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Joe Biden Throws Down the Gauntlet on Health Care
Poll of The Day: Faith in Trump's Phantom Health Care Plan
White House Might Be Open to Progressive Drug Price Proposal: Report
How Trump Could Win on Obamacare — and Still Lose
Trump Administration Plans Kidney Care Overhaul That Could Save Billions: Reports
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Fact Check: Trump Claims Drug Prices Fell Last Year
Kamala Harris Takes Aim at 'Price-Gouging' Drug CompaniesBy Michael Rainey
Presidential candidate Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) rolled out a proposal Tuesday to lower drug prices by cracking down on pharmaceutical firms. The plan is similar to proposals from both fellow...
Joe Biden Throws Down the Gauntlet on Health Care
Joe Biden on Monday unveiled a health care plan intended to shore up and expand the Affordable Care Act, sharpening the contrast with other 2020 Democratic presidential candidates who are backing a...
Poll of The Day: Faith in Trump's Phantom Health Care Plan
American voters aren't quite sure what to make of the latest lawsuit seeking to strike down the Affordable Care Act. While legal experts have largely dismissed the lawsuit, now before a federal...
Trump Scraps Key Part of Plan to Lower Drug PricesBy Michael Rainey
The Trump administration has abandoned a key part of its plan to lower prescription drug prices, withdrawing its proposal to eliminate the rebates drugmakers give to pharmacy middlemen. The...
White House Might Be Open to Progressive Drug Price Proposal: ReportBy The Fiscal Times Staff
Three top White House advisers suggested for the first time Tuesday that they might be open to a proposal favored by liberals to cap drug price increases. STAT's Lev Facher and Nicholas Florko report...
How Trump Could Win on Obamacare — and Still Lose
A federal appeals court in New Orleans heard oral arguments on Tuesday in the lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act now that Congress has zeroed out the law's penalty...
GOP Disagreements Could Make It Harder to Tackle Surprise Medical BillsBy Michael Rainey
Lawmakers had hoped they could agree on a plan this summer that would curb surprise medical bills, but intense lobbying by interested groups and disagreements among Republicans are making it...
Trump Administration Plans Kidney Care Overhaul That Could Save Billions: Reports
President Trump will reportedly order a series of initiatives means to overhaul the nation's kidney dialysis and organ transplant systems. The moves could save the federal government billions of...
Drug Giants Score a Win Against the Trump Administration
A federal judge on Monday blocked a Trump administration rule requiring pharmaceutical companies to disclose the wholesale prices of their drugs in television ads. The new policy, which would have...
Fact Check: Trump Claims Drug Prices Fell Last Year
Showing just how much health care costs are on his mind as the 2020 election heats up, President Trump incorrectly claimed in a tweet on Sunday that drug prices fell last year: This Hill's Zack...
Trump Teases an Executive Order on Drug Prices
President Trump said Friday that he is preparing to issue an executive order to reduce prescription drug prices by requiring that the United States government does not pay more than the lowest price...
American Medical Students Less Likely To Choose To Become Primary Care DoctorsBy Victoria Knight, Kaiser Health News
Despite hospital systems and health officials calling out the need for more primary care doctors, graduates of U.S. medical schools are becoming less likely to choose to specialize in one of those...
How Doctors Could Lose Under Medicare for All
A transition to Medicare for All would mean significant pay cuts for most doctors and health care providers — and could have some unintended consequences, according to a recent analysis in the...
Most Voters Back Eliminating Private Insurance — if They Can Keep Their Doctor
As Democrats debate Medicare for All and their presidential contenders navigate the politically treacherous question of whether to call for the elimination of private insurance, a new poll from...
Despite Pressure from Trump and Lawmakers, Drug Prices Keep Rising
Prescription drug prices are surging in 2019, despite pressure from the Trump administration and lawmakers on pharmaceutical companies and public anger about the cost of medications. CBS News's Aimee...


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We just returned from another mini-vacation/business trip to Maine – after an unexpected delay – because it all went brilliantly, until it didn't.
Around noon on Saturday (a week ago), just an hour into the trip home to Central New York, my beloved 12-year-old Honda CR-V's engine light turned on. A couple miles later, the engine bucked – we immediately pulled off onto a convenient exit ramp – and then the oil pressure and battery lights flickered on, just before the car completely shut down, with the engine temperature spiked up into the red.
We opened the hood to find everything sprayed with coolant. There wasn't a drop left inside where it belonged. The radiator was completely dry, and so hot that when we poured in cool water, it boiled up and steamed like we were having Maine lobster for dinner. The car was toast.
My heart raced as panicky scenarios ran through my mind. We were stranded in Nowhere, New Hampshire, but fortunately, rural folks are generally kind – while our hood was up, every single passing motorist asked if we needed help. A burly guy with a ZZ Top-esque beard told us there was a Honda dealer under 15 miles away in Concord, and before long we were en route in a huge flatbed tow truck to see what could be done.
The radiator was split at the bottom due to corrosion; rust from winter road salt has been the primary cause of major repairs for that car. They wouldn't even be able to tell if anything else was wrong until a new radiator was installed and the system re-pressurized. The soonest it could happen? Monday.
Thankfully, the shop gave us a free loaner vehicle. So we dined in downtown Concord and spent the night at the local Comfort Inn. The next day, we decided to make some so-called lemonade.
Over our family-style dinner of chicken pot pie at Lonesome Lake Hut on Friday night, a fellow guest had raved on and on about the awesomeness of Mt. Cardigan – which turned out to be just 44 miles away from Concord! The price of a night at the Appalachian Mountain Club (AMC) Cardigan Lodge was only $25 higher than the Comfort Inn, but included a full dinner and breakfast. When you take meals at an AMC facility, it's your own fault if you leave hungry, so it was a great value proposition. Plus, mountains!
Sunday morning, I called the lodge to ask if they had room for walk-in guests. They said yes, so we checked out of the hotel, hopped into the loaner, zipped over to the dealer to raid our disabled CR-V for our hiking gear, and hit the road. The heavy fog burned off as we arrived to a glorious fall morning. The weather was perfect. The foliage was (figuratively) on fire. The trails were dry. The lodge crew was friendly and helpful. We couldn't ask for a finer welcome.
We picked up a trail map, made trail lunches in the lodge kitchen, swapped our street clothes for hiking togs, laced up our boots, and launched up the trail. We chose a moderate ascent, climbing up and over Firescrew Mountain (3040′), then down the shoulder and up-up-up to the summit of Mt. Cardigan (3155′). The views were simply breathtaking – bright blue sky over layer after layer of mountains fading off into the distance, and everything painted with red, orange, and gold.
We ate our lunches while sitting on the bald granite mountaintop – everything tastes better on the summit of a mountain – and then wended our way down on one of the easier paths. While steep ascents will strain your muscles to kingdom come, steep descents are dangerously hard on the joints, which are slower to recover. And the last thing you want to do halfway down a New Hampshire mountain is sprain your ankle; trust me, I've done it – both ankles, at the same time (that's another story entirely).
Back at the lodge, we checked into the Pileated Woodpecker room, got cleaned up, and then lollygagged in the common room until dinner time. We were the only guests at the lodge that evening, so we had a romantic dinner for two in a dining room built for 60. After dinner we just relaxed, with Mr. Chickadee catching up on baseball news while I made notes about our hikes in my trail log.
We crashed uncharacteristically early at 9 PM and slept soundly for 10 hours, waking only briefly when a Barred owl announced the arrival of dawn. I never sleep 10 hours unless I'm sick, but the stress of the car breakdown and the exertion of the hike demanded it. We arose thoroughly refreshed on Monday morning; the crew fed us a hearty breakfast (fruit, pancakes, bacon, and home fries) and we hiked an easy woodland trail to work out some of the stiffness from Sunday's hike.
Then it was back to Concord to wait for our car repair to be completed – the remainder of the story is much less sunny, so it's "to be continued"…
When faced with a situation that threatened to put a sour finish on an otherwise very pleasant trip, we made some lemonade out of those lemons and had a delightfully good time. Obviously, it might have been ideal to have everything go according to plans, but they didn't – and I'm actually not sure I'd trade our wonderful day at Mt. Cardigan for the easy ride home.


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Joan Quagliata, RN, OCN, is an adult treatment nurse at The Cancer Institute of New Jersey. We asked her about her experience in nursing.
I remember always wanting to be a nurse since I was a young girl. However, going into oncology was not my first choice, but I guess you can say it chose me. My diagnosis with cancer during the same time I was a nursing student led me to my career in oncology. I am a cancer survivor since 1985. The nurses who cared for me and who I learned from as a student, displayed such dedication and skill that I knew at that time this was the nursing path I wanted to take.
Oncology nursing, like the old ad for the Peace Corps, is "the toughest job you will ever love."
— Joan Quagliata, RN, OCN
Throughout the years, I have worked in oncology and have been very fortunate in my career to have worked with wonderful nurses and physicians who have taught me so much. I started working at UMDNJ in 1988 in the hematology/oncology clinic and in December, 2004 I transferred to CINJ where I worked as a staff nurse in the treatment area. As the primary nurse who cared for patients undergoing Phase I clinical trials I learned the complexities of clinical trials and their importance for patients. The changes in therapies throughout the years have astounded me and I feel fortunate to be a part of it.
Recently my 25th year as a nurse made me reflect about what I would want to do in the next part of my life. I have been certified as an oncology nurse throughout my career, but a new certification caught my eye – Certified Breast Care Nurse. I earned the breast care certification in August 2011 and now have the opportunity to work with the Breast Surgical Oncology group at CINJ.
Oncology nursing, like the old ad for the Peace Corps, is "the toughest job you will ever love. "It is the patients, their families, and the opportunity to help them through their struggles and triumphs that inspire me as a nurse and as a person. My wonderful family provides the balance that is needed to work in this challenging field. I wouldn't change a thing!


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The Steelers signed quarterback Brian Hoyer on Tuesday, which sent a pretty good sign that neither Ben Roethlisberger nor Byron Leftwich will be healthy enough to play this Sunday.
Coach Mike Tomlin confirmed that later in the day when he ruled out Leftwich and termed Roethlisberger doubtful to play against the Browns. Tomlin had some better news in terms of Roethlisberger's overall recovery from the rib and shoulder injuries that kept him out of the Week 11 loss to the Ravens.
"He had an additional test done today and all things are very positive in terms of where he is," Tomlin said, via Jamison Hensley of ESPN.com. "We're encouraged about his status."
Tomlin also provided updates on a slew of other injured Steelers. Wide receiver Jerricho Cotchery won't play this week, opening the door for Plaxico Burress' return to the NFL and Antonio Brown will be limited early in the week as he tries to return after an ankle injury. Safety Troy Polamalu is expected to run on Wednesday and is considered questionable after missing the last six weeks with a calf issue. Tackle Marcus Gilbert is also questionable, according to Tomlin.
The Steelers also announced that they have waived running back Baron Batch and linebacker Marshall McFadden to create room for Burress and Hoyer on the roster.


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The new Climate Change Performance Index published at Doha's climate talksshow another record breaking increase in global CO2 emissions
Doha, Qatar—In a time of heavily increasing greenhouse gas emissions and fossil fuel investments, the light at the end of the tunnel cannot yet be seen. The eighth annual Climate Change Performance Index (CCPI), which was published at the Doha climate talks yesterday by Germanwatch and the Climate Action Network Europe (CAN-E), ranks the climate protection performance of the 58 highest emitters worldwide. For the first time, the index used deforestation data, which resulted in a drop in rankings of countries with high forest emissions such as Brazil and Indonesia. Once again, no country made it into the first three spots on the list due to a lack of ambition to reach the goal of keeping global warming below 2 degrees Celsius.
The Worldwatch Institute has been a long term supporter of the CCPI and this year again provided, along with other U.S.-based organizations, an assessment of the United States climate policy performance.
The two biggest emitters, the U.S. and China, are still ranked comparably low. "China's emission levels have risen, but as the massive investments in renewable energies are expected to show an effect shortly, its emissions trend could slow down in the near future and lead to better results," said Jan Burck, Team Leader for German and European Climate Policy at Germanwatch. China is ranked 54 in this year's index.
The United States climbed up in this year's CCPI, from its position at 52 last year to number 43 this year. "The United States has shown a substantial decrease in emissions, both in relative and absolute terms, which is good news for the world's climate," said Alexander Ochs, Worldwatch Institute's Climate and Energy Director who, together with Reese Rogers, MAP Sustainable Energy Fellow at the Institute, contributed to the report. "The scoring of the United States should be interpreted with caution, however. Reductions are, to a substantial degree, a result of the ongoing economic crisis and the relatively warm winter last year which reduced emissions from heating. Another main factor is the shift from coal to natural gas, most of which is unconventional shale gas. Only direct carbon dioxide emissions from the combustion of shale gas are accounted for and methane emissions from the process of conveyance at the borehole are ignored."
"At the same time, we start seeing the results of significant federal support for green technologies including as part of the economic recovery package and tax incentives for renewables," said Ochs. "In addition, states and communities throughout the United States are moving ahead with policies and measures in favor of sustainable technologies and practices. It will now be important to keep these programs at all levels of governments alive while developing a truly comprehensive national climate and energy policy.As a first and most important step, subsidies for fossil fuels finally need to be eradicated that are responsible for unjustified governmental expenses and the deaths of thousands of Americans every year."
CCPI is an instrument meant to enhance transparency in international climate politics. Its aim is to encourage political and social pressure on those countries which have, up to now, failed to take ambitious actions on climate protection as well as to highlight countries with best-practice climate policies. On the basis of standardized criteria, the index evaluates and compares the climate protection performance of 58 countries that are, together, responsible for more than 90 percent of global energy-related CO2 emissions. Eighty percent of the evaluation is based on objective indicators of emissions trend and emissions level and 20 percent of the results are built upon national and international climate policy assessments by more than 200 experts from the respective countries.
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About the Worldwatch Institute: Worldwatch is an independent research organization based in Washington, D.C. that works on energy, resource, and environmental issues. The Institute's State of the World report is published annually in more than 18 languages. For more information, visit www.worldwatch.org.
About Germanwatch: Germanwatch has been actively promoting global equity and the preservation of livelihoods since 1991. In doing so, the Institute focuses on the politics and economics of the North with their worldwide consequences. The situation of marginalized people in the South is the starting point of Germanwatch's work. Together with its members and supporters as well as with other actors in civil society, the Institute intends to represent a strong lobby for sustainable development. For more information, visit www.germanwatch.org.
About the Climate Action Network Europe (CAN-E): CAN-E is recognized as Europe's leading network working on climate and energy issues. With over 100 members in 25 European countries, CAN-E unites to work to prevent dangerous climate change and promote sustainable energy and environment policy in Europe. For more information, visit www.climnet.org.


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President Barack Obama's nomination of former Sen. Chuck Hagel to be defense secretary may increase the odds that the man passed up for that job will lead the Energy Department instead.
Deputy Defense Secretary Ash Carter's name had already circulated as a potential successor to Energy Secretary Steven Chu, who is widely expected to step down this year.
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Other potential candidates could include former Sen. Byron Dorgan, former assistant DOE Secretary Sue Tierney, former Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm, former Obama Assistant Energy Secretary Cathy Zoi, Deputy Energy Secretary Dan Poneman, former Colorado Gov. Bill Ritter and former Clinton Energy Department official Dan Reicher.
But the speculation over Carter has risen following Obama's announcement Monday that he wants Hagel to replace outgoing Defense Secretary Leon Panetta.
"Obviously, that's a little different direction, but I think politically that might be sort of a clever choice because it would kind of elevate these issues of national security," said one former senior GOP Energy Department official who spoke on condition of anonymity since Chu has not yet announced his resignation.
Although he lacks a distinctive energy policy background, Carter would bring attention to the department's often overlooked but immense responsibility overseeing the nation's nuclear weapons stockpile and efforts to pursue nonproliferation agreements.
And under the Obama administration, the military has taken a leading role in efforts to develop new biofuels as a way to reduce the need for troops to be potentially put in harm's way during oil shipments in hostile areas.
After the withering criticism the administration — and Chu specifically — received over the failed $535 million investment in Solyndra that the DOE oversaw, a candidate like Carter could be a relatively painless confirmation.
Another former senior Energy Department official who served during a Republican administration said the GOP would rally around Carter.
"I think they like him a lot and they'd be relieved to have him. He would command respect," the former DOE official said.
Former department officials from both parties said Carter would have credibility regarding energy security and managing nuclear weapons.
"The nuclear weapons program at DOE is a major part of the department," said a former senior Clinton administration Energy Department official. "In terms of really understanding a strategy we have in the country regarding nuclear weapons, that would be one thing Ash Carter would bring to the table."


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That can be seen in black-and-white with some red highlights in a statistical breakdown of the Lipscomb Bisons 2010 season in which they posted a 19-36 record. The Bisons were 9-17 in Atlantic Sun Conference games.
The Bisons set NCAA era program records in nine offensive categories _ batting average (.301), runs (396), triples (21), home runs (59), runs batted in (358), slugging percentage (.461), hit by pitch (76), stolen bases (93) and stolen base attempts (119). The 915 total bases are second to the 941 in 2008. The 598 hits are second behind the 655 in 2008. The 1,986 at bats in 2010 are second to the 2,220 in 2008. The 2008 season marked the most wins by the program with 33 and their first trip to the NCAA Tournament.
"I felt like our pitching was going to be adequate enough to back up the run support," Bisons' coach Jeff Forehand said. "Obviously, it wasn't.
"You have to pitch it and catch it. You can't let in more runs than you knock in. We showed we can have a great offensive year, but have sub-par year in wins and losses when we don't play defense and we don't pitch."
The .301 team batting average marks the first time the Bisons have broken that barrier as a team. The 2001 team batted .298. The 2008 team batted .295.
"That is the one that stands out for me the most," Forehand said. "That is one we have been trying to crack for the longest time."
The Bisons posted a .381 on base percentage, one percentage point short of the NCAA era record of .382 set in 2001 and only 13 points lower than the .368 recorded by the 2008 team.
"From a coaching standpoint we like on base percentage a little bit more because we think that produces and leads to more runs than the actual batting average," Forehand said. "The batting average just means we are producing more hits. If your batting average is .301 then you should be at least a .500 baseball team."
The Bisons were one short of 60 home runs as a team, easily eclipsing 2008's previous high of 48. Forehand recalls that the 2008 team had a knack for timely offensive production.
"The 2008 team had a knack for scoring runs with two outs," Forehand said. "That team had a knack for getting the big base hit. We had guys who were producing timely hits.
"The 2010 team set a lot of records, but sometimes we didn't hit opportunistically. I can't say anything about our offense this year. Chris Collins does a good job with the hitting as an assistant coach."
The offense loses Ryan Wilkins, Andrew Nickerson and Tyler Wilson. Forehand is hopeful that Tennyson Dodd can step in for Wilkins and that Ricky Coleman can fill in for Tyler Wilson. Finding an offensive replacement for Nickerson is a little more open in terms of decision making.
"We have numbers to replace those guys offensively," Forehand said. "We have to be more consistent on the mound where these records we set offensively can stand up. You have to put up `W"s with all of those offensive records."
The pitching staff combined for a 7.54 earned run average this season, the highest in the program's history in NCAA Division I. They also gave up the most hits (652), the most runs (471) and the most earned runs (410). Opponent's hit .322 against the Bisons' pitchers, also a program high, and the highest since 2006's .312 average.
"Hopefully, we can be equal on all sides next season," Forehand said. "We are shooting to break the offensive records again next year.
"I'm hoping the offense can pick up where it left off and the pitching can hold us in there. If we pitch to our potential we are going to be a pretty good team next season."
The Bisons will open the 2011 season with three straight weekend series at Ken Dugan Field at Stephen L. Marsh Stadium against Dayton, Marshall and Purdue.
Written by Mark McGee, Senior Publisher/Director of Media Relations. Assistant coach Chris Collins provided the statistical analysis.


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The Seller's Network is picking up speed, and soon will be the Tourist's Guide for anyone coming to Milwaukee or Wisconsin... http://www.facebook.com/TheSellersNetwork
Shortwave Industries has recently because an Affiliate of Amazon.com and & Apple's iTunes store. Links to different products --including our own-- will be available at the Shortwave Industries website and our Seller's Network page on Facebook. More improvement to the website is coming!
The Seller's Network is picking up speed, and soon will be the Tourist's Guide for anyone coming to Milwaukee or Wisconsin... http://www.facebook.com/TheSellersNetwork
After doing lots of research on SEOs (Search Engine Optimization) and Online Marketing, I've discovered that the Website needs to be heavily altered to be User Friendly and noticeable to Search engines.
Google has been very helpful in the journey and I intend to use ALL things at my disposal to my this site and company more lucrative. Wisconsin Food & Wine is the central focus. Wineries in Wisconsin?... Absolutely!
The Shortwave Industries website has not only added more products, it is now affiliated with Amazon.com!
You will see various banners on our pages, bringing Revenue to us and Amazon. Businesses working Hand-in-Hand. The new products added are:
Wine Lover's Travel Kit (basic)
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Massage Videos on our Wellness Page
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"A business without Sales is not a Business..." Mark Cuban, Shark Tank
Recently, we've had to change a few things in the building of our company. We will be expanding our Market in Sales of local wines (Wisconsin does make Wine), redesigning certain products, increasing our presence on the Internet (through better SEOs) and getting more in touch with Social Media (Facebook, Twitter, etc.).
Small businesses are important locally and to the World Economy that we live in. But in order to grow, they need Marketing and definitely need sales. We will be diligently working on that...
Hopefully, we can get others to help us.
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With the new year comes newer oppurtunities to create products, market to different regions in the U.S. and provide potential Customers with the best service possible.
Shortwave Industries will be expanding its "New Tech" department with new innovative products. With our new Facebook pages, we will expand our Social Media presence. And, hopefully, we'll be able to create more programs that will help our local communities...
Shortwave Industries has created a Facebook page that allows Small Business Owners and anyone selling things to post their products and services. It's called The Seller's Network...
Coming soon is Small Business Saturday on November 24th! Support your local businesses. They have the best products and the best deals.
Black Friday may be the most hyped, but Small Biz Saturday is the most important...
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Back to top PimperkalleGuest Posted: Wed Nov 03, 2004 10:20 Post subject: Back to top MerthosGuest Posted: Thu Nov 04, 2004 07:09 Post subject: An information for all the players who don't play the german version. Tobi's account was locked by Maelstroem for 14 days. Back to top alphabravoMajorJoined: 15 Feb 2004Posts: 827Location: UK Posted: Wed Nov 10, 2004 09:36 Post subject: ^or for those who play the german version but still dont understand these things for various reasons such as being away and not speaking all that much german he is locked in .de also? can i get to his planets in 3 days???? no it would take ~14-20 to reach him, maybe more_________________Major alphabravo in the house Thalgados-Sissyhood Back to top AurionGuest Posted: Thu Nov 11, 2004 05:57 Post subject: Tobi is no longer blocked. Back to top GeierGuest Posted: Tue Nov 23, 2004 04:14 Post subject: Respect number 5 congratulates to Ayatollah and Seldon. I think we get the 10 already still fully. Back to top AyatollahGuest Posted: Tue Nov 23, 2004 09:28 Post subject: if you keep declearing independent - maybe.... if you cooperate - nope Back to top GeierGuest Posted: Tue Nov 23, 2004 12:35 Post subject: Ayatollah: am I to wait to Krondor me attack? I nevertheless only integrated over by Krondor to be again integrated. Thus leave your lies! Back to top AyatollahGuest Posted: Tue Nov 23, 2004 13:44 Post subject: i dont know anything of Krondor. Since i left Kron i didnt had much contact to him.... Seldon is the leader of our little expedition... Back to top LiamGuest Posted: Tue Nov 23, 2004 15:00 Post subject: Tobi, one question: What's your problem with Krondor? I have never read any post from him to this "discussion". Is it, because Ayatollah was Kron before, or because of Kron was Hiltia before? I can't understand, why you're blaming Krondor for things, he never did and maybe don't want to do. Back to top GeierGuest Posted: Tue Nov 23, 2004 15:25 Post subject: * gg * If this is so, why seldon didn't answered on my letters. Why seldon only let you answer his issues if he is the rulor of your house? I will be integrated again and again no matter what I am doing. If I stay in your house Krondor will integrate me and vice versa. He is only 900LJ behind me. In my oppionin this is ripping and nothing else. You can hide it along in your words that you only take back planets from other players but I have now 27 planets out of 192 before. This is ripping ... the planets you are attacking are not only planets of players who where attacked by Hommel. In this case I have to say that Hommel was very big and the majority of the house wanted to go to war. Therefor we decidet to attack Zamonien, a house with wich we had no contract in any matter. After attacking this house Handuro integrated Zamonien and protect those players. This occurs although the contract with Handuro clearly said that Hommel wasn't allowed to get into the issues (wars) of Handuro and vice versa. So Handuro wasn't allowed to guard the players of Zamonien. It's not fair for the players in Zamonien for sure but it's a war game and the majority of high counsil of Hommel wanted this war. Because Handuro ignored this part of the contract the contract with Handuro had been broken BY Handuro. Therefore the NAT with Handuro was been broken by Handuro himself by guarding a house with which hommel was in war with. This issue was part of the contract with Handuro and both sides signed this. So Merthos accepted to not get into position of standing between a house Hommel is at war with by signing the contract. I have only 27 planets left. Less than you, I think. But it's no ripping. It's only befreeing the planets of other players, for sure ... In my opionion it's equal how you attack someone. If it's happening in the way you are behaving, with declarence of independence only to get me another time, it's nothing else than ripping. Your background for the ripping is equal. An in your oppionion "good" reason does'n give you the right to rip players. So I have no choice -I must do what i have to do to get along without beeing ripped by Ayatollah, seldon and Krondor to one planet. 27 I have left and if I whish to play I have to do something no matter what. greetings tobi Back to top AyatollahGuest Posted: Tue Nov 23, 2004 16:09 Post subject: as i said before we usually only wanted to integrate you 3 times - you would have 80 planets left this way. That would still have been more then the average of seldon, me and minkie after your planets had been split. Then i told you to send me a contract - and you denied. I asked some other players what to do and most of them said they would be very grateful if we could smash your fleet or at least steal your jumpdrive, because you would overrun them with your 40k combat power fleet and your jumpdrive. The fact that you didnt try to make any contract with us and that other players plead for it we decided to conquer you again to steal your jumpdrive. Instead of staying in our shelter you decleared independent, so we had to conquer you again. Sadly, you could use your jumpdrive in the same turn we conquered you. So much for the history.... now about krondor: *i dont see Krondor on my map *i dont know anything of actions krondor might want to do *i did *not* speak with Krondor in any way since 265/3500 (35 days ago) How do you know where Krondors WP is and what he is going to do? 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T-Mobile lays ground for embedded SIMs
Wanna change networks, sunshine? Not on my watch
T-Mobile USA has announced plans to use embedded SIM chips in devices making use of its GSM network, preventing punters from using them on other networks by switching the SIM.
Network locking isn't the motivation behind the move - apparently it's all about getting the SIM smaller and more robust, and to remove the complexity of having to put a SIM into a device which might be anything from a rainfall sensor to an electricity meter.
T-Mobile's new embedded SIM is about the size of a pin head and much more durable than existing models, though it performs the same function in the same way as a traditional SIM.
Even traditional SIMs aren't as large as they appear; the electronics are glued to the back the visible metal contacts and hang in a void cut into the plastic, the components themselves being only a couple of millimetres square. The additional space is used to make the SIM fit human fingers, and is defined as part of GSM. Reducing the size of a SIM is technically easy - just remove the plastic - but doing so means the device no longer conforms to the GSM standard.
In Europe that's a significant problem, as mobile phone networks are required to conform to the GSM standard which includes a removable SIM. It's a requirement that operators have tried to work around many times, including one case where a drop of glue was applied to every SIM to prevent users switching them - conforming to the letter of the law rather than its spirit.
In the USA operators can deploy what they like - CDMA networks have a SIM equivalent, but no one uses it as no one wants customers to be able to switch networks by sliding in a different chip. But when it comes to non-telephony devices, a non-removable SIM might make more sense.
Take the example of the Kindle, which uses Sprint's CDMA network to a Qualcomm back end, with Amazon footing the bill. The Kindle would gain nothing by having a removable SIM - it couldn't be used on any other network, and Amazon would certainly balk at paying the bill, so such a thing would make the service much more difficult to manage. Given that users aren't paying the bill anyway, they shouldn't really care.
So as mobile phones become much more than devices on which to talk, it might be time to consider the embedded SIM, even if it means handing more power to the operators. ®


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man this year was the best it's ever been!!! everyone enjoy!! this event is held in roselawn indiana only twice a year. lots of things to do and see. i also have pictures from the wet t-shirt contest on here later.. keep checking back!! o ya and don't forget to vote!!
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This post had a profound impact on me. I laughed at the train station video. I was transfixed by the sand art performance. And I realized that I am missing a lot of the magic.
I have been heads-down in my business, blogging and teaching opportunities and have not taken enough time to see the beautiful part of the web. You're making me think about the transformational aspects of the social web from an emotional point of view, not just a financial one.
If I can sit alone in my office and watch a young lady move sand in a way that brings a tear to my eye, clearly there is amazing power here for all of us. You're right, Jamie. These can be heart-driven tools, not just head-driven tools.


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Sidney Abrams, 88, of Heritage Village, husband of Muriel A. (Albert) Abrams died, Tuesday, July 10, at the Lutheran Home of Southbury.
Mr. Abrams was born November 21, 1923 in McKeesport, Pennsylvania, son of the late Benjamin and Esther (Abeloff) Abrams.
He was raised in the Bronx, New York where he attended Dewitt Clinton High School and took classes at City College of New York, and graduated from Casey Jones Academy of Aeronautics.
In 1942, Mr. Abrams volunteered to serve his country in the United States Army Air Corps during World War Two. As a crew chief he was stationed in Hawaii, Okinawa, Angaur and in the Palau Islands of Western Carolines. He served with the 99th Bomb Squadron, 494th Bomb Group, a wing of the Seventh Air Corps. He received an honorable discharge in 1946 with the rank of Staff Sergeant and earned several area medals.
After the War he joined his father in the trucking business and helped form Abrams Freight Corp.
In 1963 he and his family moved to West Haven where he and his wife founded The Recreation Showroom, a retail operation dealing with pool tables and other game room furnishings. Now known as Encore Billiards and Game Room, it has remained a family business in Milford, CT.
In later years Mr. Abrams and his wife moved to Heritage Village, Southbury. Mr. Abrams was a lifelong airplane hobbyist; he built many ready to fly planes which were appropriately displayed.
Besides his wife whom he married August 12, 1950, he is survived by 2 sons, Lawrence "Larry" and his wife Catherine Abrams of Orange, Edward and his wife Lorraine "Lorrie" Abrams of Roxbury, a daughter, Lynne Abrams Cornwall and her husband David Cornwall of Roxbury, 3 grandchildren, Jennifer and her husband Tye Schlegmilch, Michael Abrams of NYC, Jayden Cornwall of Roxbury, 4 great grandchildren, and 2 nieces, Linda of NJ, Barbara of LINY.
He was predeceased by a sister, Dorothy Seif.
Graveside services will be held in the Roxbury Cemetery on Thursday July 12 at 3:00 p.m.
The Southbury Funeral Home of Munson-Lovetere, 235 Main Street North is in charge of arrangements.
To send an online condolence visit: www.munsonloveterefuneralhome.com
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Staff writer
When county Planning and Zoning Director Tonya Richards and developer Garry Dunnegan showed commissioners a new draft of a plat for Saddle Creek Estates at the county lake, only one adjustment needed to be made.
After discussing different roads in the plat, commissioners requested a specification that a road not be built over a 40-foot easement in the back row of houses. Commissioner Dan Holub said the easement looks like a road, but will not be used as one.
Dunnegan said four of the 10 lots in the subdivision have already been sold, and he does not see there being a need for much marketing once everything is finalized.
"I think once this is cleaned up, it will be a nice addition to the lake," he said.
Road and bridge keeping busy
Superintendent Randy Crawford notified commissioners the road and bridge department will put down a chip seal for Remington Rd. from Pilsen up to U.S. 56.
Commissioners also approved the department to spend $189,947 for three miles of a double chip seal and four miles of a single chip seal on 340th Rd. from Quail Creek Rd. to Morris County.
Road and bridge also was allowed to purchase a $90,000 2008 Kenworth dump truck and hire Brett Haws to work in the Pilsen area as a grader at $2,179 a month.
In other business:
- Commissioners approved a $17,300 bid from D&L Enterprises to use new pipe and materials for a fence project at the north end of the lake at beach cove. The county will pay a third of the price as a down payment to get the project started.
- After meeting with Transfer Station Director Rollin Schmidt for a five-minute closed session for personnel, commissioners approved Schmidt to hire a part-time worker to work at the station on Friday and Saturday mornings. A bin will be available for use for trash or recycling on the east side of the transfer station on weekends.
- Clerk Tina Spencer sent a countywide e-mail inviting citizens to participate in a county community service day April 25.
- Commissioners met for 10 minutes in a closed session discussing personnel. No action was taken upon return to open session.


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School Talk: School parking lot needs rebuilding
As the current school year draws to a close, plans for 2013-14 are progressing rapidly. The district will be replacing several staff members due to retirement, staff moving to other school districts, and staff additions to reduce class section sizes.
As a part of the district facility management program, the district is exploring the potential of extensively repairing and resurfacing the parking lot at the main campus site near the High School and Jefferson Elementary. The parking lot subsurface is original from the time when the High School was built. Over the years, several overlay surfaces have been applied. The surface has also been subject to seal coating and crack-fill applications several times.
Engineers recommend total reconstruction of the parking lot. Due to the size of the project and the process of reconstruction, the estimated cost is substantial. The cost estimates, without requesting competitive bids, totals near $600,000. The school budget does not have discretionary financial resources of this size available. Therefore, the district has explored alternative financing options.
The most favorable and logical financing option is to implement a process known as tax abatement bonding. The abatement law allows the school district to bond for the cost of the project. The bonds would be repaid through local taxes spread over a time period of up to 15 years. The abatement bonding process is exempt from the referendum process.
The abatement bonding process minimizes the local property tax impact. Examples of the tax impact of this project are: (a) A $100,000 valued parcel of residential property would equal $2 per year. (b) A $100,000 valued parcel of commercial property would equal $4 per year. (c) A 160 acre piece of agriculture homestead property would equal $30 per year. (d) A 160 acre piece of non-homestead property would equal $47 per year.
The tax impact is minimal using the abatement bonding process. Moving forward with the project allows the school district to preserve the investment in school district facilities for the next 20 years.
The abatement funding process requires several procedural steps including MDE review/comment, public notice, plus a public hearing. This funding option will be discussed at future school board meetings.


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March 27, 2009
STOCKTON, Calif. - Jake Rosener matched his career-high with 18 kills as the 12th-ranked UC Santa Barbara men's volleyball team handily swept unranked Pacific Friday in MPSF action at the Alex G. Spanos Center. It was the third time this season that the Gauchos, who took tonight's match by scores of 30-26, 30-22, and 30-25, defeated the Tigers.
UCSB improved to 8-13 overall and 4-12 in MPSF play, while Pacific fell to 3-20 and 0-14.
The Gauchos dominated offensively, hitting .344 (51-18-96) to the Tigers' .212 (41-20-99). Even when Pacific swung strong at .355 in the third set, Santa Barbara rose to the occasion and hit an impressive .485 in that frame. UCSB out-blocked Pacific 10 to 9 for the match.
Aside from Rosener, Jeff Menzel (12) and Cullen Irons (10) each posted double-digit kill totals. Menzel and Scott Slaughter each had five blocks and Mike Runkle had a match-high 10 digs. Splitting time at the setter position, Andy McGuire had 20 assists and Vince DeVany recorded 19.
The Tigers were led by Jeff Hendershot's 14 kills. Joe Forbes had five blocks.
UCSB opened its season with a 3-1 win over Pacific on Jan. 9 at the Elephant Bar Restaurant Collegiate Invitational. A 3-0 conference victory against the Tigers on Feb. 20 snapped a four-match losing slide for the Gauchos. UCSB has now won the past eight contests between the two squads.
UCSB plays at seventh-ranked Stanford Saturday. The Gauchos will be looking to avenge a 3-2 loss to the Cardinal back in February at Robertson Gymnasium. The rematch is slated for a 7 p.m. first serve at Maples Pavilion. The match can be followed with Gametracker at UCSBgauchos.com and gostanford.com will be providing online video coverage.
Santa Barbara will host No. 4 USC on Wednesday, Apr. 1 at 7 p.m. Tickets are available online through Ticket Return, by calling the Athletics Ticket Office at (805) 893-UCSB, or by visiting the ticket office inside the Intercollegiate Athletics (ICA) building on campus.
In its ongoing effort to draw awareness to breast cancer and to promote its research, UCSB Athletics is sponsoring Pink Week Mar. 23-29. The softball, women's tennis, and women's water polo teams will feature promotions and other Pink Week activities at several of their games. Pink Week is part of UCSB Athletics' BE Great initiative.
**UCSB - a nationally recognized university in both academic and athletic excellence - is located on the central coast of California in a picturesque campus and community setting on the Pacific Ocean. Each year over 450 NCAA Division I Gaucho student-athletes compete for national championships, succeed in the classroom, and give back to the community.**
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HUNTINGDON, Pa. – Kristen Haley poured in a career-high 25 points and Aja Wallpher dished out 11 assists as the York College women's basketball team advanced to the second round of the 2012 NCAA Division III Tournament courtesy of an 86-66 triumph over St. Vincent. The Spartans, 23-5, move on to face Juniata, while the Bearcats close out their campaign with a 22-7 record.
"I thought we played one of our better games of the season," Spartan head coach Betsy Witman said. "We handled their pressure well. We defended well and made good adjustments throughout the game."
Haley proved consistently tough throughout the contest. Her 25, which bests her previous career-high of 23, came courtesy of an 8-for-14 performance from the floor and an impressive 9-for-10 showing from the free throw line. The sophomore also pulled down seven caroms for York in the opening-round triumph.
"They had no answer for Haley," Witman said, speaking of Haley's outstanding performance. "We did a good job of getting her the ball in scoring position."
Wallpher captured her second double-double of the 2012 campaign as she tallied 13 points in addition to her 11 dimes. She totaled 39 minutes for York and took tremendous care of the ball amidst St. Vincent pressure, which stretched full-court during a portion of the first half, only committing one turnover. The nation's leader in assists now bumps her season average to 7.2 helpers per contest.
"Wallpher had one of her best floor games of the season," Witman continued. "Handled their pressure . . . kept the game under control. Just played really composed."
After a tight back-and-forth first half, which the Spartans led 43-38 at the break, the Green and White steadily opened up their lead during the second 20 minutes. After shooting 55.6% in the first frame, the Spartans followed that effort with a 51.9% showing in the second while holding St. Vincent to just 26.5% from the floor over the latter 20.
York started the second half on an 8-2 run through the first 4:23 led by three points from Brittany Hicks, a triple from Brittany Percich, and a Wallpher layup. That effort allotted the Green and White a 51-40 advantage, as the Spartans would not allow their lead to dip below double-digits for the remainder of the game.
The margin reached 15 just 3:03 later by way of a Haley traditional three-point play, leading 57-42. York held their lead between 12 and 18 for the next 10:33 as they never allowed St. Vincent to go on an extended run.
With 2:01 remaining, it was Haley who fittingly pushed lead to a 20 at 82-62 on her final bucket of the contest. York's margin would max out at 24 courtesy of layups from April Sparkman and Taylor Santor, before the game finished with an 86-66 Spartan win.
"It was a team effort," Witman said of the victory. "April had a great game. [Brittany Percich] came off the bench and was very solid. [Kelsey Murphy] didn't take a lot of shots but when she did they went in."
Sparkman proved a huge factor for the Green and White owning their 43-38 halftime lead. With York facing tremendous Bearcat pressure, Sparkman knocked down a number of big shots. Over the first 20 minutes, the senior tallied 14 points on 5-for-10 shooting including an impressive 4-for-8 from three.
Aside from Haley and Wallpher, Sparkman finished with 18 points while Hicks totaled 17 points and seven rebounds. Murphy knocked down eight for the Green and White while Percich, with her effort and consistent play, provided an excellent presence off the bench.
For the Bearcats, Devin McGrath led all scorers with 31, as she went 13-for-21 from the floor. McGrath also pulled down a game-high 14 rebounds. Brittany Sedlock had also registered a double-double with 19 points and 11 boards.
The Spartans return to action on Saturday in a 7:30 pm second-round tilt against the winner of host Juniata who topped Castleton St. 84-57 in their first-round contest.
PHOTO: Aja Wallpher put together a stellar 13-point, 11 assist, one turnover effort against St. Vincent in York's NCAA opening-round triumph. Courtesy of Brent Duffy - York College (Pa.) Athletic Communications Intern.


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Ricky Johnson hit one of two free throws with 2.1 seconds left to give Bethune-Cookman a one-point victory over Maryland Eastern Shore.
DAYTONA BEACH — After watching his team's six-point lead evaporate in the final minute, Bethune-Cookman coach Gravelle Craig did not want to see Monday's game go into overtime.
With 14 seconds on the clock and the score tied, Craig designed a play to put point guard Ricky Johnson on the foul line.
The play worked to perfection and Johnson hit one of two free throws with 2.1 seconds remaining to give the Wildcats a 58-57 victory over Maryland Eastern Shore in a Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference game at Moore Gymnasium.
"We just needed to win to get our confidence up,'' said Craig, whose squad had lost three of four entering the game.
Craig and the Wildcats had to survive one more scare, however, before they could celebrate. Ishaq Pitt's desperation 65-footer hit the back of the rim before bouncing to the floor.
"That looked good,'' Craig said. "When it left his hand it was on target.''
The Wildcats improved to 8-14, 3-4 in the MEAC, while Maryland Eastern Shore fell to 1-15, 1-4. It was the second one-point loss in two days for the Hawks, who fell to Florida A&M 55-54 on Saturday.
"Our kids battled,'' UMES coach Frankie Allen said. "We executed down the stretch and put ourselves in position to win. We didn't have any timeouts left (after Johnson put B-CU ahead), but we did get a 65-footer off.
"A play here, a free throw there, maybe it could have been different.''
Johnson was told to dribble toward center Francis Ezeiru. B-CU center Alex Smith screened the man guarding Johnson, and the 5-9 sophomore was able to get the basket and get fouled by Ezeiru.
"We were spacing the floor and Ricky was going to attack the basket and get to the line,'' said Adrien Coleman, who scored a team-high 17 points in 28 minutes of action. "He's one of our best free-throw shooters.''
Johnson, who hit two free throws with 1:35 left to put the Wildcats up 57-51, hit the first of two to put the 'Cats ahead with 2.1 seconds remaining.
"Ricky's tough with the ball, and he's a great free-throw shooter,'' Craig said. "But we had four turnovers in the final two and a half minutes, and with a veteran group, that shouldn't happen.
Johnson scored 11 points for B-CU, while Smith had a team-high 10 rebounds. Kevin Mays led the Hawks with 20 points and grabbed 11 boards. Mays' driving layup tied the score at 57 with 21 seconds left. It was the Hawks' first lead since Mays' corner jumper put them up 35-30 with 18:42 left.
"This was an important win,'' Johnson said. "We had a team meeting before the game, and we discussed playing harder and more as a team.''
The Wildcats will try to even their conference record at 4-4 at 4 p.m. Saturday at home against rival Florida A&M.
"That's a big game Saturday,'' Craig said. "I honestly think we've got a run in us the second half (of the conference schedule).''


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Thursday, 7 July 2011
practice makes...
...more practice. Let me explain. I don't often blog about anything other than food or veganism here, but sometimes other things are relevant. In this case, yoga is relevant to cooking. Before you roll your eyes (or hell, after you roll your eyes) keep reading. It might help.
There are things we do that we don't stop doing until we die. You can get better at it, it can be fun or not fun, but the point is that you do it. For me, cooking is one of those things. We don't *have* to cook - there are certainly enough ready-made foods around. And I don't have to cook at a practice - one can certainly approach it just as a means to getting food into one's tummy. But if I had to pick a way to describe my cooking, I would say that I have a cooking practice.
A little background: I am an improvisational cook. Though I have cookbooks, and read cookbooks, I rarely follow recipes (even when baking - GASP). In the kitchen, very few things flummox me. I cook easily, and while not every single meal is a masterpiece, I'm just as happy when I have to improvise because I'm cleaning out the fridge, have run out of an ingredient that I could have sworn I had lots of, or because of new dietary preferences or restrictions, as I am when everything goes according to my evil culinary plans. I love cooking. To me, it's like dancing when nobody's looking. It's like jazz. It's like... running really fast when you're bursting with energy. It's like fingerpainting with a 4 year old. You get the point. All of these things are experiences, not endpoints. And all of them are things that come more easily the more you do them. So the grownup way of saying all that is that for me, cooking is a practice. Like all practices, the point is that it's part of my life. It's something I do every day (or almost). It doesn't interrupt me being me, it's just part of me.
Wanna hear my woo-woo hippie secret? I've started going to yoga at 6.30. Every single morning. I started doing it in self defense - I can't always make it to evening classes if things pick up at work, and I like to be able to socialize in the evenings, or work, or cook. So when yoga is relegated to evenings, it often gets skipped, and is a source of major scheduling woes. And after not-too-many weeks of doing the same series of asana every morning, I rapidly realized one very important thing: the asana are not the practice. Getting up at 5 is the practice. Getting on my bike is the practice. Showing up is the practice. Breathing is the practice. The asana focus me, but the practice is much more than that. Oh, and the exercise is a side-effect. The muscles in my arms are a side effect. Being able to do the splits fairly effortlessly is a side effect. Being (nearly) able to walk about on my hands is a side effect. These side effects are all awesome, but I can't motivate myself to get out of bed before sunrise with the possibility that I may one day have a nicer ass. I just have to get out of bed because I'm getting out of bed. I can't climb on my bike in the rain for killer abs. I can climb on my bike, every morning, to climb on my bike. And I sure as hell can't make it through the entire primary series before breakfast for any goal. I can, however, breathe in and out and focus on whatever asana I'm in (or attempting) right then and there, and eventually the series gets done. You see, there isn't a goal. If I ever manage to do every single asana in the primary series, I won't "finish" anything. I'll just fall on my ass less. And keep getting up at 5. And some days my yoga practice really sucks: sometimes I'm tired, or unbendy or unbalanced or unfocused and one time, I just kind of burst into tears. But the thing about a practice is that it includes the sucky days too. Yoga on days when I fall over or can't keep my mind from wandering off in all directions is just as much yoga as days when every asana falls into place and I experience each and every breath conciously. The only way to fail at practicing is not to show up.
Now here's how it relates to cooking: the final dish is a side effect. Being able to cook a dinner party for 8 without a recipe book or even knowing what the ingredients will be the day before (and not finding that stressful) is a side effect. Making a cake that you imagine but don't have a recipe for, and having it work out the first time is a side effect. Making my own chocolate bars is a side effect. Cooking is a practice. Each step is it's own thing. If you worry too much about the end product, then it becomes a chore. Not that the end product isn't awesome. It is. I love preparing food for those I love. But I'm not torturing myself to make them something. The practice is this: shopping, chopping, mixing, tasting. The practice is putting combinations of spices together over and over until you know how they will affect each other before starting, it is chopping often enough that chopping takes on an effortless rhythm that isn't unlike breathing. It's paying attention to smells and textures when they happen so that eventually you can smell when the rice is done without opening the pot or pull sesame seeds off the heat when they're toasty but before they burn. It's making bread over and over and eventually (trust me) you just know when the dough is right. It's really listening to what your loved ones tell you they like and don't like and inventing recipes just for them. Cooking is cooking and it doesn't end, so you might as well let it be an end in itself. The food, my friend, is a side effect. Oh, and the only way to truly fail at cooking is to fail to show up. Making plain boiled rice is not lesser cooking than is a 4 layer birthday cake, or Christmas dinner. Sometimes I burn the rice. And that's practice too.
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My favorite magazine in the world is Esquire magazine, primarily for the interviews that they publish. When I learned that Bob Harris was publishing a book on his experiences in micro-finance called "The International Bank of Bob," I saw my chance. The challenges to getting a coherent interview to take place were many. 1: As much of a fan as I was of the "Esquire" style interviews, I am just that, a fan and not a journalist. 2: Trying to download his book to my IPAD in the middle of the Andes was more difficult than I could have imagined (i.e. his book was released March 5th but as of the 8th of March iTunes was still offering me a pre-order). 3: Bob was in the middle of his book promotions so trying to steal some time away from him could be difficult. Thankfully, and eventually, we were able to overcome them all.
Once Bob agreed to the interview I had to come up with some questions. Preferably some new and interesting ones as I am sure that he must be answering the same questions over and over. Below are the results.
Your last writing assignment was to review luxury resorts for a travel magazine. Could you describe what motivated you jump from that to delving into the world of micro-finance?
"The luxury thing is fun to do once, to be honest, no question. But after a while, it gets boring to just wobble aimlessly through these giant marble palaces, trying to find new synonyms for "fancy." Most of these places are kinda disconnected from the rest of the world. String them together for months on end, and you find yourself looking forward to the chaos of the airport, just so you have authentic human contact. And then in Dubai, I found myself staying in billion-dollar hotels being constructed by immigrant laborers from South Asia, Southeast Asia, and East Africa — guys making maybe six or seven bucks a day, people who would never even see the inside of places that I was getting paid to sleep in without lifting a finger. We all spend our lives coping with disparities of wealth, but this felt positively psychotic. I grew up working-class in Ohio, and my dad was a warehouse worker for General Motors who busted his butt all day to put food on the table. There was no way my heart couldn't start shifting very hard toward the workers. So I'd been given all this money just to live a life of luxury, and it just felt like I needed to do something with it."
When you did jump in, what drew you to Kiva?
Muhammad Yunus and Grameen had recently shared the Nobel Peace Prize, and I'd seen Premal give a talk in San Francisco the previous summer. It took me a long time to figure out what I wanted to do with my little nest egg, but I wanted an approach to poverty alleviation that was bottom-up, local, transparent, scalable... there was actually a bullet-point list I made in one of my notebooks at one point, and in the book I describe the process of gradually giving up on finding anything that fit all my criteria until I remembered Kiva.
What were your views on micro-finance prior to this experience and how have they evolved since then?
I didn't really have any ideas before the experience. It seemed like a great idea that when applied responsibly could really help people, and when applied irresponsibly could cause real trauma. But the same thing is true of a hammer, a surgeon's knife, and plenty of other useful tools. Most Americans have heard of it maybe twice — possibly once when Yunus won the Nobel or appeared on The Simpsons, maybe a second time when the tragedies happened in India and got all that press in 2010. This is like having your first impressions about air travel formed by the moon landing and then the Hindenburg—and it's just wholly removed from the day-to-day, routine way it just normally functions. I probably knew less than that.
What was your most memorable interaction with a Kiva borrower?
Hmm. Probably the first time I actually met someone whose picture I'd seen online. It was a woman in Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina, a sweet Croatian lady a lot like my mom. There was a real looking-glass quality about it. Now I was suddenly on the other side of the computer screen, if you will.
Which interaction surprised you the most and why?
It wasn't one interaction, really, but all of them: everywhere I went, including places I wasn't sure I'd be welcomed like Lebanon, Bosnia, and Cambodia, I was pretty much gang-befriended. And not because anybody knew much specifically about me—I avoided telling clients I was a lender myself (an indebtedness vibe would be gross, and my portion of any loan was small, fungible, and replaceable in any case), and just showed up as an American who was interested in their lives and wanted to listen to their stories. Awkwardness just really rarely ever happened. People rarely took more than a few minutes to open up, and pretty soon, there's coffee on the table and you're watching the kids play soccer and talking about what they might be when they grow up.
Were there any similarities among all the borrowers that you met?
Everybody with kids, pretty much everywhere, is trying to put clothes on their backs and schoolbooks in their hands, whatever it takes. Kiva has a special category called "education" loans, where you're financing somebody's academic work specifically. But in a bigger picture, I'd bet at least half of the loans on the whole site are really education loans.
Recently you posted the video below on your website. It speaks to the fact that people make some colossal mistakes in their lives, but that mistakes are a part of life and you have to move on when you make one. While writing your book did you come across any borrowers who had made some massive mistakes and were moving on with their lives? Did you think the kiva loans helped them to do this, and if so how?
What comes to mind is not really the kind of "mistake" you might be driving at, the kind of thing where somebody screwed up a business or a marriage and starts over. Yeah, that happens, anybody, anywhere. But what actually jumped to mind from your question was meeting with several lending groups in Rwanda and realizing that, statistically speaking, men over the age of 35 or 40 whom I was meeting were probably among the killers during the genocide. The vast majority of killers and enablers weren't jailed afterward because they were the majority, period, so there was simply no way to do it. With so many people imprisoned, the country would have bankrupted itself on punishment while the fields would have lain fallow and innocent people would have starves. Instead, the country went through (and continues to go through the aftermath of) a reconciliation process whose effectiveness is hard for an outsider to peg. There is at least the appearance of a wide commitment to progress.
So: you asked about moving on, and yes, actually, I visited an entire country that is trying to move on, everyone, all at once, and from the most tragic and horrible mass mistake that humans can make.
And now here I was, hanging out with these folks, listening to their current plans and dreams, trying hard not to be freaked out by their past and just to follow along with their stories.
Are the loans helping the individuals and the country move on from their mistakes? Again, it's hard to say. But if they're ever going to truly unite as a people, a growing economy with lots of small enterprise certainly seems like it would give them the best chance. So I did leave with the conclusion that on balance I'm quite happy to have lent there. But it took some processing even as a lender to respect the only choice the local culture can now make, put the past behind, and see the potential future more clearly.
Leo here: For a Kiva Fellows take on this same subject take a look here for Louise's blog post
Where do you think micro-lending will be in 10 years? Where would you like it to be?
I don't think anyone can even guess, since technology is changing so rapidly. Mobile banking and the ability of lenders to develop SMS-based platforms could take it to the very edges of the earth. But SMS itself may disappear in a few years as everything moves up a quantum, and applications and platforms may soon be widely used that we cannot now even imagine.
I hope it involves jet packs. Jet packs would be fun.
If you could share one thing about microfinance with the world at large, what would it be?
Two things:
First, that "microfinance," as generally considered, is a tool, nothing more or less, and the expectations and discussion should be framed accordingly. See my comments about hammers and scalpels, above. Whether microfinance itself is a "good" or a "bad" thing is actually a very silly thing to discuss. Are hammers good or bad? Obviously, it depends on who is swinging them, at what, and why. We'd probably be better off talking about that. Especially considering this next point:
Second: I think the word "microfinance" is way too broad, and we need to start adopting much more specific words. It's used for everything from tiny non-profits that provide education and other services, to quasi-governmental organizations, to deposit-taking banks that emerged out of MFIs, to giant IPO-driven public companies. This cannot all be described with the same word in any meaningful way. No sane person would think it best to consistently use one word to describe Walmart, the post office, and the fruit stand across the street, but all three are in "retail." That's what we do with the word "microfinance" all the time. It's a wildly oversimplified equation of a wide variety of economic activity that defines it all by similar end users (people whose banking is "micro" by local standards), not by the diverse practitioners and their completely different goals, structures, and offerings. Linguistically, we just don't do that with most things. The general word "sports" exists, but we also constantly use simple, easily understood words like "baseball." "football," "hockey," etc. to describe athletic activities requiring overlapping skills played for extremely similar audiences. Imagine discarding all of those words and just calling them "fan-actions"—a word that, like "microfinance," defines the activity by the end users and a highly general term, not what the practitioners themselves do—and we have something almost analogous. Defaulting to "microfinance" muddies thinking and hurts the whole industry. It's why the press and public tend to conflate things like the Andhra Pradesh tragedies, which had specific causes unrelated to the work of most MFIs on earth, with the entire rest of the industry—because the industry itself seems to insist on using the same word for all of it. This is not brilliant. I offer some alternative terminology in the book, but it's only meant as a rough first notion. I don't imagine anyone will adopt any of it. Still, I honestly think that once people realize how useful a set of specific shorthands would be, they'll be invented and adopted rapidly.
If I suggest "MF-IPO," you can figure without even being told whether that means a Nepali non-profit or India's SKS. See? I bet you already know exactly what that means without even trying. The words can be created. This isn't hard. In the meantime, there's a reason you don't see the word "microfinance" anywhere on the cover, spine, flaps, photo captions, or table of contents of my book, and yet not one reader, reviewer, Kiva employee, or blogger has noticed, even a week after publication: because it's a useless word that truly can be completely discarded without anyone grieving its loss. (That said, I was forced to use "microfinance" exactly once on the back cover, when Joss Whedon employed it in his extremely kind blurb. I'm not gonna edit Joss.) Someday, I really hope "microfinance" will be relegated to an historical term, used only when discussing the industry's early decades.
You have led a very eclectic career. Could you describe a borrower that you met on your trip that you would describe as eclectic?
Geez, nearly all of them. Most clients I've met have had to hustle for a living for most of their lives. This may be part of why we tended to connect so well. Very few micro-lending clients have had just one career, and the business they're currently financing may give way to something entirely different if they see a better opportunity. This was also true of many of the loan officers, a group of people who are rarely appreciated or really even thought about when people talk about microfinance, but upon whom the whole thing relies.
Do you think it is possible to increase the personal connection between the lenders on kiva and borrowers around the world? Do you think this would be a positive or negative? Could you describe your thoughts?
I think this is definitely possible, but whether it's a positive really depends on the platform and frame. In the classic Kiva experience, lenders really love the personal stories and the sense of knowing who they're lending to, but think about it—if they lend in any volume, it could become a big ask to connect any more deeply. What if you've made 100 loans, and there's any custom or expectation that a client might say hi, and you should probably say hi back? That's saying hi to 100 more people in your life. There's a terminal weight to this, and it pushes back against scaling up. People can't even keep up with their existing friends on Facebook. I mean, I've made 5300 loans—if there were any more personal connection that carried a whiff of social obligation on my part, I wouldn't be able to function in my own life. And I'm not sure I've seen any sign that most clients really desire it. They're already working eleven hours a day. They'd probably want to say "thanks" directly if they could, and they'd mean it. Maybe they'd send the lender-message equivalent of a Christmas card here or there. But then they have to be up at 5:30 to shovel the pasture or open the kitchen for business or what have you. If I'm a client, I'm thrilled and honored that people halfway around the world want to invest in me. But I also want to play with my kids in the hour left before I have to be in bed. I think Zip is the place for greater connection. It already is, actually, and I know that's something Kiva is still evolving and working on.
Kiva fellows have an unmitigated love of the local food that we find in the countries where we are volunteering. Can you tell us about a memorable meal you had while writing this book?
Total honesty? I can't say I've shared that experience. I'd love to rhapsodize about trying alpaca in Peru and urwagwa in Rwanda, but I really can't sing the praises with a straight face. I tried a lot of local food. Usually, it tried me in return. I did love the cevapi in Bosnia, but that tastes exactly like White Castle, and I'm from Ohio. No surprise there. The low point was probably charcoal-flavored yogurt made by a Juhudi Kilimo client while I was visiting Kenya. It was flavored with burnt bark, which tasted exactly like burnt bark. It was also unpasteurized, which caused my intestinal flora to jump to DefCon 1, with results the next morning they could hear in Uganda.
In your book you have a chapter which talks about the Kiva Fellows Program. In it you quote JD Bergeron gives a speech that you boil down to "Trust me – this is really going to suck." As fellows we refer to this as the rough of disillusionment. Did you ever hit a trough while doing your travels?
Lots of them, actually. I mention it in passing in the book, but only in passing. I don't want to falsely project the image that I'm some sort of jut-jawed world-traveler capable of diving headlong into areas that have experience wrenching traumas, then sort of come home unaffected, writing it all from a purely intellectual level. Aw, hell, no. But I also don't want to make it about me. The book is about the clients, so my own stuff like this really only gets one footnote. But during this project I've knocked off more Bourbons than the French Revolution. Let's leave it at that.
I am a combat veteran and am working on some blog series about micro-finance in conflict zones. In chapter 6, Welcome to Sarajevo, you wrote about the long term positive effects of micro-finance on a personal level in post conflict zones. Did you have any negative experiences where the borrowers' use of microfinance led to them being targeted?
It's not hard to imagine. Heck, we've had people here in Los Angeles get shot because they got a nice pair of shoes. Add in an actual recovering war zone, sure, I can imagine it, just like I can imagine any sort of petty factional jealousy. But to your question, while I've heard stories, I never personally saw it, so I'm a listener on this, not a speaker. I know that in Lebanon, when I asked about the possibility of group loans being constructed across sectarian lines, the answer from the MFI was something like "we are not ready for that."
On the flip side, I see that as a combat veteran, you've spent a good deal of time considering the moral implications of microfinance in conflict zones. Here, what I've seen advocates very strongly for the pro-microfinance side. There's a lot that didn't make it into the book about this, actually, but the simplest expression of what I saw over and over came from Raymond Serios of Negros Women for Tomorrow Foundation in the Philippines. We were talking about the multiple insurgencies there—Islamists seeking an independent Bangsamoro in the south, the quasi-Marxist movement in rural parts of the north that had been at it for decades, and so on. All of this was intense enough that you couldn't enter an upscale shopping mall or hotel in peaceful Cebu without going through metal detectors and possibly a frisking. So I asked Raymond about it, and I don't have my notes in front of me, but he had nothing but compassion—if a rural farmer with little education can't afford to grow his crops, and the banks won't help him, and the government won't help him, what is he supposed to think? Of course he'll want to fight, just trying to survive. So making financing available in rural areas, helping small businesses get started where they can—this isn't just a charity thing or a business thing. It's a political stability and economic justice thing. (Raymond didn't use the word "thing." That's me paraphrasing like a Californian.)
When I told my fellow fellows about this interview the one question that they came back with was, "What is your dream for Micro-Finance?"
Daydreaming? I'd like to see a world in which investment is vastly decentralized, and any dang thing any dang where can be essentially crowd-sourced. It's hardly a radical idea: even shares of stock in a public company are really a form of crowd-sourcing. I'd also like to see SMS-based schemes capable of reaching the very ends of the earth, the farthest reaches of human civilization—and this is possible right now, btw, little new needs to be invented. But most of all, as people do more business with each other across international boundaries, I'd like to imagine that in 100 or 150 years that we'll have given up on the increasingly obsolete notions self-definition that we use to divide ourselves as a species. That's happening already at blinding speed by historical standards. I hope microfinance will help accelerate it, and eventually we'll all be able to actually look each other in the eye, recognize each other as humans, and risk being changed by what we see.
As a Kiva fellow, I regularly have to talk to borrowers to and talk to them about their lives and loans. Any advice?
Lives first, loans second. Always. The rest follows.
Bob Harris has had a diverse career as a TV writer, TV and radio personality, and political columnist. He has appeared on Jeopardy! thirteen times, staging some of the most memorable upsets and collapses in the show's history. His first book, Prisoner of Trebekistan, chronicling his Jeopardy! experience, was widely praised, as was his second, Who Hates Whom, a pocket summary of more than 30 conflicts around the world. He holds an honors degree in electrical engineering and applied physics from Case Western Reserve University. Bob lives in Los Angeles. Visit his website at www.bobharris.com.
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Well, this weekend I had an itch for something new so I borrowed my grandma and headed there for lunch. My overall assessment? Not bad. I'd have to both agree and disagree with Omotesando on a recent Chowhound thread that yes, there's definitely some semblance to Denny's in Japan. But in my humble opinion, what's not to love about Japan's version of the long-standing restaurant chain? (Believe me, its American counterpart pales in comparison.)
Granted, neither Tokyo Table nor Denny's Japan are exactly gourmet, but with a photo-filled menu and a wide stock of dishes ranging from homemade tofu salad to teriyaki chicken pizza and yukari fries, Tokyo Table invoked memories of my exchange student days when us gaijins would crowd into a so-called fami-resu (family restaurant) and order everything that caught our eye.
I love Tokyo Table's agedashi tofu ($6.95) -- a block of soy bean curd floured, deep-fried, garnished with scallions and dried fish shavings, then placed in a shoyu-based sauce. A good indication the dish is done well is if the age (fried batter) is golden brown. If not, send it back!
No, that's not silly string. It's their teriyaki chicken pasta salad ($8.95) topped with mayonnaise. Not sure why I ordered this except that I thought my grandma would have an easy time chewing this with her dentures. Then I remembered that lettuce is the hardest thing for her to gnaw on. The fried wonton and grilled chicken add substance, but there's definitely tastier things on the menu. Like this ...
Now this is something my grandma certainly would have needed the Heimlich maneuver for. It's their mochi-cheese gratin ($6.95), or as Japanese people say, gu-ra-tan. When I spotted this on the menu, I could hear every young Japanese high school girl squealing in gastronomic delight. The waitress mentioned it's the most popular dish at their Honolulu branch, Shokudo. Cheese and mochi are a potent combination. And when it's baked crispy on top and melted hot and chewy within, it's simply lethal. I ate the whole thing myself and I don't regret it. My grandma enjoyed drinking the cheesey residue.
I'd stay away from their pan-fried gyoza, which tastes suspiciously like it was thawed out from Nijiya market.
Here's what I'm looking forward to trying on my next visit:
- Morioka-style reimen (cold noodle)
- Garlic pizza, teriyaki chicken pizza (Is it as good as Pizza-La?)
- Yukari (shiso leaf) fries (I'm thinking Lotteria's shaka-shaka potatoes)
- Shaved daikon salad
- Thick honey toast topped with cream
- An assortment of shaved ice
Tokyo Table
50 N. La Cienega Blvd.
Beverly Hills, CA 90211
(310) 657-9500
In other news... I'm still feeling the buzz from last night's live "This American Life" performance in Los Angeles. In the words of The OC's Summer Roberts, it's "that hipster know-it-all show about how fascinating ordinary people are." I listen to it on 89.9 KCRW while doing errands on the weekends, sometimes finding it hard to peel myself away from the car radio.
Aside from the charmingly self-effacing host Ira Glass, one of my favorites from the live show was writer John Hodgman, who reflected upon his new-found fame as "The PC guy" for Apple's "Get a Mac" commercial campaign. Pulling you deep within his inner consciousness, he recounted his journey from being freelancing nobody to getting the proverbial knock-on-the-door to stepping into a Mac Store one day and causing utter chaos. "...And then they started playing my commercials on the big screen..."
Monday's show will air this Saturday, March 17.