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Lehmann's side trail 2-0 after Sunday's defeat in the second test at Lord's, meaning Ashes-holders England can clinch the five-match series when the sides next meet at Old Trafford on August 1.
The lacklustre Australians have been out-played for much of the series and Lehmann admits they deserve all the criticism currently coming their way.
Australia captain Michael Clarke also made no attempt to hide the fact that his team are struggling when assessing the 347-run loss at Lord's, which came hot on the heels of defeat in the first Test at Trent Bridge.
With the Ashes in danger of slipping away, Lehmann will use the three-day tour match against Sussex at Hove, starting on Friday, to look at potential changes to the team for the third Test.
He has pledged to give reserve wicketkeeper Matthew Wade and spinner Nathan Lyon the chance to impress against Sussex.
Jackson Bird, James Faulkner and David Warner, who will return from Australia A duty in time for the third Test, have also been told they could be needed as the selectors scramble for a winning formula.
"I say all the time the whole 18 have a chance to play," Lehmann said.
"I'm not ruling anything out.
"That is what happens when you have two losses, every option is open.
"As selectors Rod (Marsh), John (Inverarity) and I will have to speak about it and see where we come to.
"Ashton (Agar) is a bit sore and I don't think he will play in Sussex so Nathan Lyon will play obviously.
"Then we just have to look at the wicket (at Old Trafford) because history shows it spins a bit.
"If it's going to spin we will certainly have a look at two spinners. Wade will play in the tour match too."
England have already banked three centuries in the series, two to Ian Bell and a maiden Ashes hundred to Joe Root, but Lehmann conceded Australia's batsmen have proved far too flimsy.
"We have certainly got to bat better, we know that," Lehmann said.
"It's probably more of a mental thing. We need to make sure we're ready to go...have a good time down in Sussex, play some decent cricket and bat a lot longer than 90 overs.
"We had two guys get to 50 at Lord's but 50 isn't going to get us to where we need to go.
"Clarke and (Usman) Khawaja batted really well but they need to make hundreds when they get to that position, just like young Root did."
Australia's tour has been marred by a series of off-field issues, including the sacking of former coach Mickey Arthur just 16 bays before the Ashes and reports of a rift between Clarke and opener Shane Watson.
But Lehmann has told his players to stop looking for excuses.
"We actually need to get some results because that would stop all the talk and make people realise we are going the right way," he said.
"We can't worry about what anyone else says or writes. We accept the criticism, we deserve the criticism to be fair."
Meanwhile, England's only problem is the fitness of Kevin Pietersen, who was unable to take the field in Australia's second innings after suffering a left calf strain.
England batting coach Graham Gooch admits the selectors will look at potential replacements for Pietersen because they can't guarantee the South-African born star's availability.
"Whether he will be fit for Old Trafford...he'd be in doubt," Gooch said.
"I'm sure there will be some cover supplied."
However, asked if Somerset's Nick Compton – dropped ahead of the Ashes to allow Root to open in his place alongside England captain Alastair Cook – was the most likely candidate, Gooch added: "I'm not a selector, so I couldn't give you an indication to whether he would be the next cab off the rank or not."


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The ox-eye daisy came from England. Today it appears in fields, on roadsides and, of course, often in home landscapes.
When we first moved to our house more than 25 years ago, I noticed a small white flower that appeared in early June. It appeared in several spots on the property, in whatever sun it could find in a landscape that was mostly shade.
It was not until years later I discovered that the flower was called ox-eye daisy, formerly known as Chrysanthemum leucanthemum but now called Leucanthemum vulgare. It is a wildflower that came from England. Today it appears in fields, on roadsides and, of course, often in home landscapes.
What makes this flower so different is that it is a daisy, part of the Asteraceae family, with a striking white, flat flower which measures 1 to 2 inches across. Each flower is made up of 20 to 30 bright white rays in a somewhat flattened white disk shape. The plant grows 1 to 2 feet tall.
Over the years I have moved it when I saw it growing in a spot that was not where I wanted it. It often did not succeed in the new home. Also, I would dig it up as a weed whenever it appeared in an undesirable location.
For some reason over the last few years I have seen less of them on my property, and I am not sure of the reason for that. Perhaps the predominant shade setting that I have does not encourage this daisy's growth.
In 1907 an American, Laurence Johnson, created one of the most famous gardens in England called Hidcote Manor. The layout and plantings in its many garden rooms make it a tourist garden today, visited by hundreds of people annually. Today Hidcote Manor also has a link to the ox-eye daisy.
Lyn Jones, the head gardener there for many years, now wants to re-create Hidcote as a family-friendly garden so children can visit as well parents. He has made some changes in the bold landscape of the property. He intends to introduce certain wildflowers into the extensive property. Ox-eye daisy is one of the plants he wants to re-introduce as an English wildflower.
In some states, this lovely flower is considered an invasive plant. Though it appears in open fields where cattle graze, they do not like this plant. Sheep, goats and horses do eat them.
According to horticulturalist Thomas J. Elpel, the ox-eye daisy can produce 26,000 seeds per plant, while smaller specimens produce 1,300 to 4,000 seeds per plant. Thus it is no surprise that this plant spread across the country after its arrival from Europe.
A plant that is invasive in one garden might be desirable in another. That seems to be the case with the pretty little ox-eye daisy.
Quincy master gardener Thomas Mickey, author of the book "America's Romance with the English Garden," is professor emeritus at Bridgewater State University. You may reach him at email@example.com.

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After the devastating flood in Louisiana, in addition to the terrible human impact, there were many animals left misplaced as well. As you can see in the video, a kind man took his boat around and picked up some strays. As heartwarming as it is, there remains the question: what happens to them afterward?
Well, it's been a few months since the flooding, but there are still animals available. After many amazing volunteers had stepped in to rescue them, many more kind families needed to step in to give these precious little ones a home.
PETA alone rescued over 60 different animals, which are currently resting on the west coast. If you're interested in adopting one, check out their website for featured stories on the available animals!
125 animals ended up in Portland, Oregon, according to KGW, so if you're in the area, consider opening your heart to one (or more!) of these little ones.
Finally, even if you can't rescue a furry friend directly from the Louisiana flooding, you can always bring one in from your local shelter. According to the ASPCA, over 7 million animals enter shelters each year - you could make all the difference in the world to just one animal.
We hope that this video warmed your heart, and that these brave men inspired you to do something kind for someone! Please share this video with your family and friends, you never know who might be ready to rescue their next furry companion.


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The Central Connecticut women's soccer team dropped to 2-3 in NEC play on Friday night as it fell short against the Fairleigh Dickinson Knights by a score of 1-0. With the loss, the Blue Devils' record falls to 4-11 on the season while the Knights improve to 8-6-2, 4-0-1 in the NEC.
The Knights found the net early in the first period when FDU's Carly Tice gained possession of a loose ball in front of the goal and sent it into the right of the net, giving the Knights a lead they would not relinquish.
The Blue Devils outshot FDU 12-5 but were unable to finish on the offensive front. Junior Tori Sousa led Central with three shots, one on goal and was followed by senior Jewel Robinson who posted two, one on goal.
Defensively, CCSU held FDU to just three shots on goal. Senior goalkeeper Nikola Deiter tallied two saves in her 90 minutes between the posts.
The match proved to be an aggressive one as the two squads tallied 34 fouls, four yellow cards and one red card, collectively. Following FDU's red card, the Knights played the final minutes of regulation down one player to ultimately claim the win.
The Blue Devils have three matches left in the regular season, each an NEC contest.
Central will travel to Mount St. Mary's Sunday, Oct. 27. Kickoff is scheduled for 12 p.m. and fans can watch all the action live on NECFrontRow.com. Following that contest, CCSU will remain on the road to face Bryant before returning home for senior day against Wagner on Sunday, Nov. 3.


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UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa., Oct. 11 (UPI) -- A study of hand prints on cave walls suggests much of Paleolithic cave art was created by women, a Penn State archaeologist says.
Taking as his starting point previous research that found average finger lengths in people vary by gender, Dean Snow has been studying ancient hand prints in caves for nearly a decade, National Geographic reported.
Looking at pictures of cave art at one point, Snow noticed the fingers on the hands stenciled next to depictions of animals and other objects appeared to conform to research descriptions of female hands.
Hand stencils, found in several cave art sites, where created by the artist or artists placed their hands against a cave wall and blowing paint at them (through a straw or directly from their mouth) to create an outline.
Snow said his studies suggest approximately 75 percent of such hand art samples was likely the work of women as opposed to the common belief that cave art was the purview of men.
The assumption was based on the depictions in most cave art of women and animals being hunted, which seemed to sum up the life of hunters, the male half of a hunter-gatherer society.
If women were doing most of the cave art, Snow said, it's possible they played a larger, more important role in how hunter-gatherer societies functioned than has been thought.


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Yeah. Lots of tradeoffs here.RandallButh wrote:On verb choice, I like the middle verbs in order to get the student in a new track of thinking and outside of morphology. On the other hand, most of the "good" verbs are irregular are are not attested in all four classes in NT/LXX. πορεύε-σθαι, πορευθῆ-ναι, πεπορεῦ-σθαι, πορεύσε-σθαι could work but borders on irregularity by switching to a theta-based aorist. Maybe better would be λούε--σθαι, λούσασθαι, λελοῦ-σθαι, λούσε-σθαι. It has the advantage of being the verb that most USA-NT students pronounce and in a verb that is very practical for daily use. However, the 'continuative/imperfective' stem is not so common outside of the indicative, only turning up in the Bathsheba story in biblical Greek.
I'd hate to start discussion of the Greek verb with the middle, and I do want lots of good examples ... πιστεύω is sounding good to me.


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Thursday, September 03, 2009
It Begins
Joe doesn't mind these extra duties. But I mind having to ask him. When we rented the apartment we asked about having an assitance dog because the apartment has a, completely ineffective as it turns out, no pet policy. We were reassured that assistance dogs would be welcome. So, it's been in our minds.
Then my friend Belinda told us a very funny story about her daughter's dog Molson. He is a beautiful animal, fully trained as a therapy dog. Well, there was some kind of agreement whereby Molson was 'on call' to provide 'lovin' when the time was right to father another batch of assistance puppies. Belinda ended up having to drive him in the night, when the time was right, for a booty call. I'm grinning as I write this. (Belinda I'm writing this in the dark, early morning, could you up the url in the comment section for people to go read about you and Molson and your midnight rendez-vous?)
When the puppies arrived I went to the website with their pictures and it stated that they had assistance dogs and were receiving applications. And that's it. I did it. I wrote them. They wrote back.
So now the process begins. I don't know if I'll pass muster. I don't know if my need is serious enough. But if it is, I'll soon be up writing in the early morning with my feet being kept warm, professionally.
Rah. And Who Rah.
21 comments:
Well put me on this list of volunteers that will watch over the pup when you are overseas!! Good luck!
- 3 September 2009 at 06:11
- Kristin said...
What a wonderful story about Molson...too funny. Good luck with your application.
- 3 September 2009 at 06:25
- wendy said...
That's great news! I hope the process goes smoothly.
- 3 September 2009 at 06:36
- Belinda said...
The link above should do it! Booty from a beauty! Ha ha! :)
I'll be second on the list, after Manuela, for dog sitting! :)
- 3 September 2009 at 07:39
- Jen said...
Great news!
- 3 September 2009 at 07:55
- Tamara said...
Sounds like a great idea. I hope it works out for you.
A family in our area is having trouble getting their school district to allow their son, who has autism, to bring his service dog to school with him.
A couple of links ...
- 3 September 2009 at 08:34
- Stephanie said...
Good for you! We have been on a waiting list for about 2 years for a helper dog for my son. It is likely that it will be about 4 more. That is ok, though, because he is non-verbal right now and just not ready IMHO. Sooooo happy for you though! Can you take him with you when you travel?
Steph and Christopher
- 3 September 2009 at 09:23
That is very exciting!
- 3 September 2009 at 10:16
Maybe the dog will come with you when you travel! A friend of mine has an assistance dog and she said the dog is the most help in the airport. Different person, different needs, but you never know. Maybe you'll get a really scary-looking German Shepard, and hotel staff like the one you wrote about the other day will be intimidated into a better attitude.
- 3 September 2009 at 10:29
- Unknown said...
I've been lurking here for a while, and I have to comment now - That is so very cool! One of the self advocates who belongs to the organization I work for just got a service dog to alert her before she has a seizure. The dog was the star of our last conference, I have to say!
Anyway, good luck getting your dog! Service dogs are amazing, and I wish we could all have one, disability or no. :p
- 3 September 2009 at 14:32
- Unknown said...
We've had my son's service dog for about a month now. What a god send. However, the school is not allowing the dog to come to school! We are trying to fight the good fight.
Best wishes on receiving your dog! They're wonderful!
- 3 September 2009 at 15:51
- FridaWrites said...
This brought tears to my eyes. I want one too. They prioritize the lists, so it's not your worry whether you qualify enough (I definitely think you would). I think the first link on my blogroll is to an assistance dog organization--there's a huge list of all the organizations on it that you can wade through. You may want to apply for a few organizations to reduce wait or to up your chances.
- 3 September 2009 at 16:21
Congrats on your decision, Dave (and Joe)!! I've raised 8 pups for two different Service Dog organizations and have met many handlers along this incredible journey who all speak about how much of a difference their canine partner has made in their life. Good Luck!!!
- 3 September 2009 at 16:32
Great story about Molson..glad he is being "of service" in all ways! Seems like a service dog would be a great assistant for you, if it all works out. I'm a 'dog person' so not at all neutral. I was thinking perhaps a service dog who traveled with you might help motivate the unmotivated folks like that hotel clerk you recently wrote about.
- 3 September 2009 at 21:09
- Heike Fabig said...
We've just send in our application for our daughter! Fingers crossed for us all eh?
- 3 September 2009 at 23:19
Kia ora again. Congratulations on making the first move- I'm sure it will be truly fantastic to have a dog.We're currently doing Shared Care for Fitzy, a huntaway/ lab cross who is a Mobility Assistance dog in training. His regular carer is away in Sydney for a couple of weeks. He is coming to work and going out to do assessments in the community with me and we are all loving him and hopefully vice versa. There are probably only about 6 working MA dogs in NZ so far with about 20 more currently in training. We look forward to following your story. Good luck, J, G and Fitzy
- 4 September 2009 at 01:24
Very exciting indeed!
Can't wait to meet the new arrival...keep us posted Dave!
Love Lin ( LinMac)
- 4 September 2009 at 04:29
- theknapper said...
Can't wait to see photos of your new dog. How could they not accept you??!!
- 5 September 2009 at 01:18
- Cindy L said...
Dogs are wonderful. Mine have added immensely to my life. I have a whole group of friends from the dog park and I'm more involved in my community because of Jackie and Mike. Dogs make good friends.
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- 8 September 2009 at 07:46
My service dog, Hudson, has made SUCH an impact on my life.
Being able to ask someone other than the boyfriend and my friends to help is...well, as I'm sure you can imagine, it's huge.
I got him in mid-June, and he's already used to the routine of picking up things I drop, helping me get up, waiting while I'm working, pushing buttons for doors and elevators, flipping light switches, and so on.
I won't pretend it's all rainbows and butterflies - he doesn't handle buses and subways very well, and grates in the sidewalk are a bit of a fight. He also wants to investigate everyone and everything, a situation that has caused me moments of embarassment sometimes.
Having Hudson with me does make people stare, even more than they used to. I'm not a chair user, but before I had Hudson, I walked with forearm crutches (which he has replaced). I'm still getting used to being treated like some kind of public attraction, and there are moments when I bitterly resent it, but at least now they're mostly staring at him. I still get asked about my disability, though now people assume I'm blind rather than just asking what is wrong with me. Even people who'd known me casually before I got the dog - they've made comments like 'I never knew you were blind!' Er, that's 'cause I'm not.
...having said that, on the whole...having Hudson in my life really has been a huge improvement. Particularly when I had a severe case of the flu a few weeks ago. I was so weak, it was a massive struggle to get from bed to bathroom, and without my dog to lean on, I'm not sure I'd've made it. He also helped get me to the ER that evening, when it became clear that I was dehydrated enough that I needed help.
If part of the priorities you're worried about are things like...wanting company, liking dogs, so on...the service dog organizations I've talked to actually like seeing that. After all, they promise this dog to you for the rest of his/her life, and in exchange you're supposed to be a companion and partner - something that's hard to do if you aren't interested in connecting with them!
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ABC Sports may slap presidential candidate Tim Pawlenty with a cease-and-desist letter for improperly using its footage in a political advertisement, a company official told The Des Moines Register today.
"It's a violation of our copyright and exclusive proprietary rights," said Louise Argianas, director of rights and clearances for ABC Sports.
The struggling Pawlenty campaign launched "The American Comeback," a television commercial with a down-but-not-out theme, in Iowa on Wednesday.
The 30-second spot uses TV footage from the so-called "Miracle on Ice," the hockey game in which the U.S. team beat the supposedly invincible Soviet Union in the 1980 Winter Olympics.
Argianas said in a telephone interview that ABC Sports retains exclusive U.S. rights to that footage. She said she was upset when she saw Pawlenty's ad for the first time this afternoon.
"And they used our announcer's voice, which they are not allowed to do, either," she said, referring to play-by-play announcer Al Michaels. "Which I'm going to have to call his agent about."
Argianas initially said she intended to have a lawyer send the cease-and-desist letter Friday. But tonight, officials at ESPN, which oversees ABC Sports, walked back that statement saying that, after a larger conversation, they're undecided about whether to send such a letter.
ESPN spokesman Chris LaPlaca said: "Neither ABC nor ESPN has asked the Pawlenty campaign to remove any footage from their video, although neither ABC nor ESPN licensed the video to them or authorized its use."
Pawlenty spokesman Alex Conant defended the use of the footage, part of a much-revered piece of sports history.
"The campaign's 'Miracle on Ice' advertisement was carefully reviewed for legal compliance, and we believe fully complies with the 'fair use' doctrine," Conant said. "We respect ABC's concern and look forward to responding to their inquiry."
The rest of the ad features Pawlenty, who played high school hockey and still dabbles at an amateur level, in an ice arena in his hometown of South St. Paul. He talks about the country's need for a leader with a proven record.
Three weeks out from the potentially make-or-break Republican straw poll in Ames on Aug. 13, Pawlenty is doing an 18-city "Road to Results" campaign tour in Iowa this week, aiming to rally support. He also has scheduled more Iowa events next week.
The political establishment and pundits have long considered Pawlenty a serious and well-qualified candidate to challenge Democratic President Barack Obama.
But Michele Bachmann, a fellow Minnesotan considered a fringe candidate just a few months ago, has ridden a wave of popularity after a strong performance in a June New Hampshire debate and a neck-and-neck finish with presumed national front-runner Mitt Romney in the Register's June Iowa Poll.
Pawlenty placed sixth in the poll, he was panned for his performance in the debate, and his campaign fundraising numbers are considered mediocre.
It's that narrative — that his chances of winning the Republican nomination are in peril — that Pawlenty addresses in this Iowa advertisement.
"Out here, you're tested," he says in the ad. "You face an opponent experts say can't be beat. You fight, you bleed, you prevail."
At the end, he adds, "Join me and prove the experts wrong."
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Day 2 will find me in the Plenary Session at 8:00 in the morning. Will I be awake enough to see what's going on? That is the question!
I know that it will be at this session that the dreaded "rate increase" — as John Reid at his Anglo-Celtic Connections blog <http://anglo-celtic-connections.blogspot.com/2009/05/are-genealogical-society-fees-too-high.html> has been writing about — will be brought up.
The proposed increase for yearly membership will be $15.00 (making it $60.00 per year), and I wondered what the reaction will be because I don't know - I suspect that people already have made up their minds. We shall see. You will be the first to know - I will be Twittering from the conference!
After that session is over, I will be going to hear a panel discussion on "From the Printed Page to the Digital Age: The Professionals", which will be moderated by Sharon Murphy. Panelists include Susanna de Groot and Tammy Priolo — both graduates from the National Institute for Genealogical Studies; Brian Gilchrist, the Archivist at the Region of Peel Archives; Janice Nickerson, who has her M.A. in History and a website at <www.uppercanadagenealogy.com>; and author and lecturer, Ruth Burkholder.
The rest of the day I will be in the Marketplace talking to people and seeing what is new this year. Then, I will be at the banquet to hear Charlotte Gray talk about Alexander Graham Bell and his love of genealogy.
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For one of the extensions to an existing design, I thought of adding clamps to the following question using general purpose diodes. Does this look right?
I wasnt sure if one needs a current limiting resistor i.e. say if this isnt an application where power dissipation is of primal importance. In this regard, can you get away without a current limiting resistor (to preserve impedance of source)?


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Wednesday, June 27, 2012
In this explosive in depth interview, Smashing Pumpkins founder and frontman pulls no punches! He covers it all GMO, TSA, The New World Order, criminal wars and how our troops are treated like garbage once they return home. This is one interview you don't want to miss. He delivers the inside scoop on how the music industry is used to control culture. And the secret of how A-listers operate in the highest levels of society. Billy lays it all on the line and has a lot of courage. Please help make this important information go viral. — Alex Jones
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Marwa Bouabibsa put an awful lot of thought into how to design a sand castle.
It wasn't going to be one of those run-of-the-mill fill up a plastic bucket and dump it upside down jobs.
This was going to have pizzazz.
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"I just imagined something," said Bouabibsa, a fifth-grader at San Francisco's John Yehall Chin Elementary School. "It just came up to me and it was an octopus."
This Saturday, Bouabibsa planned to join 500 other San Francisco school children sculpting their sandy designs on Ocean Beach as part of the 30th annual LEAP Sandcastle contest. But like the beach bully stomping on a sand castle, the National Park Service canceled the event because Ocean Beach is subject to the federal shutdown.
Bouabibsa's principal broke the news to students Wednesday morning. "Some of my classmates were crying about it 'cause they really wanted to do it," said Bouabibsa. "I was about to cry but I just wanted to hold it in there."
The tears didn't flow, but the anger did. Instead of an experience building sand castles, students got a hard luck lesson in political science.
"That's one of the hardest things of having to postpone this event," said Julie McDonald, executive director of LEAP, "is watching the faces of the kids and hearing how disappointed they are." McDonald's face revealed her own level of disappointment.
The annual contest provides half of LEAP's operational budget, which it uses to create student arts programs in schools. McDonald said the contest was expected to generate $270,000 for the organization's budget. She said the group offered to supply its own security for the event, but was informed by the National Park Service it would be trespassing.
"If we showed up at the beach," said McDonald, "we were warned that local law enforcement would be 'empowered.'"
Just up from Ocean Beach, a mini-rebellion by the owners of San Francisco's Cliff House was similarly shut down.
Since the restaurant is on National Park Service land, it's also subject to the shutdown. But co-owner Mary Hountalas pointed out the restaurant isn't funded by tax money and its 170 employees are all civilians.
So earlier this week, she and her husband decided to defy the shutdown and reopen.
"We felt for that reason we had the, I might say 'right' to reopen," said Hountalas, "and provide our people with their lawful employment."
Hountalas said the restaurant is losing more than $10,000 dollars a day, and having to cancel weddings and private parties.
But two days after the defiant reopening, Hountalas said she received numerous calls from officials in Washington, D.C. laying down the law.
"When it came to the point if we didn't shut down we would possibly never be able to reopen," said Hountalas, "we had to do it."
Hountalas said the Cliff House, which she and her husband have owned for 40 years, would now remain closed until the end of the shutdown.
Likewise, McDonald said the sandcastle contest would hopefully come back, once the shutdown ends
"Every day the government is closed there's going to be more and more stories like this," said McDonald, "and more people impacted like we are."


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Every game seems winnable with this team, more often than not, it still ends up as a loss. Heading into today it looked like a solid pitching match up on paper, and both guys delivered for the most part as Samardzija battled Bumgarner through six innings. The Giants built a 3-0 lead after six and a half innings and for the fifth straight game the Cubs wouldn't go quietly. Dioner Navarro has a flare for dramatics it seems as for the second straight day he delivered a pinch hit home run. Today it was a two-run shot that brought the Cubs within one run, unfortunately that's as close as they would get despite a wonderful opportunity. That was the story of the day for the Cubs, wasted opportunities, they had multiple chances to drive runs in while making outs, whether it be a ground ball or a sac fly, and the Cubs couldn't do either, which isn't that surprising. Welington Castillo had two great opportunities and failed both times. The latest was a bases loaded opportunity with one out in the eighth inning, he swung at the first pitch and grounded into an inning ending double play.
At The Plate – Alfonso Soriano finally showed some signs of life at the plate today going 3-for-4 with a stolen base. Alberto Gonzalez was 1-for-2 with a walk and a run scored. Dioner Navarro, who will probably get the start tomorrow, was 1-for-1 off the bench with a two-run homer, yesterday he did it from the left side today from the right.
On The Mound – Jeff Samardzija turned in another solid outing and walks away with another loss. Samardzija went six innings giving up two runs on seven hits while walking one and striking out five. He falls to 0-2 on the season with a sparkling 2.75 ERA. Michael Bowden came on in relief and gave up one run in one inning of work on two hits. Both Carlos Marmol and James Russell tossed scoreless innings to keep it close late.
Up Next – Game four of the series as the Cubs will try to salvage a split when it all honesty they could be going for a sweep. Edwin Jackson will get the start for the Cubs, he will oppose Tim Lincecum at 1:20 PM CST. Much warmer temperatures tomorrow, so there's that.
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Years ago, I remember RedHat already provided /etc/bashrc.d/ to add custom scripts to be sourced site-wide whenever bash was started. Debian still only provides /etc/profile.d for such scripts. So, back in the days I started using Debian, I added stuff in this latest directory and made sure that /etc/bash.bashrc itself ran /etc/profile so it would be sourced in any cases.
There is actually a problem with that.
As defined (RTFM! `man bash`), /etc/profile is to be sourced for interactive login shells (`bash –login`) while /etc/bashrc or /etc/bash.bashrc is to be sourced for interactive non-login shells (`bash`). Having /etc/profile ran by /etc/bash.bashrc defeats the overal purpose of distinguishing the two of them. LFS ask for /etc/profile content to be a run-once thing, for logins, not something that should be started for any xterm.
But if you don't, anything in /etc/profile.d will be ignored by most shells you'll start on a X session, where you actually log in once and then starts numerous xterms. Ok, to put your aliases and local functions, you can edit /etc/bash.bashrc and use skels for ~/.bashrc, but that's way less convenient than just copying a script into a directory.
To get something consistent, I added the /etc/bashrc.d directory. I think such directory should exists by default on Debian, even if I would agree if someone was to point out that this should not be BASH-specific.
Here's an example of my /etc/bashrc.d and my /etc/profile.d. My local debian package postinst script add automatically the required following line in /etc/bash.bashrc:
[ -z "$ETC_BASHRC_SOURCED" ] && for i in /etc/bashrc.d/*.sh ; do if [ -r "$i" ]; then . $i; fi; done
Note that the same postinst script symlink /etc/profile.d/bash_completion.sh to /etc/bashrc.d/bash_completion.sh. The very existence of this file in /etc/profile.d IMHO show the extent of the broken default design. How come someone would actually want bash completion for login shells but not for interactive non-login shells? I would actually expect the contrary: as bash completion can be CPU time consuming, if it is to be skipped in only one case, it's definitely on login shells! Why is it so? Probably because only /etc/profile.d exists.
(I've read also some people saying that /etc/bash.bashrc should be edited by hand. On any computers of a local network just to add a few local aliases? Ouch!)


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- ==This article is out of date!==
World of Warcraft does not have an opengl backend since 7.3.5
- This article tries to address the common issues people are having with running World of Warcraft using Wine on Linux.
- Important note: Make ABSOLUTELY SURE you run the latest Wine version, as well as the latest version of your graphic card drivers. If you don't, and encounter errors that have been fixed in newer versions... you're out of luck.
Error messages from wine
err:module:import_dll Library OPENGL32.dll
- You get the following error on startup:
err:module:import_dll Library OPENGL32.dll (which is needed by L"C:Program Files/World of Warcraft/wow.exe") not found err:module:LdrInitializeThunk Main exe initialization for L"C:/Program Files/World of Warcraft/wow.exe" failed, status c0000135</code>
- Solution: check that /usr/local/lib/wine/opengl32.dll.so has ownership of root:root and permissions -rwxr-xr-x, if it does not then you may have not been superuser when you ran the "make install" command; become superuser and repeat the make install command as shown in the howto. Do not just change the ownership/permissions of opengl32.dll.so as probably all the other files are wrong too, so do a make install.
- IMPORTANT: When going through the steps of compiling Wine from the source code to execute the "make install" command, be sure to include the following in the first step listed in the howto: sudo ./configure --enable-opengl If you miss this tiny part of the process, OpenGL will not install with Wine and WoW will not run, throwing the same error as listed above. You'll need to uninstall Wine and start the process all over again.
err:module:attach_process_dlls "opengl32.dll" failed to initialize, aborting
- You get the folling error on startup:
err:module:attach_process_dlls "opengl32.dll" failed to initialize, aborting err:module:LdrInitializeThunk Main exe initialization for L"C:\\Program Files\\World of Warcraft\\Wow.exe" failed, status c0000005
- There seems to be a few reasons for this error. If /tmp is mounted without execution privileges, remount it with execution privileges: sudo mount -o remount,exec,suid /tmp If that does not work, or does not apply, make sure that if you are running 64-bit linux, the 32-bit compatibility drivers are installed, too. If still no luck, try updating your graphics drivers.
- As of this writing (WoW 4.3, wine 1.3.33 and some earlier versions), the WoW Launcher and Background Downloader both crash when Peer to Peer downloading is enabled and either needs to download a new update. Ironically, the Launcher's Preferences window does not work properly in wine either, so to fix this just open a terminal and type:
wine reg add "HKCU\Software\Blizzard Entertainment\Blizzard Downloader" /v "Disable Peer-to-Peer" /t REG_DWORD /d "1" /f
You could also do this the hard way by starting up BackgroundDownloader.exe in your World of Warcraft installation directory, and quickly click the View menu, Preferences. Uncheck Peer to Peer, and check Don't throttlem then click OK. Then you can either let the download continue in the Background Downloader, or you can close the Background Downloader, and re-open the Launcher and the download will not fail.
- Note that the WoW Installer from the Account Management site uses the Launcher to download all of the game client beyond the basics it needs to start the Launcher, so if you are installing WoW for the first time, expect that the Launcher will crash (as of this writing) and so you will need to use the Background Downloader to change the preferences.
- Main article: Config.wtf
- Some tweaks can be made within config.wtf of the WoW installation itself. These tweaks change the way WoW works and in some instances can cause a performance penalty.
- See also:
Ubuntu 10.10
- Under Ubuntu 10.10 and some other distributions, changes in the behavior of the
ptracesystem call break some Wine applications, including WoW. To fix this, edit the file
/etc/sysctl.d/10-ptrace.confand replace the last line
kernel.yama.ptrace_scope = 1
- with
kernel.yama.ptrace_scope = 0
- Then reboot the system.
Check winecfg
- If you experience stuttering, bad sound or no sound what-so-ever, then you should try a few things in winecfg first. Just type winecfg in a terminal, press enter, and the winecfg window should appear. Go to the audio tab. ALSA is preferable as the sound system.
- Also, refer to the Voice chat section for information on getting multiple audio streams (more than one program using audio at once) working with OSS or ALSA. It will save you grief should you ever want to chat on Ventrilo or Teamspeak while playing, or listen to music.
- You may also try ticking "Driver Emulation". Be sure to remove it again if it doesn't help.
- If you set the Windows emulation to Windows Vista or Windows 7 but hear no audio at all, try setting it to XP (or lower if that does not work. XP should be your safest bet though if you want to try out other settings).
Utilizing PulseAudio with Wine
- If your distribution uses PulseAudio, you should try to use the PulseAudio OSS wrapper. To do this, open a terminal console and type:
padsp winecfg
- Go to the Audio tab and deselect all sound drivers and select only OSS, click apply.
- Modify any launcher shortcuts you have to: (modify to your Wow.exe file's location!!!)
padsp wine "c:\World of Warcraft\Wow.exe" -opengl
Config.wtf for Audio
- Another resolution you may want to try is to increase or decrease the sound buffer a bit. It's configured by changing the value of the following line in wtf/Config.wtf.
SET SoundBufferSize "x"
- Anything from 50 to 250 may cure your problem. Bear in mind that excessive buffer size may create audio sync issues.
- You may try the following option as well:
SET SoundOutputSystem "1"
Nvidia-specific issues
- You know that you have this problem if World of Warcraft does not display correctly, and you have TwinView enabled. To fix this, set the in-game video settings to "Windowed Mode", and "Maximized". Unfortunately, you will not be able to set the resolution at the video settings, so: set the appropriate resolution by changing gxResolution in Config.wtf to your liking (this looks just like running in fullscreen). E.g.:
SET gxResolution "1280x1024"
- Alternatively, if you by any chance cannot access the in-game video settings you can force these settings by enabling:
SET gxWindow "1" SET gxMaximize "1"
ATI-Specific issues
ATI no Object Textures/Models
- Some ATI user have the problem, that character and object models are hidden. It seems to appear with newer ATI drivers. To solve the problem, add the following line to the Config.wtf
SET M2UseShaders "0"
ATI enter game world crash
- For users with an ATI video card: certain cards have trouble rendering games and video in opengl using current flgrx drivers which will cause your computer to hard locks when you attempt to enter a domain. This error will occur just after character creation/selection, as the game environment is loading, or possibly after a short period of play. In order to fix this error, add the following lines of code to your /etc/x11/xorg.conf file in the ATI device section:
Option "Capabilities" "0x00000800" Option "UseFastTLS" "off" Option "KernelModuleParm" "locked-userpages=0"
- The section should look something similar to this after editing:
Section "Device" Identifier "aticonfig-Device" "fglrx" Option "Capabilities" "0x00000800" Option "UseFastTLS" "off" Option "KernelModuleParm" "locked-userpages=0" EndSection
- Note: this has been tested and also works with NVidia cards.
Graphical studdering
- If you see a noticeable graphical studder every 3 to 5 seconds or so for this you need to edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf and add the following to the Video card "Device" Section:
Option "UseFastTLS" "2"
- This of course is normally a problem with the proprietary Linux Drivers for ATI cards.
- Another possibility is a problem with the default kernel scheduler. I noticed many people have this problem with NVIDIA cards. Readjusting the scheduler will fix these issues:
echo 21 > /proc/sys/kernel/sched_features echo 25000000 > /proc/sys/kernel/sched_batch_wakeup_granularity_ns echo 4000000 > /proc/sys/kernel/sched_min_granularity_ns
Config.wtf for Video
- If you experience corrupt icons or interface textures, you then you may need to set the UIFaster parameter in wtf/Config.wtf
- Use it like this:
Set UIFaster "x"
- Where x equals:
0 – This turns off all UI acceleration 2 – Enables partial UI acceleration only. 3 – Enables all UI acceleration.
- Example:
Set UIFaster "2"
- The value 2 usually corrects this problem.
64-bit Systems
32-bit Libraries
- On 64-bit systems, you may have to install the 32-bit versions of the following libraries, which can most likely be found in your distribution's package manager:
- libjpeg-turbo
- libmpg123
- libsdl
- libldap
Other tweaks
Installer.exe and RAM type
- On certain systems there is a problem with RAM and the WoW Installer. On a Core2 Duo 6400 with DDR2-800, setting the RAM to DDR2-533 in BIOS allowed the installer to work flawlessly the first time. It's easy to confuse this issue with a CD/DVD problem because the installer will complain about a checksum error.
Stuttering every 15sec and flickering line fix for Linux kernels 2.6.24 with CFS scheduler
- On some distributions like Arch Linux World of Warcraft stutters exactly every 15 seconds. You will also notice a flickering bar on the top of your screen.
- The instructions are taken from shazeal from this thread: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=42779
- The best solution to solve this problem is to recompile your kernel with the option CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG. After booting that kernel, you can tune it via sysctl and the problem is gone. This is an example of doing this on Arch Linux, it will be different on other distributions.
- Step 1: Recompiling the kernel
- First, fetch the newest source tree via ABS as root
sudo abs
- Then copy /var/abs/core/kernel26 to your home directory
cp -R /var/abs/core/kernel26 ~
- Now open up the file config, search for the line "# CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG is not set" and replace it with "CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG=y". Next open the file PKGBUILD, go to the md5sums and comment out the third one (or replace it with ne new m5dsum of config) so it looks like this:
md5sums=('3f23ad4b69d0a552042d1ed0f4399857' '9d435f1a3b56d74265d9eb7c49060ff4' #'817294b52dc1f0acb1a8616fe792f29a' 'ae7370a442115f2c7ee45d0123f617e3' '25584700a0a679542929c4bed31433b6')
- After that, cd into the directory and call "makepkg". That will, depending on your machine, take a looong time. After its done, install the new package via pacman -U to your system. I suggest to add the package kernel26 to your HoldPkg or IgnorePkg list.
Step 2: Tune your kernel
- Tuning your kernel is much easier. Just add the following lines to your /etc/sysctl.conf:
# World of Warcraft stutter and flickering line fix kernel.sched_features=21 kernel.sched_batch_wakeup_granularity_ns=25000000 kernel.sched_min_granularity_ns=4000000
- Save it, and reboot. World of Warcraft should now run without silly stuttering and flickering.
Common errors
Can't eject the CD
- If you've got the disk space, the easiest solution would be to rip the entirety of disc 1, and the
Installer Tome #.mpqfiles from the remaining discs to some folder on your computer (like ~/wow/), then run the installer from there.
Waiting for files to close...
- This message appears during patching when certain files are open (Launcher.exe, Wow.exe, etc). To make sure you don't have any of those files open, try
killall -9 wineserver && killall -9 wineto close all wine applications. Newer versions of wine spawn processes directly, so you may need to look for instances of Launcher.exe, BackgroundDownloader.exe, WoW.exe, services.exe, or explorer.exe.
- If this didn't do anything, open winecfg and change the Windows version to Windows NT 4.0. If it still doesn't work, you may have more luck with other Windows versions.
Your 3D accelerator card is not supported by World of Warcraft. Please install a 3D accelerator card with dual-TMU support.
- There is a 99% chance that this is due to the drivers.
- If you just got a new graphic card or reinstalled the OS, you might be using outdated drivers, make sure to get all updates for your video card's drivers.
- If your distribution does not bundle the proprietary drivers, you may be using the open source drivers (nouveau drivers for nvidia cards), or even some fallback drivers (vesa, fbdev, nv). If this is the case, check your distribution's documentation for the proper way to get the correct drivers. In the case of nouveau and Fedora, you can use the rpmfusion.org repository to get a bundled version of the nvidia driver.
- Distribution-bundled proprietary drivers are usually weeks or even months behind the current ones. It is recommended to use the official drivers if no other option is available for your distribution. (nVidia, ATI).
- This error can also happen on 64-bit Linux distributions if you're using the proprietary drivers as packaged by the distribution. Some distributions put the 32-bit versions of the libraries in a separate package. Since Wine uses the 32-bit libraries even on 64-bit systems, Wine won't support accelerated OpenGL without them. Look for a package that's named similarly to the driver package, but includes a note about being 32-bit. For example, on 64-bit Debian, if you're using the "nvidia-glx" libraries, you want to also install "nvidia-glx-ia32".
- If you have just updated your system's kernel or video drivers, you may simply need to restart your computer.
Error #134 "Unable to associate local address with socket..."
- The socket is already bound to an address, or the parameter is a listening socket. You need to make sure your loopback interface is up, by running:
ifconfig lo up
- or
sudo ifconfig lo up
"DOS address space" or "DOS memory range" errors
- See the Wine wiki page on this issue.
Mouse moves camera angle improperly or mouse pointer is shifted
- These errors have been experienced with Ubuntu 10.04 using the default window manager: Metacity.
- The first error is when depressing a mouse button anywhere in the characters field of vision will cause the camera to immediately pan upwards until it is right above the player character. Mouse use on any menu item, however, does not affect the camera.
- The second error is when the mouse pointer has been skewed. So, in order to press a button in game, the mouse pointer must be a few pixels off the target.
- The cause is unknown at this time, however the fix has been to use a more light weight (different? -- has anyone tried using something other than fluxbox to fix the problem? KDE's window manager for instance?) window manager: Fluxbox.
- To install (in Ubuntu), enable the universe software source, then you can use apt-get to install it.
sudo apt-get install fluxbox
- Then, log out of your current window manager to get to the login screen. Under the title "Sessions", there will be the option to select "Fluxbox"
- To connect to the Internet in Fluxbox, you can hit Alt+F2 for a "Run Program" dialog. Then type in:
Cyrillic letters issue
- If you have ????? letters while typing in wow with russian layout, try the following steps:
- Install MS fonts
- Install MS fonts with you distribution package manager
- Copy them to your wine's drive_c/windows/fonts/ directory
- Force wow to use cp1251 charset
- Open menu item (.desktop file) that you are using to launch wow with text editor
- Change exec line to include env LANG="ru_RU.cp1251"
- Install MS fonts
- The above instructions can be done as follows on Ubuntu:
sudo apt-get install msttcorefonts cp /path/to/installed/fonts/* /home/username/.wine/drive_c/windows/Fonts/ nano /usr/share/applications/Wow.desktop
- For Gentoo, replace sudo apt-get install msttcorefonts with emerge corefonts
- For Fedora, replace sudo apt-get install msttcorefonts with sudo yum install liberation*fonts*
Issues that apply to older versions of WoW
- Archived here for those that want to connect to private servers running an older version
Can't see the installer tomes on the Wrath DVD
- Most distros automounter programs don't include the "unhide" option for UDF filesystems. It will most likely be mandatory to remount manually.
- The exact command that would need to be run (as root) would be
mount -o remount,unhide /dev/sr0
- This will be different based on where your distro places the DVD drive. An easy way to check would be to run the mount command and choose the relevant device (which will typically be sr# or cd#).
Post-3.3.0 runtime error
- WoW changed the underlying C++ library it uses in patch 3.3.0 to msvcr8 (up from v7.1). Wine's built-in isn't quite there yet. Error messages similar to the following will display in console output after logging in if users do not have native msvcr8 installed:
fixme:actctx:parse_assembly_elem wrong version for assembly manifest: 8.0.50727.762 / 8.0.50727.4053 fixme:actctx:parse_manifest_buffer failed to parse manifest L"Z:\\Network\\wow\\World of Warcraft\\Microsoft.VC80.CRT.manifest" fixme:actctx:parse_depend_manifests Could not find dependent assembly L"Microsoft.VC80.CRT" (8.0.50727.762)
- The incredibly useful WineTricks shell script (right-click, save-as) can be used to install the runtime:
sh winetricks vcrun2005
Post-3.3.5 login issues
- Using Wine version 1.1.44 or later together with Linux kernels between 2.6.33 and 2.6.35 RC4 (inclusive) causes WoW to crash at Battle.net login. It is recommended to upgrade the kernel to 2.6.35 final or later.
- Using OpenGL with the built-in wldap32.dll may also cause a crash upon logging in. Either install vcrun2005 using winetricks, switch to Direct3D, or copy a native wldap32.dll into /windows/system32 and use winecfg to configure wldap32.dll library to "native, builtin".
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NEW YORK — Satirist Stephen Colbert is under fire for what some people are calling a racist tweet sent from the account of his show, "The Colbert Report."
NEW YORK — Satirist Stephen Colbert is under fire for what some people are calling a racist tweet sent from the account of his show, "The Colbert Report."
The original message, posted Thursday afternoon but now deleted, was a play on Asian stereotypes. It was pulled directly from a segment on Wednesday's show mocking Washington Redskins owner Dan Snyder for responding to pressure to change his team's name by instead setting up a charity to aid Native Americans. The tweet read, "I am willing to show #Asian community I care by introducing the Ching-Chong Ding-Dong Foundation for Sensitivity to Orientals or Whatever."
But taken out of the larger context, many Twitter users thought the messaged trafficked in the very racism the show was originally trying to lampoon. By Thursday evening, the hashtag #CancelColbert was trending on Twitter, with users, assuming the tweet had been sent by Colbert rather than a representative of his show, personally blasting the host for perceived insensitivity. ("When satire becomes as offensive and hurtful as the thing satirized it is no longer satire. It is simply more injustice. #cancelcolbert," read one sample tweet.)
Others, including comedians Jim Norton and Patton Oswalt, rushed to defend Colbert.
The original message was deleted within a few hours, a move that in turn prompted outrage from right-wing pundit Michelle Malkin, who accused Colbert of cowardice. Subsequent tweets from @ColbertReport explained the context and clarified that Colbert himself does not administer the account. Even Colbert weighed in humorously from his personal account saying, "#CancelColbert — I agree! Just saw @ColbertReport tweet. I share your rage. Who is that, though? I'm @StephenAtHome."
But as of Friday, the controversy continues to rage, and #CancelColbert remains a top trending subject on Twitter.
Outside of Twitter, Comedy Central has not commented on the matter.
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A letter from FNB's Paul Harris to his mate "Jeff", telling him not to be concerned about those in South Africa, had gone viral. Many have responded to billionaire Harris, the kindest rebuttal being that from his elitist perspective, Harris has no clue about what the ordinary South African is facing or concerned about. We first place Harris' letter to Jeff and then Jeff's brilliant response. Lastly there is a rebuttal found without reference, but an equally excellent read.
from Business Day live, by Paul Harris:
Don't stress about us in SA
A letter from FirstRand founder and former executive Paul Harris to a concerned friend has gone viral. Here is an edited version:
Hi Jeff
HOPE all is well with you guys. I will drop you a line later with the family news but I would first like to respond to the e-mail you sent me attaching an article by Clem Sunter, which seemed to concern you about us here in South Africa.
You also sent me an article last year by Moeletsi Mbeki warning about the danger of an "Arab Spring" in South Africa. I often get e-mails like this from "concerned friends" worried about us, which is sweet of you guys. Of course we are concerned. Some worrying things have happened but we have been through and survived much worse in much more volatile environments. Including the Boer War, two World Wars, apartheid, the financial crisis without a bank bailout, the Rindapest, Ge Korsten and Die Antwoord!
However, for as long as I can remember there have always been people who think SA has five years left before we go over the cliff. No change from when I was at school in the sixties. The five years went down to a few months at times in the eighties!
But it seems the people who are the most worried live far from the cliff in places like Toronto, Auckland, London and other wet and cold places. Also from St Ives and Rose Bay in Sydney, Dallas and Europe and other "safe places" that are in the grip of the global financial crisis, which by the way is quite scary. Many of them have survived decades of rolling "five years left" since they left South Africa. So maybe they will be right one day!
My message is, please don't stress about us in South Africa. We are fine. We are cool. We know we live in the most beautiful country in the world with warm and vibrant people. There are more people here with smiles on their faces than in any country I have ever been to.
Young people are returning in droves with skills and a positive attitude. Collectively we bumble along and stuff many things up while letting off a hell of a lot of steam (have you heard of a chap called Julius Malema?). Yet in between South Africans do some amazing things like win a few gold medals, big golf tournaments and cricket and rugby matches.
The South Africans I know get off their butts and do things to build our country rather than whinge from a position of comfort. We actively participate in projects that improve the lot of underprivileged communities. I would not trade for anything last Saturday in a hall full of 1500 African teachers singing at the top of their voices and demonstrating their commitment to improving education in their communities.
We have our challenges and surprises. The standard deviation of our emotions are set at MAX. You are never just a "little bit happy" or a "little bit sad". At one moment you can be "off the scale" pissed off or frustrated or sad or worried or fearful or depressed. The next moment you are "off the scale" exhilarated, or enchanted, or inspired, or humbled by a kind deed, or surprised by something beautiful. It makes life interesting and worth living.
We also have passionate debates about the future of SA. Helped of course by red wine which you must taste again because it is getting better every year! Clem makes a great contribution to the debate as others like Moeletsi Mbeki do. Russell Loubser, the former head of the JSE, made a feisty speech the other day that has whipped up emotions. Up to MAX on the emotions meter of the ANC Youth League whose campaign for nationalisation of the mines was attributed to people who have IQs equal to room temperature.
South African politics has always been volatile, we have opinions that could not be further apart and it evokes emotion on a massive scale. Interesting and stimulating for those that want to take it seriously but noise in the system to me. Fortunately we are rid of apartheid that would have definitely pushed us over the cliff. These are the birth pangs of a new and unpredictable democracy. So buckle up and enjoy the ride and contribute! That is the message I convey to South Africans.
Sad as it is, it is true that the South African diaspora has a largely negative influence on confidence in South Africa. It would not be a problem if their fretting about how long we will last before we go over the cliff was merely a reflection of their concern for us, their friends and family.
The problem is that it does impact foreign investment, which is important for economic growth. A person who is thinking of coming to visit or investing is often put off by listening wide-eyed to the stories of people who have gapped it.
As you know I host many foreign visitors and I have never, EVER, met anyone who has visited for the first time without being blown away by the beauty of the country and the warmth of the people. It is not for nothing that South Africa has the highest ratio of repeat visitors of all long-haul destinations.
So, Jeff, how can I help you stop stressing out about us? Maybe best is that you get exposed to some articles and websites that give a more balanced and uplifting perspective of South Africa. So please don't worry and if you get a chance, put in a good word for us.
All the best
* This article was first published in Sunday Times: Business Times
from Politicsweb, Jeff's response found by David Bullard:
"Jeff's" response to Paul Harris
31 October 2012
David Bullard gets his hands on a leaked copy of the reply to the viral email...
Last week a letter from FNB's Paul Harris to his ex pat mate "Jeff" appeared on the Homecoming Revolution website. It then appeared as a filler piece in the Sunday Times Business Times section and the following morning was used to bulk out Business Day. It's now said to have "gone viral" which is just another way of saying that a lot of people with nothing better to do have e.mailed it to their entire address book.
Thanks to the services of a shadowy group of anarchists known as WikiLies we have managed to get our hands on a leaked response from Jeff to Paul Harris. Read on...
G'day Paul,
Jeez mate....If I'd known my e.mails to you were going to go public I would never have attached that jpeg of those two obliging dusky maidens who joined us both on my boat on Pittwater. One of the lads down at the yacht club told me that your e.mail to me appeared in some fish-wrap newspaper last Sunday and that I ought to respond because it paints me as a bit of a wowser.
I can take a hint and obviously it was stupid of me to send you copies of articles by the likes of Clem Sunter and Mbeki Jnr when it was perfectly obvious that you would have already read them. So I won't do it again. But what's all this stuff about often getting e-mails from "concerned friends" and telling us that it's sweet of us to care. I hope I haven't grown thin skinned after all these years in Aussie but I did find that a touch patronising old buddy. Those quote marks suggest that you doubt my sincerity which is definitely not the case.
I know you're hooked up to that Homecoming Revolution outfit which tries to persuade South Africans to bring their skills back home after they've qualified for foreign citizenship. Purely out of interest, what is the ratio of black to white South Africans that you're tempting back? It would be interesting to know because some cynical bastard once suggested that Homecoming Revolution's main job was to bring people back to fix up the mess caused by the new elite. In which case I hope it's working for you.
Now I know you've survived many things before like Ge Korsten (a joke...right?) and that your land is beautiful, you are all cool people and even manage to win the odd sporting event once you've persuaded your politicians that the team should be selected on talent rather than demographics. I also know that you have some top business brains there and that there are many hard working people in SA (I used to be one of them, remember?) but please don't accuse those of us who criticise SA's politics of whingeing from a position of comfort. And I'm afraid I had to reach for the sick bag when you started beating the drum about all the good works you do for underprivileged communities. So did Jimmy Savile.
You ask if I've heard of a chap called Julius Malema as if I've been going walkabout in the outback these last few years. We do have telly in Oz you know and broadband that is rather faster than yours so of course I've heard of this thieving layabout. And he worries me more than he seems to worry you.
You've come a long way since those days at Rand Consolidated Investments in the early eighties Paul. I see in the Sunday Times rich list that you are among the top 20 richest men in SA with a fortune estimated at around R2bln. Wow.....who would have thought? I know you live in a very secure complex with 24/7 guards and I am damn sure that your financial affairs have been cleverly structured to legally avoid paying any more tax than you really have to.
That's the privilege of the super rich and I don't have any problem with that. My problem is that I am not sure you are really qualified to speak for the average Saffer when you tell them to buck up and put on a happy face because they're all rainbow children. You're in the very fortunate position of having a lot more choice than the majority of your countrymen and I have no doubt that you have hedge strategies in place should your sunny optimism turn out to be misplaced.
Back in 2007 I recall that you spent R20 million on a campaign to get little Thabo to take crime seriously. I searched the internet and found this piece to refresh your memory. You were forced to withdraw that campaign after government threatened to pull accounts from FNB. It was a PR cock-up of note and to make things worse the rest of the business community put the boot in as well. You were accused of setting up in opposition to the democratically elected government. So it's hardly surprising that your backbone has taken a pummelling and that you are keen to make amends now. But writing complete claptrap and burying your head in the sand is no way to do it.
You claim in your e.mail that you have passionate debates in SA but you know that isn't the case. You know that all the leading newspapers depend on government advertising to survive and that they silence voices they find too strident. You also know that the SABC is a shambles and that Primedia are now seen by many in Gauteng as the national broadcaster. Their saccharine recipe for broadcasting ensures that those too critical of government are labelled un-South African or racist and are, from then on, excluded from the right to debate.
You ask how you can help me from stressing about South Africa Paul. Let me tell you. We ex-pats may sometimes give the impression that we think your politicians are a bunch of incompetent knuckleheads who couldn't pull a greasy stick out of a dead dingo's arse (to coin a local phrase). I assure you that we do this because that's how brand SA comes across after 18 years of freedom. There will be those who demonstrate schadenfreude but many of us still have family there and are genuinely concerned about Clem's 25% failed nation status probability.
What worries me most is that you are a leading business figure and yet you don't seem to be seeing the big picture. On the contrary you seem decidedly laid back and are simply hoping things will work out. I guess if you're worth R2bln and in your sixties then that's a luxury you can afford. What I cannot understand though is how pretending things are OK when they are so obviously far from OK is a good business strategy. Remember that ghastly Dealstream episode, not to mention SPJi and the vast losses in equity trading during your watch? How could you forget? The analysts suggested after the event that the losses could have been much lower if the problems had been recognised and acted upon earlier.
And that's all I'm asking Paul. Your country is being run into the ground by a bunch of commies who don't even support capitalism. How can you expect them to perform? And the amount that is disappearing out of the back door ought to worry you as much as it worries the rest of your less, fortunate countrymen. Kids don't get text books, pregnant women sleep on the floors of ill equipped public hospitals, tenderpreneurs keep the luxury car market buoyant but fail to build the roads they were contracted to.....it's a farce mate. And I won't even mention the succession of dodgy police chiefs you've suffered.
So please Paul, take off those expensive rose tinted specs of yours, smell the raw sewage and stop pretending you have a functioning government. Then I'll be only too happy to put in a good word for you when I get the chance.
See you later
Another rebuttal found online
Billionaire banker says SA is "fine", psychologists urge public to be gentle with him.
Psychologists have begged South Africans to be compassionate towards billionaire banker Paul Harris, after he wrote a letter announcing that the country was "fine". "This is what happens when you live in the money-bubble," said one. "It's easy to be optimistic about South Africa when you can move to Monaco with the change between your couch pillows."
Harris made headlines on the weekend after a letter he penned to a friend went viral. In the letter, Harris reveals that the country is "fine", and assures his friend that "there are more people here with smiles on their faces than any other country I've been to".
This morning the staff at his country seat confirmed that Harris, worth R2-billion, was more than qualified to speak about ordinary South Africans.
Indeed, Mr Harris has got his finger on the pulse of the common man," confirmed his butler, Fotheringham. "The finger is made of platinum, so he doesn't actually have to touch the common man, and I disinfect it every day, but still, he does it."
Housekeeper, Mrs Shortbread, said that Harris often remarked on how all South Africans, regardless of socio-economic status, smiled warmly whenever they saw him.
Och aye, people just light up when he walks into a room!" she gushed. "Some might say it's because he makes about R10,000 a second and they're hoping some of that cash will rub off on them, but he prefers to think it's because South Africans are just intrinsically decent."
Kitchen maid, Elsie Kleintjoppies, said she had never seen Harris, but had seen pictures of him. "He's a beautiful bearded man in a long white robe, with light shining out from his head and a lamb curled up at his feet," she said. "He's just so incredibly compassionate."
Meanwhile, psychologists have asked South Africans to "be gentle" with Harris if they encounter him.
Remember, Mr Harris is a superb businessman, with a vast knowledge of finance," said Dr Naas C. Cyst. "But that money has caused a delusion we call 'Thinking You Know About How Other People Live'. Unfortunately when you're super-rich, the scientific term for what you know about ordinary folks is 'fokkol'." "Fokkol" is Afrikaans for "f-ckall"
He said that the public should not try to wake Mr Harris up from his "sleepwalking money-bubble", but instead gently guide him to the nearest polo club where he could be reintroduced to his own species in a calm and nurturing environment.


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