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See: Are You a Doomer?
Welcome to
"Apocaholics Anonymous" –
Join Me in a
Crusade for Panic-Free Living
Updated for the
Atlanta Investment Conference
Anniversary Reunion, 8:45 am, April 20, 2007
By Gary Alexander, Recovering Apocaholic
Hi, I'm Gary
and I'm a recovering Apocaholic. I am currently Apocalypse free for nearly 18
years. I left the church of the Religious Apocalypse in 1976, over 30 years
ago, and I resigned from the secular church of the Financial Apocalypse in
1989. Yes, I still feel the urge to proclaim the end of all things, from time
to time, but I white-knuckle my way to a history book for a little perspective,
and then I breathe easier. If you wish to join AA, the only requirement is that
you give up the adrenaline rush of media-fed fantasies.
Since I spoke to you last on this subject, in 1994, we have
survived "Bankruptcy 1995" (the original epidemic of Hockey Stock charts), the
Big Bang in Hong Kong, years of Y2K scare stories, a SARS epidemic, Mad Cow
disease, Bird Flu, a real threat on 9/11, Triple Deficits (Budget, Trade and
Balance of Payments), wars in Serbia/Kosovo, Iraq and Afghanistan, Deflation in
2003, Inflation since then, The Perfect Storms of 2005 (Katrina, Rita and Wilma,
the 3 Witches of the Bermuda Triangle), and today's reigning fears of Global
Warming, $200 Oil and the Sub-prime Housing Loan Crisis Implosion.
But before we go from today's Sub-prime to the ridiculous
claims of imminent collapse, let me introduce the depths of my past addiction to
the Apocalypse. I was born in July 1945, the day the first atomic bomb exploded
in Alamogordo, New Mexico. That mushroom crowd has haunted our lives ever
since. As a teenager, I became convinced the world would end before I was 30.
Too soon old…too late smart, I was very, very wrong:
50 Years
Ago (1957) – The "Duck and Cover" Generation
My apocalyptic addiction began 50 years ago, in the Year of
Sputnik, when all of us Seattle-area 7th graders – mostly the
offspring of Boeing engineers – were told that we must now learn more science
and math, to close the missile gap with the Soviet Union.
Back in 1957, the U.S. was the proud owner of 100,000
kilograms of U-235, in what was termed "45 times overkill" of the Soviets. But
the Soviets had more missiles than we did. In that same year, 1957, the first
underground nuclear explosion was set off near Las Vegas. In junior high, I
soon became addicted to dystopian novels, like On the Beach, by Nevil
Shute, a Briton who had moved to Australia, in order to be among the last on
earth to be fried by the inevitable radiation cloud following nuclear
Armageddon. The novel was adapted for the screen in 1959, directed by Stanley
Kramer, and starring Gregory Peck as captain Dwight Lionel Towers of the USS
Sawfish. The story was set in the near future, 1963 in the book (1964 in the
movie), in the months following World War III. Nuclear fallout killed ALL life,
with hot air currents killing off Australia last,
The characters made their best effort to enjoy what
remained of their life before dying from radiation poisoning. The film was shot
in Melbourne, with a chilling ending of wind-swept but empty city streets there.
That image has haunted me, to this day. I am convinced that this hopelessness
sewed the seeds for the senseless rush to immediate gratification in the 1960s.
With a world about to die, hedonism soon reigned supreme.
In high school, I read Aldous Huxley's "Brave New World"
and the scathing exposes and novels of Philip Wylie (1902-1971), son of a
Presbyterian minister father and a novelist mother (who died when he was five).
Wylie wrote apocalyptic nuclear war novels like "Tomorrow" (1954), about the
atomic bombing of two fictional Midwest cities adjacent to each other in the
mid-1950s. One had an effective civil defense program, and the other did not.
Later, I read his novel, "Triumph" (1963), another graphic description of the
effects of nuclear war story involving a worst-case USA/USSR "spasm war," in
which both sides emptied their arsenals into each other with extensive use of
"dirty" bombs to maximize casualties, resulting in the main characters (in a
very deep bomb shelter) being the sole survivors in the northern hemisphere, the
new Adam and Eve of a new creation.
In the financial realm, I was also becoming convinced that
America's economy was doomed, especially after reading John Kenneth Galbraith's
"The Affluent Society" (1958), which said the rich get richer and the poor get
poorer, while advertising creates artificial demand in the West. The same theme
was echoed in Vance Packard's "The Hidden Persuaders" (1957). He followed up
with "The Status Seekers" (1959) and "The Waste Makers" (1960). Also popular
was a book we young cynics all read, "The Ugly American" (1958), by William
Lederer and Eugene Burdick. America was supposedly incredibly shallow and
bigoted in the 1950s, soon to be rescued by the Liberated 1960s.
P.S. The world is still a dangerous and violent place, but
the most chilling example of violent death now is in Africa, with machetes.
We've now gone over 61 years without using nuclear bombs against humans – thank
God. Back in the late 1960s, Herman Kahn wrote "On Thermonuclear War" and
"Thinking the Unthinkable," in which he demonstrated that we can survive a
nuclear holocaust, but that didn't seem likely in 1962:
45 Years
Ago (1962): The Cuban Missile Crisis and "Silent Spring"
The closest we came to a nuclear exchange was in October,
1962, during the Cuban Missile Crisis, in my high school senior year. That was
one of the events that caused me to throw away a National Merit Scholarship and
decide to attend a small church college that seemed to made sense of these
global threats. Another impetus was the collapse of the global ecology, as
demonstrated in another best-selling book that I read in 1962:
Rachel Carson (1907-1964) published "Silent Spring" in
1962, based on a compilation of articles she had written for The New Yorker.
Her book is credited with launching the environmental movement that culminated
in Earth Day (1970), including a worldwide ban on the main villain in her book,
DDT. Silent Spring was a Book of the Month Club main selection, spending
several weeks on the New York Times best seller list. It was actively
endorsed by one of my heroes at the time, a Washington State native, Supreme
Court Justice William O. Douglas, as well as many other nature advocates in my
As a result of that book and further research, I wrote an
extended scientific article for a national magazine in 1970, linking the
chemicals in DDT to many of the pest sprays commonly used in homes. I wrote
other articles supporting the ban in DDT, which I am ashamed to say, has caused
the deaths of millions of Asians and Africans since then. Many insect-borne
diseases were on the verge of extinction in 1970, when the U.S. tied foreign aid
to poor nations to their "voluntary" banning of DDT, to our great shame.
Knock, knock!
Who's There?
Armageddon Who?
Armageddon outa here!
In 1963, I threw away my future to apply to Ambassador
College and join the Worldwide Church of God, in effect saying "Armageddon Outa
Here." The book that motivated me the most was Herbert Armstrong's "1975 in
Prophecy," in which he showed from several perspectives that the world couldn't
make it past 1975. After four years of their college indoctrination, I became a
leading writer, editor and researcher for a decade (1966-76) for their
publications, turning secular trends into Apocalyptic rhetoric in magazines and
in the electronic radio media, writing radio and TV scripts for the voice of
"The World Tomorrow," the late Garner Ted Armstrong. I didn't have long to wait
for ammunition:
40 Years
Ago: "The Population Bomb!" and "Famine 1975"
Upon graduation from college, my job of predicting the End
of the World by 1975 was made incredibly easier by a wave of new books
proclaiming the inevitable end, based on the centuries-old (and easily
discredited) theories of Thomas Robert Malthus, who wrote in 1798 that
population grew geometrically, but food production could only grow in small
(arithmetic) increments. In 1967, the brothers William and Paul Paddock wrote a
book called "Famine 1975," in which they said it was impossible for food
production to keep up with population growth. The title of their first chapter
said, "The Population-Food Collision Is Inevitable; It Is Foredoomed." The
Paddocks believed that the Malthusian formula was on a collision course and all
we could do was starve a little less than others.
Then came Paul Ehrlich's "The Population Bomb" (1968), in
which he opened famously by saying, "The battle to feed humanity is over. In
the 1970s and 1980s, hundreds of millions of people will starve to death, in
spite of any crash programs embarked upon now." Writing in Ramparts
magazine, he went even further, "Hundreds of millions of people will soon perish
in smog disasters in New York and Los Angeles…the oceans will die of DDT
poisoning by 1979…the U.S. life expectancy will drop to 42 years by 1980, due to
cancer epidemics." Hepatitis and dysentery would sweep America by 1980 and
nearly all of us would wear gas masks. Over 65 million Americans would starve
in the 1980s, leaving only 22.6 million starved Americans alive in 1990. In
1990, he incredibly justified his claims as being right – a trait common to
Doomsday prophets. *
* "The individual will frequently emerge not
only unshaken but even more convinced of the truth of his beliefs than ever
before. Indeed, he may even show a new fervor about convincing and converting
other people to his view." – Leon Festinger, "When Prophecies Fail."
In the meantime, Dr. Normal Borlaug was launching the Green
Revolution, which has managed to feed billions more people on moderately more
arable soil than in the 1960s. Instead of starving against our will, millions
of us are trying to starve voluntarily – by dieting. Food is far cheaper,
relative to the overall growth of the cost of living, than in the 1960s. From
1977 to 1994, food costs fell 77% in real terms. Grain is in surplus, despite
46 million idle arable acres of U.S. farmland, and 11 million idle acres in
In the first 15 years after "Earth Day," we made great
progress against pollution. The amount of particulates spewed into the air fell
by 64%, carbon monoxide emissions fell 38%, ocean dumping of industrial wastes
was cut by 94%, and the number of rivers unfit for swimming dropped 44%. By
1990, cars emitted 78% fewer pollutants. Yet Lester Brown's annual "State of
the Earth" keeps saying the opposite, that pollution is growing.
And for anyone who still believes in Dr. Malthus, I have
one word to share with you: Chickens! Are they food, or are they
population? Do they grow arithmetically, or geometrically? On the Delmarva
Peninsula alone, 90 million cluckers live their nasty, brutish, crowded and
short lives on the way the chopping block and your local KFC.
The famine/population fear is older than Malthus.
Confucius thought the earth was full, 2500 years ago. Romans thought they had
"worn out the earth." St. Jerome said "the world is already full, and the
population too large for the soil." Tertullian wailed about "teeming populations
of Carthage" with "numbers burdensome to the world." He saw death from famine,
war and disease as "the means of pruning the luxuriance of the human race." In
truth, Rome was rich when it was crowded, and a wasteland when it was empty.
35 Years
Ago – The Club of Rome and "The Limits to Growth"
In the early 1970s, Garner Ted Armstrong pulled me aside
and gave me a challenging new project, which might take years to finish. He
said that all the globe's trends are getting worse, and that if we could only
"feed all these trends into a computer," we could predict the precise time of
the end. Maybe it's 1975, as we all still thought at the time, or maybe it's a
little later than that. After all, we can count the hairs we lose each day and
predict when we will go bald. So we could do the same with all other trends –
depleting resources, increased crime, nuclear overkill, chemical and
environmental pollutants, etc.
Ambassador College had a new IBM 370 computer and a huge
programming team at my disposal, so I set out on this impossible project full of
hope. Two years later, I gave up, but a bunch of secular statisticians in
Cambridge, Massachusetts did not give up. They fed all the same kind of data
into Harvard's massive mainframe and came out with their magnum opus, "Limits to
Growth," modeling the future consequences of growing world population and finite
resources. The study was commissioned by the world's aristocracy, gathered into
a group they called the Club of Rome. Limits to Growth was written by Dennis
and Donella Meadows, among many others. The book used computer simulation to
project a rolling Doomsday. (All this made me feel like less of a religious
In short, the report's authors projected that, at the
exponential growth rates they expected to continue, all the known world supplies
of zinc, gold, tin, copper, oil, and natural gas would be completely exhausted
in 1992. They set specific dates for each commodity. President Carter later
bought into this idea and published his gloomy Global 2000 report.
Then, along came Dr. Julian Simon, who bet Dr. Paul Ehrlich
$1,000 that the price of commodities would FALL, not rise, implying an expansion
of resources, rather than a contraction of supplies during the decade in which
they were all to disappear – the 1980s.
By 1985, instead of running out of oil, an oil glut pushed
the price down from $40 to $10 a barrel. Shortages beget higher prices and more
exploration, not depletion of resources. In the extreme cases, shortages create
new technologies. A wood shortage in England in the early 17th
Century led to the use of coal and the birth of the industrial revolution. A
shortage of whales led to the use and discovery of petroleum, and electrical
lighting. The stench of horse manure in urban streets led to the invention of
the horseless carriage.
30 Years
Ago – Global Cooling and "The Next Ice Age"
My final TV script for Garner Ted Armstrong came in 1975,
when I was about to leave the cocoon of the Church of the Apocalypse for a more
mundane job at the University of Southern California. He wanted a program on
Global Cooling, or the Coming Ice Age. In 1975, there were several covers in
major news magazines about the Coming Ice Age.
One example was Newsweek, for the week of April 28,
1975. It said that leading climate scientists were "almost unanimous" (sound
familiar?) in their predictions of global cooling. Time Magazine had
"The Coming Ice Age" on its cover, and the November 1976 issue of National
Geographic had a lead article on the problem of global cooling.
Later on, physicists combined the threat of natural cooling
with nuclear war to predict a "Nuclear Winter." Our future was clearly frigid.
The trend from 1935 through 1975 was a gradual cooling of temperatures, since
the Dust Bowl of the 1930s. (Most record-high state temperatures, to this day,
were set in the 1930s, not in the 1990s, Mr. Gore.)
One day in the control studio, Garner Ted Armstrong showed
me a news clipping that pointed to the potential threat of carbon-dioxide
emissions contributing to future global warming – a threat that currently
assaults us in the daily media. He looked me in the eye, as his trusted
researcher, and asked point blank, "Which is it – warming or cooling?"
"With any luck, sir," I quipped, "We'll get both, and then
they will offset each other."
He was not amused. But I was on my way out and no longer
cared what he thought. I was happy that a peaceful new job awaited me at a less
Apocalyptic California college. But that did not stop me from reading a series
of best-sellers and coming back to the Doomsday business three years later. In
the 1970s alone, all of this was "Coming…"
* The Coming Dollar Devaluation (1970) by Harry
* The Coming Dark Age (1971) by Roberto Vacca
* The Coming Credit Collapse (1974), by Alexander
* The Coming Bad Years (1978), but Howard Ruff
* The Coming Real Estate Crash (1979) by English and
The 1970s were also book-ended by two big #1 best-sellers
telling the same story from the religious and secular angle: "The Late Great
Planet Earth" by Hal Lindsey (1970) and "Crisis Investing" by Doug Casey
(1979). They were the biggest best-sellers each year.
25 Years
Ago (1982): The Coming Kondratieff Collapse!
I didn't stay out of the Doomsday press for long. By 1979,
I was back in the business, in Virginia, writing free-lance special reports for
a leading direct mail marketer on a more secular version of The End of the
World. As "Mr. X," I wrote a series of reports on survival havens, banking
secrecy, the collapse of the stock market and the fiat currency system. I was
consulting editor to Survival Tomorrow, Tax Angles and Personal
Finance (formerly the Inflation Survival Letter) at KCI. In 1982, my first
special report for Jim Blanchard was on the coming Third World Loan Crisis,
leading to the demise of major New York City money center banks, including the
much maligned Citibank.
In brief, I said, trying to re-arrange loans to Third World
nations was "like re-arranging deck chairs on the Titanic." At the time, most
Latin American nations were following the Juan Peron model, as military
dictatorships, starting in Peru (from 1948 to 1980), then Venezuela (1952),
Colombia (1953), Bolivia (1964), Brazil (1964), Uruguay (1972) and Chile, under
Gen. Auguste Pinochet (1973 to 1988). The giant of the region, Brazil, was
ruled by a succession of four-star generals from 1964 to 1985, as their economy
reeled from one crisis to another. Central America was in the same condition.
El Salvador was under the military's thumb for over 60 years, from 1931 to
1992. Then came military juntas in Guatemala (1954 to 1986), Honduras
(1963-82), Nicaragua's Sandinistas (1979-90) and Panama under General Noreiga
(1968-89), so the situation indeed looked bleak.
Latin America dominated the news in 1982, when I was
writing that Third World debt threatened to bring down the region, and perhaps
cause many major North American money center banks to fail. The major New York
money banks and the U.S. Treasury of the late 1970s had loaned too much money to
the "ABC" nations (Argentina, Brazil and Chile), who were each in default on
those loans, after crippling back-to-back recessions.
Like others, I said it was futile to re-arrange those
loans. But behind the scenes, several New York bankers and Reagan-era Treasury
officials quietly negotiated with the Latin American debtors, offering to
reschedule their debts at lower interest rates, in exchange for some political
concessions – such as free elections – which resulted in the gradual forced
retirement of several military dictators. Throughout the mid-1980s, military
juntas were replaced by democracies, the last one by a dramatic invasion of
Panama in 1989.
As a result of increased economic freedom south of the
border, between 1987 and 1994, external debt as a percent of GDP declined by
fully half in most Latin American nations: In Chile, external debt fell from
109% of GDP in 1987 to 42% by 1994. Argentina's debt fell from 58% of GDP to
31%. The biggest basket case of the early 1980s, Brazil, reduced its external
debt to the lowest level in Latin America, at just 25.8% by 1994. Even Mexico's
debt fell significantly, from 79% of GDP to 44%. We heard all about their high
debt levels in the 1980s. But I bet your never heard the rest of the story. In
1975, there were only 31 global democracies, but now, we have over 120
By the way, Nikolai Kondratieff was proved right: The
1979-82 depression came exactly 50 years after the 1929-32 depression, but none
of the Doomsday prophets noticed that.
20 Years
Ago – A Wave of "Coming Crash" Books (after the Crash)
The #1 Best-seller in 1987 was Dr. Ravi Batra's "The Great
Depression of 1990." Dr. Batra turned out to be right on his timing, but wrong
on his geography. Japan suffered a decade-long Great Depression in the 1990s,
but according to Batra and others, Japan was the last place this could happen.
Many other best-sellers of 1987 were proclaiming the superiority of the Japanese
management system, Japan's work ethic, its currency, its wealth and ability to
"buy up American assets" from Hawaiian hotels to Hollywood studios. (As it
turned out, Japan only knew how to pay way too much for those assets.)
Several other authors (including me) tried their hands at
"coming crash" books, sadly published about the same time the crash happened,
failing to warn anyone in time, and keeping them from re-investing in stocks,
which would have been the smartest move at the time. In the next wave of
"coming crash" books, the overextended American debts were the paramount
threat. Harry Browne wrote "The Economic Time Bomb: How You Can Profit from the
Emerging Crisis" in 1989. Harry's "bullet points" predict this:
- Be ready for both a deep recession and severe
- Why deposit insurance doesn't make your bank account
- How the trade deficit could trigger the next
- Budget deficits have reached a limit – causing the
worst recession since 1937.
- An economic time bomb is set to implode – one wrong
move can set it off.
Not one threat came to pass, despite deeper budget deficits
and trade deficits in 1990-91.
Then came "The Great Reckoning" (1990), also predicting a
"Depression in the 1990s." But the 1990s turned out to be the best decade ever
for global economic growth and the stock markets of free countries, as the Dow
gained 5-fold, from 2,365 to 11,723.
It was at this time (1990) that I wised up and, mercifully,
partook in the bulk of that rise:
10-50 Years Ago DOW
10-Year Gain
April 18, 1957 488.03 192.8%
April 20, 1967 878.62 80.0%
April 20, 1977 942.59 7.3%
April 20, 1987 2270.60 140.9%
April 21, 1997 6660.21 193.3%
April of 2007 c. 12,500 87.7%
60-Year Gain: 75-fold +7,400%
For my grandchildren's generation, I look for another
75-fold gain in the next 60 years, despite threats from Global Warming, the
Housing Crisis, the Triple Deficits in America, and anything else Doomsday
prophets dream up in the future. I have been inoculated against such fears.
Please join me in abandoning the siren song of the Prophets of Doom.
Anonymous" Bibliography: For Further Reading
(1) Proof that "Things
Really are Getting Better"
Anderson, Terry L., editor, "You Have to Admit It's
Getting Better: From Economic Prosperity to Environmental Quality," Hoover
Press, 202 pages.
Goklany, Indur M., "The Improving State of the
World: Why We're Living Longer, Healthier, More Comfortable Lives, on a Cleaner
Planet," Cato Institute, 2007
Lomborg, Bjorn, "The Skeptical Environmentalist:
Measuring the Real State of the World," Cambridge University Press, 1998, 352
pages + 153p of notes and bibliography.
Moore, Stephen & Simon Julian L., "It's
Getting Better All the Time: 100 Greatest Trends of the Last 100 Years, CATO
Institute, 2000, 265 pages.
Simon, Julian L., "Population Matters: People,
Resources, Environment and Immigration," Transaction Publishers, 1993
(2) Countering the Current
Global Warming Scare
Avery, Dennis T. & Singer, S. Fred,
"Unstoppable Global Warming: Every 1,500 Years," Rowman & Littlefield, 2007
Horner, Christopher C., "The Politically Incorrect
Guide to Global Warming and Environmentalism," Regnery Publishing, 2007
Michaels, Patrick,
"Shattered Consensus" (2005) and "Meltdown" (2003)
(3) How Media and Mass
Psychosis Mislead You
Chafetz, Morris E., MD, "Big Fat Liars: How
Politicians, Corporations, and the Media Use Science and Statistics to
Manipulate the Public," Nelson Current, 2005.
Mackay, Charles, "Extraordinary Popular Delusions
and the Madness of Crowds," 1841 first edition, 700+ pages
Simon, Julian, "Hoodwinking the Nation," Transaction
Publishers, 1999, 127 pages
(4) Currently Popular
Doomsday Books in 2007: Random Sampling
Arnold, Daniel A., "The Great Bust Ahead: The
Greatest Depression in American and UK History is Just Several Short Years
Brussee, Warren: "The Second Great Depression:
Starting 2007, Ending 2020"
Panzner, Michael, "Financial Armageddon: Protecting
Your Future from Four Impending Catastrophes."
Rubino, John, "How to Profit from the Coming Real
Estate Bust"
Schiff, Peter, "Crash Proof: How to Profit from the
Coming Economic Collapse."
Wiedemer, David & Robert, "America's Bubble Economy:
Profit When it Pops"
In addition, Bill Bonner's & Addison Wiggin's
"Empire of Debt: The Rise of an Epic Financial Crisis" (a 2005 best-seller) will
be turned into a documentary film in 2008. Perhaps they will join Al Gore in
the Apocaholics Hall of Fame in Hollywood.


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Stabbed trooper doing better
Trooper's wounds called not life-threatening; search is on for man who stabbed him
ALBANY — A State Police veteran is expected to survive a vicious, unprovoked attack by a man who authorities say pulled out a steak knife mid-conversation Sunday afternoon at the Empire State Plaza and stabbed the trooper in the neck.
Rodney Smith, who's been on the force for 15 years, underwent surgery at Albany Medical Center Hospital and was in stable condition as of late Sunday night. State Police Superintendent Joseph D'Amico said Smith is expected to make a full recovery.
The man troopers say stabbed Smith was still at large late Sunday.
Troopers said the suspect took Smith's police radio after the 3:30 p.m. attack in the Plaza's concourse, but that Smith was able to use a cellphone to report the stabbing.
"Our troopers can find themselves in dangerous and sometimes life-threatening situations on any given day," D'Amico said in news release. "Fortunately, Trooper Smith is expected to make a full recovery. ... In the meantime, our thoughts and prayers are with Trooper Smith's family."
Around 3:15 p.m., the suspect first approached Smith, who was on routine patrol in the concourse, and started talking with the trooper about being new to Albany and not knowing anyone in the area, Trooper Mark Cepiel, a State Police spokesman, said.
As Smith checked the suspect's identification, the man pulled out a knife and stabbed Smith in the left side of his neck, Cepiel said.
Smith and the man then fought, and Smith was stabbed in the right side of his neck and his face, Cepiel said. The assailant managed to then grab Smith's radio and run away as the trooper called for help.
The stabbing occurred just past the Plaza's Madison Avenue entrance, across the street from the State Museum. Hours after the attack, a small pool of blood and a trooper's hat could still be seen through the concourse's glass doors.
All afternoon, the scene around the plaza was bustling with troopers and Albany police as both scoured the area for evidence. Cops looked under every car parked along Madison Avenue, dug through garbage cans and picked through bushes.
The concourse was closed Sunday afternoon and night.
A source familiar with the stabbing said Smith "got lucky" as the knife-wielding man missed the trooper's arteries and windpipe. State Police and the Albany Police Department are both searching for the suspect and ask that anyone who may have seen him fleeing the scene or has knowledge of the incident to call the State Police at 518-473-5164.
Both Albany Mayor Jerry Jennings and Gov. Andrew Cuomo visited Smith at Albany Med.
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"(Cuomo) tonight visited stabbed NY State Trooper in the hospital," Josh Vlasto, the governor's chief of staff wrote on Twitter Sunday night. "Trooper is in stable condition and injuries are not life- threatening."
Staff Writer Jimmy Vielkind contributed to this story. firstname.lastname@example.com • 518-454-5414 • @BFitzgeraldTU

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Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner wants to defang the debt ceiling.
Here's how Geithner's proposal is explained in the New York Times:
"To ensure that there are no more crises like last year's impasse, Mr. Geithner proposed permanently ending Congressional purview over the federal borrowing limit, Republican aides said. He said that Congress could be allowed to pass a resolution blocking an increase in the debt limit, but that the president would be able to veto that resolution. Only if two-thirds of lawmakers overrode that veto could Congress block a higher borrowing limit."
This will surely win Geithner plaudits from pundits. Almost unanimously, the smart economic and market commentators hate the debt ceiling. They regard it as a dangerous archaism, a relic with no good purpose in modern politics.


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Ladies Month at The Death Rattle:Top 10 Final Girls #8-10
When Aaron Duenas of The Death Rattle infamy asked me to choose a few favourite Horror Heroines for his Ladies in Horror month, I was hardly going to say no, was I?
As much as I love Laurie, Alice, and Nancy et al though, I thought it might be more interesting to take a look at a few other 'horror heroines' who perhaps broaden, bend or even negate the concept of what it is to be a Final Girl.
The plucky women I've chosen might not necessarily fit the rigid and conventional definition of 'Final Girl', but they still represent the strong spirit she is renowned for. Of course, many of the women Aaron and I have listed obviously owe a huge debt to Laurie, Alice, Nancy and co – whose essences pervade this month over at The Death Rattle - which is where you should head now to check out the first of our Top Ten.


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The Play That Goes Wrong
Duchess Theatre, London
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The Cornley Polytechnic Drama Society are putting on a 1920s murder mystery, but as the title suggests, everything that can go wrong... does! The accident-prone thespians battle against all odds to make it through to their final curtain call, with hilarious consequences!
Given 5 stars from The Daily Mail, called a 'Gut-busting hit' by the New York Times and with celebrity endorsements from the likes of Ant and Dec as the 'funniest show we've seen! If you can get a ticket go', what are you waiting for?
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Sometimes I bake late at night as a way to wind down after a long day of work in front of the computer. Mostly chocolate chip or peanut butter cookies, but sometimes pies, if I'm feeling a bit ambitious. (We're talking 10:30 or 11pm, after all.) Yes, there are countless nutritionists who'll tell you that late-night eating is bad for you. But I'll go out on a limb and claim that smelling freshly baked cookies close to bedtime and even eating one or two has the same soothing effect that a glass of milk before bed does.
Lately, though, I've been switching gears and baking shortbread instead. I don't know why shortbread hasn't been on the regular rotation until now. It's such a simple thing to whip up, and pretty quick, even with the time it takes to chill the dough. Laurie Colwin called it "the essence of butter". Yet, it doesn't feel as heavy as a cookie loaded with chocolate chips. Whether that is a good or bad thing is up to you.
Last week for a blogger potluck at Gojee's headquarters in Soho, I made a batch of Earl Grey Shortbread with bits of Earl Grey tea spotting throughout. Like the other great blogger dishes - Kian's Yunnan-style shrimp fried rice, Veronica's Goan shrimp curry, Chitra 's curried and creamed kale, Cathy's vegetarian chili, and Paul and Steve's cheddar-blue fricos, Barb's tiramisu, and a handful of others - it was gone by the end of the night, except for a few crumbs.
Trust me that it's quite addictive, and slightly caffeinated, helpful to remember if you are trying one right before bed.
Earl Grey Shortbread
Makes about 2 dozen
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 2 tablespoons loose Earl Grey tea leaves
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 3/4 cup confectioner's sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 cup (2 sticks) butter, softened
- Mix together the flour, tea leaves, and salt until the tea leaves are speckled throughout the mixture.
- Add the confectioner's sugar, vanilla extract, and butter. Mix until a dough forms.
- Transfer the dough to a cutting board or other large clean surface and roll into a log about 2 1/2-inches in diameter. Wrap the dough tightly in plastic wrap and chill in the fridge for 30 minutes or in the freezer for 15 minutes.
- Preheat the oven to 373 degrees F.
- Slice the log into disks about 1/3-inch thick. Place the disks on a baking sheet lined with a Silpat or parchment paper, about 2 inches apart. Bake until the bottom edges are just brown, about 10 to 12 minutes, checking at the 10 minute mark. Transfer to wire racks and cool to room temperature.
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How Do Web Performance Issues Impact Your Life Online?
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Over the past couple of months, as part of a sponsorship program with New Relic, we've been reaching out to web developers for feedback on online performance issues, and giving them a chance to win some Techdirt perks. Now, for the last entry in the series, we're opening the floor up to everyone who uses web apps and services (so... everyone!)
We've all seen the digital panic that ensues when a massive service like Gmail or Facebook goes down for even a small portion of users. Smaller versions of the same thing take place every day with services that are less widely adopted but just as important to the people who rely on them. It doesn't even take an outage to cause problems — frequent slowdowns and interruptions can quickly cause a massive productivity traffic jam. With the degree to which we live our lives and do our work online, service problems are much more than a minor inconvenience, and at the wrong moment can be a disaster.
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Rangers (0) vs Celtic (1)
Celtic has won the match 1-0 thanks to an excellent goal from McDonald. With this victory, Celtic opened up a 7-point lead at the top of the table and took the revenge of thier 4-2 home defeat to Rangers in August.
90 minutes: Rangers were all out to clinch a late equalizer, but the final whistle blew off and that is the end of the match.
88 minutes: Rangers is palying all out at this moment looking to score an equalizer. Rangers got a corner.
85 minutes: Celtic got a good chance and was very close to double the lead, but nothing happened in the end. Ealier, Rangers threatened in the Celtic half once again.
80 minutes: Rangers threatened in the Celtic half for a number of times in the last few minutes. The hosts are desperate to level the score.
75 mintues: Rangers chaged a player. Whiltaker comes off and Novo comes on. Papach earned a corner for Rangers, welll taken, but was claered in the end.
70 minutes: Rangers palyers are looking for an equalizer.
62 minutes: Player changes for both sides.
58 minutes: GOAL for Celtic as McDonald scored an excellent goal.
57 minutes: Rangers got a free kick from a dangerous position, though Rangers palyers claimed for a pentaly, but nothing happened in the end.
53 mintues: Rangers is attacking more at this moment.
48 minutes: Chris Boyd missed the easiest chance of the match for Rangers as he failed to beat Celtic goalkeeper in a one-to-one situation.
46 minutes: The second half started. Rangers had the first attack.
This is now half time at the Ibrox stadium. Be with us. We will be back with second half updates.
45 minutes: It is now half time. Rangers and Celtic both sides had some good attacks in the end, but goal did not come yet.
40 minutes: Rangers had two good chances in the last five minutes.
35 minutes: Goal has not come in the match, but Rangers had some good attacks in the last six minutes. Celtic was also dangerous in counter-attack.
29 minutes: A Rangers player was shown yellow card for agreessive tackling. Then Rangers had a shot on target, but nothing happened in the end.
25 minutes: Rangers' Mendes was on target, but his long range shot went wide off the target.
22 minutes: Both Celtic and Rangers got a good chance each in the last five minutes, but failed to calitalize on the chances.
17 minutes: There were some good attacks from btoh sides in the last couple of minutes.
13 mintues: Both sides are going for attack whenver getting chances, and the match has so far been pretty much exciting.
10 mintues: Rangers players started celebrating for a goal, but was called off foul in the end as a Rangers player turned the Celtic goalkeeper down on the ground.
8 minutes: Rangers got a free kick, but there was no one to turn in the free kick in the box.
6 minutes: Celtic got a corner, but nothing happened in the end.
3 minutes: Rangers had a free kick from just outside the box, but Mizuko's shot was not good enough to beat the keeper.
o minute: The match has started just now.
Dear readers, Ibrox stadium is full of crowd. Fans of both sides are waitng for the kick off.
Here, in this entry we will be giving live score and updates of the match between Rangers and Celtic. The match kicks off at 12:30 GMT. We will be giving live updates when the match resumes. So, be with us and enjoy the live updates of the second Old Firm battle of the season.


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zh-CN:Chromium Template:Article summary start Template:Article summary text Template:Article summary heading Template:Article summary wiki Template:Article summary wiki Template:Article summary wiki Template:Article summary wiki Template:Article summary end Chromium is an open source graphical web browser from Google, based on the WebKit rendering engine.
- 1 Installation
- 2 Configuration
- 2.1 Set Chromium as default browser
- 2.2 File associations
- 2.3 Font rendering
- 2.4 Flash Player plugin
- 2.5 PDF viewer plugin
- 2.6 Certificates
- 3 Tips and tricks
- 4 Troubleshooting
- 5 See also
The open source project, Chromium, can be installed with the package chromium, available in the official repositories. In the AUR you can also find:
- chromium-devAUR - the development version (beware: compiling Chromium takes at least as long as compiling the Linux kernel!)
- chromium-browser-binAUR - the binary version of the latest Chromium build
The modified browser, Google Chrome, bundled with Flash Player and PDF Reader, can be installed with the package google-chromeAUR, available in the AUR. In the AUR you can also find:
- google-chrome-betaAUR - the beta version
- google-chrome-devAUR - the development version
SRWare Iron, a modified Chromium with altered settings to increase privacy and with built-in ad-blocker, can be installed with the package iron-binAUR, available in the AUR.
Set Chromium as default browser
This behaviour is related to xdg-open: see xdg-open#set the default browser. For more information about the topic in general, see Default Applications.
File associations
This behaviour is related to xdg-open: see xdg-open#Configuration. For more information about the topic in general, see Default Applications.
Font rendering
Chromium (and Google Chrome) will use the settings in
~/.config/fontconfig/fonts.conf. For possibly better rendering you may try the following. Create the file if it does not already exist.
<match target="font"> <edit mode="assign" name="autohint"><bool>true</bool></edit> <edit mode="assign" name="hinting"><bool>true</bool></edit> <edit mode="assign" name="hintstyle"><const>hintslight</const></edit> </match>
If the fonts are still rendered badly, you can use Xft settings as suggested here:
[...] ! Xft settings --------------------------------------------------------------- Xft.dpi: 96 Xft.antialias: true Xft.rgba: rgb Xft.hinting: true Xft.hintstyle: hintslight [...]
Then update the X Resources database using:
$ xrdb -merge ~/.Xresources
Non-Latin characters
Install needed fonts to correctly display Chinese, Japanese, Korean characters. For examples of recommended fonts for various languages see Font Packages.
For the Arch Wiki, one only needs the ttf-arphic-uming package.
Flash Player plugin
Adobe (Netscape plugin API)
The Adobe Flash plugin can be installed with the package flashplugin, available in the official repositories.
Adobe (Pepper plugin API)
While the classic Flash plugin will not be updated for Linux, an updated Flash Player is included with Google Chrome. It is compatible with Chromium and Iron.
The easiest way to install pepper-flash for Chromium is using one of the packages provided in the AUR:
- chromium-pepper-flash-stableAUR for the stable version.
- chromium-pepper-flashAUR for a development version.
- If you have still flashplugin installed, in order for Chromium to use this new Pepper Flash plugin, please make sure the plugin location from
/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.sois disabled and
/usr/lib/PepperFlash/libpepflashplayer.sois enabled in
- If you use SRWare Iron, and have still flashplugin installed and if the Pepper Flash doesn't show up in the plugins list, then disable
libflashplayer.soand start Iron with:
$ iron --ppapi-flash-path=/usr/lib/PepperFlash/libpepflashplayer.so --ppapi-flash-version=11.9.900.117
PDF viewer plugin
There are multiple ways of enabling PDF support in Chromium that are detailed below.
libpdf is Google's own implementation of a PDF renderer included with Google Chrome. It is compatible with Chromium and Iron.
The easiest way to install libpdf for Chromium is using one of the packages provided in the AUR:
- chromium-libpdf-stableAUR for the stable version.
- chromium-libpdfAUR for a development version.
Enable the plugin in
libpdf.so into correct path. For example, to install it for chromium-browser-binAUR, replace
install -m644 opt/google/chrome/libpdf.so "${pkgdir}/usr/lib/chromium"
install -m644 opt/google/chrome/libpdf.so "${pkgdir}/opt/chromium-browser"
Manual installation
To do it manually, download a Google Chrome release that corresponds to the version of Chromium you use:
$ curl -O https://dl-ssl.google.com/linux/direct/google-chrome-stable_current_i386.deb $ curl -O https://dl-ssl.google.com/linux/direct/google-chrome-unstable_current_i386.deb $ curl -O https://dl-ssl.google.com/linux/direct/google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb $ curl -O https://dl-ssl.google.com/linux/direct/google-chrome-unstable_current_amd64.deb
Extract the deb file with:
$ ar vx deb-file
Extract LZMA the archive with:
$ tar -xJf lzma-file
libpdf.so from
opt/google/chrome/ to the appropriate directory as stated above. A change of its file permissions and ownership may be necessary (the permission of
libpdf.so should be 755).
To verify that the installation went correctly: start Chromium, open
chrome://plugins/ and check if "Chrome PDF Viewer" is available (it may need to be enabled).
libpdf.so, it may become incompatible. Thus and with respect to possible security fixes it is advisable to update both at the same time.
Using mozplugger
Using the KParts plugin
Chromium uses NSS for the certificate management. Certificates can be managed in
Settings →
Show advanced settings... →
Manage Certificates....
Tips and tricks
Proxy settings
There have been many situations in which proxy settings do not work properly, especially if set through the KDE interface. A good method as of now is to use Chromium's command-line options, like
--proxy-pac-url and
--proxy-server, to set your proxy.
Default profile
If you cannot get your default profile when you try to run Chromium and get a similar error instead:
$ chromium
[2630:2630:485325611:FATAL:chrome/browser/browser_main.cc(755)] Check failed: profile. Cannot get default profile. Trace/breakpoint trap
You have to set the correct owner of the directory
~/.config/chromium as following:
# chown -R yourusername:yourusergroup ~/.config/chromium
Sometimes, Chromium will disable WebGL with certain graphics card configurations. This can generally be remedied by typing
about:flags into the URL bar and enabling the WebGL flag. You may also enable WebGL by passing the command line flag
--enable-webgl to Chromium in the terminal.
There is also the possibility that your graphics card has been blacklisted by Chromium. To override this use the
--ignore-gpu-blacklist flag or go to
about:flags and enable
Override software rendering list.
Google Play and Flash
DRM content on Flash still requires HAL to play. This is readily apparent with Google Play Movies. If one attempts to play a Google Play movie without HAL, they will receive a YouTube-like screen, but the video will not play.
As per "Watching movies from Google Play on Arch Linux"; install halAUR and hal-infoAUR. Then remove any previous cache files for Flash:
$ rm -rf ~/.adobe/Flash_Player/*
Start the HAL daemon and one will be able to watch Google Play Movie content.
# systemctl start hal
Alternately one can just save the following Bash script below and run it before they want to watch Google Play Movie content.
#!/bin/bash ## written by Mark Lee <bluerider> ## using information from <https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Chromium#Google_Play_.26_Flash> ## Start and stop HAL service on command for Google Play Movie service function main () { ## run the main insertion function clear-cache; ## remove adobe cache start-hal; ## start the hal daemon read -p "Press 'enter' to stop hal"; ## pause the command line with a read line stop-hal; ## stop the hal daemon } function clear-cache () { ## remove adobe cache cd ~/.adobe/Flash_Player; ## go to Flash player user directory rm -rf NativeCache AssetCache APSPrivateData2; ## remove cache } function start-hal () { ## start the hal daemon sudo systemctl start hal && ( ## systemd : start hal daemon echo "Started HAL service..." ) || ( echo "Failed to start HAL service!" ) } function stop-hal () { ## stop the hal daemon sudo systemctl stop hal && ( ## systemd : stop HAL daemon echo "Stopped HAL service..." ) || ( echo "Failed to stop HAL service!" ) } main; ## run the main insertion function
Force 3D acceleration in Pepper Flash Player and i.g. the browser with radeon driver
To force 3D rendering there is an option "Override software rendering list" in
chrome://flags, also you would have to export video acceleration variables, see ATI#Enabling_video_acceleration. You could check if it is working in


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Vonage Call is a relatively new Windows Phone app that is designed form making calls using Vonage extensions.
Vonage is a home phone service that connects your calls using a high-speed internet connection. Vonage Call is designed for making international calls through Vonage using the services extension feature.
Your Windows Phone needs to be registered with Vonage, a Vonage extension account, an access number and a PIN (all available through your Vonage). Vonage Call imports your Windows Phone contacts and in the settings you can add the extension number which will then be added when you dial the contact.
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As outrage and defiance against the Obama administration's "shutdown" antics continue to escalate, lawmakers in Congress plan to investigate growing numbers of reports on the eviction of homeowners and the shuttering of businesses that sit on public lands. The uproar comes in the wake of media accounts and comments from public servants suggesting that the executive branch is trying to make the bogus "shutdown" — most of the federal government is still up and running — feel as painful as possible in an effort to extort taxpayer money to fund ObamaCare.
All across the country, business owners and residents on "federal property" — in other words, land that taxpayers are supposed to own — are reportedly being ordered by armed bureaucrats to get out until the supposed "shutdown" ends. From elderly homeowners near Lake Mead to businesses in North Carolina that do not cost taxpayers anything, the number of victims of the administration's lawless efforts to make Americans submit to ObamaCare continues to grow. Citizens and their representatives, though, have had just about enough.
In Congress, Republicans expressed outrage. "Many of these non-federally funded sites exist throughout the United States and operate with no staff or resources from the National Park Service," said a statement issued by GOP lawmakers on the House Natural Resources Committee, who plan to investigate. "This is yet another example of the Obama administration attempting to make the government shutdown as painful as possible and forcing closures of private and nonprofit operators that did not happen during previous government shutdowns."
Spokesperson Mallory Micetich for Republicans on the committee confirmed to Fox News that lawmakers planned to investigate the schemes as part of a "widening probe into the National Park Service's response to the partial government suspension." According to Micetich, the committee is receiving "a lot of reports" about businesses being shut down, too, citing as one example a privately run inn along the Blue Ridge Parkway in North Carolina.
In a letter sent last week to National Park Service Director Jonathan Jarvis, who has been accused even by his own staff of trying to make the pseudo-shutdown "as difficult for people as we can," committee leaders said the agency should keep all correspondence surrounding decisions about what to close down. The committee plans to investigate, among other issues, "the staff time and costs associated with the transport, erection, and maintenance of the barriers ... [and] the staff time and costs associated with patrolling and securing these sites prior to and during their closure."
Separately, the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee is also demanding answers about the administration's shenanigans. In a letter to the National Parks Service from Committee Chair Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) and Government Operations Subcommittee Chair John Mica (R, Fla.), the senior Republicans demanded to know by October 17 why the open-air World War II memorial (shown) and other monuments were needlessly barricaded during the partial shutdown — apparently at an additional cost to taxpayers.
"The Committee is concerned with NPS's allocation of resources during this time of lapsed funding. Our concerns are heightened due to NPS's suspicious decisions during the lead-up to the sequester," the lawmakers explained. "This past spring the Committee uncovered evidence that NPS's budgetary decisions were designed to intentionally cause the most disruption to the public in a time of reduced funding.... Specifically, the Committee received information that proposed budget adjustments submitted by an NPS official in the field to deal with sequestration impacts were rejected by NPS superiors in favor of cuts that would be more visible and disruptive."
Many of the people and businesses targeted by the Obama administration's shutdown antics have submitted, leaving their houses or shuttering their businesses after being ordered to do so under threat of arrest. One of the stories that has attracted the most attention thus far involves an elderly couple — 77-year-old Joyce Spencer and her husband Ralph, 80 — who own a lakeside cabin near Las Vegas.
Despite owning the home since the 1970s, they were ordered to leave by federal agents. "Unfortunately overnight stays are not permitted until a budget is passed and the park can reopen," park officials told KTNV in a statement. The couple is spending most of their time at the family ice cream store and with relatives until they can return, according to media reports.
"I had to go to town today and buy Ralph undershirts and jeans because I forgot his pants," Joyce Spencer told the local media outlet in comments that have since become national news, adding that it was a lot to handle for a senior citizen. "I had to be sure and get his walker and his scooter that he has to go in…. We're not hurt in any way except it might cost me if I have to go buy more pants." The Spencers also said the house was their property and they should be allowed in regardless of whether or not there is a "shutdown."
Another local resident noted that they were not ordered to leave during the last shutdown, confirming once again that the administration is going out of its way — and squandering additional taxpayer resources — to make Americans suffer for demanding that their representatives in Congress refuse to fund the federal healthcare takeover. In all, some 60 families were reportedly kicked out of their houses.
However, as bureaucrats keep pushing, some Americans are starting to fight back, too. ABC News, for example, labeled them "shut-down rebels." Last week, World War II veterans defied the administration's effort to shut down their privately financed, open-air memorial — they simply moved the barricades, or "Barrycades," as they are being called to ridicule Obama, formerly known as Barry Soetoro, and marched on in. Inspired by the nonagenarian vets, increasing numbers of citizens are just saying "no" to the bullying and extortion tactics aimed at extracting taxpayer funds for ObamaCare.
In North Carolina, park officials ordered Bruce O'Connell to shut down his inn and restaurant because they sit on taxpayer-owned land, making many of his employees jobless and homeless at the same time. At first, O'Connell complied with the orders. But then, outraged, he changed his mind and decided to open up for business in defiance of the administration's decrees.
"I've witnessed first-hand the process getting more and more dysfunctional over the decades," he told ABC, adding that his business would have paid $30,000 to the federal government for October — if it had been allowed to remain open. "I'd just reached my breaking point…. If not now, when; and if not me, who?"
Federal bureaucrats, though, were not pleased with the defiance. So, they sent a swarm of armed functionaries to terrorize O'Connell and his elderly mother into submission. Over the weekend, exasperated, there was nothing left for the productive business owners to do but comply with the demands. However, in another act of defiance, O'Connell posted a message on Facebook letting people know what was going on and blasting the machinations.
"We have ceased operations. I am furious all over again," O'Connell wrote. "Rangers are guarding our parking lot 24/7 keeping visitors out. It is downright scary. What the heck is going on and how are we all allowing it? I call for action now. Enough is enough." Supporters from around the world are sending e-mails urging him to "fight tyranny," he told ABC.
Meanwhile, in Philadelphia, City Tavern, which opened in 1773 and once served America's Founding Fathers, has also been ordered shut by authorities because it is inside the Independence National Historical Park. Booked parties were cancelled, the restaurant could end up losing huge sums of money, and employees may even have to look for other work, according to news reports.
The situation is similar in Virginia, where federal bureaucrats forced the non-profit Claude Moore Colonial Farm to shut down — despite the fact that it has paid its own way without taxpayer funds for more than three decades. "We have had to cancel every event at the Farm this week so we have already lost more than $15,000 in operating income because October is the busiest month of the year for us," said Anna Eberly, the managing director, adding that while the government may be funded by everyone, the non-profit may have to close down if the costly federal antics continue.
"The Farm may never reopen again if we cannot open soon because we don't have any other source of revenue except that which we earn for ourselves," Eberly explained. "The staff has been here all week in spite of being threatened with arrest because we feel our cause is just and the Farm is worth protecting. And many of our volunteers are Federal employees that now have time on their hands. They could be here volunteering but are banned from the Farm. What an incredibly stupid waste of time and talent."
According to figures cited by the Daily Caller, the Obama administration's ham-handed decision to deploy federal agents to block off private businesses is costing the tourism industry more than $75 million per day. Homeowners on federal land are being hit hard, too. Despite the fact that the White House sits on federal land, it does not appear that the Obama family will be evicted during the supposed shutdown. Regular Americans who pay the government's bills, however, apparently must be made to suffer until their representatives submit to the president's demand to fund ObamaCare.
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As outrage and defiance against the Obama administration's "shutdown" antics continue to escalate, lawmakers in Congress plan to investigate growing numbers of reports on the eviction of homeowners and the shuttering of businesses that sit on public lands. The uproar comes in the wake of media accounts and comments from public servants suggesting that the executive branch is trying to make the bogus "shutdown" — most of the federal government is still up and running — feel as painful as possible in an effort to extort taxpayer money to fund ObamaCare.


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Hanna was instrumental in founding the Hanna Scholarship for Excellence at Louisville Seminary Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary alumnus, the Rev. Dr. Charles Morton Hanna, died July 27, 2013 in Lexington. Hanna was born in Hitchens, Ky. on February 25, 1925. He is the husband of Phyllis Shelby Hanna and the son of the late C. Morton Hanna (BD '24, ThM '39) and Margaret Bell Hanna. He is father of Louisville Seminary trustee Lyle Hanna.
Hanna earned an MDiv from Louisville Seminary in 1951. He received additional education at Indiana University and McCormick Seminary in Chicago. Before becoming executive presbyter of Transylvania Presbytery in Lexington in 1971, his life's work included serving at six rural churches near Tupelo, Miss., as well as at Somerset Presbyterian and Highland Presbyterian Churches in Louisville. During his tenure at Transylvania Presbytery, he supervised the unification of five presbyteries in central and eastern Kentucky. He retired as executive presbyter in 1980, although he continued as business manager until he retired fully in 1988.
On his retirement, he was granted Emeritus status and continued to serve the Presbytery in many roles including serving as an interim associate pastor at Second Presbyterian Church in Lexington for two years. Additionally, he helped found Habitat for Humanity in Lexington and was involved in Golden K Kiwanis, Meals on Wheels and the Helping Hands Alzheimer's day center.
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"Charlie Hanna was an exemplary servant leader. He loved the church, and served the church selflessly," said Louisville Seminary President Michael Jinkins. "Charlie's legacy stands all around us in the congregations that are healthier and the lives that are enriched because of his service. His warmth, generosity, humility and good humor are enduring gifts to all who knew him. We join his family and all his friends today in giving thanks for his life and witness."
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How The DMCA Is Restricting Online Radio In Ridiculous Ways
from the can't-play-that-show deptWhen webcasting first started to become popular, as with any new and useful offering, the RIAA was quick to try to kill it off with ridiculously high licensing fees. While there was some back and forth over the years, the current fees make it nearly impossible to legally stream music online profitably. But, the details are even worse than you think. Even if you are paying the super high fees (which are much higher than terrestrial radio), there are all kinds of restrictions as well. Michael Scott points us to an excellent article in the Tufts' student paper highlighting how these restrictions are harming college radio without any benefit. As the article notes, they are:
"now prohibited from forwardly announcing song titles, broadcasting more than three songs from the same album or four songs from the same artist in a three-hour period, making archived webcasts of their shows available online for longer than two weeks and making those webcasts available for download."The article points out that nothing in these restrictions will stop people from illegally downloading music, but they will serve to create an annoyance for the DJs who put together the programs for this station, and for listeners. Making shows available to download as podcasts, seems like a perfectly reasonable thing to do to build up a fanbase. But... not allowed. The whole thing about preventing three songs from an album or four songs from the same artist in a three-hour period is the RIAA's ham-fisted way of trying to stop DJs from playing a whole album straight -- but it also kills off programs dedicated to a single artist. The article mentions, for example, how the University of Michigan's radio station can no longer air a radio show it used to have, dedicated to Duke Ellington. When I was in college, our student-run station had a show dedicated to the Beatles, which I imagine also could not be run today under these rules. Now, the article doesn't mention that there apparently are some ways to get waivers for these restrictions, but they appear to only be in very limited cases, and the details are somewhat secretive.
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NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- Workers on the drilling rig that exploded at the outset of the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill catastrophe were "trying to get it right" as they monitored BP's (NYSE:BP) well for signs of trouble before the blast, an expert witness for the company that owned the rig testified Monday.
"They just misinterpreted what they were seeing," well control expert Calvin Barnhill said on the 13th day of a trial over the disaster. "I don't think anybody out there intentionally misinterpreted this situation."
Barnhill was Transocean's (NYSE:RIG) first witness as the Swiss-based company, which leased the rig to BP, started to present its defense. Transocean president and CEO Steven Newman was scheduled to testify Tuesday.
U.S. District Judge Carl Barbier already has heard testimony by more than a dozen witnesses called by the Justice Department and attorneys for Gulf Coast businesses and residents who claim the spill cost them money. The plaintiffs' lawyers still expect to call another witness to the stand this week, an employee of contractor Halliburton (NYSE:HAL).
Tranoscean's witnesses could take up the rest of the trial's fourth week. Halliburton and BP plan to call their own witnesses after Transocean finishes.
The trial is designed to determine the causes of BP's well blowout and assign percentages of fault to the companies involved in the ill-fated drilling project.
The judge is hearing the case without a jury and -- barring a settlement -- could decide how much more money BP and its contractors owe for their roles in the catastrophe. BP could be on the hook for nearly $18 billion in penalties under the Clean Water Act if the judge finds that it acted with "gross negligence."
The explosion on the Deepwater Horizon rig in the Gulf of Mexico on April 20, 2010, killed 11 workers and led to the nation's worst offshore oil spill.
After a plaintiffs' expert finished testifying Monday, BP attorney Andy Langan asked Barbier to rule that the plaintiffs haven't proved the London-based oil giant acted with gross negligence or willful misconduct. Barbier said he wasn't ready to rule on that request yet.
M-I LLC, BP's drilling fluids contractor on the Macondo well, asked the judge on Monday to dismiss all of the plaintiffs' claims against the company. M-I attorneys argued the plaintiffs haven't presented any evidence that M-I made any decision that led to the blowout. Barbier didn't immediately rule on M-I's request, either.
The plaintiffs' attorneys have accused BP and its contractors of cutting corners and sacrificing safety in a rush to save time and money on a project that was behind schedule and millions of dollars over budget.
Barnhill, a petroleum engineer, testified Monday that Tranocean's drilling crew was properly trained in accordance with industry standards. He described the Deepwater Horizon as a "state-of-the-art" rig.
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Geoff Webster, a marine safety expert whose testimony for the plaintiffs ended Monday, concluded that Transocean failed to adequately train crew members or properly maintain the rig.
Barnhill also testified that BP ultimately was responsible for determining whether the results of a crucial safety test were properly interpreted on the day of the blowout.
Two BP rig supervisors, Robert Kaluza and Donald Vidrine, are charged with manslaughter in the 11 rig workers' deaths and await a separate trial. An indictment last year accuses Kaluza and Vidrine of botching the safety test and disregarding abnormally high pressure readings that should have been glaring signs of trouble just before the explosion.


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Hello Ladies.
It has been a while, where is the time going this year?
It has been lovely to catch up with Luce's news and Alison's and of course Becky - it really would be great if you could come over here sometime to meet us!!
Special hello to SamK, thanks for thinking of me, hope things are going well for you. Hi to Amanda too I think your new course was starting in September? how is it going? probably keeping you pretty busy.
All okay with me. We are still pursuing intercountry adoption. It is a slow, slow process and have not moved on much.
We have run into a few problems regarding our medicals, it seems to be sorting itself out (fingers crossed) but we will know more in a few weeks. I am still feeling very positive about it though and have no regrets that we decided to stop treatment. Don't get me wrong, I do have my days and times when I feel very sad but I just feel I have got my life back after so many years of heartache.
My sister is to have her third baby next year. I know I am moving on because even though I felt that old familiar sadness it was really nothing like it was for the first two babies. So I suppose I am getting there slowly but surely!!
Luce I know the difficulties of shift work. Rod has always worked shifts and really odd hours. You do get used to it and begin to work around it but I know it's quite hard too. It sounds like you are doing well though. I do admire you the way you completely changed direction. Sometimes I think I need to do that - job wise, but to be honest am not sure which direction to go in. My job is fine but to be honest it is a bit dead end really and offers no challenge what so ever. Speaking of jobs how did you get on Alison? you were doing an interview for a new possition, how did it go?
Well girsl shall we try and meet?? I am really up for it. We should start to think of a few dates as you know we will be getting busy with our Christmas socialising before we know it!!
What about Tuesday 29th November for an early evening drink?
or perhaps 8th December for same? These are only ideas as I know the difficulties of shifts and other committments so please give a few alternative dates. It would be really good to see you again.
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Portland, ME Intellectual Property Attorney
(617) 728-9800Massachusetts and MaineMartindale-HubbellHow to Start a Virtual Law Practice, New England International and Comparative Law Journal 2001.
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