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In Memory of
William Brees Stoebuck
March 18, 1929 - November 18, 2012
William Brees "Bill" Stoebuck was born in Wichita, Kansas on March 18, 1929 to William Douglas and Donice Beth (Brees) Stoebuck. He attended East High School and went on to graduate from Wichita State University in 1951 with a BA in History and a minor in Economics. He served in the Korean Conflict while in active service with the Air Force (1951 – 56) and earned a MS in History at Indiana University, Bloomington, in 1953. Upon his discharge as a 1st Lt USAF in 1956 he set his sights on law school. He attended University of Washington, where he served as Editor of Washington Law Review, graduating with a JD in 1959. Admitted to the Washington Bar in 1959, he practiced law for five years in Seattle before following his true calling, teaching: First at the University of Denver, College of Law as an assistant professor (1964-66). The next school year he studied at Harvard Law School, obtaining his SJD in 1973. In the Spring of 1967 he was admitted to US Supreme Court bar. In the fall of 1967 Bill was appointed as an Associate Professor of Law at University of Washington. He was later promoted to full professor in 1970. In 1995 he was made the first recipient of the Judson Falknor Professor of Law at U of W School of Law. Bill retired fully from teaching in 2007. He was a member of the Order of Coif and of counsel for Karr Tuttle Campbell.
Bill worked tirelessly on whatever pursuit captured his interest – from photography to sailing to becoming a national expert in real property law. He was a member of the University of Washington, School of Law Faculty for nearly 40 years. During that time, he co-authored a number of textbooks that were used in laws schools throughout the nation. Bill helped define Washington State Property Law. He was an avid sailor and boater, and spent part of every summer for over 35 years in the San Juans and Desolation Sound. Over the years he was active in the Lutheran church, Republican Party, Cascade Symphony Orchestra, and Seattle Yacht Club.
Bill married his high school sweetheart, Mary Virginia Fields, on December 24, 1951. After making numerous moves with the Air Force, and then for Bill's career, they made their home in Lake Forest Park. They enjoyed living in Lexington, Virginia, San Francisco, and Tübingen, Germany, while Bill was a visiting professor at several universities. They also traveled to Europe, Asia, and Hawaii.
He is missed by his wife of 60 years, Mary, and is survived by his daughters Elizabeth Wilson, Catherine Rose and Caroline Stoebuck; grandchildren Julie Bong (Dustin), Apryl Alaibilla (Ramondo), Roy Rose (Nadine), Emma Wilson and Abigail Wilson; and great-grand daughter Sienna Rose. He is also survived by his sister Beverley Olson (Richard), brother-in-law Alan Fields, and numerous nieces and nephews.
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Robert Burns
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As e'er God with his image blest;
the friend of man, the friend of truth,
The friend of age, and guide of youth:
Few hearts like his, with virtue warm'd,
Few heads with knowledge so informed;
If there is another world, he lives in bliss;
If there is none, he made the best of this.
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Majority of Californians Support High Speed Rail Project
Great news from the Public Policy Institute of California, which has a new poll out on various political issues in California. The poll shows that a clear majority of Californians continue to support high speed rail:
Today, when read a description of the system and its $68 billion price tag, 53 percent favor it and 42 percent oppose it. Likely voters are less supportive (45% favor, 50% oppose). Majorities in the San Francisco Bay Area (63%), Central Valley (57%), Orange/San Diego (54%), and Los Angeles (52%) are in favor. Inland Empire residents are divided (45% favor, 46% oppose). When opponents of high-speed rail are asked how they would feel if the cost were lower, support rises (69% adults, 60% likely voters). Asked about high-speed rail's importance, 35 percent of adults and 29 percent of likely voters say it is very important to the future quality of life and state's economic vitality.
These are very strong numbers for high speed rail. The media may focus on the likely voter number, but even that is just a small swing from the 52% voter support from Proposition 1A in 2008. That's also due to the lower enthusiasm for voting this year among more progressive Californians.
The key point here is that despite all the criticisms this project has taken from people opposed to passenger rail and their media allies, high speed rail is still popular in California. Let there be no doubt about this. Californians still want this built, even when the supposedly controversial project details are described. Californians still want this project built.
Sacramento politicians need to have this poll burned into their consciousness. What this says is there is no public appetite for undermining or delaying this project. It also means there is no real chance that Democrats would suffer at the polls this November if they continue to support and fund the project – just as they did not pay any political price in November 2012 for their pro-HSR stance.
California legislators should move ahead and get high speed rail built. This poll proves that's what their constituents want – a high speed rail project that will connect California.
UPDATE: John Burrows makes a good point in the comments – public support for HSR has increased since last year:
In 2013— 48% of all voters favored the project—50% opposed——In 2014—53% of voters in favor—42% opposed (an increase in support of 5 percentage points among all voters)
In 2013—43% of likely voters favored the project—54% opposed——In 2014—45% of likely voters in favor—50% opposed (an increase in support of 2 percentage points, a decrease in opposition of 4 percentage points)
What this tells me is that support for high speed rail in California has increased over the past year, particularly among those less likely to vote. As the economy in California continues to recover, it seems likely that voter support for high speed rail will increase further.


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More on Health Care: Agreeing on the Questions
Since I wrote a blog post in early December on "The Effect of the Affordable Care Act on Medical Care Inflation," in which I lamented that "I haven't seen anything of note written about the probable effect of the implementation of the Affordable Care Act on Medical Care CPI," several things have come to my attention. This is a great example of one reason that I write these articles: to scare up other viewpoints to compare and contrast with my own views.
In this case, the question is not a trivial one. Personally, I approach the issue from the perspective of an inflation wonk,[¹] but the ham-handed rollout of the ACA has recently spawned greater introspection on the question for purely political reasons. This is awkward territory, because articles like that by Administration hack Jason Furman in Monday's Wall Street Journal do not further the search for actual truth about the topic. And this is a topic on which we should really care about a number of questions: how the ACA is affecting prices, how it is affecting health care utilization and availability, how it is affecting long-term economic growth, and so on. I will point out that none of these are questions that can be answered definitively today. My piece mentioned above speculated on possible effects, but we simply will not know for sure for a long time.
So, when Furman makes statements like "The 7.9 million private jobs added since the ACA became law are themselves enough to disprove claims that the ACA would cause the sky to fall," we should immediately be skeptical. It should be considered laughably implausible to suggest that Obamacare had a huge and distinguishable effect before it was even implemented. Not to mention that it is very bad science to take a few near-term data points, stretching only for a couple of years in a huge and ponderous part of the economy, to extrapolate trends (this is the error that Greenspan made in the 1990s when he heralded the rise in productivity growth that was eventually all revised away when the real data was in). Furman also conflates declines in the rate of increase of spending with decelerating inflation - but changes in health care spending include price changes (inflation) as well as changes in utilization. I will talk more about that in a minute, but suffice to say that the Furman piece is pure politics. (A good analysis of similar logical fallacies made by a well-known health care economist that Furman cites is available here by Forbes.)
I want to point you to another piece (which also has flaws and biases but is much more subtle about it), but before I do let's look at a long-term chart of medical care inflation and the spread of medical care inflation to headline inflation. One year is far too short a period to compare these two things, not least because one-time effects like pharmaceuticals losing patent protection or sequester-induced spending restraints can muddy the waters in the short run. The chart below (source: Enduring Investments) shows the rolling ten-year rise in medical care inflation and, in red, the difference between that and rolling ten-year headline inflation.
You can see from this picture that the decline in medical care inflation, and the tightening of the spread between medical care inflation and headline inflation, is nothing particularly new. Averaging through all of the year-to-year wiggles, the spread of medical care has been pretty stable since the turn of the century (which, since this is a 10-year average, means it has been pretty stable for a couple of decades). Maybe what we are seeing is actually the anticipation of HillaryCare? (Note: that is sarcasm.)
Now, the tightening relative to overall inflation is a little exaggerated in that picture, because for the last decade or so headline inflation has been somewhat above core inflation due to the persistent rise in energy prices throughout the '00s. So the chart below (source: Enduring Investments) shows the spread of medical care inflation over core inflation, which demonstrates even more stability and even less reason to think that something big and long-term has really changed. At least, not that we would already know about.
The other piece I mentioned, which is more worth reading (hat tip Dr. L) is "Health Care Spending - A Giant Slain or Sleeping?" in the New England Journal of Medicine. The authors here include David Cutler, whom Forbes suspected was tainting his views with politics (see link above), so we need to be somewhat cautious about the conclusions but in any event they are much more nuanced than in the Furman article and the article makes a number of good points. And, at the least, the authors distinguish between spending on health care and inflation in health care. A few snippets, and my remarks:
"Estimates suggest that about half the annual increase in U.S. health care spending has resulted from new technology. The role of technology itself partly reflects other underlying forces, including income and insurance. Richer countries can afford to devote more money to expensive innovations." This is an interesting observation that we ought to think carefully about when professing a desire to "bend the cost curve." If we are reining in inflation, that's a good thing. But is it a good thing to rein in innovation in health care? I don't think so.
The authors, though, clearly question the value of technological innovation. "The future of technological innovation is, of course, unknown. But most forecasts do not call for a large increase in the number of costly new treatments... some observers are concerned that a wave of costly new biologic agents (for which generic substitutes are scarce) will soon flood the market." Heaven forbid that we get new treatments! "The use of cardiac procedures has slowed as well." This is a good thing?
"Health spending has clearly been associated with health improvements, but analysts differ on whether the benefits justify the cost." Personally, it makes me uncomfortable to leave this question in the hands of the analysts. If the benefits don't justify the cost, and the market was free, then no one will pay for those improvements. It's only with a highly regulated market - replete with "analysts" doing their cost/benefit analysis on health care improvements - that this even comes up.
Some of the statistical argument is a little weak. "The recent reduction in health care spending appears to have been correlated with slower employment growth in the health care field; this suggests that such changes may continue." I'm not sure that the causality runs that way. Surely tighter limits on what health care workers can earn might cause slower employment growth? That's at least as plausible as the direction they are arguing.
That sounds very critical, but I point these things out mainly to make them obvious. Overall, the paper does a very good job of discussing the possible causes of the recent slowdown in health care inflation (although they focus inordinately on "the first 9 months of 2013", a period during which we know the sequester impacted health care prices), give plenty of credit to reforms instituted far before ACA implementation, correctly distinguish between utilization and prices, and highlight some of the promising trends in health care costs - and yes, there are some! The authors are clearly supportive of the ACA, which I am not, but by and large they raise the salient questions.
It matters less if we instantly agree on the solution than that we agree on the questions.
[¹] Actually, a little more than a generic inflation wonk in this case; I've also written about, presented on (and you can listen to my presentation while you walk through the slides) and consulted on the topic of hedging health care inflation, for example in post-employment benefit plans.


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Lloyds Banking Group has unveiled the name of its general counsel for group legal, parachuting corporate and M&A head Hugh Pugsley into the role in the latest in a series of senior legal management moves.
Pugsley succeeds former group legal GC Kate Cheetham, who was promoted to deputy general counsel earlier this year. As deputy to group GC Andrew Whittaker Cheetham is effectively second in command of the global bank's legal function.
Pugsley steps into an influential position with a team of 60 lawyers working in the group. As group legal GC he will be responsible for advising the banking giant on financial reporting, M&A, corporate development, HR, and property.
Former Allen & Overy (A&O) associate Pugsley headed the corporate group for UBS's MENA region before taking up the chief corporate and M&A job at Lloyds in 2010. He will report to Cheetham in his new role, which is thought to have already come into effect.
His promotion marks the latest management move inside Lloyds' legal team.
Last week the bank picked up another senior UBS lawyer, UBS Wealth's disputes chief Philippa Simmons. Simmons will replace former disputes head Aamir Khan as head of legal disputes and contentious regulation (11 September 2013). Khan had left the bank in the summer for a GC role at Clutch Group (12 July 2013).
According to sources the hunt for a disputes chief within the retail and wealth team was complicated after The Lawyer revealed that Lloyds Banking Group was looking to outsource its retail & wealth and asset finance litigation teams to one of its panel firms (29 July 2013).
Irwin Mitchell was understood to be leading the pack, however insiders have since told The Lawyer that the process has been put on hold.
Simmons' hire was announced to staff in the same week that TSB split from parent group Lloyds, one of Britain's biggest-ever banking shake-ups. According to sources a number of in-house lawyers at Lloyds Banking Group – still the technical owner of TSB until a buyer is found – are keen to transfer to the standalone bank, however TSB's general counsel spot remains up for grabs (16 September 2013).
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I am happy to inform you that, I received a blood pressure device on Friday, the June 27, 2008 and thank you.
Please note that I have made a total payment of $85.94 (which includes shipping charges $25.99) to Test Medical Symptoms @ Home, Inc. through my credit card. Wherein at the time of delivery, Department of Posts India has charged additional Rs. 657 ($15.38) as Customs Duty & Warehousing Charges (copy attached).
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If not full amount let them show some relief in their Selling Price.
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I am writing a letter on behalf of my reporting officer for getting a BP device to TMS.
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The important thing about a business letter is to get to the point. Say what you mean to say, and don't say anything you don't need to say. Don't waste words. (Time is money.) (Thanks to my boss, AJ, for consulting with me on this one.)
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"I learned that things usually aren't that complicated," Donoghue said. "In the end, you have to simplify and focus on what matters."
For example, when ESPN executives first came up with the idea of the "30 for 30" documentary series, Donoghue was being pressured to use Hollywood experts, such as agents, to run the program. Donoghue fought that idea and wound up with a one-page deal sheet she would take straight to the directors. More than 90 percent of the directors Donoghue and her team approached signed up.
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LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) – A new report says Lawrence faces millions of dollars in potential costs for repairing existing sidewalks and building new ones in the city that's home to the University of Kansas.
The Lawrence Journal-World reports that city officials have completed an inventory of the community's sidewalks. It shows that fixing all of the city's existing sidewalks would cost about $6.1 million.
Lawrence's city codes require new housing developments to have sidewalks on both sides of the street, but for decades the codes allowed sidewalks on one side or no sidewalks.
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The Bachelor's Kacie Boguskie married music executive Rusty Gaston Sunday, across the street from their house in Nashville, Tenn. at the Belle Meade Plantation.
Boguskie, or Kacie B. as she was known on ABC's title cards, appeared on Ben Flajnik's season of The Bachelor and made it to the hometown dates.
She then awkwardly sought a spot on Sean Lowe's season as well in a twist that didn't go as well, as she was dispatched early in his journey for love.
"Rusty and I met in December of 2012," the reality star said. "We randomly met while we were both out to dinner with friends at the same restaurant."
"We were both sitting at the bar with each of our friends and started talking. He asked me out to dinner the next week, and I went. And we've been dating ever since."
Her hubby also surprised her with a secret honeymoon at the wedding.
"I don't know where we're going on our honeymoon ... it's a surprise!" she told Us. "He is telling me at our reception. All I was told was to pack tropical. I'm so excited!"
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Kelis is back with new material off of her upcoming album 'Food', which is set for an April 22, 2014 release date via her new label home Ninja Tune. This is Kelis' first album since 2010's Fleshtone, and Kelis describes the album as "a kind of unspoken loveliest."
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I can't believe that I haven't done this yet, but the cover is here for Yellow Diamond Hunter. Actually, I've had it for over a week now.
I'm really excited about this cover. It's not the anime style that many of you have grown accustom to. I actually hate that it isn't. I wish that I could give it that anime feel, but when I consider my career, I have to think about what appeals to a larger audience.
That being said, my cover artist, Glynnis Koike, never disappoints. She managed to truly incompass many of the novel's themes.
Without further adieu:
Yellow Diamond Hunter Themes
The Florentine
The Florentine, also known as the Yellow Diamond, is the most powerful diamond known to alchemy. In Yellow Diamond Hunter, Sol searches through dangerous areas known as dark zones to search for the Florentine.
The Sun and Stars
Sol hopes to use it to unveil the sun, which the Demon of Pain masked with a dark energy. The sun has been absent for thousands of years, making the world a very paranoid and violent place.
The Shadows
Though humans have evolved to see in the darkness, they have not learned to survive. Vampire/Zombie-like creatures known as ramanga live in the shadows. The consume everything in sight, as long as light is not present.
These themes are more related to the cover. The overarching themes of the novel are hopefully more thought provoking. Though I chose to simplify this story–removing the miniature arcs and convoluted details that are present in the Barcode Series–I did not slack on the quality of Sol's journey.
Please look out for the novel at the end of the month. It will be on sale for one or two weeks at $9.99. This is only for friends and family to support the next novel (the extra money helps pay my artist and hopefully a potential editor). However, after that brief time, we will return to selling at $2.99.


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The Vibrant can do AP mode wifi and I would just plug it in while wifi tethering. I'm not sure about using your existing SIM in a hotspot device however.
If I bought the TMobile Prepaid 4G HotSpot ($130 with $30 card right now) could I put my PHONE's sim card in there and use the included data on my plan (for example, 5 gigs unmetered on the $70 plan, and then metered afterwards)?
I know my phone can share out my data connection, but I believe its adhoc only, while the Mifi does infrastructure mode that some devices require. Other than that, my phone is not 4G so this would be a way to access 4G data when I really need it, and also to avoid draining the battery on my phone.
My summary question is -- are the 'data' devices locked to only use 'data' sims, or will they use 'phone' sims also and the data that's part of their plan?
The Vibrant can do AP mode wifi and I would just plug it in while wifi tethering. I'm not sure about using your existing SIM in a hotspot device however.
My Vibrant is not rooted. I do use the 'Quick Settings' wifi hotspot which works.. have to check if its Infrastructure mode or not.
I did note my phone gets very, very hot especially on wifi mode.
Most likely your phone sim will be blocked if you insert it into a data only device. The $1.49 data pass does not work on T-Mobile data only devices. It is blocked.
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Idk about that, I just gave a SIM to someone for the specific purpose of using in a Laptop Stick and this is the exact responce I received back, dated June 3, 2011.
So why would the Mobile HotSpot be so stubborn I ask?It was perfect...when it is not in use in the usb modem, it can be used in any T-Mobile phone. Activating it online was easier than I ever imagined. It can even be used for the $1.49 broadband day pass...which T-Mobile will deduct the funds for from the prepaid balance on the account. (I don't use the mobile broadband every day so for me this is much less expensive than the weekly, monthly and "traditional" payment plans T-Mobile has available.) Thank you so much for it! Take care and have a wonderful day!
I've already got a T-Mobile 4G pre-paid hotspot... and I'm trying to port a landline number through to Google Voice. (You can't port directly from land line to GV).
I would be able to port the land line number to the hotspot SIM, but would have to be able to answer a call to finish the port into Google Voice...(obviously, I can't 'answer' a hotspot :O
Can I use the 4G Hotspot SIM temporarily in a cheap prepaid phone so I could receive calls temporarily?


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Economy & Industry
Nature's resources
Tuck shopTuck shopIn this video… you wouldn't expect much passing trade as the owner of a shop in the middle of nowhere. Rafik talks to the owner in the mountains near his school and asks about his business.
As with many African economies, Morocco is heavily reliant on its natural resources.
In Morocco's case, its key raw material is phosphate, an ingredient used in many fertilisers, pesticides and animal feeds. When Morocco took control of Western Sahara in the 1970s, it gained possession of an area with nearly two-thirds of the world's potential phosphate reserves. Phosphate exports account for over a third of foreign trade revenues. Other minerals mined include barite, cobalt, fluorspar and lead.
The coastline along Western Sahara is also being explored for offshore oil deposits. With virtually no oil or gas of its own, Morocco currently imports 98% of its energy.
The new energy
However, the country has one source of natural energy in plentiful supply – the sun. Morocco has 330 to 350 days of sunshine each year. King Mohammed VI is spearheading a huge solar panel scheme to make use of this energy source.
Five solar-power plants are planned (the first near Ouarzazate, south of the Atlas mountains) which it is hoped will provide around two-fifths of the nation's energy by 2020. The World Bank's Clean Technology Fund has pledged 200 million dollars towards the nine billion dollar scheme.
OlivesOlivesIn this video… Rafik talks about the importance of olives in Morocco. Olive oil is used daily by Moroccans and olives are one of the country's key exports.
Agriculture also forms a key area for Morocco's economy. Top produce exports include tomatoes, mandarins/clementines/tangerines (named after the city of Tangiers), oranges and olives. Processed foods such as cheese and preserved or canned fruits and vegetables are also high on the list of exports.
Apart from mineral and agricultural produce, Morocco exports consumer items, such as textiles and leather goods.
Man's resources
Since the mid 1980s, Morocco has undertaken a series of privatisation programmes. The sales of many former state-owned operations have brought new listings to the Casablanca Stock Exchange, one of the oldest exchanges in Africa (founded in 1929).
Economic reforms have also been undertaken to try and rebalance the country's finances. (Currently a quarter of the government's expenditure is taken up by interest repayments on foreign debt). These reforms have led to support from the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, as well creating an investment climate for foreign companies (many French and Spanish).
In recent years, Morocco's economy has been growing over 4% annually. This growth has been helped by the establishment of Free Trade Agreements with the European Union (Morocco's largest trading partner) and the USA.
Modern sectors, such as tourism and the service industries, are increasingly important to the Moroccan economy.


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Before there were energy drinks, we had maheu. Maheu is a food and drink kind of deal. I have a confession to make. I have never bought or drunk factory made maheu.
Thing is it is one of those I can make myself at home so I don't see why I should buy them. The only reason why I would want to buy maheu is that the kind at the shop come in different flavours. Which I can not even tell you what they are.
What I do know though is that they have to add some (probably a lot) preservatives to them. Maheu is a fermented drink, which when you make at home, will become sour and eventually undrinkable after a few days. Plus I am not at all convinced they use actual fruit for flavouring but some chemical flavourings. I know a lot of people love their store-bought maheu for many various reasons. I just have not been convinced enough to try.
This is how I decided to make my own chocolate maheu.
To make maheu you either use leftover sadza or you can make porridge and then add some water and flour/chimera. Leave for a day or two to ferment and enjoy. This time I made some chocolate maize meal porridge, I added some cocoa powder for the chocolate flavour.
I had some of the chocolate porridge; topped with peanut butter, banana and coconut flakes.YUM!!!
I added some water and left it to ferment for 2 days. How much time you need will depend on the temperature in your home.
- 1/2 cup maize meal
- 2 tablespoons cocoa powder
- 1 tablespoon flour
- Sugar to your taste
- Boil 2 cups of water in a saucepan.
- Blend the maize meal and cocoa powder with a 1/4 cup of water.
- Add the blended maize meal to the simmering water and stir until it starts bubbling. Depending on the type of maize meal you use it may be too thick or too runny. If it is too thick add a little bit of water and whisk. If it is too thin blend some more maize meal and add to the saucepan.
- Cover pot and let it bubble for 15 minutes.
- Remove from heat and allow to cool. Add 2-3 cups water and stir in the flour. Put in a container where you will allow to ferment. Ferment for 2 - 3 days.
- Enjoy as is or add some sugar tour taste.


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FAI hope to cash in on Martin O'Neill and Roy Keane's Republic double act
The FAI are hoping that their appointment of Martin O'Neill and Roy Keane as Ireland's new managerial team can generate as much cash as it has hype – believing a €10m (£8.3m) profit can be attained within two years.
To reach this target, qualification for Euro 2016 is a must, yet already they have noticed a commercial bounce on the back of the O'Neill-Keane arrival. Sources within the association have confirmed that ticket sales for next Friday's friendly against Latvia have moved quickly and a sell-out is probable.
Beyond this, though, reaching the Euro finals in France is where the financial potential lies, with prize money, coupled with commercial off-shoots, providing the possibility of a gross intake of €15m (£12.5m), which would more than justify the €5m (£4.1m) outlay (bonuses included) on the management duo.
For some, notably Eamon Dunphy, Keane's addition to the team smacks of a showbiz decision.
Yet speaking yesterday, FAI president Paddy McCaul dismissed such a claim. "It's not showbiz," said McCaul.
"It is good from a football perspective and also from the box office perspective. But our priority is football. We want to qualify for tournaments, we want to be strong.
"With these two men on board, our potential in recruiting new players will increase because of their status in the game.
"Young players who are eligible for one or more countries would be attracted to working with such proven winners. It's an exciting time for Irish soccer. I'm excited personally by the addition of two sporting icons to our cause.
"You couldn't fail to be fascinated by how it will work. Getting Martin, our number one target from the word go, was great. Getting Roy is equally fantastic."
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Virginia Boggs, 83, of Monroe Township, died June 6. She was a homemaker.
Virginia was preceded in death by sister, Marjorie, and brother, Harley.
She is survived by husband, John; son, Richard; daughters, Bonnie and Cindy; sister, Grace; and grandchildren, Bethany, Janelle, Christina, and Ryan.
Funeral services were held June 10 at the E.C. Nurre Funeral Home. Interment followed at the Monroe Cemetery in Monroe Township.
Memorials may be made to the Spring Grove United Methodist Church, 2058 West Road, New Richmond, Ohio, 45157.


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By Craig Kennedy - January 5th, 2013; 12:01 am
Deliverance (1972) Directed by John Boorman
Burt Reynolds as Lewis and Ned Beatty as Bobby (not pictured)
Bobby: We beat it, didn't we? Didn't we beat that?
Lewis: You don't beat it. You don't beat this river.
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Billed as a "sort-of sequel to 'Knocked Up'," writer-director Judd Apatow's latest is more of a spin-off, a slice-of-life microcosm of one Brentwood, Calif., family. Ben (Seth Rogen) and Alison (Katherine Heigl) already had their story in 2007's "Knocked Up." Paul Rudd's Pete and Leslie Mann's Debbie were the hilariously acid-tongued Greek chorus/supporting players, and now "This Is 40" belongs to them.
In the five-year interim, Pete and Debbie haven't gotten any younger. "40 can suck my dick!" Debbie exclaims, as she's just hit the big 4-0 but lies about her age, telling people she's only 38. Pete's 40th birthday celebration is also coming up in a few weeks, but he's just going with the flow. They live in their unnecessarily extravagant suburban home; Pete runs an indie record label and has currently signed on aged British rocker Graham Parker with his backup band, The Rumour, but the business might not survive; and Debbie owns a little boutique store, where one of her salesgirls, Desi (Megan Fox) and Jodi (Charlyne Li), might've stolen $12,000 of their profits. "We're gonna blink and we'll be 90" Debbie tells Pete. She wants to work on their health, communication, and overall happiness; improve their sex life without "turbo-ing" it with Viagra; and kick their clandestine habits (he sneaks eating cupcakes, she sneaks smoking cigarettes). They also want to contend with their resentments toward their respective fathers: Pete needs to stop lending money to his mooch of a dad, Larry (Albert Brooks), who can barely support his three test-tube sons, and Debbie wants to make up for lost time with her distant, humorless biological dad, Oliver (John Lithgow). Their two daughters have grown up a bit, too: 8-year-old Charlotte (Iris Apatow) just wants to play with her big sister, while 13-year-old Sadie (Maude Apatow) lives on her iPad watching the whole series of TV's "Lost." The parents suggest Sadie to play outside and make a fort, and cut back on the technology. Bickering and hugs ensue.
Even if there's something self-indulgent and self-congratulatory about a filmmaker's family affair being carried to the silver screen, one still won't mind watching these characters who (mostly) respond to situations like in messy real life. Apatow has obviously drawn from his own homelife and marriage, pulling out prickly, perceptive nuggets of honesty and insight, as well as oodles of Apatow-y laughs that deftly balance the juvenile stuff and real-life, observational humor. When Pete and Debbie get away from the kids on a brief getaway in Laguna, they share a bitterly funny tete-a-tete about how they'd kill each other and then have some fun with a medical marijuana cookie (the one time Seth Rogen's character name is mentioned). There's a rib-tickling montage of physicals, colonoscopies, dental and gynecology appointments, but a lisping Indian doctor joke is too easy, even if Rudd gives it a soft landing. Pete and Sadie engage in some clever banter over "Mad Men" and "Lost." One can tell Apatow is maturing (there's only one unscripted fart gag)—and he's already such a household name from producing every other comedy that it's hard to believe this is only his fourth feature film since 2009's "Funny People," which felt personal but twice its length—but as is his wont, "This Is 40" is scattered and feels protracted by 40 minutes.
What helps immensely is re-casting the likable and humorously sharp Rudd and Mann as Pete and Debbie. They both get the chance to stretch their dramatic and comedic chops more than usual; as Pete, Rudd is goofy, but not stupid, and as Debbie, Mann can be a bit needy, but perhaps that goes with the territory of getting older and taking on so much. Also returning from "Knocked Up" are Mann and Apatow's real-life daughters, Maude and Iris, who are also good: Maude is expressive but often goes too big when sassing Mom with the shrill brattiness, and Iris is adorably funny.
About the aforementioned overlength: Apatow does not know brevity, as if he couldn't bear to do some pruning, especially now that the material hits so close to home. He often gets sidetracked with giving fringe parts and long, improvisational bits to his troupe of funny talent. It makes sense to have Jason Segel on board as Deb's personal trainer, not only because he's playing a variation on his Jason who was sweet on Deb in "Knocked Up" but also from working with Apatow since TV's "Freaks and Geeks." Charlynne Yi is here, too, but her Jodi doesn't seem to have any relation to the Jodi in "Knocked Up." The supporting cast was seemingly on Apatow's speed-dial: Chris O'Dowd, "Bridesmaids" co-writer Annie Mumolo, Robert Smigel, Lena Dunham, Megan Fox, and Melissa McCarthy. As she proved earlier this year in "Friends With Kids," Fox actually has some acting in her after all: she's self-aware and wickedly funny. McCarthy has some truly funny moments (even in the outtakes) as an unpleasant, vitriolic mother with a son at the same school as Sadie. Brooks and Lithgow (which is amusing, considering Mann played Lithgow's trophy wife in "Orange County" and now plays his daughter) also make their moments count.
Reactions are going to be split down the middle in how Pete and Debbie could potentially lose their house, even with them driving a BMW and a Lexus, working cushy jobs, and having enough money left over for their romantic resort getaway and Pete's catered birthday party in the backyard, but such things are treated with a bit more truth and complication than most out-of-touch First-World Problem Movies. One won't have to be in the middle of his or her life, be married, or have kids to completely relate to this painfully funny snapshot of marriage and parenthood, but it might help.
134 min., rated R.
Grade: B +


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Due to requests of some users as well as my own (the maintainter's) discomfort, I have deleted two posts and changed the user info to be more clear.While I would like this journal to be open in philosophy, I continue to believe - as I did when I created it - that it only fosters the kind of community we are looking for if we emphasize some Callahan's Place connection rather than blindly welcoming every user who adds us along with every other open-membership weight loss community on LiveJournal.In addition, I have also decided (by maintainer's fiat) that no pro-anorexia or pro-bulimia posts will be tolerated. If someone comes to us seeking help on losing weight while getting away from these practices, that will be evaluated by case and almost certainly welcomed. But I do not feel that promoting these unhealthy practices is appropriate for this community.
Hi everyone.. now that I've got the membership thing sorted out (I started a new journal for weight loss, and had to sort out which was logged in and such.. confusing anyway) I've decided to start actively trying to get rid of some of this excess fat of mine. I joined www.fitday.com to keep track of stuff, and I'm going to do my best to keep up with things. Including more walking, and fewer unhealthy snacks.Anyway, here I am, and here's hoping we can all pull through to do what we need to do.be well,Helen
cross-posted to my own journalI've been putting more weight on recently, so I really need to up the amount of exercise that I do. Yesterday was the first time in ages that I've done a good exercise session without either giving up half-way through the cross-trainer program or spending more time in the sauna than actually swimming.On Sunday, I went to the gym and did quite a lot of exercise. Firstly I did the whole 28-minute weight-loss program on the cross-trainer, followed by some weights. Then I got changed and went into the pool area. As Sunday mornings is family swimming, the pool was full of children messing about, so I went in the sauna for ten minutes and came out as the families were leaving the pool. The aqua-aerobics instructor was a bit late, so I had time to swim 10 lengths before the class started.Today, I can really feel it in my shoulders and whatever those those muscles are that run from your shoulders down to the top of your breasts (from the weights), and in my calf-muscles (from aqua-aerobics).New Year's Season's Exercise Resolutions1) Wednesday after work* - gym (weights & cardio workout), swimming - 50 lengths2) Saturday morning - gym (weights & cardio workout), swimming - 50 lengths3) Sunday morning** - gym (weights & cardio workout), aqua-aerobics, swimming - 25 lengths* Not this week as I'm cat-sitting so I have to go and feed/stroke/play with the cats after work.** If I am going out for Sunday lunch, then I won't be able to fit in swimming or aqua-aerobics. But that happens once a month at the very most.Iseult.
Anyone who would like some extra motivation to avoid that fast food- or would just like some clean, hard facts about what they're putting in their body- can request a copy of the publication "Fast Food Facts" from the Minnesota Attorney General's office. The brochure is free and they will send it to anyone, regardless of whether or not you live in Minnesota. There is also a link you can follow if you want to get a look at a certain restaurant or dish online.https://www.ag.state.mn.us/Publications/order.htm - To orderhttp://www.ag.state.mn.us/consumer/health/FFF.asp - View onlineI probably should have waited until after my move to open this community- but rest assured, as soon as I get a free day I have ideas waiting to kick this community and all of us in the pants. I appreciate all of you who are hanging in there while this forum is "under construction". Good things are to come!
Welcome to the Callahan's Place weight loss community. As the name states, this forum is for members of the Callahan's online communities to support each other in our weight loss and fitness goals, body acceptance and encouragement on the way to those goals, and maintenance once our goals are reached. Ground rules:1. Be respectful. Have courtesy. Any posts or comments containing sniping, flaming, or personal attacks against other community members will be reprimanded and, if necessary, removed. Repeat behavior will lead to screening, removal of posting abilities, or removal from the community.2. Off-topic posts will be tolerated to some extent (yet to be determined), especially if they contain puns. However, an effort to remain on-topic is highly appreciated. On-topic posts include (but are not limited to) those related to weight loss, diet, exercise, advice and motivation, requests for advice and motivation, clothing, food and recipes, body issues, goals, as well as occasional news related to Spider or the Callahan's books. Please, NO quiz results or non-weight-related memes or lists.3. As our user information states, while this has been left as an open community for the time being, this community is intended only for members of the online Callahan's Place communities. This is for the comfort levels of the participants as well as familiarity and an understanding of the ideals within the books. If you are not a member of #callahans, alt.callahans, callahanians, the Delphi forum, or any other Callahan's place community, and you have not read any of the Callahan's Crosstime Saloon books, you may be better suited to one of the many other open weight loss communities on LiveJournal.


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An UNhappy Birthday
December 20, 2005
'Of what use is the UN? Is it not irrelevant today, if it could not even stop the war in Iraq?'
The questioner seemed really angry.
The six of us, diplomats from different countries on the podium at whom the question was directed looked at each other. We were a mixed bunch: diplomats from America, Brazil, Luxembourg, Korea, Egypt and myself. We had been brought together in the auditorium at Berkeley University, on the outskirts of San Francisco, for a seminar on a cold December evening.
This was to be another birthday or rather birth-year event. The UN charter was negotiated and signed in San Francisco in 1945 and UN at sixty has been 'celebrated' this year, in a manner of speaking. The UN is in New York, of course and the main event was a summit in that city in September which was attended by the highest number of world leaders ever.
Those who know history recall that it was San Francisco, however, as a glittering and glamorous city, that had hosted the world leaders in 1945 when the UN was born. There were fifty countries represented then including India. Most of the countries in Asia and Africa had not even reached a stage of aspiring for independence, let alone achieving it, as India was about to.
Today, there are 192 countries in the UN and the sixtieth birthday marks a long passage and manifold growth in the UN's membership.
This city too hosted several events throughout the year, somewhat half heartedly, with the NGOs and the people driving the process and not the government. The event in which I was participating was one last hurrah as the year comes to an end. And with all that we were being asked whether the UN had any relevance at all!
I took another look at the audience. We had been told by the organisers to expect an eclectic crowd, to be ready to answer unpredictable questions and not to be too evasive as diplomats tend to be. How right they were.
Berkeley University has been home for decades for all that is liberal, tolerant and esoteric in academia, just as the city of San Francisco is among the most non-conformist, some would even say deviant of American cities.
It is in Berkeley that the student protests against the Vietnam War reached a crescendo in the sixties. It has been the scene of flower power and represents in every way 'let a hundred flowers bloom' approach.
Today the verdant, hilly campus is vibrant and ethnic-diverse with students from every part of the world seen hurrying to their classes in the globalised uniform of jeans, T-shirts and back packs. The students all look different though they are all dressed the same. The area abounds in Indian, Chinese, Korean restaurants jostling with pizza joints, Subways and Starbucks Coffee cafes.
But our audience was just not the students from a dozen countries. We also had Berkeley loyalists, a number of elderly people who are eternal students. I had spotted a lady with a trident-like structure on her head, a bearded erudite who looked slightly wild, some balding professors in tweeds and several longhaired peaceniks from the Woodstock generation. An interesting and intimidating audience, not the kind you would expect for a discussion on the UN.
The moderator tossed the question to me. I have done a fair amount of UN related work over the years and it had been agreed by us earlier that some of us with that kind of background would try to field the more UN-centric questions. Our American, Egyptian and Korean colleagues would have their hands full with Unilateralism, the Middle-East and the Korean questions respectively. Such was the plan.
'Is the UN relevant at all, after Iraq?' the moderator repeated the question. I glanced at my American friend. He seemed eager and tense. To say that the UN was indeed irrelevant or that it had failed in Iraq? I did not know.
'To judge the entire UN system from the standpoint of one of the most intractable issues -- of war and peace -- is this the approach that we want to take today?' I started.
The UN is a large family with a vast agenda, I explained. There are issues of war and peace, no doubt but there are so many other issues which are global and which require nations to come together to address them, I continued gathering speed.
Today, for instance, whether it is HIV/AIDs or bird flu, global environment or terrorism, movement of capital or international migration: many of the challenges cannot be addressed, let alone resolved by national governments.
These problems are international, in fact global, and hence require multilateral efforts rather than unilateral approaches. This is the relevance of the UN family, I explained, bringing out examples from other parts of the UN system, UNESCO, UNICEF, WHO etc which work in areas of culture, children or health. They too are a part of the UN and are they irrelevant, was the line of my reasoning.
I had some traction, as they say in the UN, meaning that some people listened to me. The moderator passed the question to others. My Korean colleague recalled it was the collective decision at the UN which had saved South Korea and which had enabled an internationally mandated force to come and help them. The Egyptian said there were countries, which owed their existence to UN resolutions, Israel for example, and others that were waiting for resolutions to be implemented one day, Palestinians for instance.
My friend from Luxembourg gave another insight. For a mini country like his, he said, to have an equal seat and a vote at the UN means everything. It is the international body, which affirms their identity and allows them to participate as equals in the affairs of the world.
The lady with the trident hairdo brought up the issue of UN reforms. Like eager school children, both me and my Brazilian colleague wanted to take this question; we had invested so much effort and hope on meaningful reform of the UN and the expansion of the Security Council to make it more democratic and transparent. The American got the question first. He said reform was important and then went on to dilate on cost-cutting and making the UN leaner and meaner. The Korean and the Egyptian too agreed that reforms were necessary but said it had to be brought about with consensus among all.
India and Brazil have worked together in the Group of Four on a meaningful proposal for expansion of the Security Council and we explained the rationale of expansion. The structure of the Security Council represents the realities of 1945 at the end of the Second World War rather than contemporary realities, we explained. Not to reform it, after sixty long years and with a four-fold expansion in the membership is to freeze the UN in a time warp and to make it inherently skewed and undemocratic. Hence the imperative of reform, we said, one after the other.
'These six diplomats don't seem to agree on anything!' said a student with the irreverence and nonchalance typical of an American undergraduate. Even we had to laugh. The moderator said if it was so, imagine how difficult it would be with 192 sovereign countries to make progress. But is it not a lesson in itself that there seemed to be so many legitimate and yet slightly divergent perspectives, he asked.
A good point, I thought. It has not been such a happy birthday for the UN after all, I reflected. Not much in terms of bold decisions, several scandals and at the end of the year, a crisis affecting its budget. 'A roller coaster year' as Kofi Annan, himself admitted at the end of 2005.
Sixty is a time for aches and pains, for arthritis, for retirement, I reflected. Is this true of the UN? But sixty can also be a time for maturity, for new beginnings, for enlightened views about larger interests than mere self-interest, I thought. Is there any hope that the UN will go in that direction?
The long haired wild looking man had again stood up.
"What is the use of the UN?' he was demanding once again. We looked at each other and the moderator mercifully said that the time was up.
B S Prakash is India's Consul General in San Francisco and can be reached at email@example.com
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Disappointed in Bad Meets Evil's latest endeavor? Well, Royce fans, you're in luck. Nickel Nine is going for five–as in his fifth album, 5 Cigs and 5x platinum–with Success Is Certain. While Bruno Mars is a no-show this go around, there's still a couple of Wu-heads, a mad drummer and the melanin-challenged rhyme maniacs of Shady Records to fill the slots.
Not that Royce needs the extra garnish, though. He has endured several lapses of generations and trends without so much as a batting an eyelash as to worry whether or not he'll be a competitor in the sales department.
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Fears raised over sevens rule
Fears that some players might be undone at the 'most competitive Hong Kong Sevens ever' have prompted New Zealand mastermind Gordon Tietjens to question the International Rugby Board's decision to allow teams only the usual three substitutes per game.
'The nature of this year's Hong Kong Sevens is such that there are no easy games,' said Tietjens. 'I will have to field my best line-up for every game and, unfortunately, this will mean some players won't get the necessary game time as we can only use three subs.'
'If there is an injury later on, this could have a huge effect and change the entire dynamics of the side,' he said. 'We have seen this in the past. It would be better if all five subs can be used in every match.'
Last year, despite an injury to skipper D.J. Forbes on the last day, New Zealand still went on to win the Cup title.
Tietjens is concerned that if something similar happened again, it would mean some of his rookies might be undone in the latter stages of a tournament, which he described as having 'different pressures' from the rest of the tournaments on the HSBC Sevens World Series. Seven of his players are turning out for the first time in Hong Kong.
'It would have been better if the IRB had allowed us to use our entire bench of five players as they did at the start of the season,' Tietjens (pictured) said. 'I can see lots of teams struggling in the event of injury.'
The IRB allowed teams to use all five replacements in every game during the opening three legs on the Gold Coast, Dubai and Port Elizabeth as it was the first time three tournaments were played back-to-back.
But the Cathay Pacific/HSBC Hong Kong Sevens has been split into two separate competitions for the first time. The intensity at the sold-out Hong Kong Stadium is expected to ratchet up this weekend as the top 12 sides fight it out for series points and the remaining 12 teams battle for one of three new berths as a core team next season.
Hong Kong Rugby Football Union chairman Trevor Gregory said yesterday: 'The revolutionary changes introduced this year would make this the most competitive Hong Kong Sevens ever.'
While Tietjens was wishful about the issue, his England counterpart Ben Ryan was stoical, saying teams had to make do with the existing circumstances. 'It is what it is,' said Ryan. 'These are the rules, which have been set and we have to play to those rules. I could wish for Jonny Wilkinson to be on the bench, but there is no point hoping for that.'
However, several teams have been lobbying the IRB to change its existing rule on replacements, but any changes will only come into effect next season and not this weekend, much to the disappointment of sides like Canada, Russia and Hong Kong, all of whom are in the dog-eat-dog qualifying competition.
'As a developing nation, it would be best if we could use all 12 players,' Hong Kong coach Dai Rees said. 'We are all part-time athletes and it would be great if everyone could be fielded so we could nurse the side through what will be a tough competition.'
Henry Paul, a former winner with England and now coach of Russia, said: 'It would be great if we could have use of the extra subs. Qualifying and becoming a core team is a massive part of our preparation to hosting the World Cup Sevens next year in Moscow and it all starts here.'
Canada coach Geraint John added: 'We can argue about it all day, but we have to make do with what [rules] we have. But I believe it is one of the issues to be addressed by the IRB going ahead.'
While everyone agreed that the new-look tournament will be a dog-fight from day one, for Ryan nothing has changed. 'There is no difference really,' said the England coach. 'We still have got to go out and beat our opponents. It will be normal service for the teams.'
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"You can discover more about a person in an hour of play, than in a year of conversation."
"Never underestimate a goof-off." With those words Mark E. Dixon begins his article titled "The Value of Play" (Mainline Today: January 2010) on the fascinating story of Samuel Leeds Allen and his Flexible Flyer, the first steerable snow sled.
This toy inventor was born in Philadelphia and according to Dixon, "From his earliest days, Allen preferred mischief, exploration, and tinkering over any assigned task." By the time he patented his sled in 1889, he had nearly 300 other inventions. He even wrote a short history in 1896 on the history of sledding.
Although he did many things in his life and eventually became a trustee of Haverford College, Friends Hospital and Westtown, he never lost his enthusiasm for play. Raised in a Quaker home, his cousin, George, once said to him, "No, thee isn't lazy. If thee would just stop inventing all those queer things that run across the desk, thee could study as well as anyone else. It is not that thee can't, but thee don't."
At first Allen had a hard time marketing his invention and it was only after the turn of the 20th century when he convinced Macy's and Wanamaker's department store to carry the sleds and invested in advertising. From there the sale of his toy invention took off.
By 1915, Allen could write, "We are sending whole carloads of about 1,200 each to New York, New Haven and Pittsburgh by express; perhaps five full cars in all. There seems to be little doubt but that we will sell out clean, in all about 120,000." The Flexible Flyer would make Allen a very rich man.
I remember the two Flexible Flyers my brother and I had. One of them was long enough to take two or three people on them. We loved getting ready at the top of the hill in our meadow and taking off toward the creek. If the quality of the snow was just right, we could make it all the way to the bank and only because the sled could turn, were we able to avoid the water.
Children do not ponder the value of play. They just play. Whether they are building blocks on the floor of the living room or shooting hoops in the driveway or building sand castles at the shore or catching baseball in the back yard, play forms a critical part of maturation. Psychologists tell us that a child's cognitive skills, motor skills, language skills, as well as social and emotional skills are enhanced through play.
But play is not merely for children. Some of our most meaningful social interaction occurs when we as adults play together. My two sons and I will always cherish our times of playing tennis together. Some of our most enjoyable family times are sitting around the kitchen table playing dominoes or "Take Two," a creative way of using the letters of Scrabble.
"If you want to understand the future of play," according to Rick Bluhm, "start by looking at two things: movies and video games." Bluhm says that, unlike movie ticket sales which have been decreasing, video game sales have exploded with more than 100 million Americans playing video games on a regular basis.
"People want to create their own experiences" and they can do that with the most popular system, the Nintendo Wii with its interactive capacity. Bluhm is accurate when he says, "They don't just want to watch the story; they want to be involved in the story..."
Even our work can include play. Few of us would disagree with James Michener who said, "The master in the art of living makes little distinction between his work and his play...He simply pursues his vision of excellence at whatever he does, leaving others to decide whether he is working or playing. To him he's actually doing both."
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Recently I received about 600 pages of material taken from the files of the various Government agencies that have bothered, over the past 20 years, to probe into my loyalty, my personal habits, and my political thoughts. My lawyer obtained this windfall under the Freedom of Information Act.
About half the material covered what some might suppose was the "respectable" period of my life, when I was a Republican, a very outspoken anti-Communist and a professional political propagandist for right-wing enterprises. The other half covers what seems to be the disreputable part of my life: when, after 1965, I ceased being a republican, protested the Indochina war and supported the neighborhood organizing work of the Black Panthers and Students for a Democratic Society (and continued to be an anti-Communist, certainly in the anti-Stalinist and antiauthoritarian sense).
Initially, I felt anger that the Government should waste so much money investigating people who are clearly more idiosyncratic than dangerous. Then, oddly, I began to enjoy reading through the stuff. Part of it was romantically flattering, in the sense that the Government actually has viewed me as a desperate character–a role into which I fit approximately as well as Cuddles the Puppy, or Erwin the Troll. And part of it was helpful, revealing some things about my past, of which the Government has obviously kept far more careful track than I.
There is, too, a shocking aspect: It's not so much that the material is significantly incomplete (making me wonder just how fully any Government agency can be made to comply with the Freedom of Information Act), but that it's so sloppy. Much of it is fantastically inaccurate. The F.B.I. reports even describe me as having blue eyes. I have hazel eyes. Didn't anyone even look me in the eyes long enough to know that?
The F.B.I. material is laced with spicy references to my advocacy of this or that Marxist position (when, of course, I have always voiced opposition to doctrinaire Marxism), and there is much talk of violence, which the F.B.I. reports say I encourage (yet I have maintained that violence, against a supremely violent government, strikes me as hopeless).
However, a serious omission from my Secret Service report is worth mentioning. There is a file, based on an anonymous call, which accuses me of harboring "weapons and dope" in the place where I was living. Well, yes: The weapons were three–dutifully registered, altogether legal target pistols. I have often fired them in police-department sponsored shooting matches! There was, admittedly, also some marijuana. But there is no information on what may well have been the most revolutionary activity in which I was ever engaged. For a time–while working at Newsweek magazine, and while being openly a champion of various right-wing causes–I ran guns to Cuba. This activity was undertaken on behalf of a pro-American, anti-Batista former president of Cuba named Carlos Hevia. My activity was known to the F.B.I. Yet this altogether illegal enterprise, this support of armed violence, this dealing in lethal weapons, did not, apparently, stain my official record–as did, for instance, my speaking to students in opposition to the Indochina war.
Anger gives way to sadness, though, when for page after page, you see your name transformed to the word SUBJECT. To see your life transformed to rumors, tips, sly whispers, creepy glances around corners, and numbers in files (my F.B.I. file number was–is–643 496 H). To see all that is to see life itself reduced to mere machinery.
Page after page of investigative material is filled with reports of what I said in a coffee house, in a classroom, at a church, even at a police-academy training class where I was once invited. Why didn't the F.B.I. just ask me to come and fill them in directly? I would have been pleased to do it then, and still would now. How wonderful if the political policemen and I could have discussed my political migration in person. But, no, their knowledge of SUBJECT must be filtered through a keyhole or an informant, in the dehumanized reportage of the dossiers.
You wonder what would happen to them if they discussed these dangerous ideas openly. Defending their own concepts. analyzing and arguing–rather than snooping and prying, and treating the immensely important discussion of how humans should or could live as a pornographic subject. You wonder if, really, they mistrust not the dangerous radical, but themselves.
How, I wonder, would the F.B.I. agents react if we could discuss, and not simply file away, the main, the amazing point that seems to permeate the entire dossier? The point is antagonism to institutional, nondemocratic authority. As a Taft Republican, later a Goldwater Republican, my opposition to tyranny was reflected in vociferous, public opposition to the Federal Government itself, to its abuses of power, enlargement of power, intrusions of power, and it's coercive powers.
But later, it is as though every such impulse had become suspect, tainted, different: because now there was such total opposition to tyranny that it even included the abuses of the military, the F.B.I., the C.I.A. and I had turned from patriot to suspect. The F.B.I., the C.I.A. and the military intelligence agencies are not concerned with loyalty to the ideals of freedom, to the ideals of America even. The are concerned solely, specifically and fervently with loyalty to the State and, in an even more narrow sense, with loyalty to a particular regime of the State.
However, I would like to thank these faceless observers for a service. In its current coverage, the material notes that I have been active with several Jewish groups known for their opposition to totalitarian regimes (including the Soviet), and to authoritarian violence (including the undeclared war in Indochina). But there is no cross-reference to earlier reports in the files, where my mother had been suspected of being a Nazi–and I had been noted as having been anti-Semitic. There is no reference in the current file to the earlier anomaly. Perhaps nobody actually reads these dreadful files. They are just collected. Maybe only SUBJECTS read them thoroughly.
My mother's early brush with the F.B.I. happened just before World War II. She was, when I was about 12 years old, manager of an apartment house in Washington, D.C. Some of the residents of the apartment house happened to be employees of the German Embassy; apparently, anonymous phone calls and denunciations put those facts together, and actually inspired an F.B.I. investigation. My. mother was, eventually, completely cleared.
Those early files suggested that I had made anti-Semitic remarks as a kid. And I had. Later, when I was granted a top-secret clearance in my Republican, or "loyal," phase of life, agents conscientiously dug into that anti-Semitic business. A Government investigator spoke to our doctor, a Jew, who had ben very close to my family. I had always thought him to be one of the most wise and gentle people I had ever known. According to the dossier, he told the Government agent that the reason I had been mouthing off about Jews was in no way political. It was, he said, simply that I, a Catholic, happened to look quite Jewish, and obviously resented it. My reaction, the doctor explained, was a period of very boisterous anti-Semitim in order to prove that I wasn't "one of them."
Yes. Of course, I find that a moving remembrance, discovering it now. It is a recollection of foolishness, but also the revelation of a good and patient man who understood–a man who was not moved from his love, or friendship, by that foolishness. How he towers above all that tattle-tale business. Perhaps some policeman also saw it. I hope that he might have been moved by such a thing, too. We are all, after all, very human, and not SUBJECTS at all.
Originally published in the The New York Times, November 7, 1976.


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Happy Holidays Wishes from Miss Universe 2010
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From all of us at the Miss Universe Organization, we want to wish you a safe and happy holidays.
It's that time of season for spreading Christmas Cheer,
and I hope that my sisters will join for all to hear.
So I'm off to ride with Bella on my sleigh….
Happy Holiday
I came here to New York from the heart of Mexico,
and I love to wear swimsuits but they don't work in the snow,
But my sash and crown will keep the cold away…
Happy Holiday
¿Qué honda Rima?
Born in Lebanon, Raised in Queens
Then I moved to Michigan to spend most of my teens…
Now I'm back in the city, queen of the states
My game's gone global, I got all kinds of dates.
From the pyramids of egypt to the hills of LA,
Slayin' these verses, It's Miss USA!
So deck your halls, 'cause i'm here to say
It's Rima signing off, Happy Holiday.
So we're dancing, and singing, this holiday song
We've been working overtime, to help it move along
So we sing from the bottom of our hearts!
Happy Holidays!
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Honolulu police say 32-year-old Nicolas Nakano was driving a stolen white Honda that flipped over on the corner of Makaiwa and Moho Streets in Kahala as he was trying to pass another car Thursday night.
Police say he then ran off and officers caught up with him on Kealaolu Street. That's when he allegedly fired his gun at police officers.
"And then there was just a huge number of policemen out on the street. Obviously, they had been pursuing him," witness Andy Butler said.
Sources say Nakano kept firing his pistol, but it jammed after the first shot. Officers on the scene were clearly emotional about the close call they just went through — one of them practically collapsing after the arrest. He then gestures to a fellow officer explaining what just happened.
Witnesses say Nakano also put up a fight as officers arrested him.
"He was screaming and yelling and cursing and he definitely was resisting arrest," Butler said.
Sources also say that Nakano is suspected to be part of a group that is selling automatic weapons and grenades. Sources told KHON2 he had an AK-47 in the car Thursday night and was wearing a bulletproof vest along with a wig when police started chasing him.
Nakano has a criminal record that goes back as far as 2001. He's been arrested 30 times and convicted 22 times. Thirteen of those were felonies, which include kidnapping, robbery, and car theft.
"He was originally sentenced to prison in 2003 as a youthful offender on seven different felony offenses," Hawaii Paroling Authority Administrator Tommy Johnson said.
The Hawaii Paroling Authority says Nakano was just released from prison in October. Two months later, there was a warrant out for his arrest.
"Unfortunately, he continued his criminal ways and we issued a warrant for his arrest on Dec. 5, 2013 for alleged parole violations including use of illegal drugs," Johnson said.
One police officer had minor injuries from the arrest.
Nakano was taken to the hospital with a broken jaw, a broken nose, and cuts to his head.
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What makes CASC special is our incredible community, full of students who are passionate about their education and parents who are committed to seeing their children succeed.
Greenville, SC (PRWEB) January 23, 2014
Cyber Academy of South Carolina (CASC), a full-time, tuition-free online public school option for students in South Carolina, announced today that the school will take part in National School Choice Week 2014, an initiative designed to shine a positive spotlight on the need for effective education options for all children. To mark the occasion, CASC will open a new regional Learning Center, where students grades K-9* will have access to a blended learning environment and be able to engage in small groups or personal tutoring with teachers to supplement their online work.
The new CASC Learning Center is the first of multiple planned Learning Centers in the state. The Greenville Learning Center will be staffed with fully certified CASC teachers and will be outfitted with interactive large screen monitors, laptops, WiFi and course materials. The Center will be open 3-4 days week for at least 3 hours per day and available to those students who wish extra guidance in their lessons.
As part of National School Choice Week, the new CASC Learning Center will host a special Grand Opening event on January 31. Students/families enrolled in the program and members of the community interested in learning more are invited to come take part in fun, hands-on activities that will allow them to interact with the curriculum. All CASC staff will be on hand to provide more information and David Crook, the CASC Head of School, will be available to answer any questions.
"What makes CASC special is our incredible community, full of students who are passionate about their education and parents who are committed to seeing their children succeed," said David Crook, Head of School for Cyber Academy of South Carolina. "This new Learning Center is a perfect example of the resources available to those students who choose to take control of their education and explore other possibilities. We're looking forward to joining together in solidarity and show the power behind school choice."
WHO: CASC students, prospective students, teachers and members of the community
WHAT: Cyber Academy of South Carolina – Greenville Learning Center Grand Opening
WHEN: January 31, 2014
Note: Media are invited to attend.
WHERE: CASC Learning Center
330 Pelham Road, Suite 101A
Greenville, SC 29615
"We're thrilled that CASC is participating in National School Choice Week and applaud the opening of their new Learning Center," said Andrew Campanella, NSCW president. "We hear a lot about education in the news, but the students, teachers, and school leaders at CASC remind us that there are great things happening in schools all across the country every single day."
National School Choice Week shines a positive spotlight on effective education options for children – including traditional public schools, public charter schools, magnet schools, private schools, online academies, and homeschooling. For more information, visit http://www.schoolchoiceweek.com.
Cyber Academy of South Carolina is a full-time, tuition-free online public school option for students in South Carolina that serves students in grades K through 9* from across the state. For more information about the school and NSCW events, visit http://www.K12.com/casc.
*Cyber Academy of South Carolina will offer grades K-10 for the 2014-2015 school year, and will continue expanding to serve an additional grade level each year until they reach the full K–12 grade level offering.