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"Conventional wisdom holds that the kind of work we do is more black magic than science, but I believe everything we do is science," Epner says. "If there is any art—or black magic—involved, it's how you apply the science, especially when it appears you have run into a brick wall."
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Epner's signature work has included such jobs as gold-plating super-sensitive radioactivity detectors and critical TOW and Maverick missile-guidance components. Two projects underway involve coating components that will provide one of the U.S.'s most lethal unmanned aerial platforms with night-vision capability, and gold-plating the heart of the electrostatic analyzer—which filters out electron particles—with laser black on NASA's Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission under the Solar Terrestrial Probes program.
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Inquiries like those from the semiconductor manufacturer and DHS harken back to a chance meeting Epner had with a Xerox engineer in the early 1970s. The engineer wanted to know whether Epner had a coating technology that would hold up under the high temperature of the powerful heat lamp used in copy machines. Epner Technology had such a capability, and it made adhesion under high heat possible; the fact that the coating also had superior reflectivity was a plus. At the time, the company's business mainly involved gold-plating jewelry. Epner Technology leveraged the Xerox work to win increasingly challenging projects.
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STONY BROOK, N.Y. (AP) -- With the cost of a public education up 27 percent in the past five years, some students are being forced to choose between eating and learning.
That's why many colleges have established their own food pantries. A group called the College and University Food Bank Alliance says about 50 member food banks have sprung up on campuses across the country, most of them in the last few years.
Stony Brook University on Long Island started a food pantry last fall, handing out bags of staples such as pasta, fruit, vegetables, tuna and breakfast bars.
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The OECD is undertaking work on broadband as part of its work programme on the digital divide. This work is predominantly looking at the economic and social impacts on business, households and individuals of new infrastructure developments. The OECD is also undertaking work on high priority policy issues dealing with all aspects of network infrastructure, and has begun work on broadband infrastructure and the policy requirements to enhance roll-out of this infrastructure; see DSTI/ICCP/TISP(2001)2/FINAL, " The development of broadband access in OECD countries". Information on institutional and regulatory issues related to the network infrastructure is summarised in OECD (2001), Communications Outlook; and background information is further summarised in the Drivers of Growth: Information technology, innovation and entrepreneurship. Further work is being carried out in the 2002 work programme.
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I love graduation speeches. I have always loved them, I will always love them. Once when I was in my twenties, I laid on my old girlfriend's peach couch (which I still had, but not my girlfriend) and watched twelve hours of graduation speeches on Sunday being televised on that odd BOOK TV channel. I have never been happier.In this Huffington Post piece, you can see a slideshow sample from the book, including cartoons, and Kaplan's thoughts on why graduation speeches inspired him.
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Well, maybe Schuller was content to "quickly pass over them," but not me! Starting last November, any free time I've had to update this old blog of mine has gone to the ongoing 90th anniversary of Louis Armstrong's early Hot Five sessions. I wrote a long entry on the first session of November 1925, a short look at "Come Back Sweet Papa" and a master's thesis on the six songs the Hot Five recorded on February 26, 1926, which I dubbed as the Hot Five's greatest session.
Needless to say, more words have been written on Louis Armstrong's Hot Five recordings than anything else he recorded--and with good reason as they truly are the records that changed the course of jazz history, Armstrong writing the rules on how to solo, how to swing, how to scat and how to sing in the realm of jazz music.
Of course, Armstrong and his cohorts never set out to make history. They were just having fun, a group of friends making music together just as they had in the good old days of New Orleans (exempting Lillian Hardin from that description). This becomes fully clear when one examines the June 1926 sessions.
Louis Armstrong was a born entertainer, something that has always been held against him. As a kid in New Orleans, he received his first applause when he stood up and humorously impersonated the preacher at his church, right down to leading the congregation in a song. He once dipped his face in flour and won a talent contest at the Iroquois Theatre doing a "whiteface" routine. He bought every Bert Williams record he could find, memorizing Williams's routines. He formed a vocal quartet with friends, singing popular songs of the day and wordlessly conjuring up the sounds of instruments years before it was called "scat singing." Oh yeah, and he also played the cornet.
For decades, all people have wanted to talk about was that cornet (later trumpet), but that's only one side of Armstrong's multi-faceted stage presence. This is not a new phenomenon; when he shook up Chicago with King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band and later New York with Fletcher Henderson's Orchestra, it was strictly as a cornetist as neither Oliver nor Henderson was interested in the young man's singing--something that burned Armstrong up until the day he died.
Thus, when given a chance to make his own records with the Hot Five, the biggest hit of the first November 1925 session was the one featuring Armstrong's naturally engaging personality, "Gut Bucket Blues." E. A. Fearn of OKeh Records liked Armstrong's unique voice and for the February sessions, asked him to sing. Louis and Lil kicked off that session with a fun duet on "Georgia Grind" before Louis unwittingly made history with his scat chorus on "Heebie Jeebies," getting a bona fide hit record to boot. That same day, Armstrong recorded instrumental masterpieces such as "Cornet Chop Suey" and "Muskrat Ramble," contributing solos that are still analyzed and studied today.
The power and glory of those solos couldn't be denied...but neither could Armstrong's personality. Thus, when the February sessions were released in May 1926 and the vocal numbers proved to be big sellers, it only made sense for Fearn to showcase more of that personality on the June recordings.
Armstrong was happy to oblige. He loved to sing and he loved to entertain, both on records and in person. In later years, a false narrative was passed around of young Armstrong "the artist," making serious instrumental masterpieces before giving it all up for clowning just to get more popular with white audiences. But reviews survive of Armstrong's live performances with Erskine Tate in 1926--the same time these recordings were being made--and they almost all refer to Armstrong's singing, scatting, dancing and comic routines (he even dusted off the the old preacher routine from his youth, engaging the black audiences that packed the Vendome Theatre with his "mock sermons").
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He was even immersing himself in the world of black entertainment in Chicago. In later years, whenever he wrote of this period, he rarely mentioned his own music or methods; instead, he wrote about other entertainers, Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, Ollie Powers, Mae Alix (who did splits years before Velma Middleton and more). These were the people who helped Armstrong hone his stagecraft until he could truly do it all.
Thus, on the June 1926 sessions, Armstrong lets his personality shine. The first session was done on June 16, 1926. Four tracks were recorded that day, three with ridiculously fun Armstrong vocals...and on the one he doesn't sing, he plays a slide whistle! The whole date has such a happy feeling to it but these four tracks rarely get reissued on best-ofs from the period. This entry will examine the June 16 session and will be followed by a look at the June 23 session in the near future.
"Don't Forget to Mess Around" led off the date, a song written by Armstrong and an old friend from New Orleans, Paul Barbarin, who would later play drums in Armstrong's big band. Interestingly, the song was already recorded in February 1926 by Austin's Musical Ambassador's--one month before Armstrong and Barbain sent in the copyright deposit of the song! There's no vocal but the recording does feature a nice, relaxed tempo and an effective muted cornet solo (this band only made one side and the personnel is a mystery!).
With that out of the way, here's the audio of the Hot Five version:
There's not a lot to analyze, there; it's just fun! Armstrong plays two flawless one-bar breaks in the introduction and basically sticks to melody in his lead ensemble playing. "Charleston" was obviously the craze of the period and this Armstrong composition incorporates the "Charleston" beat very well. Like most originals from the period, it isn't a neat 32-bar AABA pop song but rather features a chorus followed by a verse, then back to the chorus with some neat arranged sections for the horns along the way. Towards the end of the verse, one notices Johnny Dodds disappears, only to return a few seconds later...on alto! Yikes, I'm not a big fan of Dodds's stiff alto playing, even though his high notes oddly still sound like his clarinet. Fortunately, Armstrong's right behind him with one of his most exuberant, shouting vocals of the Okeh days. It's not Gershwin, but it's a lot of fun! Armstrong and Barbarin copyrighted lyrics of their own, including words for the verse. This is what they sent in to the Library of Congress:
Way down south in New Orleans;
There's a gal down there called the Charleston Queen.
Oh how she could Charleston,
You ought to see her Charleston.
Uncle Jack, the Jazzbo King,
Taught her a brand new dance;
And after she learned his great dance,
This is what she said:
Don't forget to mess around
While you're doin' the Charleston, Charleston;
First thing you do,
Now when you rear back,
Grab your gal,
And then you Eagle Rock,
But don't you stop at all.
Oh, Uncle Jack, the old dancin' fool,
Wouldn't do that Charleston, Charleston.
When he learned
Of that brand new dance,
Such a prance.
Now he clean forgot his age
When he danced this brand new rage,
Don't forget to do your stuff
When you dance that dance called Messin' Around.
Of course, Armstrong being Armstrong, even when he probably had a hand in writing the lyrics, still makes some changes. This is how he sang it:
Don't forget to mess around/ when you're doing the Charleston...Charleston
First thing you do/ now when you rear...way back!
Say, you grab your gal/ and then you clap your hands
And you do the Eagle Rock/ but don't you stop at all!
Uncle Jack, that dancin' fool/ He would never do the Charleston...Charleston
When he learned of that brand/ new dance...such a prance!
And he clean forget his age/ when he danced this brand new rage
Then he yelled out/ don't forget to do your stuff/ when you dance the mess around!
Not a huge difference but already, a good example of Armstrong making a song his own--even when it was already his own! He adds the line, "and then you clap your hand," there's the urgent phrasing of "way back," he eliminates the descriptive "old" before "dancin' fool" and so on. Most of these vocals get dismissed for being too "shouty," but to my ears, Armstrong's supreme confidence and innate abilities are already in place..And besides, no one else was really singing like this during the period, though there are traces of Al Jolson in some of these early Armstrong vocals (on "Butter and Egg Man," Pops practically imitates Jolson at one point).
After the vocal, Johnny Dodds takes a very aggressive clarinet solo, as if he's saying, "Please posterity, don't judge me by my alto playing!" Kid Ory takes a typical break towards the end before Armstrong takes one of his own, notable for staying in middle register before shooting up an octave to end it with a piercing high note. All in all, it's a lot of fun and if I say it again, not as important as a "West End Blues" but I think it's just as important in understanding Armstrong's entire career. Legendary producer George Avakian tells this story about this track:
"By 1926, Louis Armstrong was headlining at Chicago's Sunset Cafe and writing novelties which he performed nightly, in addition to recording them with his Hot Five for Okeh. During one of many happy afternoons of hanging out in Louis's upstairs den in his home in Corona, I asked Pops if the 'mess around' was an actual dance.' 'Yes, yes indeed,' he cried and leaped out of his chair. 'Went like this!' Well, there I was without a movie camera, but be assured of one thing--Louis was a great dancer and still light on his feet. 'Used to do that every show after the vocal, and then blow two choruses. Had to dance two, three encores on Saturday nights.'"
Picture that. The great, serious, artist, Louis Armstrong (before he went commercial), performing "Don't Forget To Mess Around" and then dancing for a few choruses! If I had a time machine, I think I'd dial it up to the Sunset Cafe in 1926...
The next song on the docket was a Lil Hardin Armstrong composition, "I'm Gonna Gitcha," which Gene Anderson has pointed out bears some similarities to "I'm Gonna Get You," as recorded by both Mamie Smith and Trixie Smith in 1922. Here's Mamie:
There's definitely some similar melodic structures (not to mention the title!), but Lil went a different way with the lyrics, as you'll see when you listen to the Hot Five here:
The Hot Five jumps right out with main strain, with no time for any fancy arranged introductions (though the chromatic line at the end of the bridge) must have been worked out in advance. Then, like "Don't Forget to Mess Around," the group heads back to the verse. Johnny Dodds gets the first solo and he gets a little stuck. Not only does he minimally paraphrase the melody, he plays the same break twice in one solo--a lick he had already played once heading into the bridge and one he'd play in the ensemble later on. (In fairness, I like his slightly raspy descending break at the end of the bridge--at least it's different!) Almost humorously, Dodds takes another short solo after the vocal and when he gets to the break--plays something different! But almost seconds after Armstrong emerges to play lead, there's that lick yet again! I guess everyone gets stuck every now and then....
Louis doesn't solo on "I'm Gonna Gitcha" except for one break towards the end where he hurls himself up to a high C and doesn't quite hit it on the nose. Other than that, the record offers some strong lead playing before ending with a favorite phrase of the period. But more than the horn, it's his delightful vocal that saves what John Chilton referred to as a "dog" tune (listen for Johnny St. Cyr's delightful accompaniment, with bass notes followed by chords much like the stride pianists of the era). Here's the vocal as delivered by Louis:
Say mama, I'm gonna bet you that I'm gonna get you,
I'm gonna get you some sweet day,
And don't think you can give me the air. Heeeyyy,
I'm gonna race you, I'm gonna chase you,
I'm gonna follow you everywhere.
Don't you believe you can give me the air. AHHHHHH
You can take a man out and throw the cat out,
But when you are right
You can't treat sweet papa with the same old jive.
I'm gonna feel 'ya, I'm gonna steal ya,
I must have you mama some sweet day.
Nothin' doin' baby, you just can't get away.
What delivery! This is where you read stuff like "shouting" and "vaudeville" and "novelty" and "hokum" but I don't know, I love it. I've actually played this in lectures before because to my ears, those two guttural moans on the syllable "Hey" foreshadow so much soul singing we'd hear later on from the likes of Ray Charles. There's also the comedic timing in how he perfectly phrases "I must have you," with a mischievous grin, and the earlier righteous I've-heard-it-all intonation of "You can't treat sweet papa with the same old jive."
And speaking of "the same old jive," how about that slang? The tune is credited to Lil but I'm sure her husband helped with some of those lyrics. Earlier this month, the great Ted Gioia wrote a piece for The Atlantic titled The Year American Speech Became Art. And who graces the main photo accompanying the article? None other than Pops. Gioia charts a 15-month period beginning in October 1926 when American forms of speech "went viral" thanks to the recordings, radio broadcasts, talking pictures and works of literature that hit the market. Armstrong rightly plays a central role in the article but I might move Gioia's 15-month window back a month to include September 1926 when these June 16 Hot Five recordings were released.
The same slang-filled, confident, swinging, attention-commanding vocal style of "I'm Gonna Gitcha" continues on the third tune recorded on June 16, "Droppin' Shucks." Credited to Lil Hardin again, these lyrics sound more like Louis, mainly because they reflect what was going on in the Armstrong's home during this period. Lil was the great architect of Louis's career by this point but he had grown weary of her endless pushing and "henpecking." He accused Lil of cheating on him, while at the same time, he began seeing a young dancer named Alpha Smith, who would eventually become the third Mrs. Armstrong. Keep that in mind as you listen to "Droppin' Shucks":
For once, we get the verse first, this one in a minor mode like a number of other Hot Five verses. Armstrong then plays the lead, not one of the catchiest lines Lil ever wrote. Listen to Johnny Dodds in the ensemble again, playing the same lick he couldn't shake in "I'm Gonna Gitcha" twice in the first chorus and twice in the final chorus! After one ensemble go-around, Louis lets the rhythm section have one, Lil up first, Johnny St. Cyr taking the middle section and Lil closing out the chorus.
So far, nothing to write home about but again, Armstrong saves the record with an irresistible vocal:
Sweet mama, you been Droppin' Shucks on me,
Now I'm gonna drop 'em on you.
I saw you with your sweet man the other night,
And I know you was untrue.
I told you sweet mama, way last fall,
That you'd come and find another mule in your stall,
You been Droppin' Shucks on me,
And now I'm gonna drop shucks on you.
Hey, roses are red and violets are blue.
You run and talk but I'm cookin';
What's the matter with you?
You raved 'bout your papa sayin' he was it;
This sweet mama I got just won't quit,
You been droppin' shucks on me,
And now I'm gonna throw 'em on you.
Once again, what an actor. That final emphasis on "I'm gonna THROW 'em on you" makes me laugh every time. The quick-rhyming "roses are red" stop-time section even seems like another "roots of rap" moment. Now, damned if I know how this vocal matches the melody the band plays throughout the rest of the record. I almost get the feeling that Lil wrote the melody and maybe Louis inserted some fast-talking lyrics of his own because even the way they're almost talk-sung at points, they don't fit the melody. But Louis sells the hell out of them!
Dodds gets off a good solo but--surprise, surprise--there's the lick in bars 5 and 14! I think that's 11 times in two songs. Kid Ory follows with a simple solo, one that you know it's Ory but also one that shows that Armstrong was beginning to outpace his old friends (Ory sounds like he has trouble getting out of the break). Armstrong, perhaps knowing he didn't hit that high C squarely on "I'm Gonna Gitcha" comes out like a man on a mission to show his domination of the upper register. He's swinging from the get-go and almost immediately jumps up to a high A and shakes it. When it comes to the bridge, Ory takes the first part of the break but Armstrong takes over and shoots up to another high C and this time, nails it. The C's on "I'm Gonna Gitcha" and "Droppin' Shucks" are the highest notes Armstrong played on record up to this point--he still had a ways to go before he'd start knocking out those high F's!
I love that last ensemble chorus on "Droppin' Shucks," mostly because of Armstrong's dazzling playing, but it doesn't get much attention in the analysis of this music, I guess because it's an ensemble and the point people like to make is it's Armstrong's solos that are really the most striking aspects of these recordings. That's true to an extent but really, it's everything Armstrong does from solos to ensemble work to those endlessly entertaining vocals that stands out.
On the fourth and final song from the June 16 date, "Who'sit," Louis doesn't take a cornet solo (but he does solo on another instrument, as we'll soon see!), which again, has relegated this tune to the back burner; in fact, Armstrong devotee Hughes Panassie called it "the weakest of all Hot Five recordings." I disagree as I love the melody, I love the ensemble work and yes, I love that SLIDE WHISTLE solo by Louis! Listen and judge for yourself:
Like "I'm Gonna Gitcha," the band wastes no time jumping right in with the supremely catchy melody, written by the unknown Beatrice Jones (John Chilton assumed she was related to Richard M. Jones but that was never proven). What an ensemble! On Facebook, a friend recently asked for examples of great trumpet-trombone-clarinet New Orleans-styled front lines and I was shocked that dozens of examples were given before I volunteered the Hot Five. Again, the allure of Armstrong's solos has obscured some truly memorable collective improvisation.
The first chorus is an ensemble delight but then Ory takes the melody for a full chorus and struggles a bit; I love Ory but this wasn't one of his greatest sessions. But what follows is a bizarre moment that I love but some "hokum" that probably drove purists like Panassie and Schuller nuts: Armstrong's slide whistle solo. He had already recorded on slide whistle on "Sobbin' Blues" with King Oliver in 1923 so he was no stranger to the instrument. In fact, he sounds like a damn slide whistle virtuoso on "Who'sit"--just listen to the phrasing and the vibrato! The man could have played anything.
But if for some reason the slide whistle insults your dignity, just listen to the background where Johnny Dodds almost steals the show. I know I beat him up a bit for the repetitive playing on the previous two songs but wow does he come alive on this one! His bubbling low-register chalameau playing is a delight behind the slide whistle and he later he takes a hot solo that Gene Anderson has called "a miniature masterpiece." All hail, Johnny Dodds!
With only 28 seconds left, it's time for Louis to take over. He enters with a perfectly placed G that he holds for the duration of a break, the first time he uses this device that he'd come back to in later years (perhaps most memorably on "I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues"). Towards the end of the chorus, Armstrong takes a longer break with stop-time backing that is phrased with such logic, in addition to the feeling of the blues--a wonderful moment! He once again ends with a slight variation on his favorite ending of this period, a dramatic punctuation mark to the day's work.
The June 16 date was done but OKeh wasn't through yet. For what happened on June 23, 1926, stay tuned for my next entry!


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(CNN) -- Hillary Clinton got herself into a frenzy of controversy as a result of an interview with The Atlantic in which she took some shots at President Obama's foreign policy.
Clinton said that "Don't do stupid stuff," an infamous off-the-record quote from the President, didn't cut it as an "organizing" principle in foreign policy. Although she had been relatively silent about her differences with the Commander in Chief, her comments triggered a firestorm from liberal Democrats who felt that this sounded like the same old Clinton, the politician who they had so disliked in 2008.
President Obama's supporters fired back. David Axelrod rebuked Hillary through a tweet: "Just to clarify," he wrote, reminding people of her infamous vote authorizing the use of force in Iraq, "Don't do stupid stuff' means stuff like occupying Iraq in the first place, which was a tragically bad decision."
Hillary called Obama to apologize for any harm her interview might have done the President and both attended a party in Martha's Vineyard, where Obama was having what CNN commentator Jeffrey Toobin called his "vacation from hell." It's not known if they did indeed "hug it out," as predicted.
All of this comes at a moment that Clinton is trying to regain her footing following the difficult roll-out of her book, "Hard Choices," during which she made a number of comments, such as saying that she and her husband were "dead broke" upon leaving the White House, that offered fodder for her critics. Also, her lead in the polls over GOP rivals has narrowed.
Opinion: Clinton, Obama both wrong
The most recent controversy over her differences with President Obama immediately sparked familiar concerns -- can Hillary Clinton win over the liberals in her party so that "the base" comes out in November 2016, should she decide to run? Can she prevent a primary challenge from a candidate like Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren who stands closer to the left's position on many issues?
The tension between Hillary Clinton and the Democratic base is nothing new. Indeed, both Hillary and Bill Clinton have always been at odds with the more liberal members of their party as they have been insistent on crafting a more coalitional approach to winning elections.
Back when he ran for president in 1992, Bill Clinton infuriated liberals with his "Sister Souljah moment" when he made disparaging remarks about the activist at a conference of Jesse Jackson's Rainbow coalition. During his presidency, his support for certain kinds of deregulation and market-based approaches to public policy, as well as decision to end the federal welfare program, generated considerable heat from stalwarts in the party.
Hillary Clinton has made similar moves, particularly when she served as senator from New York and worked hard to build bipartisan coalitions. Most famously, her vote to authorize the use of force in Iraq in 2002 became a symbol of her alliance with the centrist wing of the party.
Hillary Clinton won't be able to remake herself into something that she is not. Trying to reinvent herself as part of a presidential run just won't work. When Vice President Al Gore sought to do this in 2000, his speeches fell flat. And Hillary Clinton's extensive record in public office leaves too much of a paper trail for her to pretend to be someone else.
Instead, Clinton needs to make a compelling argument to the Democratic base about why she, as opposed to any other member of her party, is the best choice to run for president.
The most important argument that she will bring to the table is that she can be a fierce and aggressive partisan fighter. Following eight years when many Democrats feel that they have watched President Obama get beat up by Republicans on Capitol Hill, Democrats are going to want someone who can fight and fight hard.
Ever since her famous statements about the "right-wing conspiracy" that aimed to bring down her husband, Clinton has demonstrated repeatedly that she has the stomach for the kind of brutal partisan warfare that defines Washington.
While Democrats in 2008 were still looking for someone who could break through the bipartisan noise, now they are searching for a politician who can accept the reality of Washington and take on their opponents by flexing their partisan muscle rather than avoiding it.
Clinton's emerging platform about economic inequality is also one that all Democrats should be able to embrace. In recent months, Hillary Clinton has been telling audiences and reporters that if she ran, fighting inequality would be the major theme of her campaign.
The inability and unwillingness of the nation's leaders to address this issue has been one of the greatest sources of frustration for liberals. Both on ethical grounds -- meaning that the current economic situation is not something Americans should tolerate -- as well as for partisan considerations -- meaning Democrats have traditionally been the party that has been associated with taking on this problem -- the time is ripe for an agenda centered on this theme.
If Clinton is as serious about the issue of inequality as she sounds in recent speeches -- such as the one she made to the New America Foundation where she promised that this would be her main focus in the coming years -- her embrace of the issue could blur divisions between her and some of her critics. She can continue to use this theme to highlight to the left and center that they have much more in common than their bickering suggests, especially in contrast to the Republican agenda.
Gender inequality has also been an issue that keeps getting pushed to the sidelines. Although the government has made some progress on issues like gender discrimination in employment and pay equity, Hillary Clinton is a candidate who has been deeply committed to these issues throughout her career and who could promise to go much further than any president has before her. The rights of women and girls around the world is "the great unfinished business of the 21st century," she said at the Women in the World summit in 2013.
Her victory in itself would be inspirational to the cause of gender equality, a watershed moment just like the election of the first African-American as president. While much of the left-center debate has revolved around how to deal with the power of Wall Street or how to use military power, gender equality can also serve as an issue to bridge the left and center.
Opinion: Clinton dances between loyalty and self-interest
Finally, Hillary Clinton will need to talk more about the importance of internationalism to her foreign policy agenda as a way to highlight to the base that she is more than simply a "hawk."
One of the great questions that came out of the Bush years was how much the United States should work in international alliances to pursue its goals. For the Bush administration, unilateralism was legitimate.
Obama inspired many followers by insisting on a different way. As New York Times columnist Ross Douthat said about his policies in Libya in 2011, when Clinton was secretary of state, "the Obama White House has shown exquisite deference to the very international institutions and foreign governments that the Bush administration either steamrolled or ignored."
He has not always lived up to those goals, as has been evident with the use of drone airstrikes. Regardless, overall the Obama administration and Hillary Clinton did stick to an internationalist strategy and she can make a commitment to this approach as a defining aspect of her vision.
In the Washington Post, Aaron David Miller explained why foreign policy would not have been that different had Clinton won the presidency in 2008. Surveying all the hot button issues, such as Israel and Syria, he finds that the differences between them are exaggerated: "They both are transactors, not ideological transformers — smart, pragmatic centrists largely coloring inside the lines in a world of long shots and bad options. In other words, there's no need for them to 'hug it out' on foreign policy.
Both parties have often succeeded when politicians find issues that can unite the different wings of their party.
Historian Meg Jacobs (full disclosure: my wife) has shown that Franklin Roosevelt -- without remaking himself into a far-left Democrat -- championed policies to boost the purchasing power of industrial workers as an issue that could bring together the party.
During the 1960s, LBJ did the same with health care for the elderly, while Ronald Reagan used tax cuts and anti-communism to achieve these goals in the 1980s. George W. Bush achieved a similar effect with the fight against terrorism following 9/11.
Making peace with the Democratic base will be one of Hillary Clinton's greatest challenges if she is going to run for the presidency. Without trying to be someone she is not, Clinton must figure out how to make the case that the Democratic Party can stand united behind her.
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There's no tying in baseball. There's no clock, either. But when a downpour of rain and the threat of tornadoes tore through Denver on Thursday, baseball called timeout on the Rockies-Giants game at Coors Field.
The game remains tied 2-2.
But fear not, fans of a game that only ends with a winner. Colorado and San Francisco will resume the series finale Sept. 1 — making it one of the longest series in recent Rockies history.
Nearly five hours after Thursday's game started — and with Michael Cuddyer on first base and Troy Tulowitzki at bat with two out in the sixth inning — umpire crew chief Bill Miller signaled no-go.
"The field took a lot of water," Miller said in a statement. "It was going to take 45 minutes to get ready and another storm was forecast to hit in 30 minutes. Both managers agreed it was best to suspend the game."
The Rockies and Giants endured an 82-minute, fourth-inning thunderstorm delay that sent fans into the concourses. Ballpark officials briefly considered a plan to send people to the basement service levels while a tornado warning was in effect. The teams returned to play but couldn't get through a second delay, and the game was suspended at 6:07 p.m.
Overall, the Rockies and Giants waited through 166 minutes of delays before the game was suspended.
"It was some pretty nasty stuff," Rockies manager Walt Weiss said of the weather.
The Giants return to Denver for a series starting Sept. 1. By rule, Thursday's game will resume before the next game in Denver between the teams, which is scheduled for 2:10 p.m. on Labor Day. Tickets from Thursday will not be valid for the finish of the suspended game, the Rockies said.
After splitting the first two games of this week's series, the Rockies and Giants — the top two teams in the National League West — set up another scorcher in the finale.
Jorge De La Rosa, the Rockies' starting pitcher Thursday, had won five games in a row. And he's 6-1 in his career against the Giants at Coors Field.
The left-hander continued that pattern Thursday, pitching three no-hit innings, including striking out the side in the third inning. He left after the first delay with a 1-0 lead.
"Feels good, especially the way I started the season," De La Rosa said. "I've got a lot of confidence right now. I'm making better pitches. I'm going to start pitching better now."
But the Giants — who also pulled their starter, Tim Hudson, with five hits against him — came back in the fourth inning after the first delay. Hunter Pence pushed a jammed fastball off the bat handle for a home run off Rockies reliever Tommy Kahnle. Three batters later, Pablo Sandoval doubled to deep left. That scored Michael Morse, and the Giants had a 2-1 lead. The Rockies tied it in the fifth inning when catcher Wilin Rosario grounded into a double play, scoring Nolan Arenado.
The Rockies had the prettiest play of the day in hard rain during the sixth inning. DJ LeMahieu dived up the middle to backhand Pence's hard-hit grounder. From his stomach, LeMahieu flipped the ball from his glove to shortstop Tulowitzki, who turned to first to complete a remarkable double play.
The Rockies left Thursday night for a nine-game, three-city road trip that starts in Atlanta. But they will host the Giants in September when, they hope, a division title race is in full swing.
"At the end of the year, that's when the wins count," left fielder Carlos Gonzalez said. "Hopefully we can get that W. I think it's going to be interesting when we resume this game."
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Rockies' Jordan Lyles (5-1, 3.50 ERA) at Braves' Gavin Floyd (0-1, 2.41), 5:35 p.m. Friday, ROOT; 850 AM
In his past two starts, walks have been an issue for Lyles. After allowing only 10 walks in seven starts to begin the season, Lyles allowed 10 in his past two starts. In his May 10 win at Cincinnati, his four walks were overcome by eight strikeouts. But in a loss to San Diego last week, he walked six — setting a career high — and lasted only 3 ⅓ innings.
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Saturday: Rockies' Juan Nicasio (4-2, 4.03 ERA) at Braves' Mike Minor (2-2, 3.80), 2:10 p.m., ROOT
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When it comes to overseeing your 401(k) plan, bad decisions by your employer can cost you a lot of money, leaving you to overcome the financial burden of poor investment options, high fees or worse. Up until now, employees haven't had much luck taking their employers to court over these kinds of issues. But the Supreme Court has taken up a case which could change that – putting some additional legal weight behind reformers' efforts to shore up the 401(k) system.
The case is Fifth Third Bancorp v. Dudenhoeffer; the Supreme Court agreed last month to hear the suit, and on Wednesday it scheduled oral arguments for later this spring. It started as a lawsuit brought by a group of employees of Fifth Third who argue that the bank acted imprudently by encouraging them to invest much of their retirement savings in the company's stock.
The more wide-reaching issue in the case, however—and the one on which the high court will focus--is whether it should be easier for employees to bring suits like these in the first place. As Drexel University law professor Lisa McElroy explains on the AARP blog this week, plaintiffs in cases that accuse plan managers of shirking their fiduciary responsibility have to meet a high—and early—burden of proof.
"The participant must prove that the administrator knew the investment was a really, really bad risk," McElroy explains, and they have to lay out facts to support that claim in their very first court filing. "They don't get to take depositions or get documents from the company. And if their complaint isn't strong enough from the get-go, their case is dismissed."
Here's how things could change: In the Dudenhoeffer case, the federal Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that this early bar was too high, saying in essence that plaintiffs should have more time to make their case. Fifth Third is appealing that ruling, and other appeals courts have ruled the other way, which is why the Supremes are taking the case. The plaintiffs' odds are long – the current high court has tended to take the corporate side in lawsuits that pit U.S.A. Inc. against the little guy. But if the Sixth Circuit's approach is upheld, investors could have another tool for holding their employers accountable.
Arguments in the case are scheduled for April 2, according to Bloomberg Law's SCOTUSblog.
Also worth reading:
Secrets of the 401(k) millionaires
Your 401(k) fees: High, or just normal?
Matthew Heimer covers retirement for MarketWatch and edits the Encore blog. Follow him on Twitter @MatthewHeimer.


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Nathaniel Hackett served as a ball boy for one season with the Dallas Cowboys, four seasons with the University of Pittsburgh and four seasons with the Kansas City Chiefs.
Those were three of the coaching stops for his father, Paul Hackett.
Yet following in his dad's footsteps as a football coach was not a forgone conclusion for the son.
"Watching my dad and his career," Nathaniel Hackett recalls, "when we were doing good, he was criticized. When we were doing bad, he was criticized. I loved football, but I wanted to be a doctor. I majored in neurobiology."
The pull of football, however, proved too irresistible for Nathaniel, who played linebacker in college for Division II California-Davis.
"Once I got down to that last year and got done with my degree, I thought about the fact I'm going to have to go back to school longer – or have an opportunity to work on football."
Coaching trumped neurobiology.
Just 11 years later, Nathaniel Hackett's career has ridden a comet to the top of the profession. The 33-year-old will begin his first training camp as an NFL offensive coordinator when the Buffalo Bills convene at St. John Fisher College on Saturday.
Paul Hackett built a reputation as one of the leading proponents of the West Coast offense over a 42-year coaching career. He coached quarterbacks, receivers and tight ends for Bill Walsh with the San Francisco 49ers from 1983 to '85. That stint helped lead to head-coaching jobs at Pitt from 1989 to '92 and the University of Southern California from 1998 to 2000. In between he had a successful five-year run as offensive coordinator of the Chiefs.
He served as offensive coordinator of the Jets from 2001-04, and his last job was as Raiders quarterback coach in 2010.
Riding that coaching carousel and hanging around with dad and star athletes was a great way to grow up for Nathaniel Hackett.
"My whole life they've always been our family," he said. "I remember at the 49ers, the guys were around all the time for dinner. We grew up with Joe Montana, Jerry Rice, Roger Craig, Freddie Solomon."
"I was always around the office; that was my favorite thing to do," Nathaniel said. "I remember as a kid about 5 years old when my dad was with the 49ers, I still can smell that glue. That's what they used when they used to actually cut and paste to make the 16-mm film. My dad would let me come in there and help cut it and paste it."
By the time the Hacketts got to Kansas City, Nathaniel was a high schooler.
"The guys I hung out with a lot were Derrick Thomas and Marcus Allen," he said, referring to two Hall-of-Famers. "I used to carry their pads every day to practice for them. And Kimble Anders. Those were the three I was close," to, "and Ronnie Lott when he was there a little bit."
The influence those days had on Nathaniel was not lost on the elder Hackett when son decided to forego a career in medicine.
"I think I was surprised; I wasn't shocked," Paul Hackett said. "I think we're affected by our environment. We're all somewhat swayed one way or the other. At that time, he had a great experience in Kansas City with us as a family before he went to Davis. So I'm sure it was the Kansas City experience along with his experience at Davis that influenced him. But it certainly wasn't clear cut."
After spending three years as a lower-level aide at Stanford, Nathaniel got a big break when he was hired by Jon Gruden as offensive quality control coach for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Gruden had worked as a receivers coach for Paul Hackett at Pitt, and the elder Hackett was on the Bucs' staff at the time as quarterbacks coach.
The prime duty of a quality control coach is to study opposing teams and break down all of their plays and tendencies on computer.
"The good thing about Coach Gruden is he teaches you a lot of football," Nathaniel said. "When you go into that offensive game plan, there's a lot of stuff in there. I like to think that was Harvard for a quality-control guy."
"I drew 16,000 plays in two years," Nathaniel said. "I was able to learn so much. He taught me how to teach guys, from showing them tip sheets to video."
"When Jon came to us at the University of Pittsburgh, he was really at the forefront of the computer world in football," Paul Hackett said. "He really taught our staff the drawing of plays, and the computer part of it. Jon had taken it to another level since the Pitt days. To get that opportunity to go to Tampa and to watch Jon pass onto Nathaniel was wonderful for me."
Nathaniel Hackett went from Tampa to Buffalo in 2008, spending two seasons as a quality control coach on Dick Jauron's staff.
While his first stint in Buffalo was a dark chapter for the Bills (the end of the Jauron tenure), it was productive for Hackett from an education standpoint. On the staff was Alex Van Pelt, Jauron's QB coach and offensive coordinator.
Nathaniel picked the brains of both Van Pelt and Jim Kelly those two years and brought a lot of the principles of the no-huddle offense with him to Syracuse in 2010, when he was hired by Doug Marrone.
"I'll give credit where credit is due," Nathaniel Hackett said. "The offense we created at Syracuse was really from Alex and Jim. They were a big foundation of it."
"When he worked in Tampa, I kept hearing about this guy doing great things in quality control that would blow you away, and it was Nathaniel," said Van Pelt, now running backs coach in Green Bay. "We were fortunate to get him in Buffalo. You could tell right away he had great organizational skills, and he was very bright with computers. He understood the connection with the younger players, that generation, and how to reach them."
Syracuse didn't embrace the no-huddle until last season, when senior quarterback Ryan Nassib was at the peak of his mastery of the system. It was a big success. Syracuse improved from 90th in the nation in total offense in 2011 to 17th in 2012.
Van Pelt was Paul Hackett's quarterback at Pitt, where he broke many of Dan Marino's school passing records. Van Pelt was the first person to call Nathaniel Hackett when he was named Bills offensive coordinator in January.
Nathaniel Hackett, in fact, shows players practice video that he got from his father of Montana and Van Pelt simultaneously dropping back at Chiefs training camp in 1994.
Of course, Montana had great footwork. But so did Van Pelt.
Van Pelt calls Paul Hackett "the guru of footwork."
"He had unbelievable mechanics," Nathaniel Hackett said of Van Pelt. "He was a bigger gentleman – ahem – and he had to use all the good play-action fakes to get the ball down the field. He was a master at that."
It's all part of what is an amazing digital library of video in Nathaniel's possession. It includes Bills practices from the Kelly era, 49ers practices from the Walsh-Montana days in the early 1980s and countless other films converted from his father's collection.
"I have terabytes of material, from black-and-white back in the old days," Nathaniel said. "I have a database that's unbelievable. I'm a computer nerd. I have eight screens in my office."
The excitement in Hackett's voice is palpable when he's talking about his digital library. Check that. It's palpable when he's talking about most anything. Enthusiasm is one of his gifts.
"He's very funny, very energetic, emotional about everything he does," said receiver Alec Lemon, who played for the Orange the last four seasons. "He shows a lot of emotion on the field, whether it's good or bad. He'll let you know if he likes it or not."
It's all very satisfying for the elder Hackett to watch.
"It is very exciting for a dad," Paul Hackett said. "Any time your kids do well and are happy doing it, are loving what they do, you're excited."
Paul Hackett will be watching the Bills with great anticipation – and anxiety – this season.
"I'm definitely a ball of nerves," he said of watching his son's team. "I have an intense anticipation for the games and probably get a little more uptight than I should. But it is my son out there. It's a lot different than when you can control it."
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If you have been following this blog you are aware that the ban on live professional Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) in New York State (NYS) is the target of a federal lawsuit spearheaded by Zuffa, LLC (parent company of the UFC) and many other plaintiffs including Jon Jones, Frankie Edgar, Gina Carano, Joe Lozito, Don Lilly, Beth & Donna Hurrle, and several other professional & amateur fighters, promoters, coaches, and fans.
This week Zuffa, et al. filed their amended complaint after Judge Wood ruled in favor of NYS's motion to dismiss counts 4 & 5 of the Zuffa et al. complaint. This week saw a revised and updated complaint, which has many subtle and not so subtle revisions including a much greater focus on current amateur MMA in NY, the State's history of flip flopping on the amateur MMA issue, additional plaintiffs, and more current facts in the case.
To get up to date on the case as it has progressed since last November, check our summary here.
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Designing the perfect screen size for a tablet is a tricky endeavor. Though many debates rage about "how big is too big" for a handset, at least smartphone designers have the luxury of abiding by one rule -- it must fit in the palm of one's hand.
But what about tablets? They can be held with two hands, they don't have to be as easy to carry around as a phone, and they can be docked on a desk alongside an external keyboard. With such versatility, there is no golden rule. Some people demand that tablets be small enough to travel with, but others argue that a bigger screen can only help the user experience since tablets are used mostly at home anyway.
With its new Excite 13, Toshiba has put that latter "bigger is better" idea to the test. Until now, screen sizes have ranged from 7 to 11 inches, but the Excite 13 sports a behemoth 13.3-inch display. It's marketed as a $650 (or $750 if you want the 64GB version) device that's "ideally suited for the home," perfect for propping on your "kitchen countertop or coffee table" so you can "share videos with friends and family."
Due to its unprecedented size, it's easy to assume that the Excite 13 pulled a Samsung Galaxy Note and pumped itself with steroids. But while poking fun of the Note's comical size is a no-brainer (it's a phone, it's a tablet; no, it's a phablet!), the Excite 13 doesn't invite such campy jabs because it's more unwieldy than inappropriate. A phone with a 5.3-inch screen held to the cheek looks ridiculous immediately, but as you'll read, the inconvenience of a 13.3-inch tablet comes to light only after you spend some time with it. (Plus, the portmanteau "tabonitor" isn't all that funny.)
Editors' note: Due to their similarities, pieces of the Toshiba Excite 13's Feature and Performance sections have been lifted from CNET's review of the Toshiba Excite 10.
When held in landscape mode, the Toshiba Excite 13 measures 13.5 inches wide, 8.25 inches tall, and 0.4 inch thick. Though it can fit in a backpack or large knapsack well enough, it's not exactly something you can tote around in a purse or even a decent-size shoulder bag.
At 2.2 pounds, it doesn't come off as heavy at first. I felt comfortable typing on it while it lay on my lap, and holding it stationary while reading e-books was a breeze. It was only after I played games for more than 10 minutes or held it up to take pictures that its weight became apparent and bothersome. Holding a tablet up to capture photos is already clumsy, and the Excite 13 is no exception since your camera lives in a gray hunk of plastic that's bigger than a sheet of paper. Though I have a small build and am not very athletic, the average person still would need more than a bit of stamina to keep this steady while holding it up.
On the left side of the device, there's a power button. Up top are a screen rotation lock/unlock toggle switch, a volume rocker, and a small opening for the internal microphone. To the left are a 3.5mm headphone jack, an SD card reader slot, Micro-USB and Micro-HDMI ports, and a DC-IN charging connection. At the bottom are two output speakers built by Toshiba and SRS Labs.
The back is made out of silver-grayish plastic material that's textured with small plastic circles. I like these aesthetic choices because it gives the Excite 13 a faux-metallic finish, but the overall look of the device comes off as cheap compared with its sticker price of $650. At the top center is a LED-flash supported 5-megapixel camera.
A 2-megapixel front-facing camera sits above the 13.3-inch LED backlit display. The screen, bordered by a black band subtly decorated with glitter (calm down, dudes, you can only see it in the sunlight, and even then you'd have to squint), supports 10-finger multitouch, so you can type with all fingers on deck. The display has a resolution of 1,600x900 pixels, which makes watching videos that fit its 16:9 aspect ratio a real pleasure. Images were crisp, colors were vibrant, and the viewing angle is pretty wide. There is some LED bleeding at the bottom edge of the screen, however.
Videos and images that don't match the aspect ratio, however, won't render as well. Even with HD turned on, some YouTube videos looked blurry or heavily pixelated, and even default wallpaper images preloaded onto the tablet had some noticeable aliasing. Color gradients appeared streaky and jagged.
Though it doesn't lend itself to being carried around from place to place, the bigger screen does have some benefits. When it's propped on a stand, it doesn't look so out of place. Sharing videos and pictures with a lot of buddies came easily, and it wasn't necessary to pass the device around for everyone to see the screen. Browsing through magazines and books was a breeze too, since words and layout designs had that extra real estate to take advantage of. I found it especially useful at work. Placed near my computer, I used the Excite like a second monitor. Accessing my Google Docs, referring to Word files, and watching videos (again, work-related, I swear), proved really convenient on this tablet.
The Toshiba Excite 13 ships natively with the newest version of the Android OS, version 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. As on the Excite 10, a few additions have been made to the settings menu. One is the Enable Balanced Power option, which appears to dim the backlight, regardless of the current brightness setting, in order to save battery life. The other is an Audio Enhancement toggle, which allows access to SRS sound settings like volume boost and clarity enhancements. In addition, Toshiba reported that its Ambient Noise Equalizer adjusts the tablet's volume based on the amount of noise in the area.
Preloaded on the device are a number of Google apps, including Gmail, Plus, Maps with Navigation, Latitude, the Play Store for Books, Music, and Movies, Search, Talk, and YouTube. There are also a few task management features such as a calculator, a calendar, a clock with alarm features, native e-mail, browser, and media player applications, a file manager, an address book, and a sound recorder.
Some extra goodies include Adobe Reader; the mobile office suite, Quickoffice Lite HD; PrinterShare, the mobile printing solution; LogMeIn, which gives you wireless access to your computers; movie apps like Netflix and Crackle; music apps such as Amazon MP3 and Rdio; reading apps like News Place, Book Place, and Zinio; five games (Solitaire, Spades, Hearts, Euchre, and Backgammon); and a gaming portal app.
The 5-megapixel camera has some photo options, including digital zoom, panoramic shots, an exposure meter (from -2 to +2), five white-balance options (auto, incandescent, daylight, fluorescent, and cloudy), geotagging, five scenes (auto, action, night, sunset, and party), a flash, and seven picture sizes ranging from QVGA to 5 megapixels.


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Purposive Interpretation, Quebec, and the Supreme Court Act
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Israel blasts interim Iran deal, saying it doesn't cripple march to a bomb
Israeli leaders on Sunday condemned the interim deal reached between six world powers and Iran to temporarily freeze that country's nuclear program, saying the agreement failed to roll back Tehran's ability to produce a nuclear weapon.
"What was achieved last night in Geneva is not an historic agreement, but an historic mistake," Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in public remarks at the start of the weekly meeting of his cabinet. "Today the world has become a much more dangerous place, because the most dangerous regime in the world has taken a significant step toward acquiring the world's most dangerous weapon."
The six-month deal requires Iran to impose curbs on its nuclear activities in return for limited relief of economic sanctions, but allows it to continue enriching uranium at low levels, sufficient for energy production but not enough for bomb-making.
Netanyahu termed the results of the accord, which is supposed to provide a pause for negotiations of a comprehensive pact, "the first time that leading world powers have agreed to uranium enrichment in Iran." He said that sanctions "are being removed in return for cosmetic Iranian concessions that can be nullified in weeks."
"Israel is not obligated by this agreement," Netanyahu declared, again raising the prospect of an Israeli military strike against Iran's nuclear program, which he has called an existential threat to his country. "The regime in Iran is committed to the destruction of Israel, and Israel has the right and duty to defend itself, by itself, against any threat."
U.S. President Barack Obama later called Netanyahu to discuss the accord. The White House summary of that call suggested Obama tried to reassure Netanyahu that the United States would be careful to take Israeli concerns into account as negotiations move forward.
"Consistent with out commitment to consult closely with our Israeli friends, the president told the prime minister that he wants the United States and Israel to begin consultations immediately regarding out efforts to negotiate a comprehensive solution," the statement said.
Other members of Netanyahu's cabinet were equally critical of the accord.
Yuval Steinitz, the strategic affairs minister, said the agreement "does not roll back Iran's military enrichment capability but only freezes it in its current status." He compared the accord to failed agreements with North Korea to curb its nuclear program.
Under the accord reached early Sunday, Iran agreed not to install any new centrifuges for uranium enrichment or start up any that are not already working, or build new enrichment facilities.
Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman, recently reinstated after being cleared in a corruption case, told Israel Radio that the deal was "the greatest diplomatic victory for the Iranians perhaps since the Khomeini revolution," a reference to Iran's Islamic revolution in 1979.
Contrasting the accord with the recent agreement to disarm Syria of its chemical weapons, Lieberman noted that the deal with Iran did not require the dismantling of the centrifuges nor did it require removal of fissile material from the country.
The accord requires that the Iranian stockpile enriched to 20 percent, within striking-distance of weapons-grade fuel, be diluted or converted into oxide so it could not be used for military purposes. Iran has consistently maintained that its nuclear program is solely for civilian use and denies seeking a nuclear bomb.
Israel had pressed Washington to reach an agreement that would totally halt Iran's enrichment program, a step the Iranians ruled out as a deal-breaker.
Citing concerns about the accord voiced by Saudi Arabia and other Arab Gulf countries, Lieberman said the agreement "brings us to a new reality in the entire Middle East" which will require Israel "to make a reassessment" of its policy options.
Analysts said that there was virtually no chance of an Israeli military strike as long as negotiations were underway with Tehran, but that there were many pitfalls that could scuttle a satisfactory final agreement.
Emily Landau, director of the arms control and regional security project at the Institute for National Security Studies at Tel Aviv University, said that the logic of the agreement – creating a six-month pause in the Iranian nuclear efforts while a final deal is concluded – was flawed.
"In the real world, things are not going to proceed in such a neat and orderly fashion," she said. "There will probably be Iranian demands for additional sanctions relief. The Iranians understand that the international community accepts that for everything they give on the nuclear front they get sanctions relief. Sanctions is the only leverage the international community has, and if it gives that up before a final agreement, it won't get a deal."
Under the interim agreement, the U.S. has agreed to provide $6 to $7 billion dollars to Iran in sanctions relief, much of it oil revenue frozen in foreign banks.
Ephraim Asculai, a former member of the Israel Atomic Energy Commission who also worked at the International Atomic Energy Agency, said the major problem with the accord was that it did not significantly delay the time Iran would need to step up its uranium enrichment to reach levels needed to produce nuclear bombs.
"The breakout possibility has not been negated, and the time for a breakout – the time it would take Iran to break out and enrich to 90 percent and produce a first nuclear device – has not been prolonged," Asculai, a fellow at the Institute for National Security Studies, told journalists in a conference call. "It is still a rather short time, and the agreement does not do anything to change that time, perhaps in a very minor way."


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this article about million dollar book advances that I find so thrilling, so game changing, I can't believe it's the first I've heard of it. A facebook friend posted this morning and most of the commenting (mostly by a bunch of white dude writers in their 30s and 40s*) was the expected (and understandable) sour grapes, and how nearly all the books mentioned by first time authors were about or geared to teen girls.
I've discussed this at length elsewhere on this blog, about how women read novels, women write novels, teen girls consume novels at a rate that cannot be over emphasized. Novel reading was called by the early Victorians a "feminine vice" and in many ways that still stands. The boys will just have to make do with their glowing reviews in the NY Times and their low book sales. The world is deeply unfair, I know.
But that's not what I'm here to talk about.
Right near the bottom we read that Mark Z. Danielewski (best known for writing House of Leaves), has received a million dollar advance for an upcoming serialized novel. Am I the only person who finds this earth shattering? I've been waiting to see what changes the widespread use of handheld devices would have on books, and I think this is one harbinger of things to come.
As I'm sure most of you know, many of the long novels of the 19th century by writers like Dickens, Collins, Trollope, Melville, and Tolstoy were serialized. The adventures of Sherlock Holmes were famously serialized in The Strand, as was the most significant American novel of the 19th century, Uncle Tom's Cabin. Then, with the decline of the periodical and the rise of the modern novel, with authors such as Hemingway, Woolf, Fitzgerald ascendant, the serialized novel was completely out of fashion. There were a few reemergences in the pre-internet era, most notably Tom Wolfe's Bonfire of the Vanities, serialized in Rolling Stone.
Now, we are once again in a world where serial is king. American movies are in deep decline, but our television, our serials, are in the midst of a new golden age. The conciseness of Modernism is no longer valued above all. And with the vast popularity of the Kindle and Nook and ipad, serialized novels are once again a completely feasible option.
I wonder if one day we'll look at the first years of the Kindle as we do the first years of cinema? Looking at filmed stage plays shot dead on with no editing or close ups seems a waste of this remarkable new technology. Will we view directly transposing existing novels in the same way? What narrative innovations will result? How will form dictate content?
Serialization seems an obvious first step. The medium lends itself to it, all they need is a hit.
Thrilling times are ahead.
*Delightful, all, don't get me wrong, but their perspective is, I think, a little narrow, bless them.
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AN AUSTRALIAN mountaineer who narrowly escaped the deadliest accident ever on Mount Everest says some local guides and climbers were questioning whether to scrap their summit plans after 13 Nepalese guides were killed in an avalanche.
Gavin Turner was scaling the treacherous Khumbu Icefall with his sherpa guide early on Friday when he saw the avalanche strike climbers just ahead of him, at an altitude of about 5800 metres.
"We saw it approach ... it was an extremely close call, a matter of minutes," Mr Turner said in a phone interview from Everest base camp.
As news of the accident sent shock waves among mountaineers, most of the sherpas on the mountain gathered their belongings and left, leaving the world's highest peak deserted but for tents packed with foreign climbers stunned by the disaster.
The accident underscores the huge risks borne by local guides, who ascend the icy slopes of the 8848-metre peak, often in pitch-dark and usually weighed down by tenting equipment, ropes and food supplies for their clients.
The nature of their work means that sherpas will usually make many more trips up the mountain and expose themselves to far greater risk than foreign climbers who pay tens of thousands of dollars to summit the peak.
While rescue helicopters buzzed overhead, plucking snow-blanketed bodies out of the mountain to base camp using cables suspended from the aircraft, hundreds of sherpas said they wanted to take a break from the climb.
Some said they would not come back at all this season.
"My sherpa said he won't be returning — he has a wife and a two-year-old son and the love of his family outweighed any financial reward," Mr Turner said.
The 38-year-old had set out for his first Everest summit just days ago, in a bid to raise funds for a children's charity, but said the accident had left "many climbers asking themselves if they should go ahead".
Mr Turner's thoughts were echoed in an account posted online by veteran mountaineer Tim Rippel, the Canadian owner of expedition company Peak Freaks.
Four sherpas on Rippel's team endured a close shave when the avalanche struck, two were trapped above the disaster area and two others dropped their loads and retreated to base camp only minutes before the accident occurred.
"Everyone is shaken here at base camp," Mr Rippel wrote on his blog late on Friday.
"Some climbers are packing up and calling it quits, they want nothing to do with this. Reality has set in," wrote Mr Rippel, who reached the summit of Everest in 2008.
"Everyone is in agreement that Everest 2014 is shaping up to be the worst season in history for complications and for deaths."
Nepal's Sherpas, an ethnic group thought to be of Tibetan origin who live mainly in the eastern Himalayas, served as guides and porters for some of the first expeditions in the Everest region.
Among the most famous is Tenzing Norgay, who made the first summit of Everest with New Zealand mountaineer Edmund Hillary in 1953.
The term today is used for all local guides who assist Himalayan expeditions.
For Mr Turner, who described the attempt to summit Everest as "a mountaineer's pinnacle experience", the tragedy has cast a spotlight on the heroes all too often banished to the sidelines.
"There is enormous build-up for an Everest expedition — from the physical training to the emotional investment to the financial commitment we make."
But Friday's disaster "reminds us again that it's the sherpa community who bear the weight of these expeditions, they are the backbone of every team", he said.


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29 May 2014
Red/Black DVF Dress
Generally I don´t like to take pictures for my blog right before leaving for an event. The reason? I´m always lateeee! :-))))) These shots were taken last weekend in a typical hurry before leaving for a party. Starring: a georgeous lace mini dress from Diane von Furstenberg.
25 May 2014
In a Station of the Metro
22 May 2014
Summer Co-ords
The summer is almost here and the wonderful sunny weather outside inspires me with new ideas for my summery closet. There are three things I´d like to purchase for the upcoming season - a maxi dress, sandals and a cropped top with a matching bottom (skirt/skort/shorts - I´m quite open). :-) I found these three cool co-ords from Ark, so perfect for the beach! I cannot decide which one to choose, so I´d like to ask you, which one do you vote for? The dogtooth one, the white one or the pink one? Thanks for your advice!
19 May 2014
Geometric Dress & My Old Ray Bans
The Belgian weather is just lovely these days! I can´t wait to explore all my summer dresses...
Btw, these Ray Ban sunglasses are the oldest piece in my "collection", I got them at the age of eighteen... :-)
16 May 2014
Kiss Kiss Umbrella
14 May 2014
Purple Inspiration
What makes you decide what to wear? For me it´s often about rather small things that influence the choice of the whole outfit, such as the colour of nail polish. Few days ago, I polished my toe-nails purple and since then I keep wearing purple/lilac outfits. :-)
12 May 2014
Nationa(a)l Pop-Up Store
This month the annual Nationa(a)l Pop-Up Store takes place in Brussels, presenting Belgian creators and artists in fields of visual arts, cinema, fashion, design, music, dance, publishing and gastronomy. I was chosen as a model for the fashion shows (although I could boldly engage myself in other areas, too... What about gastronomy - tasting? :-D). Today´s photos are from the fashion show which was a part of the opening ceremony last Friday.
8 May 2014
Messy Hair
One of my fav outfits - a simple black-beige silhouette combined with bright shoes. Btw, this is how my hair looks like when I fall asleep with my hair wet and uncombed... :-)
6 May 2014
4 May 2014
Ladies and gentlemen, the Beatles!
When I was thirteen, I went with my school for a trip to England. My mission of the trip was clear - as a big Beatles fan I wanted to buy a T-shirt with my dream band. It was my first time in the U.K. and I imagined it as the "Beatles land" where one can get souvenirs with J+P+G+R literally everywhere. To my disappointment, my hunt wasn´t succesfull. At the end of the trip I luckily bought a poster with John Lennon (so precious! :-) ) but no T-shirt at all.
That´s why when I saw this T-shirt in Forever 21 in Antwerp last weekend, I just couldn´t resist to finally fulfill my teen-age dream. If I were thirteen years old, I´d kill for it. :-)))
2 May 2014
Cat "Model" :-)
Beauty isn´t everything, and it seems that our darling Maurice simply doesn´t have what it takes to be a good model. :-))) Obviously he is NOT strong in posing, and yesterday when my friend and photographer came, Maurice better hid himself above the cupboard. Not a fan of strangers... :-)
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Investment banks are getting wise to big data – but a demand for staff to help sift through the large volumes of information in financial markets is vastly outstripping supply.
Goldman Sachs, the Royal Bank of Canada, Societe Generale and Barclays are among the banks advertising big data jobs in London, while the Bank of England is also on the lookout for a data scientist to work in a new analytics division, according to its website.
Damian Sutcliffe, head of Europe, Middle East and Africa technology at Goldman Sachs, said: "People have become more aware of the value of data and the insights that can be gained from it."
Big data strategies involve managing and processing the high volumes of complex data that banks collect and store, to make more data-led decisions across business functions including trading analytics, compliance and client management.Sutcliffe says "data scientists are key to achieving this".
Credit Suisse is implementing a big data solution for trade surveillance, according to a job advertisement on LinkedIn. The bank will use new software to process data feeds from as many as 80 systems, the advertisement says.
A study published last week by Thomson Reuters, which was carried out by research firmAite Group, found that while many capital markets firms are still new to big data's potential, data-related functions have increased in importance.
Half of the firms surveyed for the study said they employed data scientists or planned to hire them in the next 24 months. Toby Babb, a managing director at recruitment firm Harrington Starr, described demand for data scientists as "one of the fastest growing positions in the sector".
However, banks are coming up against a shortage of the required skills. The most common problem for capital markets firms on big data projects was that they lacked technical knowledge, according to the Thomson Reuters survey.
Clare Cooper, an Associate Director at recruitment firm Selby Jennings, part of the Phaidon International group, said: "There is without doubt a big lack of skilled data scientists in the UK. "Not only must they be strong technically, they need to have strong mathematical skills, good communication and business acumen."
Carmine Gioia, a visiting associate professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technologywho was recruited by Saxo Bank in December to lead its data strategy, said: "You need a team of people that span mathematics, computer science, engineering, statistics and psychology."
Sutcliffe at Goldman Sachs said: "Probably the biggest challenge is that many of the best and brightest data scientists don't think about a career in the financial industry – instead they assume the most interesting data science problems are either in academic research, defence industry-national security, or technology companies."
To lure candidates from "trendier" technology jobs, financial institutions have started getting creative. Cooper at Phaidon International said some firms have recently set up data scientist "bootcamps" in order to attract talent.
She added: "Additionally, we have seen an increase in the hiring of data scientists working remotely through cloud technology. In this way, several banks can access the Silicon Valley talent pool without needing to relocate talent permanently."
Bankers and headhunters expect that demand will continue to rise as a growing number of firms flesh out and deploy new big data projects.
Steen Blaafalk, group chief financial & risk officer at Saxo Bank, said: "Demand for data scientists will rise in coming years. More and more companies are coming to realise this. Big data is here to stay."
Barclays and Credit Suisse declined to comment. Royal Bank of Canada did not respond to requests for comment. Societe Generale did not to comment by the time of publication.