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Re-adjustment & Reverse Culture Shock
Coming back home can be difficult--sometimes even more difficult than going abroad. Now that you're back you might notice some things that were once familiar have become foreign. Hearing new songs on the radio, new fashion trends, new slang, etc. can trigger "reverse culture shock." Don't ignore these sentiments and know that they are completely normal. Look out for the following:
- "Reverse homesickness." This happens when students deeply miss their abroad friends, international host families, and the city where they lived during the study abroad experience.
- "Relationships have changed." When students return home, they may experience a change in the relationships that they had with their family and/or friends. Many students expect that everything will be exactly the same when they return home, neglecting that much can change in six months.
- "You can't explain." Some friends and family will be extremely open to hearing stories and seeing pictures, yet students returning from abroad often find it frustratingly difficult to put their experience into words, especially if the friends and/or family members in question have not traveled much.
- "People misunderstand." Accidentally using a foreign language, wearing a new hairstyle or new clothing, etc. may be seen as showing off, whereas to the returning student, these behaviors are completely normal.
- "Feelings of alienation." When students return from abroad, many develop new dislikes for aspects of their home country. Many students become hypercritical and constantly reminisce about how things in their study abroad site were much better than they are in this country.
- "Boredom." Students return from a semester of adventure and excitement, where each day brought a new challenge and learning opportunity. Many students return to their "old routine" with their family and friends and are disillusioned with how uninteresting life can feel in their home country.
Should you strongly experience any of the situations above, please contact the NYU Wellness Exchange. They offer a private, 24/7 hotline that puts you in touch with professionals, who can help you address day-to-day challenges as well as most other health-related concerns. The Wellness Exchange hotline can be reached at (212) 443-9999.


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Kata Mutiara Bijak John F Kennedy, Kata Bijak Hari Ini. John F. Kennedy adalah presiden termuda kedua Amerika setelah era Theodore Rosevlt. Kenedi menjadi presiden pada 20 Januari 1961, namun masa keprmerintahan Keneddy tidaklah lama, setelah ia tewas tertembak pada saat kunjungannya ke Dallas Pada 22 November 1966. Meninggalnya Kennedy telah merubah sejarah Amerika sampai detik ini. Berikut merupakan Kumpulan Kata Mutiara Bijak John F Kennedy.
"Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future."
"As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them."
"We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch - we are going back from whence we came."
"A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people."
"The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission."
"Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal."
"A young man who does not have what it takes to perform military service is not likely to have what it takes to make a living. Today's military rejects include tomorrow's hard-core unemployed."
"A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on."
"A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insist upon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today - and in fact we have forgotten."
"I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered at the White House - with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone."
"War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today."
"In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility - I welcome it."
"Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures."
"The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life."
"We believe that if men have the talent to invent new machines that put men out of work, they have the talent to put those men back to work."Sekian kumpulan "Kata Kata Mutiara Bijak" dari John F. Kennedy yang kami sampaikan untuk sobat...

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Cinco de Mayo at Besito in Huntington, Roslyn
Besito in Huntington and Roslyn celebrates Cinco de Mayo this year with a special cocktail, appetizer and giveaways.
New to the menu for May 5: lobster queso fundido finished with chipotle and poblano peppers ($14). The cocktail is a Patron Platinum Margarita with Cointreau ($22).
Guests also may enter for two giveaways: a gift basket from the restaurant and Patron; and dinner for six at Besito.
Besito, 402 New York Ave., Huntington, 631-549-0100; and 1516 Old Northern Blvd., Roslyn, 516-484-3001.


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EPA Announces $19.5 Million in Recovery Act Funds for Water Infrastructure Projects in Utah to Boost Economy, Create Jobs and Protect Public Health
Release Date: 05/18/2009
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(Denver, Colo. – May 18, 2009) In a move that stands to create jobs, boost local economies, improve aging water infrastructure and protect human health and the environment for the people in the State of Utah, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has awarded $19.5 million to the Utah Department of Environmental Quality. This new infusion of money provided by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 will help the state and local governments finance many of the overdue improvements to water projects that are essential to protecting public health and the environment across the state.
"EPA is pleased to provide $19.5 million in Recovery Act funds for much needed improvements to Utah's drinking water infrastructure that will benefit the state for decades to come," said Carol Rushin, Acting Regional Administrator. "This funding will protect public health and improve water quality while creating hundreds of green collar jobs in Utah."
The Recovery Act funds will go to the state's Drinking Water State Revolving Fund program. The Drinking Water State Revolving Fund program provides low-interest loans for drinking water systems to finance infrastructure improvements. The program also emphasizes providing funds to small and disadvantaged communities and to programs that encourage pollution prevention as a tool for ensuring safe drinking water. An unprecedented $2 billion dollars will be awarded to fund drinking water infrastructure projects across the country under the Recovery Act in the form of low-interest loans, principal forgiveness and grants. At least 20% of the funds provided under the Recovery Act are to be used for green infrastructure, water and energy efficiency improvements and other environmentally innovative projects.
Since the Drinking Water State Revolving Fund program began in 1997, EPA has awarded more than $8 billion in grants, which states have turned into $15 billion of financial assistance to fund drinking water projects. The revolving nature of the program ensures drinking water projects will be funded for generations to come.
President Obama signed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) on February 17, 2009 and has directed that the Recovery Act be implemented with unprecedented transparency and accountability. To that end, the American people can see how every dollar is being invested at Recovery.gov.
Information on EPA's implementation of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 in Utah, visit https://www.epa.gov/region8/eparecovery/.
Information on the Drinking Water State Revolving Fund program, visit https://www.epa.gov/safewater/dwsrf/
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The LG Optimus Vu was frankly a bizarre device. A phablet with a large screen but an odd aspect ratio (4:3), which not only made grasping it hard, but also neutered the benefits of the large screen while watching videos. It came with a stylus, but didn't actually have a slot where you could store it. The Vu had many such obvious flaws poor sales performance. However, that didn't daunt LG's spirits. It followed up with Vu II in its home market. Now, after almost a year, LG might be gearing up for the third entrant in its Vu series.
PhoneArena has spotted a couple of spotty images in a Chinese blog, which suggests the existence of the Vu III. An alleged screenshot of the Vu III indicates that the new phablet will have a resolution of 1280×960 pixels. This means that the new Vu will continue using the odd 4:3 aspect ratio. Clearly, LG sees something about the boxy dimensions that we don't. There's also a sample panoramic photo that is said to have been captured using the LG Optimus Vu III.
LG has really upped its game over the past several months. The Optimus G, the Nexus 4, and the Optimus G Pro were all great devices in the own rights. Let's hope that they will prove us all wrong and surprise us with the Vu III.


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Shown alongside the Heikki Salonen show, the Finnish designer brought out sporty unisex looks with an unusual injection of colour
Laitinen being shown side by side with Heikki Salonen was a challenge in itself given the opposite aesthetics of the two Finnish designers. Laitinen hijacked stereotypically female pieces, to give them a new, genderless dimension: short kilts worn on top of trousers, fur collars, capes, and cable-knit dresses – all worn so effortlessly and devoid of any silly embellishment, that they seemed like natural items in a man's wardrobe. Salmon wools, ruby and emerald puffer jackets, and flame-colour jersey brought a new, poetic palette to the usually monochrome label.
Dazed Digital: What's the newest thing about this collection?
Laitinen: This season we really challenged ourselves with colour, not just with print, but also with knitwear and woven fabrics. We've been primarily known as a label with a very black aesthetic, but this time we really felt that it was time for a change and used extremely bold colors and glossy textures in most of the looks. Also regarding fabrics we're introducing more sporty hi-tech materials into the collections and also functional sportswear details.
DD: What was the biggest challenge of the presentation?
Laitinen: The biggest challenge was make two different collections (Laitinen and Heikki Salonen) work in the same space and still show their separate identities in one event. Fortunately it worked very beautifully and also the audience really liked having the both collections shown simultaneously, in the end it was a nice relaxed party with great music, which is rather rare during Paris Fashion Week.
DD: You always play with materials – what was novel for you here?
Laitinen: Besides the traditional menswear fabrics we're using a lot of glossy metallic polyurethane coated cottons and waxed wool tweeds, which give the collection a slightly futuristic and technical feel.


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Surge Protectors & Power Monitors
Break away from the restraints of your office's built in outlets with these surge protectors and power monitors. These plug in to one outlet, providing you with instant extra space. They are easy to install, so anyone can take advantage of these useful products.
Power Surge Protection
Create a protective barrier between your electronics and potential dangerous power surges with a simple surge protector. These pieces absorb energy from surges and spikes, keeping devices plugged into them safe. This prevents hardware damage, such as broken power supplies or batteries, so you are less likely to lose important information during storms or power outages. Surge protectors are easy to use and provide extra convenience through the short extension cord and numerous of outlets.
Multiple Outlets
Each of these protectors includes multiple outlets, turning one wall outlet into a bar with as many as 12 individual outlets. This lets you plug in your office telephone, desktop, printer, and any other devices all in one convenient place instead of spreading them around the room to fit the office's stationed outlets. Use the multiple outlets to create a server room, or group similar electronics together to organize an office.
Power Switch
Most of these products feature a convenient built-in power switch. Easily turn off a bank of electronics with the flick of a switch, or briefly cut power for a safe hard shut down. Switch the power switch to the off position when the electronics are powered down to save extra; even when turned off, most electronics leech a little power through the outlet.
For added protection and to further reduce the impact of power outages consider adding a uninterruptible power supply devices designed to allow extra time to save their work in progress.


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Here at TouchMyApps we are committed to not only bring the latest and best news, reviews tips and tricks on all things iPhone and iPod Touch, but also to build a community of likewise minded people. To this extent we will soon put into place the TMA forums.
Meanwhile, we also very much appreciate your comments on our work, that can be left using the easy-to-use "comments" feature available at the bottom of each of our article pages – whether it's news, reviews, best-of or any other. And one such recent comments made me decide that we should show our appreciation in a more monetary way.
To this extent I announce that starting this moment I am initiating my own ChiffaN's Comment of the Month contest. Each month I am going to select the best comment on one of MY pieces and reward it with a $10 iTunes Gift Card. Yes, I HAVE gone bonkers, cause I'm spending quite a substantial part of my own paycheque on it (unfortunately writing DOESN'T pay – at least until you readers make us one the top sites out there). Anyway, I must point out that I will pay special attention to the comments to my column pieces (The JBnator Diaries, iTête à iTête, ChiffaN's Rants), though comments to my news and reviews may be rewarded as well if they will be found worthy.
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The Senate Appropriations Committee approved Thursday a $1.674 billion budget for the Securities and Exchange Commission in fiscal 2014, fulfilling the 33% increase that was requested by the Obama Administration, and awarding the agency with $353 million above the level enacted in fiscal year 2013.
However, the Senate budget differs significantly from the GOP-controlled House proposal that would provide the SEC with $1.4 billion, only $50 million above the Commission's 2013 budget.
SEC Chairwoman Mary Jo White has been pressing for more funding so that she can add more examiners for RIAs. She told the House appropriations committee in early May that the agency's $1.67 billion budget request for fiscal 2014 would help it fulfill one of its top priorities: to add 250 examiners for advisors.
Observers believe finding a compromise will be difficult, however, and is unlikely to occur before the current fiscal year ends Sept. 30.
The Senate Appropriations Committee also awarded the Commodity Futures Trading Commission with $315 million in 2014, $110 million above the fiscal year 2013 enacted level of $205 million. The IRS was given $12.07 billion in 2014, an increase of $276.5 million above the fiscal year 2013 enacted level.
Sen. Tom Udall, D-Colo., chairman of the Appropriations Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government, said it was "critical" for the SEC and CFTC to receive the added funding as "the responsibilities of these agencies are growing geometrically."
The 250 RIA examiners, White said, would increase the proportion of advisors examined each year, the rate of first-time examinations and the examination coverage of investment advisors and newly registered private fund advisors.


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A chat with Richard Hughes of Keane
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ALSO: Check out our review of the latest Keane album, Under the Iron Sea.
God, wouldn't you hate to be Keane right about now? After pulling off what so few British bands can accomplish and scoring a sizable hit right out of the box with their debut album, Hopes and Fears, not to mention being nominated for a Grammy for Best New Artist, the pressure on them to produce a top-notch follow-up has got to have their nerves jangling. And, yet, when Bullz-Eye had the opportunity to speak with Keane's drummer, Richard Hughes, only a day after their sophomore release, Under the Iron Sea, had come out in their native England, he seemed cool as a cucumber. Hughes was glad to discuss the new album, his thoughts on being compared to Coldplay, and how he almost needed an extra pair of trousers at the Grammy Awards.
Richard Hughes: Hi, Will, how are you?
Bullz-Eye: I am great. How are you?
RH: Not bad, thanks. Where are you in the world?
BE: I am in Chesapeake, Virginia, which is right next to Virginia Beach.
RH: Oh, that sounds nice!
BE: It's not bad. I've been here all my life, so I'm pretty numb to it, but everyone says it's very nice.
RH: (Laughs) Fair enough!
BE: Well, I'm a big fan of ya'll. I'm one of the critics who actually paid for your first album…
RH: Wow! Well, thanks very much! You're the one (person)!
BE: Well, I try…
RH: (Laughs)
BE: …though I can't say the same for the new album, because they did overnight that to me, so I could hear it before I talked to you!
RH: Cool! Well, it isn't out, so I'll excuse you that.
BE: Why, thank you. Well, the first single ("Is It Any Wonder?") I had already heard…which is great, by the way.
RH: Thank you very much.
BE: In a way, it almost seems to scream, "Who are you calling a one-trick pony?"
RH: A-ha-ha! Yeah, well, that's interesting. I dunno. We certainly spent our lives looking up to bands, y'know, whether it's the Beatles going from a boy band to changing the world, really, to Radiohead challenging their listeners with every album, we've always looked up to bands who were prepared to take risks and challenge themselves and try to do something different. I think the only thing we knew going into the studio was that we just didn't want to make Hopes and Fears, Mk. 2.
BE: I definitely think the song, "Is It Any Wonder?", has some U2 bombast…which is, I guess, not really a surprise, because I've heard that Achtung Baby is one of your favorite albums.
RH: It is, definitely, although I think Tim (Rice-Oxley, pianist) was trying to make his piano sound like it was played by Jimi Hendrix rather than the Edge…but, y'know, I guess the Edge was trying to sound like Jimi Hendrix, too, so I guess they both ended up sounding like they do. But it's, y'know, I don't know, it's a three-minute rock song. And I guess some people probably thought we'd come out with twelve mid-paced ballads about forlorn love or something, but that's just not who we are right now, and that's not the record we made.
BE: "Nothing In My Way" has a wonderful chorus.
RH: Yeah, Tim's pretty clever with the choruses and with the melodies, generally. It's an exciting moment when he comes up with a new song and says, "Here, have a listen to this demo I've made of this new song." And you just sort of think, "Wow! How exactly do you do that?" I don't know where it comes from sometimes.
BE: And, actually, that leads right into my next question: how does the writing process go for the band? I mean, I know the songwriting credits are divided up equally, but does each person come in with an idea? Or, as you said, a demo is brought in, in some cases.
RH: Well, no, I mean, Tim writes the melodies and the words. I dunno when he finds the time to do it, actually. It seems like he's already one of the world's busiest people. I dunno, he'll just write a song, and we'll all come together and work on it and record it. Sometimes it'll have a drum part on it, sometimes it won't. Sometimes it'll have words, sometimes it won't, but he'll come up with them eventually. But when we get into the studio…like, on this record, we were writing a lot of the parts as we went in the studio, whereas with the first record, we'd been practicing as a band for years without anyone caring, and most of the songs we could just go into the studio and just play them down. So, yeah, with this album, we definitely wrote…like, drum parts and things were being written on the day and came up with them as we went and really sort of experimented. Same with Tim and his piano lines and coming up with the different sounds for the record. He was definitely experimenting in the morning and recording in the evening, that kind of thing. It was a different process, but… (Pauses) Most of the songs were written before we went into the studio, but we hadn't really had time to work on them because we'd been touring. There was a couple, like "Leaving So Soon," which was written very late on in the recording process. That was worked on right at the end.
BE: Now, see, I think someone has slipped you my question sheet, because you've just answered my next question before I've even asked it.
RH: Oh, I'm sorry.
BE: No, it's great.
RH: I should always read ahead. That's what they tell you to do in school, but I never do.
BE: I was just going to recite the ever-quoted cliché about how you have a lifetime to write your debut album and then six months to write the follow-up.
RH: Well, you know, he was writing on the road quite a lot. I mean, we were aware of that pressure, and I think, as a result, the pressure did get to us for awhile. Especially Tim. He definitely felt under a lot of pressure to write new songs. Tom (Chaplin, lead singer) and I would go out and do a lot of the interviews during the day while we were on tour, so Tim could sit on the tour bus and write songs. But you just can't sort of allocate two hours to writing a hit; it's just not how it works. A lot of Hopes and Fears was written late at night after a glass of wine; he just sat in his house next to a piano, banging away, half-drunk, and coming up with a riff or whatever, without the pressure. And I think it did sort of contribute to our growing madness as we went 'round the world, the amount of pressure on him. It's not so much from the making-another-record point of view to follow up Hopes and Fears or anything. It's just because…just from within us there was enough pressure. So that was a difficult time.
BE: "Put It Behind You" is…well, bouncy pop goodness, basically…
RH: Yeah!
BE: …but, then, right after the three-and-a-half-minute mark, it suddenly shifts into an instrumental that would've fit in on Moby's Play album. Where did that come from?
RH: The instrumental is definitely, uh… (Chuckles) I dunno. There was a very sort of dark atmosphere in the studio while we were making the record, and it was something that we wanted to reflect through the sounds the piano was making. That sort of instrumental track almost marks the halfway point on the record. It's…it's actually a cheat! It's weird. When you're a band, you never know about this stuff until you get to release a record, but you have to have a… (Goes quiet) This is so boring.
BE: No, no.
RH: I can't even believe I'm going to talk about it…but, like, from a wholesale point of view, the record companies in Europe want you to have one more track than the record company in America, so that the people in record shops don't parallel-import stuff from America because it's cheaper.
BE: And, of course, nothing infuriates the fans more.
RH: Precisely. Because it means that American fans are shortchanged. So the track listing in Europe has 12 songs on it, of which that instrumental that you're talking about, after "Put It Behind You," it's actually a track called "The Iron Sea." And in Europe, it's a separate track. But we didn't want to change the album for America, so we did was, we just tacked it on the end of "Put It Behind You" and didn't declare it as a track, just as a way that we then didn't have to change the album in America. I dunno, for all the marketing and record company things you have to put up with, we didn't want to compromise the record we'd made, so that's what we did. They insisted on something different, so we just said, "Just leave the name out and people will think there are only eleven tracks." But, actually, there are twelve. So, yeah, that track, it's just about getting that suffocating atmosphere that we were feeling in the studio onto record. Tim was just hammering away at the piano and he came up with this sound through experimenting with pedals and amplifiers. People seem to have this respect for the piano, that it's this sort of classical instrument that you're not allowed to fuck with, but we decided it was long overdue, and we tried to take the piano… (Adopts spooky voice) …where it had never been before. (Laughs) Or something like that. Something that doesn't sound cheesy but means the same thing.
BE: Given how many bands arrive in the States and are immediately sent packing, how did you guys react when you started to realize, "Hey, they're actually paying attention to us"?
RH: I dunno, I think we just felt that we wanted to do something in America. I mean, America gave the world rock 'n' roll music, and we have our twist on it that we wanted to see… (Pauses) As three guys from the countryside in the south of England, surrounded by greenery, the idea of touring America is just something that you're not going to dissuade us of easily. It's, like, I don't care if no one wants to hear us; we're going back! And we've done five tours, so I guess…I don't know whether people like us or just want us to sort of have a big gig and then not come back, but it's something we enjoy doing. You get a chance…I've seen more of America than probably most Americans will get to see, and that's a pretty humbling thing to be able to say. And we do enjoy it, so it is nice to feel welcome. I know some English bands sort of give up, but they just need a bit of backbone, y'know? You've got to get through…things didn't happen immediately for us – by any means – in the UK. We've been a band since we were 17…and to put it in perspective, I'm now 30! And we released our first album two years ago! So we've had to persevere. I dunno, we just have that thing where if you go to a town and the gig isn't sold out, it just makes you want to go back and sell it out…rather than make you go, "Fuck you, I'm not coming back!"
BE: So how has success changed Richard Hughes? What was the first extravagance you bought after you got that first big royalty check?
RH: Well, I play the drums, so guess what…? It was a drum kit. For the recording of the first record, I went out and bought a really nice drum kit. And that was my first extravagance. I don't think it's changed me that much. The friends I had before we had an album out are the friends I have now. Like, yesterday, the album came out in the UK, but, actually, I didn't have much to do, so I met some pals in the pub and we had a drink…and they were the same guys I was meeting for a drink long before Hopes and Fears came out…so I hope it hasn't changed me. I mean, I have a nice flat in London which I live in, and that's different, because I was still living at my mum and dad's house at the age of 28 when Hopes and Fears came out, so that aspect of my life has changed. But I dunno, we're still three friends, and if any of us get above our station, then the other two are there to slap us back down. I think that's valuable, though. I think it's a very valuable thing. Even though we kind of went through our darker times toward the middle of last year, I think we do have that, and it's a very strong thing.
BE: When you didn't win the Best New Artist Grammy, did you go, "Oh, whew, that means we have at least five more years of our career left"?
RH: Well, y'know, it was weird being on the green red carpet. We did have a lot of people ask us about the curse of the Best New Artist, and it does make you think, "Do we really want to win this one?" I dunno, we would've loved to get a Grammy or whatever, but it was such a bonus being nominated and asked to come. We weren't…we didn't even consider that there was a possibility that we would get nominated. We thought if we were going to get nominated for a Grammy, we would've been nominated the year before, when the album came out.
BE: You'd think that. I've never quite understood the Grammys.
RH: Yeah, nor do I! I mean, Green Day won Best Album one year, and then Best Song for a song from the album the next year…which is great, because they're an amazing band and they fully deserve to win Grammys for that record for the rest of their lives! It's obviously a unique organization. It's just cool; the fact that we were the only non-American band nominated in that category is amazing. It's amazing to us to really feel like there are people in America who know about us and who like our music. I dunno, some people say they care about awards, some people say they don't care about awards, but we've found it very exciting that there were people in America who cared about us enough to nominate us for this thing, even though John Legend was always going to win. And fair enough! It was just cool being there. Just sitting there in your seat with Beyonce's mom and dad in front of you, watching Bono chat to Jay-Z, with Paul McCartney to your left and Linkin Park to your right. That'll do me! I must admit, I nearly shat myself when I turned around and saw Dennis Hopper!
BE: (Laughs loudly)
RH: It's, like, fucking hell! What a guy! Just to see him in the flesh was great. And then we went to the U2 after-show party, and that was quite a star-spangled event…so, yeah, that was fun.
BE: Since you're a former "next big thing" in the British press…
RH: (Bursts into laughter)
BE: …have you ever seen a band trumpeted by NME or Q or whoever and just said, "Oh, give me a break"?
RH: Oh, God, I dunno. There are so many bands that are the next big thing. I think in a way we probably feel slightly sorry for them for that tag. To be honest, we never got…we had the odd thing, but NME have never liked us…
BE: …which has apparently worked on your favor.
RH: Well, yeah, and that's what I was going to go on and say. Sometimes, they'll just fix on a band and decide to put them on the cover, week in and week out, before an album has come out or anything, and you just think, this is so much pressure on sometimes very young shoulders. And you just want them to kind of give bands time. I mean, look at R.E.M. or someone. They put out, what, five albums on I.R.S. before the world really, really fell at their feet. That gave them time to find their way as a band. The Arctic Monkeys, I guess, are an exception, but the NME are always putting them on the cover…and they're a great band, so they deserve it, but if they weren't such a great band, then the pressure would probably be so great that they'd have no chance. It's a weird world.
Interscope Rep: Hey, guys, we need to wrap it up.
BE: Okay, one last one, and then I'm done.
RH: Okay.
BE: And this one was actually gonna be my final one, anyway: could you be any more sick of the lazy comparisons to Coldplay?
RH: (Takes a deep breath) Ah, it's just nice having another record out. Hopes and Fears was one part of Keane, and this new record is showing another side to us. I dunno, it's always inevitable. I have a copy of an old magazine called Vox, the monthly NME thing, and the cover of it says, "Radiohead: The New U2?" Y'know? So fuck comparisons.
BE: And I can't think of a better closing line than that.
RH: (Laughs) Thanks a lot!


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Dolphin: a friendly file manager
Dolphin is the default file manager in KDE 4.0, finally unseating Konqueror, which formerly served double duty as both KDE's file manager and web browser. Dolphin delivers outstanding usability and a very positive user experience with only a few minor shortcomings.
From the start, Dolphin looks and feels a lot like the browser mode of GNOME's Nautilus file manager, but goes a bit further and provides subtle user interface features that make a huge difference in basic usability. The Dolphin interface largely consists of the file management pane and various sidebar panels. The sidebar panel that is open by default is the Places panel, which lists commonly used places on the file system and provides easy access to network locations. Users can drag additional folders into the Places panel for easy access. It's a lot like the Nautilus Places sidebar and like Finder's shelf feature. The icons in the Places panel will automatically resize based on the amount of space available. When the icons change size, the shift is actually animated. It's a very nice little effect I think we can expect to see more as applications are ported to KDE 4.
The information panel displays the selected icon and provides a few simple details like file type, size, and modification date. If you select an image file, it will also display a preview. There is work in progress to add support for tagging and notes, with Nepomuk integration, but that doesn't appear to functional yet. Dolphin also has a Folders sidebar panel that displays folders in a tree hierarchy much like in Konqueror's Folder sidebar. Finally, Dolphin includes a terminal panel that will automatically use the cd command to follow you when you navigate between folders in the file manager.
Unlike Nautilus, Dolphin allows you to view multiple sidebar panels at the same time and arrange them in any manner that you wish. You can stack them vertically or overlay them so that you can switch between them with tabs.
Dolphin also adds a nice path bar with breadcrumbs like the one found in Nautilus, Thunar, and Windows Vista. Clicking elements in the path bar will cause Dolphin to jump to the selected folder. Dolphin also has arrow buttons between the path bar elements with popup menus that display sibling directories at that level of the file system. When the user clicks in the empty space at the end of the path bar or hits Ctrl+L, the path bar will be replaced with a conventional path input text box. I like Dolphin's path bar implementation, particularly the popup menus.
One particularly nice addition to Dolphin is the new column view, which is similar to the equivalent feature in Mac OS X Finder. The column view displays directory contents in adjacent vertical lists, with one column for each directory in the file system hierarchy. I've always liked this particular feature on Mac OS X, and I'm pleased to see it in Dolphin, but there are a few glitches in the implementation that still need to be fixed. When you scroll down to the bottom of a column and click an item, it will select a completely different item that is near the top of the list. It appears to be taking the click position, counting how many items are visible above the clicked item in the list, and then selecting the item that is that number down from the very top of the list. It's a minor bug, but it makes the column view unusable for large directory listings.
Although there is a lot to like about Dolphin, there are also some disappointing regressions. One of my favorite things about Konqueror is its flexible system for splitting windows. In Konqueror, you can have an infinite number of vertical and horizontal window splits, which makes it possible to see the contents of many folders at once. Unfortunately, Dolphin only allows you to make one split. The Split toggle button in the toolbar will display one additional file management pane to the right of the default pane. The dual horizontal pane mode—which is reminiscent of Midnight Commander—is probably the most common usage case for window splits, so I doubt many users will complain about the limitation.
The other really nice Konqueror feature that is disappointingly absent in KDE 4.0 is the tree-based detailed view for the file management pane. Tragically, that feature got axed in Konqueror too. Konqueror now uses the Dolphin KParts for file management, so some of Dolphin's weaknesses filter back over to Konqueror.
The Add a Network Folder feature in Dolphin has a really strange bug that makes it practically unusable. When you create a new network place and then attempt to access it by clicking the launcher created in Dolphin's Network places, the file manager will attempt to append the label of the launcher to the KIO path. This obviously makes the connection fail. This bug does not, however, impede remote file access in Dolphin because users can still manually type in paths and use the full range of KIO slaves.
One thing that threw me off a bit was the image preview feature, which is disabled by default and can be toggled in individual folders. To make the previews display universally by default, select View Properties from the View menu, select the Show Preview checkbox, and then select the Use as Default item.


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Pure DWTS – What Some Of The The Pros & One Judge Are Up To And More!
Just a few dance things to share with you today!!
First of all, Carrie Ann was interviewed by Popstop TV this week. In the interview she talks about Lindsay Lohan, Todd Palin, her Christmas plans, and more. Here is a take. Be sure to see the link for more as well as a video that I couldn't embed here.
"I've been asking for Lindsay Lohan since she went to jail the first time," Carrie Ann Inaba dished exclusively to me.
"Honestly, I definitely think it'd be a great experience for her because she's very talent. I think it would be a great come back for her."
Lohan on Dancing With the Stars would definitely benefit not only Lohan but also the network! Who wouldn't tune in to see Lohan's foxtrots? But what about Todd Palin, who's rumored to be in the works of being on the show right after his daughter Bristol?
"Nope," Carrie Ann said. "I wouldn't be interested in seeing his moves."
Carrie Ann is also a big advocate for same-sex couples on the show. "I love breaking down boundaries just in general in my whole life. I think it's important to break down stereotypes and break down boundaries so I would love to see a same-sex couple on 'Dancing With the Stars' but we'd have to figure out some judging changes."
Any chances of Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi putting on their dance shoes in the near future?
"I would love that! I don't know if we're going to be able to get that but I think it would be great."
Heidi's Note: I believe that today was the semi-final of Strictly Come Dancing, so we know where Bruno and Len are right now. 🙂
In other news out there, Tony Dovolani has officially been picked to be a Judge for the 90th Miss America Contest to be held on Jan. 15th. From Google News.
"The View" co-host Joy Behar and actress Marilu Henner are among seven judges who will decide the next Miss America in January.
Judges for the beauty pageant in its 90th year also include country singer Mark Wills, "Desperate Housewives" creator Marc Cherry and Miss America 1990 Debbye Turner Bell.
"Dancing With the Stars" choreographer Tony Dovolani and shoe designer Taryn Rose are also on the panel.
The selections include plenty of ties to ABC, the network airing the pageant live Jan. 15 at the start of a three-year deal. The pageant hasn't aired on network television since 2004, when ABC dropped it after record-low ratings.
Here is a new fun interview with Cheryl on her appearance in "Forever Tango", the current broadway show that is coming to San Francisco from Dec. 21 – Jan. 9 (I am so dying to see this). She talks of why this show means so much to her (the roots of it go way back to when she was a little girl) and how she trained for it last summer in Argentina.
Speaking of shows, Mark Ballas says the show he's doing, "Burn The Floor" is "bad ass". Here is a take from The Houston Press.
"People should come to see Burn the Floor because it is bad ass from start to finish. High energy, in your face, awesome dancers, awesome choreography, and it's a spectacle of our sport. People will love it. This is like Dancing With The Stars on steroids," Ballas told Art Attack.
After learning eight routines in two days, Ballas opens tonight in Raleigh, North Carolina, then moves to Houston before taking a Christmas break and then rejoining the tour in Pittsburgh in late December and early January.
"I'm excited for the opportunity to keep dancing and be doing a show over the Christmas holiday. The choreographer [and director Jason Gilkison] is a good friend of mine and I have a lot of friends in the show so I thought it would be great to join. "
Ballas said DWTS is very different from Burn the Floor because on the first, you're dancing with an amateur. "You have to train them, mentor them and go out and perform with them. That's in contrast to BTF," a professional show with professional standards. "It was good to be able to really dance again and get into it and dance how I trained to dance," he said.
Which isn't to say he doesn't enjoy DWTS. "It's one of my favorite seasons I've ever done." He said he enjoyed working with Bristol Palin "just because she was so sweet, so easy to deal with, so wonderful, so eager to learn, open-minded, kind, loving, caring and just fun to spend time with, and to see her journey from the beginning to where she ended up was just remarkable and as a coach just very satisfying."
I wouldn't mind seeing this show too. Also, if you'd like to see some pics of Mark's new home, he tweeted that you can see some pictures of it in the new edition of Ok Magazine.
Anyone missing and wondering where Maks is like I have been this last week? Well, here he is arriving at the airport, filming, and being interviewed on the Ukrainian version of The Bachelor which he is currently starring in. Can anyone understand what he's saying? Be sure to see the link for more on this project.
Kym has given Stylelist some of her backstage beauty secrets. Here is take.
"We've used hair extensions and pieces since the beginning on 'Dancing With the Stars.' And now, everyone at home can achieve those looks. It literally takes five minutes to do. Believe me, your husbands and boyfriends will thank you for it because you'll spend far less time getting ready."
When asked how she personally likes to use the extensions, Johnson replied, "To achieve highlights or lowlights without changing my natural color, I use extensions a shade lighter or darker, depending on my mood. I just clip in the strips! It's that easy and there's no risk of damage like with glued-in extensions. My favorite piece is the Salsaloosa — it's like a messy updo, you put your own ponytail in and you just wrap the Salsaloosa around twice like a scrunchy. I prefer the "buttered toast" shade. For the strips I use a shade lighter, like highlights, but you really can't go wrong."
And for the show?"Often we go for a 1940s-inspired look and those are complex and glamorous. I like to do a bun, too. I've got such fine hair and these just minimize the damage and don't have that funny synthetic shine to them that lots of inexpensive hair pieces do. I was wearing the extenions when my friend Jai Rodriguez from "Queer Eye" came with me to "Skating With The Stars" and he couldn't tell I had the extensions on, so I know they're good, because he would totally have said something."
What's a typical day like during the season?"We start at 8 a.m. and half the day is spent in hair and makeup, but it's fun and social. I go to the makeup area and use gel [under eye] patches from Shiseido and keep them on while my hair gets done — they tighten the skin under my eyes and feel great and cooling and wake me up. Also, you cannot underestimate great lashes. My eyelash curler is my best friend and I use Maybelline Great LashMascara or Christian Dior DiorShow. These are absolutely a part of my daily routine."
How do you stay motivated?"Each season of 'Dancing With the Stars' is grueling. We train about seven hours day every single day once the show starts. We get no days off at all. But it's so much fun and I'm lucky to be able to do what I love for my job."
Jennifer Grey's surgery was a success this past week. She posted on it at Twitter a few days ago.
Thanks once again for all the good thoughts. Dr. Bray performed a perfect surgery yesterday and I am now safely home in bed.
— Jennifer Grey (@JenniferGrey) December 7, 2010
Lastly, it looks like her partner Derek has finallly found a spot for all three of his "Mirror Ball" trophies. He just posted this picture at his twitter today.
He also posted his new refridgerator and a picture of his new couch being lifted into his Condo. As Heidi said to me, he sure is in the nesting spirit lately. We wonder why? 🙂
Ok, that wraps up this weekend media edition for now. More soon!! I hope you are all being good or else. Have a fun weekend!! 😉 xxx


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For all who have been following my Tweets, Facebook and this blog you'll know that I've had a pretty crazy 2 months, crazy as in bloggers nightmare come true.
1. My home PC blew up - see rant here
2. My work PC also decided to fail me (I swear, I swear it's not me!!! *puppy eyes*)
3. I lost my kitchen - when I say I've lost my kitchen, I mean that "it" (EVERYTHING) has been ripped out so that we can extend it and get a shiny new one in time for the new year! yay! but boo for not being able to bake over the festive season! :'( I had such great grand plans for all the sweets I was gonna make but I guess it'll have to wait until I get a brand spanking new kitchen to devirginise!
See its all gone!!!! ... I do still have my fridge, ohh cold one, how I love thee!!
Admist all these set backs, we had the Annual Food Blogger Xmas Picnic about 2 weekends ago and there was just no way I was gonna go empty handed. So, as they say 'where there is a will there's a way' ...coupled with my very persuasive flattery... I invaded and conquered my lovely girlfriend's kitchen (love ya babe!), early in the morning and banged out some lovely Pecan Pies with Brandy Cream & Caramel! mmmMmmm
Pecan Pies with Brandy Cream & Caramel
Tart shell - Pate Brisee (Short Crust Pastry)
Adapted from Joy of Baking
1 1/4 cups (175 grams) all-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 tablespoon (14 grams) granulated white sugar
1/2 cup (113 grams) unsalted butter, chilled, and cut into 1 inch (2.5 cm) pieces
1/8 to 1/4 cup (30 - 60 ml) ice water
Pecan filling
Adapted from Pecan Pie Recipes
36 individually wrapped Caramels, unwrapped
1/4 cup butter
1/4 cup milk
1 teaspoon bourbon (optional, but highly recommended)
3/4 cup white sugar
3 eggs
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 cup pecan halves - lightly toasted (shove into an oven at about 200oC until fragrant)
Brandy Cream & Caramel
300ml double cream
1/4 cup brandy (of course you can add more if you want to be naughty... don't think Santa would hold it against u ;P )
1/4 cup sugar
1/2 can Nestle Top & Fill Caramel - don't hold it against me, I didn't have time to make my own caramel - but this stuff is awesome could eat it by the spoonful!!
Extra pecan halves - for decoration
Preheat oven to 180oC, grease 8 mini tart shells or 1 x 9 inch (23cm) tart shell.
For the tart shells
In a food processor, place the flour, salt, and sugar and process until combined.
Add the butter and process until the mixture resembles coarse meal (about 15 seconds).
Pour 1/8 cup (30 ml) water in a slow, steady stream, through the feed tube until the dough just holds together when pinched. If necessary, add more water. Do not process more than 30 seconds.
Turn the dough onto your work surface and gather into a ball. Flatten into a disk, cover with plastic wrap, and refrigerate for 30 minutes to one hour before using. This will chill the butter and relax the gluten in the flour.
After the dough has chilled sufficiently, place on a lightly floured surface. If you are using the large tin then roll dough into a 13 inch (33 cm) circle. (To prevent the pastry from sticking to the counter and to ensure uniform thickness, keep lifting up and turning the pastry a quarter turn as you roll (always roll from the center of the pastry outwards) Fold the dough in half and gently transfer to a 9 inch (23 cm) pie pan. Brush off any excess flour and tuck the overhanging pastry under itself. Use a fork to make a decorative border or else crimp the edges using your fingers. If you are using the mini tart pans, grab a ball of the dough (about a fistful) and press into the shell until uniform in thickness. Use a knife to run along the top to cut off any excess dough, repeat for remaining tart shells. Refrigerate the pastry, covered with plastic wrap, for about 30 minutes before pouring in the filling.
For the filling
On the stovetop over low heat, combine caramels, butter and milk in a small saucepan. Stir frequently until smooth.
Remove caramel mixture from the heat, set aside.
Combine eggs, sugar, vanilla, salt & bourbon (if using) in a large bowl.
Slowly mix in the caramel mixture, so the eggs don't scramble. Add the pecans.
Pour pecan pie mixture into pie crust.
Bake for 45 to 50 minutes, or until edges of crust is golden brown.
Allow pie to cool so filling stops cooking and firms up.
For the cream
Whip the cream with the sugar & brandy until it stands at soft-medium peaks.
For the caramel
Spoon out the caramel in a bowl and beat until smooth - it comes out kinda congealed.
To Assemble
Remove the tarts from tin as soon as the temperature allows, let the tarts cool completely.
Top with some cream, then caramel and a pecan!
Enjoy!! Bon Appétit! ♥
These are all some of the lovely people I got to meet and catchup with at the picnic :)
Also FYI, this will be my last post for the year peeps *sob sob* because as of today I will be flying to HK and South Korea for the biggest eating and shopping experience of my life! muahahahha!!! Will be back in early Jan though, so until then....Have a WONDERFUL Christmas!! Party lots, drink even more, be safe and dont forget to share some Christmas loving!! May God Bless you all and I shall see you in 2011! ;)
Here's a gingerbread house I made a few years earlier... will have to live vicariously through old photos since I can't make new ones right now hehehe


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LESSONS LEARNED #24: "You cannot lobby a politician unless he or she is for sale." -Old Pithy
BUILDING A RAILROAD ain't cheap. It needs dump trucks of money. Especially if it's transcontinental. And that's what the Union Pacific and the Central Pacific were building. Starting during the Civil War in 1863 (the year Vicksburg fell and Lee retreated from Gettysburg). The Union Pacific was building west from Iowa. And the Central pacific was building east from California.
For the most part, Protestant, English-speaking Americans settled Texas. Mexico had encouraged the American colonists to settle this region. Because few Mexicans were moving north to do so. The deal was that the colonists conduct official business in Spanish and convert to Catholicism. They didn't. These and other issues soured relations between Mexico and the American Texans. The Republic of Texas proclaimed their independence from Mexico. America annexed Texas. Mexico tried to get it back. The Mexican-American War followed. America won. Texas became a state in 1845. And that other Spanish/Mexican territory that America was especially interested in, California, became a state in 1850. Hence the desire for a transcontinental railroad.
The U.S. government was very eager to connect the new state of California to the rest of America. So they acted aggressively. They would provide the dump trucks of money. As America expanded, the U.S. government became the owner of more and more public land. The sale of new lands provided a large amount of revenue for the federal government. (Other forms of taxation (income taxes, excise taxes, etc.) grew as the amount of public lands to sell decreased.) Land is valuable. So they would grant the railroad companies some 44 million acres of land (i.e., land grants) for their use. The railroad companies, then, would sell the land to raise the capital to build their railroads. The government also provided some $60 million in federal loans.
But it didn't end there. The federal government came up with incentives to speed things up. They based the amount of loans upon the miles of track laid. The more difficult the ground, the more cash. So, what you got from these incentives was the wrong incentive. To lay as much track as possible on the most difficult ground they could find. And then there were mineral rights. The railroad would own the property they built on. And any minerals located underneath. So the tracks wandered and meandered to maximize these benefits. And speed was key. Not longevity. Wherever possible they used wood instead of masonry. The used the cheapest iron for track. They even laid track on ice. (They had to rebuild large chunks of the line before any trains would roll.) And when the Union Pacific and Central Pacific met, they kept building, parallel to each other. To lay more miles of track. And get more cash from the government.
PAR FOR THE COURSE. When government gets involved they can really mess things up. But it gets worse. Not only was government throwing dump trucks of American money down the toilet, they were also profiting from this hemorrhaging of public money. As shareholders in Crédit Mobilier.
Thomas Durant of Union Pacific concocted the Crédit Mobilier Scandal. As part of the government requirements to build the transcontinental railroad, Union Pacific had to sell stock at $100 per share. Problem was, few believed the railroad could be built. So there were few takers to buy the stock at $100 per share. So he created Crédit Mobilier to buy that stock. Once they did, they then resold the stock on the open market at prevailing market prices. Which were well below $100 per share. Union Pacific met the government requirements thanks to the willingness of Crédit Mobilier to buy their stock. The only thing was, both companies had the same stockholders. Crédit Mobilier was a sham company. Union Pacific WAS Crédit Mobilier. And it gets worse.
Union Pacific chose Crédit Mobilier to build their railroad. Crédit Mobilier submitted highly inflated bills to Union Pacific who promptly paid them. They then submitted the bills to the federal government (plus a small administration fee) for reimbursement. Which the federal government promptly paid. Crédit Mobilier proved to be highly profitable. This pleased their shareholders. Which included members of Congress who approved the overbillings as wells as additional funding for cost overruns. No doubt Union Pacific/Crédit Mobilier had very good friends in Washington. Including members of the Grant administration. Until the party ended. The press exposed the scandal during the 1872 presidential campaign. Outraged, the federal government conducted an investigation. But when you investigate yourself for wrongdoing you can guess the outcome. Oh, there were some slaps on the wrists, but government came out relatively unscathed. But the public money was gone. As is usually the case with political graft. Politicians get rich while the public pays the bill.
(Incidentally, the investigation did not implicate Ulysses Grant. However, because members of his administration were implicated, this scandal tarnished his presidency. Grant, though, was not corrupt. He was a great general. But not a shrewd politician. Where there was a code of honor in the military, he found no such code in politics. Friends used his political naivety for personal profit. If you read Grant's personal memoirs you can get a sense of Grant's character. Many consider his memoirs among the finest ever written. He was honest and humble. A man of integrity. An expert horseman, he was reduced to riding in a horse and buggy in his later years. Once, while president, he was stopped for speeding through the streets of Washington. When the young policeman saw who he had pulled over, he apologized profusely to the president and let him go. Grant told the young man to write him the ticket. Because it was his job. And the right thing to do. For no man, even the president, was above the law.)
THE FINANCIAL WORLD fell apart in 2007. And this happened because someone changed the definition of the American Dream from individual liberty to owning a house. Even if you couldn't afford to buy one. Even if you couldn't qualify for a mortgage. Even, if you should get a mortgage, you had no chance in hell of making your payments.
Home ownership would be the key to American prosperity. Per the American government. Build homes and grow the economy. That was the official mantra. So Washington designed American policy accordingly. Lenders came up with clever financing schemes to put ever more people into new homes. And they were clever. But left out were the poorest of the poor. Even a small down payment on the most modest of homes was out of their range. Proponents of these poor said this was discriminatory. Many of the inner city poor in the biggest of cities were minority. People cried racism in mortgage lending. Government heard. They pressured lenders to lend to these poor people. Or else. Lenders were reluctant. With no money for down payments and questionable employment to service these mortgages, they saw great financial risk. So the government said not to worry. We'll take that risk. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac would guarantee certain 'risky' loans as long as they met minimum criteria. And they would also buy risky mortgages and get them off their books. Well, with no risk, the lenders would lend to anyone. They made NINJA loans (loans to people with No Income, No Job, and no Assets). And why not? If any loan was likely to default it was a NINJA loan. But if Freddie or Fannie bought before the default, what did a lender care? And even they defaulted before, Fannie and Freddie guaranteed the loan. How could a lender lose?
Once upon a time, there was no safer loan than a home mortgage. Why? Because it would take someone's lifesavings to pay for the down payment (20% of the home price in the common conventional mortgage). And people lived in these houses. In other words, these new home owners had a vested interested to service those mortgages. Someone who doesn't put up that 20% down payment with their own money, though, has less incentive to service that mortgage. They can walk away with little financial loss.
ARE YOU GETTING the picture? With this easy lending there was a housing boom. Then a bubble. With such easy money, housing demand went up. As did prices. So housing values soared. Some poor people were buying these homes with creative financing (used to make the unqualified qualify for a mortgage). We call these subprime mortgages. They include Adjustable Rate Mortgages (ARMs). These have adjustable interest rates. This removes the risk of inflation. So they have lower interest rates than fixed-rate mortgages. If there is inflation (and interest rates go up), they adjust the interest rate on the mortgage up. Other clever financing included interest only mortgages. These include a balloon payment at the end of a set term of the full principal. These and other clever instruments put people into houses who could only afford the smallest of monthly payments. The idea was that they would refinance after an 'introductory' period. And it would work as long as interest rates did not go up. But they went up. And house prices fell. The bubble burst. Mortgages went underwater (people owed more than the houses were worth). Some people struggled to make their payments and simply couldn't. Others with little of their own money invested simply walked away. The subprime industry imploded. So what happened, then, to all those subprime mortgages?
Fannie and Freddie bought these risky mortgages. And securitized them. They chopped and diced them and created investment devices called Collateralized Debt Obligations (CDOs). These are fancy bonds backed by those 'safe' home mortgages. Especially safe with those Fannie and Freddie guarantees. They were as safe as government bonds but more profitable. As long as people kept making their mortgage payments.
But risk is a funny thing. You can manage it. But you can't get rid of it. Interest rates went up. The ARMs reset their interest rates. People defaulted. The value of the subprime mortgages that backed those CDOs collapsed, making the value of the CDOs collapse. And everyone who bought those CDOs took a hit. Investors around the globe shared those losses.
Those subprime loans were very risky. Lenders would not make the loans unless someone else took that risk. The government took that risk in the guise of Fannie and Freddie. Who passed on that risk to the investors buying what they thought were safe investments. Who saw large chunks of their investment portfolios go 'puff' into thin air.
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LOS ANGELES - The always easygoing Robert Pattinson reckons he'll have a life after the Twilight of his career, but he's just not sure what it will be.
"I'm still trying to figure out where I'm at," the 25-year-old says recently at a Beverly Hills hotel. "Although it has been fun, it's totally bizarre to me."
The "it" is the unrelenting fame that has washed over him since 2008, when he introduced himself as vampire Edward Cullen in the first Twilight movie. The notoriety was compounded by the release of Eclipse and New Moon.
And now the final Stephenie Meyer book, Breaking Dawn, gets a much-anticipated two-part movie treatment with the Bill Condon-directed The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1, which opens Nov. 18. Part 2 hits theatres in November 2012.
In Part 1, Pattinson's Edward marries Kristen Stewart's Bella, which leads to a series of controversial events. It also includes Taylor Lautner's Jacob, who is still pining for Bella.
With a built-in fan base of Twihard tweens, teens and more mature fanatics, Part 1 and Part 2 are poised to add to the Twilight coffers. (The three previous pictures earned a combined total of $1.8 billion US).
That sort of popularity comes with the never-ending fan focus, online and otherwise, and the massive media scrutiny, which has interfered with the three stars' daily routines.
Certainly, Pattinson had no idea what he was getting into when he beat out more than 5,000 actors from around the world to play Edward opposite Stewart's Bella. Previously, he was best known for his Cedric Diggory cameo in Harry Potter and the Goblet Fire.
Rather than complain about the life-altering spotlight, the laid-back Pattinson mostly shrugs off the lack of privacy over the last three years.
"I guess it's presented a whole variety of obstacles, in terms of trying to grow and figure out who I want to be," he says. "It's like having a very complicated maze to go through. And you're also being propelled by some kind of jet, trying to figure out how to go through the maze at the same time."
Of course, the worldwide series of interviews for Breaking Dawn - Part 1 re-ignites the passionate flames of dedicated Twihards. But at least, says the actor, he can discuss Edward's new attitude in the latest movie.
"Edward's been stuck in adolescence," Pattinson points out. "He's been living that for a hundred years. So, I was trying to push for that angle of change.
"It's funny, but Bill (Condon) was the first person to say, 'Look, I want to put this at the forefront, because Breaking Dawn is probably the happiest Edward's been in the series."
The actor admits he has more or less played Edward as a human, not a 108-year-old vampire, from the first film onward. In Breaking Dawn, "Edward gets content by finding a woman, and having a child, which is how I guess a lot of troubled guys balance themselves out."
But, no, Pattinson is quick to add, he does not have marriage and/or fatherhood in his future. He does have some ideas about what sort of wedding he might have, however, after going through the imaginary process in Breaking Dawn - Part 1.
"I was just doing an interview with Kristen," says a grinning Pattinson, "and she got all annoyed with me for saying that the groom's role in a wedding is basically just as a prop." He chuckles; "Even playing the part, you realize that."
It hit him, he says, during rehearsals for the wedding scenes on the set near Squamish, B.C.
"It's such a clear indication of whose day it is when you're standing at one end of the aisle, and the entire congregation is looking at the bride," he says. "And you're in the same suit as every other guy in the place, and you're just kind of waiting there."
So, no ornate ceremony for Pattinson?
"I really don't mind that," he says. "But I don't want to wear a silly outfit."
Meanwhile, on the new movie front, Pattinson says he enjoyed working with David Cronenberg on Cosmopolis, which he filmed in Toronto last summer. It's based on the Don DeLillo novel about a billionaire who loses his fortune almost overnight.
"Smaller movies are great, because you don't have to argue with so many people all the time," says Pattinson. Plus, Cronenberg "was left alone by everyone because, obviously, he's proved himself from time to time."
Beyond that, Pattinson continues to dabble in singing and playing guitar, but only for himself, with no plans to release a CD. Films are one thing, records are another.
"I record stuff a lot, but there's something about doing movies," he confesses. "I can handle the criticism (from movies), because you can always blame it on someone else.
"But with music, as soon as you put something out there, people judge (you), and I don't necessarily want people to judge me."
He could record under an assumed name. "I kind of like the idea of that, but it's also very embarrassing if you get caught."
Speaking of embarrassing, Pattinson, Stewart and Lautner have joined the ranks of Hollywood's elite. They placed their handprints in cement on the Hollywood Walk of Fame outside Grauman's Chinese Theatre.
First, it made Pattinson nostalgic, because he stayed at a hotel near the ceremony a few years before Twilight abruptly changed his status in Tinseltown.
"I came to L.A. when I was 17," he recalls. "I was totally unemployable and unsure of myself."
Eight years later, he admits he felt "a little awkward" laying his hands in cement alongside iconic stars. That's literally awkward.
"I was kind of embarrassed when I did it (the imprints) because I messed it up," Pattinson reports, smirking a little. "I stood on my own handprints."
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NBC's Brian Williams and NBC's Andrea Mitchell report on the resignation of well-regarded former General David Petraeus from the CIA after he admitted an affair.
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As first reported by NBC News, Petraeus disclosed the affair in a letter released to the CIA work force on Friday afternoon, writing: "Such behavior is unacceptable, both as a husband and as the leader of an organization such as ours."
Petraeus told President Barack Obama of his affair and offered his resignation during a meeting Thursday, a senior official told NBC News.
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General David Petraeus, center, takes the oath of office as the next director of the CIA from Vice President Joe Biden, right, as Petraeus's wife, Holly, watches on Sept. 6, 2011 during a ceremony at the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, D.C.
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Rep. Peter King, R-NY, chairman of the House Committee on Homeland Security, said he regrets Petraeus's resignation. "General Petraeus is one of America's most outstanding and distinguished military leaders and a true American patriot," King said in a statement.
Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., said it was Petraus's "genius" that was responsible "for the success of the surge in Iraq."
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Multiple sources tell NBC News that Mike Morrell, the deputy CIA director and a longtime CIA officer, would likely be offered the job as acting director, with the understanding that he may be elevated to the job permanently.
That's how George Tenet got the job, first as deputy director in July 1995, then acting director following the resignation of John Deutch in December 1996 and finally as director in July 1997, staying on in the Bush administration.
Morrell is a longtime CIA analyst and was an eyewitness to two of the most momentous events in recent U.S. history. He was traveling with President George W. Bush on Sept. 11, 2001, as the president's briefer, and was in the Situation Room on May 1, 2011, as deputy CIA Director, when Navy SEALs killed Osama bin Laden.
Morell began his agency career as an analyst tracking international energy issues and subsequently worked for 14 years as an analyst and manager on East Asia. In 1999, he was appointed director of the Office of Asian Pacific and Latin American Analysis. He also has served as a presidential briefer, as chief of the staff that produces the president's daily briefing, and as an executive assistant to CIA Director George J. Tenet.
From 2003 until 2006, he served overseas. Upon his return, he was briefly deputy director for intelligence at the National Counterterrorism Center before being asked to become associate deputy director at the CIA.
NBC's Andrea Mitchell reports on the resignation of CIA Director David Petraeus after citing an extra-marital affair and apologizing for poor judgment.
Here is the full text of Petraeus' letter:
HEADQUARTERS Central Intelligence Agency
9 November 2012
Yesterday afternoon, I went to the White House and asked the President to be allowed, for personal reasons, to resign from my position as D/CIA. After being married for over 37 years, I showed extremely poor judgment by engaging in an extramarital affair. Such behavior is unacceptable, both as a husband and as the leader of an organization such as ours. This afternoon, the President graciously accepted my resignation.
As I depart Langley, I want you to know that it has been the greatest of privileges to have served with you, the officers of our Nation's Silent Service, a work force that is truly exceptional in every regard. Indeed, you did extraordinary work on a host of critical missions during my time as director, and I am deeply grateful to you for that.
Teddy Roosevelt once observed that life's greatest gift is the opportunity to work hard at work worth doing. I will always treasure my opportunity to have done that with you and I will always regret the circumstances that brought that work with you to an end.
Thank you for your extraordinary service to our country, and best wishes for continued success in the important endeavors that lie ahead for our country and our Agency.
With admiration and appreciation,
David H. Petraeus
Andrea Mitchell is NBC News' chief foreign affairs correspondent. Robert Windrem is NBC News' senior investigative producer. NBC News Chief White House Correspondent Chuck Todd contributed to this report.
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I own this book. My school is using the enchanted forest illustration as a decoration theme.
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