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Book: "The Bully Pulpit"
May 31, 2015
Justin S. Vaughn, a political science professor at Boise State University, writing recently in The Times, raised the question of which of Barack Obama's predecessors have been the best and the worst former presidents. It's an uncommon way to look at the presidency, and it adds a useful context. Those of us who are only casual observers of history tend to think of the presidents strictly in terms of their time in office and evaluate them accordingly. But, as Vaughn points out, "Our greatest ex-presidents have engaged in important work, sometimes at a level that rivaled their accomplishments in the White House. Our worst ex-presidents, on the other hand, have been noteworthy for taking strong positions against the national interest and consistently undermining their successors for personal and political reasons."
Vaughn's choices as the best former presidents included John Quincy Adams, Jimmy Carter, William Howard Taft, and Herbert Hoover. When the Washington Post, in 2014, asked 162 members of the American Political Science Association's Presidents & Executive Politics section to rank the presidents, Taft was 20th and Quincy Adams 22nd. Carter and Hoover did not place in the top 24. That implies, if one were to take these things literally, that the four best former presidents by Vaughn's estimation were only middling or worse as presidents.
But Adams, one of only two presidents to be elected to public office after leaving the White House, was a leading member of the House of Representatives for almost 20 years; Carter has devoted himself to promoting human and political rights all over the world. Hoover headed the program to stave off starvation in Germany after World War II and he was appointed by Presidents Truman and Eisenhower to lead commissions that successfully recommended reforms in the operations of the federal government.
Vaughn's nominees for the worst former presidents include John Tyler, Millard Fillmore, Franklin Pierce, and Theodore Roosevelt. The first three did not distinguish themselves as president, but Roosevelt is regularly ranked among the best. He finished fourth in the 2014 survey, following Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, and Franklin Roosevelt.
I recently got a belated education regarding Taft and Theodore Roosevelt by reading Doris Kearns Goodwin's book The Bully Pulpit, which is sort of a double biography. The careers of these two men — their whole careers, not only their presidencies — occurred during a critical era in American history in which the nation grappled with the tension between free enterprise and the government's attempts to prevent large business interests from unfairly controlling whole sectors of the economy. Goodwin paints impressive portraits that convey the personal and political integrity and the spirit of public service that characterized both Taft and Roosevelt. Both men were highly distinguished before they were elected to the presidency. Taft, as Goodwin relates, was mostly interested in the law and hoped to some day serve on the United States Supreme Court. He did not aspire to be president, but accepted the role under the heavy influence of his wife and of Roosevelt, who had promised after he was elected to his second term that he would not seek a third — a promise he lived to regret.
One of the reasons Roosevelt lands in Vaughn's list of worst former presidents is that he disapproved of Taft's administration and, forsaking his "two and through" pledge, challenged him for the 1912 Republican nomination and, failing at that, ran for president on a third-party ticket, guaranteeing the election of the Democrat, Woodrow Wilson. Taft, on the other hand, realized his ambition when President Warren Harding appointed him chief justice of the United States, a position in which he served with distinction for a decade.
Although Roosevelt was an egocentric and therefore sometimes childish character, his life and that of Taft, on the whole, were among the most exemplary among American public figures. Goodwin's account of their careers, by bringing them to life, also brings to life an often neglected epoch in American history.
Books: "Don't Know Much about the American Presidents"
October 13, 2012
Some colleagues and I were traveling to Caldwell College recently, and just before we turned off Bloomfield Avenue onto the campus, I pointed out a cottage across the street. "That's the birthplace of Grover Cleveland," I said. Someone in the car might have grunted — I'm not sure — but otherwise there was no reaction.
How could this be? Cleveland was the only president born in New Jersey and one of only two who died here. But we get to count him twice, because he was both the 22nd and 24th presidents. And nobody cares?
OK, he wasn't Mr. Glamor — no Washington, Jackson, Lincoln, or either of the Roosevelts. In fact, he was part of that lineup of boring personalities from Rutherford B. Hayes to William McKinley. Even his non-consecutive terms aren't enough to make his name a household word, or even vaguely familiar.
Well, my colleagues might disregard Cleveland, but he gets a lot of attention in Kenneth C. Davis's new book, Don't Know Much about the American Presidents. Davis reports that Cleveland was only four years old when his family moved to New York and that he didn't return to New Jersey until after he had retired from the presidency.
Cleveland, a former mayor of Buffalo and governor of New York, was president during a period of violent labor strife in both of his terms and near economic calamity in his second. It the era of robber barons, rampant corruption in business and politics. The United States was still on the gold standard at that time and nearly ran out of reserves before Cleveland struck a deal in which J.P. Morgan, the Rothschilds and other financial interests bought American bonds, in several sales, to replenish the gold and stabilize what was then largely a free-market economy.
Davis gives final grades to most of the presidents he writes about, sparing those who died too soon after taking office and Barack Obama, who hasn't yet served a whole term. Cleveland gets a B, not because he was a visionary or an inspiring leader, but because he was scrupulously honest and because he was the first president since the ill-starred Andrew Johnson to stand up to Congress and restore at least some of the prestige and power the presidency had lost after the murder of Abraham Lincoln.
Davis provides some context for his discussions of the 44 presidential administrations with an opening section on how the presidency, more or less as we know it, was created. He points out that the title "president of the United States in Congress assembled" was conferred on 14 men — including John Hancock, who held the title twice — before the election of George Washington as the more succinctly named "president of the United States." The first of these was Peyton Randolph of Virginia, who presided over the Continental Congress in 1774. Davis explains that the failures of the Articles of Confederation made it clear to many American leaders that the government needed a strong executive presence, but determining what that executive should consist of was problematic. There was no model to base it on, and many Americans were wary of a strong executive because they feared abuse of power and the possibility of the kind of hereditary succession they had left behind in Great Britain. Indeed, he writes, one of the reasons Washington was a favorite to take on the newly fashioned presidency was that he had no heirs. Davis follows his presidential profiles with a section in which he discusses what the office has become and what should be done with it.
With its compact chapters and its career highlights and timelines, this book provides a means of scanning the whole sweep of American history from the adoption of the Constitution of 1787 to the present. The book also reminds us of the wide range of personalities who have occupied the presidency during that period, from the brooding and self-sacrificing Lincoln, whose murder plunged even some of his bitterest enemies into despair, to the handsome but hapless Franklin Pierce, whose spineless failure to deal with the crisis that led to the Civil War left him in such disrepute that he was the only former president whose death was not officially mourned.
Books: "John Quincy Adams"
August 3, 2012
A man of about my grandfather's vintage was telling me that he once owned a house in Brooklyn and the candy store on the first floor. When I asked what had become of the property, he brought his hands together in a loud clap and said, "Mr. Hoover." The implication was that he had lost the house and store as a result of the Great Depression and that the Great Depression was Mr. Hoover's fault.
The history of the economic calamity of the 1930s is complex, and while Herbert Hoover's approach to it is open to criticism, it is simplistic to argue that he was responsible for the losses suffered by millions of people. Unfortunately for Hoover, most Americans who can identify him at all are likely to describe him as the president who failed to solve the Depression. And that means that most Americans have forgotten — or more likely have never known — that Hoover was a great public servant and, in several instances, an American hero. As Casey Stengel said, you could look it up: Hoover organized the evacuation of Americans from Europe at the outbreak of World War I; he organized the delivery of millions of tons of food to Belgium after it had been invaded by Germany; he ran the commission that made sure American food supplies were conserved so that there would be enough to supply U.S troops in Europe during the war; he ran the administration that fed millions of people in Central Europe after the war; he oversaw the government response to the Great Mississippi Flood in six states in 1927; he organized a program that fed school children in impoverished occupied Germany after World War II; and under presidents Truman and Eisenhower he headed two commissions that successfully recommended reorganization and efficiencies in the federal government.
Hoover had his failings and even his dark side, but the country's ignorance of his accomplishments — to say nothing of his long career as an engineer and businessman — is out of whack.
Hoover is not alone in this. John Quincy Adams' legacy has suffered a similar fate, as Harlow Giles Unger explains in a biography of the sixth president that will be published in September. Adams' presidency was a dud, but he otherwise led one of the most outstanding public lives in the history of the country. He was the son of brilliant parents — Abigail and John Adams — and they expected big things of him. Unger reports, in fact, that John Adams, the second president, expected his son to eventually follow him into that office, after getting a classical education and learning and practicing law. John Q. grew up in the midst of the American Revolution; in fact, he and his mother were eye witnesses to the Battle of Bunker Hill.
Defining events in his life, though, were successive trips to Europe with his father, who was engaged in diplomacy. Those trips led to a career in diplomacy for the younger Adams who was not excelled by anyone serving in that capacity before or since. He later served as secretary of state in the administration of James Monroe and again did outstanding work, including his authorship of what became known as the Monroe Doctrine. He was, Unger argues, one of the most important experts on foreign affairs in American history.
John Quincy Adams was elected to the presidency without campaigning for the office, and in a certain sense he wasn't elected at all. The wildly popular war hero Andrew Jackson won more popular votes in the election of 1824 but not enough electoral votes to carry the day. Henry Clay threw the election into Adams' lap by instructing the Kentucky delegation to vote for Adams, who had not won an electoral vote in that state. When John Q took office, he named Clay secretary of state, which was a much more powerful office then than it is now. Although it would have been out of character for Adams to have conspired with Clay in order to gain the presidency, that's how many Americans read it, Unger writes, and it got Adams' administration off to a poor start.
Adams had an ideal that would sound odd to Americans today: he believed that principle was more important than party. Tell that to John Boehner and Nancy Pelosi. Adams carried this idea to extremes, going to the mat first with his own Federalist party and then with the opposition Republicans on one issue or another. As a result, he really had no party, while Andrew Jackson was building the new Democratic party into a meaningful force. He also gave no thought to even conventional patronage when he appointed his cabinet, and so he was, as Jimmy Durante used to say, "surrounded by assassins."
The short version is that Adams' presidency didn't amount to much, and he left office in a significant funk after losing the election to Jackson. But he was invited to run for Congress from a district in his native Massachusetts, and so he became one of three presidents to hold public office after leaving the White House. (The others were Andrew Johnson, who was elected to the U.S. Senate and William Howard Taft, who was appointed chief justice of the United States.)
Adams spent 17 years in the House of Representatives and it was, as Unger recounts in dramatic fashion, a wild scene. Adams hated slavery, which he had first seen up close when he traveled to Poland as a teenager. The House leadership didn't want the subject broached in the chamber and passed rules to prevent the word "slavery" from being uttered or petitions against slavery from being presented. Adams fought furiously against this procedure, violating the rules repeatedly, and demanding over and over to know, "Am I gagged? Am I gagged?" He eventually became a highly respected figure in the House, even by those who disagreed with him, and reputedly was one of a handful of the best who ever served there.
During this period, Adams also got involved in the legal case of a group of more than fifty African men and women who were being transported as slaves from one port in Cuba to another when they seized control of the ship, the Amistad. The ship was taken into custody in American waters, and the Africans on board sued to keep from being returned to bondage.
Adams gave a seven-hour argument before the U.S. Supreme Court which, although most of the justices were hard-nosed southern slave holders, ruled unanimously that the Africans should be set free.
In recounting Adams' career, Unger provides a close look into the life of the distinguished and patriotic Massachusetts family: the relationship between John Q. Adams and his redoubtable parents, and between John Q. and his wife, Louisa, who at times lost patience with the demands her husband's public service made on family life.
Unger's book brings this good and great man back to life at least on the printed page. It was a life that deserves much more attention than it gets.
Books: "Eisenhower: The White House Years"
March 25, 2012
When I was a grad student at Penn State, former President Dwight Eisenhower visited the campus. It wasn't a public event; he was speaking to a group of students from State College High School. But I was working in the public information office and found out about it and simply walked into Waring Hall at the appointed time. It was 1964 — a different era. Nobody asked who I was.
Eisenhower had been out of office for about four years. He was 74 and had suffered heart attacks and a stroke. Still, he stood at the edge of the stage with his head high and his shoulders back — in short, with the military bearing long associated with him. He encouraged those kids to take an interest in civic affairs and not to expect other folks to do all the work either inside or outside of government.
Eisenhower had been an iconic figure in our house, both because of his role in World War II and because he had kept the presidency out of Democratic hands for eight years.
Some of the family's faith in Ike was well placed, even given the straight party-line mentality, but of course he was more complicated than he was portrayed around our place.
And, in fact, the Dwight Eisenhower that Jim Newton describes in Eisenhower: The White House Years is a complicated guy. While he was still in office, especially during his second term, he was often lampooned as an absentee president who golfed while the Soviets and Chinese plotted to conquer the world.
While it's true that Eisenhower tried to fit golf and bridge into his routine, that characterization seemed ludicrous at the time, and Newton demonstrates well that it was fantasy. He shows that, on balance, Eisenhower's administration, which kept the United States out of a shooting war for eight years, launched the interstate highway system and the St. Lawrence Seaway, and left the country with its last budget surplus until 1999, was an overall success.
Newton doesn't discuss this in detail in this book, but Eisenhower's achievements as supreme allied commander in Europe during World War II were in a significant way due to his firm but understated command as well as his personal diplomacy as he coordinated military officers and heads of state who had little or nothing in common except an enemy.
Similar qualities came into play when Eisenhower took on the presidency. He wasn't inclined to the grand gesture, and his credo was what he called "the middle way," meaning that on any issue he looked for the ground that was equidistant from extremes on either right or left.
Meanwhile, while Ike might have seemed like a man obsessed with cutting down on his slice, he was engaging in intense discussions concerning the rising belligerence of the Soviets and Chinese, more than once talking his military brass out of resorting to nuclear weapons. He was also overseeing covert activities undertaken by the CIA to overthrow foreign governments whose behavior was perceived as inimical to American interests — Iran and Guatemala among them. Eisenhower also made flight-by-flight decisions about high altitude surveillance of the USSR, and his administration was embarrassed when one of the planes was shot down and the pilot captured.
From our perspective, two of the most disappointing things about Eisenhower were his unwillingness to take the lead on civil rights for black citizens and his public silence about the demagoguery of Sen. Joseph McCarthy.
Eisenhower was content with the concept of "separate but equal," and he was unhappy with the Supreme Court ruling in Brown vs the Board of Education. When the Board of Education in Little Rock, Arkansas, decided to obey the spirit of that ruling by admitting nine black teenagers to Central High School, there was immediately a crisis of authority as Gov. Orval Faubus, the Arkansas National Guard, and a howling white mob prevented the kids from entering. Eisenhower tried to finesse the problem by summoning Faubus to Washington and bargaining with him, but Faubus double-crossed Ike by withdrawing both the National Guard and himself from the scene. So Eisenhower was forced to do something distasteful to him, sending members of the 101st Airborne Division, with bayonets fixed, to escort the students into the school.
Eisenhower didn't say or do anything publicly about McCarthy's paranoid campaign of terror against real and imagined communists until the senator overreached and directed his venom at the U.S. Army. Then the president issued an order forbidding employees of the executive department from providing evidence to McCarthy's committee.
Eisenhower's reticence concerning McCarthy extended to the point that Ike let McCarthy pillory Gen. George Marshall, Ike's mentor and possibly the man he most admired. Eisenhower ostensibly regretted that for the rest of his life, but the damage had been done.
Newton probably is a little easy on Eisenhower, but if he is, he's easy on a man who led one of the most unselfish and productive lives of public service in American history, a life untouched by the personal and professional corruption and the blind partisanship that has affected major figures in American history before and after him.
The motto of Eisenhower's election campaign — "I like Ike" — was particularly apt. He had his flaws as we all do, but the quality of his public service flowed to a large extent from his character: He was a nice man.
Books: "Franklin Pierce"
June 13, 2010
When I was a kid, a bubble gum company came out with a line of president cards which I guess were intended as the nerd's alternative to baseball cards. I was into baseball – including the cards – but I was also into history. Also, my Dad owned a grocery store, so I had easy access to whatever the gum companies were peddling.
I recall sitting across from my father at the kitchen table. He held the president cards, arranged in chronological order, and I would try to list them from memory. I can still hear him saying one night when I got stuck somewhere in the latter 19th century: "C'mon! What street does your Aunt Ida live on?" The answer was Garfield Place, as in James A.
It occurred to me at that young age – it was during Dwight Eisenhower's first administration – that Franklin Pierce had the best-looking face on those cards.
Pierce is the subject of a new little biography – part of a Time Books series on the presidents. This one is written by Michael F. Holt, a history professor at the University of Virginia and an expert on the political life of the country in the years leading up to the Civil War. Sure enough, Holt points out that Pierce was not only handsome, but charming and warm hearted as well. Unfortunately, those qualities carried a lot more weight in the internal politics of Democratic New Hampshire than they did when spread out over a nation that was on the verge of committing suicide over the issue of expanding slavery into the western territories.
In fact, Pierce was nominated for the presidency in 1852 not so much because his party thought he was the Man of the Hour but because the party couldn't muster a winning vote for any of the three leading candidates – one of whom was not Pierce. He was the original Dark Horse, as far as the presidency of the United States was concerned.
Pierce actually showed some skill in managing the foreign affairs of the country, and he directed the Gadsden Purchase, which was the last major territorial acquisition in what is now the contiguous 48 states. But the crisis of the moment had to do with whether the institution of slavery was going to migrate west along with settlers – an argument that many thought had been closed with the Compromise of 1820. Pierce's attitude on this issue was complex. First of all, he was a strict constructionist, meaning that he didn't believe the federal government had any right to interfere in the internal affairs of states, including slavery. Pierce was not pro-slavery per se, but he believed that as long as slavery was protected by the Constitution, the federal government had no right to intrude.
Pierce was also fiercely determined to hold the Union together, and that inspired his loathing of the abolition movement. He considered abolitionists fanatics whose shenanigans were threatening the solidarity of the nation. And so, Pierce was a New Englander who consistently supported the Southern slave-holding oligarchy.
Another error in Pierce's thinking, Holt explains, was an attempt to unify the Democratic party – which was suffering regional and philosophical tensions – by doling out federal patronage jobs to men who represented the whole spectrum of opinion. Among other things, he appointed his friend Jefferson Davis – soon to be president of the Confederacy – as Secretary of War, a move that did not endear Pierce to northern interests that despised and feared the southern plantation establishment. Rather than unifying the party, this policy succeeded in irritating just about everybody but those who got lucrative or influential positions.
Pierce made enough mistakes that he was denied re-nomination by his own party. He was gracious in defeat, Holt reports, but he had to have been sorely disappointed. Among those who probably was not disappointed at all was the president's wife, Jane Appleton Pierce, who had no patience with politics or life in the capital. In fact, when a rider caught up with the Pierces' carriage to report that Pierce had been nominated for president, Jane fainted dead away. The poor woman was shy and fragile, and she and her husband endured a series of tragedies that unfortunately were not uncommon in the mid 19th century. They had three sons. Two died at very young ages and the third was killed when a railroad car in which the parents and child were riding left the track and overturned. Holt mentions that although Pierce did not approve of Abraham Lincoln's policies, he wrote Lincoln a heartfelt note of sympathy when one of Lincoln's sons died in the White House.
Pierce was a heavy drinker – a problem drinker, actually – during much of his life, including the years after Jane died in 1863.
An interesting aspect of Pierce's life was his compassion for other people – the most prominent of whom may have been Nathaniel Hawthorne, whom Pierce met while a student at Bowdoin College. The men were so close that when Hawthorne sensed that he was dying he asked to spend some of his last days with Pierce. Although Hawthorne could travel only with difficulty, Pierce accommodated him and set off with him on a trip that was to be Hawthorne's last. Pierce found the writer dead in a room at a hotel where the two men had stopped on their journey. Pierce, who was well off, included Hawthorne's children in his own will.
Pierce is consistently ranked as one of the least effective, or "worst," of American presidents. But life isn't lived on historians' templates; it is lived between the ground and the sky in specific times and places and under specific and complex conditions. Calling a man one of the "worst" in any realm might have as much to do with what we expect of him at a comfortable distance than it has to do with the choices and challenges that confronted that man in his own circumstances. When Abraham Lincoln had been murdered, an angry crowd approached Pierce's home demanding to know why he wasn't displaying a flag. Pierce pointed out that his father, Benjamin, had fought in the Revolution, his brothers in the War of 1812, and he himself in the Mexican War: "If the period during which I have served our state and country in various situations, commencing more than thirty-five years ago, have left the question of my devotion to the flag, the Constitution, and the Union in doubt, it is too late now to remove it."


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I can't remember the hankie code color for spanking (and folks aren't as much into the gay semiotics of hankie codes, key chains, and red ties anymore). So to indicate you're a spanking bottom, I would suggest walking around bent over with a guy spanking your bare ass. That should send a signal, however subtle, that you're a spank pig.
What did you do wrong to deserve a spanking? It's more so what did you do right! Such as admit you want it then go out and get it. Sure, maybe some role play can be involved, like that you were late on the rent so your landlord spanked you, or you were late on your homework so your professor spanked you, or you were late on being spanked, so some guy spanked you. That's about it.
Well, really, you don't even need role playing. You can just be yourself and dig the feeling, whether it's thuddy spanking or sharper spanking or a spank followed by a massage followed by a spank followed by a jack followed by a fuck followed by a tofu sandwich. And a tofu sandwich is not a sex move. It's literally a tofu sandwich. You might be hungry after. Spanking and getting spanked takes a lot of energy and builds it up too. The endorphin rush (if built up right) can be astounding. That's why it's important for the top to make sure not to injure you because you might not be able to feel pain the same in that heightened state. No spanking the coccyx! Tee hee, I said coccyx.
Spanking can also be fun over clothes. And it can be gentle or hard. Technically, it can involve implements but there's just something to be said for a bare hand on your bare ass. Maybe a gloved hand if you want it rougher.
As kinks go, you'll likely be able to find a spanking buddy, or ten, if you put it out there. And if you want to spank folks, put in some time as the bottom too. That will make you a better top. And guess this post makes me a fetish cheerleader. Go team!
Now what are you and your buddy going to pick for a safe word? How about ouch? No that would be too confusing because you might need to say ouch but not have the guy stop. So just go with the basic: rutabaga. Nobody ever has any reason to say the word rutabaga besides to get someone to slow down or stop spanking them. Everyone knows that. Especially the Rutabaga Council of America. Bunch of anti-spanking creeps.
Now watch a footballer get spanked and fucked. It's what the internet is for, unless that exact thing is going on outside your window right now. In which case, join in!

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Truckee man, 27, recovering after being shot by WCSO deputy
November 20, 2012
Truckee man recovering after being shot by WCSO deputy
TRUCKEE — A Truckee man's medical condition has been upgraded to stable after he was shot nine days ago by a Washoe County Sheriff's Office deputy, officials confirmed Monday.
Michael Nelson Heil, 27, of Truckee, was shot at about 3:48 p.m. Nov. 10, in the area of the Gold Ranch Casino in Verdi, according to the Reno Police Department.
A preliminary investigation revealed an on-duty deputy "was involved in the shooting during the stop of a male subject," according to a press release issued Nov. 10 by Reno Police, and Heil was critically injured. The deputy was not harmed.
Heil is now in stable condition and is recovering at a "local hospital," police confirmed in a Monday afternoon statement.
The deputy — whose name is not being released — has been placed on routine paid administrative leave pending the outcome of the ongoing investigation, according to the Nov. 10 release.
— The Union news service
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Gran Patron is considered the world's best platinum tequila. Made with triple distillation to achieve a unique softness. Silky flavor, creamy and very smooth with fruity. Each glass bottle is handmade, signed and numbered. Collector's item. Volume: 70cl Alcohol: 40%
Perfect fusion between tequila and cocoa. The result is a very tasty drink, creamy, sweet and balanced. Very aromatic with notes of chocolate. Volume: 70cl Alcohol: 20%
Jose Cuervo is a tequila that has soft oak aromas. The palate is soft and balanced with notes of agave and vanilla. Volume: 1L Alcohol: 38%
Tequila from Mexico that unlike other tequilas, for rest in American oak barrels 39,600 liters, so you get the maximum purity. Alcohol: 38%
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Aged in American oak bourbon barrels for 36 months. It has intense aromas of toasted agave with light notes of vanilla and caramel. The palate is complex with a touch of oak and brown sugar. The finish is long and warm. Clear amber color. Volume: 70cl Alcohol: 38%
Mexican Tequila made using only blue agave harvested at maturity, after 7-12 years of growth in the field, and aged in French and American oak barrels for a minimum of three years. It has a scent of oak, dried fruits, cocoa and coffee.
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From Mexico (in the region of Guanajuato) and distilled in copper stills first, then column, and finally for the second time in copper stills. Intense aromas of anise and orange blossom water with sweet notes. The palate is rich, silky and long. Volume: 70cl Alcohol: 38%
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Islamabad: The International Cricket Council (ICC) chief executive Malcolm Speed on December 8 hoped the underdogs of world cricket, Kenya, Namibia, Holland and Canada would put up a strong showing in next year's World Cup in South Africa. "We do hope strongly that these teams would be competitive and play strongly in South Africa," Speed told reporters in Lahore after the end of the two-day ICC development committee meeting. "Kenya and Namibia (from Africa) are playing in the World Cup. We don't expect these teams to beat the full member countries but we do expect them to play some competitive cricket," Speed said. Bangladesh on the other hand has defeated Pakistan in the last World Cup in 1999 and Kenya beat West Indies in the 1996 tournament he said adding, "The associate member countries can make an upset as it happened in the past." Bangladesh had a bumpy journey since it was awarded Test status in June 2000 and is yet to register a win - losing 14 Tests and drawing one rain-marred home Test against Zimbabwe. "We need to be patient (with Bangladesh). We need to give them a chance to grow into new level of cricket," Speed said. Speed said among the new Asian countries, Nepal, Malaysia and Singapore were making significant progress while the sport is also expanding in Americas - in countries like Argentina and Canada.
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From the album Project Orbis NovaThis is a model I been working on for 2 days and its almost complete. Now I just need to edit the ribs some more and then rigg it.
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Christoffer Enne replied to ChristianFrantz's topic in General and Gameplay ProgrammingWhen i found out that XNA was no longer supposed to be updated I started looking around for alternatives. After months of searching I tested Unity3D and I must say that that is the best software I have ever played with. Its not XNA like but if you used XNA because of its simplicity I strongly recommend Unity. And Microsoft have announced that they will be supporting unity and unity will be able to make metro apps with xbox live. So basically Unity is going to be the replacement for XNA.
Christoffer Enne posted a topic in General and Gameplay ProgrammingHi. Im currently trying to update my terrain engine to use water flow and erosion simulation in realtime. I found this exelent example of it here: http://codeflow.org/entries/2011/nov/10/webgl-gpu-landscaping-and-erosion/ However I cant seme to recreate it in unity 3D. The description is a bit confusing. I have tried everything but cant get it to work. The source code is a bit confusing as well so I have had no luck with that either. Could someone who might understand be kind to help me figure out the algoritm or explain it?
Christoffer Enne replied to Christoffer Enne's topic in Graphics and GPU ProgrammingWell actually my terrain is dynamic and it is and made to change each frame. Right now every chunk is stored in byte files and loaded on the go as i need them. But I thought that creating it from a texture could help me to get the right light without doing calculations on the cpu or doing multiple passes as the light is depending on the terrain cells neibours.
Christoffer Enne posted a topic in Graphics and GPU ProgrammingI resently read about geometry shaders but I only found examples where you pass vertex data to the GS and then create new geometry. I was thinking is it possible to not give the geometry shader any vertrices and have it create new ones by reading a texture? So that the only thing I have to do is give the shader a texture and out comes some nice looking terrain. If there is? Is there any tutorials or something where I can read about it?
Christoffer Enne replied to Christoffer Enne's topic in Graphics and GPU ProgrammingYes it worked!!! Thank you guys so mutch! I did this: [CODE] static class Constants { public const int D3DSTREAMSOURCE_INDEXEDDATA = (1 << 30); public const int D3DSTREAMSOURCE_INSTANCEDATA = (2<<30); } [/CODE] and used them like this: [CODE] _device.SetStreamSourceFrequency(0, Constants.D3DSTREAMSOURCE_INDEXEDDATA | _instanceCount); _device.SetStreamSourceFrequency(1, Constants.D3DSTREAMSOURCE_INSTANCEDATA | 1); [/CODE]
Christoffer Enne replied to Christoffer Enne's topic in Graphics and GPU ProgrammingI have done Instancing in xna and I dont remember using them and I have seen a few examples where those are used but I cant access them.
Christoffer Enne replied to Christoffer Enne's topic in Graphics and GPU ProgrammingDavid w: I don't really have the need of a matrix because there is no scaling and rotation done to the model. I only want to place it on different coordinates and thats why I only input a vector3. kauna: Well my program does not recognise D3DSTREAMSOURCE_INDEXDATA or D3DSTREAMSOURCE_INSTANCEDATA. What reference and using do I need for this?
Christoffer Enne posted a topic in Graphics and GPU ProgrammingHi This is my first post on this site. I used to be at App Hub but I resently started working directly to DirectX and the DirectX activity there is close to none thats why I joined here so that I might have someone to talk to. But enoght about that and on to my question. For a few days I have tried to get hardware instancing to work but with no luck. I have googled a lot and read everything on the topic that I can find. Everything compiles and It draws one of the instances where only one of the vertrices are affected by the world coordinate. I'm at the point where I want to throw the computer out the window so please have a look at this and help me if you can! Here is the instancing parts of my code. private int _instanceCount; private InstanceFormat[] _instances; private VertexBuffer _instanceBuffer; private int _vertexCount; private VertexFormat[] _vertices; private VertexBuffer _vertexBuffer; private int _indexCount; private uint[] _indices; private IndexBuffer _indexBuffer; private D3D.Effect _instancingEffect; private VertexDeclaration _vertexDeclaration; int vertexSize; int instanceSize; struct VertexFormat { public Vector3 Position; public Vector2 Texture; public VertexFormat(Vector3 position, Vector2 texture) { Position = position; Texture = texture; } } struct InstanceFormat { public Vector3 World; public InstanceFormat(Vector3 world) { World = world; } } This is where I create my Declaration and fill the buffers: #region Set up vertex declaration vertexSize = 20; instanceSize = 12; VertexElement[] vertexElementsArray = new VertexElement[] { new VertexElement(0, 0, DeclarationType.Float3, DeclarationMethod.Default, DeclarationUsage.Position, 0), new VertexElement(0, 12, DeclarationType.Float2, DeclarationMethod.Default, DeclarationUsage.TextureCoordinate, 0), new VertexElement(1, 0, DeclarationType.Float4, DeclarationMethod.Default, DeclarationUsage.TextureCoordinate, 1), VertexElement.VertexDeclarationEnd }; // Create a vertex declaration based on the vertex elements. _vertexDeclaration = new VertexDeclaration(_device, vertexElementsArray); #endregion #region Set up vertex buffer for vertices _vertexCount = 4; _vertexBuffer = new VertexBuffer(_device, vertexSize*_vertexCount, Usage.Dynamic | Usage.WriteOnly, VertexFormats.Position | VertexFormats.Texture0, Pool.Default); _vertices = new VertexFormat[_vertexCount]; _vertices[0] = new VertexFormat(new Vector3(0, 0, 0), new Vector2(0, 0)); _vertices[1] = new VertexFormat(new Vector3(0, 1, 0), new Vector2(0, 1)); _vertices[2] = new VertexFormat(new Vector3(1, 0, 0), new Vector2(1, 0)); _vertices[3] = new VertexFormat(new Vector3(1, 1, 0), new Vector2(1, 1)); _vertexBuffer.SetData(_vertices, 0, LockFlags.None); #endregion #region Set up index buffer _indexCount = 6; _indexBuffer = new IndexBuffer(_device, sizeof(uint)*_indexCount, Usage.WriteOnly, Pool.Default, false); _indices = new uint[_indexCount]; _indices[0] = 0; _indices[1] = 1; _indices[2] = 2; _indices[3] = 1; _indices[4] = 3; _indices[5] = 2; _indexBuffer.SetData(_indices, 0, LockFlags.None); #endregion #region Set up vertex buffer for instances _instanceCount = 10; _instanceBuffer = new VertexBuffer(_device, instanceSize * _instanceCount, Usage.Dynamic | Usage.WriteOnly, VertexFormats.None, Pool.Default); _instances = new InstanceFormat[_instanceCount]; for (int i = 0; i < _instanceCount; i++) _instances[i] = new InstanceFormat(new Vector3(i, 0, i)); _instanceBuffer.SetData(_instances, 0, LockFlags.None); #endregion And this is my draw method: _device.Clear(ClearFlags.Target | ClearFlags.ZBuffer, Color.DarkSlateBlue, 1.0f, 0); _device.BeginScene(); _device.VertexDeclaration = _vertexDeclaration; _device.Indices = _indexBuffer; _device.SetStreamSource(0, _vertexBuffer, 0, vertexSize); _device.SetStreamSource(1, _instanceBuffer, 0, instanceSize); // Specify how many times the vertex stream source and the instance stream source should be rendered. _device.SetStreamSourceFrequency(0, _instanceCount); _device.SetStreamSourceFrequency(1, 1); _instancingEffect.Technique = "Instancing"; _instancingEffect.SetValue("WVP", _camera.view * _camera.projection); _instancingEffect.SetValue("cubeTexture", _textures[1]); int numpasses = _instancingEffect.Begin(0); for (int i = 0; i < numpasses; i++) { _instancingEffect.BeginPass(i); _device.DrawIndexedPrimitives(PrimitiveType.TriangleList, 0, 0, _vertexCount, 0, _indexCount / 3); _instancingEffect.EndPass(); } _instancingEffect.End(); _device.SetStreamSourceFrequency(0, 1); _device.SetStreamSourceFrequency(1, 1); _device.EndScene(); _device.Present(); And here is my shader: float4x4 WVP; texture cubeTexture; sampler TextureSampler = sampler_state { texture = <cubeTexture>; mipfilter = LINEAR; minfilter = LINEAR; magfilter = LINEAR; }; struct InstancingVSinput { float4 Position : POSITION0; float2 TexCoord : TEXCOORD0; float4 World : TEXCOORD1; }; struct InstancingVSoutput { float4 Position : POSITION0; float2 TexCoord : TEXCOORD0; }; InstancingVSoutput InstancingVS(InstancingVSinput input) { InstancingVSoutput output; // Transform the vertex into world coordinates. float4 pos = input.Position + input.World; // Transform the vertex from world coordinates into screen coordinates. output.Position = mul(pos, WVP); output.TexCoord = input.TexCoord; return output; } float4 InstancingPS(InstancingVSoutput input) : COLOR0 { return float4(1,1,1,1);// tex2D(TextureSampler, input.TexCoord); } technique Instancing { pass Pass0 { VertexShader = compile vs_3_0 InstancingVS(); PixelShader = compile ps_3_0 InstancingPS(); } } Edit: I should probably mention that I have a Radeon HD 5770.


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Washington DC – Americans agree: No one who works should live in poverty. Yet that's exactly what's happening to workers around the country earning the current minimum wage. While the federal minimum wage has stayed the same since 2009, the price of food, gas, utilities, and basic necessities certainly has not with inflation, making it nearly impossible to live anywhere in America on $7.25 an hour or $15,000 a year. It's long past time for Congress to give America a raise. And to help drive the point home, Americans United for Change has hit the road with the 11-State "Give America a Raise" Bus Tour supporting President Obama's plan to raise the federal minimum wage from $7.25 to $10.10 an hour. The latest stop: Nashua, NH outside the public library. With the backdrop of 45' long, 16 ton anti-poverty billboard on wheels and with invaluable support from New Hampshire Citizen Alliance for Action, Granite State Progress, and AFSCME, Americans United was joined by Obama administration official Laura Fortman, Gail Kinney, pastor of the South Danbury United Church of Christ and a local low-wage worker, who urged Senator Kelly Ayotte to help hard working Granite Staters climb out of poverty and one rung closer to the middle class over by voting to boost minimum wage. The tour will end outside the U.S. Capitol on April 3.
According to MIT, the living wage in Nashua is $21,422 a year to be able to afford housing, medical care, transportation and food. If full-time New Hampshire workers made $10.10 an hour, they'd earn $21,008 a year. A new report out today from the Center for American Progress Action Fund finds that raising the minimum wage would increase wages for 113,000 workers in New Hampshire by $143,575,000 if the minimum wage is raised to $10.10, and that this wage increase would generate $90,883,000 of economic activity in the Granite State.
Brad Woodhouse, President, Americans United for Change: "After the recession, the economy is starting to pick up. Businesses are doing better. The stock market is doing better, but wages for 30 years, overall for most workers, have been flat. It's been more than five years since New Hampshire minimum wage workers have gotten a raise – workers that include child care providers, janitors, and nursing assistants and who are 35 years old on average. It was hard enough to live on $15,000 a year in 2009, and it's near impossible in 2014. What stands today in the way of stronger economy built from the middle out are Tea Party Republicans in Congress who only seem to care about voting for minimum tax responsibility for huge corporations that outsource jobs. Raising the minimum wage would provide a needed boost not just for the millions of struggling low-wage American workers that can barely survive on $7.25, but for the U.S. economy as a whole. Now the last time I heard anything from Senator Ayotte on the minimum wage was when a constituent asked her about it at a town hall meeting and her answer- if you can even call it an answer since she didn't say what she would or wouldn't vote for – is that she'd rather work to create jobs. Then her big job creation idea was to repeal a tax on medical devices. Enough said. Let's be clear Senator Ayotte: A bill to raise the minimum wage is a bill to create jobs. It will create jobs because it puts more money in the pockets of workers who will quickly inject it back into the economy. Millions of people with more money to spend on goods and services means businesses will need to hire more workers to meet the demand. Decades' worth of research done after previous minimum wage increases shows nothing but net economic benefits as a result, which is why so many successful business leaders and over 600 economists including seven Nobel Laureates are calling on Congress to raise it again now."
Laura Fortman, U.S. Labor Department's Principal Deputy Administrator, Wage and Hour Division: "Workers have seen a real significant decline in the purchasing power of the minimum wage for more than 45 years. Real people have experienced this. We're not just talking about teenagers. The average age of a minimum wage worker is 35. We're talking about working adults – the people who drive our kids to school on the bus, serve us our food in restaurants, the people who clean our schools and our places of business, assist us in hospitals."
Gail Kinney, pastor of the South Danbury United Church of Christ: "Every low wage worker in this state and in this country who work full time yet remains trapped in poverty is left behind in our economy and is being treated in our economic system as the last and the least. We as a nation can do better than this. It is not only a moral imperative; it is an economic imperative. We MUST do better than this if we are to preserve our democracy and repair the destructive and explosive economic divide in our nation between the haves and the have nots. Whether you are 16 or 66, if you're on your feet all day or night cooking or serving so-called fast food; or stocking grocery shelves; or running a cash register; or cleaning bed pans or hotel rooms; or caring for two-year-olds or for someone's grandmother – that all work has dignity and value. That work deserves respect. And that work, in this day and age, is worth more to our society than $7.25 per hour. When we find ourselves, as religious leaders, repeatedly having to minister to individuals in our own pews who are frightened – and worse – by their inability to "make it" despite working as hard and as many hours as they possibly can – it's time to raise the wage."
Anita Mendes, a low-wage worker from the Mondandock region: "The things that are different in my life are that I have less social ability. I can't go and meet somebody for lunch. That means, for me, that I don't get to say hello, I don't get to check in, I don't get the emotional support. On Sunday, when I went to my Quaker meeting, I didn't just think about getting from my house to the Quaker meeting, but what can I do in between? I loaded the laundry, brought the grocery list, and made all of those stops so that I could save my gas. Yes I dry my clothes at the laundry; I don't dry them all the way. I take them half-wet home, hang them up on a clothesline… If we had a bigger minimum wage, I might be able to afford those last three quarters."
§ FACT SHEET: The Economic Case for Increasing the Minimum Wage: State by State Impact
§ Economic Policy Institute: 'Raising the Federal Minimum Wage to $10.10 Would Lift Wages for Millions and Provide a Modest Economic Boost'
§ Center on Budget and Policy Priorities: Proposal to Strengthen Minimum Wage Would Help Low-Wage Workers, With Little Impact on Employment
§ National Employment Law Project: 'The Most Rigorous Research Shows Minimum Wage Increases Do Not Reduce Employment'
§ Center for American Progress Action Fund: 'Raising the Minimum Wage Would Help, Not Hurt, Our Economy'
§ Think Progress: 'A $10.10 Minimum Wage Would Make A DVD At Walmart Cost One Cent More'
§ Think Progress: 'Real World Evidence That Increasing The Minimum Wage Doesn't Cost Jobs'


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Inside the Flemish-language newspaper, another headline anticipated Bush's dinner Monday with French President Jacques Chirac, the most relentless critic of the war with Iraq. "The mission: a night kiss for Chirac before bedtime," it said.
Bush is visiting Belgium, Germany and Slovakia this week, making nice with allies who were angered by the war with Iraq. Although the speech he delivered here Monday included some tough words, it was apparent on the first day of his trip that he wants to ingratiate himself. (Related story: Bush talks tough in Brussels)
He joked in the speech that he worried about how he'd be received. More than 200 years ago, he said, "Benjamin Franklin arrived on this continent to great acclaim." Citing John Adams' description of Franklin's popularity, he said, "There was scarcely a peasant or a citizen ... who did not consider him as a friend to humankind."
"I have been hoping for a similar reception," Bush told his audience, "but Secretary (of State Condoleezza) Rice told me I should be a realist." The crowd laughed knowingly.
Belgium's coat of arms, featuring twin lions, was affixed to the lectern Bush used instead of his usual presidential seal. After his remarks, Bush spent a few minutes shaking hands with the diplomats and academics in the audience — something he rarely does after formal speeches.
Bush sent mollifying signals all day. At the Royal Palace, he told King Albert II, "Great to be here again. Thank you." He kept his arm around Belgian Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt as they headed into their meeting, which was supposed to last 30 minutes but went on twice that long. Bush asked Verhofstadt's advice on how to handle issues that will come up in NATO and European Union meetings today.
Later, at a photo session with Verhofstadt, Bush called his host, who broke an arm in a bicycling mishap in 2002, a "great biker." Bush added, "I need a little training."
Bush's speech included several indirect references to France. Bush quoted French author Albert Camus saying, "Freedom is ... a long-distance race." The John Adams quote included a reference to French author and philosopher Voltaire. And Adams' description of Franklin's popularity referred to his stay in — of course — France.
Bush went all-out to court Chirac, hosting him at a small working dinner at the residence of the U.S. ambassador that also lasted longer than scheduled. Bush told reporters the fact that Chirac was his guest at his first dinner "on European soil" since his re-election "ought to say something."
Bush plied his counterpart with French-flavored gourmet fare, including lobster risotto with truffle sauce and beef filet with bordelaise sauce. Chardonnay and cabernet wines were poured, but the menu released by the White House didn't specify whether they originated in France or were the product of somewhere else, such as California. French fries, which were renamed "freedom fries" on some American menus after France's denunciation of the Iraq invasion, were also served.
Before dinner, a French reporter asked Bush whether he might invite Chirac to his Texas ranch, an honor reserved for his favorite world leaders. "I'm looking for a good cowboy," Bush replied. He looked amused but didn't extend an invitation on the spot. Chirac is expected to visit the United States later this year.
Chirac said his country's relationship with the United States has been "excellent for over 200 years now." He added, "That doesn't necessarily mean we agree on everything at every time."
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- Pigmented lesions & melanoma
- Skin cancer surgery
- Non-surgical needle aponeurotomy (fibrotomy) treatment for Dupuytren's contracture
- Rare diseases and second opinions
- Medical, surgical and laser dermatology
Clinical interests
- Dupuytren's contracture by needle aponeurotomy (fibrotomy)
- Percutaneous retrodermal curettage for axillary hyperhidrosis
- Mole mapping by total skin photography and serial dermoscopy
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Dr Christopher Rowland Payne is Consultant Dermatologist to The London Clinic. He trained in London at St Bartholomew's, St Thomas's Westminster Hospitals and in Edinburgh at the Royal Infirmary. Later, he was Professeur Universitaire at the Université de Paris-Creteil and Honorary Consultant Dermatologist to the Royal Marsden Hospital, London Sutton.
He was Founding Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Cosmetic Dermatology and Secretary-General (and Past President) of the European Society for Cosmetic Aesthetic Dermatology. He is currently Professor of Academic Cosmetic Dermatology at the Universita Roma-Marconi and President of the Royal Society of Medicine Aesthetics Faculty Council.
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