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Jane Smiley brings her extraordinary gifts—comic timing, empathy, emotional wisdom, an ability to deliver slyly on big themes and capture the American spirit—to the seductive, wishful, wistful world of real estate, in which the sport of choice is the mind game. Her funny and moving new novel is about what happens when the American Dream morphs into a seven-figure American Fantasy.
Joe Stratford is someone you like at once. He makes an honest living helping nice people buy and sell nice houses. His not-very-amicable divorce is finally settled, and he's ready to begin again. It's 1982. He is pretty happy, pretty satisfied. But a different era has dawned; Joe's new friend, Marcus Burns from New York, seems to be suggesting that the old rules are ready to be repealed, that now is the time you can get rich quick. Really rich. And Marcus not only knows that everyone is going to get rich, he knows how. Because Marcus just quit a job with the IRS.
But is Joe ready for the kind of success Marcus promises he can deliver? And what's the real scoop on Salt Key Farm? Is this really the development opportunity of a lifetime?
And then there's Felicity Ornquist, the lovely, feisty, winning (and married) daughter of Joe's mentor and business partner. She has finally owned up to her feelings for Joe: she's just been waiting for him to be available.
The question Joe asks himself, over and over, is, Does he have the gumption? Does he have the smarts and the imagination and the staying power to pay attention—to Marcus and to Felicity—and reap the rewards?
Good Faith captures the seductions and illusions that can seize America during our periodic golden ages (every Main Street an El Dorado). To follow Joe as he does deals and is dealt with in this newly liberated world of anything goes is a roller-coaster ride through the fun park of the 1980s. It is Jane Smiley in top form.
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Opening a Jane Smiley novel is like slipping into a warm bath. Here are people we know, places where we grew up. But the comforting, unassuming tone of her work allows Smiley incredible latitude as a writer, and her books are full of surprises. Good Faith, a novel about greed and self-delusion set in the economic boom of the early 1980s, is no exception. Joe Stratford is an amiable, divorced real estate agent in an unspoiled small town called Rollins Hills. He takes it in stride when a married female friend pursues a love affair with him; he is more suspicious when a high-rolling newcomer named Marcus Burns begins to influence the business affairs of the men closest to Joe. Nevertheless, the promise of easy riches draws Joe into one of Burns's real estate development schemes, and then, ominously, into gold trading. The steps by which a nice guy can be lured into betraying his principles are delineated so sharply in Good Faith that you wonder how Joe cannot see them. Although he never quite manages to understand what has happened to him, he's granted a moment of grace at the close of the novel, a second chance that has nothing to do with money, ambition, or the tarnished American Dream. Since we live with the legacy of the self-serving 1980s, Smiley's novel seems as timely as if it were set in the present. Penetrating, readable fiction by one of our best writers and social critics. --Regina MarlerFrom the Back Cover:
"Pulitzer Prize winner Smiley once again opens a convincing fictional window on an American subculture; this time around it's financial speculation in the early 1980s...Schemes play out in a tragicomedy featuring a Dickensian mix of quirky characters chasing their versions of the American dream. Smiley's amusing plot is charged with energy, her sense of time and place is on target, and her research into the ways and means of real estate development is seamlessly integrated...This absorbing book will appeal to a wide variety of readers."
–Starr E. Smith, Library Journal
"Smiley's range as a writer is always surprising. Eschewing both the tragic dimension of A Thousand Acres and the satiric glee of Moo, her 12th book is a clever and entertaining cautionary tale about America's greedy decade of the 1980s...What makes the story beguiling is Smiley's appreciation of the varieties and frailties of human nature. Every character here is fresh and fully dimensional, and anybody who lived through the '80s will recognize them–and maybe themselves. Forecast: Only readers seeking the emotional wallop of A Thousand Acres will be disappointed by this lively tale, written with literary finesse. Booksellers can bet on a bestseller."
–Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"Brilliant and versatile...Smiley has never been more seductive than in this acutely entertaining novel of big-time greed coming to a small East Coast town in the high-rolling 1980s...Smiley is fascinated by obsession and all the jargon and arcane knowledge associated with risky pursuits, and she expertly reanimates the mad and venal, not to mention illegal and disastrous, financial finagling that drove the money-mad, coked-up eighties, providing a thrilling rear-view mirror look at that notoriously covetous time. But this expertly crafted and subtly suspenseful tale is also notable for its exuberant eroticism: Smiley's sex scenes, and there are many, are truly ravishing."
–Donna Seaman, Booklist (starred and boxed review)
"Smiley nails the Greed Decade with her trademark precision and philosophical bite. In 1982, narrator Joe Stratford is a divorced 40-year-old realtor in a part of New Jersey just beginning the transition from provincial backwater to upscale suburb...Marcus [Burns] is a con man, but Smiley expertly conveys his appeal to people quietly bored with their constricted lives...As Joe is drawn into [Marcus's] scams, the author unsparingly but with considerable empathy depicts the complicity of a decent guy doing questionable things that give him an alluring sense of freedom and power...A novel that, like A Thousand Acres, acknowledges both the seductiveness of excess and the necessity of limits. Blunt and bold: the work of one of America's best writers."
–Kirkus (starred review)
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In a recent edition of Value Investor Insight, investor Larry Robbins offered insights on navigating today's skittish markets. Among specific ideas he believes the market is mispricing: Fidelity National Information (NYSE:FIS).
Describe a non-healthcare idea you currently like, Fidelity National Information Services [FIS].
LR: We've owned Fidelity in various sizes for the last 18 to 24 months. The stock has fallen from the high-$50s to the low-$40s as a result both of market turbulence and potential misunderstandings about strategic developments at the company. Fidelity has two main service businesses, transaction processing and lender processing. The transaction-processing business earns approximately 65% of revenue and 60% of operating profit, and basically provides core internal systems for banks – from teller systems to online banking to check clearing and settlement. The lender processing business, which generates the remaining 35% of revenue and 40% of operating profit, offers a wide variety of information and default-management services to mortgage issuers. In October they announced a spinoff of the lender-processing business. The company feels – and we agree – that because that division serves the mortgage industry, the overall company has been unfairly branded as a deeply cyclical and negatively impacted provider to that industry.
Is that branding so unfair for the lender services business?
LR: The full portfolio of businesses is quite diverse, but was constructed to provide client value at any point in the cycle, not just during times of mortgage-origination expansion. In the third quarter, even as the mortgage market started to implode, revenues in lender processing grew 11.5%, from increased default volume and from more customer outsourcing of property-information services. A historical study of this business demonstrates that it has continued to grow through cyclical contractions in the housing market, and, in fact, toward the end of those contractions has had above average growth rates – the business tied to mortgage origination resumes, while the part tied to foreclosures remains high. That's what happened to the business in the early 1990s and we expect that to recur over the next two to three years.
What prospects do you see for the transaction-processing piece?
LR: The company has been acquisitive, having recently bought eFunds, and the overall story is one of cross-pollinating an expanding roster of products to an existing installed base of customers. We believe the eFunds integration is on track, which will help transaction processing grow through the cycle at healthy rates even though the overall environment for financial institutions is challenged.
What growth do you expect?
LR: We expect revenues to grow 8% annually over the next two years, with excellent operating leverage translating into roughly 20% annual earnings per share growth. On a combined basis, we estimate the two businesses will earn around $2.95 next year and $3.55 in 2009.
How attractive are the shares at the current price of around $42.60?
LR: At today's price, the shares trade at less than 12x estimated 2008 free cash flow. We consider that low for a company with this growth outlook and such high quality businesses, with high recurring revenue, customer stickiness, low capital intensity and high operating leverage without cyclicality. With only a modest increase in multiple, to 13-14x free cash flow, we'd expect the stock to be in the high-$50s a year from now. If investors overall start to consider revenue growth in high single-digits to be heroic – which is possible – the valuation upside could be higher.
How does the proposed spinoff impact your thesis?
LR: We believe the two businesses when eventually separated will either thrive as independent companies with efficient costs of capital and become acquisition platforms, or, if they remain undervalued, will themselves become takeover candidates. Either way, we expect that to be positive for shareholders. We're particularly focused today on companies with moderate or better earnings growth, earnings stability, low valuations and management that cares. In this case, we think we have all four of those.

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According to the National Enquirer, Eddie Murphy has refused to see the daughter he had with Mel B because she trapped him into having the baby. Now what the hell kind of reason is that not to see your kid. So, yes you are pissed at the mom. Hell half the parents in this world are pissed at each other but that doesn't have anything to do with your child.
So what if Mel B said she was on birth control and it turns out she wasn't. You think birth control is 100% effective? It isn't Eddie, and you should have known that. So, if she had been on birth control and it had been an accident, then and only then would he have seen his daughter? That is just a bunch of crap.
The article goes on to say that Eddie will be willing to see his daughter when she gets old enough to be with him without Mel B interfering. Since that won't be until she is probably a teenager, I doubt that their relationship would be deemed to be rock solid. Just imagine how that first meeting is going to go. "You know, your mom trapped me into having you, and so I thought I would just go ahead and ignore you for the first 14 years of your life. But, hey now I am here, and they are having a Dr. Doolittle marathon on the Ignorant Channel. Want to watch. Afterwards we can watch home movies of me and Uncle Johnny."


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Hickory Bridge Farm is located near the foothills of the Appalachian mountains in South central Pennsylvania and has a most relaxing atmosphere. Cottages with fireplaces and a farmhouse furnished with antiques and whirlpool baths are the accommodations for the Bed and Breakfast. Full Farm-Style breakfast is offered at the farmhouse Monday through Saturday and Sunday breakfast in brought to your room. Two night minimum is required on weekends (Fri.-Sun.) Fine Country Dining is served in a restored Pennsylvania Barn on Friday, Saturday, and Sundays. Reservations advised.
5 on March 15, 2017
First class B&B at a very reasonable price. Staff was terrific, breakfast and the affiliated restaurant was just as good. Sits in a quiet country setting about 10 minutes from most of the Gettysburg battlefield attractions and 5 minutes from some of the best wine produced in Pennsylvania.
4.8 on February 28, 2017
We stayed in the master suite, we loved the view from our private balcony. We ate planning on coming back to stay in the cottages.
5 on January 02, 2017
We arrived early and were immediately shown to our cabin even though Mary went ahead of us to shovel away the snow for us. The cabin was warm and inviting,including the little kitten who showed up on the porch to visit us. The dinner was excellent and the service was great. There you go.
5 on October 09, 2016
We had a very nice stay. To our surprise we able to have dinner, which was very nice and exceeded our expectations. the Ambiance was great.
5 on October 04, 2016
My husband and I stayed at Hickory Bridge Farm about 18 years ago, in the cabins. We thought they were charming. Our kids booked a stay for us this year for our 30th wedding anniversary and it was wonderful. We stayed in the Master Bedroom, which was warm and cozy. Such a beautiful place to stay and visit. Next time, we'll try to restaurant!! Thank you for a wonderful weekend!
4.0 on July 04, 2016
This is a great place to stay for your anniversary. I only have 1 recommendation. It would have been nice to have a mini fridge in our room. It was very hot and everytime we went for ice out of the fridge downstairs it was empty. A typically hotel room would have one so if the management would put one in that would be a cheap improvement.
4.4 on July 04, 2016
Very pleasant and relaxing. Staff very accommodating and friendly
4.6 on June 16, 2016
Our time at HBF was a really enjoyable experience. We spent 4 lovely days in one of the cottages at HBF, and dined with them one night at their restaurant. The setting is idyllic: wind in the trees; and water burbling in the creek that runs through the property. The local rooster is an over-achiever, however, so keep the windows closed if you want to sleep late. The main house dates to the 1700s, plus a newer addition, and has been beautifully refurbished. The cottage was a comfortable duplex in woods a short walk from the main house, recently updated, and right next to the creek. It has AC that works well, but we turned it off to enjoy the wind and water sounds at night, and we were perfectly comfortable despite daytime temps in the 90s. Breakfast was delicious and generous. Pleasant breakfast companions each morning were all from within 1 hour of Gettysburg and all repeat visitors, which reinforces our sense that HBF is a superior B&B experience with a great reputation in the area. Dinner (a separate charge) was hearty country food, well-prepared, with unlimited portions: you may want to skip lunch before you go, and you should make a reservation. Mary Lynn and her team were lovely and helpful. If you're fussy about room services, you may want to talk with staff up-front about your expectations. Everything started out spotless and well-supplied, and the cottage porch was swept daily, but the inside was not cleaned, towel refresh wasn't entirely consistent, and basic supplies (shampoo, TP) were not replenished during our stay. By day 4 it was noticeable enough that we would have asked for a cleaning and resupply if we had been staying an additional day. (Given their responsiveness to our other requests, I am sure that, if we'd asked, they would have taken care of it.) Not a big deal for us, but if it's the kind of thing that bothers you, maybe better to say so up-front?
4.8 on June 15, 2016
We spent Saturday Square Dancing in Fairfield. Hickory Bridge Farm was a great resting place before and after a day of dancing. The staff was friendly and helpful. The room was delightful. The hot tub was very relaxing Friday night. The breakfasts were filling and delicious. We look forward to returning in the future.
5 on June 03, 2016
A party of three couples stayed in the 3 of the 4 cabins located on the beautiful Hickory Bridge Farm for the Memorial Day Weekend. The cabins are located in a area that sits back from the main farm and alongside a babbling brook that flows throughout the property. One of our party had been to the farm before and had dined at the restaurant however it was a first visit for the rest of the party. The cabins were nicely decorated with a queen size bed, full bathroom with shower, and many amenities common at a hotel. There are two cabins together for each cottage however you did not hear the couple next to you. A full breakfast was served on a back porch of the main house overlooking the forest and fields of this breathtaking farm. We had four breakfast meals of which one was delivered to our cabin on Sunday in the form of a continental breakfast with fresh fruit, pastries, and coffee. The Hickory Bridge Farm is known throughout the area for its family style meals that they serve throughout the week. Reservations are requested so that the staff can plan for the family style meal based on the number of people dining. We chose the Saturday evening meal which was a highlight of our weekend adventure. Mary Lynn Martin and her staff are accomodating, friendly, and were readily available for any of our requests. The Hickory Bridge Farm is located about 15 minutes from Gettysburg, and a little over an hour to Lancaster and Amish Country. You will not be disappointed in this Bed and Breakfast. A quiet gem in the beautiful pa countryside!
Located in the main house features a king size bed, priavte balcony and two person whirlpool bath.
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Harrisburg, PA (MDT) 55 miles
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By Ari Kaplan
Photos by Jessica McConnell
A few years ago, researchers conducting an archaeological
dig in a remote corner of Kenya stumbled across some fossil
human hand bones. The first person they called was Brian Richmond,
associate professor in GW's Center for the Advanced
Study of Hominid Paleobiology and specialist in the evolution
of the hand.
Richmond and his team traveled to Kenya, where they found
other hand and arm bones from the same individual. The fossils
were discovered in sediments indicating they were more than
1.5 million years old. "It's an incredibly rare
discovery," says Richmond. "The vast majority
of fossils found from that era belong to animals, and the
rare hominin fossils that have been found are almost always
isolated bones or teeth. It's very unusual to find so
much of an individual appendage, and it's extremely
important for understanding the evolutionary history of manual
manipulation and dexterity."
Richmond's expertise is not limited to hands, however;
he also studies functional anatomy, especially the origins
of the human gait, how the skeleton is shaped, and how its
shape relates to function. His research, he explains, aims
to infer behavior from skeletal structure in the human fossil
record, focusing on the early evolutionary history of humans—the
era ranging from 5 million to 7 million years ago when the
ancestors of humans and chimpanzees took separate paths with
humans' predecessors taking the first steps to becoming
upright walkers.
Richmond's research also examines another crucial era
in evolution—from 1.5 million to 3 million years ago—when
primitive "australopiths" evolved to a dramatically
more human-like Homo erectus with a much larger brain and
a body shape and size similar to that of today's humans.
The era marks the beginning of stone tool use and animal butchery,
a shift in diet, and a move to grassland environments.
A Passion for Human Evolution
Richmond's road to Foggy Bottom came by way of Rice
University, where he earned a bachelor's degree in biology
and history in 1990. Richmond had planned to be a doctor,
but anthropology classes and neurobiology thesis research
during his senior year in college changed his mind. "I
loved putting together a project, identifying a question no
one has answered, and going out and doing the work,"
he says.
After that, he was hooked. Following graduation, he shelved
his plans for medical school, and instead spent two semesters
studying anthropology at GW. "It was the right combination
of biology, human origins, and anatomy for me," Richmond
After receiving a PhD in anthropology in 1998 from the State
University of New York at Stony Brook, Richmond returned to
GW for two years as the Henry R. Luce postdoctoral fellow
in the University's then-brand-new Human Origins Initiative.
Following a stint as an assistant professor of anthropology
at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Richmond
returned to GW in 2002.
One of his first assignments as a faculty member at GW was
to assist the Department of Anthropology in creating a bachelor's
degree in biological anthropology. Four years later, GW has
more than 40 students majoring and minoring in biological
anthropology and has doubled its offering of upper-level undergraduate
courses in the field.
Richmond teaches a number of these courses, as well as an
introductory class on the biological bases of human behavior
and graduate courses in human evolution, functional anatomy,
and analytical methods. In addition to his work in the classroom,
he has brought undergraduate researchers into his laboratory,
mentoring six undergraduate theses since arriving at GW.
He also teaches classes, advises students, and helps obtain
external funding for GW's Hominid Paleobiology Doctoral
Program, which takes an interdisciplinary approach to training
students in human origins. Richmond explains that GW doctoral
students in the program study geology, anatomy, engineering,
and microbiology to better prepare them to conduct cutting-edge
research and understand the whole picture of evolution.
Tapping New Technology
While Richmond's research has taken him around the
globe, including expeditions to Ethiopia, Turkey, and Kenya,
much of his work occurs on campus and at the Smithsonian Institution's
National Museum of Natural History, thanks to new imaging
technology. "Improvements in technology allow us to
ask and answer increasingly sophisticated questions,"
Richmond says.
In research funded by the National Science Foundation, Richmond
is examining the bone found inside joints, described as "spongy"
because the plates and struts within it are connected much
like a stiff sponge. Since this bone is a living tissue and
is greatly influenced by individual activities and exercise,
it provides important clues to human ancestors' actions
and behaviors when they were living.
These are casts of skulls of an extinct group of human
relatives that lived in Africa 1 to 2 million years
Taking advantage of recent advances in CT technology, which
can provide high-resolution three-dimensional images of this
bone structure, Richmond compares fossils and living tissue
to draw inferences about human evolution. "This technology
provides evidence about what an individual was doing while
he or she was alive and, more broadly, about the origins of
the human gait and the human skeleton," he says. Richmond
also uses software developed by collaborators at the University
of Texas that enables him to quantify the differences between
In another research project funded by the NSF, Richmond is
examining the evolution of craniofacial biomechanics, including
how the skull has adapted for chewing. "It's clear
from the fossil record that some species have adaptations
for powerful chewing," he says.
According to Richmond, until relatively recently, there have
been limited means of testing theories about the evolution
of the skull. By applying finite element analysis—a
computer modeling technique used widely in engineering but
new to anthropology— Richmond and his team model the
biomechanics of biting and chewing in modern monkeys and our
extinct ancestors to test hypotheses about human evolution.
These models are built in part on data collected using biomedical
technology to measure muscle activity in live monkeys. These
kinds of comparisons are the only way to study the biomechanics
of fossil species—in effect, the next best thing to
examining fossils in actual motion, says Richmond.
Next year, after returning from further excavations in Kenya,
Richmond will take a sabbatical and work with the Smithsonian's
National Museum of Natural History, where he currently serves
as a research associate with the Human Origins Program. There,
he will finish analyses and articles reporting the results
of his myriad projects. His efforts at the Smithsonian also
will focus on collecting measurements and CT scans of the
arm and hand skeletons of humans, apes, and other primates
to uncover the ways in which the 1.5 million-year-old fossil
arm and hand bones are like modern humans, and the ways in
which they may be primitive or unique.
"It is a surreal feeling to pick up a stone tool or
a fossil of one of our ancestors, to think this individual
was born, lived, and died 1.5 million years ago," Richmond
says. "I love my job and wouldn't give it up for
any other."
For more information, visit Brian Richmond's Web
site: http://home.gwu.edu/~brich
Ari Kaplan, JD '97, is an attorney and freelance
writer based in the New York City area.
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September 10, 2014
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Tang Prize winner Albie Sachs will be talking on 'The Value of Values: Lessons from the South African Transformation.'
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A donation of 48 contemporary American prints, representing all manner of special processes and innovative techniques in printing, was given to the UMCA collection by Richard Gerrig in memory of his sister Risa, a UMass alumna.
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University Museum of Contemporary Art
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September 10, 2014
5:15 pm
The Bullitt Center
Get informed about your constitutional rights when dealing with police enforcement during search and seizures and other sensitive situations.
September 10, 2014
5:30 pm-7:00 pm
Campus Center, 165-169
News reads like chaos. Failed revolutions and wars in the Middle East, growing inequality and the rise of xenophobia in Europe and the United States, military coups from Thailand to Egypt, tensions across the South China Sea, forgotten populations from the favelas of Rio to the water-less neighborhoods of Detroit.
September 10, 2014
6:30 pm-8:00 pm
Student Union, Cape Cod Lounge
Come join the International Socialist Organization for a discussion of how we can build a movement to get rid of capitalism, inequality, and oppression and what you can do to help.
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As part of the UMass Amherst Outdoor Summer Arts Project, New York-based artist Jennifer Williams created two 12-feet by 24-feet banners for the south facade of the Fine Arts Center building.
August 1—December 7, 2014 6:00 am-11:00 pm
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Using globs of dried paint, recycled fabric, paint rags, and decaying flowers, Sarah Meyers Brent's mixed-media pieces flow out of and accrete to the canvas and walls.
September 2—September 30, 2014, Sun/Tue/Wed/Thu/Fri
Hampden Gallery
The sculptures in this exhibition continue a metaphorical exploration of transition, joint dependence, support and coalescence.
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Hampden Gallery
Drawing is an holistic and ritual activity of the body. The moment of making a mark is the ground of imagination (located in the body).
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North Korea After Kim Jong Il
Around the globe, speculation is rife about the fate of nuclear-armed North Korea. Intelligence officials in the U.S. and South Korea are openly discussing the possibility that longtime Stalinist leader Kim Jong Il, 66, is sick and may not remain in power for long. Some even raise the prospect of an outright collapse of North Korea's communist regime or a messy power struggle in this reclusive country locked in the world's last cold-war confrontation.
Informed North Korea experts in Seoul largely brush aside such scenarios, at least for the short term. The National Intelligence Service, the South Korean equivalent of the CIA, has said Kim has been suffering from chronic heart disease and diabetes but that his life is not in danger. Moreover, they say, there are no signs the North Korean elite is in disarray despite Kim's conspicuous absence from celebrations on Sept. 9 marking the 60th anniversary of the country's founding.
North Korea, founded by Kim Il Sung in 1948, has had only two leaders. Since the "Great Leader" died in 1994, his son Kim Jong Il has ruled the nation, but unlike his father, the junior Kim has not publicly groomed any of his three sons for a transfer of power. "I don't know exactly who and in what form, but an immediate assumption of control will likely be made from the military in one way or another," says Choi Soo Young, a researcher at Korea Institute for National Unification, a government-funded think tank in Seoul.
An Official Denial
A top North Korean official, in response to comments by intelligence officers in Seoul and Washington that Kim might have collapsed in recent weeks and remained under medical care, denied on Sept. 10 Kim was seriously ill. "There's no problem," Kim Yong Nam, president of the Supreme People's Assembly Presidium, the second-ranking official in the reclusive country's communist hierarchy, told Japan's Kyodo news agency.
South Korean markets, accustomed to speculation about Kim (who has a history of dropping out of sight for months before showing up in public for a visit to a military base or a factory), responded little to the news of Kim's illness. The benchmark Kospi stock index of the Seoul bourse ended 0.7% higher at 1464.98.
Even if things take a turn for the worse and Kim is suddenly incapacitated, many Pyongyang watchers believe the North won't suffer from a prolonged power vacuum. Neither are they really worried about millions of refugees stampeding into South Korea. Also unlikely: a coup that leads to a new government that would put Kim's cronies before a firing squad. "If Kim Jong Il dies, a new leadership is likely to emerge from the military fairly quickly," says Koh Yu Hwan, North Korea specialist at Dongguk University.
Absorption Is Not an Option
That's because Kim has built his power around the military and has ruled the country in his capacity as the chairman of the powerful National Defense Council. Koh and many other North Korea experts expect top officers at the council to take control of the country. The absorption of East Germany by West Germany at the end of the Cold War in Europe is not a model, experts say. "It is not right to draw a parallel between Germany and Korea," says one Western diplomat. "We are talking about two different international contexts and climates."
No one is suggesting a transition will be smooth in the impoverished North. And analysts are not ruling out an eventual internal power struggle. But in the regimented society totally cut off from the outside world, there has been no room for any disgruntled group to organize dissent. Top generals loyal to Kim are the only ones allowed to mobilize soldiers.
Whoever is in charge after Kim's departure will face the daunting task of steering the country out of famine and international isolation in order to develop its rickety economy. The Bank of Korea, the central bank of the South, estimates the North's gross domestic product in 2007 at just over $20 million, well below 3% of the size of the South Korean economy.
Not Following China
In an effort to show the world he was interested in opening up the economy, Kim Jong Il early this decade toured the Chinese cities of Shanghai and Shenzhen to learn from Chinese experience with reform. But he was never serious about it. "The opportunity depends on how the ruling group in North Korea perceives China in the transition," says Zhu Feng, deputy director of Beijing University's Center for International and Strategic Studies. "We strongly hope North Korean people could follow the Chinese model, opening up and reform. But the problem is we failed—they don't feel that it is necessary to follow China."
North Koreans are also suffering through their worst food shortage in a decade, exacerbated by China's controls on grain exports, the United Nations said last week. China curbed surging food prices in its domestic market. International aid officials figure one out of every five North Koreans relies on food aid from outside the country.
Another pressing diplomatic challenge is defusing tension over North Korea's nuclear program. North Korea agreed last year to give up its nuclear ambitions in return for aid and diplomatic rewards from the U.S. But late last month, the Pyongyang government reversed course, complaining that Washington had not removed it from the list of state sponsors of terrorism. The North said it had stopped disabling its main nuclear complex (BusinessWeek.com, 6/30/08) and threatened to reassemble its main nuclear facilities.
Analysts hope a leadership change in the North will provide a new impetus for change. "Policy options under Kim Jong Il have been limited because his professed top priority has been continuing his father's legacy," says Yang Moon Soo, economist at University of North Korean Studies in Seoul. "A new leader will have to accept changes to win support from the public through economic development."


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thank you to everyone I rolled with at the open mat, it was fun. Enjoyed chatting & catching up with people as well.
Congratulations to Blackledge MMA!! We had 4 guys competing: Craige Dean, Scott Roscoe, Ian Ball and Theo Blackledge.
They all won their first fights. Scott got to the semi final, Craig to the final. Ian and Theo both won their final fights. All the lads put on a great display of skills.
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Daniel Radcliffe is rolling a pin-thin cigarette in whippet-slim fingers. We've been talking about his girlfriend Erin Darke, who at 28 is five years his senior, a formidably bright actress from New York, whom he met on the set of Kill Your Darlings. She's not just "arm candy" by all accounts.
"I never understand men who are threatened by intelligent women," he says. "Maybe it's that Freudian thing: my mum is a really intelligent, smart woman — and feisty as hell — so that's always my basis of comparison." He slides his tongue along the paper. "So whenever I meet girls who don't stand up for themselves, or don't have a bit of chutzpah about them, it does nothing for me." He sparks up and takes a pull. Then: "Jesus," he says, electrified. "That's the worst way I could've put it. Now it sounds like I fancy my MUM!"
There comes the frenzy of back-pedallling — "aargh!" — and the manic insistence, not for the first time, that a parent "is going to kill" him. This is his style — sincere, earnest, then panic attack, with the odd swear word thrown in. It's the conversational equivalent of a voice breaking.
This is also Radcliffe's magic. He's great to listen to. He's funny. He rolls out anecdotes as easily as he rolls cigarettes — sprinkling in a few famous names, as you might if you'd spent more than half your life on a film set, with a dash of theatre.
His starry experiences predate Harry Potter, pre-date The Tailor of Panama (2001), or even playing the young David Copperfield (1999), to a time when his dad — Alan Radcliffe, a literary agent — was working at the ICM theatrical agency run by Duncan Heath. "I had a sort of holiday job," he says. "Answering phones to people such as Michael Caine, Rupert Everett, Anthony Hopkins, Michael Crawford. Once Rupert Everett asked — because my voice was so high — who the new girl on reception was."
How old was he? "Eight, nine. It was great. Duncan gave me 10 quid at the end of the day. I was like, 'This is more money than I've seen in my life; this is incredible!'"
His mother, Marcia Gresham, a casting agent, also put him to use. "I'd sit in her office and go through Spotlight [the casting magazine]. She'd give me a description and I would pick the actor. I remember for Buttons in a panto in York I picked Jude Law. My mum said, 'Hmm. He's probably a bit beyond that now, Dan. But good thought'."
An only child, Radcliffe had the kind of parents who "talked to me like an adult" and "kept me grounded". His treat for getting the part of Harry Potter was "staying up for half an hour after bedtime to watch an episode of Fawlty Towers".
He's grown up now, as he is constantly reminded, with cheekbones cutting into his chalky complexion. The ferrety eyebrows remain but there are bags under those gas-blue eyes.
His London flat is at the tail-end of King's Road, not far from where he grew up in Fulham, but he has a place in New York too, "where I have tons of friends now". His mother oversees his finances (he's believed to be worth £60 million) because "I'm useless at maths and investment". His dad sifts scripts, helping him dodge any typecasting. "Gary Oldman also gave me advice. He said, 'You're a brand now, and you have to protect that brand. People will want you to do big movies or whatever, but you have to steer your own course'."
And he has, bravely. Since Potter he's played naked and disturbed in Equus, and brash in the belt-it-out Broadway hit How to Succeed In Business Without Really Trying. Mid-run he was offered the part of Joseph by Andrew Lloyd Webber but says he "wasn't receptive". "Although I saw Merrily We Roll Along the other day," he adds, "and I was like, 'God, I want to do another musical!' It needs to be something I love, though. You need to commit for a year."
Instead, he took the part of a young Allen Ginsberg — the gay American Beat poet — in Kill Your Darlings, and had a perm for the part. "People laugh. Then I show them the photograph and they say, 'Ooh, cool!' I look f***ing good as a Jewish man in the Forties — actually, it's how irritating hipsters dress now."
His accent in the film is "only slight. It's not the Ginsberg voice that everyone's used to — I'm playing him before he'd done every drug and smoked as much as he had".
He and Erin have a sex scene of sorts but it's his gay scenes that are intense: "We were kissing and the director shouted, 'Not like that. Crazy sex kissing!'"
He is now rehearsing the part of Igor in a new film version of Frankenstein. Simultaneously, he's playing the lead in The Cripple of Inishmaan, at the Noël Coward theatre in London, where Potter fans mob the stage door every night.
He gets recognised everywhere, though not always accurately — "Someone stopped me the other day and said, 'Er, didn't you go to the University of York'? 'Nah,' I said. 'Not me'." Does he get proposals of marriage? "Sometimes." He's bashful. "I borrow a line from Jerry Seinfeld: if anyone shouts, 'Daniel, I love you!' I shout back 'I love you too but I think we should see other people!'"
Lord! The boy has energy. Underneath his sludge-grey top, he's almost shivering. "I definitely have a hectic mind," he laughs. "Sometimes in a good way, and sometimes bad."
Has he tried yoga? "I f***ing hate yoga!" he says. "Put me in the gym, make me sweat — great. Yoga — no. Bored."
He couldn't sit still at school either and, perhaps unsurprisingly, finds the English private-school system "narrow". "If you're not academic or sporty you're made to feel average." What would he have done if not acting? "Archaeology — not because of Indiana Jones, but because of Tony Robinson on Time Team. I loved that programme."
He left school at 17 and is an autodidact, reading widely — today a book on American football but he recommends Foe by JM Coetzee. He loves history. He rails against those who don't learn: "It's not about not knowing, it's about not wanting to know. If there is one absolute good it's knowledge for knowledge's sake."
He surrounds himself with like-minded people. His best friend since 14 is a girl called Jessie, who he loves hanging out with. "She's a physicist at Imperial College. She's the smartest person I know. It's funny, she's uninterested in talking about her world and fascinated by mine, and I don't care what I do, I want to talk about physics!"
Does Jessie get on with Erin? (She just came over to see his play but flew back to the US, where she works both in acting and casting.) He clams up. "I ... I don't like talking about it," he says. Apparently he "screwed up" with previous girlfriend Rosie Cocker "by being too open".
For the same reason he doesn't talk about a "dark, messy" time with alcohol, which he gave up "for ever" in 2010.
He returns to the subject of girlfriends, though, to repeat that he likes sparky, bright women: "I don't know how people can exist in relationships with women who don't challenge them."
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It had to happen in Manchester, that city obsessed with the finicky minutiae of casual wear, where everyone dresses pretty much the same but where critical increments of denim trouser width can be cruelly defining. A bouncer at the Opus restaurant and nightclub has decided that stripy shirts - the enduringly inoffensive, candy-coloured, barcode design favoured by bankers and Sloanes - do not meet the venue's dress code.
"In my experience, people who wear stripy shirts are trouble-causers and scallies," Opus's club manager is alleged to have said to a group of 24 aspirant entrants, one of whom had the temerity to wear a striped shirt. But striped shirts are just the beginning of Opus's strict wardrobe proscription. There's also no heavily branded items of clothing; no checked shirts; no trainers, sportswear, caps, excessive jewellery. Oh, and no boots.
But how does wearing innocent stripes allude to trouble-making? Horizontal stripes conjour up visions of Breton sailors and pie-eyed rugger buggers. And vertical stripes? Just what is going on here?
The people at Opus, acutely aware of the international incident they may have caused with what we now must call "Stripygate", will only clarify their clobber restriction thus: "We would state that our dress policy excludes certain branded, striped and checked shirts and tops at the discretion of door staff and management. Smart dress shirts are more than welcome as can be witnessed on any night the venue trades." Does this mean Hackett, M&S, Harvey and Hudson, Ralph Lauren? We will never know.
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Yesterday was Day #2 of our Spring 2013 Healthy Vegan Challenge and I started with my typical green smoothie. I didn't have to make many adjustments to make sure it met my Challenge goals, but I did leave out the lucuma powder that I've been using in recent months because it is known to be a sweetener. Oh yes, and I left out the cacao powder, too, and used some carob instead. Here was my serving:
I also had two mug-fuls of Dandy Blend with unsweetened soy milk:
Lunch was a green salad with chickpeas, broccoli, avocado, green onion, red onion, pistachios and some dressing made by blending walnuts, parsley, frozen berries, unsweetened soy milk, lime juice and vinegar (a version of this one without the dates):
Dessert was a green apple and about two tablespoons of unsalted, natural peanut butter:
I definitely wanted something sweet after lunch, but I had a conference call to get to which distracted me long enough that the craving went away after an hour or so. I wasn't even terribly hungry for dinner, but some leftover steamed tofu, kale and mushrooms, topped with some almond butter and reduced-sodium tamari tasted fantastic:
I went to town with the fresh blueberries for dessert, and later realized I could have done without eating them because I wasn't that hungry. It was nice that they weren't very sweet so they didn't stimulate any kind of sugar craving, but they were refreshing and I enjoyed the texture:
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Zayn Malik Leaving One Direction Tour Following Death in Family
Our hearts are heavy to announce this. Zayn Malik will be leaving the current One Direction tour after suffering a death in his family.
The Juice reports that Malik hasn't provided details on the loss, but his band mate Harry Styles announced the early exit on Twitter:
"Zayn has suffered a loss in his family & has had to go home for a few days so won't be at our next shows in the US…" He adds: "…Our thoughts are with him and his family at this sad time."
Within mere minutes, fans took to Twitter to show their support for Malik. A trending topic, "#StayStrongZayn," was created in his honor. Malik's only indirect mention of the loss came as a retweet from a fan: "God has no Phone, but I talk to him. He has no Facebook, but he is still my friend. He does not have a twitter, but I still follow him. ♥"
One Direction are currently on tour with Big Time Rush — and stealing their headliners' spotlight at every turn. Toronto had to shut down its streets to accommodate all of their fans, affectionately called "Directioners." Malik proved himself to be quite a heartthrob within the group — take a look at their live videos and listen to how loudly their Directioners scream during his powerful solos!
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On Thursday, Jul 24, 2003, at 15:02 Europe/Rome, Berin Loritsch wrote: > Stefano Mazzocchi wrote: > >> I'm on the plane back to Italy. My iTunes plays Celia Cruz's "el >> carnival de la vida" in honor of her recent death. And I'm thinking >> that the time has arrived for this RT to land. >> In really short term: Cocoon is mismarketed. >> I think many realize this. >> What many don't necessarely realize is that this has been kept so on >> purpose. At least by me. > > <snip/> > >> So, out strategy should be to "sneak cocoon behind the enemy lines", >> basically market it as some innocent thing that helps without hurting >> but without being pretentious about its capabilities. > > It worked for Linux... And I think it is happening now anyways. I > know > I got it into my last company--but my current company does not have a > need > for web based stuff (or if they do they us M$ technologies for > it--grmbl). > > We have the function down. We can make things work quite nicely. Now, > the other issue is not making things work, but education. The Linux > Documentation Project (LDP) was started so that all the How-Tos and and > Guides would lower the barrier of entry. As a result, you can easily > go > to the one-stop-shop and find out almost anything you need to know. > > The major issue with sneaking things behind enemy lines is ensuring the > project can survive beyond the person who snuck it in. Right now, the > learning curve is just too high, because even though Cocoon encourages > SoC most people don't know how to deal with that. Any time you have a > CTO that forces you to name variables a certain way (micromanagers in > small companies), they are going to want to know every facet of Cocoon. > > I have constantly tried to get folks to work on one thing at a time. > I tell them "I set it up so that all you have to do is create the > source > files". Out of the tens of people I have coached, only one really > "got it" > before they had to work on something else or leave the company. > > Our Cocoon Documentation Project (CDP) should have a bunch of focussed > How Tos to lower the barrier of entry. Don't focus on the big honkin' > guide--it will have to be changed and edited far too much anyway. I completely agree. >> Once cocoon enters a working environment, people wills start >> understanding the value of SoC and SoC-enforcing architectures and >> will be infected by this meme, resulting in the use of cocoon in more >> and more locations. > > Remember, it is included in JBuilder, which is no small feat. As I > recall, > I don't remember Struts or Turbine being included.... THat is a > definite > start and part of the "marketing" package. Yes, but they include Cocoon 1 and they do a really poor job at it. (the person who did the integration left the team, as well as those who decided to do it) I don't know if I want to attach myself to something that, pretty soon, will be removed. That would impact us too much. >> I've seen this happening several times: cocoon entered by the back >> door and made it all the way to the front door and when people >> marketed it, they found out they were already using it! > > :) I love that story. Same thing for what Cocoon is based on: Avalon. > While I have found you can live quite comfortably without EJBs when we > use Avalon components, the Avalon team never markets the framework as > a competitor to EJBs. Why? Same reason Cocoon doesn't market itself > as a competitor to other de facto standard systems. There are rumors in the JBoss community that with a serious AOP you don't need EJB. Avalon is just waay too far ahead of its time. >> Cocoon is glue and duct tape for your web needs. >> Sounds harmless, doesn't it? suppose you want to use cocoon in some >> of your web stuff because you like the features and the how it >> works... > > It's hard to nail down something as large as Cocoon in one line. true, but we have to. otherwise the "cocoon is a web publishing framework based on xml technologies" will stick forever and we'll be harmed by it. > <snip/> > >> The two scenarios reflect the different approaches we can take. >> I propose to choose the humble one. > > I think that having a "Testimonials" section will also help. Real > comments > from real users. How did it save time? How did it make things easier > to > maintain? When did it pay off? Yes, damn it. We need that. I'll write a letter copying users@ for this. >> At that point, we would be *inside* and cocoon will do the marketing >> itself by perpetuating its viral memes to the technical guys who will >> get more and more used to it and will start using it for more and >> more stuff. >> At that point, we won't even have to go around saying "we are better >> than struts"... we just say we are different. people will choose what >> they like the best and what fits their needs the most. >> What do you think? > > Isn't that what we are doing anyway? yes, but officially we are still producing a publishing framework and then, hidden inside, there are other cool features. We have to change course of promotion but still keep the humble attitude. This is my point. -- Stefano.
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Stars Turn Out for 2010 Young Hollywood Awards
Honoring the young stars of Tinseltown, the 12th Annual Young Hollywood Awards were held in Los Angeles last night (May 13).
Nick, Joe, and Kevin Jonas all showed up for the event, held at the Ebell Theater, all dressed in dapper suits with big smiles.
Also in the house was Nikki Reed, who took home the award for Superstar in The Making, and Nina Dobrev who garnered the trophy for Young Hollywood Making Their Mark.
In addition, Jessica Stroup gave the paparazzi plenty of eye candy, while Cheryl Burke, Chad Ochocinco, Peaches Geldof, Monique Coleman, Boo Boo Stewart, Nikki Blonsky, Chelsea Staub, and Karissa and Kristina Shannon all turned out.
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