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I'm Glad My Mom Died
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About The Book
A heartbreaking and hilarious memoir by iCarly and Sam & Cat star Jennette McCurdy about her struggles as a former child actor—including eating disorders, addiction, and a complicated relationship with her overbearing mother—and how she retook control of her life.
Jennette McCurdy was six years old when she had her first acting audition. Her mother's dream was for her only daughter to become a star, and Jennette would do anything to make her mother happy. So she went along with what Mom called "calorie restriction," eating little and weighing herself five times a day. She endured extensive at-home makeovers while Mom chided, "Your eyelashes are invisible, okay? You think Dakota Fanning doesn't tint hers?" She was even showered by Mom until age sixteen while sharing her diaries, email, and all her income.
In I'm Glad My Mom Died, Jennette recounts all this in unflinching detail—just as she chronicles what happens when the dream finally comes true. Cast in a new Nickelodeon series called iCarly, she is thrust into fame. Though Mom is ecstatic, emailing fan club moderators and getting on a first-name basis with the paparazzi ("Hi Gale!"), Jennette is riddled with anxiety, shame, and self-loathing, which manifest into eating disorders, addiction, and a series of unhealthy relationships. These issues only get worse when, soon after taking the lead in the iCarly spinoff Sam & Cat alongside Ariana Grande, her mother dies of cancer. Finally, after discovering therapy and quitting acting, Jennette embarks on recovery and decides for the first time in her life what she really wants.
Told with refreshing candor and dark humor, I'm Glad My Mom Died is an inspiring story of resilience, independence, and the joy of shampooing your own hair.
Product Details
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster (August 9, 2022)
- Length: 320 pages
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Raves and Reviews
"[A] layered account of a woman reckoning with love and violence at once…[Not] a flippant exposé of childhood stardom, nor an angry diatribe directed at an abuser. This complexity is what makes I'm Glad My Mom Died feel real…Some supposed literary types will think the immense popularity of I'm Glad My Mom Died—the hardcover initially sold out at many major bookstores—is merely the result of McCurdy's former stardom and modern culture's thirst for a sensational take. With its bold headline and bright cover featuring a smirking McCurdy holding a pink urn, the book feels deliberately marketed for virality, perfect for sharing on the internet and catching the eye of bookstore browsers. I've mentioned the title of this memoir to some people who have dismissed it out of hand, remarking that being glad one's parent is dead is crude and a sentiment that should be kept to oneself. But those people haven't read the book. McCurdy takes her time to remember difficult and complex moments of her life, staying true to her younger self while ultimately trying to come to terms with who she is as an independent adult. It's a triumph of the confessional genre."—Nina Li Coomes, The Atlantic
"Not many people rise to her level of fame or are so deeply abused, but McCurdy's narrative will feel familiar to anyone who has navigated poverty and trauma. Taking advantage of the store discount at your dad's retail job, tuning out screaming matches between parents, avoiding calls from debt collectors … this is what childhood is like for millions of Americans. Like many, I recognized myself in her words."—Sabrina Cartan, Slate
"Unflinching…This year's most candid book…I'm Glad My Mom Died made me laugh; it made me cry. It's such a funny, dark, moving, honest, real, uncensored book, and it's unlike anything I've ever read."—Mary Elizabeth Williams, Salon
"[The] number-one New York Times-bestselling memoir that has also achieved pop-cultural phenomenon status…I'm Glad My Mom Died is more than source material for a deluge of headlines about Grande and the slimy advances of a Nickelodeon svengali McCurdy calls simply 'The Creator.' McCurdy distinguishes herself from standard-issue celebrity memoir fare with a vivid, biting, darkly comic tone and an immersive present tense."—Michelle Ruiz, Vogue
"For McCurdy, this book isn't just her writing debut. It's a reckoning with guilt and grief after her mother's premature death. It's healing from multiple eating disorders and processing decades of trauma. It's finally doing what she wants for the first time: not acting. Writing…Healing from trauma looks different for everyone: For McCurdy, writing this memoir symbolized empowerment over her narrative. And understanding that it's OK not to forgive her late mother provided her peace."—Jenna Ryu, USA Today
"Judging simply by the shocking title of Jennette McCurdy's debut memoir, I'm Glad My Mom Died, you may think the book is a no-holds-barred, scathing takedown of her mother and everyone else who perpetuated the horrifying upbringing that the former iCarly star endured, but you'd be wrong. McCurdy's book is certainly revealing, describing the abuse she endured from her mother, who pushed her into acting at age 6, then guided her directly into an eating disorder and much worse until her death in 2013. But beyond that, it's a measured, heartbreakingly poignant, and often laugh-out-loud-funny memoir with McCurdy showing more sympathy for her complicated mother than most people could even imagine mustering. However, what is perhaps most important about her memoir, which is smart, well-written, and powerful, is just how much hope and help it will surely provide to those suffering similar abuses right now."—Scott Neumyer, Shondaland
"The new memoir from former child star Jennette McCurdy has an attention-grabbing title: I'm Glad My Mom Died. Over the course of the book, McCurdy, who built her name on Nickelodeon's iCarly and Sam and Cat, more than makes her case, detailing years of her mother's mental and physical abuse. The result is a detailed look at a very specific and individual childhood of horrors, but it also points to a major systemic problem. I'm Glad My Mom Died doubles as a damning indictment of the child star system…She paints a vivid picture of child stardom as a system in which children find themselves turned into walking piles of other people's cash, and summarily dismantled when they lose their value. It's damning both for the horrors she experienced as an individual and the systemic failures to which her story points."—Constance Grady, Vox
"McCurdy's book must be written by someone. Why? It must be done because there is someone out there right now who truly believes that life will never be any different. They truly believe that they will live under their parent's thumb, never have the life they wanted, not trust their own agency, their own minds, and people like Jennette exist to tell them: You are not wrong, you can trust yourself. You can do this too."—Erin Taylor, Observer
"A stunning memoir…[McCurdy] reveals herself to be a stingingly funny and insightful writer, capable of great empathy and a brutal punchline. It's a document not just of all she's endured, but also of the wisdom she accrued along the way."—Sam Lansky, Time
"A coming-of-age story that is alternately harrowing and mordantly funny."—Dave Itzkoff, The New York Times
"[A] magnum opus…sharply funny and empathetic."—Ashley Spencer, The Washington Post
"McCurdy strips away the candy-coated facade of her sitcom experiences."—Vanity Fair
"[The] US summer publishing sensation that—in short, punchy sentences delivered with a high level of self-perception—could transform the trauma memoir business…[T]he book, and the reception it has received, could return the focus of the trauma narratives to the mother and create new demand for mother-daughter accounts."—Edward Helmore, The Guardian
"[An] explosive debut…insightful and incisive, heartbreaking and raw, McCurdy's narrative reveals a strong woman who triumphs over unimaginable pressure to emerge whole on the other side. Fans will be rapt."—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"McCurdy asks readers a question: When and how does one rid oneself of the cage created by others and walk freely? Her stunning debut offers fierce honesty, empathy for those that contributed to her grief, and insights into the hard-fought attachments and detachments of growing older."—Booklist (starred review)
"Delivered with captivating candor and grace."—Kirkus (starred review)
"Jennette McCurdy is the queen of lemonade from lemons, using her trauma to weave a painfully funny story that also illuminates the commodification of teenage girls in America. An important cultural document just as much as a searingly personal one."—Lena Dunham
"Jennette's road to finding herself—removed from the expectations of her mother—is impressively funny. She fuses nuanced relationships, complex grief, religious whiplash and Hollywood trauma into a bold story with a specific comedic voice."—Jerrod Carmichael
"How can a book be so sad and also so funny? It's an art, and Jennette McCurdy has mastered it here. I'm Glad My Mom Died is hysterical and heartbreaking and fascinating all at the same time."—Jenny Lawson, New York Times bestselling author of Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things and Broken (in the Best Possible Way)
"I'm Glad My Mom Died is furious, sad, brave, knowing, honest, heart-wrenching, and utterly compelling. McCurdy writes with a keen insight and startling compassion. Whether showing how dysfunction can seem normal to those most affected, the torture of eating disorders, or the mindfuck that is child stardom, McCurdy brings readers deep into the milieu so often hidden from outsiders. This is a beautifully crafted coming-of-age story as fearless as its author." —Lauren Hough, New York Times bestselling author of Leaving Isn't the Hardest Thing
"Jennette McCurdy's book is a coruscating picture of her life as a child actor, devastatingly honest and with great understanding of the psychology and emotions operating at a deep level. It's a riveting read, entertaining and very touching."—Hayley Mills, New York Times bestselling author of Forever Young
"Jennette's career as an actor was simply a character in a much more important story. She is a natural writer with a wonderful sense of humor. Her story is heartbreaking with a nice balance of hopeful. I could not put this book down."—Laraine Newman, original cast member of Saturday Night Live and author of May You Live in Interesting Times
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Fungus has cancer-fighting power, researchers find
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- December 4, 2012
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- University of Tennessee
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- Arthrobotrys oligospora doesn't live a charmed life; it survives on a diet of roundworm. But a discovery could give the fungus's life more purpose -- as a cancer fighter.
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Arthrobotrys oligospora doesn't live a charmed life; it survives on a diet of roundworm.
But a discovery by a team led by Mingjun Zhang, an associate professor of biomedical engineering at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, could give the fungus's life more purpose -- as a cancer fighter.
Zhang and his team have discovered that nanoparticles produced by A. oligospora hold promise for stimulating the immune system and killing tumors. The findings are published in this month's edition of Advanced Functional Materials.
Zhang commonly looks to nature for solutions to the world's challenges. He and research associate Yongzhong Wang were examining A. oligospora's trapping mechanism for roundworms when they discovered the fungus secretes nanocomposites consisting of highly uniform nanoparticles. Nanoparticles are tiny particles that have been shown to be important in cancer therapies.
"Naturally occuring nanoparticles have drawn increasing interest from scientific communities for their biocompatibility," said Zhang. "Due to their high surface-to-volume ratio, nanoparticles have demonstrated unique optical, thermal and electronic properties. In addition, their small size allows them to easily cross cell membranes, an essential requirement for cancer therapy."
The researchers investigated the fungal nanoparticles' potential as a stimulant for the immune system, and found through an in vitro study that the nanoparticles activate secretion of an immune-system stimulant within a white blood cell line.
They also investigated the nanoparticles' potential as an antitumor agent by testing in vitro the toxicity to cells using two tumor cell lines, and discovered nanoparticles do kill cancer cells.
According to Zhang, nature faces many diseases, and offers rich mechanisms for curing them as a result of evolution. Nature-based nanostructures possess near endless diversity, which may offer novel solutions for therapeutic applications.
"This study could be the entrance into a gold mine of new materials to treat cancers," said Zhang. "Understanding how these nanostructures are formed in the natural systems will also provide templates for the synthesis of a future generation of engineered nanostructures for biomedical applications."
The researchers' approach promises to open up a new avenue for controlling the synthesis of organic nanoparticles using synthetic biology.
"This exciting discovery is the first step forward in the development of natural nanoparticle-based therapeutics for cancer treatment and demonstrates the importance of looking to nature for innovation in disease treatment," said Zhang.
The research was funded by the Biochemistry Program in the Life Sciences Division of the U.S. Army Research Office.
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Journal Reference:
- Yongzhong Wang, Leming Sun, Sijia Yi, Yujian Huang, Scott C. Lenaghan, Mingjun Zhang. Naturally Occurring Nanoparticles fromArthrobotrys oligosporaas a Potential Immunostimulatory and Antitumor Agent. Advanced Functional Materials, 2012; DOI: 10.1002/adfm.201202619
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A third explosion in Missouri on Panhandle Eastern's 200 Line in six years. Panhandle is the parent company of Florida Gas Transmission (FGT), famous for throwing a pipe across the Florida Turnpike in 2009, near a high school.
Chris Oberholtz wrote for KCTV5.com 13 October 2014, Emergency crews respond to pipeline rupture, fire near Centerview,
JOHNSON COUNTY, MO (KCTV) – Emergency crews are on the scene of a pipeline rupture and fire near Centerview, MO.
The location is Northwest 701 Road and Northwest Division Road. This is a rural area with no homes threatened.
Sandi Wilsom wrote for KMZU 100.7 FM 13 October 2014, Update: Report of Gas Pipe Explosion in Centerview, MO, Continue reading Panhandle Eastern Pipe Line explosion, Centerview, MO 2014-10-13


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Succeeding by Helping Others Succeed in MarketHive
What do you think about self-help gurus that achieve most of their success (financial or otherwise) through the vehicle of their work as a self-help guru?
What can we say about a motivational speaker who talks about success but whose greatest success is being successful at speaking about success?
I see no problem with this, as long as the speaker is honest.
Problems occur when a speaker pretends to be something s/he is not, such as falsely claiming to be a millionaire through a prior business that was in truth a financial disaster, while reaping massive profits from book and seminar sales that teach people how to get rich.
I believe it's wonderful to run a business centered around helping people, even one that follows a recursive pattern like helping people help others in the same way you're helping them. If the demand for such work is there and if it truly benefits people, then this is a perfectly acceptable business model. In fact, I think it's one of the more intelligent business models available. Why not help yourself by helping others?
I ran a computer games business for more than a decade and enjoyed some success with it. I could have continued to grow that business, but a funny thing happened along the way. I started writing articles to help other independent software developers, and over a period of years, my articles became more popular than my games. In the long run, I had a greater impact by teaching other people how to run a business like mine as opposed to minding my own business. More creative games were released into the world as a result of the articles I wrote, many more than I could have developed within my own company.
As I began writing articles that weren't limited to software developers, on topics like goal-setting and productivity, my influence widened. Soon people were coming to my games site just to read the articles. Trying to sell games to those visitors made little sense, since most of them weren't even interested in games.
Eventually I realized I could provide a better service (and ultimately build a better business) by writing more articles instead of releasing more games. It made no sense to continue publishing games when I had all these people coming to my games website looking for personal development advice.
It's funny that even though I was running a computer games business, my passion for personal growth couldn't help but come through.
Back then it was hard to get my head around what was happening. At first I saw the unplanned shift in my visitor demographics as a semi-annoying problem. I thought maybe I should stop posting new articles on my site. But eventually I recognized that this was a golden opportunity. If I could attract personal growth enthusiasts to an indie games site, imagine what I could do with a website that was actually focused on personal development. ????
Initially it was hard to step into the role of teacher. I kept thinking of the expression, "Those who can, do. Those who can't, teach." It didn't help that many of my friends and associates in the gaming industry reacted with a similar attitude when I informed them of my decision to start a personal development website and to retire from the gaming industry.
I stuck with my decision though. The demand was too much to ignore. I had inadvertently stumbled upon a better way to provide value to people. The longer I kept publishing games, the more I felt I was wasting time. By holding back on the personal development side, I was robbing people of a better service I could have been providing.
Although I don't actively encourage people to start up their own personal development websites, hundreds of people have told me they started blogs and websites because of my work, often crediting articles like How to Make Money From Your Blog and 10 Reasons You Should Never Get a Job. Most of those sites were on personal growth topics as well.
At first I wasn't sure if this was a good thing. I wasn't worried about competition because I don't think in terms of scarcity, but I was concerned that there were too many people jumping into the field, and I knew most of them would fail. Most people just aren't serious about this kind of work and quit within a few months. But some of them committed themselves and achieved great success; many were able to quit their day jobs as a result.
It's rewarding to visit some of these sites today and see how far they've come. They continue to provide a valuable service to their visitors. Moreover, the site owners are contributing much more value than they ever did before.
Most of these newer sites are run by people much younger than I am. For many it's their first real business venture. They may not have much real-world experience to share, but they do have the desire to help people. This desire pushes them to work on their own growth, so they can have something to share that's effective. Generally, those who try to fake success don't get very far, but those who are honest about sharing their journey along the way can definitely provide a lot of value.
It isn't necessary to be some kind of uber-guru in order to help people. You don't have to make a ton of money, find the perfect relationship, or achieve your ideal physique before you're able to contribute. You can start by sharing what you know, which is probably a lot more valuable than you give yourself credit for.
You don't need to be a guru to write articles like that. It's not that difficult to share what you know.
You don't have to be the best at everything. You can still put yourself out there. You can still make a contribution. You can still give something of value to people.
How do you know if what you have to share has value? Share it first, and you'll soon find out. If it provides value, people will tell you. If it doesn't, people will usually ignore you. As long as you're getting ignored, keep experimenting by trying to provide value in new and unique ways. Maybe you have a sweet voice and would be better at podcasting than blogging. Or perhaps video would be a better outlet for your creativity. The only limits are in your thinking.
When I released my first independently-developed computer game, it was largely ignored. It took me six months to develop it, but nobody cared. My next game sold a little better, but it was still basically a flop. I tried different game styles and different genres. It took several releases, but eventually I created an award-winning game that sold well for years. It took about five years of trial and error to align my game development skills with creating value for others.
Five years may seem like a long time, but I was coming from a place of knowing virtually nothing about how to run a business when I started. It took a long time to calibrate my skill set to market realities. In the beginning I was trying to create a product to sell, something that would make me money. But in the later years, I focused on offering games that people would love. That is a huge difference in mindset.
When I launched StevePavlina.com, I was able to start providing value to others much more quickly because I wasn't stuck thinking about making money. I focused on the service side. I soon figured out how to use my skills to give people what they need and want.
I sometimes get emails from people complaining that they aren't getting rich after blogging for only a few months. One blogger emailed me today to express disappointment that he hasn't yet surpassed 100 visitors per day. He started his blog less than a month ago. Is it me, or are people getting a little impatient these days?
The most important result to track isn't how many visitors your website is getting or how much money you're making. Instead, figure out whether you're actually making a difference in people's lives. Are you helping people? Are you providing strong value? If you're providing genuine value, time and referrals will take care of most of your other key metrics.
Recently I was talking to a friend in the personal development field. Business-wise he and I both had record years in 2008, and we each expect 2009 to blow it away. We joked about the rest of the economy crashing down around us. Why do we feel so optimistic when so many people are nervous? Because we know that we're providing real value to people. We know that our skills are aligned with contribution. We also have the capacity to do a lot of good for people who are financially struggling, looking for career changes, or feeling uncertain about the future.
Erin is in the same boat. During a recession, more people feel uncertain about the future, and she offers intuitive readings that provide people with great clarity about their lives. Consequently, her income saw significant growth last year as well. Why? Because her skills are aligned with helping people get what they need.
Helping people grow is a service that's in very high demand. It doesn't matter that we're in a (media-fueled) recession. That just means people are more keen to reduce low-value expenditures, and they're more sensitive to spending money wisely — on purchases that provide the best bang per buck for them. If you're providing weak value, you're on shaky ground during a recession. But if you're providing solid value that meets human needs, a recession can create even bigger opportunities for you — people will drop the fluff from their lives and seek you out instead.
When your business model is no longer fed by sufficient demand, you can always switch to doing something else. But if there's one thing humanity needs right now, it's for more of us to step it up and embrace our true potential instead of settling for the limited roles assigned by our social conditioning. In our current environment, there's still plenty of room for more people to start businesses based on helping and encouraging others to grow. We're a long way from being over-saturated in this area.
"Republished from StevePavlina.com"


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The jobs market rallied back far sooner and stronger than expected. The U.S. economy created 2.5 million new jobs in May. Economists had projected a loss of 7 million jobs, so the surprise was massive. The gains are mainly attributable to workers who were temporarily laid off being called back to work as lockdowns ended or were relaxed.
Key Points for the Week
- The U.S. economy added a record 2.5 million jobs in May.
- U.S. exports dropped 20.5% and imports slid 13.7% as global economic weakness pushed trading lower.
- The S&P 500 added another 5.0% last week and is barely negative for the year.
The European Central Bank (ECB) announced plans to continue to buy bonds in order to promote liquidity and economic growth. The ECB is now on par with the Federal Reserve for how much support it is providing its economy. The global economy continues to wrestle with declining trade. U.S. exports and imports both dropped double digits last month.
Stock investors viewed economic data very positively and pushed stock indexes higher. The S&P 500 gained 5.0% last week and nearly turned positive for the year. Global stocks welcomed the news of additional economic stimulus as the MSCI ACWI soared 5.8%. The Bloomberg BarCap Aggregate Bond Index dipped 0.5% as improved growth pushed long-term interest rates higher. Bond prices move in the opposite direction of interest rates.
The Federal Reserve meets next week. We are often asked whether we expect the Fed to lower rates below zero or announce other measures to stimulate growth. Our expectation is the Fed will not lower rates below zero now or in the future. Countries with negative rates haven't seen strong gains in economic growth or in their stock markets. Central banks have plenty of tools available that will have more effect. Of particular interest is a program already announced to help mid-sized businesses. Helping those companies get through the slowdown and spurring rehiring is a key goal as Americans seek to revive the economy.
Missed It By That Much
May's jobs report was full of positive surprises. As shown in the nearby chart, the economy produced 2.5 million new jobs, trouncing economists' expectations that it would lose seven million jobs. Rather than rising to nearly 20%, unemployment dropped to 13.3%.
Put another way, economists projected the second largest monthly job loss in history and the economy experienced the largest gain instead. It brings to mind fictional secret agent Maxwell Smart, who would gesture to imply the results barely missed expectations and utter, "Missed it by that much" when faced with evidence of a wide gap between his expectations and reality.
Roughly half of the gains were tied to restaurants, which brought back 1.4 million workers. Many states had begun easing lockdown restrictions, and the reopening of restaurants brought back about 15% of the losses the broader leisure and hospitality segment experienced in April. Construction jobs increased nearly half a million, and health care jobs increased nearly 400,000 as dentists and other providers of mostly elective services brought back staff.
The jobs report is supporting optimism the economy has bottomed and will recover faster than originally expected. The surprising swing upward was likely due to a number of factors working together to push employers to bring workers back:
- States eased lockdown restrictions allowing more business activity.
- The Payroll Protection Program and other support packages are limiting job losses and causing some workers to be rehired.
- By the week of May 10, when the survey was completed, new coronavirus cases were declining and consumers were ready to venture out.
The unquestionably positive report establishes the economic bottom came in April and the economy has initially proved more resilient than expected. Underneath the topline numbers are a few key underlying trends we are watching closely. The most important is whether workers' expectations that layoffs will be temporary hold true. In April's report, 78% of the unemployed believed their situations were temporary. That proved true for roughly 2.7 million workers called back to their jobs, and now 73% expect to be called back.
Of course, temporary job losses can become permanent. The number of permanent job losses increased by roughly 300,000 in May. State and local governments also continue to reduce employment in order to protect their badly damaged budgets. The loss of sales tax revenue and other income led to the layoffs of nearly 585,000 state and local government jobs. We expect the federal government to pass some additional support for state and local governments in coming months, although the looming election will complicate any additional packages.
The rally in the job market has improved our outlook for the economy. The economic bottom reached in April is expected to hold, and the initial bounce back, which we anticipated in June, came early. Because the absolute bottom wasn't as deep as expected, the long-term economic damage will likely be lower.
In order for the rapid increase in economic activity to continue, the U.S. needs to see declines in the number of coronavirus cases. Instead, the number of cases has plateaued just above 20,000 per day. The global trend in new cases is decidedly worse. Brazil has become the epicenter of the virus spread, and global new cases are at all-time highs. This month's trade data showed exports plunged 20.5%. These numbers will likely improve in future months, but a rapid recovery needs greater economic activity across the globe in order to sustain high growth.
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Watch the March on the RNC
Posted 11 years ago on Aug. 27, 2012, 12:22 p.m. EST by OccupyWallSt
Updated, 8/28: Lots more photos and video added below.
As of noon eastern, the March on the RNC has begun. The corporate media won't report on it, so follow and find livestreams on Twitter: #resistRNC #marchontheRNC #OccupyTheRNC #frnc, @OccupyRNC and @OccupyTampa. The protest will continue throughout the week. Nonviolent direct action marches will take place every day at 10 am as an alternative to the official, barbed-wire enclosed "event zone" (cage) declared by the city and police to keep protesters far away from the eyes of the media, while the wealthy are given lavish parties and the ears of the politicians inside the heavily-guarded walls.
Tomorrow at 5 pm, there will be a Rally and March Against Voter Suppression at Centennial Park (1800 E. 8th Ave, Tampa), and several other actions will be held at various times during the rest of the week, including a pro-labor rally, a rally in support of reproductive rights, and various autonomous/unpermitted marches against capitalism and police brutality. If you are in Tampa and need legal assistance, the number for the NLG is 813-241-0101, or find them online: http://tampa.nlg.org. You can also donate to the Occupy Tampa bail fund here.
Activists including the Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign, organizers of the Romneyville encampment in Tampa, stopping a foreclosure on Saturday
Video of the March on the RNC
People at Occupy Tampa for the Food Not Bombs World Gathering
Protesters gathered at the HQ of Raytheon, makers of parts for drones
The Earth First! contingent
CodePink contingent
The city spent tens of millions of dollars on police equipment, including a tank, surveillance drones, and helicopters, with reinforcements from the Dept. of Homeland Security and National Guard
Police in what look like military fatigues following the main march
Protesters were kept far away from the convention and from media by barriers like this one, meaning reporters had to travel long distances to cover the actions or talk to demonstrators
Video of protesters taking on Bain Capital-owned Bloomin' Brands in Tampa
Video of banner drop directed at Scott Walker at Tampa Theatre Press release from protest group resistRNC to law enforcement:
Those who come to demonstrate at the RNC do not come to confront you. They come to confront:
- those who give you your orders, our Elected Officials.
- those who give them their orders, the Power Elite.
We, police officers and protesters alike, should be standing together to remind our government that they work for us, the people. That it is WE THE PEOPLE who elect them, and we who give them their orders.
You have been told that we are coming to commit acts of violence and destruction. We are not. We utilize peaceful means to promote peaceful ends and to stand up for justice...social, economic and environmental justice.
You have been told that we are coming to fight the police. We are not. You are being abused right along with us. It is the Power Elite we are after. They are screwing over all of us and laugh at us when we fight one another.
We do not expect you to take our word for it. Hear it from retired Police Captain Ray Lewis on his interview where he can explain it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ndFTALQzlY It's time we stood together. We know who the real enemy is, and its neither you or us. So it's pointless to fight one another.
If you are ordered to assault a non-violent peaceful crowd, we ask you to defy your orders. Stand for justice. It is our sincere hope that you allow the demonstrators to do what they come to do, peacefully protest an unjust system. We stand for justice.


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An enticing mystery awaits you on excursions through underground tunnels and caves.
Whether these caverns were created by nature over millions of years or are the work of hands digging in mountains, they are ideal for a trip when it's raining. You will find more than just stalagmites, stalactites and dripstone; for example in the Mladeč Caves you will see a ritual burial with figurines of prehistoric people, and one of the attractions of the Chýnov Cave and Bozkov Caves is an underground lake. You can experience an unusual flashlight tour in the Koněprusy Caves.


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For the last several weeks the Iraqi security forces (ISF)
have carried out a number of operations in Anbar, especially in the western
desert and along the Euphrates River. This hasn't seemed to stop the violence
however. In fact, as a sign of defiance Al Qaeda in Iraq recently announced an
offensive of its own in the province. The situation has gotten so bad that
local officials have told the press that the military and police have lost
control of the border area, and that fighters are going back and forth between
Syria and Iraq at will. This is just the latest example of the ineffectiveness
of the army and police in combating the country's insurgency.
(Institute for the Study of War) |
The Iraqi security forces have announced operation after
operation in Anbar to no apparent affect (Al-Mada)
In response to the country's deteriorating security
situation, the government has launched one security crackdown after another in
Anbar. On May 16, the government announced The Ghost that was aimed at clearing
out Al Qaeda in Iraq (AQI) camps in the desert region of the governorate. On
May 28, the Defense Ministry said it was beginning another operation against
AQI across Anbar, Ninewa, Diyala, Salahaddin, Babil, and Baghdad. At the
beginning of June, the government sent the army to the Syrian and Jordanian border in Anbar. This was in preparation for the delayed elections that
were taking place on June 20. Those forces stayed after the vote, and began another strike under the Anbar Operations Command in the Rawa district by the Syrian
border after a clash with militants that killed two soldiers. This covered the Rawa area, the western Sahara, and the town of Nukhayb. None of these
operations appeared effective, and were widely criticized by Anbaris. The
deputy head of the provincial council Sadoun Abdi Shalan said that the security
forces were only out in the field for 1-2 days, then they would withdraw, and
militants would move right back in. An anonymous official told Al-Mada that the ISF had failed at stopping infiltrations across the Syrian border, and that
they were completely unequipped for the task. The source claimed that the
Iraqi army only had two helicopters to monitor the entire border area, and only
one was active at a time. This came on top of the complaints about arbitrary
arrests, closing down traffic between cities, and the destruction of property. These tactics have proven to be failures. They were exactly the same type
used by the United States before the 2007 Surge, and everyone knows how that
turned out. Raiding without holding ground can only temporarily disrupt
insurgents, and the abuses that come along with the operations only create
resentment amongst the populace against the security forces and government.
There have been complaints about arbitrary arrests by the
security forces in Anbar (Al-Mada)
To show how ineffective the ISF were Al Qaeda not only
maintained its attacks, but also announced an offensive of its own. On June 24,
AQI let it be known that it was launching a new campaign in Anbar that included
the cities of Hit, Rawa, and Qaim. The next day, the deputy council head
Shalan told New Sabah that there was a large increase in violence with attacks
upon both civilians and the security forces. In mid-June for instance, a
military barracks outside of Rawa was attacked for several hours, which only
ended after helicopters showed up. Back in May, Al Qaeda also told the press
that it was talking to tribal leaders in the province to win them to their
side. AQI has proven to be not only resilient, but also capable of a resurgence.
Last year, the group was only able to carry out a high level of operations for
a few months, and then had to regroup and resupply. Now it has been carrying
out a wave of bombings for the last seven months starting in December 2012. There
are several factors that help explain this. First, it is benefiting from the
civil war next door in Syria, which allows it to freely move across the border
to gain equipment, fighters, and funds. Second, it has capitalized upon the
government's huge mistake to attack the demonstrators in Hawija, which pushed
large sections of the protest movement and tribes towards violence to express
their frustration. The Islamists have exploited these feelings of alienation to
grow its franchise as shown in its attacks in Anbar.
Anbar was the birthplace of the insurgency in Iraq, and now
it is having a rebirth. Al Qaeda in Iraq is in the lead in this resurrection.
The government's security campaigns have been unable to curtail the militants.
Ironically, the security forces are actually making the situation worse with
their heavy-handed tactics. That's leading Anbar back to exactly where it was
in 2003-2004 with increasing violence, tribes deciding on whether they want to
support militants or not, and spreading instability. There appears to be no
reversing this situation for now, which means Anbar will only slip further into
chaos for the time being.
AIN, "IA continues operations in Anbar to chase Qaeda
elements," 6/14/13
- "Military operation to track down gunmen launched in
Anbar," 6/22/13
Al-Mada, "Al Qaeda announces the launch of the "New Battle"
for western Anbar and police decide on comprehensive curfew," 6/24/13
- "Sources: Fighters infiltrating Anbar and the army has
only two helicopters to protect the border," 6/24/13
Al Nuaimi, Ahmed, ""Anbar" demanding perpetuation of
military operations in desert," New Sabah, 6/25/13
Al-Qaisi, Mohammed, "Iraqi forces launch operation in
response to recent attacks," Al-Shorfa, 5/31/13
Sadah, Ali Abel, "Iraq Moves Troops To Syrian Border,"
Al-Monitor, 6/18/13
- "Al-Qaeda-Iraq Statement A Sign Of Rising Sectarian
Violence," Al-Monitor, 5/31/13
Al-Shamar, Salah, "Iraq masses troops on border with Syria
to guard elections in two provinces," Azzaman, 6/16/13


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Finally I can share with you this rose petal wedding cake I made earlier this year on a cake decorating course at South Thames College in Tooting. The cake itself isn't real – we used polystyrene dummies, so we could practice the decorating. It uses a few different techniques; I've already explained how to make the sugar flower that goes on top and how to use an icing bead maker.
The base of the cake looks very intricate but it's a pretty easy technique once you know how. First cover your cake board and the bottom cake.
Colour some flower paste in a relatively dark shade – that is, I think pastel colours work best, but as you can see the colour gradually becomes paler higher up the cake, so the lower petals need to be darkest. I can't remember exactly how much we used and it does depend on the size of your cake so I'd start with about a matchbox sized amount as you will add to it as you go with white flower paste, and you can easily make more if you need to.
Use a rose petal cutter to cut out about half a dozen petals at once. Use a balling tool to curl them gently at the bottom. Use edible glue to stick a row of petals around the bottom of the cake, attaching each one by the top of the petal so the lower part of the petal stands out a little from the cake.
Add a little white flower paste into your coloured lump and work it in, so the colour becomes a little paler. Repeat with another row of petals. Stick them on so they overlap the joins of the petals in the layer below.
Repeat again and again, adding white flower paste each time so the colour becomes paler, until the top layer is almost white with a faint blush of colour. When you get to the top, bend the petals over the top of the cake and stick down – they need to be flat as you will sit your second layer of cake on top.
For the second tier, cover your cake or dummy in white fondant. Place on top of the tier that you have finished.
This layer is decorated with something called brush embroidery which again is quite easy but looks beautiful.
Before the fondant on the cake has set hard, gently press in a patchwork cutter, or any other kind of cutter which makes a pretty pattern, so you have an indent you can emboss.
Make up some royal icing according to pack instructions and with a very small piping bag with the end snipped off (so smaller than a plastic or metal nozzle) go over the outlines of your pattern. Leave to dry.
Mix 2-3 spoonfuls of royal icing with a quarter to half teaspoon of piping gel (or piping jelly as it is sometimes known – you can buy this in cake decorating shops or on Amazon). Use a brush to apply this to the inside parts of your pattern, starting from the edges and gently brushing in to the middle.
I applied little balls of pale green fondant to match the flower petals at a few intervals around this layer.
Add the string of beads around the bottom of the top tier. Take the flower you made earlier and push a flower pick into the cake. This is a plastic holder for the flower, as you can't put the wire directly into the cake if you are eating it (if you are using a polystyrene cake dummy that's fine). You may need to use a little royal icing inside the flower pick to keep your flower at the angle you want.
And that's all! The techniques are not particularly hard (other than the wired flower, that is) but it does take quite a bit of time – we spend three sessions of my evening class on this cake and that was without baking it!
I'm sharing this with Alphabakes, the blog challenge I co-host with Ros of The More Than Occasional Baker as the letter I have chosen this month is W.
I'm sharing this with Alphabakes, the blog challenge I co-host with Ros of The More Than Occasional Baker as the letter I have chosen this month is W.


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Category Archives: Live at the Montreux Jazz Festival 1983 DVD
RMS Live at the Montreux Jazz Festival 1983 DVD
I realize that this recording is from 15 years ago (hard to believe,eh?) but this is stupendous …What a tone on both fretted and fretless!
Warren Murchie, Bass Inside Germany (November 2003)
…it will probably appeal to jazz lovers who are more bothered about the performance than the stage show…
Alistair Flynn, Classic Rock Society, (January 2004)
…challenging and uncomprising yet still maintaining that rocky edge…anyone who enjoys jazz will get a great del out of this.
Feedback (March 2004)
Although it's been tucked away on the shelves for some time, the RMS concert will appeal to fusion fans and lovers of Gil Evans alike.
Bass Bites (March 2004)
The nice songs run 90 minutes in all, so expect extended jams. The musicianship is top rate, though so many of these Jazz concerts are. This title will also interest fans of film music as Isham began a film scoring career the year of this show…
Nicholas Sheffo, www.fulvuedrive-in.com
A thrilling multi-camera documentation of a concert given by RMS and Gil Evans at the 1983 Montreau Jazz Festival. Rather than just being mere archival footage, this is a top-notch filming of an incredible concert. The quality of the sound and video is amazing, especially considering that this was shot over 20 years ago…
Not only is the musicianship top notch from start to finish, but the video editing is virtually flawless… A truly excellent presentation. (Rating: 5+)
Babysue (January 2006)
While we anticipated more focus on Gil Evans, the core figure of this performance is guitarist Ray Russell. This is not a bad thing as Ray leads the solos in a full-featured fusion concert from 1983 at Montreux. There are also brief but notable appearances from Mark Isham (t, keys), Henry Lowther (t), Malcolm Griffiths (tb) and Ronnie Asprey (sax). It is a good performance with great video shots of performers.
D. Oscar Groomes, O's Place (January 2006)
It's too bad this ensemble never made a lasting impression, as the original tunes here are pretty hot fusion as wella s laid back tasty jazz fare…These guys could really rip when they wanted to, but most importantly the music is always highly melodic…This is a solid and enjoyable DVD for fans of jazz fusion music…Kudos to Angel Air Waves for unearthing this from the vaults.
Sea of Tranquility (January 2006)
…RMS was a full-on fusion group the likes of which one would expect in 1983-funky fast rhythms, churning electric bass, atmospheric Fender Rhodes and, of course, lightning-fast, mathematically precise guitar leads.
And though it comes across as dated in 2006, it is sincere and not terribly overwrought. The guest horn section is a treat as it features two marvelous players in trumpeter Henry Lowther and trombonist Malcolm Griffiths. But when Evans guests on the Hendrix and Gershwin, the performance becomes special and the music more thoughtful. 'Gone, Gone, Gone,' one of Gershwin's best melodies, is the show's standout.
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Mr. Speaker, Mr. President, my colleagues in the Congress, our distinguished guests, my fellow Americans:
As this 92d Congress begins its session, America has lost a great Senator, and all of us who had the privilege to know him have lost a loyal friend. I had the privilege of visiting Senator Russell in the hospital just a few days before he died. He never spoke about himself. He only spoke eloquently about the need for a strong national defense.
In tribute to one of the most magnificent Americans of all time, I respectfully ask that all those here will rise in silent prayer for Senator Russell.
[Moment of silence]
Thank you.
Mr. Speaker, before I begin my formal address, I want to use this opportunity to congratulate all of those who were winners in the rather spirited contest for leadership positions in the House and the Senate and, also, to express my condolences to the losers. I know how both of you feel.
And I particularly want to join with all of the Members of the House and the Senate as well in congratulating the new Speaker of the United States Congress.
To those new Members of this House who may have some doubts about the possibilities for advancement in the years ahead, I would remind you that the Speaker and I met just 24 years ago in this Chamber as freshmen Members of the 80th Congress. As you see, we both have come up in the world a bit since then.
Mr. Speaker, this 92d Congress has a chance to be recorded as the greatest Congress in America's history.
In these troubled years just past, America has been going through a long nightmare of war and division, of crime and inflation. Even more deeply, we have gone through a long, dark night of the American spirit. But now that night is ending. Now we must let our spirits soar again. Now we are ready for the lift of a driving dream.
The people of this Nation are eager to get on with the quest for new greatness. They see challenges, and they are prepared to meet those challenges. It is for us here to open the doors that will set free again the real greatness of this Nation-the genius of the American people.
How shall we meet this challenge? How can we truly open the doors, and set free the full genius of our people?
The way in which the 92d Congress answers these questions will determine its place in history. More importantly, it can determine this Nation's place in history as we enter the third century of our independence.
Tonight I shall present to the Congress six great goals. I shall ask not simply for more new programs in the old framework. I shall ask to change the framework of government itself---to reform the entire structure of American government so we can make it again fully responsive to the needs and the wishes of the American people.
If we act boldly--if we seize this moment and achieve these goals--we can close the gap between promise and performance in American government. We can bring together the resources of this Nation and the spirit of the American people.
In discussing these great goals, I shall deal tonight only with matters on the domestic side of the Nation's agenda. I shall make a separate report to the Congress and the Nation next month on developments in foreign policy.
The first of these great goals is already before the Congress.
I urge that the unfinished business of the 91st Congress be made the first priority business of the 92d Congress.
Over the next 2 weeks, I will call upon Congress to take action on more than 35 pieces of proposed legislation on which action was not completed last year.
The most important is welfare reform.
The present welfare system has become a monstrous, consuming outrage--an outrage against the community, against the taxpayer, and particularly against the children it is supposed to help.
We may honestly disagree, as we do, on what to do about it. But we can all agree that we must meet the challenge, not by pouring more money into a bad program, but by abolishing the present welfare system and adopting a new one.
So let us place a floor under the income of every family with children in America-and without those demeaning, soul-stifling affronts to human dignity that so blight the lives of welfare children today. But let us also establish an effective work incentive and an effective work requirement.
Let us provide the means by which more can help themselves. This shall be our goal.
Let us generously help those who are not able to help themselves. But let us stop helping those who are able to help themselves but refuse to do so.
The second great goal is to achieve what Americans have not enjoyed since 1957--full prosperity in peacetime.
The tide of inflation has turned. The rise in the cost of living, which had been gathering dangerous momentum in the late sixties, was reduced last year. Inflation will be further reduced this year.
But as we have moved from runaway inflation toward reasonable price stability and at the same time as we have been moving from a wartime economy to a peacetime economy, we have paid a price in increased unemployment.
We should take no comfort from the fact that the level of unemployment in this transition from a wartime to a peacetime economy is lower than in any peacetime year of the sixties.
This is not good enough for the man who is unemployed in the seventies. We must do better for workers in peacetime and we will do better.
To achieve this, I will submit an expansionary budget this year--one that will help stimulate the economy and thereby open up new job opportunities for millions of Americans.
It will be a full employment budget, a budget designed to be in balance if the economy were operating at its peak potential. By spending as if we were at full employment, we will help to bring about full employment.
I ask the Congress to accept these expansionary policies--to accept the concept of a full employment budget. At the same time, I ask the Congress to cooperate in resisting expenditures that go beyond the limits of the full employment budget. For as we wage a campaign to bring about a widely shared prosperity, we must not reignite the fires of inflation and so undermine that prosperity.
With the stimulus and the discipline of a full employment budget, with the commitment of the independent Federal Reserve System to provide fully for the monetary needs of a growing economy, and with a much greater effort on the part of labor and management to make their wage and price decisions in the light of the national interest and their own self-interest--then for the worker, the farmer, the consumer, for Americans everywhere we shall gain the goal of a new prosperity: more jobs, more income, more profits, without inflation and without war.
This is a great goal, and one that we can achieve together.
The third great goal is to continue the effort so dramatically begun last year: to restore and enhance our natural environment.
Building on the foundation laid in the 37-point program that I submitted to Congress last year, I will propose a strong new set of initiatives to clean up our air and water, to combat noise, and to preserve and restore our surroundings.
I will propose programs to make better use of our land, to encourage a balanced national growth--growth that will revitalize our rural heartland and enhance the quality of life in America.
And not only to meet today's needs but to anticipate those of tomorrow, I will put forward the most extensive program ever proposed by a President of the United States to expand the Nation's parks, recreation areas, open spaces, in a way that truly brings parks to the people where the people are. For only if we leave a legacy of parks will the next generation have parks to enjoy.
As a fourth great goal, I will offer a far-reaching set of proposals for improving America's health care and making it available more fairly to more people.
I will propose:
--A program to insure that no American family will be prevented from obtaining basic medical care by inability to pay.
--I will propose a major increase in and redirection of aid to medical schools, to greatly increase the number of doctors and other health personnel.
--Incentives to improve the delivery of health services, to get more medical care resources into those areas that have not been adequately served, to make greater use of medical assistants, and to slow the alarming rise in the costs of medical care.
--New programs to encourage better preventive medicine, by attacking the causes of disease and injury, and by providing incentives to doctors to keep people well rather than just to treat them when they are sick.
I will also ask for an appropriation of an extra $100 million to launch an intensive campaign to find a cure for cancer, and I will ask later for whatever additional funds can effectively be used. The time has come in America when the same kind of concentrated effort that split the atom and took man to the moon should be turned toward conquering this dread disease. Let us make a total national commitment to achieve this goal.
America has long been the wealthiest nation in the world. Now it is time we became the healthiest nation in the world.
The fifth great goal is to strengthen and to renew our State and local governments.
As we approach our 200th anniversary in 1976, we remember that this Nation launched itself as a loose confederation of separate States, without a workable central government. At that time, the mark of its leaders' vision was that they quickly saw the need to balance the separate powers of the States with a government of central powers.
And so they gave us a constitution of balanced powers, of unity with diversity-and so clear was their vision that it survives today as the oldest written constitution still in force in the world.
For almost two centuries since--and dramatically in the 1930's--at those great turning points when the question has been between the States and the Federal Government, that question has been resolved in favor of a stronger central Federal Government.
During this time the Nation grew and the Nation prospered. But one thing history tells us is that no great movement goes in the same direction forever. Nations change, they adapt, or they slowly die.
The time has now come in America to reverse the flow of power and resources from the States and communities to Washington, and start power and resources flowing back from Washington to the States and communities and, more important, to the people all across America.
The time has come for a new partnership between the Federal Government and the States and localities--a partnership in which we entrust the States and localities with a larger share of the Nation's responsibilities, and in which we share our Federal revenues with them so that they can meet those responsibilities.
To achieve this goal, I propose to the Congress tonight that we enact a plan of revenue sharing historic in scope and bold in concept.
All across America today, States and cities are confronted with a financial crisis. Some have already been cutting back on essential services---for example, just recently San Diego and Cleveland cut back on trash collections. Most are caught between the prospects of bankruptcy on the one hand and adding to an already crushing tax burden on the other.
As one indication of the rising costs of local government, I discovered the other day that my home town of Whittier, California-which has a population of 67,000--has a larger budget for 1971 than the entire Federal budget was in 1791.
Now the time has come to take a new direction, and once again to introduce a new and more creative balance to our approach to government.
So let us put the money where the needs are. And let us put the power to spend it where the people are.
I propose that the Congress make a $ 16 billion investment in renewing State and local government. Five billion dollars of this will be in new and unrestricted funds to be used as the States and localities see fit. The other $11 billion will be provided by allocating $1 billion of new funds and converting one-third of the money going to the present narrow-purpose aid programs into Federal revenue sharing funds for six broad purposes for urban development, rural development, education, transportation, job training, and law enforcement but with the States and localities making their own decisions on how it should be spent within each category.
For the next fiscal year, this would increase total Federal aid to the States and localities more than 25 percent over the present level.
The revenue sharing proposals I send to the Congress will include the safeguards against discrimination that accompany all other Federal funds allocated to the States. Neither the President nor the Congress nor the conscience of this Nation can permit money which comes from all the people to be used in a way which discriminates against some of the people.
The Federal Government will still have a large and vital role to play in achieving our national progress. Established functions that are clearly and essentially Federal in nature will still be performed by the Federal Government. New functions that need to be sponsored or performed by the Federal Government--such as those I have urged tonight in welfare and health--will be added to the Federal agenda. Whenever it makes the best sense for us to act as a whole nation, the Federal Government should and will lead the way. But where States or local governments can better do what needs to be done, let us see that they have the resources to do it there.
Under this plan, the Federal Government will provide the States and localities with more money and less interference--and by cutting down the interference the same amount of money will go a lot further.
Let us share our resources.
Let us share them to rescue the States and localities from the brink of financial crisis.
Let us share them to give homeowners and wage earners a chance to escape from ever-higher property taxes and sales taxes.
Let us share our resources for two other reasons as well.
The first of these reasons has to do with government itself, and the second has to do with each of us, with the individual.
Let's face it. Most Americans today are simply fed up with government at all levels. They will not--and they should not--continue to tolerate the gap between promise and performance in government.
The fact is that we have made the Federal Government so strong it grows muscle-bound and the States and localities so weak they approach impotence.
If we put more power in more places, we can make government more creative in more places. That way we multiply the number of people with the ability to make things happen--and we can open the way to a new burst of creative energy throughout America.
The final reason I urge this historic shift is much more personal, for each and for every one of us.
As everything seems to have grown bigger and more complex in America, as the forces that shape our lives seem to have grown more distant and more impersonal, a great feeling of frustration has crept across this land.
Whether it is the workingman who feels neglected, the black man who feels oppressed, or the mother concerned about her children, there has been a growing feeling that "Things are in the saddle, and ride mankind."
Millions of frustrated young Americans today are crying out--asking not what will government do for me, but what can I do, how can I contribute, how can I matter?
And so let us answer them. Let us say to them and let us say to all Americans, "We hear you. We will give you a chance. We are going to give you a new chance to have more to say about the decisions that affect your future--a chance to participate in government--because we are going to provide more centers of power where what you do can make a difference that you can see and feel in your own life and the life of your whole community."
The further away government is from people, the stronger government becomes and the weaker people become. And a nation with a strong government and a weak people is an empty shell.
I reject the patronizing idea that government in Washington, D.C., is inevitably more wise, more honest, and more efficient than government at the local or State level. The honesty and efficiency of government depends on people. Government at all levels has good people and bad people. And the way to get more good people into government is to give them more opportunity to do good things.
The idea that a bureaucratic elite in Washington knows best what is best for people everywhere and that you cannot trust local governments is really a contention that you cannot trust people to govern themselves. This notion is completely foreign to the American experience. Local government is the government closest to the people, it is most responsive to the individual person. It is people's government in a far more intimate way than the Government in Washington can ever be.
People came to America because they wanted to determine their own future rather than to live in a country where others determined their future for them.
What this change means is that once again in America we are placing our trust in people.
I have faith in people. I trust the judgment of people. Let us give the people of America a chance, a bigger voice in deciding for themselves those questions that so greatly affect their lives.
The sixth great goal is a complete reform of the Federal Government itself.
Based on a long and intensive study with the aid of the best advice obtainable, I have concluded that a sweeping reorganization of the executive branch is needed if the Government is to keep up with the times and with the needs of the people.
I propose, therefore, that we reduce the present 12 Cabinet Departments to eight.
I propose that the Departments of State, Treasury, Defense, and Justice remain, but that all the other departments be consolidated into four: Human Resources, Community Development, Natural Resources, and Economic Development.
Let us look at what these would be:
--First, a department dealing with the concerns of people--as individuals, as members of a family--a department focused on human needs.
--Second, a department concerned with the community--rural communities and urban communities--and with all that it takes to make a community function as a community.
--Third, a department concerned with our physical environment, with the preservation and balanced use of those great natural resources on which our Nation depends.
--And fourth, a department concerned with our prosperity--with our jobs, our businesses, and those many activities that keep our economy running smoothly and well.
Under this plan, rather than dividing up our departments by narrow subjects, we would organize them around the great purposes of government. Rather than scattering responsibility by adding new levels of bureaucracy, we would focus and concentrate the responsibility for getting problems solved.
With these four departments, when we have a problem we will know where to go--and the department will have the authority and the resources to do something about it.
Over the years we have added departments and created agencies at the Federal level, each to serve a new constituency, to handle a particular task--and these have grown and multiplied in what has become a hopeless confusion of form and function.
The time has come to match our structure to our purposes---to look with a fresh eye, to organize the Government by conscious, comprehensive design to meet the new needs of a new era.
One hundred years ago, Abraham Lincoln stood on a battlefield and spoke of a "government of the people, by the people, for the people." Too often since then, we have become a nation of the Government, by the Government, for the Government.
By enacting these reforms, we can renew that principle that Lincoln stated so simply and so well.
By giving everyone's voice a chance to be heard, we will have government that truly is of the people.
By creating more centers of meaningful power, more places where decisions that really count can be made, by giving more people a chance to do something, we can have government that truly is by the people.
And by setting up a completely modern, functional system of government at the national level, we in Washington will at last be able to provide government that is truly for the people.
I realize that what I am asking is that not only the executive branch in Washington but that even this Congress will have to change by giving up some of its power.
Change is hard. But without change there can be no progress. And for each of us the question then becomes, not "Will change cause me inconvenience?" but "Will change bring progress for America?"
Giving up power is hard. But I would urge all of you, as leaders of this country, to remember that the truly revered leaders in world history are those who gave power to people, and not those who took it away.
As we consider these reforms we will be acting, not for the next 2 years or for the next 10 years, but for the next 100 years.
So let us approach these six great goals with a sense not only of this moment in history but also of history itself.
Let us act with the willingness to work together and the vision and the boldness and the courage of those great Americans who met in Philadelphia almost 190 years ago to write a constitution.
Let us leave a heritage as they did--not just for our children but for millions yet unborn--of a nation where every American will have a chance not only to live in peace and to enjoy prosperity and opportunity but to participate in a system of government where he knows not only his votes but his ideas count--a system of government which will provide the means for America to reach heights of achievement undreamed of before.
Those men who met at Philadelphia left a great heritage because they had a vision--not only of what the Nation was but of what it could become.
As I think of that vision, I recall that America was founded as the land of the open door--as a haven for the oppressed, a land of opportunity, a place of refuge, of hope.
When the first settlers opened the door of America three and a half centuries ago, they came to escape persecution and to find opportunity--and they left wide the door of welcome for others to follow.
When the Thirteen Colonies declared their independence almost two centuries ago, they opened the door to a new vision of liberty and of human fulfillment--not just for an elite but for all.
To the generations that followed, America's was the open door that beckoned millions from the old world to the new in search of a better life, a freer life, a fuller life, and in which, by their own decisions, they could shape their own destinies.
For the black American, the Indian, the Mexican-American, and for those others in our land who have not had an equal chance, the Nation at last has begun to confront the need to press open the door of full and equal opportunity, and of human dignity.
For all Americans, with these changes I have proposed tonight we can open the door to a new era of opportunity. We can open the door to full and effective participation in the decisions that affect their lives. We can open the door to a new partnership among governments at all levels, between those governments and the people themselves. And by so doing, we can open wide the doors of human fulfillment for millions of people here in America now and in the years to come.
In the next few weeks I will spell out in greater detail the way I propose that we achieve these six great goals. I ask this Congress to be responsive. If it is, then the 92d Congress, your Congress, our Congress, at the end of its term, will be able to look back on a record more splendid than any in our history.
This can be the Congress that helped us end the longest war in the Nation's history, and end it in a way that will give us at last a genuine chance to enjoy what we have not had in this century: a full generation of peace.
This can be the Congress that helped achieve an expanding economy, with full employment and without inflation--and without the deadly stimulus of war.
This can be the Congress that reformed a welfare system that has robbed recipients of their dignity and robbed States and cities of their resources.
This can be the Congress that pressed forward the rescue of our environment, and established for the next generation an enduring legacy of parks for the people.
This can be the Congress that launched a new era in American medicine, in which the quality of medical care was enhanced while the costs were made less burdensome.
But above all, what this Congress can be remembered for is opening the way to a new American revolution--a peaceful revolution in which power was turned back to the people--in which government at all levels was refreshed and renewed and made truly responsive. This can be a revolution as profound, as far-reaching, as exciting as that first revolution almost 200 years ago--and it can mean that just 5 years from now America will enter its third century as a young nation new in spirit, with all the vigor and the freshness with which it began its first century.
My colleagues in the Congress, these are great goals. They can make the sessions of this Congress a great moment for America. So let us pledge together to go forward together--by achieving these goals to give America the foundation today for a new greatness tomorrow and in all the years to come, and in so doing to make this the greatest Congress in the history of this great and good country.
Note: The President delivered his address at 9 p.m. in the House Chamber at the Capitol before a joint session of the Congress. He was introduced by Speaker of the House of Representatives Carl Albert of Oklahoma. The address was broadcast live on radio and television.
An advance text of the President's address was released on the same day.
The White House also released the transcripts of three news briefings on the President's State of the Union proposals: the first, on January 25, 1971, by Senator Hugh Scott and Representative Gerald R. Ford following a Republican Congressional leadership meeting with the President; the second, on January 27, by John D. Ehrlichman, Assistant to the President for Domestic Affairs; and the third, on February 2, by Secretary of Commerce Maurice H. Stans, Secretary of Labor James D. Hodgson, and Secretary of Agriculture Clifford M. Hardin following a meeting of the Cabinet.
Richard Nixon, Annual Message to the Congress on the State of the Union. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/240562


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The U.S. government's gold in New York is safe in a vault underneath Manhattan, and some of the precious metal there is purer than previously thought.The problem with this is that the gold held at the New York Federal Reserve is not "The U.S. government's gold." It is gold held, for the most part, by the Federal Reserve for foreign countries.
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That's according to a first-ever audit conducted last year by the Treasury Department of U.S. gold on deposit at Federal Reserve banks in New York and elsewhere.This is curious because it is the government conducting the audit. That's like having Bernie Madoff's brother auditing Bernie's customer accounts. Why wasn't an independent auditing firm brought in? And since the gold is held for countries like Germany, why didn't Germany and others who have gold on account get to pick the auditor?
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As part of the audit, the Treasury tested a sample of the government's 34,021 gold bars in the New York Fed's vault five stories below Manhattan's financial district, according to the inspector general's office. Auditors drilled tiny holes into the bars to remove samples that were tested for fineness in a process called assaying.
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The audit of the Fed gold came after 2012 presidential contender and former U.S. Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) questioned the central bank's gold holdings. While he was in Congress, Paul questioned whether the New York Fed had loaned or otherwise encumbered U.S. gold in financial arrangements, and he advanced a bill that would have required a full assay and audit of the country's gold reserves.But Dr. Paul was most concerned about "the country's gold reserves," which is different from what is held at the Fed. The country's gold reserves are held mostly at Fort Knox, which no one is allowed to see, much less audit.
Then we have two more paragraphs of disinformation:
The New York Fed holds 99.98% of the U.S.-owned gold bars and coins in the custody of the Federal Reserve. The rest of the gold is on display at Fed banks in cities such as Richmond, Kansas City and San Francisco.
As of Sept. 30, when the market price of gold was $1,776 an ounce, the Fed banks held $23.9 billion in U.S. gold. (Gold has since declined in value, and on Monday the precious metal was hovering around $1,610 an ounce.)Unlike Fort Knox, the NY Fed gives tours of its vaults, so Americans can see the gold of other countries, but not US gold.
The vast majority of the country's gold reserves is held elsewhere, in Fort Knox, West Point and Denver.Of course, the full truth is this gold has never been audited and unlike the NY Fed, which provides tours, there are no tours of the Fort Knox gold.
Bottom Line: The audit of the NY Fed gold will be used to deceive and give the impression that the gold supposedly held for American's has been audited.


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Which family does Dutch belong to? & Who speaks Dutch?
Nederlands belongs to the group of West Germanic languages. It is spoken by over 22 million people natively and over 5 million people as a second language. It is mother official tongue in Netherlands and Belgium (with French and German); it is the official language of the Flanders and of the Capital-Region of Brussels where it is generally called Flemish (Vlaams). Outside Europe Dutch is the official language of the South American country of Suriname (ex-colony of the Netherlands), where in recent decades it has evolved from second language into mother tongue of the inhabitants. It is also the official language, but spoken as a second language in this case, in the Caribbean territories of the Kingdom of the Netherlands: Aruba and Curaçao (where the mother tongue is Papiamento) and Sint Maarten (where the mother tongue is English).
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Harold Kerzner (born ca 1940) is an American engineer, management consultant, and Emeritus Professor of Systems Management, known for his work in the field of project management, strategic planning and total quality management.
[edit]Project management: a systems approach to planning, scheduling, and controlling (1979)
[edit]- Harold Kerzner (1979). Project management: a systems approach to planning, scheduling, and controlling New York : Van Nostrand Reinhold. (2e ed, 1984,... 11e ed. 2013)
- There are always "class or prestige" gaps between various levels of management. There are also functional gaps between working units of the organization. If we superimpose the management gaps on top of the functional gaps, we find that companies are made up of small operational islands that refuse to communicate with one another for fear that giving up information may strengthen their opponents. The {[w|project manager}}'s responsibility is to get these islands to communicate cross-functionally toward common goals and objectives.
- p. 4 (2e ed. 1984)
- The project manager's job is not an easy one. Project managers may have increasing responsibility, but very little authority. This lack of authority can force them to "negotiate" with upper-level management as well as functional management for control of company resources. They may often be treated as outsiders by the formal organization.
- p. 10 (2e ed. 1984) partly cited in: Frederick Betz (2011) Managing Technological Innovation. p. 172
- There is no such thing as a good or bad organizational structure; there are only appropriate or inappropriate ones.
- p. 93 (2e ed. 1984) cited in: Susan Freese (1989) Child sexual abuse: impact and aftershocks. p. 130 - Pagina 190
- If these responsibilities were applied to the total organization, they might reflect the job description of the general manager. This analogy between project and general managers is one of the reasons why future general managers are asked to perform functions that are implied, rather than spelled out, in the job description.
- p. 95-96 (1e ed. 1979) cited in: Howard G. Birnberg (1992) New directions in architectural and engineering practice. p. 192
Project management for executives (1982)
[edit]- Harold Kerzner (1982) Project management for executives.
- The acceptance of project management has not been easy, however. Many executives are not willing to accept change and are inflexible when it comes to adapting to a different environment.
- p. 2
- Project management has long been discussed by corporate executives and academics as one of several workable possibilities for organizational forms of the future that could integrate complex efforts and reduce bureaucracy.... This approach does not really destroy the vertical, bureaucratic flow of work but simply requires that line organizations talk to the other horizontally so work will be accomplished more smoothly throughout the organization
- p. 2
- Today, the concept behind project management is being applied in such diverse industries and organizations as defense, construction, pharmaceuticals, chemicals, banking, hospitals, accounting, advertising, law, state and local governments, and the United Nations.
- p. 2
- Project management is the planning, organizing, directing, and controlling of company resources for a relatively short-term objective that has been established to complete specific goals and objectives. Furthermore, project management utilises the systems approach to management by having functional personnel (the vertical hierarchy) assigned to a specific project (the horizontal hierarchy).
- p. 3
In search of excellence in project management (1998)
[edit]- Harold Kerzner (1998) In search of excellence in project management: successful practices in high performance organizations. Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1 feb. 1998
- As contractors began to understand project management better and stronger cost control became a requirement, the definition of success changed. Success came to be defined as accomplishing the effort on time, within budget, and at an acceptable level of quality.
- p. 24
- Today, excellent companies realize that project failures have more to do with behavioral shortcomings — poor employee morale, negative human relations, low productivity, and lack of commitment.
- p. 209
Quotes about Harold Kerzner
[edit]- With over 35 years experience, Dr. Harold Kerzner is widely regarded as "the master of project management." He has published a number of best-selling books, including Project Management: A Systems Approach to Planning, Scheduling, and Controlling, and has taught and consulted extensively.
- American Production and Inventory Control Society (2001) APICS, the performance advantage. Vol. 11. p. 128
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[edit]- Harold Kerzner, Ph.D. at Baldwin Wallace University