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Federal employees and agencies – as well as federal contractors and their employees – are in hurry-up-and-wait mode on sequestration, the threat of automatic cuts in many federal programs.
It's still to be determined whether those cuts will happen starting in March, whether they will be delayed again as President Obama has proposed, or whether they will be called off entirely. But even with that uncertainty, some belts already are being tightened.
Below is a list of questions and answers about what's happening:
Q. What steps involving federal employees have agencies taken already?
A. The Defense Department, the largest federal department, has taken the lead in disclosing its plans, ordering a civilian hiring freeze in its components with just a few exceptions, and cuts in expenses such as conferences, travel and training for its employees.
The Office of Management and Budget meanwhile has prepared similar government-wide guidance telling agencies to scrutinize costs such as travel, training, facilities, and supplies.
Both the Pentagon and OMB have raised the possibility of furloughing employees if sequestration happens.
Q. Doesn't the government have a lot of temporary employees? Are they being laid off?
A. Through September 2012, the executive branch — outside the U.S Postal Service, which is self-funding and not threatened by sequestration — employed 1,942,528 permanent employees and 167,675 temporary employees, according to Office of Personnel Management data.
For purposes of that count, "temporary" includes certain specialty categories such as employees hired for a limited time, called term employees.
The Defense Department has raised the prospect of laying off temporary employees but the impact to date is uncertain.
For example, in the Air Force, commands "are currently reviewing temporary and term employees to determine which of those positions are mission critical," a spokeswoman said in an e-mail. "We've . . . started the ongoing process to terminate some temporary and term employees. At this point in the process, we don't have specific information on how many positions will be terminated."
Similarly, a Marine Corps spokesman said in an e-mail: "The Marine Corps, as of now, has not issued guidance to commands to release term employees prior to expiration of their term. However, the looming threat of sequestration and/or a year-long continuing resolution could create a budget shortfall where we would have to enact belt-tightening measures. There remains much uncertainty at the moment."
An Air Force planning document, first reported by the Air Force Times on Wednesday, estimates the loss of temporary and term employees at up to 3,200. Similarly, a Navy memo estimated the loss of 3,000 positions at shipyards by laying off temporary employees and maintaining its civilian hiring freeze.
Q. What's the latest on possible unpaid furloughs?
A. The OMB guidance says that agencies may "have to consider placing employees on temporary furlough, or taking other personnel actions, should sequestration occur."
It would be up to individual agencies to decide whether they need to furlough employees and if so, when and for how many days. Agencies would look for savings elsewhere—including in grants, contracts and other expenses—but salaries are a big part of the overhead accounts that would be hit by sequestration. In addition, some agencies are more labor-intensive than others.
Again, the Defense Department has been the most transparent, with both the Army and Navy telling their components to prepare for the possibility of furloughing nearly all their employees by one day a week, starting around April 16.
Q. If a sequester would hit in early March, why would furloughs be delayed into April?
A. Federal personnel policies guarantee that employees who will be furloughed must receive 30 days of notice. In addition, where employees are represented by unions, certain bargaining rights apply. These rights, which the various memos have said will be honored, include negotiating over the timing of furloughs.
Q. What can federal employees do to prepare themselves for a possible furlough?
A. First, one thing that won't help: saving up paid vacation time with the idea of taking it on furlough days and continuing to be paid. An employee "may not substitute paid leave or other forms of paid time off for any hours or days designated as furlough time off," according to OPM.
However, it could be wise to cut back on spending now, or at least decide what to do when the time comes. The unpaid time off could be a significant hardship for many.
"Federal employees cannot afford to lose 20 percent of their pay, which is what the one day per week furloughs currently being threatened would mean," Jacque Simon, public policy director of the American Federation of Government Employees, said in an e-mail.
"Consider the take home pay (after tax, health insurance, etc.) of a federal corrections officer, about $500 a week, and cut that by 20 percent or $100," Simon said. "Chances are that the officer won't be able to afford rent and a car payment, let alone saving for retirement in the [Thrift Savings Plan] or paying steep health insurance premiums."
Q. What about making up for the lost income?
A. Furloughed employees will not be entitled to severance pay, since they are not being separated from their jobs, but rather put on leave without pay. In some circumstances they may be eligible for unemployment compensation; policies vary by state. Employees also might be able to take outside employment, although numerous restrictions would apply.
There's no expectation that employees who would be put on furlough would be paid later for that time. Past furlough situations where employees were reimbursed for that time involved temporary lapses of agency funding authority, not situations where agencies need to save on current expenses.
Q. Will all federal employees face 22 days of furlough?
A. Not necessarily. According to Office of Personnel Management guidance, a furlough "will impact each agency differently depending on the extent of the agency's budget reduction."
The 22 day figure is only being raised as a possibility in parts of the Defense Department, at least for now. Other agencies could need fewer, and potentially even none.
However, a furlough of more than 22 days in a year would mean certain additional rights would apply, including a longer notice period.
Q. If the sequester is delayed, would it come at the cost of federal employees in some other way?
A. There are many possibilities. The last such delay, from January to March last year, prompted a series of budget cuts and assumptions about raising tax revenues by authorizing retirement savings plans, including the TSP, to allow participants to change the tax status of their investments at the cost of paying a tax up front.
Various proposals have been circulated, including one featuring a mix of spending cuts and revenue increases and another endorsing the recommendations of the Simpson-Bowles Commission. However, the House leadership recently refused to call the former up for a vote, and full House rejected the latter as part of a budget-related bill.
A Republican proposal introduced in Congress Wednesday calls for cutting the federal workforce by 10 percent by attrition, filling only one of every three vacancies that occur. Another idea that has been considered would apply a reduced inflation adjustment to various benefit programs, including Social Security, veterans benefits and federal retirement annuities.
Q. Is the pain being shared by government contractors?
A. In anticipation of a sequester, agencies have delayed awarding some contracts that were due for renewal and have cut back on the scope of work in others, said Alan Chvotkin, executive vice president and counsel for the Professional Services Council, a trade association of government contractors who provide information technology, systems engineering, logistics support and similar services.
Plans announced by the Defense Department to cut back on depot level maintenance, modernizing facilities and general operating expenses further will impact contractors, who perform much of that work, he added.
"They're not hiring except for existing revenue-generating contracts," Chvotkin said. "They're not opening new offices. They're basically trying to hang on to what they have."
Chvotkin said the association has no count of job losses in the contracting community due to the sequestration threat. But the group says that "tens of thousands" of contractor positions already have been eliminated as government spending on service-type contracts has fallen from $340 billion in 2009 to $325 billion in 2011.
Q. What would be the impact of delaying the sequester?
A. That would depend on how the law is changed. If the required savings are not rescinded but rather are only pushed off until later in the budget year, agencies would have to cut even more deeply.
For example, it already is getting late in the budget year to use buyout incentive payments, since the up-front costs of making those payments would partly offset the savings of employees taking them and leaving the payroll.
"At some point you run out of reasonable options to implement whatever policy you decide," Chvotkin said. "We've already seen the effects of austerity because of the reductions in spending and services. At some point the preparatory work for sequestration is going to look exactly like sequestration."


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In an article on the front page of Tuesday's Times, Binyamin Appelbaum did a nice job of highlighting the difference in views between Robert Shiller and Eugene Fama, who shared this year's economics Nobel memorial prize with Lars Peter Hansen. But there's a danger that some readers may come away from the article, and other news coverage of the prize, with the impression that the issue of whether financial markets are efficient remains unsettled. It isn't. After living through a stock-market bubble and a credit bubble in the past decade and a half, we can be quite sure that financial markets are sometimes chronically inefficient. The only outstanding question is how far this inefficiency extends.
Discussing the Nobel committee's decision to honor Shiller and Fama in the same year, Appelbaum quotes Justin Wolfers, an economist at the University of Michigan: "It encapsulates the state of modern economics," Wolfers says. "We have big important questions that remain largely open, and we have giants bringing evidence to bear. And the answer turns out to be more complicated than markets are efficient—or markets are inefficient." On top of teaching and doing his own research, Wolfers, through his columns at Bloomberg View and his regular presence on Twitter, does a yeoman's job in helping to educate the public about economics. I often learn from him. But I fear he erred in this instance. Neither Fama nor Shiller are intellectual giants. They are both smart, empirically-minded professors who did influential and important work. Putting them on a pedestal serves no purpose. Also, as I said in opening, the question of financial-market efficiency is no longer an open one. In anything but the narrowest technical sense, which conflates efficiency with predictability, it has been settled in the negative.
Part of the problem is how financial economists define efficiency. In most areas of economics, efficiency is defined in terms of how well markets allocate resources. If a given market allocates them in a way that leaves it impossible to increase the welfare of one person without lowering the welfare of at least one other person, the market is said to be "Pareto efficient." One of the big achievements of twentieth-century economics was in showing how, under certain highly restrictive conditions, a free-market economy can produce a Pareto-efficient outcome.
Since the nineteen-sixties, when Fama got his start, financial market efficiency has been defined rather differently. According to Fama's definition, which quickly became the standard one, a financial market is "weak-form efficient" if prices reflect all the past information that is relevant to the market, such as the history of price movements. The market is "semi-strong-form efficient" if it reflects all past and current public information. And it is "strong-form efficient" if it reflects all the public and private information.
Since the stock market can't talk, we can't ask it if the price of I.B.M.'s stock fully reflects the latest developments at I.B.M.'s research facilities. (Even if markets could talk, they might not tell us the truth.) Rather than gauging market efficiency directly, economists have concentrated on testing certain narrower theories that appear to be corollaries of efficiency. For example, weak-form efficiency implies that technical analysis ("chartism") can't be used to beat the market. Strong-form efficiency suggests that all fundamental stock analysis, of the sort frequently carried out in brokerage and fund-management firms, is pointless. Since efficient markets reflect all information practically instantaneously, the deductions the analysts are making are already reflected in the price.
It was clear from the very beginning that this notion of efficiency is problematic. On a theoretical level, it can be, at best, a rough approximation. If markets are strong-form efficient, it is a waste of time and effort for anybody to pore over quarterly reports or articles about industry trends. But if nobody does this sort of information-processing, how does new information get incorporated in prices? As Joseph Stiglitz and Sanford Grossman pointed out way back in 1975, a perfectly efficient market is an impossibility.
On a more practical level, too, this notion of efficiency is problematic. If prices in financial markets already reflect all the pertinent information, they should move only in reaction to news, which, by definition, is unexpected. Thus prices should move randomly—not predictably. Very many empirical studies, including some carried out by Fama in his later years, suggest that they don't, or not fully. On a short-term basis, there is a lot of noise in the data, but there is also a mild amount of persistency: if a stock went up yesterday and the day before, it's got a slightly better than fifty per cent chance of going up today. (Statisticians call this "serial correlation.") Over longer periods—months and years—there are other regularities that investors, at least theoretically, could use to beat the market. Small stocks tend to outperform large-cap stocks. Value stocks—ones with low price-to-book ratios—tend to outperform growth stocks. Stocks that underperform the market for long stretches tend to rebound and outperform.
Moving from individual securities to the over-all market, how does efficiency hold up? Not very well. In many markets, not just the stock market, prices tend to overshoot in one direction or another and, eventually, revert to the mean. Occasionally, this phenomena takes on extreme forms. During the late nineteen-nineties, there was the tech bubble, during which the market's information-processing machine virtually ceased to function: for a time, virtually any company with the suffix ".com" attached to its name could issue stock at a very high price. And just a few years later, there was a credit bubble, during which yields on risky debt fell to absurd levels. More recently, we've seen spikes in the prices of oil, gold, copper, and other commodities that were hard to justify on the basis of fundamentals.
Speculative bubbles represent glaring violations of informational efficiency, and they also violate allocative efficiency, which is much more important. The ultimate purpose of financial markets is to share risk, finance productive investment, and help the economy grow. But in recent years, we have seen instances where the markets have amplified risk, financed a ton of unproductive investment—such as empty housing developments in Florida, Ireland, and Spain—and helped bring on the deepest recession since the nineteen-thirties. Looked at it in this context, the proposition that markets are efficient can seem like a poor joke.
It is true that quite what causes the widespread market failures in finance remains an open question. (Perhaps that is what Wolfers was driving at.) Various explanations have been put forward for the recent proliferation of bubbles. Some of them are based on irrational exuberance (or irrational pessimism). Broadly speaking, this is Shiller's favored candidate. Other explanations retain the rationality assumption, for at least some investors, and focus on structural barriers that prevent the exploitation of profitable arbitrage opportunities, such as limits on short sales and solvency constraints. (As the old saying about the perils of contrarian investing goes, the market can stay irrational for longer than you can remain solvent.) There are also explanations that hark back to Keynes's beauty-contest model, in which perfectly rational investors choose to run with the crowd rather than reacting to fundamentals. Still other explanations focus on overly loose monetary policy.
I would argue that during the tech and credit bubbles all of these things were at work. In the late nineties, many retail investors in the stock market simply got caught up in the frenzy. But many sophisticated hedge funds took a calculated gamble to surf the bubble rather than betting against it. Similarly, during the credit bubble, the big banks were willing players in what some of them viewed as a game of pass-the-parcel. (Recall the famous July 2007 quote from Chuck Prince, then the chairman of Citigroup: "As long as the music is playing, you've got to get up and dance.") In both bubbles, the presence of trend-following behavior generated a positive feedback process, which explains why prices moved in such an extreme fashion.
As I pointed out yesterday, Fama and some of his fellow efficient-markets believers reacted to these events in a way that combined denial with elaborate rationalization. In a 2010 interview with me, Fama refused to accept that the markets went loopy, and he even questioned whether there was such a thing as a bubble. In recounting extreme movements in the market, he pointed to sharp but unexplained (and unobservable) shifts in investors' risk tolerance as an explanation that was consistent with efficiency. His second defense was to fall back on the difficulty in predicting market movements. He dismissed Shiller's warnings about the stock market in the late nineties, suggesting that some of them were issued as early as 1996, four years before the bust.
Nobody could dispute that market movements are hard to forecast. But just because it is tough to tell what a market is going to do doesn't mean it is efficient in any meaningful sense. Let's say the Fed announced tomorrow that it had decided to inflate a stock-market bubble and that it would stick with its policy mix of near-zero interest rates and quantitative easing until it succeeded in its aim. If this happened, we could be pretty sure that the market would go up, but how far, and for how long? If we lined up a hundred of the top economists in the world, Shiller and Fama included, and asked them for predictions, few if any of them would get the answer exactly right. But would that mean that the market was acting in an efficient manner? In a very narrow and technical sense, perhaps. In a broader sense, surely not.
To be fair to Wolfers, I should also point to a Bloomberg View column he co-wrote, which was entitled "Nobel Prize Shows Both Wisdom and Madness of Crowds," and which points to some of the problems attending the efficient-markets theory. "With a little latitude one could summarize this prize as suggesting that financial markets are efficient (Fama), except when they're not (Shiller), and that we have empirical evidence to prove it (Hansen)," the article notes wryly. However, its conclusion is equivocal:
There are also deeper lessons: This stuff is hard. Social science progresses slowly. Most important, we are still learning how and when financial markets generate wealth and provide economic stability and when they are a casino destabilizing the economy.
I agree with part of that. If I were trying to come up with a defense of financial markets, I would say that that they are often highly inefficient, inequitable, and wasteful; but they are also very productive, and, perhaps, their wastefulness is an inevitable concomitant of their role in financing new and untested innovations. For every ten Webvans, you get an Amazon.com.
That's roughly the argument that Bill Janeway, the venture capitalist and Keynesian economist, makes in his original and thought-provoking book, "Doing Capitalism in the Innovation Economy: Markets, Speculation and the State." It's a defensible story—much more persuasive than simply falling back on Alan Greenspan's point that economics is hard and bubbles are tough to spot. That dog won't hunt. In early 2000, when 3Com floated its Palm computing subsidiary on the Nasdaq, the market put such a high price on the new issue that it implied that the parent company, which retained a big stake in Palm, had a negative stock-market valuation. Was it really a big stretch to conclude that this was a bubble? Was it so tough in 2005, when house prices had virtually tripled in ten years, to say we were in a real-estate bubble? Shiller got both calls right, and so did quite a few others. It's not unreasonable to expect policymakers to identify bubbles, at least in their later stages.
And, on a broader level, what's so difficult about the concept that developments in the financial sector, and, in particular, the rate at which banks create credit, has important implications for the over-all stability of the economy? From Adam Smith to Knut Wicksell to Hyman Minsky, many great economists have appreciated the perils of rampant credit growth, and unhinged finance generally. During the past few decades, though, all too many economists overlooked these dangers, or purposely sought to downplay them. Over time, these omissions helped to produce an intellectual environment in which policymakers from both major parties could pursue policies that proved disastrous.
One of the reasons for this failure in the market for economic analysis was the hegemony of the efficient-markets hypothesis, and the sunny view of finance it embodied. In choosing to honor Shiller and Fama at the same time, the Nobel committee has, wittingly or unwittingly, obfuscated this history. To prevent another policy disaster in the future, it needs telling and retelling.
Photograph by Scott Eells/Bloomberg via Getty.


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A Russian court Web site has been defaced following a verdict that saw the members of the all-female punk-rock band Pussy Riot sentenced to two years in jail.
The Khamovnichesky District Court was hacked today by a group claiming to be affiliated with the U.S. branch of Anonymous. The site uploaded a message in Russian saying that it doesn't "forget" or "forgive." The group also posted a Pussy Riot song, called "Putin Is Lighting the Fires of the Revolution," and video of Bulgarian singer Aziz.
The BBC was first to report on the news.
Pussy Riot band members were arrested in March after performing a "punk prayer" in Moscow's main cathedral, requesting the Virgin Mary to save Russia from President Vladimir Putin. A judge last week sentenced all three band members to two years in prison for their act of dissent. Their arrest and trial has lit a firestorm across the world over individual rights in Russia. And many "hacktivist" groups have come out in support of the band.
One such group, Anti Leaks, took down Russian news site RT.com with a DDoS attack last week.
Pussy Riot band members were found guilty of "hooliganism motivated by religious hatred."


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Pinarello's Dogma 65.1 Think 2, launched last year, has been released with several new colour schemes for 2013, including a Team Sky replica build and a bike to celebrate the Giro d'Italia.
Team Sky raced all of last season, save for the final stage of the Tour de France, on the Dogma 2. The newer Dogma 65.1 Think 2 was released last year, and while it looks virtually identical, underneath the paint is a new 65-ton high modulus carbon fibre layup that saves some weight and boosts the stiffness. Frame weight is a claimed 920g.
The team haven't yet taken to this new bike, preferring to stick with the tried and trusted Dogma 2 for the Tour Down Under and the Tour of Qatar. For a team obsessed with marginal gains, we expect them to make the switch further into the season. It could be they're waiting for delivery of Shimano's new Dura-Ace Di2 11-speed groupset, which has been slow to arrive in time for these early season races. The new Dogma allows for better electronics groupset as it's been designed with these modern components in mind.
This team edition bike, which is finished in black with a blue stripe (a Rapha influence) on the left fork leg, along the top tube and wrapped around the seat stay wishbone, is a very subtle and classy bike. It's easy to spot the difference compared to the current Dogma 2 the team are riding, which has a lot more blue.
Available in nine sizes, the frame is built with virtually the same parts you'd find on Wiggo's bike. There's Shimano's new Dura-Ace Di2 9770 11-speed groupset. As well a sleeker derailleurs, the new internal seatpost battery that powers the groupset makes for a far cleaner looking bike. Wheels are from Shimano too, the C50 deep-section tubular wheels. And as a Shimano sponsored team, they pick their handlebars and stems from the Pro catalogue. The saddle is a Fizik Arione.
The Giro d'Italia is a race close to Pinarello's heart, it being an Italian brand, and this year they're celebrating the race with this gorgeous Giro d'Italia commemorative bike.
The leader's jersey is pink, and so the Dogma 65.1 Think 2 is finished with a pink on black colour scheme. A flash of pink on the non-driveside of the bike, along the trailing edge of the fork, along the entire length of the chainstays and part way up the seat stays, matched on the internal faces of the driveside tubes, gives a unique appearance. The bike is fully black from the driveside but shows a lot of pink when you spin it around. It's a sleek looking bike.
A Campagnolo groupset is the natural choice for such a bike. Super Record 11-speed is the perfect match and there's an FSA chainset. FSA also supply the handlebars and stem. Wheels are from FSA's Vision brand, with the 801mm deep-section Metron 81 wheels. They're neatly finished with pink decals, to complete the package. The saddle is from Selle Italia.
Here's a reminder of the Dogma 2 and kit that Bradley Wiggins raced last year.
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Security is a core feature of the Google Cloud Platform, but there are still steps you should take to protect your App Engine app and identify vulnerabilities.
Use the following features to ensure that your App Engine app is secure. To learn more about the Google Security Model and the available steps that you can take to secure your GCP projects, see Google Cloud Platform Security.
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In November of 2012, Nobel Peace Prize laureate Elie Wiesel -- who died Saturday at age 87 -- received the Tribune Literary Prize. Tribune arts critic Howard Reich, a son of Holocaust survivors, spent time with Wiesel in New York in advance of the presentation and wrote the following essay, which originally appeared in Printers Row Journal.
My father told me little about his agonies in the Holocaust. He never mentioned the beatings he suffered in various concentration camps starting in 1942, nor the death march he survived in January 1945, en route to Buchenwald.
For nearly the first 50 years of my life, I never even knew he was in Buchenwald. Nor that my mother had spent three years of her childhood alone, running and hiding from the Nazis in easternmost Poland.
The Holocaust was much yelled about but little discussed as I was growing up in Skokie, where thousands of survivors converged in the decades after the war. It wasn't until my mother's traumas resurfaced in 2001 — when late onset post-traumatic stress disorder caused her to believe that she was again being hunted by killers — that I finally tried to learn what exactly had happened.
Along the way, many survivors have explained to me that, like my parents, they wanted to spare their children the details of what they had experienced. Moreover, the world didn't want to hear their stories, the survivors said, and, anyway, no words really could do justice to the chaos, cruelty and nihilism of the Holocaust.
Hence the silence.
But writer Elie Wiesel — among others, such as Primo Levi and Wladyslaw Szpilman — somehow found the words to evoke the terrors of the Holocaust, nowhere more searingly than in "Night," Wiesel's brief but crushing memoir of the madness of those years. Even Wiesel, however, was silent for a long time, promising himself to wait fully a decade before trying to put the awful past on paper.
When I traveled to New York to interview him last month, in advance of the Chicago Tribune Literary Prize he will receive today at Symphony Center, he explained the years in which he didn't speak about the war.
"I said somewhere that if all the survivors, including your mother, if all of us had met in 1945, let's say … in the valley between two mountains and compared our memories, I think they would have probably come out with a decision not to speak about it," said Wiesel, 84, seated in his Manhattan office surrounded by books in Hebrew, French, English and Yiddish.
"Because, anyway, people won't understand. And then I said, 'In that case, our silence would have been testimony.'
"But we didn't (stay quiet).
"We didn't because, after all, we still believe in language."
Yet throughout Wiesel's writings, he argues that anyone who didn't live through the Holocaust could not comprehend what it was like. Moreover, even Wiesel couldn't bring himself to ask a surviving sibling what happened in the last moments of their mother's and sister's lives, as they were "selected" to be executed upon arriving in Auschwitz-Birkenau in 1944.
"Hilda walked with them a few more steps than I did," writes Wiesel in "And the Sea is Never Full," referring to an older sister, who survived. "I want to question her about it. I don't dare. We speak every week but only about her health, her son, Sidney, her grandchildren. Yet I would like to know more about her experiences in the camp. I don't dare ask. … I curse the reticence that renders me mute."
Silence was long the modus operandi for the survivors, so why did Wiesel ultimately break it, at least in writing? If readers who weren't there can't ever really know what happened, why has Wiesel dedicated so much of his life to telling this story?
"If I cannot understand, why should you?" he said to me, pondering the paradox but not resolving it.
Then what about this: Why did so many publishers reject "Night"? Why, after it was released in France in 1958, did it sell so few copies over so many years? Why did the world not want to hear the stories that a few survivors, such as Wiesel, struggled to tell?
"Look, you know why: It was too sad," said Wiesel. "They didn't want to publish my book because it was too morbid, they said. It went from one (publishing house) to the other. They all rejected it. … It's too sad. Why should they?"
And yet, through the decades, "Night" gathered a vast readership as a landmark account of life in the camps. The slender tome was championed by Oprah Winfrey's book club, still is taught in schools around the world and remains a devastating testament to events its author considered indescribable.
"I swear to you I don't know," said Wiesel. "Not only that. Look: I have published (about) 60 books. And the others are all jealous of 'Night.' They come to haunt me in my dreams.
"I would lie to you if I said that I knew. … I don't know."
I'm willing to hazard a guess. In its stripped-down prose and unflinching, nearly journalistic chronicle of the torments that Wiesel and his father underwent together — until his father succumbed in Buchenwald in 1945 — Wiesel captured what every great writer reaches for: the unvarnished truth.
That truth about the Holocaust was so potent, however, that even Wiesel couldn't examine it for fully a decade after the war, and the world wouldn't accept it for many years later. That truth about the Holocaust was so potent that, as a child growing up in Skokie, I couldn't bear to face it, to ask my parents about it. For nearly the first 50 years of my life, I avoided books and films about the Holocaust, avoided even saying the word. It was too fraught, too tied up with the mostly unspoken tragedy on which my family was built. Not until my father had died, in 1991, and my mother had slipped into delusions of her nightmarish past, in 2001, could I start to face the truth of what had happened to them when they were young and uninjured.
When I did, I learned about my mother's long and lonely flight for her life, about my father's years in many camps, culminating in Buchenwald, where he nearly died, and where Wiesel, too, spent the final, anguished months of the Holocaust.
"Night" told me, with unsparing clarity, how the physical and psychic pain of my father's death march to Buchenwald felt. How the deprivations and depravities of Buchenwald changed Wiesel and, therefore, how it changed my father, as well.
I never really knew until I read "Night." But I couldn't bear to look at the book's cover, let alone read it, until now, at this late date. Its truth was too powerful for me before and remains almost too overwhelming for me now.
When I looked in Wiesel's face in New York and saw the sorrow it held, the pain and humanity in his eyes, I saw my father's face. Only now, more than two decades after my father's death, was I able to ask some of the questions I needed to ask him, by asking Wiesel.
But Wiesel, whose writings on the Holocaust have taken so many of us inside of it, won't be here forever. And not every child of survivors will be able to listen to his voice up close and hear in his Yiddish inflections the long-vanished world that he and my sorely missed father represent.
What will happen when there are no more Elie Wiesels, no more survivors, to sit before us, face to face, telling us what happened? What will happen when their thoughts are just black ink on a white page or pixels on a video monitor?
"Look — you are here, and I am here, and we discuss very serious matters," answered Wiesel, as our long conversation wound to a close.
"We believe that we are witnesses.
"Your mother is a witness. So am I. Therefore our task is a privileged one. No one has our authority to speak on certain issues. No one.
"But to listen to a witness is to become one," added Wiesel. "So there are many now who listen to us, and who read our books and are familiar with our statements.
"Therefore, I am not worried."
So long as Wiesel's words and the memory of my father linger in my memory, I am not either.
Howard Reich is the Tribune's arts critic and author of "Prisoner of Her Past," a book and PBS documentary film about his mother's unspoken Holocaust childhood.
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Elie Wiesel will receive the 2012 Chicago Tribune Literary Prize Sunday at 10 a.m. in Symphony Center, 220 S. Michigan Ave. The Literary Prize honors a writer for a lifetime of literary achievement. It's a tradition the Tribune started a decade ago; since then, we've honored many writers, including Arthur Miller, August Wilson, Margaret Atwood, E. L. Doctorow, David McCullough and Joyce Carol Oates. Today's program will be at 10 a.m. in Symphony Center. Visit chicagohumanities.org.


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Veterinarian Reviewed on March 29, 2014 by Dr. Janice Huntingford
Dog Lymphoma Cancer
Signs and Symptoms
Lymphoma is a common type of cancer occurring in dogs. It can occur in the organs or lymph nodes and leads to a high mortality rate if left untreated. The most successful form of treatment is chemotherapy which may add months or years to a dog's life.
Currently there is no specific cause outlined for this type of Dog Cancer in dogs. Theories persist, but facts are not available at this point. In cats, scientists believe there may be a link between the Feline Leukemia Virus and lymphosarcoma.
The location of the cancer will determine the symptomatic manifestations of the disease. Lymph node tumors may simply result in swelling, whilst intestinal forms can cause a lack of appetite, Dog Diarrhea and vomiting which results in a loss of weight. If the lymphoma is on the skin, you will notice lumps on the dog's skin or possibly inside their mouth.
The diagnosis of lymphoma is accomplished by various tests. These include biopsies of the tumors, blood tests and aspirating fluid or tissue from the tumor. The location of the tumor will determine the type of tests needed for proper diagnosis.
The most common form of lymphoma treatment is chemotherapy. Since this is a systemic disease, the administration of radiation or surgery is an impractical form of treatment. The most commonly used pharmaceuticals are those that are used in chemotherapy for humans as well. Pharmaceuticals such as vincristine, cyclophosphamide and doxorubicin as well as prednisone are the most commonly used Pharmaceuticals. The protocol most often depends on who is administering the Pharmaceuticals. Canine oncologists should be consulted to find out the latest protocols to know which treatments are current, which are new and which would be best for your dog and its particular needs.
The long term outlook for lymphoma is not particularly good. While prednisone will reduce swelling and may reduce pain to a certain, bearable, degree, it will not prolong the life of the dog. If you are anticipating chemotherapy it is not advisable to administer oral prednisone before the chemotherapy is administered. When the symptoms are evident and no treatment is selected, the life span of the dog is usually four to six weeks.
If you choose to have chemotherapy administered to your dog, their life may be extended one year or sometimes slightly even longer. However, most dogs do tolerate chemotherapy quite well. During the times of administration, the quality of their life is usually good during that period. Chemotherapy can usually be administered by your local veterinarian. There is usually little need to travel to a veterinary college or a big university clinic for the proper treatment. Whilst one year may not seem like a very long time for the extension of your dog's life, it is in fact almost ten per cent of their total expected life span. The life expectancy and remission rate may be well worth yours, your veterinarian's and your dog's efforts.
The comfort of your dog is a very important point to consider. Lymphoma can cause pain, shortness of breath (if in the chest area) and other problems. When you consult with your vet and have the tests performed it should allow you to know what stage of lymphoma your dog is in. It is important to have an early diagnosis and treatment if that is the road you choose to take.
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The week in review
Worst nightmare for election officials: None of the voting machines at Walker Upper Elementary are working early November 8, preventing many would-be voters from casting their votes, WINA reports.
Closest race: The closeness of the governor's race between Democrat Tim Kaine and Republican Jerry Kilgore is illustrated by the fact that both ran negative ads about each other down to the wire.
Lightest slap on the wrist: Both the Kaine and Kilgore campaigns are fined $100 for mailing voters what the State Board of Elections calls deceptive fliers.
Most explosive discovery: Bomb-making equipment turns up in the Whitewood Road apartment of Jonathan Dean, 22. Firefighters investigate after neighbors report a gasoline smell over the weekend. Dean is being held without bond.
Longest sentence: Greene County resident Peggy Ellis gets 20 years in jail for the second-degree New Year's Day murder of her husband, Bobby Ellis.
Most exciting call to Greenfield Trailer Park: Albemarle police retrieve an 18-inch alligator that a resident found November 2. A 12-foot python noted by a Daily Progress reporter was a pet.
Worst break-ins: The door to the downtown A&N store, located just down the street from the police station, gets smashed November 4.
Biggest auto heist: Three cars are taken from Masters Auto Body November 2. Dustin Wade Messer, 19, and George Waverly Morris, 19, are arrested in Greene County in one of the stolen vehicles, a 1986 Porsche 944, according to the Progress.
Worst streets: The Department of Public Works projects a shortfall for maintaining city streets and sidewalks and reports to City Council November 7 that $1.2 million needs to be added to the budget, John Yellig reports in the Progress.
Best week for PVCC: Just weeks after Piedmont Virginia Community College received $500K– its largest donation ever– Patricia Kluge and Bill Moses up the ante and give $1.2 million for a new science building. And the YMCA plans to build an indoor pool and fitness center on PVCC property.
Best week for the YMCA: See above.
Deepest pockets: The board of directors of the Piedmont Family YMCA pledges to match Albemarle County's contribution to a new Y and personally pony up $2 million.
Best news for UVA classified employees: The majority will receive a three percent pay increase and a $50 bump for each year of service, boosting the average increase to 4.4 percent, according to a university release.
Biggest film fest: The 18th Virginia Film Festival sets a new attendance record, serving 13,087 filmgoers, topping its previous best of 12,764 in 1993.
Worst blow to an already tattered U.S. image: The CIA has a system of secret prisons, called "black sites," in which to detain suspected terrorists in countries without a Bill of Rights, the Washington Post reports.
Worst exemption: Vice President Dick Cheney lobbies for an exception to a proposed ban on torture of suspected terrorists in U.S. custody, according to the Post.
Best preserved: The Paramount wins the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities 2005 award given by the local Thomas Jefferson branch.
Best name for a fundraiser: "Take a Shot at Crime," sponsored by the Rivanna Rifle and Pistol Club November 5 to raise money for the Charlottesville Area Crimestoppers.
Creepiest weather: Unusual temperatures in the 70s and sunny days the first week of November send sandal-wearing locals to cavort outdoors rather than to hunker beside hearths with mugs of mulled cider.


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A group of Utahns plans to launch an initiative drive Monday aimed at changing how political candidates get on the ballot, opening Utah's primary process and undermining the parties' existing caucus system.
If successful, a candidate could appear on the primary ballot if he or she wins the party's nomination at convention or gathers enough signatures to qualify for the slot. The primary winner would be the party's nominee and appear on the ballot in November.
Utah's caucus and convention system unique in the United States is exclusionary and vests too much power in the hands of a small number of delegates, supporters of the initiative contend.
"Essentially, there are two main objectives across the board with this group: One is we want to increase voter participation and [second] involve more people in who is on the ballot. Those are the most important things," said Jeremy Roberts, one of the organizers of the effort and the former Utah County Republican Party secretary.
But the process for changing the system is long and challenging. Supporters will have to gather 102,879 signatures from registered voters around the state to get on the 2014 ballot and win a majority of the vote in that election. If successful, it would take effect in the 2016 election.
In 2011, a group of prominent Utah politicos including former Gov. Mike Leavitt and political scientist Kirk Jowers had considered making a push to get an identical measure on the 2012 ballot, and raised more than $40,000 for the signature-gathering effort.
But they backed away, deciding they didn't have enough time to gather the required number of signatures to get on the 2012 ballot, promising to remain active and revisit the issue for 2014.
Roberts, who owns a marketing business, said there have been meetings with those high-profile politicians, and they have adopted the wording of the Leavitt proposal. He said they have also met with numerous other business, community and religious leaders, and they are all welcome to support and participate in the effort.
The proposal, modeled after Connecticut's system, would allow a party to put a candidate on the primary ballot if he or she wins at the party convention. Other candidates could qualify for the primary ballot if they gather signatures from 2 percent of those registered with the party in the jurisdiction they plan to run.
Utah Democratic Party Chairman Jim Dabakis said the fight over nominating processes is really a civil war among Republicans.
"This mostly seems to be an internal power play within the Republican Party between their own factions and has nothing or very little to do with Democrats," he said. "This is the Mike Leavitt conservatives at war with the extremists in their own party. … It's the internal power brokers trying to keep power out of the hands of the tea party."
Roberts said turnout is a problem for both parties and the system presents obstacles for anyone to participate.
A 2011 report by the Utah Foundation, a nonpartisan think-tank, said that Utah is one of just a few states that still uses a convention system and the only one that allows parties to preclude a primary election.
The Foundation said that delegates tend to be the most zealous members of both parties, which has a direct influence on public policy. Changing the system could boost voter turnout and moderate policy, the Foundation said.
In recent years, Republican delegates bounced Gov. Olene Walker and Sen. Bob Bennett, both of whom had high public approval, but were not conservative enough for the Republican delegates. Democratic delegates who believed Rep. Jim Matheson was not liberal enough also forced him into a primary in 2010.
"This is not an indictment against the delegate system. It's just that there should be alternatives," Roberts said. "The political parties are more than within their right to say, 'We're going to have our convention, we're going to have our delegates and we're going to pick our candidates and financially support them. That's their prerogative. But someone shouldn't be excluded from the primary ballot because they choose not to participate in that process."
In addition to Roberts, four other Utahns will sign the initiative paperwork they plan to file Monday. They are Amy Roberts, Carl Downing, Sean Hullinger and Chris Blake.
Amy Roberts is a former Salt Lake County Republican Party secretary who has worked on numerous campaigns. Downing is a Republican delegate who worked on Howard Wallack's congressional campaign and Gov. Gary Herbert's race. Hullinger is a defense attorney who was a libertarian candidate for Utah County attorney. Blake is a lifelong Democrat who says the current system makes it difficult for members of both parties to participate.
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The Spencer County softball team rallied to beat Collins 5-3 in 8 innings Thursday night and claim the top seed in next week's 30th District Tournament.
With the win the Bears (14-14, 2-1) tied the Titans (18-15, 2-1) for the best record in the four-team district, but Spencer earned the No. 1 seed by virtue of the head-to-head tiebreaker.
The Bears' victory over Collins also means that Anderson County (14-13, 1-2) is the No. 3 seed and Shelby County (7-24, 1-2) is the No. 4 seed in the tourney that begins Monday at Spencer County.
Here are the complete pairings:
6 p.m. - (1) Spencer County vs. (4) Shelby County; 8 p.m. - (2) Collins vs. (3) Anderson County.
6 p.m. - Championship.
It definitely sets up some interesting semifinal match-ups. Shelby County beat Spencer County 4-2 on April 3 in the game that counted toward the district standings, but the Bears won the rematch 4-0 May 3 in Taylorsville.
Meanwhile Collins beat Anderson County 4-2 in 8 innings April 16 in Lawrenceburg.
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When Justen Garrity left the Army for the business world, his five years as an officer, experienced in combat, engineering and leadership, mattered little to prospective employers.
"The deck is stacked against the military in this job market," said Garrity, 30. "Any good military person can learn any job. They are adaptive leaders, but employers don't see that as experience in marketing and management.
"In Iraq, I was in charge of an area the size of West Virginia. Back home, I could not get a job as a bank teller or a desk clerk at a hotel."
Eventually, the former Army captain and Worcester Polytechnic Institute graduate abandoned a frustrating job search and concentrated on starting his own business.
"I wanted something with a purpose, something green and socially responsible," he said.
During months of research, he learned that about two-thirds of all trash is compostible. He settled on compost production, which offered him "a lot of potential material in a wide-open field," he said.
The Aberdeen man was recently named Harford County's entrepreneur of the year. On Thursday, he shared his ideas and experience at the first Veterans Entrepreneur Day at Aberdeen Proving Ground, where he hoped his story might resonate with others.
Returning veterans face an unemployment rate of 21 percent, Sgt. Maj. James E. Ervin said, with rates for disabled veterans at 50 percent.
After a decade of war, the country now has its largest population of young veterans — those ages 22 to 30 — since the Vietnam War. The numbers continue to grow, with more than 130,000 leaving the Army this year.
"We must do our part to encourage businesses to hire these veteran soldiers who can bring exceptional training, values and experience to the job," Ervin said.
The G.I. Bill "does its part" to help these soldiers settle into civilian jobs, he said, but nationally about 720,000 remain unemployed.
Those numbers led Angela Corrieri to organize the Veterans Entrepreneur Day.
Corrieri, president of Startup Partners, a nonprofit that organizes entrepreneurial events, did not want a typical job fair, with piles of brochures but few job leads. She worked with APG's commanders on workshops tailored specifically to veterans' employment needs and entrepreneurial pursuits.
Exhibitors, speakers and contractors were veterans, many of whom, like Garrity, had launched successful businesses and value the skills and talents of fellow veterans.
They could lend their expertise, experience and encouragement, said Corrieri, who has started several businesses.
The daylong workshop on the Harford County post was to be "a reverse trade show with the not-as-usual people, who could actually improve the job situation for veterans," she said. "When jobs are scarce, search out ways to start something on your own and provide something others won't."
At the Lockwood Group, security consultants who participated in the workshop, about 60 percent are veterans, as is its president, James T. Lockwood. The company, located at the entrance to APG, supports several missions on the post.
"Our jobs take capable, disciplined people," Lockwood said. "When we do a job search, many talented veteran applicants will fall out of the sky, They know they are serving the soldiers in the field, whom they have already bonded with."
Garrirty said he started Veterans Compost with no customers, little experience in the field, a broken-down tractor and a battered truck. He picked up his first truckload of food scraps from an Ellicott City restaurant in the aftermath of a blizzard.
"They didn't expect me to show up," he said. "But if I can be on time in Iraq, I can be on time in a snowstorm."
He has since developed customers in Baltimore and several counties, hauling scraps from schools, grocery stores and hospitals and turning them into marketable compost on a 30-acre farm he leases in Aberdeen. His company employs several veterans in production and sales.
Garrity is looking at expanding at his current location, which he calls "the lab where I have learned," and adding other sites in the state.
"Two years ago, no one would take my calls," he said. "Now I get calls all the time."
Garrity's initial issues with the sluggish job market are all too common, and his success is too uncommon, officials said.
He says that whether it's a job search or a business start-up, "the intangibles learned in the Army can translate well," Garrity said. "You just have to maintain that ethos and never quit on yourself."


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Pity the poor bird who fails to fly south as its comrades take wing. Lack of foresight has been the undoing of many a migrant that misses the proverbial boat. Sure, global warming may instigate some pretty mild winters but just as surely as the sun rises in the east and sets in the west, snow and ice will hit Rochester. Often, it will hit hard!
The bird who deserves your deepest sympathy, if not outright pity, is a Virginia Rail that has found itself caught out as it were at Mendon Ponds. With temperatures well below freezing, this bird of little brain has been reduced to haunting the only open water in the park, a stream beneath a small footbridge. But the rail's misfortune is our gain because it has been a lot more visible in the last few days than rallids tend to be in warmer seasons. Since I've never observed Rallus limicola, I rallied the troops for a rail review. Were Laura, Seth, and I successful? I'll let my photos tell the tale:
I may abhor winter but I adore winter photography. The light is soft and the birds desperate! Not only did Seth manage to coax a chickadee to his hand but I was accosted by an aggressive titmouse, whose scaly little claws came as quite a surprise as it tried presumably to foil a Red-breasted Nuthatch photo shoot. The diversity at Mendon Ponds was brilliant; all the expected winter birds were there along with a few I haven't seen in a while like Golden-crowned Kinglet and White-throated Sparrow. But that rail, poor thing, was the real prize!
Great shots of the VA Rail, and Seth is bathed in some pretty awesome light. My husband and kids got out to see it an hour after we did while they XX skied–and fed a boatload of hungry chickadees by hand.
I realize that it's the fourth week of January and I have four lifers already! Iceland gull, Harlequin Duck, VA Rail, and Yellow-headed Blackbird. Not a bad weekly average. Add the Long-eared Owl from Dec, and my Lifer Accumulation Rate is better in two months than I've seen since…since….my visit to Honduras. But that doesn't count. This is NY. : )
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Great shots, Mike!
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Hey, and you told me you weren't seeing many birds…
Nice shot. We are also "enjoying" a colder than normal winter. Haven't
seen much out. The woodpeckers are still making a daily appearance.
Hey Mike,
We were there and cheering you on and giving congrats in the background when you called Corey.
Not only a lifer, but really sweet shots of him. (And in less than hopitable conditions at that!)
Mike, this must be my favourite blog post title in a very long, long time.
And neat birds as well, and stunning pics, especially the Titmouse is amazing!
Well, Mike, "Coot Overload" is pretty good but just no match… in my opinion.
Great find! I will be visiting family in Pittsford this weekend and would love to get a chance to see the VA Rail. It would be a lifer. Can you give me the bird's approximate location.
Many thanks.
Nature Chris
I am also in the same situation. I'll be up at Mendon ponds next week, and I'd love to go see the rail, if it's still there. Can i get the approximate location too?
Thanks a ton
David Rankin
Great photos! You may be interested to hear that this rail (or a near relative) has been wintering along that small tributary to Quaker Pond for at least a 4 years… Someone told me that rails are so used to being "invisible" in their natural habitat that, when the vegetation gets cut away (as,in this case, by park management), the rail will not change its behavior, i.e. will seem quite bold.
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While Mother Nature played havoc with much of the East Coast, she kept her touch gentle in these parts with just enough snow to transform Lancaster County into a winter wonderland.
According to the National Weather Service, Lancaster County received between 2 and 5 inches Sunday, with the heaviest amounts falling in the northern and eastern parts of the county.
Residents across the region had been watching the weather projections for days, when forecasters began saying that the Charlotte area had its first good chance for a white Christmas since 1947.
Brenda Hilley and Sarah Funderburk of Lancaster believe sisters make the best friends.
Hilley, the oldest of five sisters and four brothers in the Deese family, was "second mama" to her other siblings. As children, they learned to support and encourage each other, and remained close as they grew up.
Both Hilley and her younger sister, Funderburk, are artistic and enjoy making many different kinds of hand-crafted gifts for friends and family.
Their Christmas trees are filled with ornaments – most of which are their own creations.
In one week, the Ward Faulkenberry Memorial Christmas Basket Fund nearly doubled the amount of money generated to help area residents in need.
Slightly more than $5,200 was donated to the fund through Wednesday of last week, bringing the grand total to $11,602.
Other donations were coming in but aren't included in this story because of The Lancaster News' early deadline for the Christmas holiday.
Donations received after Wednesday will be reported in next week's roundup.
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There's an old saying that says "never bet on the weather."
If you're hoping for a white Christmas this year, it may be prudent to take the adage to heart.
Competing computer-generated forecasts are causing uncertainty as to how much snow will fall on Christmas.
Jesef Williams
Malachi and Bridgette Cherry's yard had probably never been so crowded.
Hundreds of people visited their Pleasant Hill Street home Wednesday to take part in a free lunch that the Cherrys spearheaded.
Dozens of community members joined the couple in putting on this lunch, which they say was a way to give back to the community and spread Christmas cheer.
Reece Murphy
The glowing maple tree is impossible to miss if you're driving along quiet Rosewood Court in Lancaster.
The grand spectacle is the work of J.E. Hinson and it's the sole piece of Christmas decoration outside his modest home.
But what a piece of decoration it is.
Twenty-feet tall, its base a glowing halo of white, streams of red twisting up into the upper branches, the effect is that of a glimmering bowl of fire.
Chris Sardelli
Whether they're scribbled in crayon on notebook paper or printed on festive Christmas stationary, the message always begins the same way: "Dear Santa."
Little hands have furiously written their Christmas wish lists to the big guy in red, hoping to get their favorite presents on Christmas Day.
Reece Murphy
INDIAN LAND – The Indian Land community has reached out to help a local family displaced by fire.
According to a Lancaster County Sheriff's Office incident report, Jason and Kimberly Boone had just returned home from eating dinner out with their two young sons late Dec. 11 when they found the roof of their home on fire.
The family's $60,000 home at 985 Rock Hill Highway was declared a total loss.
AAA Caroliinas
Higher gas prices and the most congestion on the highways in the last 10 years are this year's Christmas Grinch for South Carolina motorists.
Gas prices are up 40 cents statewide since last year and approaching $3 per gallon and highway travel is expected to increase 3 percent compared to last year, according to AAA Carolinas.
A record 93 percent of those traveling in the state are expected to drive to their destination.
This represents the busiest Christmas travel holiday for South Carolina roads on record.
The employment picture in Lancaster County may be looking brighter, as several local companies have plans to create hundreds of new jobs over the next year.
The county has been dogged for many months by a double-digit jobless rate that has consistently ranked the county in the top 10 for unemployment in South Carolina. In November, the county's jobless rate increased to 15.0 percent, up from 14.2 percent in October, according to figures released Friday from the S.C. Department of Employment and Workforce.
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The 1929 Buffalo Bisons are popping the champagne in that great big tailgate party in the sky.
When running back Jamaal Charles crashed into the end zone with 8:42 to go in the first quarter on Monday night, the Kansas City Chiefs were in a position completely unfamiliar to them: They were playing from ahead.
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The 1929 Bisons didn't hold a lead at any point until their season finale, a streak of eight consecutive games. They folded for good after that season, which provided a nice exclamation point to things. The Chiefs would've passed the Bisons had they not managed to jump ahead of the Pittsburgh Steelers.
The Chiefs won a game, of course, beating the New Orleans Saints in overtime back in Week 3. But they went nearly 489 minutes of regulation game time before tasting the sweet nectar of a lead. This is remarkable, especially when you consider how many people believed the Chiefs were actually going to win the AFC West.
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The Chiefs aren't playoff-bound, but they can at least rest easy knowing they didn't eclipse the Bisons, who undoubtedly had planned to haunt the bejeezus out of poor Romeo Crennel if they were erased from the record books.
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The Sweet Brag Tour w/ The Devil Wears Prada, A Day to Remember, Sky Eats Airplane, Emarosa
Club Retro, Orangevale | April 19, 2009
Words and Photos By Russsell Wonsley
Club Retro has not seen or felt such a concert for sometime. Before the show, a line of kids wrapped around the building and then continued onto the back of the church's property. All of them to soon witness the chaos that would take place within the walls of the venue. Crammed against the newly added barriers, the kids waited for the show to begin.
There was almost a nervous chatter among the crowd of people. No one knew what to expect of such a dream team lineup the Sweet Brag Tour had to offer. Suddenly the lights dimmed, and the men of Emarosa took the stage. Leading the group with his recognizable voice, Jonny Craig started off the show with a great quality performance. Warming the crowd with songs such as "The Past Should Stay Dead" and leaving them wanting more with the song "Set It Off Like Napalm."
Next to take the stage was the electronic-powered band Sky Eats Airplane. The band brought with them more of a hardcore sound that would continue into the rest of the night. With high stage jumps, Jerry Roush got the kids to start moving within the depths of the pit.
A Day to Remember were next to the stage for an anticipated performance.
They dropped their third album (and fourth overall) with Victory Records, Homesick, just about a month ago. It seemed as though the crowd had already caught on to the many gang vocals that the record contained. With beach balls flying into the crowd, ADTR took the stage playing the first song off the new album "The Downfall of Us All." Jeremy McKinnon (vocalist) took control of Club Retro with his catchy lyrics and overwhelming stage presence. In addition to new material, the band pleased the crowd with classic hits such as "A Plot to Bomb the Panhandler" and "Why Walk on Water When We Have Boats." Nearing the end of their set, Club Retro had become a sauna of sweaty teenagers.
Exhausted from what ADTR had just thrown down, the bustle of crew members preparing the stage for what everyone had gathered for beckoned the audience to reach back for more energy.
It looked as though the new label has been taking care of The Devil Wears Prada, as the stage was littered with professional lighting. The set opened with just purple ultra violent lights that casted an almost solid column of light up into the ceiling. The scene was chilling, as the battle was about to break out between good and evil.
It all began out of nowhere. The Devil Wears Prada took the stage and without wasting a second Mike Hranica pulsed the crowd with his heroic growls; he held the energy of the stage in the center. To his left fellow gutarist Jeremy DePoyster sweetened the songs with his soft harmonizing choruses. You could feel the whole band in tune with one another as they pummeled the venue with breakdowns and grueling guitar riffs. Playing every hit song from both records, the band even treated Club Retro to a new song from their upcoming album With Roots Above and Branches Below titled "Dez Moines." Fans stretched out to the stage hoping that this would bring them closer to the madness.
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RDA Holding Co., publisher of the 91-year-old Reader's Digest magazine, has filed for bankruptcy to cut $465 million in debt and focus on North American operations as consumers shift from print to electronic media.
The company is the latest in a line of iconic businesses to have recently sought court protection from creditors, after Hostess Brands Inc., maker of Twinkies and Wonder Bread, and Eastman Kodak, inventor of Kodachrome and the Instamatic camera.
Reader's Digest, founded by DeWitt and Lila Wallace, went public in 1990. An investor group led by private-equity firm Ripplewood Holdings bought it in 2007 for $1.6 billion and the assumption of about $800 million in debt. The company also filed for bankruptcy in August 2009, citing a drop in advertising spending and the debt load incurred in its acquisition.
The company listed assets and debt of more than $1 billion each in Chapter 11 documents filed Sunday in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in White Plains, N.Y. Under a restructuring agreement supported by Wells Fargo & Co., $465 million of remaining senior notes will all convert to equity. The company expects to have about $100 million in debt when it exits Chapter 11, about an 80 percent reduction.
Among the company's largest unsecured creditors listed in court papers were Luxor Capital Group of New York, listed as administrative agent for a $10 million loan, and the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, with an $8 million claim.
'We have had an ongoing process to simplify and rationalize our international business by licensing our local markets to third parties, to other publishers, to other investors and that has been a big part of our effort to streamline the company and bring in proceeds to bring down debt,' Robert Guth, Reader's Digest's chief executive officer, said Sunday in an interview.
The company's flagship print magazine is read by more than 25 million people, according to its website. The company publishes 75 magazines globally including 49 editions of Reader's Digest, Taste of Home, the Family Handyman and Birds & Blooms. Reader's Digest 'sold more digital editions in December than we did newsstand editions,' Guth said.
The company had some success in the sale of Allrecipes.com 'but frankly haven't had enough success on that front,' Guth said. Last year Reader's Digest sold Allrecipes and Every Day with Rachel Ray to Meredith Corp. for $175 million.
'The key message here is that we have a lot of confidence in the future of the business based upon the success of the ongoing operational transformation, but we haven't had as much success with the balance sheet side of it and we need this process to help accelerate that,' Guth said.
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The company said it reached a pre-petition accord with its secured lender and more than 70 percent of its secured note holders. The bankruptcy was filed to implement the pre-arranged restructuring.
'The Chapter 11 process, which will facilitate a significant debt reduction, will enable us to continue to redefine our business by focusing our resources on our strong North American publishing brands, which have shown a new vitality as a result of our transformation efforts, particularly in the digital arena,' Guth said in a company statement.
Hostess, previously known as Interstate Bakeries Corp., left an earlier bankruptcy in 2009 under the control of Ripplewood and lenders. The company, based in Irving, Texas, entered bankruptcy again in January 2012 after changes in American diets curbed sales as ingredient costs and labor expenses climbed.
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The Last Resistance
Verso, 2007 - 237 pagina's
In The Last Resistance,Jacqueline Rose explores the power of writing to create and transformour political lives. In particular, she examines the role of literaturein the Zionist imagination: here, literature is presented as a uniqueform of dissidence, with the power to expose the unconscious ofnations, and often proposing radical alternatives to their dominantpathways and beliefs.
While Israel-Palestine is the repeated focus, The Last Resistance alsoturns to post-apartheid South Africa, to American national fantasypost-9/11, and to key moments for the understanding of Jewish cultureand memory. Rose also underscores the importance of psychoanalysis,both historically in relation to the unfolding of world events, and asa tool of political understanding.
Examining topics ranging from DavidGrossman, through W.G. Sebald, Freud, Nadine Gordimer, the concept ofevil, and suicide bombers, The Last Resistance offers a unique way of responding to the crises of the times.
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3 Joseph B. Schechtman, The Jabotinsky Story, 2 vols (New York and London,
Barnes) vol. 2, Fighter and Prophet, 1961, p. 37. 4 Ibid., 2, p. 65. 5 Cited David
Goldberg, To the Promised Land - A History of Zionist Thought (Harmondsworth,
29 Begin, 'Jabotinsky Set Us Upon the Path to Freedom', Preface to Schechtman,
The Jabotinsky Story, vol. 1, p. v, original emphasis. 30 Jabotinsky, The War and
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67 Schechtman, The Jabotinsky Story, vol. 2, p. 325. ' 68 Sigmund Freud, Jokes
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CHICAGO – Mach Mining, LLC, headquartered in Marion, Ill., violated Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 by failing to hire any female miners since beginning operations in 2006, despite having received applications from many highly qualified women, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a suit filed today.
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