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Our Divided Political Heart: The Battle for the American Idea in an Age of Discontentby E.J. Dionne
Who are we as a nation? And what is it that's tearing us apart? In Our Divided Political Heart, E. J. Dionne Jr., one of our most respected political commentators, argues that Americans can't agree on who we are because we can't agree on who we've been. The American tradition, Dionne says, points not to radical self-reliance and self-interest, but to a/i>
Who are we as a nation? And what is it that's tearing us apart? In Our Divided Political Heart, E. J. Dionne Jr., one of our most respected political commentators, argues that Americans can't agree on who we are because we can't agree on who we've been. The American tradition, Dionne says, points not to radical self-reliance and self-interest, but to a balance between our love of individual freedom and our devotion to community.With a deep understanding of our nation's past, Dionne crafts an incisive analysis of how hyper-individualism is poisoning our current political atmosphere. He shares the Tea Party's engagement with the American past, but takes on its distortions of our history while rooting the Occupy Wall Street movement in America's civic and Populist traditions.
Dionne offers both a fascinating tour of American history-from the Founding Fathers to Clay and Lincoln, on to Populism, the Progressives, and the New Dealers-and an interpretation of our moment's politics that shatters conventional wisdom. He reclaims the American idea of the federal government as an active and constructive partner with the rest of society in promoting prosperity, opportunity, and American greatness. And he challenges progressives to embrace their country's story-to redefine progress and to put an end to our fears of decline.
Our Divided Political Heart is indispensable for all who seek a path out of America's current impasse.
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Our Divided Political HeartThe Battle for the American Idea in an Age of Discontent
By E.J. Dionne
Bloomsbury USACopyright © 2012 E. J. Dionne
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Chapter OneTwo Cups of Tea The Tea Party in History and on History
It began with the rant that shook the country. When CNBC's Rick Santelli exploded on the air in fury at government bailouts not of big bankers but of financially stressed homeowners, he changed the nation's political calculus and sought to redefine the objects of its rage over an economic catastrophe.
"The government is promoting bad behavior!" Santelli declared on February 19, 2009, complaining about President Obama's mortgage rescue plan, one day shy of a month after his inauguration. "This is America! How many of you people want to pay for your neighbor's mortgage that has an extra bathroom and can't pay their bills?" He then transformed those suffering from the financial meltdown from sympathetic victims to inferior beings. The Obama plan, Santelli said, would "subsidize the losers' mortgages."
Appropriately, Santelli issued his condemnation of extra-bathroom subsidies from the floor of the Chicago Board of Trade, one of the holy places of American high finance. The well-to-do traders cheered on their comrade-in-rage-against-government as if they were at a political rally—which of course they suddenly were. Santelli made clear he was engaged not in financial analysis but in ideological rabble-rousing when he described the wreckage of the Cuban economy after "they moved from the individual to the collective." Could it be that Barack Obama was pursuing Fidel Castro's economic policies?
Suddenly a nation with ample reason to be furious at the financiers who engineered wealth for themselves and catastrophe for so many others was being told to be mad instead at government, and at the profligate parts of the middle class— those "losers." Santelli's subliminal message: Don't be angry about the extra Gulfstreams or vacation homes of the very, very wealthy. Get mad over your neighbor's imprudent addition. It would take two and a half years for anger at Wall Street to find its expression.
And then Santelli gave political bite to his tirade. "We're thinking of having a Chicago Tea Party in July!" he shouted. "All you capitalists who want to show up at Lake Michigan, I'm going to start organizing!" Thus was one of the sacred terms in American history reborn in 2009 as a capitalist call to arms. Quickly the conservative and libertarian neighborhoods of the Internet, including the canonical Drudge Report, turned Santelli's rant viral. A new movement was born. All over the country, conservative citizens pledged their loyalty to the new rebellion.
But was all this really so new? As groups claiming the Tea Party mantle proliferated—many existing organizations simply rebaptized themselves in the waters of a media phenomenon—their words suggested not that they were the next new thing but rather that very old tendencies on the American right and far right were being wrapped up in shiny new packaging. "Some people say I'm extreme," Kelly Khuri, founder of the Clark County Tea Party Patriots in Indiana, told the New York Times, "but they said the John Birch Society was extreme, too." Well, yes.
In fact, as Kate Zernike noted in Boiling Mad: Inside Tea Party America, the first reported Tea Party actually took place three days before Santelli's rant, organized in Seattle by twenty-nine-year-old Keli Carender. According to Zernike, "little more than a hundred people" showed up at the protest, "mostly older people, along with a few in their twenties" who had supported Ron Paul's libertarian campaign in the 2008 Republican primaries. What was striking about that crowd is what was striking about Carender: neither she nor the protesters she brought out were in any way exotic political creatures. On the contrary, Carender was a regular sort of conservative who, in another time and circumstance, might have become a conventional Republican precinct captain. She had come to her views, Zernike noted, by reading National Review, the thoroughly orthodox conservative magazine, and the works of the libertarian economist Thomas Sowell.
At its heart, the Tea Party consisted of nothing more (or less) than conservative Republicans who had opposed Barack Obama in 2008 and were angry that he was pursuing the policies he'd run on. Many were also upset over the failures of the Bush presidency and their sense that Bush had been a "big spender," which was certainly true when it came to Iraq.
Astute marketing, not philosophical innovation, is what set the Tea Party apart. It was conservative Republicanism with a sharper tilt rightward. It enjoyed the additional advantages of its own television network in Fox News, a nationwide troupe of talk radio hosts, a considerable bankroll—its most famous angels being the wealthy Koch brothers—and the energies of Sarah Palin, whom every segment of the media could not get enough of in the years 2009 and 2010, before she began to fade.
A New York Times/CBS News survey in April 2010 was especially helpful in debunking the idea that the Tea Party was a bold new populist movement. The Times reported that Tea Party supporters accounted for about a fifth of the country and tended to be "Republican, white, male, married and older than 45." It was hard to find a better description of the GOP base. They were also more affluent and better educated than Americans as a whole. If this was populism, it was the populism of the privileged, or at least the comfortable.
The Tea Party was in many ways a throwback movement—to the 1930s and also to the 1950s and early 1960s. Like the right wing in those earlier years, it saw most of the domestic policies the federal government had undertaken since the Progressive Era and the New Deal as unconstitutional. Like its forebears, the Tea Party typically perceived the most dangerous threats to freedom as coming not from abroad but from the designs of well-educated elitists out of touch with "American values."
The language of these Obama-era anti-statists, like the language of the 1950s right, regularly invoked the Founders by way of describing the threats to liberty presented by socialists disguised as liberals. A group called Tea Party Patriots (many Tea Party groups donned the colors of patriotism) described itself as "a community committed to standing together, shoulder to shoulder, to protect our country and the Constitution upon which we were founded!" Tea Party Nation called itself "a user-driven group of likeminded people who desire our God-given individual freedoms written out by the Founding Fathers."
This was old right-wing stuff. Americans for Constitutional Action, a mainstream conservative group founded in 1958 (which was also the John Birch Society's founding year), had declared itself against "compulsory participation in social security, mandatory wage rates, compulsory membership in labor organizations, fixed rent controls, restrictions on choice of tenants and purchasers of one's property" [a protest against civil rights laws then beginning to win public support] and in support of "progressive repeal of the socialistic laws now on our books."
Attacks on a highly educated class have become a staple of conservative criticisms of Obama and his circle, and these, too, have a long right-wing pedigree. Typical of this style of anti-elitism were comments on a Web site called conservativeteapartycaliforniastyle.com that included a pictorial assault on what it called "Obamunism," with the sickle and hammer integrated into Obama's 2008 campaign logo. "You attempt to be Professorial, Mr. President, and no one is impressed," wrote a blogger called Paul. "Americans are now resentful of anyone who has an Ivy League Education because this demonstrates how far detached the Ivy Leaguers are from the American People. Demonizing the Tea Party will be your downfall. The more you insult them, the stronger they will become."
Robert Welch, the founder of the John Birch Society, had a similar message in 1966, although he expressed it more jauntily. "I can find you a lot more Harvard accents in Communist circles in America today," he declared, "than you can find me overalls." A 1967 Birch Society publication asserted: "From Woodrow Wilson—himself a professor—to Lyndon Johnson, we have had nothing but Presidents surrounded by professors and scholars." The writer warned against a "conspiracy conceived, organized and activated by professionals and intellectuals, many of them brilliant but cunning and clever, who decided to put their minds in the ser vice of total evil."
The similarities between parts of the Tea Party and the old far right pointed to a darker side of the movement—a minority, perhaps, but a vocal one—that veered toward both extremism and racism. The Obama ascendancy clearly radicalized parts of the conservative movement, giving life to conspiracy theories long buried and explicit forms of racial politics that had largely gone underground since the successes of the civil rights movement.
Defenders of the Tea Party cried foul whenever anyone suggested that, in light of the president's background, race might have something to do with the movement's ferocity. And it's true that a conservative, libertarian, and right-wing ideology was more central to the movement than race. A white female progressive president might also have incited a backlash. Nonetheless, the Times/CBS News Poll made clear that the racial attitudes of Tea Party supporters were significantly different from those of the rest of the country.
The survey asked a classic question designed to mea sure racial attitudes without requiring respondents to give explicitly racist responses: "In recent years, do you think too much has been made of the problems facing black people, too little has been made, or is it about right?" Twenty-eight percent of all Americans—and just 19 percent of those who were not Tea Party loyalists—answered "too much." But among Tea Party supporters, the figure was 52 percent, almost three times the proportion of the rest of the country. A quarter of Tea Partiers said the Obama administration's policies favored blacks over whites, compared with only 11 percent in the country as a whole. A survey in the summer of 2011 by the Public Religion Research Institute found a very similar relationship between membership in the Tea Party and attitudes toward race.
It was hard to miss the racial overtones in a speech that former representative Tom Tancredo delivered to a cheering Tea Party crowd in February 2010. Tancredo declared that in 2008 "something really odd happened, mostly because I think that we do not have a civics literacy test before people can vote in this country. People who could not even spell the word 'vote,' or say it in English, put a committed socialist ideologue in the White House, name is Barack Hussein Obama."
For African Americans, who remembered "literacy tests" as phony devices once used in the South to keep blacks from voting, Tancredo's words had a familiar and insidious ring. But the Tea Party conventioneers welcomed them.
There were other memory losses where America's history with race was concerned. As the country began commemorating the 150th anniversary of the Civil War, defenders of the South's "Lost Cause" sought to play down the role of slavery as the conflict's primary cause and instead linked the Confederate revolt against Washington to Tea Party-style concerns about "big government." One Georgia blogger captured the identification with the Confederacy on parts of the right: "Some say simplistically that the Civil War was fought over slavery. Unfortunately, there is no 'simple' reason. The causes of the war were a complex series of events ... Many of the problems Georgians saw more than one hundred fifty years ago are being reiterated today. The 'oppressive' federal government. High taxes (tariffs before the war). A growing government unwilling to listen to law abiding citizens. Sound familiar? They were complaints levied from 1816 on in Georgia."
The Civil War entered the national political debate when Virginia's Republican governor, Bob McDonnell, named April 2010 "Confederate History Month" in a proclamation that didn't mention slavery. (McDonnell later revised the document to denounce slavery as "evil and inhumane.") Mississippi's then governor, Haley Barbour, spoke up for McDonnell by declaring that the controversy surrounding the proclamation's rather substantial omission "doesn't amount to diddly." When Barbour took himself out of the GOP presidential race, his wading into the Civil War argument was often cited as one reason why a popular conservative with strong ties to party officials around the country decided to forgo his opportunity.
The episode underscored not only the extent to which the battle over history had entered contemporary politics, but also how much history was being distorted in the process. Drew Gilpin Faust, Harvard's president and a celebrated chronicler of the war, cited fellow historian C. Vann Woodward's wry observation that history itself "becomes the continuation of war by other means." In a powerful lecture inspired by the war's anniversary, Faust made note that some continued to see the aftermath of the great struggle as a defeat for American principles. "The powers of the centralized nation-state achieved by the war are now questioned and challenged," she observed, "seen as the betrayal rather than the fulfillment of the Founders' vision."
Moreover, "significant segments of the American population, particularly in the South, continue to reject slavery as a fundamental cause of the war, even in the face of irrefutable evidence that what southerners called the 'peculiar institution' played a critical role in secession debates, declarations, and decisions across the South." Even the National Park Ser vice's chief historian, Robert Sutton, was drawn into politics—simply by doing his job. As Faust observed, when Sutton "insisted that the nation's historic sites emphasize that 'slavery is the principal cause' of the war," he "encountered widespread resistance and controversy."
One after another, historians took to op-ed pages and lecture halls to explain that slavery had indeed been the central issue behind the conflict, and that no amount of revisionism could alter this. "A century and a half after the civil war, many white Americans, especially in the South, seem to take the idea that slavery caused the war as a personal accusation," the great Civil War historian Eric Foner wrote in the Guardian. "The point, however, is not to condemn individuals or an entire region of the country, but to face candidly the central role of slavery in our national history." After all, it had been Confederate vice president Alexander Stephens who declared that the "cornerstone" of the Confederacy "rests upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that Slavery, subordination to the superior race, is his natural and normal condition," and that "this, our new Government, is the first, in the history of the world, based upon this great physical, philosophical and moral truth." That racism and slavery, not states' rights, lay at the heart of the southern rebellion was an inconvenient truth for some of the conservative rebels of 2011.
Again and again, contemporary politics became the staging ground for arguments about the past, some of them quite surprising. Relitigating history became a central characteristic of the Obama era, as the perceptive progressive writer Elbert Ventura noted in the spring of 2011. "Beyond the circumscribed world of academic journals and conferences, history is being taught—on TV and talk radio, in blogs and grassroots seminars, in high school textbooks and on Barnes & Noble bookshelves," he wrote in Democracy magazine. "In all those forums, conservatives have been conspicuous by their activity—and progressives by their absence."
The new right-wing historical revisionism needed to be taken seriously as a political matter, if not as an approach to history itself. Revisionist historians on the left had long come under attack from conservatives for using the past primarily for the political purposes of the present. Such conservative criticism is very much alive. Writing in 2011, James W. Ceaser, a neoconservative scholar, offered a lovely and apt metaphor for the value of history: "Like the experience of foreign travel," he wrote, "it can refresh the mind and provide a sense of distance from the familiar." Then Ceaser added: "How sad it is, therefore, that so much academic history today does just the opposite, projecting current issues back onto the past, invariably for the purpose of promoting a contemporary ideological viewpoint. Instead of freeing us from the present, 'history' of this kind ends by imprisoning the past."
Excerpted from Our Divided Political Heart by E.J. Dionne Copyright © 2012 by E. J. Dionne. Excerpted by permission of Bloomsbury USA. All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.
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E. J. Dionne, Jr., is a bestselling author, a longtime op-ed columnist for the Washington Post, and a professor at Georgetown University. His Why Americans Hate Politics won a Los Angeles Times Book Prize and was a nominee for the National Book Award.
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Because we live in such a polarizing political landscape that constantly evokes our nation's history as a precedent for whatever message is being delivered I believe a historical context for what government is to us and the role we want it to play in our society is essential in our ability to digest what we are being sold and determine what we really believe in. I believe that. That is why I bought this book yesterday and finished it today. To understand who we are and where we are going we must understand where we have been. I recommend this book to anyone who believes that as well. While it is a little wordy and generally critical of specifically the Tea Party movement (in the context that they evoke our Constitution for their founding principles of weakening our government) E. J. Dionne provides plenty of praise for both Republicans and Democrats as well as a critical tone for those who forget that the perhaps the key American strength we possess is compromise. The duality of what it means to be an American is that we all in our core contain both Republican and Democrat ideals and we resort to extremism at our peril. Seems to me the missing argument in our political landscape is not the case for the absolute left or the absolute right but in fact it is the case for the middle. It is that political middle ground that has fostered the greatest nation in the world and created a government of the people for the people that will mature with the people.
An insightful and detailed look at our extremely divided nation. Almost frightening in its honesty about the two sides of our political climate and how far apart they are.


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Brandon pointed me to this piece on how Zach Kinkaid from the excellent Matthew's House Project was fired from Oklahoma Baptist University because of an editorial he wrote. As the editorial loaded up, I was expecting it to be a response to some controversial theological issue, but discovered instead that he lost his job for criticising a wealthy church's decision to flee the inner city in favour of a more comfortable suburban setting.
Such 'white flight' seems to have been a fixture of the USian church experience for some time. In a culture where the success of a church is measured on numbers it makes sense to make it a comfortable place, and to find cheap land for huge (and generally ugly) expansions. But it's ironic that a demographic that was so much in favour of Bush's "faith based initiatives" is fleeing the very areas that need such initiatives. If there's one argument I'd use against routing urban redevelopment funding through churches, it would be that churches by and large couldn't care less about the urban poor.
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Executives representing some of the largest manufacturers in the U.S. urged community college presidents to reach out and form partnerships to help them train desperately needed middle-skills workers.
The recent resurgence in American manufacturing has created steep demand for middle-skills workers with math, communication and problem-solving skills, especially in today's high-tech manufacturing environment. Some middle skills jobs pay more than jobs requiring a bachelor's degree, with median salaries often eclipsing $50,000.
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Bruce Brda, senior vice president of Motorola Solutions, said the explosive growth of high-tech communications and mobile applications and platforms means he can't predict what his workforce needs will look like in the next five years. However, active communication with community colleges is critical to make sure new employees have skill sets they need to be successful, he added.
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To help combat the problem, community colleges such as Gateway Technical College (GTC) in Wisconsin have begun emphasizing soft skills, including interviewing, personal presentation and communication skills along with technical training.
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To help close the skills gap and evaluate a student's work ethic, companies are looking at supporting more paid internships similar to those offered through Harper's advanced manufacturing program, which promises a paid internship with local manufacturing partners after a student completes four classes. The program recently received a $12.9 million federal grant to replicate the partnership throughout Illinois.
Finding and training middle-skills workers of the future cannot be ignored any longer, according to executives and college presidents. A recent report by Georgetown University predicts the U.S. will be short at least three million high-tech workers by 2018. Summit attendees say the need to find solutions and act quickly has never been more urgent.
"One of the messages of the summit is this: if we are to have a real partnership and a real relationship with corporations, we have to deliver," said Harper College President Kenneth Ender. "We can't over-promise, but whatever we take on, we have to deliver."
The conference was sponsored by the HR Policy Association's Workforce Development Roundtable, Motorola Solutions, Harper College and the Community College Auto Communities Consortium.
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Guild Age - 5 years, but we're really advanced for our age.
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We are a group of gamers who have found each other from different MMOs through the years, and value the quality of playing in an enjoyable community over anything else. Sure, we've always been skilled with our characters and have countless success stories under our belts, but what fun is a game if you don't have "fun" to begin with?Many other guilds are looking to pad their front lines with numbers for cannon fodder, and that's great. [Rest in Pieces] however, prefers to find awesome, humorous, and solid members to spend our time progressing and developing with. We enjoy getting to know our guild-mates and creating friendships that travel game to game as the years pass. This is why guilds were created - to allow communities to grow.Now don't get me wrong, we are vulgar and sarcastic to no end. This is ideally a place for older players who enjoy teasing and laughing with each other. We are casually skilled, and will more than likely give you crap if you aren't pulling your weight. There are players like us out there, and we'd just like to extend the invitation to come give us a try - you won't be disappointed.
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As for game priorities, we have many nerds who sit on at all hours of the day maxing out their gaming experience. There will be a heavy presence in both PvP and PvE instances on a regular basis.Now, I know every guild on here says "Oh, we focus on PvP and PvE!!" So we're not going to lie to you - We aren't going to be "Organizing large-scale WvW events", as that's just ridiculous. We will play as a team though, and support each other in combat while having a good time murdering people. As we grow and develop, so will the size of our player force, yielding increased power. As for PvE, we already have members who enjoy voice chatting and making fun of each other while instancing. Will we explore all the content? You bet. Will it feel like a chore or a grind? Hell no.--We like to get sh*t done, and have a blast while doing it. That's what [Rest in Pieces] is all about. If you feel you're awesome enough and want to join in on our festivities, I implore you to by all means. If not, I'm sure our paths will cross out in the world and we'll have a good time when that happens. No biggie. We are all just excited to get this game rolling and make new friends/acquaintances during the process.
Don't settle for being some barcode in another guild though, going unappreciated by the rest of your clan - Laugh, Drink, and Be Merry (and if you join up, Tease the crap out of us!)Enjoy your Beta play!-Sedge
I'm surprised to have gotten such a positive response since posting this thread already.
Welcome to all the new members; from your introductory posts on our forums, it seems that you will fit in very well and greatly enjoy your stay.
May our enemies [Rest in Pieces]...
We're having a fantastic time in beta! Come drop by and say hello!
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Let's get going and guild up. No one wants to be that loser-kid who joins right as the game's launching... ha!
Do you take sexual deviants because if so your guild sucks..hahah you thought I was going to say something diffrent there didnt you??? j/k good luck recruiting
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> I believe it is in the loosestrife family. I know I didn't plant it
> there since it is in the pink bed and I definately wouldn't have put a
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> Upon searching on the internet, it claims non-invasive...hum.... it's here, I didn't plant it!.....
> So, thoughts folks, do I yank it out now or keep it and move it to that color bed?
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When facing criminal charges you need someone who will fight for you. You need Attorney Marc Lopez.Not a dump truck lawyer looking to plead you quick. Attorney Lopez is a trained Trial Lawyer.Indiana's Delegate to the National College of DUI Defense. Your best shot at fighting a DUI.
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In April 2016, I was arrested for a DUI - first ever. Still hard to believe that I ended up in that position. The morning I was released, I began searching for attorneys. I had left a message for the first one who came up in my search engine – and Marc was actually the 2nd attorney I called – it was 7am in the morning – and he answered his phone. He talks fast and was VERY matter of fact with EVERYTHING I needed to do in order to put this all behind me. Throughout the ordeal, Marc guided me and informed me what to expect, what I needed to do, and how to put this incident behind me. He informed me this would be expensive – but it wasn't as expensive as losing time in jail or worse consequences. There were several hiccups with what I needed to do in order to go on non-reporting probation, but I was finally able to get everything completed.
I HIGHLY recommend Marc and his power team he has put together. He knows what the expectations are – he knows what you need to do to receive the best possible outcome – and he doesn't jerk you around with fluff that doesn't matter. This was the scariest event I have ever been involved in, and one of the ONLY things that mentally got me through it was Marc's confidence, knowledge, and assurance that he had my back and was "taking care of it".
Marc never pushed me or forced me to do anything I didn't want to do - he was definitely in support and in service of whatever I wanted to do regarding my case. He is BUSY - but that is because he is such a remarkable attorney, and overall, a genuinely NICE human being. Frankly, I have never cared for attorneys because I feel that they talk down to people - I never once felt that way with Marc.
He was a God-send into my life for this situation and I would recommend his services to anyone in need of an attorney - not just for a DUI.
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Marc is the best lawyer I've ever worked with. He took care of my case with extreme concern, excellent communication, and commitment. He always let me know where I stood and took care of everything for me the entire way. His friendly, non-pretentious demeanor made me feel comfortable from the get-go. My results in court were better than I ever could have expected. I recommend him 100% - you can't go wrong with Marc Lopez on your side. Call him and find out for yourself what a truly unique and hard-working lawyer he is.
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I am 150% satisfied with Marc's services! He is the best attorney I've had out of quite a few I had in the past. He is very positive and determined and will look out for your best interest. He not only fought my case in the best way possible but also gave me great advice throughout the entire period my case was active. Suggesting the best choices for me and making my process easy with the way he handled his job. He offered many appeals and kept looking for the best options for me until I found one I was satisfied with. My case was a complicated one and many other lawyers I had in the past didn't do what Marc did for me. Thanks to Marc I had the best options and I'm thankful for his work. I would definitely recommend him!!!!! THANKS MARC!
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I was referred to Marc by my friend. He was very friendly and responded very well to all my questions. Most importantly he did an excellent job in my case and if it were not him, my case hadn't been dismissed. I would totally recommend him for his specialty in DUI cases.
Helping people — that describes my job as an attorney. I am blessed to enjoy this career, where I am able to positively impact the lives of others. As many people often say, find a job you love and you won't work a day in your life.
As a former Deputy Prosecutor in Marion County, I handled thousands of criminal cases, many of which went to trial, providing me with firsthand courtroom experience. During these trials, I've learned how to spot weaknesses in the State's case and perhaps most importantly, how to exploit those weaknesses to benefit the defendant. I firmly believe in every individual's constitutional rights, and that every criminal defendant has the right to a fair trial. In order to have a fair trial, a defendant needs to be represented by a experienced and capable attorney. I am that attorney, and I am ready to help you.
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I have been referring clients to Marc Lopez for several years and I continuously get calls of thanks from the clients. Marc is very diligent and works as hard as anyone out there. His experience as a DUI prosecutor has really been a huge benefit to his practice - and to his clients. His Indiana DUI lawyer skills are superb, and he invests a considerable amount of his resources perfecting his craft. I recommend him without hesitation.
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Leading international training and safety consultancy, WrightWay, is delighted to announce that it is the first British company to be awarded the Human Element Leadership and Management (HELM) accreditation at management level.
After years of championing the application of human factors training and practice in the maritime environment, WrightWay - following a rigorous accreditation process - has become the first British training firm approved by the MCA to deliver the HELM course.
Captain John Wright, the founder and managing director of WrightWay, is considered a pioneer in human factors training in the marine industry and has been delivering bespoke training courses for over 16 years. John says, "We are immensely proud to be the first British company to achieve this milestone at management level. This approval was the culmination of many years of lobbying within the industry and recognises the importance of human factors in ensuring that seafarers throughout the world work in a safer environment."
The HELM management level course was adapted from the company's existing human factors training course in response to the newly mandated obligations introduced as a result of the 2010 Manila amendments to the Standards of Training, Certification and Watchkeeping (STCW) Convention and Code, set to enter into force from January 2013.
Looking to the future, John Wright, says, "This permits WrightWay to deliver the HELM management level course throughout the world. Being at the forefront of implementing this training is an apt recognition for the ground-breaking, loyal clients of WrightWay who invested in the training, long before the mandated obligation to do so."
WrightWay conducts human factors training at a variety of locations in North America, Asia, Europe and the UK and has a long list of case histories demonstrating how companies have benefitted from its courses. The team of expert consultants has a broad range of skills and experience from many industry sectors including shipping, oil & gas, manufacturing, aviation and defence.
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This invention relates generally to simulcast radio communication systems.
Simulcast radio communication systems are typically employed to provide wide area one-way or two-way radio communication services. In such a system, a source site typically originates (or forwards from another originating site) a signal to be generally broadcast. This signal is routed from the source site to a plurality of remote sites. Each remote site then simultaneously broadcasts the signal in coordination with other remote sites to facilitate reception of the signal by receivers within the area covered by the system.
In this way, a receiver outside the operating range of one remote site may still be within the range of one or more other remote sites, thereby reasonably ensuring that the receiver can receive the signal.
One particularly difficult problem with such simulcast systems involves coordinating the various remote sites to ensure that the signals are in fact substantially simultaneously broadcast by each. A failure to accomplish this will result in instances of unacceptable reception coherence, usually as caused by carrier frequency differences between the remote sites, deviation control differences, phase differentials with respect to the modulation signal itself, and the like.
Various efforts to resolve one or more of these problems have been set forth in the prior art. Depending upon the particular application, however, such prior art solutions may not be adequate. A need accordingly exists for a simulcast system that will provide for the substantially simultaneous broadcast of a frequency equalized signal from a plurality of remote sites.
This need and others are substantially met through provision of the simulcast system disclosed herein. Pursuant to this invention, at least some of the remote sites are each provided with a frequency source that can be adjusted in response to signals from a system controller. The reference signal from this frequency source is used to generate both the carrier signal for that remote site and a modulation signal for use by the remote site transmitter in modulating the carrier signal. These signals, as transmitted by the remote sites, are then received by one or more monitoring sites, where the modulation signals are recovered and compared against one another. Differences between these signals reflect differences between the carrier frequencies as well, and this information is used to correct the frequency source of one or more of the remote sites.
FIG. 1 comprises a block diagram depiction of a simulcast system constructed in accordance with the invention;
FIG. 2 comprises a block diagram depiction of a system controller constructed in accordance with the invention;
FIG. 3 comprises a block diagram depiction of a remote site constructed in accordance with the invention;
FIG. 4 comprises a block diagram depiction of a part of the remote site transmitter; and
FIG. 5 comprises a block diagram depiction of a monitoring station.
A simulcast system according to the invention can be seen as generally depicted in FIG. 1 by the reference numeral 100. For purposes of this description, the system will be described in conjunction with a wide area paging system; those skilled in the art will appreciate that a one-way transmission system is being used for purposes of explanation only, and that the principles of the invention are equally applicable in a two-way system.
The system includes a source site (111) and a plurality of remote sites (104). The source site (111) includes a paging terminal (101), a system controller (102), and a point-to-multipoint transmission device (103). Paging terminals are well known in the art, and hence no further description need be provided here. Point-to-multipoint transmission devices, such as microwave links and landline connections, are also well known. The particular communication link (106) selected to provide the point-to-multipoint communication services are not especially critical to the invention, so long as signal quality and propagation delay is acceptable for the application. The system controller (102) will be described below in more detail.
The various remote sites (104) function generally to receive both messages intended for rebroadcast and control signals from the source site via the communication links (106). Acting upon the control signals, the remote sites (104) then rebroadcast (107) the message information. Additional description of the remote sites will be provided below where appropriate.
Finally, the system (100) generally includes one or more monitoring stations (108). These stations function to receive the broadcast signals (107) from a number of remote sites (104). Information regarding these broadcasts, such as carrier frequency differential data, may then provided via appropriate communications link (109) to the system controller (102) for purposes described below.
Certain details of the system controller (102) will now be described in more detail with respect to FIG. 2. Input (202) from the paging terminal (101) passes through an appropriate input unit (201), such that message information sourced by the terminal may be passed through a gate (203) to a line driver (204) that couples (206) to the point-to-multipoint transmission device (103) noted above. The gate (203) is operated by a control unit (207) that includes an appropriate processing device. The control unit (207) also develops and passes control information to a control encoder (208) that also couples to the line driver (204). So configured, the control unit (207) operates the gate (203) to effectively time multiplex the message information from the input unit (201) with the control information from the control encoder (208), all in accordance with well understood prior art technique.
The system controller (102) also includes a control decoder (209) that decodes information provided at an input (211) thereto. This input receives information from the monitoring sites (108) referenced above.
So configured, the control unit (207) controls the provision of message information to the point-to-multipoint transmission device (103), and also generates appropriate control information intended for use by the various remote sites (104). Additional details regarding the control information will be provided below where appropriate.
The remote sites (104), as depicted in detail in FIG. 3, include an input (301) for receiving the baseband information as provided over the appropriate communication link (106). This information is provided to a control decoder (306) that functions to decode control information provided by the system controller (102), and also through a gate (302) to a modulator (303) and associated transmitter (304). The control decoder (306) couples to a control unit (307) that generates control information that is provided to a control encoder (308), and that also provides status and control information to a station controller (309) and gate control signals to the gate (302). The gate (302) may also be controlled by the station controller (309). The station controller (309) couples to the transmitter (304) and controls various operating parameters thereof, such as the frequency of a reference source.
So configured, the control unit (307) and station controller (309) operably control the provision of message information and control information to the modulator (303) for transmission by the remote site.
Additional detail for the transmitter (304) of the remote site (104) will now be described with reference to FIG. 4.
A reference source (401) provides a reference signal having a controlled frequency. This frequency is controlled, at least in part, by a reference control unit (402). The reference control unit (402) is responsive, in turn, to control signals sourced by the system controller (102).
A phase detector (403) receives this reference signal at one of its inputs. The phase detector (403) comprises a part of a phase lock loop (407) that includes an appropriate filter (404), VCO (405), and divider (406). So configured, the output (409) of the VCO (405) is compared (after division) with the reference source signal in known phase lock loop manner to assure a requisite relationship and stability between these two signals. The transmitter (304) utilizes this VCO output (409) as the basis for the carrier signal that will be transmitted by the remote site (104). (It should also be understood that this carrier signal constitutes the signal that should be appropriately correlated in frequency to the transmitting carrier signals of other remote sites (104) to aid in assuring the appropriate simulcast of a message signal modulated on the carrier.)
In this embodiment, a second divider (408) also receives the reference source output. The second divider (408) reduces the frequency of the reference source signal to an audible tone, which tone is then provided to the modulation input (411) for the transmitter. A gate (412) may also be provided to allow the audio tone to be selectively provided or denied to the modulation input (411) in response to a control signal.
So configured, the remote site (104) maintains a capability of transmitting a modulated signal on a carrier wherein both the modulation signal and the carrier are derived from the same reference signal.
Each monitoring station (108) (see FIG. 5) includes a receiver (501) for receiving the broadcasts (107) of the remote sites (104). Each monitoring station (108) should be positioned so as to be able to receive the transmissions (107) of at least two different remote sites (104).
This receiver (501) functions in a customary manner to reduce the received signal to baseband. Presuming that the broadcast signal (107) comprises the audio tone as modulated on the carrier as described above, this baseband signal will comprise the audio tone itself.
A phase detector (502) compares this audio tone against a reference signal (503). A data encoder (504) then transmits information regarding this differential to the system controller (102).
This receive, recover, and compare process can be repeated for various remote sites (104) as are capable of being received by a given monitoring station (108). Differences in audio tone frequency, as measured by the monitoring station (108), are ascertainable by the system controller (102). Since the audio tones that provide the basis for these differential comparisons are based upon the same signals that were utilized to generate the carrier signals for the stations, this measured differential is also illustrative of differences in carrier frequency between the remote sites (104). It is the latter differential, of course, that can contribute to reception difficulties in a simulcast system.
Based upon this information, the system controller (102) can readily determine an appropriate correction factor for one or more of the remote sites (104) and transmit this correction information as appropriate control signals in the same manner as other control signals are provided to the remote sites (104) using the system infrastructure. Upon reception of these control signals, the various remote sites (104) alter their reference source (401) via the reference control unit (402) to assure substantial carrier frequency similarity.
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Galician Fish Stew
|6 Ounce
|Kosher salt
|To Taste
|Yukon gold potatoes,
|2 Pound, peeled
|Dry white wine
|1 Cup (16 tbs)
|Bay leaves
|1 Medium, quartered
|Swiss chard leaves
|3 Cup (48 tbs), chopped
|Extra virgin olive oil
|1⁄4 Cup (4 tbs)
|4 Clove (20 gm), thinly sliced
|Sweet spanish paprika
|1 Tablespoon
|Red pepper
|To Taste, crushed
1. Season the halibut with salt and refrigerate for 30 minutes. In a large saucepan, combine the potatoes, stock, wine, bay leaves, onion, chard and 1 tablespoon of salt. Bring to a boil, cover and simmer over low heat for 15 minutes.
2. In a small saucepan, heat the oil. Add the garlic and cook over low heat until golden, 4 minutes. Stir in the paprika and crushed red pepper; remove from the heat.
3. Lay the halibut on top of the potatoes and simmer, turning once, until the fish is just cooked through, about 8 minutes.
4. Transfer the halibut and potato stew to shallow bowls. Ladle 1 1/2 cups of the broth into the garlic oil and bring to a boil. Stir well, pour over the fish and serve.
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Nutrition Facts
Serving size: Complete recipe
Calories 1767 Calories from Fat 716
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 78 g119.9%
Saturated Fat 8.1 g40.7%
Trans Fat 0 g
Cholesterol 78.2 mg26.1%
Sodium 768.9 mg32%
Total Carbohydrates 198 g65.9%
Dietary Fiber 24.7 g98.8%
Sugars 30.9 g
Protein 55 g109.8%
Vitamin A 137.3% Vitamin C 93.5%
Calcium 18.2% Iron 29.7%
*Based on a 2000 Calorie diet


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