatic Straws in the Wind
XIX: Hitler Takes Czechoslovakia under Protective Custody
a. International Aspects of Anti-Semitism in Germany
b. Ambassador Kennedy Toys with the Idea of Acting as an Interlocutor between Hitler and Roosevelt
c. Ambassador Wilson Is Recalled from Germany
d. Dr. Schacht Offers Solution of Refugee Problem
e. Secretary Ickes Increases Tension in German-American Relations
f. The Economic Offensive against Germany Is Accelerated
g. Germany Is Anxious for an Accord with the United States
h. Chamberlain Pays Ardent Court to Mussolini
i. France Favors a Free Hand to Hitler in Eastern Europe
j. The British Foreign Office Has a Case of Jitters
k. Germany Fears the U.S. Will Intervene in World War II
l. Hitler Takes the Czechs under Protective Custody
m. Reaction in the U.S. to German Absorption of Czechoslovakia
XX: Russia Instigates War in the Far East; Roosevelt Blames Japan
a. Communist Instigation of War in the Far East
b. Secretary Hull Makes a Statement on U.S. Policy
c. The Situation in North China Becomes Ominous
d. The Department of State Insists upon an Independent Policy
e. The Scene Shifts to Shanghai
f. China Appeals to the League
g. President Roosevelt Proposes a Quarantine
XXI: Japan Proposes a Joint Search for World Peace but Hull Declines
a. Germany Views with Evident Dissatisfaction the Outbreak of War between China and Japan
b. The Abortive Brussels Conference, November 3-24, 1937
c. The Panay Incident
d. The Mission of Admiral Ingersoll to London
e. Japan Establishes a Series of Puppet Governments in China
f. The Far East after Munich
g. Chiang Kai-shek Suggests Another Washington Conference
h. The Economic Ties That Failed to Bind Japan Closely to the United States
i. Secretary Hull Rejects a British Suggestion for Exerting Economic Pressure upon Japan
j. China Anticipates War in Europe and Asks Britain and France to Consult with Her with Regard to a Common Front against Japan
k. Japan Asks Secretary Hull for a Joint Japanese-American Effort to Find Some Formula of Peace for Europe
XXII: Europe Moves towards War
a. Chamberlain Makes a Momentous Pledge to Poland
b. Lord Halifax Tries to “Work Something Out” with the Duce
c. Mussolini Moves into Albania
d. American Reaction to the Seizure of Albania
e. The Dictators’ Reply to the President’s Criticism
f. The Role of Russia Becomes Increasingly Important
g. Pope Pius XII Makes a Plea for Peace
XXIII: Stalin Lights the Fuse to World War II
a. Britain Is Reluctant to Regard Russia as an Ally
b. Chamberlain Begins to Pursue the Russian Phantom
c. Germany Seeks an Accord with Russia
d. Britain and France Make New Overtures to Russia
e. Germany Signs an Important Treaty with Russia
f. The Duce Tries to Sit on a Slippery Diplomatic Fence
g. Chamberlain Expands His Pledges to Poland
h. Hitler Sends a Warning to France
i. The Führer Turns Once More to Britain
j. Zero Hour in Europe
k. Roosevelt Makes an Appeal for Civilian Populations
l. Last-Minute Attempts at Mediation
XXIV: Roosevelt Adopts a More Positive Policy towards the War in Europe
a. The President Promises Peace for the U.S.
b. The Mission of William Rhodes Davis to Berlin
c. The Barriers Preserving Neutrality Are Broken Down
d. A Safety Belt for the Western Hemisphere
e. Secretary Hull Engages in a Battle of the Books
f. Hitler Adopts a Conciliatory Policy towards the U.S.
g. Finland Goes Down Fighting Soviet Aggression
h. The Mission of Sumner Welles
i. Britain and Germany Flout the Neutrality of Norway
j. Greenland Is Placed under the Monroe Doctrine
XXV: Roosevelt Seeks a Pretext for War with Germany
a. Hitler Launches a Blitzkrieg along the Western Front
b. Roosevelt Regards Neutrality as an Outmoded Concept
c. The President Makes a Third Plea to Mussolini to Stay Out of the War
d. Reynaud Makes a Last Appeal to Roosevelt for Immediate Military Assistance
e. The Destroyer Deal
f. Propaganda Pushes America towards Intervention
g. Lend-Lease—Back Door to Intervention in World War II
h. Hitler Is Anxious to Avoid Conflict with the United States
XXVI: Japan Is Maneuvered into Firing the First Shot at Pearl Harbor
a. Japanese Bombings of Chungking
b. The Tientsin Affair
c. Chiang Kai-shek Asks that Roosevelt Mediate in Sino-Japanese War
d. The President’s Attitude towards Japan Becomes Increasingly Belligerent
e. Japan Establishes a New Central Government in China
f. Japan Compels Both Britain and France to Adopt a Policy of Appeasement
g. The President Orders a Cautious Economic Offensive against Japan
h. Japan Concludes an Alliance with the Rome-Berlin Axis
i. America Draws Closer to Britain
j. Matsuoka and Prince Konoye Are Willing to Sacrifice Japan’s Position in China for the Cause of Peace
k. An Informal Negotiation Looking towards an Improvement in Japanese-American Relations
l. Blueprint for Anglo-American Co-operation
m. Japan Seeks Peace, Not War, with the United States
n. Admiral Nomura Strives to Improve Japanese-American Relations
o. Matsuoka Advises a Policy of Delay
p. Secretary Hull and Ambassador Nomura Search in Vain for a Formula of Peace
q. Matsuoka Is Dropped but Roosevelt Grows More Belligerent
r. The Atlantic Conference Pushes America Closer to a Break with Japan
s. Roosevelt Refuses to Meet Prince Konoye
t. General Marshall and Admiral Stark Oppose an Ultimatum to Japan
u. Japan Is Maneuvered into Firing the First Shot at Pearl Harbor
Bibliography
I. Manuscript Sources Papers
Official Papers
Private Papers
II. Printed Sources Official Documents
Unofficial Collections of Documents, Letters, Speeches
III. Newspapers and Periodicals
Newspapers
Periodicals
IV. Diaries, Memoirs, Miscellaneous
V. Biographies, Histories, Special Studies, Articles
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Have you ever met a parent who at one time or another hasn’t struggled with guilt of some kind? I know I haven't. If you are like me and millions of other parents in the world, raising your children is at the top of your priority list. It is what you place your full attention on to the best of your ability; however, there are still times when guilt seeps in.
Although, through my many years evolving as a parent and a grandparent I have come to realize the necessity of including myself on my list of priorities, I still feel the pangs of guilt occasionally. To be honest I don’t think we can expect that to ever go away completely. Our conditioning runs so deep that to want to “live for our kids” is almost instinctual at times. For me, whenever I find myself in a conflicting position of doing what I want versus something one of the children wants…I have to take a deep breath before I respond. Otherwise, to avoid the feelings of guilt, my instincts automatically lead me to minimize the importance of my own desires.
Just the other day both of my grandchildren had planned to go to their friend’s house for the afternoon. This is a bit of a rare occurrence as most often our yard is the central meeting place for all of their friends. But with this in mind, I decided to take advantage of the situation.
I planned to shut down my computer, close the books, turn off the telephone and treat myself to a relaxing hour in the pool alone. You know, pulling out the floating chair, fresh lemonade in the cup holder and just floating around absorbing the warmth of the soothing Florida sunshine, listening to my kind of music!
I didn’t make a big deal of it, kind of a secret plan just waiting for the house to empty. And then the children appeared with an announcement that their plans had changed, they all decided they were coming to our house after all…and for all things, to swim!
You guessed it; my first instinct was to say okay…letting go of my highly anticipated solo hour of bliss in order for them to have their fun.
But I didn’t!
I took a deep breath, tossed out the faint yet fast growing feelings of guilt and did the following 3 things.
#1. I was honest with them and shared my plans. I didn’t ignore my feelings of what I wanted to do. I addressed my children in a non-emotional tone. I was clear about how important this was to me, how I had been looking forward to it and how I felt I needed to have this opportunity to re-charge my energy.
#2. I expressed my understanding of their desire to have fun and to swim with their friends and in turn listened intently to their feelings.
#3. I asked them if they were willing to work toward a compromise. They agreed.
Through open and honest communication we came to the conclusion that we could all have what we wanted by simply delaying the time their friends were to come over. The children decided to go to their friends as originally planned, allowing me the alone time I wanted, waiting to come to our house until after I was through enjoying my time in the pool.
Parenting will always provide us with situations requiring the need to find a healthy balance between the wants and needs of our children and what we feel we need or would like to do. By adjusting our parenting mindset, seeing the far-reaching value in these situations as opportunities that will add to their personal growth by far will over-ride the twinges of guilt.
An important part of a successful parenting mindset is to be able to see things from the big picture perspective. Life is our classroom and continuously presents us with teachable moments that can easily be missed. Limiting our attention to the little picture perspective where we are solely driven by our desire to see our children enjoy the pleasure of instant gratification, thus avoiding feelings of guilt, can cheat them out of important experiences.
As in the recent situation with my grandchildren, I could have easily let go of my plans and been very happy to see them having a great time with their friends, thus avoiding the unpleasantness of feeling guilty…but then they would have missed out on the greater gift…lessons of consideration, healthy communication and cooperation.
Not a bad trade for a delayed afternoon of fun with their friends!
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Push button SEO, don’t make me laugh, if you read any of my SEO posts you know that I’m a big fan of white hat on-page and off-page SEO, and push button doesn’t SEO gimmicks don’t come into it, but the following 11 SEO pointers might.
Appearing in the search engines isn’t an easy task, and appearing at the TOP of the SERP’s is a chance in 1’000’000 at the very least for most competitive search terms… If it were that easy we’d all have a bucket full of money making websites!
Yet there is something that you can do to get better google rankings that is “easy” even for a wordpress novice. Sprinkle These ingredients below liberally upon your young websites… Don’t stuff everything into one pot, your finished stew won’t tats nice!
11 Simple tips to better onsite SEO
Well there are loads way’s to give your website a boost up the search engine results, but I’m just going to list 11 simple ways to get your On-Page SEO into tip top shape. These are so simple and they are all doable from the post admin panel of your wordpress blog.
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1] Get your main keyword in the title of the article – This is usually set as an H1 for the google spider bots. So why haven’t I put my main keyword phrase in the article title? (Because I’m targeting 2 sets of keywords in this blog post, push button SEO plugin & 11 simple tips for SEO
2] Change your permalink to ensure you get your keyword in there… Many of us know about setting permalinks to %postname% when we set up our WordPress sites, but we forget that WordPress lets you tweak your permalink url even further. (I tweaked my url even more after taking that screen shot)
3] Slot your post into the correct SEO’d category, as keyword rich content similar on you site gets you brownie points in the algorithmic eyes of ‘Big G’… If it’s a seruious money post it may be worth considering putting it on it’s own search engine optimised page. Utilizing internal linking as prop.
4] Using he appropiate h3/h2 as article subtitles is a good way to make your human readers now at a glance what your content is related too, and the same applies to when google crawles you and takes a glace too. Those sub-titles do add to the weight of your content subject matter.
5] Site SEO title, this is the bit that appears as a display in search engines is usually limited to 70 charchters.It’s of great importance to have the reader see their search query in the title of the results, wouldn’t you agree? reassuring them that they have found what they are looking for and click!
6] The tags are something that you may find a few varying opions on, I personally always use a couple of tags as I would for extra seasoning for a pot of stew. A little taste of what has influenced the post that’s the way I look at it, sometimes I do exact match keywords an others not.
7] The bit that you read when searching under your Site SEO title is entered in the ‘meta discription’ Adding your target keyword or phrase in here is again great for human readers but great for google. As again the google spiders are reassured that it’s found the right quality content related to the readers search string.
8] Best practice is to make sure that the first sentence on the page has your main key phrase included or at least a varition of the main or secondary keywords. Now some may arge here that it’s not neccasasary, but unless your Jim Connolly your going to need a little help getting your word out and traffic to you site and onpage SEO helps.
9] Images are seen my human eyes and read by electronic spiders, having an image that complements or envokes the correct thought process or questions works well for reader interaction ane experience. Whilst having you image Alt text discribe for the spiders what the image is about (use your keywords) gives you brownie points with cherries on top.
10] Now we all know that youtube is a massive search engiine and google gives it massive kudos, blah,blah,blah… However, I say that the reason for the video isn’t to generate traffic, (unless you owned the original video) I would recommend a video is to further engage the reader, get them to “stick around.” The longer a reader stays, the better.
11] LSI or Latent Semantic Indexing is a what the sensible amoungst practice, yu can talk about a keyword subject without plugging the same old phrase over and over again. This post is about SEO being not really push button easy but simple tips for optimising your onpage SEO google and the reader know without me having to write keyword stuffed dribble.
A Free Push Button SEO Plugin That Helps Your Rank!
Don’t get me wrong here, this isn’t a magic button where you press it and it does al the work for you, again we’d all have a button like that in our med kit, with a trained monkey pressing it. Life isn’t that easy soo don’t fall for the push button and get rich crap. But Yes the but there is a button you can push and you are reminded of what can do yoou help your search engine optimization.
The button is a wordpress plugin and it’s free and very very useful. I’ve personally paid close to $100 for a plugin that does only a fraction of what this one does… Yo Yeah it’s one I’d recommend you give a whirl, Especially as it’s for free. go and hae a lok at the video that Brian G Johnson made to explain what it does for you.
It’s ot often that I’d give a SEO plugin the thumbs up, but this one does have top class written all over it.
The video will open in a new window – you can download the free push button SEO plugin here too.+
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A very handy list. I’ve been playing around with my sites SEO and didn’t realise there was soo much to learn
I have figured out most of what your post refers to but what in the lords name does LSI (Latent Semantic Indexing) mean in a practical sense? I can’t think of how I could implement it.
@Accendo Markets Hi Accendo and cheers for reading and well done for implementing
LSI in layman’s terms means ‘words or phrases similar to your main keywords’ So instead of main keyword of “training a puppy to stop barking” you would use wording like, teaching your pup to be quiet, help to training a puppy, training for loud dogs, etcThe example I hope isn’t too vague I hope
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Amazingly, for a country with a well-developed capitalist economy, few Americans today can accurately explain the concept of “capital” and how it relates to value creation. Applications of the term proliferate today as we try to describe varying characteristics of our potential wealth. We speak of human capital, intellectual capital, social capital, and so on. Read more…
Missionals.
That’s the way we describe “entrepreneurs of life” at missionals.org, home to The Center for Missional Entrepreneurship.
The CME was born from a passion to serve entrepreneurs: entrepreneurs who are themselves both passionate and intentional about bringing shalom to the world. They are moving in their spheres of influence, ever about the business that C.S. Lewis described as “restoring things to rights.”
These entrepreneurs do this – and CME partners are privileged to join them in the effort – through the ways they create and through what they create. It is a part of the imago dei in them that compels them, and compels us, to the work at hand. As we labor, together, we see God at work in the world in ways that surprise us and bring us a sense of wonder.
The Value Revolution
Posted on October 25, 2011 by admin in Commentary
A far-reaching and profound revolution sweeping America is changing the very meaning of what we value. Twenty years ago Richard Cornuelle, author of Reclaiming the American Dream, recognized the beginning of this revolution in the phenomenon he described as “de-managing America.” Today, Daniel Pink has described the rise of “free agent nation” and has documented [...] | http://missionals.org/page/2/ | 2013-05-18T10:30:27 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [
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February 18, 2008
Josh Helmholdt
GoldandBlack.com
The state of Michigan will be the destination for colleges across the country looking for elite running back talent in the class of 2009 and one of the reasons is Oak Park's Edwin Baker. The 5-10, 195-pound speedster has already received several scholarship offers, but his first came two weeks ago.As a junior Baker suffered a slight knee injury that caused him to miss several games, yet he still managed 1,295 yards and eight touchdowns on 113 carries. Although he possesses a powerful build and has no trouble shedding tacklers, Baker is known best for his speed. This past spring he ran a top time of 10.5 in the 100 meters and has a 40-yard dash time in the 4.3 second range. ...More... To continue reading this article you must be a member. Sign Up Now for a FREE Trial
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was happy to find out they’d made some changes to archaeology since I left the game! They added a few more rares, including two new pets that I’ve already managed to find; the Pterodax Hatchling from Fossil fragments and the Voodoo Figurine from Troll fragments. Another new rare I got was the Haunted War Drum, which is a Troll rare that you place and can click on every 30 minutes, and it sounds like war drums. I also got the rare Ancient Amber from Fossil Fragments, which gives you a 5 minute buff that shrinks you a little and seals you in amber.
After finding these 4 new rare Artifacts, I was only 1 rare away from getting the “Professor” title, which is rewarded for finding 20 rares. I managed to get it Monday when I found the Ring of the Boy Emperor, which is an epic BoA lvl 85 caster ring that I’d really wanted before quitting WoW. I’m not sure how it measures up now-a-days, but it’s still nice to have an 85 BoA ring, even if it’s not that great now. The only rare artifacts I’ve yet to find now are :
Zin’rokh, Destroyer of Worlds – Troll
Extinct Turtle Shell – Fossil
The Last Relic of Argus – Draenei
Headdress of the First Shaman – Orc
Blessing of the Old God – Nerubian
Puzzle Box of Yogg-Saron – Nerubian
Vrykul Drinking Horn – Vrykul
Niffelvar Beaded Axe -Vrykul
Staff of Amminae – Tol’vir
Scimitar of the Sirocco – Tol’vir
Crawling Claw – Tol’vir
Scepter of Azj’Aquir – Tol’vir
That seems like more than I thought when I group them all together like that, lol. I haven’t done much archaeology in Northrend, just because I find it kind of irritating there, but I’ll have to head back eventually because I’d like to collect everything! It’s much easier finishing Tol’vir artifacts now that they’ve made it so you don’t see as many dig sites from races you have already collected all the artifacts from and they seem to have added a few more dig sites in Uldum! I’m looking forward to finding the Extinct Turtle Shell, which is a new level 85 BoA shield, but who knows how long that will take, lol.
I’ve managed to make just over 17k gold this week in the Auction House, which isn’t bad since I’ve yet to do a scan or do any kind of research, lol. I noticed the new pet achievements and starting throwing my Black Tabby Cats back up for auction. Before the new achievements were introduced I couldn’t even sell one for 2k, but now they’re selling for around 6k. I also had a White Kitten that was just laying around in my inventory, and he went for 500g, lol. I am liking these new inflated pet prices, since I don’t have to buy any of them, lol. I am sitting at 133 pets, just 17 shy from the Celestial Dragon, which I’d really like, but I went through all the available in game pets and unless I want to wait until Children’s Week next year, I’d have to buy a pet online to get 17. The 16 pets available now in game that I don’t already have are kind of a pain for me to get too, like the armadillo (my guild is at 20k critters killed, and killing another 30k myself will kind of suck, lol), the Fox Kit, which I’ve already farmed for hours for without luck, and I believe I’d have to start doing the new Firelands Dailies to get a couple others. I’m thinking getting myself a Celestial Dragon is just going to be one of those someday things, that I’ll work away at passively!
That’s really all I’ve been doing in game. I usually log on while I’m doing something else, which is why I’ve mostly just been working on archaeology since it’s pretty brainless now, lol. I’m missing Rift a little, I wanted to get a level 50 of every class but never finished any characters other than my cleric! WoW’s been looking nicer than what I remember, which is weird since I don’t think they’ve had any kind of graphical update since I left, but maybe it’s just the familiarity I’m finding appealing. It’s nice to be back anyway, even if it’s not very often yet!
July 22nd, 2011 - 11:46 am
Good to see you posting again!
July 31st, 2011 - 12:20 am
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August 12, 2010
Anthony Dasher
UGASports.com
When you play under Georgia defensive line coach Rodney Garner, there's always something to prove.
You'd be advised to give your best, bust your tail and do it again, again, and again.
Even sometimes that's not enough.
"I expected it to be hard
and it's real hard," freshman defensive tackle Garrison Smith said. "He's real tough, but that's how he gets you to be your best."
It's difficult to argue against Garner's methods or record of success.
His history of putting defensive linemen in the NFL speaks for itself, a list that includes the likes of Richard Seymour, Marcus Stroud, Charles Grant, Corvey Irvin and Kedric Golston, along with current NFL rookies Jeff Owens, Kade Weston and Geno Atkins.
Garner's penchant for telling it like it is in regards to his defensive line is almost as well known.
Take this year's crop of players, who like Garner, is having to make an adjustment to Todd Grantham's new 3-4 scheme.
So far, Garner doesn't necessarily like what he sees.
"We've got to get better. It's like I told them the other day, they've got a lot to prove with the guys we lost off of last year's team, the change of scheme and all that," Garner said. "There are a lot of big shoes that need to be filled and I'm not sure we are there yet. You see (Demarcus) Dobbs trying to take ownership and be a good leader, but we need more guys to step up."
There are other questions that need to be answered as well.
If the season were to start today, Garner said senior DeAngelo Tyson/db] would start the season at nose, with Dobbs getting the start at right defensive end. Sophomore [db]Abry Jones and senior Brandon Wood are I-A, I-B at left defensive end.
"If we had to play tomorrow, yes, DeAngelo would be at nose but that's not where he wants to be," Garner said. "If you'd ask him his choice, he'd rather be at end, but we've got to put the personnel on the field that gives us the best chance to win."
Of the defensive linemen, Dobbs seems to be adjusting to the 3-4 scheme the best of all.
"He's done an excellent job adjusting to it. We're doing some things a little different because of his size and to take advantage of his athleticism versus the way we play some of those other guys when we're in the 3-4 technique," Garner said. "But I think he has done a good job. His motor runs high, he plays with a lot of emotion and the kids respect him."
Former offensive lineman Justin Anderson appears to making somewhat of an impact as well.
During Tuesday's scrimmage, Anderson rotated in with the first unit on its second offensive series. According to Garner, Anderson did well considering he's only recently been moved to the defensive line.
He wasn't quite ready to hand out as many kudos to sophomore Kwame Geathers.
"He's coming along - slowly," said Garner, who added he's going to need the entire position to step up its level of play.
"To be a good football team you have to have more leadership up front, and that's just something we don't have right now," he said. "Hopefully, once they become more confident in the system and get better fundamentally, maybe some of that will come about." ...More... To continue reading this article you must be a member. Sign Up Now for a FREE Trial
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I perhaps missed Poetry Friday most of all while I was away. I thought seriously of trying to post, but I couldn't get Elizabeth Bishop's poem One Art out of mind, and so decided against it. (You know the one. It's the villanelle that begins "The art of losing isn't hard to master.") I'm still reading rather mournful poetry, but it seems to be healing, not hurting. Today I'm sharing a piece by Gregory Orr.
Untitled (This is what was bequeathed us)The round up this week is hosted by Irene at Live. Love. Explore! Do stop by and take in all the great poetry being shared this week. Before you go, be sure to check out this week's poetry stretch results. Also, check the results I failed to post before I headed home in early May. There are some mighty fine poems about work.
by Gregory Orr
This is what was bequeathed us:
This earth the beloved left
And, leaving,
Left to us.
Read the entire poem.
I've just about finished Gregory Orr's The Blessing but I have not read any of his poetry. Thank you for the introduction!
I love those last two lines! So glad you are back in PF with us - I missed you last week!
I have read him before. Glad to see this posted. Thank you.
The after-death time is a season. It's nice to have companions like this poem to walk with you through it. (It was similar for me when my mum died three years ago.)
I find this comforting too... to think that leaving is a natural part of life... you know, it IS.
I'm glad to see you back, Tricia ("...Some -- gone patient long -- at length, renew their smile...." -Emily Dickinson) and with such a lovely poem by Orr. Thanks.
Love the poem. Good reminder to stay in the moment, love the world we have, and sing our loss rather than wail it.
Just wrote down these Leonard Cohen lines yesterday (From Boogie Street)
"...my friends be not afraid
so lightly we are here
it is in love that we are made
in love we disappear..." | http://missrumphiuseffect.blogspot.com/2009/05/poetry-friday.html | 2013-05-18T10:31:47 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
2013: .
2012: Holds the freshman record for the 3,000m indoor (8:38.39).
Off the Track: Majoring in chemical engineering with a minor in biology … conducted chemical-biological research in the Maheshri Lab … Student-Athlete Advisory Committee … Club Sports Council.
High School: A 2011 graduate of Arcadia High School … first team all-area as a senior … cross country team captain.
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‘The Voice’ Coaches Goof Off on Rolling Stone Cover
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Cee Lo Green, Adam Levine, Christina Aguilera and Blake Shelton pose for the cover, but it’s not really posed. It looks like the cameras caught them goofing around on set. That’s how natural and genuine the affinity and respect among these constantly sparring coaches is. It’s a far cry from “feels scripted” bickering between Simon Cowell and L.A. Reid and the fired mentors on ‘X Factor!’
Aguilera is the lone female at this sausage party, and she’s the first thing you see on the cover, with her rocker leather jacket, leggings and blinged out heels. She’s cavorting with Levine as they ‘Move Like Jagger,’ to borrow a phrase from their smash song.
Cee Lo is having a chuckle, while Shelton looks like he is about to utter one of his sarcastic comments. “You have to be a pretty strong girl to stay up in the mix with the guys,” Xtina said. “It’s a lot. It’s a crazy locker-room kind of situation.” If anyone can handle it, it’s our gal Xtina.
The cover story addresses the rapport of four people from different genres, lifestyles and worlds.
“Just look at the four of us. It’s just so wrong and so amazing” is how Levine labeled it. Match point, sir!
The story also reveals that Shelton and Levine attended Aguilera’s bday bash in Hollywood; Green was in absentia because he was out of town. All those rumors of her bigger salary, her diva-like demands? They don’t seem to be tainting the relationship between the coaches at this cover shoot and interview.
Levine joked that while Shelton, a major star in his genre, is the subject of “hick” jokes, he still has a measure of cool. “Blake can say anything or do anything,” Levine revealed. “If I was like, ‘I’m drunk at 4:00!’ I’d be attacked. He’s like, ‘It’s cool, f— you, I just shot a f—ing moose, kiss my a—!’ He can say whatever he wants.”
Cee Lo, on the other hand, can do whatever he wants, including commit what most of us, like Levine, consider a fashion faux pax. “He can wear white socks with sandals and still have it be f—ng cool,” says Levine. “If I did that, Blake would make fun of me.”
The issue lands on stands Feb. 3
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ARI@SD: Gyorko crushes a two-run home run to left
ARI@SD: Gyorko's sweet diving stop cuts down Alonso
SD@CHC: Erlin fans Borbon for first career strikeout
SD@CHC: Erlin makes big league debut, gets a flyout
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Notes: Garciaparra takes swings
Penny won't miss next start; Kuo, Saito eyed for setup role
LOS ANGELES -- Nomar Garciaparra swung a bat 75 times Saturday afternoon.So much for the highlight of the Dodgers first baseman's workday. But if his 32-year-old injured right rib cage could speak or write, the story might go on for a while. That's about as specific as it gets these days for Garciaparra, whose time on the disabled list dates back to April 3. Garciaparra, manager Grady Little and the Dodgers training staff have set the dial to wait-and-see and are keeping it there. According to Little, the energy in those 75 swings -- not in the batting cage, but in a soft-toss drill -- was "about 85 percent." Trouble is, soft-toss is just a drill. "The intensity level of each swing is more than it has been," Little said before Saturday's game with San Francisco, "so that's a step in the right direction. "We need to see him go out and swing 100 percent before he goes out on the field and plays a game." For that to happen, Garciaparra said, he'll need at least two hard days of batting practice. Only then will he be able to gauge his ability to recover from the stress a full swing puts on the middle of his body. "The way I'm progressing is nothing out of the ordinary," Garciaparra said. "But we haven't even talked about the possibility of batting practice tomorrow." In the meantime, he said, he'll take ground balls at first base the next couple of days. Little and Garciaparra both declined to pin down a timetable for the latter's return -- questions about "next week" went politely unanswered -- and no plans have been laid for a Minor League assignment. Little, however, did concur with his player's sense that recovery from two days in the batting cage was a key element. "Nomar's swing is a hard swing when he's right," Little said. "If he tries to do it in the way he's used to doing it, that'll tell the story." Manager's mix: The rest of Little's Saturday media session was a mosaic of player updates, state-of-the-team reflections and offhand quips: On Jason Repko's playing time, now that Kenny Lofton has returned (Lofton started his first game in center field Saturday): "Jason's going to get a lot of playing time. He's shown us what he can do offensively and we've been impressed." On Brad Penny's condition after being hit on the arm by a comebacker in the fourth inning of Friday night's loss to the Giants: "Penny's OK. It's just an exterior bruise. He'll be OK for his next start." On his bullpen, specifically who will step into the role of setup man for new closer Danys Baez, now that eighth-inning specialist Yhency Brazoban (out for the season with a torn elbow ligament) and closer Eric Gagne (on the disabled list because of right elbow surgery, with his return indefinite): "I like [Hong-Chih] Kuo and [Takashi] Saito. [Saito] is working himself into that position. I feel confident in him because he throws strikes and gets outs. ... But we don't want to put a [setup] label on him because he's got to do it for a length of time before we call him that." On whether Friday night's soggy field was a concern: "We start to worry about it every time somebody walks out on a wet dugout step." On his team's troublesome early-season men-left-on-base figure (97 in 11 games, compared to the opposition's 73): "The positive thing about men left on base is that you're putting them out there. We're not going to drive all those guys in, or these games would never get over with." On shortstop Rafael Furcal's slow start after shoulder problems: "It's early. He's going to be a great leadoff hitter for us. It'll come. ... I'm not going to say he's pain-free because very seldom in baseball are you going to find a player who's pain-free." On the team's chances of going 7-7: "We gotta get hot and win two out of three."
Ted Brock is a contributor to MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs. | http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20060416&content_id=1402770&vkey=news_la&fext=.jsp&c_id=la | 2013-05-18T11:06:32 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Tigers eager to get back to work in '07
Priority for AL Champs in Spring Training: pitchers' defense
ST. LOUIS -- On the other side of Busch Stadium bedlam, the only sounds were of hearty back slaps as the Tigers fell into each other's consoling embraces. There were enough red eyes in the visitors' clubhouse to empty a pharmacy of Visine.And following Detroit's World Series-ending 4-2 loss to the St. Louis Cardinals, everyone's thoughts were on 2007 Spring Training. It wasn't because these meteoric Tigers are eager to prove they weren't merely a band of Cinderellas, but because they already know what is in store for them: ample doses of PFP, which is not a food additive but an ingredient of success. It stands for Pitchers' Fielding Practice -- normally, a necessary evil. For the Tigers, it became a necessity, period, in the wake of the defensive meltdown that doomed them in this Classic. "Defensively, we didn't play too well," closer Todd Jones understated. "Guess we'll have our own station of PFP in Spring Training, that's for sure. We got outplayed, and you can't take anything away from the Cardinals. "They forced us to make plays, and we didn't. We got beat ... and we got beat pretty good." Detroit's pitchers got pretty mentally beat up, too, over their record-setting error-a-day Series. The staff's five comprised a majority of the total of eight errors the Tigers committed for a total yield of eight unearned runs. When your comparably struggling offense scores a total of only 11 runs itself in the five games, the math can lead nowhere but the reality of four Series losses. "We will be working on [defense] beginning with the first day of Spring Training, without a doubt," said Kenny Rogers, one of the few Detroit pitchers who fielded flawlessly. "It's disappointing. They made us make plays and we didn't make them, so the credit is theirs and the disappointment is ours. But you live and learn." One thing the Tigers learned is that, despite recent trends that had given the American League a distinct air of superiority, the National League is undeniably better in one area: demanding fundamentals. Rookie right-hander Justin Verlander, who committed his team's last and most damaging error in the fourth inning Friday, had no excuses for the botch. But he did plead unfamiliarity. Verlander's wild throw past third on Jeff Weaver's sacrifice directly ushered home the tying run and set up the winning run. "It's something I have not had to do all season," Verlander said of fielding a bunt with men on first and second and trying to get the force at third. "It hasn't happened once to me.
"Right away, I reflected on Spring Training, when we work on that, and I probably threw away two and I fielded a thousand of them."Detroit manager Jim Leyland made the same connection to the lack of fielding experience in the swing-away AL, where teams rarely bunt with lineups' nine-holes occupied by position players and not pitchers. "It was my fault," Leyland said of the sloppy fielding by his hurlers. "We worked at it all spring, and we haven't worked on it since until we had that week off [between the ALCS and the World Series]. "We did a pretty good job all year long. But in the American League, you don't handle a lot of bunts and stuff." Prior to Verlander's huge error, quickly erasing the only lead he had on Sean Casey's two-run homer in the top of the inning, the litany of errors by Tigers pitchers included: Game 1, 6th inning: Verlander's wild pickoff attempt on Albert Pujols sends him to third, from where he scores on Jim Edmonds' single to trigger a three-run inning in St. Louis' 7-2 win. Game 2, 9th inning: Jones muffs Juan Encarnacion's two-out grounder, leading to a run on Edmonds' double, as the Tigers hold on for a 3-1 win. Game 3, 7th inning: With two men on and none out, reliever Joel Zumaya throws away Pujols' comebacker, directly allowing two runs to score and break open a tight game, as the Cardinals go on to a 5-0 victory. Game 4, 7th inning: With a man on second and none out, Fernando Rodney throws away So Taguchi's bunt, scoring the tying run and setting up the lead run, as the Cardinals go on to a 5-4 victory. Then came the improbable fourth inning of Game 5, and a repeat of Game 4's worst-case scenario, with a pitcher's error directly influencing the tying and go-ahead runs. Verlander made no attempt to argue against the perception of the play, that he brain-drained it. "I had the wrong set," a shaken Verlander said. "I picked it up thinking, 'Don't throw it away,' instead of just picking it up and throwing it. I got tentative. "We cut our own throats. Those things happen. Obviously, you don't anticipate them, but they did." The four pitchers responsible for the five errors -- two more than by a staff in a Series of any length -- committed a total of five errors during the entire regular season. Verlander had three during the season, Zumaya and Rodney one each, and Jones was spotless. "You've got to be in a World Series to lose it," Jones said, "But once you get here, you want to win. It just didn't work out. We didn't make the plays." Verlander, 25, and Zumaya, 21, were thrown onto baseball's biggest stage at the infancy of their careers. But the veteran Rogers, for one, dismissed the notion that what the nation saw all week was a bad case of stage fright. "Nah ... if anybody says we just weren't ready for this, they forget that we were ready for the Yankees, we were ready for the Oakland A's," Rogers said. "We played the best teams in the AL. "It wasn't about not being ready. It's about execution, and we didn't do the job to win." They will be working overtime next spring, for sure.
Tom Singer is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs. | http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20061028&content_id=1726389&vkey=ps2006news&c_id=mlb&fext=.jsp | 2013-05-18T10:54:38 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Final Vote going OK for Okajima
Red Sox reliever takes AL lead; Young still on top in NL
Tight races in each league project for a thrilling finish with millions of votes yet to be cast for the Monster All-Star Final Vote.
In the American League, there was some international intrigue as Detroit's Jeremy Bonderman starred in a "Bondo '07" ad -- and then was promptly passed in the latest Final Vote update by Red Sox reliever Hideki Okajima of Japan.
In the National League, Chris Young of the Padres held onto a slim lead over Tuesday night starter Carlos Zambrano of the Cubs. But watch out for the city of Ashland, Ky., which declared that this Fourth of July will be "Vote for Brandon Webb Day" in honor of its native son.
Oh, yes. This is getting good now.
The Monster All-Star Final Vote shifted into another gear on Tuesday, with nearly nine million votes already cast heading into the final 48 hours of voting at MLB.com. You are choosing from among five nominees per ballot -- 10 pitchers for the first time -- and exercising the right to send those 32nd and final roster selections to the 78th All-Star Game on July 10 at AT&T Park in San Francisco.
Both races are tightly packed, and the stage is set for what could be the best finishes in the six years of the Final Vote. Genius campaigning and viral fan support is likely to be the difference-maker in 2007. Voting will conclude at 6 p.m. ET on Thursday, and winners will be announced on MLB.com shortly thereafter.
Okajima jumped ahead of Bonderman, the first-day leader, to pace a tight race among the five candidates in the AL. They are followed in order by Pat Neshek of the Twins, Kelvim Escobar of the Angels and Roy Halladay of the Blue Jays.
Young continued to hold a small lead over the other four pitchers on the NL ballot, followed closely by Zambrano, Roy Oswalt of the Astros, Tom Gorzelanny of the Pirates and Webb of the Diamondbacks..
Okajima has been a brilliant addition to the Boston bullpen this season, fashioning an 0.78 WHIP with 13 holds and 0.88 ERA in 38 appearances. On Red Sox regional network NESN Monday night, his late-inning cohort, Jonathan Papelbon, offered this slogan: "Get my man to San Fran, it's closer to Japan."
Okajima held a news conference with Japanese media following Monday night's game -- designed to heighten interest in the Final Vote over in Japan. "It would be a great honor if I get to the All-Star Game," Okajima said then. "But I can't get there myself. I can do my best to pitch well. But I have to rely on the fans to vote for me. It's a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity and that's why I want to play in the All-Star Game this year."
Imaginative grassroots campaigns are characteristic each year in the Final Vote, and this year is no exception. But one that certainly jumped out on Tuesday was the announcement out of Webb's hometown. Its press release begins: "Nothing is more patriotic on the Fourth of July than an American exercising their right to vote. That is why the City of Ashland, Ky. declared tomorrow 'Vote for Brandon Webb Day' in honor of its native son being one of five pitchers eligible for the remaining roster spot on the National League All-Star team as part of the Monster.com 2007 All-Star Final Vote."
"The City of Ashland is so proud of Brandon's accomplishments thus far in the Major Leagues," said Ashland mayor Steve Gilmore, who is urging all residents of that town and more than 300,000 residents throughout the Huntington-Ashland metro area to vote for the reigning NL Cy Young winner. "He deserves to be an All-Star next week in San Francisco so we will do all that we can to get him there."
Webb, 8-6 with a 3.26 ERA and the D-backs' lone representative in the All-Star Game last year in Pittsburgh, was a 1997 graduate of Ashland-Blazer High School in Ashland and later starred for the University of Kentucky in nearby Lexington. He and his wife, Alicia, still reside in Ashland, a town with a population of 21,981 in northeastern Kentucky, during the offseason with their daughter, Reagan.
In addition, Diamondbacks president Derrick Hall urged all his staffers to take a moment to vote for Webb. The entire staff stopped working and focused on getting their pitcher to San Francisco. And Webb's teammate, Orlando Hudson, has a message on Webb's behalf being sent to the full Diamondbacks e-mail database.
Bonderman has been given a James Bond allure in this Final Vote race by the marketing folks behind the Tigers. Consider this ad that ran in the Detroit Free Press on Tuesday morning: "FROM DETROIT WITH GLOVE -- BONDO '07". A bat and ball form the shape of a pistol. Ian Fleming would have been proud of this one. Also, the Tigers were setting up six computer terminals at Comerica Park so that fans could vote during the night's game there.
In New York for his team's series against the Yankees, Neshek just kept right on blogging. The only one of the 10 candidates who has his own high-profile Web site, and his own MLBlog, Neshek wrote in the wee hours after the Twins' loss to Roger Clemens and the Yanks: !"
Neshek said in his blog that he hopes MySpace, Facebook and YouTube users would turn this into a viral Web 2.0 victory for his campaign. In fact, there is already a hot YouTube video in circulation that is not altogether that farfetched.
Neshek's teammates who arrived at the ballpark for early batting practice on Tuesday wore," he said. "And people on my website are going crazy."
While the Wrigley Field marquee back home at Clark and Addison streets was encouraging Cub fans to vote for him, Zambrano (10-6) was lobbying for himself on the field in Washington. He gave up one run, three hits and four walks over 6 2/3 innings in beating the Nationals and exited to a standing ovation from the Cub fans in the crowd of 30,106. Zambrano joins Milwaukee's Ben Sheets and Los Angeles' Brad Penny as 10-game winners in the NL, and is the first Cub pitcher to win 10 by the All-Star break since Jon Lieber won 11 in 2001.
"There are some guys in the competition who have better numbers than me, speaking of ERA and other things," Zambrano said. "I just have more wins than they have. Whatever happens, happens. If I don't go to the All-Star Game, I go to Venezuela and enjoy my time there in my country. If I go, I'll enjoy that with my family, also."
Oswalt had the benefit of pitching at home (and thus a captive audience of prompted mobile voters) while Zambrano was making that start, but he did not fare as well in his outing. The two-time 20-game winner came away with a no-decision in allowing four runs on 10 hits over seven innings of the marathon game against Philadelphia.
Toronto was one of a few teams that never had a Final Vote contestant until now. Do the Blue Jays really need to find unique ways to tell the world about what Halladay can do? He has been one of a handful of names one thinks about when you ask: Who is the most dominating pitcher of this decade? Yet, campaigning must go on.
The Blue Jays reported that some of their efforts include: TV/radio broadcast mentions, including a "scrolling ticker" promoting the campaign throughout the majority of Tuesday night's broadcast; a pregame radio show on FAN 590, with numerous ongoing mentions each night; messaging on a stadium billboard; a FAN 590 e-newsletter, which will go out Thursday morning and provide the voting link with a prompt for "Doc"; mass radio drops; ads and informal plugs on Canadian media; a possible e-mail blast to Rogers Wireless consumer database; and lots of campaigning by Halladay's teammates.. | http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20070703&content_id=2064407&vkey=allstar2007&fext=.jsp | 2013-05-18T11:04:44 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Trio of Braves fans up for All-Star honor
Three Braves boosters come up big in their communities Atlanta:
Olivia Buckmon of Stone Mountain, Ga., established a scholarship in her child's name after her daughter died four years ago. Along with her own donations, Buckmon hosts parties to raise funds for the scholarship. To date, she has helped more than 30 high school students without mothers go on to college.
At the age of 15, Haley Kilpatrick founded her own nonprofit organization, Girl Talk. A student-to-student mentoring program, Girl Talk now reaches 30,000 girls in 27 states, and teaches leadership skills while promoting community service and boosting self-esteem every day. She is from Atlanta.
Ryan Housley of Tyrone, Ga., was inspired by conversations with his younger brother Evan, who was deployed in Iraq, and started HeroBox to support soldiers in combat. The nonprofit organization supplies packages customized to a soldier's specific needs. Housley works full time to fulfill requests so that every solider feels appreciated.. | http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20090607&content_id=5197488&vkey=news_atl&fext=.jsp&c_id=atl | 2013-05-18T10:21:53 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Second Half Drought Costs Knights
NEW ULM, Minn. – The MLC women’s basketball team was unable to hold onto a first half lead that reached as high as 17 points in a 60-58 loss to UM-Morris Friday night.
The Knights controlled the game in the first half with a stifling defense and efficient shooting. MLC shot 47.8 percent for the half on the offensive end, while holding the Cougars to 25.9 percent shooting on the other end. Both teams struggled taking care of the ball, combing for 25 first half turnovers as the Knights went into the half with a 31-19 lead.
MLC continued to control the game in the early moments of the second half and led 45-35 with 11:12 remaining, but went into a dry spell that allowed the Cougars to take control of the game.
From the 11:12 mark in the second half until the 4:54 mark, the Knights were outscored 16-0, and went from a ten-point lead to trailing 51-45. They cut the deficit several times down the stretch and had an opportunity at several attempts in the final seconds to tie or win the game, but shots from Kadie Drake (Adrian, Mich./Madison HS) and Sarah Free (Plover, Wis./LPS) didn’t fall.
Free finished with a team high 19 points on 7-9 shooting from the field and 3-3 shooting from beyond the three-point arc. Erica Babinec (Onalaska, Wis./Luther) joined her in double figures with 16 points and five steals.
With the loss, MLC dropped to 8-13 overall and 4-7 in the UMAC, while UMM improved to 15-5 on the year and 10-1 in conference action.
The Knights will return to action on Saturday, February 13, when they play host to Presentation. The game is scheduled to start at 3 p.m.[BOX SCORE] | http://mlc-wels.edu/home/athletics/womenssports/bballw/news/second-half-drought-costs-knights/ | 2013-05-18T11:02:09 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
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A commercial (or series of commercials) sometimes gets in my head — and my brain begins to dissolve. Case in point: commercials for SafeLite AutoGlass. Sing it with me: “SafeLite repair, Safelite replace.”
What gets me is the ritual that closes each windshield-repair vignette. The customer reaches for her or his wallet, only to be waved off: insurance has it covered. The customer then looks into the eyes of the SafeLite technician, each customer with a different response to this unexpected bit of good news. Behold, as SafeLite technicians Ray, Erik, and Pascal, and three unidentified customers perform the ritual. You can click each image for a larger view.
If these hands could speak, they would say, to a finger, “Your money is no good here.” But note the variety of responses.
Here we see earnest, mildly surprised gratitude. “Huh. We don’t see enough of your generosity in today’s world. Thank you, Ray. I will pay it forward.”
This fellow is too cocky for his own good, or anyone else’s. The money he’s saved will probably go toward larger and better mirrors. I’d like to remind him though that he will still be stuck with a less than perfect windshield.
This guy’s the best. He can’t believe his good fortune. “Really?” he asks. Yes, really. Pascal would not lie to you. Pascal shares his name with a great philosopher. Your insurance, sir, is covering the repair, which costs about a quarter of what a new windshield would cost. Yes, really.
You can see all three commercials, over and over and over, at YouTube: Ray, Erik, and Pascal.
Hilarious post, Dad!
Thanks, Ben. We can have a family viewing in the not too distant future. | http://mleddy.blogspot.com/2011/10/safelite-safelite-safelite.html | 2013-05-18T10:30:25 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
What to do after two lunches in Vegas? Well, I guess a walk up the strip was in order. I parked at Aria, took the tram to the Bellagio, then headed up the strip. At Fashion Show Mall, where the Missus had checked out the latest from Lululemon the night before, I crossed the street and headed back.
On the way back, I decided to kill a couple of minutes at Harrah's, a place where I've had some luck in the past. I ended up making about $200 and decided it was time to flee.....
For our final dinner in Vegas, the Missus decided that we should do sort of a blow-out meal. Unfortunately, just about every place I wanted was booked, Guy Savoy, Joel Robuchon, even Picasso, no bueno. My fifth pick was Sage, in the Aria. I'd heard some nice things about the place and it seemed a lot less assuming than the other four. Years ago, when Michelin Stars and stuff like that really mattered to us, we'd have been disappointed. But after doing The French Laundry, Spago, et al, the Missus and I decided that stuff really isn't for us. Some of it was stuffy and rather pretentious and you can get to the point where you're describing the food like a science project, not my style. But hey.....every once in a while you gotta live, right? And Sage really isn't that expensive.
We arrived right when they opened at 5. Though you might take a risk with the kitchen not being in full swing....they haven't hit their rhythm yet, I still prefer a more relaxed time. And though things might get kind of hectic at the tail end of your meal, you at least have enjoyed most of your meal.
We were the second party seated and our Server, who introduced himself as "Bond, as in you know...." was a pro's pro. He was also quite a character.....we came to find out his name was Jason Bond. Next up was what and how to order. You see, I wanted the Chef's Tasting Menu with the Beer Pairing, the Missus did not. And I understand the issues with pacing and all of that. If you're getting six courses and the person across from you is just getting an app and a main, well there's going to be a lot of dead time for the person having the conventional meal. Again, we plan for the win-win. So when I explained to Mr Bond that only one of us would like the six course tasting, he tried to discourage us from doing that. Until I explained our proposal. I'd get the six course with the beer pairing and the Missus would get five starters. In essence we'd be creating our own little tasting menu. We've often found starters to be more interesting than mains in many cases. Bond got really excited about this and told us it was a great idea, he went to check with the kitchen, who he said was "excited about this". I don't know about that, but we also told him to have the kitchen sequence the starters any way they please....which would mean that it would indeed be like having our own tasting menu.
Things started out with what looked like Himalyan salt and a herb butter. We were shown the bread basket and the two different breads. The serious looking, but really funny young man said, "I think you should each take both." In the end we took one of each. We knew we had a pretty rich meal in front of us.
The sour dough was decent, nice textures. The bacon roll; well, we were tempted to get another.
We were brought an amuse of a Kumamoto Oyster with Tequila Mignonette, and Piquillo Pepper.
The mignonette had a nice tartness to it, very cleansing. Love the sweetness of Piquillo Peppers, I'll probably have to buy some one of these days.
When we had finished up the oyster, the first beer of our tasting arrived. This was a St Feuillien Saison from Belgium. Very crisp, with a nice, almost sweet aroma. This was very easy to drink, light and airy. We also noted that the temperature of the beer was just right on perfect.
This was paired with the Chilled Main Lobster. The brown butter added a nice nuttiness to the dish, making it seem a lot lighter than it was. The Missus is not a big lobster fan, but this lobster was wonderfully sweet and very tender.
The Missus got the Wagyu Beef Tartare ($18).
This was very good. The creamy lightly poached egg yolk just added that extra luxurious texture to the very fatty, melt in your mouth Wagyu Beef. Two interesting touches, the pickled mustard seeds which helped to cut the richness and the savory crisp chocolate made this dish just that much better.
Next up was an interesting dish, the Foie Gras Brulee. Tasting the combinations of flavors in this was rather unpleasant for me as I thought it way too sweet.
Though I loved the salted brioche, the brulee was too much like having candy and pudding for dinner. Great when you're in elementary school, but not after. The cocoa nibs did act to settle things down and take it into a more savory-coffee direction, but it was just too much, until...... I tried this with the beer pairing.
This dish was pared with the Dogfish Head Midas Touch. The Missus loved it as well, it has a mead-like texture and that honey like flavor. There some fruitiness to it and the Missus enjoyed that component....I'm thinking that is probably due to the use of muscat grapes in the making of this. It's a favorite beer of our now. This just seemed to take that sharp sweet edge off the Foie Gras Brulee. To me, this was an awesome pairing.
The Missus got the Grilled Spanish Octopus ($22):
You wouldn't have thought this was octopus if you looked at it. Bond told us they removed the suckers and such so as to "not scare the customers". The octopus was very tender, but this wasn't especially memorable.
My next dish was the Pan-Roasted Sea Scallop. Man, the Jamon Iberico, mild salty-sweet, along with the creamy sunchoke-parsley root, and the olive oil made for a wonderful match.
Scallop and cured pig, a match made in heaven....there should be a children's book by that name, don't you think?
This was paired with another beer from Belgium, Duvel. Very fizzy, clean, with what seems like a bit of spice, this didn't mess with the flavor of the scallops.
The Missus got Her second favorite dish of the evening; the Slow Poached Organic Farm Egg($18), which was almost obscured from view by all the shaved truffles.
The Missus just loved this, even the potato foam and the smoked potato. She was in egg-truffle heaven.
Next up was a very nice Venison Tenderloin. This might just be some of the most tender venison I've ever had.
You could really taste the venison in this dish. The combination of flavors was very pleasant.
Loved the pairing, the Ayinger Celebrator Doppelbock looked really heavy, but was not. Has a raisin-chocolate, earthy flavor which goes well with the gamey venison.
Just to prove that there is too much of a good thing, we were stunned at the huge portion size of the Roasted Sweetbreads ($17).
The dish started out really good...especially the sweet and smokey glazed bacon, which was a like a nice smoked pork belly. The sweetbreads were good at first, not the best I've had, they could have been a bit more, well, gooey on the inside. But man, after a couple of bites of this rich stuff, you pretty much wanted to hoist up the white flag. I'd prefer it more lightly fried....and that portion size was quite large for sweetbreads. And yes TFD, these are thymus glands.
Our last two savory dishes were very good. The 48 Hour Beef Belly, was rich, but the roasted quince and the caraway spiced squash helped temper things.
This was served with a Chimay Grande Reserve which was very fruity, perhaps a bit too fruity for my taste.
The Missus's last dish was the Braised Beef Tongue ($19). All I can say is that this was outstanding. Looking all the world like it would be on the waxy side, this was tender to the touch. The celery moved the dish forward by cutting the richness as did the apple cider based sauce. This had the rich, slightly gamey flavor of well made beef tongue.
Our palates were given a nice respite with "Zambuca Caviar".......
Somebody in the kitchen is playing with spherification! I'm usually not a big fan of sweet anise flavors, but this really did the trick.
I really couldn't do much after this so the Missus had the Grapefruit Semifreddo.
Dessert also came with a hard cider, a Eric Bordelet, Sidre Doux Tendre from France which the Missus really enjoyed. I ordered another Midas Touch as my dessert.
The Missus and I really enjoyed our dinner at Sage. The staff made us feel comfortable. When I told "Bond" that we'd be exchanging plates and sharing, he encouraged it. The service was excellent, efficient, but not hovering nor stuffy. We had a great time......the GM of the restaurant even came over to chat. We never felt rushed and the meal was well paced, clocking in at just a tad over 2 hours. The bill wasn't too bad either. I gave you all the prices for the starters. The Chef's Tasting Menu clocks in at $120, the beer tasting an extra $50, so we're talking about $300 total. I'm kind of glad that my other four choices didn't pan out......
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Yum! Looks like a great meal :) What a great idea to have 1 tasting menu and a variety of apps! I might have to borrow that idea sometime.
Posted by: Jinxi | Tuesday, 12 March 2013 at 10:31 AM
Hi Jinxi - I don't think it's really my idea...it was just a solution to a possible issue. I liked that the folks at Sage had no problem with that. We've been finding that we're enjoying firsts more than entrees recently.
Posted by: Kirk | Tuesday, 12 March 2013 at 11:14 AM
I had a fantastic and memorable meal there last year after watching an episode of Iron Chef America. Their beef tartare and foie gras brulee were my favorites, but the beef belly underwhelmed me. I remember having a pretty good pumpkin dessert as well...
Yes, we gotta live once in a while =)
Posted by: Jess | Tuesday, 12 March 2013 at 11:23 AM
I just want to drink all the beers.
Did you guys roll out of there? Man, that's a lot of dishes! The sweetbreads look really nice!
Posted by: TFD | Tuesday, 12 March 2013 at 04:41 PM
what a great meal!
Posted by: kat | Tuesday, 12 March 2013 at 11:37 PM
Agreed Jess!
LOL TFD.....maybe in a few months, right?
It was Kat!
Posted by: Kirk | Wednesday, 13 March 2013 at 06:12 AM
I like that they have beer pairings for dinner! I much prefer that to wine. Agreed that the Dogfish Head Midas Touch is definitely a nice beer.
Posted by: J.S. @ Sun Diego Eats | Thursday, 14 March 2013 at 07:24 PM
Hi JS - We really prefer beer pairings to wine nowadays.
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-31-2012 03:13 AM)Antares Wrote: Blizz calling it a big mistake has to be put in perspective, arenas and warzone pvp in general didn't come into play until 1-1.5 years or so after wow opened so there was really no forethought of having to balance classes when they built the game.
I think balancing pvp and pve is very possible if it is taken into consideration when first developing a game which Bioware has probly though of. Arenas where a nightmare for the development aspect but Arena tournaments was a great marketing tool for Blizz, with purses of up 50k it attracted a lot of hype and attention to WoW.
The reason why people whined and complained so much about arenas in WoW was because of how much they loved them and how passionate they were about them. Everyone wanted arenas to work and be balanced, unfortunately WoW never really acheived that. But I do think that Bioware can learn from the mistakes of Blizz and implement an arena system that can be somewhat balanced and give players another option of in gameplay style without having it negatively impace pve and wz/opne world based pvp.
I'm all for arenas in swtor not offering any better gear or rewards than wz/open world pvp rewards. Instead just give titles or cool in game speeders, stuff like that so people can still have something to stroke their ego with. I personally love the competitive high action environment of arenas as an option to add variety to the game.
(02-20-2012 11:12 PM)tinlar Wrote: Foremost I doubt that a representative of Blizzard has come out and said that one of the biggest marketing pieces and player draws of their game was a mistake to implement. I challenge anyone to show me where they said it.
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(02-21-2012 08:50 AM)Kor Wrote: The problem with arenas isn't really the forced focus on balance. It's the fact that they are significantly smaller groups than standard PvP (current warzones are 8, Arenas would likely by 2-4), and the microscope that it puts on even the smallest imbalance. A pair of class specs that synergize very well together can have an impact on a warzone, but in an arena, where there's only 2 or 3 people in the zone on each time, a pair of classes that have very synergistic mechanics can absolutely destroy competitive balance.
Instead of balancing teams of 8, with all combinations therein (which is many more combinations, but each combination has less of an impact overall), they now have to balance every possible pair of classes/specs. The dev team of WoW has stated a number of times over the years, often implicitly but a couple of times explicitly, that Arenas put their balancing under such a precise microscope that it became almost an impossible task to balance it properly. Large-group PvP is significantly easier to balance than small-group PvP, because tactics and strategy start mattering a lot more than specific class strengths/weaknesses and the RPS nature of most MMO PvP.
Quote:Put another way: they lacked the resolve and (more importantly) justification to balance Arena.
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The picture was nude people on bikes. It wasn't a pretty picture anyway.
I say ban it! they can go to their clubs and run around nude there.
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SAN FRANCISCO --.
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- by katzmeow726November 15, 2012 at 12:59 PM
May want to delete the photos, otherwise this post will go poof.
Quoting gammie:
We where in San Francisco this past summer. I love this city. I was thrilled to be back there. It was the first time my youngest had been in any 'city' setting. As soon as we got out of the car, my 18 year old (who lived close by at the time) told her younger sister she may very well see nude people on bikes. It wasn't a moment later that we did. It was indeed an interesting moment.
I don't know, I don't really care one way or the other if these people choose to bare it all for people to see. If it is restricted to only certain times and places, so be it. If not, well, certainly could never do that but hey, more power to them.
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- by frogbenderNovember 15, 2012 at 1:05 PM
I don't think I'd want to ride a bike nekkid. It seems...uncomfortable. Nudity doesn't really bother me. We're all humans and it seems as if the taboo of nudity is kind of anticlimatic.
- November 15, 2012 at 1:05 PMThere's nothing wrong with nudity. It's silly to make such a fuss over it.
- November 15, 2012 at 1:05 PMI'm surprised there isn't already a ban on public nudity. O:
Quoting gamm:
I get your sentiment but for some, seeing the naked body is a shock and they can't comprehend it unless they relate it to porn or some thing else 'evil' or 'distasteful'.
Nudity is not just sexual but many people equate it to that. It offends. Whether here on the site or in person.
When my youngest daughter came face to face with it, it was a good time to talk with her about how our bodies are not just for sexual purposes. We are who we are. We all have the same parts in varying degrees. While I could never walk around naked outside of my home, those who do certainly seem to be more secure than I ever could be.
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When William Van Duzer Lawrence mapped out the plans for the school, he believed there should be as little physical separation as possible between life and work, as the two were to be inexorably entwined at the College. Therefore, classrooms, dormitory suites, and faculty offices were all housed in the same graceful, ivy-covered Tudor buildings. As the College has expanded, we have effectively maintained Mr. Lawrence’s philosophy in designing the campus.
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The Complete John Cage Edition, Volume 34
The Piano Works 7
Margaret Leng Tan,
piano & prepared piano
Chess Pieces
(1944) (7:48)
first recording
Sonatas and Interludes
(1946-48)
first recording
Sonata 1
(2:43)
Sonata II
(1:57)
Sonata III
(2:30)
Sonata IV
(2:29)
First Interlude
(3:28)
Sonata V
(1:35)
Sonata VI
(2:05)
Sonata VII
(2:02)
Sonata VIII
(3:06)
Second Interlude
(4:08)
Third Interlude
(2:38)
Sonata IX
(4:05)
Sonata X
(3:10)
Sonata XI
(3:20)
Sonata XII
(2:57)
Fourth Interlude
(2:43)
Sonata XIII
(4:07)
Sonatas XIV & XV "Gemini"
(5:59)
after the work by Richard Lippold
Sonata XVI
(4:56)
VITTORIO RIETI
(1898-1994)
Chess Serenade
(1944) (1:28)
first recording
A major discovery and first recording of an important Cage piece from 1944..
24-bit surround sound DTS and Dolby Digital surround.
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NOTE: Sonatas & Interludes is not accompanied by video.
Reviews:
John Cage
The Piano Works 7
Cage Chess Pieces. Sonatas and Interludes. Rieti Chess Serenade.
Margaret Leng Tan
Mode 158
Cage composed his seminal collection for prepared piano, Sonatas and Interludes, between 1946 and 1948, a time when he was investigating Hindu philosophy but before he adopted aleatory as his guiding creative principle. Sonatas and Interludes is, therefore, a scrupulous notated score, both in terms of the notes and chords that constitute its mellifluous flow, and the positioning of every nut, screw, pencil and eraser that creates its unique blend of timbres. Yet although Cage left nothing - as it were - to chance in this score, and room still exists for interpretative choices, Margaret Leng Tan's new recording will come as a real surprise, especially to those who think they know the work. Prepare to be startled by the very opening chords, with the use of the soft or una corda pedal: it is quite unlike any other recording of this music I have heard. Tan's pedalling - specifically notated in the score - gives her version a unique sonic image, quite different to other celebrated modern accounts, say, by Joanna MacGregor (SoundCircus), Aleck Karis (Bridge) or - my favourite prior to this newcomer - Boris Berman (Naxos).
In Tan's hands, the musical perspective in Cage's music suddenly acquires an extra dimension or layer of colour that one does not hear in rival accounts. True, the warmer, fuller sound may mask, relatively speaking, some of the drier textures one is used to, but these differences are akin to those between the Javanese and Balinese gamelan orchestras whose sound world Sonatas and Interludes so magically evokes. However, this is a revelatory account for its musical qualities as well as the timbral, as cursory listenings to, say, Sonata V, the central pair of Interludes or the conjoined pair of Gemini Sonatas (XIV and XV) which have real but understated majesty.
The disc boasts further novelties in the recovery of Cage's Chess Pieces, transcribed by Tan (who writes about the work in the booklet) for piano from a painting Cage exhibited in The Imagery of Chess exhibition in New York in 1944-5. At almost 8 minutes duration this delightful piece is a significant addition to Cage's oeuvre and indeed to American piano music of the 20th century. It is paired with the briefer and blander Chess Serenade composed for the same exhibition by Vittorio Rieti.
--- Guy Rickards,
International Piano
, September/October 2006
The Piano Works 7
Margaret Leng Tan (piano)
Mode 158
The late John Cage was arguably the most important and influential thinker of 20th century art, yet his music is so esoteric that few people truly appreciate of it. In his later years there were so many random factors in his scores that it seemed to become more or a "happening" rather than listening material; even Cage saw some of those later works as Zen-like experiments of "purposeful purposelessness."
That was rectified when pianist Margaret Leng Tan began to work with Cage in his last years. While other interpreters seemed to see Cage's music as stoic and austere, Tan always approached his music the same way Gould approached Bach, or Horowitz approached Rachmaninov; as music. The humanity and breath of each piece rings under her touch.
Tan gives great performances of the classic "Sonata and Interludes (for Prepared Piano)" and the newly discovered "Chess Pieces," which she edited. But more importantly, the DVD version of this disc (a CD audio-only version is also available) offers three short documentaries where Tan talks about the prepared piano, the editing of "Chess Pieces," and one where she goes through the preparation materials that came with the published score of "Sonatas and Interludes."
The prepared piano was one of Cage's major concepts; nuts and bolts and pieces of felt, rubber, and plastic were inserted into the strings to give the piano a percussive sound, like that of a gamelan orchestra. Tan goes through the history of the prepared piano, presents a "how-to" instruction video, and raises aesthetic questions about the preparation that I never thought of, such as exactly where on the strings are the foreign objects placed in the piano harp?
"Chess Pieces" offers some of her best detective work; the score was originally in a painting that has been in a private collection for over half a century, and was not catalogued as a part of Cage's works because it was thought to be incomplete. Through comparing it to the existing fragments of notes, Tan edited the "painting" into a beautiful piece of music.
While Cage's music is not for everyone, this DVD makes his concepts more assessable than any album liner notes I've ever read. I would not hesitate recommending this disc for even the borderline or casual fans of Cage and/or 20lh century music.
--- Wilhelm Murg,
NONzine
, June 9, 2006
John Cage
The Piano Works 7
Margaret Leng Tan, piano
Mode 158 (CD)
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The seventh volume of John Cage's piano works -- or Volume 34 of the Complete John Cage Edition, if you prefer -- features a transcendent performance of the Sonatas and Interludes for Prepared Piano (1948) meticulously rendered by avant-garde keyboardist extraordinaire, Margaret Leng Tan. Yet Volume 2 in this series features a 1994 recording of the same work, played by Philipp Vandre. For those aiming to collect the full series, this may be an annoyance, but others catching these CDs as they are released will surely appreciate having Tan's superb interpretation of the Sonatas and Interludes, with premiere recordings of Cage's long-lost Chess Pieces for piano (1944) and Vittorio Rieti's Chess Serenade (1944) as bonuses, rather than search for the older disc of the single work. But despite seeming redundant, this CD is clearly one to get: Tan is simply remarkable in the Sonatas and Interludes, giving a realization that is scrupulous in execution, deep in sonic dimensions, and luminous in color; and she offers what is actually a "period performance," since she plays a piano identical in its specifications to the small Steinway Cage originally prepared in the process of composition. The differences in sonorities between this album and others are immediately noticeable, especially in this recording's superior resonance and crystalline details; anyone who already knows this work will recognize that Tan's interpretation is truly Cagean in its poetic nuances and hypnotic power. So without disparaging other recordings for being less authoritative -- certainly, Tan holds a considerable advantage for having worked closely with Cage in his final years -- it is safe to say that fans of his most popular piano work will give this album full marks. Mode's sound quality is ideal, too, so this CD receives the highest recommendation.
--- Blair Sanderson,
allmusic.com
, March 2006
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George Crumb:
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Magnolia Bakery, the New York City-based bakery credited with launching the cupcake resurgence, is opening its first location in Chicago on Oct. 1. The bakery’s sixth outpost is opening in Block 37 on State Street, a popular shopping district in the city's Loop.
The newest location also is the largest, with 20 seats. It will carry 120 varieties of sweets, including brownies, blondies, muffins, pies, cookies, crisps, cakes and, of course, cupcakes. | http://modern-baking.com/print/news/magnolia-comes-windy-city | 2013-05-18T10:42:09 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Scholastic 50% Off Book Sale at the Modesto Library. | http://modesto.news10.net/news/shopping-services | 2013-05-18T10:21:46 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Carly Rae Jepsen and Cody Simpson get close on stage during their performance on Thursday night (March 7) at the O2 Arena in London, England.
The 27-year-old singer and her 16-year-old tour mate had performed together shortly before Justin Bieber collapsed on stage during his performance.
“I just stay mellow through it all ya know. There’s no drama, I love my fans and it’s simple,” Cody wrote on Twitter after the show. “I make music.. No matter where it takes me, I promise to stay real through it all.. for you.”
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Adolescence, Adults, High school, MILFs, Teenagers
I pulled into the Walgreens parking lot at about 12:30. I just needed to pick up a prescription. (Yes, for my Hand, Foot and Mouth disease.) I turned off the car, got out, and made it about halfway to the store before I saw them.
High school kids. En masse.
Dammit, I muttered to myself. I forgot about open lunch. I hurried into the store, making my way around multiple groups of teenagers walking slowly, congregated on the sidewalk, and just generally getting in the way. I surreptitiously eyed their amazingly of-the-moment and fashionable clothes and cursed myself for leaving the house in my tennis shoes. I watched them giggle and flirt and I prayed that they would either not notice me at all, or that they would think I was cool and/or desirable. I practically tripped over my own two feet getting into that store because the mere presence of large groups of teenagers made me more self-conscious than I would feel walking around downtown naked in front of a crowd of normal adults.
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The kids are home from school for the New Jersey Teachers’ Conference, and I have a rotten cold. So instead of trying to be witty and wise while blocking sneezes from hitting my computer screen and shouting “Knock it off!”, I’m reposting a popular video I made in June involving Kelly Ripa, filthy sneakers and entirely too much ice cream. If you like it, please “Like” it by hitting the button below. Bless you. And me. Got a tissue? | http://mommasaid.net/2010/11/04/miss-mom-bloggers-shoes/ | 2013-05-18T10:53:49 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
(MONEY Magazine) – When you strike out on your own after years of working for someone else, retirement planning may not be top of mind. You have to set up an office, market yourself, find clients, buy insurance and attend to all the other pressing demands of running and growing a business. Saving money is an afterthought at best. Even if you can earmark some of your earnings for your future, you can't pick up the phone and reach your old corporate benefits department to set things up. No one, alas, is automatically subtracting a 401(k) contribution from your paycheck.
Now the good news: In an age of record self-employment--not to mention diminished corporate job security--you can find a do-it-yourself retirement plan that will fill the gaping void left by your missing 401(k). "There are good options, easy to set up and cheap to maintain," says Ed Slott, a Rockville Center, N.Y. IRA expert. And financial services firms, eager for a share of this growing market, are courting entrepreneurs with fee cuts and special services. Schwab, for example, recently dropped all account service fees on small business retirement plans.
The challenge, though, is figuring out which of the major lone-eagle plans best suits your business. What the SEP-IRA, Simple IRA and Solo 401(k) all have in common is up-front tax savings and tax-deferred growth: Your contributions are deductible, and you don't pay taxes on the earnings until you withdraw the money in retirement. There are, however, key differences among these major plans, most significantly how much you can put in and what happens when you add staff. Because you can't fully fund more than one in a single year, you need to make a choice. Read on to see which is the right plan for you.
Simplified Employee Pension IRA
BEST IF: You run a one-person show and plan to keep it that way. A SEP-IRA is the plan of choice for most sole proprietors and moonlighters. You can open one at virtually any bank, mutual fund company or brokerage firm, and pay low or no annual account fees. Your contribution limit is based on a simple formula: You can put away as much as 25% of your net income, up to a cap that is periodically raised to keep pace with inflation. But what's especially appealing is a SEP's funding flexibility. You can wait to fund the plan until you file your taxes. So if your income turns out to be higher than expected, you can make a large contribution and cut your tax bill. The opposite holds true if you have a tough year. "For self-employed people, SEPs are a great tax-management tool," says Keith Hall, a Dallas C.P.A.
Solo 401(k)
BEST IF: Your business is raking it in or you need to catch up with your savings. The self-employed version of the corporate benefit staple, a Solo. (In the unlikely event that you can save even more, you'll need a profit-sharing plan, an option that's expensive and complicated.)
It is also possible to take out a loan against a Solo 401(k), a great feature if you're running a business and worry that any money in a retirement plan will be out of reach for years to come. What if you need funds during a business crunch? You can borrow half the account's balance, up to $50,000, and typically take up to five years to pay it back (provider rules vary).
Unfortunately, Solo 401(k)s come with a bit of bureaucratic hassle. Once your balance exceeds $100,000, you have to fill out an IRS form every year, which will cost a few hundred dollars if an accountant does it (you certainly don't have time).
Simple IRA
BEST IF: You work alone but aspire to run a bigger business. What if you are having such a great year that you decide to hire even one full-time employee? With a SEP-IRA or Solo 401(k), you face hassles. SEP rules can lock you into expensive employee contributions. With a Solo 401(k), unless that helper is married to you, you'll have to stop funding your plan or convert it to the more complex and cumbersome employer version. For that, you'll surely need professional help, and you may even have to hire a third-party plan administrator, often at considerable expense. With a Simple IRA, you can keep investing in the same plan. Bear in mind that Simple stands for "savings incentive match plan for employees," so you have to match your employees' contributions, up to 3% of pay. The sole problem with a Simple IRA is that you can stash away no more than $10,000 a year ($12,500 if you're 50 or over), which may not be enough to fund a comfortable retirement.
Bonus: Add a Roth IRA
BEST IF: You've maxed out on fully deductible plans. While a Roth IRA isn't strictly a plan for the self-employed, it's a great option if you find that you can save even more after funding your SEP, Solo 401(k) or Simple IRA. You can put the full $4,000 maximum in a Roth in 2006 ($5,000 if you are 50 or older) if your adjusted gross income is below $110,000 (as a single person) or $160,000 (as a married couple). And doing so doesn't affect your contribution limits for other plans.
You get no tax deduction for your contributions. But the beauty of a Roth is that not only does your money grow tax-free, but withdrawals are also tax-free in retirement, giving you a hedge against higher tax rates later. "We may not see another '90s-style boom in our lifetime," says Mario Yngerto, a Dallas financial planner. "So you have to be smart about other things, like taxes. If you can create tax diversification in your retirement savings, it's a great move."
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Cooking your own food is a great way to save money. But if your kitchen utensils consist primarily of extra plastic forks from takeout, cooking can be daunting. Fear not! This list includes everything you need to get started preparing delicious food at home.
As for where to shop for these items, I recommend three places: thrift stores, where you can often find perfectly good used cookware; stores like Marshall’s or TJ Maxx, that have new, high-quality items at deep discounts; and restaurant supply stores.
1. A Good Chef’s Knife and a Cutting Board
Almost everything you need to do, from peeling vegetables to hacking up roasts, can be accomplished with a good chef’s knife. When you have more money later, you can invest in more-specific tools like a paring knife, serrated bread knife, and vegetable peeler.
The quality of your cutting board doesn’t matter much, and you don’t need to spend a lot here. If you’re going for plastic, just try to get one thick enough that it won’t bend and warp.
Finally, a knife sharpener is optional at first, but a good investment—it will keep your chef’s knife happy for years.
2. Pots and Pans
I know that listing “pots and pans” seems terribly general. But what you want depends largely on whom you’re cooking for (yourself? A family?) and what you like cooking. The three items I use most often are a good-quality non-stick frying pan, a medium stockpot, and a Dutch oven. I love the Dutch oven because it can be used on the stovetop or in the oven, but a large stockpot should do just fine for most things.
3. An Oven-Safe Pan
This is for anything you want to bake, oven-roast, or broil. There are a lot of options here—sheet pans, loaf pans, casserole pans, etc. To start, I’d recommend a 9”x13” Pyrex baking dish with at least 2” high sides. You can use this for everything from lasagna to brownies to roasting eggplant. Just make sure that you never make Pyrex go through a drastic temperature change (like, er, I did one time by pouring cold water into a pan when it had already been in the hot oven for an hour)—it will make the pan shatter.
4. Measuring Cups and Spoons
Look for cups and spoons that have the measurement number pressed into the plastic or metal instead of printed on—in my experience, the printed ones rub off eventually.
5. Serving Trio: Spatula, Tongs, and Spoon or Ladle
Between your silverware and this trio, you can handle scraping, spreading, and serving just about any kind of food you’re cooking.
6. Food Processor and/or Hand Mixer
These items are somewhat optional. I say somewhat because, if you like to make certain things, they’ll drastically improve preparation time and ease. Inexpensive hand mixers (not to be confused with that wedding-registry favorite, the stand mixer) are a near-must for baking—whipping egg whites and cream with an electric hand mixer already takes a while; you do not want to do that by hand with a whisk.
Food processors are great multi-use tools. I use mine to quickly whip up drips like guacamole and hummus, pulse together ingredients for falafel and crab cakes, and even to make smoothies in place of a blender. I use a mini-chopper, but if you get a regular-sized one, you can also use it for tasks like kneading pizza dough.
7. Food Storage Containers
What’s one of the best reasons to cook? Leftovers! Even if you don’t like leftovers, cooking some things ahead of time—such as roasting a chicken so you have meat for the week—is a great way to save time and money. But don’t waste your cash on disposable plastic bags and the like—keep some reusable food storage containers around. I often use old yogurt containers, but it’s helpful to have some clear containers and containers of different sizes as well.
8. Mixing Bowls
From salad to cookies to burger meat, you need something you can mix ingredients together in. It’s best to have at least two bowls, and these work great for serving meals too.
9. A Can Opener
Unless, of course, you just want to throw your canned goods on the ground until they burst open.
10. Spices
One of the biggest keys to frugal cooking is finding ways to make cheap food delicious, and adding shelf-stable spices is a great way to make that happen. Try shopping for spices at ethnic grocery stores; they’re often much cheaper than at regular grocery stores.
Am I missing any of your favorite kitchen musts? Leave your thoughts in the comments.
Meg Favreau is the author of Little Old Lady Recipes: Comfort Food and Kitchen Table Wisdom and the Senior Editor of frugal living blog Wise Bread.
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If you’re like a lot of job seekers, when you get called for an interview, you swing into preparation mode. You research the company, you try to predict what questions you’ll be asked, and you practice your answers until they’re flawless. But in the midst of all this effort to make a great impression, don’t lose sight of what might be the single most important thing you can remember as you head into the interview: The point of the interview is not to get a job offer. It’s to figure out if you’re a mutual match, emphasis on mutual.
If you go into your interview focused solely on convincing the employer to hire you, you’ll lose sight of whether this is a job you even want or a company (or manager) you want to work for. Instead, in addition to showing the interviewer what you can do, your goal should be to make an informed decision about whether this is the right job and the right employer for you.
[See The 50 Best Careers for 2011.]
Think of it like dating: If you approached every first date determined to make your date fall for you, you’d miss important cues about whether or not you were right for each other. And you might end up with someone who makes you miserable, or someone who you couldn’t make happy.
So when it comes to job hunting, it’s important to view a job interview as a two-way conversation … not a one-sided interrogation where the interviewer fires questions at you, and you just hope you’re measuring up. Don’t focus so hard on pleasing the interviewer that you forget to pay attention to whether this is a job you even want.
[See 7 Occupations With the Highest Hiring Demand.]
This approach means interviewing the interviewer, asking questions to figure out things like:
• Is the work well aligned with your strengths—your real ones, not ones you puffed up in your cover letter?
• Is the environment one you’ll thrive in?
• Is the manager someone you’d want to work with?
If you’re offered the job and accept it, you’re going to be doing this work with these people, all day, every day. Your goal is to find out if you can do it well and happily, not to get the job at all costs.
[See 10 Clues to Watch for in an Interview.]
Now, some job seekers hear this and think, “That’s all well and good, but I really need a job, and I don’t care if the employer is right for me or not, as long as I’m getting a paycheck.” But approaching the interview as a two-way discussion rather than a one-way assessment means that you’re going to do better in that interview. After all, interviewers want to see that you’re thinking really critically about whether you’d be good in the job and whether you’d be happy in it or itching to leave a few months in.
In other words, even if you really do just want that job offer at all costs, this approach will still work in your favor.
So when you head into your next interview, remember that you’re not just waiting for the interviewer to decide if the fit is right. You’re making that decision too. (4)
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On Thu, 31 May 2001, Damien Miller wrote: > I'll take gcc with its annoying licence to the days of Unix vendors > charging thousands for compilers. Some markets are better dead. Or as I like to look at it: a parasite of a parasite is a symbiont. Be a symbiont. -- Monty Brandenberg, Software Consultant MCB, Inc. mcbinc@world.std.com P.O. Box 426188 mcbinc@ne.mediaone.net Cambridge, MA 02142-0021 617.864.6907 | http://monkey.org/openbsd/archive/tech/0105/msg00393.html | 2013-05-18T10:14:15 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Could you guys, share your /etc/fstab? Do you use softdep for every slice? And what flags do you recommend to set - I of course could try it myself, but I'm afraid having to find out after hours, that some programs failed just because I used noexec,nosuid,nodev on the /var TIA Alex PS: I did a "find /usr/share -name fstab -print" | http://monkey.org/openbsd/archive2/misc/200112/msg00401.html | 2013-05-18T10:32:57 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
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Geldwechsel in Osorno
Today in Puerto Varas, I met a Swiss tourist who had lost his travelers’ checks and will have to wait until next week to have them replaced. In reality, I was surprised to find anyone carrying travelers’ checks these days as, in Chile and especially in Argentina, cashing them can be a bureaucracy-filled nightmare. It almost invariably requires visiting a bank or, alternatively, an exchange house, and they often take unconscionably large commissions - up to five percent and sometimes even more. Their hours are often inconvenient.
When I first visited South America, in the mid-1970s, there wasn’t much alternative to travelers’ checks, but the modern prevalence of ATMs has made them seem positively quaint, though it wasn’t always so. When I first visited Argentina and Chile in 1979, I hitchhiked from San Carlos de Bariloche to the Chilean city of Osorno, founded in colonial times but transformed by German immigration in the mid-19th century (the photograph above shows one of the city’s Germanic monuments, now a cultural center). It was the long Easter weekend, and I found myself with a few US dollars and American Express TCs, but without any Chilean currency.
At that time, under the Pinochet dictatorship’s regulations, only banks could change money, and I found myself unable to pay for a room or even buy food. One Chilean with whom I spoke suggested visiting one of the city’s more prestigious hotels, as they often changed money surreptitiously for their guests. I chose the Hotel Waeger, whose German name suggested it would get at least some international clientele at a time when few foreigners visited Chile.
At that time, my Spanish was limited, but I approached the front desk and asked if they could change a few cash dollars into Chilean pesos. No, they told me, government edicts prohibited their doing so. At that time, though, I spoke better German than Spanish and, on impulse, I asked in German whether it was impossible to find a place to change money until Monday.
The response, in German, was “How much would you like to change?” and an inquiry into what part of Germany I was from (in high school and university, all my instructors were native speakers, and my accent is still very good, even though my vocabulary and grammar have deteriorated). Even after explaining that I was American - which shocked them, as so few Americans can handle German - I had enough Chilean cash to get me through the weekend, though I couldn’t afford to stay at the Waeger.. | http://moon.com/blogs/south-america/geldwechsel-osorno | 2013-05-18T10:54:59 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [
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Family Attractions
Six Gun City & Fort Splash
The northern frontier of New Hampshire has been transformed into the western frontier of the United States at Six Gun City & Fort Splash (1492 Rte. 2, Jefferson, 603/586-4592,, 9:30 a.m.–6 p.m. daily July–Aug.; 10 a.m.–5 p.m. daily late May–June and late Aug.–early Sept., $2 adults and children 4 and up, $17 seniors, free children under 4), a family amusement park and waterpark centered around a Western-movie-set main street. Not sure the laser-tag arena is authentic to the period, but it’s all great fun anyway.
Santa’s Village
Also competing to reel in the family demographic is Santa’s Village (528 Presidential Hwy./Rte. 2, Jefferson, 603/586-4445,, 9:30 a.m.–6 p.m. daily late June–late Aug.; limited hours weekends late May–late June and late Aug.–Dec., $24 adults and children 4 and up, $22 seniors, free children under 4), a North Pole theme park complete with Yule Log flume ride, Rudolph Rollercoaster, and live reindeer petting zoo. Parents might have trouble explaining why Santa summers in New Hampshire, but the kids will be so psyched to see him outside the mall they won’t. | http://moon.com/destinations/new-england/new-hampshire/white-mountains/the-great-north-woods/berlin/gorham-area/family-attractions | 2013-05-18T10:24:33 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [
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Democrat Rep. Jeff Roorda, District 102
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I have never been more pround to be a “Tea Bagger”. Many folks from Missouri worked very hard on the Scott Brown Campaign so we could stop ObamaCare, and the Radical Progressives, CZars, and Super Masters! We have and we will Clean House at every level!
2 Gretchen // Jan 20, 2010 at 12:44 pm
You know, we “teabaggers” have been called just about everything in the book…haters, terrorists, angry…lots of negative labels.
I would suggest “teabagger” now = VISIONARY. Roorda, get a clue about the tsunnami that just hit the Dems. Ignore at your own peril. Might just be too late for you, just like it’s too late for the Carnahans and McCaskill.
3 Mike G. // Jan 20, 2010 at 1:25 pm
Isn’t name calling done by the kid who just got beat up?
4 Matthew Silber // Jan 20, 2010 at 9:02 pm
I just hope we’re ready to hold whatever Republicans we get in office true to the same standards. It’s going to take a lot to fix the broken mess that our nation is in, and we’ve got to hold them to a high standard. A lot of Republicans say they care about the issues that are important to us, but deep down don’t give a rip except if it’s good for their political career. I understand the world of politics is a messy place, but I’m hoping the party will really be able to stand up and deliver on the positive “change” we “tea-baggers” are calling for.
5 bulletinman // Jan 20, 2010 at 11:42 pm
He is a Terrorist a supporter of the police state and an enemy to the American people. He needs to be arrested along with all the others who wage war against the Constitution and the people of this once great State
6 John Willems // Jan 21, 2010 at 8:06 am
Roorda’s 101st district compadre, Rep. Tim Meadows, is being challenged by a true conservative this November. Please visit to find out more about Charles Huey. Huey will bring true conservative values back to the State Capitol. But he can only do it with support from common-sense average citizens that want representatives, not rulers.
7 Steve N. // Jan 21, 2010 at 8:13 am
Name calling seems to be becoming the hallmark of the liberal voice. No reason, no logic, just pure emotion. It’s time for a complete overhaul of our elected so called “representatives.”
8 On Jeff Roorda | The Dana Show // Dec 5, 2012 at 7:39 pm
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tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7532697103244829892.post3522838277903942743..comments2012-05-30T00:12:26.275-05:00Comments on More Cool Pictures: Medieval Torture DevicesAbandoned Wagon. Gays run this.country and so do Jews. Not th...Stfu. Gays run this.country and so do Jews. Not that I'm complaining but you are. So quit whiningjohnny boynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7532697103244829892.post-7907588993184959722012-01-31T16:22:54.776-06:002012-01-31T16:22:54.776-06:00I am looking to purchase or rent some medieval tor...I am looking to purchase or rent some medieval torture devices for a feature film.<br />Will pay for all shipping, insurance, and fair rental.<br />Or I can purchase.Michael Billingsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7532697103244829892.post-87026450788063980342011-05-25T14:04:01.415-05:002011-05-25T14:04:01.415-05:00These people thought they were doing Gods will..ju...These people thought they were doing Gods will..just like the nut cases today who think that as they persecute gays and others of the "wrong religion"..like the "Religion of Peace" does!<br />Nothings changed....Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7532697103244829892.post-83846862559197638662011-04-30T11:31:01.327-05:002011-04-30T11:31:01.327-05:00you should check out the rat cage thingy. they'...you should check out the rat cage thingy. they'd put a cage with a rat inside on your abdomen, then slowly heat up the cage. the rat would be like "OMG, i has to get out of here!" and it would eat its way out.<br /><br />also the bronze bull would be a good one to mention.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7532697103244829892.post-51909944758607647232011-04-03T17:43:17.731-05:002011-04-03T17:43:17.731-05:00JUST GOES TO SHOW THAT THE SICK FUCKS OF THIS WORL...JUST GOES TO SHOW THAT THE SICK FUCKS OF THIS WORLD HAVE ALWAYS BEEN AROUND,TILL PRESENT DAY,IT SAID THE CATHOLIC CHURCH WAS BEHIND THIS,WHY IS THAT A SURPRISE?THEY HAVE QUEERS,DIDDLERS,AND WORSHIP OF LUCIFER,WHYS TORTURE SO HARD TO SWALLOW?AND THAT SHITS WHAT WE DO KNOW ABOUT,FUCKIN POPE LOOKS LIKE THE DEVIL HIMSELF,WHO KNOWS???Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7532697103244829892.post-88737744765658719032011-02-14T01:34:32.600-06:002011-02-14T01:34:32.600-06:00to the people that said this is "awesome"...to the people that said this is "awesome" your freaking stupid.<br /><br />Most of these people were either innocent, Jews, Protestants or witches<br /><br />During the inquisition they killed approximately 68 million people<br /><br />The last torture reported was in 1838<br /><br />The Catholic Church was behind this for almost 600 years...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7532697103244829892.post-24909811377540658732010-08-19T03:37:05.746-05:002010-08-19T03:37:05.746-05:00christ i feel ill. if i knew i was getting punishm...christ i feel ill. if i knew i was getting punishments like that i think i'd have rather killed myself D;<br /><br />this sounds horrible but im glad deaths consist of stab wounds and gun shots these days. at least you'd die quicker.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7532697103244829892.post-7801595269239257362010-04-24T00:50:24.434-05:002010-04-24T00:50:24.434-05:00Anyone who has ever had the excruciating experienc...Anyone who has ever had the excruciating experience of a broken bone would probably agree that the breaking wheel would probably be the worst.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7532697103244829892.post-90607829013699559782010-04-19T15:08:59.558-05:002010-04-19T15:08:59.558-05:00Those things look terrible...I feel so bad for tho...Those things look terrible...I feel so bad for those who were actually innocent but were forced to die that way anyway. Especially the "breast ripper", they all look gruesome. I don't know who in the world would be able to stand by and either contribute to or even watch people be killed in those manners. I guess that's why they tortured some people by watching others be tortured with those machines.<br /><br />Anyway, thanks for all of the help. My little brother's doing a research report for school on medieval torture...he has to dress as an executioner/torturer and present the information to guests while they're in the gym...everyone has a part in the "castle" set up. Of course he would be assigned torture chamber...<br /><br />So, again, thanks a lot! I'll be recommending this site to his partner and recreating the pictures in charcoal sketches for him (since he has no artistic skill whatsoever). Cheerio, mates!Nicole Bender funny thing is that we'll have an equal pe...The funny thing is that we'll have an equal percentage of bastard sadists in our society today, but instead of doing this most of them will just become traffic wardens etc.<br /><br />if i had to choose one of these to die from, er.. oooh i dunno it's too hard, i feel like a kid in a candy store.. probably the breaking wheel or the impaling, at least i'd get a bit of fresh air.Ian crazy they would cut them in half how could p...dats crazy they would cut them in half how could people stand there and do that. id kill myself if i knew i was gonna get cut in halfAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7532697103244829892.post-37564606517006658622010-02-23T22:00:38.287-06:002010-02-23T22:00:38.287-06:00Holy shiiiiiiit! Can you even imagine?!? Well I gu...Holy shiiiiiiit! Can you even imagine?!? Well I guess that's what they get for being twisted, a twisted punishment! xDAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7532697103244829892.post-33514000913644209772010-02-22T00:05:43.963-06:002010-02-22T00:05:43.963-06:00DUDE!!!!!!!!! whats wrong with those crazy medievi...DUDE!!!!!!!!! whats wrong with those crazy medievil f*^#s!!!!!! what the hell!!!! OUCH!!! crazy times crazy times!!!... sheesh.. i fell sorry for those medievil people who were ` guilty`!!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7532697103244829892.post-6432893224204133552009-11-02T01:57:59.550-06:002009-11-02T01:57:59.550-06:00fuck that shits gruesom... the hanging upside down...fuck that shits gruesom... the hanging upside down one has to be the worse.... to be fair there all pretty fucked upAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7532697103244829892.post-26555188220175826922009-09-10T18:07:18.381-05:002009-09-10T18:07:18.381-05:00Eww... I feel sorry for those who were tortured bu...Eww... I feel sorry for those who were tortured but were innocent...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7532697103244829892.post-67146842514705597802009-07-17T08:27:03.640-05:002009-07-17T08:27:03.640-05:00All those devices that were used in the "olde...All those devices that were used in the "olden days" are very horrible and some very gruesome. i'm so glad i didnt live back then to be put under that torture. I feel really sorry for all those people that went throught that and "the breast ripper" soo glad i wasn't around in those daysAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7532697103244829892.post-3770993256104374552009-07-04T19:53:28.516-05:002009-07-04T19:53:28.516-05:00Catholics sure are great peopleCatholics sure are great peopleAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7532697103244829892.post-31817517391184617942009-06-12T00:34:28.309-05:002009-06-12T00:34:28.309-05:00Horrible, but interesting. I agree, the breast rip...Horrible, but interesting. I agree, the breast ripper and things like the Judas' Cradle and Pear of Anguish are especially disturbing.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7532697103244829892.post-55805195762010032672009-06-09T00:56:28.257-05:002009-06-09T00:56:28.257-05:00This offered a good explanation. Very awesome, sti...This offered a good explanation. Very awesome, still kinda hard to believe people did that kinda thing back then.Mr.Despairnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7532697103244829892.post-58878053548503234002009-06-04T21:57:05.882-05:002009-06-04T21:57:05.882-05:00ouch! boy.. could boys get the breast ripper too??...ouch! boy.. could boys get the breast ripper too?? if they had big manboobs? idk.. just a thought!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7532697103244829892.post-13183336572452339732009-06-01T16:03:38.840-05:002009-06-01T16:03:38.840-05:00that is absolutley horrible I am so sorry for all ...that is absolutley horrible I am so sorry for all of those peolple especially the ones that got the brest ripperAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7532697103244829892.post-12580576604823339952009-05-07T05:18:00.000-05:002009-05-07T05:18:00.000-05:00Yeah, wow that would hurt. But that's how they did...Yeah, wow that would hurt. But that's how they did it in those days. We can't judge the laws of the "Olden days", otherwise I completely agree. I'm just glad to know that we don't use them in the modern times.Oimanoi. that breast mutilator one would hurt like hel...wow. that breast mutilator one would hurt like hell!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7532697103244829892.post-74527912247175910462009-04-28T11:28:00.000-05:002009-04-28T11:28:00.000-05:00THESE PICTURES SRE INCREDIBLE DUDE I CAN'T BELIEVE...THESE PICTURES SRE INCREDIBLE DUDE I CAN'T BELIEVE THAT THEY ACTUALLY USED TO DO THAT STUFF WOW THAT I SSO AWESOME.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com | http://morecoolpictures.blogspot.com/feeds/3522838277903942743/comments/default | 2013-05-18T11:03:20 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
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Ruth over at Once Upon a Feast has been faithfully spearheading Presto Pasta Nights for a few years now. This week PPN is being hosted by Kitchenetta of Got No Milk . I have been eating pasta a little more often lately so have taken a keen interest in what is submitted by all of you talented bloggers. This week I opted for something simple, quick and tasty. Naturally I had to take a walk down memory lane with Ruth and check out the years of history over at Presto Pasta Nights.
This dish was simple to prepare. I just added some fresh ricotta to the final product for that extra creaminess I love without using cream or butter sauces. Cooking the garlic over low heat draws out some of its pungency, leaving behind lots of garlicky taste without the bite.
**Spaghetti with Garlic and Spinach**
based on a recipe from Fine Cooking Magazine
Kosher salt
1/2 cup extra-virgin olive oil
6 - 8 ( I used only 4)large cloves garlic, halved lengthwise and thinly sliced
10 oz baby spinach (10 loosely packed cups)
Freshly ground black pepper
1 lb dried spaghetti
1 cup (about 2 oz) freshly grated Parmigiano-Reggiano
1/2 cup fresh mozzarella cheese
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Bring a large pot of well-salted water to boil.
Combine the oil and garlic in a 12-inch skillet over medium-low heat. Cook, stirring often, until the garlic becomes fragrant and is just beginning to turn golden, 4 - 6 minutes. Add the spinach, 1/2 tsp salt, and 1/4 tsp pepper and cook, tossing gently with tongs, until the spinach begins to wilt, 2 - 3 minutes more. Remove from the heat.
Meanwhile, cook the spaghetti according to package directions until al dente. Reserve 1 cup of the cooking water and drain the pasta.
Return the skillet to medium heat. Add the drained pasta and 1/2 cup of the reserved cooking water. Cook for 1 - 2 minutes, tossing and stirring to combine and blend the flavours. If the pasta isn't tender or seems dry, add the remainder of the cooking water and continue to cook and stir until done. Toss with the ricotta and Parmigiano-Reggiano cheeses. Season to taste with salt and pepper and serve immediately.
Serves 4
My sons could eat pasta every night. This dish would be great with Rob's chicken that you featured this week.
Hélène :)
This looks like childs play to make and yet so full of flavor...a good one, Val!!!
A perfect combination, yummy!
Cheers,
Rosa
this sounds delicious! i have a big bag of spinach that needs to be used! :)
It's these simple pastas that are often the best Val...and who could resist ricotta, mixed in at the end? Yum!
Oooh I love the look of this! So easy too - thanks for sharing. Great photo.
I love simple and quick pasta dishes like that. They are perfect mid week dinners.
Ah yes! Simple yet so delicious. This looks just great especially since I'm sitting here waiting for the wife and kids for dinner....
Lovely pasta with garlic and spinach!
"Eating pasta a little more often" can pack on the lbs., but I can't give it up. My resolution is to include vegetables and bulk the plate up with a ratio of more vegetable to pasta (spinach is a fave). I also use low-fat cheeses and chicken broth to stretch sauces.
Packing on the pounds is why I try to avoid having pasta too often. Using ricotta added the creaminess I love without the added calories of using butter and cream sauces.
Val, you have more discipline than me re packing on pounds. Also, pasta is my daughter's preferred sustenance. I love your dish and your pic. It looks so summery, and we are heading for one of the biggest cold fronts of the year here in CT. Vive la Cape of Storms.
This is my go to dish when I...
a) brain won't function
b) am stressed
c) been so busy I forgot about supper until my tummy is growling
Thanks for sharing with Presto Pasta Nights.
simple and fresh, quick and tasty. this one's a winner, through and through.
This is what it seems to me like pasta was invented for: garlic and spinach that's for me.
So happy it is herb season because this means more pesto action. Can never go wrong with the simplicity and beauty of a nice dish of pasta.
Nicely done!
I just love pasta dishes and this one sounds wonderful Val. Nice for a midweek treat :0)
Rosie x
Is it wrong to admit I could live on pasta? I love the stuff, and your recipe for spaghetti with garlic & spinach is no exception. At least your way, I'd be getting my greens and some iron too!
Gorgeous photos Val. I could eat my weight in that pasta.
Sam
Pasta is always best like this - simple, unfussy, and fresh ingredients. Gorgeous meal, Val.
Yum! I just had something similar yesterday and I am still thinking about it today!
Perfectly simple and delicious, I love it! Pasta is my best friend, next to bread and garlic that is!
Oh wow that looks amazing! Perfect with a glass of white wine!
Yum! This one I have to try!
I love pasta dishes and this sounds wonderful ... packed with flavour!!
Great recipe! I made this today and it was SO good!
I also like to keep an eye on those presto pasta recipes.
I love pasta any way you can make it I'll eat it Val. Simple and delicious is always the best!
I love as you make the pasta Vall, look so nice and tasty, xxGloria
How can you not win when you put together such winners?! Simple and delicious.
This pasta dish looks like a breath of spring - thanks for submitting to Presto Pasta Nights - definitely a recipe worth sharing!
I still have lots of baby spinach in a tub and this would hit the spot, just so.
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Sandra Hopkin Peterson, 78, died Friday, Dec. 7, 2012 in Salt Lake.
She was born August 20, 1934 in Ogden, Utah to John Rawle and Nora Howard Ellis Hopkin.
On Feb. 23, 1954 she married Hal William Peterson in Elko, NV. They were later sealed in the Ogden Temple. He died March 29, 2003.
She worked with her dad at Hopkin’s Café for 25 years. She was talented with music, art, and loved photography. She was an avid reader and was a great historian. Her greatest joy was her family.
Surviving are three daughters and one son, Kristy (John) Foote, Pam (Dave) Oka, Cari (Nick) Larsen all of Salt Lake; Jeff (Dannice) Peterson, Evanston, WY; 16 grandchildren and nine great grandchildren. Also surviving are three sisters and two brothers, Jackie Dawson, Stephanie Nance, Jay Ellis Hopkin, Debby Evans and Steve Hopkin. Her sister-in-law, Pat Peterson is also surviving.
Special thanks to Rosie Amaro, Lori Walker, and Janna Ormond for their compassionate service to our Mother.
Funeral services will be held Friday, Dec. 14, 2012 at 12 noon in the Rock Chapel, 10 W Young Street, Morgan, UT. A viewing will be held Thursday from 6 to 8 p.m. at Westland 9th Ward, 7171 S. 2700 W. West Jordan, UT and Friday from 10 to 11:45 a.m. at the Rock Church in Morgan.
Interment, South Morgan Cemetery.
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and while i''ll write each of them a response, some of the thoughts i'm having may apply to more than just my brave gals who reached out.
so to those of you who may find comfort in someone knowing your pain, here's what i've been thinking....
i think i'm writing this because i may need to reference this in another 15 minutes.
anxiety comes at the strangest times and derails me from what i know to be true.
stupid anxiety.
i rarely (if ever) write about what/who/how my future husband (even that word seems so intense) will be. if anyone knew my former boyfriends, they'd realize that my mercurial gemini nature also applies to my preference in men.
but i have loved and been loved by some pretty remarkable men.
i have felt certain and sure about one and when that relationship ended (due to circumstances bigger than him or me), i couldn't understand the cruelty. i felt destined never to be happy or settled or sure again.
if it was "right," why isn't it always "right?' and why can't it be...
i struggled with that in my prayers for months. it was devastating.
i mourned for months (some of you were fed up with my moping and expressed it in your comments... sorry... i had to go thru that) and then i happily poured myself into another relationship which just ended shy of a year. i worked hard and loved hard in that relationship but it takes two, doesn't it. another devastation.
breakups are hard. circumstantial depression runs deep and the pain can be overwhelming.
as the oldest of 5 girls, i've seen a lot of breakups in my family alone... and with my friends, i've become an expert in breakup advice. some of the relationships that have ended are clearly for the best- but that doesn't mean it hurts any less.
in those cases, i've found that the absence of hope is really what you're mourning- not necessarily the man. when hope is lost, the world feels bleak and despair overwhelms.
i recently had a doctor (totally inappropriate) ask,
"so have you given any thought to maybe giving this [i'm assuming my career?]
all up for something more meaningful?"
wow.
after stifling the urge to slap her and scream out, "NO, I'VE NEVER THOUGHT OF THAT! THANKS FOR THAT LIGHTBULB! ALL THIS TIME, I'VE BEEN PUSHING AMAZING RELATIONSHIPS AWAY IN ORDER TO PRANCE AROUND ON STAGE! YOU CHANGED MY WORLD!!!" i simply said, "i haven't been in the right relationship for marriage and children to be a possibility yet."
to be clear, i've never been on a "husband hunt." to me, success is not in HAVING a husband. rather, success is loving and caring and sharing with a partner who reciprocates.
it's funny, in nyc, people are more interested in what you DO and who you ARE.
what i'm finding in utah, is that people are more interested in whether or not i'm married or have children. all good things- and aspets of life that i desire- but not the benchmark for happiness and certainly not the benchmark for success.
remember, just because someone has a career, it does not mean they do not wish for a family.
but in the meantime, i refuse to feel like my life is less meaningful because i'm not currently coupled.
i keep re-reading elder hale's october conference talk, "waiting upon the Lord: Thy will be done."
read it.
it's his finest.
i could do a whole 5 posts dissecting it.
what struck me the most :
"In the scriptures, the word wait means to hope, to anticipate, and to trust."
"waiting upon the Lord means to "stand fast" and "press forward" in faith, "having a perfect brightness of hope."
hope.
there it is again.
i'm not waiting. i'm continuing to love my life, cherish my relationships, and create moments of fun and spontaneity.
and since i don't exactly have the knowledge, i'm going to go ahead with the hope (and when i don't have the hope, i'm going to pray for that) that the right man for me is taking his sweet time becoming more awesome. because, you see, i don't think my loving Heavenly Father would allow me to feel peace about marrying someone only never to feel that same way again. it doesn't work that way. i think i had that feeling to be a benchmark for what is good and what is right and what to strive for so i don't date any more riff-raff (heaven knows i've done enough of that- i've had some real doozies recently). it happened once. it will happen again.
i may or may not know him now, but i do know this;
he's going to be remarkable.
i will be ready.
so to you lovies with broken and hopeless hearts. i'm adding you to my prayers. i'm praying that your hearts will be hopeful and joyful and you will savor this time alone becoming the brightest you.
because he's coming.
he's worth the wait and he's lucky to have you.
image found here
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this was a perfect post. seriously. you summed up everything i've been thinking in my head for months, but i love how you said it. it takes courage to wait & hope but we have to just keep realizing that there is someone being prepared who is just awesome, right? i am going to tweet about this blog! thanks, natalie!
What a lovely post. And so true. While I am a married gal, I struggle with having children in that we've been married seven years and no kiddos--must be a church record, ha.
I need to remember that hope--that one day, when things are right, that I will become a mother. Even when it's hard to see younger siblings on their second. I'll get there. We will all find our "there".
Thank you for this post!
I love this.
i was just strolling on the beach in Hollywood, Florida today and, while noticing couples together thought, "What makes that woman so special that she gets to have a relationship and not me?" A little melodramatic I know but just wondering why I am alone. Then I read your post. Thank you for your courageous posts and the reminder of hope. Just what I needed to read today.
I love this post too. I feel like so many of my friends have locked themselves into relationships/marriages because they were scared of the next thing, scared of uncertainty, scared of change. I experienced it a little myself--and was engaged after college, then thankfully, we broke up. It was the absolute best thing I've ever done in life, not marrying that guy. And yes, I say "that guy," because in the four years since I've known him, I've come full circle, changed so much, and realized that what I thought I wanted then 1) wasn't what he was, and 2) wasn't what I needed then either.
It's so hard, being an adult... I think people take relationships so, so lightly. We grow up in this princess mentality, just waiting to be swept away, but the hard truth is that we don't do a ton of prep work. How many people truly read, research, know themselves totally, before lunging headfirst into a relationship that could possibly result in a marriage? My boyfriend and I have talked a lot about how people prep for SO, SO much in life... studying for exams, admittance to schools, job prep, etc... but the most important thing in life is meeting your mate, and so few people actually do the prep work. That said, breakups are still heartwrenching--even when the coupling isn't what should exist forever and ever. Recognizing something failed, is hard. I wish more people would be vocal about how being in your 20s/30s and unmarried doesn't mean you're flawed and undeserving...
I'm beyond rambling now. I could write for hours on this... bottom line? fantastic post. And prayers to you, too. I wish there was an expiration date on heartache. xo
this is sweet. and you are amazing. i LOVE that talk. and you have TONS for hope for---and so does the lucky guy who gets to be with you!
This. is. perfect. Thank you for sharing.
I surely don't know you at all... stumbled across your blog years ago and have read it since (I especially love your Bachelor & Bachelorette posts and lol with you). For some reason you are an inspiration to ME. I got married at 19 and while I have grown up a lot since then (I'm 30 now), you are much more brave than I've ever been. You have such a different life and different view of the world than I've ever had. Thank you for sharing that. Just keep being you.
This post is simply beautiful. Everything worthwhile is worth waiting for. I have been single most of my life, and in this time I have grown to be truly happy with myself and become a better me. The man that's right for me will be lucky to have that, and I will not settle for anything less.
This is by far my favorite post of yours.
This was simply lovely and sweet and wonderful. I'm struggling with the wait myself. I go from moments where I'm very hopeful to others where I think "I will die alone." I'll reread Elder Hales' beautiful talk and get back on the hope wagon with you. Thank you so much for your thoughts today.
Your advice is always amazing and works on many levels.
Beautiful post!
Excellent post! How I wish our culture (LDS) would understand this a little better. I admire you, Natalie. <3
I always thought Alma 32 was about faith, but reading it again a few years ago, I think it's about waiting like you said. I agree that the Utah culture says we must be weird if we aren't married by 23. I say, I'm glad I waited and glad I took time to develop myself and see the world and I will be better for it for my future children. Faith is to not get what we want right away, but it is waiting for the right timing so we can appreciate it when it comes. You are amazing and I know God is looking out for you!
Such true words and good advice. I've been thinking about that talk too and how "waiting upon the Lord" can also mean serving Him, like the waitstaff in a restaurant.!
Bravo! Well said. Well. Said.
AMEN!
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Thanks.
I really appreciate your thoughts and the link to Elder Hales.
This was a beautiful post, thank you! I'm so glad you reminded me of Elder Hales' talk.
well said.
Love you Nat!!!!I envy the way you write!! Your words are simply beautiful. You make me smile.
I need to come visit!! Miss you! Let me know when you are ready to have a friend bombard on your life for a few days! Muah!!!
I passed this one on. Nice job.Day
Day...uh, that was the weird "please prove you're not a robot" thing...
Thank you so much for writing this.
how lovely. good things to remember!
such a wonderful post! hope is what I have been missing lately and you just reminded me that it is what I need more than anything. thank you.
LOVE this post. I'm sending the link to all my girls. Sometimes, we need that little reminder of hope and to "let go and let God." Thanks for offering that today.
So having a husband and children aren't benchmarks for happiness and success? I have both and I work very hard at being a wife and a mother. That is who I am. That is what I do. I think having a career is lovely as well, but I don't see anything wrong with gauging success based on a successful marriage and raising children.
I loved your post - it touched my quivering, bruised heart. And made me remember hope.
And from your word hope, I printed the rest of your post and pinned on the wall of my office to remind me to keep my heart open as miracles do happen every day.
A warm hug from Belgium!fow
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Extremely well said. I also think this is my favorite of all your posts. Very inspired. Thank you.
This post reminded me how much I love you and your blog. Thanks for sharing...you really are amazing. I love your attitude and outlook on life.
I remember feeling shocked by that when I moved from NY to Utah- you said it so well- NY is all about what you do, and in Utah all anyone can ask is if you are married! It's a trial that's hard because so few understand. When other people are having a hard time people bring them casseroles and cookies but when you are single and your heart is hurting you have to convince everyone you are doing just fine so they will stop the stupid comments!! Argh. I love your outlook and your hope. So necessary for so many stages of life, and so beautifully said in that talk.
beautiful.
This is just what I needed today! Thank you.
thank you natalie! i may need to bookmark this post for later too ;)
it's true. he's out there for each of us. some of us have found him. some of us found him and married him and he left. and some of us are moving forward with hope with broken hearts.
thank you for following your dreams. you are an inspiration to those of us stuck in the mud.
That was perfect. And i love that talk as well!
what a great post. you put it so beautifully. wonderful advice!
--shelby
As far as the Utah culture thing--I agree. I feel like there are big things I'm accomplishing and things I'm pursuing right now that aren't "up to par" for a lot of people (aka I'm not married... no children). I'm constantly asked when I'll be getting married.. or my favorite--at wedding receptions--"You're next!".. but it hasn't happened for me.. yet. People can be really tactless and forget that things happen in the Lord's time, not society's time.
I also find a lot of comfort reading Dieter F. Uchtdorf's talk, Forget Me Not. "Forget not to be happy now." I like to think of hope as having trust and assurance that promised blessings are coming. Sometimes I forget that. Thank you for the reminder! Natalie, thank you for being such a great role model and following your dreams!
Your timing is impeccable. Last night I had a break up talk (his choice... not mine). I came home, opened my google reader, and cried as I read your words. Thanks for saying something that I needed to remember.
This is exactly what I needed to hear. You pinpointed the most painful part of a breakup perfectly: the loss of hope.
It's so tricky to hold onto the hope and everything you learned from a relationship while letting the person you shared it with go. Thank you so much for sharing!
seriously you couldn't have said this any better! Thank you!
Oh Nat. I just love you! And of course i just have to add my amen to everything you said. I have found it is most important to be happy with myself than to be sad that I am not in a relationship with someone who isn't even worth my time. Love our chats and I will continue to send you sappy love songs that bring me hope. Ha. I'm an idiot.
Also i will send you men if i ever have any.
thanks Natalie! ...i needed to hear that
Natalie, it has been a long time. It is good to have a heart to heart, though from far away. You sound the same and still are so hopeful. It is good to hear from you and to see you give so much confidence to so many.
Natalie,
I wanted to write you the day you wrote this - which happened to be the day my boyfriend broke up with me.
My story was shockingly similar to yours - and I know that anxiety. I have the same question about why isn't it "always right" if it was "right" for a while.
Your post made me cry and it also made me feel slightly better that someone out there had the same experience.
Thank you for this post. So very, very much.
"hope is anything but wishful. It's expectation based on experience" -Thomas S. Monson
it's one of my favorite quotes regarding hope, directly in regards to the future. thanks for the post.
Well done and thank you. Something that has helped me lately is to recognize "panic" in my thought processes- and then deliberately change it to hope and faith and courage. I love the thought of us all praying for each other. Consider the favor returned. :)
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My husband sometimes glazes over when I'm talking to him. I see the light go out. He's standing there, but he's gone. I get annoyed, he gets defensive, and thus begins the dance into the Communication Fun House. EVERYTHING gets distorted.
But today I am vindicated! Today I'm excited! Today I am happy to report that there is a REASON for this!
From your REALLY happy motivational speaker Linda Larsen, who LOVES to talk!!!
Linda, I don't know if this is really good news or justification! I bet your weather muffin would vote justification!
How fascinating! And true in my household for sure. For every 50 words I speak I definitely hear one grunt in response!
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