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I edited Mommy Wars because I was struck by American moms' need to disparage other women in order to feel good about ourselves. Sandra Tsing Loh ("Rhymes With Rich," May Atlantic) provides an example of this tendency when she dismisses Mommy Wars by attacking the writers for being white and suffering from "afflufemza." The contributors are all college educated (as, I imagine, are most Atlantic readers), but nearly 20 percent are nonwhite, offering a mix of African-American, Pakistani, and Latina perspectives in a book of only twenty-six contributors. Here are some of the women Tsing Loh disparages as privileged: Natalie Smith Parra, a Latina former welfare mom and immigrant-rights activist; Lila Leff, founder of the Umoja Student Development Corporation, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to helping at-risk Chicago youth; Veronica Chambers, who supports her extended African-American family on her writing income alone; Jane Juska, a grandmother, teacher, and prison literacy volunteer from Berkeley; plus the many stay-at-home moms in the book with $0 listed in their IRS income columns.
Even the more affluent moms write with candor about universal problems women face: cancer, domestic violence, children with special needs, post-partum depression, financial hardship, a mother's suicide, infertility, child abuse, and plain old lousy husbands. Tsing Loh employs a tired misogyny in her attempt to denigrate the moms in the book, and she quotes details of our lives out of context. She derides, for instance, Dawn Drzal's Regina Rubens outfit—and fails to mention that Ms. Drzal's essay recounts a bout of postpartum depression so severe that she contemplated suicide. Monica Buckley Price is berated for complaining about her husband's extended absences—without acknowledgment that she struggled to treat their only child's autism during that period of time. And Tsing Loh ridicules my second marriage, but conveniently leaves out my first—to a man who beat and nearly killed me.
Throughout the article, Tsing Loh suggests that she is superior to the women in my book because she is not white, is not affluent, and sends her child to a public school. Ironically, in 2004 I offered Tsing Loh a chance to share her story in Mommy Wars, and the woman who pegs her authority to a lack of material wealth declined via an e-mail that explained, "I generally don't do anthologies because the money tends to be poor … correct me if the pay is in the four digits."
The primal forces of motherhood have the power to unite women rather than divide us. Before we can adequately assist other women—as Tsing Loh rightly encourages women to do—we need to find unity as mothers. Tsing Loh instead seems committed to fostering women's battles with one another.
Leslie Morgan Steiner
Washington, D.C.
I appreciate much of what Sandra Tsing Loh discusses in "Rhymes With Rich." But saying that "the troubles of the poor … don't seem to lap up much around the ankles of any of these mothers" is unfair to women of all income levels. I'm qualified to write about my feelings as a stay-at-home mom, not about racial or economic diversity. I do wish that I had more fully expressed how grateful I am to have a choice, and I know that the majority of women don't have that option. But I doubt they begrudge me—or judge me for—my choices as hotly as does Tsing Loh.
I was lucky enough to be born standing in the right line, and so were my children. I try to remind them of that every day—whether taking them to volunteer or giving a portion of their allowance (they each get a dollar a week) to the homeless. I realize this sounds like I'm throwing pennies down from the turret of my Georgetown castle. (For the record, it's two bedrooms; my girls share a room. Since writing my essay for Mommy Wars, I've moved, divorced, and started writing more to pay some bills.) But I want my children to know that they're fortunate, not entitled. And I want them to be grateful, not guilt-ridden. Believe me, as a freckle-faced WASP living in a privileged enclave, I have enough guilt for all of us.
Page Evans
Author of "Sharks and Jets" from Mommy Wars
Washington, D.C.
I'm sorry Sandra Tsing Loh reviewed the book she wished had been written, rather than Mommy Wars. She raises some interesting and valid points about the plights of mothers who work for subsistence wages while trying to raise their own kids (and sometimes other people's). But if we're trying to get to a place where all work is valued (and I think this is Tsing Loh's underlying argument), aren't the struggles of the high-earning women also valid? What's more, the immigrant women that Tsing Loh identifies with, in her daughter's Los Angeles magnet school, are working to give their kids the kinds of opportunities the women in the book have—and I'm not sure they would begrudge their more fortunate sisters the choices they've made. Finally, I wonder what Tsing Loh would do if she weren't one of the lucky few to get her child into one of those highly competitive magnet schools? Would she really send her daughter to one of L.A.'s failing, 94 percent minority public schools? Or would she join the ranks of those of us she seems to regard as somehow compromised, and make a different choice?
Dee Dee Myers
Washington, D.C.
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Leslie Morgan Steiner writes: "Before we can adequately assist other women … we need to find unity as mothers." Perhaps we should ask the women who huddled inside the Superdome if they felt they had the luxury of waiting for that hell-freezing-over day (the day I change my pan of Steiner's book to the appropriate rave and we sing "Kumbaya"), or if they would have simply preferred to be handed the damn water bottles already.
Unity first, then help—that's a gloomy prognosis for the future of female philanthropy. Because despite the heat of Steiner's rebuttal, I must stubbornly continue to disagree. I find her calculation that "nearly 20 percent" minority is not overwhelmingly white a bit spooky, frankly. She misreads my take on affluent women; my point was not that I'm above "mommy wars" because I'm morally superior, but just the opposite. I'm certain that if I lived in Georgetown or in those Barney Greengrass–fed, Ferragamo-shod, Bugaboo stroller–bashing blocks of the Upper West Side, I too would be driven that certain kind of crazy.
But the hot, pulsing, opera-bag-across-the-face core (I think of Anne Bancroft and Shirley MacLaine in The Turning Point) of why I find Steiner's quasi-feminist thesis to be spectacularly dishonest comes when she cites my daring to ask for money. (And putting it in quotes is really wonderfully catty—I did laugh.) When Steiner first wrote me to solicit an essay for Mommy Wars, she enthusiastically branded her anthology "the next Bitch in the House." While Bitch ended up a surprise New York Times best- seller—no impediment to Steiner securing a Random House contract—I couldn't help recalling that potential Bitch essayists had been originally offered about $500 for, say, 3,000 words—one-twelfth the going rate for midcareer magazine work.
Thus my quote: "I generally don't do anthologies because the money tends to be poor … correct me if the pay is in the four digits." Four digits—good lord, that could come to … $1,000! Write quickly and one might start approaching one-tenth of what Steiner's own investment-banker husband makes in an hour (women, unite!). Yet in the next trickle-down feminist turn, Steiner doubles triumphantly back to reveal me as the cold business mercenary who, sadly, wasn't passionate enough to "share her story." Yes, it's a jungle out there in the women's-angst-anthology-with-all-profits-going-to-the-female-editor world.
Bottom line: don't ever ask a media professional who says that women's work should be valued to give you a fair market wage. You'll pay for it later, sister. Rawr!
By contrast, I feel that Page Evans is poignantly wrestling with the complex issues we, as America's luckier women, face. I can relate. But Dee Dee Myers's grasp of L.A.'s public-school magnet system is fuzzy; the system is highly competitive only in that kids from the most disadvantaged zip codes get in first. My daughter's magnet school is Title I due to poverty and high risk factors—many of her classmates came from Head Start. And yes, we were indeed planning on trying our regular 96 percent Hispanic school, never mind Myers's stated belief that I'd find that unthinkable (which itself is fascinating). I really must get to D.C. more often.
That said, our magnet school does enjoy a self-selection of parents motivated enough to fill out the government forms required to get their children in. So if we're not guilty, to borrow Evans's alchemical thinking, we are grateful. In fact, I'm grateful enough that my charitable giving this year, which goes largely to local poor non- magnet schools that lack PTAs, will be "in the five digits." Tired misogynist that I am, I don't need female unity to write a check; I just need a pen. And happily, after telling this book reviewer to go to hell, Steiner need not wait to use her Wharton-trained business savvy to invent a way to channel economic resources toward, if not poorer women, causes about which she clearly feels great passion: spousal abuse, postpartum depression, and autism.
Now that would impress me. Applause, flowers, chocolates … It's all standing by.
Mark Bowden's account of the Desert One mission ("The Desert One Debacle," May Atlantic) is inaccurate in one significant respect: his assertion that I "directed" Harold Brown, the secretary of defense, to convey to the commanders on the ground that "if they were prepared to go ahead with only five choppers, they had White House approval." I did no such thing. I reported to the president about the ongoing mishap and urged him to inquire, through Harold Brown, whether the mission commander would be prepared to go forward with a smaller number of available helicopters. The commander, as it turned out, wisely decided that this would not be workable. A detailed account of that episode, confirming the above, is to be found on page 498 of my White House memoir, Power and Principle.
Zbigniew Brzezinski
Washington, D.C.
Mark Bowden accepts mission commander Charles Beckwith's claim that without six helicopters the mission could not proceed, because Beckwith could not transport his entire rescue team from Desert One to the hide site outside Tehran. But there were solutions to the transportation problem. Colonel Jerry King, the operations planner for the mission, suggested that helicopter crews be reduced (each helicopter had a crew of five), leaving the gunners and their equipment behind to create additional space for the rescue team. The gunners were superfluous, as the rescue team was armed to the teeth. Removing them would have accommodated at least ten of the men, and removing one or both of the internal auxiliary fuel tanks would have provided room for the rest. The flight to the hide site was only 270 miles, and the plan was to jettison the auxiliary tanks at the hide site anyway, to make room for the hostages.
Alternatively, the helicopter with the mechanical failure could have continued the mission. The failure turned out to be a burned-out hydraulic pump on the backup flight-controls system. In combat situations, aircraft have flown without backup controls, and flying in a spare pump from the Nimitz was also feasible: the jet could have made the trip in two hours, and the repair would have taken about an hour. The helicopter would have had to spend the day at Desert One and proceed to the hide site the following evening, but it would have arrived in plenty of time for the mission, which was not to commence until after midnight the next day.
Most of these solutions were suggested at the time. That President Carter decided not to proceed anyway raises questions about his true intentions.
Professor Richard C. Thornton
George Washington University
Washington, D.C.
In "The Desert One Debacle," Mark Bowden writes, "Days earlier the entire force had flown from Florida to Egypt on big Army jet transports." The Army does not have big jet transports. Those planes would have been provided by the Air Force.
Steve Harper
Fayetteville, N.C.
Some of the charts that Mark Bowden uses to depict aircraft positioning in the Atlantic Online supplement to his article very closely resemble those in my book, The Guts to Try, and some bits and pieces of dialogue and comments, unique to my book, show up in Bowden's piece. I do not see any reference or credit for this material.
James H. Kyle, Col., U.S. Air Force (Ret.)
Honolulu, Hawaii
Mark Bowden replies:
I am sorry for the error in portraying Mr. Brzezinski's advice, am grateful for his correction, and will see that it makes it into the book and onto my Web site. Mr. Harper is exactly right about the transports being Air Force, not Army, a correction that I have made to the book and Web site.
Colonel Kyle's book, The Guts to Try, is referenced as a source in my book, Guests of the Ayatollah, from which the May cover story was excerpted. His is one of the better accounts of the rescue mission, and I recommend it to anyone interested in the incident. My story was based primarily on interviews with participants in the mission, many of whom have never been interviewed, by Colonel Kyle or anyone else. Since we did interview some of the same men, however, and wrote about the same episode, it is hardly surprising that some snatches of dialogue and descriptions of the position of aircraft would be similar or the same. If Colonel Kyle wishes to correct significant inadequacies or errors in my account, I will be grateful.
Professor Thornton notes correctly, as I did in the story, that serious consideration was given to proceeding with the mission using only five helicopters, and while there was some support for going ahead, the decision was made to abort, as pre-planning for the mission dictated. I have not made an effort to critique or second-guess that decision; it is an argument that I leave to those who know a lot more about helicopters and load requirements than I do. President Carter left the decision to the men who were risking their lives on the mission, which I think was the right thing to do.
Throughout his essay on controversial Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez ("The Talented Mr. Chávez," May Atlantic), Franklin Foer adopts the rhetoric and misrepresentations of Chávez's more dishonest opponents. For example, he writes that the failed 2002 coup attempt against Chávez was led by high military officials "nervous about the president's feints toward a fully nationalized economy." This ignores the role of politicians, the business sector, and the corporate media in the destabilization campaign leading to the coup, and it misconstrues Chávez's economic program. At his most radical, and despite his rhetoric, Chávez calls for a mixed economy—and the private sector has expanded faster than the public sector since he took office seven years ago.
Foer distorts regional politics. The Venezuelan military cannot patrol every inch of its country's 1,379-mile border with Colombia, yet Chávez does not, as Foer implies, have a policy allowing the FARC guerrillas to freely cross into Venezuela's territory. In fact, Chávez, concerned with preventing incursions of right-wing paramilitaries from Colombia, has established good working relations with his ideological opposite, Colombian President Alvaro Uribe, much to the chagrin of leftist supporters. Foer recycles the claims of Chávez's opponents, including those in the Pentagon, and so is blind to the fact that the real threat to regional stability comes from right-wing paramilitaries.
Foer writes that the poverty rate has risen from 43 percent to 53 percent during Chávez's presidency. But the 53 percent figure is from the first quarter of 2004, and the Venezuelan economy has grown by more than 28 percent (in real, inflation-adjusted terms) since then, with poverty falling to 37 percent. The earlier jump in poverty was, to a large extent, a direct result of the 2002–2003 opposition-led oil strike, which crippled the economy and sent unemployment soaring. Yet even the current decline in the official poverty rate does not capture the enormous gains from increased social spending—$17 billion this year—on health care, education, and subsidized food. Foer ridicules these programs, but there is broad agreement among scholars of Latin America, many sharply critical of Chavismo, that these misiones are an innovative experiment in a region where nearly half the population lives in extreme poverty.
Foer suggests that Venezuelan public opinion is deeply divided over Chávez, but it is not an equal division. Chávez's approval rating consistently hovers between 60 and 70 percent, and he leads all potential presidential contenders in the polls. Also, a survey by the respected Chilean polling firm Latinobarómetro found that when asked to rank how democratic their country is on a scale of 1 (not democratic) to 10 (totally democratic), Venezuelans scored their country at 7.6, considerably better than the regional average of 5.5.
At one point Foer acknowledges that Latin America's "leftward swing" was a reaction against the free-market policies that "failed to deliver on their much-hyped promise of prosperity." But then he states that Chávez threatens to disrupt an "embrace of market capitalism [that] seemed to bring relative prosperity and genuine stability within grasp." Here Foer misses the crucial development driving the turn left in Latin America: the disastrous economic failures of the last twenty-five years. Per capita income (or gross domestic product) has grown by only 10 percent over the last quarter century, the worst such performance in more than 100 years. Today, 213 million Latin Americans, or 40 percent of the population, are destitute.
Finally, Foer's presentation of Latin American politics as a contest between two lefts, one acceptable and one not, is overly simplistic. Latin American leaders themselves don't buy it. Brazil's Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, or Lula, has been one of Chávez's biggest defenders—not, as Foer deduces, because he is scared of his base, but because the two share many goals, including diversifying sources of investment and furthering regional economic integration. Even Chile's former President Ricardo Lagos, the kind of responsible, left-of-center politician extolled by Foer, recently told the United States to back off its criticisms of Venezuela. It would be a "mistake," he said, to "demonize Hugo Chávez." Foer should heed the advice of the Latin American leaders that he respects.
Greg Grandin, New York University; John Womack, Harvard University; Deborah Levenson, Boston College; Charles Hale, University of Texas at Austin; Fernando Coronil, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor; Jocelyn Olcott, Duke University; Gilbert Joseph, Yale University; Julie Skurski, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor; Cindy Forster, Scripps College; Mark Healey, University of California at Berkeley; Daniel Hellinger, Webster University; Miguel Tinker-Salas, Pomona College; Mark Weisbrot, Center for Economic and Policy Research
Franklin Foer replies:
Hugo Chávez has been skilled in winning a following on the American Left, especially within the academy. It's striking, however, that his defenders take so little time to rebut the most damning criticism of the man: his anti-democratic impulse. Chávez has gutted many of the governmental institutions that stood in his way and does little to hide his desire to remain in office for decades.
To respond point by point: I don't disagree with the letter writers' characterization of the 2002 coup. Chávez had alienated many sectors of the Venezuelan elite, as well as the country's middle class. The military was merely the actor that enabled the coup to temporarily succeed. Furthermore, I never asserted that Chávez wants to impose a Cuban-style economy on the country, and I don't think that is his intention. But he occasionally feints in that direction, and in the months before the coup, his rhetoric was clearly on the radical side.
The letter writers spend considerable time discussing the FARC, which made only a cameo appearance in my piece. I agree that the Venezuelan border is porous, and that Chávez's relationship to the guerillas is mixed. Has he willfully ignored their presence at times? I'm not sure. But the intelligence officials I cited say he has. And my point was hardly an ideological one. The United States has vital interests in Latin America. It can't afford hostile governments that fail to cooperate in its counter-narcotics operations. Chávez, who prohibits American surveillance planes from entering his country's airspace, has stymied those efforts.
On the question of poverty, I used data published in the middle of last year, just as I began reporting my essay. There was no willful twisting of evidence. Once again, I don't disagree with the letter writers' points. The misiones are innovative and do help the Venezuelan people, especially in reversing feelings of exclusion. But they are designed as short-term infusions of cash, not long-term solutions to deep social problems. Because they are so scattershot—because they do little to build new health-care or educational systems, for instance—they will never provide the engine for genuine progress. Why, for instance, has infant mortality increased under Chávez's watch?
Is Venezuelan society deeply divided? I don't see how anyone could deny this claim. The Chavistas and the opposition despise one another and are locked in mortal political combat. Street protests are part of the fabric of Venezuelan life. Labor unions, the middle class, and most of the big newspapers are virulently anti-Chávez. Instead of reconciling with opponents—or even debating them—Chávez has defined them as American stooges, as un-Venezuelan.
The writers cite Ricardo Lagos's praise of Chávez. This, sadly, proves a point that I make in the article: that pragmatic Latin American leaders are afraid to challenge Chávez, because the Latin American center-left adores him.
James Fallows's piece ("The Nuclear Power Beside Iraq," May Atlantic) argues that "the worst option would be a military strike" in dealing with Iran's nuclear ambitions. But the word worst connotes comparison. Fallows details the many difficulties a military operation might face. But I searched in vain for the alternative approaches that he deems to be better than "the worst." That omission seems representative of the dilemma facing the international community.
Mark Sherrill
McLean, Va.
James Fallows replies:
There are two implied alternatives. One is finding a diplomatic way to dissuade Iran from building nuclear weapons, which is most often discussed in the context of a "grand bargain" involving all aspects of political, economic, and military relations between Iran and other powers, mainly the United States. The other choice is to rely on robust and no-kidding deterrence to make sure that an Iranian bomb is never used, which is the same policy the United States relies on to be sure that Russia, China, Pakistan, and India do not use their nuclear bombs.
Christopher Hitchens belittles Ian Fleming's "role selection" ("Bottoms Up," April Atlantic), specifically his invitation to Noël Coward to play Dr. No. But Coward was successful in many roles, comic and serious, and he would likely have done a fine job (playing it either coldly evil or over-the-top camp).
Then there is Hitchens's potshot at John F. Kennedy's 1961 Life magazine reading list, which included From Russia With Love. But the other nine books were very different: Montrose, by John Buchan; Melbourne, by David Cecil; Marlborough, by Winston Churchill; John Quincy Adams, by Samuel Flagg Bemis; The Emergence of Lincoln, by Allan Nevins; The Price of Union, by Herbert Agar; John C. Calhoun, American Portrait, by Margaret L. Coit; Byron in Italy, by Peter Quennell; and Stendhal's The Red and the Black.
Alecia Flores
Penryn, Calif.
Christopher Hitchens replies:
I too would have adored to see Noël Coward playing Dr. No, but I can't then visualize the same motion picture (or novel). As for Kennedy's reading list, Ms. Flores is entitled to believe if she chooses that the boy president had really read those books. (She may also believe if she chooses that the young Kennedy, and not Ted Sorenson, was the author of Profiles in Courage.) I feel quite confident, however, that the Fleming selection on that list was made by the Galahad of Camelot himself and not by an anxious staffer striving to give a more weighty impression.
One of the men Matthew Teague interviewed for his story about the IRA ("Double Blind," April Atlantic) was Denis Donaldson, "the legendary IRA hunger-striker" who had gone into hiding. Shockingly, it was recently reported that the same Denis Donaldson had been shot to death after having "been tortured before being killed—apparently with one or two shotgun blasts to his head—inside his isolated home near Glenties, County Donegal, in northwest Ireland."
Can we please have a comment by Mr. Teague?
LaVerne Barnes
Vancouver, British Columbia
Matthew Teague replies:
I was, of course, shocked by the news of Donaldson's death—and my heart goes out to Mrs. Donaldson, whom I met while reporting the story. That's the ultimate tragedy within the story: beneath the intrigue, the spying, and the politics, real men and women die, and real families suffer.
In "Primary Sources" (May Atlantic), the "In Search of Lost Time" item says that the worst traffic bottleneck costs 27,144 lost hours per year. Those are thousands of hours, not hours, so the correct number is 27,144,000.
George Terhune
Quincy, Calif.
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Mr. Terhune is correct. We regret the error.
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I have launched CollectionStation.com as a soft beta launch and I would really like to get some feedback on it. Some of you have been exposed to it a little while we did the alpha launch but now it's buttoned up quite a bit more since then. You can catalog your collection into haves and wants including the new "The Black Series" (obviously as wants right now) along with most of the older Hasbro lines. So check it out and let me know what you think either here or over at the CollectionStation.com Group.


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Tonight Obama delivers The State Of The Union, and naturally everyone is chiming in with advice on what he says.
If he read the Washington Post, he'd get some conflicting advice on what to say about the deficit.
Chris Cilizza says that the deficit is THE issue of the day, and encourages Obama to devote the majority of his speech to it, basically on the grounds that it polls well.
It's the deficit, stupid. A look back at Obama's first three State of the Union speeches, plus the address to a joint session of Congress in 2009, suggests a similar thematic pattern: He starts with the economy, moves to education and then, in the middle section of the speech, addresses the deficit. (The exception was in 2011, when Obama began his speech with a riff on partisanship.) In 2012, Obama spent just five minutes on the debt — less time than he spent on partisanship (5 1 / 2 minutes) or foreign policy (six minutes).
He should flip that script in this State of the Union and spend the bulk of his time talking about the deficit. Here's why: In January 2009 polling by Pew Research Center, 53 percent of respondents said reducing the deficit was a "top priority." In January 2013, that number soared to 72 percent, by far the biggest increase of any issue over that time. (By contrast, 85 percent said strengthening the economy was a top priority in 2009, while 86 percent said so at the start of this year.)
The debt is the issue of the day, and one that, if Obama is beginning to eye his legacy as president, could go a long way toward shaping how history remembers him. Make this speech a deficit speech.
Jamelle Bouie argues that the focus must remain on growth, and that creating growth will take care of the deficit.
With growth, the economy can deal with high debt and deficits, at least in the medium-term. Continued commitment to austerity, on the other hand, will threaten our economic trajectory and harm our effort to reinvest in the United States. If Obama wants to do the prudent, serious thing, he'll ignore the hawks, and stop worrying about the deficit.
Bouie is certainly right on substance, that the priority needs to be growth, and not austerity.
But the key thing is that it's not enough to make growth the focus. The deficit discussion needs to be avoided entirely. Not one word.
In an interview earlier this year with Business Insider, Rep. Jerry Nadler explained that when Obama talks about "balanced approach" to dealing with the economy, he's already losing the argument, because he's making the implicit acknowledgment that deficits are a problem. Sure, liberals might have a different idea about how to close the deficit than conservatives do, but it's still not helpful to buy into the deficit hawk frame.
I think the problem is, it's practically impossible to get the public to buy that, as long as the president doesn't. If the president buying into the notion that the deficit is a big problem or that we're going to have a grand bargain... Do we revenues as well as cuts, but still do cuts.
I think the president seems to have ceded the basic argument. And that's a problem for all of us. Because when the presidents sets the basic terms of the argument, that defines sort of the outer limit to a lot of extent.
Nadler's comments echo the line of thinking from Nomura economist Richard Koo, who even cautions against long-term deficit reduction talk:
The insistence that fiscal consolidation is necessary in the longer term is like the doctor who, faced with a patient who has just been admitted to the intensive care ward, repeatedly questions the patient about his ability to afford the treatment. This is both lacking in decency and irresponsible. If the patient loses heart after learning the cost of the treatment, he may end up spending even longer in the hospital, leading to a larger final bill. Completely ignoring the policy duration effect of fiscal policy and constantly insisting on longer-term fiscal consolidation was what prolonged Japan's recession
The deficit is shrinking at a pace faster than any period since WWII, as Jed Graham notes in a brilliant chart at IBD.
The deficit is shrinking rapidly. But growth isn't happening fast enough. Rather than talk about a balanced approach to deficit reduction, Obama needs to ignore the issue completely.


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The life of Knicks owner James Dolan is never dull. His band, JD and the Straight Shot, opened for Aretha Franklin at the Jones Beach Theater last week and premiered a new Knicks themed song. The band performed "Fix the Knicks" complete with a tap dancing portion and a "my friend Isiah Thomas" reference. In the video, the fans at the concert all sigh when he lets out the Isiah line. Once again Dolan makes a complete ass of himself with this song providing just how moronic he really is.
Here are the lyrics to the song, feel free to cringe Knick fans:
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"Everywhere I go, I hear everybody say
'What you gonna do to make that team play'
From the folks across the street at 34th and 6th
Everyone who calls says, 'Hey man, fix the Knicks'
Fix the Knicks and make them shine
Get on and win like it's '69
Hitting all their free throws and no more shooting bricks
Time to get it right and fix the Knicks
Doing my best and that's my problem
I check with my friend called Isiah Thomas
Pay no mind to those nasty critics
They haven't done a thing to fix the Knicks
We know we're getting better, but still no respect
We score a lot of points, but where's the defense?
Everyone's an expert saying 'Trade your draft picks'
You got to get 'this guy' to fix the Knicks
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An exclusive load protector in brushed stainless steel for the rear bumper. A practical and attractive accessory to prevent scratches to the paintwork when loading in and out of the load compartment.
Aluminium rim 8 x 18".
Aluminium rim 8 x 18".
Aluminium rim 8 x 19".
Aluminium rim 8 x 19".
Aluminium rim 9 x 20".
Aluminium rim 9 x 20".
Aluminium rim 9 x 20".
This exclusive and high gloss wheel rim has been developed from a highly advanced requirement specification and has undergone an extensive and special manufacturing process.
Aluminium rim 9 x 21".
Aluminium rim 9 x 22".
This unique accessory wheel has been especially introduced to fit on cars without a styling kit but with colour matched wing extensions. With turned material at the edge the wheel gives a strong visual impression. The twisted double spokes also convey a clear design language. Also suitable for vehicles with Exterior Styling 3 and 4 ("Rugged Luxury").
This unique accessory wheel has been especially introduced for Exterior Styling 3-4 ("Rugged Luxury"). With a diamond polished and turned material at the edge the wheel gives a strong visual impression. The twisted double spokes also convey a clear design language. Also suitable for vehicles without Exterior Styling 3-4 ("Rugged Luxury").
Distinctly stylish with a dynamic impression, for individuals with a taste for performance.
The battery charger ensures that the battery is always charged so that the car starts in cold weather conditions. The charger is easily connected and disconnected to the car's front mounted electrical socket.
A bicycle holder with new, smart, and elegant design. Made of aluminium, which fits all front forks including bicycles with disc brakes.
The perfect steel bicycle holder. It is simple to use, practical and great value for your money.
A bicycle holder for anyone who appreciates a combination of elegant design and simple handling. Made of aluminium and structured around a solid rail and robust rod.
A safe and modern transport system for two bicycles, which is very practical and easy to use on cars with a towbar. Easily fitted on the towing hitch with a quick-coupling and is easy to load as the loading height is low.
The modern bicycle holder can transport three bikes, but can also be supplemented with an adapter to transport four bikes.
The perfect carrier for transporting a canoe or kayak on the car's roof. The angle of the holders can be adjusted by a simple hand operation, which means that they can be adapted to fit a number of different types of hull.
These unique optional wheels are supplied complete with rim, tyre, hub cap and valve on a return pallet. They are balanced and checked for out of roundness in the same rigorous way as in the car factory.
These unique optional wheels are supplied complete with rim, tyre, hub cap and valve on a return pallet. They are balanced and checked for out of roundness in the same rigorous way as in the car factory.
These unique optional wheels are supplied complete with rim, tyre, hub cap and valve on a return pallet. They are balanced and checked for out of roundness in the same rigorous way as in the car factory.
A well-designed and stylish cord holder with multiple purposes. The holder relieves the wall socket and its lock function helps prevent a possible theft.
This decor foil is one way to give your car a unique Bursting Blue matt colour.
A unique and exclusive accessory that enhances the dynamic look of the front. "Decor frame, front" has several chrome finished surfaces and unique painted grille pattern, to perfectly match the car's other styling elements. These decor frames replace the car's standard fitted front decor frames.
A colour-coded fender extension that is designed in line with other expressive exterior details that are integrated into the bodywork. Areas of the fender extension that are more vulnerable, for example to dirt and stone chips, remain unpainted for practical reasons. Otherwise the new fender extension is painted the same colour as the car, which creates a more sophisticated SUV-feel.
IntelliSafe Assist makes it easier and safer to drive where you want. IntelliSafe Assist consists of Adaptive Cruise Control (ACC), Pilot Assist and Distance Alert.
An easy-to-load and space saving cradle for the safe transportation of kayaks. The angled and space saving design enables two kayaks or one kayak plus extra equipment to be taken on the car roof. Easy to load as the kayak can easily be angled towards the textile upholstered matting surfaces and is kept in place securely using the durable tension straps.
Transport the load securely and safely with this load carrier for vehicles with foot rails.
A high quality load carrier for safe and secure transportation of roof loads.
An electrically foldable door mirror, with autodimming, which makes narrow gaps easier and reduces intrusive light reflection from cars behind.
A splash guard that blends in well with the car's design. Effective protection to the sides of the car from wheel splash and also minimizes water spray on following traffic.
A practical fabric net that prevents cargo from sliding around in the load compartment. Made of an elastic material, making it easy to load cargo under the net.
Roof lift for easy and convenient handling and safe storage of your roof box - fits all sizes.
Space Design is a modern, exclusive and aerodynamic roof box that offers minimal wind resistance thanks to its unique design.
Sport Time 2003 is a functional roof box for all your needs. It is characterised by a design with a sunken base so that it integrates with the shape of the car as far as possible.
Volvo Cars self-designed roof box has a volume of 350 litres, which makes it very functional. The aerodynamic design minimises air resistance and the sporty look is enhanced by the high gloss black paint.
Expanding roof box is a modern, exclusive and aerodynamic roof box that offers minimal wind resistance thanks to its unique design.
An exclusive and stylish running board that enhances the car's luxurious look. "Running board, integrated with lighting" makes it easy to enter and exit the car and to load the car's roof. It has LED illuminated strips on its outer edge which show where to place your foot, and which give the car a cool appearance. The lighting is coordinated with the car's interior light logic.
Volvo's lockable ski holder with attractive and smooth lines makes the skiing trip a comfortable pleasure. Thanks to the ski holder's practical push-button opening, loading and unloading is easy, even with thick ski gloves.
Volvo's aerodynamically designed aluminium ski holder is suitable for all types of skis and snowboards, even wider equipment with larger bindings.
Volvo's aerodynamic aluminium ski holder fits all types of skis and snowboards. Thanks to the ski holder's practical push-button opening, loading and unloading is easy, even with thick ski gloves.
A ski holder for anyone who wants the very best. There's no need to climb on the car and get dirty when loading and unloading. With a simple pull, the ski holder slides out to the side of the car, providing easier access to your skis.
The sunshade film gives the car an attractive and confident look, and helps to keep the passenger compartment cool in sunlight. This makes it more comfortable to travel in strong sunlight and it reduces UV rays, which protects you, your passengers and the car's interior.
For temporary adaptation of the car's towbar wiring to suit another pin connection on the trailer.
A towing bracket especially for the Australian market. It is easy to remove the towball by removing a pin.
The perfect aid when driving on snowy and icy roads. The sock is easily mounted on the wheel and provides increased friction on snow and ice. It takes up little space and can be reused. The snow sock will not damage the rims.
If the battery in the car has been discharged then it is possible to "borrow" current from either a separate battery or a battery from another car. Always check that the clamps on the jumper cables are secured firmly so that sparks are not generated.
An environmentally adapted system for the care of leather, specially developed to fulfil today's strict environmental and health requirements.
Lockable wheel bolts specially developed for Volvo Cars, which gives improved safety.
Lockable wheel bolts specially developed for Volvo Cars, which gives improved safety.
Protects the engine, oil pan and transmission from impacts when driving in poor conditions, for example on bumpy or potholed roads. Fully covering aluminum plate that also prevents impacts from loose stones.
Protects the engine, oil pan and transmission from impacts when driving in poor conditions, for example on bumpy or potholed roads. Fully covering aluminum plate that also prevents impacts from loose stones.
A snow chain specially developed for several tyre dimensions. This type of snow chain has the advantage of not being fitted on the inside of the tyre and so does not take up the space required by larger tyres.
Volvo Genuine paint. Spray cans and touch-up pens for minor paint damage.
A very practical towing rope to have available with a towing capacity of 2500 kg (5500 lbs).
The washer fluid effectively dissolves road salt, traffic film, and other pollutants on the windshield and headlights.
A ready-mixed washer fluid which gives excellent anti-freeze protection down to -20 °C.
Upgrade "Adaptive Digital Display" with en 12.3" active FT screen (Thin Film Transistor) for a bigger screen than the standard fitted 8" active TFT screen. It further enhances the car's exclusive look and makes driving even safer thanks to the clear on-screen information.
Alcohol lock, installation kit is a preparation in the car that simplifies the connection of an alcohol lock. With an alcohol lock in the car, you prevent the car being started with a drunk driver behind the wheel.
A practical dirt cover with different pockets for the child's toys, which protects the car's upholstery from dirt and stains while the child is sitting in the child seat.
Padded upholstery for cars equipped with integrated booster cushion. The upholstery has side support that gives the child a comfortable and safe car journey, while at the same time the car's original upholstery is kept clean. It is made of strong high quality fabric and consists of three parts that combine into one complete unit. The side supports can be easily removed prior to washing, thanks to a zip.
A decor panel in four versions that further enhances the exclusive interior.
A practical protector for the load compartment that covers the floor and side walls of the load compartment plus the rear of the rear seats. Made from durable, dirt-resistant vinyl.
The dog gate is a very practical accessory for dog owners. It ensures that the dog is safe and secure during the car journey.
A gear shift knob including boot for cars with automatic gearbox. T=It has "silk metal" panels on the sides that match the other "silk metal" panels that come as standard on R-design models.
The iPad holder makes it possible to safely and ergonomically use your iPad in the rear seat, as it is secured in a horizontal and comfortable position. Take your iPad to the car and enjoy its functions and app when travelling. Listen to music, watch a film, read e-mails or surf the web. Volvo's iPad holder makes all this possible.
An exclusive collection of key fob shells, which tastefully match the interior of the car. The shell shows which car you drive and makes your key more decorative.
Key fob shell in white leather of the highest quality that tastefully matches the interior of the car. The key fob shell makes your key more attractive and harmonises with the Scandinavian heritage of the car.
Choose between two high-quality, luxuriously designed wooden key fob shells that tastefully match the interior of the car. Key fob shells make your key more decorative and harmonize with the car's Scandinavian heritage.
The load compartment divider enables you to separate the load compartment lengthwise and achieve two load compartments in one.
The load in the load compartment can be held securely in place using this practical and user-friendly load lashing strap.
Transport pets or dirty and wet items in the load liner and avoid staining the load compartment of your car.
A high quality, reversible protective mat. The mat is practical and waterproof with tufted textile on one side on plastic on the other. The mat has an integrated practical dirt cover that can be folded down over the bumper. This prevents clothing becoming dirty and protects the bumper when loading and unloading.
Floor mats, including a tunnel mat, for the passenger compartment floor. The mats are made of soft and flexible plastic, which have a rubber feel. They have raised edges all around, which give protection against wet and dirt on the car's interior.
Floor mats in tufted textile cross woven yarn and single yarn, which gives a stripy pattern. The floor mats have scalloped edges and rubber backs. The mats are waterproof and effectively protect the car's interior against damp and dirt.
Tufted fabric floor mats with vinyl edging and rubber backs. The mats are waterproof and provide effective protection for the car's interior against wet and dirt.
Media player 7" is the rear seat entertainment that gives peace and quiet during the entire journey. With movies, music and photos, the journey becomes more enjoyable for passengers in the rear seat.
Increase your rear field of view when parking. Thanks to a camera installed in the boot lid it is now possible to have "eyes in the back of your head" when parking.
A practical protective grille that prevents loads or pets from being thrown forward into the passenger compartment in the event of heavy braking or a collision.
A practical check pattern safety net in sturdy nylon. The net prevents luggage and cargo from moving forward into the passenger compartment when braking hard.
A key for car owners who want the car to be driven responsibly even when someone else is driving it.
Cargo compartment trim with illuminated stainless steel insert. Replaces plastic cargo compartment trim with or without stainless steel insert.
Door sill trims in aluminium for the front and rear doors. The front door sill trims have integrated LED illumination which gives the sill area a sporty and elegant impression. The rear door sill trims match the front door sill trims, despite not having integrated LED illumination.
The spare wheel "Tempa spare" is stored securely and well-positioned under the floor in the luggage compartment. A well-integrated and neat solution.
A styling element that enhances the pedal area and increases the sporty look and exclusivity of the interior. The pedals are harmoniously designed to match the rest of the interior, but are still clearly visible.
A three-spoked leather steering wheel with sporty design.
A three-spoked leather steering wheel with sporty design.
A three-spoked leather steering wheel with dynamic and sporty design, equipped with gear shift paddles. The steering wheel has an ergonomically designed rim with prominent thumb grips, which makes it suitable for dynamic driving. It is also covered in exclusive and comfortable leather for optimum comfort.
A three spoked steering wheel with real wood on the outside of the rim.
Fully covering sunshades that provide maximum protection for your passengers when the sun is bright and irritating. Not only do they effectively protect against heat and irritation from sunlight, they also give the car a stylish look similar to tinted windows.
The sunshade film gives the car an attractive and confident look, and helps to keep the passenger compartment cool in sunlight. This makes it more comfortable to travel in strong sunlight and it reduces UV rays, which protects you, your passengers and the car's interior.
"Ventilation Interior, software" makes it possible to ventilate the passenger compartment on hot summer days, with fresh outdoor air, before getting into the car.
A passenger compartment heater of compact design, which is both easy to position and effective. The heater is only 35 mm wide and has automatic adjustment according to the ambient temperature. When correctly positioned in the car, heating and de-misting are extremely effective.
Apple CarPlay is a safer and easier way of using your iPhone in the car. The technology means that you can control the functions of your iPhone, either through the car's touch screen, steering wheel controls or Siri voice function.
A functional ashtray and cover. Very practical as it is easy to insert and remove. The gentle lines of the ashtray's interior make it easy to clean.
A practical, portable cooler/heater box that keeps food cold or hot on trips. The box is placed in the luggage compartment.
Comfortable dog harness that is attached directly to the car's seat belt by quick link. The padded and comfortable harness keeps the dog still in the rear seat.
The Volvo padded neck cushion fills the area behind head or shoulders and provides a comfortable support for the neck. Especially suitable for passengers who want to rest and sleep during a journey since the head is steadied by the side cushions.
The microfibre polishing cloth can be used to gently clean the digital displays in your car. Since this Volvo designed cloth is made of polyester, it is ideal for sensitive surfaces.
"Sensus Navigation" is a navigation system that is completely integrated in the car. Connect to the internet with a separate SIM card via Volvo On Call, or via Bluetooth or WiFi from your mobile telephone. Internet connection gives you a greater navigation experience.
A lock system that makes it easier if you have load carriers and wish to add other accessories. You only need one key for up to six locks to fit the entire range of available load carriers.
Do not stress about tidy parking, let your car park itself - whether it be along the street or in a perpendicular parking space.
A practical first-aid kit. Folds out and is divided into compartments.
ECE approved warning triangle. Takes up little room when folded and is very easy to set up and fold away.


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ENI Speed competition in #piazzadisiena Rome
Rome [ENA] Switzerland's Steve Guerdat raced home with the fiery mare Hannah to top the ENI Speed competition, the final class on the opening day of CSIO Rome Piazza di Siena 2018 this evening. Over a tough track that stopped riders in their tracks, the 2012 individual Olympic champion and the horse with which he claimed the Grand Prix title at Falsterbo, Sweden last summer produced a strong, smoother tour of Uliano Vezzani's
12-fence course to post the winning time of 62.72 seconds. In a star-studded final line-up it was Simon Delestre and Filou Carlo Zimequest who finished second for France ahead of early target-setters Luciana Diniz and the wonderful Fit for Fun from Portugal in third. Dutchman Leopold van Asten was fourth with VDL Groep Beauty, Britain's Scott Brash and Hello Shelby - who is just a nine-year-old - slotted into fifth and sixth place went to Italy's Lorenzo de Luca and Limestone Grey. There were quite a few unfortunate stories as the double at fence five, an oxer to a vertical which consisted of all-white poles and which followed another double of verticals, seemed to take a number of horses by surprise.
There were refusals and eliminations there, but Guerdat's super-charged bay lady didn't hesitate. Beatable Italy's Emilio Bicocchi showed that a faster time was possible when breaking the beam in 61.77 seconds, but that was at the expense of a pole on the ground which left him well down the leaderboard, in 18th place with Call Me. Now he is looking forward to tomorrow's Intesa Sanpaolo Nations Cup in which nine countries will battle it out for the prestigious Rome title.


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Note: Contracts that expire after this season were not included on this list. All contracts listed here have at least one year remaining on them.
New Jersey Nets: Travis Outlaw
After the Nets missed out on all the major 2010 free agents, they were left scrambling for the remains of the 2010 free agent class. Their first "splash" was giving Travis Outlaw a five-year, $35 million contract. Everyone knew the team overpaid at the time, and Outlaw's first season with the Nets has just reinforced that belief as he has averaged just over nine points while losing his starting job to rookie Damion James.
Philadelphia 76ers: Elton Brand
Brand has played well this season, leading the Sixers in scoring and rebounding as they look to be headed to the playoffs after missing them last year. Despite that, he is owed nearly $35 million over the next two years, which is near maximum money for a non-max player – especially one who has been so inconsistent and injury prone over his tenure in Philly.
Toronto Raptors: Jose Calderon
Calderon is a solid NBA point guard, and is averaging over nine assists per game for the Raptors, but for a team that is embarking on a serious rebuilding project, I don't see him staying with the team longterm. He is owed an average of $10 million each of the next two years, and that money could be better spent by Toronto on younger, cheaper talent.
Boston Celtics: Jermaine O'Neal
The Celtics have O'Neal signed for over $6 million next season, and while he provides depth for them, the Celtics need money to re-sign Glen Davis. Plus, O'Neal has only played in 17 games this season. Finding a healthier, more productive alternative is something the Celtics would probably be interested in.
New York Knicks: Renaldo Balkman
The Knicks have an interesting salary situation. All of their salary is essentially concentrated in three players – Chauncey Billups, Carmelo Anthony and Amar'e Stoudemire – none of whose contracts the Knicks would be interested in voiding. Balkman is slated for a $1.6 million salary in 2012-13 which means his salary would hinder the cap room the Knicks would have in the summer of 2012, making his the contract the one the Knicks would like to void.


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YAFF wrote:Yes I strongly believe in some kind of "God"
I believe the Bible is a useful resource of information including, of course, some biographical details about Jesus of Nazareth and how Christianity succeeded against the odds.... but I am light years away from claiming the Bible is infallible and "written by God". When I am talking to Bible-believing Christians (like my friend Julymorning) I am able to have a discussion about the Bible due to a couple decades worth of research and experience belonging to several sects.
.....but I don't follow any sect of Christendom and am not closed minded about other Non-Judeo Christian belief systems or even none at all (I've been an atheist, an agnostic, a Deist and a Theist at one time in my life). I try to reconcile my beliefs based on where the evidence leads. For example I can not possibly believe in a Young Earth because of scientific knowledge that the earth is billions of years old. If Science effectively disproves something I believe I think it' would be foolish to hold onto to such a belief.
On the other hand I find the evidence of a "god" of some sort existing much much more probable than not. Like I've said before I believed God has been proven beyond a reasonable doubt. The key word is "reasonable" and also what exactly "God" is. Should new science disprove a beginning of all/any universes, and that nature can blindly produce something as complex as the genetic code, that the universal constants that govern are universe aren't really all that fine-tuned, etc....as it stands now. Based on what we know..God most probably does exist.
The proof you think you've come up with for God seems to me to be based largely on logic. I disagree with that logic, but that's not my point. My point is this - why should the universe obey logic, a system invented by humans? Plenty of things in universe appear 'illogical' but only because we're applying human logic to a system far more complex than we can imagine. A logical proof for God really, really isn't good enough. To be beyond reasonable doubt, the evidence needs to be physical.
Incidentally can any lawyers here tell us if a logical argument alone would be enough to prove something beyond reasonable doubt in court? I suspect the answer is no. It might defy all logic for a stranger to kill a woman, and the most logical explanation would be that her cuckolded husband did it, but surely that alone wouldn't secure a conviction.
As for fine-tuning - you're assuming that just because constants have values, that those values could be different. Is there any evidence that the gravitational constant, the weak nuclear force, the strong nuclear force or electromagnetism could be anything other than what they are? I agree that IF they were different we might not be here, but COULD they be? Until there's evidence that fine-tuning is even possible, there's no reason to believe in a divine fine-tuner/knob-twiddler.


text: If anyone is planning on any new Bangor area caches then please go for it. I am working on a challenge cache and I need a few more in the coming weeks. I am not good with all the great puzzle caches I have left in the area and I desperately need some that are winter friendly. So if you were thinking about placing some now would be a big help to me. I need today, tomorrow, and 3 next week as well. Then some in February, March, and April. The big problem is that most fall on weekdays were I have to squeeze them in before of after work. Thanks if you are considering placing any out.


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If you would like contact information for any of the clubs, please go to the Student Organization list within the Student Life website for up-to-date contact information, including club presidents and faculty sponsors.
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Student organizations need to receive at least one gift before a gift account can be set up. If you are interested in making that gift, please contact the Office of Advancement (contact information at the bottom of this webpage).
- Advocates for Academics
Our primary goal is to help students excel in their academic performance. Our desire is to help them achieve their goals and to further develop the scholastic community
- Alpha Phi Sigma (Criminal Justice)
Alpha Phi Sigma is the only Criminal Justice Honor Society for Criminal Justice Majors. The society recognizes academic excellence of undergraduate, graduate, and and juris doctorate students.
- Biology Club at UIS
To exchange information and cooperation between members, promote scientific knowledge and to conduct club programs and activities to advance general interest and welfare of biology within the University
- The Boardroom
For interest and study in business strategy and strategic planning through discussions, projects, guest lectures, and case studies.
- Chi Sigma Iota Sigma Sigma Upsilon
Local chapter of the national counselor honor society
- Medical Laboratory Science Club
The Clinical Laboratory Club includes all junior and senior MLS students and anyone interested in the major. We have fund raisers to help support our trip to the Annual MLS meeting.
- Communication Club
Academic club focused within the Communication Department
- Computer Science ClubA club for computer science related activities.
- Go the Extra Mile
Supports and furthers the societal role of computer science.
- History Club
The History Club at UIS was established in 1991 to promote the study and discussion of history. In the past, the members of the club have sponsored films, speakers, career fairs, trivia nights, and off-campus excursions to historical sites in cities like St. Louis and Hannibal, Missouri
- Lambda Pi Eta (Communication)
Lambda Pi Eta is an honorary association that acknowledges students who meet the following requirements: 3.0 cumulative GPA with 60 semester hours or 90 quarter credit hours completed. 3.25 GPA for commubication studies courses with 12 semester or 18 quarter credit hours completed
- Liberal Studies Club
Foster community and activities between students and faculty.
- Pre-Health Society at UIS
Assist students in becoming competitive in applications to health professional schools through speakers, study groups, volunteering and more.
- Pre-Law Society
For students interesting in attending law school after graduating from UIS.
- Professional Student Organization
Provides networking, social events, volunteering, and professional development for all graduate students.
- Psi Chi (Psychology)Psi Chi is the National Honors Society for undergraduate psychology. Psi Chi works to encourage community service and social involvement as well as to support and challenge psychology students academically.
- Research Society at UIS
Promotes and encourages research in any field of study.
- Society of Human Resource Management Student ChapterEducating UIS students of the Human Resource profession and making connections with the local Central Illinois Chapter of the Society of Human Resource Management
- Student Accountancy Society
Club works to provide Accountancy Majors with an opportunity to network with other students, professors, and employers from the area
- Asian Student Organization
Seeks to unite all Asian students, increase campus awareness of Asian culture, promote Asian students' campus involvement, and encourage study abroad programs.
- Baking Club
For students interested in baking.
- Black Male Collegiate SocietyThe Black Male Collegiate Society shall serve to enrich the lives of black male students at UIS through educational and scholastic development, professional development, economic and financial planning, health awareness, cultural awareness, and community engagement
- Black Student Union To educate, unite and inspire black students with cultural awareness; to strive for academic excellence and empower black students to build the future while we motivate and learn
- Chinese Student Association
Contribute to the diversity in UIS by promoting Chinese culture
- Global Rhythm
Culturally diverse dance team celebrating different global traditions and passionate rhythms.
- Indian Society for Enriching Ethnic Standards
To introduce to the community of UIS about the culture and tradition of India. It also strives to familiarize various cultures and traditions of different countries to the Indian community
- Indian Student Organization
The ISO celebrates some of the many Indian festivals and assists incoming International students in adjusting. Sharing and exchanging cultural beliefs and customs, ISO encourages and welcomes awareness about India and its heritage
- International Student Association
Introducing other cultures to the UIS community and create events
for all students to improve friendship.
- Kinky & Curly : Natural Hair Empowerment Club
Kinky & Curly is a women's empowerment group that addresses the roots of issues regarding self image and self esteem: our hair. This organization educates participants on how to care for their curls and kinks to rebuild confidence in unique beauty
- Organization of Latin American StudentsWe're an organization dedicated to bringing diversity and cultural awareness to the UIS Campus.
- Queer-Straight AllianceTo provide community and support for LGBT students at UIS
- Rip the Runway
Promote world fashion while encouraging and influencing the UIS community to embrace individual and unique styles.
- Women's Issue Caucus (WIC)Encourages students to become aware of women's issues as well as work towards gender and sex equality.
General Interest
- Alchemist Review
Showcases students' creative writing and visual art, providing students with experience in publishing and building a supportive creative community amongst UIS students.
- Art Student League
The Art Students League manages the Access Gallery located in the main lobby of the Visual Performing Arts Building. We also hope to expand this year by hosting portfolio reviews as well as other art related activities.
- Blue Crew
Cheering Organization
- Chess Club at UIS
Provides casual play for UIS students, encouraging local residents to participate in tournaments.
- Crochet and Kitting Experience (CAKE)
For new and experienced knitters and crocheters.
- Cross Country and Track Club
Facilitate a cross country and track team at UIS.
- Dancing Stars
Promotes school spirit, enthusiasm, and attendance at athletic and spirit-oriented functions.
We are the official Dodgeball club at UIS. No experience or pre-formed groups needed. All are welcome. We play bi-weekly
- The Enclave
Defensive training for students who can demonstrate their compassion and humility.
- Japamime Springfield
Unites loves of Japanese culture, encouraging knowledge of Japanese history and an experience of Japanese and American pop culture fusion.
- Justice Billiards League for America
Holds billiards events and tournaments.
- Kids at Heart
Brings together students who want to relive childhood memories and experiences through movies, cartoons, games, and snacks.
- Legacy Dance Team
Promotes the love for dance, while encouraging students to try something new.
- Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) Club
Provide a place for students to pursue an interest in practicing MMA without the high fees, long travel, or extreme competitiveness associated with professional gyms.
- Model Illinois Government
Prepare for the MIG simulation held each year in March.
- Parent Association Fund
- Robotics Club
Explores robotic theories through practical experimentation.
- Women of Dignity
A social support women's group who believe in giving back to UIS and the community
- Amnesty International at UIS
Our purpose is to protect people wherever justice, freedom, truth, and dignity are denied
- College Democrats at UISWe meet, listen to candidates, have fun and campaign
- College Republicans at UISVolunteer to help Republican candidates get elected, attend political rallies, meet policy makers, attend campaign schools and fundraisers
- Global Issues Club at the University of Illinois Springfield
Promotes the discussion and expansion of knowledge.
- Innocence Club
Dedicated to bringing awareness to the events that cause wrongful convictions and the legal atmosphere it occurs in.
- Liberty Forum
Discusses the ideas of a free society and creates student interest in those areas. This is a non-partisan group for the advancement of freedom, civil liberty, and limited government.
- Mock Trial Team @ UIS
Student participate in mock trial competitions in which they prepare and play the roles of attorneys and witnesses.
- Model United Nations
- Pre-Law Society
The UIS Pre-Law Society (PLS) offers a peer support system for the admissions process to any student interested in attending law school after graduating from UIS, as well relevant programs and activities which are of interest to pre-law students.
- Radical Student Union
Provide forum and discourse for students with alternate political views.
- Students Allied for a Greener EarthSAGE is an organization which faculty, staff, and students come together to promote environmental awareness on-campus as well as off-campus
- Bible Club
Brings together students for worship and Bible study.
- Christian Student Fellowship We are here to provide spiritual guidance and community. We have free food and a service on Fridays and small groups throughout the week.
- Epic Praise for Christ
Promote spirituality and faith through dance.
- Living Word Bible Study
A club on campus that encourages spiritual growth in God for college students, by providing Sunday Services on campus and sponsoring programs that students can get involved in and be positively affected as a whole
- St. Therese, the Little Flower Catholic Student Organization
For Catholics and non-Catholics to come together on campus for events and masses and to better understand the Catholic faith.
- Voices in Praise Choir
VIP Choir is led by instrumental Worship leaders who collaborate together to effectively flow in tune with the Holy Spirit, during each corporate service. The VIP Choir is made up of UIS students, faculty, and staff who are willing to dedicate the time and training.
- Alpha Phi Eta of Alpha Phi Omega
Alpha Phi Omega is a national coed service fraternity that promotes leadership, fellowship, and service
- Alternative Spring Break
We dedicate a week of our time during our Spring Break to help any cause
- American Red Cross Student Organization
Student support organization for the Capital Area Chapter of the American Red Cross.
- Global Brigades at UIS
The world's largest student-led global health and sustainable development organization.
- Habitat for Humanity
Habitat for Humanity at UIS helps out with builds in Sangamon County. We also participate in a service trip every spring break. Past trips have included Sioux Falls, SD; New Orleans, LA; and Galveston, TX.
- Military and Veterans Students Organization
Provides a support network for the military and veterans students and their families at UIS.
- Phrenecon
Seeks men who exemplify community service and seek to attain fellowship among other like-minded men on the UIS campus.
Sports Club (competes in extramural events)
- League of Legends at UIS
Brings together League of Legends players at UIS.
- Men's Club Volleyball
Helps students improve skills and play at a competitive level.
- Sailing ClubMembers teach people how to sail and provide the boats to use.
- Spirit Team
Engages the student body in various sports events; basically a cheerleading team. We try to engage in cheerleading competitions.
- Squash Club
Promotes the sport of squash at UIS, allowing for selected members to participate in tournaments with other collegiate teams.
- Women's Club Volleyball
Provides practice and collegiate competitive play.
We welcome your inquiries. Please use the contact information below.


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after recent xampp installation and configuration, mysqladmin shows the msql database and its tables but when I switch to the mysql client (I use cmd in the RUN pop up to bring up the command window). I change to the c:\xampp\mysql\bin directory and enter mysql to get the mysql> (the prompt) but when I type show databases; the mysql database doesn't appear and when I type use mysql I get a 1044 error, access denied.
Why should these two interfaces to the same mysql product give such different results?
I also have the same problem regarding updating root password for mysql database using mysqladmin. If I leave user as default (root) but change the password, then CD collection stops working, unless I change the password back to empty string.
There seems to be a serious disconnect between different elements of the overall software configuration.


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When the gentrification wave swept across Lake County in the 1980s-90s, on its way from the North Shore to the Barringtons, it skipped Mundelein, which remains their down-to-earth, unpretentious cousin.
Thirty-five miles from the Loop, this is a village of sports bars with beer nuggets, Saturday morning Little League games, fishing derbies, BMX bike racing and, for those seeking solace, quiet waters to paddle canoes. Sure, Chicago is within reach. But Mundelein's 31,000 residents prefer the easy-going lifestyle that drew Chicagoans to its former lakeside resorts.
"In the 1930s, Chicagoans came out here for the weekend," said Dottie Watson, curator at the Historical Society of Fort Hill Country. "At one point, we had seven hotels. Sometimes things got a little out of hand, but they had a good time." The Ray Brothers Pavilion, which hosted dances until 1947, drew stars such as Lawrence Welk and featured performances by 5-year-old Dorothy Wihr, a "fancy diving star."
As summer cottages were remodeled or replaced with larger, year-round homes, average home value and residents' income increased a few notches.
"Instead of an older, blue-collar village, we're blue collar and white collar with a range of housing prices," said Mayor Kenneth Kessler.
Mundelein's small downtown has not changed much since the day-trippers came from the city. It includes two bakeries, a hardware store, a barber shop and a handful of specialty retailers. But shopping now includes big-box merchants on the west side and strip malls on Lake Street and Illinois Highway 60.
While many Chicago suburbs struggle to stay afloat financially, Mundelein is maintaining village services while keeping tax increases to a minimum, Kessler said.
"We're trying to streamline the process for new businesses to come to town," he said. "Their successes will help compensate for the fall-off in sales tax."
Mundelein's long-range plan includes redevelopment of its splintered downtown and the building of condos and mixed-use buildings. Although the recession put most projects on hold, one downtown condo building, Cardinal Square, has been completed as part of a nine-building residential complex planned on land that used to be industrial. Some aging manufacturing plants have yielded to the wrecking ball, but the village is still a manufacturing and distribution center that provides 11,300 full-time jobs.
Like many suburbs, Mundelein has foreclosed houses and spent commercial properties awaiting redevelopment. But its north end is in stark contrast. It features the wooded, sprawling campus of the University of St. Mary of the Lake/Mundelein Seminary, where grand stone buildings, bridges and lakeside terraces mimic those of European castles and their grounds.
The village's mix of ethnic grocery stores and restaurants reflects its cultural diversity. According to the 2010 census, 30 percent of the residents are Hispanic, and its Asian population is nearly 9 percent.
Kessler said the village embraces its diversity.
"I've re-established our human relations commission, which was still on the books but not active," he said. "This will help educate residents about the different cultures. They bring new traditions to town. But basically everyone wants the same thing: a job, a roof over your head and education for your kids."
"Mundelein had five names," said Kessler. "Fortunately, Area is not the one that stuck."
Area was an acronym for the guiding principles (ability, reliability, endurance, action) of entrepreneur Arthur Sheldon's Sheldonhurst School for aspiring salespeople and was adopted as the community's name in 1909. Other monikers were Mechanics Grove (for the early settlers' professions), Holcomb (for a civic leader) and Rockefeller (for John D.'s younger brother, William). In 1924, the village was named for Archbishop (later Cardinal) Mundelein, the founder of the seminary.
The public library and police station were built in the 2000s, but the 1929 Tudor-style village hall is the original.
Look closely at the old farmhouse on the west side of the Tullamore subdivision and you see the vestige of the "Model Farm," a prototype built in 1928 by the Public Service Co. of Northern Illinois to demonstrate how electricity and gas offered "all the pleasures of country life without the burdens it held in years gone by."
Things to do
The family-friendly village is proud of its community spirit, with its website boasting "99 Things to Do in Mundelein."
Annual events include the Mundelein Community Days, Independence Day fireworks and Ready Set Run 5K race. Summer events include the farmers market, Park on Park Cruise Nights and concerts at the Kracklauer Park. New in 2011 is the Mundelein Arts Festival in September.
Boaters and fishermen take their canoes and kayaks to Diamond Lake and Loch Lomond launches. Youngsters keep cool at the Barefoot Bay Aquatic Center and Diamond Lake beach. Golfers enjoy the seven golf courses in or adjacent to the village, plus the driving range at the Countryside Golf Course. Come winter, the parks and nearby forest preserves offer ice skating, sledding and cross-country skiing.
Teens hang out at the two bowling alleys and Pitch Bikepark (BMX bikes, skateboards, rollerblades). Or they head to the Westfield Hawthorn Shopping Center in Vernon Hills.
Newcomers can find a broad range of houses and apartments at reasonable prices.
The core of mostly 1950s and '60s ranches and tri-levels is ringed by scattered developments of larger two-story houses that were built from the 1970s through the early 2000s, but Mundelein did not boom with McMansions like some other Lake County towns did. Real estate Brownie points go to homes with Loch Lomond addresses. Built around a man-made lake, they are a mix of original and remodeled, plus a few teardowns, but share a view of the lake by the same name.
There are two active homebuilding developments in town. The semi-custom, two-story, single-family houses at Tall Grass Ridge, built by K. Hovnanian Homes, start at $224,995. The Grand Dominion, by Del Webb, has sold 525 of its 725 home sites to buyers 55 and older. Located at the northwest corner of town, this development of ranch houses encircles a wetland, clubhouse, tennis courts and pools, and is next door to a public golf course. Prices start at $242,990.
In general, the closer to the train station, the lower the home price. Recent sales range from an 842-square-foot house downtown that sold for $35,000 to a six-bedroom house in the Ambria subdivision that went for $338,000. Note that Realtors' sites show houses at higher prices with Mundelein mailing addresses, but most of those are outside village limits.
In addition to small homes that have seen values lowered by the recession, Mundelein has many apartment complexes with rentals at modest prices.
Plenty of parking spaces are available at Mundelein's Metra station, where the North Central Service line takes commuters to Chicago and frequent-fliers to O'Hare International Airport.
Most residents work in the area, using such main arteries as Illinois Highway 60, U.S. Highway 45 and Interstate Highway 94. The Pace bus service passes through on its way from Waukegan to Vernon Hills.
Elementary and middle school students attend schools in Mundelein School District 75, Fremont School District 79 or Diamond Lake School District, all in Mundelein. Some children on the east side attend school in Vernon Hills.
Most high schoolers attend Mundelein High School, but a few neighborhoods feed into Adlai E. Stevenson High School in Lincolnshire or Libertyville High School in Libertyville.
Santa Maria del Popolo School and Carmel Catholic High School serve the village's large Catholic population.
When the gentrification wave swept across Lake County in the 1980s-90s, on its way from the North Shore to the Barringtons, it skipped Mundelein, which remains their down-to-earth, unpretentious cousin.


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Posts Tagged 'evening gowns'
The Kiss of A Dragon
Three seasons ago, Farah Angsana's couture collections hit New York in a sea of soft ruffles, dazzling rusching, and exquisite embroidery. Fall 2009 saw her showing in Bryant Park for the first time, and all her signature trademarks – draping, rushing, beading, and embroidery – were present in full force.
Cocktail dresses in cream, antique gold and sage silk gave way to silk chiffon evening gowns and a stunning gunmetal silk jersey draped evening gown. Simple silhouettes paired with detailed bead work presented the viewer with rich contrasts. A cocktail dress is transformed with Gazar tiers and Swarovski crystal beading, while the designer re-invents simple capes with jet beading and embroidery to create texture and a feeling of luxury. I particularly liked the Jacquard coats with beautifully beaded hems and cuffs and trimmed collars. They added a new shape to the dresses and gowns which with to play.
And Farah Angsana did indeed play with this collection, the backdrop of which was Shanghai in 1939. She spun a story about the kiss of a dragon that transforms the Farah Angsana Woman into a phoenix. This theme was evident in the use of many accents, including ostrich feathers and mandarin collars and culminated in a dramatic final piece – a black and red silk chiffon draped evening gown with embroidered and beaded black and gold dragon scales. I can't wait to see which Hollywood starlet has the chutzpah to carry off this absolutely stunning dress!


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sixth plate tintype
Louise Kuling
Louise Kuling by Napolean. Slave negress born Norfolk VA. Age 39. Emigrated to France.
Harlem Celebrity Song and Dance Man
Harlem Celebrity Song and Dance Man by James Vanderzee
Kohal Beth Tsea El
Kohal Beth Tsea El by James Vanderzee. 204 Lenox Ave. N.Y.C. black Jewish congregation
Harlem Document
Harlem Document, 1936 by Aaron Siskind. The jitterbug; the most famous Harlem document image; signed on verso; illustrated p.46
Harlem Document, 1936 by Aaron Siskind. Man selling pies; signed and notes on verso; illustrated on frontispiece
Harlem Document, 1940 by Aaron Siskind. Most crowded block--our own community grocery & delicatessen; notes and signature on verso; illustrated p.16
Oklahoma Territory 1889 Black US Marshal
Oklahoma Territory 1889 Black US Marshal by Walters, New York Photo Co. Historical photo of the federal surveyors and engineers accompanied by a black US marshal; Guthrie Oklahoma Territory;
just prior to the land rush and statehood, 1889.
Negro Convicts Chain Gang Richmond Co. GA
Negro Convicts Chain Gang Richmond Co. GA by Charles E. Doty. Written on verso: chain gang negro convicts of Richmond County Georgia used by Augusta Ga. to clear the ground.
Harlem Document, 1937 by Aaron Siskind. Semi nude dancer; second night club image; signed lower right; illustrated p.49
Harlem Document, 1940 by Aaron Siskind. Child and working girl; from most crowded block; notes and signature on verso
Black Rabbi and Child
Black Rabbi and Child by James Vanderzee. Stamped GGG on verso; Boykin NYC
Harlem Document, 1937 by Aaron Siskind. Semi nude dancer; second night club; signed lower right; illustrated p.49
Famous Harlem Musical Trio
Famous Harlem Musical Trio by James Vanderzee
Sharecropper Family with Pet Bird
Sharecropper Family with Pet Bird by Russell Lee. Sharecropper family with pet bird in shack home; vintage print; title hand written by photographer; FSA
Petits Esclaves
Petits Esclaves by unknown photographer
Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass by Conley of Boston. Pristine image of great black orator, journalist, abolitionist by artist
Conley of Boston. Accompanied by autograph.
Kid Gavilan, Welter Weight Champion
Kid Gavilan, Welter Weight Champion by Stillman; TFN, Havana, Cuba. October 12, 1952
Kid Gavilan, Welter Weight Champion by Stillman; TFN; Habana, Cuba. May 1, 1954.
B.B. King
B.B. King by Morris Lane. Signed on verso.
Marion Anderson
Marion Anderson by S. Georges; London, England. Signed on back.
Pearl Bailey Nude
Pearl Bailey Nude by Carl Van Vechten. 1946 Broadway debut in St. Louis Woman - variant image in "the passionate observer", plate 49
African Slaves
African Slaves by unknown photographer
Rice Raft and Plantation Slaves
Rice Raft and Plantation Slaves by unknown photographer. Georgetown SC
Easter Sunday in Harlem
Easter Sunday in Harlem by Weegee. Illustrated in many books on Weegee as a great image including Weegee by Stettner p. 37. Signed on verso.
Louie Armstrong
Louie Armstrong by Weegee
Juke Box Party "FINE PALS"
Juke Box Party "FINE PALS" by unknown photographer
Two Boys Picking Cotton
Two Boys Picking Cotton by Ben Shahn. Alexander Plantation, Pulaski County, Arkansas. Schools for colored children do not open until January 1st so as not to interfere with cotton picking. Variant of image in Documenting America, 1935-1943 / edited by Carl Fleischhauer and Beverly W. Brannan p.83; Vintage Resettlement Administration image.
"Sentenced to hard labor for the rest of their natural lives, but not by any judge but by social conditions."
Tinted African American Folk Art Tintype
Tinted African American Folk Art Tintype by unknown photographer
Sister of the Holy Family New Orleans
Sister of the Holy Family New Orleans by Doris Ulmann. Documentation of her visit and other images are available in the text, The Life and Photography of Doris Ulmann by Philip Walker Jacobs; signed on mount
Negro Councilman Agricultural Workers Camp
Negro Councilman Agricultural Workers Camp by John Collier. John Collier was a photographer with the Farm Services Administration (FSA) during the depression
Memphis 1968
Memphis 1968 by Ernest Withers. Published in "Pictures Tell the Story." Famous signed image - accompanied by NY Times article regarding Withers as artist and FBI informant
Street Walker Bessie Smith
Street Walker Bessie Smith Mug Shot, Dayton OH Police Dept.
Cotton Gin in Full Blast
Cotton Gin in Full Blast by Kilburn Brothers
Native African 100 Year Old Slave
Native African 100 Year Old Slave by Wood & Bickle, Jacksonville FL, 1860
Exotic Nude Series Technical Edition Model D
Exotic Nude Series Technical Edition Model D by Albert Arthur Allen. Accompanied by documents regarding this rare portfolio with one black African Allen nude; age 18; height 5'6"; weight 120 lb; type African; race Black
Contrabands - Black Civil War Soldiers
Contrabands - Black Civil War Soldiers by Taylor & Huntington and Brady. Rare image of run-away slaves who joined the Union army during the civil war "contrabands"
Black Servant Holding Reins
Black Servant Holding Reins by unknown photographer
African-American Affectionate Boys
African-American Affectionate Boys by unknown photographer
1916 National Medical Association
1916 National Medical Association by Williams. The NMA was founded in 1895 as an all black medical association. The AMA was an all white organization until recently.