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Friday, November 11, 2005
Call Me Ishmael (While I Burn Your Car)
Her article today eclipsed my understanding of the media France coverage, left me feeling like a rank amateur in understanding the depth of the kulturkampf. I had contented myself with the lazy observation that the media was disposed to "excuse" criminality when it wore a liberal-political fig leaf.
Ilana digs much deeper. She explains that the miscreancy is itself cited as "proof of virtue".
Her brilliant insight hit me like an epiphany. I felt like I could actually hear Isaiah (5:20): Woe to those who call evil good and good evil; who assert that darkness is light and light is darkness; who assert that bitter is sweet and sweet is bitter. (My translation.)
12 comments:
- James Elliott said...
Wow. Talk about painting with a broad brush. No room for nuance or complexity in her little reactionary corner of the world.
- Jay D. Homnick said...
I was invited to a nuanced and complex car burning the other day, but in the end the authorities denied me access because I had no proof of PHD.
- James Elliott said...
I was invited to a nuanced and complex car burning the other day, but in the end the authorities denied me access because I had no proof of PHD.
Thanks, Jay, but hyperbole still doesn't help the situation. That's a problem with many on the Right. They think wanting to understand the reasons for an action are the same as condoning or excusing it. It beggars belief.
Of course, there are an increasing number on the Left who somehow think that's exactly what should occur, and they're not helping either. - 11/11/05, 1:14 PM
- Bubba said...
Oh that a French "Rooster Cogburn-like" character would arise and simply plug these scum with some lead from his six-shooter. Let's see some True Grit.
I heard that the French military was in quite an upheaval last week, nearly crippled in fact. There was a fire in the White Flag factory. - 11/11/05, 3:51 PM
- Tom Van Dyke said...
Yes, sympathizing with the "victim" carries an indispensibly comforting moral certainty. ;-)
- Jay D. Homnick said...
I heard that in an effort to relieve the poverty the French government brought a carful of potatoes and a carful of bread to each affected neighborhood.
Now there are French fries and French toast galore for all to enjoy. - 11/11/05, 4:18 PM
- connie deady said...
I'm sorry, but I found her column to be really offensive and ill-reasoned.
As to the offensive part - she really implies that the riots show something lacking in the Arab race and/or Muslim religion. She says that because her (??) Jewish ancestors rose above conditions there is no reason the rioters shouldn't be able to as well. I can't draw any conclusion from that other than a suggestion of racial inferiority.
As to ill-reasoned, you can't go from the particular to the general. Certainly the acts are criminal and I don't condone them, but when you have mass looting and rioting I think you need to look at systemic solutions. We're not talking one criminal actor, we're talking mass criminal actors.
FWIW I think wanting to understand why the problem occurred in order to seek solutions requires much more intellect than simply pointing the finger and yelling "bad boys".
Simply pointing at the people and saying they are evil-doers isn't going to solve the problem. Looking at the root causes isn't absolving the criminals of their acts, it's a search for a solution to the problem, because I would suggest that rounding up this miscreants and putting them in jail won't stop future ones if the reasons still exist. - 11/12/05, 9:52 AM
- Tom Van Dyke said...
As to the offensive part - she really implies that the riots show something lacking in the Arab race and/or Muslim religion. She says that because her (??) Jewish ancestors rose above conditions there is no reason the rioters shouldn't be able to as well. I can't draw any conclusion from that other than a suggestion of racial inferiority.
Oooo, Connie, charging the author with racism as in "something lacking in the Arab race?" The Jews are the same "race," which I think was her point. And everybody everywhere hates the Jews.
That the Beurs tend to hold their own "racial" or religious identity above their Frenchness might be the reason they remain on the outside looking in.
Offensive? Truth often offends. Socrates would see it as a sign he was doing his job. (As we both know, he ended up dead, much like Theo van Gogh.) - 11/12/05, 10:06 PM
- connie deady said...
It is offensive to me to suggest that something is lacking in a race of people. Just because Jews at a different time and place were able to rise above doesn't mean another race in another time should be able.
Or maybe I misunderstand her point. I suspect that being hated might make one work harder. I don't know that everyone hates Jewish people. Maybe they are jealous? I tend to think that Jewish people as a race are smarter than the rest of us. - 11/12/05, 10:31 PM
- Tom Van Dyke said...
Yes, I think you misunderstood her point. Jews and Arabs are the same "race," Semitic, therefore the author could hardly be suggesting that Arabs are somehow deficient.
It might be best to quit now before getting into any more racialist theories about who is smarter than whom. - 11/13/05, 3:47 AM
- connie deady said...
Probably best to quit indeed Tom. Though I'm really fascinated with trying to define the difference between discussing race and racism. I think people conflate the two and they are different.
Men get upset with me constantly pointing out their sexism and then making jokes about men. White men get upset that black men can make jokes about race or insult themselves.
I don't want to hijack the thread with my theories. It's an old doctoral thesis I never wrote, alas.
On the subject of Arabs and Jews being the same race, the other day I wrote a civil rights complaint for two Iranian-American men and referred to them as Arabs. They politely pointed out to me that Iranians actually considered themselves the first white race as opposed to Arabs.
I confess a lot of ignorance on the history of the middle east, history, religion and culture. - 11/13/05, 8:58 AM
- Tom Van Dyke said...
"Iranian" and "Aryan" are related words, but I didn't know the Iranians were into the "white" thing as much as Hitler was.


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The Overlooked Duality of Agent Smith's Name
by Jason Salas
In considering the numerous references made by the pop culture phenomenon that continues to the Wachowski Brothers' "The Matrix" saga, I've recently developed a theory about one character - a main one - that has curiously gotten overlooked in the dissection of his name, one that may carry more meaning that at face value.
The theological, literary and historical significance of the names used in the films (The Matrix, The Matrix - Reloaded, and The Matrix - Revolutions), video game (Enter the Matrix) and collection of animated shorts (The Animatrix) can't be understated. Names like Morpheus (the god of dreams in Greek mythology), The Oracle (at Delphi), Captain Niobe (Biblical), The Merovingian (as in the Merovingian Kings of France, who believe they are descendants of Jesus Christ), Commander Jason Locke (a la John Locke the empiricist), Captain Soren (as in Kierkegaard), the ship The Logos (meaning "the word"), etc. connote a deeper meaning than just coincidental, and often their characters display traits common to those they reference. This proves the deliberate, intelligent placement of their names; and I've read, watched and discussed countless hypotheses regarding what people, things and events those names represent.
However, one supposition I've yet to see is relating the villain Agent Smith to the economist Adam Smith. Sure, the general consensus by diehards and passersby alike is that Smith (the agent) by his nature in executing his function as a program within the system is a completely generic character, devoid of any redeeming or extraordinarily unique characteristics. Being modeled after a male human being, the agent requires a name of some sort to adhere to the very human quality of personality (apparently, even agents need some distinction, at least among themselves). As such, he's given the name Smith.
Most people accept Agent Smith's mandated abstraction as the sole reason the Wachowskis named him as they did. But I see a more meaningful, more philosophical relation in his behavior, carrying out the theories of the father of modern economics. This peers beyond the casual first glance, delving deeper than just the initials "A.D.".
Thus, I propose that Agent Smith is the personification (in a manner of speaking) of a firm competing in a capitalist society.
Consider that Smith (the economist), in introducing utopian capitalism in his Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, suggested that as entities within a macroeconomy, each individual inherently has the opportunity to attain sovereignty by way of attempting to fully maximize one's utility. Agent Smith certainly took this approach and pursuing self-interest over altruism when revolting against the system that enforced the rules governing how he could both exist and "live".
Adam Smith stressed the importance of laissez faire ("leave us alone") economics, with the system's governing authority not regulating an individual's actions, eventually allowing the enterprise to be free. Agent Smith ultimately adopted such a strategy, becoming an exile of the Matrix, gaining penultimate control within the fabricated reality, and attempting to overthrow the system itself. He nearly did so, were it not for the collaborative intervention of Neo and Deus ex Machina.
Additionally, one might consider Jean Jacques Rousseau's concept of an economic agent. Pretty interesting.
I'm quite certain I'm not the only person who's made such an observation. The similarities between the academic ideas of the real-life Smith and the behavior of the fictional Smith are, I think, too closely related to not warrant some investigation. Get in touch with me at email@example.com if you are such a person and let's rap about it.
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Her oldest daughter, Patsy Davis, was born July 24, 1953. Before her third birthday, Mrs. Davis gave birth to Garry and Larry Davis, born Jan. 17, 1956. The family increased again with another double blessing as Dennis and Debbie Davis were born on Jan. 17, 1958.
Patsy is married to Ronnie Harris, and she has a beauty shop in Caraway.
Garry and Larry, the oldest twins, also live in Caraway.
The younger twins, Dennis and Debbie, live in Black Oak. Dennis and his wife, Tina, have one son. Debbie and her husband, Mike Rhodes, have two sons.
Larry said while they were growing up, their mother always made four birthday cakes every year on Jan. 17. Sometimes she would rent a building and have a party for all four with their classmates.
Now that they are grown, she only bakes one birthday cake but they all still get together to have cake and ice cream.
"We will probably get together this year at Mom's house for cake and ice cream," Larry said.
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"Be compassionate as your Father is compassionate. Do not judge, and you will not be judged yourselves; do not condemn, and you will not be condemned yourselves; grant pardon and you will be pardoned. Give, and there will be gifts for you: a full measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over, will be poured into your lap; because the amount you measure out is the amount you will be given back." Luke 6 : 36-38
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Donaji & the Magical Poncho
This is the story of a fearless girl and her encounter with the wicked cold wind god
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Good in a way, bad in another
Simple idea, simple story and some nice drawing an animation. The quality of voice acting however, is not so good. Work on that/find a volunteer to voice act for you.
If you had made it more cinematic, you could have turned it into a bit traumatic comedy drama using some of the great music in the Audio Portal. Those guys love seeing their work integrated into animation! That'd completely bypass the voice acting problem
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i see you put some time on it
but look his legs there are not at the same longer
the fact that the legs are not the same at one point shows how little effort I put into it
Yeah your animation and drawing was kinda good but no a monkey just throwing shit at a boy isnt really funny for me , I could laugh if I was 13 years old but im not so its kinda childish...
And please work on your voice and sound , theyre killing my speaker !
Its just that you have the talent and all to do a flash movie(graphic and all is great) but you have just the mind of a monkey for putting a storyline or an idea worth watching , keep trying !
Hey Damien
The movie is kinda short, verry nicely drawn tough, i like the style, and the detail
the content of the movie is a bit on the poor side but overall pretty nice!


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At the Movies: March 10
Kong: Skull Island
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Kong: Skull Island
In 1973, former British Special Air Service Captain James Conrad (Tom Hiddleston) and Lieutenant Colonel Preston Packard (Samuel L. Jackson) are recruited by government agent Bill Randa (John Goodman) to guide a team of explorers on an expedition to an uncharted island in the Pacific. Known as "Skull Island," the group is completely unaware that they are actually crossing into a dangerous domain of monsters guarded by the mythic behemoth ape, Kong. After discovering Kong's violent, deadly wrath, the group soon realizes that their scientific expedition to Skull Island may have just been a cover for an illegal military operation. Also starring Brie Larson and John C. Reilly.
Rated PG-13. Fantasy/Sci-Fi. Directed by Jordan Vogt-Roberts. 2 hours.
What the Critics Say:
"King Kong lives! But only just. This is an uneven adventure that's saved by the spectacle of its towering title character and the various beasts with whom he shares his island home." – Empire
"In its jungle-stranded B-movie way, 'Kong: Skull Island' may come closer in spirit to the wide-eyed amazement of the original than either of those remakes." – Variety
"Ultimately more interested in gorilla warfare than the guerilla kind, 'Skull Island' looks from a distance like a Vietnam polemic with a monster painted onto it. But the opposite is truer. It's a King Kong movie – a state-of-the-art monster mash, complete with giant bugs and prehistoric menaces and dwindling human numbers." – A.V. Club
Prepare yourselves for one intense, Kong-tastic ride. This evocative revival looks and sounds like the best remake yet; the original King Kong film premiered back in 1933, and since then there have been two remakes (in 1976 and 2005). With its top-of-the-line special effects and cast (there's a few Oscar-winners in there) this famed flick is worth seeing on the big screen – especially to get that full, King-Kong-sized experience.


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How can I move out from XEN to KVM? I read that Ubuntu choosed KVM instead of XEN so I thought it would be good to follow the stream. Someone that can point to a howto or explain? Thanks! Best regards, Gabriel
Thanks for the reply but I allready have XEN up and running, what I need to know is how do I emigrate my guests OS and uninstall XEN and install KVM. Because im too affraid that my guests will be destroyed or the server itself will be destroyed. Its a very critical server with alot of tasks so it is crucial that I succeed. Edit: I also use the LTS version. Ubuntu Server 8.04 LTS. Best regards, Gabriel
I haven't tried this myself, but these links might help: http://searchnetworking.techtarget.com.au/articles/35011 http://panoskrt.wordpress.com/2009/06/08/migrating-xen-virtual-machine-to-kvm/ http://blog.chris.tylers.info/index.php?/archives/74-Silent-Hardware-and-Xen-to-KVM-Migration.html http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1225608


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We often hear the term, "a picture is worth a thousand words"
Even history tells us, pictures were used to tell stories from the past (just ask the caveman drawing the hieroglyphics). A picture seems to help us interpret information easier, so why not turn numbers and data into pictures in order to help us visualize what story the information is telling us.
An infographic is exactly that - a visual representation of complex information. To get more specific, these terms may be more familiar to you that fit under the "infographic umbrella" - Data Visualization, Information Design, Editorial Infographics. You may ask, how is this different than a pie chart? A bar graph? What about a organizational chart? Or a time line? It isn't different, it is all of that and more. An infographic uses several data sets to communicate complex ideas. It considers design and creative concepts. To me (and mind you I just came up with this analogy)... a brilliant infographic is the masterpiece of an expert statistician and a creative designer.
There has been a recent explosion of interest on this topic (according to Google Trends, infographic trending information wasn't even available pre-2009 and now there's 30,900,000 results returned). I personally believe it is due to the immense amount of data that is shared with us on a day to day basis, the millions of facts and figures that are thrown at us, and us trying to keep track of it all. There is a demand to represent all this information in a visually stimulating image but yet tell us a compelling story.
I have developed an interest in this topic in the last year - primarily due to my statistics background and the love I have for design. I've been blessed with the opportunity to create infographics for LOGiQ3. By no means am I an expert, therefore I lean on several web resources to assist me with expanding my knowledge in this area, I'd like to share a few notable ones with you.
Piktochart - simple infographic editor, web-based, very reasonably priced, and extremely easy to use in terms of functionality. For those who have limited budgets and limited access to graphic designers, this is the place to go.
Visual.ly - collection of infographics and data visualizations uploaded by the Visual.ly community. They also offer paid services to create an infographic for you.
Co.Design - Fast Company's Design website, it's Fast Company, what more can I say? I enjoy this article on 10 Steps To Designing An Amazing Infographic.
Cool Infographics - A collection of cool infographics! People are starting to use Infographics as resumes - 16 Infographic Resumes, A Visual Trend.
Ted Video - always a good source of videos on trending topics.
These are of course just a few favourites I'd like to share, there are tons of other resources to help you with your infographic journey (again if you search in Google, there are 30,900,000 results!).
Though tools and blogs are a great way to get you started, however, the key is to understand your data sets well, figure out what trends you want to present, and let your creative juices flow!
The next time you need to make a presentation or tell a story based from data sets, try creating an engaging infograph to help you get your message across.
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The number of people collecting employment insurance benefits in the Ottawa-Gatineau region fell again in March, reflecting a downward trend across the country.
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Figures released by Statistics Canada show the number of recipients on the Ottawa side of the region fell from 7,680 in March 2012 to 7,340 a year later, representing a 4.4 per cent drop.
The numbers were also down by 6.4 per cent in Gatineau, falling from 3,910 last year to 3,660 last month.
The seasonally-adjusted figures increased month-over-month, jumping 1.9 per cent in Ottawa and 3.1 per cent in Gatineau when compared to February 2013.
The number of people receiving EI benefits also fell nationally.
Statistics Canada says the number of recipients declined by 1.0 per cent or 5,200 people, to 523,700.
The number of beneficiaries was down 8.1 per cent compared with a year earlier.
All four Western provinces as well as Newfoundland and Labrador reported fewer beneficiaries in March, while there was little change in the other provinces.
To receive EI benefits, individuals must first submit a claim and the number of claims provides an indication of the number of people who could become beneficiaries.
The number of initial and renewal claims rose by 6,800 or three per cent to 230,700 in March, partly offsetting a decline observed the previous month.
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(Redirected from BASIC (programming language))
BASIC is one of the first programming languages ever to be created. It was first used as a programming language on console computers. The name is an acronym (a word made from other words) that spells Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code.
A specialized version of Basic is Bliz basic. It is specially for coding games.[1]
History[change | change source]
It was designed by John Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz in 1963. It was made to follow these eight principles:
- Be easy for beginners to use
- Be a general-purpose programming language
- Allow extra features to be added for experienced programmers.
- Be interactive
- Provide clear and friendly error messages
- Fast results for small programs
- Does not require knowledge about computer hardware
- Stop the user from editing the operating system
The creators made the compiler free of charge to make programmers interested in using the language. Since the creation, a large number of compilers have been made so users can make their programs.
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Kingdom | Phylum | Class | Order | Family |
Animalia | Arthropoda | Insecta | Lepidoptera | Nymphalidae |
Scientific Name: | Pseudochazara cingovskii | |||
Species Authority: | Gross, 1973 | |||
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Red List Category & Criteria: | Critically Endangered B1ab(iii,v)+2ab(iii,v) ver 3.1 |
Year Published: | 2010 |
Date Assessed: | 2009-01-29 |
Assessor(s): | van Swaay, C., Wynhoff, I., Verovnik, R., Wiemers, M., López Munguira, M., Maes, D., Sasic, M., Verstrael, T., Warren, M. & Settele, J. |
Reviewer(s): | Lewis, O. (Butterfly RLA) & Cuttelod, A. (IUCN Red List Unit) |
Justification: This species occurs in one location only, near Pletvar in the FYR of Macedonia. The total distribution area is less than 1.5 km². The population size is possibly below 10,000 specimens in bad years. The population is in decline because of habitat destruction by quarrying. This species is therefore considered as Critically Endangered at the European level. It is absent from the EU27 state members and is therefore assessed as Not Evaluated at the EU27 level. |
Range Description: | This species occurs only in the Pletvar Massif near Prilep in the FYR of Macedonia, between 1,000-1,200 m elevation. This is a European endemic species. |
Countries occurrence: | Native: Macedonia, the former Yugoslav Republic of |
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Range Map: | Click here to open the map viewer and explore range. |
Population: | This is a local species, restricted to (semi-) natural areas. Declines in distribution or population size of 6-30% have been reported from FYR of Macedonia (data provided by the national partners of Butterfly Conservation Europe). The population size is possibly below 10,000 specimens in bad years. | ||
Current Population Trend: | Decreasing | ||
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Habitat and Ecology: | The Macedonian Grayling inhabits dry, limestone rocks with grassy vegetation here and there. It has one generation a year. Habitats: dry calcareous grasslands and steppes (100%). |
Systems: | Terrestrial |
Use and Trade: | All butterflies are collected to some extent, but only for the extremely rare species it can be a problem and the trade in Europe is generally at a low level compared to other continents. There is no specific trade information for this species. |
Major Threat(s): | This is a European endemic, restricted to one location globally. The area of habitat for the species is shrinking due to active quarries. Without any intervention the species is critically threatened with extinction. |
Conservation Actions: | The most urgent action is the protection of the remaining habitat from further destruction by quarrying. Research is also needed on the ecology and habitat requirements of the species to ensure that a proper management plan can be drawn up to prevent the species from becoming extinct. The effects of the management should be monitored closely by Butterfly Monitoring Schemes. |
Citation: | van Swaay, C., Wynhoff, I., Verovnik, R., Wiemers, M., López Munguira, M., Maes, D., Sasic, M., Verstrael, T., Warren, M. & Settele, J. 2010. Pseudochazara cingovskii. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2010: e.T160595A5373226. . Downloaded on 30 March 2017. |
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CAPSTONE was the name of a US Government project to develop a set of standards for publicly-available cryptography, as authorized by the Computer Security Act of 1987. It envisioned the use of the Clipper chip (an integrated circuit -- the Mykotronx, Inc. MYK-82 -- with a Type II cryptographic processor containing crypto functions for e-mail applications using Skipjack, KEA, DSA, SHA, and basic mathematical functions to support asymmetric cryptography). It also included the key escrow feature of the Clipper chip.
The Clipper chip failed commercially, and is no longer manufactured.


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Growing up we were taught that the truth must prevail and that there is right and wrong. However, as I travel around the world I have witnessed many realities that have clashed with what we have come to believe in the West. If the opposite of right is wrong then shouldn't the opposite of the 'truth' be a 'lie'? Therefore, if we are not telling the 'truth' then we are lying. Yet most if not all of us shutter at the thought that we would ever lie.
Let me illustrate by way of real life experiences here in China. Okay, not once, not twice, not even three times but MANY times we have been called fat by friends and strangers alike. From our vantage point, being called fat is not great for anyone's ego especially a women/lady/girl. This is where the problem with 'political correctness' comes up. We have been trained never to say anything that would hurt someone's ego so words like fail, lose, wrong, fat etc should not be used. However, being here in China has highlighted a major problem with this policy of political correctness.
When we have been called 'fat' (I'm guessing they meant big - that's nicer!) we have been very offended to the point of lashing back with rolling eye balls or thinking bad thoughts about this person. Janice and I have wondered how to best handle this situation as it has happened several times. Although we disagree on how to best handle this situation we agree that we want to protect our children from being hurt.
I must admit I was hurt the first few times being called 'fat' but because everyone here is only a fraction of my size and weight and I have to buy XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXL shirts and pants (that are still tight) I have had to come to the conclusion that I am fat (relative to the billion people around me). Janice and Sabrina have great difficulty finding clothes that fit them as they are both off the size charts here. Sabrina and I have great difficulty finding shoes that fit too.
However, Janice kept telling herself and our children not to listen and/or believe what they heard. It was better to deny what was being said than to even consider the possibility of truth. I saw clearly how difficult it was not only to discount the fact that someone thinks you are fat but then how to keep that thought out of your head so you don't think about it. It doesn't help either when smiling clothing shop workers (thinking they are going to make a sale) grab a handful of fat on your side and say "you need fat size. We not have here!"
I would like all our children, Janice and myself not to worry so much what others think and say about us but more importantly what we think about ourselves. If we eat moderately healthy and get exercise everyday then what we look like is what we look like and that has to be good enough.
Just yesterday at the English Talent show that Sabrina was asked to co-host she was told by someone what she should do better. Even though she did a great job and was told so by a dozen other people she was hurt by that one person. We talked about it at dinner and instead of being politically correct and tell her not to listen to this person but rather if what was said was right/true then learn from it and if it was wrong/false forget it.
Too often now we live in such a sterile world that we become less and less authentic with one another and with that we lose who we are and what we have to offer the world because we are afraid to hurt or get hurt. I'm not suggesting being nasty to people but if we are not afraid to be told the truth than the truth when told will not hurt so much.
We give tests at schools now that students can keep taking until they get the grade they want. Had I been going to school now I would not have failed grade two (referred to as being held back) but then again I would not have known that I did not meet the grade standard. I deserved to fail and so I did. I knew I had to work harder to pass and so I did and that 'extra work/effort' has paid off over time. You will never know what you are capable of until you have tried your best ................and yes failed sometimes!
We are who we think we are. If we put more value in what others think of us than what does that say about what we think of ourselves? (hint: not much!)
Point: If it is true....... learn from it. If it is false .......forget it !!
� Janice has really taken to getting in shape
� Living in Canada we saw most of this area as a dark and bad place but now living in China and watching the news from back home it is almost unbelievable what happens. The violent and senseless crimes are a daily occurrence (Six injured after pellet gun shooting in Burnaby) as we listen/watch the news from home.
� It is illegal to have a gun in China so you don't hear or see the violent crimes that take place back home. Government control is one thing but when it is no longer safe to walk outside your own home a better solution has to be sought.
� We sometimes leave our apartment door ajar so the kids can get in and out easily but building security will come by and ask us to lock our door. They don't do this because theft is a big problem but rather a deterrent. Every building has security and video cameras and so you feel very safe and secure.
� Janice and I used a fork each for the first time in three months when we went out on a date to the Holiday Inn. (no injuries reported)
� Time is limited and labour is cheap. I met a (40ish) CEO of a 5 star hotel who has to have a Mercedes car and driver pick him up (at our building) everyday because he is too busy to get his driver's license.


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Awesome. How does the bass compare between the 2? I'm currently enjoying my PS1000's with moon audio black dragon cable upgrade. I recently placed an order for some new tubes for my WA6SE, GZ34 Telefunken, and GZ34 Mullard Fat Bottom, 6FD7's, 6DE7s, 6DN7's. I'm very excited to start my rolling project to maximize this setup.
I have the black dragon upgrade too on my PS1000. I will pop them on shortly and let you know heh heh, what sort of music do you listen to?
I have a pair of Mullard GZ34 too, work great with the PS1000 and anything really. Have found that the Shuggy CV181 works well to tame the PS1000 highs.


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These all-day seminars were held at the Creative Life Center in Sedona, Arizona. In this series, Dr. Hawkins presents the necessary information and steps to follow to reach the state of Enlightenment. This one focuses on transcending spiritual barriers. He calibrates the truth of the statements made during each lecture.
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Over 11 days last September, 169 homes burned across 6,200 acres outside Boulder. Damages totaled more than $210 million, making the Fourmile fire the costliest in Colorado's history. For Rod Moraga, the Minniear family, Chris and Brian Finn, Dennis Crawford — and hundreds like them — their lives would never be the same.
7 p.m. Logan Mill Road
Dennis Crawford lifted his shovel and cut a line in the dirt along the hillside off Logan Mill Road, a couple of hundred feet north of his house. Small fires flared in the waist-high grass around him; winds blew embers off the canyon on his right and from the pine trees directly in front of him. His thighs burned from the work. He'd been on the hillside for nearly five hours, scattering shovels of earth atop the spot fires sparking around him. Left scrape-swish, left scrape-swish. Right scrape-swish, right scrape-swish. Back, scrape, scrape, scrape.
Below Dennis' position in the grass, Rod Moraga's house was fully engulfed. Up Wild Turkey Trail, Dennis could hear shattering glass and collapsing steel. It sounded like planes were crashing into the mountains. Dennis was sure his friends Pat and Karen Minniear had lost everything.
Under a layer of smoke, the sky darkened faster than usual. The last bit of daylight pierced the haze; the only steady light was glowing off the canyon wall. Dennis stopped to admire its awe-inspiring beauty. He sank his shovel into the ground. Sweat covered his back and ran into his blue jeans. His rear end stung. He was getting diaper rash. He needed a break.
Dennis put down the shovel, walked through the woods, then another 100 feet down his driveway to his house. The power was out. His home looked lifeless in the dimming light.
Dennis went inside, turned on a gas lantern, and pulled out the salmon he'd stored in his cooler. He turned on the burner on his stove, lit a match, cracked six eggs, and cooked an omelet. He opened the refrigerator and pulled out a beer. He popped open the can and stood alone in the shadows of his kitchen.
After finishing his omelet and beer, Dennis put on safety glasses and mismatched leather gloves and went back up his driveway to the tall grass. Left scrape-swish, left scrape-swish. Right scrape-swish, right scrape-swish.
With the ground fire beaten back, Dennis thought he'd be safe for several hours—enough time to get some sleep. The canyon wall was still a mountain of flames, but he couldn't do anything about that. He returned to his house and climbed the stairs to his bedroom. He figured it must be nearing 1 a.m. He stripped off his sweaty shirt and fell asleep in his jeans.
4:30 p.m. Gold Hill
It was time to evacuate. Chris Finn began lining Main Street with fire trucks. He thought he was looking at his town for the last time.
He led the convoy of fire equipment up the street and then left down Lickskillet Road. The trucks would stop about a mile away and fill up at a creek that ran along Lefthand Canyon Drive. From there, the firefighters would wait until fire swept over Gold Hill, then race back up the road and put out whatever they could before a secondary burn could level the town.
Chris' brother Brian started his pickup's engine and looked out the windshield. There must have been 20 people standing on a high point off Main Street. Brian drove 50 feet up the road and stopped. There was no way he could leave. He needed to watch the town burn, needed to be with it at its worst moment. He got out and looked down the empty street. Brian watched the flag outside his restaurant blowing in the wind. It had been straight out all afternoon, but now it was slowly dropping. He stared at it for a few moments, watching it flap lazily.
Brian heard a buzz overhead. It wasn't the fire; it sounded like a humming engine. A white plane with at least a dozen lights on its wings broke through the smoke—behind it was an orange and white four-propeller bomber. It was happening so fast. Brian's chest tightened. The bomber swooped a few hundred feet above the burning hillside and banked toward Gold Hill. A spray of reddish-orange mud dropped from its undercarriage—a perfect line of retardant on the fire and on the houses closest to the flames. Then the planes disappeared back into the smoke.
The news broke over Chris' emergency radio as he waited along the creek. He ordered the firefighters who had filled their tanks back to the town, and he told those who were still filling up to finish loading before heading into Gold Hill. The firefighters rolled up Lickskillet and passed by Brian.
Chris jumped out of his truck and was dumbfounded. The flames had been knocked down mere feet from the edge of town. This might actually work, he thought.
6 p.m. Logan Mill Road / Boulder
Rod Moraga steered his SUV up his driveway and saw the roof on the ground. The house looked like a bonfire, collapsed in the middle, the framework a burning skeleton.
All he could think was that all of his stuff was burning and that he'd never see any of it again. He stood there a few minutes, then took a photo and some video with his phone.
Rod turned out of the driveway and eventually made it to his friend's house in Boulder, where his family was staying. Shari and Joaquin were out on the front lawn. Rod parked his SUV and Shari started to run toward him. When she reached Rod, she wrapped her hands around her husband's neck and began kissing his face. Rod held his wife for a moment and then scooped his young son up in his arms. He pulled his boy tightly against his chest and started to cry.
September 7, 2010, 6:25 a.m., Logan Mill Road
Dennis Crawford woke up to the sound of fire crackling across the road and bolted for the window overlooking his poppies. The smoke outside was thicker than the day before. He threw on his boots, put on a long-sleeve shirt, grabbed his shovel, and raced through the kitchen and out the back door. He looked up the driveway as he ran: There were 40-foot flames directly across the road. Charcoal-colored smoke was billowing right in front of him.
In a few seconds, he reached the top of his driveway. The back of Don Witte's garage was on fire. Dennis climbed the hillside in front of Don's property and yanked the sleeves of his shirt over his forearms. Ground fires were picking up everywhere, some just inches from Don's house.
Junked parts were strewn across the property—nuts, bolts, old exercise equipment. Smoke blew darker from the garage. Don's old computers were burning. Dennis didn't want to get too close and breathe whatever was in that smoke.
He put himself between the garage and the house on his right. Dennis dug some dirt, flinging it around him and snuffing out patches of flames before they got closer. Spot fires smoldered around him. He rushed to another side of Don's house. Flaming pinecones rolled down the hill like mini-grenades, igniting dead pine needles. Dennis scraped away underbrush. He tried urinating on the pinecones, but he was too dehydrated. Dennis threw more dirt. More fire. More dirt. More fire. Scrape-swish. Scrape-swish.
Dennis dropped the shovel, grabbed a couple of buckets, ran across the street and continued down the hillside behind his house, past the rock retaining wall, to the creek a few dozen yards below his property. Dennis dunked the buckets into the creek and tried to lift them. Too heavy. He poured some water out, then climbed up the hill back to his house, stumbling over rocks, careful not to spill. He speed-walked back to Don's place. Dennis struggled for air. He barely stopped before throwing the buckets of water on top of a pocket of flames closest to the house. The fire went out with a hiss and a trail of white smoke.
Dennis raised his arms above his head and let out a victorious scream. Then he ran back down the hill to get more water.


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Despite star junior Dana Finkelstein's 1-over-par 73 and senior Demi Mak's 2-over 74, UNLV struggled in the opening round of the Mountain West women's golf championships Thursday at Rancho Mirage, Calif. The Rebels came in at 15-over 303, 10 shots behind first-round leader San Diego State.
Finkelstein overcame two early bogeys in her round to make the turn at even par at Mission Hills Country Club's Dinah Shore Championship Course. But she made bogey at the par-5, 496-yard No. 11 and was unable to get that shot back. Mak was even through 14 holes but made a bogey at the par-4, 351-yard 15th, then finished her round with a bogey at the par-5, 521-yard No. 18. The other UNLV scores that counted toward the team total were freshman Avery French's 5-over 77 and junior Mayko Chwen Wang's 7-over 79.
The Aztecs hold a one-shot lead over San Jose State, which had a team-total of 6-over 294 and the Aztecs are two shots in front of third-place New Mexico as the Lobos finished at 295. Boise State and Fresno State are tied for fourth heading into today's second round at 296.


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A DOUBLE murderer stabbed notorious child killer Roy Whiting in the eye twice because he was "a dirty little nonce", a court heard today.
Powerfully-built Gary Vinter, 42, picked a high profile target in July 2011 because he wanted to change the conditions in which he was held at Wakefield jail, West Yorkshire.
Whiting, a convicted sex offender sentenced to life in prison in 2001 for the murder of eight-year-old Sarah Payne, received emergency care following the attack in his cell and has made a full recovery.
Vinter appeared via a videolink from Long Lartin Prison, Worcestershire, before Mr Justice Openshaw sitting at Newcastle Crown Court.
After hearing Andrew Kershaw, prosecuting, give an explanation for the gruesome attack, Vinter said: "He was a dirty little nonce. That's why I did it."
Vinter, from Middlesbrough, sneaked into Whiting's cell and used a sharpened plastic toilet brush handle to stab Whiting in both eyes.
On the second stabbing the tip of the weapon broke leaving a piece of plastic in this victims eye socket, Mr Kershaw said.
Vinter then kicked and punched Whiting as he lay on the floor, before he left the cell.
The double murderer later told prison authorities the only reason Whiting was still alive is he got tired during the attack, Mr Kershaw said.
Mr Kershaw had said there was no evidence of any animosity between the two.
"They had not spoken," he said. "They had only been on the same wing at Wakefield Prison for a few days."
But Vinter, who is serving a whole life sentence after murdering a workmate in 1996 and his estranged wife in 2008, picked out Whiting for his notoriety, the court heard.
"It was a cold-blooded premeditated attack intending to maim at least.
"It was calculated to manipulate the prison authorities into changing the conditions under which he was detained," Mr Kershaw said.
He told officers he had tried to kill Whiting, that as a natural life prisoner he had no hope and he had warned the authorities he would target a high-profiler.
Whiting told the authorities how Vinter burst into his cell.
In a statement read out in court, he said: "I was immediately punched and hit to the right eye and nose area and it made me stagger into the cell wall.
"I then felt a second punch or blow to the left side.
"Following the second blow I was aware of a severe pain in my eye and my vision was now blurred in my left eye.
"I slid down the walls to the floor and I raised my arms to defend myself but felt further kicks and punches."
Whiting was treated at Pinderfields Hospital where he received stitches in his eye lids and the shard of plastic was removed.
The court heard after three months of blurred vision in his left eye, he has made a full recovery apart from some numbness to the area.
Vinter admitted wounding with intent at a previous hearing and was given an indefinite sentence, with a notional minimum term of five years.
Mr Justice Openshaw said Vinter chose his victim because he was a notorious child murderer and an aggravating factor of the offence was Whiting's vulnerability.
He added: "There is no regret or remorse, on the contrary, the defendant derived and continues to derive considerable satisfaction from having committed this offence."
After sentencing Vinter said: "Thank you very much judge, it has been a pleasure."
Vinter is appealing against his full life term before European Human Rights judges at the end of this month.
In 1996 Vinter was jailed for life for murdering Carl Edon, 22, a railway signalman.
He was released from prison in 2006 after serving a 10-year minimum term.
He was recalled to prison for his part in a pub brawl and then went on to murder his wife Anne White, 40, in a chilling offence four years ago.
He had followed her around Middlesbrough pubs, then had her kidnapped to his mothers house where he stabbed her to death having failed in his attempt to strangle her.


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The deteriorating military situation has also caused economic problems for Thieu. The NLF forces have control of most of the food-supply routes into the larger cities and towns and have caused food shortages for the Saigon regime since March, 1972, as reported by Reuter on January 1, 1973. Food shortages have caused inflation in Saigon-held areas, and according to the Agence France Presse report of January 3, 1973, the Saigon regime again devalued its piasters on December 30, 1972. This was the sixth time in five months that the Saigon regime had to devalue its currency.
To help Thieu out the United States will have to pump more money into South Vietnam by hook or by crook. In case of a ceasefire agreement, the withdrawal of American troops from Vietnam will mean the loss of precious dollars for Thieu. Japan's economic aid to Thieu at the present time is substantial but it cannot keep him going. Despite the recent announcement by Japan's Foreign Minister on January 17 that Japan would extend "emergency economic aid to Indochina as rapidly as possible after a ceasefire in the Vietnam war" (New York Times, January 18, 1973), it is doubtful that this would solve Thieu's problem without increased American aid.
From the political, economic, and military standpoints it is clear that Thieu will try to sabotage the ceasefire agreement as best as he can. Thieu also knows that the United States is most reluctant to get rid of him. "Trust me," Nixon is reported to have written in a letter to Thieu that accompanied General Haig during his last trip to Saigon. What else did Nixon write in that letter that commands Thieu's trust?
There is a great difference between diplomatic maneuvers and political realities. The optimistic rumors and the temporary suspension of the bombing over North Vietnam may only be moves to try to bolster the weak diplomatic positions of the United States and the Saigon regime. By appearing to be seriously working for peace, the United States hopes that the blame for any future break-down of the peace talks could be shifted to "the other side." Also, anti-war efforts on the part of the American people could lose momentum so that when Nixon faces the American people with another fait accompli (such as the systematic destruction of the dikes that this writer discussed in a previous article in the Phoenix) the reaction would be weak and belated.
In the very near future (perhaps on Inauguration day) Nixon may find it expedient to announce a unilateral ceasefire over all of South Vietnam, in which allied troops would not fire unless fired upon. Since the political situation in Vietnam will not be resolved by such an announcement, the National Liberation Forces will continue with their operations. But the United States might have fooled enough people into thinking that the NLF is the "enemy;" that they will fail to see the true enemies of peace, Nixon and Thieu.
It is still premature to talk of a peace agreement. Pressures from all possible angles will have to be exerted on Nixon, especially by the American people, until an agreement is signed. After that, pressures will have to be continued in a sustained manner to make sure that Nixon does not sabotage the agreement and continue to intervene in Vietnamese affairs.
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1968 Winter Games: Previous Winter Games ▪ Next Winter Games
Host City: Grenoble, France
Date Started: February 9, 1968
Date Finished: February 9, 1968
Events: 8
Participants: 129 (86 men and 43 women) from 19 countries
Youngest Participant: Dianne Holum (16 years, 267 days)
Oldest Participant: Franz Krienbühl (38 years, 329 days)
Most Medals (Athlete): 7 athletes with 2 medals
Most Medals (Country): Netherlands (9 medals)
The 1968 speed skating events were held at the Speed Rink, built at the Parc Paul Mistral specifically for the Grenoble Winter Olympics. The rink was outdoors but was built with artificial ice. Since the 1968 Winter Olympics, six other major tournaments have been conducted there, beginning with the 1969 Women's World Championships. But the last two tournaments were the 1981 World Sprints and the 1979 World Juniors and it has not been used internationally since, although a few national events were contested there in the early 1990s.
There was no dominant skater in 1968, as there often is at a Winter Olympics, such as 1964, when [Lidiya Skoblikova] won all four women's gold medals, or in 1972, when [Ard Schenk] would win three of the four men's gold medals. Both Skoblikova and Schenk were in Grenoble competing, but Skoblikova was past her prime, and Schenk had not yet reached his.


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- Peel sweet potatoes. Cut in half and then into cubes approximately 2 inches (5 cm) each. Add to the bottom of the crock of slow cooker.
- Top with chicken thighs.
- Slice mushrooms, dice onions and mince garlic. Scatter over chicken and sweet potatoes.
- Pour over white wine and sprinkle with dried rosemary, salt and pepper.
- Cover and cook on LOW 6-8 hours (HIGH 3-4 hours). Thirty minutes before completion scatter over frozen green peas. Cover and continue cooking.
- To serve, place chicken and sweet potatoes on a platter. Scatter with chopped parsley. Pour juices into a dish and serve on the side as au jus.
If you use boneless chicken thighs there will be a shorter cooking time.
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westcoaster11 months ago
I used boneless skinless thighs, in heavy pot on stove top, two hours on low. Delish.
Heike S11 months ago
Would you increase the cooking time if I used boneless chicken breasts?
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Those eggs look amazing... are they chocolate? What is the outside made of? I have so many questions!Glad you've had a good break :)
Hope you're having a nice break too, Tess. Yes, they're plain chocolate but with coloured outsides. So lovely!
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Carolina Panthers quarterback Cam Newton has to be the most nervous that left tackle Jordan Gross has retired.
For three years he's had a Pro Bowl player protecting his blind side -- the reason left tackles are such a high-priced commodity. Now he blindly awaits who that player will be.
Unless somebody unexpectedly steps up, the Panthers don't have that player on their roster. That means Newton will be relying on somebody acquired in free agency or through the draft.
Here's a breakdown of the possibilities:
Existing players: Not a lot of great options when you consider this player has to protect the franchise quarterback. Right tackle Byron Bell possibly could switch sides, but he's shaky at best. Maybe this will help explain: Pro Football Focus gave Gross a rating of 33.5 this past season; Bell got a minus-2.8. It wouldn't surprise if Bell is replaced on the right side. Free agent Bruce Campbell spent some time at left tackle, but that didn't really work out. Nate Chandler moved from the defensive line to tackle a few years ago, and finished this past season as the starting right guard due to a rash of injuries. He played well, too. It might be asking too much for him to move to tackle, although Carolina once turned tight end Matt Campbell into a pretty good left tackle during the 1990s after a lot of trips to Krispy Kreme to bulk up.
Free agency: The big question here is how much the Panthers want to spend. A top-flight left tackle is expensive, and they have a lot of other needs to fill with 21 unrestricted free agents. In all likelihood, they'll look for an up-and-comer they can get for a reasonable price regardless of what they do in the draft. It's really a pretty good year with quite a few good tackles about to hit the market in Baltimore's Michael Oher and Eugene Monroe, Kansas City's Branden Albert, St. Louis' Austin Howard, Cincinnati's Anthony Collins and Oakland's Jared Veldheer. Albert you can probably forget about based on his last contract.
The draft: The good news is this is one of the deepest drafts at tackle in years. Some might argue you can get help in the middle rounds. The bad news is you probably can't get a potentially sure-fire starter outside the first round, and the top three -- Auburn's Greg Robinson, Michigan's Taylor Lewan and Texas A&M's Jake Matthews -- should be gone when Carolina drafts at No. 28. They are by far the cream of the crop. That leaves candidates such as Virginia's Morgan Moses, Alabama's Cyrus Kouandjio, Tennessee's Antonio Richardson, North Carolina's James Hurst, Tennessee's Ja'Wuan James and Ohio State's Jack Mewhort as possibilities.
The dilemma: There are two. First, losing Gross means the Panthers almost have to find a way financially to keep defensive end Greg Hardy, whether it's with a long-term deal or the franchise tag. I believe they will. They can't afford to start over without cornerstones on the offensive and defensive line and hope to improve. Second, they still have a big need at wide receiver, particularly with Steve Smith's future somewhat up in the air. The good news is the wide receiver draft crop is just as deep if not deeper than the offensive line, so a potential starter could be had in the second round.


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Materials Head phones A tennis ball a speaker about the size of a tennisball Tools Hot glue gun a very sharp knife soldering iron solder
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He was a farmer, a businessman gone bankrupt, an unknown politician from Missouri who suddenly found himself president. Of all the men who had held the highest office, Harry Truman was the least prepared. But he would prove to be a surprise. Facing some of the biggest crises of the century, Truman would end the war with Germany, use the atomic bomb against Japan, confront an expanding Soviet Union and wage war in Korea -- all while the woman he adored, his wife Bess, refused to stay in the White House and play the role of First Lady. The story of the unlikely rise of a gritty American original.
Alonzo Hamby is a historian and professor specializing in President Harry Truman and 20th century United States history. AMERICAN EXPERIENCE interviewed Hamby about domestic issues during Truman's presidency.
There was a lot in Truman's background that mitigated against support of civil rights. He had, after all, come from a family that was basically Southern. He had ancestors who had been slaveholders. It soon was a pretty sure bet also that privately he believed that most blacks ere inferior to most whites, and I think it's fair to say that neither he nor Bess would have been pleased if Margaret had brought Sidney Poitier home for dinner.
But he also came from a background that said, everyone deserved an equal chance in life. And once you had begun to define blacks as part of the body politic, then you had to extend that equal chance to them. And he acted on this intuition, which ultimately was far more important to him than whatever he felt about racial superiority or inferiority.
When Harry Truman became president, civil rights were just beginning to develop as a major national issue. Several things had happened. There'd been a big movement of the black vote into the Democratic Party in the 1930s. This is a constituency that Truman could not ignore, and it was a constituency that he needed to appeal to because they'd come into the party because of Roosevelt and the New Deal. There was no guarantee that blacks were going to vote for any Democratic candidate who followed Roosevelt. On the other hand, the Southern contingent in the party, of course, still operated in an atmosphere in which blacks were not even able to vote in one Southern state after another. Rigid segregation was taken for granted in every aspect of American life.
So there's a great conflict here and politically Truman has to choose as he is he going to go with the South? Which he has some emotional relationship to. Or is he going to go with the Northern liberals and the black constituency and the civil rights program they favor? There's no easy answer to this question for him, because he stands to make a significant proportion of the party mad at him whatever he does. The political advantages are by no means as clear as they might seem to be in retrospect. I think he decides he's going to do the right thing, and the right thing is to take the stand he does on civil rights.
Which is to, first of all, appoint a commission to study the issue. He does this in the fall of 1946. One of the reasons that he does it has been that there were numerous instances of violence against returning black veterans, some of them still in uniform. He clearly was horrified by this. He thought it was a very, very bad thing. The commission he appointed was stacked with liberals. It returns a report about a year later called "To Secure These Rights," which recommends a comprehensive civil rights program. After a little bit of hesitation, Truman, in early 1948, sends his comprehensive civil rights bill up to Capitol Hill. He also takes some other action. He gives the Justice Department the go-ahead to file supporting briefs in court cases with the NAACP.
To describe the Southern reaction, fury might be a tame word. Truman lost an enormous amount of support in the South. Feelings there were quite emotional, quite bitter, in a way that it's hard to understand today, in an era when Southern politics have become biracial and even someone like Strom Thurmond has black people on his staff, advising him.
What is maybe more intriguing about is that there are a number of indications that the civil rights program didn't go over terribly well in large segments of the North, which Truman really had to worry about. After all, there were a lot of white Northern Democrats were not enthusiastic about racial integration. And while there are other ways to explain Truman's decline in popularity in early 1948, I think it's fair to say that the civil rights program that he sent to Congress had something to do with his low Gallup Poll ratings that spring. The political payoff was by no means apparent.
Truman starts out trying to support the major elements of the liberal constituency on reconversion. He gives the labor unions more or less a hunting license to go out and negotiate large increases with management. Ah, he supports price controls, but there's another side of him also. Here's a man who has a background as a small businessman, so that, ah, he doesn't have a feeling that unions are a hundred percent right. He, ah, as a small businessman, has a certain level of distrust of price controls. So the -- the result is that when the unions ask for 30 percent wage increases and business says, "We've gotta have equivalent price increases to finance this," ah, the government winds up backing off trying to look for compromises. The labor unions especially get upset. They feel the Administration's deserting them. They expect a hundred percent backing from a Democratic President. So throughout late 1945 and into 1946, Truman's estrangement from the labor leadership, here's a constituency absolutely crucial to the Democratic Party, grows until some leaders are saying he's anti-labor.
I think maybe his biggest mistakes are tactical. He doesn't give a country any sense of direction. He seems to be going, ah, back and forth. He gives the appearance of being unable to deal with all the economic problems of reconversion and he comes to be the person that the unions blame for not being able to get the large wage settlements that they had wanted, that consumers blame when they can't go into a store and buy what they want, and that a public fed up with one strike after another blames for labor disorder.
Whatever he does, it's not going to please everybody who's associated with the Democratic Party. And he is sort of caught up in the divisions among different constituencies that he needs to appeal to. Ah, if you go all the way with labor, then the, ah, the Southern Democrats, the more conservative Democrats in general, are going to be very unhappy with you. And he's sort of trapped in this mode and he's not able to emerge as a decisive leader until the Democrats lose control of Congress. And then he can sound tough and decisive, ah, particularly since by that time he's done away with the economic management apparatus with price controls, rationing altogether as a result of the 1946 election.
Well, once the Democrats have lost control of Congress in 1946, Truman no longer has to worry about leading a Democratic majority in Congress. Ah, moreover, by this point, price controls, rationing have been phased out. The economy's been de-controlled. So he's no longer responsible for this impossible job of trying to manage it so that we have a smooth reconversion. And, as a matter of fact, if the economy goes badly, particularly if there's a lot of inflation, ah, he can blame in on the Republicans, who were the most vociferous opponents of price controls, anyway. A lot of things are no longer as pinnable on him as they had been.
Well, Independence was very much an upper South county seat town. The bulk of its residents were people who had immigrated to Missouri from Kentucky, mostly before the Civil War. I think you particularly get a sense of the provincial character of the town in its race relations, which were quite fascinating. The black population was basically a servant class. Most of the local whites were quite paternalistic. They were convinced that their blacks were "good folks." Occasionally, if you're reading the Independence paper in the early 20th century, you'll read about an armed hold-up late at night perpetrated by a black person. It's always believed this is someone who came over from Kansas City and has disappeared back into Kansas City. "Our blacks would never do anything like that."
This was the atmosphere that Harry Truman grew up in. It was a sense of race relations that that he had. The Truman family had a couple of black servants, sort of hired hands, a woman who did some of the house work and cooking for them, a man who helped out with the livestock business, gardening, yard work, and the like. They obviously felt very paternalistic toward this black couple and years later when Harry Truman is president and one of the children of this couple is having a hard time, he tells an aide to make sure that this person's "taken care of" and that he gets whatever's coming to him in the way of public assistance, among other things. So I think with today's consciousness, that's particularly one aspect of Independence that hits people very quickly and very directly.
More broadly speaking, Independence was a fairly homogenous community. It was kind of protypical white Anglo-Saxon Protestant in its overall make-up and, as some residents of turn of the century Independence remember it, you had a rough class system that sort of went along the lines of church membership with the Episcopalians and the Presbyterians at the top, with the Southern Baptists, which was the church of Harry Truman's parents, somewhere in the middle, and then down at the bottom the relatively small population of Catholics, and maybe even less regarded than the Catholics in those days, the Latter Day Saints whose families had settled in Independence before the Civil War period and who had not made the trek out to Utah with the bulk of the Mormons, but who'd stayed there to establish what we know today as the reorganized Church of Latter Day Saints.
This was kind of the Independence class system. There was no cosmopolitanism here. That was for sure. Basically the working assumptions, presuppositions of the white upper South, Protestant South dominated the town and permeated the cultural atmosphere.
For 21 years, Chicago mayor Richard J. Daley ruled the city, building the Sears Tower and O'Hare Airport.
The story of a Russian immigrant and anarchist who is said to have inspired the assassination of President William McKinley.
A great playwright's turbulent story, from childhood through the years of his Nobel Prize-winning career to his lonely, painful death.
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America's first First Lady defined the role of the President's wife and in the process changed the face of the American presidency.
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- Stay away from downed power lines, and report them to the power company.
- Return home only when authorities indicate it is safe.
- Stay out of any building if it is surrounded by floodwaters.
- Use extreme caution when entering buildings; there may be hidden damage, particularly in foundations.
- Service damaged septic tanks, cesspools, pits, and leaching systems as soon as possible. Damaged sewage systems are serious health hazards.
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Definitions of loose
superl. - Unbound; untied; unsewed; not attached, fastened, fixed, or confined; as, the loose sheets of a book.
superl. - Free from constraint or obligation; not bound by duty, habit, etc. ; -- with from or of.
superl. - Not tight or close; as, a loose garment.
superl. - Not dense, close, compact, or crowded; as, a cloth of loose texture.
superl. - Not precise or exact; vague; indeterminate; as, a loose style, or way of reasoning.
superl. - Not strict in matters of morality; not rigid according to some standard of right.
superl. - Unconnected; rambling.
superl. - Lax; not costive; having lax bowels.
superl. - Dissolute; unchaste; as, a loose man or woman.
superl. - Containing or consisting of obscene or unchaste language; as, a loose epistle.
n. - Freedom from restraint.
n. - A letting go; discharge.
a. - To untie or unbind; to free from any fastening; to remove the shackles or fastenings of; to set free; to relieve.
a. - To release from anything obligatory or burdensome; to disengage; hence, to absolve; to remit.
a. - To relax; to loosen; to make less strict.
a. - To solve; to interpret.
v. i. - To set sail.
The word "loose" uses 5 letters: E L O O S.
Direct anagrams of loose:
Words formed by adding one letter before or after loose (in bold), or to eloos in any order:
b - oboles c - locoes d - loosed oodles soloed i - looies m - osmole n - loosen r - looser s - looses y - looeys
Shorter words found within loose:
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