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I don't know about anyone else here, but for me, Christmas lost its magic a long time ago. The problem was that it went from being a family holiday to being another occasion to argue over too much spending on unnecessary things, not just for yourself, but way too often for other people. The damned thing has become too commercialized. I am already bombarded with advertisements about "Black Friday" and even "The day before Black Friday" sales and deals, Christmas music on the radio, and a barrage of Christmas movies on TV, and Thanks Giving hasn't even come and gone. I was not surprised to find out that quite a few people share similar sentiments as mine, that this holiday carries way too much wallet pain. I hold hope this number of like minded people climbs faster, and when a majority finally has had enough, there will be some positive changes to this whole commercialized holidays thing. Maybe I am bitter, who knows, but this year I am opting out.
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I had a Dave D moment as I was reading this and had to scroll back up to say, "Did I write this?"
Agree with the spirit and letter of this post entirely. Christmas was great until our entire retail-based economy started depending on it.
I'm with you guys. It's not just the popular culture. It's the wish lists and the constant scrounging.
I think Gregg Easterbrook had a great idea: separate the secular and the religious holidays. No one knows when Christ was born (sheep in the fields, though, unlikely to happen in winter). So why not make Christmas the 28th or something and make the 25th a secular holiday called "Spendmas".
Oh, wow. We both got downvoted there. Apparently, The Ghost of Christmas Blogging is among our readership…
Christmas post, so soon? {sigh}
I was in Target the day after Halloween and I noticed the Christmas stuff going up, all the while Christmas carols were playing in the background, a bit premature if you ask me.
The original Charlie Brown Christmas special first aired almost 50 years ago, he was lamenting the commercialization of it even back then.
Some of my best memories in life revolve around this holiday so I can never get too jaded. And for those that do not lose sight of the real reason for the season, the "peace of earth, good will toward men" aspect of the celebration remains intact.
Biggie G
The day before Black Friday" sales and deals,
Remember way back in the day, like last year, we used to call this Thanksgiving?
True stuff! But there is always a magical, strange air to every christmas day, and I think that will be hard to lose, at least for another decade. I think, or was hopping, given the recessions all over the world, we'd get back to what Christmas really is about, and not the commercial side.
Yeah I noticed that too Thrill, despite being generic comments, I sensed a silent troll aboot before.
I downvoted your "Oh, wow"-post, Thrill. Just because… :)
Damn you! Now I have no choice but to weep to the Twitterverse and eat a bucket of ice cream to salve my tears.
You have broken me.
Dave D
I LIKE the span from Thanksgiving to Christmas. It is the "holiday season" for me and I SLOWLY get geared up as December arrives and passes. I used to wait until about the 10th to put up lights, but might do it this weekend this year due to nice weather and an extra day off. The Black Friday thing sickens me, but I do get the entire house to myself as the rest of the family goes "shopping" (if that is what you call this). I intentionally don't buy gifts until about a week before Christmas, as I like to poll my kids and wife as to what they want and be as accurate as possible.
Also, I also had to look to see who wrote this one. Hal and Alex are easy to spot when they are taking their "normal" tacts through an argument. This one had NO "big government/liberalism is bad" which is preaching to the choir for me) or "Obama really isn't that bad" (which INFURIATES me) tone to it, so I could easily have believed it was from Thrill or Rich.
I'm the opposite. The only holiday I like is Halloween. Pretty much everything else annoys and inconveniences me, forcing me to spend money I don't have.
Pretty much from November 1st until my anniversary in mid-March, I'm totally unbearable except when I get completely blitzed on New Year's Eve. Everything from March until the end of October is cool, even though I hate July 4th and Daylight Savings TIme.
Yeah, I'm a prick.
I'm the opposite. The only holiday I like is Halloween. Pretty much everything else annoys and inconveniences me, forcing me to spend money I don't have.
That's what it has felt like for me for the last decade for me Thrill. It went from one of the holidays I looked forward to the most to being jaded about it at least a month in advance because of the crass commercialism and the presure to particpate. I hate shopping. I have always believed Christmas was supposed to be about the people, not the gifts, and I discovered in a rude manner that some people take this shopping and gift giving nonsense as serious as a contact sport. It has left me more jaded than I have ever been.
See, I really didn't care about Christmas one way or the other until I met my wife. Then the hate began.
Before that, I was either in the Army (and couldn't leave for the exodus since I was a MP and somebody had to stay at the post) or preferred to work as much as possible and avoid it all.
My wife's family turns it up to 11 though. They love Christmas and go for the Norman Rockwell ideal with fanatical zeal. Al Qaeda operatives would look at the insane devotion of it and go, "Wow, you guys are really obsessed! Relax, already."
I personally like my in-laws and we get along well, but Christmas is a fucking ordeal. The pain starts on Christmas Eve. We will usually go visit my father's family and join in on their party. That's my favorite place to go because it's laid back and there a lot of kids for the Thrill-lings to play with and stay out of my hair. However, my mother's side of the family has this asinine tradition of going to visit as many people as humanly possible on Christmas Eve across the entire blasted Kansas City Metropolitan Area. I did a pretty good job last year of limiting it, but we will probably get dragged to one or two places before getting to my father's.
After that, we go to my wife's parents to spend the night. I ha-ha-hate spending the night at other people's houses. Period. They might have a dinner or something.
Then I'll leave late at night and go attend my old church's Christmas Eve candlelight service. The choir is awesome. Keep in mind that this is the only….fucking…thing I want to do on Christmas and the only thing I think even represents the good that's left in the whole wretched holiday.
Then I go back to my wife's parents and pass out from sheer fatigue while everyone stages the living room to look like Santa was there. At 6 AM, the kids wake everyone up and it begins anew. We have breakfast and sit around until it's time to open presents. You would think I'd look forward to the gifts, but you're wrong! Every person opens their gifts one at a time. You have to guess what is in it AND THEY KEEP SCORE. It takes like four hours just to get through.
When that's over, I find a corner to hide in and load up on bloody mary's. Then there's dinner. Keep in mind that by now, Christmas has already been going on for over 30 hours and I REALLY just want to go home and get back to normal.
But no. The wife will sometimes want to stay over for another fucking night which means that either I have to stay too or be an asshole and go home by myself. Well, you know me so I do the latter. Then I go back to work on the 26th whether I'm supposed to or not just to have an excuse to get away. The wife and kids get back sometime in the evening on the 26th.
Again, I think my in-laws are great people, but they overdo the shit out of Christmas. Somehow, they made me go from merely apathetic to hate for the holidays. I mean, three days? Come on….
And all I really ever want to do is go to church for a couple of hours and enjoy the peaceful dignity of it all. There's none of that to be found in any other aspect of Christmas.
Im so fucking glad my family doesn't go in for this carp. I have never been shopping on black friday,and have no intention to , my wife doesn't care for it.so on friday we are just nursing a hangover from drinking with my folks the night before.
as for Christmas its self, my side is pretty laid back, show up Christmas eve, eat, unwrap presents , drink….. next morning open gifts at home. and then off to one of my aunts open a few there eat…. and hopefully not off to her side.. ugh i really do like her grand mother her mom and her brother,the rest.. ugh they are anal and obsessive.. though her oldest cousin likes to dress a bit slutty and let her very nice knockers hand out a bit..
Other wise ill pass,got home with the family relax play with any new toys, and just be happy we are together..
The buying shit is a bit crazy i know but i tend to go a bit over board on my family and wife. Last year i bought her a nice pistol, and looks like this year i might get her another….. mom a tablet,and dad the 50 years of James Bond Blue rays…. sister… got me.. some rum maybe.
One thing i do like about the Christmas holiday time. Every place i have worked at has shut down for the last week of the year..so it pretty much ends as one week long party.. and chance to go get shit faced on weekdays.
Mississippi Yankee
Oh, wow. We both got downvoted there. Apparently, The Ghost of Christmas Blogging is among our readership…
I am the one that 'down-voted Hal. And not just "because" either. He had the audacity to suggest MY FUCKING BIRTHDAY be moved to Dec. 28th. A POX on his house I say!
Famous people like Humphrey Bogart, Barbara Mandrell, Sissy Spacek, my cousin Lenna. Brian ! Oh and baby Jesus too. We were all born on Dec. 25th. Go change your own birthday starfucker.
Totally agree with Alex. Nice post.
I hope that doesn't make you re-consider ;-)
Mississippi Yankee
This post, about Christmas no less, may hold the record for being used by almost everyone in the comment section in a grinch-like manner. Is this an attempted diversion to not buy me a present?
BTW, a used dreidel is not a proper birthday/Christmas gift.
Y'all really are a bunch of Christ punching godless bastards. But Lee's probably smiling somewhere… so there's that…
Here's why Christmas sucks.
It's not the commercialism, that's always been there in our lifetimes.
Hell it doesn't even have to be the shopping. You can do what I do, get Amazon prime, start your shopping at about 5pm on Dec 21, and be done by 6pm. Free shipping.
Here's the deal. When Christmas was cool, back when we were kids, you wake up, get free toys. About the only contribution you had to make was drawing some shitty card for mom and dad that was probably a school project anyhow, so even that was fun as it beats having to do math. Then you become a teen, and you still get stuff, but have to buy a little too so it was more of a tossup. Now you get older, it's all liability hoping you don't fuck up and dissapoint when buying gifts for that special someone, and you know that's never changing and it's only going to get worse down the road when the grand kids start appearing. It's not Christmas that sucks, it's getting old that sucks.
And as far as family stress and arguments? Ask your folks if it was stressful for them back then. I bet it was. But you were probably like me playing with all the toys to even notice or give a shit. :)
And a Bah, humbug to you all!
Wow. Such a downer thread.
Old age brings achy knees, wrinkles, etc., but it also brings fun stuff – like retirement, and the best part of all – Grandkids (have one so far), and they make Christmas fun again.
And I hate anything Christmas related before Thanksgiving, especially the music on my favorite radio station and the shows on my favorite TV station that normally airs repeats of Frazier, Cheers, etc. at night.
And Halloween is my absolute favorite holiday as well, Thrill.
Have a great Thanksgiving all, regardless of who you are having it with!
TV station that normally airs repeats of Frazier, Cheers, etc. at night.
Sounds like you're in league with Mrs. Thrill. She watched Frasier straight through on Netflix over the past few months. That and Murder She Wrote. Can't believe we're paying for that…
That's one show I never tire of, even though I've seen every episode numerous times.
Every person opens their gifts one at a time. You have to guess what is in it AND THEY KEEP SCORE. It takes like four hours just to get through.
Ok, that would drive me bat-shit insane too.
My family is pretty laid back. We only get a small present or two per person and don't go wild, except for the kids, they get plenty of toys and all. Trying to make sure I don't forget anyone or at least get something with at least some thought involved does get a little old. I know it could be a lot worse though.
We've done the one gift at a time in the past, as well. But it's only four of us – five if my mom is with us – so it goes fairly fast. It's fun. We have our coffee, in our pjs, fire going in the fireplace.
This year will include 17 month old granddaughter, so may to adjust, but will be fun however we do it.
Screw y'all — I love this pagan holiday!
Well, maybe "love" is too strong a word. How about "tolerate"…
Mississippi Yankee
Screw y'all — I love this pagan holiday!
Finally, a kindred spirit :)
Sounds like you're in league with Mrs. Thrill. She watched Frasier straight through on Netflix over the past few months. That and Murder She Wrote. Can't believe we're paying for that…
My brother can go you one better. He is still working through "The Rockford Files". LOL. Damn.
I have seasonal affective disorder, which means life sucks pretty much after Halloween (my favorite too!) – BUT, I can fake it through Christmas most years. Due to unseasonably nice weather, Dave put the outside lights up today and we will probably get the tree going this weekend.
I am with you on Amazon Prime for Christmas shopping, Section8. I will be done in short order and never leave the house. Shove everything in a gift bag and call it good.
Mississippi Yankee
My brother can go you one better. He is still working through "The Rockford Files". LOL. Damn.
They are on the way but my youngest son will receive for Christmas both "Tales of the Gold Monkey" and the original "Battlestar Galactica" full series. He had expressed an interest in them but is too young (29 yesterday) to have ever seen them on TV.
I love Amazon
BTW he got "Lost Girl" season 2 for his birthday. Not a lot of maturity or high-brow in my house I suppose.
the original "Battlestar Galactica" full series
Wow. I do like the remake with Katie Sackhoff as Starbuck. We saw her at Dragon Con signing autographs and she looked like she was having the time of her life. For some reason, she was far away from her BG co-stars, whom all looked bored shitless.
Mississippi Yankee
Why isn't she getting more work? She's extremely attractive and I think she acts well too. At least Grace Park got some regular work with the Hawaii 5-0 remake. Oh and that Tahmoh Penikett guy got some work on Joss Wheaton's Dollhouse.
I agree. She did get a gig on "Workaholics" as a drunken wedding date for Adam. I assume she will land something eventually.
Apollo is in the UK version of Law and Order lol
Biggie G
Actually, Katee Sackhoff is on the A&E series Longmire. I think that it has been renewed for a second season. I think it's pretty good. It makes me want to go to Wyoming, if that counts for anything.
Love Tahmoh Penikett (as Helo and in Dollhouse but generally too). The wife is an even bigger fan. He was also in Season 2 of The Killing. Hope he gets a lot more work.
Sackhoff had a prominent role in the last season of 24, although that's a few years ago now.
Unrelated, but this is pretty good.
Mississippi Yankee
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Even TradeMe was in on the act…..;-)
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UK Teens Arrested For Terrorizing Terror Hotline
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U.K. police arrested two teenagers on Thursday evening for allegedly making hoax phone calls to a hotline set up to report suspicious terrorism-related activity. The arrests also appear to be linked to a series of hacker-recorded calls among staff manning the anti-terrorist hotline and the illicit callers.The two males, ages 16 and 17, were arrested and taken into custody on suspicion of violating the country´s Malicious Communications Act and Computer Misuse Act. Their names were not released.
On Tuesday, a group called Team Poison posted audio of a phone call made to the anti-terrorist hotline. The caller who identifies himself as "Robert West" tells the operators that he has "terrorist" information and engages them in an adversarial conversation.
During the exchange the male caller claimed his brother was Ryan Cleary, an alleged member of the hacker collective Anonymous who was arrested in the U.K. last June on hacking-related charges. The call ends when a female operator tells the caller his information and the call itself are being referred to the FBI.
The group also claimed it staged a "phone bombing" attack that bombarded the hotline with hundreds of calls with the intent of jamming up the lines. The principle is similar to a distributed-denial-of-service attack typically used to shut down websites by using multiple networks of computers to access the same web site simultaneously.
On Wednesday, another Team Poison call was uploaded to YouTube with an official appearing to tell the caller, "You're constantly blocking our phones "¦ People cannot get through when you're constantly coming through here with your phone calls. Other people that need our help can't get through because you're constantly putting this Team Poison stuff on. It's just getting a bit tedious now."
A third Team Poison video on YouTube appears to be audio from an internal police phone call. In the recording the official says, "We have been subjected to a barrage of calls from a group called Team Poison. We have had about 700 calls over the last couple of nights. One of the conversations I had last night was leaked on YouTube. Everyone else calling was effectively shut out and could not through at all."
One theory on how the internal call could have been recorded is that the receiving handset was compromised during the phone-bombing operation by a phone hacking technique called Phreaking. Phone hacking by mechanical means, or phreaking, has been around in one form or another since as far back as the 1950s.
The Telegraph spoke to an alleged Team Poison member who said they had little difficulty tapping into the authorities´ phone system.
"It was very easy, they were using an old phone system which was vulnerable to a private phreaking method that we discovered," he said.
The Metropolitan police claimed that hackers had not made the recording through their "internal systems", so the public could be confident of the hotline´s integrity. The incidents this week come a month after a different hacker group uploaded a YouTube video containing what it claimed was a recording of detectives from the FBI, Scotland Yard and other police forces.

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It's been six months since renovations started on the Rockaway house. Yeah, I thought I'd be finished within three. Although most of the big, nasty damage was dealt with immediately, I ignored the worst problem until recently.
The rear deck was built into the house without thought of water infiltration. One stair stringer was supported by the house with vinyl siding cut around it and caulking to fill gaps. Gutters on the second floor were not properly cut and pulled away from the siding. Both the first and second floor rear mudrooms had mold and wood rot.
It's not that the problem was ignored so much as put off. The two rooms were gutted and the deck was repaired to a point months ago. The tough thing was figuring out what to do with those stairs that were part of the house. Just patch it up the way it was?
Nah. Here's where I needed an experienced company to come in. This wasn't a DIY or jack of all trades handyman job. After a few phone calls, I went with Topline who does windows, siding and doors. We agreed that the best thing to do would be to take the stairs out completely and redo the entire back wall of siding and gutters, then rebuild self-supported stairs.
(Funny story. I left the room for 10 minutes and my husband created a "skylight". Totally rotted ceiling/side replaced.)
But this isn't about the vinyl siding or deck stairs. This is about the two mud rooms that can finally be dealt with because there are no longer leaks.
The entire house was not gutted. Probably should have been, but there were things I wanted to salvage, such as the floors. Anyway, whatever WAS gutted, we took great pains to repair properly.
What does that mean? It means replacing rotted wood. It means adding extra support where there wasn't any before, including wall studs and flooring joists. It means new insulation.
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The gathering on the Hill caught the attention of the National Capital Commission, which used to sponsor a popular New Year's Eve party and fireworks display on the Hill. It cancelled the event in 1992 when its budget was cut by $1.2 million.
Marie Lemay, the NCC's chief executive officer, says it is "quite intriguing" that so many people chose to migrate to Parliament Hill.
"It does raise questions, and I think it's worth a discussion," says Lemay, who plans to raise the matter when she meets with the mayors of Ottawa and Gatineau later this winter.
She'll find a receptive audience in Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson, who says he's willing to "beat the bushes" to attract some corporate sponsors to help pay for a New Year's Eve event on the Hill.
Just don't expect the city to foot the bill. "I couldn't justify putting a substantial amount of money into fireworks," the mayor says.
After the NCC abandoned the Hill in 1992, a privately sponsored event on Sparks Street, called First Night, briefly filled the void. But it too was cancelled for cost reasons after a couple of years.
Since then, the Hill precinct has been mostly dark on New Year's Eve. The only exceptions were the turn of the millennium, when the NCC mounted a gaffe-plagued $833,000 celebration, and 2007, when Ottawa marked its 150th anniversary as Canada's capital.
Paul Dewar, the MP for Ottawa Centre, which includes Parliament Hill, says it's "kind of sad" there isn't something there for families on New Year's Eve. Many, he says, can't afford to spend a lot of money, but would like a place to go to welcome the new year.
"I don't think it needs to be a major expenditure," he says. "But frankly it should be something we do as the capital of the country. We should be coming up with something that is our own, that's unique, that represents our country. It's time."
The Ottawa Gatineau Hotel Association would welcome that. Hotel guests regularly ask where the New Year's Eve celebration is, says Dick Brown, the OGHA's executive director.
"The industry recognizes that there's a need," Brown says. "The question is how to meet it."
There are signs of action at Ottawa Tourism. In July, the agency got a new mandate from the provincial government that allows it to do "destination development," which is tourism talk for creating new events and attractions.
The thorny question of New Year's Eve is already on the agenda of Ottawa Tourism's newly formed tourism development council, Brown says. "It will be up for discussion at our next meeting."
Read the entire article: "The city that forgot to ring in 2011"
Related: Ottawa Fireworks Guide


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The aviation industry has proved in tests that it can fly airplanes safely and efficiently on fuels made from cornhusks or algae or many sources other than crude oil. But adoption of so-called biofuels to fly jets will ultimately come down to economics.
Biofuels sold for $16 a gallon just can't compete with conventional jet fuel at $3.


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The trend of "dark sequels" continues in the new trailer for Thor: The Dark World. Gone are the blue skies, golden sets, and rainbow bridges as Game of Thrones director Alan Taylor takes the film in a grittier direction. Much like Iron Man 3, the film will take place after the events from The Avengers and lead up to The Avengers 2 in May 2015. Along with Chris Hemsworth, many actors from the first movie will return including Natalie Portman, Tom Hiddleston, Anthony Hopkins, Stellan Skarsgard, and Idris Elba.
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Marvel's "Thor: The Dark World" continues the big-screen adventures of Thor, the Mighty Avenger, as he battles to save Earth and all the Nine Realms from a shadowy enemy that predates the universe itself. In the aftermath of Marvel's "Thor" and "Marvel's The Avengers," Thor fights to restore order across the cosmos…but an ancient race led by the vengeful Malekith returns to plunge the universe back into darkness. Faced with an enemy that even Odin and Asgard cannot withstand, Thor must embark on his most perilous and personal journey yet, one that will reunite him with Jane Foster and force him to sacrifice everything to save us all.
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The conversations that we had at Seattle University on November 18, 2011 could not happen in Missouri yet.
I attended the Global Competence in Education conference after being gone from Washington State for five years, coming from another Washington – Washington University in St. Louis where I am a PhD student in cultural and educational anthropology. When my husband was stationed at McChord AFB in Washington State, I was able to work with Global WA, the Coalition for International Education, iEARN, WAFLT, and many other organizations dedicated to increasing global education in Washington State by helping organize conferences, curricula, and teaching immersion French at Sheridan Elementary in Tacoma. When we moved to Scott AFB near St. Louis, I went back to school for a Masters in Islamic and Near Eastern Studies with a thesis on the diversity of modern Islamic education in Turkey, Egypt, and Pakistan. In my PhD program, I now specialize in educational pluralism and reform in the Middle East. My interest in international and comparative education is tightly wound with an interest in developing multilingualism and global education in the U.S. However, in the four states I've lived previously and in the two states I've lived since, I haven't found the passion for global education that exists in Washington State.
Though I'm also involved in education reform in St. Louis, the conversation is about financial propriety, increasing early childhood education, reaching full teacher certification, bus schedules, food service, parental involvement, desegregation policies, and other elements of how the education system is run — but not what or how we're teaching the children of St. Louis to fit into the globalized 21st century. A large part of the panic is due to the loss of accreditation by the Missouri State Board of Education in 2007. However, many of the best success stories in St. Louis are through innovative school practice: the highest ranking high school in Missouri is the public, magnet Metro Academic and Classical High School (also one of Newsweek's top 100 best public schools in America) and the highest ranking elementary school in Missouri is the public, magnet Kennard Classical Junior Academy.
While teaching at Sheridan Elementary School of International Language, we were encouraged to show that global education was not an elite luxury, but the definition of good public education in the 21st century.
President of Seattle University Father Sundborg, Karen Kodama, and others expressed how students, teachers, and business leaders do not need to be convinced that global education and competency-building are important. Father Sundborg said, "Students have a hunger and ability to connect with people around the world. We don't need to put the global in young people, we need to educate it."
Seattle BioMed's Theresa Britschgi and Wells Fargo's Marco Abruzzese noted that the largest problems in the world are global and can only be solved through global collaboration. Alan Burke from the Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction lamented that "there is a world full of jobs we're not preparing our kids for."
In an interview with Byron Clemens, Vice President at AFT 420, the local St. Louis teachers' union, he noted how well the magnet schools were doing in St. Louis and pondered, "Why couldn't they all be magnet schools?" His question gets at the heart of the need to change education in the US, since our public education system has not caught up with the 21st century. As Karen Kodama said, "Today's high school students graduate into a world vastly different from the 20th century." It's time we taught them differently as well.
Susan Jeffords, Board Vice President of Global Washington and the Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs at the University of Washington in Bothell, challenged Washington State to be the leader of global education in the U.S. I am convinced that the work being done in Washington State, and the conference work on the roadmap to global education, could lead the other states in the right direction.
Although such a conference could not currently be held in St. Louis, the city and state exist in the same globalized, 21st century world as Seattle, Washington. In St. Louis, we may have to convince students, teachers, and business leaders that global education is the key to future success. And it will take time to develop the network of non-profits, development organizations, international schools, corporate sponsorships, and teacher professional development that Washington State has been developing for the last decade. Hopefully, it will not take Missouri a decade to hold our own Global Competence in Education conference since we can learn from Washington's model and expand current best practices.
I commend all the participants and everyone involved in global education in Washington State for their work, their leadership, and their hope in a peaceful, prosperous, interconnected present and future.


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Out now: National Geographic, February 2018
Event: magCulture Meets MacGuffin
New magazine: This Way Up #1
At work with: Antonia Case, Womankind
Issues: Simon Kanter, editorial director
New magazine: Taverna #1
'As newsstands have become so much less important to all of us, the cover has a different function. It is basically the brand statement of what we make,' Adam Moss, editor-in-chief, New York
Love the look of the new magazine from the AIGA Eye on Design blog.
London, until 6 May: Print in the digital age: Redesigning The Guardian.
'I learned about the The Face in high school, when a worldly friend started talking about it and I pretended to know what it was…' The New Yorker reviews The Story of The Face.
'Newly digitised pages of Zhvandun magazine – Life, in English – reveal the aspirations of Afghanistan's elite during decades of political and social change' (thanks Esa).
Digital publisher Exact Editions discusses its archiving role.
Kickstarter alert: Nansen, 'about migrants of all kinds,' is crowdfunding its second issue now.
Mr. Magazine announces his top ten mag launches of 2017.
The Guardian newspaper heads for profit, news that would have seemed crazy just months ago.
The D&AD Awards deadline is 14 Feb — enter your magazine/newspaper and use the discount code MODMAG18 to save 20%.
A few final tickets are available for this evenings magCulture Meets Fare.
The NYTimes visits James Hyman and his Archive.
London, 29 January: join Liv Siddall and others for a discussion about freelance journalism at the Moth Club.
Calgary, March 9: Jeremy Leslie is speaking at the annual Alberta Magazines Conference.
New York magazine marks its 50th anniversary with a series of commisioned art posters across its home city.
The Guardian pulls together a series of responses to its redesign.
Richard Turley is always a good read; here he is talking plenty if sense about contemporary culture and inspiration.
India calling! Lover is an India-centric online magazine, worth a look.
London, 30 January: Stack have a great line-up for their next event, 'Can Indie Mags Make a Difference?'
New York, 30 January: Eye magazine launch their latest issue with guests Bob Blechman and Triboro.
Hear Jeremy Leslie on Monocle's The Stack no280, along with Luke from Run For Your Life.
And listen to The Face founder Nick Logan interviewed by Gary Crowley on BBC Radio.
Looking for recent vintage magazines? Try Magazine Canteen.
RIP Peter Preston, the editor behind The Guardian's design-consciousness.
Liv Siddall has launched a podcast, Redundancy Radio; hear her talk to Paul Gorman about his book 'The Story of Face'.
Longtime NY design king Fred Woodward leaves GQ.
Steven Heller looks at Marcel Duchamp's magazines.
A look at the best New York Times Magazine illustrations from 2017.
'Imagine that, instead of paper, the computer and all its accoutrements came first…'
The print cull continues: Mark magazine closes… followed by Print magazine…
…and the business name Time Inc goes too.
Better news in indie land as Eye on Design looks ahead at 2018, 'There are so many titles out there. If you really want to add another one, you should be sure to have a mission and a new perspective to share.'
This Saturday, 16 December, we'll be welcoming Collage Club to the shop for a free, festive Christmas card-making workshop from 2pm-4pm. All materials are provided, plus bubbly, snacks and heaps of fun! Booking neccesary – details here.
'As all designers but less print consumers know, typographic choices can make or break a magazine's aesthetic.'
Tickets are still available for the final magCulture Meets eveing of 2017, featuring the beautiful Shelf Journal. Come!
Must-read commentary from John L Walters: 'comparing Stack's awards with the BSME's is like comparing lychees and bananas…'
And congratulations to the winners of the PPA's independent mag awards.
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The magazines that shaped designers.
Job alert! Our friends at Stylist are looking for an art director.
'…if (mainstream) fashion mags are now dying, with younger readers rejecting the sluggish glossies in favour of fashion bloggers, editors have only themselves to blame.'
Brocolli is a new free magazine 'for smart women who love cannabis.'
What the Stack Awards cover of the year tells us about the new rules of cover design.
Surprise new Vanity Fair editor Radhika Jones has 'big shoes to fill,' but is already receiving absurd flack from Condé Nast insiders.
Ex-Face staff look back on their time at the magazine.
'People have long been saying 'print is dead' but it is becoming clear that digital was dead from the start…'
London, 6 December: Unit Live! is a special typography night from Unit Editions that includes the original Octavo team reunited to celebrate the arrival of a new book about the seminal eighties type magazine, plus the launch of the second issue of Adventures in Typography.
Monocle moves in to property development.
Crowdfunding update: food mag Pasture wants your support on Kickstarter, and on Indiegogo Beings promises the human side of travel.
We like to remind people that indie mags have been around forever: Ramparts was a great example from the sixties.
Tina Brown 'has become synonymous with the last great renaissance of American print magazines.'
A look back at the life and times of Teen Vogue as it closes its print edition.
The new Gourmand is here, featuring IRL emojis. The team have also launched a series of gorgeous fine art prints.
Emigre make a semi-return to publishing with their new type speciman featuring an essay by Emily McVarish.
Which magazine would you bring back from the dead?
Gooey! How ink is made. Smell it!
Buy this Chester Bennington zine and support the Samaritans.
Gwyneth Paltrow launches Goop magazine, a super-easy target for Stephen Colbert.
Ahead of this week's ModMag17, Jeremy discusses the role of the conference with Zetteler.
Jeremy also contributed to this great overview of the current indie scene.
'Braiding is important to (Solange) Knowles. It is an act of beauty…' writes ES Magazine as they Photoshop out braids from their cover portrait of the singer.
Vice and US Vogue make curious partners for new editorial project Vs.
Must-read: New Yorker editor David Remnick profiles the late Condé Nast Chairman Samuel Newhouse, 'The quiet sustenance he provided was unwavering.'
'Print is no longer the business model: print is the heart, the core expression, of an idea.' Madeleine Morley on top form.
Kickstarting: Run for Your Life ia a new running mag. Support it!
Must-listen: Mavericks podcast episode 14, Paul McNameee, editor of The Big Issue.
Big mags using the language of indies: US Harper's Bazaar's new design aims 'to more closely resemble that of an actual coffee table book.'
America is a new French magazine seeking to explain the new US to its readers. Can we have an English language edition please?
The first Guardian Live event will take place in London, 2 December.
Turin, 15 October: Jeremy Leslie will be discussing magazines with Francesco Franchi, Ben Freeman and Massimo Pitis as part of the Torino Graphic Days festival.
Robert Newman looks back on his time at The Village Voice, as does the 'last print check guy.'
If you enjoy The Sunday Times Magazine, you'll like their new podcast.
Kickstarter update: Anxy is crowdfunding issue two; new mag Autodidact promises personal stories
Must-read: ex-British Vogue editor Alexander Shulman pulls no punches as she discusses what an editor does, 'You can't leverage brand extensions off a withered core.'
magCulture producer Stephanie Hartman talks about this year's ModMag17.
The Week has published a book of its front cover illustrations by Howard McWilliam.
'…away from big publishing houses, a world of unconventional perspectives is emerging in print…'
… as Condé Nast attempts to keep up, announcing a new LGBTQ multi-platform publication, Them.
BSME announce the shortlist for their Editors' Editor of the Year, a good mix of names.
In the US, Hearst expected to buy Rodale. Still no news about who is or isn't buying Condé Nast.
Newspapers were once the a medium, replacing… song!
We love the cover of the latest Harvard Design Magazine, as seen on Stack.
Caña is a new mag about beer currently Kickstarting. Support it!


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Justin Bieber concluded a visit to the Anne Frank House museum in Amsterdam last week with a guestbook entry that said he hoped the teen Holocaust victim II would have been a fan.
"Truly inspiring to be able to come here," the singer wrote, according to a post Friday on the Anne Frank House Facebook page (and first reported by the BBC). "Anne was a great girl. Hopefully she would have been a belieber."
Justin Bieber Has a Month to Pick Up His Monkey
Bieber, on tour in the Netherlands, toured the house where Frank and her family spent two years hiding from the Nazis who occupied Amsterdam during World War II. When the family was betrayed in 1944, Frank and her sister Margot were sent to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, where they died of typhus in March 1945. Frank was 15.
The journal she kept while in hiding was first published in 1952 as The Diary of a Young Girl, which has become a powerful symbol of the Holocaust. Bieber's suggestion that Frank would have been a fan of his was not well received online, with a flood of comments on the museum's Facebook page criticizing the singer for his ego.
Bieber hasn't responded to the negative reaction, which has included snarky tweets from, among others, Lena Dunham, Harry Shearer and Rainn Wilson, who tweeted, "'Who's this Anne Frank & why is he visiting her HOUSE? Are they dating?! OMG!' -93% of beliebers."
The singer's gaffe is the latest in a string of recent incidents, which have included leaving a pet monkey with German customs officials, allegedly spitting on a neighbor during a verbal dispute, showing up two hours late to a performance in London and getting into a screaming match with paparazzi.


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U.S.-born Latinos snubbed by entertainment kingmakers
Updated 11:17 pm, Saturday, September 29, 2012
A few years ago, I noticed that Latin American artists get a lot of play in the States compared to U.S.-born Hispanics.
For instance, in 2010, Mario Vargas Llosa of Peru won the Nobel Prize in literature and it seemed as though no one could stop commenting about what a big deal it was. People were talking to me about it as though his achievement would somehow change my life.
Something similar happened last year when theater critics went gaga over playwright Tanya Saracho. She'd written an adaptation of the Russian classic "The Cherry Orchard" called "El Nogalar" — "The Pecan Orchard" — and because a Chicago critic once referred to her as the "Chicana Chekhov," the alliteration and coincidence led to a breathless New York Times profile of Saracho.
The article was titled "Mexican? American? Call Her Writer" and it stuck in my craw. Not because Saracho isn't a brilliant artist with an important voice to share with the world but because it was yet another instance of American media looking well beyond our borders for examples of up-and-coming Latino talent.
It's not like Saracho goes around pretending to be Mexican American. In fact, the article noted her ambivalence to being called a Chicana: She describes herself as a "green-card-carrying Mexican."
Still, a few paragraphs later, the co-founder of a Latino Chicago theater company made this observation: "She's the first really viable local Latino playwright we've had."
Ouch! In a state with 1.6 million Mexican-Americans and in Chicago, the city with the fourth-largest Mexican-American population in the country, we had to wait for someone to immigrate to become the shining beacon of artistic hope for the fastest growing minority population in the country?
There is a tension between U.S.-born descendants of Latin American immigrants and foreign-born Latin Americans who live in the U.S. and get lumped in with the overall Hispanic community.
It's not huge tension, but it flares up at two notable times: When immigration restrictionists try to paint the Hispanic population as a community of immigrants with stronger ties to other countries than to the U.S., and when organizations looking to prove their open-mindedness and diversity point to Latin Americans to defend themselves against accusations of not being inclusive of America's Hispanic population.
The Kennedy Center Honors is being accused of the latter. For the second year in a row, Felix Sanchez, chairman of the National Hispanic Foundation for the Arts, is raising a stink because in the 35-year history of the awards, only two Hispanics — Placido Domingo, the Spanish tenor, and Chita Rivera, the Puerto Rican actress, dancer and singer — have been chosen out of 170 artists honored.
This year the situation devolved between Sanchez and Kennedy Center President Michael M. Kaiser. During a phone conversation about this year's honorees, Sanchez insinuated that the lack of Hispanic representation was due to discriminatory blind spots and Kaiser cursed him.
In follow-up interviews, Sanchez has defended his assertion, telling NBC Latino he's sure the Kennedy Center honors will offer a "sympathy" pick sometime soon and that he or she will probably be foreign-born. "It seems that Latinos are only of value when they directly are from their country of origin."
It's certainly always seemed this way to me. Just one example: Forbes named Sofia Vergara 2012's highest-paid actress on TV. Sure she's Hispanic — a native of Colombia.
Time, and efforts by leaders such as Sanchez, will heal this wound. But it has to start with our society's entertainment kingmakers recognizing the talent of U.S.-born Latinos as much as they love the charms of foreign-born ones.


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Patients with advanced kidney disease that approaches stage 5 have two choices when it comes to managing their disease, either getting started on some kind of dialysis (in center hemodialysis being most common in the US, or home dialysis which could be either hemodialysis or peritoneal dialysis), or getting a kidney transplant. But what if a patient cannot have, or does not want any of these options for any reason. What happens when a patient with kidney failure does not receive dialysis or a transplant? How long can they expect to live? This article will attempt to answer a few of these questions.

NOT CHOOSING DIALYSIS IS ACTUALLY A VALID CHOICE, BUT ONLY FOR THE RIGHT PATIENT

Deciding who is that "right patient" is a decision that is best left to the discussion between the patient and their nephrologist. Traditionally, when patients were not deemed to be candidates for dialysis, nephrologists would say, "we are going to withhold dialysis on Ms. X". However, saying "withhold" has negative connotations (think "we are going to withhold life support, etc etc"). To a typical patient and their family, it gives the impression that the doctor is not going to be offering anything and we basically wait till the patient dies. However, this couldn't be further from the truth since a lot of complications of kidney disease can and should be managed with medicines. In other words, nephrologists could still offer a lot; pretty much everything short of hooking up the patient to the dialysis machine. And hence, to better communicate what is still do-able for the patient, the appropriate term for non-dialytic management of kidney failure that is now used is Maximal Conservative Management (MCM). This is covered in detail here.

WHO IS THE IDEAL PATIENT FOR CONSERVATIVE MANAGEMENT OF KIDNEY FAILURE AND WHY IT IS NOT FOR EVERYONE

Not every patient would necessarily make a good candidate for MCM, and other options might be more appropriate. Conservative management is a good fit in various settings. These could include advanced age and frailty, severe dementia, presence of other severe disease conditions like heart failure or metastatic cancer, etc. In such cases, it is hard to always predict if dialysis would add anything to the quality/quantity of life. And often, patients are simply looking at the "big picture", especially if life expectancy is limited.

However, MCM is not for everyone. Patients should be educated that there are only so many complications of kidney failure that are treatable with pills, and some symptoms/signs will only respond to dialysis. This is because the so-called uremic toxins that accumulate in kidney failure and are the reason for most complications will not be removed with conservative management (although even dialysis does not necessarily remove all of them either). The patient and the physician might need to sit together to go over the expectations and chart a plan for care. And when the talk is about expectations, two questions will often pop up from patients who are refusing dialysis:

How would I feel if I refuse dialysis?

Would my life span be shortened if I refuse dialysis?

Given the small amount of data, these are not easy questions to answer. But we do have more data available about life expectancy in patients who do opt for dialysis. As per the United States Renal Data System report, expected survival for patients on dialysis could vary from  8 years (for patients aged 40 to 44) to 4.5 years (patients between 60 to 64 years of age). This is however the average, with wide fluctuations seen depending on the patient's age, nutritional status, and presence of other co-existing disease conditions like ischemic heart disease, cancer, etc. I would also like to direct your attention to a graph that compares the expectancy of a normal 55-year old male to a similar patient on dialysis, or one who has received a kidney transplant.

SURVIVAL AND LIFE SPAN WITH AND WITHOUT DIALYSIS

Let's look at some studies that have tried to compare survival between these two categories. A study on patients with stage 5 kidney disease who were at least 80 years of age reported a median life span that was 20 months longer (29 months vs 9 months) in patients choosing dialysis. Another study that compared survival between patients who opted for dialysis with those who chose conservative management also reported better survival in patients who chose dialysis. All the patients were at least 75 years old. The 1-year survival rates were 84% in the group choosing dialysis and 68% in the group choosing non-dialytic management. One might deduce from this data that kidney failure patients who opt for dialysis will generally tend to live longer.

However, the above would be a simplistic assumption. Patients with advanced kidney disease will often have multiple other serious disease conditions like heart failure, diabetes, cancer, etc; what we physicians call "co-morbidities". And so, if we take another look at the data we have discussed above, we realize that life expectancy in patients who had other severe co-existing disease conditions like ischemic heart disease actually did not differ; whether they chose dialysis or not! In other words, in a patient who has severe co-morbidities, survival might be determined more by these conditions than by whether the patient is dialyzed or not. The take home message is that dialysis will increase your lifespan as long as you don't have multiple other serious illnesses mentioned above. I will also direct your attention to Figure 2 from this article that reinforces what we just discussed.

Finally, let me mention an important statistic (details here, here, and here). The average life span after a patient already on dialysis is taken off dialysis is 6 to 8 days, but the extreme range can fluctuate anywhere between 2 days to 100 days.

FUNCTIONAL STATUS AND QUALITY OF LIFE WITHOUT DIALYSIS

For patients who decide to not chose dialysis after a discussion with their nephrologists, an obvious question that arises is, "how would I feel"? Most patients are in fact more worried about this than about the possible reduction in life expectancy.

In 1949, Dr David Karnofsky described a scale (100 being a normal healthy person, and 0 implying death) that could be used to objectively measure the functional status of cancer patients. The scale has now been applied to measure the rate of functional decline of kidney failure patients who are managed conservatively without dialysis. The article here (see Figure 1) describes what such patients would be from a functional/quality of life standpoint in the last year of their life. What is interesting to note is that such patients would probably require only occasional assistance till about the last month of their life, after which they will see a steep decline in their functional status, thus progressively requiring special care/hospital admission. The scale and the article do give us some more insight on what to expect when kidney failure patients look into the future and decide to opt for a life without dialysis. What I would like to emphasize here is that these conclusions are based on the assumption that the patients are well taken care of conservatively, in a non-aggressive way. This is what we now refer to as Maximal Conservative Management (MCM) and here are its details.


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Bart's Books is a storytelling program for children ages 4-7. Bart selects a new book and related work of art each month that he thinks kids will enjoy.
This month, Bart has selected Mama is it summer yet?, by Nikki McClure.
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|Goliath prevails but takes a few blows
|Written by STEVE OSTERMANN
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Top-ranked Germantown has to work hard to subdue never-say-die Port boys' team
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Sam Warburton is ready for the Six Nations – and so are we.
The Wales skipper is the star of a spine-tingling video which captures his last-minute rituals as he prepares to lead his team onto the Millennium Stadium turf.
The video – available to view now at walesonline.co.uk/warburton – shows the inspirational flanker pulling on the famous red jersey in Wales' home dressing room, before marching out onto the hallowed turf.
WalesOnline videographer Darryl Corner shot the pictures of Warburton, and described its stripped-back appearance.
"There was only Sam and a camera," he said.
"We adopted a deliberately pared back shooting style; as Sam goes through the ritual of pulling on a shirt, his boots and the last few steps before entering the arena.
"Almost everything is in intimate close-up and the sound track matches this by eschewing the usual triumphalism, it's just a few simple notes on a piano.
"We wanted to show him in an almost reflective mood, getting in the zone.
"A portrait of the Wales captain; totally focussed on what's ahead, single minded, powerful and at the peak of his physical condition."
The 2013 Six Nations kicks off on Saturday with Warburton's Wales facing Ireland in Cardiff at 1.30pm.
And just like Wales are ready to defend their crown against the best of the northern hemisphere – WalesOnline is ready to bring you the best coverage of the finest rugby tournament on earth.
Throughout the competition, we'll be bringing you the best news, views, reaction and debate from the top names in the sport.
We'll be asking for your opinions with a series of online polls and webchats.
And on matchdays, we'll be serving up all the build-up, plus on-the-whistle match reports, player ratings, stunning picture galleries and all the post-match analysis.
So join Sam and us – and get ready for the 2013 Six Nations at WalesOnline.


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They came carrying new backpacks and binders, wearing fresh outfits and the caps of their favorite sports teams.
The sounds of laughter and chatter filling the air Monday morning could only mean one thing: it was back to school for the more than 22,000 Department of Defense school students across the Pacific.
At Sasebo Naval Base's E.J. King, which serves as both a middle and a high school, the excitement was palpable. For some, the excitement soon gave way to angst as lockers wouldn't open and schedules needed to be adjusted. Read rest of article.


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Continental breakfast is offered for an extra charge of EUR 4 per person (approximately)
Airport shuttle service is offered for an extra charge
We have included all charges provided to us by this hotel. However, charges can vary, for example, based on length of stay or the room you book.
Hotel registry number: 1144K113K0042800
What's around Villa Dimitris, Santorini
- In Perissa
- Museum of Minerals and Fossils (3-minute walk)
- Perissa Beach (8-minute walk)
- Waterpark Santorini (11-minute walk)
- Ancient Thira (31-minute walk)
- Perivolos Beach (34-minute walk)
- Red Beach (5.9 mi / 9.5 km)
- Museum of Prehistoric Thira (7.8 mi / 12.6 km)
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- Thira (JTR-Santorini National) 21-min drive
- Free parking nearby
- Onsite parking not available
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Federal public servants tend to retire four years earlier than their private sector counterparts, at an average age of 58.
But it seems you can only play so much golf. Anecdotal evidence suggests a good number of federal bureaucrats decide to top up their pensions by returning to work for the government as management consultants.
It turns out getting a well paid consultancy gig is not that hard when you know the people awarding the contracts. Your old mates in the bureaucracy can sole-source contracts in your direction and even sub-divide them to ensure you don't contravene Treasury Board guidelines.[np-related]
We know this because Ottawa's Procurement Ombudsman, Frank Brunetta, detailed just such a case in a report this week. The Canada School of Public Service awarded a dozen training contracts, worth $170,000, to one supplier – many of them without a competitive tender. The unidentified recipient was a former public servant who was already receiving a government pension.
The case has been leapt upon by Tony Clement, the Treasury Board minister, who has asked Mr. Brunetta to look into the pervasiveness of the problem.
In a letter to the ombudsman and his Cabinet colleagues, Mr. Clement said he is going to amend government policy, so that contracts with former public servants require ministerial approval before they are signed. He also said all such contracts should be proactively disclosed on departmental websites.
"Favouritism in contracting of the kind you have discovered is wholly unacceptable," he wrote.
That may seem a bit rich coming from a minister who was, shall we say, a tad partial, when it came to handing out government largesse prior to the G8 meeting in his home riding of Muskoka in 2010.
The austerity message also rings hollow when measured against the 87 funding announcements, worth $2.9-billion, the government has made since the House of Commons rose in June.
But Mr. Clement should be commended for trying to engineer a culture shift in the public service – the reform of which was once compared by Yes Minister's Sir Humphrey Appleby to "drawing a knife through a bowl of marbles."
Earlier this year, Mr. Clement sent public servants a letter telling them there would be no "March Madness" – namely that the end of the fiscal calendar year would no longer signal a mad rush to spend departmental operational budgets.
His letter to Mr. Brunetta and his ministerial colleagues will at least signal to the public service that their political masters are watching closely.
But Mr. Clement's drive to reform this jobs-for-the-boys-and-girls mentality will be hobbled by his own government's fondness for outsourcing all kinds of functions to private consultants.
The Conservatives have created a shadow public service in recent years, spending over $1-billion a year on outsourcing. A study by Canadian Centre of Policy Alternatives economist David Macdonald said the cost of federal outsourcing on temporary help, IT and management consultants ballooned 80% in the five years after 2005/06.
Given around 30,000 federal public servants were eligible to retire last year, the assumption by Mr. Clement is a growing number are taking their pension and then pitching up at their old departments to carry on as if they'd never left. "This is a subject that often angers Canadians, and with good reason," he said.
Fair enough. But the growing demand for consultants created by the Conservative Party's own policies means Mr. Clement's reforms may be in vain.
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Report will catalogue RBS errors
A long-awaited report into the failure of Royal Bank of Scotland will blame light-touch regulation and a catalogue of financial errors for pushing the bank to a taxpayer bailout in 2008.
The near-500 page report will be released by the Financial Services Authority (FSA) and will shed light on what went wrong in the lead-up to its £45.5 billion rescue.
The bank, which is now more than 80% owned by the Government, needed rescuing amid the credit crunch in 2008 after being weakened by the disastrous £50 billion acquisition of Dutch lender ABN Amro under the leadership of Sir Fred Goodwin.
The report is expected to include a recommendation that banks should gain regulatory approval for significant acquisitions and possibly also obtain independent advice about such deals.
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The FSA is likely to say that it failed to spot the problems because it was under pressure from the government to operate a hands-off regulatory regime, the Sunday Times said.
The regulator said in a 300-word report released last December that it found no evidence of fraud or dishonest activity in the lead-up to the crisis, although the bank made a series of bad decisions.
But the full report, which is the result of a two-and-a-half year probe, is now being made public at the request of the Treasury Select Committee, which said the original statement summing up the results of its investigation failed to answer important questions or show that lessons had been learned.
Since it became clear that the report would be made public, lawyers representing top bankers are reported to have been involved in protracted negotiations to have words such as "gambling" removed from the document.


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Talk about biting the hand that feeds you. Highly paid sitcom star Angus T. Jones, who has played "half man" Jake on Two and a Half Men since he was eight years old, has released a video denouncing the hit sitcom, imploring viewers to stop watching his show.
"If you watch Two and a Half Men, please stop watching Two and a Half Men," says Jones in a religious testimonial for something called "The Forerunner Chronicles," which is apparently affiliated with the Seventh Day Adventist church (of which Jones is reportedly an adherent).
"I'm on Two and a Half Men, and I don't want to be on it. Please stop watching it, and filling your head with filth…people say it's just entertainment. Do some research on the effects of television and your brain, and I promise you you'll have a decision to make when it comes to television, especially with what you watch."
Although he doesn't want to be on the show now, Jones sang a different tune back in 2010, when he signed a contract guaranteeing him nearly US$8 million over two seasons, which made him the highest-paid child star on television.
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I'm guessing the affair involves Michael Gove.
After all, he's been screwing the rest of the country for ages.
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Interesting. I wonder why exactly the identities of those involved 'can't' be exposed. If this is anything like the No. 10 child abuse whitewashes that have occurred recently, we will probably never find out who it is.
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I had a look at this tittle tattle too. My first thoughts were that logically, this affair would have to be homosexual to cause such a crisis for the tories as they are all so anti gay marriage. ( I thought William Hague for some reason!) I'm not sure I understand how a man / woman affair could cause such a scandal unless it was Cameron himself and someone else?
The DM article states
David Cameron has held crisis talks at Downing Street after being told of allegations of a sensational love affair which has potentially significant political implications for him. Read more: www.dailymail.co.uk... html#ixzz2V30raxMx Follow us: @MailOnline on Twitter | DailyMail on Facebook
We all know he sent some very affectionate letters and texts to Rebecca Brooks. Then again the article says it doesn't involve anyone serving in the cabinet, does that rule Dave out?


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I have been looking to this Psalm, and I got this to share with you.
Psalms 23
[1] The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want.
[2] He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters.
[3] He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake.
[4] Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.
[5] Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over.
[6] Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the LORD for ever.
The psalmist loved the Lord and knew that no matter what God was in control.
He knew that the true Shepherd will never let his sheep suffer anything bad; he will always take his sheep to every place where the pasture is green and soft. He will treat them from any sickness.
The thing that has blessed me much is the fact that, he has prepared a table before him. There are prepared places that we have not seen yet. Let�s rush and possess these places and enjoy before our enemies. May be today your enemies laugh at you, mock you, despise you and do to you all malicious things. Just stand up and possess those prepared places of peace, plenty, financial breakthrough, children and any thing you have ever thought to have. Remember it is prepared for you, hurry up and possess.
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United - Chasing a Midfielder?
Those in control of the Daily Grapevine are certainly earning their corn at the moment.
If they are to be believed, United are closing in on two midfielders this January.
The first is our supposed long term target, Steven Defour with United, reputedly,
keen to do a deal with Standard Liege whilst the second is a new name as far as rumours go in that of the AS Roma international, Daniele De Rossi.
Whilst both are highly regarded, which of the two, if Sir Alex was to purchase a midfielder in the January transfer window, would you prefer he went after?
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