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A dozen inmates wait patiently in hard plastic chairs arranged in tight rows. They fix their stares on the steel double doors that occasionally bang open to admit a new face, usually a lawyer with a heavy briefcase. The visitation center lobby at the federal prison in downtown Miami hums with the idle conversations of prisoners in do-rags and shaggy beards. Their voices are muffled by the room's carpeting. Forearm tattoos and forest green jumpsuits seem to bleed together under the powerful fluorescent light.
A middle-age white man sits upright yet relaxed, alone in the front row. His gray hair is carefully parted around a bald spot, his glasses folded in a breast pocket. He smiles faintly, nods, and offers a half-wave with his right hand. This is Edward Bobb.
A squat, bald guard with clanging gold bracelets leads Bobb to a small anteroom furnished with bolted-down tables and chairs. Shortly after taking a seat, the Miami Gardens man starts sipping vending machine coffee and, unprompted, begins a steady flood of commentary. Rubbing his stubbly chin, he holds forth on creativity, mythology, Dada pioneer Marcel Duchamp, beat novelist William Burroughs, the musique concrte movement, and the bullet to the gut that forever altered his perception of the world.
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"It was my mitzvah," he says, using the Hebrew term for good deed.
In the cold light, Bobb's skin looks sallow, his eyes deep-set. Wrinkles and red splotches climb from his chin to his forehead. He pauses frequently to consider a question or concept. Occasionally he reaches for the paper coffee cup as though it might offer an answer. "Every day, every moment is a creative outlet," he says, even in prison. Then, weighing his words, he adds, "But I don't want to be cavalier about it.... I'm just an artist."
Indeed Bobb is an internationally known avant-garde sound and video artist who, during the past decade, has been called "one of Miami's foremost experimental musicians" by the Miami Herald, "the father of Miami's experimental scene" by Spanish journalist Vidal Romero, and an "aural terrorist" by this newspaper.
The man once known as Needle, Twonky, and Johnny Zhivago is now known as prisoner number 66046-004. Since February, the closest Bobb, age 52, has come to video art are the occasional Hollywood movies -- like Happy Feet -- shown on the three television sets in his cell block's common area.
Bobb was convicted this past February of illegally downloading thousands of images of child pornography. But in fact his crime was nothing more than what he has done for decades -- push the bounds of artistic expression. Depending on the sentence a judge is scheduled to hand down June 1, the day after this newspaper is printed, Bobb might spend the rest of his life in jail -- leaving behind a disabled son, a gravely ill fiancée, and elderly parents.
The case has left some in the local art community bewildered.
"He doesn't seem like he's harmful in any way," says Bobb's onetime fellow art class student Paul Gaeta. "Images? I mean we're polluted by images every day from every angle. Especially with how violent we are as a culture, to throw a man in jail for looking at images?"
When she has the strength to sit up in her queen-size four-poster bed, Rebecca Salame either talks on one of the several phones scattered around her room or types letters on her laptop. From the second floor of her townhouse in rural New Jersey, she can look out on a small garden, but she rarely ventures outside or downstairs; she's too weak from chemotherapy to handle the staircase alone. Dozens of DVD movies -- a gift from Edward Bobb -- are her main source of entertainment. The two have known each other for more than two decades. They are engaged. Days before Bobb's arrest this past August 25, Salame was diagnosed with a rare form of lymphoma. A strip of hair on her scalp -- the only wisps left after chemo -- looks like a Mohawk, and her fingernails only recently grew back. She wears a mask when friends visit and recently developed shingles on her eyes, making it increasingly difficult to type up the letters she has been sending to colleagues and friends of Bobb's, asking them to petition the court on his behalf.
The phone rings frequently and e-mails pour in from all over the world, Salame says. People want to know how she's holding up. They want to know about Bobb.
The two met in Miami 23 years ago and began dating a few months later. The relationship ended when Salame decided she wanted a more stable life than Bobb could offer at the time. It was rekindled in 2000, after Salame's husband left. While the right time for a wedding never presented itself, Bobb and Salame have been engaged dozens of times, by Salame's count. "It's a running joke we have. He's given me a lot of rings. I have a collection."
Edward Charles Bobb was born in Evansville, Indiana, in 1954 and moved to South Florida the following year when his father Louis, a World War II submariner and executive at the Sherwin-Williams paint company, was transferred here. The family at first rented a place on Flagler Street and 57th Avenue, a few blocks from a community of Seminole Indians and their small tourist village.
Florida's Turnpike and the Palmetto Expressway had yet to be built, and I-95 was just an idea. Within a few years, the Bobbs moved into a three-bedroom ranch house in the Norwood area, now Miami Gardens. It was sleepy and safe. "You could leave your house without locking the door," Bobb's mother, Polly, says. She remembers her son's youth as happy and peaceful.
Bobb went to Norwood middle and high schools, where he played saxophone and edited the school newspaper's feature section despite his dyslexia. He admired gonzo journalist Hunter Thompson -- who was just making it big around then -- and reveled in art classes.
As a teenager during the height of the Vietnam era, Bobb presented his mother with a silkscreen image of yellowish slats against a brown background. He called it Cages. Polly, a devout Episcopalian and member of an evangelical group called Daughters of the King, was bothered by the work. She assumed it related to prisoners of war, but Bobb offered no explanation. "I said, Why can't you do a tree with a stream by it?'" she remembered recently.
The prim, bifocal-wearing 78-year-old, who has lived in the same ranch house for 50 years, admits she hoped her son would outgrow art. Instead he delved deeper into the creative depths, splicing film images and experimenting with sound frequencies his mother found hard to appreciate. "It would be difficult for me," she says, "but the Beatles were difficult for me."
It wasn't only Polly who was puzzled. Surrounded by an aura of meditative intensity, Edward was seen as eccentric and somewhat distant by many who knew him. "You can just sense a lot of mystery to him," says James Garcia, a sound artist who worked with Bobb in later years. "He's a mental person. He's very into dissecting things."
On his own after a one-year stint at Miami-Dade Community College, he began to move within Miami's burgeoning, off-the-radar avant-garde art scene in the late Seventies and early Eighties. He exhibited and performed at the Center of Contemporary Art (now the Museum of Contemporary Art) in North Miami, the Art and Culture Center of Hollywood, and galleries all over town.
He met Mary Deaton, who did clerical work, and they had a son, Xeno, in 1978. There were complications during the birth, and the boy was born mentally disabled. Two years later they wed. They rented several apartments in different parts of the city and lived a bohemian existence.
Edward made a name for himself with small electro-punk outfits -- the Happiness Boys, the Neutronics, and Early Warning System -- he formed with like-minded musicians. Among their influences, they cited African rhythms, rock, free jazz, and composers such as Stockhausen. Bobb used his computer as an instrument, manipulating channels of sound and accompanying bass lines. There were processed horns, synthesizers, kalimbas, and marimbas. Anything was worth exploring, from playing an album cover through a turntable needle to video feedback.
In 1983 a magazine called Boston Rock described the Happiness Boys, one of Bobb's more sustained projects, as a "demented team" that played "psychotically contorted" music. "They maim delicacy with decay, calm with tense anger," the reviewer wrote.
"It was pretty outrageous," recalls Steve Malagodi, former host of New Music Miami on erstwhile radio station WLRN-FM (91.3). "It was fast. It was loud. It was very high-tech for the time."
The Happiness Boys were incendiary live, pushing club and art gallery listeners to the brink, says Malagodi. "Frankly if they were interested in response, they were interested in outrage." Audiences occasionally threw things at Bobb, but more often they walked out.
Those who stuck around were part of a small, close-knit experimental art scene, says Mary Luft, founder of Tigertail Productions. Tigertail's inaugural performance series in 1984 featured the Happiness Boys playing to about 200 people on an old concrete soundstage downtown. "Vodka was free, and orange juice was a dollar," Luft says with a laugh.
Bobb was a mainstay on the scene, always ready with a new band set, sound art project, or video piece. He composed and played silent film scores for Alliance Cinemas. He was a DJ at Cameo nightclub on South Beach and pioneered an early form of turntable scratching, altering the surface of records with sandpaper and using needle drops for percussion.
"I think when Edward did a show, he didn't give a fuck, says Miami drum 'n' bass DJ Otto Von Schirach. "He was like, Bring the madness -- who cares about money.'"
Bobb came across as pretentious and aloof to some, wise and enigmatic to others. Marilyn Gottlieb Roberts, organizer of the Miami Ways Music Festival, later the New Music America Festival, recalls her first impression: "He had a kind of innocence that young kids have, but he wasn't immature."
In 1983 Bobb was featured on National Public Radio's Meet the Composer series, and things were looking up. But by the end of the decade, his relationship with Mary had deteriorated. In 1987 they divorced. A judge gave primary custody of Xeno to the artist, according to court records. Part of the reason, Salame says, was that Xeno had been found with bruises likely inflicted by Mary's boyfriend. Mary did not return calls from New Times.
As Xeno's primary caregiver, Bobb was devoted and energetic in engaging his son, according to acquaintances. The two went on field trips, devised inventive games, and worked on art projects together, including several videos -- an ironic fact given what Bobb would be accused of years later. "He did a heroic job [with his son]," Gottlieb Roberts says.
About to go onstage at a sold-out club in Tokyo's Shibuya district, Bobb and Otto Von Schirach looked to each other for last-minute inspiration. As hundreds sat patiently on the concrete floor, waiting for the performance to begin, Schirach, then age 24, asked Bobb how he should warm up the crowd.
"Get on the mike and talk like Satan," Bobb shot back.
Schirach was momentarily stunned but took the command for what it was -- another cryptic piece of a puzzle. Bobb was ready to delve into new worlds and bring along the audience -- willing or not. "Everyone said, guard the mixer -- it's going to get brutal," Schirach recalls. "The sound man was scared."
That was 2001. Around the same time, Bobb began experimenting with the work that would ultimately land him in court. After watching a 60 Minutes program about a halfway house for abused girls, he began thinking about a project that might explore the unspeakable act of incest. He had been reading Freud's Totem and Taboo, and began to imagine an art piece combining the two concepts.
He would examine the subtle, commonplace exploitation of child sexuality -- stick-thin, pubescent-looking underwear models and teenage sex symbols. He would also delve into the shadowy underworld of child pornography. It began with a few Google searches and led to the download of 3500 sexually explicit images, including 50 movie files, onto his home computer.
Unbeknownst to him, Bobb was being watched. In June 2005 the FBI in Oklahoma received information that the Website for the Great Plains Child Resource and Referral Center, a child-care advocacy group, had been hacked. Someone had set up a portal to a massive cache of child pornography. Although investigators couldn't determine who posted the images, they traced thousands of downloads from the site to apartment 801 in the Olympia Building on Flagler Street and Second Avenue.
This past August 4, FBI agents entered the converted Twenties-era office building, which also houses the Olympia Theater. They knocked on the yellowish-white door of the eighth-floor apartment and presented the startled tenant with a search warrant. The agents seized two Apple PowerBook laptops, two external hard drives, and a CPU tower. They returned three weeks later to arrest the tenant: Edward Bobb.
He had no criminal record at the time and had never been sued, according to county court records and a background search through the Florida Department of Law Enforcement. None of the sixteen friends and acquaintances of Bobb's questioned for this story ever suspected him of molesting or behaving improperly around a child.
Bobb was released within hours on a $150,000 bond. His parents put up their house as collateral. The artist surrendered his passport and was forbidden access to computers and cell phones. He agreed to undergo counseling and avoid all contact with minors, including his fianc'e's teenage daughter, Elissa, who considers Bobb her second father.
Soon after his arrest, Bobb hired attorneys Jonathan Schwartz and Brittney Horstman. Schwartz is a world traveler and Kabbalah acolyte, a fast-talking foil to the younger and more easygoing Horstman.
Because a 2006 federal law makes all viewing of child pornography illegal, except by a trial jury or under a federal agent's supervision, Horstman had to drive to an FBI office in North Miami to view the downloads from Bobb's computer. She sat in front of a monitor in a cubicle for three or four hours a day over several days. An agent working nearby kept tabs on Horstman's visits and escorted her on bathroom trips.
There were images of prepubescent children being pinned down and penetrated, along with happy-looking photographs of kids playing at the beach. There were nude portraits and images of oral sex with a six-month-old infant. In one photo series, a four-year-old was forced to perform oral sex on a man. "I had never seen anything close to it," Horstman says. "When someone says child pornography, I guess I had a picture [in my mind], but I didn't really know."
The images would have become something completely different in the Totem and Taboo project, according to Bobb. He is adamant that no image would have been recognizable as child pornography. (In fact government prosecutors acknowledged during the trial that investigators found on Bobb's computers altered images of child pornography fitting the artist's description of "video painting.") Bobb says he had envisioned multiple channels of video on twelve monitors. There would be strobe lighting and audio from the 60 Minutes show that featured one girl describing how her stepbrothers had tried to rape her. The audio would trigger melodic tones, making something horrific vaguely pleasant.
One monitor would feature speeding images -- child porn altered, faded, turned, and layered so as to be unidentifiable -- while two other monitors would flash file names. "This became a journey into the abyss," he says. "To me, this was documentation. These are just images that are there. I didn't think about repercussions. It's confusing to me that art and freedom of expression is not a defense, or that any particular defense is not a defense."
Sitting at a table surrounded by orange traffic cones on a brick-paved street in the Ybor City neighborhood of Tampa, Gustavo Matamoros is oblivious to the cars that occasionally rattle by. As he taps on his laptop's keyboard, a massive image of two cigars -- or perhaps one cigar burning from both ends -- is projected onto more than a dozen scrim fabric screens hung from an old building's brick archways. Four large hidden speakers cast disembodied sounds -- bird calls maybe, something akin to an electronic dog yelping, lobotomized chicken clucks -- that echo off the brick faades on the block.
Several passersby, elderly white tourists with digital cameras dangling from their necks and middle-age black women out for an evening on the town, stop to look and listen. One heavyset lady turns to her girlfriends and asks loudly: "This a haunted house?" The audience, a group of about twenty -- dotted with black frame glasses and artsy tattoos -- smoke cigarettes on the curb, chat quietly, and check cell phone screens. Some listen intently. A young man wearing a blue blazer pauses to take in the scene. He turns to someone leaning against a wall. "Is this art or something?" he asks with wry smile.
The sound technician for the day, Charles Taylor, admits he was puzzled when Matamoros contacted him about setting up the sound system. Generally he does only concerts, bigger shows with one or two channels of sound, nothing like the four-channel system Matamoros wanted. "I thought he was crazy when he first called me," Taylor says. "Art? Yeah, okay, whatever, dude." Then, looking around, Taylor adds, "Am I missing something? There's nobody here."
There is a limited but devoted following for sound art, Matamoros says after the performance. Because the South Florida scene is small compared to New York or other major cities, there is more freedom to invent, he explains in a thick Venezuelan accent. "What Ed does and what I do is Miami music, whether people know it or not. Cuban music is Cuban music, not Miami music."
Before his arrest, Bobb sometimes would show up an hour before a performance with nothing prepared, Matamoros explains. He would spend time at his computer thinking about how to tailor the sound to the space. In a recent video piece titled Mandala, Bobb interspersed rapid-fire images of single flowers with dull urban street scenes so that the flowers morphed into kaleidoscopic fireworks. Bobb often layered sounds and pop-culture flotsam such as TV commercials, newscasts, and religious programs. In his apartment-cum-studio he stored a massive archive of videotapes, DVDs, and CDs that included everything from mundane government meetings to ridiculous Japanese pop songs.
Matamoros says Bobb had never spoken with him about child pornography or the Totem and Taboo project, so he was puzzled by news of the charges against his longtime colleague. "I think he may have been naive, but I have a hard time believing there was any malice," Matamoros says. "For me, an artist is someone who investigates. There's the need for the artist to go into a subject equally as a scientist goes into a subject."
Bobb never goes into a subject hesitantly, Matamoros adds. "It's always about extending things. He's interested in the edge. It's not very interesting if you can go 200 miles per hour in a Ferrari. What would be interesting is if you could go 200 miles per hour on a Vespa."
Bobb's style didn't sit well with everyone. Zach Danesh, a 21-year-old artist, recalls taking an art survey class alongside Bobb at the New World School of the Arts. Bobb was studying for his master's -- he had taught film studies at Miami-Dade Community College until the degree was made mandatory for professors. "A lot of the other kids in class didn't like him," Danesh says. They thought he was pretentious, overly cynical, impossible to please.
On the other hand, Danesh admired Bobb's experience, knowledge, and generosity (Bobb cooked meals for Danesh when the young student was scraping for cash). And he was amused by the artist's daily "uniform" of geometric eyeglass frames, oversize collared shirts, straight-leg jeans, and Adidas sneakers. All the same, Bobb was difficult to understand. After a few drinks at a Miami Art Museum opening, Danesh recalls, Bobb turned to him and reflected on his long career. "He said there's no point to life," Danesh remembers. "It's just chaos, and art makes no sense of it. It's just something to occupy your time."
Bobb often speaks in riddles of a sort. But, says his fiancée Salame, he can't be mistaken for a misanthrope or, as his trial might suggest to some, a pedophile. "He's very different from anyone you'll ever meet," Salame says. "He doesn't see the world in the same way." Of Bobb's Totem and Taboo project, she says, "He's picking up a rock and he's saying, Hey, look what's on this rock; look at it closely, all the disgusting things.' He's showing everyone the dark side of that garden path."
Twenty-five years ago, the U.S. Supreme Court placed child porn beyond First Amendment protection, stating that such material is "intrinsically related to the sexual abuse of children" and its prohibition a "legitimate reach" of the law. In the years since, sentences have grown more severe and judges less willing to hear defenses based on artistic expression, scholarly research, or journalism. "Possession of child pornography is illegal regardless of motive," says Rick Louis, spokesman for the Web-based Association of Sites Advocating Child Protection. "Even if someone seeks out and downloads [child porn] for the sole and specific purpose of reporting it to law enforcement, they are still breaking the law. Therefore anyone who pursues illegal material even for purposes of art or research should consider the terrible risk of being labeled a pedophile."
That label has stalked more than a few artists in the years since the Supreme Court's landmark ruling on child pornography. In one prominent case, FBI agents in 1990 raided the San Francisco studio of internationally acclaimed photographer Jock Sturges, seizing equipment, negatives, and photographs he had taken of nudist families. Sturges was never indicted, but he ran up a hefty legal bill during the fifteen-month investigation. Grand juries in Alabama and Tennessee did, however, indict Barnes & Noble on child pornography and obscene materials counts for selling Sturges's book Radiant Identities. The chain reached a deal with Tennessee authorities to display the book in blinder racks above children's eye level. The Alabama case was dismissed on a technicality.
In another oft-cited case, Detroit police raided the house of Marilyn Zimmerman, a photography professor at Wayne State University. They had been tipped off by a janitor claiming that a contact sheet containing images of Zimmerman's three-year-old daughter in the bathtub "looked like porn" to him. The prosecutor's investigation ended after a nationwide response from colleagues, curators, and scholars attested to Zimmerman's significance as an American artist and educator, and to the historical context for works of art that have shown nudes, including children.
Perhaps the most famous recent case involved Pete Townshend, guitarist for British supergroup The Who. Townshend's arrest in January 2003 came after he admitted downloading child porn while researching a memoir about his own abuse as a juvenile. He was cleared four months later, following a lengthy police investigation by Scotland Yard, although his name remained on a national sex offender register. A year ago on his Website, www.petetownshend-whohe.blogspot.com, Townshend wrote, "On the issue of child abuse, the climate in the press, the police, and in government in the UK at the moment is one of a witch hunt."
In the United States, child pornography is defined under federal law as the visual depiction of minors "engaged in a sex act" or the "lascivious depictions of [a minor's] genitals." In the past few years, thousands of Americans have been tried in child pornography cases. The level and intensity of the prosecutions reflects society's "growing anxiety" about child abuse and more frequent news stories about sexual predators, according to Marjorie Heins, founder and director of the Free Expression Policy Project at New York University's Brennan Center for Justice. "It becomes very hard to have a coherent conversation about it without temperatures rising."
In Miami, U.S. Attorney Alex Acosta has made clear his intention to prioritize the prosecution of pornographers. Meeting with FBI supervisors in 2005, the then-interim U.S. Attorney surprised some by placing smut of all kinds toward the top of his enforcement list.
Soon after Bobb's arrest, his lawyers began pondering a defense based on freedom of expression. They felt it might apply in this case because of his long, law-abiding history in the community and his boundary-testing experimentation. They repeatedly mentioned his artistic work during plea negotiations. "Edward Bobb is not the person this law was created for," Horstman says. "His purpose was not to harm anybody, but actually to create more of a social awareness about the issue."
Unimpressed, government prosecutors filed a motion in January to prohibit the defense. "Moreover, whether defendant identifies his avant-garde use of child pornography ... simply has no legal significance on his culpability," the motion stated. "[The artist defense] would improperly allow defendant to turn the trial into a symposium on the First Amendment."
Judge Ursula Ungaro-Benages agreed, forcing Horstman and Schwartz to argue instead that evidence did not show beyond a shadow of a doubt that Bobb had actually downloaded the images. Maybe his son, Xeno, had done it, they suggested to the jury.
The trial, which began February 12, lasted four days. Assistant U.S. Attorney Norman Hemming insisted on showing the jury some of the most disturbing images recovered from Bobb's computers. The prosecution also called a half-dozen witnesses, including the FBI agents who searched Bobb's computers and arrested him. There was also an official from the Oklahoma children's group that unwittingly hosted child pornography on its Website, as well as someone from Bobb's Internet service provider.
Schwartz and Horstman called no witnesses. "Who would we call?" Horstman says. "Unless there's someone who's going to say, Yeah, it's my child pornography,' which is unlikely." The trial's final day stretched into the evening on Valentine's Day. Horstman sensed a growing impatience as she made her closing argument. "I remember thinking all these women and men are wanting to get home for their Valentine's Day."
The jury took only an hour and a half to reach a verdict. Tomorrow Judge Ungaro-Benages will decide Bobb's sentence. Federal guidelines mandate a minimum of five years in prison.
While most of Bobb's friends and colleagues support him, they've also struggled to understand. Some wonder how well they actually knew the artist.
"The whole thing is extremely uncomfortable," says Charles Recher, who taught film studies with Bobb at MDCC. He speaks deliberately between frequent pauses, saying "you know" in almost every other sentence. "He always worked with images from the culture, transforming images."
Recher says he hadn't seen Bobb much in recent years. He hadn't heard anything about child porn. Although Recher wrote a letter to the court about Bobb's upstanding character and his contributions to the Miami arts community, he admits, "There are still a lot of things about it that I don't understand."
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Stephanie Garcia, a fellow student of Bobb's at the New World school, says she can't begin to understand the case either. It seems another inexplicable piece of an unusual puzzle. "He's like this 18-year-old stuck in a 50-year-old's body," Garcia says of her soft-spoken classmate.
"To think of him as a geeky pornographer is just unthinkable," says Marilyn Gottlieb Roberts. "He just doesn't seem creepy. He doesn't seem damaged."
Some are too disturbed by the charges to speak about the case. Responses like that of Kevin Arrow, chief registrar at Miami's Museum of Contemporary Art, are typical. "I'd prefer that you just cross me off the list and move to the next name," Arrow says when asked about Bobb.
It's not surprising that Bobb's case makes some uncomfortable, says Gustavo Matamoros. "The importance of artists in a community is that they're people whose job is to challenge."


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Obama: Putin will lose — eventually
BRUSSELS — President Barack Obama said Wednesday that Vladimir Putin is just the latest in a series of history's losers, comparing the Russian leader to those who came up short in World War I, World War II, the Cold War, the U.S. civil rights movement, apartheid and other major 20th-century struggles.
Time's on his side, Obama argued. People always struggle to be free and eventually succeed — and they will in Russia too, even if, for now, it's ruled by a flouter of international law and obstinate believer in "that recycled maxim that might, somehow, makes right."
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Putin — who waited six years between the last time he grabbed land from another country and marching into Crimea — seems to feel the clock's in his corner. His grand ambitions to reunite all ethnic Russians under one flag and reassert Russian dominance in the world are clear — but as a man who's 61 and been in power for 14 years already, he has time to wait for Western passions to fade, and the next opportunity to arrive.
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A day after dismissing Russia as a "regional power," Obama's speech — delivered in the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussels, full of aspirational rhetoric and billed by the White House as a major address — focused on the global challenge that Putin has created in Ukraine.
"Russia's leadership is challenging truths that only a few weeks ago seemed self-evident: that in the 21st century, the borders of Europe cannot be redrawn with force, that international law matters; and that people and nations can make their own decisions about their future," Obama said.
Putin might have hoped that the world wouldn't care or will eventually stop paying attention, Obama said, but "that kind of casual indifference would ignore the lessons that are written in the cemeteries of this continent. It would allow the old way of doing things to gain a foothold in this young century. And that message would be heard — not just in Europe but in Asia and the Americas, in Africa and the Middle East."
( PHOTOS: 20 great quotes on Putin and Obama)
The president used the platform of the European capital to deliver his rebuttal to the anti-Western speech to the Russian Duma Putin delivered last week, fresh off of signing the paperwork on Crimea. Obama knocked back Putin's argument that the circumstances surrounding the Iraq War were the same as those in Crimea, even as he acknowledged that he himself had opposed the war as wrong. He called Russian claims of American instigation in Maidan Square "absurd," adding, "no amount of propaganda can make right something that the world knows is wrong."
And in a direct smack at Putin's ego, Obama dismissed the idea of a new Cold War because, "unlike the Soviet Union, Russia leads no bloc of nations, no global ideology."
"Russia," Obama said at a press conference with the presidents of the E.U. Council and European Commission, "stands alone."
( Also on POLITICO: McCain: Russia is a 'gas station')
A 21st-century tear-down-this-wall speech, this wasn't. For all his condemnation, while Obama ruled out military force as an option in Russia, he didn't do much to explain precisely what he or the world should do next, other than threatening even more intense sanctions and isolation which, he insisted, must come "together" — a word he repeated six times — from the international community.
But Obama spoke of Crimea's annexation as an established fact, making clear that the end to the crisis he now seeks isn't about re-establishing Ukrainian territory but is a more constrained effort to make sure Putin doesn't move troops farther into the eastern part of the country, that he talks to the government in Kiev and that he lets Ukrainians go through with their scheduled upcoming elections.

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Covering the Bases: Game 36
FIRST: Travis Snider continues to pull himself out of his early-season slump. That was a big storyline within this 10-game road trip for the Jays.
While Aaron Hill and Adam Lind have struggled, Snider has been picking up some of the slack. On the trip, he hit .382 with five doubles a homer and six runs, reaching base in nine games.
In Wednesday's 3-2 win, Snider accounted for all of the offense with an RBI double in the fifth and a two-run homer in the seventh. Both hits came against Red Sox knuckleballer Tim Wakefield.
Snider said he began using a heavier bat after grounding out in his first meeting with Wakefield in the third inning. Snider wanted to try something — anything — to counter Wake's 65 mph pitch. The adjustment worked and Snider and the rest of the Jays now have an off-day to help put facing Wakefield further in the past.
More on Snider on bluejays.com on Thursday.
SECOND: Last night, I suggested that Wednesday seemed like a good time to give Hill and Lind a day off. Manager Cito Gaston agreed about Lind (.086 on road trip), sitting him and giving Randy Ruiz a start as the DH. Hill (.154 on the trip) was still in the lineup, but at the last minute was pulled and John McDonald got the start at second.
Hill was pulled due to tightness in his right hamstring. Before the game, Hill said the injury was not giving him any issues. Gaston also noted that Hill hadn't complained about it at all. Following the game, Gaston said Hill admitted that it was bothering him a little, but the second baseman again told reporters that he was fine.
So, consider Hill day to day. And expect him back in the lineup on Friday.
THIRD: When Roy Halladay was with the Blue Jays, one of his best traits was righting the ship after a tough loss. Now, this is admittedly a small sample size, but Shaun Marcum is 2-0 with a 1.77 ERA in three starts following a Toronto loss this season. That's the kind of production the Jays want from their No. 1.
Against the Red Sox, Marcum said he did not boast his best changeup. Instead, he got ahead with curveballs, used a strong cutter and a well-located four-seamer to fashion seven shutout innings. After Jays starters issued 18 walks over 16 1/3 innings over the past four games, Marcum's outing was a breath of fresh air.
HOME: The Jays did not escape Fenway without some drama. In the ninth inning, homeplate ump Dale Scott called slugger David Ortiz out on strikes — on a pitch that was caught well outside. That resulted in the inning's second out instead of a walk that would've put two runners on base with Boston down, 3-1.
Ortiz was asked later if he reviewed the replay: "I don't want to. I don't have to. Thank God I wasn't hitting right-handed, because that would have hit me in the ribs." Adrian Belte also had a similar call go against him in the subsequent at-bat, leading to Boston manager Terry Francona being ejected for arguing.
Beltre then singled to center to cut Toronto's lead to one run. Gregg got out of it, collecting his 10th save, but some debatable calls definitely helped the Blue Jays' cause in that final frame. Toronto departs Boston coming off a 7-3 road trip and the Jays are now 13-6 away from home this year.
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Marcum has had a quality start in 7 of 8 appearances this season, the same as Halladay. Nice.
I agree with you Jordon that Aaron Hill needed a day off but we must not forget he has played every day (19 days straight) since coming off the DL and until Monday he had played well in the field. Also it is not only Aaron struggling at the plate this year (watched Yankee game last night and they were complaining about Jeter not hitting too).So lets give Aaron a chance and I know he will get his timing back and start hitting home runs soon and it is only May so he has lots of time to get 20 or more homers.
IMO, calls were missed on both sides in this series and are always part of the game. Only Boston and New York feel that all close calls should go in their favor and they whine like a bunch of stuck pigs when one actually goes against them, particularly Ortiz with special training from Youkilis-da master of the whine in the AL.
Marcum has always been a great starter and when he originally became a starter actually had better performances than Doc for some time. So I never doubted, providing he was healthy and 100% back, that he'd perform at the high level he's performing at.
The misconception on Snider-Moonraker is he's now starting to hit. The real difference is the ones he's hitting are starting to drop in now, unlike April. His babip in April was ridiculously low and still is, although now its only about 70 points low versus 200+ in April. His BA really should now be at around .280-.290-all things being equal.
However, I don't think any 22 year old has ever manhandled Wakefield like Moonraker did yesterday and although I love the story on the heavier bat, I think it's all about his growing confidence we're now seeing every single at bat.
It helps when some you scorch actually turn into doubles instead of loud outs as they were in April. Makes one realize the baseball Gods taketh away but they also giveth back from time to time.
Watching Moonraker grow into the monster player we all expect he'll become is one of the most enjoyable reasons to watch the Blue Jays right now, along with Romero and Cecil turning into bonifide top starters.
My original thoughts on Snider were that they were pitching him very carefully, and that he would eventually let more bad pitches go by, and his walks and OBP would go up. This isn't the case, however. While he is hitting .395 over his last 10 games, compared to .232 for the season, his SO + BB per AB is only a tiny fraction less for his last 10 compared to the season(.3 in last 10; .333 on the season).
So, his recent success comes with what what he is doing with the other 2/3 of his at bats. IMHO, however, luck doesn't play into it. He is definitely getting better swings , and squaring up on the ball better, so instead of chopping it into the ground or hitting a fly ball out, he is driving it past people and over their heads to the gaps.
The stat I find really strange this year is that he is hitting .350 against lefties, compared to .207 against right handers, when last year they wouldn't let him hit against lefties. Maybe lefties think they can get him out and come right after him, whereas righties are more cautious and pitch around him. I dunno.
This is a pretty good report on Snider's progress:
Actually, Yerouttaheah, that report, which I thank you for posting the link to, confirms what I posted. His BABIP in April was .157 in April confirming a lot of balls he hit were right at someone, whereas in May it's .464 and now .262 ytd. The post also points out Snider's career BAPIP is .313, so his year to date numbers still have room to go up.
The thing where I feel he's really improved this year is maturity. Throughout most of April at least one time a game he'd smack a line drive, sometimes twice a game right at someone for an out..But he didn't get frustrated like he did last year, he hung in there knowing sooner or later the pendulum had to shift and it is shifting in May and we're seeing the results.
Snider has always hit lefties well, throughout his minor league career, so its not a surprise to me he continues that, which is why I questioned why we were sitting him against them.


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If you saw my post on shoofly pie bars, you now know what shoofly pie is (if you didn't see the post, have a look). I could say that shoofly pie cupcakes are my cupcake interpretation of shoofly pie. But, it's more fun to say that shoofly pie cupcakes are the cupcake version of shoofly pie bars, which are the bar version of shoofly pie.
Shoofly pie cupcakes are sticky sweet cupcakes made with sugar syrup and brown sugar crumbs. They are best served warm with whipped cream or à la mode.
Shoofly Pie Cupcake Recipe
The recipe for my shoofly pie cupcakes comes from Sallie's guest post on Not So Humble Pie. Here's my adaptation of her recipe.
Shoofly Pie Cupcakes
For the crumbs
- 2 cups flour
- 1 cup brown sugar
- 1/4 cup unsalted butter room temperature
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
- 1/4 teaspoon ground ginger
- 1/4 teaspoon ground cloves
For the syrup filling
- 3/4 cup syrup I used Lyle's Golden Syrup. See my post on shoofly pie bars for other options.
- 3/4 cup hot but not boiling water
- 1 egg beaten
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
For the whipped cream
- 1 cup heavy whipping cream
- 2 tablespoons crumbs from above
- 2 tablespoons sugar
Prepare the crumbs
- In a small mixing bowl, mix all of the crumb ingredients together. I do this part by hand. The crumbs will be small and loose, like fine breadcrumbs.
- Set two tablespoons of crumbs aside to use in the whipped cream.
Prepare the syrup filling
- In a small mixing bowl, whisk together all of the syrup filling ingredients.
Prepare the cupcakes
- Preheat oven to 400 F.
- Fill the cupcake liners one third full with packed down crumbs.
- Pour about 3 tablespoons of the syrup over the crumbs. I used four tablespoons on mine and some of them overflowed in the oven.
- Top the syrup with another layer of crumbs.
- Bake for 10 minutes.
- Lower heat to 350 F and bake for another 20 minutes.
Prepare the whipped cream.
- Whip heavy whipping cream until it looks like whipped cream.
- Mix in crumbs and sugar.
- Pipe on warm cupcakes and enjoy!
How Much Whipped Cream Do You Like?
In the photo at the top of this post, I featured the shoofly pie cupcake with a huge mound of whipped cream. I (and the majority of people in the Cupcake Project Facebook community who I polled) think it looks best this way. However, if simplicity is your style, check out the alternate presentation of these cupcakes with just a small dollop of whipped cream that I shared on the Cupcake Project Facebook page.


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Meanwhile, Attorney General John Ashcroft announced that the FBI and Justice Department investigators believe they have identified the people behind the attacks and that some of the hijackers who commandeered the planes were trained as pilots in the U.S.
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Hijackers: Mohamed Atta al-Sayed (Egyptian), Waleed al-Shehri (Saudi Arabian), Wail al-Shehri (Saudi Arabian), Abdulaziz al-Omari (Saudi Arabian), Satam al-Suqami (Saudi Arabian).
Hijackers: Marwan al-Shehhi (from the United Arab Emirates), Fayez Banihammad (from the United Arab Emirates), Mohand al-Shehri (Saudi Arabian), Hamza al-Ghamdi (Saudi Arabian), Ahmed al-Ghamdi (Saudi Arabian).
Hijackers: Hani Hanjour (Saudi Arabian), Khalid al-Mihdhar (Saudi Arabian), Majed Moqed (Saudi Arabian), Nawaf al-Hazmi (Saudi Arabian), Salem al-Hazmi (Saudi Arabian).
Hijackers: Ziad Jarrah (Lebanese), Ahmed al-Haznawi (Saudi Arabian), Ahmed al-Nami (Saudi Arabian), Saeed al-Ghamdi (Saudi Arabian).
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The phrase "production of news" is notably ambiguous when used in this context. It could easily be defined as the manufacture of news. Manufacturing news is, in fact, exactly what psychological warfare specialists do.
"I spent two of the past three weekends with them," said VanCamp, a former news anchor who lives in Chelsea. "The feelings are mixed. There's joy at being with them and profound sadness that she's not there. Her picture is there, but it's not the same.
"Her last words on my answering machine were 'I love you' and there is comfort in that, but I yearn for her," she said. "There hasn't been a day that has passed that I haven't thought about Paige."
Still, VanCamp struggles with her loss and said the anniversary of the attacks will be especially difficult.
"I thought I was doing just fine, but for the last three weeks, I find the rage is building inside me again," she said. "I'm sure I'll get past it. Paige would want it that way."
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JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska -- U.S. Army Alaska has released the identity of a paratrooper who died after collapsing following a training jump.
Officials say in a release Saturday that 34-year-old Sgt. Jose Maria Pasillas of Fort Worth, Texas, was a construction equipment repairer with the 23rd Engineer Company.
Pasillas collapsed on Thursday and underwent emergency surgery for a torn aorta at Providence Alaska Medical Center in Anchorage. He was pronounced dead just after 8 p.m.
The Army says there's no indication the soldier had a hard landing or that there was equipment failure during the parachute jump he completed prior to collapsing.
Pasillas entered the Army in 2001. He deployed to Afghanistan in 2002 and then to Iraq in 2004, 2006 and 2009.
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- Recruiter
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- Meets or exceeds minimum wage
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Cleaner shifts may vary, you can work as much, or as little as you wish. Working for Compass Group comes with a range of benefits including;
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Beer brewers in Munich may not be able to supply enough beer for the annual Oktoberfest beer festival, local newspaper Munich TZ reported, but the problem is not a lack of the alcoholic beverage.
Instead, Heiner Müller, manager at the Paulaner and Hacker-Pschorr brewery told TZ, brewers do not have enough bottles to supply the festival. He called on drinkers to return their empties.
"Dear Munichers — bring back your crates. We need our empties," Müller said.
Warm summer weather combined with popular festivals led to a sharp increase in consumption in the city, according to Munich TZ.
Brewers wash and reuse their bottles up to 50 times and rely on their customers to turn return them, but that hasn't happened quickly enough this time and is preventing beermakers from building up the required supplies.
Every summer brewers deal with a shortage of bottles, but it never has been as bad as this year, a spokesman for Hofbräu brewery, which is also suffering from a shortage of bottles, said. He claimed the brewer was short of "tens of thousands" of bottles.
Spaten and Löwenbräu, two other brewers, said they were running short of 30-liter kegs.
Hofbräu spokesman Stefan Hempl told the paper the brewer would start prioritizing the production of light and wheat beers. Dark beer drinkers will have to wait.
The diminished supply comes only weeks before the suds-soaked bacchanal for which the German state is famous which kicks off on September 22.


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The Following Series Finale: Did Ryan Hardy Survive?
May 18, 2015 10:00 PM EDT
[Warning: This article contains major spoilers about the series finale of The Following. Read at your own risk!] Ryan Hardy is dead. At least, that's what all his loved ones think - but viewers know better. On Monday's harrowing series finale of The… Read more


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The Nixon Lodown has 15 years worth of preprogrammed tidal info for 200 beaches all the world over. Right at your wrist you can monitor the height of the waves, and don't be afraid to jump right in when the surf looks good—the Lodown has a water resistance rating of 100m. The Lodown's simple presentation of data with its gray-on-black blocks makes it look pretty stylish, but is it $90 worth of stylish?
Any information that doesn't update is susceptible to being regularly faulty, but if you visit a lot of beaches, this might be a neat watch to have. Of course, the Lodown also has the usual frills: A light for the nighttime, an alarm and timer, and the date, Also, you get some colors to choose from, either black, silver, and an off white and blue.
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I wanted to install Ubuntu next to my Windows 7 and made a 100GB partition for that. After that I downloaded the Image for burning the installation cd. As soon as I started to boot from that DVD, my computer made some crackling noises and then froze completely. I had to press the power button in order to shut it down.
After that I decided to download the Installer Version for Windows and startet installing it on the
E:\ partition named Ubuntu. So far so good, the installer finished and told me to restart my computer. I did that and Ubuntu wanted to finish the installation. As soon as that started, the computer made some crackling noises again and froze completely.
Then I tried the Safe Graphics option, or whatever it is called, and it froze again. I would really like to have Ubuntu installed on my system, because I like it. My computer components are the following:
- Mainboard: Gigabyte X58-USB3
- Processor: Intel Core i7 960
- RAM: 8GB 2000Mhz
- Graphicscard: NVidia Geforce GTX 570
- HDD: 1 TB 7200rpm with 3 partitions(100GB W7, 100GB Ubuntu, 800GB Data)


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I suddenly realized that we can create custom bb tags, and it is a pretty simple thing to do.
So for starters I created a "Youtube" tag to embed videos, all you have to do is to insert the video ID between the [Youtube] tags.
If you have suggestions as to what other bb tags we could have along these lines, let me know. They might be easy to implement


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Syracuse's senior class is seeking to avoid becoming the first group since 1999 to graduate without capturing a national championship. That determination could be best embodied by senior midfielder JoJo Marasco.
The Tewaaraton Award finalist has recorded four goals and six assists in three NCAA tournament games, and his 10 points leads the Orange in the postseason. Marasco, who pumped in a game-high five points on two goals and three assists in top-seeded Syracuse's 9-8 decision over fourth-seeded Denver in a NCAA tournament semifinal at Lincoln Financial Field here Saturday evening, said he is eager to help the program collect its NCAA-leading 11th national championship with a win against seventh-seeded Duke on Monday.
"It's been a goal since I first picked up a lacrosse stick," he said. "I always wanted to come to Syracuse, and I can't say enough about this team with coming back and winning so many close games. It's just a great feeling right now, and right now, we're going with it."
Last season, Marasco was expected to lead the Orange, but he managed just 12 goals and 19 assists to rank fourth on the team in scoring.
"This year, it's just all come together for him," coach John Desko said of Marasco, who passed Paul Gait for the most assists by a midfielder with 41 so far. "He's a feeder, scored a big goal at the end of the game when we were man up. I think the other players on the team know that when JoJo has the ball in his stick, they work extra hard to get open because if they do, they know he's going to find them and give them the ball. Like we've seen in these last few games, it's been great to have him on the field with all of the experience that he has because he makes such big plays."
Marasco was especially pivotal in Syracuse's comeback against the Pioneers, having a hand in three of the team's five fourth-quarter goals, including finding senior midfielder Luke Cometti for a goal that knotted the score at 8-8 with 58.8 seconds left in regulation.
Marasco sounded surprised that Denver did not mind shadowing him with short-stick defensive midfielders.
"They were switching on all of their picks and anytime I was even dodging," he said. "I got a lot of short sticks, and I guess they trusted their short sticks to cover me. They weren't really sliding, and I was able to get a good enough of a move to make them show, and then guys all year – you've got Luke Cometti and [junior attackman] Derek Maltz and [redshirt freshman attackman] Dylan Donahue – getting open so much. I was just able to see these guys all game. I really tried to get as unselfish as I can, and these guys are great shooters and I really trust them."
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*Junior goalkeeper Dominic Lamolinara was outplayed by Pioneers sophomore Ryan LaPlante in the first half as LaPlante made a season-high 13 saves to Lamolinara's two. But the Arnold native and St. Mary's graduate found his rhythm in the second frame, outdueling junior Jamie Faus by making six stops to Faus' four. "The second half, I settled down and talked to my teammates at halftime and they got my confidence back up," said Lamolinara, who transferred from Maryland after the 2011 season. "… I knew the offense was going to make plays. So I just needed to limit the defensive opportunities, and that's what happened, and it worked out." Desko pointed out that Lamolinara has been backstopping the team throughout the postseason. "I think in the second half, you saw him play pretty well," Desko said. "We weren't giving him a lot of help in the second half, and their goalie was saving everything. So we put the pressure on the defense in the second half, and I think he really came alive and saw the ball really well."
*Pioneers sophomore attackman Wesley Berg had entered Saturday's semifinal with 12 goals in the team's first two NCAA tournament games and was just five tallies shy of the postseason record of 17 goals posted by Loyola's Eric Lusby last season. But Berg did not register a point or even take a shot as he was blanked by sophomore defenseman Sean Young, a Towson transfer who did the same thing to senior attackman Kirby Zdrill in the team's 7-6 win against Yale in last Saturday's quarterfinal. Desko was effusive in his praise of Young's performance. "I think he's taken a lot of pride into his individual matchup when he's playing a player who is mostly an off-ball player," Desko said. "So he really takes a lot of pride, and he rises to the occasion, and I think the rest of the defense knows his role and can makes slides and doubles from different positions knowing that he has a certain responsibility on the field. He's done a great job with it all year long."
*Steve Ianzito appeared to badly injure his left ankle with 13:46 left in the second quarter of that victory over Yale, but the redshirt senior short-stick defensive midfielder was back Saturday, playing the whole game against Denver. Ianzito's return inspired the Orange. "It was great," Desko said. "He's been one of our strengths. If you follow lacrosse, most teams are going to attack the short sticks on the defensive end of the field, and he's been tested all year. … Even yesterday, he missed half of practice, and for him to be able to go the whole way was great for our defense."


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Sean Farley and Melissa Gil lead after the first day of racing
After the first day of racing in very windy conditions, average wind speed 25 to 30 mph Sean Farley, (MEX) North/NJS Designs and Melissa Gil, (PUE) Cabrinha/NJS Designs lead off the rankings. Five exiting races had 20 competitors on the starting line with clean starts and no collisions or protest in the almost all Professional field. On the men's side Sean Farley took four out of the five races.
On the woman's side it has been toe to toe racing between the top three with the finishes in most races 10 seconds apart from each other. Melissa Gil is in the lead for now.
Winds are forecasted at 20 to 25 mph for Thursday and 30 to 35 mph for the rest of the week ensuring a great set up for the remainder of the competition. The race course is set with a one mile upwind mark and average times to finish the course are between 16 to 18 minutes.
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(CBS News) President Barack Obama meets with small business owners Tuesday to promote his solution to the fiscal cliff. With the deadline is 35 days away, Mr. Obama is holding more events Wednesday and Friday.
The New York Times reports a budget deal could reduce the tax deduction millions of Americans pay on their mortgage interest.
The president and House Speaker John Boehner spoke by phone over the weekend. Multiple aides in both the House and Senate tell CBS News almost all negotiations are taking place between Boehner's staff and the president's because any deal that involves raising tax revenue is going to face its biggest challenge in the Republican-led House.
Top Republicans, returning from Thanksgiving, urged the president to make the first offer in negotiations, and they expressed a new openness to raising tax revenue, if Democrats agreed to make cuts to improve the solvency of Medicare and Medicaid.
Sen. Saxby Chambliss, R-Ga., said, "Elections come and go, and when they go, the spirit to find common ground becomes greater.
Chambliss and Virginia Democrat Mark Warner leads the "Gang of Eight" -- four Senate Democrats and four Senate Republicans who first started meeting in 2010 -- to try to craft a compromise to cut the debt.
CBS News' Nancy Cordes asked Warner, "You all have been working together for two-and-a-half years, you still don't have a final product, why should we have any confidence that the president and congressional leaders can get something done just in the next seven weeks?"
Warner said, "Well, I think anything that we would look at, we're not going to completely reform the tax code or completely make all the changes in the entitlement programs in the next seven weeks, but over this last two-and-a-half years, we all know where the issues are. So can we make enough of a down payment to assure the markets and put a real process in place that will allow us to work through this."
Chambliss says he and other Republicans still oppose hiking tax rates on the wealthy -- a move they contend kills jobs. Instead, Republicans propose limiting tax deductions for high earners. One idea is eliminating the mortgage deduction for second homes.
Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said, "We have been open to revenue by closing loopholes as long as it's tied to spending cuts and pro-growth tax reform that broadens the base and lowers rates."
But Democrats argue that closing loopholes alone will not raise enough money to significantly put a dent in the debt. They still believe that tax rates for the wealthy need to go up at the end of the year. That's going to be one of the biggest sticking points in these negotiations.
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Stamps: It's a Jungle - My Favorite Things
Cardstock: Kraft, Sky Blue, Tres Jolie DP
Ink: Palette Noir, Always Artichoke
Accessories: Grosgrain Ribbon, Dimensionals, Copic Markers, Paper Distresser
WOW! This is fabulous! Your work is always amazing but this has to be one of my favorites!! I love the background behind the animals!
OH this is fabulous, Kendra! Such dimension!
This card is fantastic, too cute, hope you are feeling better soon.
Awesome Kendra!
What an adorable card! I am soooo glad it is almost the weekend too!
Love it. The greenery in the back is a wonderful touch. I hope you are feeling better. Hugs.
Love this set and what you did with it! This is one terrific card!
Have a great day!
hey kendra, this is super cute!! sorry to hear you are a sick-o!! FEEL BETTER NOW!! there. how's that? did it help? maybe the stamping therapy will. miss you!
Goodness, Kendra! I hope you're feeling better soon!
I love your cute jungle card!
Gorgeous, love the layering.
Hey Kendra,
What a fantastic card!! I just love it, those animals are so stinkin cute!!
It's so totally adorable and so well done. I love your jungle.
Love this card. In fact love all your cards on your blog. I just start making cards. Your blog has inspired me to try new techniques.
I love this card! The animals are so adorable. I want to stamp like you when I grow up!
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I'm am going right now to buy this stamp set. My Daughter is turning two soon and I want to do a zoo themed party. These would be perfect!! Great card. Love your work.
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This program is a simulation of the "real-life" United Nations Assembly for middle school students and meets from 3:30-5 p.m., Wednesdays in Room A1 at Harvest Park School and Thursdays in Room 507 at Pleasanton Middle School. For information, contact Jeff Atwood at 475-6112 or firstname.lastname@example.com.
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Model United Nations
a resident of Livermore
on Mar 5, 2009 at 8:22 am
"Real Life" United Nations??
Be sure to include the fair share of communists, socialist, military regimes, dictators, and despots. We want to be "real" and inclusive.
a resident of Foothill Knolls
on Mar 5, 2009 at 8:38 am
And be sure to include the Hate Big Satan / Hate Little Satan crowd -probably 60-70 of the U.N.
a resident of Foothill Knolls
on Mar 5, 2009 at 8:40 am
CORRECTION TO: Posted by What U.N.?, a resident of the Foothill Knolls neighborhood, 0 minutes ago
And be sure to include the Hate Big Satan / Hate Little Satan crowd -probably 60-70% of the U.N.
a resident of Amador Estates
on Mar 5, 2009 at 9:57 am
Right you are "huh"!!!
They also shouldn't forget a model to steal "Oil for Food" funds, a model for the sexual molestation of innocents, and above all else, a model to provide kickbacks back to Obama.
That would be just a small picture of "Real Life" version of the UN.
My guess is that our public school teachers will indoctrinate our students by glorifying the UN (along with their glorifying of Obama who is in the process of destroying the US as we have known it.)
a resident of Rosewood
on Mar 5, 2009 at 10:49 am
Oh for goodness' sake calm down. I did Model UN all through high school and college. It taught me how to do research, how to understand current events, I learned parliamentary procedure and Roberts Rules of Order, and it taught me how our government worked as well as various other government forms, I earned various public speaking awards and met lots of other interesting students from around the world as I competed not only at the regional level, but also at the national and international level as well. MUN has been around for many years and is fabulous. It does not "glorify" anything. We learned the limitations of the organization, we learned the limitations of foreign policy and also, how to negotiate.
It's a fabulous experience for anyone who is interested in law, politics, international issues, history, social issues, or economic development. There were as many conservatives as liberals in the organization and those of us who competed did our absolute best to stay in character based on reading actual speeches those countries made in the UN on those issues, by visiting embassies, by spending a lot of time in libraries (this was before the Internet!) and by reading. All skills that seem to be lamented as missing and in short supply these days.
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Mar 5, 2009 at 11:13 am
This sounds like a great program.
a resident of Downtown
on Mar 10, 2009 at 7:31 pm
US out of the UN.... UN out of the US!
The UN does nothing but disregard parking tickets and ask the US for more money!
There has not been ONE peace producing negotiation in the history of this sham organization.
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PARIS — September, when this glamorous European capital is buzzing, is an exciting time to be in the City of Lights. For Ford CEO Alan Mulally, it was an especially good year.
In a city where U.S. products are often treated with disdain, Ford was the toast of the annual Paris Auto Show. As the man in the driver's seat, Mulally was greeted as a rock star for engineering one of the biggest turnarounds in the auto industry's history.
"Today Ford is in a different place," he told a group of press and Ford executives at the Parte de Versailles exhibition hall. "(We've) returned to profitability faster than we had forecast."
That road to profitably has been extremely bumpy for Mulally and the iconic American company. When he took the wheel in 2006, Ford was veering badly off track - losing a staggering $17 billion that year alone. Its U.S. operations were bleeding cash. The company was struggling to absorb a string of acquisitions that included Aston Martin, Jaguar, Land Rover, Mazda and Volvo.
"Most importantly, we didn't have a full family of vehicles in the United States," Mulally told CNBC. "And each of our vehicles were not best in class. So, with that kind of background, we were losing market share and we were losing money."
It was a stunning fall for a company that just a few years earlier had been raking in the cash. But Ford's winning streak in the go-go '90s gave way to a bleak new decade of recalls, recessions and high gas prices. Ford's bread-and-butter trucks and SUVs stopped flying off the lots, and its lineup of cars — including the once hot-selling Taurus — had gotten old and stale.
"We strayed from what got us to the top of the mountain, and it cost us greatly," said Bill Ford Jr., great-grandson of company founder Henry Ford, and the man then running the company.
In 2006, he made a painful self-assessment. He decided to ask the company's board of directors for help.
"At the time, I was chairman, I was CEO, I was COO and I was president," he said. "I was wearing all the hats. And they said, 'Well, what do you need? Are you looking for a CEO or COO?' I said, 'I really don't much care. What I want is the right person.'"
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The right person was Alan Mulally – then halfway across the country running Boeing's commercial airplanes division. When the two men finally connected they clicked immediately. But inside Ford headquarters, not everyone was sold on Mulally. Ford recalled that some executives wondered aloud whether Mulally had the right background or fully understood how complex the company was.
"And Alan said, "Yeah, I think I do have a sense of how complex it is," said Ford. "'You make a vehicle that has 3,000 moving parts. I make one that has 30,000 moving parts and has to stay in the air. So talk to me about difficulty and complexity.' And that kind of shut everybody up."
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"I wouldn't have touched a Ford vehicle eight years ago," said David Champion, Consumer Reports' director of automobile testing.
What followed were brutal, high-level meetings in a command center one floor below Mulally office – a place known as the Thunderbird Room. It's where Ford's top executives meet to review the company's operations and flag problems. When Mulally arrived in 2006, no one dared admit anything was wrong. That would soon change.
At a meeting to review the launch of a new model crossover SUV, the Edge, Mark Fields, head of Ford's Americas division, had some bad news. There was a problem with one of the hydraulic parts that would force a delay of the launch for a couple of weeks.
The room "got deathly quiet," Mulally recalls. And then the company CEO started applauding.
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"You just can't be world class on 97 different things," he said. "Plus, we had different production systems for each of those brands and each of those models."
Mulally's plan was ambitious and would cost far more money than the company had on hand. So in November 2006, Ford management rolled the dice and mortgaged nearly every asset the company owned -- even the signature blue oval -- to borrow the cash.
"I'll never forget walking into the Waldorf Astoria - 520 bankers all looking at their cufflinks and listening to our plan to create a viable Ford." He said. "And within two weeks we had raised $23.5 billion."
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It was a colossal gamble. But two years later, when the economy crashed in 2008 and plunging car sales left showrooms empty, Ford had enough cash to ride out the storm. General Motors and Chrysler staggered to Washington to plead their case to Congress for taxpayer-funded lifelines. Mulally went to the Capitol to support his competitors -- because if GM and Chrysler went out of business, dozens of suppliers might follow, dragging Ford down with them.
The hearings, he later told a meeting of Ford car dealers, were "surreal." Both Chrysler's then-CEO Robert Nardelli and General Motors then-CEO Rick Wagoner enthusiastically agreed to accept a dollar-a-year salaries in exchange for the bailout.
"So they got to me and they said, 'What about you, Mr. Mulally, would you work for a dollar a year?'" he recalled. "I thought about it and I said, 'No, I think I'm OK where I am.'"
Refusing that government bailout delivered Ford an unexpected and priceless advantage that dealers saw right away. Riding that wave of good will, Ford rebounded.
After bottoming in early '09, sales took off. By that summer, Ford was posting sales gains among the best in the industry. Customers returning to Ford showrooms found something else — improved quality.
By 2010, Consumer Reports — which had pummeled Ford a few years earlier — had elevated several models near the top of its lists.
Even President Obama has enjoyed basking in Ford's comeback.
"Ford made some good decisions that put it in a better position than some of its American competitors - particularly around their financing situation," Obama told CNBC on a recent tour of Ford's plant on the south side of Chicago. "So Ford should be congratulated. What I'm excited about is the fact that Ford is doing what GM and Chrysler are both doing, which is they are retooling for the future."
For now, Mulally is on a roll. But it's not something he can take for granted.
The United Auto Workers may want to reclaim concessions they made when the car industry tanked. And sooner or later, Ford will face new competition from the more than 40 auto manufacturers in China.
But having steered the company back from the abyss, Ford's CEO has a moment to savor.
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West Orange, NJ – Kessler Institute of Rehabilitation paid tribute to its patients and staff for their exceptional achievements at the hospital's annual Triumph of the Human Spirit celebration.
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The 325,000-sq.-ft. production facility of Steel-Craft Door Products, in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, fabricates overhead garage doors along a pair of 300-ft.-long coil-fed continuous-flow lines. The lines—one geared toward production of residential garage doors and the other for commercial buildings—simultaneously feed prepainted galvanized steel from a pair of 10,000-lb. coils as wide as 36 in. The stock from the two coils, 0.017 to 0.025 in. thick, feed parallel along the line and undergo forming operations, then come together near the end of the line where they're clinched together sandwiching a layer of insulating polyurethane foam. The assembly then feeds through a curing tunnel and to a cutoff saw to be cut to length.
Among the forming operations used to add strength and style to the garage-door panels are roll embossing, rollforming and stamping. For several years Steel-Craft offered three basic styles of doors, requiring three different die sets for its in-line press—a hydromechanical model with 30- by 55-in. bed. In 2009, to meet market demand for more styles, the company introduced two new styles and built an additional two die sets to accommodate. At the same time, it faced increased pressure to shorten production runs and change out the die sets more frequently.
"Excessive changeover time on the presses as well as growth in orders suddenly meant we either had to add a third production line, run a lot of overtime or add a weekend shift," recalls project and building manager James Van Domselaar, "none of which seemed appealing. And neither did turning a orders," he adds.
Instead, the firm focused on reducing changeover times to increase production capacity from its existing lines. It found success by investing in quick-die-change systems that took die-change times from more than 2 hr. (from last part to first part) to less than 30 min.
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Changing out the 7000-lb. die sets used to stamp decorative features on the outer door panel once required three or four operators. "We had an efficient process in place, albeit slow and tedious," admits Van Domselaar, noting that it staged dies near the presses to streamline the process as much as possible.
Faced with changing out dies as often as three times per 12-hr. work day, 2-hr. die changes just didn't cut it, so Van Domselaar and his crew sought a better . In mid-2010 it purchased a Power Pallet quick-die-change setup from Pacesetter Systems, Valencia, CA. The pallet attaches to a die and enables quick, easy attachment to a forklift. To set the die on the press, the pallet docks to the bolster and with a push of a button indexes the die into place on the press bed. A v-block mounts on the back of the die shoe and guides the die left-to-right and front-to-back around a 1-in.-dia. pin installed in the bolster to ensure accurate alignment.
In addition to the Power Pallet (which earned a Most Innovative Product Award at the METALFORM 2007 trade show in Chicago), Steel-Craft also invested in quarter-turn quick clamps from Pacesetter. All told, the investment paid for itself in 6 months, "since we can run the lines for an additional 90 min. per die change," says Van Domselaar. In addition, changing dies with the Power Pallet reduces manpower required from three or four operators to just two.
Convinced that the Power Pallet was the solution sought, Van Domselaar next had to decide whether to use one Power Pallet for all of its dies and load and unload dies from a racking system, or just add a Power Pallet to each of its dies.
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To enable the addition of the Power Pallets to its process, Steel-Craft positioned a stand in front of each press level with the bolster. Using a forklift, a die with the Power Pallet attached is positioned on the stand and then, with the turn of a key and press of a button, is indexed via a ballscrew-driven mechanism into the press. The die rides on a cushion of air. As the line runs and the press does its thing, the Power Pallet awaits its next assignment—removal of the die—until the production run ends.
At the end of the run the die exits the press back onto the Power Pallet, and the setup is moved via forklift back to the die storage area. The forklift driver then picks up the next required die and Power Pallet and repeats the process—in as little as 15 min."Quicker, safer and significantly more productive with no manhandling of the dies," is how Van Domselaar summarizes the new and0. improved die-change process. MF
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