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A study was made during two seasons of the total extractable phenolic substances assayed by the Folin-Denis colorimetric procedure from representative entire berries of a total of 12 varieties of grapes (7 without anthocyanins, 5 with: 2 Vitis labrusca, 10 Vitis vinifera) from mid-July until they were commercially ripe. A general trend downward in total phenols per unit weight of berry was found. However, the total phenol content per berry actually increased rather rapidly over a considerable portion of the development and ripening period. A considerably greater biochemical activity of the total phenolic substances carrying over into later periods of ripening than expected was observed not only as indicated by this net synthesis or accumulation in the berry, but also by shorter-term increases and decreases of considerable magnitude. Additional criteria of practical use for harvesting grapes for improved quality, particularly regarding wine-tannin relationships as well as new understanding of the grape's physiology and biochemistry, are anticipated from further extension of these studies. Great differences were found among the varieties tested in total extractable phenols per single berry or per unit weight of berry and in browning tendency of the juice. There appeared to be generally greater browning in the riper harvests for white grapes and during onset of anthocyanin synthesis in red grapes.
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Cinema 4D R21.2 Service Release availability
MAXON released Cinema 4D R21.2 (version 21.207). For details on bugfixes and changes see the changelist.
In parallel, we updated the SDK documentation for C++ and Python.
Cineware SDK 21.004
The Cineware SDK for Cinema 4D R21 has been released.
Main changes (see full changelist):
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MAXON released Cinema 4D R21.1 (version 21.115). For details on bugfixes and changes see the changelist.
In parallel, we updated the SDK documentation for C++ and Python.
Maxon Registered Developer Program Update
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we've had great response to the recent introduction of subscription pricing for Maxon products, and are excited to be welcoming lots of new users (and potential customers for you) to the Cinema 4D community!
The Maxon Registered Developer (MRD) program helps to ensure that you're informed as we continue to improve Cinema 4D and the Maxon ecosystem. The program began almost 2 years ago to ensure 3rd-party plugin vendors and independent developers are informed about new releases and API updates. The program provides early access to updates to secure plug-in compatibility. We are looking forward to continuing to partner with you to further develop the ecosystem around Maxon products.
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The way and manner by which digital health and humanities software are being used can never be jest with. Their importance and value are known by all and sundry and as such, they are treated as such.
While there are many efficient health related software program in the market, the trend doesnt look like it will end any moment from now.This is so because some of the software manufacturers who have over the years demonstrated a sound culture of excellence and quality organizational skill, are also dedicated to monitoring the performance of their products in the wider world immediately they land in the overt market.
However, it is important you know that the two concept — digital health and humanities software — are different concept on their own, it is very ideal to succinctly discuss the scope and field of each them extensively.
Without mincing words, what is Digital Humanities Software?
The application of digital tools to humanities disciplines like arts, history, music, philosophy, literature and the likes is what is known as digital humanities and this can be best experienced via what is called digital humanities software. The scope of this digital discipline is just so immense, that it's very difficult to conclude on a single definition that will put an ends all other definitions.
Essentially, digital humanity housed the digitization – just like the ham radio digital software, analysis plus present all of every humanities content. Some notable examples of this are the constructing digital libraries, digital annotation of traditional texts, data visualization and actualization in politics, digital mapping in historical significance area and many more.More often than not, with the help of digital humanities, it is very possible to access huge numbers of historical or cultural data online, compare and contrast the ancient map to the modern-day locations,study the language evolution and host of other things. Therefore, digital humanities software is an effort created to curate data that has been disorganized for long, scattered and mostly inaccessible.
Since the world has gone digital, the health sector is increasingly changing on how human manage,predict, observe and make various decisions related to health. The time is now and there are digital health revolution everywhere. It however important to know that all these are due to various integrated digital health software doing excellently great out there.
In fact, the impact of digital health software in clinics and hospitals can never be overemphasized. It allows patients to have massive control over chronic health issues by making sure that both the attending physicians and the patients monitor the treatment progress. Also, digital health posses the ability to enhance certain life changing decision and it can as well connect patients with healthcare professionals, and many more.
In the long run, worthy of mention is the digital health software Precertification Pilot Program. An integrated model or program which explains the reimagined of the FDA and the way and manner in which it is regulating the digital health products, plus giving the full gist details on the proposed major part of the Pre-Cert program.


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The net effect? Not a damn thing. It was a stupid piece of legislation now that accomplished nothing other than creating a lightning rod. With it's repeal not a damn thing changed, It's just that congress is out of the way, and IN FACT allows the military to be MORE discriminatory if they chose.
People forget, DADT was actually a legislative stop gap AGAINST anti-gay policy practice in the military. Personally
I don't think DADT was constitutional Don't see how it's at all appropriate in the first place, but with it's repeal people can feel good, until they realize that DADT's repeal actually opens the door to REAL witch hunts.
But la la lalalalala live for today idiots.
Most insignificant legislative "victory" for the left ever. I think the 'pub's who supported the repeal are of my thinking knowing good and goddamn well that the repeal actually gives MORE authority to the military hierarchy, and not less.
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The Freedom No-Pull Harness features a patented control loop on the back of the harness. This tightens gently around your dog's chest, which discourages pulling. There is also a connection point on the front of the harness for greater direction and control. The harness features a Swiss velvet lined chest strap to prevent rubbing behind the front legs. The stainless steel hardware will never rust or corrode and the nylon webbing has been tested to pull up to 1723 kgs. The strapping will not break, no matter how hard your dog pulls. They are designed to fit any dog from 6 kgs up to 113+ kgs. The Freedom No-Pull Harness helps to make walks more manageable and enjoyable for you and your dog.
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For the ninth interview, I have the pleasure of introducing you to Dena Mangiamele owner of Dena's Fuel for Fitness.
I actually "met" Dena's products before I met her. I was at a Whole Foods store in San Diego and I am always looking for new products to try for myself and also review. I came across her vegan/raw products and really liked what I saw. I took down the website from the package and looked it up when I got home. I sent Dena an email and told her I am interested in tasting and reviewing the products. I was planning to go to The Natural Product Expo in Anaheim, CA (in early March) soon after the initial contact and planned to meet her and try all she has to offer. I met Dena and both she and her products are wonderful! I will be doing a video review shortly of all the products and a live interview with Dena. I will have a link when it is posted. In the meantime, check out what Dena has to say below as she answers the questions I sent her, so you can get to know more about the "person" behind the products.
Question #1: Tell me briefly about yourself and why you decided to get involved in the "health" industry?
Fitness and athletic competition has always been a part of my life. I have been a competitive swimmer since I was young and now swim Master's. I ran track in college with a school record in the 10K, I compete as a triathlete, consistently strength train, and recently discovered Pilates! I soon learned that my athletic performance was greatly influenced by what I ate and began referring to my meals as filling the tank with "fuel." As I got older, nutrition played an even greater part in my life to help me sustain a high level of intensity with my workouts, maintain an athletic physique, and stay alert and creative in my career and personal life.
I was fortunate to grow up in an Italian family where food and meals were an integral part of my life. My mother was a fabulous cook and baker who served well balanced meals and unknowing to me at the time, always practiced reasonable portion control. I have never been on a diet in my life (my mother would never allow it!) and as a result I have her to thank for my well balanced metabolism. Science supports a diet leaning toward vegetarianism. I used my scientific background (my first career was as a veterinarian) to analyze the results and agree with the findings and have settled in a bit ahead of the curve as a vegan/raw athlete and fit woman.
Dena's Fuel for Fitness was born when my friends and fellow athletic enthusiasts encouraged me to commercially produce the food I was making after they watched me train and saw the results, noticed my high energy level, and asked me what my secret was. They couldn't believe that I was vegan and ate about 90% raw as well.
My nutrition and fitness formula is 60% diet, 30% workout regimen, and 10% genetics. You can work out 8 hours a day if you choose, but if you don't "fuel" your body correctly you will never attain your fitness potential.
I am not on a quest to make everyone vegan. I just want people to understand how easy it is to live a healthier life by paying closer attention to the nutrition:fitness connection. You can adopt some vegan/raw food habits without being a vegan and still make tremendous progress in your overall level of fitness for life.
Question #2: What one message do you want to share with the people of this world that is crucial for their ultimate well-being and longevity?
Remove processed foods and foods containing added sugar. Once you allow your taste buds to reawaken, your cravings become focused on whole foods and without realizing it, those foods will become your "comfort" foods. Your body now does not have to expend its resources to work over-time to digest processed foods, to filter out the toxic preservatives and additives and those same resources can concentrate on fighting disease, environmental toxins, and other exposures we encounter daily or on a chronic basis at full capacity.
Question #3: Tell me more about your business/company and/or products you offer to the public to help them achieve optimal health and well-being?
All of our products are vegan/raw, gluten-free, preservative-free, and do not contain any added sugar. We developed different product varieties for different uses and purposes. We are known for our unique flavor combinations like Mango Raspberry with Basil Crackers or Beet Apple Crackers with Orange and Dill. In addition to the balance of whole foods used in our products we have added Superfoods to boost the overall nutritional profile like adding chlorella to our Green Crackers or maca, acai, and lucuma powder in our Granola Grub. Our fruit based crackers are soft and chewy with the intention that all ages can enjoy our no added sugar snacks not only because their flavor is the "bomb" but the soft texture is helpful for people who may have restrictions with hard, crunchy crackers including very young children (ages 3-5 years), middle school-aged kids that may be wearing braces on their teeth, and older adults who may be Type II diabetics and/or have sensitive teeth. Our Green Crackers for example serve not only as a Superfood cracker but also as a post-workout cracker with 4g of protein per serving.
Question #4: What are your hopes/aspirations/dreams for the future health of the people and the planet?
As people move away from processed foods and sugars and concentrate on a diet based on whole foods, mostly fruits and vegetables we will see a simultaneous enhancement of focus and energy towards work, school, creativity, fitness, and family. No artificial highs and lows from consumption of artificial foods and I believe a clearer, more calm, and productive society.
Question #5: Is there anything else you would like to share with the public?
Knowing you are doing the most you can do to care for and protect your body through careful consideration of every bite and every meal you consume is an experience that can only be described as pure bliss. Something so simple can be so satisfying and so beneficial.
Question #6: I know that there are variables as to how much food/calories each person consumes when eating raw vegan food (based on many lifestyle factors, etc), but is there a basic guideline you would recommend for everyone?
My guideline is I don't count calories – instead I stay aware of balancing nutrients each meal and daily.
Dena told me that she offers the following discount if you are interested in purchasing by the case:
We offer a discounted price if customers want to purchase a case of product (12 bags or more) and we can mix and match products in the case. If customers want to take advantage of this they will have to email: email@example.com to place the order rather than go on the web site because we will be customizing the case to whatever products they choose. All the products are amazing. Even if you have never tried them, you will not be disappointed. Also, you can email dena and ask her what she recommends. She will not steer you wrong because she created the products!
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Whether wanting to display a small family tree, or a concise genealogical history, this article offers several tips and ideas on how to showcase your family's history.
Who is the intended audience?
What purpose will the display serve?
Is the genealogical display intended to engage conversation about specific people, places, or events? Is its purpose to educate individuals about their ancestry, their specific family tree? Does the genealogist intend his research to be utilized by others researching genealogy? Each of these purposes can result in very different types of displays.
How much information is available?
Has the genealogist focused on a small family tree? Perhaps gathering information for only three or four generations (children, parents, grandparents, great-grandparents), or has she delved deeply into genealogy, researching the family history to its historical roots? Has only one line of a family been followed, or has the genealogist researched multiple branches? How much information is known about the various family members who have been researched? Are only basic records available (dates of birth, marriage, death), or are there anecdotes? Answering these questions is an important first step in creating displays of genealogical records.
Once a person has answered these questions, he'll have an idea of which of the three main categories his genealogical display will fall under.
Family Tree: this category is most appropriate when the audience is comprised of family and friends of the genealogist, and when the focus of the display is on an immediate family and its close relatives within three generations (great, great, great grandparents). Further back than that tends to make the tree look crowded and it becomes hard to read.
Family History: this category is most appropriate when the genealogist has gathered a lot of information about her family and generally includes at least some anecdotes. Depending on the chosen method of display, a family history can be an appropriate way to create a personal history for family and friends, or a way to present information to all who are interested.
Family Genealogy: this category is the most comprehensive of the three. Family genealogy is comprised of many historical records, dates, places, and names. Multiple branches have usually been explored to some extent, and the family history has been traced back several generations.
Display Ideas:
**Family Tree**
- Family Tree Quilt - For the person who enjoys quilting this can be an ideal project. There are two basic patterns for a family tree quilt, each featuring a large tree as the centerpiece. The first design has leaves on each branch of the tree. Each leaf has the name, birth date, and (if applicable) date of death for a person on that branch of the family. The branches can give a family name or marriage date of the parents, or any other relevant information.
The second design focuses on the branches, rather than the leaves. The trunk has children's names and two main branches forking from it. Each of these branches has one of the parents' names, and two branches with grandparents' names forking from it. Twigs or leaves with parents' siblings can also be added. The quilter can decide how many sets of branches to include.
On both quilt designs, colors and background patterns can be meaningful to the family represented, or designed to fit a specific decor. Family tree quilts can be used on a bed or hung on a wall.
- Family Tree Photo Display - There are several ways to create a family tree photo display. One way is to arrange photos on a wall. Family portraits, frames that hold multiple photographs, and groupings of photographs are three of the most common ways to display photos on a wall. With a wall display, interesting documents and family artifacts can be put in frames or shadow boxes with the photographs to create an interesting focal point and an easy way to learn family history.
Another way to create a family tree photo display is with a tree sculpture. On each branch of the tree hang small, important family photos in decorative frames. This display can be kept on an end table, or used as a centerpiece at family dinners. Wherever displayed, it is likely to spark questions and conversations about family history.Small, metal, branched trees are often available for hanging decorations at Easter and Halloween. These trees are ideal, though any similar type of display stand will work.
- Family Tree Picture - A family tree can be turned into a work of art to hang on the wall. Designing a cross-stitch, bunca, or needlepoint picture can personalize a wall-hanging. Paintings, pen-and-ink drawings, and charcoal sketches can also be created to show a family tree. With any of these, personal touches that represent family members or events can be added to make these family tree pictures even more meaningful.
**Family History**
- Family History Scrapbook - A family history scrapbook is a great way to create a display of a family's history. This project can be as simple or complex as the person creating it wants it to be. The first thing to do when creating a family history scrapbook is to find an album in which to display the relevant history. Photo and scrapbook albums are ideal for this project. These can be purchased at most arts and crafts store, or at specialty scrapbooking shops. Next, figure out the basic layout. Will the album start with the older branches of the family and move to the newest, or vice versa? Will the album focus on one aspect of family history (e.g., weddings), or will it focus on all aspects of the family history? Finally, start putting pieces in the scrapbook. Family history scrapbooks are perfect for family trees, newspaper articles, photographs, tickets, announcements, and many other small pieces of a family's history.
- Family History Book - For someone who wants a more professional way to display his family history, a family history book may be the perfect answer. To create a family history book, anecdotes about family members and events must be written. Relationships between family members must be made clear through charts, family trees, or written explanation. Photographs and other images (tickets, announcements, birth certificates) that will be included must be scanned in to the computer, or accounted for in the layout so they can be attached once the pages are ready to be copied. The person creating the family history book can include any information he considers important. Depending on the length of the book, a table of contents and/or an index may be necessary. Finally, a cover must be designed. For those who do not feel comfortable writing, editing, and/or designing, help in each of these areas is available through the yellow pages.
After formatting all the content, the family history book is ready to be physically created. The easiest way to do this is to take the pages or disk to a copy center and have it bound. Many copy centers offer multiple options for binding, and can help the book's creator choose the most appropriate style. A copy center can make as many copies of the book as the genealogist wants, which means the family history book can make a wonderful gift to all members of the family.
- Family History Website - A website is one of the most popular ways to display family history. Through a website, the family history can be quickly and easily shared with all family members who have access to a computer (available at most public libraries). A website can include as much or as little information as the person creating it wishes to share, and can include text, photographs, charts, graphics, and links to family members home pages. It can also include a link to the creator's e-mail so any relevant genealogical information uncovered by someone else can be quickly shared. The genealogist should not include any information she does not want strangers to find, as the website will be accessible to anyone searching the internet.
Thanks to many genealogy software programs, it is not necessary for someone to be proficient in website building in order to create a family history website. There are also many web designers listed in the yellow pages for those who want a more personal look. It is recommended that someone trying to decide upon a design for a family history website look at other, similar sites first.
**Family Genealogy**
- Genealogical Timeline - A genealogical timeline will end up looking much like the timelines displayed in history museums. The person creating the time line will choose which ancestor will begin the timeline, and will follow that ancestor with his direct descendents, leading to the current family members. Family photographs, anecdotes, and events should be added, as should small branches for important family members and events not on the direct line. More than just family history should be included in a genealogical timeline. Important historical events should be included, as well. This will provide a context for understanding the ways in which history shaped the family presented.
- Genealogical Book of Records - A genealogical book of records is similar to the family history book, but much more information intensive. In the genealogical book of records, every family member for whom any information has been found will be included. Details of the information found, including where the records are kept and what research methods were used, may be added. Short anecdotes and small pictures may also be included. For this project, an index is necessary and a table of contents is highly recommended. A genealogical book of records is generally created as a tool for other researchers, not just for the family line represented. Editors and writers can be found through the yellow pages.
- Genealogical Website - A genealogical website will include all of the information that would be in a genealogical book of records, and should use links to relevant information sources (e.g., ship manifests) to make it easy for someone else to verify the information presented. Unlike the book of records, however, a genealogical website has the space to present much more information. Many more photographs and anecdotes can be included, making the website something useful for both formal genealogical researchers and for family member just wanting to know about life when Great-Grandma was growing up. Genealogy software or a website designer may make this project easier.
Because there are so many ways to display a family's genealogy, and so many reasons for doing so, understanding the options before getting started is very important. Once someone knows what type of display he wants, and why, he can create something that will be appreciated for generations to come.


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Monday, February 25, 2013
Painted Kitchen Cabinets
It looks like a subtle change on the screen, but I swear it's made a big difference in person. The entire room feels so much brighter. It matches the color scheme of my house now, instead of being a big off-white sore thumb of a room and a testimony to thinking paint colors through carefully and in context with the bigger picture of a house's design.
As a reminder, here's a photo of the north wall before we started monkeying with anything:
And here it is after we messed with cabinets and the painting was all done:
Some of the difference in color is lost due to different lighting and my poorish skills in photography, so here's a better illustration of the difference:
See? Totally worth painting. The previous color ended up looking dingy and dim when surrounded by all the crisp white trim of the other rooms that my kitchen is now wide open to.
The halfway unpainted box is where our new over-the-range microwave will go and not match my bisque-colored oven.
Instead of adding wine storage to the space where the microwave was previously, you can see that we created a sort of coffee nook. Because that space is between my range top and the weird cabinet-covered heating duct, I decided it was too warm for wine storage. Improvise, adapt, overcome. That's what I say... when I'm writing blog posts.
On the plus side, now I get to buy a cuter coffee maker. And then I get to slowly come to terms with having an appliance on display. Wish me luck...
I'll be back tomorrow with details about the paint and the process!
Update: Learn about the paint I used and read my tips for achieving the best finish!
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January 13, 2019 --
This week's doggerel –
800,000 people will not get their checks today
POTUS and the WH have taken them all away.
Thousands of people will have no place to work and Washington will become an empty town
If POTUS declares a national emergency and shuts the rest of the government down
When I learned Kevin Spacey's criminal act
Took place as a matter of fact
In old Nantucket as the location was unveiled
No matter how long and hard I tried
Through all my ability I applied
My chance to write an awesome limerick, yet I failed
Paul Waldman, WaPo: The shutdown is reminding everyone of the good things government does
Over half a century ago, the researchers Lloyd Free and Hadley Cantril identified a paradox in American public opinion that largely holds true today. Most Americans, they argued, were "ideologically conservative" but "operationally liberal" when it came to their beliefs about government. People liked the idea of limited government in the abstract, believing they could and should be able to get along without government's help. But when you asked them about the specific things government does, it turned out that they liked just about all of them, and thought government should spend as much or more to keep performing those tasks.
This contradiction, and the persistence of that abstract belief in small government, is in large part what allows Republicans — whose positions on policy issues are mostly unpopular — to stay competitive and hold on to power. But the partial shutdown of the federal government is giving all of us a vivid demonstration of what government actually does. By taking it away.
Let's look around at just some of what's happening right now:
- The Food and Drug Administration has halted food safety inspections.
- Environmental Protection Agency inspectors are no longer monitoring compliance with environmental laws.
- Air traffic controllers, who make sure the 43,000 daily flights in the United States don't slam into one another and send some of the 2.6 million passengers plunging to a fiery death, are working without pay.
- Aid programs like food stamps and the Women, Infants, and Children program (WIC), which provides formula, food, and other kinds of assistance to poor mothers and their children, could soon run out of money and have to curtail benefits.
- Federal contractors are losing $200 million a day, according to Bloomberg News.
- The backlog at immigration courts, which was already severe, is growing worse by the day as the processing of cases has shut down.
- The E-Verify system, which allows employers to verify that employees are legal to work in the United States, is no longer operating.
- Small business loans and government-backed mortgages are on hold, leaving businesses stuck and home buyers in limbo.
- Farmers who rely on government loans and services have been particularly hard hit, leaving the survival of many family farms in jeopardy.
- The FBI Agents Association is warning that the shutdown "is threatening national security as thousands of federal law enforcement professionals, working without pay, grow anxious that personal financial hardships may jeopardize their security clearances and as furloughs of their support staffs slow investigations."
- Preparations for the vital 2020 U.S. Census have been impeded by the shutdown, and "dozens of other surveys the bureau conducts have been stopped, leading to information gaps that could destabilize the U.S. economy, economists say."
- Without park rangers to keep order, national parks have been overrun with trash, vandalism and misbehavior by visitors; some people have even cut down trees in Joshua Tree National Park.
That's just a small selection of the effects the shutdown is having, which range from the inconvenient (museums being closed) to the life-threatening (no food inspections to make sure your kids don't get E. coli poisoning). It's almost as if the federal government, rather than just being an oppressive bunch of faceless bureaucrats taking your money and getting all up in your business, actually performs lots of important duties that allow a modern society to function!
And of course, as we've seen so often, President Trump has a unique ability to take something that's bad and make it worse. The administration is now considering declaring a state of emergency and taking money from "dozens of flood control projects in areas affected by recent natural disasters, including the Texas coastline inundated by Hurricane Harvey and parts of Puerto Rico battered by Hurricane Maria" to pay for Trump's border wall.
If you find that horrifying, that's the whole point. One administration official told the New York Times that floating ideas like that one "was as much a political exercise intended to threaten projects Democrats valued as a pragmatic one."
The idea behind that is the same one that has driven Republican strategy in every shutdown they've created. It says that since Democrats care about government and Republicans don't, as the effects of the shutdown on the country get worse and worse, Democrats will inevitably cave to Republican demands. The Democrats' concern for human suffering makes them weak, while Republicans can watch the chaos unfold and be assured that if anything, it will just convince voters that government doesn't work and therefore they should elect the party that holds government in nothing but contempt.
The strategy is not completely crazy, but it does have one major flaw: Taking away government reminds people of what government does. It puts the focus not on the ideological, abstract sense of government but on the operational, specific sense of government. It shows people all the things so many would prefer to ignore as they convince themselves that they're completely self-reliant.
That's why it's usually Republicans who lose these conflicts. They may not care about what happens to Americans in a shutdown, but they do care about their own political fortunes. As the public grows more and more dismayed over the situation and properly affixes blame on the GOP, Republicans eventually decide that it needs to end. The only question is how much damage will be done by the time we reach that point.
Maureen Dowd, NYT: Nancy Pelosi Spanks the First Brat
WASHINGTON — Two men, sons of immigrants, rising to be the head of their own empires, powerful forces in their ethnic communities. Both dapper and mustachioed with commanding personalities. And both wielding a potent influence on the children who learned at their knees and followed them into the family businesses.
But here's the difference: Big Tommy D'Alesandro Jr. taught little Nancy how to count. Fred Trump taught Donald, from the time he was a baby, that he didn't have to count — or be accountable; Daddy's money made him and buoyed him.
Fred, a dictatorial builder in Brooklyn and Queens from German stock, and Big Tommy, a charming Maryland congressman and mayor of Baltimore from Italian stock, are long gone. But their roles in shaping Donald and Nancy remain vivid, bleeding into our punishing, pressing national debate over immigration, a government shutdown and that inescapable and vexing Wall.
At this fraught moment when the pain of the shutdown is kicking in, President Trump and Speaker Pelosi offer very different visions — shaped by their parents — of what it means to be an American.
When Trump gave his Oval Office address, the framed photo of his dad was peering over his shoulder. In her House speaker's office in the Capitol, Pelosi prominently displays a photo of herself at 7, holding the Bible as her father is sworn in as Baltimore mayor in 1947.
D'Alesandro was a loyal New Deal Democrat, just as Pelosi — the first daughter to follow her father into Congress — is a resolute liberal. She grew up in a house with portraits of F.D.R. and Truman.
Donald Trump spent most of his life as a political opportunist, learning from his dad that real estate developers must lubricate both sides of the aisle. Trump was once friendly with Pelosi, sending her a note in 2007 when she won the speaker job the first time — with a boost from his $20,000 donation to the party — calling her "the best." (Unlike with "Cryin' Chuck," Trump has not gone for the jugular with a nasty nickname for Pelosi.)
In her memoir, Pelosi recalled that her Catholic parents "raised me to be holy." She told me, "My mother and my father instilled in us, public service is a noble calling" and to "never measure a person by how much money they had."
A constant stream of strangers lined up at their house in Baltimore's Little Italy, seeking food and help. One of Pelosi's most arresting memories, she told CNN's Dana Bash, was giving immigrants who came to the door advice on how to get into the projects or to the hospital.
Alexandra, Pelosi's documentarian daughter, recounts this anecdote: Her son, Thomas — who was named after Big Tommy and who stood at the speaker's side as she reclaimed her gavel — wanted an Xbox in 2017, so he set up a lemonade stand in Manhattan and raked in $1,000.
His grandmother sat him down and asked, "That's going to the victims of Hurricane Harvey, right?"
He set up the stand again the next year and was once more schooled by his grandmother asking, "That's going to the victims of the California wildfires, right?"
Contrast that with Don Jr.'s uncharitable message on Instagram on Tuesday: "You know why you can enjoy a day at the zoo? Because walls work."
Where the D'Alesandros saw the downtrodden and immigrants as people to weave into the American dream, the Trumps saw suckers to squeeze.
According to The Times's blockbuster tax investigation, Fred lavished Donald with three trust funds and $10,000 Christmas checks. When Donald was 8, he was already a millionaire, thanks to his tax-scamming father. Fred Trump was hauled before a congressional panel investigating whether he had looted government money through fraud. (One congressman said the patriarch's chicanery made him "nauseous.")
By the time Donald was 27, he had fully absorbed Trump family values, a callous inversion of noblesse oblige: He and his father were getting sued by the Justice Department for refusing to rent to blacks. As Woody Guthrie, who lived in a Fred Trump complex near Coney Island, wrote in a song, "I suppose/Old Man Trump knows/just how much/racial hate/he stirred up/in the bloodpot of human hearts." Not quite the same as "This Land Is Your Land."
Fred's favorite parlor trick was calculating big numbers in his head. But when Howard Stern had Donald, Ivanka and Don Jr. on his show in 2006 and asked them a multiplication question, they were all stumped.
Over the years, Fred funneled tens of millions of dollars to clean up Donald's messes. The father even gave the son $3.5 million in chips to save an Atlantic City casino. By the time he was in his 40s, Donnie's allowance was more than $5 million annually. No wonder he's still an infant.
When Trump said he could "relate" to federal workers who are now going without pay, it may have been the most audacious lie he told all week. He may know what it's like to go from bankruptcy to bankruptcy — though always with a paternal safety net — but he has no idea of what it's like to live paycheck to paycheck, much less none at all.
As Pelosi told reporters: "He thinks maybe they could just ask their father for more money. But they can't." She also leveled the barb on Trump in person.
Pelosi deploys what she calls her "mother of five" voice on our tantrum-prone president, perhaps in an effort to reparent him. But how do you discipline the world's brattiest 72-year-old?
Gail Collins, NYT: Trump Hits the Wall; And what's all that sniffling about?
We need to look at the bright side of Donald Trump's border wall fixation.
Sure, he's shut down the government and thrown the nation into chaos. But it could be worse. He could be demanding a fiery moat between us and Canada. Or building a 36,000-foot-deep barrier across the Pacific Ocean to drive home his commitment to tariffs.
See? There's always a silver lining.
Trump wants a $5.7 billion down payment to build a wall along the Mexican border to protect us from caravans of terrorists and drug dealers. We hadn't heard a lot about the caravan menace since the midterm elections, but the president brought it back on Wednesday. This was shortly before he walked out of a meeting with Democratic leaders about the government shutdown.
The two sides disagreed on who caused the talks to collapse. Obviously, it was something about the you-know-what. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer claimed that when the wall came up, Trump "sort of slammed the table … and said we have nothing to discuss." Republican leaders tried to pin all the blame on obdurate Democrats.
"I said bye-bye," tweeted the president.
O.K., this one is pretty clear. The meeting was brief. After only about 30 minutes, he who says "bye-bye" is the culprit. Even if, as House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy claimed, Trump "brought a little candy for everybody."
Maybe all this wall obsessing makes Trump tired. He certainly seemed low-energy during his Oval Office address. "He makes Jeb Bush look like a combination of Mighty Mouse and Bruce Springsteen," a friend of mine said after the president finished his nine-minute speech to the American people.
For every viewer whose response to the talk was "Wow, we should do something about immigration!" there must have been a hundred whose first reaction was "Why does this man keep sniffing?" Deviated septum? Nasal polyps? Trump's breathing has actually sounded strange for a long time, but most of us have chosen to ignore it rather than engage in a national conversation about the president's nose.
If you watched the address — and really, you could have, it was only about as long as it takes to microwave popcorn — you saw a 72-year-old guy squinting at the teleprompter and making rather alarming breathing sounds while reading a speech about how we need a wall to protect women who are "sexually assaulted on the dangerous trek up through Mexico."
This is not a man who should wrap his arguments around the idea of protecting women from sexual assault. But also, gee, he sounded like Uncle Fred who you haven't seen for a while and suddenly he shows up for Thanksgiving with weird colored hair and vacant eyes and he's talking into his mashed potatoes.
Now we know why Trump never made a speech from the Oval Office before. He's a guy whose great political talent is yelling applause lines to a howling mob of supporters. If they cheer, he goes back again and again.
When he first announced he was running for president, he got an enthusiastic response to a speech that called Mexicans drug-dealing rapists. We will always wonder what would have happened if he'd said "Pre-K, all the way!" and gotten a similar reaction. Maybe this week he'd be on TV refusing to fund the government until he got more money for early childhood education.
Trump's political advisers encouraged him to carry on about a wall during the presidential campaign because they wanted him to focus on immigration and understood how difficult it is for him to stay with … a thought. As Julie Hirschfeld Davis and Peter Baker of The Times reported recently, the advisers knew he liked to brag about building stuff, so they decided to "get him to talk about he's going to build a wall."
Again, think of the bright side. What if they'd wanted his signature issue to be American pre-eminence throughout the globe and got him to peddle a plan to build a huge tower that would reach all the way to heaven? Hasn't been attempted since Genesis, but if you stacked a million hotels on top of one another — Make America Great! By now Trump would have closed off a quarter of Illinois to make room for the foundation.
There's no way to be cheery about the government shutdown. This is really terrible. Some of those suffering most are smaller government contractors, whose businesses could very well fail while they wait to be paid for work they've already done. (Stiffing contractors is possibly the only area of his job in which our president has a lot of pregovernment experience.)
But about the wall. People, how do you feel about putting a concrete or whoops-maybe-steel-slats barrier between us and Mexico?
A) Great way to avoid the constant danger of caravans.
B) Meanspirited waste of money.
C) Better than the fiery moat.
The beat goes on. Thursday had Trump scheduled for a visit to the Texas-Mexico border — a trip that the president told a lunch with TV newscasters is "not going to change a damn thing."
He sure sounds negative. Do you think he believes he's already been to the border enough? After all, he already went there in 2018. Next thing you know, they'll be expecting him to go there every year.
Nicholas Kristof, NYT: Trump's Five Craziest Arguments About the Shutdown
I'd like to apologize to all the "banana republics" I've offended over the decades with snarky references to their dysfunction. This is karma: I now live in a nation where a petulant president has shut down much of the most powerful government in the world — so the White House isn't even paying its water bills.
The government has shut down before, under presidents of both parties. But this shutdown is particularly childish and unnecessary; to revise Churchill, rarely have so many suffered so much at the hands of so few.
It's difficult to pick the craziest of the arguments that President Trump is making about the shutdown — there's a vast buffet of imbecility to choose from — but here's my good-faith effort.
- This is a crisis! Terrorists are crossing the border! Rapists!
This is more like a lull than a crisis. The number of people apprehended at the border remains near a 45-year low. From 1972 on, there were more apprehensions every single year than there were in 2017.
As for terrorists, experts say that there isn't a single known case of a terrorist sneaking into the United States along unfenced areas of the southern border. Ever.
- Only a wall can do the job. A big beautiful wall that stops people and drugs.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was wrong to describe a wall as "an immorality," for we need border security, and a wall in some places can be effective. But a great majority of the undocumented immigrants in the country didn't arrive by sneaking across the border, but rather came legally, often at airports, and overstayed their visas. The most beautiful of walls wouldn't stop them.
Likewise, drug smuggling is a real problem, but narcotics have mostly been smuggled in on trucks, cars and airplanes at official ports of entry, or through tunnels under the border, or through the postal system — not by individuals crossing remote parts of the border.
"The Daily Show" dug up a 2004 college graduation speech in which Trump counseled perseverance of just the kind that makes walls, by themselves, not terribly effective: "Never, ever give up. … If there's a concrete wall in front of you, go through it, go over it, go around it, but get to the other side of the wall."
- But this is a humanitarian issue!
Yes, it is. The most egregious humanitarian concern has been Trump's brutal policy of separating children from parents at the border.
"Kids are still being separated," Lee Gelernt of the A.C.L.U. told me. Mostly the government does this when it says that a parent has a criminal history, but the offenses sometimes were minor or unsubstantiated.
Meanwhile, the government shutdown causes other tragedies. For example, even in normal times 3,000 people a year die in the United States from food-borne illness, yet the Food and Drug Administration has now had to stop most routine food inspections, with inspectors sent home on furlough. The result may well be more people getting sick or dying from food poisoning.
- The president doesn't need Congress. After all, he's the president!
Plenty of people would be a bit relieved if Trump took the dubious route of declaring a national emergency and trying to steal, er, divert money intended for disaster victims to pay for his wall. It might be a way out of our national stalemate, allowing the government to reopen.
But look, folks, when we welcome our president doing something possibly illegal, as he unjustly takes money from disaster victims, that just confirms that we have a crisis — not at the border but in Washington.
Trump's wall isn't about governing but about creating a political symbol and rallying his base. The problem is that it's an expensive symbol.
By my calculations, the $5.7 billion could send 100,000 at-risk American kids to a high-quality preschool for a year AND provide Pell grants for 100,000 students to attend college for a full four years, with enough left over to ALSO provide a year's comprehensive treatment to 115,000 Americans struggling with opioid addiction.
- Anyway, Mexico will pay for the wall.
Trump repeatedly declared that Mexico would pay for the wall, and he still insists that Mexico will pay for it indirectly "many, many times over." So I have a solution to the whole mess.
Since Mexico will pay for the wall eventually, the problem now is one of cash flow. Fortunately, we have financial instruments to deal with precisely this issue.
I propose that Trump pay the $5.7 billion himself, and then the U.S. will repay him (with a nice interest rate) as the Mexican payments for the wall pour in. The Federal Reserve can verify the Mexican income stream and forward the sums to Trump.
Since he's so confident that the wall will pay for itself, he should be delighted with this option. Right, Mr. President?
Paul Waldman, WaPo: Donald Trump is the world's worst negotiator
"My style of deal-making is quite simple and straightforward," writes President Trump in "The Art of the Deal," the book of which he is so terribly proud. "I aim very high, and then I just keep pushing and pushing and pushing to get what I'm after."
It has all the sophistication and insight of a cookbook that advises, "Put together a bunch of ingredients, and cook 'em until they taste fantastic. That's how you make great food." As we suffer through what by this weekend will be the longest government shutdown in history, the entire country is learning an awful truth: Trump is a deal-maker of absolutely stunning ineptitude, and we're all paying the price for it.
We don't yet know how the shutdown is going to be resolved, but we do know that Trump has bumbled his way through this conflict with such incompetence that even his most ardent defenders would have a hard time claiming he has any idea what he's doing.
First, he supported a temporary bill to fund the government, one that passed the Senate unanimously, but when the likes of Ann Coulter and Rush Limbaugh criticized him for being weak, he quickly shifted his position and refused to sign any spending bill that didn't have funding for a border wall. Then he went on live television and told Democratic leaders, "I am proud to shut down the government. ... I will take the mantle. I will be the one to shut it down. I'm not going to blame you for it," thereby making his later (and inevitable) attempts to blame the Democrats almost comical.
And now his attempts at "negotiating" are abysmal. He stalked out of a meeting with Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi when they wouldn't give in, then went to Twitter to lob juvenile insults at them. That won't get him any closer to a deal, but it does provide some insight into where Trump is coming from.
As Shannon Pettypiece and Margaret Talev point out, the dramatic exit is a negotiating tactic Trump has used for many years. In his pre-political life, they report, "Trump was known to have done the same thing when a deal wasn't going his way. He even walked out of a judge's chambers during divorce proceedings." Like most of what Trump believes about deal-making, it's based on the presumption that he's the one with the power, and if he's enough of a bully then those on the other side of the table will eventually just give him what he wants.
When he was a private citizen, that was often the case. If he was negotiating with a vendor — probably a small-businessperson who was eager to do work for someone so famous — he could bully them into terms advantageous to him. If they didn't like it, he could find someone else to sell him the bathroom fixtures or curtains (and they probably didn't realize that chances were he'd stiff them on the bill). It was all based on the idea that the other person needed him but that he didn't need them. So aggression was the only tactic necessary.
When he ran for president, he figured he could use the same technique. During the 2016 campaign, he said that the way to deal with China was to say, "Listen you mother f---ers, we're going to tax you 25 percent." Next thing you know they'd quake before his manly power and give us back all the manufacturing jobs that have been lost over the past couple of decades. Needless to say, that hasn't happened.
One of the consequences of Trump's simplistic view of negotiating is that he doesn't know what to do when faced with a situation where the other person has just as much power as him, and things such as yelling and walking out of the room in a huff don't make them knuckle under.
The truth that Trump still doesn't grasp is that presidential negotiating is much more complicated than negotiating something like brand licensing agreements. It requires knowledge of often complex policy issues and a deep understanding of all the forces at play with the other side. And that might be where Trump's failure is the most profound.
When he negotiated with, say, a developer in Panama who wanted to slap the Trump brand on an apartment building, it was relatively simple: This guy wants the prestige of the Trump name, and we just need to find a mutually agreeable price. But members of Congress have motivations, incentives and constraints that are vastly more complex: ideology, policy preferences, worries about reelection, multiple constituencies whose desires need to be considered, concerns about the next presidential election, and more. In order to successfully negotiate with them, you need to understand all those factors to find a successful resolution.
But Trump shows no sign of believing he has to understand any of that. You see it in foreign policy, too: Trump thought that he could charm Kim Jong Un into giving up nuclear weapons, but didn't bother to understand what those weapons represent to Kim and why he might be so loath to part with them. The result is that the weapons are still there, and Trump's talk of winning a Nobel Peace Prize because he negotiated such a great deal now makes him look like a fool.
Nor does Trump realize that unlike with his private business, as president he has to negotiate again and again with the same people. As a businessman he could con someone out of his or her life savings or refuse to pay a bill, and it wouldn't matter because there were always more suckers to be found. But now he has to negotiate with people who have learned that they can't trust his word, and he might make you a promise today that he breaks tomorrow.
Even Trump's own allies acknowledge that he can't be trusted. "Democrats keep saying, 'We don't trust it until Trump will sign it,' '' said Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.) yesterday. "That's not an unreasonable request." "It's always difficult," said Sen. John Cornyn (R-Tex.), "when the person you're negotiating with is someone who changes their mind."
Yes, it is. Which is why the only real way out of this crisis is for Democrats and Republicans in Congress to stop negotiating with Trump entirely. They should negotiate with each other, pass a bill to fund the government and put it on his desk. He might veto it, but he probably won't. Then he can proclaim that it was only his brilliant deal-making skill that led to a resolution, and the rest of us can get on with our lives.
Paul Krugman, NYT: Trump's Big Libertarian Experiment
"Government," declared Ronald Reagan in his first Inaugural Address, "is not the solution to our problem, government is the problem." Republicans have echoed his rhetoric ever since. Somehow, though, they've never followed through on the radical downsizing of government their ideology calls for.
But now Donald Trump is, in effect, implementing at least part of the drastic reduction in government's role his party has long claimed to favor. If the shutdown drags on for months — which seems quite possible — we'll get a chance to see what America looks like without a number of public programs the right has long insisted we don't need. Never mind the wall; think of what's going on as a big, beautiful libertarian experiment.
Seriously, it's striking how many of the payments the federal government is or soon will be failing to make are for things libertarians insist we shouldn't have been spending taxpayer dollars on anyway.
For example, federal checks to farmers aren't going out — but libertarian organizations like the Cato Institute have long denounced farm subsidies as just another form of crony capitalism.
Businesspeople are furious that the Small Business Administration isn't making loans — but libertarians want to see the whole agency abolished.
If the shutdown extends into March — which, again, seems entirely possible — money for food stamps will dry up. But Republicans have long been deeply hostile to the food stamp program. Mitch McConnell, the Senate majority leader, has denounced the program for "making it excessively easy to be nonproductive."
The shutdown has drastically curtailed work at the Food and Drug Administration, which among other things tries to prevent food contamination: Routine inspections of seafood, vegetables, fruits and other foods have stopped. But there's a long conservative tradition, going back to Milton Friedman, that condemns the F.D.A.'s existence as an unwarranted interference in the free market.
Strange to say, however, neither the Trump administration nor its congressional allies are celebrating the actual or prospective termination of government services their ideology says shouldn't exist. Instead, they're engaged in frantic administrative and legal maneuvering in an attempt to mitigate those program cuts. Why?
O.K., we shouldn't be completely cynical (cynical, yes, but not completely so). Even where there's a government-free solution to a problem, you might worry that it would take time to set up. Maybe you believe that private companies could take over the F.D.A.'s role in keeping food safe, but such companies don't exist now and can't be conjured up in a matter of weeks. So even true libertarians wouldn't necessarily celebrate a sudden government shutdown.
That said, the truth is that libertarian ideology isn't a real force within the G.O.P.; it's more of a cover story for the party's actual agenda.
In the case of the party establishment, that agenda is about redistributing income up the scale, and in particular helping important donor interests. Republican politicians may invoke the rhetoric of free markets to justify cutting taxes for the rich and benefits for the poor, or removing environmental regulations that hurt polluters' profits, but they don't really care about free markets per se. After all, the party had little problem lining up behind Trump's embrace of tariffs.
Meanwhile, the philosophy of the party's base is, in essence, big government for me but not for thee. Stick it to the bums on welfare, but don't touch those farm subsidies. Tellingly, the centerpiece of the long G.O.P. jihad against Obamacare was the false claim that it would hurt Medicare.
And as it happens, many of the spending cuts being forced by the shutdown fall heavily and obviously on base voters. Small business owners are much more conservative than the nation as a whole, but they really miss those government loans. Rural voters went Republican during a Democratic midterm blowout, but they want those checks. McConnell may have trash-talked food stamps in the past, but a sudden cutoff would have a catastrophic effect on the most Republican parts of his home state.
The one piece of the shutdown that Republicans seem fairly calm about is the nonpayment of federal workers. Maybe the party believes, like Trump, that these workers are mainly Democrats. But when the effects of nonpayment start to bite, even that indifference may disappear.
In any case, while the gap between Republicans' supposed ideology and their actual reaction to the shutdown is understandable, that doesn't make it innocent. If a party is going to claim, year after year, to believe that government is the problem, not the solution, then complain bitterly when the government stops handing out checks, attention should be paid.
And if you have libertarian leanings yourself, you should ask whether you're happy with what's happening with government partially out of the picture. Knowing that the food you're eating is now more likely than before to be contaminated, does that potential contamination smell to you like freedom?
Dana Milbank, WaPo: President Trump is entering his terrible twos
He shuts down the government, maybe for "years." He wants a wall that is "transparent," then concrete, then slatted, then steel. One moment he's leaving Syria, the next he isn't. He's watching too much TV and yelling at everyone.
This is all to be expected. President Trump is entering his terrible twos.
The Trump presidency turns two this month, and though we often hear the mantra "this is not normal," what the president is doing actually is normal. For a 2-year-old.
If you want to understand this White House, turn off Wolf Blitzer and pick up Benjamin Spock. The ninth edition of the late pediatrician's famous guide, first published in 1946, tells us all we need to know about this presidency as it approaches its second birthday:
"This can be a physically exhausting and trying time."
The 2-year-old "has a hard time making up his mind, and then he wants to change it," his "understanding of the world is still so limited," and "he becomes bolder and more daring in his experiments."
"A battle of wills with a two-year-old is tiring."
"Two is a great age for whining."
One moment, Trump says the furloughed workers are Democrats, who oppose the wall. The next moment, Trump says the furloughed workers support his stand. Dr. Spock anticipated this: "Negativism reaches new heights and takes new forms after two." The "two-and-a-half-year-old . . . even contradicts herself."
Trump rails about being persecuted by "THE HATERS AND THE FAKE NEWS MEDIA." Dr. Spock anticipated this, too: "She acts like a person who feels she is being bossed too much, even when no one is bothering her and even when she tries to boss others."
Trump believes "my gut tells me more sometimes than anybody else's brain can ever tell me." Dr. Spock: "The child's nature urges her to decide things for herself and resist pressure from other people. Trying to fight this battle without much worldly experience seems to get her tightened up inside."
And the terrible twos are defined by tantrums, which, Dr. Spock wrote, "usually start around age one" — Trump was precocious — "peak around age two to three" and are worse for "children who are less flexible." So buckle up.
How to deal with Trump? I called my teenage daughter's pediatricians for advice. "The behavior is natural," explains Dr. Howard Bennett. Two-year-olds "are living in an adult world but they don't have all the tools they need to see how the world is structured. That's why they have conflict with their parents."
In this case, we are Trump's parents — the electorate, members of Congress, the media, all of us. (I challenge him to produce a birth certificate showing otherwise.) And, according to Dr. Spock, we're doing it all wrong.
It was a mistake to leave him alone in the White House during the holidays, tweeting forlornly. Children left alone "for long periods, even though they are crying for company," Dr. Spock wrote, are "learning that the world is a mean place."
Dr. Spock also explained Trump's petulance during his televised meeting with Democratic leaders Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer: "A child might just feel outnumbered when she has to take on two important people at once." And Trump's subsequent attacks on Schumer while ignoring Pelosi? "It's more often the father who is particularly unpopular at this period," Dr. Spock wrote.
Clearly, White House aides are giving him too much "executive time." Dr. Spock strongly opposed TV for 2-year-olds, "because it does all the work" for them. This is how Fox News ordered the shutdown.
But Democrats should quiet the impeachment talk and name-calling: "Young children who see parents using hurtful language or threats often develop similar troublesome behaviors." Instead, "You might say, 'I know how angry you feel toward me when I have to say no to you.' "
Respecting allies is not developmentally appropriate for Trump — as Jim Mattis learned. "Two-year-olds don't play cooperatively with each other very much," Dr. Spock wrote. "There is no point in trying to teach a two-year-old to share; he simply isn't ready."
And when Trump has a tantrum, "it doesn't help to yell at your child, threaten punishment, plead for calm, or try too hard to 'make everything better.' " This "just tends to make tantrums last longer." Instead, ignore the outburst, and later, "a quick word of praise along the lines of 'Nice job pulling yourself together' can let your child salvage some self-esteem."
Nice job pulling yourself together after announcing the Syria pullout, Mr. President.
Happily, the terrible twos don't last forever. "The automatic resistance and hostility," Dr. Spock tells us, "lessen after three in most children." In the meantime, "Remember to praise yourself," he counsels, "for staying calm and rational — not easily done when your two-year-old is having a meltdown."
Don't we know it.
Michael Gerson, WaPo: Trump's 'authenticity' is merely moral laziness and cruelty
In the carnage of American civic culture, some of the damage is obvious: the dehumanization of political opponents, the devaluation of truth, the rise of conspiracy thinking. But other, less evident shifts are no less troubling. One concerns the use of the word "authenticity."
Most recently, we have seen the defense of vulgarity as authenticity. Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) explained her use of the mf-word against President Trump as the expression of her "very passionate" nature. The same argument is more familiar from Trump defenders, who explain away his endless vulgarity and malice as quirks of an oversize personality. Isn't it refreshing when politicians speak what is really on their mind?
In this view, humans are most genuine when we are the least guarded, least scripted and least self-controlled. By this definition, we are most authentic while hitting our finger with a hammer, or after our third martini — or maybe on a Twitter rampage.
Without intending it, Tlaib and Trump have wandered into an important moral debate. And not a new one. In any ethical system derived from Aristotle, human beings fulfill their nature by exercising their reason and habituating certain virtues, such as courage, temperance, honor, equanimity, truthfulness, justice and friendship. Authenticity — at least, authenticity defined as congruence with your unformed self — is not on the list. In fact, this view of ethics requires a kind of virtuous hypocrisy — modeling ourselves on a moral example, until, through action and habit, we come to embody that ideal. Ethical development is, in a certain way, theatrical. We play the role of someone we admire until we become someone worthy of admiration.
But there is a rival tradition. In any ethical tradition derived from Jean-Jacques Rousseau, authenticity is at the apex of the virtues. This view begins from the premise that man is born free but is everywhere in social chains. Being true to yourself, and expressing yourself freely, is seen as the chief requirement of a meaningful and happy life. In this system, the worst sin is hypocrisy — being untrue to your real self.
This approach to ethics is also theatrical, but in a different way. In Rousseau's view, we are performers as ourselves, and life is a kind of transgressive art form. Being true to ourselves means being true to our eccentricities. Especially to our eccentricities.
At the root of the Aristotelian approach is the premise that the human person is originally in need of formation. At the root of the other approach is the premise that the human person is only in need of liberation. This has marked a long-standing difference between right and left, with conservatism often on the side of character building and progressivism often on the side of personal expression. But with Trump, something remarkable has happened: The right is increasingly on Rousseau's side as well.
This view of ethics is a perfect philosophic fit for the president's narcissism. The soundtrack of his whole life has been Frank Sinatra crooning, "I did it my way." And social media is the perfect platform for Rousseau's view of authenticity, as well as Trump's brand of performance art. After 2,500 years of debate and reflection, the highest human ideal turns out to be . . . reality television.
Here is the skunk at the debauched garden party . If the unfiltered expression of self is the highest virtue, then the moral content of that expression becomes a secondary matter. Trump may be speaking lies, nonsense or racism, but he remains authentic. This form of ethics can act as a shield from responsibility. Most of us — not just Trump supporters — have learned to discount the content of the president's self-expression. We figure that is just his shtick. Just Trump being Trump. This way, Trump is seen as an authentic communicator, even when he lies — because the author of those lies is somehow true to himself.
I'm afraid I don't see many Aristotelians responding: That is not the way a president should act. That is not the way a man should act. That is not the way a human being should act. This form of authenticity is just the refusal to master the self. It is really moral laziness, and cruelty, and deception, and decadence. And the repetition of these failures should not numb us. It should serve to reinforce our conviction that Trump is a man of bad character, unworthy of respect, unworthy of trust and unworthy of high office.
Frank Bruni, NYT: The Wall Is a Symbol of Donald Trump's Neediness
It's funny that we are still talking about the physical features of what President Trump wants or will settle for on our country's southern border — about whether it will be concrete or steel, solid or slatted, a fancied-up fence or, in Nancy Pelosi's hilariously acerbic dig, a "beaded curtain." Because it's not really a wall that Trump is after, if indeed it ever was. It's a victory for victory's sake. It's a show of his might. It's proof of his potency.
The longer his stalemate with Democrats in Congress grinds on, the clearer that becomes. Seldom has a president's ego been this tender, and seldom has it required so much shoring up. There's not enough concrete in creation for that job.
Network executives had little choice but to grant him prime time on television Tuesday night so that he could make his case for the wall to Americans under the guise of a crisis that's his own doing. He has never made such a request before, so it's not like this particular grandstanding is habitual.
And had the networks refused him, they would have handed him a cudgel in the culture wars that he would have used the same way that he governs — shamelessly, putting his ludicrous claims of martyrdom above any national interest. Better for the networks to go along, with a plan in place to check his assertions rigorously and call out his lies immediately.
Even this deep into a presidency of such incompetence and amorality, he deserves a hearing; that's how the rest of us demonstrate the very respect for traditions and norms that he refuses to show. But he doesn't deserve an unfiltered one. That's the road to autocracy.
Trump isn't selling something that the country really needs, and that's why he and his allies have to lard the pitch with lies. According to The Washington Post Fact Checker, there are more bogus claims and hallucinated menaces when he talks about immigration and the border than when he talks about anything else.
He insists that would-be terrorists see a porous southern border as a welcome mat, but that's bunk: Most try to get into the United States by plane and are apprehended at airports. He wildly inflates the amount of crime committed by undocumented immigrants and just as wildly overstates the effect a border wall might have on the country's opioid crisis.
When it comes to the border and the wall, his willful estrangement from reality is so profound that network executives and newspaper editors spent part of Tuesday in strategy sessions about how to respond to his inevitable barrage of falsehoods. Should there be a crawl of words on the bottom of the television screen that correct him in real time? Could fact checkers work speedily enough to post rebuttals online within minutes of his misrepresentations, before they took root? This is where we find ourselves. Other presidents have been untrustworthy, and others have had to be called out on it. But not like this. This is surreal.
It's a function of, more than anything, his ego, his vanity, to which the television networks, furloughed federal workers — all Americans — are hostage. He's not remarkable among presidents in having a high opinion of himself and in desperately wanting others to share it. A robust measure of arrogance and some degree of neediness are what make the grind of the campaign trail and the glare of the media bearable. All presidents want to rack up triumphs that make them look and feel large. But none in my lifetime has spun so many fictions in the service of that. None has been so naked in his hunger for that heft.
To live with his resounding defeat by that "nasty woman" in the popular vote, Trump had to invent the specter of millions of illegally cast ballots. He never did produce any evidence of that. To not feel eclipsed by President Barack Obama, he claimed there was a media conspiracy to undercount his inauguration crowd. But photographs don't lie. Not the way a president does.
The day after his inauguration, in a visit to the C.I.A. headquarters, against a backdrop of stars that symbolized men and women who had been killed on the job for America, he used his remarks to tally his appearances on the cover of Time magazine. "I think we have the all-time record," he said, but "we" as usual meant "I."
There's no occasion unsuitable for bragging, no mission more vital than the exaltation of Trump. When, over the recent Christmas holiday, he at last paid a visit to a combat zone and spoke to American troops in Iraq, he seemed less intent on thanking them for their service than in having them thank him. He dwelled on a pay increase that they had received and claimed — erroneously — that they had gone without one for 10 years, until he came along.
"We got you a big one," he said. "I got you a big one. I got you a big one." I. Big. That's the Trump credo in two words.
And that, at this point, is the point of the wall. I. Big. "It's like a manhood thing for him," Pelosi reportedly told House Democrats in a closed meeting last month. "As if manhood could ever be associated with him."
Now we're all yoked to it, this crazy, self-affirming monument that's a barrier only to reason and responsible government.


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Favorite Anime Sidekick, Pet, or Summoning From Any Anime
I decided to choose three answers for each category!
Alphonse Elric from the Fullmetal Alchemist series is the best sidekick to have in my opinion. Sometimes the best partner can be a brother. After losing his body, Alphonse soul was placed in a suit of armor during a failed resurrection of his and Edward's mother. Now with a suit of armor, Alphonse can avoid gun bullets and blade attacks but he can ever eat again; he still has his human emotions. Al and Ed always stick together fighting Homunculous and corrupt people. He's a awesome little brother.
Kirara, from Inuyasha, can be both be a cute pet and fearsome demon killer. As a pet and friend to Sango, Kirara is adorable cat creature who is always willing to fight alongside with Inuyasha and friends. When Kirara transforms, she becomes flaming sabertooth cat that can fly and bite through flesh. She makes the perfect pet.
In Naruto, most ninjas can call help by performing a summoning jutsu and bring out an animal friend. Gamabunta, is one toad you don't want to step on or kiss. This giant amphibian as a bad attitude and the skills to cut giant enemies. He is mostly summoned alongside with Jiraiya and Naruto. When he shows, you better avoid getting crushed.
These are my three answers. What is yor favorite sidekick?


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Wonjoon Chung
PhD Candidate
19 LER Building, 504 E. Armory Ave., Champaign, IL 61820
MHRIR, School of Labor and Employment Relations, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 2010
BS, Business Administration, Hanyang University, Seoul, 2008
Research Interests/Dissertation Area
Conflict in Organization / Conflict Management
Dispute Resolution – Mediation / Negotiation
Work-Life Issues
Research/Teaching Experience
Research Assistant, LER, Professor Ariel Avgar
Research Assistant, LER, Professor Amit Kramer
Research Assistant, LER, Professor Andrew Weaver
Teaching Assistant, LER, Professor Dan Newman
LER 593 "Quantitative Methods" (Listed as teacher's ranked excellent for Fall 2014)
Teaching Assistant, LER, Professor Kristine Brown
LER 593 "Quantitative Methods" (Listed as teacher's ranked excellent for Fall 2013)
Grader, LER, Professor Ariel Avgar
Published Research
Avgar, A. C., Sadler, J., Clark, P. F., & Chung, W. (in press). Labor-management partnership and employee voice: Evidence from healthcare setting. Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society.
Kramer, A., & Chung, W. (in press). The effect of work and family demands on individual health and the moderating role of flexible work arrangement: A 14 years longitudinal study. Journal of Applied Psychology.
Rangel, B., Chung, W., Harris, T. B., Carpenter, N. C., Chiaburu, D. S., & Moore, J. L. (2015). Rules of engagement: The joint influence of trainer expressiveness and trainee experiential learning style on engagement and training transfer. International Journal of Training Development, 19(1), 18-31.
Harris, T. B., Chung, W., Hutchins, H. M., & Chiaburu, D. S. (2014). Direction and desire: Trainer and trainee factors in tandem. Journal of Workplace Learning, 26(5), 331-344..
Avgar, A. C., Lee, E. K., & Chung, W. (2014). Conflict in context: Perceptions of conflict, employee outcomes and the moderating role of discretion and social capital. International Journal of Conflict Management, 25(3), 276-303.
Harris, T. B., Chung, W., Frye, C. L., & Chiaburu, D. S. (2014). Satisfaction guaranteed? Enhanced impact of trainer competence for autonomous trainees. Industrial and Commercial Training, 46(5), 270-277.
Doctoral Student Committee Representative for the School of Labor and Employment Relations Admissions and Financial Aid Committee (2014-2015)
HR track best paper award at Southern Management Association (SMA) Annual meeting 2014 (w/ T. Brad Harris., Holly M. Hutchins, and Dan S. Chiaburu)
New Doctoral Student Consortium (NDSC) Professional Development Workshop Chair at Academy of Management (AOM) Annual meeting 2014
Co-Chairs for 16th Annual PhD Student Consortium at Labor and Employment Relations Association (LERA) Annual meeting 2014
Tim Judge Fellow (Summer 2013)
NDSC Program Committee Chair at AOM Annual meeting 2013


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Building the Right Environment to Support AI, Machine Learning and Deep Learning
Less than two weeks after it first released the beta version of its Azure Stack private cloud computing tools, Microsoft has added some new Web development features. The Web Apps feature of the Azure App Service can now run on Azure Stack, and Azure Stack also now has some new tools for working with MySQL and SQL Server database workloads.
At the same time, Microsoft updated the Azure SDK and its Visual Studio IDE to support Azure Stack. The company says the new tools make it as easy to deploy applications to Azure Stack as to its public cloud computing service.
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The Four Pillars of a Good, Solid Content Strategy
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Content Marketing for Creatives – Free Master Class
As a part of the CreateBiz launch (and the 100th episode of my podcast!), we are conducting two live "Master Class" sessions this week. Please join us and let us show you how to build and connect with an audience around your creative work.
I Am Tired of Seeing Creatives Fail
It's a shame when you see great art go unnoticed. I got sick of seeing creatives fail, so I wanted to do something about it. Here's a behind-the-scenes look at how and why I created a comprehensive online course to help writers, musicians, and visual artists.
Marketing Automation: A Case Example
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Student Projects, Spring 2017
In my course at Emerson College, students learn first hand about content strategy by actively applying it to a "live project" of their choice. Here's a look at each of their projects.
Hope Is Not a Marketing Plan
There are no shortcuts in building a business. That's why those insidious "instant success" stories are dangerous to real, working businesses. Here is one of those stories – and my reaction to it.
Taking a Stand Against Deceptive Marketing Tactics
Ad-driven media is still the dominant paradigm, undermining the Web's promise and potential. When you incentivize clicks as the only metric that matters, what do you expect? Cheap tactics for cheap clicks. Ev Williams, founder of Twitter, is taking a stand. Can he "save the Web," or is it too late?
Starbucks Rewards: An Evolution in Data-Driven Marketing
The more you know your customer, the better. That can be in face-to-face interactions, or as Starbucks is showing, through individualized data. Here's a look at the innovations of the new Starbucks Star Rewards Program – and how you can apply the lessons to your own business.
Phase 2 of the Resistance to Social Media
Are you going through the motions when it comes to social media? How do you expect to get good results without a genuine, concerted effort? This is what I call Phase 2 of the Resistance to Social Media, and here's what you can do to move past it.


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