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Molecular dynamics simulations have the potential to provide atomic-level detail and insight to important questions in chemical physics that cannot be observed in typical experiments. However, simply generating a long trajectory is insufficient, as researchers must be able to transform the data in a simulation trajectory into specific scientific insights. Although this analysis step has often been taken for granted, it deserves further attention as large-scale simulations become increasingly routine. In this perspective, we discuss the application of Markov models to the analysis of large-scale biomolecular simulations. We draw attention to recent improvements in the construction of these models as well as several important open issues. In addition, we highlight recent theoretical advances that pave the way for a new generation of models of molecular kinetics.
Since its formal inception in 1964–1965, Kohn-Sham density-functional theory (KS-DFT) has become the most popular electronic structure method in computational physics and chemistry. Its popularity stems from its beautifully simple conceptual framework and computational elegance. The rise of KS-DFT in chemical physics began in earnest in the mid 1980s, when crucial developments in its exchange-correlation term gave the theory predictive power competitive with well-developed wave-function methods. Today KS-DFT finds itself under increasing pressure to deliver higher and higher accuracy and to adapt to ever more challenging problems. If we are not mindful, however, these pressures may submerge the theory in the wave-function sea. KS-DFT might be lost. I am hopeful the Kohn-Sham philosophical, theoretical, and computational framework can be preserved. This Perspective outlines the history, basic concepts, and present status of KS-DFT in chemical physics, and offers suggestions for its future development.
Photosynthetic units perform energy transfer remarkably well under a diverse range of demanding conditions. However, the mechanism of energy transfer, from excitation to conversion, is still not fully understood. Of particular interest is the possible role that coherence plays in this process. In this perspective, we overview photosynthetic light harvesting and discuss consequences of excitons for energy transfer and how delocalization can be assessed. We focus on challenges such as decoherence and nuclear-coordinate dependent delocalization. These approaches complement conventional spectroscopy and delocalization measurement techniques. New broadband transient absorption data may help uncover the difference between electronic and vibrational coherences present in two-dimensional electronic spectroscopy data. We describe how multipartite entanglement from quantum information theory allows us to formulate measures that elucidate the delocalization length of excitation and the details of that delocalization even from highly averaged information such as the density matrix.
Bimolecular reactions in the gas phase exhibit rich and varied dynamical behaviour, but whether a profound knowledge of the mechanisms of isolated reactive collisions can usefully inform our understanding of reactions in liquid solutions remains an open question. The fluctuating environment in a liquid may significantly alter the motions of the reacting particles and the flow of energy into the reaction products after a transition state has been crossed. Recent experimental and computational studies of exothermic reactions of CN radicals with organic molecules indicate that many features of the gas-phase dynamics are retained in solution. However, observed differences may also provide information on the ways in which a solvent modifies fundamental chemical mechanisms. This perspective examines progress in the use of time-resolved infra-red spectroscopy to study reaction dynamics in liquids, discusses how existing theories can guide the interpretation of experimental data, and suggests future challenges for this field of research.
Crystal structure prediction at high pressures unbiased by any prior known structure information has recently become a topic of considerable interest. We here present a short overview of recently developed structure prediction methods and propose current challenges for crystal structure prediction. We focus on first-principles crystal structure prediction at high pressures, paying particular attention to novel high pressure structures uncovered by efficient structure prediction methods. Finally, a brief perspective on the outstanding issues that remain to be solved and some directions for future structure prediction researches at high pressure are presented and discussed.
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EU Commission Innovator Jose Brother Barroso's visit to Ashkhabad is planned with regard to January. 14-15, 2011, the official Turkmen stated.Prior to it had been planned how the go to may perhaps possibly obtain place many instances previously. It is significant which Barroso's rather first head over to Turkmenistan had been anticipated previously within the springtime associated along with 2009 -- she or he was meant to go to a fantastic global UN conference upon power transportation security.
Nevertheless, offered that associated together with his hectic routine, Barroso couldn't appear. But Turkmenistan's best FEC superiors might pay attention to their exclusive video clip information saying which "it needs for connecting Turkmenistan in purchase to European areas through the actual Southern Caucasus as effectively because speaking on "the significance of long-term partnership".
Brussels is actually favorably looking with regard to an excellent substitute within the Caspian Ocean through indicates in the Nabucco tube challenge, which is created to protect Western nations by suggests of the actual power turmoil expert within the earlier winter months durations principally primarily largely mainly because around the inconsistency within problems associated with energy transport from The country.
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Summertime loving
Jun 18, 2013
Summertime is my favorite of all the seasons. I adore the sun and the warmth of the rays on my skin. The pool is always hopping and the sounds of laughter and good times seems to fill the air. The early stages of summer more than mid or late. 100 degrees is too much but anything between 82-90 is spot on in my book. This past weekend was so awesome. Aside from celebrating a lovely Father's Day, we did so at a friends house. Several of us like minded chill as hell adults getting together and acting like adults:) The wine was spectacular, the food delicious and the friends, couldn't get any better.
The coming weeks are going to be pretty insane. Insane good of course but nutso none the less. I am heading to VA Beach for the 4th and then to the midwest for a week to be followed up by a nice fun family vaca to MI. Early Aug is going to be spent in LA and then perhaps a breather but I can not say for sure. I have already made my plans for the AVN's 2014 and know I will be out to LA 3-4 more times this year. Gotta keep you guys on your toes *wink*
I hope you are enjoying all the updates here. You guys have made your requests and I have been fulfilling those:) More new vids on the way. Have a great week and I hope to see you on cam for my members show tomorrow at 10:30pm est.
Bar Hotties Rock
Mar 13, 2013
Wow where the hell have I been? SOOOOOOOO deserve a spanking and I have a feeling I am going to get it. Many of you have been keeping up with me via my TWITTER feed but for those of you who have not let me fill you in. I have been very busy getting my site loaded with awesome goodies for you guys; articles, travel info, resorts, events and of course pics and vids. We are going to have an awesome year together and it starts now:)
I headed to New York for some hot adventures. Best part was hubby started the party picking up a super hot woman ( or should I say she picked him up ) at a bar right around the corner from where we were staying. I was super tired this particular night and told him he should go out and have fun. I mean t shit we were in NYC! I am so glad he did because when he got back to the room around 2 AM he was grinning from ear to ear. He hung out and had oysters and a few drinks the whole time making great conversation with a great couple seated next to him. Michael was also chatting it up with a college grad on his other side. Somehow through the night the husband of the woman that was into my hubby started chatting it up with College gal and Michael and the wife started talking. Next thing Michael know she is rubbing his thighs and has her tongue down his throat… right there at the bar and right in front of her hubby! My kind of woman. This story was so hot and I was so excited we ended up staying awake making love for hours. Luckily for us he got their number so next time we are in town… look out! * wink*
After NY I headed to MI for a 3 day quickie to see some family… it had been to long. Plus it is always good to hit homeland soil a few times a year. I do prefer summer but hey what do ya do? I met some amazing fans in the DTW airport, they made me blush. It is always very flattering to get recognized in public but sometimes after pics are taken and such I can just imagine what on lookers are saying.. who is that and why did those people want her pic" LOL! It was very cute and I very much enjoyed the hugs you CMU studs!
Many of you know MISSFREEONES is going on right now. I know you know because that is how I have made it into the final 15! I still can not believe it. You guys really are the best. It is because of contests like this that I love what I do and knowing there are so many of you pulling for me makes it feel like I have already won. With that said, how amazing would it be to ACTUALLY win? If it were ever possible I believe it is now. I have always said I have the best fans and you guys are proving me right. I dig that about y'all. You can vote everyday here: http://miss.freeones.com/miss-freeones-2013/
I am heading out to LA the end of this month. I will be spending my 40th Birthday out there shooting scenes for you guys! Now that is the way to celebrate:) I am looking forward to shooting with some of my favs; Naughty AMerica, Brazzers, Pure Mature, Reality Kings….. I want to thank you guys who have already spoiled me with lovely gifts. And for those asking here is my WISHLIST :)
I am so looking forward to the best year ever. 2012 was awesome and 2013 is certainly starting off with a bang!
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Loving Philly!
Jan 25, 2013
An ode to Philly …… ok never mind I am sooooooo not a poet but it was a good start:) I am having an amazing time here in Philly. The weather is cold and dark but the energy and kindness of the people is off the hook. I am a fan of big cities and this is exactly why…. excitement! Everywhere I look there is something going on and the sounds of the city to me are for some reason soothing. The snow has begun to dance through the air and I am feeling very nostalgic. I honestly have not seen a snow fall in several years and having grown up in Detroit… I have missed it. Freezing cold night with a sky full of snow flakes but I promise you it will warm and erotic in Philly Gold Club tonight and tomorrow night.
Time has flown! I got here Wednesday and I am sad to say just two more nights of dancing and I am home. I will keep you all posted but if tonight and tomorrow are anything like Wed and Thursday this will have been one awesome trip! Philly I will be back:) On tat note I am off to get a little nap before party time. I hope to see as many of you there that will fit *wink*


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Josh Radnor - "Liberal Arts" interview with TheWrapNews
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True story.
Elizabeth Olsen and Josh Radnor talk 'Liberal Arts'
So I have to see this movie for.. reasons.
I need to watch this.
I mean, I'm 19 years old. Why can't he have an affair with me? LOL
Plus, the younger sister of the Olsen twins is in this.
I just really need to see this.
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Interview with Josh Radnor, talking about his experience working with his co-stars on his new movie Liberal Arts at Sundance!
I love watching his interviews.. he just seems so happy all the time and fun to be around. :D
He's such a cutie. <3 I'm surprised that Zac Efron is in it though. :/
The Bang Bang Song from How I Met Your Mother.
Besides being completely catchy (I seriously want to sing this to my friends, but none of them are really attached at the moment…. I'll bide my time), the best parts of the sequence of events is when:
I can only hope I will be able to brag about such things with my friends in such a song.
So I've only watched this video about 4 times in a row now. And I got the song off of iTunes.
I figured it was only right to let everyone know about it.
I ship Ted and Barney.
When they agreed to be parents together in 7.11 Rebound Girl, I flipped.
Barney: "You know what would kick ass?"
Ted: "Being gay?"
Barney: "Being gay would kick ass."
Now I know NPH is gay in real life- which makes the whole scene even funnier- however, Ted and Barney were discussing this. Together.
Be still my beating heart.
Well at least I think he was. I don't remember the dream too clearly. However I am certain that he wasn't in it the way I would have liked him to be in it.
Josh Radnor is a hottie and there is nothing anyone can say that will make me think otherwise. He just seems like such a sweetheart. And he's attractive. And I just… unf.
Anyway, back to the dream. We were walking somewhere and I remember him saying "it's a major _________". So me- being the total nerd, even in my sleep- saluted and said Major _________ right back. (I don't remember what he said. At this point I'm lucky that I remembered I had a dream at all.)
When I dream, I never dream about things I like. At times I've even tried to think about Peter Bishop right before I go to sleep in hopes that I'll dream of him that night. (It's Peter Bishop guys. Who wouldn't want Peter Bishop in their dreams? Doing… ahem… things.) Usually this does not work out in my favour.
So the fact that I dreamed of Ted last night has to mean something. It wasn't a sexual dream or anything (though it would have been okay if it had been), it was just the two of us walking and enjoying each other's company. Man this is making me come across as really sad and desperate. Though that's probably true, I liked it.
I think, deep down, I truly, honest to god, want a guy like Ted. I know I drool over guys like Joshua Jackson, Nathan Fillion, and Zachary Levi because they portray characters that are good guys but have that streak of badassness to them. But Josh Radnor's character (and Josh himself) are genuinely sweet. Not that the actors listed above nor their characters aren't either- there's just something achievable about Ted. Or at least I would like to believe I could have a guy like him. I realize he's a TV character so of course the writers can make him perfect. I mean they made his character 'flaws' so damn adorable.
And it would be awesome to find a guy who just wants to fall in love, meet a girl, and start a family. Plus, he treats each girl he's interested in properly. TV why must you create PERFECTION. Ted is such a hopeless romantic- that probably never happens in real life. I'm secretly one myself.
Yet sometimes I find myself rolling my eyes because something was too fluffy and/or cute. So when I claim I want a guy like Ted, I'm worried that maybe I'm just a total hypocrite and wouldn't know that the guy in front of me is the exact thing I claimed to want. (Not that anything like that has happened, or ever would.)
Oh internet, your anonymity makes it easier to believe you don't judge me and/or people like me.
Well, I think that's enough with my psychotic ramblings. BACK TO STUDYING. 2 more finals. I WILL KICK THEIR ASSES.


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It's a Major Award!, Let's Blame the Media!, Momentous OccasionsQuest for Popcorn Bowl Ends in Movie-Watching World Record
People in glass houses shouldn't throw stones, but I guess it's fine if they watch movies. Two people, Suresh Joachim of Toronto and Claudia Wavra of Germany, have broken the world record for continuous movie watching, racking up 57 films in 123 hours in a plastic-glass house in New York's Times Square. The previous record, held by Ashish Sharma of Mathura, India was 120 hours and 23 minutes. Though a representative for Guinness World Records said that it would take two weeks to officially verify (doesn't it make it easier to verify if they did it in a glass house in the middle of Times Square?), I'm going to go ahead and say they've done it.


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The winners of this season's Uncontainable were announced after the premiere performance. I have been wondering what people who were not on the jury thought of the various choreographers, if anyone attended the performances. Please share your opinions if you have seen the shows. Thank you~
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Originally printed in the September issue of the magazine In These Times. Below you will find the much more extensive interview and answers that did not fit in the magazine.
Born the year they tried to kill hope with the assassinations of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr and Bobby Kennedy, Van Jones is a modern day crusader for the environment, the poor and now the American Dream. Jones served as the green jobs advisor for the White House in 2009 until Glenn Beck falsely accused and vehemently attacked Jones as a 9/11 truther. He resigned his post and began studying every facet of the Tea Party movement.
Partnering with progressive organizations like MoveOn, labor unions, advocacy groups and blogs, Jones is crafting a liberal version of the Tea Party – one focused on giving a voice to the middle class, working poor and the downtrodden.
In late June I spoke with Jones at the Clinton Global Initiative and followed up with him a month later to discuss his career path and the Rebuild the Dream project.
Given chronic government unresponsiveness to environmental issues, at what point does the need for civil disobedience outweigh political loyalties to the Democratic Party?
People who push for change in our country have always been able to chew gum and walk at the same time. The civil rights movement was able to juggle litigation, legislation and civil disobedience and I think that all movements for justice have to be able to develop that capacity.
You were demonized by the right and forced out of your job. Do you think that progressives should use similar hard-nosed tactics (albeit with the truth rather than lies) against conservatives?
I think that we should be willing to tell the truth with the same audacity that they are willing to tell their lies. I think we should recognize politics is about the ability to reward and punish behavior to achieve a desired outcome. That said I don't think we are ever going to out ugly our opponents. I don't think we are going to be able to out mean or out nasty people who literally are psychologically motivated on a minute to minute basis to behave in ways that are objectively despicable. So, I think that what we need is a tough minded idealism. Bobby Kennedy comes to mind as a possible role model. Somebody who won't back down from a fight but who is clearly motivated by higher ideals than just being in the fight.
Your new project is, Rebuild the Dream, unions helping America; creating jobs, creating a stronger middle class. Can you talk about that?
It's not just unions. It's unions, grassroot organizations, it's online progressive groups like MoveOn.org and we expect many, many others. Our view is that the American Dream itself is in danger of being eliminated from American life. By the American Dream I don't mean the American fantasy that everybody is going to be rich and buying a bunch of things to make you happy, that consumer is some huge blessing to the world. That's the American fantasy that has lead to the American nightmare. I'm talking about the American Dream.
The first thing Dr. King says in his speech is "I have a dream." Next sentence: "It is a dream deeply rooted in the American Dream." He wasn't talking about consumerism. He was talking about the idea that an ordinary person; without a fancy name, could work hard and get somewhere in our country and give their kids a better life. That core idea. Where you are at the beginning of your life does not determine where you are going to be at the end of your life. That's the American Dream: you can get somewhere by working hard and playing by the rules. There are people in this country that are trying to kill the American Dream. These dream killers have wrapped themselves up in a mantel of a cheap patriotism, as if they love America so much but their agenda is a wrecking ball every institution that has made America great. A wrecking ball for the unions. A wrecking ball for the safety net. A wrecking ball for public education. A wrecking ball for everything that has made America great and exceptional. They've taken a wrecking ball and painted red, white and blue and it is on that basis they say they are the patriots and we're not. I think it's time for us to actually stand up for America and for American values of opportunity and fairness and advancement through hard work and sacrifice and that's what Rebuild the Dream is all about. Now my view is that the Tea Party used the tools of democracy very well to highjack the conversation and make the solution to every problem more cutbacks. Well, I think we should use the tools of democracy to take the conversation back.
Is that going to take policy changes?
It will take a number of things. It will take ideas and solutions that resonate with the American people. We have been talking about having a gambling tax on Wall Street. The Wall Street guys sit there with their computers firing off a thousand trades a second. They're not even touching the computer. It's an algorithm running it. Yet, we can't tax those lightening trades. New York Times says if you tax them at one tenth of a penny you could take $50 billion off of Wall Street and use that to invest in America. There's not a single person in America that doesn't work on Wall Street who's going to say that's a bad idea. Or a lobbyist paid for by somebody on Wall Street. That's one way we could increase some revenue. We could go back to the Clinton Era tax rates on wealthy people. That would get us $80 billion in two years, just going back to Clinton Era tax rates, that's not socialism, that's just going back to what worked in 1990's.
What about moving back to pre-Reagan era tax rates?
Well sure. I mean where you draw the line is a function of both policy and politics but just the idea we should stay stuck on stupid and hang out here in Bush world, probably the most disastrous administration in the history of the Republic. You can increase revenues. You can also reduce expenses but no American family would say we got a budget problem let's starve Grandma. That's a good way to save money. Let's starve Grandma. Let's starve the dog and the kids.
No, you cut back on nonessentials and then you tell Junior you're going to go get a paper route and you increase revenues. That's how it works for American families and that's how it should work for American government. You increase revenues by taxing Wall Street, by going back to at least the Clinton era rate on taxes for the wealthy, if not more than that. You also cut back on nonessentials.
What's nonessential? Well, why are we giving money to all these oil companies? Are they poor? Do they need America's money? These oil companies that rip us off at the gas pump every week and have all the support from our military to get their for profit products over here. Our public dollars pay to secure their private products here already. America's not doing enough for the oil companies that we also have to give them tax breaks and subsidies? You cut back on those expenses.
Why don't we wind down these wars more responsibly and more aggressively. We can stop spending $3.3. billion every single week overseas. Imagine if you had $3.3 billion, one week of expenses in Iraq and Afghanistan, here in Chicago. What couldn't you fix with two or three weeks worth of expenses to be involved in Iraq and Afghanistan? We could take that $3.3 billion and do some nation building right here in America. You can reduce expenses, shift expenses around but you should also make America's banks treat American people as well as the American people treated those damn banks. The problem is the banks on Wall Street. They were absolutely irresponsible and they crashed the economy. But they got a bailout. Who bailed them out? The American homeowners and American taxpayers bailed them out. It was our money. But those banks will not turn around and bail out American homeowners and treat them with respect and say listen, we're going to let you renegotiate your principal, renegotiate your rates so you can stay in your homes. We're going to stop throwing people out of their houses. We're actually going to cooperate with you like you cooperated with us. Unbelievable amounts of greed and malfeasance from Wall Street and neglect from D.C. has left the movement for hope and change in shambles, has left ordinary Americans lost, confused and angry. And yet, what we are finding is when we go out with this idea of rebuilding the American Dream, rebuilding America's middle class, we're a better country than this, let's get these young veterans when they come home a job. Let's give these kids that are graduating off a cliff every spring to the worst economy since World War II and are on the couch for two, three years doing unpaid internships or barely paid internships when they could be out there building the new companies. They could be out there to create the jobs of tomorrow. Let's give them a better chance.
People, red states, blue states, across the board, they agree that we are a better country than this. If you make it abstract about tax cuts versus tax hikes then you get one answer but if you make it concrete – how can we make America better? – people get excited.
What about policy issues that can directly affect the American worker right now? Making it easier to organize workers in the workplace, living wages, reforming NLRB?
I think those are very important issues and personally I support all three. I do think Democrats when its time to run go to the labor unions and ask for help and support. When it's time to govern forget to reinvest in making sure the strength of the voice of the American worker can be heard. That's really important. The voice of American workers has gotten less organized and more faint year after year my whole life. To see American workers and their unions come out so strong for President Obama but to see, until very recently, very little respect for the need to rebuild America's labor movement coming out of D.C. That's a source of frustration for me.
Can you tie your current work to the environmental justice movement that was your original entree into politics? Do you see any resonance between your fusion of environmentalism and grassroots anti-poverty/community-building work, and the kind of coalition you're trying to build now?
Sure. I've always been fighting against poverty, corporate abuse and lack of opportunity. I haven't changed it's that the victims of poverty, corporate abuse and lack of opportunity grew exponentially. I am still going. This year I published a plan to help the poorest people in America – Native Americans – get clean energy enterprises going on the reservations. Last year was back in San Quentin prison talking to the brothers there about their expertise in a certain kind of recovery and our need for that deep expertise in personal recovery to fix the economy.
At the same time I can't turn my eyes to the fact that some where near 14 or 15 million people who used to be in the middle class have now been thrown down into poverty. We need a big tent movement that can incorporate all of the economic causalities in our country. The traditional ones and the new ones.
What are the tangible goals of the Rebuild the Dream?
The first goal is to consolidate all of the causalities of the present economic crisis and turn them into champions for real economic solutions. That consolidation is really key. We have lots of economic fight backs that are happening across America. People are fighting against union busting, veterans are fighting for better treatment coming home, young people are trying to keep their tuition down and get their job opportunities up. Homeowners are fighting for better treatment from these banks that the American taxpayers saved. But they are scattered and if we keep fighting alone we are going to keep losing alone. We should not underestimate the power of bringing all these fights together under a single umbrella of saving the American Dream. Each sub-fight is part of something much bigger and much more aspirational. It also let's people who are not paying attention to politics every second of the day find something as big and inclusive as the Tea Party has done on its side.
The first thing is to consolidate the progressive economic movement under a common banner. The second objective is to use this crowdsourced policy agenda we are on the verge of releasing, the Contract for the American Dream, to get elected officials and other influential people to sign on for an agenda of prosperity and not austerity. That work will come. We had 127,000 people online and in person, high-tech and high-touch, crowdsource a jobs agenda with ten main points of action that we are going to release. It will be the first of its kind. Seventy organizations across the country, 127,000 people, 1,600 house meetings that we had to help crowdsource this jobs agenda. Twice as many house meetings as the Tea Party when it launched on April 15, 2009.
This Contract for the American Dream will have tremendous moral authority because of the level of participation. Tremendous political impact because it will give people, whatever political party – Bobby Kennedy Democrats or Jack Kemp Republicans, a sane economic agenda to rally around. Lastly, it is about helping people at the grassroot and local levels get very creative at solving the problems that are presenting themselves. We cannot imagine we are going to fix all the dysfunction in D.C. overnight and then help will be on the way from the federal government instantly.
There is a path we have to walk between where we are now and were we need to go. There are a lot of local efforts such as community gardening, social enterprises, green businesses, neighbors helping neighbors that can all be tied together. We have beautiful bottom up solutions as well as bold top down policy proposals with real momentum behind them. I think this American Dream movement already can claim huge numbers with house meetings in every Congressional District.
Why try to revive a concept, "the American dream," which may never have been a reality for most Americans?
First of all let's be clear what we are trying to revive. We are not trying to champion the American Fantasy like I've mentioned before, that everyone is going to be rich, buying things is going to make you happy. But we do believe most Americans see as part of our identity the best of the American Dream which is just the idea that you can make it if you try and that hard work should pay. In a crisis we don't turn on each other, we turn to each other, we help each other acheive our personal bests in America. That is not a fashionable view among coastal leftists and college town activists but for ordinary Americans that is the cornerstone of their expectations about what it means to be an American. For that to be thrown under the bus, mainly so rich people and corporations don't have to pay taxes is heartbreaking for tens of millions of people but it is their energies and their idealism that needs to tapped right now.
How do you create a progressive version of the Tea Party when there's no progressive version of Fox News Channel to present anything your group does as newsworthy?
Well the first thing you would do is pick a great reporter. I don't know maybe pick Aaron Krager and In These Times! We have a progressive media infrastructure. I remember a time when people said there is nothing we can do. Rush Limbaugh is controlling the discussion. Until we can have a Rush Limbaugh to go head to head with him we are just doomed. People were saying that five years ago. People said enough is enough and created the blogosphere. The 2006 and 2008 cycle the blogosphere was much more important than anything Rush Limbaugh said or did.
Now everyone is saying you can't do anything because of Fox News, Fox Television, Fox Entertainment for sadists. Our movements are more dynamic than that. Right now I hardly see anybody looking at television anyway. Best I can tell they are looking at these smaller screens – iPads, smartphones, and laptops – they are watching video on those screens. They are not watching Fox, MSNBC or CNN. I think what you are going to see, even over the next several months, will be real innovation in communication where we once again match the conservative disinformation machine. Then they will try to match us. It is a huge mistake to underestimate the communication and creative capacity of progressives. We have many more potential assets for communication, including about 95% Hollywood, than the right wing does. We should never forget that.
Why do we need an opposite or an answer to the Tea Party? Why would we want that?
Just two years ago most of us were feeling at least somewhat optimistic and encourage about America's future. Two years later we are mostly sad and morose and the main reason for that is the success of the Tea Party at hijacking D.C. and derailing our hopes and dreams. If someone wants to live in their own cave they may be able to escape the influence of these conservative libertarians but most of us are going to live in neighborhoods where our schools are being defunded, where our water and air may be compromised and where jobs are going to be increasingly scarce because of the poisonous affects of the Tea Party ideology and extreme tactics. We have to, while still holding them in our hearts as fellow Americans and fellow human beings for whom we want the best, everything we can to give the American people a coherent alternative. Right now the only alternative people see to the Tea Party is just the status quo with more pain and suffering. Most people don't understand that the Tea Party program will double, triple, quadruple the amount of pain and suffering. It is really a ratification of the status quo of corporate rule and not a refutation of the status quo of corporate rule and abuse of the American people. We have to present the public with a coherent alternative that is not the status quo made worse but is the America we thought we were voting for in 2008.
I don't understand the progressive movement right now. If my son was playing soccer and kicked in three goals while the other team kicked in one and he quit, I'd be mad at him and disappointed. That's how we are – we got the House, the Senate and the White House. Our opponents came around and got the House and we just quit. It doesn't make any sense. This fight, this lopsided propaganda offensive against all of America's best values and achievements. The right wing is losing in the polls. They have this lopsided propaganda war against the achievements of the New Deal, against the idea we are one country, against the idea Americans including wealthy Americans should stand together in face of this crisis. And they are losing 60-70 percent of people say jobs are more important than this phony debt crisis they've created. Similar 60-70 percent of Americans say the wealthy should be asked to shoulder more of a burden going forward. 60-70 percent say we should wind these wars down more aggressively and bring the money and troops home to rebuild America. So we are 60-70 percent super majority with our basic ideas despite the fact that our opponents have launched this one-sided propaganda war against America's values and achievements.
We should be quite hopeful that in an economy like this when we haven't put up a coherent alternative in the face of the most determined onslaught that we've seen in many of our lifetimes that we are still at 60-70 percent. So I don't think we should be discouraged at all. We should be more determined than ever to go ahead and make the corrections we need to make, learn the lessons we need to and get on with building the next American century.
What kind of leaders does this campaign need and from where will they emerge?
The good thing about the leadership of the American Dream movement already is that it looks like America. We've got everybody from Planned Parenthood to Faithful America inside one network fighting for a better economy. From the AFL-CIO to the Center for Community Change from the Domestic Workers Alliance to the Sierra Club. I've got a big mouth and getting a lot of attention now but that is going to shift pretty dramatically once we release the Contract for the American Dream and as more voices rally around it. More will lift it up and say this would be good for my community – I'm Latino, I'm lesbian, I'm a student, I'm Asian, I'm a farmer but this contract would help me. That is going to be a big game changer and I am excited to be a part of something that from the very beginning knows part of the Tea Party success is that it has many leaders. Glenn Beck can lose his TV show but it doesn't stop the Tea Party. Sarah Palin can fall down the stairway of public opinion but it doesn't stop the Tea Party. They have multiple leaders and clear values.
The progressive, for lack of a better term, economic movement has not been clear and bold on our values, we haven't produced multiple leaders yet, but they exist in large numbers in labor unions, in grassroots organizations and even in the D.C. think tanks. We haven't worked together to lift up those voices but that is going to change.
The contract will lay out the goals. Is that how you expect the progressive groups to come together and have their own specific leaders in their own communities under the one banner?
That is the strategy said with more precision than I have been able to say in this interview. That is exactly the strategy. We have engaged 70 organizations, 127,000 people in the process to identify the best ideas. People put forward about 25,000 ideas, online and in person. We had 5.6 million ratings of these ideas.
The Tea Party has their Contract from America, it gives them a common basis to refer back to whenever they get down the road. They also have a common brand. We have not had a common agenda or a common banner. Part of what Rebuild the Dream is trying to do is be a support center to help this massive American Dream movement consolidate. One way to think about this – just like Dick Armey is a former public official who works at a support center called Freedom Works but the Tea Party movement is much bigger than either Dick Armey or Freedom Works. Van Jones is a former public official who works for a small support center called Rebuild the Dream but the American Dream is much, much bigger than the support center. Part of what we are having to learn is this is new way of consolidating and realigning our best ideas to the country.
Literally, how did the Contract From America get formed? It was crowdsourced with nearly 50,000 people. How did we form the Contract for the American Dream? It was crowdsourced with more than 127,000 people.
How did they launch? They had 800 house meetings across America. We doubled that with 1,600 house meetings with more the 25,000 people in every single Congressional district.
How will this movement put people into positions of power so that they can enact the needed changes?
The Tea Party is such a great example. They got people together based upon values and principles first and then some people ran for office, some primaried Republicans, some people just focused on communications. The things is that you have to be clear on your principals, values and the common banner.
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One good way to start looking at your business strategy is to think about your true business identity. With some notable exceptions (franchises) It's as unique as your fingerprints are.
This is what makes your business different from all others. What you want, what you do well, how you do things, what makes you unique. What you want to do with your core strategy is establish that identity for yourself, your team, and out there in the market, for your customers.
In many ways it's about looking in the mirror:
You have to understand what you do and who you are if you are going to be able to set your business apart from its competition. The exercise is something like looking at a mirror. Gather your team together, if you have a team ready, because this makes for a good discussion. Ask some of these questions:
What do we like to do? How are we different? What is there about us that sets us apart? What excites us? What are we good at?What do we do that other people (or companies) want to have done? What do we like to do that people want to pay for? What do we like to do that we do better or differently from others who do it? What value can we add? What's missing? How can we do something better than what's now available? What can we see about the future that others can't see? Where can we give value that isn't there right now?
And another good thought generator is core competence:
Take a step away from the business, and get a new fresh look at it. What things do you do best? Let's consider a few companies most people know: We might reasonably think a core competency of Apple Computer is design, a core competency of Nordstrom is customer service, and a core competency of Volvo is vehicle safety. You have to recognize what you're good at. It can't be everything. You aren't credible if you try to do everything right. Don't pretend you can be the best at service and have the lowest prices and the highest quality products; that isn't credible and it will just get in the way. Don't think that core competency depend on the industry, or that they are the same for all players in any given industry. Look at the difference between economy cars, reliability cars, safety cars, and performance cars, for example.
Put these together and you have one fundamental element of strategy, called identity.
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Feel So Close | Kat/Ethan
Her eyes slid open, as they would every morning, but there was something different this time as Katherine rolled over and found that she wasn't alone. As soon as her eyes found Ethan's sleeping face, she couldn't help but smile to herself despite the many feelings and thoughts swirling around in her heart and her mind. She would not talk about them when they'd spent the night together, opting to focus on him, and suggested for them to order room service and watch a DVD she had brought with her. She knew that he could sense something was off, but Kat knew better than to bring it up. She had already put him in the horrible situation of having to keep something from his sister, she didn't want to cause Ethan any added stress. All of that was temporarily forgotten once wine came into play and she allowed herself to lick her lips at the memory of their intimate moments.
Trying not to wake him, she would sit up and grab her notebook from the side table, leafing through the reminders and notes as she reviewed the plans half-made, and the plans yet to be made, a sad smile on her face.
Beauty in the Breakdown | Ethan & Kat
The swarm of emotions that had earlier lifted him completely out of his mind seemed to settle as Kat's lips move, and the most beautiful sentences erupted form them. It was everything he'd hoped she'd say ever since they'd kissed; and Ethan found his ground very steadily after she'd said them. He felt calm, relaxed. Relieved. But most of all, there was a sense of deep security in him, rooted very far into his friendship with Kat, making him confidently trust her words. And meaning everything to Kat was a right big deal to him.
Ethan moved his hand across her cheek, fingers stroking the soft skin, whilst his other hand squeezed hers.
"Well, I'm glad to hear that," he said with a playful air, tilting his head only slightly to look at her crookedly. His hand had come to rest by her temple, fingers gently burrowed into the blonde hair and thumb stroking her cheekbone. "Because I have reason to believe something like that has been happening to me as well." He couldn't help but grin a little wider, his face spilling sunshine-y happiness involuntarily as he did. "I'm so glad to hear you say this," he added again on a calmer note, his grin fading into a smile.
In their close proximity, Ethan couldn't help but to let his eyes travel down her face, and be taken by that same impulse he'd been trying to quench for a while now. Almost as if to humor himself — and actually to double-check — he inclined his head so that their noses were mere inches apart, and asked calmly, "Would it be alright if I kissed you?", his smile all the while again growing into a kind of playful grin again.
A shy half-smile escaped from Katherine's lips as Ethan confessed being on the same page as her, her right hand travelling to rub his muscular arm before settling both her hands on his shoulders. She had never expected this of all things would happen, and it never occurred to her that were was even the remotest possibility that this would ever happen. A certain sparkle in her eyes appeared as she let herself settle into the reality of the moment.
Then her eyes followed Ethan's as he looked at her, vaguely recognizing the look he had in on his face. It had occurred on the beach, right before he had taken her by surprise with a kiss. And the question that followed didn't surprise her one bit.
"It would be wrong to keep me hanging, wouldn't it?" she replied, then she placed her lips gently on his, complying with his request for a kiss with a cute little nibble, before she pulled away again, and asked with a cute little flirtatious tone, "Was that what you had in mind?"
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Beauty in the Breakdown | Ethan & Kat
Ethan merely looked at her, met her eyes, as she held him off and spoke to him. He didn't have an answer to her question. Because he didn't know what to believe. This entire situation stressed him out more than anything had ever done in his entire life. More than anything in his career had ever done, more than anything in his childhood had ever done, and when you don't talk about things, they tend to snowball inside your chest and come down on you. And to be perfectly frank, Ethan almost felt like it came down on him along with Kat's shaking question that he could not answer.
And then tears toppled over in those beautiful eyes, and the woman before him - which he realized in just about that moment meant a lot, if not almost everything, to him - was crying, speaking words that made Ethan drop his jaw in the most minute of ways. Her words sneaked around his very being, squeezed him, made him unable to answer. Ethan worked it out in his mind pretty quickly, and all those small flirty jokes they'd shared over all the time in which they'd known each other flashed before his eyes - and, all of a sudden, made much more sense.
And when the spell was over - when Ethan could finally move again - he put his hand gently to her cheek, his thumb catching a few tears. "Kat," he prompted again, her name the only thing that seemed to fit on his lips in that moment. He locked hi gaze to hers, and stared at her for a moment, unable to decide just how to formulate himself. "I…," he started, and licked his lips with a kind of determination. "I'm here. I'm going to be here. I'm not going to leave. I never knew… if I'd known… Kat, you…"
It seemed like for the first time in Ethan's life, he didn't exactly know what to say. No; literally, the first time. He'd never stumbled upon all that which he'd yearned to say, ever. Not with Sarah. Not with anyone. But here stood a woman, to whom Ethan suddenly realized he associated the word love, tears falling down her face, telling him, that through all that time they had been friends, there had been a point at which she had wanted an honest chance. And Ethan would have given it to her, had he known.
Ethan's other hand sought her other cheek gently. "I want an honest chance. I've wanted one since… since we became friends. I thought, after all those times we'd just joked around, that you only wanted to be my friend. So I backed off. And now we're here, on this island, and we had one moment, just the two of us. All those feelings from our friendship that I'd choked down resurfaced, and I took a wild chance, and I kissed you. And I meant that kiss. Everything that it implied; I meant it. I still mean it. Kat… you don't know how much you mean to me. How much you've meant to me for a while now. Hell, I didn't even really know myself, until… we kissed."
Ethan found himself looking at Kat with a reserved expression on his face, though his eyes seemed ablaze. "My sister wasn't… entirely wrong, I suppose." He lifted a hand off of her cheek, and placed it on his neck. Truth be told, he couldn't put into words why it was that he wasn't the relationship type. Because in a sense; he was. He just… didn't think that one bad experience — being torn away from Sarah — would have to limit him. And many women seemed enthusiastic enough. He'd even dated them properly. "But none of the women in my past has meant just as much as you do. Wonderful people though they've been." Ethan had to smile a little, his hand leaving his neck and searching for her hand to grasp.
Katherine felt the one corner of her lip lift in response to Ethan bringing his hand up to her face and the sound of her name brought her back to focus with the man standing in front of her. The intensity of his stare gave away a moment of incertitude and hesitation as if he wasn't sure how to react before she saw him lick his lips and she sensed his determination come back to him. Listening intently to what he had to say, she could feel her body relax a little, the reassurance of his words being soaked through her entire being.
And when the rest of his words came and his other hand came up on her face, Kat let out a breath she didn't realized she'd been holding since she finished with her confession. Her eyes went from scared, to intense to relieved as he continued on speaking and she was shocked to say the least in finding out that her feelings had been reciprocated all these weeks. She had decided weeks earlier that she wanted the honest chance, after the anniversary of Drew's death, having realized she didn't want to be alone anymore. But having actually confessed her feelings, she felt the weight of the world was finally lifted off her shoulders and hearing him reciprocate her feelings caused her to sigh in relief.
"You mean everything to me, Ethan," she finally spoke with a quiet assurance in her trembling voice when she felt him grab her hand, "I think…I think I've been falling in love with you ever since we've gotten on this island."
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Ethan narrowed his eyes as he let her words sink in — the touch of their hands, their eyes locked together, the shiny glimmer of tears in Kat's eyes — and thus slowly moved his free hand to cup her cheek gently.
"Kat," he said simply, hesitating just by her name, not letting go of her gaze. Ethan opened his mouth to speak again, yet paused - once more - when she spoke again.
With each word, Ethan felt that same wave of feelings rise within him, pulling itself upward slowly. In their close proximity, Ethan found the earnest in his own words to pull on him, and that sensation of losing control again swept over him. Ethan inclined his head a little, pointedly locking eyes with Kat as he felt her hand upon his face. He'd just began to open his mouth to speak, when Kat's arms were wrapped around him, her smaller body suddenly so closely etched to his, and a blonde sea of hair the only thing he could look down on. It took him not a moment at all to react, and his arms were around her in a gentle response. It took him a moment, however, to open his mouth and respond.
"You're not," he said shortly. His lips came down to rest on her head, and the scent of shampoo filled his nostrils. "You're not going to lose me. I promise. Not now. Not ever." Ethan closed his eyes, the scent of Kat the only thing to keep him grounded. "Do you hear me?" he added very gently, and calmly - yet still, somehow, pointedly.
And it dawned on her in that moment that his playboy reputation had just been an excuse for her to avoid getting close to him. Katherine had never fully recovered from the accident that had taken her first love away and now that the murders were happening on the island, she had yet another reason to be afraid of getting close to Ethan. She had been afraid all this time of opening up to him on an intimate level because she was afraid she might lose another other love in her life. But with death just around the corner and them stuck on the island until the mystery was resolved, she couldn't help but feel that they were living on borrowed time.
As she felt his lips resting on her head and his words traveled to her ears, Kat couldn't help but think about all the little moments that flashed back in her memory, the intimate moments that didn't seem to fit his reputation. As she heard the determination in his voice, something told her that he meant it. As the doubts crept into her voice, she pulled away slightly and held him at arms length. "Yeah, but how do you know that whoever's responsible for all this isn't going to come after you?"
As she spoke her voice grew increasingly shaky and the tears slid down her cheek before she could stop them. "You know, I never thought I would here with you of all people right now. I just…Emily warned me you were not the relationship type and everything. And I've seen the rotating door of women you've dated. I always wished that you would give me a chance, a real honest chance. But I figured, it would never get past friendship and flirting so I never said anything. But then…you just…you helped me feel okay again just by being there. I just… I don't want you to not be there."
Trying to be business as usual here…
No, nothing..
So, you're still expecting the wedding to take place, then? Despite it all?
I don't really know, Carrie, to be honest with you…
*can sense something's a little off* Are you sure you're OK?
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Trying to be business as usual here…
I'm just being realistic.
So, you're still doing stuff for the wedding? [shakes his head]
Just trying to keep my mind occupied. Even if a bachelorette party seems like a stupid thing to plan right now.
And that was the florist from the mainland, so I had to explain that there was no ferry service to the Island.
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Trying to be business as usual here…
"The show must go on"…
I'm fine. Why wouldn't I be?
I don't know. Just exchanging pleasantries. Unless there's something you want to tell me?
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I think the level requirement is bug or easter egg.
I think the level requirement is bug or easter egg.
I mean come on. They had to CODE this stuff into the game right?
"when you use item X 3 boxes appear and you can loot them and they hold fish". I dont see any reason why it would be unintentional. Ok there might be one.. that we actually loot invisible boxes while fishing and fishing pools got HP that can be killed with dynamite or by casting fishing and that does damage to pool and then you loot boxes and..but thats just far fetched even by me..


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Skiers this winter who buy the new Lone Peak Pass can make turns on an astonishing 5,512 acres of terrain across both resorts the most you can ride in the United States without clicking out of your bindings. (The runner up, Vail, boasts 5,289 acres.) The combined skiing isn't just wide, it's also tall: 4,350 vertical feet. In North America only Whistler/Blackcomb, British Columbia, and Snowmass, Colo., offer more top-to-bottom skiing.
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Big Sky is, readers agree, a nirvana for skiers. Visitors universally praise the huge mountain's diverse terrain ranked No. 7 noting that it offers long sustained slopes with character, lots of swoopers and plenty of lines to put the hair up on the back of your neck. Special kudos go to Big Sky's steeps (No. 10) and Lone Peak's oh-my-God big lines the only type of lines you'll likely see at Big Sky, where it's never crowded.
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I know what it's like to lose your childhood to war. When I was five and conflict raged in Sudan, my family and I were amongst the lucky ones to leave for Egypt. Four years later we were granted asylum in the United Kingdom. Inspired by legendary South Sudanese basketball player Manute Bol, my siblings and I took up basketball which helped us fit in. Like Manute, I was lucky enough to turn the sport I loved into a career as a professional NBA player in the United States.
I've risked major mockery in the last month for asserting confidently amongst friends that England are different this time around, that we can match the fluent approach play of more successful nations, because this time we have the personnel. After watching our 3-0 snooze-fest against Peru, I stand by this marginally fantastical statement.
This stems from a major difference between the Middle Eastern and Western cultures; in the UK, ecommerce leads the way, with consumers preferring the convenience and speed of browsing and ordering online to the hustle and bustle of the high street. In the Gulf, however, 'mall culture' remains dominant.
Increasing evidence and scientific analysis is showing why these events are associated with human induced climate change. The related impacts are becoming more widespread and complex, affecting society from health issues to agriculture, from transportation to economics, and becoming more severe, long-lasting and costly with increasing frequency.
There has been a lot of rhetoric by politicians and commentators claiming that what we are seeing today is Cold War behavior and a resurgence of Soviet Russia. Not only is this view wrong, it completely misunderstands Vladimir Putin's intentions. What we see Russia doing in Crimea today is not Cold War Russia, it is Imperial Russia.
Given the precarious legal and constitutional framework on which the current status of Crimea has been built since the Soviet period, a purely legal "solution" taking recourse to past institutional arrangements is unlikely to be possible or even desirable. What is required is first and foremost a political decision and a commitment to put it on a sound legal and constitutionally as well as internationally agreed basis.
The future for Bahrain is uncertain. However, one certainty amidst the chaos, is that change is Bahrain will remain a mirage so long as the king is bolstered by so much international support. Let's not beat about the bush, the British government is publicly supporting a oppressive and undemocratic government in Bahrain.
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Can I use Keurig K-Cups (Coffee or Tea) more than once? Or can I reuse K-Cups?
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Can -vs- should
Can?, yes, they "can".
Should?, no, they should not,....mostly.
Let me explain. Igor is correct in what he said, it would degrade the quality of the coffee flavor. However, in my household, we have and sometimes did (before we got the B70). My son likes the Kona Extra Bold and my wife and I don't, however, we like the flavor of the Kona. So, until we got the B70 which has the 12oz size option, we would occassionally double brew the Extra Bold Kona in a travel mug in order to get the cup full while bringing down the strength of the brew.
Be cautious however, the foil cover has, one more than one occassion, ruptured on us, spilling coffee and the grounds all over the counter on the second brewing.
Just my two cents! Enjoy your Keurig to it's fullest.
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We do not recommend using K-cups more than once
We do not recommend using K-cups more than once. Although it's not harmful to do so, the taste quality will be considerably lowered.
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So far, as I am a new user, some flavors are too strong, that I use them twice. I make my first cup, then I use run it again for my travel cup on the road. For me twice works.
I have the mini kuerig, and I love it ... But the foil seals on the kcups are rupturing, like the edge comes unglued, and coffee grounds spill out all over the machine, and the counter. I have cleaned it to no avail. Any suggestions?
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CJ Koozer leads our Student Pride section for a reason. Winning the Harry S. Truman Scholarship is a great accomplishment.
If you're not familiar with the Truman, you needn't take our word for it when we say the Truman is a big deal. Put Koozer's achievement in context by seeing what NWU's past Truman winners are doing.
Desereé Johnston ('09) won the Truman last year. She graduated from NWU this May.
Xuan-Trang Thi Ho ('06) won her Truman in 2005. Ho went on to win the Rhodes, studied Latin America at Oxford, and now works for UNICEF in New York.
NWU's first Truman scholar was Jana (Beddow) Johnson ('94) in 1993. Johnson went to medical school at the Mayo Clinic, became a dermatologist, and has conducted medical missionary trips to Tanzania and Guatemala.
And Julie Anderson ('97), NWU's second Truman scholar, went on to earn a Master of Public Policy from the University of Chicago and an MBA from Duke University. She began a new job in January in the Obama Administration. Anderson is Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy, Planning and Evaluation at the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs.
She's one of two political appointees focused on policy at the VA, the government's second largest cabinet-level agency. Her office is across the street from the White House. "We have a nice view," she said.
Her path there began with the Truman. "It changed my life. It's why I moved to Washington 12 years ago." She credited Professor of Political Science Jan Vermeer who advised her through the Truman's rigorous application.
After NWU, she served in the U.S. Department of Transportation. Next, she worked for Sen. Bob Kerrey. Then came a seven-year stint with IBM's public sector strategy group. In the summer of 2007, Anderson got involved in the Obama campaign as a veterans' policy advisor.
She served on the Presidential Transition Team and began her work at the VA following the inauguration. "I was there on the very first day… when we were still figuring out how to turn the lights on," she said.
Anderson manages a team "responsible for developing policies about health care, education, employment and training, housing, homelessness, disability benefits and life insurance programs for more than 24 million vets across the country." She also leads the strategic planning and strategy development for the department.
Much has been made of Obama staffers' difficult transition from a campaign reputed for its efficiency and technological savvy into the intricate bureaucracy of the federal government. But Anderson didn't suffer the same growing pains. She understood from the outset how private and governmental organizations work.
"In a company, everything flows up through the CEO… [who makes] decisions that are carried out throughout the company. In government… it's not always a linear path because of Congress, constituents, interest groups and the media," she said. "I'm going to use a math term, which is maybe appropriate for our liberal arts magazine. [Government] is more multivariate than linear."
She said, "For an idea to be accepted… in government, it takes a lot of people to say yes, and only one person to say no."
That frustrating nature has been known to jade good people. To thrive in that environment with such broad responsibilities for America's veterans, people must be smart communicators with a relentless belief in what they're doing. Anderson is exactly this.
Anderson, who is not a veteran herself, described her motivation this way. "It stems from my grandpa who is a World War II vet and still lives on the family farm outside Elmwood. I grew up with an appreciation for his service in the war because it has always been important to my family. So when I had the opportunity to work on these issues… I took it."
When Anderson considers what her father, grandfather and millions of other American veterans have sacrificed, braving a sometimes-messy bureaucracy to serve them doesn't require so much courage after all.