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A guide to what's new in self-publishing, with full reviews of 27 self-published books, listings for 177 new titles, and more.
PW Select October 2013: Shifting Sands
Brittany Geragotelis had every mark of the aspiring author: a will to write, six unpublished novels, and nine years' worth of rejection letters.
PW Select October 2013: Seeing Is Believing
Here are a few eye-opening facts for anyone who has ever wanted to self-publish or who has actually jumped into the ring and self-published a book or two. Did you know that:
PW Select October 2013: Jim Carrey Rolls Out His First Children's Book
Jim Carrey may be best known as a movie star and comedian, but to him, his most meaningful roles are that of father to Jane and grandfather to her son, Jackson. This month he adds "first-time author" to his resume when his children's book, How Roland Rolls (Some Kind of Garden Media, $16.95) is published on September 24.
PW Select October 2013: Listings from Self-Publishers
A historical novel by Charles Van Doren and one of a series on harvesting rainwater for sustainable living; fiction about a novelist who becomes a bestseller with a fake self-help book; and a memoir about searching for lost treasure in a boat that sank in 1909 are among the titles booksellers, publishers, and agents are encouraged to take a look at in the following listings of self-published books.
PW Select October 2013: Colliding with Readers - Gail McHugh
It might seem like pitting readers against a main character could hurt an indie author's book sales. Try telling that to Gail McHugh, who, after selling almost half a million copies of her debut self-published romance novel, Collide, has seen the recent follow-up, Pulse, top the list of Amazon bestsellers—all while driving readers crazy over the relationship choices made by the series' heroine.

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My AP printed a letter to parents to inform them of the math department's grading policy. He included a bunch of his usual double talk about the way grades are calculated. He mentioned deducting points for homework and lack of class participation. He mentioned nothing about giving kids anything extra for these things.
He has repeated reprimanded us for giving make-up exams to kids who are absent. Many of of sneak around and give them anyways. (One of the reasons I love my trailer is that it is so easy to do this without his knowledge.) Of course kids need a good excuse if they have missed an exam and they can't pull this too often. Yet, in spite of his constant demand that we not give make-ups he has included this paragraph:
Students who are absent on a test day due to a good cause absence should not be punished-all math teachers will either drop one exam grade or give a make-up exam. Make-up exam grades that are far higher or lower than a student's average
will not be counted.
Maybe I am overly sensitive, but that one paragraph seemed kind of punitive to me. It also contradicts everything he has been saying to teachers all along.
We were all supposed to hand parents a copy of this letter at the conferences. I didn't stop by the math office until conferences were over so I never got it to give out. He'll probably have a problem with that if he finds out. Too bad. They should have been available more than five minutes in advance. I know he would have a problem with a teacher leaving things to the last minute.


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56 tim from Cheshire: With Sally and the lovely Di Coupland in the show, who wouldnt be captivated.
Sally Geeson looked to be about 15 yrs old, but in fact she was in her 20s when she joined the show.
55 Feridon Jaimoukha from Jordan: Just watching Sid James doing anything on the screen is funny enough. He is one of the British Comedy greats. I fell in love with Sally in Bless this house when I was 8 years old in 1975! farewell Sid. We love you forever.
54 john from leeds: Hi diana coupland was my cousin, often tried to contact her but never could.
53 annoynamuos from australia: robins alive and well and still is the life of any party
52 lisa from wales: bless this house was a very good show and i can tell you sally went on to become a teacher
51 Mary from New Zealand: Hi there, have just been watching re-runs of 'Bless This House' and would like to know what is robin stewart who played Mike Abbot doing now, and when was he born?
50 Dave antony from Spain: Sally was so lovely,i dont understand why she has no official website, always loved her to bits, any news of her would be nice, thanks, Davie
49 brian from scotland: loved this show still do. what happened to sally geeson - whats she doing now
48 sam from malta: after discovering that the four members of the tv sitcom series 'bless this house' sid,diana, anthony and patsy have passed away i just can't believe it!i mean i used to watch the show when i was a kid way back in the early 1970's in england.
it's such a grieving loss that will never be replaced and the absence of their presence will be deeply missed and felt forever as their memories will never be erased.the only thing best to do is watch the entire series day by day and bring back all that british 70's nostalgia for i'm sure that that will please the cast.
47 jason from devon: I really wish i could of met sid james. Unfortunately for me he died when i was six years old. He was the best thing to happen to British tv
46 jane from australia: To answer your question Dorit from Manchester, Sid had a heart attack during a performance at a theatre and died on the way to hospital.
45 jane from australia: absolutely love it. i was born in england so i grew up with the show and all the carry on movies.what happened to the original mike i cannot find any info on him.now my kids watch it to.and calling each other mush has also rubbed off on them.
44 paul from derbyshire: re: Robin Stewart, not sure what he's doin now but he was in Australia many years ago when he appeared in Son's and daughters.
43 david bowey from newcastle upon tyne: What is Robin Stewart, star of Bless This House, doing now?
42 Chris from Blackpool: Hi I love this comedy like I love most comedys from this era even tho im only 18 my mum and dad had taped them all bless this house dads army porridge rising damp ect and I wactched them and loved them since being about 10 and it is quite upssetting to find out that most of your favorite actors have Died sid james dian coupland ect but they have left an amzing comedy and hopefully they have gone to heaven to entertain there god bless x
41 Bryan from London: If anyone is interested, the exterior shots of the Abbot house is a house in New Malden, Surrey. The house is at the corner of Howard Road and Dukes Avenue. The multi storey car park that you can see over the road is still there and New Malden railway station is only 100 yards away. many of the exterior scenes were filmed locally to the house too (although all the local pub names were made up).
I think they picked new malden because Sid was the star of the show and he didnt want to have to travel too far to work, and Teddington studios is only about 3 miles away.
40 Clive Johnson from Cornwall: I recall many many years ago, going to the Thames Television studios in Teddington to see an episode of Bless This House made. I can remember very little about it except that the subject of the show was a new Freezer. Does anyone know if this episode is still available on DVD? It would be good to see it again after all these years.
39 scott webb from essex: Enjoyed sidney james in carry on so liked him in this aswell. Don't know much about diana coupland who plays jean only seen her in this she is good. Wasn't even born when it was made or finished. Thank god for cable tv coz the original broadcaster won't show. A great laugh.
38 rod hayman from south wales: this is the best all time.
i remember it the first time around and it`s still great today.
can anyone tell me what happend to sally geeson ?
37 Charles Calthorpe from Manchester: Sid James and his co stars on this were excellent.
36 Anonoymous from England: I've just bought this classic show on DVD and it's very funny. I wasn't born when the show was first shown - I'm only 22 - but Sid James is a true comic legend - and even though he was born in South Africa, he was a naturalised and archetypal Brit. Cheers Sid - thanks a lot for the endless joy you brought. Sleep tight old pal! Lie in comfort and warmth for good, old son. And carry on the laughs with Tony Hancock now that you're back together. Sleep tight old pal!
35 graham from colne lancashire: a classic sit com they dont make like it now the oldies are good.
34 Emma Brooks from Middlesbrough: Where sid has been out with trevor and the boy scouts and he cant remeber where he went and he puts trevor's shoes in the freezer.
33 Andy from Jersey: All of it !!! The whole series is as classic Brit-Com as you can get !!! More please !!!
32 sharon from north wales: My most memorable part in bless this house the movie was when sid realised that mike had welded the stop cock on to his school project and mike is screaming for his mum saying dads gone potty classic telly.
31 Matthew Reynolds from Oxford UK: What a brilliant comedy actor Sid James was! We all owe that great comic so much for all the laughs that he has given us in top quality shows like Bless This House. An excellent series - far better than much of the rubbish passing for comedy that they make these days.
30 Matthew from Somerset: Sid James is brilliant as Sid Abbott. I haven't seen all the episodes but I have seen the film with Carry On co-stars Patsy Rowlands, Terry Scott and June Whitfield.
Diana Coupland is excellent as Jean Abbott.
29 harry marway from goodmayes ilford: Hi I have watched the series this week and it is really funny. Sid James is a cult figure of comedy.
28 richard from kingston surrey: the answer to bryans question is it was filmed in a building in New Malden surrey just off the high street and the building opposit really is there, it is offices and a car park.
27 ANDY ELLIOTT from BOURNEMOUTH: Bless This House is an example of pure British comedy as it should be. About the stress strains and of course the joys of every day family life. It's sadly missed but always enjoyed. Sally Geeson is gorgeous of course but eveyone was good in it!! Bless you all Love Andy.
26 John Brandom from Milton Keynes: I agree with Richard from Sheffield, Sid was one of our greatest comedy imports, being a South African by birth. It was an absolute tragedy he died so young in 1976 aged 63,along with other comic geniuses. He would have made a great comedy film director, and although a great fan of Bless This House, l feel his great comedy contribution was in film and his partnership with another legend Tony Hancock - we miss you Sid!
25 Bryan Crombleholme from blackpool: does anybody know where it was set and what the builing is opposite the house (painted scene thru front door) it looks like they live in a 1970s car park ?
24 richard from sheffield: Sid was a genius in all his
roles,especially his films
which were very wide and varied but I must admit he
excelled himself in Bless This
House and the series ,even now,never seems to date.
23 Dorit from Manchester: Well I wasn't born to watch it, I'm 13 and it's really funny. When did Sid James die and why?
22 Nicholas from Redhill: I enjoy the above. However there were too few Asian Faces, Coloured Faces, or European Faces, in the various Series.
I found the episode featuring Jean & Sid in World War 2 hard to accept. They, like Hercule Poirot, in another Flashback Episode, did not look a day younger.
21 Mike from Leeds: Same as Paul and PJ loved the show, would really like to know what happened to the rest of the cast, in particular Sally Geeson. Catching it on cable at the moment. It showcases what a genius dear Sid was.
20 PJ from Manchester: Just as interested as Paul from wolverhampton. what happened to the rest of the cast after Sid died?
19 Tony Makara from Bolton: The show just doesn't seem dated at all, in spite of the Gilbert O'Sullivan posters in Sally's bedroom. Sid is a comic-master in every scene and even the supporting cast with the likes of Trevor add something to this excellent sit-com.
18 Ben from Sussex: The Black and white episodes are about, I taped them on sky in 1997, They are also available on DVD from Australia. Complete first series. Best programme on TV
17 Lindsay Martin from Toowoomba, Australia: In the '80s Robin Stewart was living in Australia on a country property near Toowoomba (west of Brisbane) and announcing on a local radio station, 4WK. He was very good, too! I saw him compering a busking competition in Toowoomba with a well-known Aussie country singer who was no help at all, and Robin was terrific: a true professional. I don't know where he is now.
16 Paul from Wolverhampton: Great Show in it's time and still great today, how many shows can you say that about? but what happened to all of the actors in the series?, I know dear old sid is no longer with us but what happened to the rest, would love to know.
15 Greg Tanner from Northampton: Just a related bit of trivia really: Did you know that Diana Coupland provided the dubbed singing voice for Ursula Andress in 'Dr No'? the song was 'Underneath the Mango Tree'.
14 frank george from Dymchurch, Kent: I have all episodes on tape or DVD except b/w series 1 no"s.2,5 and 6 which were not shown on sat-TV and which I believe are not existent in the TV Archives. I rate Sally Geeson as the prettiest girl then and now! My favourite episode is "The Loneliness of the Short Distance Walker". I hope one day that all the episodes will be on DVD, not just series 1.
13 freddie from ELGIN: all these classic episodes are excellent all that is good in british comedy
12 Melanie Walker from Tipton West Midlands: I used to watch Bless This House and thought it was brilliant the timing was excellent and there could not have been a better cast for that programme I still watch it today and still find it as funny.
11 richard john speight from hastings east sussex: I look back with a smile on my face when i see bless this house, it made me laugh then and it does the same now, also in the film it is nice to see terry scott driving a vauxhall viscount as i used to own myself.
10 Wayne Manor from Essex: Sid James is one of the all time greats.
9 Bryan Mitchell from Derby, England: Every one of Bless This House episodes was brilliant. Great cast and very funny.
I met Sid at Skegness Pier Theatre just before his untimely death. He was a really very nice person. I am so proud to say I still have his autograph.
8 graham knight from london: bless this house was one of the best comedy shows of the 70s alas nothing to day can come close to the timing of this classic comedy
7 john vilday from kent: In the film of Bless This House when sid is in the shed makeing whiskey and a bit gets spilled on some wood and takes the varnish off but they still drunk it
6 samuel brown from london: Bless this house is one of the best comedies ever !
5 Rob Lubbock from East Midlands Leics: Another Thames classic sitcom from the 70's. Personal favourite episode "The Frozen Limit" from the final series in 1976, as sadly we lost dear Sid James that year, I believe if Sid was still alive then I am sure that Thames would have made another series?
Sid was great as Sid Abbott and Diana as Jean.
4 Steve Finsley from Nottingham: The best episode of this show was without doubt, 'A Touch Of The Unknown' in which Sid's house was invaded by 'Hob Goblins' and 'The Plastergeist!' when Jean & Betty used a Ouija board to contact the spirit of the glass.
3 Linda from Newcastle Upon Tyne: Bless This House is an all-time classic - first saw it when aged 4! Sid was a marvel, they all were. Some things are dated on tv, but that will never date!
2 James Goodwin from Barnsley: I love retro comedy, and this in partcular-the cast was excellent and sid james was seldom in anything which was poor. It invokes memories of childhood too, as itv re-ran some episodes when I was quite young in the 1980's.
favourite episode was "a beef in his bonnet"...really funny stuff, especially when Diana Coupland remarked that Buenos Aires was in Italy.
1 David Campbell from Hawick: it is my fav because Sid James is in it, one of the great masters of comedy


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Time limit = 20 second(s)
Memory limit = 128000The Best Clusterization problem may be formulated in the following way:
The Problem: S is a set of points in 3D Euclidean space. Split S into subsets(clasters) S1, S2, ..., SK, to minimize D:
Intersection of Si and Sj, i ≠ j, is empty set and union of all Si gives S. Si should contain more than one point, i.e. ni = |Si| ≥ 2.
Your program should solve the best clusterization problem in 3-dimentional space to some precision. That mean the less the value of D the better, and your program may get "Accepted" even if clusterization is not the best and D does not reach the absolute minimum.
There is critical value D0(t) for each test t. If clusterization found by your program has D less than D0(t), then test is successfully passed.
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Input The first line of input contains N = |S| number of points in S, N ≤ 5000. Next N lines contains coordinates xi, yi, zi of these points, real numbers, which absolute value less than 2 000 000.
Output The first line should contain number of found clusters C. Then N lines should follow. i-th line should contain cluster's identifier, which i-th point in the input belongs to. Identifiers of clusters are numbers 1,2, ..., C.
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Homemade Chocolate Angel Food Cake
I developed this cake using my mother's angel food cake recipe because my husband and three daughters all love chocolate. It's won first place at our county and state fairs as well as "Best of Class" at the state fair!
Total TimePrep: 30 min. Bake: 45 min.
Makes12-16 servings
- 1-1/2 cups plus 1/3 cup sugar, divided
- 1-1/4 cups sifted cake flour
- 1/4 cup baking cocoa
- 2 cups egg whites (about 14), room temperature
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1/2 teaspoon chocolate flavoring
- 1-1/2 teaspoons cream of tartar
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- Ice cream and fudge sauce, optional
- Sift together 1-1/2 cups sugar, flour and cocoa; set aside. In a large bowl, beat egg whites, vanilla and chocolate flavoring until foamy. Combine cream of tartar, salt and remaining sugar; add a little at a time to bowl. Beat until very stiff but not dry peaks form. Gradually fold in flour mixture; do not over mix. Pour into an ungreased 10-in. tube pan. Bake at 350° for 45 minutes. Remove from oven and invert pan; allow to cool completely before removing from pan. Serve with ice cream and fudge sauce if desired.


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The Book Review Club (February 2013)
FOUR YEAR ANNIVERSARY TO US! Yup. We're your basic group of book
junkies. We've been meeting online and reviewing books for FOUR, yes
that's QUATRE, yes that's CUATRO, years! Talk about a lot of reading and
reviewing. Whew. Kind of blows the mind.
Moving right along...What holiday is almost upon us? Valentine's Day. And what goes great with chocolates and flowers? A good book, of course. Be sure to click through the links under my review. They'll take you to everyone else's reviews. Happy reading!
In a nutshell: OUT takes place in a world where parallels (same-sex couples) are the norm. Where perpendiculars (opposite-sex couples) are sent to rehab/torture camps.Where the gov't and the church are all powerful. Enter Chris Bryant, son of a well-known preacher. You guessed it. Chris falls in love with a girl. The girl falls in love with him. And now we've got a couple of criminals on the run.
Particular to this book: The author has received love mail and hate mail. It was tough getting OUT published traditionally, and she ended up self-publishing with her agent. Here's the amazon link to OUT. While I'm at it, here's the link to the author's website. Here's the link to the book trailer.
My thoughts: At the end of the day, this is a young-adult novel with a good strong voice. It's the story of a couple of teens who don't fit in, fall in love with each other, and take on the government and the church. Lots of conflict. Lots of twists. Good ending. And more than enough meat to make you think about how you treat others and how much you blindly follow the rules.
**check the comments section. The author just stopped by.**
Without further ado, here are the links to AMAZING AND THOUGHTFUL reviews! You don't want to miss them.
Stacy Nyikos: GOBLIN SECRETS by William Alexander (middle grade)
Alyssa Goodnight of the Writers' Road Less Traveled: THE SINISTER SWEETNESS OF SPLENDID ACADEMY by Nikki Loftin (middle grade)
Sarah Laurence: OUT OF NOWHERE by Maria Padian (young adult, contemporary)
Staci of Life in the Thumb: THE FAULT IN OUR STARS by John Green (young adult)
Patti Abbott: THE BLACKHOUSE by Peter May
Ellen Booraem of Freelance Ne'er-do-well: THE CASUAL VACANCY by J.K. Rowling
Stacy of The Cat's Meow: THE SNOW CHILD by Eowyn Ivey
Beth Yarnall: The Madness of Lord Ian Mackenzie by Jennifer Ashley (historical romance)
Linda McLaughlin: MAJOR PETTIGREW'S LAST STAND by Helen Simonson
INDIAN MAIDENS BUST LOOSE by Vidya Samsonn (Indian Chick Lit)
Linda McLaughlin AKA Lyndi Lamont: THE SCARLETTI CURSE by Christine Feehan (romance)
Jenn Jilks of Cottage Country: FACELESS KILLERS by Henning Mankell (mystery)
IF LOOKS COULD KILL by Kate White (mystery)
THE DOULA by Bridget Boland
Note to Reviewers: Any errors (broken link, missed review, etc), just shoot me an email or leave a comment. Thank you so much for your reviews!


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Netflix's 'House of Cards' looks, but doesn't sound, like a hit
If "House of Cards" were an actual television show, this would be the day after its finale — a time to analyze the cultural impact of the E-ticket D.C. thriller starring Kevin Spacey and Robin Wright, and to painstakingly mine the end of the first season for clues to the second. There would be hashtags and recaps, heated discussions and lists of things to love and hate.
Instead: radio silence. After all, fans have already seen the finale weeks, possibly months, ago. Or they haven't. Or they're watching it right now. Who knows? Because "House of Cards" isn't a television show; it's the first big scripted drama produced for the former purveyor of DVDs and secondhand streaming content, Netflix. Unleashed at 12:01 a.m. on Feb. 1 in its 13-episode entirety, "House of Cards" would, we were told by people who seemed to know, change the world as we know it.
So how come no one is talking about it?
In a business sense, the series appears to be a success. This week, after premiering its second fully downloadable series, "Hemlock Grove," Netflix announced it had surpassed HBO in U.S. subscriber numbers. An Olympian high jump in stock value quickly followed.
PHOTOS: Cable vs. broadcast ratings
The drama's place in the cultural conversation, however, is trickier to locate; frankly, it doesn't seem to have one. Debuting to rave reviews (including mine) and a general sense of new media triumph, it opened big and then quickly went on buzz mute.
People simply didn't know how to talk about it. "House of Cards," it turned out, was the world's first anti-water-cooler drama.
Those who devoured the series in one or a few gulps were afraid to spoil plot twists for those on a less bingified schedule. There was some discussion about this four or five weeks in, but it trailed off in an unsatisfying way. It's difficult to chat about not chatting, even on Twitter.
Some venues doggedly recapped "House of Cards" one or two or three episodes at a time, but the show and its stars were conspicuously absent from magazine covers and weekly critics' picks because the series has no identifiable audience timeline. Even the big narrative events — the apparent defection of Robin Wright's character or the murder of Rep. Peter Russo (Corey Stoll) — occurred with little media fanfare.
REVIEW: 'House of Cards' is deliciously spiteful
Despite the rise of DVR nation, television remains a collective experience, and "House of Cards" was occurring outside the social pale — a humbling experience for those who attempt to drive the conversation. But more important, it's a hugely contrarian argument in the digital universe, where the creators and stars of other shows regularly maintain a steady drumbeat of anticipation for each episode, often tweeting hourly countdowns to both coasts.
Indeed, since the advent of "Mad Men," with its relatively small but powerful fan base, the traditionally numerical measure of a television show's impact has given way to an ever-shifting calculation of many things, including the devotion a show inspires, and the size of its cultural footprint.
Yet even by those terms, the popularity of "House of Cards" is almost impossible to gauge, especially since Netflix won't release audience figures. The actors may have had great lines, but no one was repeating them. And Claire may have worn fabulous clothes, but no one is featuring them in "Get This Look" sections.
Critically, "House of Cards" turned out to be a fairly standard model show. Having drawn two A-list stars, a feature film writer and, for the initial two episodes, a big director (David Fincher), the D.C. drama based on a British show by the same name opened impressively and then fell sharply, in tone and structure. (Which may explain why Netflix made only two episodes available for review.)
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Episode 3 was a drag, Episode 4 slightly better; but it wasn't until the sixth or seventh hour (midseason) that "House of Cards" found its comfort zone. Which was a letdown after the impressive opener, but still quite smart and satisfying.
Spacey and Wright remained dazzling as the Machiavellian power couple Francis and Claire Underwood, although poor Kate Mara had the unenviable task of modernizing the "girl reporter" role from the original. Ambitious young Zoe Barnes first offered to print whatever Underwood said in exchange for insider information (her editor is portrayed as a complete moron), then she slept with him before turning on him.
Not surprisingly, when folks in the media talked about "House of Cards," it was often about how much they hated the character of Zoe Barnes. The narrative took a few interesting turns, as when Francis visited his all-male alma mater and tenderly revisited a romantic relationship he had with a schoolmate, but there being no natural forum for discussing such things, they mostly went undiscussed.
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It will be interesting to see how "House of Cards" plays at Emmy time — nominations for Spacey and Wright seem all but guaranteed, although the actors' absence from the limelight, especially as networks launch their equally high-voltage new content — Jane Campion's "Top of the Lake" and Ray McKinnon's "Rectify," both for Sundance Channel — might play against them.
Much more unpredictable is how the Netflix model will fare in the long run. Television's current state of ascendancy is due, in no small part, to the rather astonishing return of the electronic hearth. Its dimensions have been modified, by the DVR and the computer screen, but television is the centerpiece of social discourse in a way it hasn't been in decades.
"House of Cards" and its full-season dump doesn't quite fit into that model; it creates a blaze, but no seating. These days people like to watch a show, then hang out together and talk awhile.
The upcoming and highly anticipated resurrection of "Arrested Development" may provide Netflix with some answers. Seven years after its cancellation, its fans are still talking about it; it's hard to imagine they'll let a little thing like a brand new delivery model get in their way.
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Many New Yorkers live in small apartments, yet most of them don't camp out in a micro-unit at a museum in order to demonstrate the virtues of living in tight spaces.
Challie Stillman and Lina Franco arrived at the Museum of the City of New York at 6 p.m. on Aug. 16 for a 24-hour stay in a studio apartment that's part of an exhibit called "Making Room: New Models for Housing New Yorkers."
The exhibit, which runs through Sept. 2, also features designs that were submitted to a small-apartment competition announced by Mayor Michael Bloomberg last year.
Stillman and Franco normally live in a 650-square-foot apartment in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn. The museum's 325-square-foot studio is half that size but seems spacious because of the specially designed furniture and appliances.
The murphy bed includes a couch that slides under when the bed is out of the wall. A chair converts to a stepladder for reaching storage spaces.
The kitchen's under-the-counter refrigerator, freezer and dishwasher leave ample work space. Stillman and Franco invited six friends for dinner, but they had food delivered because the appliances are not hooked up.
"Everyone had a place to sit, had a place to eat, and it worked out perfectly," said Stillman, who is the design director for Resource Furniture, the distributor of the furniture in the apartment.
Stillman said it would be possible for two people to live in the apartment for real.
"You'd have to edit your belongings, definitely," she said. "And also, you have to be neat. Everything has to have its place, and if it's not in its place, and it's messy in here, you're going to start to get agitated."
Her partner, Franco, a lawyer, couldn't quite see living in the micro-apartment.
"We would need a little more closet space," she said. "We're both girls and we have clothes. And shoes."
Visitors to the exhibit Saturday said they were impressed.
"I would totally live in that apartment if I were on my own," said Rebecca Hersh of Highland Park, N.J., who was accompanied by her mother, Pam, and her two children, ages 6 and 4. "It's all about good design."
Museum-goer Gloria Feibus said she has an actual 300-square-foot Manhattan apartment and it's fine. "The only thing I don't have is a dishwasher, and I'm a built-in dishwasher," she said.
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Many New Yorkers live in small apartments, yet most of them don't camp out in a micro-unit at a museum in order to demonstrate the virtues of living in tight spaces.


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Cougar Announces 700M FPS Mouse
Cougar has announced the 700M, a new gaming mouse targeting (pun intended) First Person Shooter (FPS) gamers. The general specs show a 32bit ARM processor, 512MB onboard flash memory, an 8,200 DPI sensor and eight programmable buttons allowing it to store over 16 million macros. The palm rest is actually detachable and the weight configuration is adjustable to your own preferences.
The mouse itself even looks like a future-age gaming weapon and comes with another interchangeable palm rest. It also has a specific sniper button to help provide more accurate shots without moving the mouse while pressing. No word on an actual release date or pricing on the M700, quite yet.


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Public consequences of pop stars' private gigs
When pop stars Mariah Carey, Beyoncé, Nelly Furtado and 50 Cent recently said they'd renounced millions of dollars they'd received for performing for members of Libyan strongman Moammar Kadafi's family, they drew attention to a growing and controversial cultural phenomenon: celebrity artists being hired by rich, powerful and sometimes disreputable clients to play at private or semi-private functions.
From flashy hotel openings to wedding receptions, upscale bat mitzvahs and Caribbean bacchanalias, brand-name musicians, Hollywood actors and other celebrities are increasingly renting out their talents, or simply their crowd-drawing presence, for under-the-radar engagements.
Despite the potential ethical breaches, and the risk of tainting their public images, big stars likely will continue to be tempted by fat fees and all-expense-paid trips by private jet to a remote tropical island or luxury resort. Today's free-spending clients include Fortune 500 corporations, Wall Street tycoons and nouveau-riche developing-world businessmen.
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Some of these artists may be motivated largely by money and are ignorant of, or indifferent to, political concerns. Others like Sting, who performed at a 2009 concert arranged at the behest of the daughter of Uzbekistan dictator Islam Karimov (known for jailing dissidents and other human rights abuses), see themselves as cultural ambassadors opening new communications channels into closed societies.
Top stars' managers take care to protect their artists' reputations by pre-screening clients, "so they know they're not getting a briefcase of cash that wouldn't be clean, wouldn't be legal and would cause them all kinds of problems," said Bob van Ronkel, who runs a Moscow-based business that arranges for actors and musicians to appear at charity events, concerts and other activities, frequently in Russia and Central Asia.
But that can be difficult if the client is using a third-party intermediary or hiding behind a pseudonym, as one of Kadafi's sons is known to do, Van Ronkel said.
That was the explanation put forward by Carey last week when she renounced the reported $1 million she earned for giving a private 2008 New Year's Eve concert bankrolled by a member of the Kadafi family.
"I was naive and unaware of who I was booked to perform for," the singer, who has a substantial record of philanthropic activities, said in a statement. "I feel horrible and embarrassed to have participated in this mess. Going forward, this is a lesson for all artists to learn from. We need to be more aware and take more responsibility, regardless of who books our shows."
A few days previously, Furtado, the Canadian pop chanteuse, had announced in a Twitter message that she planned to give away the $1 million she made playing a 45-minute show for the Kadafi clan at an Italian hotel in 2007. She did not specify where the money would go.
Beyoncé said in a statement that she hadn't realized who was picking up the tab for a Kadafi-sponsored private party. "Once it became known that the third-party promoter was linked to the Kadafi family, the decision was made to put that payment to a good cause," the statement read. The singer said she already had donated the money she earned to Haitian earthquake-relief efforts.
Then this week rapper 50 Cent said that he, too, would donate to charity the money he'd earned performing several years ago at yet another private event linked to Kadafi family members.
Chris Palmer, a former vice president of progressive music and senior vice president of marketing for Warner Bros. Records, said that many artists typically are disconnected from who they are performing for, or for what reason, being more interested in putting on a good show.
"Some of the artists are so focused on being good entertainers, they're oblivious to the politics," said Palmer, now an assistant professor and program director for Arts Presenting at the University of Miami Frost School of Music. "Not all artists are as politically aware as Bruce Springsteen, Sting or Bono. It's a responsibility of their agents, and support staff, and the people around them to make that kind of call."
But even booking agents and managers may not know who'll show up at a gig until after it's planned. Van Ronkel said that Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin turned up on short notice last December at a charity event, billed as aiding hospitals for children with cancer, at which Kevin Costner performed with his band. Putin sang "Blueberry Hill" and played a grand piano.
At the time, Van Ronkel said, no one in his entourage was thinking about politics. "Governments think politics," he said, "but most of us are thinking, 'Wow, Kevin's here performing.'"
The event has subsequently drawn Russian media attention after the mother of a girl with cancer wrote an open letter implying the event may have benefited Putin's public image more than the children.
Sam Craig, director of the entertainment, media and technology program at New York University's Stern School of Business, said that although such private performances can backfire on an artist, the risk is minimal — at least in commercial terms. In a culture in which celebrities becoming tangled in a fracas of one kind or another is commonplace, these episodes don't tend to leave any lasting damage, he said. The fact that performances of this kind, by nature, fly under the media radar also lessens the danger of exposure.
"If it really blows up, you can just say you made a mistake, and 'I'll give the money to charity,' or something," Craig said. "There's got to be a pattern of something before fans flee."
Sting, for his part, offered no public mea culpa for playing the Uzbekistan concert, for which the former lead singer of the Police, well-known for his concert work on behalf of human rights and ecological causes, reportedly pocketed as much as 2 million British pounds. Sting later said he was "well aware of the Uzbek president's appalling reputation in the field of human rights as well as the environment. I made the decision to play there in spite of that."
"I have come to believe," the rock star declared, "that cultural boycotts are not only pointless gestures, they are counterproductive, where proscribed states are further robbed of the open commerce of ideas and art and as a result become even more closed, paranoid and insular."
Still, boycotts, whether formal or informal, may cause a celebrity to think twice. Last year Jennifer Lopez called off an appearance at a luxury hotel in the breakaway Turkish north of Cyprus when a furor over the gig erupted between Greek and Turkish Cypriots in that divided Mediterranean island. The pop star and "American Idol" judge reportedly would've earned $3 million for the gig. A statement posted on Lopez's website said the singer's decision "reflects our sensitivity to the political realities of the region."
Artists may find themselves standing on the wrong side of an ethical line if political circumstances shift suddenly. Although widely reviled for decades, the Kadafi regime had marginally improved its international standing in recent years after Libya renounced its pursuit of nuclear weapons. The regime's brutal crackdown this winter has restored its pariah status; that has drawn renewed scrutiny to foreigners dealing with the Kadafis.
Raul Pacheco and Ulises Bella, members of the left-leaning, politically activist L.A. band Ozomatli, said in an interview that the group had debated long and hard about whether to participate in foreign concert tours sponsored by the U.S. State Department in countries such as Myanmar, also known as Burma, which for decades has been ruled by a military junta.
In such situations, the ethical choices facing artists can be complex, the band mates suggested. Speaking of Furtado's recent about-face, Bella said, "She got dissed, [but] I'm thinking, 'Wow, she's giving $1 million to somebody that can use that money.'"
Pacheco said that, "whatever the agendas of most governments are, I think people getting together is very important."
"The double-edged sword of it," he said, "is, if you speak up, it's, 'Who are you? You're just a musician.'"


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I shot videos of several of the presentations at the Fedora User and Developer Conference yesterday. For your viewing pleasure:
- "State of Fedora" from the Fedora Project Leader, Jared Smith [ogg]
- Mike McGrath, team lead for OpenShift, demoing OpenShift [ogg]
- Jon Masters and Chris Tyler, on the ARM architecture in Fedora [ogg]. ARM is a secondary architecture today. By Fedora 18, with your help, it needs to become a primary architecture.
- David Nalley presented on CloudStack, which is aiming for Fedora 17 inclusion. [ogg]
- Dan Prince and Russell Bryant giving an introduction to OpenStack [ogg]
- Mo Morsi presenting the Aeolus cloud management project [ogg]
[Update 1/18/2012] I was able to upload all the videos to YouTube. http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2BAA7FF83E6482C2
is a playlist with all 6.


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A perhaps surprising and not widely known fact is that actively managed ETFs in their first five years outpaced the growth of index-based ETFs in their first five years, in both the number of products offered and the amount of assets under management.
The attraction is simple and begins with a better structure. The ability to get index exposure prior to 1993 could be done in many ways with mutual funds, stock baskets, closed-end funds, unit investment trusts (UITs) and several derivatives. The investment strategy initially offered by the SPDR S&P 500 ETF (SPY) was not unique at all. The difference was the structural benefits of the ETF—the transparency, tax efficiency and liquidity—which also allowed investors to use limit orders with their fund holdings for the first time. Not available to end-of-day priced NAV funds, limit orders are an essential risk management tool for ETF trading, allowing investors to get execution at a price or time they want, not after a volatile day in the market (which these days can easily add 100 basis points in price movement).
Advisors who value transparency, operational efficiency and liquidity also have the ability to work with trading desks to aggregate their client trades through a market maker and potentially obtain an execution via new ETF creation units. ETFs enhance day-to-day risk analysis capabilities. When analyzing overlaps among products, viewing the holdings at the end of every trading day versus the end of a quarter is the difference between a smartphone and an old rotary phone. For example, a client conversation can go much easier when explaining an actively managed tactical fund that constantly changes holdings if in a transparent ETF.
There are two market data points that support the idea that actively managed ETF assets could continue to grow at a faster pace than index-based ETFs. The first is that index ETFs are consistently the most active trading security on any given day, a telling indication that ETFs are focused on far more than just the buy-and-hold investor. ETFs have become "beta baskets" for strategic and tactical asset allocators to implement their active strategies, meaning that beta products are being used as tools for actively managed strategies where the money manager takes on the active decisions of asset allocation. Beta ETFs are able to serve as cost effective tools for moving assets across various asset classes. The second data point comes from the Investment Company Institute and shows that as of 2012, only 17.4% of equity mutual fund assets are in index-based strategies. That amount has increased, but using dollars invested as a form of voting, investors overwhelmingly prefer active managers in the mutual fund structure.
The beneficial structure of an ETF, combined with many investment advisors' desire to allocate to an active manager and provide their clients better risk-adjusted returns, spurred a burgeoning actively managed ETF market that today is a robust marketplace with a variety of asset classes and strategies available.
Advisors clearly recognize not only the importance of asset class diversification, but also diversification across manager style and strategy. As advisors continue to search for better risk adjusted returns for their client portfolios, actively managed ETFs should not only continue with substantial growth, but perhaps eventually grow larger in total assets under management than index-based ETFs.


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President Obama wants you to know that nothing he's attempting to do as head of the Executive Branch has been improper – or will ever be improper – because, after all, he's constitutionally prohibited.
During a speech in Denver, Colo., in early April, the president – in town to push, not-so-ironically, his gun control agenda, told an audience he was "constrained" in his ability to act alone on the issue "by the system our founders put in place," while verbally thrashing Second Amendment advocates who dare to say gun ownership is not just a matter of self-defense but also as a bulwark against government tyranny (as our founding fathers intended. And he did so using a now-familiar technique, and one that he has often used when pushing his agenda – hijack the language in a way that frames opponents as imbalanced and extreme.
To wit:
Opponents of some of these common-sense laws have ginned up fears among responsible gun owners that have nothing to do with what's being proposed and nothing to do with the facts, but feeds into this suspicion about government…
You hear some of these quotes: "I need a gun to protect myself from the government." We can't do background checks because the government is going to come take my guns away.
Well, the government is us. These officials are elected by you. They are elected by you. I am elected by you. I am constrained, as they are constrained, by a system that our Founders put in place. It's a government of and by and for the people."
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Raiders in search of their identity
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Around the NFL, it was being called Statement Sunday. A pivotal day full of key matchups that would help decide the playoff picture.
At the Coliseum, the Raiders and the Chiefs were calling it something else. A what-the-hell-happened-to-us type of statement. On a Sunday of heavyweight games, it was by far the lightest on the schedule.
A once-proud rivalry reduced to a fight for draft position. If there is a clear-cut savior in April's draft, the Raiders won't get him. They assured that by beating the Chiefs 15-0 on five Sebastian Janikowski field goals.
One of the few moments of excitement the Raiders offered was when second-year quarterback Terrelle Pryor entered in the second quarter. Pryor, the last controversial acquisition of Al Davis' career, went three-and-out and didn't return. Starter Carson Palmer played the rest of the way.
Head coach Dennis Allen said that was by design. The plan was for Pryor to play the first series of the second quarter and "then let the game play out from there. I thought we were doing nice things with Carson and with the run game, and we just stuck with the plan."
Pryor, who handed off twice and prided himself on throwing the ball away on third down and not throwing an interception, called the move a steppingstone. He said nothing but deferential things about Palmer, from whom he said he has learned and who he believes has played well all season.
Pryor still conceded it is hard for a quarterback to have any chance to get in a rhythm in one series.
"Your arm goes cool real quick," he said, "but that's the situation I'm dealt."
Allen, Palmer and the Raiders were desperate for a win. But why not take a longer look at Pryor? At this point, the fourth win of the season is merely window-dressing. Why not take a long and serious look at everyone on the roster? Why not let the fans see something new?
The Raiders need to keep their fans interested. Sunday's game was, theoretically, a sellout and was televised in the Bay Area. But in reality, the Coliseum was only about two-thirds full.
The Raiders haven't wanted to say they were rebuilding this year; it's a bad way to sell tickets. Sunday was the season's home finale, so the need to sell tickets is over.
Fans aren't stupid; they know this whole year was about rebuilding. So why not let Pryor play and see what he's like in a game situation? If the Raiders had lost, so what? They could have stayed in the running for the No. 1 overall pick, even though the coming draft isn't as sexy as last season's.
The fans cheered when Pryor came on the field.
"Yeah, Oakland loves me," Pryor said. "And I love Oakland. I was excited to get out there."
But then, after four snaps, one of which didn't count because of a penalty, Pryor's moment was over. And the second-most-exciting thing for fans? The presence of a pigeon on the field. A pigeon has been on the field for much of the season, oblivious to the action of enormous men tromping around it. The pigeon even became a Twitter phenomenon, under the hashtag #warpigeon. You might have thought this was the work of bored sportswriters in the press box, but no. When guard Mike Brisiel shooed the pigeon in the first half with his foot, he was roundly booed.
"I apologize to the fans," Brisiel said. "I didn't realize it was a lucky charm."
At halftime, as groundskeepers stalked the pigeon with a bucket, the crowd again booed loudly and the P.A. system played "Freebird."
Really, you have to take your entertainment where you can get it. The Raiders haven't provided much.
The Raiders' first shutout victory in a decade came against a truly awful team. The Chiefs were terrible last year and have a valid reason to be completely decimated the rest of this season following teammate Jovan Belcher's murder-suicide Dec. 1. In contrast, the Raiders were one play away from the playoffs last season. But right now, it feels like they might not get that close again.
Steve Young frequently has voiced his admiration for NFL teams that know what they are. You can look at teams like the Steelers, the Packers and the Giants, in the past and also today, and know what to expect. Young expressed those thoughts a few years ago when he was dismayed that the 49ers had lost their way.
He could say the same thing about the Raiders right now. It might not have been the most successful formula for several years, but you always knew who the Raiders were and what they meant.
Now they might as well be the Jacksonville Jaguars, the irrelevant team with whom they came into the day fighting for draft position. They're simply another bad team without an identity.
Unless you count the #warpigeon.
Ann Killion is a San Francisco Chronicle columnist. E-mail: email@example.com Twitter: @annkillion


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The Cuban Missile Crisis at 50
In October of 2002, as President George W. Bush openly prepared for the invasion of Iraq, an elite group of former Kennedy White House aides gathered in Havana to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the Cuban missile crisis. "There are lessons to be learned,'' observed Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., a top Kennedy advisor and renowned historian, at the international conference hosted by Fidel Castro. "This was not only the most dangerous moment of the Cold War. It was the most dangerous moment in human history.''
For Bush, the key lesson of the missile crisis was that a preemptive strike was warranted to take out Saddam Hussein's purported weapons of mass destruction. "We cannot wait for the final proof—the smoking gun—that could come in the form of a mushroom cloud," he declared in an October 7 speech, citing John F. Kennedy's words during the missile crisis—"we no longer live in a world where only the actual firing of weapons represents a sufficient challenge to a nation's security to constitute maximum peril"—to justify the forthcoming attack on Iraq.
From Cuba, Kennedy's aides quickly challenged the President's misappropriation of the past. Theodore Sorensen, JFK's speechwriter who had drafted the very words Bush cited, clarified that they were "not intended to justify a preemptive strike, because JFK had specifically ruled out a preemptive strike." Kennedy's strategy in 1962 "was not preemption. It was the reverse of preemption," stated former Defense Secretary Robert McNamara. If President Bush was his student, Schlesinger told the Washington Post, "I would flunk him in history."
Fifty years after the Cuban missile crisis brought the world to the brink of nuclear war its dramatic history continues to hold lessons for the present. A decade ago the sabers of war were rattling over Iraq; today the United States and Israel are openly debating a preemptive strike against Iran. Sadly, Schlesinger, Sorensen and McNamara are no longer here to point out the implications of the crisis for current day conflicts. The search for a full appreciation of the lessons of the crisis, nevertheless, continues.
Incredibly, despite the current global importance for a complete accounting of the missile crisis, significant parts of the historical record remain secret and sealed. Even so, in the decade since the conference in Havana, which brought together surviving officials from Cuba, the former USSR and the U.S. along with newly declassified documentation from all three nations, the narrative of the conflict has evolved, allowing analysts and historians to revisit and revise the events of October 1962. A recent book by the intrepid investigative reporter Michael Dobbs, One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War, for example, has revealed that besides the ballistic missiles, the Soviets secretly brought dozens of nuclear-tipped cruise missiles to Cuba, and, at the height of the crisis, positioned those weapons near the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay in anticipation of a U.S. invasion.
Another book published this fall, The Soviet Cuban Missile Crisis: Castro, Mikoyan, Kennedy, Khrushchev and the Missiles of November, by Sergo Mikoyan and edited by Svetlana Savranskaya, draws on never-before-seen Soviet documents that record the struggle between Moscow and Havana over withdrawing those cruise missiles, and other battlefield nuclear weapon systems that the CIA never detected in Cuba.
These new revelations remind us of how terrifyingly close the world came to atomic Armageddon. But the declassified record has also revealed major new details on how committed both Kennedy and Khrushchev were to using creative diplomacy to stop the forces of a final Cold War confrontation that they themselves had inadvertently unleashed.
The genesis of Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev's offer of a nuclear deterrent to Cuba, and Castro's decision to deploy the missiles on Cuban soil, dates back to the April 1961 CIA-led paramilitary assault at the Bay of Pigs, and the subsequent covert program known as "Operation Mongoose" which was intended to lead to another U.S. invasion of Cuba. But the official starting point of the missile crisis came on October 14, 1962, when a U-2 spy plane snapped hundreds of reconnaissance photos of a series of newly constructed installations and camps in the Cuban countryside. The next day, analysts at the CIA's National Photographic Interpretation Center spotted hard evidence—images of launchers, missiles, trailers and special transport trucks—that proved the existence of medium-range ballistic missile [MRBM] sites on the island. Additional photo intelligence soon revealed bases for intermediate-range missiles capable of striking targets over 2,800 miles away in the United States. The CIA estimated the missiles would become "fully operational within two weeks."
On October 16, Kennedy gathered a select group of advisors—an executive committee officially known as the "ExComm"—to discuss a strategic response. His Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara, presented him with three basic options: l) a political option of "approaching Castro," and "approaching Khrushchev"; 2) a naval blockade to stop Soviet ships carrying weapons to Cuba; and 3) "military action directed against Cuba, starting with an air attack against the missiles." The ExComm's initial discussions focused on a massive U.S. military assault on the nuclear installations and other bases in Cuba, and whether the Soviets would counterattack in Berlin or elsewhere.
Would a U.S. attack on Cuba killing thousands of Soviet personnel —the CIA estimated 8,000 Soviet troops and technicians on the island when the actual number was 42,000—and many more thousands of Cubans, set off a spiral of superpower aggression leading to the ultimate doomsday scenario? "I don't believe we have considered the consequences," as Kennedy's secret Oval Office taping system captured the concerns expressed by Secretary McNamara. "I don't know quite what kind of a world we live in after we've struck Cuba, and we, we've started it… After we've launched fifty to a hundred sorties, what kind of world do we live in? How, how do we stop at that point?"
That question plagued the president as he resisted pressure from top aides and the Joint Chiefs of Staff to authorize a week of carpet bombing of Cuba—more than 1,000 sorties were planned for the first two days of airstrikes—followed by a massive invasion. As Kennedy leaned toward the blockade option to buy time to negotiate the withdrawal of the missiles, Air Force General Curtis LeMay accused him of a Munich-style appeasement. The cigar-chomping General—LeMay served as the role model for the unhinged military officer Buck Turgidson in Stanley Kubrick's famous movie, Dr. Strangelove—who had 3,000 missiles under his command, seemed to believe a nuclear war was winnable. If the missiles flew, some 70 million Americans could be killed, President Kennedy pointed out. "You are talking about the destruction of a country."
At 7pm on October 22, Kennedy went on television to give one of the most dramatic 18-minute speeches in modern times. The U.S. now had "unmistakable evidence" of offensive missile bases on the island of Cuba, he told the nation and the world. "[T]his sudden, clandestine decision to station strategic weapons for the first time outside of Soviet soil is a deliberatively provocative and unjustified change in the status quo which cannot be accepted by this country," the President stated. He announced a "strict quarantine" against ships carrying weapons to Cuba, and demanded that Khrushchev "halt and eliminate" this threat to world peace.
Khrushchev's first reaction was to issue threats of his own. Yes, he had sent missiles to Cuba, he privately told William Knox, the president of Westinghouse Electric International who happened to be visiting Moscow on October 24. But they were meant to defend the revolution against the threat of future U.S. invasions. If the Americans now attacked Cuba, the U.S. Guantanamo Naval Base would "disappear the first day," he warned, according to Dobbs' book.
"I'm not interested in the destruction of the world," he informed Knox, who became the first emissary in the missile crisis. "But if you want us to all meet in Hell, it's up to you."
During the ensuing six days of the increasingly dangerous superpower showdown, President Kennedy pursued a strategy combining the naval blockade and massive build-up of an invasion force with diplomacy for a political settlement. On October 24, just as Kennedy and his aides awaited the first potentially perilous interception by U.S. destroyers of two Soviet freighters believed to be carrying weapons approaching the quarantine line, the CIA reported that the ships had stopped or turned around. "We're eyeball to eyeball, and I think the other fellow just blinked," Secretary Rusk told the ExComm—a statement that became the most iconic, if erroneous, representation of the missile crisis. (In fact, as Dobbs proves in One Minute to Midnight, the two ships were hundreds of miles away and, on Khrushchev's orders, already returning to Russia; this "eyeball" confrontation on the high seas never took place.)
On October 26, a glimmer of hope for a resolution emerged when a Soviet KGB agent meeting with ABC News correspondent John Scali suggested that the Kremlin might consider a non-invasion of Cuba guarantee by Washington as a basis to withdraw the missiles. A private message from Khrushchev to Kennedy arrived the same day stating that it was the constant "threat of armed attack and aggression" against Cuba that had prompted the Soviets to position the missiles there; if the U.S. would give "assurances" of no future invasions of Cuba, "then too, the question of armaments would disappear."
The next day, however, Khrushchev broadcast a public message on Radio Moscow to Kennedy upping the ante: in return for withdrawing the Cuban missiles, he demanded the U.S. dismantle its battery of 15 medium- range "Jupiter" missiles, each with a nuclear warhead 100 times the strength of the Hiroshima bomb, based along Turkey's frontier with the USSR. Installed during the Eisenhower administration, the Jupiters had become operational in March 1962, perhaps not by coincidence around the same time as Khrushchev had decided to offer Soviet missiles to Cuba.
This demand was one of a series of unexpected events on October 27, known as "Black Saturday," that dramatically escalated the danger of war. Later that day, without orders from Khrushchev, a Russian anti-aircraft unit shot down a U-2 spy plane that had taken surveillance photos of Soviet and Cuban defensive positions as Cuba prepared for an expected U.S. attack; the pilot, Major Rudolf Anderson, became the one military casualty of the conflict. Unbeknownst to Kennedy, another U-2 set out on a mission to gather air samples of Soviet nuclear tests from the North Pole and strayed deep into Soviet territory over the Chukot Peninsula, a "provocation," as the Kremlin interpreted it, that set off alarms that the U.S. was preparing for an attack there; Khrushchev's anxieties were further increased by a message he received from Fidel Castro arguing that a U.S. invasion of Cuba was eminent, that Russia would be attacked next, and that Khrushchev should consider launching his missiles before Moscow was struck. Finally, in a direct and dramatic military confrontation on the high seas, U.S. naval warships dropped depth charges on a Soviet Foxtrot submarine, unaware that it carried a nuclear tipped torpedo.
Unable to communicate with Moscow, the sub's captain believed that war had broken out and considered arming and launching the nuclear weapon, rather than surface and surrender.
As events seemed to spin out of control, both Kennedy and Khrushchev redoubled their efforts to find a solution. In Moscow, Khrushchev convened the Politburo and made it clear he was looking for a politically acceptable way to dismantle the missile sites in Cuba. In Washington, Kennedy convened the ExComm to work out language for a deal on the non-invasion pledge and discuss the merits of swapping the U.S. missiles in Turkey for the Soviet missiles in Cuba. When his aides argued against such a deal—the U.S. would be seen as capitulating to nuclear blackmail; the NATO alliance would be weakened; and Turkey would be insulted as an ally—Kennedy revealed that he was thinking ahead to a crisis that could be avoided:
I'm just thinking about what we're going to have to do in a day or so, which is 500 sorties, and seven days, and possibly an invasion, all because we wouldn't take missiles out of Turkey. We all know how quickly everybody's courage goes when the blood starts to flow, and that's what is going to happen to NATO. When they start these things and [the Soviets] grab Berlin,
everybody's going to say: 'Well, that was a pretty good proposition.' . . . That's the difficulty. Today it sounds great to reject it, but it's not going to after we do something.
On the evening of October 27 Kennedy sent his brother, Robert, to personally deliver a carefully worded proposal to Soviet Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin: if the Soviets removed the missiles under UN supervision and guaranteed offensive weapons would never again be introduced into Cuba, the U.S. would lift the naval blockade and pledge not to invade Cuba. "The effect of such a settlement on easing world tensions," the communiqué stated, "would enable us to work toward a more general arrangement regarding 'other armaments…' " an oblique reference to the Jupiter missiles.
Privately, Robert Kennedy informed Dobrynin that the U.S. would secretly swap the Turkish missiles for the Cuban missiles but that this would be done later, "within four to five months." Washington would never publicly acknowledge that such a quid pro quo had been made, Kennedy said. He made it clear to the Russian diplomat that time was of the essence for a positive Soviet response.
The next day at 5pm Moscow time/9am Washington time, Radio Moscow broadcast Khrushchev's reply: "The Soviet government," the announcer read, "has given a new order to dismantle the weapons you describe as offensive, and to crate and return them to the Soviet Union." The news reached President Kennedy in his bedroom at the White House as he was dressing to attend Church.
Publicly the crisis appeared to be resolved and the world breathed a collective sigh of relief; behind the scenes, weeks of tensions between Washington and Moscow and between Moscow and Havana, as new Russian documents reveal, continued over the removal of other nuclear weapons systems the Soviets had secretly brought to Cuba. Even before the crisis fully abated, the Kennedy administration set about creating a mystique and mythology around the facts and handling of the conflict.
On December 8, 1962, the Saturday Evening Post published a long article, "In Time of Crisis," which established the official narrative on the Cuban missile crisis. Based on an off-the-record interview with the President, and access to his top aides, the authors, Charles Bartlett and Stewart Alsop, described how the Soviets had backed down in the face of U.S. resolve. Kennedy had gone "eyeball to eyeball" with Khrushchev in a game of nuclear brinkmanship, and the Soviets had blinked. Dispelling any rumors of a quid pro quo, anonymous aides painted the most liberal member of Kennedy's crisis management team, UN Ambassador Adlai Stevenson, as an appeaser for recommending that Kennedy consider trading the Soviet missile bases in Cuba for the U.S. missile bases in Turkey or elsewhere—a recommendation that Kennedy had then secretly implemented unbeknownst to many of his top advisors and the public.
At the time, the Kennedy White House went to considerable lengths to keep this agreement secret. In November, when Khrushchev sent a private letter through Dobrynin to Kennedy attempting to concretize a formal understanding of the missile swap, the White House returned the letter seemingly unopened—making clear there would be no diplomatic discussion about the most covert part of resolving the crisis. When Robert Kennedy's memoir of the missile crisis, Thirteen Days, was published posthumously in 1969, it omitted the critical details about his discussion on the Turkish missiles with Dobrynin. Almost 30 years after the crisis, Theodore Sorensen, who completed the manuscript after Robert Kennedy was assassinated, conceded that the missile trade had been "portrayed as an explicit deal in RFK's diaries" on which the book had been based. But Sorensen admitted that he had "seen fit to revise that account in view of the fact that the trade was still a secret at the time, known to only six members of the ExComm."
Such secrecy enabled the early depiction of Kennedy's successful brinkmanship and forceful resolve to become missile crisis folklore. The president had "dazzled the world" in handling the crisis, Arthur Schlesinger Jr. wrote in his 1966 hagiographic biography, A Thousand Days. Kennedy asserted a "combination of toughness and restraint, of will, nerve and wisdom, so brilliantly controlled, so matchlessly calibrated..." His crisis management skills had forced the Russians to "blink" and retreat.
But as the facts have emerged over the years, it is clear that the crisis was not a model of brinkmanship, nor was U.S. strategy so controlled and calibrated, nor was it a lesson in the use of force and resolve. Kennedy did exercise nerve and wisdom, but it was devoted to his commitment to deploy diplomats instead of soldiers, to avoid a final war rather than risk one. That commitment has been overshadowed by the "balls of steel" legend that has built up around the crisis.
It took almost 30 years after the missile crisis for historians to obtain confirmation of the basic facts of the secret missile swap. And more than 25 years for former members of the ExComm to reveal that Kennedy was so committed to resolving the crisis that he established a back-channel to United Nations Secretary General U Thant, in case Khrushchev did not accept the trade. At a Florida conference of surviving Kennedy administration officials in 1987, Sorensen read a letter from Dean Rusk in which he described a top secret presidential message he had transmitted to U Thant through an emissary in New York late in the evening of October 27. If needed, U Thant was to undertake his own UN initiative to end the crisis, calling on the Soviets to withdraw the missiles in Cuba, and the U.S. to withdraw the missiles in Turkey. A UN proposal, the message inferred, would provide Kennedy with the needed political cover to agree publicly to such a deal.
But in addition to his negotiations with Khrushchev and secret channel to the UN, the most enduring secret of the missile crisis diplomacy was that Kennedy actually made an approach to Castro, reaching out to the fiery Cuban leader through a third-country intermediary in a concerted effort to bring the crisis to an end. This hidden history, recorded in secret communiqués and cables discovered in the foreign ministry archives of Brazil by George Washington University historian James Hershberg, revealed the President's commitment to leave no stone unturned to get the Russian missiles out of Cuba—without them being fired.
At the very first ExComm meeting on October 16, when most senior officials were focusing on attacking Cuba, Secretary of State Rusk had pushed the President to consider the alternative of "getting some word to Castro." Since Washington had severed diplomatic relations with Havana at the end of the Eisenhower administration, Rusk suggested using Canada's ambassador as an emissary to pass this message to Fidel: "Cuba is being victimized here…the Soviets are preparing Cuba for destruction or betrayal…. The time has now come when he must take the interests of the Cuban people, must now break clearly with the Soviet Union, [and] prevent this missile base from becoming operational."
Kennedy's initial response was to simply suggest that "[I] don't think the message to Castro has much in it." But after his dramatic October 22 presidential address to the nation, the President ordered the ExComm to look again at "alternative courses of action" to the use of force. In response, the State Department produced a top secret report that revisited the option of "approaching Castro." The idea was to coax Castro to eject the missiles along with the Soviets by opening the door to Cuba's return to the West. The U.S. would point out that "Cuba was merely being exploited in the interests of the Soviet Union and that any of the possible paths by which the Cuban crisis can be expected to develop will result in the overthrow of his regime, if not its physical destruction."
The State Department report added that Washington would "have to give some assurances, regardless of whether we intended to carry them out, that we would not ourselves undertake to overthrow the regime or support others trying to do so." A handwritten note scribbled by an NSC official captured the essence of this approach: "Get word to Castro once ships turn back that if he kicks out Sovs we can live w. him."
Such an approach "would be made to Castro through a Latin American representative in Cuba, probably the Brazilian ambassador," the State Department recommended. Headed by the populist president João Goulart, Brazil had maintained strong ties to Cuba after the revolution, and a longstanding interest in being a mediator to improve U.S.–Cuban relations.
At the ExComm meeting on October 26, President Kennedy approved the clandestine back-channel communication. He overruled the objections of CIA director John McCone who insisted on safeguarding the agency's right to covertly continue its efforts to overthrow Castro. "We ought to concentrate on the missiles now," Kennedy determined. "It probably won't get any place," but "time is running out for us."
In a top secret/eyes only cable from the Secretary of State to U.S. Ambassador Lincoln Gordon in Rio, Rusk stated that it was time to "discuss with Castro alone RPT alone" a way out of the missile crisis. He instructed Gordon to meet with Brazil's foreign minister and ask him to have this message transmitted to Castro as if it was a Brazilian initiative:
The action of the Soviet Union in using Cuban soil as sites for offensive nuclear missiles capable of striking most of the Western Hemisphere has placed the future of the Castro regime and the well-being of the Cuban people in great jeopardy.
The Brazilian intermediary would then offer the carrot of better relations with the U.S. and the rest of Latin America:
Castro might recall that President Kennedy has said publicly that only two issues were nonnegotiable between Castro and the U.S.—the military-political ties to the USSR and the aggressive attitude toward the internal affairs of other Latin American countries. This view will be shared by other members of the Inter-American system. Of course this now means giving up the offensive nuclear capability being established in Cuba and sending home Soviet military personnel, on which help can certainly be given if needed. From such actions many changes in the relations between Cuba and the OAS countries, including the U.S., could flow.
To disguise the origins of this message, according to Hershberg's research, U.S. embassy officers translated it into Portuguese and typed it onto plain paper; Ambassador Gordon then passed it to Brazil's foreign minister at a midnight meeting on October 27. Gordon described the message as an "extremely important and sensitive diplomatic initiative…requiring utmost secrecy, with perhaps vital bearing on peace."
By the time Brazil's emissary General Albino Silva arrived in Havana on October 29, however, the Soviets had already announced they were withdrawing the missiles; Castro had heard the news on the radio and was furious at Nikita Khrushchev for negotiating a deal to end the crisis without even consulting him. The urgency and relevance of Kennedy's Brazilian back-channel message had been eclipsed by events.
"I now conclude that however astutely the crisis may have been managed,'' former Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara observed at the 40th anniversary conference in Havana, "luck also played a significant role in the avoidance of nuclear war by a hair's breadth.'' For McNamara, the main lesson of the Cuba conflict was that there could be no such thing as successful crisis management in the nuclear age—therefore a global project was needed to eliminate weapons of mass destruction. "The record of the missile crisis is replete with examples of misinformation, misjudgment, miscalculation," he noted. "Such errors are costly in conventional warfare. When they affect decisions relating to nuclear forces, they can result in the destruction of nations."
To be sure, 50 years ago the world came closer than ever before to atomic annihilation. But more commitment than luck was involved in the extensive efforts to search for, and find, a diplomatic solution in which both sides got something their leaders needed to save face and evade the horror of nuclear war. As the historical record has expanded, the image of the resolute president has given way to the resolution president, committed to extricating the U.S., the USSR, and Cuba from the danger of war in the dark shadow of the bomb.
Of all the international crises in modern times, the Cuban missile crisis deserves a full understanding, by policy makers and citizens alike. But only when all archives have been opened, and every last page of documentation declassified, in the United States and in Moscow and Havana, will the historical record be complete and that appreciation possible. Maintaining secrecy around the missile crisis is, quite simply, a threat to global security. "Having come so close to the edge," as Kennedy's national security advisor, McGeorge Bundy observed years later, "we must make it our business not to pass this way again."
Peter Kornbluh is co-author of The Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962 and the director of the National Security Archive's Cuba Documentation Project.


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Boys are found everywhere - on top of, underneath, inside of, climbing on, swinging from, running around or jumping to. Mothers love them...and Heaven protects them. A boy is Truth with dirt on its face, Beauty with a cut on its finger, Wisdom with bubble gum in its hair and the Hope of the future with a frog in its pocket. - Alan Marshall BeckMy sweet George,
The past year has been the most transformative of my life all because of you. On a cold, sunny Christmas Eve one year ago at 8:36 am, you screamed your way into the world and made me your Mama. From the moment your Baba brought you over to me in the operating room so I could kiss your tiny cheek, you gave me purpose and filled my heart in a way I never would have imagined. The first time I looked into your original grey, wide, startled eyes I vowed to teach you, love you and protect you as much as a mother can.
Now, one year later I want to you to know that you are an absolute joy. You have filled my life and our home with giggles and dimply grins, squeals and shrieks, mountains of diapers and such unwavering love. You have changed so much from that 7 lb, 14 ounce swaddled bundle to the rough and tumble, sturdy, gorgeous (I'm your Mama so I can say so!) 22 pound toddler you are today. I adore every bit of you and the darling boy you are becoming.
At one year you:
- weigh 22 pounds, 8 ounces (50%) and stand 30 3/4 inches tall (77%).
- have two teeth on the bottom and two more on the top that decided to start pushing their way through today, your birthday.
- have started walking, a few wobbly steps at a time. You took your very first steps for Baba on December 11, 2010. You prefer to crawl or cruise right now because it's much faster but, I think you'll likely be running circles around us in a few weeks time.
- make coffee for us every morning. You love buttons and gadgets so, Baba taught you how to press the power button on the coffee maker. Each morning you point to the kitchen and and motion to us to hold you up to the machine. You press the button (usually with your left hand), giggle as the machine starts and wave "bye-bye" to the beans as they are pulled into the grinder. I can't think of a brighter way to start breakfast each day.
- say: Mama, Baba, YiaYia, Voom (for 'vroom' as you push your cars and trucks), Ba (for balloon and bottle), 'Did it' and 'Got it'.
- love your books. You'll sit and flip through page by page for long periods of time and you bring us your favorites to read to you, over and over. You enjoy touch/feel books and any that have us making animal sounds.
- are getting better at following direction. You will pull your hand back when we say "No touch", which is helpful when we are visiting new places.
- when asked (in both English and Greek) you will wave hello or good-bye, clap and give kisses.
- are so good with other babies. You are curious and want to see what they are doing but, play gently.
- are a climber! You climb into drawers, on to the couch and ottoman and on top of your large toys.
- are fearless. You dive right into new situations from climbing to exploring new places to crawling up stairs (even though we have none in our home and never taught you!).


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Note: This is a cross-post from my own blog Education Rethink.
I asked Joel what he thought of school and he said, "I love it. We get to play. We get to learn math. I'm practicing reading real books."
"What do you mean real books?"
"It's like school finally started. We spent all of last week taking tests."
"Crazy," I tell him.
"Yeah. And they even test you on how fast you read instead of how good you are at reading," he shakes his head.
I shake my head with him.
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MONTREAL — A Quebec Superior Court judge ruled Monday that there will be no publication ban on evidence presented at the upcoming murder trial of Luka Magnotta.
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