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Welcome to Camp Idontwantobama!
All across the country, weeklong camps inspired by Glenn Beck, the Tea Party, and crazy love for our Founding Fathers are giving kids a crash course in American history. For the most part, it's harmless summer fun: dodgeball, tug-of-war. You know, camp. But that's not all they learn. Lauren Bans visited the very first Patriot Camp, in central Pennsylvania, and got a re-education she'll never forget
It's morning prayer time at Patriot Camp, and I'm squeezed onto the end of a picnic table at the front of a big, shady park pavilion in Paxtang, Pennsylvania, a strip-mall-speckled purlieu of the state capital. There are about fifty-five campers here, most ages 7 to 10, and my thigh is smushing a small kid with a buzz cut and milk-jug ears who's wearing a faded yellow T-shirt that reads IF YOU DON'T LIKE MY ATTITUDE, QUIT TALKING TO ME. For the past few minutes, though, he's been fixated on my voice recorder like E.T. spying his first Reese's Pieces, so I attempt small talk. Are you having fun? He half nods. What's been your favorite part so far? He stares at me blankly and gently fingers his left nostril. Seconds later we both jump at the sound of a microphone screeching to life.
"Okay, guys, let's bow our heads." Camp director Deborah Seneca, a.k.a. Miss Deb, a mother of two who could easily be mistaken for the butchier Indigo Girl, waits for a hush to fall over the campers. Today is day four of a
weeklong history camp run by Constitutional Champions, a national nonprofit that was founded in part with seed money from Glenn Beck. Patriot Camp's stated mission is to teach kids the "truth about our country's founding," in the way, I guess, you might send kids to math camp to learn the truth about the Pythagorean theorem. Today also happens to be June 28, the day the Supreme Court will rule on the constitutionality of Obamacare, a plan that has parted the country more severely than Wednesday Addams's hair.
"Lord," Miss Deb begins, "please be with our Supreme Court today as they make a decision that will have a huge impact on us all. Guide them to realize what's right for this country and our children. Amen."
For the past two summers, Miss Deb has held Patriot Camp in this park, which dates from before the Revolutionary War and is framed on its southern end by an eighteenth-century Presbyterian church and a historic cemetery where a handful of Civil War soldiers are buried. Just one turn off the town's main drag deposits you here into this quiet lush pocket, so fluorescent green it looks Photoshopped and big enough for its own area code. Miss Deb has invited me here to see what camp is all about, and I figured at the very least I'd get a civics refresher, considering what I remember of the Constitution wouldn't fill the exaggerated loop of the P in "We the People."
A Sugar-Coated Welfare Lesson
An excerpt of the lesson plan for "Redistribution of Wealth" from _ Constitutional Champions' Patriot Camp Handbook, Volume 1: Basics of Freedom_:
Divide group in half. One half "earns" Tootsie Rolls by doing 25 jumping jacks.
The other half is not required to do jumping jacks, but can relax or do what they want.
Teacher suggests that it's "not fair" that one group has no Tootsie Rolls, so instructs "Jumping Jack" group to give half of their Tootsie Rolls to the other group.
Emphasize that America guarantees equal opportunity, not equal results.
Emphasize that it is our own individual responsibility to be charitable, not the government's job to redistribute our wealth, or take our money to give to others.
But my real reason for coming is to see how a camp inspired by Beck's right-wing sermonizing manages to school heartland America on history, culture, religion, values, and three-legged racing, all while maintaining its avowed, and legally required, apolitical stance. Everyone I spoke with as I planned my trip to Paxtang stressed that Patriot Camp was definitely, absolutely, exclusively about history. Though I was simultaneously warned that if— if—a splash of politics seeped into the bug juice, Constitutional Champions wasn't responsible. The nonprofit simply sells the blueprinty camp guidebook—available online for just $14.99, a price even the thrifty Ben Franklin could get behind—and it's up to each camp to teach it however they see fit. Late one morning in Paxtang, while we cheer on a tense game of tug-of-war between the "Confederate" and "Union" kids, Miss Deb makes her pitch. "Do you ever play the game where somebody says something in your ear, and then you whisper it to the next person, and so on, until it just comes out as nonsense?" she asks, squinting at the gob of Union bodies lying defeated in the grass. "We go back to the Constitution—the actual document itself—so we know our kids are getting it right."
After the prayer, the Pledge of Allegiance, and "The Star-Spangled Banner," the camp day begins. The kids are divided roughly into decuplets and cycled through three hours of scheduled activities with the efficiency of a 1950s Ford factory line: "Our Judeo-Christian Heritage," "Redistribution of Wealth" (see box). At around 11 A.M., I join a group taking a break for cold cuts and "prayer pretzels." I'd always thought of pretzels as nondenominational, so I ask one of the snack-table volunteers, a sweet redheaded senior who's made up like Tammy Faye Bakker, to explain. The camp's pretzels "are made in the image of a child praying," she tells me. "It's the way they did it in the olden days."
Tammy Faye and I kibitz for a few minutes by the coolers. She tells me she's from nearby Hershey, home of a pair of Hershey factories, land of chocolate-perfumed air. She loves volunteering because she loves kids, and as if to illustrate her point, she tells me about one of the camp sessions yesterday, when an instructor asked, "How do you get rid of a president who's doing a bad job?" Here Tammy Faye giggles and half covers her mouth like she's about to share the perfect kids-say-the-darnedest-things punch line. "A couple of them shouted out, 'Assassination!' "
IF I'M BEING completely honest, I have to admit I wasn't sold on the idea that this would be a politically neutral history camp. In fact, I envisioned a kind of "Take back our country from the black guy" ethos permeating the place, the same attitude that dotted the 9/12 March on Washington, a movement that likewise billed itself as nonpartisan. This is partly because of Beck's financial hand, but also because the first time I ever saw Miss Deb was in a 2011 clip from Beck's show on Fox News, which she had posted on the Patriot Camp website.
In the clip, Miss Deb is sitting in the studio audience, alongside two other Pennsylvania moms, explaining the inspiration behind their camp. The inspiration, it turns out, was Glenn Beck. "One day," she begins, "we heard you talk on your radio about Obama organizations doing summer camps, and we thought, 'No, we need to do our own!'" She goes on to describe how she and the other moms searched wide and far but couldn't find any decent American Revolution curriculums, how they were so excited by Beck's "Founders' Fridays"—a recurring segment on his show—that they decided to write one themselves. When she finishes, Beck adds: "And I started the fund-raiser for this, right? My wife and I wrote a check."
The Becks gave a "generous donation," according to Yvonne Donnelly, Beck's ex-sister-in-law and founder of Constitutional Champions, the umbrella nonprofit that propelled the moms' Patriot Camp idea nationwide. Donnelly was in the studio that day, too, nodding as Beck described his contribution. (Soon after this episode aired, Beck was criticized for a remark he made on-air about the massacre in Norway, when a right-wing terrorist killed sixty-nine people at a camp for leftist teens: "It sounds a little like, you know, the Hitler Youth or whatever. Who does a camp for kids that's all about politics? Disturbing.")
It was Donnelly who adapted the Pennsylvania moms' curriculum into a guidebook for volunteers eager to set up a Patriot Camp in their area. Under the federal tax code, Constitutional Champions is registered as a 501(c)(3), a tax-empt designation for nonprofit organizations, which means it may not attempt to influence legislation as a substantial part of its activities and it may not participate in any campaign activity. This past summer there were at least 150 camps nationwide based on the book's outlines, many of which were created or sponsored by local Tea Party-affiliated groups.
Still, on my flight to Paxtang, I wondered if maybe I was being overly cynical—too prejudiced about what I was going to witness. Maybe this was just a camp. Albeit a camp that taught, instead of archery or the wedgie arts, a conservative take on American history—the nerd-bait equivalent of summer school for Lincoln-Douglas debaters or prepubescent water colorists. After three days here, I can tell you the vast majority of Patriot Camp was harmless. But on the few occasions it wasn't all dodgeball and kiddie-pooling, it really, really wasn't. And in those moments, the fact that this was a camp for little kids never stopped being, to use Beck's word, disturbing. Like 9-year-olds-joking-about-assassination disturbing. And yet Miss Deb and Yvonne had invited me—a stranger who they must've assumed believes the exact opposite of everything they do—to bear witness to how innocent it all was. Only I kept thinking: Do they really, truly believe this camp has nothing to do with politics?
EaRLY On MY second morning I catch Mr. Alex, who looks like Moby and works the rest of the year as a juggler at Hersheypark, as he's setting up his station. Mr. Alex's winning technique with the kids is injecting totally unrelated magic tricks into his lessons. He'll be explaining the Fifteenth Amendment while simultaneously making a ball of paper disappear into one of three cups. "Up until that point, blacks—or as they're called now, African-Americans—couldn't vote," he told one group as he shuffled the cups around. "Back then they were called Negroes, if you ever see that word in an old document. It all means the same thing."
Today he's wearing a HANDS OFF MY HEALTHCARE T-shirt and laying out his teaching materials: cups, lengths of rope, a printout of the Bill of Rights, three Bibles, one of which he will turn to during his lesson this morning to make the important observation that the Ten Commandments and the Bill of Rights both contain ten rules. Mr. Alex is one of the few grown-ups at Patriot Camp so far who doesn't seem thrilled to see me. He mostly answers my questions with questions of his own.
"I'm not trying to be confrontational," he says, sounding fairly confrontational, "but do you even know what document founded America?"
I answer: "Um, the Declaration of Independence?"
"Okaaaay. But do you know how it begins?"
I can't quote the preamble, but I describe the general sentiment. "Aha!" he lights up. "Specifics are important. Especially when you're teaching the Constitution."
He continues: "Let me ask you this: Are you married?"
"Sorry, that was a personal question. I don't need to know about your life. But let's just say you were married and having trouble. What would you do? Maybe see a marriage counselor, right? And that marriage counselor, in order to help save your marriage, would probably have you look at a list of the reasons you're together with your husband in the first place."
"Okay, sure."
"And...?" He looks at me expectantly for a beat. "That's exactly why we have a rule book like the Constitution. So we have a list of the reasons we're together. To remind us." Dramatic pause. "Do you see what I'm getting at?"
"The United States is getting a divorce?"
Mr. Alex frowns at me and goes back to setting up his table.
Later that day, I watch Bob McCloskey, a retired history teacher with a kind face and a crown of white hair, teaching a rapt group of kids about the Union army requirements. I take a quick liking to Bob, in no small part because of mad respect for his dedication to wearing a replica Civil War-era wool coat in eighty-five-degree air that already feels like wet wool.
Bob loves history. He laments the fact that he has to wear Confederate pants along with his Union coat, both on loan from a local history museum, because he "grew a little too big in the middle" to fit into the matching Union pants. He just saw Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter in the theater, and while he considered it "very well done," he tells me with a wink that he's worried people will believe Abe's mom, Nancy, "was really killed by a vampire."
For Bob, a week here is a chance for a brief return to what he did for forty-one years. The campers adore him. But some things about Patriot Camp get to him. Last year, apparently, one of the guest speakers "railed on Obama," and Bob says softly that he didn't approve of that sort of talk in front of the kids.
His next group comes bounding over, so I walk down the hill, where another bevy of kids are running in stumbles toward a tree, like tiny zombies on 5-hour Energy shots. Or at least half of them are. The rest of them are sitting on a low wooden stage that is shingled with bos labelled EAST INDIA TEA COMPANY. The leader here is Mr. Rob, a father of two campers, who took time off from his job as a press agent for the Pennsylvania Dental Association. He tells the kids to "use your imagination" to turn the bare-bones stage into the Boston Tea Party ship.
"Okay, Ones, you've worked hard, and you deserve a reward," Mr. Rob proclaims, handing each of them a Tootsie Roll. He turns to address the "lazy partiers." "My Twos: Do you guys feel bad you don't get any candy?" They do, naturally. So he takes the Tootsie Rolls back from the Ones and gives them to the Twos.
"Now how do you Ones feel? Are you mad?" Incoherent yelps of agreement. "You see, sometimes our tas go toward good things, like schools and roads," Mr. Rob explains. "But do you think it's fair to take someone's hard earnings and hand it over to someone who didn't work?"
They do not think it's fair. I don't think it's fair either, but more in a you're-really-doing-an-anti-welfare-ercise-with-8-year-olds? kind of way. The next morning, I catch Mr. Rob and ask him if he thinks camp is atiny bit biased. "I don't really, no," he says. "Obviously if you get into some areas where you're talking about the originalist intent of the founders, some of the older kids might later, you know, make the larger connections to things."
Is Patriot Camp, as one left-leaning blogger for Mother Jones labeled it, an "indoctrination camp"? Or does the political stuff just go right over these kids' heads? I witness plenty that suggests they aren't absorbing much of anything. At one point during Mr. Alex's intense lecture about God's hand in the drafting of the Constitution, a little girl raised her hand and interrupted him. "Mr. Alex," she pleaded, "can you do a magic trick to make me disappear?"
On the morning of my second day in Paxtang, Miss Deb introduces a guest speaker, a hefty man with a shiny comb-over, wearing a full black suit on this hot, humid day. His name is Bryce McMinn, and he's the head of Morning Star Pregnancy Services, an "alternative options" center.
Clutching a copy of Dr. Seuss's _Horton Hears a Who!, _McMinn addresses the kids using the kind of singsongy voice people use to soothe a yapping dog. "This is my son's favorite book. And what does Horton say over and over in the movie and the book? A person's a person... no matter how small. That means that when each and every one of you were just little babies inside Mama's belly, only about the size of my thumb, you had the right to life!
"Now, I mentioned that the right to life is written in our Constitution. Does anyone know where?"
A hand shoots up.
"Um...," the boy whimpers. The confi-dence he had just seconds ago is rapidly depleting. "I think it's in...the front?"
McMinn trudges on: "It's in the Fifth Amendment. A portion of the Fifth Amendment says, 'No person shall be deprived of life, liberty, or property without due process of law.' Believe it or not, there are people who run for all sorts of offices at the local level, the state level, and the federal level who don't understand that even little babies have the right to life. And you want to remember when you vote to only vote for candidates who only support the U.S. Constitution, who support the Declaration of Independence and the right to life, like we do."
After spending a few days in Paxtang, I start to see why some of the people here feel threatened, as though their grip is slipping on a certain way of life, how it's only a matter of time before the chemistry of their town, in all its ineffable Americanness, will be recombinated by the arrival of outsiders, by a globalized economy, by a different set of values. And how fighting to protect all that doesn't seem political to them as much as an act of self-preservation. No one explicitly said anything like this to me. It was just the undercurrent of every prayer, lesson, pledge: We love this. Don't touch it. On my first day at the camp, like all of the older campers, I was given a pocket-size Constitution. The writing is so small that without a pair of drugstore reading glasses, you'd need the eyes of a 7-to-10-year-old to make out the words.** **But it's not really meant to be read. It's more to carry around and keep close to you, like a locket with a strand of hair inside, part keepsake, part talisman.
"When I was a kid," Miss Deb had told me at one point, "there was not all of this stuff to do. In the summer, you hung out with your neighbors and rode your bike. You disappeared down to the creek for three hours, until your mom started yelling for you or until it got dark and your dad whistled and you came home. Now everybody's working. Moms didn't work back then. Now Mom's working, Dad's working. Our society just keeps getting busier and busier and busier." She pauses and meets my eyes. "That sucks, you know?"
I get it. I do. But still, there's a line. And Mr. McMinn just pole-vaulted over it. When he hands off the mike, I confront Deb. "It's a value debate," she protests. "I'll bet you a hundred million dollars that there may be some in the Democratic Party that are pro-choice and some that are pro-life." I argue that that's beside the point: A man she invited to speak just told about fifty-five prepubescents to vote pro-life. (Bob McCloskey, for one, also thinks the presentation wasnot kosher: "I didn't agree with him saying that in front of kids," he told me afterward.) "I'm not interested in the politics," Deb continues. "I didn't know he was going to say that. But you heard what he said about the Declaration of Independence. He talks about the rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. It's part of our founding documents. They should know what's in there. They need to believe it."
Later that morning, I'm at the crafts table, where a group of kids are making campaign bumper stickers. One of the volunteer moms is encouraging the creatively blocked: "Start drawing the things you like! Baseball? Spaghetti?" I spot two little girls at the end of the bench who need no encouragement. They've already commandeered about five of the Magic Markers and are hunched over, vigorously coloring. When I go stand behind them, they part to show me their work. The skinny little blonde girl on my left has drawn a crying woman standing next to a burning ball of fire. "Why is this lady so sad?" I ask her. She looks up at me with brown jellybean eyes, puts her index finger on her sun, and explains to me that "her baby is dead." That's when I realize I'm not looking at a sun. It's a bloody fetus, which she drew using orange and red. Apparently Crayola doesn't make a decent flesh- colored marker.
This image is still in my head later as Miss Deb asks all of us to close our eyes for the day's closing prayer.
Lord, bless our nation, and make it true to the ideas of freedom and justice and brotherhood for all who make it great. Guard us from war, compromise, from fear and confusion. Be close to our leaders; give them vision and courage as they make decisions affecting freedom and the future of the world. Make us more deeply aware of our heritage as Americans, realizing not only our rights but also our duties and responsibilities as citizens. Make this great land and all of its people clearly know your will, and give us the courage to walk with you in all that we do. Amen.
Lauren Bans _ is a GQ _ associate editor.

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Have to post this for my reference...and i promised myself...next time will be better;P
Frens out there, can have a try...but remember don't use pandan paste!
INGREDIENTS (Base)
600g Glutinious rice
250g Coconut milk
200g Water
3 tsps Salt
~ Mix coconut milk with water and salt, stir well
~ Add into rice and mix well
~ Rub some oil on the base of the tray
~ The level of the coconut milk in the rice (after placing in the tray) should not be too much. Juz enough to cover the rice will do.
~ Steam for 20 minutes (high heat), then use a spoon or spatula to press the rice firmly.
(At this moment, if the rice was too dry, can add alittle water)
~ Continue to steam for another 15 minutes or until rice cooked.
INGREDIENTS (Topping)
2 Eggs
227g Sugar
3 tbsps Cornflour
75g Rice flour
2 tbsps Pandan juice
800g Coconut milk
pinch of salt
~ Beat eggs and sugar together using an egg beater
~ Mix all the other ingredients together with coconut milk
~ Add into eggs mixture and stir well
~ At low heat, keep stiring the liquid until it thickens
~ Pour onto cooked rice and steam for 20 minutes at medium heat
~ Cool properly before cutting
* The topping will only hardened properly when the kuih really cool down


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Samuel Allen (1702-1746) was gathering hay with neighbors and members of his family during King George's War on August 25, 1746 in a section south of the village of Deerfield (known as the Bars) when they were overcome by Native Americans hiding in the nearby brush. Mr. Allen was killed and a fragment of the shirt he was wearing has been preserved in Memorial Hall. His daughter, Eunice, age 13, was tomahawked but survived. She died in 1818 at age 85, and at some time in her life knitted this stocking.
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Israel News - Stay Informed, Pray Informed
One of the organizers of the upcoming Christ at the Checkpoint in Bethlehem recently made the astonishing claim that Christian Zionism, the support of the Jews in their prophetically-mandated national restoration, is driven by little more than greed.
Stephen Sizer is an Anglican priest, a man who purports to believe in the Word of God.
And yet, in an interview with Iraq's Aletejah TV, Sizer labeled as "nonsense" any theology that would take at face value what God called his irrevocable promises to national Israel.
Christians who do this, said Sizer, are just in it for themselves.
"A lot of Christian Zionism was based on greed," Sizer informed his Muslim audience. "We want God to bless us. If we bless the Jews, God will bless us. And that's a very popular theology in America. It's called 'prosperity gospel,' the idea that God is blessing us materially because we support the Jewish people."
The whole idea, Sizer continued, is "nonsense theologically, but if you want to be wealthy it's very tempting. It's like gambling, it can become addictive."
Stephen Sizer is one of the chief proponents and organizers of the Christ at the Checkpoint conference hosted by Bethlehem Bible College. In the past, Christ at the Checkpoint has billed itself as a response to Christian Zionism, and Sizer's remarks make clear what kind of response that is.
The Sizer interview was first reported on by our friends at the Messianic blog Rosh Pina Project. Head over to the blog and get their take on Sizer's slanderous views >>
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NBA 2K is best known for giving the league's star performers signature appearances - shots, dunks, dribbling, etc. That will certainly be put to the test when the game recreates Michael Jordan, whose playing style is instantly recognizable to millions.
Tons of in-game footage here show how the Visual Concepts team managed to pull it off. Here Jordan's Chicago Bulls thrash the Dominique Wilkins-era Atlanta Hawks, with his Airness dominating the highlight film and The Human Highlight Film, going off for 58 plus 7 assists. This figures to be from the "Shootout" chapter of The Jordan Challenge, in which the 1990 Bulls and Hawks face off in the regular season and your job is to outscore 'Nique, hold him under 25, and win the game. It sounds easy enough, but you've got to remember to play defense.
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Price Cut! BlackBerry Z10, Microsoft Surface RT Slashed
Shira Ovide looks at two high-profile mobile devices now being sold at deep discount and the reason behind the price cuts.
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Five indigenous groups dominated the region by 1776. Three of themthe Cherokee, the Choctaw, and the Chickasawcan easily be called tribes, since each had a distinct and long-established cultural pattern and thought of themselves as "Cherokee," or "Choctaw," or "Chickasaw." The fourth, the Seminole, developed out of remnants of several tribes who migrated into Florida after its original inhabitants had died from disease or battle. Members of the fifth group, the most important for this story, were called the Creek. Rather than a unified cultural group, they were a political confederacy of approximately 50 villages in Georgia and Alabama.
Over time European Americans came to refer to the Cherokee, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Creek and Seminole as the "Five Civilized Tribes." This label indicated their attitudes of those who used it, since what made the tribes "civilized" was that they lived more like European Americans than most American Indians. A 1961 excavation of a Creek town, for example, found not only indigenous foods like deer, turtle and turkey, but also remnants of many of European originthe shell of a chicken egg, the bones of pigs, chickens, and cows, and peach pits. The tribes also avidly acquired firearms, iron tools, and other manufactured materials they found beneficial. European cultural practices had a smaller impact on indigenous society: although some southeastern Indians adopted Christianity and spoke English, the vast majority continued to prefer their own religions and languages.
By the turn of the 19th century, European American society increasingly pressed in on the Creek. Two issues in particular created tensions. First, many Creek worried that European influences would destroy their traditional cultural values. The second problem revolved around land. Not only did European Americans appear to have an insatiable appetite for it, but their belief in private property differed dramatically from the Creek practice of collective ownership.


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Scott Bidstrup's newsletter brings up relevant statistics.
It says something about the United States that one person in three has had an experience with the criminal justice system by the time they are old enough to have graduated from college - much higher than (possibly even double) the rate who have obtained at least a bachelor's degree.
It also says something that one person in 100 in the United States is a prison or county jail inmate, and nearly 3 percent of the entire population are on probation or parole or are being monitored. A rate of incarceration far higher than any other country on the planet.
Before one gets the idea that illegal aliens account for most of this, the reality is that they account for about 5.9% of the total inmate population, not very far out of proportion to their presence in the general population of the country as a whole (3.5%).
I personally find "one percent of the population incarcerated and nearly three percent more on probation, parole, or being monitored" pretty scary. Are we to believe US people are far more criminal than anyone else worldwide?
I actually did an essay for class on the high rate of prison population for the US when compared with other countries. Now if I could just locate it -- I could post some of it here.
I'd love to see that essay, too Steph.
I work in a literal prison (Florida State Prison) and there are odd facts that stump me every time I notice them. Btw-Florida just opened a new mini-max detention facility in Suwannee and there is talk of a new facility close by in a neighboring county. Currently, within four miles of my home there are already four established correctional facilities (FSP. Union Correctional Institution, Lawtey Correctional and New River Correctional Institution). That doesn't include the State Mental Hospital in Macclenny (basically a prison for the criminally insane) about fourteen miles from me, and "Tacachallee" another mental health facility for those who are dangerously insane in nearby Gainesville. Also, just outside of Starke, there exists a center called "SunnyLand" for mentally retarded adults-which basically exists to train adults with Down's syndrome and related impairments a "place to feel valued" (I've always thought of it more as exploitation).
Florida has one of the highest prison populations in the country. We also have some of the lowest payscales around (even college educated professionals usually opt to leave Florida for better pay elsewhere). Much of our public works jobs are occupied by state inmates (who can legally be paid alot less than minimum wage). There is very little opportunity here unless you work for the State-if you would call that opportunity.
(Conspiracy theories or not, just because other people think you are a nut doesn't necessarily mean that there really aren't conspiracies).
Depressing news, but thanks.
Even without the excuse of emergency relocation, citizen rights are evaporating as bankers are given top priority during financial problems.
Depression and Autocracy From Merkel to Michigan
.... how authoritarian is last week's Eurozone deal? Led by Germany, the agreement requires individual nations to shrink pensions, scale back health insurance, cut services, privatize public enterprises and de-unionize public jobs—no matter what their voters say. It's all so as not to default to the large banks and financial institutions.
"The basic rules of European democracy are being suspended or even inverted, bypassing parliaments, governments and EU institutions," wrote Beck shortly before the Deutschmark deal was done. "Multilateralism is turning into unilateralism, equality into hegemony, sovereignty into the deprivation of sovereignty, and recognition into disrespect for the democratic dignity of other nations. [emphasis mine]
check that out! he even mentions 'jail cell' if you're found in-contempt
And Obama's Christmas and New Years present for the American people and the world... Police state 2012! YAY. Well I guess the Mayans had something right. Or was all the 2012 disaster propaganda via Hollywood just a tool to get Americans to give up all their remaining independence and become slaves suckling from teat of the motherland/FEMA. HMMM... In soviet America... add your preferred joke.
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Going through the menu it was hard to say no to the Pork Belly Baklava $18. A pretty little parcel was brought forth full of pork goodness. Garnished beautifully with bits of pork crackling, it was seriosuly delicious. The date and pistachio filling works well with the meat and when combined with the date and mastic sauce just made things even better. This was a dish that was so hard to share.
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Open for Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner Daily from 8am. They serve delicious coffee out the front booths too! (And ouzo from the early morning, if you are that way inclined..looking at you Gianna)
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Reviewed by Richard E. (age 7)
This is a fun book to read because I like stories about Dracula. It's weird to think about somebody at school being Dracula. My favorite part of the story is when the Bailey Street Kids hear about somebody carrying a coffin into a house, then later they see Mr. Drake go into the house. The illustrations in the book are good. They are black-and-white pictures, and I like that kind because they're old-fashioned pictures and that makes them special.
I think first graders and up should read this book because it is pretty scary. Kindergartners might have nightmares, or the vampires might scare them. These things shouldn't bother older kids.


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As I announced earlier this month, this is my March Madness month of blog posts. Each day there will be 2 to 5 blog posts - don't worry, this isn't how it will be forever. It's just how it's going to be for March because I have a lot of products lately that I've been testing and I want to tell you about. Stick with me and we'll be back to normal in April when I launch my April Nail Art Month! Hopefully my nails will be in good shape by then... they are in terrible shape right now, which is why there hasn't been nail posts. They keep breaking shorter and shorter and shorter, so I really need to do something to help them but I haven't had time!
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Radiohead on tour with Native Instruments Kontakt 3
Radiohead are currently on a world tour in support of their latest album entitled In Rainbows. For their very intricate live shows the band and their technician, Russ Russell, have turned to Kontakt 3.
Russ's workplace comprises of an Apple Macbook Pro that sits on a rack of daisy-chained audio interfaces. The computer receives MIDI from two keyboard stations on the stage, operated by band members (and brothers) Jonny and Colin Greenwood. They play their parts on their respective controller keyboards and MIDI floorboards.
Kontakt 3 is no longer available, but Native Instruments Komplete 11 is a great option ideal for musicians in 2017.
On his computer, Russ runs Native Instruments Kontakt 3 as the main instrument for all sample-based sounds in the show. Both keyboard stations are routed to Kontakt, with each song having its own monolithic multi. "Kontakt is great to work with", says Russ. "It has allowed us to completely get away from all the frustration of hardware samplers. Editing and importing becomes quicker and easier, which allows the band to make changes or try new ideas without delay or fuss."
Russ switched Radiohead's setup to Kontakt during the preparation for the 2008 world tour. "The band wanted to replace some old hardware from previous tours and consolidate those sounds into one central system.
For the live versions of the songs on 'In Rainbows', I worked with Kontakt. I used material from the studio production, and I also adapted some sounds from the Kontakt library - the Crumar Orchestrator gets quite a bit of use. After that, I basically went through the entire Radiohead catalogue and converted all the old sample material for Kontakt. I sampled a few hardware instruments and created multisamples. It's just made the organisation of all the keyboard sounds so much easier."
During the show, Radiohead play all songs entirely live - no backing tracks or sequencers are used except for songs with a more electronic aesthetics, such as "15 Step", where synchronised percussive loops are triggered in real time by Colin and Jonny. In addition to playing sounds on Russ's computer via his controller, guitar and keyboard player Jonny Greenwood operates a mixture of analog devices and his own laptop. During the show, Jonny manipulates the synths and outboard devices by hand and foot.
Bass player Colin Greenwood uses more of a conventional setup for his keyboard parts, comprising a controller keyboard and floorboard. All the changes in sound selections during or in between songs are operated directly by Russ, including some sounds from Pro-53 and other software synthesizers.
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The longlist for the 2013 Stella Prize has just been announced, containing a great mix of exciting new talents and familiar faces.
Named after one of Australia's most important female authors, Stella Maria Miles Franklin, the Stella Prize is worth $50,000, and both fiction and non-fiction books are eligible.
The 2013 Stella Prize shortlist will be announced on Wednesday 20 March. The inaugural Stella Prize will be awarded in Melbourne on the evening of Tuesday 16 April.
Don't miss the chance to grab a copy of these fantastic books and judge them for yourself with the help of Booktopia.
by Romy Ash
Tom and Jordy have been living with their gran since the day their mother, Loretta, left them on her doorstep and disappeared.
Now Loretta's returned, and she wants her boys back.
Tom and Jordy hit the road with Loretta in her beat-up car. The family of three journeys across the country, squabbling, bonding, searching and reconnecting.
But Loretta isn't mother material. She's broke, unreliable, lost. And there's something else that's not quite right with this reunion.
They reach the west coast and take refuge in a beachside caravan park. Their neighbour, a surly old man, warns the kids tostay away. But when Loretta disappears again the boys have no choice but to askthe old man for help, and now they face new threats and new fears.
This beautifully written and gripping debut is as moving as it is frightening, and as heartbreaking as it is tender.
Romy Ash is a Melbourne-based writer. She has written for GriffithREVIEW, the Big Issue and frankie magazine. She has a regular cooking column in Yen magazine and writes for the blog Trotski & Ash. The forthcoming Voracious: New Australian Food Writing features one of her essays.
Floundering is her first novel.
Click here to buy Floundering from Booktopia, Australia's Local Bookstore
Mazin Grace
by Dylan Coleman
Winner of the 2011 David Unaipon Award for Indigenous Writing
Growing up on the Mission isn't easy for clever Grace Oldman. When her classmates tease her for not having a father, she doesn't know what to say. Pappa Neddy says her dad is the Lord God in Heaven, but that doesn't help when the Mission kids call her a bastard. As Grace slowly pieces together clues that might lead to answers, she struggles to find a place in a community that rejects her for reasons she doesn't understand.
In Mazin Grace, Dylan Coleman fictionalises her mother's childhood at the Koonibba Lutheran Mission in South Australia in the 1940s and 50s. Woven through the narrative are the powerful, rhythmic sounds of Aboriginal English and Kokatha language.
Mazin Grace is the inspirational story of a feisty girl who refuses to be told who she is, determined to uncover the truth for herself.
Dylan Coleman is a Kokatha-Greek woman who grew up in Thevenard, on the far west coast of South Australia. She has a PhD in creative writing from the University of Adelaide, where she teaches Indigenous health, and her short stories have been published in Southerly and various anthologies. For over twenty years Dylan has worked across Aboriginal education, health, land rights, and the Arts, with a focus on Aboriginal community engagement and social justice. Dylan lives on the outskirts of Adelaide with her partner and son.
Click here to buy Mazin Grace from Booktopia, Australia's Local Bookstore
The Burial
by Courtney Collins
A breathtakingly brilliant debut novel in the tradition of Cormac McCarthy – inspired by Australia's last bushranger, young woman Jessie Hickman.
It is the dawn of the twentieth century in Australia and a woman has done an unspeakable thing.
Twenty-two-year-old Jessie has served a two-year sentence for horse rustling. As a condition of her release she is apprenticed to Fitzgerald 'Fitz' Henry, who wants a woman to allay his loneliness in a valley populated by embittered ex-soldiers. Fitz wastes no time in blackmailing Jessie and involving her in his business of horse rustling and cattle duffing.
When Fitz is wounded in an accident he hires Aboriginal stockman, Jack Brown, to steal horses with Jessie. Soon both Jack Brown and Jessie are struggling against the oppressive and deadening grip of Fitz.
One catastrophic night turns Jessie's life on its head and she must flee for her life. From her lonely outpost, the mountains beckon as a place to escape. First she must bury the evidence. But how do you bury the evidence when the evidence is part of yourself?
Inspired by the life of Jessie Hickman, legendary twentieth-century bushranger, The Burial is a stunning debut novel, a work of haunting originality and power.
The Burial is the debut novel of Courtney Collins. It has been optioned for a feature film by Pure Pictures. Courtney's next work in progress, The Walkman Mix has already received attention through the Melbourne Lord Mayor's Creative Writing Award 2011. Courtney grew up in the Hunter Valley in NSW. She now lives on the Goulburn River in regional Victoria.
Click here to buy The Burial from Booktopia, Australia's Local Bookstore
The People Smuggler
by Robin de Crespigny
Winner of the Queensland Literary Awards 2012 – Non-Fiction
The True Story of Ali Al Jenabi, the 'Oskar Schlindler of Asia. At once a non-fiction thriller and a moral maze, this is one man's epic story of trying to find a safe place in the world.
When Ali Al Jenabi flees Saddam Hussein's torture chambers, he is forced to leave his family behind in Iraq. What follows is an incredible international odyssey through the shadow world of fake passports, crowded camps and illegal border crossings, living every day with excruciating uncertainty about what the next will bring.
Through betrayal, triumph, misfortune – even romance and heartbreak – Ali is sustained by his fierce love of freedom and family. Continually pushed to the limits of his endurance, eventually he must confront what he has been forced to become.
With enormous power and insight, The People Smuggler tells a story of daily heroism, bringing to life the forces that drive so many people to put their lives in unscrupulous hands. It is an utterly gripping portrait of a man cut loose from the protections of civilisation, attempting to retain his dignity and humanity while taking whatever path he can out of an impossible position.
'An engrossing account of a figure seen by some as saviour and others as criminal. A significant book.' Thomas Keneally
Robin de Crespigny has spent three years working with Ali Al Jenabi to write his story. She is a film maker and lives in Sydney. This is her first book.
Click here to buy The People Smuggler from Booktopia, Australia's Local Bookstore
Questions of Travel
by Michelle de Kretser
A dazzling, compassionate and deeply moving novel from one of world literature's rising stars.
A mesmerising literary novel, Questions of Travel charts two very different lives. Laura travels the world before returning to Sydney, where she works for a publisher of travel guides. Ravi dreams of being a tourist until he is driven from Sri Lanka by devastating events.
Around these two superbly drawn characters, a double narrative assembles an enthralling array of people, places and stories – from Theo, whose life plays out in the long shadow of the past, to Hana, an Ethiopian woman determined to reinvent herself in Australia.
Award-winning author Michelle de Kretser illuminates travel, work and modern dreams in this brilliant evocation of the way we live now. Wonderfully written, Questions of Travel is an extraordinary work of imagination – a transformative, very funny and intensely moving novel.
Michelle de Kretser was born in Sri Lanka and emigrated to Australia when she was 14. Educated in Melbourne and Paris, Michelle has worked as a university tutor, an editor and a book reviewer.
She is the author of The Rose Grower, The Hamilton Case, which won the Commonwealth Prize (SE Asia and Pacific region) and the UK Encore Prize, and The Lost Dog, which was widely praised by writers such as AS Byatt, Hilary Mantel and William Boyd and won a swag of awards, including: the 2008 NSW Premier's Book of the Year Award and the Christina Stead Prize for Fiction, and the 2008 ALS Gold Medal.
The Lost Dog was also shortlisted for the Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction, the Western Australian Premier's Australia-Asia Literary Award, the Commonwealth Writers' Prize (Asia-Pacific Region) and Orange Prize's Shadow Youth Panel. It was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the Orange Prize for Fiction.
Click here to buy Questions of Travel from Booktopia, Australia's Local Bookstore
Sufficient Grace
by Amy Espeseth
Ruth and her cousin Naomi live in rural Wisconsin, part of an isolated religious community. The girls' lives are ruled by the rhythms of nature – the harsh winters, the hunting seasons, the harvesting of crops – and by their families' beliefs. Beneath the surface of this closed, frozen world, hidden dangers lurk.
The Ruth learns that Naomi harbours a terrible secret. She searched for solace in the mysteries of the natural world: broken fawns, migrating birds, and the strange fish deep beneath the ice. Can the girls' prayers for deliverance be answered?
Sufficient Grace is a story of lost of innocence and the unfailing bond between two young women. It is at once devastating and beautiful, and ultimately transcendent.
'Simply brilliant. Haunting, gritty and emotionally dark.' Jessica Au
'A novel of heart-rending beauty. Seldom have grace and nature, spirit and flesh, spoken to each other so wonderfully.' Michael McGirr
'As disturbing as they are, there are stories that demand to be written. This is such a story, delivered by a writer of remarkable talent. Long after reading Sufficient Grace you will not forget it, and will be left with wanting more from Amy Espeseth.'
– Tony Birch
Born in rural Wisconsin, Amy Espeseth lives in Melbourne, having immigrated to Australia in the late 1990s. A writer, publisher and academic, she is the recipient of the 2007 Felix Meyer Scholarship in Literature, the 2009 Victorian Premier's Literary Award for an unpublished manuscript, the 2010 QUT Postgraduate Creative Writing Prize, and the 2012 CAL/Scribe Fiction Prize. Her fiction has appeared in various journals including Wet Ink, antithesis, and The Death Mook.
Click here to buy Sufficient Grace from Booktopia, Australia's Local Bookstore
The Sunlit Zone
by Lisa Jacobson
The Sunlit Zone is a moving elegy of love and loss, admirable for its narrative sweep and the family dynamic that drives it. A risk-taking work of rare, imaginative power.
"The Sunlit Zone combines the narrative drive of the novel with the perfect pitch of true poetry. A darkly futuristic vision shot through with bolts of light. Brilliant, poignant, disconcerting." Adrian Hyland
"This novel in verse, at once magical and irresistible, draws us in to a vivid future. In Lisa Jacobson's telling, the Australian fascination with salt water and sea change is made over anew. Romance holds hands with science and takes to the ocean."
Chris Wallace-Crabbe
About Lisa Jacobson
Lisa Jacobson's The Sunlit Zone was short-listed for the 2009 Victorian Premier's Literary Award for an unpublished manuscript. An earlier poetry collection, Hair & Skin & Teeth, was shortlisted for the National Book Council Awards. She has studied literature at Melbourne and La Trobe Universities, and remains an Honorary Research Fellow at La Trobe. She shares a bush block in Melbourne with her partner and daughter.
Click here to buy The Sunlit Zone from Booktopia, Australia's Local Bookstore
Like A House On Fire
by Cate Kennedy
From prizewinning short-story writer Cate Kennedy comes a new collection to rival her highly acclaimed Dark Roots.
In Like a House on Fire, Kennedy once again takes ordinary lives and dissects their ironies and injustices and pleasures with her humane eye and wry sense of humour. In 'Laminex and Mirrors', a young woman working as a cleaner in a hospital helps an elderly patient defy doctor's orders. In 'Cross Country', a jilted lover manages to misinterpret her ex's new life. And in 'Ashes', a son accompanies his mother on a journey to scatter his father's remains, while lifelong resentments simmer in the background. Cate Kennedy's poignant short stories find the beauty and tragedy in illness and mortality, life and love.
Cate Kennedy is the author of the highly acclaimed novel The World Beneath, which won the People's Choice Award in the NSW Premier's Literary Awards in 2010. She is an award-winning short-story writer whose work has been published widely. Her first collection, Dark Roots, was shortlisted for the Steele Rudd Award in the Queensland Premier's Literary Awards and for the Australian Literature Society Gold Medal. She is also the author of a travel memoir, Sing, and Don't Cry, and the poetry collections Joyflight, Signs of Other Fires and The Taste of River Water, which won the Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Poetry in 2011. She lives on a secluded bend of the Broken River in north-east Victoria.
Click here to buy Like A House On Fire from Booktopia, Australia's Local Bookstore
Sea Hearts
by Margo Lanagan
A mesmerising selkie novel from multi-award winning, internationally acclaimed Australian author, Margo Lanagan – one of the most exciting voices in speculative fiction.
'Why would I? People are uneasy enough with me – if I start bringing up sea-wives, they'll take against me good and proper.'
'It could be secret.'
'Could it?'
On remote Rollrock Island, the sea-witch Misskaella discovers she can draw a girl from the heart of a seal. So, for a price, any man might buy himself a bride; an irresistibly enchanting sea-wife. But what cost will be borne by the people of Rollrock – the men, the women, the children – once Misskaella sets her heart on doing such a thing?
Margo Lanagan weaves an extraordinary tale of desire and revenge, of loyalty, heartache and human weakness, and of the unforeseen consequences of all-consuming love.
'Lanagan is in a class of her own.' The Weekend Australian
Margo Lanagan is an internationally acclaimed writer of novels and short stories. Her collections of short stories have garnered many awards, nominations and shortlistings. Black Juice was a Michael L. Printz Honor Book, won two World Fantasy Awards and the Victorian Premier's Award for Young Adult Fiction. Red Spikes won the CBCA Book of the Year: Older Readers, was a Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year, a Horn Book Fanfare title, was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writer's Prize and longlisted for the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award. Her novel Tender Morsels won the World Fantasy Award for Best Novel and was a Michael L. Printz Honor Book for Excellence in Young Adult Literature. Margo lives in Sydney.
Click here to buy Sea Hearts from Booktopia, Australia's Local Bookstore
The Mind of a Thief
by Patti Miller
A superior memoir by an accomplished writer at the height of her powers
For 40,000 years the Central NSW area of Wellington was Aboriginal – Wiradjuri – land. Following the arrival of white men, it became a penal settlement, mission station, gold-mining town and farming centre with a history of white comfort and black marginalisation. In the late 20th century, it was also the subject of the first post-Mabo Native Title claim, bringing new hope – and new controversy – to the area and its people.
Wiradjuri land is also where author Patti Miller was born and, mid-life, it begins to exert a compelling emotional pull, demanding her return. Post-children, having lived a dream life in Paris, it is hard for her to understand, or ignore, and so she is drawn into the story at the heart of Australian identity – who are we in relation to our beloved but stolen country?
Wellington and the Wiradjuri people are the main characters – and in revealing their complex narratives, Patti uncovers her own. Are her connections to this place through her convict forefathers, or through another, secret history? She sets out on a journey of exploration and takes us with her. Black and white politics, the processes of colonisation, family mythologies, generational conflict and the power of place are evoked as Patti weaves a story that is very personal and, at the same time, a universal story of country and belonging.
The Mind of a Thief is about identity, history, place and belonging and, perhaps most of all, about how we create ourselves through our stories.
Patti Miller was raised on a farm in central western NSW and has worked teaching writing for over twenty years. Her many books include Writing Your Life (Allen & Unwin, 1994, 2001), The Last One Who Remembers (Allen & Unwin, 1997), Child (Allen & Unwin, 1998), Whatever the Gods Do (Random House, 2003) and The Memoir Book (Allen & Unwin, 2007). In 2012 she will teach at the innovative Faber Academy in Sydney.
Click here to buy The Mind of a Thief from Booktopia, Australia's Local Bookstore
An Opening: Twelve Love Stories about Art
by Stephanie Radok
Artist and writer Stephanie Radok possesses a unique international perspective. For over twenty years she has written about and witnessed the emergence of contemporary Aboriginal art and the responses of Australian art to global diasporas.
In An opening: Twelve love stories about art, Stephanie Radok takes us on a walk with her dog and finds that it is possible to re-imagine the suburb as the site of epiphanies and attachments.
'Art wants to enter our lives, yet it is a rare art writer who lets it do that. Writing with full personal disclosure, Stephanie Radok lets us in on her secret. Art can inspire love, and a whole host of other unruly emotions. An Opening is a confession, a provocation, a celebration – a highly original, much-needed book in a field that too often prefers to be offputting and hermetic. A revelation, a gem.' – Nicholas Jose
'In An Opening Stephanie Radok engages sensuously and poetically with the art she has seen from her place in the suburbs of Adelaide and as a citizen of the world. Her contribution to Australian art is idiosyncratic and determinedly marginal. I once titled an essay on Australianness "The margins strike back". Australian art needs more margins.' – Daniel Thomas
'Peppered with lovely anecdotes and a gentle wisdom, An Opening draws the reader into a wonderful discussion about art, culture, and identity. Radok's style is so accessible that she makes thinking critically about art a less rarefied occupation it might otherwise seem.' – Lucy Clark, Weekend Australian Review
'A meditative and enriching read.' – Sarah Braybrooke, Artshub
'It has been a rare pleasure to review this book; the philosophy and spirituality Stephanie Radok expresses in relation to Aboriginal art are enlightening.' – Paul Newbury, Bonzer
'Stephanie's engagement with art is sentimental, poignant, deeply reflective and a revelation for the uninitiated! – PS News
Click here to buy An Opening from Booktopia, Australia's Local Bookstore
Mateship with Bird
by Carrie Tiffany
On the outskirts of an Australian country town in the 1950s, a lonely farmer trains his binoculars on a family of kookaburras that roost in a tree near his house. Harry observes the kookaburras through a year of feast, famine, birth, death, war, romance and song. As Harry watches the birds, his next door neighbour has her own set of binoculars trained on him. Ardent, hard-working Betty has escaped to the country with her two fatherless children. Betty is pleased that her son, Michael, wants to spend time with the gentle farmer next door. But when Harry decides to teach Michael about the opposite sex, perilous boundaries are crossed.
Mateship with Birds is a novel about young lust and mature love. It is a hymn to the rhythm of country life – to vicious birds, virginal cows, adored dogs and ill-used sheep. On one small farm in a vast, ancient landscape, a collection of misfits question the nature of what a family can be.
Carrie Tiffany was born in West Yorkshire and grew up in Western Australia. She spent her early twenties working as a park ranger in the Red Centre and now lives in Melbourne, where she works as an agricultural journalist. Her first novel, Everyman's Rules for Scientific Living (2005) was shortlisted for numerous awards including the Orange Prize, the Miles Franklin Literary Award, the Guardian First Book Award and the Commonwealth Writer's Prize, and won the Dobbie Award for Best First Book (2006) and the 2006 Western Australian Premier's Award for Fiction. Mateship with Birds is her second novel.
Click here to buy Mateship with Birds from Booktopia, Australia's Local Bookstore
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CFTC adopts weakened rule on derivatives trading
WASHINGTON A rule intended to loosen the largest U.S. banks' control over the trading of complex investments and help safeguard the financial system was weakened Thursday by regulators.
Critics say the changes will allow major Wall Street banks to continue to dominate the $700 trillion derivatives market.
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission approved the rule on a 4-1 vote. Commissioner Jill Sommers cast the lone dissenting vote.
Under the rule, investment firms would be required to request price quotes for a derivatives contract from only two banks this year and three beginning in 2014. An earlier proposal had called for price quotes from five banks.
Derivatives are investments whose value is based on some other investment, such as oil. The market was largely unregulated before the 2008 financial crisis. The rule was mandated under the 2010 financial regulatory overhaul.
By requiring fewer price quotes, critics worry that the market will be less competitive. Five of the largest U.S. banks JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM), Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (GS), Bank of America Corp. (BAC), Citigroup Inc. (C) and Wells Fargo & Co. (WFC) account for more than 90 percent of total derivatives contracts.
Dennis Kelleher, the president of Better Markets, a group that advocates stricter financial regulation, said banks opposed the requirement for more price quotes "to prevent a level playing field, competition and transparency.''
Under the rule, banks and other financial institutions would be required to trade derivatives contracts on new electronic exchanges.
CFTC Chairman Gary Gensler says that will create more transparency because everyone who wants to compete in the marketplace will be able to see prices before deciding to invest. Prior to the rule, they could not.
"This is a significant shift toward market transparency from the status quo,'' Gensler said.
Commissioner Bart Chilton said the commission could have achieved greater transparency by approving the original proposal. But he said a compromise was better than no action.
"By failing to act, we leave in place unregulated dark markets. These are the very dark markets that got us into the economic mess in 2008,'' Chilton said.
Wall Street banks had opposed the higher number of bids. The lower requirement illustrates how banks have managed to tweak rules written by Congress three years ago that are still being finalized by regulators.
The banks have also succeeded in weakening a rule that would ban banks from trading for their own profit. The latest version of the so-called Volcker Rule includes an exemption for banks to make such trades when they are used to offset others risks taken.
The rule was named after former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker. Its adoption has been delayed largely because of the banks' objections.


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Farm bill passes Senate
A landmark five-year Farm Bill cleared the Senate on Monday evening, setting the stage for a long-delayed fight on the House floor next week over major revisions in agriculture policy and the future of food stamps.
The 66-27 roll call exceeded last year's margin with 18 Republicans joining Democrats on passage. And the increased GOP support makes it more difficult for Speaker John Boehner to walk away from the choices before him — as he did last summer.
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"We have a real shot to get this done," said Sen. John Hoeven (R-N.D.).
Nonetheless, the task at hand is difficult. Republicans are genuinely divided over the role of government in farm policy, with the speaker — a veteran of the House Agriculture Committee — engaged in his own personal war against a new milk- supply management proposal in both the House and Senate bills.
Food-stamp reform and the deep cuts demanded by the House raise fundamental questions for both parties. On top of all this, nearly 200 of the 435 House members have never before been part of a farm bill debate given the immense turnover of recent years.
The result could be a bloody free-for-all, driven by regional and ideological differences.
New faces are sure to emerge — or at least old wine in new bottles. Rep. Jeff Fortenberry (R-Neb.), for example, has begun to step forward as a conservative voice for bipartisan reforms. At the same time, a high-profile maverick like Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) could be pivotal in persuading allies on the right to give his fellow Aggies a chance.
"Me, the peacemaker," King says with a laugh. "I don't know if they will take me seriously in my new role."
No one is more important than Boehner. The speaker has immense influence given his control of the House Rules Committee, and he pledged Monday to work for a "fair process" and not to impose his "personal will" on the House.
"I encourage other members of the House to approach this process in the same spirit," the speaker said. "If you have ideas on how to make the bill better, bring them forward. Let's have the debate, and let's vote on them."
Nonetheless, after last year's stall, it would be a major embarrassment for Republicans if the bill were to die on the House floor. And Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) is working actively with House Agriculture Committee Chairman Frank Lucas (R-Okla.) to get to conference with the Senate and then see whether a final package can be brought back for enactment by the August recess.
Indeed, at a time when sequestration is bleeding government agencies of discretionary funds, the farm bill is one of the few examples of the parties working together to reduce mandatory spending. The Senate measure promises more than $24 billion in 10-year savings; the House, $39.7 billion. Even a split would be the first real progress on the deficit prior to the appropriations and debt battles that will follow Labor Day.
Nor can the reforms begun by the Senate be ignored, given the glacial pace of any change in agriculture policy.
The much-criticized system of direct cash subsidies to farmers and absentee landowners — costing nearly $5 billion a year — would be ended. The bill imposes tougher payment and income limits, and substantially tightens requirements that federal dollars go only to those actively engaged in farming.


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Actress Michelle Williams is dating Jason Segel, according to a report.
Us Weekly has obtained photographs of the blonde beauty strolling hand-in-hand with The Muppets star after a meal at Frankies Spuntino in Brooklyn, New York on Saturday night.
A source says, "He put his arm around her and made her laugh as they walked. (They) seemed very relaxed."
The following day, Segel was snapped looking on affectionately as Williams' daughter Matilda, six, rode on her scooter in Brooklyn.
The magazine also reports the rumored couple dined together in Los Angeles on two separate occasions in recent weeks.
An insider adds, "They are smitten and very serious. She hasn't been this happy in a long time."
The Hollywood actress – who was previously engaged to late actor Heath Ledger, the father of Matilda – split from filmmaker Spike Jonze in 2009 and was romantically linked to director Cary Fukunaga last year.