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Winnie Chui Makes Calligraphy Brushes from Infant Hair
As one of Hong Kong's few remaining practitioners of this rare craft, she says she's proud to be the creator of these unique totems.
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Why make brushes with babies' hair? The tradition of making baby hair brushes originated in Northern China, and each brush symbolizes the everlasting bond between parents and their children. They also represent parents' wishes for their children to become wise, level-headed and studious individuals, as well as their expectations of filial piety. The brushes are made from the hair of infants aged 3 years and under. Only the first growth of hair is used, because that's the only time when human hair tapers naturally at the tip.
How'd you get into the business? My husband's family made Chinese calligraphy brushes in Beijing—both the regular kind and those made from infant hair. After my husband came to Hong Kong, he became a shoemaker because the practice of gifting baby hair brushes wasn't common in Hong Kong. I stayed at home to look after our three daughters. When my husband neared retirement, he wanted to do something that involved less travelling. So about 20 years ago, we decided to set up shop. It took some time for me to adjust to my new role as a business owner. But when I was a housewife my husband taught me a few tricks of the trade, which made the transition easier.
Your business is pretty unusual. Are you worried about it dying out? My eldest daughter is very helpful around the store. She is usually the one who makes home visits to collect the babies' hair. Most of our clients ask for home visits, you see. She was also the one who set up our Facebook page. Nowadays, that's how people find out about us—through the internet. My second daughter will soon be joining the business. But in this business, we have to work weekends because that's when the parents are free. You know how it is—young people love their weekends. It definitely is a big responsibility and requires sacrifice, so if my other daughters aren't willing to take over our family business there really is nothing I can do. Plus, it also depends on whether they have the ability to do it. We engrave couplets on the brushes based on the infants' names. My daughters have yet to acquire a knack for writing those couplets.
You must have had some interesting encounters. One time, I went to a little boy's home to collect hair from his baby sibling. Just as I turned on the hair clipper, the brother bowed his head as if to say, "Here, take my hair instead!'" It was moving to see such a young boy care so deeply for the baby. Of course, I've also met many annoying parents. Many young parents nowadays are very self-centered. Some have asked to have their babies' hair cut on the first day of the Lunar New Year, which is silly because nobody works that day. Some parents insist on cutting less than the required length, so we have no choice but to end up making brushes that don't look very good.
What do baby hair brushes mean to you? I see them as my way of contributing to society by helping parents encourage their children to grow up to be virtuous and diligent individuals. It's a contribution that lasts a lifetime. When I present parents with the baby hair brushes, I also give them five locks of hair collected from different points of their infants' heads, so they can come back to us for free maintenance in case the brush hairs fall out. We also offer traditional rituals for our customers. For example, when their children turn three, we carry out a ritual that involves brushing their personal brushes over their sensory organs to "awaken" their five senses. We offer these rituals for free. In our business, we don't make big bucks. We just want the best for our future generations.


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I´m planning to visit Bali in july and aug this summer. Do you people here have any comments, suggestions etc? Is it good to visit Bali now, even if it is a little bit unsecure due to bombings?
I will bere there during the busy season, is it wise to only book a place to stay for the first 1-2 nights and then find places to stay when being there?


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Etravirine Pharmacokinetics and HIV Viral Load in Breast Milk and Plasma
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HIV positive pregnant women who receive potent combination antiretroviral therapy over at least the last trimester of pregnancy, and who have proper obstetric interventions and are able to avoid breast feeding, decrease the risk of having an infected infant to about 1%. Breast milk HIV-1 RNA (cell free) viral load is significantly associated with breast milk transmission, and a 2-fold increased risk of transmission associated with every 10-fold increase in breast milk viral load has been reported. In addition, cell associated virus (HIV DNA) was associated with a significant increase in risk of transmission independent of the level of cell-free viral RNA.
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My cousin sent a wedding save-the-date notice addressed to me, my husband, and my two children. I verified with my aunt, the groom's mother, that the children were invited before booking flights and a hotel. The invitation just arrived, and the children's names were not on it. The bride decided at the last minute not to invite children and never told my aunt. Our flights and hotel are nonrefundable, and we don't have anyone to watch our children while we go to the wedding. Do we say something to the bride and groom?
S.P. / Marshfield
You most certainly do! I'd rather like to say something to them myself. Sometimes I wish I were Miss Conduct the way Peter Parker is Spiderman, so I could change into my leotard and rain down justice on people like your cousin, who are so thoroughly in the wrong.
You're well within your rights to ask for the children to be included, though that's normally a huge no-no. The alternative would be to take the trip and attend any informal gatherings, but not attend the wedding. Given their own sloppy communication, the wedding couple can now have all four of you at the wedding, or none of you. Their choice. This is what you want, ever so tactfully, to convey.
Try not to let your aunt feel like she has to take sides or is somehow at fault — you might explicitly want to let her off the hook if she's the worrying type. She's only the messenger.
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Added a much needed switch to the ole 1966 Craftsman. I still had the original switch from way back then, it made a spark the other week, and I decided to upgrade, ha. It was starting to corrode and was way to old.
I bought the switch on Amazon, it's a 110/220, same one Grizzly sells too. $14.25.
I also got a 25ft. 12/3 ext. cord from HF for $17, and cut it up for a full re-wire from outlet – to switch – to new (2 mos.) Motor.
I swear it seems like it runs better…smoother starts, quick starts, nice hum when it runs.
Just thought I'd throw this out there in case any one was looking for a cheap re-wire way for their ole saw.
-- Steve - Dust sucks!
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#1 posted 11-27-2012 02:09 AM
thanks for sharing i like those paddle shut off switches.i need to upgrade mine on my old craftsman ts.
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#2 posted 11-27-2012 03:36 AM
Takes getting used to…having it on the left…where I thought it'd be easier to access.
-- Steve - Dust sucks!
#3 posted 11-27-2012 07:09 PM
Good job and thanks for all the info. VERY helpful post. I'm gonna do the same to my 50's Craftsman.
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Gord McArthur, SCARPA athlete and ice climber extraordinaire, just returned from spending a week in Montana, climbing in Hyalite Canyon and teaching clinics at the Bozeman Ice Festival. He has an infectious love for ice climbing and a passion for teaching. McArthur recounts a few moments from the week and talks about why he'll be going back for many years to come.
The Bozeman Ice Festival is different from any other event I've ever been to. So much that it's hard to put into words the impact it had on me. Soulful, majestic, full-hearted, committed, meaningful, driven, historical and futuristic…and sure, these words are all great and will do for now, but even still…they don't do justice to what I experienced over the past week.
Arriving in Bozeman a week before the festival, we (myself and a few other friends – Jason Nelson, Kendra and Carter Stritch) were super energized to "get after it" in Hyalite Canyon. Hyalite Canyon is host to a sea of ice climbs from beginner to totally scary hard, so there was to be no limit to how many climbs we could fit in prior to the anticipated ice festival. Before coming I had heard about a cave up in Hyalite that hosted a hard mixed climb, Inglorious Bastards, M12, so…in hearing that, it became a priority of mine to jump on that rig and try to climb it.
Walking into Hyalite Canyon simply takes your breath away. Despite the cliché, I'm serious. Hyalite is one of the most beautiful places that I've ever climbed. Period. And standing inside the cave high up on the Unnamed Wall, there were certainly moments when I forgot all about climbing and found myself drifting off into the scenic wonderland.
Day 1 was a workday. Jason Nelson and I spent a bit of time getting used to the style of rock and sorting through the moves on Inglorious Bastards. When looking at the route from outside the cave, it didn't seem that big or long. However when hanging horizontally close up and personal to the roof of that cave…it's a haul and a half. I want to give thanks to Conrad Anker and Pete Tapley for putting up that route, and also a "nice work" to Sam Elias for nabbing the first ascent. On day 2, my third try I was able to repeat Inglorious Bastards, M12. (Thanks to Jason for bein' there on the other end of my rope). I was psyched about this. Side note: It was cool and inspiring that this particular style of route was natural (nothing was drilled to enhance the route). Some may think that routes at this level don't exist any more without "manufacturing" them.
Mid week, after a few days of climbing we found ourselves, amongst many others, in the Emmerson Hall (in Bozeman), mingling, giving high fives, and simply sharing the excitement about the Bozeman Ice Festival starting. Vendors and sponsors were busy handing out demo gear to all the enthusiasts, people from all over the country buzzing about clinics that they had signed up for. The hype and animation from all who were involved and participating…just standing back…for even a moment, witnessing what was going on all around me…you could just tell there was something different…something deep and inspiring.


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Murray's call was to Sade Anding, a Houston cocktail waitress who he referred to as his girlfriend.
Anding testified on Friday that the doctor was distracted when he called her the morning of Jackson's death.
Anding said she realized at one point that Murray wasn't paying attention to her and she heard coughing and mumbling but didn't recognize the voice as Murray.
"I heard commotion as if the phone was in a pocket or something," Anding said.
On Thursday, Los Angeles police Det. Dan Myers told the court Murray made a number of phone calls on the day Jackson died--calls that could've interfered with Jackson's care.
Murray faces a single count of involuntary manslaughter in connection with the pop star's death. He's pled not guilty and maintains that he didn't do anything wrong.
Two other girlfriends testified on Friday, including Nicole Alvarez, a cocktail waitress and actress who met Murray in a Las Vegas gentleman's club. Alvarez had Murray's baby and they shared a Los Angeles apartment.
Alvarez testified reluctantly about signing for packages delivered to the home. Prosecutors believe the five shipments, made between April and mid-June, were shipments of propofol from a Las Vegas pharmaceutical company.
The prosecution said Jackson died from an overdose of the drug propofol, which Murray had been giving Jackson as a sleep aid.
Four Days after Jackson died, a coroner's investigator got a tip. A detective told her that inside Jackson's Holmby Hills mansion there were drugs and medical paraphernalia that were overlooked.
Elissa Fleak from the coroner's office testified she found them stuffed in bags and stowed in a large armoire. She said there were blood pressure cuffs and vials of lidocaine, a drug used to numb the skin.
There were a half dozen bottles of various benzodiazepines, which are muscle relaxants. More significant for the prosecution was 11 bottles and vials of propofol, the sedative which is blamed for Jackson's cardiac arrest.
Fleak testified that she had previously found an empty bottle near Jackson's bed as well as a broken syringe.
Murray's defense seized on that during cross-examination, probing to find out whether the items were in arms reach of the bed. The questioning suggests the defense theory that Jackson injected himself with the propofol when Murray wasn't looking.
The first paramedic at the scene testified that Murray never told him about the drug, even when Murray was specifically asked what drugs Jackson was on.
Murray will be asked to testify during the preliminary hearing. A judge will determine if there is enough evidence for Murray to stand trial.
If Murray is found guilty, he could face up to four years in prison.
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Reliefs: employee-ownership trusts: conditions: the 'all-employee benefit requirement': the 'equality requirement'
TCGA92/S236J(1)(a) and (2)
The 'equality requirement' is that the trusts of the settlement do not permit any of the settled property to be applied, at any time, otherwise than for the benefit of all the 'eligible employees' on the same terms.
The term 'eligible employees' is explained at CG67838, with further guidance at CG67839.
There are certain situations in which the 'equality requirement' will not be infringed by trusts that do not meet its strict terms. For more detailed guidance on this subject see CG67840.
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Obama's campaign promises government will take from 'rich'
Bebyebe UUU, UTSept. 17, 2012 5:24 p.m.
Tax 'em til it hurts.
Wanda B. Rich Provo, UTSept. 16, 2012 2:52 p.m.
Maybe it's my bias as an unaffiliated voter, but here's how I see the online comments stirred up by letters like this one.
A few vocal right-wingers present emotional appeals based on their "principles," which upon closer inspection are simplistic and based on an unrealistic perception of the world.
In response, left-leaning writers present rational, fact-based, cogent replies that are rather difficult to argue with.
Then the right-wingers respond with more emotional slogans and a few very questionable statistics.
The lefties then shoot down both the slogans and the statistics.
And, as Kurt Vonnegut put it, "so it goes."
There is a reason Romney is not way ahead in the polls, despite an anemic economy. The few concrete ideas he has proposed do not pass either the sniff test or a simple arithmetic test.
JoeBlow Far East USA, SCSept. 16, 2012 6:41 a.m.
- Individual tax rates are at historic lows and have been for 10+ years
- EFFECTIVE corporate tax rates are at historic lows
- the Wealth in the US is steadily and increasingly collecting at the top
- the top 20% own 84% of the wealth
- in 1965 CEOs of earned 20 times their employees. Today is is closer to 300.
- in the last 15 years the top 10% is the only group whose wealth is increasing.
I contend that we are not "punishing the rich".
And I have supported my position with facts.
Feel free to disagree with my conclusion, but please support your position with FACTS, as I have done.
marxist Salt Lake City, UTSept. 16, 2012 12:51 a.m.
The premise of most conservative comments is that the super wealthy, that is, the top 1% of the top 1%, have their wealth because of their superior talents and work ethic, at that those of us who are not wealthy are such because we are lazy bums. The reasons are a whole lot more complex than that, but debating such here if virtually hopeless, because it requires some commonality of understanding which is not, nor ever will be, present.
the truth Holladay, UTSept. 15, 2012 10:01 p.m.
Can you site any actual and specific examples?
Sounds like more leftest nonsense.
And who is to blame when Obama and the democratic controlled congress run up 1 and a half trillion dollar debts every year?
Because taxation is using the power of government to deprive another of his money and property.
Which is why the founding fathers did not tax personal income, they knew taxing personal income would lead the liberal's voting themselves other people's money.
By the way HOW much of your money and property are we the people entitled to?
LDS Liberal Farmington, UTSept. 15, 2012 8:59 p.m.
I'm waiting for the lame-stream media to ask Romney;
How much is a gallon of milk?
How much is a gallon of gas?
How much is a loaf a bread?
or him being simply amazed at a laser scanner at a grocery store.
It worked on GH Bush.
...and sealed the deal once and for all for Bill Clinton.
The mean salary [aka middle income] is $50K
Mittens is so out of touch, it's quite scary.
cavetroll SANDY, UTSept. 15, 2012 6:58 p.m.
I can sum up Romney's campaign in one sentence:"Let them eat cake." See how easy that is? It's very asinine to try to sum up a presidential campaign in one sentence.
Screwdriver Casa Grande, AZSept. 15, 2012 6:08 p.m.
Fun game.
I can summarize the republican campain with "we will go to third world countries and take THIER stuff for you - or rather so our corporations can sell it to you. But you pay for the army."
And we'll run up the national debt some more and blame it on the democrats.
There you go.
Truthseeker SLO, CASept. 15, 2012 5:29 p.m.
What is the source for the statistics you cite?
According to the CBO:
Average before-tax income fell between 2007 and 2009 for households in ALL income quintiles, but the amount of that decline varied by quintile. The declines in before-tax income were 5 percent or less for households in each of the four lowest income quintiles and 18 percent for households in the top quintile. For households in the top one percent, income fell by 36 percent, reducing their share of before-tax income from 18.7 percent to 13.4 percent.
Perhaps we should examine why the top one percent (those making over $380,000) suffered greater losses during the time period you cited--the stock market plummeted. Twenty-two percent of their income is from capital gains.
Demographics of the top 1%:
The top 1 percent of earners in a given year receives just under a fifth of the country's pretax income, about double their share 30 years ago.
Most 1 percenters were born with socioeconomic advantages.
Are you in the top 1%? Does your business cater more to the top 1% or the 99%?
RichardB Murray, UTSept. 15, 2012 4:31 p.m.
Obama has been going into homes and taking money from the rich, middle class and poor to subsidize cheap labor for business for years.
Take the Dream money, retrain America, and get our country working again.
Mike Richards South Jordan, UtahSept. 15, 2012 3:43 p.m.
In 2009, the top 1% made 11.5% of the after tax income in the United States according to the CBO. Between 2007 and 2009 the top 1% 's income fell 37%. Income for the bottom 20% grew 3%. Income for the middle fell 2%.
So, in plain language, Obama's policies have hurt the top producers 18X more that he has hurt the middle class and now he wants to penalize them even more. How about having a 1st grader teach Obama a little math? Anyone who has ever run a lemonade stand knows more about the economy and raising revenues than Obama.
LDS Liberal Farmington, UTSept. 15, 2012 2:18 p.m.
When 1% own 80% of everything --
Logic says the 1% should be paying 80% of the taxes.
But - I'm a Liberal, and the right-wing thinks I'm "evil" for expecting things to be fair and equal.
Mark B Eureka, CASept. 15, 2012 1:10 p.m.
Every time I read "I can blah, blah this ENTIRE blah blah in ONE sentence", I know that whatever comes next is going to be a misleading cliche. Sure enough, that's the case this time, too.
The Taxman Los Angeles, CASept. 15, 2012 12:27 p.m.
As a tax executive with 30 years international tax planning experience, it tires me to consistently see these types of letters (protesting the concept of progressive taxation) printed by the DN. Every country in the world I can think of (except Russia) has progressive individual income taxation. It is and has always been THE tried and true way to raise adequate amounts to fund public spending. Progressive taxation is not, and will never be up for debate (other than by a small fringe group of society and a few newspapers who apparently support their misguided notions). So how about we get off of progressive taxation for awhile and focus on something worthwhile that we can impact, like say poverty?
Twin Lights Louisville, KYSept. 15, 2012 12:18 p.m.
Yes we need to control spending. But anyone who thinks we are going to craft a long-term solution without some "revenue enhancement" is dreaming.
So just how do we "enhance" revenues? There are essentially four options: the poor, the middle class, the rich, and businesses.
Choose your poison but one or several of them have to take a hit. Given that the poor don't make much, I think that leaves the other three to choose from.
We can do it via tax rates, we can do it by rolling back deductions. But it will need to be done.
My prediction? Look for the middle class to take the largest hit (once all the numbers are in). And that is irrespective of who is elected president.
Ultra Bob Cottonwood Heights, UTSept. 15, 2012 12:11 p.m.
The Constitution of the United States of America and other documents imply and promise that ordinary people would have a more fair chance of success in life and that this government would operate in such a way as to guarantee the rights of life, liberty and pursuit of happiness to all.
Some people disagree with that and wish America to be restored to the economic world that existed before the birth of this nation. Their wish is a world where the vary few owned and controlled the world while the rest of the people only existed as needed by the few.
America didn't take away the ability of an individual to prosper and have success in his quest for life. In fact it provided an even playing ground for all. However as the few gained the status of rich and powerful, they want roadblocks to be placed in the way of others.
As a liberal American citizen I ask that our government continue the quest to provide an equal opportunity to all. And that may mean the loss of the roadblocks so dear to the rich and powerful.
Henderson Orem, UTSept. 15, 2012 11:35 a.m.
And yet, raiding the poor, dumping on students, attacking the old, and throwing the middle-class under the bus is so right, necessary, and fair.
When will we learn that what's good for the rich and corporate elite is NEVER what's right for America?
The middle-class has disappeared and real wages for real Americans are gone because we've gone decades focuses on "building up" the rich for empty promises that eventually they'd share the wealth with the rest of us.
Failed "trickle down" economic policies have led to the destruction of the American middle-class and dream.
ugottabkidn Sandy, UTSept. 15, 2012 11:05 a.m.
Yes, jsf if everyone paid their fair share such as Romney, GE, Exxon, and others of the same ilk. I have no problem returning to the Clinton tax rates. The key to all of this is an increase in revenue. I don't think an extra 3% of your income over 250k will bankrupt you. I don't think feeding what amounts to 20% of our nations children who live in poverty will ruin us. I don't think borrowing money, to rebuild our infrastructure, at rates so low that the bond market would practically pay us to borrow. Japan borrowed to the hilt at rates so low they turned around and sold money a very profitable rates. It would be nice if someone from the right read a history book with perspective.
Mike in Cedar City Cedar City, UtahSept. 15, 2012 10:06 a.m.
Mr. Thompsons argument is one of those ideas that seem so right on its face but is so wrong in reality. We live in a representive democracy. For tax law, that means that there is "no taxation without representation"; a principle first innumerated by the Declaration of Independance.
Robbery by law is not legal. Taxation, regardless of the econmic status of the taxed citizen, is legal. It is legal because our constitutionally elected representatives have ennacted laws that make it legal.
Mr Thompson is suggesting that legislation reducing the personal wealth of a citizen is akin to robbery. Taken to its logical extreme Mr Thompson's argument means that congress should have no power to tax. If congress has no power to tax then the government cannot exist, and then every law that establishes and maintains the social order will be of no effect.
By the way, Obama has no power to tax.
Hutterite American Fork, UTSept. 15, 2012 9:30 a.m.
We're probably all going to have to accept a larger tax burden, including the rich. I'm good with that, because it's the price of a free, civil society.
jsf Centerville, UTSept. 15, 2012 9:25 a.m.
Could it really be federal taxes are at a sity year low because up to 8% are unemployed and the real unemployment numbers are close to 13%. Maybe if everyone, everyone paid their fair share of taxes?
Mountanman Hayden, IDSept. 15, 2012 8:50 a.m.
@ Roland. Obama says the rich need to pay a "little bit more" and suggests that will bring in $70 billion more each year to the federal treasury. First, that is pie in the sky but even if that happens it WILL NOT make any difference in our deficits and national debt. Our current federal deficit is about $1.2 trillion. If current government spending stays the same (it will go up) the $70 billion will reduce our current deficit by less than 6%! If we apply the $70 billion to the national debt it only represents a .04375 % deduction of the debt, all else being equal! Big businesses will just pass the tax increases on to the consumer but ask any small business owner what increasing taxes will do them. Clearly we are not going to tax our way out of this debt, we must stop run away government spending. The alternative is certain hyper inflation (already seeing this in energy and food) as the value of our dollar decreases and a Greece like financial collapse is inevitable! We MUST stop the run away spending of the federal government!
Roland Kayser Cottonwood Heights, UTSept. 15, 2012 7:58 a.m.
Federal taxes are at a sixty year low. Getting them back up to their historical norm hardly constitutes Armageddon. The effective income tax rate paid by the top one percent is 22%. If we doubled that to 44% we would raise 3% of GDP in additional taxes which is what we need to do to get back to our historical tax collection rates.
Before you start feeling sorry for the rich, if we were to do that, their after-tax share of the national income would still be double what it was in the seventies.
Mountanman Hayden, IDSept. 15, 2012 7:18 a.m.
Obama is completely wrong for America! If we continue to punish success and disincentive the creation of wealth in America, we will have much less of it at every level. If we continue to reward failure, poor personal choices, laziness and incentivize government dependency, we will have much more of it at every level. America's decline is being authored and implemented by Barrack Obama and the liberal Democrats with a promise of "economic justice"! Real economic justice is being rewarded for hard work, taking risks and investing in new ideas, not the opposite! When was the last time a poor person offered you a job?


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SALT LAKE CITY — As bad as Utah's loss to Colorado was Saturday, it wasn't that far off other bad losses in Ute history, even some in the past decade.
Who can forget the 32-point loss to Connecticut in the Preseason NIT in 2003 when Andrew Bogut could only help the Utes score 44 points? How about the 73-43 loss to Arizona at home in 2005, the worst loss in Huntsman Center history to that point?
Of course, a big difference was the strength of the opponents. UConn was ranked No. 1 in the country when it beat the Utes in New York in Rick Majerus' final year while Arizona was ranked No. 24 in December of '05.
We'll see how good Colorado can be, but the Buffaloes might be doing well to finish in the top half of a weak Pac-12 this year,
PAC-12 ISN'T THE MWC: If the Utes think playing in the Pac-12 is a step up this year, they should be glad they aren't still in the Mountain West Conference.
According to the latest RealTime RPI rankings, the MWC has four teams ranked higher than the best of the Pac-12 teams.
The top Pac-12 team in the latest RealTime RPI ratings is Arizona at No. 47, which is behind MWC teams UNLV (12), Colorado State (40), San Diego State (42) and New Mexico (45).
Five other Pac-12 teams are in the top 100 with Cal at 54 Washington 75, Oregon 79, Stanford 84 and Colorado at 99.
Utah is ranked No. 293 out of 344 teams and the closest Pac-12 team to the Utes is Arizona State at No. 186.
NEXT UP: Utah's next chance at a victory comes Thursday night when Washington State visits the Huntsman Center.
The Utes have a 13-2 all-time record against the Cougars, including a 69-55 home victory in 2006.
The two losses were a 33-32 defeat at home back in 1946 and a 69-42 loss in Seattle in 2005 that was similar to the aforementioned bad Ute losses. In that game, the Utes fell behind 39-14 at halftime and trailed by as many as 30 points early in the second half.
INJURIES: One of the Utes' problems this year has been injuries, the biggest of which was David Foster's broken foot in the opening exhibition game of the season. Also starter Cedric Martin has been hobbling around with plantar fasciitis in his foot the last couple of weeks.
Another veteran who has missed a lot of time is Chris Hines, who had rib and elbow injuries early in the season and most recently has been suffering with a broken bone in his left thumb.
Hines didn't suit up for Saturday's game at Colorado but has practiced this week and could play this week against Washington State.
"He doesn't have as much pain," said Ute coach Larry Krystkowiak. "If he's not any worse, then it'll be great (and he can play)."
OLD HOME WEEK: Krystkowiak planned to go see his former team, the Milwaukee Bucks, play the Utah Jazz Tuesday night and he hoped to spend some time with former Ute Andrew Bogut, who didn't end up making the trip.
He said he hasn't kept in touch with the big man too much although his wife, Jan, has.
"My wife is big into the Facebook stuff," he said. "She does more Facebook with him than I do, but, yeah, we've got a pretty good bond."
Krystkowiak said he was impressed with how Bogut battled back last year after his devastating injury the previous year.
"He's a warrior, man," he said. "He battled through it and I don't think there are many players that would stick it out like he did last year. I've got a lot of respect for him."
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For a jack-o'-lantern, the bigger the pumpkin, the better. This isn't the case for pie pumpkins. Avoid ornamental varieties and large pumpkins, which are bred for size and looks, not flavor. Instead, choose those labeled as pie pumpkins. They are small, dense, and rich in color, and they have a sweet, full-flavor flesh. Some varieties include Sugar Pie, Baby Pam, Long Island Cheese Pumpkin, and New England Pie. Pumpkin season lasts from September through November. Look for pumpkins that are blemish-free and heavy for their size. Store them in a cool place for up to 1 month.
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Most people consider the piecrust to be the hardest part of making a pie. While it takes a little practice, tender, flaky pastry isn't difficult to achieve. Follow these pointers:
Tip: If you have a thin spot, use some of the dough scraps to build it up so the edge is as even as possible.
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For a fluted edge, place a fork or a finger against the inside edge of the pastry. Using the thumb and index finger of the other hand, press the pastry around the fork or finger. Continue around the circumference of the pie.
Now that you have the pumpkin puree and the pie pastry done, the filling is a 5-minute job. In a large bowl combine the pumpkin, sugar, spices, and salt. Lightly beat the eggs with a whisk, and whisk them into the pumpkin mixture just until combined. Stir in the milk just until combined, and pour the filling into the unbaked piecrust.
Tip: For a mild pie, use the minimum amount of spices. For a more intense spice flavor, bump up the amount of spices in the filling.
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The unforgetful Lankan
Just what does one make of Ranjan Senerath Madugalle? There are many caricatures that do the rounds. Some see him as the poster boy of Sri Lankan cricket, a talented, dashing batsman who played at a time when a fledgling nation was more in search of acceptance and respectability than victory.
Others see him as a clever, opportunistic sportsman who showed promise, but quickly moved on when he realised the game could not give him what he wanted. To some he is an International Cricket Council match referee who is so keen on his job that he will not do anything that displeases his bosses. To me, he is a man who never forgets a name, or a face, and that is his greatest strength, and his most obvious weakness.
To debate the merits and demerits of his batting, today in 2006, is a bit pointless, and he would be the first to tell you so. His playing days accounted for 21 Tests, his second innings, in a suit and tie, rulebook at the ready, have already amounted to 92, a decent margin more than anyone else who has done the match referee's job since it came into existence.
For many former cricketers, especially now, the match referee's job is a retirement option. Not everyone who mastered the cover drive can smoothly slip into the commentator's booth, like David Gower. Very few who dished out offbreaks can put on a white coat and stand in the sun umpiring matches like Srinivasaraghavan Venkataraghavan did. In this day and age, it seems like the match referee's job is the cushy option. But Madugalle was never in this bracket. Even while he was playing - and doing so with some success - he was preparing for a life elsewhere, a management job in the world of multi-national corporates. He moved from one to the other well before anyone could call time on his cricket career. So, why then would he become the most experienced match referee of all time?
The ICC, more than it will have you believe, is an organisation of pragmatists. On the one hand they will harp on about how chucking is one of the greatest plagues on the game; on the other, they will change laws to define fewer people as chuckers. On the one hand they will allow South Africa to flee from Sri Lanka because of a threat perception; on the other they will warn countries of dire penalties if they refuse to tour Zimbabwe. They will stand by Darrell Hair, as one of their own, and hang him out to dry when he seeks compensation for a possible loss of wages if he offered to step down before his contract expired. In more ways than one, the ICC could be accused of taking the soft route, the easy way out, when a commitment to a long-term vision was needed, and a firm, if unpopular decision, was the order of the day. It is with this sort of mindset that they plump for Madugalle, and this is where they underestimate him.
|Ranjan will smile at you, have a chat, ask where to go for the best shopping, and you'll think he's your friend, but before you know it he's docked you 50% of your match-fee
When Madugalle was made chief of match referees, Asian countries made the same mistake the ICC did. They assumed that because he was Asian, and understood the situation on the ground better than someone from Australia or England might, he would be sympathetic. The truth was the opposite. In his aim to not just be fair, but seen to be fair, Madugalle was harder on subcontinental players than others. In India he made many enemies during the tour of Australia in 1999-2000, when his decisions were harsh on the Indians, and relatively light on the Aussies. He has had so many post-play sit-downs with Inzamam-ul-Haq that you would think he's picked up enough Urdu through manager-cum-translator Haroon Rashid to obviate the need for such a person when the hearings begin in London today.
"Ranjan will smile at you, have a chat, ask where to go for the best shopping, and you'll think he's your friend, but before you know it he's docked you 50% of your match-fee," said one Indian cricketer. That's just how he is. Journalists prefer Madugalle to most match referees because he takes a commonsense approach to functioning. If you need to confirm something that is not confidential, call Ranjan, and he'll give you what you need, just to kill the speculation and kite-flying that might otherwise cloud a routine matter. If you want a scoop, a juicy morsel that might just rake up controversy, steer clear. Madugalle will happily share a few rums when he's in your neck of the woods, and if you're in "the Island" try and secure an invitation to his home, for there are few places stocked with as much premium scotch and warmth as his bar. After the third drink, what can you hope to get? Another drink, certainly. A story? Never. Now you know why the ICC loves him?
|After the third drink, what can you hope to get? Another drink, certainly. A story? Never. Now you know why the ICC loves him?
Sri Lanka's not all that big. And Colombo is the kind of city where you can drive around the place in the time it takes Sanath Jayasuriya to bowl a couple of overs. Everyone knows everyone, and in cricket it's worse. In a world of interim cricket boards, witnesses being shot dead in court, ever shifting power centres, it's not a place to choose loyalties lightly. And when Madugalle is on tour, he knows that if a situation arose, he only needs to make one phone call to Arjuna Ranatunga, an old friend, and ally of the family, to reassure him that his wife and children are ok. It's not a coincidence that Madugalle does not share the same kind of closeness with others equally powerful - players and officials whose names have been tarnished with the match-fixing brush.
In some ways it's ironic that Madugalle was the only acceptable candidate to chair the most difficult proceedings in cricket in recent times, l'affair Hair. There are a few that don't understand why he couldn't make it to London when the events unfolded - because they don't know of one loved one in post-operative care, another on a ventilator in post-op, and two kids with chickenpox - and they will fault him, whichever way he rules in this matter.
What's disappointing is that he's the only acceptable candidate for this hearing, not because the players and the ICC believe he's the best man for the job, but because they distrust him equally. There's really no reason to distrust Madugalle, he's just a practical man who never forgets a name, or a face.
Anand Vasu is assistant editor of Cricinfo


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Ok I'm with the cop on this one too many times do people go through the express lane with a lot of things and I've said things many times of course I would naturally want them arrested
from op's source....it was a self check out line meaning no clerk at all and she only exceeding the recommended number of items ive gone through those thigns with a whole cart and no one has complained dont even recall seeing signs saying dont do that,clerks only show up if you need to show id for something you scan at those areas so it was basically a cop(not in uniform) walking up to two people at a self check out when i would assume it being a wall mart potently one or more other lines were available?
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Originally posted by Kenrichaed
Its about time someone stands up to these fools who think that the rules don't apply to them. I don't know how many times i've been in the express lane at the store and some idiot thinks they can bring their whole cart full of groceries when it clearly says 15 items or less.
This is an obvious sign of the breakdown of society and before you know it these people will start disregarding other rules and laws in society. They obviously think they are more important than everyone else and that rules don't apply to them.
I appreciate this cop standing up for the rights of the average citizen. You don't want a gun pulled on you than follow the rules.
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Funny thing about this, is he is supposed to be a "peace officer" trained to defuse situations, when he was the cause of it all.
Originally posted by HangTheTraitors
Anyone who checks out in an express line having several items more than the SPECIFIED MAXIMUM should be arrested anyways.
These such IDIOTS think that they are so special that the rules somehow do not apply to them. Most of them have no respect for anyone else and need to be fined or arrested anyways right on the spot.
Originally posted by Britguy
Just a wee question, from someone across the pond.... but why is this cop in Walmart?
Did someone in the store call the police and report a perp abusing the maximum items rule, and the cop got there immediately. Or, do cops get stationed at the stores?
On many trips to the US I have seen cop cars sitting parked up at shopping malls and big box stores, so maybe there is some unwritten contract by the store owners to have police "protection" on hand during opening hours?
Originally posted by n00bUK
If this turns out to be true, he should be fired. This man has clearly let the power go to his head if he thinks he can confront people, with a gun over too many items for a certain isle.


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As the lead swelled from eight to 15 and eventually more than 20, standing ovations grew in intensity.
The cheers, though, were not from the Duke contingent at the Garden enjoying another win by the third-ranked Blue Devils. It was from the St. John's portion of the sellout crowd, who had every reason to let loose as it witnessed the Red Storm blow out the defending national champions 93-78.
"We know we're not favored to win," said Dwight Hardy after scoring a team-high 26 points. "It goes to show when we play St. John's basketball, we can play with anybody in the country."
St. John's (12-8, 4-5) didn't just outplay its opponent, it dominated Duke.
In what coach Mike Krzyzewski described as a "beautiful performance," the Red Storm surged up and down the court for most of the afternoon on both ends and led for the final 35:50.
"We had this game circled as a game we wanted to win," forward Sean Evans said.
It's a game the NCAA?tournament committee might be circling come March. The win will pump up the Johnnies' RPI of 28 and could go a long way in determining if they go dancing for the first time since 2002.
"It helps out a lot, confidence wise, and of course when they look at our résumé," said forward Justin Burrell. "But ... it only counts as one win, so we have to go out and win more games in order to be able to play in the NCAA tournament."
St. John's desperately needs consistency to start accumulating those wins. It just completed a stretch of eight straight games against ranked opponents that featured home wins over Georgetown and Notre Dame as well as blowout losses to Syracuse and Louisville.
"Right now, St. John's is a team that holds its hat on playing defense," Burrell said. "Sometimes we don't bring that effort into playing defense at a high level but when we do, you have wins like Notre Dame and Duke."
And if it doesn't, Steve Lavin's crew could lose home games such as Wednesday's matchup with Rutgers, which nearly knocked off Big East leader Pittsburgh on Saturday.
As the lead swelled from eight to 15 and eventually more than 20, standing ovations grew in intensity.


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There's a sort of "joke" (not-joke) about artists intending to pass through Whitefish, Montana and, well–never leaving. One story of a local theatre company carries the legend that its founders had their car break down, so they decided to stop driving across the country and start a company. I can't help but think of the ever-wise words of late comedian Mitch Hedberg, "if you find yourself lost in the woods, f*#k it, build a house. You are no longer lost." But I can also understand the appeal. The place is amazing. Beautiful, quaint, friendly, and incredibly supportive of the arts. It sits on the toes of the Canadian Rockies, less than an hour from the incomparable Glacier National Park, and is inhabited by rugged but friendly sorts who survive a grizzly bear attack by punching it down its throat. Apparently, Whitefish is (or at one time was) a bit of a reclusive get-away for Hollywoodites trying to escape the paparazzi and the ever-driving industry fakeness in exchange for the decidedly very real and humbling Big Sky. This was my second visit to Whitefish, and to Montana at all. My ethereal hippy-gypsie-free-spirit of a dear friend and wonderful theatre director, Rebecca invited me to perform with her sensational group of uber-talented performers, Viscosity Theatre.
It was a series of four cabaret shows mid-October on the stage of Crush Lounge, hovering above the quiet streets of the town's "shoulder season." Well, it may have been the quiet in between storms of busy tourist seasons – a scene awaiting Mr. Dark's carnival in a Bradbury-esque small-town-USA sort of way – but the vibrant, exhuberant insanity that we shared with our audiences was beyond electric. How could it not be, with the title of HorrorPlay Cabaret!? Blood, gore, absurdity, vain witches, the Batman of Whitefish, eye-gouging, sex-toys, face-burning, Stockholm Syndrome, "exorcism," and a giant wizard-of-awful head of Donald Trump. (Even more horrifying and appropriate a full year later.) There was something grotequely offensive for everyone, and it was wonderful. It was Halloween season, an uncelebration of Columbus Day and other too-oft ignored human atrocities, wrapped up in the darkest of comedy, magic, and song. And, to me, it was a heavy reminder of the significance of performance art. Of the messages we can better carry and convey through the frivolity and innocuousness of "a show." Lights, make-up, laughter, wonder, delight, and fantasy = the impotus for awareness and the possibility of change.
Even in the short run of four performances, the show evolved and tweaked at a rate proportional to the rapidity and succinctness of its life span. When an entity comes to existence, matures, lives, and dies in five days, (Yes, another Bradbury reference: "Frost and Fire") every aspect of its life moves at a lightning, frightening speed. Every change is quick and precise, every discussion and direction is distilled to its simplest, most necessary and effective intention. And in the end, it's about the audience. It's always about the audience. How are they reacting, for real? What are they taking away, other than mere amusement? Still, when it's Go-Time, you go. You give 150-200% and expect nothing in return. At least, if you want to keep your sanity.
I look back a year ago and see how little and how much has changed. The world is scary, which is why we like to pretend it's scarier at Halloween. That becomes increasingly more difficult to do, but it's all the more reason we need to take the stage and paint smiles on the faces of our viewers with the painted smiles of our own. I look forward to flashing my smiles in Whitefish again, soon.


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Human Rights Watch's Minky Worden on the deal the U.S. struck with Beijing over Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng. Plus, editorial board member Matt Kaminski on today's debate between Sarkozy and Hollande. Photo: Associated Press.
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... I ... welcome to Opinion Journal Live on Mary Kissel we have quite a show for you today ... but first we're going to go directly to China where the State Department has brokered ... a very suspect deal with the government there concerning the release ... of human rights lawyer and dissonant Chen long Chen ... from the embassy are embassy in Beijing ... a senior State Department official Kurt Campbell explained the situation as follows The NPR ... I'm just a few moments ago quote Mr Chan didn't clear from the outset he wanted to go back to China ... he's lived a very difficult like he's a person's struggle ... I think he anticipates clearly money goes back into society they are going to be challenges ... we simply feel we have through our support in the support for nonprofits and civil society ... that we have created the parameters for him to be perhaps a little bit more effective ... with a little bit more safety ... there are no guarantees in China is moving into a period of enormous complexity ... and quote ... here to make sense of all these developments is MITI warden the editor of China's great leap ... the director of global emissions for human rights watch ... and a former aide to Hong Kong Democratic Party founder Martin the MITI welcome thank you ... I'm thinking for those of us to and follow the most recent news bring us up-to-date that one is now going on that with Mr Chan and aging well it's been incredibly traumatic week for China for U S China relations you have beat when scandals of they've bought Xilai ... a collapse of one party boss and then you have an unprecedented situation since nineteen eighty nine ... of a Chinese legal activists seeking refuge inside the U S Embassy ... the resolution of that today I think it's taken everybody's by surprise ... aam is apparently meant account of laughter of his well he left us protection and went to the hospital on his own volition ... well that's the big question isn't it ... because the Abu as he is now telling AP hands and his colleague activists ... that in fact he received threats that he would be returned to the same and he and his family would be returned to the same ... abusive officials can really made is like a living hell since two thousand five ... and this is Qantas to be clear we're talking about here he lives in prison he served a long prison term he was tortured ... he's been denied and medical attention ... even his tiny daughter was denied the ability to attend school so we're talking about officials who have demonstrated a complete ... I'm a ability to have with tea and international scrutiny ... disregard for the rule of law ... and the idea that he and his family had somehow I'd be returned to them and with safety is a little bit in the economy he warned of a human rights watch me he ... is the way that the State Department dealt with Mr Chen representative of the US is historically handled ... he writes business like this I think the US is long wrestled every single administration has wrestled with a question of human rights ... I think they really looked at it in the wrong way ... out of the US has had an manifest interest in the rule of law in China why ... well if he does everything that we do economically speaking goes to the sanctity of contracts ... a goes to your arbitration not going wrong he goes to your business partner not kidnapping and killing New iPad has happened in Neil Heywood so I think the broader problem of the rule of law in China ... the reason why tumbling town is such an interesting case is because he's become something of a folk hero in China ... his case to resonate the ordinary Chinese people to have separate the deprivation of the Chinese Communist Party came to what you make of Mr Campbell's comments just now there are no guarantees ... and we'd perhaps maybe a little bit more effective with a little bit more safety ... what message does that send to the Chinese people ... well actually there are guarantees and the U S has a lot of leverage with China the US is always had a lot of leverage that time comes we don't we don't always use it but the US has a lot of things at the time is the Chinese government has a lot of things at once with on China ... this week and the entire top tier of us leadership happens to be in Beijing for the strategic economic dialog and so we get we now are in any ... of the most that can be in teh his position to negotiate a good outcome ... for time and his family ... I don't think that it's clearer at all that we've done ... okay very briefly on collecting remembering that we sheltered Tiananmen Square dissonance one and three-year ... yesterday that an app on find leads are nice and ... we chowed satellite sheltered in the Beijing embassy there is a real parallel between his case intent on Tom's case as well because they were both reforms ... to wear pushing from with in China ... you wanted to stay and work inside China ... too and the ants reform and that is manifestly in the United States entrance you see what happens between the United States doesn't stand up for human rights in China I'm recalling Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's first visit ... where she said actually ... we really wanna talk about climate change human rights is really at the top of our agenda ... what happened after that did me ... the easing important to us to lean on this or do other countries and in our absence while having the message is that ... the United States SanDisk are ... heard and receive said the message that was sent that was that ... human rights are secondary or if it at best so cute downgrade human rights and a list of strategic priorities he sent a very dangerous message N and D E D ... backs trip and those statements were followed by probably the worst period of repression that we've seen sense Tiananmen Square in nineteen eighty nine ... and that but worst of all ... its adult it's really Indiana named the human rights defenders people like to munch on but also ... Atrios out by the Chinese Nobel peace Prize laureate to have bought very courageously for decades with in the system ... to improve that and just in the town ... you know the to the argument that these are strategic concerns and human rights is not strategic ... I we have to disagree because ... if you do not if you for example if climate change is your priority ... I'm I'll what you do what that all of the environmental activists who were being harassed and beaten up for expensing cancer villages and environmental degradation you don't want to emphasize human rights ... you don't have that you don't have a principled case to making your other so-called strategic and for once we're going have to leave it that means he warned if human rights watch thank you so much for coming on and talking to us about this breaking news ... of remitting a quick commercial break that we stay with us we got another great live segment with more breaking news this time from France ... stay tuned ... welcome back to Opinion Journal Live Editorial board member Matt Kaminski joins us now ... to talk about another story which is ongoing right now at this hour ... at today's French debate between President Nicolas Sarkozy and his challenger Socialist Party challenger ... Francoise going on this ... um Mac ... welcome thank you ... I'm not a missile on its take rate now for President Sarkozy who was the first round election is now facing ... the second final round on Sunday ... he was ... busy gain ground tonight having the deal ... for how he's doing ... housed in the street calm tell it's been a very exciting to me the space is the only smartphone is it's really the ... and of ... the ... one-time sweets and ensure that the team for second round ... those four days before the sun Sunday votes ... there is to monitor user base pizza running argument back and forth ... on ... from what I can see so far I think all rolled ... basically ... did not he did not make any mistakes ... peaking has a meaty Midstates has been combating the saw cozy ... to cause a very good debater Brady campaign or you can steamrolled the ... US that this can be five years knows that men were now ... owns this teeny here's his grounds ... that the Serco Z start off with Audrey on the Economy pronounced evolved into the argument or read any good ... integration and Muslims in France and and that I mean he's the issues that that really got into the French people integration does that really cell ... was a really the economy that the bullpen ... aam on the economy is a fasting exchange about the speaker was the most the more German ... of the two Frenchmen which has deservedly ... so before ... the soccer season started making argument I think you should of made for the beginning that ... he say look ... it's a tough time in the world I've been a ... good leader not a perfect leader ... he can trust me why take a risk with this guy who's never ... served in government is an unknown ... was consumer party oh is Khona wacky ideas of the attacks can go ... hiking taxes on on the rich to seventy five percent ... aam ... but the problem is that he's run the campaign much more on the other thing on immigration and the keys really ... key things that the only way can pull this off the numbers he's down about eight points in the polls right now ... by appealing to people who voted for Marine Le Pen head of the far right candidate ... can't immigration and anti Muslim ... and he is so ... we left I left him there was talking about to ... use a free public schools between men and women filed and whether ... Muslims should be allowed to vote in France because this episode in a different culture ... I'm not sure that we will help them attractive centrist voters that he needs to ... to win this possibly well let's talk about Mr. along for a brief moment ... I he's he's seen as somebody decisive licensing isn't a decisive part in this debate how was he known in France analyses managed to reshape his image ... the elites in iTunes today ... we heard he was always in France it is the use of an unfortunate being caught from the which is the son ... of Joe he does or is that he's up ... last week for the lakes and so is the look is ... going be like as the asthe that the before ... he's not seen as someone very decisive and strong ... his wines come out here and been ... like combative ... against cozy is weak and pitbull type ... of fighter ... aam but the poll on has ... received campaign ... in the sense that some cozies we've done this to them so you know he's he's not be the needed ... the French electorate which is number two I do if you function in the ... democratic system ... and put them to lower prices so the scene as being ... the kind of see for a more congenial ... excellence and in that sense assuming that the polls to be true he succeed ... immaculate give the law Street Journal editorial board on the French debate that ongoing right now ... um that ... was a Sudanese euro longs comes out in this debate right now ... does very well and Sunday winds ... in France a foreign ... his presidency ... I'm not if he ... ends up trying to implement the things these promise to try and its community ... the markets will be happy and and ... I think is going to have a replay of last time ... he he he ... the socialists and houses Faso and thrown in the next he won ... the came into power he nationalize the banks ... the markets tanked two years later he completely reversed course ... um I think it's own tries to do what he says he wants it to ... you may see a repeat of something similar ... on the TV too costly and too dangerous for France ... it does me what happen to me that he won't try there's lot of ... the French Socialist Party is actually one of the least ... a ... lack of a better word reformed left to center left parties in Europe ... while Lough and it will even on that downbeat no exact and I Kaminski Wall Street Journal and editorial board thank you so much for being with us ... next up the Land Columnist Dan Henninger previews ... his column on President Obama is Peter Pan pitch to Young Voters ... your stand ... it has to be asked why would anyone under the age of twenty five vote for Brock Obama in November ... the question occurs because Mr. Obama kicked off his reelection polished or last week visiting campuses in Iowa North Carolina and Colorado ... he's hoping to replicate the sixty six percent you will totally got into thousandeight ... back then he promised dunes hope and change ... in twenty twelve is offering kept promising to protect the three point four percent interest rate on their college loans ... the ceremony on hope springs eternal well we're about to find out if that's true ... youth unemployment rate in United States has hovered around sixteen percent nearly everyone's heard stories about new college graduates living at home jobless ... for many young people during the Obama presidency the job market has ordered on well Social Darwin ... many students did well in school either don't have a job or take a month far below their skills and talents ... so here's a suggestion for Mr Obama is the current college audience is ... spend the summer backpacking through Europe ... forget the bad bill sold the park besides in Italy Spain Britain and France instead chat up the youth vote there ... youth unemployment rate Italy is thirty percent in Spain its fifty percent ... last year three hundred thousand graduates in Spain got out ... they left the country ... this is what happens when nations have persistently low economic growth ... the three years the Obama presidency that growth rate has been around two percent ... so what did you two thousandeight vote for Mr Obama get them ... well one thought comes to mind ... it's that provision in the Obama health care law that expands health insurance coverage to people living at home ... until they're twenty six ... Barack Obama wins another four years you may need it ... for The Wall Street Journal mined Dan Henninger ... take a quick commercial break but please stay with this ... Steve Moore is up next with an amazing story ... about this and is trying to block a reform ... that even the bureaucrats won in a state in ... Wall Street Journal editorial board member Steve Moore joins us now via Sky from Washington ... to talk about why the post office is losing twenty five million dollars a day ... now the sun is about to make things worse welcome Steve ... I'm married ... twenty nine dollars a day is no small beans people how ... what is the setting proposing to do and why ... well you know that that the problem for the postal service ... Mary is that it is a declining industry ... of the volume of mail ... declines every year because we knew so much more about commerce with the male not without snail mail and ... so you know within probably ten or fifteen years the probably won't be ... traditional mail service any longer sweet you are ... on nail over the the I in on that ... so what's happened is that this is an industry that's losing money the postal service is losing twenty five million dollars a day and with the interesting wrinkle in the story ... is that the postal service and that the board of governors and the Postmaster general ... have come up with some pretty gutsy reforms married to try to put this they get back into the block at least for now and the sun that the United States summit is telling this agency ... they can reform themselves they can cut costs and it's really quite a towering that's incredible Steve to tell us what is the cost of the Swan India ... while the postal service the first thing I wanna do is that instead of Saturday delivery of mail ... on they say that will save them several billions of dollars ... I they also want to want ... to do things like reform the pension systems are they wanna get bullied or not marry a year ago ... at the the Postal Service cave in to the union's indeed these workers know lay Optum facts that says that ... if the ministry that thinking as fast as he thought ... that they had these the lead-up doctors ... they wanna get out of those contracts now and I have the ability to dollar stores ... I downsized their workforce ... on so that they have bought you know that so they can save money and that the site said no to Cali ah people and the reason for that there is these are very powerful postal worker unions the double lock loaded walk ... so that's incredible Steve so it is this a bipartisan effort to stymie re formed ... for Democrats now publicans to blame ... it was mostly the Democrats because they they icon of the votes in the money from the postal union in them up ... in the letter carriers ... but you know the Republicans are to blame here to ... want things the Postal Service wants to do was close a lot of there's there's something like thirty dollars and post offices around the country ... Marion a so we got close at least ten thousand of these n ... roll areas that don't get very much Uceny could just use of the seven eleven ... or McDonalds to have ... to I'd to take the postage giant stamps ... on and and that and the odd Republicans in all of these rulers said nope we can close down these facilities we need these in our accounts ... Steve we might have about a minute left to bury yet when you say to people who worry that ... while these postal workers and will be able to find jobs and consumers ... they will have the services that thingy on Saturdays are for ... sale mail delivery for close down the postal service with the answer to ... you know obviously we all like to have six their seven day service use to be the full service delivered twice a day the problems they just can't do it any longer this is an industry that is a dinosaur in this trade ... I we gotta cut our losses ... the alternative to these reforms in areas that is to force taxpayers to pay and more more taxes ... this was a thirty four billion dollar bailout to the postal service ... from us taxpayers we can continue to bail out every failing industry in America ... and I think if you want the private market work ... competition might throw up a service it's even more efficient than the postal service ... by Steve Moore of the Wall Street Journal editorial board ... thank you very very much for being with us to look for Daddy on next I'm ... thinking that ... well that's it for opinion Journal Live today we're back tomorrow and every ... weekday from five to five twenty ... Eastern standard time bring you breaking news and ... commentary in editorials from Wall Street Journal writers and our contributors ... around the world ... 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