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Big news in the wireless space: The Wall Street Journal reports Sprint is working on a bid to purchase rival T-Mobile. Combining the two smaller carriers to compete with mammoth leaders Verizon Wireless and would whittle down US wireless competition to just three major networks.
The unanswered question is whether such a bid would make it past regulators. Two years ago, the Justice Department refused to let AT&T's $39 billion acquisition of T-Mobile go through.
According to The Wall Street Journal, Sprint's interest in T-Mobile is driven by Masayoshi Son, the billionaire Japanese founder and CEO of Softbank, which owns more than 80% of Sprint stock. Son has been acquisition-happy recently. In addition to buying Sprint, made a $1.26 billion investment in mobile phone distributor and grabbed a majority stake in Finnish game maker Supercell for $1.5 billion. Son's net worth is over $17 billion, based largely on the 180% rise in Softbank's stock since the beginning of 2013.
Meanwhile, Deustche Telekom owns about 67% of T-Mobile stock. It's unclear if they would be interested in an unsolicited bid.
T-Mobile's current market cap is just over $20 billion. The stock leapt up 8% just before close Friday on the news of a possible deal. Investors were also happy to see Sprint thinking about making an offer. Sprint stock closed up 3.44%. AT&T and Verizon were down slightly.
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Socialist Workers Party
Chairman | Jack Barnes |
Founded | January 1938 |
Newspaper | The Militant |
Ideology | Communism Socialism Trotskyism (until 1982) Post-Trotskyism Leninism Castroism |
Political position | Far-left |
International affiliation | Pathfinder tendency |
Colors | Red |
Website | |
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The Socialist Workers Party (SWP) is a communist party in the United States. The group places a priority on "solidarity work" to aid strikes and is strongly supportive of Cuba. The SWP publishes The Militant, a weekly newspaper that dates back to 1928, and maintains Pathfinder Press.
The Socialist Workers Party traces its origins back to the former Communist League of America (CLA), founded in 1928 by members of the Communist Party USA expelled for supporting Russian communist leader Leon Trotsky against Joseph Stalin.
Concentrated almost exclusively in New York City and Minneapolis, in 1929 the CLA did not have more than 100 adherents.[1]
After five years of propaganda work, the CLA remained a tiny organization, with a membership of about 200 and very little influence.[2]
The rise of fascism in Nazi Germany and the failure of the communist and social democratic left to unite against the common danger created a situation where certain radical parties throughout the world reexamined their priorities and sought a mechanism for building united action. As early as December 1933, a Trotskyist splinter group called the Communist League of Struggle (CLS), headed by former Socialist Party youth section leader Albert Weisbord and his wife Vera Buch, approached Norman Thomas of the Socialist Party of America seeking a united front hunger march of the two organizations followed by a general strike.[3] This suggestion was dismissed as "poppycock" by SP Executive Secretary Clarence Senior, but the seed of the idea of joint action had been planted.[4]
Early in 1934, some French Trotskyists of the Communist League conceived of the idea of entering the French Socialist Party (the Section Française de l'International Ouvrière or SFIO) in order to recruit members for the Trotskyists, or so some critics have charged. The group retained its identity as a factional organization inside the SFIO and built a base among the party's youth section, continuing their activity until popular front action between the SFIO and the mainline Communist Party of France made their position untenable. This tactic of "entering" the larger social democratic parties of each country, endorsed by Trotsky himself, became known as the "French Turn" and was replicated by various Trotskyist parties around the world.
In 1934, the Communist League of America merged with the American Workers Party led by A. J. Muste, forming the Workers Party of the United States.
Throughout 1935 the Workers Party of the United States was deeply divided over the "entryism" tactic called for by the "French Turn," and a bitter debate swept the organization. Ultimately, the majority faction of Jim Cannon, Max Shachtman, and James Burnham won the day and the Workers Party determined to enter the Socialist Party of America; a minority faction headed by Hugo Oehler refused to accept this result and split from the organization.
The Socialist Party was itself beset with factional disagreements. The SP's left wing "Militant" faction sought to expand the organization into an "all-inclusive party" — inviting in members of the Lovestone and Trotskyist movements as well as radical individuals as the first step towards making the SP a mass party.[5] Although there were no mass entries at this time, several radical oppositionists did make their way into the SP, including former Communist Party leader Benjamin Gitlow, youth leader and ex-Lovestone supporter Herbert Zam, and attorney and American Workers Party activist Albert Goldman.[4] Goldman at this time also joined with YPSL leader Ernest Erber to establish a newspaper in Chicago with a Trotskyist orientation, The Socialist Appeal, later to serve as the organ of the Trotskyists inside the Socialist Party.[6]
In January 1936, just as the National Executive Committee of the Socialist Party was expelling the Old Guard for their factional organization and alleged "violation of party discipline," James Cannon and his faction won their internal battle in the Workers Party to join the SP, when a national branch referendum voted unanimously for entry.[6] Negotiations commenced with the Socialist Party leadership, with the admissions ultimately made on the basis of individual applications for membership rather than admission of the Workers Party and its approximately 2,000 members as a group.[7] On June 6, 1936, the Workers Party's weekly newspaper, The New Militant, published its last issue and announced "Workers Party Calls All Revolutionary Workers to Join Socialist Party."[8] A new phase in the party's life had begun.
Although party leader Jim Cannon later hinted that the entry of the Trotskyists into the Socialist Party had been a contrived tactic aimed at stealing "confused young Left Socialists" for his own organization,[9] it seems that at its inception, the entryist tactic was made in good faith. Historian Constance Myers notes that while "initial prognoses for the union of Trotskyists and Socialists were favorable," it was only later when "constant and protracted contact caused differences to surface."[10] The Trotskyists retained a common orientation with the radicalized SP in their opposition to the European war, their preference for industrial unionism and the CIO over the trade unionism of the American Federation of Labor, a commitment to trade union activism, the defense of the Soviet Union as the first workers' state while at the same time maintaining an antipathy toward the Stalin government, and in their general aims in the 1936 election.[11]
Cannon went to Tujunga, California, a suburb of Los Angeles, to establish another new newspaper, Labor Action, targeted to trade unionists and SP members and aimed at winning them over to Trotskyist views, while Shachtman and Burnham handled the bulk of the faction's activities in New York.
Norman Thomas attracted nearly 188,000 votes in his 1936 Socialist Party run for President but performed poorly in historic strongholds of the party. Moreover, the party's membership had begun to decline.[12] The organization was deeply factionalized, with the Militant faction split into right ("Altmanite"), center ("Clarity") and left ("Appeal") factions, in addition to the radical pacifists led by Norman Thomas. A special convention was planned for the last week of March 1937 to set the party's future policy, initially intended as an unprecedented "secret" gathering.[13]
Prior to the March convention, the Trotskyist "Socialist Appeal" faction held an organizational gathering of their own, meeting in Chicago, with 93 delegates gathering from February 20–22, 1937.[13] The meeting organized the faction on a permanent basis, electing a National Action Committee of five to "coordinate branch work" and "formulate Appeal policies."[14] Two delegates from the Clarity caucus were in attendance. James Burnham vigorously attacked the Labour and Socialist International, the international organization of left wing parties to which the Socialist Party belonged, and tension rose along these lines among the Trotskyists. United action between the Clarity and Appeal groups was not forthcoming and an emergency meeting of Vincent Dunne and Cannon was held in New York with leaders of the various factions including Thomas, Jack Altman, and Gus Tyler of Clarity. At this meeting Thomas pledged that the upcoming convention would make no effort to terminate the newspapers of the various factions.[15]
There was no action to expel the Trotskyist Appeal faction, but pressure continued to build along these lines, egged on by the CPUSA's increasingly hysterical denunciations of Trotsky and his followers as wreckers and agents of international fascism. The convention did pass a ban on future branch resolutions on controversial matters, an effort to rein in the activities of the factions at the local level. It also did ban factional newspapers, establishing instead a national organ.
Constance Myers indicates that three factors led to the expulsion of the Trotskyists from the Socialist Party in 1937: the divergence between the official Socialists and the Trotskyist faction on the issues, the determination of Altman's wing of the Militants to oust the Trotskyists, and Trotsky's own decision to move towards a break with the party.[16] Recognizing that the Clarity faction had chosen to stand with the Altmanites and the Thomas group, Trotsky recommended that the Appeal group focus on disagreements over Spain to provoke a split. At the same time, Thomas, freshly returned from Spain, had come to the conclusion that the Trotskyists had joined the SP not to make it stronger, but to capture the organization for their own purposes.[17]
On June 24–25, 1937, a meeting of the Appeal faction's National Action Committee voted to ratched up the rhetoric against American Labor Party and Republican nominee for mayor of New York Fiorello LaGuardia, a favorite son of many in Socialist ranks, and to reestablish their newspaper, The Socialist Appeal.[18] This was met with expulsions from the party beginning August 9 with a rump meeting of the Central Committee of Local New York, which expelled 52 New York Trotskyists by a vote of 48 to 2, with 18 abstentions, and ordering 70 more to be brought up on charges.[18] Wholesale expulsions followed, with a major section of the YPSL leaving the party with the Trotskyists.
The 1,000 or so Trotskyists who entered the SP in 1936 exited in the summer of 1937 with their ranks swelled by another 1,000.[19] On December 31, 1937, representatives of this faction gathered in Chicago to establish a new political organization — the Socialist Workers Party.
The October 2, 1937, issue of the Socialist Appeal included a convention call from the so-called "Left Wing" to "All Locals and Branches of the Socialist Party," accusing the NEC of the party of having "betrayed the principles of socialism" by withdrawing the party's candidate for mayor of New York in favor of LaGuardia and for having ordered "the bureaucratic expulsion of all the revolutionary members of the party who oppose and obstruct this sell-out policy."[20] A convention was called by four Socialist Party State Committees, the NEC of the YPSL, and the organized Left Wing organizations of Chicago and New York, slated to be held in Chicago over Thanksgiving weekend, November 25–28, 1937. This meeting was quickly postponed until December 31, however, "in order to provide adequate time for discussion by the membership" of important questions.[21]
In December 1937 an agenda was published by the Convention Organizing Committee, naming Cannon as the primary reporter on the Trade Union question, Shachtman on the Russian Resolution, Goldman on the Spanish Resolution, Canadian Maurice Spector on the International Resolution, Burnham on the Declaration of Principles of the new organization, and Abern on Party Organization and Constitution.[22] The gathering was to conclude with the election of a new National Committee.
On the appointed day, December 31, 1937, over 100 regular and fraternal delegates gathered in Chicago, where they were greeted by a speech of welcome delivered by Chicago leader Albert Goldman, a labor attorney. As editor of the Trotskyist movement's ongoing theoretical magazine, The New International, Max Shachtman delivered the first official report to the gathering, dealing with the political situation in the United States. Shachtman boldly declared that
"It is entirely inconceivable that American imperialism can succeed in resisting the inexorable tendencies that are pulling it into the vortex of the coming world war.
"If the working class is unable to prevent the outbreak of war, and the United States enters directly into it, our party stands pledged to the traditional position of revolutionary Marxism.
"It will utilize the crisis of capitalist rule engendered by the war to prosecute the class struggle with the utmost intransigence, to strengthen the independent labor and revolutionary movements, and to bring the war to a close by the revolutionary overthrow of capitalism and the establishment of proletarian rule in the form of the workers state."[23]
The convention devoted a full day to discussion of the problems of the labor movement and the role of the new organization in the unions, with "National Secretary of the Convention Arrangements Committee" Jim Cannon delivering the primary report. While criticizing the "reactionary role which the AF of L leadership has played," Cannon declared that "our party...takes a clear-cut position in favor of the earliest and completest possible unification of the AF of L and the CIO, and also the hitherto unaffiliated Railroad Brotherhoods."[24]
The 1940 split in the SWP followed an internal factional debate over the party's internal government, the class nature of the Russian state, and Marxist philosophy, among other questions. The SWP was to experience many other factional conflicts and splits in its history, but this was the largest, and it foreshadowed many features of those to come.
The majority faction, led by Cannon, supported Trotsky's position that the USSR remained a "workers' state" and should be supported in any war with capitalist states, despite their opposition to the government headed by Joseph Stalin. The minority faction, led by Shachtman, held that the USSR should not be supported in its war with Finland. One of its leaders, James Burnham held, in addition, that the USSR had degenerated so far that it deserved no defense whatsoever. Like this debate, most later factional disputes within the SWP also centered on different attitudes towards revolutions in other countries.
The opposition faction alleged that Cannon's leadership of the SWP was "bureaucratic conservative" and demanded the right to its own publications to express its views outside the party. The majority faction said this was contrary to Lenin's concept of democratic centralism, and that disagreements and the SWP should be debated only internally. Similar disagreements over the SWP's internal government have surfaced in most later faction fights, with most later opposition factions raising similar demands and accusations. Despite this, most of these later factions claimed political descent from Cannon and the SWP majority, not from earlier opposition factions and splinter parties.
The minority faction led by Shachtman eventually split away almost 40% of the party's membership as well as its youth organization, the Young People's Socialist League, forming the Workers Party.
A number of members were imprisoned under the Smith Act of 1941, including J. P. Cannon (see Smith Act Trials). Those imprisoned included the main national leaders of the SWP and those members most prominent in the Midwest Teamsters.
The party put into practice the so-called Proletarian Military Policy of opposing the war politically while attempting to transform what they saw as an imperialist war into a civil war. The party lost a number of its members while sailing in the extremely perilous convoys to Murmansk. Problems caused as a result of the imprisonment of experienced leaders and the enlistment in the armed forces of many others meant that during the war years the editorship of The Militant passed through a number of hands.
The SWP was active in supporting those labor strikes that occurred despite the wartime "no-strike pledge", and in supporting protests against racist discrimination during the war, such as A. Philip Randolph's March on Washington Movement. The U.S. Post Office refused to mail some issues of The Militant and threatened to cancel its third-class mailing permit, citing objections to its articles calling for violent overthrow of the U.S. Government. The SWP said it was being persecuted for opposing racist discrimination.
After the war the SWP and the Fourth International both expected that there would be a wave of revolutionary struggles such as accompanied the end of the previous war. Indeed, revolutions did occur in Yugoslavia, Albania, Korea, and China, to name only those that resulted in the overthrow of capitalism, but contrary to Trotskyist expectations they were headed by Moscow-oriented "Stalinist" parties.
In the United States, the largest strike wave in U.S. history, involving over five million workers, occurred with the end of the war and the wartime pledge made by many union leaders not to strike for the duration, this did not mean there were not many strikes during wartime - there were many wildcat strikes during this period, as well as strikes officially called by the United Mine Workers of America. There were also protests by GIs demanding rapid demobilization after the end of the war, sometimes called the going-home movement. SWP participation in this upsurge led to a brief period of rapid growth for the SWP immediately after the war.
The end of the war also saw the reorganization of the Fourth International, in which process the SWP played a major role. As part of this process, moves were made to heal the breach with Max Shachtman's supporters in the Workers Party (WP) and for the two groups to fuse. This eventually came to nothing. But some members of the SWP who supported the views of Felix Morrow and Albert Goldman grew dissatisfied with what they saw as the SWP's ultra-leftist attitude towards revolutionary policies. Eventually they left the SWP in a state of demoralization and some joined the WP.
Meanwhile, a faction within the WP called the Johnson-Forest Tendency, named for C. L. R. James (known as Johnson) and Raya Dunayevskaya (Forest), were impatient with the WP's caution and considered that the situation could rapidly become pre-revolutionary. This led them to decamp from the WP and rejoin the SWP in 1947. This tendency had moved further away from the "orthodox Trotskyism" of the SWP, which made for an uncomfortable presence. For example, they continued to hold the position that the USSR was a "state capitalist" society. By 1951, their presence in the SWP was ever more anomalous and most left to form the Correspondence Publishing Committee. Dunayevskaya and her supporters eventually formed the News and Letters Committees in 1955 after splitting with CLR James, who was deported from the USA to Britain from where he continued to advise the Correspondence Publishing Committee, which split again in 1962, with those loyal to CLR James taking the name Facing Reality.
The brief postwar wave of labor unrest gave way to the conservatism of the 1950s, the reform of previously radical labor unions, and McCarthyism. The attempt by the SWP at 'entryism' into the growing civil rights movement, which continued uninterrupted out of WWII, could not fully offset these trends, and the SWP experienced a period of decline and isolation.
The party also had a number of splits over these years. One such split saw the departure of the faction of Bert Cochran and Clarke, who formed the American Socialist Union, which lasted until 1959. That 1953 opposition supported some of the positions of Michel Pablo, the Secretary of the Fourth International, although Pablo disagreed with their wish to dissolve the Fourth International.
The next, smaller split was that of Sam Marcy's Global Class War faction, which called within the SWP for support of Henry Wallace's Progressive Party Presidential run in 1948 and regarded Mao Zedong as a revolutionary leader. This faction ended up leaving the SWP in 1958 after supporting the suppression of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, a position contrary to that held by the SWP and other Trotskyist tendencies. It went on to form the Workers World Party.
Meanwhile, throughout the 1950s and into the 1960s the remaining membership of the SWP clung to its firmly held beliefs and grew older. Consequently, the party membership shrank over these years from a post war high in 1948 until the tide began to turn in the early 1960s. The Cuban Revolution however signaled a change in political direction for the SWP as it embarked on pro-Castro "solidarity work" through the Fair Play for Cuba Committee. The result was a small accretion of youth to the party's ranks and in the same period long time SWP leader Murry Weiss won another group of youth from the Shachtmanites as they joined the Socialist Party of America. Many of the new recruits, however, were drawn from the student movement, unlike those who had led the party since the 1930s, and as a result the internal culture of the party began to change.
Despite such growing signs of an end to the isolation the group endured during the McCarthyite period, it experienced a new split in the early 1960s. A factional situation developed in the SWP that saw a number of small oppositional groups develop. One of the key issues was the Cuban Revolution and the SWP's response to it. Cannon and other SWP leaders such as Joseph Hansen saw Cuba as qualitatively different from the "Stalinist" states of Eastern Europe. Their analysis brought them closer to the International Secretariat of the Fourth International from which the SWP had split in 1953. The SWP successfully negotiated a reunification of the ISFI and the International Committee of the Fourth International leading to the creation in 1963 of the reunified Fourth International. Two sections of the ICFI, including Gerry Healy's Socialist Labour League rejected the merger and turned against the SWP leadership, working with opponents within the party.
The most important faction opposing the SWP leadership's new line was the Revolutionary Tendency (RT) led by James Robertson and Tim Wohlforth that rejected the SWP's "capitulation" to Pabloism and opposed joining the USFI. They were critical of the Castro government, arguing that Cuba remained a "deformed workers' state". However, a split developed within this faction between groups headed by the two men. Nonetheless both the RT and the Reorganized Minority Tendency split to form the Spartacist (see Spartacist League), and the American Committee for the Fourth International, respectively with the latter becoming aligned with Healy's SLL.
In the aftermath the Seattle branch also left to found the Freedom Socialist Party, after protesting the alleged suppression of internal democracy, as did Murray and Myra Tanner Weiss.
The SWP supported both the civil rights movement and the Black nationalist movement which grew during the 1960s. It particularly praised the militancy of Black nationalist leader Malcolm X, who in turn spoke at the SWP's public forums and gave an interview to Young Socialist magazine. After his assassination, the SWP had limited success in forming alliances with his followers and other Black nationalists. However, these movements were part of the radicalization of these years aiding the SWP's growth.
Like all left wing groups, the SWP grew during the 1960s and experienced a particularly brisk growth in the first years of the 1970s. Much of this was due to its involvement in many of the campaigns and demonstrations against the war in Vietnam. The SWP advocated that the antiwar movement should call for the immediate withdrawal of all U.S. troops, and should primarily focus on organizing large, legal demonstrations for this demand. It was recognized by friend and foe alike as a major factor influencing the direction of the antiwar movement along these lines. One of the leaders of the anti-war movement at this time, along with Dave Dellinger and many others was Fred Halstead, a World War II veteran and former leader of the garment workers union in New York City. Halstead was the 1968 Presidential candidate of the SWP who visited Vietnam in that capacity.
The SWP was also increasingly outspoken in its defense of the Cuban government of Fidel Castro and its identification with that government. A new leadership led by Jack Barnes (who became national secretary in 1972) made identification with Cuba an ever-greater part of the politics of the SWP throughout the 1970s.
The party also published many of Leon Trotsky's works in these years through their publishing house, Pathfinder Press. Not only were the better-known writings reprinted, many for the first time since the 1930s, but other more obscure articles and letters were collected and printed for a wider audience than they had when first distributed. The expansion of the press also allow the SWP to host Intercontinental Press, the FI magazine which moved from Paris to New York in 1969, which later merged with Inprecor.
The growth of labor militancy in the early 1970s affected the SWP and currents developed within it urging a reorientation of the party towards this militancy. One such current was the Proletarian Orientation Tendency, which included Larry Trainor, which eventually dissolved itself.
Another tendency developed called the Internationalist Tendency (IT). The IT posed a greater challenge for the group's leadership, as the tendency agreed with the Fourth International's advocacy of guerrilla warfare as a "tactic on a continental scale" in Latin America. However, despite tensions between the SWP and the rest of the international, when the former expelled the IT the International refused to side with the tendency. The IT would disintegrate over the next few months, some of its supporters finding their way back into the SWP.
The international tensions developed further when the Leninist Trotskyist Tendency was established in 1973 by the SWP and its co-thinkers in order to contribute to the debate for the Tenth World Congress. It argued for a reversal of the Latin American guerrilla war orientation adopted at the Ninth World Congress.
This period was the peak of the SWP's growth and influence. The party continued its involvement in the movement against the war in Vietnam, which peaked in 1970-71. The SWP also supported Chicano nationalism, including the Raza Unida Party. It helped organize protests demanding legal abortion through the [ Women's National Abortion Action Coalition. With the mid-to-late 1970s decline of these movements and the end of the 1960s-1970s youth radicalization, SWP membership and influence went into decline.
In 1978, the SWP leadership decided that the key task was for party members to make a turn to industry. This turn entailed party members getting jobs in blue collar industries in preparation for, the SWP leadership projected, increasing mass struggles. The 1977-78 coal miners' strike and developments like Steelworkers Fight Back were among the events pointed to in arguing for this change in policy. Party members sought to get jobs in the same workplaces in order to work as organized "fractions", doing "communist political work" as well as union activity.
As a result, many members were asked to move and change jobs, often out of established careers and into low-paying jobs in small towns. Many of the older members with experience in trade unions resisted this 'colonization program', which upset their established routine in the unions, as did some of the younger members.
Opposition to the "turn to industry" developed within the SWP. This opposition was not homogeneous and was itself beset by differences between different factions.
A further factor in the growing divisions within the SWP was the move by Jack Barnes, Mary-Alice Waters and others in the leadership away from the Trotskyist label. In 1982, Barnes gave a speech which was later published as Their Trotsky and Ours: Communist Continuity Today in which Barnes rejected Trotsky's theory of Permanent Revolution arguing that it failed to sufficiently distinguish between the democratic and socialist tasks of a workers' revolution. Barnes argued that anticapitalist revolutions typically began with a "workers' and farmers' government" which initially concentrated on bourgeois-democratic measures, and only later moved on to the abolition of capitalism.
Barnes also argued that the "Trotskyist" label unnecessarily distinguished leftists in that tradition from leftists of other origins, such as the Cuban Communist Party, or the Sandinista National Liberation Front. He argued that the SWP had more in common with these organizations than with many groups calling themselves Trotskyist. The SWP has continued to publish numerous books by Trotsky and advocate a number of ideas commonly associated with Trotskyism, including Trotsky's analysis of "Stalinism".
The opposition factions continued to support the theory of permanent revolution, and the Trotskyist label: they anticipated that the SWP leadership was reassessing its place in the Fourth International. While declaring their support to the Cuban and the leftist Nicaraguan governments, they were more critical of the Castroist and Sandinista leadership. Additionally, they continued to oppose the "turn to industry".
One opposition group rallied around the Weinsteins on the West Coast, (with supporters elsewhere too), while a second group rallied around George Breitman and Frank Lovell. Together they formed an opposition bloc on the SWP's National Committee but in 1983 both groups were expelled. The opposition factions, having split from the SWP, formed new organizations. The Weinstein group formed the San Francisco-based Socialist Action. The Breitman-Lovell group, after a time, formed the Fourth Internationalist Tendency. Both groups described themselves as "public factions" of the SWP and set the task of recapturing the SWP to their understanding of Trotskyism. Another group, mainly in Los Angeles, had been close to Breitman but did not agree to orient toward the SWP belonged briefly to Socialist Action but left to join the "regroupment" organization Solidarity.
This was the most recent split or major faction fight in the SWP; the organization has experienced an unusually long period of internal peace since, although it has declined steadily in both its membership numbers and its political influence within the U.S. left. Numerous recent expulsions—sometimes of long-standing SWP veterans—have contributed to the membership decline [citations needed]. In 2003, the party sold its major headquarters building in New York City for $20 million and moved to another location in Manhattan. Party leaders Jack Barnes and Mary-Alice Waters subsequently sold their West Village condominium for $1.87 million.[25]
The SWP's most high profile and controversial campaign in the late 1980s and early 1990s was its Mark Curtis Defense Committee, established after Curtis, an SWP activist and trade union organizer, was charged and convicted on burglary and rape charges in 1988. The party claimed that Curtis had been framed by police for his role in defending immigrant workers. Curtis was eventually paroled.
The SWP now focuses most of its energy on internal activities, such as fund-raising, the weekly Militant Labor Forum, and the distribution of Pathfinder books and The Militant. Its members are present in a handful of trade unions and it focuses most of its political energy towards defending immigrant rights and promoting Cuban solidarity.
Due to legal constraints, the SWP ended its formal affiliation with the Fourth International in the 1940s. It remained in close political solidarity with the Fourth International, however. The Socialist Workers Party broke formally with the Fourth International in 1990, though it had been increasingly inactive in the Trotskyist movement since National Secretary Jack Barnes' 1982 speech, "Their Trotsky and Ours", which some view as signaling a break with Trotskyism. The SWP action followed the 1985 World Congress, and the SWP closed Intercontinental Press in 1986. The SWP's international formation is sometimes referred to as the Pathfinder tendency because they each operate a Pathfinder Bookstore which sells the publications of the SWP's publishing arm, Pathfinder Press.
In 1986, the party won a lawsuit against the Federal Bureau of Investigation as a result of years of spying and disruption.[26]
The Socialist Workers Party has run candidates for President since 1948; it received its greatest number of votes in 1976, when its candidate, Peter Camejo, received 90,310 votes.
In the U.S. presidential election of 2004 the Socialist Workers Party ran Róger Calero for President and Arrin Hawkins for Vice-President. It should be noted that both candidates were constitutionally unqualified for the positions (under Article II, section 1) because Calero is not an American citizen and Hawkins was 29 years old, with the minimum age being 35 (this had been done before, notably by running 31 year old Linda Jenness in 1972). James Harris and Margaret Trowe, the SWP's ticket from 2000, stood in on the ballot in some states where Calero and Hawkins could not be listed. The two tickets combined received over 10,000 votes. They were on the ballot in 11 states and the District of Columbia, more than any other socialist candidates. The vote total does not reflect the actual vote because of the unqualified status of the candidates. County clerks (in some states) and statewide Secretaries of State have discretion in reporting votes for ineligible candidates. The same situation obtained in 2008.

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Volusia County: An introduction
More than 500,000 people call Volusia County home. Situated on the east coast of Central Florida, our 47 miles of Atlantic Ocean beaches are a world-class playground, with beachfront cities including Daytona Beach, Ormond Beach and New Smyrna Beach.
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The scenic St. Johns River, famed for its bass fishing, links magnificent parks with wildlife preserves along the county's western border. True southern charm can be found in DeLand, the county seat. This unique city features an award-winning downtown filled with antique shops and quaint restaurants, surrounded by stately historic homes and buildings.
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Volusia County also is the headquarters of the Ladies Professional Golf Association, the summer home of the London Symphony Orchestra, and the winter refuge of the endangered Florida manatee.
Volusia County is about an hour's drive north of Disney World and the Kennedy Space Center. It's also within a few hours' drive of other major Florida communities, such as Tampa (139 miles), Miami (253 miles), or Jacksonville (89 miles).
Volusia County consists of 1,207 square miles. Elevation begins at sea level and rises to a high elevation of 110 feet.
What's in a name? Origins of Volusia
Volusia County is named after the community of Volusia, which today is a tiny, unincorporated community on the east bank of the St. Johns River where State Road 40 crosses. However, when Volusia County was carved from Orange County by the Florida legislature in 1854, the community was a prosperous steamboat landing and the largest town in the County. Keep in mind that the entire population of Volusia County barely exceeded 600 people!
The community of Volusia began as a trading post sometime in the first or second decade of the 1800s. It was located where an Indian trail intersected with the St. Johns River. This location was later developed as an important supply depot for the military during the Second Seminole War from 1834 to 1835. When commercial steamships started to travel up and down the St. Johns, the community grew and was listed as one of four post offices in the county. With the introduction of regional railroad systems in the 1880s, the community of Volusia was bypassed, and thus, its era of prosperity ended.
The origins of of the word "Volusia" is of some debate. Despite serious effort by amateur and professional historians, no one has ever discovered a historic document which has provided the definitive answer.
There are three theories:
- The name derives from a word meaning "Land of the Euchee." When the Timucuan Indian cultures died out in the early 1700s, the land in the area was uninhabited until some of the Indian tribes to the north began to migrate into the area (much like the people that have become known as Seminoles). The Euchee Indians were a tribe originally from an area in South Carolina.
- The name was taken from the name of a British plantation that was located on the St. Johns River in the late 1700s. However, no one has explained where the plantation owner came up with the name.
- The name is derived from the last name of one of the employees at the trading post. He is described as being well-liked and of Belgian or French descent. The story goes that his name was something like "Veluche," which was pronounced "Va-loo-shay." The post became known as "Veluche's Place," hence the eventual creation of "Volusia."
- Tom Scofield, Volusia County Historical Planner
Economic facts and demographic information
For more information about Volusia County including demographics, statistical information and economic facts, view the Volusia County Data Report on the Volusia County Economic Development website.


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Anybody doing this tour? or the Grand Southern tour starting the 8th of July 2013. Would be nice to chat to any doing these tours beforehand.
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Hi Brooke! Im doing this one then the wild western! Im so excited shame its so far away!!!!! I did europe contiki last year, best time of my life!
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Hi there! Thats great, I'm also doing the wild western tour starting the 7th of August. I know im so excited, hopefully the time goes quick! This is my first contiki so it should be great! :)
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Wow Im doing that tour as well!!!! We will really get to know eachother!!!! Dont worry if you're going alone, heaps of people do, its better that way and you'll make loads of friends! Im going to a Justin Beiber concert in Brooklyn in between tours :P
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wow, yes we will! I'm going alone, so that makes me feel alot better, are you going alone or with people? oh nice, that will be great. Will you be staying at the hotel contiki uses in NY?
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — The six space station astronauts finally got their Christmas presents Sunday with the arrival of a privately launched supply ship that took an extra month to soar.
The spacemen opened the capsule a day early and started removing items, as soon as the Orbital Sciences Corp. vessel was moored safely at the International Space Station. Packed inside were 3,000 pounds of groceries, equipment and experiments, as well as eagerly awaited Christmas gifts from their families back home and some fresh fruit courtesy of NASA.
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msd8x 0.95, the GUI for the usb8x mass storage driver, has been added to the usb8x CVS and released.
In addition to the usual file/folder management and 8x* imports/exports, it now runs MirageOS/Ion BASIC and assembly programs directly from flash drives and features improved folder navigation.
More information can be found at:
Version 0.12 of usb8x, a USB host driver for the TI-84 Plus calculators, has been released.
A driver for the Vernier EasyTemp devices and a number of developer features have been added. There are also many fixes such as improved support for mass storage devices. More details on changes in 0.12 can be found in the change log.
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Home Page - http://usb8x.sourceforge.net
Documentation - http://usb8x.denglend.net
USBTools, a companion appliction to usb8x, has been been released for the TI-84 Plus calculators. This is the first release of USBTools.
USBTools contains tools for developers using usb8x and demo programs for usb8x's internal drivers. Additional documentation is available at http://usbtools.denglend.net
Version 0.11 of usb8x, a USB host driver for the TI-84 Plus calculators, adds many new features.
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Mass Storage Devices (e.g. flash drives)
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A number of developer features have been added, and all demos that were previously embedded in the usb8x application are now available separately in USBTools. More details on changes in 0.11 can be found in the change log.... read more
This release of usb8x adds logging and a log viewer. Support is improved for many usb devices and a number of bugs from the 0.08 release have been fixed.
This version of usb8x adds a preliminary boot mouse driver, which maps mouse movement into directional keypresses. Also a little demo code for mass storage devices has been added, and a number of bugs have been fixed.
usb8x version 0.07 has been released. This version fixes a number of serious and minor bugs, and adds preliminary support for a TI-BASIC language interface to usb8x. A video of usb8x in action has been posted to http://usb8x.sf.net
Version 0.06 of usb8x has been released. This version is (probably) required for boot 1.00 calculators. See change log for other changes.
First public version of usb8x, version 0.05, released. It provides driver-layer for USB host on the TI-84 Plus. Includes demo drivers for mouse, keyboard, and silverlink. Port Monitor 0.01 also released. This project made possible by: Google's Summer of Code. Thanks.


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text: On "Pseudo-Fitness" Magazines And Eating DisordersHortense Smith1/17/10 2:40pmFiled to: Weighty MattersShape magazine katherine mcpheeShape MagazineSelf MagazineEating DisordersHealthFitnessTop1943EditPromoteShare to KinjaToggle Conversation toolsGo to permalinkThe hypocrisy of women's "health" magazines becomes fairly obvious just by looking at their covers. For example, this month's Self magazine features one cover line, "Be Happy And Healthy At Any Size" tucked below a much larger cover line:Advertisement"3 Easy Ways To Lose Weight."As Katie Drummond of True/Slant notes, "psuedo-fitness" magazines are "like heroin for the eating disordered. They often offer misleading diet information, along with airbrushed photos of impossible physical ideals, and perpetuate ugly myths about how health ought to look. It's obvious that these monthly doses are hurting us – but we can't help shell out for our next fix." Drummond, like myself, is in recovering from an eating disorder, and is careful to note that while these magazines don't cause EDs, they don't do much to perpetuate a healthy body image, either.AdvertisementWe already know Self editor Lucy Danziger's take on her own publication, as she notes that photoshop is used to "inspire women to want to be their best." By "their best," naturally, she means, "their thinnest." But Drummond's issues aren't with Danziger at this point—they're with current Shape magazine cover model Katharine McPhee, who posed for the magazine "airbrushed and in a bikini," despite her past, public struggle with bulimia. Drummond is understandably sympathetic to McPhee's struggles, but notes that "after purging as often as seven times a day, for five years, you'd think McPhee would know better than to perpetuate the very same unrealistic physical ideal she admits to struggling with...I'm not faulting McPhee for wanting to celebrate her health and recovery. But I am faulting her for doing it in a way that's likely going to do more harm than good for other women."Sometimes I think those of us who have struggled with eating disorders have a radar that non-eating disordered people don't have: for Drummond and myself, seeing a confessed bulimic in a bikini on the cover of a fitness magazine, surrounded by articles on how to blast fat and cut calories, sets off a ton of alarm bells: the entire push of magazines like Shape and Self is that thin=healthy, and that weight loss=fitness, two very warped ideas of both health and body image that are dissected pretty handily during ED treatment. It's a tough call to make, honestly, regarding McPhee: on one hand, you have to give her credit for feeling confident enough in her body to open up to a health magazine, but on the other hand, it's pretty infuriating—not at McPhee, mind you, but at the illness in general—that she's standing amongst a sea of "lose weight now," and "drop that ab flab" bullshit.That said, Katharine McPhee is not the Queen of Eating Disorder Recovery, and as with any recovering anorexic or bulimic, the choices she makes to continue along a healthy path are her own. But I'm with Drummond in that I find it both sad and irritating that someone who knows the disease, it's triggers, and the media bullshit that surrounds it would willingly participate in the promotion of skewed health and body image ideals, something that's troubling not only for ED sufferers who may be reading McPhee's article, but also for McPhee herself: "As anyone who has recovered from an eating disorder knows," Drummond writes, "the last thing – the very last thing – one should focus on is their bikini body, and, by extension, their weight or their size."SponsoredDrummond admits that she hasn't read the full interview with McPhee, and I'll freely admit that I won't read it, either. The last time I bought a Self or a Shape, I was relapsing, hard. I didn't look at them as "fitness" magazines as much as I looked at them as "diet" magazines. They may be okay for some people, but for those of us who view the world through eating disordered brains, they're just a pile of dangerous bullshit, a perpetuation of all of the lies our illnesses want us to believe. I eat right for my brain, for my body, for my overall health. I exercise for the same reasons. I don't do it to fit into a fucking bikini. Life, and health, is about so much more than dropping a dress size.A Lesson In Health Hypocrisyy: Katharine McPhee And Shape [True/Slant]Jessica Alba Covers "Self Magazine" [JustJared]Reply194 repliesLeave a reply


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The University Daily Kansan must've had some Jayhawks fans in a glass case of emotion on Tuesday morning. For its April Fool's Day prank, the student newspaper claimed that Oklahoma State guard Marcus Smart had transferred to Kansas.
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Chennai: Facing all-round criticism for the ban on Kamal Haasan's "Vishwaroopam", Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa on Thursday strongly defended the action, citing threats of violence but said her government would facilitate an amicable settlement if both the actor and Muslim groups come together. Her intervention was immediately welcomed by the Tamil film fraternity, amid reports of back channel efforts to pave the way to release the Rs 100 crore movie. Breaking her silence a week after the ban exploded into a national controversy, she said it was based on Intelligence inputs of likely violence and to maintain law and order. Jayalalithaa said she has no "personal grudge" against Hassan or "personal interest" in the ban, a day after the actor threatened to take self-imposed exile in a secular place in the country, excluding Tamil Nadu, or overseas. She said the threat to law and order was "very real" and many Muslim groups had announced a series of agitations and the primary objective of the government was to maintain peace and tranquillity. "We relied on Intelligence inputs..." "As chief minister of Tamil Nadu, my first and foremost priority is maintenance of law and order and to ensure public peace in which people can carry on with their daily lives and work," she said, citing inadequate manpower to provide security at 524 theatres where the film was to be screened. "How is it practically possible for the state government to provide protection to 524 theatres and maintain law and order when we do not have adequate manpower," she asked, pointing out that 31,440 police personnel would have been required for deployment in all the theatres in three shifts. Finding fault with Haasan, she said government had made a request to him to show the movie to a few representatives of the Muslim organisations. "Had he done it, the problem would have been avoided. But he avoided showing the movie." "If Muslim organisations and Kamal Hassan are ready to sit down and work out an amicable agreement, if he agrees to delete certain portions that are objectionable, then the decks would be cleared for screening of the movie, then Tamil Nadu government will do that to facilitate such an amicable settlement." With Jayalalithaa coming out to state her position after what she called the "hysteria" generated over the ban, efforts to end the logjam by film personalities gained momentum. Haasan's brother Chandra Haasan, co-producer of the spy thriller, said, "Whatever government says, we will do accordingly. Without government support, the release of the movie is not possible". "We are prepared to go for talks with the 23 or 24 Muslim organisations directly or through their coordinators. We are very confident that a satisfactory solution will be arrived at," he said, hoping government would ensure its smooth release and settle the "troubling issue". Jayalalithaa also trashed as "wild and reckless" allegations that the ban was imposed because Haasan refused to give TV rights to Jaya TV. "Jaya TV is a channel which supports AIADMK. Jaya TV does not belong to me. I am not in any way associated with its administration. I have nothing to do with Jaya TV. I do not hold shares (in it)", she said. She said government would have to take legal action against those who levelled the charges against a responsible constitutional authority. DMK chief M Karunanidhi had cited reports suggesting a TV channel close to AIADMK wanted to buy the film for a song, but that the actor had refused. Jayalalithaa was also dismissive of the charge that she bore a grudge against Haasan for his remark at a recent function that "dhoti clad Tamilian" should become Prime Minister, an apparent reference to P Chidambaram. "Why should I take offence to such statements? Kamal Haasan has freedom to air his views. If he wanted a dhoti clad person to become prime minister, that is his own view. Kamal Haasan does not select the prime minister..." On Haasan's statement that he had pledged his entire property to make the film and he would go bankrupt, Jayalalithaa said he had taken "a calculated risk, a calculated gamble". "If he has taken a decision to produce a movie with a mega budget running into hundreds of crores and has pledged all his property for the same, it is a conscious decision he took. So how can the government be held responsible, accountable for that," she asked. Haasan had on Tuesday secured interim relief from a single judge who had allowed its release, but his joy was cut short after a division bench set it aside. The matter will now come up for hearing on Wednesday. The film, made in Tamil, Telugu and Hindi, had courted controversy not only because of opposition by Muslim groups who considered certain scenes offensive to their community, but also because of the tech-savvy actor's decision to release it on a DTH platform, prior to its release in theatres. (Agencies) Latest News from India News Desk
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People who live in Colorado are pretty smart, according to a study by Portfolio Magazine.The magazine evaluated 200 American cities for the level of education of their residents.It found residents in Boulder were the smartest in the country. Twenty-six percent of residents there have a graduate or professional degree, while 82 percent have at least some college education. Six percent of residents drop out before high school graduation.Ann Arbor, Mich. was ranked second in the survey, followed by Washington, Durham, N.C. and Fort Collins, Colo.Colorado Springs came in 15th, Denver was 21st. In Denver, 67 percent of residents have at least some college education while 11 percent drop out before finishing high school. Greeley was ranked 136th, with 59.5 percent of residents attending college and 15 percent leaving high school before graduation.Check out the statistics on Portfolio's website.


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Bad News Is Contagious For Prenda
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"Frankly I don't see why fees should not be awarded here, given the findings obtained in this court as well as other courts, including Judge Wright's," he said. "This case proceeded without proof of standing. There were also questions about identifying Mr. Navasca as an infringer without sufficient investigation. Other assertions, like improper spoliation, were never proven or supported. Then there's the whole question of motivation. There's a serious question raised about the whole business model here... [about whether] this is a business model to generate income through coerced settlements. If there's a case that warrants fee shifting, this certainly seems to be one of them."Duffy tried to talk his way out of all of this, insisting (yet again) that Navasca "engaged in spoliation of evidence" -- a claim that's been tried by Team Prenda multiple times and failed -- in large part because it's silly. Navasca had a registry cleaner, CCleaner, installed on his computer, since well before the whole Prenda thing, and the app serves to keep a computer running efficiently and keep it from getting bogged down. Beyond having the app, there's no evidence that it was used to delete any form of evidence. The court has already rejected it, but Duffy couldn't let it go. But that's a pretty weak thread to hang from.
When asked about a variety of other things, Duffy did the usual "deny, deny, deny" move. In particular, Chen pointed out the whole lack of standing given the likelihood of Alan Cooper's signature being forged:
"Here AF [Holdings] didn't even prove standing," said Chen. The judge was referring to the disputed copyright assignment at the root of the case. It was signed by Alan Cooper, a former property caretaker for John Steele, the man pointed to as a key Prenda player. Cooper later denied having signed the papers.When in doubt, go for the double negatives, I guess... Anyway, there's a lot more at that link. Duffy also tried to attack the credibility of Delvan Neville, the computer expert who presented incredibly compelling testimony that John Steele or someone closely associated with him was uploading the files Prenda was suing over themselves. As the judge pointed out, however, Duffy failed to actually file anything in any case that factually disputes Neville's statements. All he did was whine about Neville as a person and his credentials. The judge appears to find the lack of any such factual filings noteworthy.
"That's very much in dispute," said Duffy. "It's a 'he said, he said' about the individual who signed AF Holdings' [assignment]. The individual did not challenge the signature until Mr. Steele ejected him from his property, then all of a sudden repudiated his signature. There is a factual issue about whether the person who signed it actually signed it. We believe he did."
"I've not seen a case yet where AF Holdings has been able to prove to any court's satisfaction that this was not a case of either identity theft or forgery or something of that nature," said Chen. "I know you dispute this on behalf of your client. Is there a case where you have prevailed on this issue?"
"There's not a case where we have not prevailed," insisted Duffy,
"You take on his declaration... you argue about it. You say his opinions are worthless, et cetera, et cetera, purely conjectural, they don't make logical or economic sense. [But] I don't see any factual matter submitted. You had a full two weeks to respond.We eagerly await Judge Chen's ruling.
Of course, there was also another Prenda hearing today down in Arizona, where Judge G. Murray Snow has also been expressing quite a bit of skepticism. There, Prenda red shirt Steve Goodhue filed "answers" to some of the questions Snow asked, which we've embedded below, but as of this writing no other details of the hearing have come about. I'm sure we'll find something out in the next week or so...
Meanwhile, back in St. Clair County, Illinois, where Prenda had focused a bunch of their state court actions, Charter Communications is now asking the judge to award it $5,000 from Team Prenda to pay for the costs of having to deal with Prenda's invalid subpoenas in one of the LW Systems (another shell) cases.
Charter attorney Robert Sprague of Belleville wrote in a motion July 11 that the company has asked for reimbursement from plaintiff attorney Paul Duffy of Chicago after Gleeson ruled June 6 that the subpoena was invalid, but that its requests have been ignored.It may be slow, but it seems like the world may finally start to be closing in on Prenda...
Sprague's motion also claims that Duffy has not provided notice that customer information Charter inadvertently provided due to the invalid Jan. 31 subpoena has been destroyed.
"Charter customer information, including name and address information, is ordinarily confidential and subject to the protection under the Cable Act," the motion states. "Customer information cannot be produced absent a valid court order requiring Charter to provide it.


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First let me say, "EEWWWWW". Okay then.
Little dude needs to put on a shirt. Biebs still looks 13; and Selena (whom I really think is gorgeous) looks a little too euphoric for my taste.
I hope I don't get brat-slapped by the Beliebers (eyeroll), but I have a feeling they aren't too thrilled about this photo either.
Sigh. And for you grown-ups out there? I think we KNOW what a foot-massage means. Ask Marsellus Wallace.
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Journal FortKnox's Journal: .NET vs Java (with Architecture Comparisons)
Nice article over at O'Reilly about another compairison of J2EE and .Net, but this one includes architecture, and even plugs the great Apache Struts. This compairison was made because of the recent claim that Sun's example of J2EE, called "PetStore", was re-written to C#, made faster with less lines of code. A fun read for .NET and Java Developers.


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Highland Park 12 yo 'Millenium Edition' (55.7%, OB, 2000 bottles) Colour: pure yellow gold. Nose: very bold (yet delicate) but fresh attack, very flowery and quite smoky, soon to get also rather spicy. Lots of nutmeg, fresh ginger, cinnamon. Whiffs of dill and fresh parsley, wet moss, Chinese star anise… Some interesting notes of wet calcarious stone. Great balance! Mouth: bold and creamy, with again what appears to be a perfect balance. Lots of liquorice, though, and also some smoke and pepper. Clove, cooked zucchini flowers, strong chestnut honey, rubber, satay sauce, light toffee… The finish is bold and very 'creamy' and coating, mainly on liquorice. In short, an excellent one and at 12 years old, it's got a superb complexity. Perfect. 92 points.
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Bruichladdich NAS (70 proof, OB, 1970's) Colour: straw. Nose: caramel, fudge, Werther's Originals. Very, very light. Some vanilla crème. Mouth: very light again, even weak. Dried herbs and caramel, getting very grainy. Some notes of old papers. Perhaps a bit tired? 65 points.
September 23, 2005
Highland Park 19 yo 1985/2005 (54%, Signatory, cask #2911, hogshead, 296 bottles) Colour: white wine. Nose: quite powerful, flowery and fruity (apple, pears, fresh pineapple) at the same time. Nice and lively, showing little cask influence. It then gets quite yeasty, with some cooked yoghurt and porridge, before the fruity notes come back with some gooseberries and white currant. Some light perfumy notes and also whiffs of varnish. Rather fresh, lively and enjoyable.
September 22, 2005
Talisker '175th anniversary' (45.8%, OB, bottled 2005) Colour: gold. Nose: extremely fresh at first nosing, on sea air and light toffee. No punch-in-you-face smells this time, but lots of smoothness and, dare I say, delicacy. The peat smoke is well here but it's somewhat distant, while these coastal and 'caramelly' notes develop together. Then it gets also quite fruity, with some plum jam, quince jelly and very ripe apricots. Hints of apple skins, cider and even some white wine. Less peat and pepper, and more fruit seems to have been the motto when they composed this new Talisker that makes me think of the Caol Ila 18 yo OB.
September 21, 2005
Ardbeg 1974/1983 (59%, Duthie for Samaroli, 2400 bottles, sherry) Colour: straw. Nose: very powerful, extremely tary and hugely smoky attack, with lots of asphalt. Develops on some mega-bold notes of pineapple skins and pu-her tea and then turpentine and pine resin. This young puppy is extremely concentrated, it appears, very compact but not raw in any way (nothing to do with some very fashionable recent baby Ardbegs). Some great notes of pine honey, balsam and even balsamic vinegar.
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Macallan 10 yo (70 proof, OB for Halls & Bramley, 60's) Colour: gold. Nose: typical old whisky, with some caramel and old papers – which doesn't mean it's tired. Quite on the contrary! Develops on some turpentine, bitter almond, wax, old furniture… It's like when you enter an antiques shop. Hints of copper cleaner… Just superb. Mouth: rather creamy with some sherry but not too much. Lots of 'yellow' jams (apricot, plums) and some cold herbal tea. A little praline, fudge, and hints of roasted nuts. Something winey, in a beautiful way. Extremely delicate, that's for sure. 90 points.
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Best malts I had these weeks - 90+ points only - alphabetical:
Ardbeg 1974/1983 (59%, Duthie for Samaroli, 2400 bottles, sherry)
Cardhu 22 yo 1982/2005 (57.8%, OB, 3000 bottles)
Highland Park 12 yo 'Millenium Edition' (55.7%, OB, 2000 bottles)
Highland Park 18 yo 1960/1978 (43%, OB, 'James Grant green dumpy')
Highland Park 1957/1977 (70° proof, Berry Bros & Rudd)
Laphroaig 31 yo 1974/2005 (49.7%, OB for La Maison du Whisky, sherry, 910 bottles)
Ledaig 18 yo 1972 (54.4%, James MacArthur)
Ledaig 30 yo 1974/2005 (48.7%, Signatory, cask #3223, shery hogshead, 208 bottles)
Macallan 10 yo (70 proof, OB for Halls & Bramley, 60's)
Macallan-Glenlivet 15 yo (43%, G&M licensed bottling, Italy, 60's)
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Good lesson in self control
This is a discussion on Thought I was "made" today... within the Concealed Carry Issues & Discussions forums, part of the Defensive Carry Discussions category; I was leaving Taco Bell today with my family (wife and four daughters; the oldest one works there and was getting off-shift) after lunch today. ...
I was leaving Taco Bell today with my family (wife and four daughters; the oldest one works there and was getting off-shift) after lunch today. One from a table of 3 or 4 guys we walked past said something to me about "having guns" which startled me because I did have my 1911 on me. It was all my self-control to turn (not jerk!) around and calmly say, " 'Scuse me?" He repeated, "You must keep a gun or two at home with all those daughters!" As calmly as I could, I made a joke about them watching each other for me.
The hardest part was resisting the reflexive impulse to grab my pistol, thinking initially he was commenting on it, even knowing that it really shouldn't be exposed. As I got out of the booth (or out of a car, or a chair, etc.), I always check my "wallet" as I'm paranoid about dropping/losing it somewhere , so I knew it was properly covered.
I get joking comments frequently from strangers about carrying a shotgun (all five of my girls - wife and 4 daughters - are very pretty, if I may say so. I don't know how that happened, but it's OK), but this one really startled me the way it came through at first.
Now, my point is not to brag about the company I keep (and feed), but actually an entirely different point I never considered before: If someone comments on your gun ASSUME YOU MIS-UNDERSTOOD THEM, AND PRETEND YOU AREN'T "PACKING!" If I had slipped and checked my holster, I would have shown those guys - and two other tables - that I was indeed packing, when none of the patrons there knew in the first place. Put simply: BLUFF!! Never admit to it; look confused, whatever, but don't show it off.
"Learn from other's mistakes, for you will never live long enough to make them all yourself."
I didn't make the mistake this time, but it sure gave me something to think about!
Stay safe,
Chuck Brick.
Why do I use 230 gr. for my .45acp?
Because I can't find a source of 250 gr!
that would have startled me also, good control.
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chuck brick, I do not know about Texas but in Michigan the CCW laws only address brandishing. My point is who cares if someone knows you are packing as long as you do not threaten them without cause? Regards, Richard
Still kind of an odd comment for a stranger to make to someone, especially in a fast food joint.
5 daughters...pretty or not, all I would say is "Poor " sympathetically.
Because of my work, I have gotten into the habit of checking my shirt every time I get up (READ - return to a standing position from what ever position I was in while working on various pieces of equipment - laying down, hanging upside down, inverted in the cab...). It has a tendency to get tucked around the grip.
I am not doing the newbie checking the holster, just just giving the back of my shirt a little tug just above the belt. Annoying, but after finding my grip either exposed or wrapped a few times...
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In Texas, the term "concealed" is taken literally. If I was walking around with my "butt" (gun, that is) hanging out I could be cited for failure to properly conceal, or even brandishing in some situations. After a couple such complaints to the PD, I could have my permit suspended.
I think it was probably more the way I heard it than the way it was delivered. I frequently get jokes about "ridin' heard" or "greeting dates" with a shotgun - Southern humour, I guess. At worst just not real creative. Same intent as your "Poor Guy" (toungue-in-cheek) quip.
Exactly what I mean, "checking my wallet." That's why I knew it wasn't "stuck out" there, but still disconcerting.
Stay safe,
Chuck Brick.
Why do I use 230 gr. for my .45acp?
Because I can't find a source of 250 gr!
Who cares?! I think you may be missing the fact that the whole issue here is concealed carry, and 'checking' pretty much plays your hand. Ol' Chuck handled it well. I'm a pretty intense person, and I think I could take a lesson from the 'relax and play it off' attitude, but no matter what, I guess my point here is that you should NEVER, EVER reveal that you're carrying if you can avoid it (sorry if that seems obvious).
Open carry is legal here in KY, but aside from painting a bullseye on your chest or wearing a department ID, I can think of no better way of saying 'shoot me first'.
Incidentally, Chuck, I think it is time to act. Call your congressman about drawing up legislation that would make it legal (nay...mandatory!) for a father of four beautiful girls to carry a Remington 870 everywhere, anywhere.
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The best advise regarding carrying is to "forget about it". Most often it isn't bulges, bumps or printing that give a CCW away. It is the subconcious actions, movements and the way they handle themselves that tip off the observant. Here's an interesting link to some old info, but some may be new for folks.
Tips to spot when someone's carrying?
If I can find the FBI "How to spot a gun" text, I'll post it. It is very revealing (pardon the pun).
Nice job, I feel even the most casual tug to check your cover garment, if someone notices you do so several times may figure out why you are so worried about your wardrobe. Nice job playing it cool.
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In Texas, the term "concealed" is taken literally. If I was walking around with my "butt" (gun, that is) hanging out I could be cited for failure to properly conceal, or even brandishing in some situations. After a couple such complaints to the PD, I could have my permit suspended.
Are Texas undercover and off duty LEOs held to the same standard?
I used to go to a cop bar for lunch and I watched to see who was carrying but that was a mind game. I do not believe most people consciously look for CCW carriers, I was an exception.
O.K., not to stray too far from your topic and I'm sure you've already seen them, but if not you really need:Rules for Dating My Daughter
Rule One: If you pull into my driveway and honk you'd better be delivering a package, because you're sure not picking anything up.
Rule Two: You do not touch my daughter in front of me. You may glance at her, so long as you do not peer at anything below her neck. If you cannot keep your eyes or hands off of my daughter's body, I will not only remove them from her body, Ill remove them from yours.
Rule Three: I am aware that it is considered fashionable for boys of your age to wear their trousers so loosely that they appear to be falling off their hips. Please don't take this as an insult, but you and all of your friends are complete idiots. Still, I want to be fair and open minded about this issue, so I propose this compromise: You may come to the door with your underwear showing and your pants ten sizes too big, and I will not object. However, in order to ensure that your clothes do not, in fact come off during the course of your date with my daughter, I will take my electric nail gun and fasten your trousers securely in place to your waist.
Rule Four: I'm sure you've been told that in today's world, sex without utilizing a "Barrier method" of some kind can kill you. Let me elaborate, when it comes to sex, I am the barrier, and I will kill you.
Rule Five: It is usually understood that in order for us to get to know each other, we should talk about sports, politics, and other issues of the day. Please do not do this. The only information I require from you is an indication of when you expect to have my daughter safely back at my house, and the only word I need from you on this subject is: "early"
Rule Six: I have no doubt you are a popular fellow, with many opportunities to date other girls. This is fine with me as long as it is okay with my daughter. Otherwise, once you have gone out with my little girl, you will continue to date no one but her until she is finished with you. If you make her cry, I will make you cry.
Rule Seven: As you stand in my front hallway, waiting for my daughter to appear, and more than an hour goes by, do not sigh and fidget. If you want to be on time for the movie, you should not be dating. My daughter is putting on her makeup, a process that can take longer than painting the Golden Gate Bridge. Instead of just standing there, why don't you do something useful, like changing the oil in my car?
Rule Eight: The following places are not appropriate for a date with my daughter: Places where there are beds, sofas, or anything softer than a wooden stool. Places where there is darkness. Places where there is dancing, holding hands, or happiness. Places where the ambient temperature is warm enough to induce my daughter to wear shorts, tank tops, midriff T-shirts, or anything other than overalls, a sweater, and a goose down parka - zipped up to her throat. Movies with a strong romantic or sexual theme are to be avoided; movies which features chain saws are okay. Hockey games are okay. Old folks homes are better.
Rule Nine: Do not lie to me. I may appear to be a potbellied, balding, middle-aged, dimwitted has-been. But on issues relating to my daughter, I am the all-knowing, merciless god of your universe. If I ask you where you are going and with whom, you have one chance to tell me the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. I have a shotgun, a shovel, and five acres behind me.
Rule Ten: Be afraid,. Be very afraid. It takes very little for me to mistake the sound of your car in the driveway for a chopper coming in over a rice paddy near Hanoi. When my Agent Orange starts acting up, the voices in my head frequently tell me to clean the guns as I wait for you to bring my daughter home. As soon as you pull into the driveway you should exit the car with both hands in plain sight. Speak the perimeter password, announce in a clear voice that you have brought my daughter home safely and early, then return to your car - there is no need for you to come inside. The camouflaged face at the window is mine.
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This came to mind...I'm pragerizing here, I read this somewhere else:
Other person: Is that a gun you have there?
Me: Gun? What gun?
Other person: That there on your hip.
Me: Gun? A GUN??? OH NO! NO! GET IT OFF! (sweeping motions with the hand)GET IT OFF! NO! AHHHHGGGG! NO! GET IT OFF! (running away out the store away from the gun on the hip)


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Our GeForce GTX 650 test card comes in the form of the MSI GTX 650 Power Edition. The card is mildly factory-overclocked and comes with an interesting cooling feature. For starters, the core clock speed has been slightly boosted to 1124MHz - a modest increase of around 6% compared to the reference specs. Memory clock speeds are unchanged at 5000MHz DDR.
Apart from the higher core clock speeds, the MSI GTX 650 Power Edition also comes with Triple Overvoltage function, which lets users tweak the GPU, memory and PLL voltage for maximum overclocking potential. The power circuitry of the card has also been upgraded (with more power phases) for higher efficiency and stability at load. Both technologies work hand in hand to let users achieve higher overclocks on the card.
However, the highlight of this card, however, has got to be MSI's unique TwinThermal cooling system. The MSI GTX 650 Power Edition comes with an additional fan that can be attached onto the card in two ways. Either on top of the existing fan or slide the cooler cover aside and you can place the additional fan side by side with the existing one. It's an interesting custom cooling system and we are eager to see if it really works in practice. We first spotted this unique design back in Computex 2012 as MSI showed it off with their Radeon HD 7770 Power Edition graphics card.
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ERWIN | An Erwin man is facing several charges after police say he impersonated a Steuben County Sheriff's deputy.
Thomas F. Spruck, 67, of Woods Edge Drive in the Town of Erwin, was charged with two counts of first-degree falsifying business records, a felony, and two counts of second-degree criminal impersonation, a misdemeanor.
The Steuben County Sheriff's Office says Spruck called Steuben County and Monroe County 911 centers on at least two occasions and demanded that another individual be arrested on a fictitious warrant.
When 911 personnel became suspicious about the calls, an investigation was undertaken by the Steuben County 911 Center, the Monroe County 911 Center and the Steuben County District Attorney's Office.
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Spruck is scheduled to appear in Town of Erwin Court at a later date.
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Title: McAllister Portraits with Foxes
- McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
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A winter scene of Louis McAllister with two coon dogs and fox pelts at what may be his No. Winooski Ave home in Burlington.
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Ah see, but that's the problem with making a judgment based only on a 30 second commercial ;)
I watched it and really liked it! I think Kerry Washington is terrific - she's the reason I tuned in. I've also enjoyed several of the supporting players in previous projects as well. That scene with Olivia and the President was SO good! I guess I should have seen that coming, but I didn't. Kerry and Tony Goldwyn have great chemistry. I thought that was totally believable.
Fun to see Liza Weil. I always liked her on GG. For me, Jeff Perry isn't Meredith's father, he's Mr.Katimski from my so-called life!
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CMOM provides after-school enrichment programs to more than 35,000 children. Each week CMOM runs 50-80 different programs off-site, mostly in Northern Manhattan and the Bronx. Over the last eight years, CMOM has developed a unique curriculum and educational approach that compliments and enriches the work of schools to meet performance standards in science, art and literacy.
In response to Hurricane Katrina, CMOM created Play Helps™, a program that brought relief in the form of play to children and families in New Orleans impacted by the Hurricane Katrina disaster.
Based on CMOM's PlayWorks™ curriculum and launched in partnership with the Louisiana Children's Museum in December 2006, Play Helps™ was conducted within two large geodesic domes filled with wonderful play and learning opportunities. The domes were set up on the grounds of the Andrew Jackson School in St. Bernard Parish. Classes from the elementary school regularly visited the Play Helps™ domes over the course of a three-month period. On weekends and holidays, community groups visited Play Helps™ free of charge at the Louisiana Children's Museum. Families were encouraged to participate in open-ended play, a toy-making workshop and special activities in the Art Studio.
Play Helps™ was presented through the support of the Toy Industry Foundation, designed by the Children's Museum of Manhattan and coordinated by the Association of Children's Museums.
A modified, locally-run and supported version called Play Power continues to be transformative for the Louisiana Children's Museum and greater New Orleans community, delivering programs on a daily basis to five school sites.
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I have extracted protein from wheat grains by Tris-Acetic acid-2 Mercapto etanol. but the problem is that before Precipitation with Acetone, i added sample buffer for SDS-PAGE.
I am wondering whether i could do Acetone Precipitation while there is sample buffer or not?
please give me some advice.
many thanks
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Washington, D.C. -- A survey released Thursday by the National Retail Federation and conducted by BIGresearch found that up to 138 million people plan to shop Black Friday weekend (Friday, Saturday and Sunday), surpassing the 134 million who planned to do so last year.
According to the NRF 2010 Holiday Consumer Intentions and Actions Survey, which polled 8,778 consumers, approximately 60 million people say they will definitely hit the stores while another 78 million are waiting to see if the bargains are worth braving the cold and the crowds.
"The rules for Black Friday have changed significantly," said NRF President and CEO Matthew Shay. "Instead of waiting until Thanksgiving Day to announce their promotions, many retailers are getting shoppers excited about Black Friday by offering sneak peeks of deals in advance, using social media to create buzz, or teasing upcoming deals on their websites."
According to a separate Shop.org eHoliday survey, conducted by BIGresearch, more than half of retailers (54.9%) will send a special email to customers about Black Friday deals and 39.2% will use their Facebook page to reach out to shoppers. Additionally, 31.4% of retailers will utilize their website's homepage, and 21.6% will use Twitter to announce and promote Black Friday deals.