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In October 2010, Senator Mitch McConnell, the Republican leader, famously told The National Journal, "The single most important thing we want to achieve is for President Obama to be a one-term president." And that's how he and his party acted.
Well, Mitch, how's that workin' out for ya?
No one can know for sure what complex emotional chemistry tipped this election Obama's way, but here's my guess: In the end, it came down to a majority of Americans believing that whatever his faults, Obama was trying his hardest to fix what ails the country and that he had to do it with a Republican Party that, in its gut, did not want to meet him halfway but wanted him to fail — so that it could swoop in and pick up the pieces. To this day, I find McConnell's declaration appalling. Consider all the problems we have faced in this country over the last four years — from debt to adapting to globalization to unemployment to the challenges of climate change to terrorism — and then roll over that statement: "The single most important thing we want to achieve is for President Obama to be a one-term president."
That, in my view, is what made the difference. The G.O.P. lost an election that, given the state of the economy, it should have won because of an excess of McConnell-like cynicism, a shortage of new ideas and an abundance of really bad ideas — about immigration, about climate, about how jobs are created and about abortion and other social issues.
It seems that many Americans went to the polls without much enthusiasm for either candidate, but, nevertheless, with a clear idea of whom they preferred. The majority seemed to be saying to Obama: "You didn't get it all right the first time, but we're going to give you a second chance." In a way, they voted for "hope and change" again. I don't think it was so much a ratification of health care or "Race to the Top" or any other Obama initiative. It was more a vote on his character: "We think you're trying. Now try even harder. Learn from your mistakes. Reach out to the other side, even if they slap away your hand, and focus like a laser on the economy, so those of us who voted for you today without much enthusiasm can feel good about this vote."
And that is why Obama's victory is so devastating for the G.O.P. A country with nearly 8 percent unemployment preferred to give the president a second chance rather than Mitt Romney a first one. The Republican Party today needs to have a real heart-to-heart with itself.
The G.O.P. has lost two presidential elections in a row because it forced its candidate to run so far to the loony right to get through the primaries, dominated by its ultraconservative base, that he could not get close enough back to the center to carry the national election. It is not enough for Republicans to tell their Democratic colleagues in private — as some do — "I wish I could help you, but our base is crazy." They need to have their own reformation. The center-right has got to have it out with the far-right, or it is going to be a minority party for a long time.
Many in the next generation of America know climate change is real, and they want to see something done to mitigate it. Many in the next generation of America will be of Hispanic origin and insist on humane immigration reform that gives a practical legal pathway to citizenship for illegal immigrants. The next generation is going to need immigration of high-I.Q. risk-takers from India, China and Latin America if the U.S. is going to remain at the cutting edge of the Information Technology revolution and be able to afford the government we want. Many in the next generation of America see gays and lesbians in their families, workplaces and Army barracks, and they don't want to deny them the marriage rights held by others. The G.O.P. today is at war with too many in the next generation of America on all of these issues.
All that said, my prediction is that the biggest domestic issue in the next four years will be how we respond to changes in technology, globalization and markets that have, in a very short space of time, made the decent-wage, middle-skilled job — the backbone of the middle class — increasingly obsolete. The only decent-wage jobs will be high-skilled ones.
The answer to that challenge will require a new level of political imagination — a combination of educational reforms and unprecedented collaboration between business, schools, universities and government to change how workers are trained and empowered to keep learning. It will require tax reforms and immigration reforms. America today desperately needs a center-right G.O.P. that is offering merit-based, market-based approaches to all these issues — and a willingness to meet the other side halfway. The country is starved for practical, bipartisan cooperation, and it will reward politicians who deliver it and punish those who don't.
The votes have been counted. President Obama now needs to get to work to justify the second chance the country has given him, and the Republicans need to get to work understanding why that happened.


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St. Vincent Hospital: Transforming a Culture to Become the Hospital System of Choice
Like many healthcare organizations, St. Vincent Hospital in Indianapolis was at a crossroads as it rang in the New Year of 2004. An unprecedented drop in the number of nursing professionals available to fill the ever-increasing demand was sweeping the industry. And the situation at St. Vincent was no exception. Competition for talent in this Midwestern market—for both skilled and experienced nurses and physicians—was intense. This faith-based non-profit also was about to be challenged by a rival hospital system, ready to break ground on a new facility that would add even more competition for patients and staff alike. Plus, internal survey results showed St. Vincent associates were dissatisfied with the current work environment and believed they had poor relationships with their direct supervisors.
Bravely facing both internal and external challenges, St. Vincent took stock of where they were in the marketplace, assessed their strengths as well as flaws, and embarked on a strategy to develop leadership capability, knowledge, skills and behaviors. With strong advocacy on the part of top leadership, St. Vincent set out to combat this competitive expansion and disengaged workforce with an initiative that would build a successful culture of leadership, strengthen leader-to-associate relationships, and create a fundamental change in the culture to more accurately reflect one of its key business strategies: become the hospital of choice for patients, associates and physicians.
"What was absolutely essential was that this new development program be evidence-based and demonstrate clear results tied to business goals and organizational performance," said Education Consultant Lu Pennal, who was brought on board in 2004 to facilitate the initiative. "And after great scrutiny, we selected The Leadership Challenge because the Practices of the program were so clearly aligned with our faith-based mission and core values. They also tie directly to what we refer to as our Call To Action, which speaks to the hospital's dedication to deliver Healthcare That Works, Healthcare That is Safe, Healthcare That Leaves No One Behind. The fact that the 360-degree tool, the Leadership Practices Inventory (LPI), is backed by solid statistics, and that the program overall was internally sustainable and measurable, also was very important," she added.
A formal Steering Council that included senior leaders, whose front-line support was essential for successful implementation and to deliver positive and long-term results, led the program's development and implementation. And from the very beginning, each Steering Council member promoted this new leadership initiative as a process—not a one-time workshop or set of tools to use and then discard. Starting with the organization's president and executive team, The Leadership Challenge program rolled-out to nursing, physician, and associate leaders and now includes over 500 graduates of what St. Vincent has called its 'Building the BEST' initiative (the best Budget, patient Experience, Safety, Team).
Pre-session assignments, a 3-day workshop, plenty of time to apply key learnings, and a 1-year refresher were bolstered by the Steering Council's decision to include a one-to-one coaching component that became integral to the success of the experience for both participants and coaches.
"Our goal was to create a common language and expectations of behavior in order to fully implement a complete culture change," observed Marty DuRall, founding Steering Council member and Executive Director, Human Resources. "After 11 years with St. Vincent, and having studied several major management theories, I see a profound difference in how this model boils down all of the theoretical complexity into five very simple, very memorable steps that can be applied to everything: operational goals, process improvement, global communication, and performance reviews, just to name a few."
"Most importantly, The Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership® ground us. These principles have set the standard and cultural norm for how we communicate. Now synonymous with our 'Building the BEST', The Leadership Challenge has given everyday meaning to expectations of leaders and helped us identify a way of behaving and communicating that reflects who we are and how we intend to treat each other and our patients," Ms. DuRall added.
St. Vincent has incorporated The Five Practices into its reward and recognition programs. Promoting the practice of Encouraging the Heart, a President's Award is given once per quarter to a St. Vincent associate recognized as having gone above and beyond expectations in demonstrating The Five Practices.
"'Leadership as a relationship' is perhaps the most significant change in St. Vincent's leadership culture," according to Anne Coleman, another founding member of the Steering Council and currently Administrator of St. Vincent Peyton Manning Children's Hospital and Women's Hospital . "While the previous role of leader was more akin to the management of tasks, not of leadership, what we have now is an environment in which we each take responsibility for living out The Five Practices every day."
"An added benefit of this program is the opportunity for us to participate in the experience of being a leadership coach," Ms. Coleman added. "This internal coaching component builds relationships into the system and connects us all together. It has transformed our individual leadership styles into a more consistent and comprehensive system of enabling others to act, modeling the way, and encouraging the heart as we coach others to replicate their learning, challenge the process, and become the leaders we know they are capable of being."
According to Lu Pennal, the results of St. Vincent's experience with The Leadership Challenge process have been remarkable. "Following a measurement plan the Steering Council established at the outset, our survey response rates have been very impressive at 61%, with 90% of respondents noting that they had learned new knowledge and skills and 93% indicating they had applied that knowledge and those skills to their jobs. Even more significant is the feedback from our most seasoned and experienced leaders: 77% reported that their leadership skills had improved 40% or more as a result of The Leadership Challenge experience."
"Across the organization, we have seen more collaboration and partnerships that have improved the use of resources and equipment. We have seen an increased level of engagement from associates, greater talent retention, and improved patient access. In addition, St. Vincent has been honored with a Best Healthcare Employer award (in the Indianapolis market) by a consumer choice group three years running. The Leadership Challenge has played a critical role in creating the kind of culture that brought us the success we have today. And we continue to incorporate the LPI tools and the Five Practices model into our ongoing 'Building the BEST' program in developing new leaders throughout the St. Vincent Health system," she concluded.
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The last few posts have showed that several domains of constraint influence colour categorisation. There is evidence that these categorisations can influence perception, which has been identified as a crucial argument for Relativism. This section considers the Cultural implication, summarised in the last section, in greater depth. First, the idea of perceptual warping is explained and applied to colour categorisation. Next, the impact of a feedback loop caused by an Embodied approach is discussed in terms of Niche Construction. Thirdly, perceptual warping, within a system with Niche Construction dynamics is argued to lead to convergence of perceptual spaces, resulting in better communication. Finally, a note is made on compositionality in language. It is concluded that Embodied Cognition may explain some of the features of the emergence of language.
Perceptual Spaces
This section explains perceptual warping. Many models of the cultural transmission of denotation systems begin by defining a perceptual space for each individual which is then divided up with loci and boundaries (e.g., deBoer, 1999). Eventually, a kind of 'lookup table' is produced where an individual calculates within which boundary a given stimulus falls in order to classify it. An alternate view would be that each individual alters (warps) the perceptual space to suit the categories (Goldstone, 1994; Kuhl, 1994). This is not a controversial theory for the auditory modality. For instance, although born with the ability to detect any meaningful difference in any language, children eventually become unable to detect those differences that do not exist in the languages spoken around them (Eimas, 1978, Miyawaki, 1975, Kuhl, 1983). In other words, humans do not merely categorise areas of the audible spectrum as belonging to particular phonemes, but actually alter their perceptual space to suit the phonemic system. In the visual domain, Kuhl (1994) argues that the perceptual space is permanently changed by exposure to graphemes, although Lupyan (2008) shows that categorical perception can emerge on-line.
The figure above is a graphical illustration of warping a perceptual space (Colour space of Culina, from Regier, Kay & Khertarpal, 2007, p. 1439). The division of the Munsell colour space by speakers of Culina is warped and rotated to optimally encode the colour categories. Formally, the parameterisations are the same. However, warping the perceptual space allows for compression of information. For example, the initial encoding of the Figure takes up to 40 x 8 units, while the final encoding takes only 4 units . This can ease processing and storage requirements. Compression reduces the uncertainty between categories (e.g., red vs. green) and the ability for individuals to differentiate within categories (e.g., different shades of red), similar to the effects of categorical perception.
This approach has already been suggested. Buchsbaum and Bloch's (2002) study showed that the NMF algorithm approximates colour categorisation in real languages (Non-negative Matrix Factorisation – a factor analysis algorithm like PCA, except that it is designed for values that are inherently positive and cannot be centred). NMF essentially warps the perceptual space to best describe its limits. The current study suggests that language sets constraints on an NMF-like process which works to alter the perceptual space to suit culturally salient colour contrasts. However, it is suggested that this optimisation is not primarily a response to an adaptive pressure, but a consequence of the way we understand language. Indeed, it is only because our perceptions can be aligned with our language system that semantics works at all. This would fit better with an Embodied view than a Symbolist view.
However, humans are able to perceive gradients in colours within categories. There are two explanations for this. Firstly, there may be two separate, competing perceptual and 'categorical' colour spaces, similar to Connell and Lynott's (2009) hypothesis. Since the categorical system is shared and can quickly adapt to immediate environmental pressures, one would expect agents with two systems to increasingly rely on the categorical system, especially for communication (see code duality theory, e.g., Hoffmeyer & Emmeche, 1991). In contrast, novel tasks which involved no communication (e.g., comparing colours and choosing an 'odd one out') may rely more on the true perceptual system. A second explanation for the flexibility of categories is suggested by Lupyan (2008) who shows that perceptual spaces can be warped, but by context-specific, online processes rather than long-term, memory-based processes. This would allow a single conceptual/perceptual system (as Embodied Cognition hypothesises), as well as explaining the plasticity of language.
Next, a look at how Embodied Cognition fits into this picture ->
DEBOER, B. (2000). Self-organization in vowel systems Journal of Phonetics, 28 (4), 441-465 DOI: 10.1006/jpho.2000.0125
Goldstone, R. (1994). Influences of categorization on perceptual discrimination. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 123 (2), 178-200 DOI: 10.1037//0096-34126.96.36.199
Kuhl, P. (1994). Learning and representation in speech and language Current Opinion in Neurobiology, 4 (6), 812-822 DOI: 10.1016/0959-4388(94)90128-7
Miyawaki, K., Strange, W., Verbrugge, R. R., Liberman, A. M., Jenkins, J. J., & Fujimura, O. (1975). An effect of linguistic experience: The discrimination of (r) and (l) by native speakers of Japanese and
Perception and Psychophysics, 18, 331-340
KUHL, P. (1983). Perception of auditory equivalence classes for speech in early infancy Infant Behavior and Development, 6 (2-3), 263-285 DOI: 10.1016/S0163-6383(83)80036-8
Lupyan G (2008). From chair to "chair": a representational shift account of object labeling effects on memory. Journal of experimental psychology. General, 137 (2), 348-69 PMID: 18473663
Buchsbaum, G. (2002). Color categories revealed by non-negative matrix factorization of Munsell color spectra Vision Research, 42 (5), 559-563 DOI: 10.1016/S0042-6989(01)00303-0
Connell, L., & Lynott, D. (2009). Is a bear white in the woods? Parallel representation of implied object color during language comprehension Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 16 (3), 573-577 DOI: 10.3758/PBR.16.3.573


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Film Independent co-presidents Sean McManus and Josh Welsh announced on Thursday (15) that the 28th Film Independent Spirit Awards will be back on the beach in Santa Monica the day before the Oscars in what has become the event's traditional venue.
The 2013 Spirit Award nominees will be unveiled at a press conference on Nov 27 at The W Hotel in Hollywood. Film Independent members are eligible to vote.
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William G. Brooks III, of the Norwood Police Department talks drones and predictive analytics.
The first Police Innovation Conference took place in September at the Microsoft New England campus in Cambridge, Mass. On the eve of the event, Government Technology spoke with several top public safety officials to get their take on the top technology trends making their way into law enforcement this year. Among them was Norwood, Mass., Police Chief William G. Brooks III.
The effective and efficient use of community outreach technology. Everyone is aware of social media (Facebook, Twitter, etc.), but there seem to be more and more types cropping up. I'm interested in knowing what has worked for other police agencies, because I think you can do too many, and I believe they can be mismanaged. In the end, you want to use social media to not only reach the tech savvy, you also want the average resident to be able to stay connected.
The drone issue is hot. What can they do, how do you manage them? How do you keep the community on your side? The police should not use a tool just because someone is selling it. You must first decide whether there is a need, and then what the benefit is. The second issue rushing forward is body-worn cameras by police officers. Dash cams have been around for years, but technology can now put a camera on an officer's uniform. So the application is no longer just drunken drivers, but domestic disturbances, use of force and, with the case of the NYPD just recently, stop and frisk. The cameras are great, but you have to figure out management systems: Where do you store the data, for how long, is it Freedom of Information Act material, etc.
Strategic crime control. How to use software to predict crime, prevent crime and identify trends and series. Also the proper use of social media, which I believe my department does effectively.
How is that technology changing law enforcement? Drones are too new, and we don't see them here. Robots have actually been around for a while. Bomb squads use them, so now SWAT teams are calling out the bomb squad even where there's no bomb, just to make use of the robot. If there's a barricaded gunman, you hate to send in a dog because you don't want the dog shot, but you don't want officers hurt either. A bomb robot can climb stairs. They have cameras and mics. You can also broadcast a message to the subject. Now it's up to us to identify safe, legal and effective new uses.


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Novelist Ron Hansen is the 2013 winner of the Evil Companions Literary Award, a long-running Denver honor that will see the acclaimed author feted April 11 at the Oxford Hotel in LoDo. The event, which benefits the Denver Public Library, is open to the public. (See below for ticket information.)
Hansen is probably best known for his 1983 novel, "The Assassination of Jesse James By the Coward Robert Ford." It was adapted for the film starring Brad Pitt. Hansen's output includes eight novels, two short-story collections, an essay collection and a children's book. He also authored the novel "Atticus," which was a finalist for the National Book Award and PEN/Faulkner Award.
His most recent release, "She Loves Me Not: New and Selected Stores," was released in November.


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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. military announced on Monday an anti-mine exercise in "the Middle East's international waterways" in May with more than 20 nations participating, the latest show of global will to keep waterways open as tensions with Iran simmer.
The drill was characterized as defensive and a follow-up to the IMCMEX 12 exercise held last September, focused on keeping oil shipping lanes open by clearing mines that potentially Iran, or even guerrilla groups, might deploy to disrupt tanker traffic.
"This year's effort will reaffirm the ongoing, global cooperation that this mission enjoys with the international community's strong support for free trade," General James Mattie, commander of the U.S. military's Central Command, said in a statement.
U.S. officials have in the past sought to play down any link between the drills and ongoing tensions with Iran, which is pushing forward with a nuclear program the West fears is aimed at giving it the capability to build an atomic bomb. Tehran says the program is peaceful.
But the anti-mine exercises are widely seen as a clear show of determination by a broad coalition of states to counter any attempt Iran might make to disrupt Gulf shipping in response to an Israeli or U.S. strike on its nuclear facilities - a form of retaliation Iran has repeatedly threatened.
Central Command said the drill in May, IMCMEX 13, would focus on mine countermeasures, as well as maritime security operations and protecting maritime infrastructure. It did not provide further details.
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Today, though, we're looking at things a little more tropical in nature. Namely, his work on Far Cry 3.
As you can see, many of these designs made it through to the final game with nary an alteration. And in case you missed it during the game, you can also get a good look at Jason Brody's face. Just in case you didn't think he was smarmy enough already.
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Dykstra: CUs Must Find Ways to Remain Relevant
Target generation Y, she advises, and embrace mobile banking.
The world is changing quickly, and credit unions must continuously look for ways to remain relevant to current and potential members, California & Nevada Credit Union League CEO Diana Dykstra told attendees of the combined conference of the CUNA Technology Council and the CUNA Operations, Sales & Service Council Tuesday in Hollywood, Calif.
"Sometimes we spend too much time focusing on the way things were and not enough time thinking about what's coming," she says. "Baby boomers helped credit unions grow, but they're deleveraging now and they're not going to become net borrowers again. They're done.
"Today's net borrowers are age 18 to 34, but that age group is under-represented among credit union members. We have to do something about that."
Dykstra urges credit unions to target generation Y, the 78 million-strong generation of young adults. "They represent your future borrowers, but 71% of Gen Y have no idea what a credit union is, and more than half of the unbanked belong to Gen Y. This generation represents a tremendous opportunity for credit unions, but a lot of younger consumers just don't want relationships with traditional financial institutions."
She also cites the growing importance of mobile banking, which "represents the greatest opportunity for credit unions and the greatest threat. "You must offer your members seamless access across all delivery channels. Your members won't tolerate disjointed delivery channels.
"Branch traffic declined for the first time in 2012," Dykstra continues. "About 80% of consumers now visit a branch only once per quarter. And their top three reasons for visiting a branch are problem-resolution, executing a process that's too complex to execute online, and to physically sign a document."


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Davies on the History of Law Journals
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- Shag from Brookline said...
The abstract is available at SSRN but efforts to download the article indicated it was not available. Will it be available soon? I am particularly interested in "The Monthly Law Reporter" published in Boston, beginning, as I recall, in the mid or late 1830s and ending about the time of the Civil War. I searched through the entire set for a research project and found much valuable information, including an article on the benefit of appointing rather than electing judges as well as an extensive critique of the Dred Scott decision. I hope the article is available soon via SSRN.
- March 5, 2009 at 8:28:00 AM EST
- Mary L. Dudziak said...
Downloading worked for me -- both last night and this morning. I would try again. Difficulties w/ SSRN access usually get resolved within a day.
- March 5, 2009 at 10:59:00 AM EST
- Shag from Brookline said...
I tried again and the download appeared to go through according to my register but then there appeared the following message:
"There was an error opening this document. The file is damaged and could not be repaired."
Thus, Acrobat could not present the document either to read or print. According to my register the number is: SSRN-id1351928.pdf
Any way around this? I have had similar problems in the past, but not that often.
- March 5, 2009 at 2:51:00 PM EST
- Mary L. Dudziak said...
Well, I tried one more time, and for the third time successfully downloaded the paper. I also noticed that Davies' download count is going up, so others are also able to download. So something is going on on Shag's end.
The document does take a while to download, so perhaps it has something to do with your connection speed. Or maybe the version of Adobe installed on your computer? I'm just guessing.
The easiest way around a download problem is to send the author an e-mail and ask him if he'll send you a copy. For his address, see his SSRN page, which you can find by clicking on his name after you click over to the SSRN abstract.
Good luck!
- March 5, 2009 at 3:38:00 PM EST
- Alfred Brophy said...
Shag--I had a similar problem and tried again to download it right after I got the error message and it worked the second time.
- March 5, 2009 at 9:27:00 PM EST
- Shag from Brookline said...
After AOL, Internet Explorer and Safari failed me, I was successful with Firefox. The article led me to Hicks' book, which I'll be browsing through for a few days on other aspects of researching law.
Thanks for the help.
- March 6, 2009 at 2:10:00 PM EST


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BIRMINGHAM, Ala.—Five Panthers scored in double digits as the Birmingham-Southern men's basketball team won its fourth straight game with a 90-42 rout of Huntingdon, Monday evening in Bill Battle Coliseum.
Junior Larry Thomas and sophomore Ross Welch led the way with 14 points apiece, with Welch going 5-8 from the field including 4-7 from beyond the arc. Thomas also led the team with seven rebounds and four steals, and he and senior Jason Holland led with four assists each.
The Panthers pulled out to a 16-0 lead in the first five minutes and never looked back, leading by as much as 35 and holding a 46-18 lead at halftime. The second half was more of the same as BSC built up to a 48-point lead—the largest of the game—by the final buzzer.
Senior Griffin Schamp was also in double-digit scoring, recording 12 points, as were senior Schylar Freeman and freshman Conner Hayes with 10 points each.
Austin Hill led the Hawks with 13 points and nine rebounds, and Jason Varney recorded 11 points. Alex Layson led with three assists.
BSC out-shot Huntingdon in all three categories. The Panthers were 31-67 (46.3 percent) overall, 14-31 (45.2 percent) from three-point range, and 14-19 (73.7 percent) from the free throw line. The Hawks were 14-52 (26.9 percent) overall, 2-15 (13.3 percent) on three-pointers, and 12-20 (60 percent) from the line.
The Panthers also held the advantage in rebounding, 47-36, and turned the ball over 13 times, nine less than Huntingdon.
BSC is off for the next 11 days for Christmas before returning to action in the Coaches Classic by Kay Jewelers, Dec. 28-29, hosted by Randolph-Macon College in Ashland, Va. The Panthers will face the host Yellow Jackets Dec. 28 at 3 p.m. Eastern and Guilford College Dec. 29 at 1 p.m. Eastern.


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The Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) announced last week that it expects to finalize the preliminary conclusion of its latest China policy in early January, after months of discussions following its bitter loss in the presidential election last year.
A new China policy, the party said, is necessary to convince voters that it can manage cross-strait relations better than the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT), something that former DPP chairperson Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) failed to do in her presidential campaign. The discussion has also somehow become a tradition, as the party has always fine-tuned its China policy before every presidential election in the past.
Other than an almost unanimous agreement that the party needs to increase exchanges with Beijing, as it cannot afford to ignore the rapidly rising power, and that it should engage Chinese civil society and government, no consensus has been achieved.
While various initiatives, such as values-based engagement and diplomacy, were proposed and approved by most, the main argument still came down to the core issues of the DPP's position on independence and the Republic of China (ROC).
At the center of the argument were three documents: the "Taiwan independence clause" in the DPP charter, the 1999 Resolution on Taiwan's Future and the 2007 Resolution to Make Taiwan a Normal Country.
The Taiwan independence clause, which was added to the charter in 1991, listed establishing the Republic of Taiwan as the DPP's formal goal. The 1999 resolution defined Taiwan as a sovereign country separate from China, while acknowledging the ROC as the country's formal title.
The "normal country resolution" identified five abnormalities in Taiwan — international relations, the constitutional system, national identity, social justice and party competition — and advocated renaming the country Taiwan.
Most DPP members, whether moderate or hawkish on China policy, appeared to agree that the 1999 resolution, which did not mention Taiwanese independence, is the most acceptable among the three documents, while several moderates called for scrapping — or at least freezing — the independence clause and the normal country resolution because such "radical documents" could antagonize China.
Under the presumption that the DPP's superior domestic governance would beat out the KMT, some also proposed that the party "move to the middle" or "shadow" the KMT's China policy to win the presidential election.
However, the DPP first needs to address several key issues in its pursuit of a new China policy.
First, is there a "middle-of-the-road" position for the DPP's China policy? Despite the 1999 resolution being seen as the most moderate position for the party, it is hard to imagine Beijing accepting "a sovereign country separate from China." It is also extremely difficult for the DPP to accept the "one China" framework.
Second, will the DPP be bold enough to publicly abandon its support for independence and completely embrace the ROC to cater to Beijing's goodwill?
Third, the DPP has to deal with the inconsistency between the three documents. Does the most recent resolution override the previous ones? The party has been vague about the significance of the three documents, with different explanations offered by different politicians.
Fourth, while the party seems to have agreed that its China policy will need to be "accepted by Washington and tolerated by Beijing," it is difficult to imagine that a China policy based on promoting the universal values of human rights, democracy and freedom will be welcomed by Beijing.


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TJ Rosene is entering his third year as the EC men's head basketball coach. He is beginning his seventh year as a head coach in the SSAC. Rosene's first year at EC was one for the ages. The Lions took their first trip ever to the NAIA National Tournament in Kansas City.
Rosene began his coaching career at conference foe, Reinhardt College. He spent one year as the men's basketball assistant coach before taking over the women's program in 2002. It was there that he led the team to back-to-back school records for wins in a season. In 2003-2004, he was named the Conference Coach of the Year. In 2005, Rosene made the transition to the head men's coach for the next two years.
TJ earned his Bachelor of Science in Physical Education from Reinhardt College and a Master's in Education from Troy University. He played high school basketball at Oconee County High School in Watkinsville, Georgia. He played for his father, Bob Rosene, who had a very successful coaching career in California and Georgia. Rosene set many school records in just three years at Oconee. Out of high school he signed with Presbyterian College before transferring to Reinhardt College and finishing his career.
This past summer while working for USA Basketball International, Rosene led a team of college all-stars on a tour throughout Europe that began in Bosnia and ended in Italy. He is also set to lead a team through Spain this coming Summer 2009.
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JOHANNESBURG - The Westgate Mall attack in Kenya threw the spotlight on al-Shabab, a Somalia-based group of Islamic militants that claimed responsibility. But its relationship with al-Hijra, a relatively obscure cell of extremists in Kenya, represents what terrorism analysts say is a worrying trend in Africa: an increase in collaboration among religious radicals across borders and vast, poorly policed regions.
For now, the experts say, this networking lets militant groups in Africa aid one another in the face of pressure from security forces, but doesn't entail a coordinated, continent-wide strategy that could sideline the local agendas they hold dear. The fear is that the more these groups talk to each other, the more people they will kill as they thwart efforts to contain them.
"It is the growing connectivity between some of these groups that is starting to form a network across Africa which could be very, very dangerous," Gen. Carter Ham, then chief of the U.S. military's Africa Command, said in December. Ham, who has since retired, warned at the time that al-Shabab and other like-minded outfits were increasingly working together in the fields of training, funding and weapons.
No evidence has yet emerged that shows such regional networking played a role in the Sept. 21 Nairobi mall attack that killed at least 67 people. But some observers believe al-Hijra may have played a role in the mall attack, noting its close ties to Somali militants.
"It is really a close affiliate, a Kenyan part of al-Shabab," said Stig Jarle Hansen, a Norwegian academic who has written a book about al-Shabab.
Al-Shabab, which has pledged allegiance to al-Qaida, said the assault was payback for Kenya's military role in pushing back Islamic fighters in neighboring Somalia. The Kenyan police, meanwhile, may be going after suspected al-Hijra members at home.
Al-Hijra, formerly known as the Muslim Youth Center, has been "plagued by unexplained killings, disappearances, continuous `catch and release' arrest raids and operational disruptions," the United Nations said in a July report on Somalia and Eritrea.
Human rights groups blame Kenyan police for the forced disappearances and executions.
"Al-Hijra is striving to regain the initiative, in part through its fighters in Somalia returning to conduct new and more complex operations and through strengthening its ties to other groups in the region," the U.N. report said. It said al-Hijra was building links with extremists in Tanzania, as well as al-Shabab affiliates in Rwanda and Burundi.
These links among Islamic militants in Africa pose new challenges for resource-poor governments that sometimes struggle to work together, even as radical fighters get cash from smuggling and other illegal activities.
Many Islamic militants involved in deadly attacks in Africa find common cause with al-Qaida, adopting its hardline Islamic ideology and anti-Western agenda and benefiting from its global propaganda networks.
"There are definitely linkages between the groups," said Hussein Solomon, a senior professor in political studies and governance at the University of the Free State in South Africa and author of "Jihad: A South Africa Perspective."
The ideology "is the glue which binds them all and which gives them a transnational nature," he said. But those binds can fray.
"Sometimes these alliances are somewhat short-lived because of the tensions between local and more global aspirations," said Bill Braniff, executive director of START, a terrorism research center based at the University of Maryland in the United States.
Other key groups are al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb, in north and west Africa; Nigeria's Boko Haram, blamed for mass killings of civilians in the past week; and al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula, based in Yemen, across the Gulf of Aden from Somalia.
Boko Haram sometimes uses tactics and language reminiscent of al-Qaida, but it remains fiercely focused on a local agenda, railing against what it calls Nigerian state oppression and corruption and seeking implantation of a harsh version of Islamic law, or Shariah, in all of Africa's most populous country.
Valentina Soria, a security analyst and al-Shabab expert with London-based IHS Jane's, said there does not appear to be a "coordinated strategy" and that collaboration consists of "operational connections."
In a report last year, Soria said some groups were using more suicide bombers and adopting a "strategy of `spectacle'" in attacks that seemed modeled on al-Qaida's style. The use of Twitter by purported al-Shabab militants during the Kenya mall attack fits the al-Qaida profile of aggressively using the media as a tool to promote its message.
Al-Shabab is believed to have undergone a deadly power struggle within its ranks, and analysts have speculated that the targeting of the Westgate Mall, popular among foreigners, means the leadership is intent on spectacular attacks with international impact.
Braniff noted "increasing lethality of groups on the periphery of al-Qaida." According to U.S. State Department figures, Somalia and Nigeria were among the top 10 countries with the most terrorist attacks in the world in 2012.


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Hey, I was just getting into the spirit of THIAchan!
Hi! just aded you to my 3DS friends list, hope you don't mind. My FC: 4725-8318-2508
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OKLAHOMA CITY, OK. – For four years, the fans of VCU basketball watched Eric Maynor develop into arguably the best player to ever don a Ram uniform.
A lot of the highlights he provided to the passionate Black & Gold fans came during postseason play, so it should come as no surprise as he is doing the same at the highest level with the Oklahoma City Thunder.
Maynor was a part of OKC history, when his Thunder squad picked up the first playoff series win in team history by winning their best-of-seven series, 4-1, over the fifth-seeded Denver Nuggets. The final blow came on Wednesday night when OKC defeated the Nuggets, 100-97.
In the five games, Maynor averaged 12 minutes, nearly six points and two assists per contest.
His biggest scoring output came in the first game of the series when he poured in 12 points in just 12 minutes on 5-of-7 shooting.
Playing behind All-Star Russell Westbrook, Maynor averaged just shy of 15 minutes per night during the regular season, while scoring about five points and handing out three assists.
During his remarkable career at VCU, he became the school's all-time leading scorer with 1,953 and assists with 674. He led the Rams to 95 wins during his four seasons, including three straight CAA regular season crowns and two NCAA Tournament appearances.
Oh and by the way, he kinda hit some big shot against Duke in the 2007 NCAA Tournament. Don't believe me? Watch this.
The former Ram and his Oklahoma City teammates now will wait to see whether they will take on the eighth-seeded Memphis Grizzlies or the top-seeded San Antonio Spurs in the second round. After Wednesday night, the Grizzlies lead that series by a 3-2 tally.


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Let me clear about this--most of the explanation for the delay in this podcast (recorded almost two months ago) is simply that I never got around to finishing & posting it. Part of that is because the show is longer than usual--longer than fits on a CD--and I thought I wanted to edit it down considerably. But as you know if you're a longtime listener, I don't really do that kind of editing. I don't do much editing at all, truthfully. (Feedback welcome on that, by the way.) After I gave up the idea of editing out so much content, I figured I'd just post the show in two parts, spaced about a week apart. Now that it's taken me another few weeks to even do that much, I'm giving up, deciding to post the whole thing. I don't think hardly anybody burns these onto CDs in 2009 anyway, and some gaming podcasts are even longer. So this is part procrastination/laziness, part experiment. Let me know what you think. Whew!
This is a topic of interest to the truly geeky, the ones that care a little too much about their games. That's me, and it's probably you, too. (After all, you're reading a boardgame blog, listening to a boardgame podcast! You've got it bad . . . ) You won't be in this hobby very long before you encounter some opinions, including your own, about which version of a game is best. The original? The one where they changed the artwork & components? Or the one where they redeveloped the game into something just a little different? Small World is the game that triggered me to record this episode. I'm a huge fan of Vinci, which was Small World's differently-themed predecessor.
Do I like Small World? Yes.We talk about a lot more than Small World as I tried to generalize what's going on here. All those versions of Settlers, Cosmic Encounter, Medici, and even Careers make it in to the discussion.
Do I prefer it to Vinci? No way.
Why not? Because of the theme. Vinci has a historic theme and map, while Small World has a fantasy theme and map. You know my preferences. I've heard some say that Vinci has no theme, but I don't understand that at all. Clearly we have very different ideas of what constitutes a game theme. (That's another podcast I'd like to tackle some day.) Of the several design modifications in the latter game, I prefer the original, but they're not a big deal. It's the theme that is driving my opinion, more than anything.
Which do I recommend? Well, it depends on the gamer, but I have to admit that most will probably prefer Small World. Certainly you can easily buy Small World, while Vinci is now, sadly, Out-Of-Print (OOP).


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Harvard will clinch a spot in the 2013 Ivy League Tournament with a win over Yale (Gil Talbot).
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The Harvard men's lacrosse team will host No. 15/15 Yale Saturday, April 27 on Senior Day at Harvard Stadium with a spot in the Ivy League Tournament on the line. Face off is slated for 2 p.m.
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Where We Stand
One spot in the 2013 Ivy League Tournament is still up for grabs as the Ancient Eight heads into its final weekend of play. Cornell has already clinched the top seed in the tournament and the right to host with a 5-0 conference mark, while Princeton and Yale are also in at 3-2. The Tigers and Bulldogs can be anywhere from the No. 2 to No. 4 seed depending on this weekend's results.
Harvard and Penn remain as the only teams on the bubble but the Crimson controls its own fate and is in the tournament with a win. Harvard cannot get in to the tournament with a loss.
Tournament Scenario Breakdown (courtesy IvyLeagueSports.com)
- If Harvard and Cornell win: Cornell is No. 1, Princeton is No. 2, Harvard is No. 3 and Yale is No. 4.
- If Harvard and Princeton win: Cornell is No. 1, Princeton is No. 2, Harvard would be No. 3 and Yale is No. 4.
- If Yale and Cornell win: Cornell is No. 1, Yale is No. 2, Penn is No. 3 and Princeton is No. 4.
- If Yale and Princeton win: Cornell is No. 1, Princeton is No. 2, Yale is No. 3 and Penn is No. 4.
Harvard will commemorate all those affected by the tragedy at the Boston Marathon with a special helmet decal (pictured below) which will be worn for the remainder of the season.
Last Time Out
The Harvard men's lacrosse team suffered a 14-6 loss to No. 13/12 Princeton on Friday, its fourth ranked opponent in four weeks.
Carl Zimmerman scored two goals on two shots to pace the Harvard attack. Devin Dwyer and Alex White tallied two points on one goal and one assist, while Sean McDonagh and Murphy Vandervelde each scored once.
Harry Krieger came away with eight saves in goal as Gabriel Mendola went 11-of-14 at the face off X and collected a team-high seven ground balls. Princeton outshot the Crimson 43-18 while converting 18-of-24 clear attempts. Harvard, meanwhile, won 12-of-22 face offs and was 8-of-12 on clears.
Scouting Yale
Yale, ranked 15th in both the Nike/Inside Lacrosse Media Poll and USILA Coaches' Poll, had won five straight games before suffering an 8-7 setback at No. 4/4 Maryland on Saturday. The Bulldogs are 8-4 overall on the year and 3-2 in Ivy League play.
Yale has averaged 10.42 goals per game while allowing opponents to score just 8.08 goals per contest, the ninth best mark in the NCAA. The Bulldogs also boast one of the nation's top face off units as its .616 win percentage at the X ranks sixth in the country.
Brandon Mangan's 52 points (30g, 22a) pace the Yale attack while his 4.33 points per game rank him seventh nationally. Three other Bulldogs have also registered more than 20 points, including Conrad Oberbeck (25g, 4a), Kirby Zdrill (22g, 2a) and Colin Flaherty (13g, 8a). Defensively, Eric Natale ranks as one of the top goalkeepers in the NCAA as his 7.99 goals against average is 10th best in the land. Natale also sports a .527 save percentage. Peter Johnson has caused 25 turnovers in front of Natale as Dylan Levings has collected 97 ground balls to go with his .620 win percentage at the X which ranks sixth in the NCAA.
Inside the Series
Harvard trails the all-time series with Yale, 33-59, but has won six of the last 10 meetings between the squads. The Bulldogs took last year's contest in New Haven, 10-8, to avenge a 9-5 victory by the Crimson in 2011 at Harvard Stadium. The home team in this series has won four straight games with the last victory by a road team coming in 2008 when Harvard won at Yale, 9-5.
Up Next
The 2013 Ivy League Tournament will take place May 3-5 in Ithaca, N.Y. Both semifinal matchups will be aired live on ESPN3, while the championship game will be carried live on ESPNU.
CLASS Act
Captain Jason Gonos was one of 10 NCAA lacrosse student-athletes selected as a finalist for the 2013 Senior CLASS Award® in collegiate men's lacrosse. An acronym for Celebrating Loyalty and Achievement for Staying in School®, the Senior CLASS Award focuses on the total student-athlete and encourages students to use their platform in athletics to make a positive impact as leaders in their communities.
Gonos has anchored Harvard's defensive unit for the last four years, but even more impressive than his play on the field has been his work within the community. In November, he organized the Crimson's involvement in Lacrosse Mustache Madness which raised $6,979 for the HEADstrong Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to the fight against blood cancer. Gonos has also spent time working with Happy Helpers for the Homeless in his home state of Maryland, helping to feed and clothe the homeless in Glen Burnie, Md.
Fans are encouraged to vote on the Senior CLASS Award website or on the Senior CLASS Award Facebook fan page through May 13. Fan votes will be combined with media and Division I head coaches' votes to determine the winner.
Rank and File
Inside Lacrosse released its midseason ranking of the top 25 freshmen from around the country on April 17 with Harvard's Devin Dwyer coming in at No. 3. Penn State's T.J. Sanders is listed at No. 1 with Notre Dame's Matt Kavanagh coming in at No. 2.
Related Link: 2013 Inside Lacrosse Midseason Freshmen Rankings
Harvard in the Inside Lacrosse Freshmen Rankings
2013 – Devin Dwyer, No. 3*
2011 – Daniel Eipp, No. 25
2009 – Jeff Cohen, No. 7
2008 – Dean Gibbons, No. 22
* - Midseason Ranking
Rookie of the Week
Freshmen Devin Dwyer earned his second straight Ivy League Rookie of the Week honor on April 15 after posting nine points (2 g, 7a) in a 2-0 week for the Crimson. He began with a career-high six points against Quinnipiac on Tuesday, scoring two goals and dishing out four assists. Dwyer added three assists on Saturday as Harvard knocked off No. 16/14 Penn in overtime, 8-7.
Dwyer was also named the Ivy League Rookie of the Week on April 8 for his five-point performance against No. 2/2 Cornell. Dwyer found the back of the net twice against the Big Red, and handed out three assists.
Young Gun
Freshman Devin Dwyer currently leads the team and ranks sixth in the conference with 40 points. His 24 assists are also a team-high and are third best in the conference while his 16 goals rank second among the Crimson, 19th in the Ancient Eight.
Dwyer opened his career scoring in seven straight games, including a streak of five games in which he tallied multiple points, and has scored in 12 of Harvard's 13 contests this year. He is vying to become the first freshman to lead Harvard in scoring since Jeff Cohen '12 in 2009. Cohen tallied 41 points that season on 34 goals and seven assists.
Strength of Schedule
Harvard's 2013 schedule features nine opponents currently ranked in the top 25 of the NCAA's RPI; No. 5 Cornell, No. 7 Duke, No. 11 Yale, No. 13 Albany, No. 14 Penn, No. 18 Princeton, No. 19 UMass, No. 24 Hofstra and No. 25 Brown. The Crimson, which is ranked No. 27 itself, is just 1-7 so far in these games but lost to Cornell, Duke, UMass and Brown by just two goals each.
Taking Advantage
Harvard leads the Ivy League with 23 goals on the man-advantage while converting on 46.0 percent of its opportunities, tops in the conference and sixth best in the NCAA. The Crimson has scored 17 man-up goals in its last six games, including four against Cornell and Quinnipiac.
Step Your Game Up
Sophomore Murphy Vandervelde, who had totaled zero goals in the first seven appearances of his career, has scored 14 goals over the team's last seven outings and ranks fourth overall on the team. Vandervelde has turned in three hat tricks during this stretch, most recently against No. 16/14 Penn with his third tally giving the Crimson an 8-7 overtime victory.
Overtime Upset
The Crimson earned an 8-7 overtime victory over No. 16/14 Penn on April 13, marking the team's first win over a ranked opponent since defeating then 14th-ranked Penn 12-8 in the Ivy League semifinals on May 6, 2011. The triumph was also the team's first in overtime since taking out Brown, 10-9, on March 17, 2012.
Player of the Week
Goalkeeper Harry Krieger has earned a pair of player of the week honors this season, most recently receiving the award from the Ivy League on March 25. The senior turned away 28 shots while allowing just 11 goals as the Crimson defeated both Bryant and Dartmouth, finishing the week with a .718 save percentage and a 5.50 goals against average. Krieger was also named the NEILA Player of the Week on March 11 after recording 12 saves in Harvard's 8-6 win over Georgetown.
Krieger enters the weekend ranked 27th in the NCAA with a 9.87 goals against average. His .544 save percentage is second in the Ivy League and 22nd best overall while his 11.5 saves per game pace the conference and rank 20th nationally.
Getting Defensive
Freshmen Robert Duvnjak has started 11 games for the Crimson on defense and currently leads the team with 16 caused turnovers while ranking fifth with 21 ground balls. Duvnjak made his collegiate debut against UMass and registered four caused turnovers, then added four more as Harvard defeated Georgetown.
White Hot
Senior Alex White, who registered a hat trick in each of the Crimson's first two games, enters the weekend with a team-high 20 goals and ranked third overall on the squad with 28 points (20g, 8a) from the midfield. White entered the season with 31 career points (19g, 12a) after having played in 41 of Harvard's 42 games over the previous three seasons.
Facing Off
Senior Rick Molé had a career day at the face off X against Brown, winning 15-of-20 draws while collecting four ground balls. Molé, who entered the year having taken just 32 face offs in his career, owns a .490 winning percentage at the X this season and ranks fifth in the Ivy League with 98 face offs won.
Staying Grounded
Junior Gabriel Mendola set a career-high with 10 ground balls at Brown. He is the first Crimson to recorded double-digit ground balls since Keegan Michel did so on April 10 of last season with 10 against Quinnipiac.
Sharing the Wealth
19 different members of the Crimson have combined to score 122 goals this season. Alex White leads the way with 20 tallies on the year, while Devin Dwyer and Peter Schwartz have added 16 goals and 15 goals, respectively.
The Crimson has collected two two-game win streaks this season, most recently defeating Quinnipiac and No. 16/14 Penn in back-to-back contests. Harvard last won three straight games in 2011 when it defeated Princeton, Yale and Penn to reach the Ivy League Tournament finals.
Home Field Advantage
Harvard is 15-8 at home under Chris Wojcik '96, The Frisbie Family Head Coach for Harvard Men's Lacrosse, including a 4-4 mark in 2013. The Crimson boasts a 7-6 mark in Harvard Stadium and an 8-2 record at Soldiers Field Lacrosse Stadium.
Hats Off
2013 Hat Tricks
Career Hat Tricks
In the Spotlight
The Crimson will play twice in front of a national television audience in 2013 beginning with its March 30 meeting with Duke. The game, which will be aired live on NBC Sports Network, will be played under the lights of Harvard Stadium at 7 p.m. The Crimson will also be featured on ESPNU when it takes the field at Princeton Friday, April 19 at 6 p.m.
Watch Live Online
Harvard has announced that for the first time ever, each of the Crimson's nine home games will be available either through live or on-demand streaming. Eight of the nine will streamed live through GoCrimson.com while the Crimson's nationally televised matchup with No. 13/14 Duke will be available for on-demand viewing shortly after its completion.
A full season pass can be purchased for $59.95 while single event subscriptions will be offered for $9.95. The full season pass will give fans access to each of the eight games streamed live as well as access to the on-demand archive for all nine home contests.
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In the end, it's a matter of taste.
Nicholas David is a soulman. A kooky, uncoordinated soulman, but a soulman nonetheless.
Terry McDermott is a rocker. What he lacks in flair, he makes up for in consistency.
Cassadee Pope is the pop star, who belts out the ballads and jumps around.
That's alphabetical order, but it's also my order. Readers, what is yours and why?
Three other thoughts. As good as the contestants are, hearing them with their coaches showcases how talented those coaches are. Cee Lo tonight? In a league of his own.
The tribute to the victims of the Sandy Hook shooting, at the show's start, was beautiful and fitting. The judges and some contestants sang Hallelujah, holding cards with the names of the deceased.
Tomorrow is the finale. Thanks to all Speakeasy readers who kept up with these posts and shared their views.


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Obama visited the Daimler Detroit Diesel plant in Redford where he praised the crowd of current employees and previous generations of workers who, for more than 70 years, "have done your part to build up America's manufacturing strength."
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If nothing is done, Obama said, taxes for a typical middle-class taxpayer will jump by about $2,200 come Jan. 1.
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His comments came after Obama met privately at the White House Sunday with House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, in their first face-to-face meeting in nearly a month.
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The colours are (all are shimmery):
Pink Diamond: silvery base, with very subtle pink tone, almost transparent, I think this will show up as just shimmer on the majority so probably best used layering rather than on its own.
Violet: cool toned pink with a hint of lavender
Bellini: Peach/apricot
Baby Doll:sheer slightly warmed pink
Ambre Rose:Bronze with golden shimmer.
Swatches (please click to enlarge) are L-R Pink Diamond,Violet,Bellini,Baby Doll,Ambre Rose.
They are all scented (smells like Vanilla to me).
Texture/performance wise, they give a very shiny glossy finish,they are medium thickness which enables them to last quite well and I don't get any bleeding from them. There are some really beautiful easy to wear colours in the range and Violet seems to be quite a popular one. I do however find them a little bit sticky/tacky (I am rather fussy about this) and whilst I like the ones I have I won't buy anymore due to this.
I bought this from SpaceNK.
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I actually have Bellini (only LM lip product I have, ordered from the UK with a couple of other LM items without having seen it before in my life!) and like it quite a lot! Of course, considering what I paid for the shipping I'd like it even if it was the most horrible product in the world!! xxReplyDelete
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Yes, international shipping seems to be so much these days, I just ordered some Edward Bess and that was $25 shipping so I'll have to make sure I like it xx
Where did you order Edward Bess stuff from?? I always have problems when ordering makeup from outside the EU (apparently in Italy it's forbidden to import makeup from a non-European country unless you first alert the health authorities!!) but I'd love to get my hands on something from much talked about Edward Bess...despite the $25 shipping (yikes!) xxReplyDelete
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The edwardbess.com website has been updated so they now ship internationally. It might be best you wait to see if I get mine ok first though before ordering as I am not too pleased so far, I selected a cheaper shipping, they told me they cancelled it as I needed to select the $25 one and they refunded me less that I originally paid!


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Pradhan attempts to write just such a novel and it is easy to see where she draws her inspiration from -- The Joy Luck Club and Jhumpa Lahiri's The Namesake. But it is fair to say these books were just inspirations and Pradhan thankfully tries to make the story her own or about the three set of mothers and daughters.
The story of the six women is told in first person and first half of the book draws the reader into their personal lives in a very reality-TV-like way. And even though they are from the same country, the cultural diversity of the three (Bengali, Maharashtrian and Punjabi) is well narrated and explained for the non-Indian reader. But then, like the average reality show, these stories too start to falter, stumble and fall apart at the seams; especially, that of Saroj and her daughter Preity and Uma and her daughter Rani. It is not hard to see why.
When you are attempting to voice six strong women and their mother-daughter bond, not to mention their past and present and future, it can become daunting not to mention challenging. Ms. Pradhan's easy way out was to chop the stories just when they got interesting.
For example, suddenly out of nowhere we find out Saroj is having an extramarital affair with her old flame. Except for her husband's less than satisfying performance in bed, we get no hint of why, when or how she started her affair.
We know everything about her daughter Preity's first love affair and her desire to find closure in the face of an abruptly ended affair. But the built up is deflated just as suddenly with a hand delivered letter and a few tears.
Recipe for how plain vegeis are transformed into delicous side dishes
Uma's estrangement from her father and her special bond with her daughter is poignant and touching. Her attempt to translate her mother's diaries gives us a glimpse into the archaic customs and prejudices of Indian families but it is just that, a glimpse. I would have loved to read more translations of her mother's diaries and how it helped her decipher her daughter's asthma as just misaligned chakras.
Her daughter Rani, struggling with an artist's block and a husband dealing with the loss of his start up, in a matter of few pages, has suddenly everything working out for the best for her.
Meenal Deshpande's chicken curry
But more than the choppy stories and abrupt endings, it was the pontification that bothered me the most. It was out of place to the point of being ridiculous and unbelievable at best. I mean, seriously, who launches into a discussion with first time guests over how women should be put in charge of Indo Pak diplomacy and how politicians are to blame for all the world's problems (True) and regular citizens do not hate people from other countries. Or when Meenal lectures Kiran, a family physian, on the hazards of smoking!
May be Ms. Pradhan should have worried more about fleshing out the story and less about Indo Pak relations or statutory warnings.
That being said, the characters are totally relatable and the mother daughter father bond/tension spot on. The lament of Indian parents at the loss of culture, language and respect for elders is reminiscent of discussion I have at Indian parties in the US. The recipes are as authentic as can be. I loved the reminder "Under no circumstance use curry powder'.
Here's my reminder, "Under no circumstance buy the book if you can rent."
This book review is for our monthly book club – This book makes me cook, started by Simran. Other members who reviewed the book are Ann, Simran, Aqua and Aparna. If you would like to join out book club, drop a line to Simran and she will get back to you with details.
My version of Meenal's vermicelli kheerI made Meenal's vermicelli kheer (porridge) with pistachios and golden raisins and delicately flavored with cardamom pods. However, this post has run long enough for the purpose of this blog so kheer recipe in the next post, promise.
Ann, don't take any points off like the last time. It counts if I made and ate the kheer and post it a day later.


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