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Wendy Greuel's Inside Game
Wendy Greuel on the campaign trail PHOTO BY TED SOQUI |
Brian D'Arcy has a lot riding on the race for L.A. mayor, which may be why he's staying out of sight. The last time he campaigned openly for something — a solar initiative — it failed, which is sort of amazing, given that solar energy polls at 80 percent. But that's Brian D'Arcy. He can make sunshine controversial.
As head of the IBEW Local 18 for two decades now, D'Arcy represents about 90 percent of the workers at the city's Department of Water and Power. DWP workers are notoriously well-compensated, and their boss is notoriously wired. D'Arcy earns $250,000 a year, according to IBEW tax returns — more than the mayor makes. (Add in benefits, and his compensation climbs to a whopping $324,000.)
D'Arcy led the union through a successful strike in 1993, and since then has been accumulating power and leverage with threats to do it again. He doles out six-figure contributions to his favored candidates. In 2005, he helped to elect Antonio Villaraigosa, who signed a lavish IBEW wage increase as one of his first acts in office.
Yet as the candidates for mayor crisscross the city, the boss of all bosses is lying low. He's not holding press conferences, not returning calls, not trying to bully reporters or impress them with his acid wit. This time around, the stakes are too high.
For one thing, Local 18 has a contract coming up in 2014. The next mayor will be on the other side of the bargaining table.
"Brian wants what he's always wanted — the highest of wages and the best working conditions for his members," says lobbyist Harvey Englander. "I don't think there's any ulterior motive."
But higher wages mean higher utility rates, which are not popular. Wage increases at DWP also put pressure on the city budget, because non-utility unions demand the same salaries as DWP workers. That demand, in fact, led to a costly 2007 contract with municipal workers, which nearly bankrupted the city when the recession hit in 2008.
Beyond the next contract lies the reality that the next mayor will have to transition the DWP to cleaner sources of energy. That transition could go in IBEW's favor or not, depending on a few key decisions: where power sources are located, for one, and whether to contract with private firms.
The top two mayoral contenders, City Councilman Eric Garcetti and City Controller Wendy Greuel, look the same on paper. Both voted for IBEW pay hikes. Their solar plans are identical down to the megawatt. Both have pledged that DWP will continue to own its power projects, instead of contracting out, which means that IBEW workers will continue to have jobs.
But in D'Arcy's eyes, there's no comparison. Greuel can be trusted. Garcetti cannot. D'Arcy's union has already put $250,000 behind Greuel's campaign, with more to come, maybe as much as $2 million.
Greuel has to hope it helps more than it hurts. Since the solar measure was defeated in 2009, D'Arcy has racked up an unblemished record of failure in council elections. Chris Essel. Forescee Hogan-Rowles. Pat McOsker. Thanks to him, all were tagged as City Hall insiders, and all lost.
Greuel is campaigning as a no-nonsense fiscal hawk. But the more IBEW and other unions, such as the Police Protective League, spend to get her elected, the harder it becomes for Greuel to make that case.
D'Arcy's support is by far the most controversial thing about the determinedly uncontroversial Greuel. It's no wonder her opponents have made it one of their key lines of attack.
If she loses the mayor's race, the D'Arcy factor may be largely to blame.
It's 7:45 a.m. at Wendy Greuel's two-story home on a cul-de-sac in Studio City, the start of another long day. There's a plastic playhouse in the front yard, along with a green "Wendy" sign.
The lead story in this morning's L.A. Times is about her — "Mayoral Circle Closes Around Greuel." It details all the Villaraigosa insiders backing her campaign and includes a memorable quote from candidate Kevin James, who says that Greuel will represent "Antonio Villaraigosa's third term."
In the car, Greuel, 51, glances at the headline. She's already read the story online but is surprised at the placement. She rarely speaks ill of anyone, but she is capable of the occasional tart observation. Most are off the record, but this one isn't: "That was a nothing story," she says.
Of the five candidates in the race, only two can plausibly claim to be outsiders: Kevin James, the Republican talk-radio host, and Emanuel Pleitez, the former Goldman Sachs employee who grew up in El Sereno, have scant institutional support.
The rest are all City Hall veterans, though they are compelled to distance themselves from it.
Jan Perry argues that she is no friend to the labor unions that control City Hall, but the three-term councilwoman is in lockstep with the business community. Garcetti's claim to be an outsider, meanwhile, rests to an increasing degree on the fact that most of the big endorsements are going to Greuel. She has the cops, the firefighters, the Assembly speaker and, of course, Brian D'Arcy. But Garcetti is no outsider. His father was district attorney. He has been on the council for a dozen years and was council president for six, which in some ways made him more powerful than the mayor.
Then there's Greuel. She argues she is outside the City Hall power structure because, for the last four years, she's been rooting out waste and inefficiencies from her perch as city controller. But in truth, no one is more of an insider. She practically grew up at City Hall. She went to work for Mayor Tom Bradley when she was 22 and stayed 10 years. Those years left a mark on her leadership style — careful, deliberate, risk-averse — and gave her an appreciation for the nitty-gritty of government.
On his drive to work, Bradley would look for potholes to fill. When Greuel became a councilwoman, she immediately did the same, branding herself "The Pothole Queen."
That back-to-basics approach seems to be what voters are looking for after eight years of a mayor whose lofty promises often turned out to be empty.
On the stump, Greuel frequently quotes the person who told her, "If you just pave Wilshire Boulevard, I'll vote for you for anything." It should be an easy promise to keep — starting in July, the city is set to repave four miles of Wilshire.
In any case, that seems to be a good read of the electoral mood: Don't try to inspire me, just pave my street. The challenge will be in convincing people that Greuel represents something different, not a continuation of the City Hall establishment.
On today's agenda, Greuel has debate prep at campaign headquarters in Van Nuys, then a stop at a firehouse before the day's big event: the opening of her West L.A. campaign office, with Sen. Barbara Boxer. Then a house party in Culver City, endorsement meetings in South L.A. and Encino, then home for dinner before heading out for more.
By this point, Greuel's work ethic is beyond question. She was a newly elected councilwoman when she gave birth to her son, Thomas, in 2003. She returned to City Hall after just 10 days, bringing a nanny to the council office to help care for her newborn. When her son was young, Greuel and her husband, literary agent Dean Schramm, hired two nannies, who worked in shifts.
Greuel's car is a Ford Escape hybrid that used to belong to Mayor Jim Hahn. Her driver today is a handsome, 24-year-old Texan named Jake. He looks like a model, which, it turns out, he is: He did catalog work before getting involved in politics.
Driving for Wendy Greuel means battling traffic 14 hours a day in an effort to keep the boss on schedule. Greuel sits in the passenger seat, dialing supporters, keeping one eye on the clock.
Greuel is not a natural speech-maker, and in debates she seems overly rehearsed. But in small groups, as at the firehouse, she is more at ease. "I piss somebody off every day as controller," she confides to the firefighters.
At the West L.A. event, she gives her speech before introducing Boxer, and the difference in styles is obvious. Boxer is a pro — poised, funny, in total control. By comparison, Greuel seems bound in a straitjacket of clichés. A representative sample: "As we stand here today, we need to talk about the future and to get our economy moving, to get those jobs, and to make sure that we are able to do that. ... We also need to look at our future, which is education."
Afterward, she takes pictures with supporters, holding a fixed smile and somebody's baby. To her right, just out of the camera frame, a large man with a dark jacket and stringy gray hair tries to get her attention.
"The sidewalks are insane to walk on!" he shouts. "It's insane! The curbs are not wheelchair-safe! I've been complaining for four years!" She tries to acknowledge him without messing up the picture, which means not moving her mouth or turning her head.
He is Dale Boren, 68, of San Pedro, a retired millwright. He's also a Greuel supporter. "She's found all the dang corruption and she's reporting it," he says. "The other candidate wants to cover it up. ... We gotta get something different going."
Asked about Villaraigosa, he says, "I'm not too fond of him. All the problems we got — we still got the problems."
At the house party, a guest brings up the L.A. Times article, asking in the politest way possible how to talk to friends about the charge that she represents Villaraigosa's third term.
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"It's much ado about nothing," she says. "You can tell them that Wendy's been an independent controller. I've done a lot of audits that don't make the mayor very happy."
Jack Humphreville has been hounding the DWP since 2007, when the utility proposed a rate increase. Since then, he's been banging out editorials lambasting D'Arcy as the "shadowy, public-be-damned business manager of the IBEW."
Humphreville, who writes the L.A. Watchdog blog for CityWatch, has not been impressed with Greuel's performance as controller. Her audits have taken a few shots at the utility's management team, but she has never challenged the IBEW. In fact, some of the criticisms of DWP management in her audits are shared by the union.
"The issue is not what she's done. It's what she hasn't done," Humphreville says. "She hasn't gone out there and raised hell."
Utility customers love to hate the DWP, especially in the Valley, where air-conditioning bills add up quickly. Disgruntled activists have long been convinced that rate hikes went straight into the pockets of Brian D'Arcy's overpaid workers. Humphreville was one of the early proponents of a ratepayer advocate, who could dig into the utility's books.
Those complaints went exactly nowhere until the DWP leadership made a strategic blunder and got into a nasty dispute with the council. After that episode, Garcetti started pushing for a ratepayer advocate, joined by colleagues who had grown frustrated with the difficulty of getting information from utility leadership.
It was easy to see why this was not in D'Arcy's interests. A ratepayer advocate might start to poke around, do salary surveys and conclude that DWP workers were, in fact, overpaid. So the union boss tried to kill it. He went to every council office to lobby against the idea.
Eventually, though, seeing the momentum behind the idea, D'Arcy offered a compromise. He would agree to the ratepayer advocate — if it were housed in the office of Controller Wendy Greuel. If she were running it, he would feel comfortable with it.
Greuel was not a fan of the ratepayer advocate plan, either. As controller, she had the power to audit the DWP. If anyone were to go poking around the department, it should be she, she argued. An advocate outside her office would, inevitably, dilute her power.
"We thought it was a good idea in the controller's office," Greuel says. "I'm the independent fiscal watchdog."
The mayor and council felt otherwise, largely because D'Arcy and Marvin Kropke, his close ally at IBEW Local 11, had spent $200,000 on an independent campaign to support Greuel in 2009.
Garcetti argues that putting the ratepayer advocate under Greuel's control would have "politicized that job."
"If you want an independent voice, it would be tough if you had independent expenditures from the union the ratepayer advocate needs to comment about," Garcetti says.
D'Arcy and Greuel lost that fight: The advocate was made independent. (D'Arcy did not return calls and emails seeking comment.)
Two years later, Fred Pickel, the ratepayer advocate, produced a report finding D'Arcy's workers make 26 percent more than similar workers at other utilities. Pickel also made a previously unspeakable suggestion: a 10 percent cut in labor costs.
That was bad for D'Arcy, but it didn't make Greuel look good, either. In all of her office's audits of the DWP, she had never made an issue of IBEW salaries.
"It was not transparent at all until this study was done," Pickel says. "It's something that needed to be taken into account."
Of course, no one took up Pickel's recommendation. As he toured council offices, he says, he was told, "Don't have high hopes."
Greuel would rather discuss just about anything other than Brian D'Arcy and the IBEW. She won't even mention his name if she can help it. When asked about the issue of IBEW salaries, she gives her practiced response: "That's someone separate and independent that has nothing to do with my campaign."
Pressed further, she says, "I have told him no, believe it or not, on many occasions. ... Whether you are a business leader or a labor leader, what you want in your mayor is someone who's going to be honest and fair, and that's all you can ask for."
The challenge for a labor leader is not getting pro-labor candidates elected. It's keeping them that way once they're in office. Eric Garcetti is as pro-labor as they come, but there's a reason City Hall union leaders are putting their money behind Greuel and not him: They don't feel they can trust him when the chips are down. An SEIU score sheet revealed by the L.A. Daily News and the L.A. Times gave Greuel a 4.5 out of 5 on the issue of collective bargaining — halfway between "pro-worker" and "strongly pro-worker." Garcetti got a 2.
In large part, that's because Garcetti was president of the City Council during the recession, which meant that he was responsible for laying off city workers. By that time, Greuel had left the council to become city controller, where she had only peripheral involvement in addressing the budget crisis. On one of the rare occasions on which she did weigh in, she wrote a letter arguing against layoffs.
"She was clean on a lot of these fights, where Eric wasn't," says former City Councilman Greig Smith.
But it also has to do with Garcetti's approach to politics. Both clever and ambitious, Garcetti is capable of leaving audiences with the impression that he agrees with them — without, at least in his mind, making a firm commitment.
The clearest example of this came on June 30, 2010. The city was set to lay off more than 230 employees at midnight. To the council's staunchest labor allies, this was an emergency on par with a natural disaster.
"Tomorrow the earthquake is coming," Councilwoman Janice Hahn said from the council dais. If the layoffs went forward, "It would be a very big tragedy to befall the city of Los Angeles."
Hahn and two allies had prepared an emergency motion to cancel the layoffs. For the motion to pass, the council needed 10 votes to make a finding that new information had come to light since the posting of the agenda.
Hahn argued that new information had, in fact, been revealed in closed session, and asked for a vote to make it part of the public record. Such a motion would require only an eight-vote majority, and Hahn knew she had it.
But then Garcetti spoke up, for the only time during the entire debate. Labor leaders had believed that Garcetti supported them. But he insisted that the council first vote on the findings, which required 10 votes, two more than what Hahn needed to reopen debate.
"It has nothing to do with the substance," he said. "I understand your motivation. It wasn't a bad one. But I believe the first vote is to make the findings."
Garcetti voted for the findings. But the motion got only eight votes — a majority but still two votes shy of the supermajority needed to reopen the issue. The motion failed, and the layoffs went forward.
Garcetti could claim he had voted with labor groups, but on the key question — the parliamentary one — he had torpedoed them. He made the layoffs happen.
The unions were seething. Confident of Garcetti's support, they had told their members the layoffs were dead. Now they had to explain they'd been wrong.
Says one labor leader: "That makes you look really bad in front of the membership."
Wendy Greuel would not have done that. If she supports a position in public, she tends to support it behind the scenes as well. The two top mayoral candidates' conflicting approaches came into sharp relief in 2008, during the fight over Brian D'Arcy's solar plan.
IBEW Local 18 had been dragging its feet on environmental measures for years. But as public sentiment shifted, its leaders did an abrupt about-face, drafting a multibillion-dollar initiative that would give IBEW workers an iron grip on new solar jobs.
In public, both Garcetti and Greuel couldn't have been happier. They were so in sync they practically finished each other's sentences. "Today we have the ability to make history," Garcetti crowed.
"I echo what Mr. Garcetti said," Greuel said.
But there was tension behind the scenes. Environmental groups and other unions complained that D'Arcy was making a power grab, and they were being shut out.
D'Arcy was brutal with his critics.
"The way he talked to me, it was like I was a heretic," says Matt Petersen, of the advocacy group Global Green. "I thought he was going to tackle me and call me all sorts of names in public." [Clarification: The speaker was referring to discussions about an earlier solar power proposal, which took place in 2005.]
The council was pressed for time. It had only a couple of weeks to debate the measure before the deadline to place it on the ballot. But Garcetti had reservations, and asked for independent analysis. That analysis raised red flags about the measure, and it later leaked into the pages of the L.A. Times under the headline "L.A. Solar Plan Called Very Risky."
"Garcetti's office was more skeptical of the process," says Jonathan Parfrey, executive director of Climate Resolve and a DWP commissioner, who supports Greuel and faults Garcetti for mishandling the issue. "Opening it up had its consequences. One of those consequences was opening up daylight between environmental groups, which Republican opposition groups then exploited."
Garcetti's staff met with Greuel's staff to try to work out amendments addressing some of the concerns that had been raised about the solar program. According to Yusef Robb, Garcetti's spokesman, Greuel's staff agreed to make whatever changes they wanted, with one proviso: "Get Chris to agree to it."
Chris Modrzejewski is D'Arcy's lobbyist — meaning that Greuel's staff was not about to agree to any changes opposed by IBEW. In effect, her office was delegating its legislative function to D'Arcy.
Greuel's calendars show Modrzejewski has more access than just about anyone to her office, racking up 16 meetings with Greuel over a three-year span. In addition to being the IBEW lobbyist, he is the strategist behind the IBEW-funded campaign supporting Greuel. His wife is a Greuel fundraiser. Modrzejewski's brother and father are being paid to put up billboards supporting her campaign. Greuel's calendar includes a reminder for Modrzejewksi's birthday. Greuel's office has been known to keep Modrzejewski in the loop on sensitive issues in real time. He is used to getting what he wants.
In this case, he did. Garcetti settled for only cosmetic changes to the union-backed plan, and Measure B was placed on the ballot.
In public, Garcetti was enthusiastic. But he'd been steamrolled. Defending Garcetti's continued support for the measure, one ally says, "That was a tough train to lie down in front of."
He at least had tried — however ineffectively — to wrest some control away from D'Arcy. Greuel didn't see a reason to try. It was left up to the voters to shoot it down, which they did.
It's after 10 p.m. at Monty Bar, a hip locale just west of downtown. Angel Alvarez is at the bar, holding a shot of Jack Daniels, a suit jacket hanging from his pinkie. A few hundred young Latinos have jammed the place for Eric Garcetti's birthday, but the candidate has yet to arrive.
Alvarez has a goatee and says he works in finance, by which he means he does a lot of day-trading with his own money. "I just need a computer, a phone and a TV," he says. "I watch CNBC all day."
His top concern is inflation. As for local issues, he says he wants "a business mayor ... somebody with fiscal discipline." He describes himself as "a strong Garcetti lean" but says he hasn't decided for sure.
"Let him work a little harder," Alvarez says. "You want to give him the raise at the end of the year, not the beginning. Let him earn it."
This morning's paper has another lead story about the race — "TV Ads Giving Greuel the Edge." But nobody in the crowd seems overly concerned about Greuel's union war chest. "That's powerful, but it may not be a good thing," Alvarez says.
Garcetti arrives. He climbs up on the stage and pets the bison head hanging on the wall. He's in an ebullient mood for a guy who did 15 events today. "I'm gazing at a roomful of angels!" he shouts, as cheers go up. The crowd sings a rendition of "Las Mañanitas," the Mexican birthday song, and then Garcetti starts dancing with a plump, 56-year-old janitor.
The typical Angeleno is either a Mexican with a future or an Iowan with a past. Greuel and Garcetti are campaigning in those parallel realities.
Garcetti wants to be the mayor of a polyglot metropolis — a place where all the world's peoples converge to drink craft beer and launch tech startups. Greuel represents the flip side of L.A. — the Midwestern capital full of sensible moms who roll up their sleeves and get things done. Her mother came here from Texas City, Ill., as a 20-year-old divorcee; her paternal grandfather came from outside of Chicago. Eric Garcetti brags of being "doble mestizo" — his forebears include a Russian Jewish clothier and an Italian-born judge who was hanged in the Mexican Revolution. Wendy Greuel is a mixture of northern and downstate Illinois.
Which vision of the city wins out will be determined by an inscrutable function of the public mood and the candidates' ability to tell their story.
It may also come down to how voters feel about union bosses like Brian D'Arcy.
"Would we love to have that [IBEW] money? Sure," says Daniel Tamm, a Garcetti supporter. But not having it has its own advantages, he says. "When [voters] hear a super PAC is behind a candidate, they get the heebie-jeebies."
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It's already one of the biggest hits of the year, and it hasn't even been finished yet.
Since the public launch of the Halo: Reach online beta on May 4, fans have logged on in heavy numbers - over a million on the first day alone - to road test Bungie's final Halo effort as the developers look for ways to improve upon its multiplayer modes.
Team deathmatch and objective games are back on the table for Reach after taking a backseat to the innovative Firefight mode in last year's Halo 3: ODST, with Headhunter promising to be the prime timewaster.
Each player begins the match in possession of a flaming skull. The aim is to kill your opponents, collect their skulls and deposit them in a designated zone.
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Grenades must be at the top of the repair list, since they have an excessively broad blast radius and are far deadlier than in any previous version of Halo.
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The graphics are beautiful, but some of the sprite animations are awkward. Try a jumping attack with an energy sword and watch as miracles happen - your character is walking on air!
Body parts clip in and out at odd times. Not just in wall-hugging moments but - again - during key animations.
The player health system has been tweaked, with separate shield and health bars set to stay. Their on-screen placement, apparently higher up the VDU than in previous releases, requires a bit more attention.
Shields are stronger against weapons but can be drained completely with one melee attack, meaning the effectiveness of trusted methods like the assault rifle and melee attack combo are now less effective than simply punching an opponent twice.
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Armour lock is one of four abilities which replace deployed equipment in Halo: Reach, and it is these abilities which set this game apart from Halo 3's multiplayer mode, which hadn't evolved dramatically from that of Halo 2.
Each ability is regulated by a power gauge, which depletes during use and replenishes when switched off.
Stalker lets a player activate active camo (invisibility) but at a price - turning it on causes the motion trackers of everyone nearby, including the user, to scramble. This alerts opponents to the fact that someone is trying to sneak around them, but a player can reduce their chances of being caught if they move as slowly as possible. Speeding up to even walking speed will cause the player's body to become somewhat opaque. If you're going to stalk, do it in style.
Guard allows a player about five seconds of armour lock - complete invincibility in exchange for a complete lack of mobility. Nothing can pierce it, and at the end of the charge an electromagnetic pulse is emitted, disabling the shields of enemies nearby. This gives the player a chance to get a quick kill and save themselves from certain death.
Scout gives the player a sprinting ability, handy for objective-based collection games and those hairy moments when you absolutely have to beat your opponent to the focus rifle, needle rifle, designated marksman rifle or any of the other new weapons in the Reach beta. In a neat nod to realism, sprinting players can be heard huffing and panting. Yes, those Spartans are humans after all.
Most significant is the Airborne ability, giving players a jetpack with limited flight capability. Put a rocket launcher, rifle or even a gravity hammer in the hands of one of these soldiers and the game's dynamic changes considerably.
It is easy enough to predict that Reach's multiplayer experience will top all others in the franchise, but there are plenty of niggling annoyances in this beta, other than frag-happy grenadiers, and Bungie has already pledged to deal with them.
One of the worst is an audio issue. Try playing the classic grab-and-dash game, Oddball, without wanting to punch your TV through the wall.
Jeff Steitzer, the Halo multiplayer announcer, has a cool voice but it's not so cool when you're forced to hear a constant barrage of "ball taken, ball dropped, ball taken, ball dropped, ball taken, ball dropped..." every time the oddball is traded, which is infuriatingly often.
Other fixes on the agenda include targeting reticles which are thin and wispy, issues with players being able to melee kill each other simultaneously and - bless! - those horrible grenades.
Cheers for that last one, Bungie.
The beta is currently scheduled to go offline on Monday, and is available to Xbox 360 gamers with a copy of the ODST campaign disc.


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Hughes looking better so far
Hard to compare today's Phil Hughes to the one we saw a year ago. He's in noticeably better shape, but how much of a difference does that make? How much of last year's struggles were strictly because of that shoulder injury that went undiagnosed for so long? How much can you learn from some early bullpen sessions with not hitters in the box?
"I think his curveball has been a little bit more crisp," Joe Girardi said today. "I think there's more arm speed there. I think the ball's coming out better. We're gonna truly find out when the games start, but it just looks like he's throwing the ball better this spring than last year at this time… He was hurt last year and that didn't help. I can't tell you what I attribute it to, but we know that (better condition) can't hurt."
With no bench spots available, the lineup pretty much decided and only one job up for grabs in the bullpen, the fifth starter competition is easily the most compelling decision of the spring. There will be plenty of curiosity about Michael Pineda, and it will be interesting to see Dave Robertson and Rafael Soriano make their cases for the eighth inning, and Raul Ibanez is a new face for everyone to meet. But this year's ongoing storyline will be at the back of the rotation.
I've written before that, in the big picture, the Yankees best-case scenario is to have Hughes grab that spot and never let go. He's still pretty young with considerable talent, and the Yankees would be better off having him win a rotation spot for the next decade rather than have Freddy Garcia return for another one-year cameo.
But Hughes has to earn it. In some ways, Garcia is the safer pick. He's a veteran coming off a strong season, and he's proven that he knows how to get outs with his less-than-overpowering stuff. It's up to Hughes to prove that he can do it better, for this year and next.
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Teaching the basics of running via the experiences of a geezer who has been running and walking for over 40 years, including the completion of four marathons and training for a fifth marathon.
May 23, 2007
Tired today but ran for a while
4 comments:
- robison52 said...
70 degrees is still a bit warm for running that long, maybe you're adjusting to the heat? How's your morning heart rate lately? Enjoy those two recovery days as they go FAST!!
- 5/24/2007
- Allen said...
Hi Bruce,
I just added a post to answer your question about my HR.
I will enjoy the two days, but I don't think they will be very restful. I'll be carrying a lot of boxes from a storage unit to my son's new home.
By weeks end the temperature will be significantly higher than it has been, and the temperature will become more of a problem in the coming weeks. - 5/24/2007
- shadwell said...
I just found your podcast and your website. Great! Thanks.
I am embarking on a marathon/half-marathopn journey---see my blog www.runningtodisney.blogspot.com - 5/25/2007
- Allen said...
Thanks, Shadwell, for stopping by. Good luck with your races!
- 5/26/2007


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A Thai superhero is reborn with middling results in "The Red Eagle."
A Thai superhero is reborn with middling results in "The Red Eagle." Reboot of a popular 1960s pulp franchise arrives with special effects galore and a "Batman"-like protag burdened with the now de rigueur psychological hang-ups, but aside from a few eye-catching setpieces, there's little excitement or cinematic flair on display. Souped up for young auds by usually super-inventive stylist Wisit Sasanatieng ("Tears of the Black Tiger"), pic underperformed on Oct. 7 local release, casting doubt over whether its "to be continued" tag will come to fruition. Overlong actioner has modest regional claims and much stronger ancillary prospects.
The Red Eagle Original series, starring former boxer Mitr Chaibancha as Rome Rittikral/Red Eagle, kicked off in 1959 and came to a tragic halt in 1970 when Chaibancha died in an accident while shooting the final scene of "Insee thong" (The Golden Eagle). While the original Rome Rittikral was a bumbling lush who transformed into a masked avenger after cocktail hour, this incarnation (played by Ananda Everingham) is a morphine-addicted ex-soldier with deep mental scarring after being hung out to dry by his superiors. Decked out in a black leather jumpsuit as Red Eagle, he is an extremely brutal vigilante whose preferred method of disposal is decapitation. Never permitted a smile or a witty aside, protag is a hard one for auds to embrace, even if he is washing the scum off the streets. Launching a thinly veiled attack on contemporary Thai politics, Sasanatieng sets the action in a chaotic Bangkok circa 2016, where compromised prime minister Direk (Pornwut Sarasin) has reneged on a pre-election promise to halt construction of a nuclear power plant. While peaceful protest against crime and corruption is organized by Vasana (Yarinda Bunnag), an NGO leader and Direk's former fiancee, Red Eagle is busy butchering drug dealers and any public official with a blemish on his record. Requisite romance between Rome/Red Eagle and Vasana is OK, but inevitably takes a backseat to the avenger's clash with the Matulee, a secret criminal society that enlists masked fighter Black Devil to do its bidding; a cracking duel between Red Eagle and Black Devil in an elevator shaft is one of the few genuinely exciting sequences. Attempting to curtail Red Eagle's activities from the lawful side of the ledger are detective Chart (Wannasingh Prasertkul) and novelty sidekick Singh (Jonathan Hallman), a Sikh who proves expert at combat involving raw food and kitchen implements. Special effects are mostly up to scratch, though some shaky CGI creeps in. Most surprising is the muted color scheme, especially considering the riotous hues in much of Sasanatieng's previous work; here, it's black, red and not much else. Ear-splitting soundtrack at least pays some sort of nod to the pic's campy antecedents by ramping up Red Eagle's signature retro theme at every moment he even looks like he's leaping into action. Other tech work is pro.The Red Eagle
A Five Star release of a Five Star Prods., Kantana Group, Local Color Films production. (International sales: Five Star, Bangkok.) Produced by Aphiradee Iamphungphorn, Kiatkamon Iamphungporn, Suradech Assawareunganun, Pawas Sawatchaiyamet. Executive producers, Chareon Iamphungporn, Jaruek Kaljaruek. Directed, written by Wisit Sasanatieng, based on the novel "Insee Daeng" by Sake Dusit.
Camera (color), Chukiat Narongri; editors, Sunit Asvinikul, Phannipha Kabillikavanich; music, Wild at Heart; music supervisor, Wanarat Chaiyapan; production designers, Pawas Sawatchaiyamet, Saksiri Jantarangsri; art directors, Wittaya Chaimongkol, Phairot Siriwath, Pallop Chomtaworn; costume designer, Atchariya Pinitsarapirom; sound (Dolby Digital), Sirapob Tungkaseranee; visual effects supervisor, Watcharachai Panichsuk; visual effects, Kantana Animation Studios; stunt coordinator, Pradit Seeluem; assistant director, Rattapol Jantararuangtong; casting, Sukamaporn Sutthisirasin. Reviewed at Pusan Film Festival (A Window on Asian Cinema), Oct. 10, 2010. Running time: 130 MIN.
Ananda Everingham, Yarinda Bunnag, Pornwut Sarasin, Jonathan Hallman, Pattanadesh Asasappaku, Wannasingh Prasertkul. (Thai dialogue)


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Hey, Liberals: You Haven't Won The Culture War
This may come as news to you, but our country is severely divided. Seriously, though: Tuesday's election, in which 120 million voters were united only by the belief that the other side's candidate was a nightmare, was only the most recent illustration of a profound cultural divide in American life that goes back at least 50 or 60 years (and arguably much longer). It's a major talking point on cable news shows and in opinion columns of all stripes – yes, duh, mea culpa – one that has sparked the careers of numerous pundits and commentators.
David Brooks and Thomas Frank, to cite the obvious examples, have dined out for a decade or more on their purported ability to diagnose the worsening antagonism reflected in the 2012 election, when multicultural metropolitan elite groups on both coasts overwhelmingly voted for one candidate and lower-status white people in the middle of the country overwhelmingly voted for the other. Brooks has long specialized in boiling this down to pithy phrases: Volvos vs. F-150 pickups, Walmart shoppers vs. Whole Foods shoppers, and so on. (As my wife recently observed, in today's economy it could more accurately be put this way: The people who shop at Target vs. the other people who shop at Target.)
But if we think we can understand this division better by using cute demographic shorthand or by trying to claim that it's fundamentally about religion or abortion or sexual morality or the role of government or whatever other hobby horse we choose to ride, we're kidding ourselves. Those are significant issues that provoke strong feelings on both sides, to be sure, but I believe they are symbols or symptoms of division rather than its underlying causes. Anytime we get fixated on the centrality of any one of those factors, we risk being left behind by the rushing river of history.
I recently came upon a column Pat Buchanan wrote back in April in which he argued that same-sex marriage would be the defining issue of the 2012 campaign and that election day was "shaping up as the Antietam of the culture war." We'll get back to Buchanan later — he is a central figure in the history of cultural warfare — but as is so often the case, he was right in an upside-down Bizarro World fashion. Gay marriage was a total non-issue in the campaign, and as every month passes, it becomes an ever-more-ordinary part of American life, roughly as exciting as the other kind of marriage. That in itself suggests that his turning-point analogy may be accurate but also that his side didn't even show up to fight the battle. (If you need to go Google "Antietam" right now, I will join Buchanan in lamenting the failures of our educational system.)


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Matt Callahan joined the Judges' Administrative Staff in the fall of 2012 serving as the Interim Facilities, Events, and Intramural Coordinator. In 2013, Callahan became the Club Sports Coordinator overseeing 19 competitive and instructional clubs.
A native of Westford, Mass., Callahan graduated from Brandeis in 2012 with a bachelor's degree in Business Administration. He immediately enrolled and received his Masters in Sports Leadership from Northeastern University in 2013.


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Imagine all the great flavors of a cheeseburger tucked into a pot pie! Ground beef and cheese filling baked in Pillsbury® refrigerated pie crusts makes a delicious dinner.
Complete this meal with a tossed salad or cut-up fresh fruit.
For milder flavor, substitute shredded American-Cheddar cheese blend for the sharp Cheddar.
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FREMONT | Steven J. Stoddard, 35, of Old Big Creek Road, Fremont, was charged Saturday after an accident.
Steuben Sheriff's deputies said Stoddard left the scene after his vehicle hit a guardrail on a County Route 70A bridge in Fremont. An investigation led deputies and state troopers to Stoddard's residence, where he was arrested.
Stoddard was charged with driving while intoxicated, failure to keep right and leaving the scene of a property damage accident.
He will appear in Fremont Town Court at a later date.
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Linked by Howard Fosdick on Sat 24th Nov 2012 17:52 UTC
Do you depend on your computer for your living? If so, I'm sure you've thought long and hard about which hardware and software to use. I'd like to explain why I use generic "white boxes" running open source software. These give me a platform I rely on for 100% availability. They also provide a low-cost solution with excellent security and privacy.
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I'd agree with the most things you wrote, however:
- there are performance issues [still, even though we have powerful CPUs]
- there are security issues [underlying OS should not be susceptible to malware attacks/infections. This automatically excludes Windows ecosystem]. Besides, VMs are not the ideal solutions when it comes to privillege escalation and access to the host system [which is definitely possible and exploitable]
- NAS/SAN IS in fact a hardware [and software] investment anyway, so this kinda stands in a way here for you. However, regular PC should be enough to use such VM, as long as the host HW has strong VM capabilities [which most of it actually has now].
Anyhow, I like the whole concept.


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Study Comparing R-mabHD and a Combination of ABVD in Hodgkin's Disease
Recruitment status was: Not yet recruiting
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Condition | Intervention | Phase |
Hodgkin's Disease |
Drug: R-mabHD Drug: ABVD |
Phase 2 |
Study Type: | Interventional |
Study Design: | Allocation: Randomized Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment Masking: Open Label Primary Purpose: Treatment |
Official Title: | A Phase II Open Label, Multicenter, Randomized, Parallel Study Comparing the Efficacy of R-mabHD Alone and a Combination of Adriamycin, Bleomycin, Vinblastine and Dacarbazine (ABVD)in Treating Patients With Hodgkin's Disease. |
- There will be a reduction in the size of the tumor after initiating treatment. [ Time Frame: Six months ]
- There will be an improvement in the general condition of the patient and it will be possible to estimate the event free survival rate. [ Time Frame: Eighteen months ]
Estimated Enrollment: | 120 |
Study Start Date: | July 2011 |
Estimated Study Completion Date: | April 2014 |
Estimated Primary Completion Date: | April 2014 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure) |
Arms | Assigned Interventions |
Active Comparator: Arm I: R-mabHD
Anti-hodgkin disease agent
Drug: R-mabHD
An intravenous infusion containing R-mabHD 375mg/m2 will be administered over a period of 3 to 8 hours every week for eight weeks in a row.
Active Comparator: Arm II: ABVD |
Drug: ABVD
A combination of Adriamycin, Bleomycin, Vinblastine and Dacarbazine (ABVD) will be given intravenously over a period of 3 hours every other week for 12 treatments.
Other Name: Adriamycin, Bleomycin, Vinblastine, Dacarbazine
Detailed Description:
The primary objective is to compare the efficacy of R-mabHD with a combination therapy of Adriamycin, Bleomycin,Vinblastine and Dacarbazine (ABVD) in bringing about remission of Hodgkin's lymphoma and reduction in tumor size.
Primary Study Endpoint: Primary efficacy criterion is percentage of patients achieving a functional score of 1.
Efficacy evaluation is based on assessment of functional score. At the end of six months, a functional assessment of the tumor will be undertaken to record the score as follows:
Score 1: >/= 50% reduction in size of tumor Score 2: < 50% reduction in size of tumor.
Secondary Study Endpoint: Additional secondary endpoint is the average time to achieve 50% reduction in size of tumor.
120 subjects with Hodgkin's Disease will be divided randomly into two groups. 60 subjects (Group I)will receive R-mabHD by intravenous infusion in a dose of 375mg/m2 once a week for eight weeks in a row. The other half (Group II) will receive a combination of intravenous Adriamycin, Bleomycin, Vinblastine and Dacarbazine every other week for 12 treatments. Enrollment period will be three years and subjects from both genders will be accepted. Subjects should be between the ages of 18 and 65. No healthy volunteers will be accepted. Females who are nursing babies or are pregnant will be excluded from the study. Subjects will be evaluated every month for the first six months and then at one year and then at eighteen months after the baseline visit one.
Ages Eligible for Study: | 18 Years to 65 Years (Adult) |
Sexes Eligible for Study: | All |
Accepts Healthy Volunteers: | No |
Inclusion Criteria:
- Must sign an informed consent form
- Must have histologically proven diagnosis of Hodgkin's lymphoma
- Both genders and age between 18 and 65
- Must have adequate bone marrow reserve (ANC.1500/mm3, Platelet>50,000/mm3)
- Must have bidimensionally measureable disease
- LVEF >50% by echocardiogram
- Serum creatinine upto one fold
- Serum bilirubin upto one fold
- Hepatitis B surface antigen negative
- Hodgkin's Disease patients who relapse after radiation therapy alone or surgical treatment alone or both,or previously untreated patients with stage II bulky, III and IV.
Exclusion Criteria:
- HIV positive
- Pregnant women and women of child bearing age who are not practising adequate contraception
- Severe pulmonary disease including COPD and asthma
- Evidence of other malignancy except superficial nonmelanoma skin carcinoma or carcinoma in situ of the cervix
- Nursing mothers
- Uncontrolled active infection
- concurrent prednisone or other systemic steroid therapy
- Less than 4 weeks since prior radiotherapy
- Less than 30 days since prior investigational therapy.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00797472
United States, New Jersey | |
Raritan Bay Medical Center | Not yet recruiting |
Englishtown, New Jersey, United States, 07726 | |
Contact: Prem A Nandiwada, M.D. 908-941-5480 email@example.com | |
Contact: Ratna Grewal, M.D. 908-941-5480 email@example.com |
Study Chair: | Ratna Grewal, M.D. | American Scitech International |
Principal Investigator: | Prem A Nandiwada, M.D. | Raritan Bay Medical Center |
Responsible Party: | Dr. R. Grewal, American Scitech International |
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: | NCT00797472 History of Changes |
Other Study ID Numbers: |
Study First Received: | November 24, 2008 |
Last Updated: | July 19, 2011 |
Keywords provided by American Scitech International:
Hodgkin's Lymphoma R-mabHD ABVD treatment Hodgkin's Disease |
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Hodgkin Disease Lymphoma Neoplasms by Histologic Type Neoplasms Lymphoproliferative Disorders Lymphatic Diseases Immunoproliferative Disorders Immune System Diseases Bleomycin Doxorubicin Liposomal doxorubicin |
Vinblastine Antibiotics, Antineoplastic Antineoplastic Agents Antineoplastic Agents, Phytogenic Tubulin Modulators Antimitotic Agents Mitosis Modulators Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action Topoisomerase II Inhibitors Topoisomerase Inhibitors Enzyme Inhibitors |
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Honk If You Hate The Epa
Peter HongAlready bedeviled by traffic jams, pothole-pitted roads, and rising sticker prices, car owners may be pushed over the brink by the Environmental Protection Agency's tough new rules on auto emissions. The EPA's July 13 proposal will require some 100 million cars to undergo far stricter--and more expensive--testing than current regulations mandate. And owners of cars that can't pass may find themselves stuck with repair bills of as much as $450.
But there are plenty of Americans who just love the new regs. If the rules survive a gauntlet of likely legal challenges, it will mean a windfall for companies that make testing equipment and perform the actual tests. "It's a bonanza," says Chester Davenport, Chairman of Envirotest Systems Corp., a Bethesda (Md.) company that already runs inspection programs in seven states. Indeed, Davenport thinks the new rules could triple privately held Envirotest's 1991 revenues of $70 million by 1994. He says he may take the company public at some point to finance the resulting expansion.
Testers aren't the only companies bound to benefit. As many as one-third of the late-model cars currently on the road initially will fail the new test, the agency says. Today, just 8% to 10% do so. That means lots more cash for repair shops, parts makers, and repair-equipment manufacturers. "Anything driving more business to the repair shop is good for us," says Ronald J. Ortiz, president of North American operations for Sun Electric Corp. in Crystal Lake, Ill. His company runs inspections and makes diagnostic equipment used to repair cars that can't pass pollution tests.
NEW PARTS. Cleaning up smog-spewers will require plenty of new replacement parts, too. Already, sales of emissions equipment are growing 25% annually for Standard Motor Products Inc., a $550 million-in-sales auto-parts maker in Long Island City, N.Y. The tough new inspection law will only add to that. "It's what's known as the untapped repair market," says Steven J. Brown, Standard's vice-president for marketing.
The new rules, however, will mean big challenges for some companies. Though the EPA argues that the new inspection program is a cheaper way to cut air pollution than upcoming rules requiring cleaner cars and fuels, the change is going to be expensive. The new regulations require testing under conditions that more closely mimic actual driving. That means placing cars on expensive treadmills and running them at different speeds. The equipment costs a minimum of $150,000--and as many as 8,000 units may have to be set up to handle the flood of cars around the country.
BIG BILL. That's too expensive, some companies say, and that may force them out of the market. Three years ago, for example, Atlantic Richfield Co. launched Smog Pro, a chain of emissions-testing shops in Southern California. Now, there are 136 franchisees whose shops use a system that costs about $50,000. Upgrading would stick the franchisees with a bill of at least $40 million. And unless the EPA approves Smog Pro's current system, a step the agency is now evaluating, "we're really going to have to look at whether we want to be in this business," says Bob Fidler, manager of new marketing programs for Atlantic Richfield's products division.
That won't upset the EPA and environmental groups. They contend that half of all tests conducted at repair shops are done improperly, so they would prefer that more accurate tests be done at inspection-only facilities. Only strenuous lobbying by Atlantic Richfield and service station owners stopped the EPA from limiting the new tests to inspection-only shops--which would have hurt them and helped inspection contractors such as Envirotest and Sun Electric.
The EPA's new rules, which could serve as an international model, may even have given U.S. exports a boost. Britain adopted mandatory testing last year, Taiwan has a tough program in place, and Germany is expected to follow suit. U.S. companies such as Envirotest and Andros Inc., a maker of test equipment in Berkeley, Calif., are getting a nice chunk of that work. Cleaning up the air, it seems, can be good business for some the world over.
A WINDFALL FOR THE `SMOG INDUSTRY' TESTING COMPANIES With mandatory emissions-testing expanding to 55 new areas, companies that run inspection programs stand to increase revenues by $1 billion annually TEST-EQUIPMENT MAKERS High-tech dynamometers, the testing gear required under the new law, cost $150,000 each. Companies that make the meters should rake in some $1.2 billion in new business REPAIR FACILITIES Service stations and other repair shops will get some $600 million in new work to bring cars up to the standard AUTO-PARTS MAKERS All those cars will also need new parts, amounting to some $240 million in business for parts manufacturers DATA: BOOZ, ALLEN & HAMILTON INC., ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY, COMPANY REPORTS, BW


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The Book of Joshua is a historical account of how the Israelites conquered Canaan, the land God promised them in the covenant with Abraham. The book details Joshua's obedience to God, the bloody yet miraculous battles and the division of the land among the 12 tribes.


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Peugeot Paris Beech Wood U'Select Salt Mill - Natural Finish - 30cm
Product Code: PE0123
The Peugeot Paris Beech Wood U'Select Salt Mill is more than worth its salt as it makes a stylish and timeless addition to the kitchen utensil collection in your home.
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Australia's Unho Park, India's Jyoti Randhawa and Japan's Taichiro Kiyota were among those who took advantage of the benign morning conditions to move to the top of the leaderboard midway through the second round of the Johnnie Walker Classic.
As the DLF Golf and Country Club on the outskirts of New Delhi basked in warm sunshine, scores tumbled with Park carding a six under par 66 to move to ten under par 134, one ahead of Randhawa and Kiyota, who shot rounds of 67 and 65 respectively.
However the honour of the low round of the morning went to England's Phillip Archer, who picked up six birdies and an eagle on his way to a 64, one shot outside the course record, and halfway total of eight under par.
That aggregate was matched by pre-tournament favourite and World Number Five, Adam Scott, who shot a 68 and England's Graeme Storm, 66.
Park, a Korea-born Australian, reeled off five birdies in six holes only to suffer bogey fives on the 12th and 15th holes. However, the 34 year old Singapore-based player with one of the best swings in Asia birdied the final two holes to clinch the lead halfway through the second round.
Park missed the cut in last week's SAIL Open on the Asian Tour but seemed to find something in his swing after watching three-time Major Champion Vijay Singh on the range.
"I was watching Vijay on his backswing and he keeps his head really still," said Park, "I tried to do similar things as I move my head a lot. I just tried to stay more steady and it is working."
Randhawa, playing at his home club, took full advantage of his local knowledge to charge up the leaderboard as he looks to win his maiden European Tour title and Arjun Atwal, Jeev Milkha Singh and SSP Chowrasia as a European Tour champion.
Scott was pleased after finding the tricky greens playing more true in the morning.
"At the moment I'm right in contention, so that is a good spot to be," he said. ""I didn't play quite as well today as I did yesterday but still managed to have a good round," said the Australian, whose only blemish was a bogey five on his fourth hole.
Archer, who claimed three runners-up finishes last year on his way to a career high of 29th on The European Tour Order of Merit, followed two early birdies with an eagle three on the 18th hole, his ninth. He then reeled off four birdies on the return.
"I don't like to say it is easy but it felt very easy with no stress," Archer said.
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YOU HAD FORMER RHODE ISLAND CONGRESSMAN PATRICK KENNEDY ONREAL TIMELAST MONTH TO TALK ABOUT HIS ANTI-POT LEGALIZATION ADVOCACY GROUP, SMART APPROACHES TO MARIJUANA. DID HIS MESSAGE RUB OFF ON YOU? DID YOU SEE THE LIGHT? I saw the dark. I was hoping I would rub off on him. It's mystifying to me how someone with such liberal credentials would take such a hard line on that issue. I've been saying for a long time that [legalizing pot] is the "next gay marriage." And I think that's going to happen. I think it's the next civil rights issue to fall.
But I guess he just doesn't see it that way. I don't get it because the Kennedy family certainly has had their substance abuse problems and I would think that he would know from a personal level that prescription drugs are a lot more dangerous than marijuana.
DO YOU THINK WEED WILL BE LEGALIZED IN YOUR LIFETIME? Well, it's already legal in two states. I didn't think that would happen in my lifetime. I got very discouraged. There was a time when I was optimistic, because I remember when we were in college, we used to sit around and say, "Boy, when we get to be fifty years old, we'll be in power and of course then things will change, because we know it's not harmful!"
Well, that seemed to come and go, so I was a little pessimistic. And then things seemed to turn around and [now] I think it's at 47 percent approval nationwide to legalize marijuana. And that's pretty close to the magic number. Because I'm sure you recognize that when gay marriage hit 51 percent approval, suddenly there was a lot of "evolving" on this, especially on the part of Democratic politicians. Suddenly they "evolved" on this issue overnight.
So [with marijuana legalization approval at] 47 percent, all I would say to the Democrats is "You're four points from a strongly-held conviction."
I ENJOYED WATCHING LAST YEAR'S BEHIND-THE-SCENES DOCUMENTARYA WEEK IN REAL TIME. BUT I WAS A LITTLE SURPRISED TO SEE THAT THE WRITERS' ROOM WAS MADE UP OF ONLY WHITE GUYS. Believe me, I've . . . tried to address this. [But] I don't have the luxury in my business of indulging someone who isn't as good as the best. I only have six writers. So I had to find the best six.
I have tried. I hired a black woman a couple of seasons ago. We hired a black man a few seasons ago. I try. Now, they didn't make it, like lots of other white guys have not made it. Jay Leno always says, "I've never fired a writer." Well, I've fired plenty. I have a different philosophy. But Jay has 15, 16 writers. He can afford to keep them all. I can't.
I have to have a very lean, productive machine and it's the six best people I can find. And I wish we had more diversity, but maybe there's just not a tradition of it as much, except among white men. And that will change over time. But until it does, I'm running a business here.
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Another favorite exhibit is Kenny's Closet (artist Kenny Scharf). There is a cool psychedelic day-glo black light room. It is hard to take pics in there but believe me it is an experience! Then right outside the room is a art area which the girls always spend lots of time in.
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Singapore: deCODE genetics (an Amgen subsidiary) and Illumina, global leaders in analyzing and understanding the human genome, together with scientists from the National Hospital of Iceland and the University of Iceland have reported identification of a rare nonsense mutation that confers high risk of osteoporosis and osteoporosis related traits. The mutation was also found to dramatically increase the risk of squamous cell carcinoma of the skin, biliary tract cancer, and to promote an imbalance in blood electrolytes and late onset of menarche.
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Anderson County High School graduates and Transylvania University first-year student Miriam Barager-Kemper, sophomores Alex Cheser, Katelyn Shouse and Ian Smith, and Franklin County High School graduate and Transylvania first-year student Brandon Fain have been named to the dean's list for the 2010 fall term.
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When Northerners think of the caribbean, Trinidad isn't usually the first place that comes to mind. Until recently, Trinidad had few tourist-oriented hotels or restaurants, and its crime rate is so high that visitors are advised not to venture outdoors wearing watches or jewelry, and definitely not at night. What Trinidad does have is carnival—a centuries-old blowout reputedly so wild and intense that it makes Mardi Gras look like a Veterans Day parade.
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I had a reason beyond hedonism for making the trip. I'd spent nine years researching a book on the carnival tradition, Dancing in the Streets: A History of Collective Joy. Prehistoric rock drawings suggest that costuming and group dancing date back to the Paleolithic. In the 19th century, Western explorers found it going strong among indigenous peoples worldwide, including Polynesians, Inuits, West Africans, Australian Aborigines and villagers in India. In Europe, however, it had been suppressed when Protestantism and the Counter-Reformation wiped out most public festivities, which, over the years, had become flash points for popular unrest.
The European experience in Trinidad is a case in point: 18th-century French settlers brought the tradition of a pre-Lenten festival, in which they found it amusing to dress up and dance like their African slaves. The slaves found it even more amusing to use the confusion of carnival as an occasion for uprisings. Long after the slaves were emancipated by the British in 1838, the colonial administration continued to fight the now-Africanized carnival piece by piece—banning, at one time or another, drums, masks and dancing in the streets.
But carnival survived, and my question was: What compromises had it made to do so? I had watched Key West's version of carnival—October's Fantasy Fest—go downhill over the years, blanched by commercialization and robbed of artistry as the point of it became to bare one's (painted) breasts and drink oneself sick. Had Trinidad managed to keep carnival's traditional creativity and political charge alive? Most of my years of research had been sedentary, in hushed libraries and poorly lit archives. Last February I decided to go dancing in the streets myself.
I arrived in Port of Spain two days before the official start of carnival, giving me plenty of time to see that "mas," as the Trinidadians call it (from "masquerade"), isn't just a diversion. It's practically a national mobilization. Tens of thousands of people poured into the squat, mountain-ringed city, most of them native-born "Trinis" home from other parts of the world, with a few European tourists thrown in. Banners flying over downtown streets advised, for safety's sake, to "stay with your lime," your lime being the friends you came with. Newspapers offered front-page reports of bitter rivalries in the pre-carnival soca music competitions, screaming headlines like " 'No One Will Spoil Dis Mas,' Warns Police Commissioner Paul" and earnest editorials on exactly the kind of questions that concerned me, such as whether the predominance of foreign-made bikini costumes has reduced carnival to a girlie show.
The festivities begin at 4 a.m. on the Monday before Ash Wednesday with a ritual called Jouvay, from either the French jour ouvert ("opening day") or the Creole jou ouvé? ("Is it daybreak yet?"). I had no idea of what I was getting into when I "registered" at the 3canal storefront center the day before. 3canal is both a musical band and one of the many small production companies that stage carnival; the name, according to one of the musicians, Roger Roberts, derives from a type of machete used by cane cutters and, he says, is "a metaphor for cutting and clearing a path and space for vibes to flow and grow." Despite assurances that no one really has to pay, I'd plunked down 60 Trinidadian dollars (about $10 U.S.) for a bag containing a 3canal badge, a white tank top, a square of silver lamé cloth and—ominously—a plastic water bottle filled with white paint.
A little after 4 a.m, I returned to the 3canal storefront with my little lime of four—two Trinis and two other Americans—to find hundreds of people milling around a flatbed truck from which the 3canal musicians were blasting the band's heavy beat into the darkness. Around Port of Spain, people were assembling into 14 other Jouvay bands, each several hundred to a thousand strong, and each with its own music and colors.
When the flatbed truck started rolling, the crowd danced along behind it or, more precisely, "chipped," which is Trinidadian for moving individually to music. At first I chipped in my resolute white-lady way, conscious of my status as the only visible blue-eyed person in the crowd. But then the paint came into play, hurled from bottles and dabbed on any body at hand. A plastic bottle of rough whiskey was passed around. There was a moment of near-panic when a police car forced its way through the crowd, and I learned later that in the pushing and shoving a knife fight had broken out just behind us. But still, the vibe here was overwhelmingly sweet. A teenager planted himself in front of me and announced that I looked "too nice," a condition he corrected by gently anointing my face with fresh paint. I don't know the origins of this orgy of body-painting, and I am glad I hadn't joined one of the Jouvay bands that use chocolate or mud instead, but I know its effect: race was dissolved; even age and gender became theoretical concepts.
In the tradition of Western sociology, crowds are dangerous because they can turn into mobs. So when a contingent from our procession broke away to chase a group of Chinese men watching from the sidelines, I ran along anxiously behind them. Was there resentment of these workers, imported to build downtown skyscrapers? No. Would there be violence? No, the Jouvay celebrants just wanted to cover the foreigners in paint, and the Chinese were doubling over with laughter as they escaped. This was the true and ancient spirit of carnival: there can be no spectators, only participants, and everyone must be anointed.
Sunrise found us in a small public square, and in a condition far from the one we'd started in. We'd been moving through the streets for over three hours, powered by beers passed from hand to hand, and even my ultra-buff American friend was beginning to sag. People were still chipping away, raising their heads toward the already-hot blue sky in a kind of triumph. Hardly anyone was noticeably drunk, but we were annihilated, as individuals anyway—footsore, bone-tired, dripping with paint and sweat. We were, in some transcendent way, perfected.


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She loves to help out at home, even though she can overlook and forgot to keep her books on the shelves, toys back into the toy baskets, or even shoes lying near the doorway after school.
Everytime she saw me in my craft/work room, she will asked if she can help. (She finds my stuff very interesting and refreshing.)
Tidying the washi tapes |
Sorting the buttons |
Tying the twines onto the pegs |
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Some day, I will introduce the broom and mop, or even the kitchen towels to wipe the dirty table after meal to encourage independence.
I was thinking it could be my presence at home that moulded her to be a helpful girl. I wonder what will it be like if I were still working. Will she be as helpful?
Once I asked her if I could go back and work to earn more money so that I can buy more toys for her. She said: "No, I want mama to be with me."
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I got to spend only 3 hours here, but spent them in awe. Eduardo and Daniel decided half an hour before closingtime of the park to continue on to Brazil anyways that night (earlier they decided to spend 2 days at Iguazu Falls), so they ran the rest of the trail. I decided to just take my time and enjoy what I can see, not rushing, cause to me it just contradicts being near such a powerful natural place, and running it by to see it all, you know?
So I didn't see it all. But on the other hand, that gives me reason to go back one day :) Who knows.
I only saw the views from the top of the Argentinian side, but as you can vaguely see on the pictures (because in real life it's MUCH more GRAND!! And that sound, amazing, beautiful!), it was to say the least, breathtaking...
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Saturday, February 25, 2012
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A nice bright, warm sunny day in St. George, Utah. The first day was a rousing success. I enjoyed the classes and especially the discussion in between the classes. Now we are back for day two, the final day of the Expo. Saturday starts out for me helping at the Ask-a-Pro booth for while and then popping off to classes. The first class I attended was "What do I do now? Tools for effective family tree analysis" by Ruth Ellen Maness, AG. Always interesting, always thought provoking.
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CIT Group, Inc. (NYSE:CIT) delivered a profit and missed Wall Street's expectations, BUT beat the revenue expectation. The revenue beat is a positive sign to shareholders seeking high growth out of the company. Shares are down 2.34%.
CIT Group, Inc. Earnings Cheat Sheet
Results: Adjusted Earnings Per Share increased to $0.81 in the quarter versus EPS of $-2.22 in the year-earlier quarter.
Revenue: Decreased 67.66% to $355.8 million from the year-earlier quarter.
Actual vs. Wall St. Expectations: CIT Group, Inc. reported adjusted EPS income of $0.81 per share. By that measure, the company missed the mean analyst estimate of $0.89. It beat the average revenue estimate of $62.72 million.
Quoting Management: "Our results this quarter reflect our continued progress growing assets and improving profitability," said John Thain, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. "CIT Bank experienced solid asset growth and deposits now play a larger role in our diversified funding mix, accounting for a third of our total funding. We continue to maintain a strong balance sheet and capital ratios, and remain focused on improving our operating efficiencies and meeting our profitability targets."
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The government is sick of ultra-rich people hiding funds in Swiss bank accounts to lessen their tax burdens, so it's gone after three bankers it accuses of responsibility for $1.2 billion worth of such shenanigans. Appropriately keeping with the anonymity of such accounts, the prosecutors didn't name the bank at which the accused worked.
The Wall Street Journal reports the bankers moved the funds from Swiss bank UBS AG after the U.S. cracked down on the entity for helping Americans hide money. The bankers are accused of going to great lengths to keep the transactions secret, opening accounts in the names of fake offshore businesses to keep things hush-hush, as well as using their personal email accounts to contact customers.
The tax-hungry federal government doesn't seem daunted by the Swiss banking shell game, and the more success it has in tracking these accounts down, the tougher it will get for those who want to dodge taxes by stashing their money away in secret.
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